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796 BCE (1stof Nisan, 2956): Based on computations using the Bible and archaeology,possible date for the death of Jehoash, King of Judah.
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180:Antonius Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome passed away at the age of 58.The author of Meditations was known as a wise philosopher-king.However, he had little use for the Jews. While traveling in Judea, hedescribed the Jews as "Stinking and tumultuous." He reportedlyexpressed a preference for the Teutonic barbarians whom he was fighting on theborder between Gaul and Germania.
455:Petronius Maximus becomes emperor of the Western Roman Empire after murderingValentinian III and forcing the Empress Eudoxia to marry him. The Empress wrote to Genseric the Vandalasking him to come to Rome to avenge her. According to Theophanes he came andsacked the city and reportedly carried off the treasures from the Second Templethat had been seized by Titus in 70.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/imperialfora/vespasian/judaeacapta.html
461: The man who is known to history as St.Patrick passed away today.
https://www.jewishla.org/do-jews-erin-go-bragh/
763: Birthdate of Harun al-Rashid, the Abbasidcaliph who sent Jewish teachers to France at the request of Charlemagne.
1168: In one of the earliest blood libels inEngland , Haroldof Gloucester who “was a supposed child martyr who was falsely claimed byBenedictine monks to have been ritually murdered by Jews in Gloucester, England”died toda.
1190: The Crusaders completed the massacre ofJews of York England slaughtering 500 Jews on this particular day.
1398: Today “The city council of Worms enactedan ordinance that every Jew or Jewess over twelve should pay one old tournoisin Leibzoll, but not one farthing more.”
1406: Seventy-three-year-old Tunisian bornMuslim historian Ibn Khaldun whose writing about the history of the Berbersdescribed the conversion of Kahina, the 7th century “warrior queen”to Judaism.
1513:Pope Leo X who relied on Bonet de Lates, a Jew from Provence, as his personalphysician and unofficial advisor and whose leniencytowards the Jews may have stemmed from an attitude summed up by his statementthat “It is well known how useful this fable of Christ has been to us andours!” was consecrated today.
1526:After making “major concessions to Charles V” Francis I who had no Jewishsubjects but had a strange interest in the Hebrew language as can be seen byhis unsuccessful attempt get the Hebrew grammarian Elias Levita to move to hisrealm, was freed today.
1616: In Holland, under the rule of PrinceMaurice of Orange, it is decided that each city could decide for itself whetheror not to admit Jews. In those towns where they were admitted they would not berequired to wear a badge of any sort identifying them as Jews.
1636: Urban VIII issued “Cum allias piae” aPapal Bull that ordered the “Synagogues of the Duchies of Ferarri and Urban, topay a tax of 10 ecus.”
1654: Alexis Mikhailovich, the second RomanovCzar, issued an edict today instructing “a party of Lithuanian Jews to proceedfrom Kaluga to Nijni-Novgorod” under the protection of an “escort of twentysharpshooters.”
1676: In Annapolis, MD, Elizabeth Digby Pealeand Robert Polk gave birth to portrait painter Charles Peale Polk who twicepainted the portrait of the Shinah Solomon Etting, the wife of Charles Etting.
1678: Las Excelenciasy Calunias de los Hebreos, a defense of the Jewish people written by Isaac(Fernando) Cardoso which was printed in 1679 was today dedicated to Jacob dePinto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Cardoso
1733: “Deborah,” an oratorio by Handel based onChapters 4 and 5 of the Book of Judges premiered at the King’s Theatre inLondon.
1749: “Solomon,” an oratorio by Handel based onthe Biblical account of the Israelite King had its first performance at theTheatre Royal in London.
1757: Following a dispute with other members ofthe Bet Din in London, Isaac Nieto wrote a letter today resigning as ab betdin. Nieto was the son David Nieto andhe had served as the Haham of Bevis Marks and as the first Rabbi of the GreatSynagogue in Gibraltar. He had been serving as the ab bet din since 1751
1762: The first St. Patrick’s Day Parade isheld in New York City. The parade wasorganized by Irish soldiers serving in the British Navy. “Corned beef and cabbage is the traditionalmeal enjoyed by many on St. Patrick's Day, but only half of it is truly Irish.Cabbage has long been a staple of the Irish diet, but it was traditionallyserved with Irish bacon, not corned beef. The corned beef was substituted forbacon by Irish immigrants who came to America and who could not afford the realthing i.e. bacon. According to one version of this tale, the Irish immigrantslearned about the cheaper alternative, corned beef, from their Jewish neighbors.” Are we tobelieve that traif bacon gave way to kosher Corned Beef? Only in America!
1764(13th of Adar II, 5524):Parahsat Tzav; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim
1775(15th of Adar II, 5535): ShushanPurim coincides with St. Patrick’s Day
1777: Birthdate of Baden native Bina Leone, thewife of Elias Isaak Cahn with whom she had seven children.
1780: Rosine Wambacher and Abraham Hutzler gavebirth to David Hutzler.
1782: Today, Isaac Da Costa “was the chairmanof the meeting called for the purpose of of raising funds for the erection of aregular Synagogue in Philadlephia.
1783(13th of Adar II, 5543): Ta’anitEsther; erev Purim
1786: Lyon Prager, “the official representativeand agent in India of the London merchant firm of Israel Levin Salomons”changed his will today two years before it was probated.
1786: In German, Dreile Schweizer and PhilipMoses Faist Rosenheim gave birth to Samuel Faist Rosenheim, the husband ofMadel Rebensburger with whom he had six children.
1787: In Germany, Jentle Loeb and Moses FaistRosenheim gave birth to Samuel Moses Faist Rosenheim, the husband of SarahBernheimer with whom he had seven children.
1791(11th of Adar II, 5551): Ta’anitEsther
1795: Birthdate of Mary Harris, the wife Londonnative Zadoc Aaron Jessel whom she married in London’s Great Synagogue in 1819and the mother of Henry, Edward, George and Amelia Jessel
1798: Birthdate of Jacob Ettlinger, the nativeof Baden who became a leader of Orthodox Judaism and served as Chief Rabbi inAltona from 1836 until his death in 1871
1789: Birthdate of Edmund Kean, the great 19thcentury Shakespearian actor who first gained fame for his portrayal ofShylock. The portrayal of the Jew fromVenice was a difficult role and a career-maker for those few who did itsuccessfully.
1801: In Galicia, Rabbi Shebah ha-Levi and his wifegave birth to Orientalist Simchah Pinksker, the father of Leon Pinsker.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12176-pinsker-simhah
1802(13th of Adar II, 5562): Ta’anitEsther; erev Purim
1805(14th of Adar II, 5565): PurimMeshulash
1805: The Italian Republic, a creation ofNapoleon, was transformed in the Kingdom of Italy with the French emperorserving as King. The Jews of Italybenefited from the appearance of the French revolutionary armies. Between 1796and 1798, they had liberated several ghettos, most notably the Rome Ghetto in1798. The Jews will be forced to returnto their ghettos with the return of Italian reactionaries, but Napoleon wouldhave one last success when he freed the Jews of Florence from their Ghetto in1808.
1807: Birthdate of Mendel Hess the Chief Rabbiof the Grand Duchy of Weimar (Germany).
1808: Birthdate of Adolfo Eisenstadter who isburied at the Marjan Hill Cemetery in Split, Croatia.
1808: Today an imperial edict was issued that“divided the Jews living in French countries into consistories. Brussels(Belgium) was included in the consistory of Crefeld. Since 1794, the French hadcontrolled Belgium. By the time of theissuance of that edit, this meant Napoleon was the one issuing the orders. Onthe overthrow of Napoleon, Belgium was united with Holland; and the Jewishcommunity of Brussels became the head of the fourteenth religious district ofHolland. After the revolution of 1830 Brussels became the head of the Belgianconsistories, and a chief rabbi was nominated.”
1808: The Infamous Decree (decret infame)of Napoleon canceled all debts owed to Jews by those serving in the military orby women if it was signed without the approval of their husbands or parents. Italso abolished freedom of trade of the Jews by forcing them to acquire permits(which were almost never given) from the local prefects, and it prevented Jewsfrom settling in the area of the Upper and Lower Rhine.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infamous_Decree
1808: Establishment of the Central Consistoryof French Jews.
1811: Birthdate of Karl Gutzkow, the author“Uriel Acosta” which was first performed in Yiddish in 1882 at the MariinskyTheatre in Odessa starring Abba Schoengold whom Jacob Adler described as"the god of the Yiddish public, the god, indeed, of all who saw him onstage... the handsomest man in the world. Tall. Blue eyes. Golden hair. AnApollo."
1811: The Austrian Emperor denied Simon Edlervon Lämel permission to purchase a house in Vienna but “in the same yearelevated him to the hereditary nobility” as a reward for his assistance insupplying the Army during the Napoleonic Wars.
1814: In Amsterdam, Alexander (Elkan) Riminiand Juedith Abraham Messias gave birth to Sara Rimini, the wife of Abraham Delmontewho was living in Whitechapel at the time of her death in 1884/
1815: In Darmstadt, Reina (Rachel) Oppenheimerand Abraham Oppenheimer gave birth to Myer Oppenheimer.
1818: “A restrict measure, which Napoleon hadenacted in 1808, -- to continue in force for ten years only, on his assumptionthat such a ten years’ term was necessary to enable the Jews to conform to theconclusions of his Sanhedrin to become good citizens of the country of theirdomicile and to be an alien nation expired” today “by its own limitation.”
1819: Abraham Solomon married Ellen Levy at theNew Synagogue today.
1825: In the Netherlands, James Abraham CohenStuart, the London son of Elisabeth Gompertz and Abraham Benjamin Cohen and hiswife Petronella Wilhelmina Stuart gave birth toBenjamin Cohen Stuart, the husband of Annetta Dorothea Rebecca de Leeuw.
1826(8th of Adar II, 5586): HettyGrace Levy, the daughter of Solomon Levy passed away today.
1829: Birthdate of Ephraim Menahhem Epstein theRussian born Jewish convert to Christianity and College of Physicians andSurgeons trained doctor who was “the first leader of the University of SouthDakota.”
https://libguides.usd.edu/ephraim
1831: In Baden, Breunla Dreifuss and herhusband Araon Dreifuss gave birth to Rosele Lion , the wife of Jonas Lion IIand “other of Karoline Lion (Lion); Sophie Rosie Lion, I; Babette Lion; LeopoldLion II; Abraham Lion; Mina Forsch (Lion); Marie Lion and Helene Weil (Lion)”who passed away at the age of 87 in Ettenehim, Germany.
1832: Birthdate of Moncure Daniel Conway theUnitarian clergyman and author whose works include The Wandering Jew andSolomon and Solomonic Literature
1833(26th of Adar, 5593): Judith Levy, thedaughter of Chaim Levy passed away today.
1836: In Charleston, South Carolina, Isaac andBabetta Dittenhoefer, gave birth to Abram Jess Dittenhoefer. His parents wereimmigrants from Germany who lived in Baltimore and Charleston before settlingin New York where his father became a successful merchant. A graduate of Columbia Law, youngDittenhoefer would become a practicing attorney and successful judge. Oddlyenough, this Jew who was born in the Cradle of the Confederacy would be one ofthe electors from New York who would cast a vote for Abraham Lincoln in theElectoral College.
1840: Henry Benjamin married Marian Alexanderat the Great Synagogue today.
1840: Birthdate of Henri Didon Louis Remy, theDominican friar who spoke “approvingly of Renan’s closing work, History ofthe Jews which depicts “Christianity as the flower, masterpiece and gloryof Judaism.”
1841: Harris Barnett married Leah Levy at theGreat Synagogue today
1842: Birthdate of Dublin native JulieCalisher, the husband of Birmingham, England native Julius Calisher.
1843(15th of Adar II, 5603): ShushanPurim
1843(15th of Adar II, 5603): JaneSimpson, who had been born to Gershon Cohen and Cecile Solomons in 1789, the “wifeof Goodman (Gomez) Mordecai and MichaelSimpson and
mother of Benjamin Mordecai; Abraham G.Mordecai; Cecilia Mordecai; Annie B. Simpson; Myer M. Simpson; Rebecca Solomonsand Leonard Simpson” passed away today
1846: Mary Ann Talbot and Abdallah Ben Cassangave birth to Ali Adolphus Ben Cassan
1848: Eight years before the death of hisfather Jacob Steinschenider, Moritz Steinschneider “after many difficultiessucceeded in becoming a Prussian citizen” in “the same year” that “he wascharged with preparation of the catalogue of Hebrew books in the BodleianLibrary at Oxford.”
