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44:Birthdate of Pope Evaristus, who was “born in Greeceof a Jewish father named Juda, who was originally from the city of Bethlehemand who reigned for thirteen years, six months and two days, under the reignsof Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.
69: After theFirst Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor. The year 69 wascalled “The Year of the Four Emperors” because four different claimants heldthe position in this brief period of time. According to Rome andJerusalem, the sacking of Jerusalem and the destruction of the SecondTemple were byproducts of this violent year and grew out of a need byVitellius’ successor, Vespasian, to prove his power and legitimacy.
392: The RomanEmperors issued a new law “stating that Jewish leaders who have been expelledby their community cannot be forced back on the” Jewish community by Romanjudges. While this may seem like a gain for the Jews, the decree refersto them as “belonging to the Jewish superstition” – language that does not bodewell for the long-term well-being of the Jews in the Roman Empire.
1222:Deacon Robert of Reading (England)was burned for converting to Judaism,setting the precedent for the burning of heretics.
http://www.executedtoday.com/tag/robert-of-reading/
1280: TodayRichard Swinefeld who 1286 “threatened to excommunicate several of his flockwho wished to attend the wedding of the daughter of a leading Jew of Hereford”was named Archdeacon of London
1397: GeoffreyChaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court ofRichard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as whenthe book's pilgrimage to Canterbury starts. There should be no connectionbetween the Jewish people and Chaucer since the Jews had been expelled fromEngland a century before he told his “tales.” But Chaucer is proof thatyou do not need Jews to have anti-Semitism. The “Prioress’s Tale,” one ofthe the twenty-three stories contains the following plot line, “While wanderingthrough the Jewish section of town singing hymns of his faith an eight-year oldChristian child is murdered…The frantic mother uncovers the crime when shehears her newly buried son singing Alma Redemptoris. Justice issternly served when the Jewish community is wiped out in retaliation.”
1506(Nisan,5266): In Lisbon, several Conversos were discovered who had in their possession"some lambs and poultry prepared according to Jewish custom.” Theyalso had “unleavened bread and bitter herbs” needed “according to theregulations for the Passover, which festival they celebrated far into thenight." Several of them were seized but were released after a few days.Angered by the release, mobs would riot and attack conversos living in thePortuguese capital.
1525(Nisan,5285): Isaac ben Jacob Margolioth, the son of Nuremberg Rabbi Jacob Margolioth,who served as a rabbi at Prague and wrote a preface to one of his father’sworks passed away today.
1528: FirstJews settle legally in Fuerth, Bavaria
1559: AtCremona, Italy, Sixtus Senesis, an apostate Jew, who had become a Dominican,tried to convince the local Spanish governor to burn the Talmud. The governordemanded witnesses before he would give the order. Vitttorio Eliano theconverted grandson of Elias Levita and one Joshua dei Cantori bore witness thatthe Talmud was full of lies about Christianity. A few days later approximately10,000 books were burned. The Zohar was not touched since the Pope and theCatholic Church was interested in its publication believing that it wouldsupplant the Talmud and make it easier to convert the Jews. Ironically it wasEliano himself who wrote the preface to the Cremora Zohar.
1579: Theseaside town of Youghal in County Cork, Ireland was damaged during the whichwas badly damaged today during the Second Desmond Rebellion had had the uniquedistinction in 1555 of being the first Irish town to have a Jewish mayor –William Moses Annyas Eanes, the grandson of Gil Eanes of Belmonte,Portugal. Francis Eanes served as the town’s mayor on three differentoccasions coinciding with the rebellion but the relation between the two menhas yet to be determined.
1581: KingPhillip, who commanded the governor of Milan to expel the Jews from Alessandra,began his reign as King of Portugal and Algarves.
1671: InAmsterdam, construction began on a synagogue under the direction of thearchitect, Elias Bouman. The Sephardic community had bought the land inDecember of 1670.
1682(9thof Nisan, 5441): Today a riot broke out in Carpentras which “French liturgicalpoet” Saul ben Joseph of Monteux memorialized in a piyyut.
1702(30thof Nisan, 5462): Saul “David’ Pardo Brown, the Rotterdam born son of Sara andJosiah David Pardo and the husband of Esther Pardo Brown who moved to New YorkCity from Newport in 1685 where he had been a merchant and who was one of theearliest members of Shearith Israel passed away today in Curacao.
1731: YeshivahMinhat Arab became the first Jewish day school in North American when it wasfounded today in the colony of New York. “The hazzan who taught the classes wasinstructed to teach the students ‘the Hebrew Spanish and English writing andarithmetick.’Eventually its name was changed to the Polonies Talmud Torah.”
1748(19thof Nisan, 5508): Raphael Meldola passed away at Leghorn. Born at Leghorn in1685, he was the son of Eleazar Meldola and Reina Senior. He served asrabbi in Pisa, Bayonne and St. Esprit.
1750:Frederick II issued a general patent to the Jews limiting their role in thePrussian economy to activities involving commerce and industry. Jews were nolonger viewed as dependents of the monarch but as citizens of the state eventhough they were not first class citizens. On the one hand, Jews wereencouraged to be part of the state and its economy. On the other hand they werestill second class citizens and divided into two classes - privileged andprotected.Considered by some to be an "enlightened monarch,"King Frederick wrote his “Political Testament” that was published in 1752 inwhich he described Jews as dangerous, superstitious and backward.
1760:According to his will dated today, English businessman Sampson Gideon, the sonof West India merchant Rowland Gideon “left legacies to many charities, bothJewish and Christian, including the Portuguese synagogue and the Corporation ofthe Sons of the Clergy, to which he had been an annual subscriber during hislifetime.”
1761: In NewYork, Hayman M. Levy, the Hanover, Germany born son of Reyna and Moses Levy andhis wife Sloe Levy gave birth to Rachel Deborah Levy
1764(15thof Nisan, 5524): Pesach
1765: Jews ofArnhem were given permission to build a synagogue.
1770:Charleston (SC) merchant, Moses Lindo responded to an appeal from HezekiahSmith and contributed five pounds to Rhode Island College which is now known asBrown University. (As reported by Abraham Bloch) “Moses Lindo was theinspector-general and surveyor of indigo, drugs, and dyes for South Carolina.”
1772(14thof Nisan, 5532): Fast of the First Born; Erev Pesach observed as conditionsdeteriorate between the thirteen colonies and mother country as can be seen byformation of the Committees of Corrspondence.
1775(17thof Nisan, 5535): Third Day of Pesach
1775: As “PaulRevere clattered through ‘every Middlesex village and farm’ there wereapproximately 3,000 Jews living in the thirteen colonies to respond to his callto arms.
1777:Birthdate of Bavaria native Abraham Bendel, the husband of Pessle Bandel andthe father of Elias, Sophia, Henry, Hendil and Bertha Bendel.
1782(3rd ofIyar, 5542): Chaim Samuel Jacob Falk, known as the “Baal Shem of London” passedaway. Reportedly born in 1708, possibly in Furth, Germany, Falk escaped toEngland in 1742 after authorities in Westphalia had sentenced the Kabbalist andMystic to death on charges of sorcery. “Falk left a diary,now in the library of the bet ha-midrash of the United Synagogue, which is aquaint medley of dreams, records of charitable gifts, booklists, cabalisticnames of angels, lists of pledges, and cooking-recipes.”
1783(15thof Nisan 5543): First Day of Pesach
1783: “Jewswere expressly excepted from the benefit” of The Irish Appeals Act or theRenunciation Act which was passed by Parliament today.
1783: Jewishpugilist Daniel Mendoza “won a ten-round fight in 26 minutes” with “Sam Martin the BathButcher in Barnet” after which “he was transported home followed by a cheeringcrowd who carried lighted torches and sang 'See the Conquering Hero Comes'” and“the Prince of Wales, who would become King George IV, presented Mendoza with500 pounds, in addition to the 500 pounds he had won in the match, and shookhis hand in full view of the gallery.”
1789(21stof Nisan, 5549): Seventh Day of Pesach 13 days before the inauguration ofGeorge Washington.
1790: AmericanPatriot, Scientist, Printer and liver of the good life Benjamin Franklin passedaway at the age of 84. As with so many of those of his time, Franklinespoused moral values but mistrusted organize religion. He used theExodus from Egypt as a metaphor for the colonists clash with King George, amodern day Pharaoh. He wanted to have a depiction of the Israelitescrossing the Sea of Reeds as part of the Great Seal of the United States.At a more practical level, his name was at the top of the list of prominentPhiladelphians who contributed funds to Congregation Mikveh Israel at the timeof its financial need.
1790(3rd ofIyar, 5550):A major pogrom took place in the Jewish community ofTetouan, Morocco. On this day the Muslim ruler Mawlay Yazid entered the city,rounded up all of the Jews, men women and children, and violently stripped themof their clothing. They were left with no dignity, naked for three days inprison. Some of the Jews fearing for their lives escaped to the graves Moorishsaints where they would pray for their lives. The Muslim leader had some Jewsbeheaded to make a statement.
1793: InRichmond, VA, Judith I. Solomon and Israel I. Cohen gave birth to Philip I.Cohen, a veteran of the War of 1812 and the postmaster at Norfolk, VA who wasthe husband of Augusta Myers.