1848: By the time the time that Carl HeinrichSpitzer, a 17 year old Moravian Jew studying at the Vienna Polytechnic who hadbeen the first one shot down by imperial troops two days ago was laid to resttoday, Emperor Ferdinand had “had acceded to the students’ demands for anational guard, a freed press and the promise of a constitution.”
1849: William III of Netherlands who in 1855appointed Aron Mendes Chumaceiro chief rabbi of the colony of Curaçao andintervened on behalf of “the persecuted Dutch Jews of Coro, Venezuela” began isreign today.
1851(13th ofAdar II, 5611): Erev Purim coincides with St. Patrick’s Day
1851: Rabbi SabatoMorais arrived in Philadelphia with the expectation of becoming the spiritualleader of Congregation Mikveh Israel.
1852: In Copenhagen, Amalia Monies and CharlesKann gave birth to Albert Kann.
1852: In Germany, Lazarus Siegel and ZerlinKoch gave birth to Henry Siegel, who married Marie Vaugh Wilde after his firstwife Julia Rosenbaum passed away and came to the United States in 1867 andopened a series of progressively more successful department stores starting inParkersburg, West Virginia and climaxing with purchases of emporiums in Chicagoand New York.
1852:In Eubigheim, Lazarus Siegel and Zerlina Koch gave birth to Henry Seigel, theGerman immigrant who came to United States in 1852 where he established and/oracquired a series of increasingly successful department store including Siegel,Hartsfield & Co., the Siegel Cooper Company, Simpson Crawford Company inNew York, and the Schlesinger and Mayer Company in Chicago.
1853:Birthdate of Copenhagen native, University of Copenhagen student of Orientallanguages Davied Jacob Simonsen, the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslautrained rabbi.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130826002039/http://www5.kb.dk/en/nb/samling/js/DSintro.html
1854:Mr. and Mrs. Moses Ley Maduro Peixotta gave birth to Daniel Levy MaduroPeixotto, a leader in the New York State Militia who died because of fevercontracted during the Spanish-American War.
1857:Paul Reuter, a Jew by birth who would become one of the first of the modernPress Lords as the founder of Reuters legally became a British subject. Reuter had already shed the Jewish part ofhis origins when he converted in November of 1845, a month after he had movedto London.
1858(2ndof Nisan, 5618): Seventy-six-year-old Samuel Lyons, the Baltimore born son ofEleazar Lyons who married Dinah Levy in Surinam in 1810 and then Sarah Marks inPhiladelphia in 1821 passed away today in Philadelphia.
1858:In Chicago, Elias and Rosine (Straus) Greenbaum gave birth to banker Moses E.Greenbaum, the husband of Julia Friedman who was president of Greenbaum SonsBank and Trust Company and Greenbaum Sons Investment Company as well asPresident of Chicago Sinai Congregation and a trustee of the Union of AmericanHebrew Congregations, the National Jewish hospital for Consumptives in Denverand the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City.
1859(11thof Adar II, 5619): Fast of Esther is observed because the 13th fallson Shabbat
1859:In Frankfurt, Selig and Clementine Goldschmidt gave birth to their second childFlora.
1860(23rdof Adar, 5620): Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudi; Shabbat Parah
1860:In Baghdad, Hakham Heskel, Shalma, Ezra, Shlomo-David, a student of HakhamAbdallah Somekh gave birth to Sir Sassoon Eskell, KBE), also known as SassoonEffendi an Iraqi statesman, politicianand financier regarded in Iraq as theFather of Parliament and the first Minister of Finance in the Kingdom who was apermanent Member of Parliament and who “along with Gertrude Bell and T. E.Lawrence, was instrumental in creating and establishing the Kingdom of Iraqpost-Ottoman rule…as well as cousin poet Sigfried Sassoon ll
1861: In Wilmington, Delaware, Josiah andLisette (Frankel) Bochroch gave birth to Jefferson Medical College graduate MaxH. Bochroch, a Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases at Temple Universityand a member of Rodeph Sholom Congregation in Philadelphia who married JennieM. Wolfe in 1887.
1861: The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed. Theghetto walls came tumbling down and the Jews were fully emancipated. Jews played an active part in the creation ofthe modern Italian state and they enjoyed a level of social and legalacceptance that was second only to that enjoyed by the Jews of Great Britain.
1862(15th of Adar II, 5622): Shushan Purim
1862: A group of wealthy young men who formedwhat would be known as the Purim Association held the first Purim Ball in NewYork City.
1862(15th of Adar II, 5622): Composer JacquesFrançois Fromental Élie Halévy passed away.Born in 1799, Halévy composed the tragic opera La Juive and thecomic opera L'Éclair. These works are his major claim to artistic fame.
1864: In New York City, Yetta Hackes and LouisStix who had been married since 1852 gave birth to Otto Louis Stix
1864(9th of Adar II, 5624): Abraham DavidMeijer, the brother of Jonas Daniel Meijer (the first Jewish lawyer in theNetherlands) passed away today.
1865: In St. Louis, Ferdinand and Lizzie SicherFishell gave birth toe Reginal Fishell Finger the wife of William Finger whomshe married in 1917 and who was buried in the Congregation B’nai JeshurunCemetery in Elizabeth, NJ when she passed away in 1946 at the age of 81.
1865(19th of Adar, 5625): Seventy-one-year-oldRabbi Isaac Noah Mannheimer, the native of Copenhagen passed away today inVienna.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10370-mannheimer-isaac-noah
1869: In Baghdad, Heskel Shalma EzraShlomo-David, Hakham and Messouda/Massoda/Massouda Shlomo-David gave birth toSir Sassoon Eskel, who following WW I became Iraq’s finance minister and whowas the father of Rahel Cohen and Meir Eskel
1868: In the 8th arrondissement of Paris, ElieLazare II, the French born son of Elie ben Abraham Lazard and Esther Cahn –Lazard and his wife Marie Lazard gave birth to Michel Lazard the husband ofLouise Lazard and banquier, chevalier de la Légion d'honneur.
1869: Louis and Bluma Joseph were married todayat Cavendish Square.
1870(14th of Adar II, 5630): Purim
1870(14th of Adar): Rabbi Dov Ber ben IsaacMeisels of Cracow, author of Hiddushei Mahardam passed away
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Meisels_Dov_Berush
1870: Birthdate of Lithuanian-Americanjournalist and author Joseph Magil Magilnitski who settled in Philadelphiawhere in 1894 he found the Yudishes Folks Blat (The Jewish People’s Newspaer) while creating “a new ‘linear system,’ for[secular] schools, religious elementary schools, Talmud-Torahs, and self-study”including Mogilnitskis hamekhin lakhumesh (Mogilnitski’s preparation forPentateuch) Mogilnitskis linyen megiles ester (Mogilnitski’s linearScroll of Esther) and Mogilnitskis hagode shel peysekh (Mogilnitski’sPassover Haggada);
1870: Since the Purim balls in New York appearto have lost their popularity, tonight’s Purim celebrations will not consist ofany “grand demonstration” but will be limited to some unpretentiousentertainments.
1873(18thof Adar, 5633): Seventy-seven-year-old Joseph Salvador a member of adistinguished French Sephardi family whose mother was Roman Catholic, theauthor of Paris, Rome, Jerusalem ou la Question religieuse au XIX siècle whowas angered by the anti-Jewish riots in German and was considered a‘proto-Zionist” passed away today,
1873:Three days after she had passed away66 year old Catherine “Kate” Collins (neeIsaacs) the wife of Solomon Collins and the mother of Adelaide and WilliamCollins was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1874: In Budapest, on St. Patrick’s Day, Dr. AaronWise, the future rabbi of Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes in Brooklyn,New York and his wife gave birth to Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, the grandson ofRabbi Joseph Hirsch Weiss and Móric Fischer de Farkasházy, the founder of theHerend Porcelain Company.Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise declined to accept thepulpit of New York's largest Reform Congregation if it meant he could not speakout in favor of Zionism and he became the President of the Zionist Organizationof America. Wise was one of several Jews who attended the Paris PeaceConference at the end of World War I. In 1922, Wise founded the JewishInstitute of Religion "in an attempt at sectarian non-partisanship, sothat its graduates might serve any one of the [Jewish] religious groupings"in the United States.
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007309
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/stephen-samuel-wise
1875(10thof Adar, 5635): Seventy-one-year-old Solomon Reis, the native of Alsace, Francepassed away today in New Orleans after which he was buried at the Hebrew RestCemetery #1
1876:Birthdate of New York City native Samuel Levy, the lawyer, the New York Boardof Education and Manhattan Borough President who married Sadie Vesell with whomhe had one daughter, Bernice and one son Lawrence, the husband of BethaRothafel, “the daughter of theatrical impresario and entrepreneur Samuel RoxyRothafel.
1877:According to a report published today in The Times of London the “Jews’ Deafand Dumb Home” “was founded in 1863 by Baroness Mayer de Rothschild as a schoolwhere resident Jewish children could learn to speak.”
1878:“Ethical Culture” which was published today describes the growth of The Societyfor Ethical Culture which was founded only two years before by FelixAdler. The author gives dueconsideration to Adler’s Jewish origins and the effect that has had in creatingthe increasingly popular movement.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A05EFDD143EE73BBC4F52DFB5668383669FDE
1878:The Jewish owner of the coffee and cake saloon at number 7 Fulton Street failedin his effort to get Justice Murray to find that his employee was not guilty ofviolating the city’s ordinance against throwing oyster shells, after shuckingthem, into the street.
1878:The annual Purim reception at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews began thismorning at 11 o’clock. Due to theinclement weather, the turnout was smaller than normal. The reception ended at 6 in the evening.
1878:Cohen Davis, an elderly glazier, was tried for perjury today in the GeneralSessions Court. The prosecutor chargedthat he had lied under oath during the trial of Abraham Freeman and CharlesFreeman who have been convicted of arson in the first degree.
1879:In Paris, Noémie and Adolphe Bloch gave birth to Jules André Albert Bloch.
1879:In Uniontown, AL, Cornelia Pake and Moritz L. Ernst gave birth to CCNY graduateand Columbia trained attorney Bernard M.L. Ernst, the husband of Roberta C.Clans, the vice president of the Society of American Magicians who was a memberof Temple Israel and the Intercollegiate Menorah Association.
1880In New York City, “Isaac Jacobs and Rachel Strauss gave birth to boxingPromoter Michael “Uncle Mike” Jacobs whose career spanned an era the ran fromJack Dempsey’s reign to the retirement of Joe Louis, two of the greatestheavyweight champions of the world during boxing’s so-called golden age.
1880:It was reported today that the annual ball sponsored by the Purim Associationhad raised $18,585.80 for the New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital.
1880:It was reported today that George Kessler is among those selling tickets theConcord Society’s first grand annual charity ball which is a benefit for theYoung Ladies’ Charitable which is an adjunct of the United Hebrew Charities.
1881:Twenty-one-year-old Aizik Aronchic, the son of “Jewish traders from Gomel” wasarrested today for his role in the 1879 “attempt by Narodnaya Volya to kill theTsar by exploding a mine under the Moscow - Kursk railway as his train passed.”
1882:In Chicago, “Abraham and Anna (Hinde) Shemerinsky” gave birth to GertrudeShemerinsky who married Jacob Kaplan and as Gertrude Kaplan gave birth to fivechildren.
1882:“Justice Steckler Expelled” published today described the decision to expelAlfred Steckler and some of his associates from the Tenth Assembly DistrictRepublican Association. Steckler and hisassociates were not expelled because they were Jewish but because they hadfailed to support the Republican candidate.
1882:Birthdate of Polish native Max Cline, who in 1885 came to the United Stateswhere graduated from MIT and became “the chief chemist of the InternationalPaper Company’s research division.
1884:Birthdate of Dr. Nahum Nir, the native of Warsaw who made Aliyah in 1925 andwas one of the signatories of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
1884(20thof Adar, 5644): Benjamin Gratz passed away in Lexington, KY. Part of the famous Gratz family, he was bornin Philadelphia in 1792. After servingin the Army during the War of 1812 he moved to Kentucky where he practiced lawand served as trustee of Transylvania University.
1884:After moving to Kansas City, MO and working “at the law firm of Lathrop, Smithand Marrow in 1884, today William J. Berkowitz “and his brother foundedBerkowitz and Company Printers the forerunner if what is now called the TensionCorporation.
1885:Three days after she had passed away, 24 year old Constance Baumann, thedaughter of “David and Sarah Baumann” was buried today at the Balls Pond RoadJewish Cemetery.
1886:In Grodno, Cippy Kohen and Robert Fredman gave birth to John Hopkins graduateand JTS ordained rabbi, Samuel Fredman, the husband of Bessie Stashower whobegan serving as spiritual leader of Congregation Beth El in Philadelphia in1913.
1886(10thof Adar II, 5646): Ninety-one-year-old Leopold Zunz also known—"Yom TovLipmann Tzuntz" passed away. Born in 1794, “he was a German Reform rabbiand writer, the founder of what has been termed the "Science ofJudaism" (Wissenschaft des Judentums), the critical investigation ofJewish literature, hymnology and ritual.”
1888:In Bloomfield, NJ, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Harris gave birth to WW I veteran andPresident of the Young Men’s Building and Loan Association Harvey E. Harris,the Postmaster of Bloomfield who was the brother of Jerome, Irving and HazelHarris.
1888:In Yemen, Bohemian born linguist Eduard Glaser began his third journey fromSanaa to Ma’rib
1889(14th of Adar II, 5649): Purim
1890: Birthdate of Philadelphia native and JeffersonMedical College trained dermatologistSigmund Samuel Greenbaum, the husband of Rae Shirley Refowich whom hemarried in 1922 and author of Diseases of the Mouth and Their Treatmentwho was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and amember of B’nai Brith and Keneseth Israel Congregation.
1890: Birthdate of Russia native and Kiev Universitygraduate Solomon Cutler who in 1913 came to the United States where he raisedtwo daughters with his wife while serving as the “director of the budgetdepartment of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societiesof New York.”
1891: Solomon Achillovich Joffe, the Russian bornson of Eugenia Tsirkin and Achilles Joffee the actuary with the Mutual LifeInsurance Company who had served in the Russian Army before coming to theUnited States where he attended NYU and the University of Chicago marriedRossia M. Krasnopolskya today.
1891: Birthdate of New York native and CCNY graduateMax Gewirtz, the holder of a Masters Degree from Teachers College at Columbiaand Doctorate from NYU who retired as an assistant superintended “of a districtin Queens in 1961 and became “head of a religious school at Temple Israel inLawrence, L.I.
1892(18th of Adar, 5652): Fifty-seven-year-oldMoravian native Max Srakosch, “an impresario and agent” who was the brother ofMaurice Strakosch passed away today in New York.
1892: It was reported today that Rabbi Stephen S.Wise will be addressing the congregants at Temple Israel in Harlem.
1892: In Seattle, WA, founding of the Ladies’ HebrewBenevolent Society which met on the first Wednesday of each month and whosemembers included Ida Davis who served as the society’s secretary.
1893: “Russia’s Securities May Suffer” publishedtoday described an appeal made by the London Russo-Jewish Committee that hasbeen “sent to every Jewish banker, bank director, bank manager, stockbroker,and “agent de change” in Europe calling on them” to boycott Russian loans andRussian financial transactions in general. “The appeal is in retaliation” forthe continued severe treatment of the Russian Jews by the Czar
1894:Moritz Kepes, a Jewish saloon owner, was beaten up today by John Fuchs and hisson who owned a nearby saloon.
1894:A fire broke out today in a tenement house on Jefferson Street this morningthat is owned by Abraham Doworsky and is occupied by Russian Jews. Some of the tenants told Doworsky that theywould be starting a newspaper in the building’s basement, but the fire exposedthe fact that they were operating an illegal still.
1894:“The Germans and their Fatherland” published today provides a detailed reviewGermany and the Germans by William Harbutt in which the author devotes onechapter to the anti-Semitic party and another chapter the criminal activitiesin which Jews engage. The author doesraise and does not answer the question “What do the anti-Semites propose to dowith the Jews and what would do without them
1894:The United Hebrew Charities reported today that between October 1, 1893 toMarch 1, 1894 that they had over 18,000 applicants for assistance. During those five months, the charity hadspent over $103,000 for clothing, medicine burials, coal and operating theindustrial schools. For the same perioda year ago, they had spent a little more than $46,000 which is indicative ofthe losses caused by the depression that began in 1893.
1895:Three days after she had passed away, 58-year-old Esther Nyman, the wife ofAbraham Nyman was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1895: Contrary to what is listed in Wikipedia, today, in Brooklyn Solomon andJennie Horwitz gave birth to Samuel Horwitz who gained fame as Shemp Howard ofThe Three Stooges.
http://www.shemphoward.com/biography.html
1895:”Self-SacrificingWomen” published today described the activities of “The Beth El Society ofPersonal Service, one of the leading charitable institutions found by Jewishwomen for the sole purpose of bettering the condition of unfortunate Israelitesand to aid them when in distress.
1896:Today, German born Samuel Gutmann, the son of Hirsch Gutman and husband ofHattie S. Stricker who had come to the United States in 1884 “became anaturalized citizen before the District Court of Iowa, Polk Co at Des Moines,Iowa.”
1897(13thof Adar II, 5657): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim
1897:Birthdate of Charles Levine, the son of Massachusetts scrap metal dealer, whowas a pioneer in the field of aviation.A contemporary of Lindbergh, he was on the second plane that flew fromAmerica across the Atlantic. UnlikeLindbergh who was heading for Paris, Levine was trying to make Berlin. Although he had to land one hundred milesshort of his distance, he had actually out-distanced the Lone Eagle.
1897:Samuel Simon Leibowitz arrived inAmerica with his parents from Romania.Born in 1893, he would become a famous defense attorney and New YorkJudge. He is best known as attorney whotook the lead in defending the Scottsboro Boys.
1898:” The Baron De Hirsch Fund” published todaydescribed the efforts to build “model tenements” and erect “suburban homes” torelieve the overcrowding on the Lower East Side. Some of the money had already been used topurchase 12 lots across the Harlem River where “model tenements” will beconstructed. These efforts are not to be confused with other efforts financedby the late Baron Hirsch and his widow to develop “agricultural colonies”including the one at Woodbine, NJ.
1898: Rosa and Louis Funk gave birth to Ivan Funk,the brother of Conrad and Leo Funk.
1899: “Jewish Philanthropy” published todaydescribed Simon Wolf’s view of Jewish generosity. According to him, “We take care of our people,and we help others.” “In the largestcities in the United States” Jews have collected $64,000,000 for philanthropicpurposes, thanks in no small measure to the efforts of such mean as OscarNathan, Isidor Straus and Adolphus S. Solomon.
1899: On Chicago’s South Side, Rabbi Isaac M. Wisededicated the sanctuary of The Reform Congregation of Isaiah Temple which hadbeen designed by Dankmar Adler.
1900:Birthdate of American film composer Alfred Newman, a major Jewish-Americancomposer of music for films. He received 45 Academy Award nominations (a recordin the music categories, now shared with John Williams), winning 9 times; in1940 he was nominated for 4 different films. He also composed the familiarfanfare which accompanies the studio logo for 20th Century Fox, where he headedthe music department. He was active until the end of his life, scoring Airportshortly before his death. Between 1930 and 1970, he wrote music for over 200films of every imaginable type, including a score for the newsreel made fromthe World War II footage of the Battle of Midway
1901:In Philadelphia, PA, a federation of Jewish charities including the JewishHospital Association, Jewish Foster Home, Society of United Hebrew Charities,Hebrew Education Society, Orphans' Guardians, Jewish Maternity Association,Jewish Immigration Society, Young Women's Union, and Hebrew Sunday-SchoolSociety was formed today with Jacob Gimbel as President.
1902:Gustav Ave Levy, the Navasota, Tx born son of Henrietta Hyman and Simon Levywho moved to St. Louis in 1895 where he went to work for the Globe Shoe andClothing Company married Nellie Stuart today in St. Louis.
1902:Two days after she had passed away, 76-year-old Louisa Levy, the husband ofCharles Levy with whom she had had eight children was buried today at the BallsPond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1902:Herzl is authorized to obtain three letters of credit, each for a millionfrancs, from banks in Paris, Berlin and London. The funds are to be depositedin Turkish banks. Several members of theActions Committee including Avraham Menachem Mendel Ussishkin are opposed tothe plan. Ussishkin and Herzl were both fervent Zionists but they had differentviews as to the goal of establishing a Jewish home in Eretz Israel could beaccomplished. Born in 1863 in Russia, Ussishkin would become an early Zionist leaderand first President of the Jewish Nation Fund or JNF. In his youth, he became anenthusiastic reader of the works of contemporary Hebrew writers in his teens,and from then on the revival of the Hebrew language was one of the main goalsof his life work. Like many other early Hibbat Zion members, he was shocked bythe Russian pogroms of 1881, which emphasized to him the necessity for Jewishemigration. Ussishkin then began working actively for several Zionist groups.After graduating as a technical engineer from the Technological Institute inMoscow, he became active in Hebrew educational work as well as in Zionistpropaganda and fund-raising in Russia. Ussishkin was a "practical"Zionist who viewed agricultural settlement in Eretz Israel as the first andmost important step toward attaining a Jewish state. He was thus active inrecruiting youth for pioneer work and for agricultural settlement of the land.He was a delegate to the First Zionist Congress held in Basle in 1893, and wasappointed Hebrew secretary of the Congress. At the Seventh Zionist Congress(1905), he was among the leaders of those who forced the abandonment of theUganda Scheme, and he then proposed a program of Zionism which was lateradopted by the Zionist movement. Under his influence the Zionist movementactively supported the establishment of agricultural settlements, educationaland cultural institutions, and a Hebrew university. In 1919 Ussishkin himselfsettled in Eretz Israel, and in 1923 he was chosen to head the Jewish NationalFund, a position he held for nearly twenty years.
1902:It was reported today that “during the month of February, 2,512 families andindividuals applied at the relief bureau of the United Hebrew Charities forassistance” including 681 who were applying for aid for the first time.
1903:NYU Law School graduate and trustee of the Union Temple of Brooklyn LeopoldLevy, the Brooklyn bon son of Jeannette Grabfelder and Ludwig Levy married AdaViola Lese today.
1903:Based on reports from their co-religionists in Russia, today, it is evident tothe leading Jews in New York “that the exceptional laws to which the RussianJews are subjected – the so-called ‘May Laws’ --- will not be abolished by theCzar’s recent decree “granting reforms throughout Russia.
1904(1stof Nisan, 5564): Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1904(1stof Nisan, 5564): Eighty-two-year-old Alsace born and St. Cyr graduate, General LeopoldSee, a veteran of the Crimean War and the Franco-Prussian War who was member ofthe French Jewish Consistory died today in Paris.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/s-x00e9-e-l-x00e9-opold
1904:Birthdate of Alfred Henry “Truck” Miller the native of Boston who played whoplayed for Harvard before spending one year as a profession with the BostonBulldogs.
1904:Birthdate of Chaim Gross an Austrian born American sculptor. Gross beganexhibiting both his sculpture and graphic art in 1935 and was one of 250sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at thePhiladelphia Museum of Art in the summer of 1949. Gross was a practitioner ofthe direct carving method, with the majority of his work being carved fromwood. Gross was a professor of printmaking and sculpture at both theEducational Alliance and the New School for Social Research in New York City,as well as a member of Artists Equity, the Federation of Modern Painters andSculptors, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He served asPresident of the Sculptors Guild of America.He passed away in 1991 at the age of 84. (As reported by John T.McQuiston)
1905:In Chelsea, MA, Joseph A Strauss and Ida (Chayah) Kasriels of Russia gave birthto Harry Strauss who married Cecile G Pofcher in 1931.
1906:Adolf Kraus of Chicago, the President of the Executive Committee of B’naiB’rith received a cablegram from the Russian Premier, Count Witte in responseto his letter inquiring what measures had been put in place to protect thelives and property of Jews during a planned Easter massacre in which Witte saidhis government does not approve of violence and that all measures will be takento protect “peaceable inhabitants without regard to nationality.”
1906:It was reported today that “two high officials of the Ministry of the Interior,one of whom has been arrested” were “the authors of the pamphlet inciting thepeople to murder the Jews”
1907(2ndof Nisan, 5667): Gotlieb Schmelkes the husband of Henriette Schmelkes and thefather of Markus and Rachel Schmelkes passed away today
1907:A new orchestra of 75 American musicians conducted by Manuel Klein, the Englishborn son of Jewish immigrants from Latvia is scheduled to perform for the firsttime at the Hippodrome today.
1908(14thof Adar II, 5668): Purim
1908:The Council of Jewish Women held “their regular meeting” today in the West EndSynagogue during which they heard a lecture on the “Physical Welfare ofChildren” given by Charles C. Burlingham, the ex-president of the Board ofEducation who “urged that action be taken to prevent school children” many ofwhose mothers are cleaning offices early in the morning from going to schoolwithout eating breakfast. (The more things change, the more they stay the same)
1909:Welterweight Joe Hirst fought “his first big fight today in Philadelphia whichwas a six round bout that was a draw.