1794: InArnheim, Holland, Fronika Alexander Van Zanten and Philip Levie Haas gave birthto Benjamin Philip Haas, the husband of Christina Hartog with whom he had sevenchildren including one who settled in Connecticut and another who settled inMontana.
1797: “Thestatus of the Jews of Posen was now determined by the"General-Juden-Reglement" of this date which aimed to make them, asmechanics and tradesmen, useful members of the state.
1797: InEastern Poland, after falling to Prussia in the third partition of Poland in1793, the government enacted "The Regulation" which removed a numberof regulations regarding occupations and domicile restrictions for Jews. Thisstill left many of the old regulations in place, including that of not beingable to marry under the age of 25 and then only upon proof of a fixed income.
1798: Jewswere given permission to “settle within the old city walls of Cologne.”
1798: DavidLeion, the future present of Congregation Mikveh Israel in Savannah, GA marriedHannah Minis toda.
1799:Birthdate of Cleveland, OH naïve Karl Strauss, the wife of Hendel Strauss andfather of Ferdinand Strauss.
1800(22ndof Nisan, 5560): Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor recited for the last time as partof Pesach during the administration of President John Adams.
1801(4thof Iyar, 5561): Fifty-one-year-old Ruben Moses Rubino, the husband of MinkelRubino passed away today.
1802(15thof Nisan, 5562): First Day of Pesach and Shabbat
1802: InLondon, Matilda De Metz and Levy Salomons gave birth to Joseph Solomons, thehusband of Rebecca Montefiore, a daughter of Joseph Montefiore, the father ofSophia, Henrietta and Matilda Salomons and the father-in-law of Aaron Goldsmid,Lionel Benjamin Cohen and Professor Jacob Waley Salomons. (As reported by SirDavid Salomons)
1803: InCharleston, SC, Sarah Levy and Zachariah Florance, the Netherlands native gavebirth to Jacob Levy Florance, the husband of Hannah Levy with whom he had sixchildren all of whom were born in New Orleans.
1805(18thof Nisan, 5565): Fourth Day of Pesach
1805: As Jewsmunch on their matzoth, Lewis and Clark their trek up the Upper Missouri fromFort Madan.
1811:Birthdate of Amsterdam native Rachel David Blok, wife of Meyer Hartog Silverand the mother of London born Clara Silver.
1813(17thof Nisan, 5573): Shabbat shel Pesach observed on the same day as he issuance ofthe Constitution of the “First Independent State of Texas; Part of the MexicanRepublic.”
1817(1st ofIyar, 5577): Rosh Chodesh Iyar observed on the same day that poet John Keatswrote John Hamilton Reynolds in which he said, “‘I find that I cannot existwithout poetry – without eternal poetry – half the day will not do – the wholeof it – I began with a little, but habit has made me a Leviathan – I had becomeall in a Tremble from not having written any thing of late –,”
1818: InMainz, Germany, Michael Creizenach and his wife gave birth to poet andhistorian Theodor Creizenach.
1818:Birthdate of Rouen, France native Henry Salomon, the “bootmaker and merchant”and husband of Edinburgh native Clara Jacob with whom he had eight children,all of whom were born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1829: Theconsecration of the Maiden Lane Synagogue that had originally been establishedin 1810 in Soho “as a result of a rupture with the Westminster Congregation(the future Western Synagogue) took place today in Londo.
1833: ThomasBabington Macaulay delivered his speech “on the disabilities of the Jews” inthe House of Commons.
http://mises.org/library/civil-disabilities-jews-britain
1835(18thof Nisan, 5595): Fourth Day of Pesach observed on the birthdates of Americanpoet Augusta Coope Bristol and Major General Zenas R. Bliss who was awarded theMedal Honor during the Civil War.
1837: InSavannah, GA, William and Eliza Ann Nelson Heidt gave birth Georgia MedicalCollege trained physician and pharmacist Dr. William Theodore Heidt, thehusband of Caroline E. Sheftall Heidt whom he married in 1856 and with whom hehad two children, a daughter who died in infancy and a son, William HoraceHeidt.
1837: AlbertMoses Levy's ship, the Independence, was captured by two Mexican brigs-of-war.After three months he escaped and walked back to Texas, where he set up medicalpractice in Matagorda. The next year he received an appointment to a medicalboard established by both houses of the Congress of the republic.
1838(22ndof Nisan, 5598): Eighth Day of Pesach and Yizkor
1839: InPoland, Jeffe and Zadek Salomon gave birth to future Denver resident AdolphZadek Salomon, the husband of Mathilde Salomon and father of Frederick ZSalomon; Amy Gertrude Lifton and Joel Salomon.
1840(14thof Nisan, 5600): Erev Pesach
1840: InFrankfurt, Clementine Oppenheim and her husband Adolphe de Reinach the Belgianconsul in Frankfurt gave birth to French banker Baron Jacob Adolphe Reinach
1840:Birthdate of Hippolyte Bernheim the French born physician whose work withhypnotherapy attracted the attention of Sigmund Freud.
1843(17thof Nisan, 5603): Third Day of Pesach observed as President John Tyler continueshis efforts to have Texas join the Union.
1844: HannahVan Gelder and Philip Marcus Leuw, both of whom were natives of Holland, gavebirth to their daughter Mattje Philip Leuw.
1844: Acabinet order issued today allowed Meno Burg “to replace his black epauletteswith the red shoulder pieces” that were indicative of his role in the PrussianArtillery and which he had been denied to the right to wear because he wasJewish
1846(21stof Nisan, 5606): Seventh Day of Pesach observed as American and Mexican forcesprepare to fight what became known as the Mexican-American War.
1846: InGermany, Leopold Solomon Bernheimer, the son of Salomon Bernheimer and Ella Bernheimerand his wife Fanny Weil—Bernheim gave birth to Henry Bernheim
1848(14thof Nisan, 5608): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach
1848: Thegates of the Rome Ghettowere pulled down during the Revolutions of 1848that swept much of Europe in general and Italy in particular. Ciceruacchio, apopular Italian Catholic leader, led a group who tore down the gates Passovereve. The Jews in the ghetto at first thought they were being attacked and hidin their houses.
1848: InLondon, Rebecca Crawcour and Aron Hart gave birth Eve Hart.
1849: Birthdateof Manhattan native Rosalie Jacobs Lewisohn, the wife of Leonard Lewisohn andthe mother of Jesse, Julia, Samuel, Lillie, Florence, Walter, Frederick, Alice,Aaro and Irene Lewisohn.
1851(15thof Nisan, 5611): First day of Pesach observed for the first time during thePresidency of Millard Fillmore.
1852: InMontgomery, AL, founding of “Kahl Montgomery” led by Rabbi A. J. Messing,President David Weil and Vice President Nathan Greil.
1853:Birthdate of German mathematician Arthur Moritz Schoenflies, the great-uncle ofWalter Benjamin.
1854: AFrench-language version of “Margherita d'Anjou an operatic melodrammasemiseria in two acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer was performed in New Orleanstoday.
1854: One dayafter she had passed away, 70-year-old Hannah Crawcoure, the wife of MosesCrawcoure, was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1855: One dayafter he had passed away, 63-year-old Jacob Moses was buried today at the“Plymouth Hoe Burial Ground.”
1856(12th ofNisan, 5616): Fast of the First Born observed for the last time during thePresidency of Franklin Pierce.
1858: InLondon, Louis Lionel Cohen, MP and his wife gave birth to Sir Leonard LionelCohen, the son-in-law of Sigismund Slosh and “a partner in the family fir ofLouis Cohen and Sons, foreign banks founded by his grandfather and, thePresident of the Board of Guardians.
1859: In NewYork City, Joseph and Theresa Bien gave birth to University of Californiatrained engineer and George Washington University trained attorney Morrie Bien,the husband of Lilla Virginia Hart who among other things, worked for the U.S.Geological Survey from 1879 to 1893 and for the U.S. General Land Office from1893 to 1902.
1861(17thof Iyar, 5621): Two-year-old Zachary Kowalski, the New Orleans bon son ofBernard and Sophia Bernstein Kowalski passed away today after which he wasburied in the Gates of Prayer Cemetery.
1861: One dayafter she had passed away, Lucy Esther Goetz, the daughter of Edward LudwigGoetz and Angelina Levy was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road JewishCemetery.
1862(17thof Nisan, 5622): Third Day of Pesach observed on the day after “Abraham Lincoln signed a bill abolishingslavery that compensated loyal Union slave owners in the District of Columbia upto $300 for each slave freed.”
1863: Today, on the 13th day of the Omer sawthestart of Colonel Ben Grierson’s Union legendary raid into the Confederacy. With1700 cavalrymen, Grierson roamed 600 miles during his raid deep into the South.The raid lasted 16 days and within the Union army Grierson became a legend.
1865(21stof Nisan, 5625): Seventh Day of Pesach
1865: In NorthCarolina, Union General William Tec*mseh Sherman met with Confederate GeneralJohnston to discuss the surrender of the Rebels on the same day he learnedabout the assassination of President Lincoln.
1866: BryantsMinstrels acting as Ethiopian Fun Makers will perform “The Challenge Dance ofShylock” or “The Jew of Chatham Street” tonight in New York City. [MostJews are aware of Shylock as a figure of anti-Semitism. In 19thcentury American references to Chatham Street were equally anti-Semitic.Chatham Street was the locale of the 2nd hand clothing business inNew York. Supposedly the trade was dominated by Jews were who alwaysexploiting the Christians who frequented their shops]
1866: In Cincinnati,OH, Caroline Stix Swarts and Joseph Louis Swarts gave birth to St. Louis attorneySolomon Louis Swarts, the husband of Florene Eiseman Swarts and the father ofJohn and Frederick Swarts.
1868(25thof Nisan, 5628): Abigail Gomes de Costa, the wife of Joseph Abendana the motherof grocer Hananel Abendana, who was a steward of the Spanish PortugueseHospital passed away today.
1869: TheMercantile Club, a Jewish social club established in Philadelphia in 1853, wasincorporated today. Louis Bomeisler and Clarence Wolf have served as Presidentsof the club. Other Jewish clubs included The Garrick, the Progress, and theFranklin.
1870(16th ofNisan, 5630): Second day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer.
1872: InTarnow, Galicia Miriam and Jacob Dintenfass gave birth to Mark Dintenfass, thehusband of Esther W. Wallace Dintenffass and a “co-founder of Universal Studios(Universal Pictures) who “was a producer, known for Between Two Husbands(1922), My Four Years in Germany (1918) and Love That Never Fails (1912).”
http://www.historyoffilm.net/picture/studios-locations-mark-dintenfass/
1873(20thof Nisan, 5633): Sixth Day of Pesach
1873: InMariampol, Leah and Pesach David Greenstone gave birth to CCNY grad and JTStrained rabbi Julius Hillel Greenstone, the holder of Ph.D. from the Universityof Pennsylvania who began teaching at Gratz College in 1905 and author severalworks including The Religion of Israel and The Messiah Idea in Jewish History.
1873:Birthdate of Kovno native Mike Miller who in December of 1885 came to theUnited States where they went into the scrap metal business in Lancaster andReading, PA and after the death of his father, Miller moved on to Sundbury, PAwhere he owned “a large iron and medal business where he rasied a family of tenchildren with his wife, the former Rebecca Fink while belonging B’rith Shalomand “Havra Samra Habrith Congregation of Reading, PA” and serving as Preside ofthe Talmud Torah and “Moses Israel of Northumberland of Sundbury, PA.”
1875: “DieMaccabäer” (The Maccabees) an opera in three acts by Anton Rubinstein andSalomon Hermann Mosenthal which is itself based on the biblical story of theMaccabees was first performed today at the Hofoper, Berlin.
1876:Birthdate of Vincennes, Indiana native and Vincennes University graduate JacobGimbel who in 1910 “financed an expedition which explored rivers of BritishGuiana and studied the life habits of the symnotide, cell-like fish.”
1878(14thof Nisan, 5638): Ta’anit Bechorot; erev Pesach
1878: InHamburg, Germany Hermann and Henrietta (Wollenberg) Fuchs gave birth to birthNYU trained attorney and owner of the Boston Braves Judge Emil Fuchs who wasthe husband of Aurelia Marcovich and who was the last man to give Babe Ruth toplay Major League baseball.
1878(14th ofNisan, 5638): “The Deliverance of Israel” published today noted that some Jewsare no longer substituting bread for Matzoth during Passover especially thosrwho are members of the congregations led by Rabbi David Einhorn and RabbiGustave Gottheil two Reform rabbis who led Congregation Adath Israel and TempleEmanu-el respectively.
1880:Birthdate of Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, the British archeologist whose workat Ur (the Biblical city) led him to “finding ties between ancient Aegean andMesopotamian civilizations” which led to greater understanding to some of thereferences in the Bible and who also found substantiation for Noah’s flood.
1881(18thof Nisan, 5641): Fourth Day of Pesach
1881: NathanBlesenthal, a prominent Buffalo, NY, Jew became a Presbyterian today. Hisconversion was a condition set by Gertrude Deming if the couple was going to bewed. Blesenthal’s mother had opposed the conversion and young Nathan onlyleft the “faith of his fathers” after his mother passed away.
1881: Theproperty occupied by the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum was purchased today for$12,500.
1881: It wasreported today that the Jews are talking about erecting a national synagogue inWashington, DC.”
1882: In whatis now Lipnik, Poland “Isidor Schnabel, a textile merchant, and his wife,Ernestine Taube (née Labin)” gave birth to Aaron Schnable who gained fame asArtur Schnable, the pianist was famous for his performances of Beethoven’sPiano Sonatas who like so many others, he left Europe to escape Nazipersecution eventually settling in the United States and who was the husband ofthe contralto and Lieder singer Therese Behr with whom he had two sons, KarlUlrich Schnabel who also became a classical pianist and renowned piano teacher,and Stefan Schnabel who became a well-regarded actor.
http://www.schnabelmusicfoundation.com/Artur%20Schnabel.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpiPHjSRUOg
1882(28thof Nisan, 5642): Joel Samuel Polack passed away. Born in 1807, he was thefirst Jewish settler in New Zealand, arriving there in 1831.
1883: InMinsk, “Polish singing professor” Eduard Darewski and his wife gave birth to“British composer and conductor” the brother of fellow musician Max Darewskiand the husband of “musical comedy actress Madge Temple.”
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/106880/Darewski_Herman
1883: InLondon, Hannah Cohen and James John Woolley gave birth to Moss DaCosta Woolley,the husband of Hannah Levy whom he married at the New Synagogue in London in1910.
1884(22nd ofNisan, 5644): 8th day of Pesach
1884: InCuero, Texas, Rudolph Frank and Rachel Rae Jacobs gave birth to Leo Frank whom*oved to New York when he was three months which would lead some tocharacterize him as “a New York Jew” when he was convicted of the murder ofMary Phagan – a crime of which he was innocent but thanks to a wave ofanti-Semitism led to his lynching in 1915 – an event that seems to be part ofan unusual “amnesia” for much of the American Jewish community.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/leo-frank
http://the-temple.org/AboutUs/History/TheLynchingofLeoFrank.aspx
1884: Theodore Hoffman who will be hangedtomorrow after having been found guilty of murdering a Jewish peddler namedZife Marks, ate a breakfast of fried oysters this morning in his cell at WhitePlains, NY
1887:President Levy presided over tonight’s meeting of the Jewish Immigrants’Protective Society which was held at the synagogue on Rivington Street in NewYork. In its first year of operation the society has given $1,600 to“newly arrived immigrants.
1888(6thof Iyar, 5648): Businessman and philanthropist Abraham Warshawski passed awayin St. Petersburg.
1889(16th ofNisan, 5649): Second day of Pesach observed for the first time during thePresidency of Benjamin Harrison.
1890:Birthdate of Russian born, Columbia trained attorney Samuel J. Levinson, “apartner in the law firm of Weinstein and Levison” who was the husband of the“former Silvia Opalinsky” and the father of Mrs. Lila Perlstein.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/06/01/86600975.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1891: JacobEzekiel Hyneman, a Union veteran of the Civil War resigned as 1stLieutenant Veteran Corps of the First Regiment of the Pennsylvania NationalGuard
1891:Birthdate of University of Maryland Medical School graduate and WW I ArmyMedical Corps veteran Dr. Herbert L Langer, “the president of the medical boardof Peninsula General Hospital” and the husband of “the former Helen Stein” withwhom he had “two sons, Howard and Irwin”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/02/26/96969974.pdf
1891:Birthdate of Rudolf Propper, a resident of Pilsen who was murdered at Izbica.
1892(20thof Nisan, 5652): Sixth Day of Pesach
1892: “JewsWho Speak Spanish” published today provided a review of BibliotecaEspanola-Portugueza Judaica: Jewish Authors-Titles of their Works inSpanish and Portuguese with a notice on Spanish Jews and a Collection ofSpanish Proverbs by Meir Kayserling.
1892: InBrooklyn, NY, Temple Israel dedicated its new building a the corner of Bedfordand Lafayette Avenues.
1892: Based onreports published today the personal efforts of Emperor William bring peacebetween the Government and the Conservatives have been hampered by PastorStoecker and his anti-Jewish policies which are growing ever more popular.
1892:“Clerical Control of Education Their Ultimatum” published today included adescription of a libel trial in Berlin during which the President of the BerlinMunicipal School Bard testified “that out of the twenty-four members composingthe board thirteen, or a majority, were Jews and the rest agnostics and thatall of them cooperated against religious teaching in the schools.”
1892: Anarticle entitled “Given A Breathing Spell” attributes the sluggishness in theNew York real estate market to the celebration of Easter and Passover. Asthe author says, “It is a good thing for the real estate market that suchholidays as the Passover and Easter do not come too often.”
1893(1st ofIyar, 5653): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1893: The willof Mrs. Babet Karl, the widow of Abraham Karl was executed today and BenjaminBlumenthal, Simon Goldsmith and Theodore Hirsch were named as executors.
1893: It wasreported today that the leading Jews of Bulgaria have ordered from Budapest “analbum inlaid with diamonds, rubies and emeralds to be given to Prince Ferdinandand his bridge on their wedding day.”