1909:Sixty-four-year-old Mariam Myers was buried today at the Belfast JewishCemetery in Northern Ireland.
1909:It was reported today that the Jews said the decision of the Senate in Finlandto ban the “slaughter of cattle in accordance with Jewish ritual” was “evidenceof the anti-Jewish sentiment in that body” while members of the Senate claimedthe decision “was based purely on sanitary and humane grounds.”
1910:Alma Gluck is scheduled to appear in a matinee performance of the opera“Werther” at The New Theatre in New York.
1910:Birthdate of David Abraham "Sonny" Werblin the Flatbush native whogained national fame for his purchase of the New York Jets and the signing ofJoe Namath – an act which helped to force the NFL to merge with the AFL.
1911:In Vienna “artisan Jakob Goldsand and his wife Helene” gave birth to American classicalpianist Robert Goldsand.
https://www.lib.umd.edu/ipam/collections/robert-goldsand
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/17/obituaries/robert-goldsand-80-pianist-and-teacher.html
1911:Birthdate of Moshe Baram the native of Zdolbuniv who made Aliyah in 1931 andafter Independence served as an MK and cabinet minister.
1912:This evening Rabbi Israel Odes presided over a meeting of the “many synagogueson the east side” held “under the auspices of the sons and Daughters of Israelwhich heard speeches by Justice Samuel Greenbaum and Congressman HenryGoldfogle who urged the attendees “to keep alive the religious spirit of theJewish race.”
1913(8thof Adar II, 5673): Forty-four-year-old glass manufacturer Jacob H. Werbelowskypassed away today in in Brooklyn, NY.
1914:It was reported today that the colony based on the cooperative model desiged byDr. Franz Oppenheimer which now employees fifty workman has been moresuccessful than other settlement ventures and it is hoped will begin to “show adecent profit” in the next two years.
1915:Birthdate of Wolfgang Doblin the son of German author Bruno Alfred Döblin
1915:The Russian official press bureau tonight issued a statement tonight denyingclaims by the Austrians that Russian soldiers have “committed outrages on theJewish populations in Galicia, Bukowina and Russian Poland.”
1915:“The American Jewish Relief Committee announced” today “that letters to personin Russia should be written in either Russian, English or French” since owingto the strict censorship in force in Russia…letters written in Yiddish or anyother language than those named had little or no chance of being delivered.”
1915:As of today, the American Jewish Relief Committee has collected $573,267.00.
1915:Today, Professor A.T. Fowler of the Biblical Department of” Brown “Universityand a member of the Advisory Board of the” Menorah “Society spoke on ‘The Bibleas a Literary Document.’”
1915:As of today, it was reported that there are an estimated 50,000 Falsahas (BlackJews) living in Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and that Dr. Jacques Faitlovitch, a FrenchJew is working on developing an educational program for them.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0006_0_06241.html
1915:Tonight, in Washington, DC, “the Austro-Hungarian Embassy…made public adispatch from the Foreign Office in Vienna” that the “Commander-in-Chief of theRussian Army under the pretext that populating sympathizing with Austrians andGermans…has ordered that Jews are forbidden to remain in districts occupied bythe army and are forbidden to enter the country east of Jaroslau.” (Editor’sNote – Jaroslau is a town in southeast Poland on the border with Russia whereJews had lived since the 15th century and whose pre-WW I populationwas 25% Jewish. On the Eastern Front allwarring parties accused the Jews of being spies or worse and used this as anexcuse for indiscriminate killing and expulsion.)
1916(12thof Adar II, 5676): Julia Frankau, the Dublin born Jewish daughter ofphotographer Hyman Davis and wife of Arthur Frankau who used the penname FrankDanby during her writing career which began with the publication of a novelthat was a “social satire” of Anglo-Jewry passed away today.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2774960.Julia_Frankau
1916:Birthdate of Dr. Albert M. Kligman, a dermatologist who invented the widelyused acne medication Retin-A but whose experiments involving prisoners raisedethical questions that dogged his career.
1916:During the expedition to capture Pancho Villa, a military action that involvedso many Jewish soldiers that Jewish chaplains were dispatched to the theatre ofoperation and High Holiday services were held at several locations, GeneralPershing established his main base at Colonia Dublan.
1917: One hundred and ninety Jews fromPalestine migrate to Cyprus on an Ottoman mail steamer.
1917: Birthdate of Karel Švenk, the native ofPrague and multi-talented entertainer – “cabaret artist, comedian, songwriterand writer” – who was shipped to Terezin and then to Auschwitz before weeksbefore the war ended on a transport to Mauthausen.
1917: Dorothy Cohen Schwartzman, Ida BienstockLandau, Minna Goldsmith Mahler, Eva Effron Robin, and Sylvia Steierman foundedDelta Phi Epsilon (ΔΦΕ or DPhiE) is an international sorority at New YorkUniversity Law School.
1918: It was reported today that “as a resultof their on Washington’s Birthday the 62,000 members of the InternationalLadies’ Garment Workers’ Union have contributed $140,000 to the American JewishRelief Committee.
1918: The British Army including the Jewishbattalion captured Amman.
1918(4th of Nisan, 5678):Forty-eight year old San Francisco native Tessie (Goslinsky) Fleischner, the wife of Newton Fleishner,theAlbany, Oregon, born son Bohemian natives Jacob Fleischner and Fanny who was an1878 graduate of St. Augustine’s College, a partner in Fleischner, Mayer &Company, “the largest wholesale dry goods house on the Pacific coast” andPresident of the local B’nai B’rith Lodge with whom she had two daughters,passed away today after which she was buried in the Beth El Cemetery in Portland,Oregon.
1918: It was reported today that the AmericanJewish Relief Committee chaired by Louis Marshall continues to receivecontributions from committees across the country including $1,000 fromNashville, TN and $174 from Richmond, Indiana.
1919: In Paris “President Wilson conferredtoday with Bernard Baruch and others who are serving as economic experts withthe American mission and approved their proposals of no trade discriminationagainst enemy countries after the war.”
1919(15th of Adar II, 5679): ShushanPurim
1919: Today, “leaders of the Isaac M. WiseCentenary Fund Campaign expressed themselves as highly pleased with the resultof the first day’s work in the campaign…which will endeavor to raise $100,000among the Jews of New York for the furtherance of the work of the Union ofAmerican Hebrew Congregations and the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati,Ohio.”
1920: St. Louis Rabbi, Goodman “George” Lipkindwrote a one act comedy, “Wanted a Housekeeper.”
1921: Birthdate of Meir Slutzki who as MeirAmit gained fame as an Israeli politician, general, and Director of the Mossad.
1921: The Constituent Assembly ratified the constitutionof the Polish Republic which granted equal rights to the Jews.
1921: Thirty-year-old Barney Sedran led the TrentonBengals to victory over the Wilkes-Barre Barons.
1921: At the Cairo Conference attended byWinston Churchill and T.E. Lawrence (better known as “Lawrence of Arabia”) itwas agreed that Transjordan (an Arab State) should be separated from Palestine“thus enabling Britain to fulfill its wartime pledges to both the Arabs and theJews.” The decision reinforced the rightfor Jews to “be able to settle the land from the Mediterranean to the Jordan,from the Galilee to the Negev.” (“This comprised the area of both Israel andthe West Bank today.”)
1922: As the New York City Campaign for Jewishrelief for victims of war, famine and pogroms in Russia continues it wasreported today that the Shaaray Teifilah Sisterhood has raised $6,000 and theB’nai Jeshurun Sister has raised $8,500.
1922: “Reports have reached the United States aboutthreatened disturbances in Palestine which may lead to new bloodshed, as aresult of agitation conducted by certain anti-Jewish Arabs and otherpropagandists…”
1922: WIP radio, one of the first radio stations inPhiladelphia which was founded by BenedictGimbel, Jr started broadcasting from its studio above the Gimbels departmentstore in Philadelphia
1923: Dr. Leonard Blumgart, the Columbiatrained psychiatrist, the son of Sophie Hiller and David Blumgart married JaneLoomis today.
1924: “The Federation for the Support of JewishPhilanthropic Societies announced” today “that the Business Men’s Council ofthat organization…will launch a campaign on March 19 for funds to support 91charity institutions.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1924/03/18/104245502.html?pageNumber=11
1925: In Los Angeles, Lilian Rose Sokolow, theNew York born daughter of Frederick Fred Margareten and Regina Margareten andher husband Moe Sokolow gave birth to Jerome David Sokolow, the father of LoraLynn Sokolwo.
1925:Three days after he had passed away, funeral services were scheduled to be heldthis morning at the Ethical Culture Meeting House in Manhattan for sixty-threeyear old Harvard and Columbia Law School trained corporate attorney AlfredJaretzki, the New York born son of Gustave and Henrietta Jaretzki and thefather of Maud, Alice, Alfred Jaretzki, Jr. who was a member of Sullivan andCromwell, “trustee of the Mount Sinai Hospital, a director of the Baron deHirsch Fund and a director of the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial AidSociety” followed by burial at Mt.Pleasant, NY.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/03/15/98818593.pdf
1926: Rodgers and Hart's musical "Girl Friend" premiered in NewYork. This is but one example of a Jewish team providing ahitmusical comedy for Broadway.
1926:Hazamir chorale of Newark performs in St. Patrick’s Day concert for a Masoniclodge in New York City.
1926:Seventy-two-year-old Alexsei Brusilov, the Chief of Staff who approved theappointment of Jewish Chaplains to serve in the Russian Army in 1917 passedaway today.
1926:As of today, members the Women’s Division of the Harmonie Club which is helpingto raise six million dollars for the United Jewish Campaign include Mrs. FelixM. Warburg, Mrs. Rebekah Kohut, Mrs. Ira Hill Bamberger and Mrs. Charles J.Liebman.
1927(13thof Adar II, 5687): Fast of Esther
1927:A man identified as “Prince Michel Obolensky, scion of a noble but impoverishedRussian family celebrated by St. Patrick’s Day by” delivering “an oration”attacking the Jews on the corner of 14th Street and Avenue whichtouched off neighborhood brawl.
1927:In New Rochelle, NY, Irma Ruskin and Jacob Ruskin, “a lawyer and Civil CourtJudge gave birth to New York Law School trained attorney Robert Kenneth Ruskin“who as New York City’s investigation commissioner in the early 1970s probedcorruption among building inspectors, construction unions, police officers,parking ticket officials and peep-show operators…” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1928(25thof Adar, 5688): Shabbat HaChodesh
1928:In Manhattan “Benjamin Kaufman, the chairman of Kaufman Management, and theformer Stella Cohen, a fashion designer known as Brownie” gave birth to GeorgeStewart Kaufman, “the real estate magnate”who helped to make the Queens a place for movie and televisionproduction. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1929:In Brooklyn, taxi driver Samuel Rosenfeld and bookkeeper Frances Rosenfeld gavebirth to Florence Rosenfeld who gained fame as “Florence Howe, a key architectof the women’s studies movement and a founder of the Feminist Press, a literarynonprofit dedicated to promoting social justice and amplifying overlookedvoices…” As reported by Bonnie Wertheim)
1929:The Flonzaley Quartet which had played the String Quartet No. 1 by ErinSchulhoff performed for the last time in a public concert at The Town Hall inNew York City.
1929:On St. Patrick’s Day, flyweight Moe Mizler fought his 29th bought inLondon.
1930:The four-day dedication exercises “of the new Temple Rodeph” in Manhattan werescheduled to come to an end today.
1930:It was reported today that “King Alexander has accepted patronage over theJewish National Fund bazaar which the Jews of Zagreb are organizing” and that“he is also making a personal donation to the King Peter Forest which theJewish National Fund is to plant in Palestine.”
1931:“The Wonder Bar,” with lyrics by Irving Caesar who wrote the script with AbenKandel and music by Robert Katscher opened at the Nora Bayes Theatre.
1931:According to an interview given today in Vienna by Charlie Chaplin, his“parents on both sides were Jewish” with his mother being described “as aghetto beauty” and his father being “a fine jargon (Yiddish) comedian.” (JTA)
1932:“The Rev. Dr. Stephen S. Wise, rabbi of the Free Synagogue, 40 WestSixty-eighth Street, which he founded, marked his fifty-eighth birthday” today.
1932:Dr. Nathan Krass, the rabbi of Temple Emanu-El in New York City was reported tobe in satisfactory condition after having been admitted earlier today as apatient at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston.