1893: As theNew York Jewish community responded to aggressive attempts by Protestants toconvert Jews, Rabbi Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanu-El embellished on hissermon give yesterday by saying “I am not ready to be drawn into a publicdiscussion on this subject but the charges which I make against the ChristiansI can prove, and if the Protestant organizations which are devoting themselvesto this work of so-called convention will come forward and deny my generalcharges I will produce the facts on which my allegations rest specifically andin detail.”
1894: InRussia, “Nicholas and Fannie (Silver) Ehrlich” gave birth to Columbia educatedphysician David Ernest Ehrlich, the roentgenologist who raised his daughterFrances with his wife “Emma Grace Smith.”
1894(11thof Nisan, 5654): Seventy-five-year-old Fanny Neuda passed away.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Neuda_Fanny_Schmiedl
1895: As beefprices continue to rise, Jewish butchers on the lower East Side express theirgloom about any chance of improvement.
1895: Birthdate ofWarsaw native “Samuel David Landau,” the painterknown as Lev-Landau who raised his son Jacob with his wife Lola
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/09/archives/obituary-1-no-title.html
1895(23rdof Nisan, 5655): Fifty-two-year-old Moritz Dessauer, the son of Gabriel L.Dessauer, who was the district rabbi at Meiningen and author of several worksincluding one on Spinoza and Hobbes passed away today.
1895(23rdof Nisan, 5655): Seventy-seven-year-old Hermann “Hirschel” Bodenheimer, the sonof Emanuel and Johanna Bodenheimer passed away today after which he was buriedin the Durbach Jewish Cemetery.
1895(23rdof Nisan, 5655): Fifty-eight-year-old Jorge Isaacs Ferrer, the son of “GeorgeHenry Isaacs, an English Jew originally from Jamaica” and whom Isaac Goldbergdescribed as “a half-Jew” “who is “Spanish America’s most famous novelist”passed away today.
http://biography.yourdictionary.com/jorge-isaacs
1895: Threedays after she had perished in a yachting accident, 15 year old Lily GertrudeBarton, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Jewish Cemetery.”
1895: Thanksto the efforts of New York state senator Joseph C. Wolff, the Hebrew InfantAsylum received its charter today.
1895: In SouthCarolina, Mary Beatrice Levy married Miguel Bofill
1896: The willof the late Leonard Friedman will filed for probate today in the Surrogate’soffice.
1897(15thof Nisan, 5657): Pesach
1897: A listof the bequest’s made by the late Frances Danzig, the widow of Frances Danzig,whose estate was valued at $40,000 included “$500 to each of the followinginstiutions: The Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids, the Hebrew Benevolentand Orphan Asylum, the Mounts Sinai Hospital and the Home for Aged and InfirmHebrews” as well as “the income of the sum of $1,000 to be applied by TempleEmanu-El to the care of the Danzig family plot in the Salem Fields Cemetery.”
1897: Art andArtists published today described recently published books including AHandful of Exotics: Scenes and Incidents Chiefly of Russo-Jewish Life bySamuel Gordon
1898: “ComicOpera for Charity” published today described the performance given by the YoungFolks’ League of the Hebrew Infant Asylum of “The Little Tycoon” in which SilasMusliner directed the members including Henry D. Kleinman Emanuel Cohen, CeliaBaumann, Clara Weinstein and J.S. Kornicker, in an event designed to raise fundfor the orphans.
1900(8thof Nisan, 5660): Fourth Day of Pesach
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1900: Herzlbegan a two-week journey that would take him from Karlsruhe to Paris andfinally to London. Like so many of his trips, Herzl was again seeking supportfrom the rich and famous for the creation of a Jewish homeland in the Land ofIsrael.
1901: “JewishVisitors to Palestine” published today described the response of Secretary ofState Hay to an inquiry by Senator Mitchell of Oregon concerning a request byone of his constituents, Solomon Hirsch of Portland, that the United Stateslodge a protest with the Ottoman government over its new regulation thatforeign born Jews not be allowed to stay in Palestine for any more than threemonths.
1902: Threedays after he had passed away, Lionel Jacob Samuel “the elder son of” FrederickSamuel and Sarah Mocatta” was buried today at the Balls Pond Road JewishCemetery.”
1902:“Exhibition by East Side Artists” published today, described the plans of theEducation Alliance to hold the second annual exhibition of the work of eastside artists this weekend.
1902: The Dr.Joseph H. Hertz, who was a member of Lord Milner's High or Advisory Committeein South Africa, and Chaplain of the Rand Rifles, was among the passengers whoarrived on the White Star liner Teutonic today. Yes, the Rabbi Hertz whogave us the “Hertz Chumash” and the “Hertz Siddur” served as the chaplain for amilitary unit that helped protect Johannesburg during the Boer War.
1903(20thof Nisan, 5663): Sixth Day of Pesach
1903:Birthdate of Russian born, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. This musicalprodigy escaped Lenin’s Russia,made his way to the United States where he made a name for himself as aperformer and academic. He passed away in 1976.
1903(20thof Nisan, 5663): Seventy-year-old Abraham Printz, the native of Kashau andhusband of Rosa Printz with whom he had seven children including Bert H. Prtinzthe founder and own of Printz Company Men’s Clothing and Furnishings passedtoday in Youngstown, Ohio.
1904:Birthdate of New York native and playwright Edward Chodorov.
1905: TheFirst American Rumanian Congregation was scheduled to continue distributingmatzoth to poor Jews living on the Lower East Side today.
1905:Birthdate of Italian Zionist Enzo Sereni, the founder of a kibbutz andvolunteer member of British parachute unit that jumped behind German linesalong with others including Hannah Senesh who was murdered at Dachau.
http://www.zionism-israel.com/bio/biography_enzo_sereni.htm
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/enzo-sereni
1906(22ndof Nisan, 5666): Eighth Day of Pesach and Yizkor are completed just in the nickof time for the residents of San Francisco since the great earthquake tookplace on the following day.
1907: “Amenacing French naval demonstration” which was thought by some to increaseFrance’s influence in Morocco, took place off of Mogador, “a fortified city andseaport on the Atlantic whose population of Jews went from approximately 4,000in the 1840’s to 12,000 by 1912.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mogador
1908(16thof Nisan, 5668): Second Day of Pesach and the first day of the Omer is countedfor the last time during the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
1909: Birthdateof Alain Poher, the French President and member of the French Resistance duringWW II whom an Iraqi commando unit tried to kidnap in 1973 allegedly because ofhis “close ties to Israel.
1909(26thof Nisan, 5669): Sixty-year-old Andrew Rosewater, the native of Bohemia whocame to the United States in 1854 and pursued a career where he pursued acareer as a civil engineer passed away after which he was buried in Omaha,Nebraska.
http://www.jmaw.org/rosewater-jewish-omaha-bee/
1910: InWarsaw, Zelig and Henia (nee Lieberman) Vilenski gave birth to Israeli composerMoshe Vilenski who “was voted the 187th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a pollby the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general publicconsidered the 200 Greatest Israelis.” He collaborated with lyricist NathanAlterman and singer Shoshana Damari to create the Israeli classic “Kalaniyot.”
1910: By fouro’clock this afternoon, at least 3,000 persons had been given supplies forPassover by the United Hebrew Community at their offices on East Broadway.Distribution of the supplies is scheduled to continue throughout the week oruntil they run out, whichever comes first.
1910: LouisDiamond, Secretary of the United Hebrew Community called for additionalcontributions to help defray the costs of the increased demand for Passoversupplies to help out the city’s needy Jews.
1911:According to statements made tonight, a Kheillah is meeting to consider whatsteps to take in the case of Esther Yachnin, the sixteen-year-old girl whoconverted to Christianity last year at the age of 15. Esther had come toUnited States at the age of 13 and had enrolled in an English language classoffered by the Young Women’s Christian Association which eventually led to herconversion. The parents had no prior knowledge of the plans for theconversion. Given the Esther’s youth and the estrangement from her familyand community, Jews living on the Lower East Side question the validity of theconversion. They may also be concerned that their unsuspecting childrenwill become candidates for similar such conversions. The Kheillah isconsidering legal action if such recourse to law can be effective.
1911:Birthdate of George Stenius who grew up to be director George Seaton. Accordingto Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho and His Friends by Charlotte Chandler,Seaton “grew upon in a Jewish neighborhood in Detroit where he was the “Shabbasgoy for his friends” learned enough Hebrew to be “bar mitzvahed” receiving thefabled fountain pen as a gift.
1912:Birthdate of British lawyer and patron of the arts Isador Caplan.
1912: “MountainRidge Country Club, located in West Caldwell, New Jersey, was officially formedtoday, when 25 charter members filed a Document of Incorporation with the Stateof New Jersey. Among its founders were Louis Bamberger, whose Newark departmentstore, Bamberger’s, was among the largest in the Unites States, and Felix Fuld,Bamberger’s brother-in-law who was the first Parks Commissioner of New Jersey.The prominent membership has also included Joseph Weintraub, former ChiefJustice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg, andA.J. Dimond.
1913: Seventy-eight-year-oldGerman-born British shipbuilder and politician Gustav Wilhelm Wolff passedaway. He was raised as a Lutheran because his father had converted before hisbirth. This was one of many examples of Jews who were “lost” in the wakeof those who thought a trip to the baptismal font was the price of economicsuccess and/or social acceptance. The racial policies of the Nazis wouldprove them wrong.