1933:Victor Klemperer writes in hisdiary, “on Friday, unfortunately, Thiemes was here. It was frightful . . . suchenthusiastic conviction and support. The phraseology of unity. Progress piouslyrepeated. Grete (his wife) said, "Everything else failed, now we have to blowthis horn." He corrected her vehemently. "We didn't have to." Inreally free elections he has voted for the right cause. This I can't forgivehim. The poor dog may be frightened for his job. He must howl with the wolves.But why in front of me? . . . Naked violence, breach of law, terriblehypocrisy, unmitigated barbarism poses as law.
1933:The Chevrolet Program starring Jack Benny is broadcast for the first time onNBC Radio.
1934(1stof Nisan, 5694): Parashat Vayikra; Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1934:Rabbi Dr. Bernard Heller, director of the University of Michigan Hillel, refersto Saint Patrick as “the Moses of the Irish” at a St. Patrick’s Day dinner of alocal church.
1934:Dr. Stephen F. Wise, the founder of the Free Synagogue “broadcast a message tohis friends over nation-wide hook-up of the National Broadcasting Company aspart of the celebration of his 60th birthday which fell on St.Patrick’s Day.
1935(12thof Adar II 5695): Mary Goldsmith Prag, the mother of “Florence Prag Khan, thefirst Jewish congresswoman” passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mary-goldsmith-prag
https://www.geni.com/people/Florence-Prag-Kahn-US-Congress/6000000025154791974
1935:The Palestine Maccabee Association announced that it would not participate inthe 1936 Olympics to be held in Germany because of that country’s treatment ofits Jewish citizens.
1935:Polish-American state senator Stephen J. Wojtkowiak sponsors a resolution tomake St. Patrick’s Day a legal holiday in New York. A London Daily Telegrapheditorial column notes that a Jewish lads’ brigade won the junior bagpipechampionships in Glasgow, and jokes that about a Jewish connection to theArchbishop of Canterbury.
1936:“Louis Lipsky, vice president of the American Jewish Congress and honorarypresident of the Zionist Organization of America returned” today “on the CunardWhite Star line Berengaria from Paris and London where he attended severalconferences with Jewish leaders and foreign statesmen on the situation of theJews in many countries including Germany and Poland.”
1936:”Resolutionscondemning war as a means of settling international disputes and calling uponthe United States Government to ‘reiterate its renouncement of war’ made in theKellogg-Briand pact were adopted at the closing session today of the biennial conventionof the United Synagogue of America.”
1936:“Wolf’s Clothing,” a British comedy co-starring Lilli Palmer, the daughter “Dr.Alfred Peiser, a German Jewish surgeon” and his wife Rose, “an Austrian Jewishstage actress” was released today the United Kingdom.
1936:In response to the receipt of a copy of Victor Gallancz’s The Yellow Spot:The Extermination of the Jews in Germany from Harold Laski, Churchill wroteLaksi urging the Laborite to find a way to gain support from the Labor Partyfor the re-armament program designed to thwart the threat of the Nazis.
1936: Following a series of Pogrom-like attack onJews in central Poland,amass demonstration of Polish Jews, left-wingers, and liberals was held toprotest anti-Semitism in Poland.
1937:Three days after his 18th birthday, Brooklynite Bernard Abramofskyarrived in Spain today and served with Abraham Lincoln Brigade until “he wasexecuted behind the lines in May, 1938.
1937:“One Jewish policeman was seriously injured, and sixteen other Jews wereslightly hurt tonight when a bomb was thrown in to a bus on Jaffa Road,Jerusalem’s main thoroughfare.”
1937: The Palestine Post reported that inaddition to five young Jews who were murdered by Arabs during the past fewdays, there were two more victims: Samuel Gottfried, 26, of Rosh Pina and anArab villager who defended his flock from robbers.
1937:“At about 10:30 P.M.,” Meyer Levin discovered two large swastikas painted inblack enamel on the door of Ahavath Chesed in Brooklyn and four smaller ones inchalk on the side doors of the synagogue and then notified Abraham Beier, thepresident of the synagogue “who then asked the police to place a guard on thebuilding.”
1937: The Palestine Post reported that TheJewish Agency Executive in London submitted a memorandum to the Britishgovernment which claimed that the Arab disturbances which began on
1938(14thof Adar II, 5698); Purim
1938(14thof Adar II, 5698): Thirty-seven-year-old Canadian born sailor and “anti-fascistHyman Epstein was killed in action at Caspe during the Spanish Civil War.
1938:“In a message read during the Purim Festival program sponsored by the AmericanJewish Joint Distribution Committee” the national radio audience heard thewords of President Roosevelt who said “enteral vigilance is the price ofliberty” and “the defeat of Haman’s plot to destroy the Jews…is one of themilestones in mankind’s long and bloody struggle to achieve freedom.”
1938:Among the “Books Published Today” were An Open Letter to Jews and Christians: Adiscussion of Jesus in relation to Jews today by John Cournos and the SelectedWorks of Israel Zangwill including “Children of the Ghetto,” “Ghetto Comedies”and “Ghetto Tragedies.
1939:At a meeting in Tel Aviv today, “the National Council of Palestine Jews…decidedto a call a 24 hour strike” to start on Monday, March 20th “ “as the first step in its program of ‘drasticpolitical action’ against Great Britain’s plan” for Palestine. “The Council condemned the plan as ‘theliquidation of the Jewish national home and strangulation of the Jewishsettlement.’”
1939:“King of Chinatown,” a crime film based on a story by Herbert Biberman with ascript co-authored by Irving Reis was released today in the United States.
1939:Erich Otto Sonnheim arrived in the United States from Germany.
http://tabletmag.com/scroll/166071/why-st-patricks-day-is-my-jewish-familys-favorite-holiday
1940:“The fifteenth anniversary of the dedication of the Jacob H. Schiff Center,2,510 Valentine Avenue, the Bronx, was celebrated tonight with a dinner andmemorial service held at the Center.”
1940:Fritz Todt, who escaped being tried at Nuremberg because he died during WW IIwas named Riech Minister for Armaments and Ammunition today.
1941:According to a death certificate issued by the Soviet government and madepublic in 1954 this is date of the death of Isaac Babel. It would not be untilthe 1990’s that this would be exposed as a lie. Babel had actually beenexecuted by the Soviets on January 27, 1940.
1941:Hans Frank, General Governor of Occupied Poland, had a meeting with AdolfHitler about the fate of Jews in Europe. Afterwards, Frank informs the GeneralGovernment's undersecretaries of state, police and SS chiefs, districtgovernors, and department directors that the Jews are to be eliminated.
1942: Dr. Max Lederer, whose last residencebefore deportation was Pilsen, was transported today Terezin where he wasmurdered.
1942:The 60,000 Jews in Tunisia are restricted to publishing only one newspaper.
1942:It was reported today that “despite the fact that Jews constitute about threepercent of the population in the United States, they total eight percent of the75 recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross so far in this war, amongAmerican forces.” (JTA)
1942: In eastern Poland, the Belzec Concentration Camp opened as 1,500 Jewsarrive from the Lviv Ghetto in the western Ukraine. At that time 30,000Lublin Polish Jews were transportedto this death camp.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/05.asp
1942:The deportations which began in Lublin would not until 30,000 had been shippedto Belzec by April where most of them were murdered.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/05.asp
1942: Nazi radio broadcast in Berlin spreadsfalse rumors about St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York turning into a hugeanti-Jewish demonstration.
1942: Birthdate of South African born educatorMeyer Feldberg the Dean of the A.B. Freeman School of Business at TulaneUniversity and the Dean of the Columbia School of Business
1942(28th of Adar,5702): InPochep, Russia, 1,816 Jewish villagers were massacred in an anti-tank ditch.
1943(10thof Adar II, 5703): More than 1200 Jews from Lvov, Ukraine, were killed atPiaski, Poland, as retribution for the March 16 murder of an SS trooper by aJewish man. Eleven Jewish policemen were hanged in the ghetto, 1000 Jewishslave laborers were executed, and an additional 200 Jews were murdered.
1943:Today, “the National Gallery of Art marked its second anniversary with theannouncement of an extraordinary gift from print collector and former Sears,Roebuck and Company chairman Lessing J. Rosenwald: Rosenwald's print anddrawing collection, which ultimately numbered more than 22,000 works at thetime of his death.
1943:Dimitur Peshev and 40 other members of the Sobranje, the Bulgarian parliament,sign a petition demanding that the deportations of Jews from Bulgaria toOccupied Poland end. Archbishop Kiril of Plovdiv sends a telegram to Tsar BorisIII informing him of his intention to lie down on the tracks in front of anytrains transporting Bulgarian Jews.
1944:Al Bummy Davis (Abraham Davidoff) lost a bout to the former lightweight championtoday.
1945(3rdof Nisan, 5705): After enduring six months of imprisonment at Buchenwaldsixty-one year old Henri Paul Gaston Maspero, the French sinologist died todayjust weeks before the camp was liberated by Patton’s Third Army.
http://www.umass.edu/wsp/resources/profiles/maspero.html
1945:“Mexican Hayride,” a musical produced by Michael Todd that had originallyopened on Broadway in 1944 the Winter Garden Theatre was performed on Broadwayfor the last time at the Majestic Theatre.
1945:Birthdate of mathematician Valery Senderov, the native of Moscow who risked hislife and career “in the struggle against state sponsored anti-Semitism.”
1946(14thof Adar II, 5706): Purim
1946:Some of the members of “Kibbutz Buchenwald” set sail for Palestine from Francetoday on the Maapilim boat the“Tel-Chai”.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/14.asp
1947:The Palestine police issued a “broadsheet” today “offering an unspecifiedreward for information leading to the arrest of 18 wanted men” described as“terrorist chiefs.” The list whichincludes photos and physical descriptions is in alphabetical order beginningwith Menachem Begin of the Irgun. Thepenultimate spot on the list goes to Nathan Friedman Yellin, Abrahm Stern’ssuccessor as head of the Stern Gang. Thelast name on the list is Itshak Yexernitsky who has been captured by theBritish but has escaped their custody.
1947:Leaders of the Arab League are scheduled to meet in Cairo today where they willmap out their propaganda program to oppose the creation of a Jewish state and how best to present their case at theupcoming meeting of the United Nations.
1947:“Just before noon today an Army officer blew his whistle” in Jerusalem markingthe end of martial law in several areas including Mea Shearim.
1948:In Jerusalem, the British abandoned their compound on the grounds of SchnellerOrphanage which the Etzioni Brigade would “use at its base of operations duringthe Israeli War of Independence.
1948:While speaking at a news conference of the American Fund for PalestinianInstitutions, Moshe Pomorok of the Palestine Maritime League said that “90 per centof Palestine’s export and import trade went to foreign shipping companies”which led him to call for the “establishment of Palestine’s sea power.”
1948:Dr. Alexander Rosenfeld of the Hebrew World Union described “an undergroundmovement to teach Hebrew in Syria and Iraq where the language has been banned.”
1948:The Naval Service, which became the Israeli Sea Corps, was formed today and themembers for the Plugat HaYam (the naval arm of the Palmach) were ordered tojoin.
1949:“Secretary General Trygve Lie said today that final Congressional approval ofan $8,000,000 advance fund for aid to Palestine refugees had gone a "longway" to assure the success of the whole United Nations relief program.”
1949:Eddie Jacobson, the former business partner of President Truman and his wifeBluma left New York for Paris on what is the first leg of a trip that will taketo Israel where they plan to meet with President Chaim Weizman.
1950:The Jewish Agency for Palestine announced tonight that it was prepared toreceive 20,000 refugees from Iraq. Thisissue has taken on a great deal of urgency for Iraq’s 150,000 Jews, since theBaghdad government has given them a year to leave the country for Israel. As part of the price of departure, the Jewsmust basically leave behind most of their possessions and wealth for use by theIraqi’s.
1950:A recording of "I Said My Pajamas (and Put On My Pray'rs)" is apopular song with music by George Wyle and lyrics by Edward Pola first reachedtheBillboardBest Seller chart today, and lasted two weeks onthe chart, peaking at number 25.
1950:A recording of “Dearie” by Jewish songwriters David Mann and Bob Hilliard wasthe “flip-side” for "I Said My Pajamas (and Put On My Pray'rs)" is apopular song with music by George Wyle and lyrics by Edward Pola when itreached the Billboard Best Seller list for the first time today.
1950(28thof Adar, 5710): Eighty-four-year-old Ellis Gimbel, Sr. the last surviving ofthe Gimbel brothers who has served as Chairman of the Board of Gimbel Brothers,Inc since 1936 passed away today
1951:Birthdate of New York City native and Northwestern University trainedjournalist David Israel who went from writing about sports the Washington Star,Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Herald-Examiner to producing television showssuch as ABC’s Monday Night Football in 2000 and “A Comedy Salute to Baseball”starring Billy Crystal while also playing a major role in organizing the LosAngeles Olympics in 1984.