1914(21stof Nisan, 5674): Seventh Day of Pesach
1914: Originaldate set for the execution of Leo Frank.
1915(3rdof Iyar, 5675): Parashat Tazria-Metzora
1915: The ZionMule Corps left for Gallipoli. Commanded by Colonel Henry Patterson andorganized by Trumpeldor and Jabotinsky, they were a Jewish auxiliary unit ofthe British Army. The British were not interested in giving them the ability tofight, so they were assigned to provide provisions to the front lines.Gallipoli was part of the Ottoman Empire. With the stalemate on theWestern Front, Churchill convinced other Allied leaders to attack at Gallipoliin an attempt to outflank the Central Powers.Churchill thought the Allieswould easily defeat the Turks, open up thewaterroute toRussiaand end the war.Unfortunately, the planand theAlliedForces, including the Zion Mule Corps were forced towithdraw. The Jewish troops performed with distinction and later becamethe nucleus for the Jewish Legion that was formed in 1917. This was partof the on-going process of the creation of what would eventually become theIDF. While the original Zionist dream had been a peaceful, almostpacifist comments, the realities of the neighborhood forced the Jews to becomeadept warriors.
1915: “Thefollowing additional appropriations for the relief of the war sufferers” werereported today” to have been made by the Executive Committee of the AmericanJewish Relief Committee: “$15,000 to Russian Poland; $15000 to German Poland;$50,000 to those parts of Galicia now occupied by Russia; $3,000 to Monastir,Serbia and $2,500 to Aleppo, Syria.”
1916(14th ofNisan, 5676):Ta'anit Bechorot; ErevPesach
1916: HaroldRich “was the master of ceremonies” at a Seder held tonight in Sing Sing Prisonconducted by the Jewish member of the Mutual Welfare League which included asermon by Dr. Abraham Cronbach of the Free Synagogue of New York City “on thereligious significance of the event” and a violin solo by Dachin Jacobson.
1916:Approximately “175 Jewish soldiers and sailors from forts and battleships near”New York City joined “with 200 others” for “a Seder at the Young Men’s HebrewAssociation building at the corner of Lexington Avenue and Ninety-secondStreet.
1916: RabbiStephen Wise officiated at the marriage of Elinor Fatman and Henry Morgenthau,Jr; a marriage that was unusual for its time because the bride had proposed tothe groom.
1916: IsadoreHershfield of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society of New York returned to Berlinfrom Vienna and a trip through Galicia and the Austrian-occupied sections ofPoland where he “completed arrangements for forwarding letters and appeals forassistance from distressed Jews and other inhabitant to relatives in the UnitedStates.
1916: It waslearned today that David R. Francis, the new American Ambassador to Russia whohas just left for his new post is carrying with him a draft for a new treaty ofcommerce which is intended to replace the old treaty which was allowed to lapsea few years ago “because of the refusal of the Russian Government to honorproper passports issued to American Jews, particularly to American Jewishcitizens of Russian birth.”
1916: “HermanBernstein” became “editor of the AmericanHebrew today.”
1917(25thof Nisan, 5677): During WW I, Lieutenant-colonel Rene Cahen was killed today.
1917(25thof Nisan, 5677): Gustavus I. Peavy, of Peavy Brothers who was a director of theNational Association of Clothiers passed away today.
1917: InRussia, “the first congress of the Jewish Social Democratic Party known as ‘theBund’ opened today” and the leading item on the agenda was the condition of theJews in Finland.
1917: FrenchPresident Raymond Poincare bemoaned the fact that “in London our agreements arenow considered null and void.” He was upset by the fact that the Britishwere now calling for a larger role in the post-World War Middle East includingacknowledgement of Zionist plans for Palestine.
1917: DuringWorld War I, the British army employs tanks for one of the first times in theMiddle East in an attempt to defeat the Turks at Gaza. The so-calledSecond Battle of Gaza will prove to be a costly defeat for His Majesty’s Forceswho will suffer over six thousand casualties.
1918: “JewsProtest To Baker” published today described the formal complaint being lodgedby Louis Marshall the prominent New York lawyer and chair of the AmericanJewish Committee with Secretary of War Newton Baker concerning discriminationagainst Jewish soldiers that also contends a demand that the discrimination bestopped and the officers responsible for it be punished.
1919(17thof Nisan, 5679): Third day of Pesach
1919: BernhardDernburg, whose father publisher Friedrich Dernburg had converted to theLutheran religion began serving today as “Federal Minister of Finance and ViceCanceller” during the early days of the Weimar Republic.
1919: InChicago, the funeral was today for Jacob Joel, the husband of Elise Joel
1919: As partof an episode that would have far-reaching implications for the Middle East ingeneral and Israel in particular, the French prepared a declaration today thatwas presented to Prince Feisal. Feisal expected the document to be awritten affirmation of Clemenceau’s promise of total Arab independence forSyria – a Syria to be ruled by Feisal. But according to the Frenchdocument, the French army would occupy Damascus, and the new Arab nation wouldactually exist as a mere federation of local autonomous states in which all thegovernment advisers, including the governors and heads of major governmentbureaus, as well as the judiciary, would be French, under Paris's control asthey were in Lebanon. What's more, Faisal himself would be compelled topublicly declare the importance of France's historic relationship with theMaronite Christians. Other than that, said the French, Syria would becompletely "independent." Faisal quickly refused, encouraged byLawrence of Arabia, who advised him to demand total independence "withoutconditions or reservations." Clemenceau, however, would not tolerate whathe considered Arab impudence. Faisal summarily left Paris for Syria to claimhis nation. Faisal, who had signed a letter welcoming the Zionists toPalestine, would fail. The perfidy of the French would lead to anunstable Syria that would become an implacable enemy of Israel. Faisal wouldsettle for throne of another British creation, Iraq.
1920(29thof Nisan, 5680) Parashat Shimini; Mevarchim Chodesh Iya
1920(29thof Nisan, 5680): Seventy-five-year Bavarian born Samuel Grabfelder, the husbandof Cordelia “Delia” Grabfelder and long-time resident of Louisville, KY wherehe founded S. Grabfelder s, served as president of both Adath Israel, the Jewish Elderly Home in Clevelandand “was a major contributor to te National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives inDenver” passed away today in Atlantic City after which he was buried in Brooklyn’sSalem Fields Cemetery
https://pre-prowhiskeymen.blogspot.com/2012/11/sam-grabfelder-and-distillery-of-his-own.html
1920: TheTwelfth Conference of the Bund continued its meeting Gomel.
1921: “The 32ndannual convention” of American Reform Rabbis that had included a lecture byProfessor Jacob Z. Lauterbach “on the attitude of the Jew toward the non-Jew”and a visit at the White House with President and Mrs. Harding is scheduled tocome to an end today in Washington, D.C.
1922(19thof Nisan, 5682): Fourth Day of Pesach.
1922: “5,000Begin Drive For Zionist Fund” published today described a meeting at CarnegieHall which marked the opening of campaign to raise three million dollars forthe Palestine Foundation Fun which was addressed by Colonel John H. Patterson,the former commander of the British “Jewish Legion” during the World War.
1923(1st ofIyar, 5683): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1923:Birthdate of Zaslav native and former IDF Chief of Staff Tzvi Tzur who made Aliyahat the age of two, joined the Haganah, servedas battalion leader of the Givati Brigade during the fighting in 1948, founded “Samon’sFoxes,” and who following an illustratious military career eventually served asan MK and pursued a business career that included serving in “several managingpositions, including the Israeli Aircraft Industries, the shipping company Zim,and "Hevra LeYsrael".
1923: “TurkishJews Dine Fouad” published today, described a dinner “given by the Sephardicand Ottoman Societies of New York at which “Dr. Fouad Bey, a former Minister ofthe Interior and Social of Turkey and a member of the Turkish National Assemblywas the guest honor” which was a fund-raiser to provide assistance for Turkishorphans.
1924: "ThePresident Arthur, which was owned by the American Palestine Line set sail fromHaifa for the United States after taking passenger on a ten-day cruise of the Mediterraneanwith stops at Jaffa, Beirut, Alexandria, and Naples, among others.
1924: Today,the ownership of “The Dewey House, also referred to as Building 29, NorthChicago VA Medical Center,” which was designed by David Adler “was transferredto the United States Department of Veterans Affair.”
1924: InBrooklyn, Joseph Geller, an artist who earned a living painting signs, and hiswife, Olga gave birth to” Andrew Geller, an architect who embodied postwaringenuity and optimism in a series of inexpensive beach houses in whimsicalshapes, many of them in the Hamptons, and who helped bring modernism to themasses with prefabricated cottages sold at Macy’s.” (As reported by Fred A.Bernstein)
1924: Metro Pictures,Goldwyn Pictures & Louis B Mayer Company merged to form MGM. Many of theearly motion picture studios were dominated, if not owned outright, byJews. Many of them were immigrants who made movies idealizing Americasince that was what sold at the box office. The film industry may havebeen run by Jews, but you sure would not have known from the content.
1925: “TheGolden Calf” a silent drama filmed by cinematographer Mutz Grennbaum wasreleased in Germany today.
1925: It wasreported today that the London Yiddish paper Zeit, the New York Jewish DailyNew (Tageblatt), the Jewish Daily Jud of Kishinef and the Hebrew dailyHa’arezt, published in Jerusalem are among the Jewish newspapers that thePolish government has banned from being sold.
1925: Brooklynbusinessmen are scheduled to “discuss the organization of a luncheon theBrooklyn Chamber of Commerce by S.P. Rothschild, the President of Abraham andStraus.
1925(23rdof Nisan, 5686) One day after the end of Pesach, fifty-eight year old GodfreyCharles Joseph Isaacs, the brother of Rufus Isaacs, the 1st Marquessof Reading, the husband of Lea Constance Perelli with whom he had two sons –Marcel and Dennys -- and, starting in 1910, the “Managing Director ofMarcon’s Wireless Telegraph Company” which led to his involvement in an insidertrading scandal known as “the Marconi Scandal of 1912 passed away today.
1925: “FatherVoss” a silent comedy written by Robert Liebman was released in Germany today.
1926:Birthdate of Aharon Yadlin, the sabra from Ben Shemen who served with Palmachand as an MK and Education Minster from 1974 through 1977.
1926:Birthdate of British composer Ronald Senator.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-composer-and-his-musician-wife-die-in-ny-house-fire/
1927(15thof Nisan, 5687): Pesach
1927: AtCongregation B’nai Jeshurun, Rabbi Israel Goldstein is scheduled to deliver aPassover sermon “The Messiah – A Universal Hope.”
1927: “HIASNow Aids Immigrants Who Must Go To Other Lands” published today described theassistance the organization is giving to settle Jews in places including SouthAmerica.
1928: A checkfor $50,000 from S.R. Guggenheim of New York for the $5,000,000 endowment fundof the Hebrew Union College, National Theological Seminary, was received by theseminary today.
1928:According to an interview sent out by the Jewish Telegraph Agency, EmilVandervelde, a member of the Belgian Cabinet, is “greatly impressed” with thework being done by the Jewish settlers in Palestine. He said that it was onlythrough personal observation that he “had he been able to understand thedifficulties and appreciate their achievements in transforming deserts andswamps into flourishing” settlements. He “cited the municipality of TelAviv as a marvelous expression” of the Jewish ability to build and improve theland. Furthermore, in a speech at Hebrew University, the Belgian leadercited Zionism’s “fraternal tendencies toward the Arabs which was an importantfactor toward international peace.
1928: Aconference of Communist youth being held in Tel Aviv was broken up bypolice. Fourteen boys, including one Arab, and six girls were detained bythe authorities.
1928:Birthdate of Cynthia Ozick, author of the “Puttermesser Papers”. Born in NewYork City to Jewish immigrants from Russia, who both worked as pharmacists,Ozick grew up in the care of her grandmother, who was always telling herstories. She grew up to write several more novels full of Jewish mysticism andhistory, including “The Messiah of Stockholm” and “ThePuttermesser Papers” but she's perhaps best known for her essays,collected in Art and Ardor, Metaphor and Memory and Quarreland Quandary (2000). Ozick said, "I believe a writer can weavein and out of genres—do it all. It is a gluttonous point of view, to be sure.Then again, when it comes to writing, that is what I truly am and nothing less:a glutton."
1929: As oftoday, the Jews of Cincinnati have contributed $107,000 to the Cleveland JewishOrphan Home Fund for a New Building chaired by Herbert R. Bloch.
1929:“Mascots” a silent movie filmed by cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum was releasedtoday in Germany.
1930: “Theboard of trustees of the Federation for the Support of Jewish PhilanthropicSocieties has voted to fix the 1930 budget at $5,080,000, a record amount, tobe devoted to the maintenance of its ninety-one constituent agencies, it wasannounced today by Dudley D. Sicker, president.”
1931(30th ofNisan, 5691): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1931: In SouthCentral Los Angeles, Morris George Axelrod, “an organizer for the radicalIndustrial Workers of the World union” and “the former Pearl Plaskoff” gavebirth to “producer, arranger and composer” David Axelrod.
1931:Birthdate of Harold Martin Feinstein, whose black and white pictorial record ofhis native Coney Island marked him as yet “another Jew with a camera.”
1931: The PostOffice in England is planning to broadcast “from Jerusalem” today “as part ofthe celebration of the seventh anniversary of the Hebrew University.” (JTA)
1932(11thof Nisan, 5692): Thirty-eight-year oldUniversity of Illinois College of Medicine educated gynecologist and surgeon,the Chicago born daughter of Ida Louis La Pook and Jacob Hoffman and a “memberof the Volunteer Medical Service Corps during World War I” who “a the time o herdeath was an associate in gynecology at her alma mater,” president of the MedicalWoman’s Club of Chicago and a member of Hadassah passed away today.
1932:“Announcements have been received” in New Haven CT of the engagement of MissLeone Yaffe, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Yaffe of Park Avenue, New Yorkto Syracuse University graduate Myles Stodel Friedman, son of Mr. and Mrs.Abram of New Haven.
1933(21stof Nisan, 5693): Seventh Day of Pesach
1933: Drawingtheir illustrations from the present economic and political situation, SeventhDay Passover sermons delivered today in some of New York City’s synagoguesemphasized the thought that economic as well as moral justice should be theconcern of religious leaders.
1933: AtCongregation B’nai Jeshurun in Manhattan Rabbi Israel Goldstein delivered asermon in which he “recalled the efforts of Moses to establish a social andeconomic justice among the Jews and declared that President Roosevelt hascaught something of the vision of the economic emancipator.”
1933: RabbiWilliam F. Rosenblum of Temple Israel delivered a sermon in he “pleased for amilitant Judaism” which “will bring us security and peace as a people.”
1933: InAntwerp today “at a conference of Jewish market traders in the fur business,resolutions binding the organization to boycott German furs and accessory goodsused in the trade were passed unanimously.”
1934: “Thethree-day annual convention of the New York State Conference of the NationalCouncil of Jewish Women” is scheduled to come to an end in Syracuse, NY.
1934(2ndof Iyar, 5694): Fifty-three-year-old Harry Krensky, a merchant in Waterloo,Iowa, passed away today.
1934(2ndof Iyar, 5694): Maria Isaak the wife of Abraham Isaak with whom she “foundedthe anarchist-inspired Aurora Colony near Lincoln, California” in 1909 passedaway today.
1934:Birthdate of Don Kirshner who was “known as The Man With the Golden Ear.” Hewas an American song publisher and rock producer who is best known for managingsongwriting talent as well as successful pop groups such as The Monkees and TheArchies. He passed away in 2011.
1935(14thof Nisan, 5695): Ta’anit Bechorot; Erev Pesach
1935: BenHeiineman married Natalie Goldstein who as Natalie Goldstein Heineman became apioneering national champion for children’s welfare and respected community andnational leader, who changed the lives of thousands of children through herinnovative and thoughtful leadership.” (As reported by Pastora San JuanCafferty)
1935: In asermon delivered this evening “at the Downtown Branch of the InstitutionalSynagogue” Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein said that “the world has come to realizethat Hitler is not only the enemy of the Jew but also the enemy of God” andthat “Hitlerism could have and would have been nipped in the bud” it had notbeen deemed a Jewish problem “but a humanitarian problem.”
1936: Eighty-one-year-oldGerman orientalist Fritz Hommel author of Ancient Hebrew Traditionpassed away today.
1936: In TelAviv, the funeral for 61-year-old Israel Hazan who had been killed during arobbery two days ago by Arab who said they were stealing money “to buy arms tocarry on the work of the ‘Holy Martyrs’” turned into demonstration which turnedviolent when “police prohibited eulogies” and attempted to divert the funeralprocession.
1936: At afuneral held this morning in Tel Aviv for a Jewish victim of Arab violence, aclash broke out between Jewish protesters and police.
1936: Mrs. AmyG. Wyle, the chairman of the Women’s Division of the Greater New York Campaignof the Joint Distribution Committee which seeking to raise $1,500,000 as thecity’s share of the national fund for the aide of Jews of Germany and Centraland Eastern Europe hosted a dinner at Park Avenue home tonight.
1936: Attoday’s hearings being conducted by the Senate Lobby Committee correspondencewas produced between W. Cleveland Runyon of Plainfield, NJ and AlexanderLincoln, an investment bank from Boston and the President of the Sentinels ofthe Republic in which Mr. Lincoln “declared the ‘Jewish threat’ to the UnitedStates was a ‘real one’” to which Mr. Runyon replied, “old-line Americans…wanta Hitler.”
1937: RabbiWilliam Rosneblum is scheduled to lead services this morning at Temple Israel.
1937: Today,“The Committee for Special Jewish Interests” “which represents 120,000 Jewsliving in the Netherlands” “issued a protest against the prohibition by Germanyof all Jewish meetings for sixty days in retaliation for Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia’s speeches in New York.”
1938(16thof Nisan, 5698): Second Day of Pesach
1938:“Attacking ‘totalitarian religion’ Rabbi Stephen S. Wise declared in” hisSunday morning sermon at the Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall “that Jews cannotbelieve in ‘the Christ of dogma’ in order ‘to be saved or to be safe.” Thesermon was in response to two books Where Now, Little Jew”? by MagnusHermansson and An Open Letter to Jews and Christians by John Cournosthat “attempt to prove that the answer to the Jewish problem lies in theacceptance of Jesus Christ.”