1953(1stof Nisan, 5713): Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1953:Two days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be heldfor Columbia trained physician and former American Ambassador to theNetherlands and Portugal Dr. Herman B. Baruch, the Camden, SC born son of Dr.Simeon B. and Belle Wolfe Baruch, the brother of famous financier BernardBaruch and the husband of “the former Anna Maria, Baroness Mackay of theHague.”
1953:Two days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be heldtoday at Kehilath Jeshurun Temple for seventy-six-year-old Democratic Partyleader and “chairman of the board of trustees of Yeshiva University SamuelLevy, the St Patrick Day born NYU trained lawyer and husband of Sadie VesellLevy with whom he raised two children – Bernice and Lawrence Levy.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/03/16/83714230.pdf
1953:The “Life Saver’s” luncheon of the Combined Jewish Appeal chaired by Mrs. SaulHerman is scheduled to be held at the Saxony Hotel with Mme. Helene Benator, a“heroine of the French underground, a lawyer and an authority on the Jews ofthe Moslem world” delivering the featured talk.
1953:With the help of Anna Sokolow, “Camino Real” starring Eli Wallach opened onBroadway today.
1954(12thof Adar II, 5714): Sixty-six year old Dr. Hyman I. Goldstein, the Baltimoreborn son of Solomon and Rose Zuckerman Goldstein and University of Pennsylvaniaand Vienna trained physician who discovered “Goldstein’s Toe Sign,” served inthe Medical Corps, USA, during WW II and was part of a family of doctors – Dr.Leopold Z. Goldstein, Dr. Henry Z. Goldstein and David E. Cooper, the husbandof his sister who earned his DD.S from the University of Pennsylvania and whowas pre-deceased by his wife Joan and children – Joan, Alice and Louis – passedaway today in Philadelphia after which he was buried at the New Camden Cemeteryin Camden, NJ.
http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1348.html
1954:Following last night attack in the Negev, where an Israeli bus was ambushed by“a group of Palestinian Arabs who had infiltrated into Israel from Jordan inwhich the driver and ten passengers were killed “Israeli trackers assisted bypolice dogs and accompanied by UN observers followed the attackers' tracks to apoint 6 miles west of the Jordanian border, where the tracks were lost”
1955:It was reported today that B. Gertz, Inc a New York-based department store,headquartered in Jamaica, Queens, founded in 1918 by Benjamin Gertz, along withhis five sons has “signed a $10,000,000long-term lease in the new $40,000,000 suburban shopping center nearHicksville, L. I.”
1956:Robert “Bob” Briscoe, son of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants, is elected mayor ofDublin. Briscoe accepts the numerous invitations to attend the New York St.Patrick’s Day Parade.
1957(14thof Adar II, 5717): Purim
1957:Leaving New York City for the Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade — and to keynotethe opening meeting of the Boston Combined Jewish Appeal — Dublin mayor Robert Briscoe“the second son of Abraham WilliamBriscoe and Ida Yodaiken from Lithuania and leaders of the Dublin Jewish community,began twelve-city tour of the U.S. for the UJA to raise money for variouscampaigns and causes.
1957:When Purim and St. Patrick’s Day fall out on the same date, Irish Jews in NewYork’s ‘Yiddish Sons of Erin’ find two reasons to celebrate.
1957:“Great Philosophy in Small Packets” included a review of The Age ofEnlightenment: The Eighteenth Century Philosophers, Selected withintroduction and commentary by Isaiah Berlin.
1960:It was reported today that the Smith-Roosevelt Independent Democrats haveendorsed selections for State Assembly and State Senate as part of theiropposition to “the Tammany leadership of State Senator Joseph Zaretski.”
1960:“Dear Liar,” a comedy for which Martin Feinstein served as General PressRepresentative opened on Broadway today at the Billy Rose Theatre.
1962(11thof Adar II, 5722): Shabbat Zachor
1962(11thof Adar II, 5722): Ninety-four-year-old “Rabbi Clifton H. Levy, the oldest pastpresident of the New York Board of Rabbis and a leader of the Reform rabbinate”passed away today. “Together with the late Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Rabbi Levywas a founder in 1922 of the Association of Reform Rabbis of New York City andVicinity. Born in New Orleans, LA, Rabbi Levy received his ordination from theHebrew Union College in Cincinnati. He was the author of a book, JudaismApplied to Life, and of pamphlets and articles on Biblical archaeology andart.” (As reported by JTA)
1962:National Council of Young Israel adopts resolution asking for an IsraelIndependence Day parade down New York’s Fifth Avenue similar to the St.Patrick’s Day parade.
1963:While agreeing with a U.S. Supreme Court decision to ban prayer in publicschools, Connecticut attorney general issues lengthy ruling explaining “that weshould mention celebrations which presently take place in our schools on daysor periods which also have a religious meaning to certain groups of our people,for example, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Chanukah, Passover and St.Patrick’s Day.””
1965(13thof Adar II, 5725): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim
1967:“Mourning Becomes Electra” a three act opera composed by Marvin David Levypremiered at the Met in New York City.
1968:Israel defeated Ceylon today in the Olympic Games soccer qualifier thanks tothe play of Mordechai Spiegler.
1969:When Purim and St. Patrick’s Day fall out on the same date, Irish Jews in NewYork’s ‘Yiddish Sons of Erin’ find two reasons to celebrate.
1969:Golda Meir became Prime Minister of Israel.A dedicated Zionist andSocialist, Mrs. Meir devoted her entire life to creating a national homelandfor the Jewish people where we could flourish in peace and safety. Herlife reads more like a novel with all of its twists and turnsranging fromthe gritty determination of the 1920's when she was a pioneer in primitivePalestine, to the clandestine trips she made to meet the King of Jordan in anattempt to avert war in 1948, to her fund raising in the United States so theunborn state would have some weapons with which to face the invading ArabArmies, to...well I think you get the idea. She certainly is worthysuccessor to the memory of Miriam and Deborah and Moses and David as well.
1971:The Barefoot Executive” with a screenplay co-authored by Bernie Kahn wasreleased today in the United States.
1972:“The Time of Your Life” a revival of which in 1969 was directed by John Hirschwas revived again today in Los Angeles co-starring Richard Dreyfus, Lewis J.Stadlin
1973(13thof Adar II, 5733): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor; erev Purim coincides withSt. Patrick’s Day
1973:“Lost Horizon” a musical version of the pre-war movie and novel of the samename produced by Ross Hunter, with a script by Larry Kramer and music by BurtBacharach and Hal David was released in the United States today.
1974(23rdof Adar, 5734): Seventy-three-year-old architect Louis Kahn passed away.
http://en.nai.nl/content/1286439/biography
https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/21829
https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/21829
1974:“The Ford Foundation allocated $250,000 to help resettle Soviet émigré scholarsand writers in America.”
1974:Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Albert H. Godwin, thehusband of Gertrude Godwin at the Riverside Chapel in the Bronx.
1976:Dublin-born Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Chaim Herzog — whose father servedas Chief Rabbi of Eire and later Palestine — is seated on the reviewing standat the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York.
1977: TheJerusalem Postreported that Leah Rabin, wife of the prime minister, admitted that she hadclosed her dollar account in Washington and transferred the money totaling$2,000, as a donation to a charity for autistic children which she headed.Events surrounding this bank account would lead to Prime Minster Rabin’spolitical downfall, end the Labor Party’s domination of Israeli politics andbring Menachem Begin and Likud to power for the first time since the foundingof the state in 1948.
1977:“The Cadaver in the Clutter” the second episode of “Lanigan’s Rabbi” starringBruce Solomon as Rabbi David Small was broadcast tonight.
1978:Reuven Schmeltzer, who had been orphaned at the age of 13 and was “one of the1684 Jews who escaped Nazi-controlled Hungary on the Kastner train and spenttime in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp before being released inSwitzerland” and his wife gave back to their 11th child LipaSchmeltzer, the “singer, entertainer, and composer” who is popular among Hasdicand “modern Jewish communities.”
1978:Jack Klugman was roasted on The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast on NBC.
1978:Gerald Y. Goldberg, first Jewish Lord Mayor of Cork, Ireland is, like Dublin’sBriscoe, the son of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants. Goldberg is slated to partakein St. Patrick’s Day events in both New York and Ireland.
1979(18thof Adar, 5739): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah
1979(18thof Adar, 5739): Ninety-one-year-old MIT trained civil engineer and secondlieutenant in the Air Service Construction Division of the AmericanExpeditionary Force Walter D. Binger, theNew York City born son of Frances Newgass and Gustav Binger and the husband of “Louisa Beatrice BronsonSorchan, with whom he had three children: Charlotte Binger Hasen, FrancesBinger Mitchell, and Bronson Binger, an architect and historic preservationist”who in a case of Jew versus used his technical expertise to oppose RobertMoses's sweeping plans to transform Lower Manhattan during the 1940’s passedaway today.
1980:Funeral services are scheduled to take place for Louis S. Baker, the husband ofBessie Baker today followed by interment at the New Montefiore Cemetery.
1980:Funeral services are scheduled to be held today in West Palm Beach, FL forJacob M. Brock, the husband of Eva Brock “who was a past President of theUnited Jewish Appeal for the Toy Industry” and was “one of the founders ofTechnion.
1980:Tel Aviv mayor Shlomo Lahat inducted into ‘Loyal Yiddish Sons of Erin,’ is aguest of honor in New York’s St. Patrick’s Day parade.
1983:In Jerusalem, the Third World Conference on Soviet Jewry came to an end.
1983:Herzog draws attention from his native Ireland upon being elected president ofIsrael.
1983:Actor Dustin Hoffman and Lisa Hoffman give birth to their daughter RebeccaLillian Hoffman
1983:The Third World Conference on Soviet Jewry which had been attended by over1,000 delegates from 30 countries came to an end today in Jerusalem.
1984:Billy Crystal hosted SNL for the first time tonight.
1984:“Entertaining God” published today provided a complete review The Life andTimes of Cotton Mather by Pulitzer prize-winning historian KennethSilverman
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/17/books/books-of-the-times-entertaining-god.html
1985:Abraham Sutzkever, who “wrote poems as underground fighter crawling through thesewers un the Vilna ghetto to elude the Nazis,” “while fighting the partisansin the forest of Lithuania outside Vilna” and even “while hiding inside acoffin” is scheduled to “read some of his poems at a YIVO gathering at theSociety for the Society for the Advancement of Judaism” this afternoon inManhattan.
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/17/nyregion/yiddish-poet-celebrates-life-with-his-language.html
1989:The Broadway production of “Chu Chem,” a musical inspired by “a trip to KaifengFu (prefecture), China, the site of a major Jewish migration in the 10thcentury” with music by Mitch Leigh opened at the Ritz Theatre.
1989: “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” a fantasy comedy withmusic by Michael Kamen was released in the United States today.
1990(20thof Adar, 5750): Parashat Ki Tisa;Shabbat Parah
1990(20thof Adar, 5750): Eighty-six-year-old “American opera singer (soprano), voiceteacher and recording entrepreneur who is best known for singing at theMetropolitan Opera House from 1923 to 1932” Nanette Guilford, the wife ofleading concert violinist Max Rosen passed away today.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-24-mn-477-story.html
1991:“The Substance of Fire” written by Jon Robin Baitz opened Off-Broadway atPlaywrights Horizons with a cast that included Ron Rifkin and Sarah JessicaParker
1992(12th of Adar II, 5752): The Islamic Jihad used a truck bomb to attack theIsraeli Embassy in Buenos Aires Argentina killing 29.
1994:“A Little More Magic,” opened on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre, which wasowned and operated by The ShubertOrganization (Gerald Schoenfeld: Chairman; Bernard B. Jacobs: President
1994(5thof Nisan, 5754): Ninety-five-year-old Keyport, NJ native and SyracuseUniversity trained attorney “Sayra Fischer Lebenthal, a Wall Street legend whowas a co-founder in 1925 of the investment-banking firm of Lebenthal &Company and remained active in it for 67 years” passed away today. (As reportedby Wolfgang Saxon)
1994(5thof Nisan, 5754): Ninety-four-year-old German born English zoologist andgeneticist Charlotte Auerbach, the daughter of Friedrich Auerbach and thegranddaughter of Leopold Auerbach passed away today.
http://www.nahste.ac.uk/isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P1860.html
1995(15thof Adar II, 5755): Shushan Purim
1995:Premiere of “Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh” a horror film with music composedby Philip Glass.