1938: ArturoToscanini conducts the Palestine Orchestra in a second performance in TelAviv. Unlike last night’s performance which was given to a packed housefilled with officials and those who could afford high priced tickets, tonight’sperformance was for workers who paid greatly reduced prices for their tickets.
1939: “MenuhinAids Refugees” published today described a concert given by Yehudi Menuhin inLondon that raised more than five thousand pounds “for the benefit of Jewishrefugees.”
1939: AdolfHitler said he would respond to yesterday’s speech by FDR which was a “plea forpeace” at a meeting of the Reichstag on April 28.
1940: InBrooklyn, “George Stein, a stockbroker, and the former Anne Shuchman, whotaught history and civics at Erasmus Hall High School” to award winning authorProfessor Judith Stein. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/books/judith-stein-dead-historian-author-on-marcus-garvey.html
1940: Franklinand Eleanor Roosevelt went to dinner this evening at the residence of Mr. andMrs. Henry Morgenthau, Jr. at the Washington residence of the Secretary of theTreasury.
1941(20thof Nisan, 5701): Sixth day of Pesach
1941: In theWarsaw Ghetto, “Michał Klepfisz, a member of the Jewish Labour Bund (Yiddish:der algemeyner yidisher arbeter bund), and his wife, Rose Klepfisz (néeShoshana Perczykow)” gave birth to “Yiddishist” Irena Klepfisz, the co-editorof The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women’s Anthology.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/klepfisz-irena
1941:Following a coup staged by “four anti-British army colonels” who calledthemselves “The Gold Square” staged a coup which was supported by the Nazis,“British troops landed unopposed in Basra” and following military successesforced the Germans, Italians and their Arab Allies, including the Grand Muftiof Jerusalem, to flee.
1941:Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis. Nearly 60,000 Jews were murdered by theGerman army. Gold teeth from the murdered victims were later foundin the palace of the Catholic Bishop of Zagreb (Croatia).
1941(20th ofNisan, 5701): In Warsaw, a Jewish policeman named Ginsberg was bayonetedand shot by German soldiers after asking a soldier to return a sack of potatoestaken from a Jewish woman.
1941:Photojournalist David E. Scherman was among the 201 passengers aboard theEgyptian liner Zamzam when it was sunk by the German “surface raider” Atlantiswhich the British would find and sink thanks to the photographs he took from alifeboat.
1942: FrenchGeneral Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein wherehe was a German POW. Giraud joined the Free French in North Africa. In1943, while serving as High Commissioner he said that Vichy's anti-Jewish laws "nolonger exist," promised to hold municipal elections in North Africa. Healso revoked the Cremieux Decree of 1870, which granted French citizenship enbloc to Jews in Algeria, but excluded the Arabs. Henceforth, Moslems and Jewsmust complement each other economically, "the latter working in his shop,the former in the desert, without either having advantage over the other,France assuring both security and tranquility." This even-handed soundingspeech is a bit disingenuous. Many of the Vichy restrictions against Jewscontinued during this period in an attempt by the Allies to placate the Arabs.
1942(30th ofNisan, 5702): The Gestapo entered the Warsaw ghetto and shot 52 people onRosh Chodesh Iyar.
1943(12thof Nisan, 5703): Parashat Metzora; Shabbat HaGadol
1943:Birthdate of journalist, writer and member of the Brandeis faculty, RobertKuttner.
1943: Sixty-nine-year-oldGerman native Alfred Hertz, the second conductor of the San Francisco Symphony,who replaced Henry Hadley, in 1915, when the orchestra was just four years oldand who remained with the symphony until his farewell performance April 15,1930” passed away today.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/hertz.html
1943: In ameeting at Klessheim Castle near Salzburg, Hitler met with the HungarianRegent, Admiral Horthy, to urge the Hungarians to deport their Jewishpopulation. Hitler explained, ". . . they are just pure parasites . . .they had to be treated like tuberculosis bacilli which in a healthy body maybecome infected." Horthy and Hungary continued to hold out againstHitler's demands. Things would change in 1944 and most of Hungary's Jewsbecame victims of the Final Solution.
[Editor’sNote: Holocaust Deniers might want to consider the findings of British authorGerald Reitlinger. He claimed to have found conclusive proof of aHitlerian liquidation policy in the protocol of a conversation between Hitlerand Hungarian Regent Horthy on April 17, 1943. Hitler complained about theblack market and subversive activities of Hungarian Jews and then made thefollowing comment: "They have thoroughly put an end to these conditions inPoland. If the Jews don't wish to work there, they will be shot. If they cannotwork, at least they won't thrive"]
1944:Mordechai (Motke) Eldar was among the Jews from Transylvanian taken to theSltina Ghetto where he would be held until May when he was shipped toAuschwitz.
1944: Seventy-three-year-oldGerman actor Eugen Burg who had converted to Christianity to Judaism but wasbanned from the film industry when the Nazis came to power died today atTheresienstadt concentration camp today.
1944: The Ladyand the Monster” based on a novel by Curt Siodmak with a script by FrederickKohner co-starring Erich von Stroheim was released in the United States today.
1945:Surviving inmates of Sachsenhausen and Ravenbruck were forced to march deeperinto Germany. Withthe war coming to an end, the Germans continuedtoforce evacuees including 17,000 women and 46,000 men to move away fromtheAllied armies.Those who once boasted of their effort tomake Europe "Jew Free" now worked feverishly to cover upwhatwould come to be called "Crimes Against Humanity."
1945: Today,Captain Leslie Hardman, “the 32-year-old Senior Jewish Chaplain to the BritishForces, attached to the 8th Corps of the British 2nd Army” “enteredBergen-Belsen concentration camp, two days after it had been liberated byBritish military forces…”
1945:Lieutenant Al Ungerleider approached Nordhausen with orders to take and holdpart of an industrial complex there. “His detachment had to fight its waythrough the gates and the barbed wire, dodging machine-gun fire from enemysoldiers hiding in towers near the entrance. After his men took out the enemy,the camp inmates began to appear. They were so emaciated that only a few couldstand upright. Some fell over, he recalled. Still others were lying in bed,covered in lice and sores. Lt. Ungerleider sent his men to check the groundsfor remaining Nazi soldiers. They captured 44 SS troopers, all of whomsurrendered. Billy Millhander, one of” his “soldiers, Ungerliderentered alarge building at the center of the camp and discovered 10 huge ovens —crematoriums.” At the time, he did not know what they were. According toUngerleider, “The ovens were cold, and the doors were closed.” he said. Hebegan opening the doors of the oven expecting to find German troops in hiding.“The first four contained ashes. But when the lieutenant opened the fifth, Millhanderimmediately fired several rounds, killing an armed German guard.” They returnedto the main yard, and Lt. Ungerleider spoke a mixture of Yiddish, English andGerman to the camp inmates. He asked how many were still alive. The reply came:maybe 250 out of thousands. He asked what they were making at the plant.Someone said V-2 rockets, missiles that were launched against England. “Andthat’s when the enormity of the evil that the Germans were doing to thesepeople hit me,” Ungerleider said later. “And this was a slave labor camp, not adeath camp. They were making a product for the war effort. The first thoughtthat came into my mind is how the Germans could take [thousands of people] andput them to work. How could they not feed them, take care of their medicalneeds, not clothe them?” He led the survivors in the mourner’s kaddish, theJewish prayer for the dead. Al Ungerleider enjoyed a successful career in theU.S. Army rising to the rank of General. At the same time, he remained anactive member of the Jewish community wherever he was stationed.
1945: RobertLimpert, the head of a genuine anti-Nazi underground group, sought to get theleaders of the Bavarian city of Ansbach to defy Wehrmacht fanatics and tosurrender to the approaching American Army.
1945: WilliamScott of the 183rd Combat Engineers, an all-African-American unittook pictures of Leon Bass and other members of the unit at Buchenwald six daysafter its liberation by the U.S. Army.
1946(16thof Nisan, 5706): Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer
1946: “Admissionafter admission fell from the lips of Dr. Alfred Rosenberg today as the UnitedStates prosecutor, Thomas J. Dodd, destroyed the Nazi philosopher'sselfportrait as a kindly benefactor and forced the German to admitresponsibility for the Nazi regime in the plundered and devastated lands ofNazi-occupied Eastern Europe.”
1946: It wasreported today that the “hunger strike by 15 Jewish leaders” in Palestine cameto an end after “it was announced that the Palestine administration had agreedto the admission of all 1,200 refugees detained in northern Italy.
1947:One day after he had passed away funeral services are scheduled to be heldtoday for 83-year-old Rabbi Simon Finkelstien, “thedean of the Brooklyn Rabbinate.
https://www.cincinnatijudaicafund.com/index.php/Detail/objects/4331
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/04/17/87517640.pdf
1947: GeneralLucius D. Clay, the United States Military Governor, announced today theclosing of displaced camps in Germany “to further Jewish refugees infiltratingfrom Poland.”
1947: “Toprepresentatives of the American-Jewish Joint Committee were scheduled to meetin Paris in response to General Clay’s announcement.