1995:“Bye Bye, Love” directed by Brandeis grad Sam Weisman, co-authored andco-produced by Gary David Goldberg and co-starring Paul Reiser and Rob Reinerwas released in the United States today.
1997:Janet Rosenberg Jagan, the Chicago born Jewess, began serving as Prime Minsterof Guyana.
1997:Eighty-one-year-old Joe J. Heydecker who as a German soldier created a secretphotographic record of the Warsaw Ghetto, which, after being published in 1981provided “evidence of Nazi atrocities and inhumane living conditions in theGhetto passed away today.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/february/05.asp
1999:HBO released the final episode of “Tracey Takes On…” starring Tracey Ullman
1999(29thof Adar, 5759): Seventy-seven-year-old Ernest Gold the Austrian-bornJewish-American Academy Award winning composer of the theme from the movieExodus, the creator of 100 film/television scores between 1945 and 1992,including the Hawaii Five-O theme and the composer of a 1968 Broadway musical"I'm Solomon" passed away today.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-ernest-gold-1083951.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/21/nyregion/ernest-gold-77-oscar-winning-composer.html
2000:“Lebanon granted political asylum today to Kozo Okamoto, a 52-year-old Japaneseman who helped carry out a massacre in which 26 people died at an airport inIsrael in 1972.”
2000:Sixty-nine-year-old Dr. Marcel Hellman-Mordechai, the father of Hadar Lilypassed away today.
2001(22ndof Adar, 5761): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah observed for the first timeunder President Bush.
2001:“ Palestinians fired an anti-tank missileat the Neve Dekalim industrial zone in the Gaza Strip.”
2002:In “Poles and the Jews: How Deep the Guilt?” published today Adam Michnikexamines the groups differing view of the Holocaust following the published of Neighbors:The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne by Jan T. Gross.
2002:Barbra Streisand continued her Timeless tour with a concert at Melbourne’sColonial Stadium.
2002:At the Jewish Museum in New York an exhibition entitled ''The Emergence ofJewish Artists in 19th-Century Europe'' comes to a close.
2002:Twenty-five people were injured in a terrorist bombing of Egged Bus 22 inJerusalem.
2003(13thof Adar II, 5763): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim
2003(13thof Adar II, 5763): Eight-seven-year-old historian Herbert Aptheker passed away.(As reported by Christopher Lehman-Haupt)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/20/us/herbert-aptheker-87-dies-prolific-marxist-historian.html
2004:As continues to respond to the murderous terrorist attacks on March 14, today,for a second day in a row attack helicopters fired on targets in Gaza while “Israelisoldiers in armored vehicles waged gun battles throughout the day withPalestinian terrorist in Rafah, on the border with Egypt.”
2005(6thof Adar II, 5765): Seventy-eight-year-old college and professional basketballplayer Norman Clifford "Norm" Mager who was involved in a pointshaving scandal passed away today.
2005:“The Southern Command of the Israel Defense Forces issued a military orderprohibiting Israeli citizens not living in the Gaza Strip settlements fromtaking up residence there.”
2006:The Forwards reported that the AlephInstitute, an organization linked to the Chabad-Lubavitch movement was approvedby the Department of Defense to endorse chaplains.
2006:Premiere of “Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan” a documentarydirected and produced by Manfred Kirchheimer.
2006(17thof Adar, 5766): Eighty-year old Henry Thalsheimer, a relative of Nicaraguanative Maria T. Thalsheimer and Achille Thalsheimer passed away today afterwhich he was buried at Hebrew Rest Cemetery in New Orleans.
2007:Shabbat Ha-Chodesh
2007: At the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, anexhibition styled “Adi Nes: Bible Stories” opens to the general public.
2008: In an article entitled “How Hamas IsPlaying the Spoiler,” U.S. News &World Report describes how the latest Hamas rocket attacks on Ashkelon posea new strategic threat to Israel and the limited options available to theIsraelis in responding to this latest downward spiral in the Middle East.
2008: Today, David Gregory began hosting “ashow on MSNBC weekday evenings.”
2008(10 Adar II, 5768): Ronald E. Arnall,French born American businessman who served as U.S. Ambassador to theNetherlands and was a “friend” of Chabad-Lubavitch passed away.
2008: SportsIllustrated describes the pending confrontation over allegations thatPatriots coach Bill Bilichick illegally videotaped his opponents. This could turn into a Jew versus Jewsituation since the probe into the matter is being spearheaded by ArlenSpecter, the Jewish Republican Senator from Pennsylvania and the Patriots areowned by Jewish businessman and philanthropist Robert Kraft.
2008: Israel and Germany upgraded their tiesapproving a host of joint projects and agreeing to hold annual governmentconsultations, in one of the highlights of German Chancellor Angela Merkel'sthree-day visit
2008: Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar announced thatEthiopian immigrants should be able to convert to Judaism in their native landand make Aliyah under the Law of Return.
2008: Haaretzreported that Elie Wiesel has told the Prime Minister’s office that he willnot take part in the torch-lighting ceremony marking the 60thanniversary of Israel’s Independence due to prior commitments.
2008: Governor of New York Eliot Spitzerresigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute.
2009: “For the Love of Movies: The Story ofAmerican Film Criticism” a 2009 documentary co-starring Stanley Kaufman andfeaturing appearances by Manny Farber, Harland Jacobson, Leonard Matlin,Pauline Kael and Gene Siskel.
2009: At The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Dr. Ellen Kellman ofBrandeis University delivers a lectureentitled “Educating ‘Moyshe’ or Corrupting Him? Polemics around the Novel Saninin the American Yiddish Press ca. 1908” in which she discusses the roleof serialized fiction in the American Yiddish press which was the subject ofrancorous debate from its beginnings. Critics lambasted socialist-orientedpapers for printing romance novels instead of serious fiction in translation.Yet some works, such as the Russian novel Sanin, proved to be even morecontroversial than those originally written in Yiddish.
2009: Services are held at Congregation ShaareyZedek in Southfield for Detroit Pistons owner Bill Davidson, a notedphilanthropist who was inducted into the basketball Hall of Fame last year andpassed away on March 13, 2009, at the age of 86. Amongthe causes he funded were Hadassah University Medical Center, the IsraelAntiquities Authority, the JerusalemArchaeological Park, the Wexner Foundation andthe William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education at the JewishTheological Seminary in New York.
2009: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said todaythat her surgery for pancreatic cancer was successful and that she is scheduledto undergo a precautionary round of chemotherapy starting later this month.Ginsburg said in a statement issued by the U.S. Supreme Court that her Feb. 5procedure at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York was "acomplete, successful surgical removal of a pancreatic cancer," and thatshe will start chemotherapy later this month at the National Institutes of Health.Ginsburg has not missed a session of the court because of the diagnosis -- justas she did not miss any sessions when she battled colon cancer 10 years ago.She said she did not anticipate having to skip any work because ofchemotherapy, either.
2010(2nd of Nisan, 5770): Ninety-one-year-old Albert J. Rosenthal whohad served as Dean of the Columbia Law School passed away.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/education/21rosenthal.html
2010(2nd of Nisan, 5770): One theday after his 90th birthday, award winning author Albert Sidney“Sid” Fleischman passed away today in Santa Monica. (As reported by MargalitFox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/books/25fleischman.html?_r=0
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/21/local/la-me-sid-fleischman21-2010mar21
2010: In Jerusalem, Hama'abada is scheduled topresent "Janana," by Yiftach Klein.
2010: Cookbook authorJudy Zeidler is scheduled to offer tips on prepping for your Seder andmastering your grocery list, along with recipes for new and traditional Sederdishes in a program entitled “Passover: Cooking with Judy” sponsored by theAmerican Jewish University.
2010: Some 3,000 officers were put on high alert ontoday after Hamas called for anti-Israel protests.
2010: “Sin,” a playby Mark Altman opened at the .Baruch Performing Arts Center.
2010: Veteran IPO subscribers enjoy a memorableevening as Itzhak Perlman performs with Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
2011: Tamar Hirschl is scheduled to show a suite ofpaintings and recent resin works “in the inaugural Artist Project in New YorkCity, a fair for independent artists.”
2011: The Hadassah Mahj Tournament, sponsoredby Hadassah of Greater Detroit, is scheduled to take place at Hadassah House inWest Bloomfield, Michigan.
2011(11th of Adar II): Ninety-year-oldBetty Sarah Wouk, “the wife and literary agent of bestselling writer HermanWouk” passed away.
http://www.hermanwouk.net/in-memoriam-sarah-wouk.html
2011(11th of Adar II): Ta’anitEsther
2011(11th of Adar II): Eighty-one-year-oldGabrial Laderman, a painter of figurative art, passed away today. (As reportedby William Grimes)
2011:President Shimon Peres said today that the Navy's seizure of the cargo shipVictoria earlier this week proves that Syria is providing weapons to Hamas inGaza and to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
2011:Sacramento Kings and Israel National Basketball Team forward Omri Casspi maytemporarily sign to play with Maccabi Tel Aviv in the event of an NBA workstoppage, he said in an interview with Army Radio today.
2011:Alaska Airlines apologizes today for the misunderstanding that occurred earlierthis week on board one of their flights, in which flight attendants issued asecurity alert when three Mexican Jews began praying with Tefillin."Tohelp make sure this misunderstanding does not happen again, we plan toincorporate awareness training of Orthodox Jewish religious practices into ourongoing diversity and inclusion efforts," a statement issued by theairlines said. Flight attendants aboard Alaska Airlines Flight 241 from MexicoCity to Los Angeles issued a security alert on March 13 after three OrthodoxJewish passengers began praying with Tefillin. Following the alert the placewas met at LAX by fire crews, foam trucks, FBI agents, and police.
2011:“Suzie’s Grill keeps Houston Jews Kosher Connected” published today describedand the culinary and business skills of Susan Goldstein who operates “one ofthe only kosher-drive throughs in the country.”
2012:Twentieth Anniversary of the Iranian bombing of the Israeli Embassy inArgentina.
2012(23rd of Adar, 5772): Yahrzeitof Yitzchak Meir Alter the first Rebbe of the Ger Chasidic Dynasty who was bornin 1799 and passed away on March 10, 1866.
2012:“Grace Paley: Collected Shorts” is scheduled to be shown at the Schenectady JCCJewish Film Festival at Niskayuna, NY
2012(23rd of Adar, 5772):Anniversary of the first assembling of the Mishkan on Adar 23 (1321 BCE)
2012: The Eilat Chamber Music Festival isscheduled to come to an end.
2013: The Skirball Center for Adult JewishLearning at Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to present “Deconstructing WoodyAllen: Humor, Identity, Judaism” with Dr. Daniel Fainstein
2013: The Theatre at the 14thStreet Y is scheduled to present a puppet show “Lost & Found In Israel”written and performed by Zvi Sahar and Leat Klingman.
2013: The Center for Jewish History isscheduled to present “Yellow Sneaker and "The Matzah Time Crunch"
2013: “Samson andDelilah,” sung in French (with English supertitles) will be presented today atthe Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts in New Orleans featuringCantor Joel Coleman “as the Old Hebrew.”
2013: The Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival isscheduled to come to an end.
2013: Today, “Greek Prime Minister AntonisSamaras vowed to crack down on neo-Nazi groups in a landmark speech marking the70th anniversary of the first deportations of Thessaloniki’s Jews to theAuschwitz-Birkenau death camp.” (As reported by JTA)
2013: Minutes released today by the IsraelState Archive revealed details of tense and nearly failed meetings betweenthen-prime minister Menachem Begin and former US president Jimmy Carter duringthe latter’s visit to the country in 1979, as the two leaders tried to hammerout the last details of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/protocols-reveal-begin-and-carters-clashes-over-peace/
2013: Likud MKs met with Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem -today receive their marchingorders for the next Cabinet and other government roles.
2014:Film critic Shlomo Schwartberg is scheduled to present the final lecture in theseries “Defining Greatness – Director Steven Speilberg at the Miles Nadal JCC.
2004:Professor Yair Reisner of the Weizmann Institute of Science is scheduled to berecognized for his work in bone marrow transplant therapy when he receives hisRapport Prize today. (As reported by David Shamah)
2014:Dr. Yaakov Nahmias of Hebrew University is scheduled to receive the RapportPrize today for identifying a grapefruit molecule that can block viruses. (Asreported by David Shamah)
2014:“Brave Miss World” is scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish FilmFestival.
2014:“Once Upon a Time at 55th and Hoover,” a documentary about the 300Sephardic families from Rhodes who emigrated to Los Angeles (USA) andestablished a Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language neighborhood in the area around55th St and Hoover, in South Central Los Angeles” is scheduled to be shown atthe New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.
2014:Grammy-award winning performer Ron Levine is scheduled to share stories fromhis fantastic career, including touring with nationally renowned recordingartists and his award-winning work on the motion picture Urban Cowboy, at CoeCollege in Cedar Rapids, Iowa this evening.
2014:During his visit to the White House today “US President Barack Obama urgedPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to make tough decisions and take risks forpeace with Israel, saying he hoped to see progress in US-brokered negotiationsin coming weeks.”
2014:Today New York State Senator Lee “Zeldin voted against the New York Dream Act.
2014:Today, Jordan condmenned what is call Israeli ‘escalation’ in the flashpointTemple Mount in Jerusalem after Housing Minster Uri Ariel “deputy leader of thehardline national-rligious Bayit Yehudi party visited the Al-Aqsa compound inJerusalem’s Old City yesterday.
2015:The Jewish Community Relations Council and The Jewish Federation of GreaterWashington are scheduled to host “a real time analysis of the results of theIsraeli elections as they unfold” in North Bethesda, MD.
2015:“The Iranian Americans” and “Before the Revolution” are scheduled to be shownat the 18th Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.
2015:In San Diego, Jack Goldberg is scheduled to deliver a lecture on AmericanDilemmas in the "New" Middle East: The Elusive search for CoherentStrategies;”
2015:A Vanderbilt University official said that the spray painting of three swastiskison the fraternity house belonging to the Tau Chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi isbeing investigated as a hate crime.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4638011,00.html
2015:For those looking for a Jewish connection to St. Patrick’s Day consider “St.Patrick’s Day, Kosher Style.”
2016:“How to Win Enemies” and “Sabena Hijacking” are scheduled to be shown at theHouston Jewish Film Festival.
2016(7thof Adar II, 5776): Seventy-one year old Meir Dagan, the Director of Mossad from2002 to 2011 passed away today, (As reported by Isabel Kershner)
2016:The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host its2016 Humanitarian Awards Dinner.
2016:Judge Merrick Garland, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court visitedCapitol Hill today where he was warmly greeted by Democrats while facing theopposition of Republicans who said they would not hold any hearings in a movewhich was unprecedented in American history, calling into question the claimsof the GOP being the party of Conservatives i.e. those who protect the valuesof the past.
2016:New York premiere of “Iraqi Night” at the New York Sephardic Jewish FilmFestival.
2016:Thirteen month after disclosed “that he had treatable prostate cancer” todayArthur M. Blank, the co-founder of The Home Depot and the owner of the NFLAtlanta Falcons “announced that he wascancer-free following treatment.”
2017:Thousands of runners took part in the 2017 Jerusalem Marathon today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/record-30000-take-part-in-jerusalem-marathon/
2017:The “Ma’agan Michael II”, “a replica of a 2,500 year old trading ship found offthe coast of Israel was christened this morning ahead of its first voyage…”
2017:Charlemagne Palestine’s Bear Mitzvah in Meshugahland is scheduled to open atthe Jewish Museum in New York City.
http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/charlemagne-palestine-bear-mitzvah-in-meshugahland
2017:The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to Kabbalat Shabbat followedan hour later with a Shabbat Friday night dinner and hour later.
2017(19thof Adar, 5777): Eighty-two-year-old Gershon Kekst, the founder of Kekst andCompany passed away.
http://www.jtsa.edu/the-gershon-kekst-graduate-school
2017:“Rima Khalaf, a Jordanian who served as executive secretary of the Beirut-basedEconomic and Social Commission for Western Asia” resigned today “after the bodyshe led was ordered by the UN secretary-general to remove from its website acontroversial report that charged Israel has established an “apartheid regime”guilty of “racial domination” over the Palestinians.
2017:In honor of St. Patrick's Day, one national bagel chain has advertised"green bagels" while supplies last.
2018(1stof Nisan, 5778): Triple header Shabbat – Shabbat HaChodesh, Rosh Chodesh Nisan,start reading the book of Vayikra.
2018:As many Irish people and people who wish they were Irish celebrate St.Patrick’s Day, Jews can contemplate their Irish connection including YitzhakHaLevi Herzog, the Chief Rabbi of Ireland and the second Ashekanzi Chief Rabbiof Palestine and his sons Chaim Herzog, the sixth President of Israel andYaakov Herzog, the Haganah member and Israeli diplomat as well as the fatherand son team of Robert and Ben Briscoe, both of whom were Lord Mayor Dublin,author Julia Frankau who died on St. Patrick’s Day, 1916 and of course “Leopold Bloom,” theprotagonist in Ulysses by James Joyce.
2018:“Humor Me” and “Love is Thicker Than Water” are scheduled to be shown at theHouston Jewish Film Festival.
2018:Temple Rodef Shalom's Rabbi Amy Schwartzman is scheduled to ashare herexperiences as a woman rabbi as part of “To the Bimah: Women's Activism Entersthe Synagogue.”
2018:The “Cake Maker” is scheduled to be shown at the New Jersey Jewish FilmFestival.
2018:Distant Cousins is scheduled to perform as part of LimmudFest Saturday Night inNew Orleans.
2019:The New York Times featured reviewsof books by Jewish readers and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding I.M.: A Memoir by Isaac Mizrahi, Madame Fourcade’s SecretWar: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitlerby Lynne Olson and the recently released paperback edition of To End APresidency: The Power of Impeachment by Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz.
2019:The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the New Yorkpremiere of “Pepe’s Last Battle” and the international premiere of “Labor,Rebellion, Upheaval from the Ancestral Sin Series.”
2019:“From salt beef sandwiches and Rachel Riley, to making one’s own Jewish Newsfront page” there are plenty of reasons to visit The Big Family scheduled toopen this morning in Hendon.
2019:In New Orleans, the JCC is scheduled to host the annual Community PurimCarnival.
2019:As the Irish and all those people who want to be Irish (which is just abouteverybody) prepare to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, examine the connectionbetween Jewish and Irish cuisine. https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-nosher/the-secret-jewish-history-of-corned-beef-and-cabbage/
2020(21stof Adar, 5780): Yahrzeits of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhansk; Rabbi Isaac ElchananSpektor; Sir Moses Montefiore; Adolf Cremieux
2020:In Palo Alto, today’s scheduled performance of “Beyond The Pale,” a one-personshow written and performed by Sherri Rose has been canceled.
2020:In San Rafael, CA, today’s scheduled appearance by Yossi Beilin, the formerKnesset member and Oslo Accords architect speaking on “American Jews andIsrael: What’s Next?” has been canceled.
2020:Benjamin Netanyahu’s trial in which faces charges related to “bribery, fraudand breach of trust” is scheduled to begin today. (As reported by AFP)
2020:The 69th National Jewish Book Awards gathering sponsored by theJewish Book Council which was scheduled to take place this evening has beenpostponed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
2020:As the Irish and everybody who wishes they were Irish are going to havecelebrate St. Patrick’s Day without the traditional parades and festivities,patrons of Russ and Daughters Kosher Café at the Jewish Museum are having tolearn how to cope without access to some of their favorite delights as theMuseum enters into its second day of being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020:Based on yesterday’s announcement by President Reuvin Rivlin, today marks thefirst day of the twenty-eight-day cycle that Blue and White Party chairmanBenny Gantz has to form a government.
2020:Effective today,” the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines will be operatingremotely.”
2021:The Open Circle Jewish Learning 20s and 30s is scheduled to present online“Mensch Reimagined: How Masculine People Build a Culture of Nurturance.”
2021:The Jewish Community Library is scheduled to host online “Jewish Contributionto English-Language Versions of the Bible,” during which “Leonard Greenspoon,Creighton U. Jewish civilization professor, talks about the history of Jewstranslating the Hebrew Bible and their influences on non-Jewish versions.
2021:Temple Emmanuel (Wakefield) is scheduled to present “Making Prayer Meaningful”online with Rabbi Greg Hersh during which he “offers many new modalities forunderstand and engaging in prayer and other Jewish traditions.”
2021:Based on reports published yesterday, Israelis today may feel they arebeginning to win the health battle since “For the first time since the end ofDecember, the number of serious COVID-19 patients in Israel dropped under 600…”(As reported by Yaron Druckman)
2021:As of today, “57% of the adult population” in Israel “has received at least onedose of vaccine while 47% have received both doses.” (As reported by Gad Lior
2021:Geographer Benny Furst, Ph.D. is scheduled to lead a virtual tour “SeeingYourself as if You Left Egypt.” 2022
2021:The Friends of Rabin Medical Center is scheduled to present “White Supremacy:How Big a Threat and How to Counter It.”
https://globalconnections.splashthat.com/
2022(14thof Adar II, 5782): Purim
2022:Based on recent data on how well its vaccine protected against the Omicronvariant in the Israel, Moderna said late today “that it asked the Food and DrugAdministration for emergency authorization of a second booster of itscoronavirus vaccine for all adults, a significantly broader request than Pfizerand BioNTech filed for their shot this week.”
2023:The exhibition “Americans and the Holocaust” is scheduled to go on display atPrairie State College Library in Chicago Heights.
2023:Temple Judea is scheduled to host Shabbat Worship services are a family affairwith Rabbi Feivel and Cantor Abbie.
2023:Limmud Fest is scheduled to begin today in New Orleans.
2023:Locked Down University is scheduled to host a talk by Rabbi Shippel on theParsha of the Week.
2023:Sinai Brookline is scheduled to host a Chai Celebration, celebrating 18 yearswith Rabbi Andrew Vogel.
2023:In San Francisco Congregation Beth Sholom is scheduled to a “Jacob’s LadderShabbat” during which a Jewish bluegrass groups performs a musical KabbalatShabbat.
2024:In London the UK’s most important Aliyah event, is scheduled to take place, ona Solidarity Day for Israel.
2024:Screenings of "A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings" arescheduled to take place today at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC and theNew Plaza Cinema.
2024:For one night only, Theatre Royal Haymarket is scheduled to present: “GOLDA. AMusical Story of Love, Loss and Resilience,”
2024TheMercaz Jewish Choir is scheduled to present "Jewish Music Through theCenturies" at the JHMOMC.
2024:“The Best of Israel” adult trip sponsored by the Streicker Cultural Center isscheduled to begin today.
2024:“Munich Displaced,” an exhibition at the Munich Jewish Museum that “portraysthe city when it was a hub for 200,000 displaced Jews who survived the war” isscheduled to come to an end today.
2024:In Marblehead, MA, Temple Sinai is scheduled to host its Purim Project, asocial action projected for make mishloach manot for the Jewish family tablePurim distribution.
2024:The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a lecture Renée Carl, aprofessional genealogist and advocate for historic preservation and recordsaccess “Stuck: Immigration, Naturalization and Reparation in the WWI Era.”
2024:St. Patrick’s Day; https://www.jewishnola.com/oy-such-a-st-patricks-day
https://www.npr.org/2013/03/17/174534358/erin-go-bragh-shalom-st-patricks-day-the-jewish-way
2024:The Museum at Eldridge Streets is scheduled to host “Eldridge Arts andLearning” even that will give those five and above a chance to learn about themuseum’s more than sixty stained glass windows.
2024: As March17th begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages beginday 163 in captivity.(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so weare just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
2025: The firstlecture in the series “A Bird Between Continents: The Literature of the Jews ofthe Arab World” which will examine “the literature of the Jews of the AreabWorld and Mizrahi literature in Israel” is scheduled to begin on Zoom and the AgnonHouse Facebook Pages is scheduled to begin today.
2025: St.Patrick’s Day which serves as a reminder of the close relationship between theJewish people including Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, the Chief Rabbi of Irelandfrom 1919 to 1937 (and later of Mandatory Palestine and the State of Israel)was the father of Chaim Herzog, the 6th President of Israel, and thegrandfather of Isaac Herzog, the 11th President of Israel, thatRobert Briscoe was the Mayor of Dublin and according to popular myth theco-creator of that popular dish Corned Beef and Cabbage.
https://www.jewishla.org/do-jews-erin-go-bragh/
2025: The WeinerHolocaust Memorial Library is scheduled to host conversation with Tony Molho,the author of Courage and Compassion: A Jewish Boyhood in Occupied Greeceand David Abulafia and Paris Chronakis.
2025: TheStreicker Center is scheduled to host a conversation with Josh Barro, theauthor of Very Serious, a Substack newsletter on politics and the economy and Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, the authors of Abundance.
2025: In New Orleans,Temple Sinia, is scheduled to host “author Jennifer Lang as she discusses herReform, Zionists roots in her latest book Landed A Yogi´s Memoir in Pieces& Poses.
2025: As March17th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of ant-Semitism sweeps across theglobe, the reality is that the remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 528 incaptivity (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover sowe are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