1947: “PanRuczaj, described as the organizer of last July’s anti-Semitic riot in Kielce,where forty-two Jews were killed, surrendered to Polish security officers inWaldenberg, Silesia” but even though he “made a full confession, “under theterms of the Polish amnesty, he will not be punished.”
1948(8th ofNisan, 5708): On Shabbat Hagadol news came that a convoy bringing in neededsupplies to Jerusalem had broken through by night. Crowds came down to theRomema roadblock to greet the convoy. Over 250 lorries bringing a thousand tonsof food and arms and ammunition came streaming into the entrance to the city.Written on the first lorry were the words: "If I forget thee, OJerusalem, may my right hand forget its cunning".
1948: AsJewish soldiers fight to open the road to Jerusalem and break the blockade thatwas strangling the city reports circulate through the City of David that fiveArab villages had been taken and as many as 350 Arab fighters had been killed.
1948: In hisreport on the massacre of the staff going to the Hadassah Hospital on Mt.Scopus, Robert Watson, the American Consul in Jerusalem wrote " . . .queried as to whether convoy included armoured cars, Haganah guards, arms andammunition in addition to doctors, nurses and patients, Kohn [of the JewishAgency] replied in affirmative saying it was necessary to protect convoy."
1949(18th ofNisan, 5709): Meir Bar-llan, an Orthodox Rabbi from Lithuania who was a leaderof the Mizrachi movement passed away today in Jerusalem. Bar-Illan Universitywas named in his memory.
1950: TheNew York Times reported that the obsolete conditions at the port of TelAviv pose a threat to the continued economic growth of the infant Jewishstate. According to Jose Ensuade, President of Flomarcy Company,“Israel’s maritime position and the continued growth of her foreign comer,which has had an almost phenomenal growth may be impaired unless harborfacilities are improved.” He marveled at the fact that the port which isthe nation’s entry point for 25,000 immigrants arriving each month and whichhas seen a remarkable growth in trade “is virtually without modern dockingfacilities.”
1951:Birthdate of Yaky Yosha, the Tel Aviv born award winning film director.
1952(22nd ofNisan, 5712): 8th day of Pesach observed for the last time duringthe Presidency of Harry Truman.
1954(14th ofNisan, 5714): Shabbat Ha-Gadol; Erev Pesach
1954: AaronJean-Marie Lustiger who was born as into an Ashkenazi Jewish family wasordained as a Roman Catholic Priest today.
1954: In TelAviv, the family of Emanuel Shoam celebrates the first Seder with three friendsof his brother Joe, who had been held as a prisoner of war by the Jordaniansduring the War of Independence. The three were a young Canadian Jew namedMartin and two gentile deserters from the British army named Paddy and Harrywho had stolen tanks from the British in 1948 and brought them to the Haganah.
1955: ChicagoCubs’ pitcher Hy Cohen played in his first major league baseball game.
1957(16thof Nisan, 5717): Second Day of Pesach
1957: GeorgePirkis Kidd, Canada’s first Ambassador to Israel, completed his term ofservice.
1957: MargaretBlanche Meagher began serving as Canada’s Ambassador to Israel, making her thefirst Canadian woman to hold an ambassadorial place.
1958(27thof Nisan, 5718): Yom HaShoah
1958: LosAngeles Dodgers’ pitcher Larry Sherry appears in his first major leaguebaseball game. Sherry would lead the Dodgers to a World SeriesChampionship in 1959.
1959: U.S.premiere of “Imitation of Life” the cinematic treatment of Fannie Hurt’s novelproduced by Ross Hunter with a musical score co-authored by Sammy Fain.
1960(20thof Nisan, 5720): Sixth Day Pesach
1960: ABCbroadcast “Blind Marriage” an episode of “The Rebel” directed by IrvinKershner.
1961: InLondon, Bernardine Coverley and artist Lucian Freud gave birth to fashiondesigner Bella Freud, the great granddaughter of the inventor of psychoanalysisSigmund Freud.
1962(13thof Nisan, 5722): Eighty-one-year-old C.C.N.Y (B.S.) and Columbia University(Ph.D.) trained biologist Dr. Abraham Goldforb, the London born son of Morrisand Anna (Mishkowsky) Goldforb and CCNY Professor specializing in physiologyand experimental embryologist who was the husband of Dr. Frances Shostac andfather of Mrs. Miriam Dinerman passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/04/18/94100787.html?pageNumber=37
1964:Birthdate of Ofer Hugi, the Shas MK who ended up going to prison for two yearsafter being convicted of numerous illegal acts.
1965(15th ofNisan, 5725): 1st day of Pesach
1965:Cincinnati Reds outfielder Art Shamsky appears in his first major leaguebaseball game.
1966:Two days after he had passed away, funeral services were scheduled to be heldthis afternoon at the Riverside for sixty-year-old University of Chicago alumAlvin Handmacher, the president of Handmacher-Vogel Inc. and founder of theHandmacher Foundation who raised three daughters with his wife “the formerMargaret Murdock.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/04/16/82431991.pdf
1967:CBS broadcast the final episode of “Gilligan’s Island” a sitcom created bySherwood Schwartz and co-starring Natalie Schafer as “Lovey Wentworth Howell.”
1967:Egypt, Syria and Iraq signed a treaty of alliance that placed their militaryforces under a unified command with the stated purpose of “liberatingPalestine” i.e. destroying the state of Israel.
1968(19thof Nisan, 5728): Fifth Day of Pesach
1968(19thof Nisan, 5728): Fifty-year-old “American microbiologist” Sol Haberman, theChicago born son of “Nathan and Eva (Yankovitch) Haberman” and husband of“Carletta Jeanne Rambo” who had earned a PhD from OSU and went from beinglecturer on bacteriology at SMU to directing the graduate studies division ofthe Graduate School College of Dentistry passed away today.
1968(19thof Nisan, 5728): Seventy-five-year-old Birmingham born Pathologist Arnold RiceRich, the husband of “pianist and composer Helen Jones and the father ofAdrienne and Cynthia Rich, whose scientific work led to the discovery of RichFocus, passed away today.
http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2547.html
1969: SirhanSirhan, the Palestinian terrorist, was convicted of murdering Senator RobertKennedy, the leading nominee for the Democratic nominee for the Presidentialnomination, thus single handedly changing the course of history.
1969(29thof Nisan, 5729): Eighty-four-year-old banker and University of Miami trusteeArthur Arnold Ungar who was a member of the Orange Bowl Committee passed awaytoday.
1970: TheAuditorium Building in Chicago “one of the best-known designs of Dankmar Adler”and his partner “was added to the National Register of Historic Places” today.
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1971(22ndof Nisan, 5731): Eighth Day of Pesach and Shabbat Shel Pesach
1971: SusanBrownmiller organized today’s New York Radical Feminist Conference on Rape
1973(15thof Nisan, 5733): Pesach
1973(15thof Nisan, 5733): Ninety-one-year-old Clara Ferrin-Bloom the native of Tucson,AZ who was a schoolteacher when she married merchant David Bloom with whom shehad three children, one of whom David A. “established the Bloom SouthwestJewish Archives at the University of Arizona passed away today.
1974: “ProfessorDavid Azbel and his family were granted permission to emigrate to Israel”today.
1974: “Thursday’sGame” “a made-for-television comedy written by James Brooks with a cast thatincludes Gene Wilder, Norman Fell and Rob Reiner was released today.
1977: TheBroadway production of “I Love My Wife” with a book and lyrics by MichaelSteward, music by Cy Coleman and directed by Gene Sakes opened today at theEthel Barrymore Theatre.
1978: NBCbroadcast “The Road to Babi Yar” the second part he miniseries “Holocaust.”
1979(20thof Nisan, 5739): Sixth Day of Pesach
1979(20thof Nisan, 5739): Sixty-sixty-year-old Brooklyn born Edward Field, “theManhattan rug designer and manufacturer” and husband of Eleanor Field with whomhe raised one son passed away today.
1979(20thof Nisan, 5739): Terrorists who had crossed the border from Lebanon killed oneIsraeli soldier today and injured six others.
1980:The Presidium of the Brussels World Conference on Soviet Jewry had its finalmeeting today in Paris.
1980:Today the art critic of the Chicago Evening post described Rumanian native EmilArmin, the grandson of a sofer who in 1905 came to the United States where hejoined his brother, enrolled in night art classes after which he became aleading American painter “as perhaps the most finely sensitized artist inChicago…with a soul of a peasant and poet and the mind of a philosopher.”
https://richardnortongallery.com/artists/emil-armin
https://richardnortongallery.com/artists/emil-armin/artworks/7148-humoresque
1983(4th ofIyar, 5743): Yom HaZikaron
1984(15thof Nisan, 5744): Pesach
1986:Authorities foiled an attempted bombing at Heathrow Airport. Israeli airlinesecurity guards at Heathrow Airport in London took a hard look at Anne-MarieMurphy and her luggage as she was about to board an El Al flight for Tel Aviv.Beneath a false bottom in her bag they found 10 pounds of plastic explosiverolled paper-thin -enough, the police said, to destroy the El Al Boeing 747 andits 340 passengers. The police said Miss Murphy told them that the bag, whichhad passed unnoticed through Heathrow security checks, had been handed to herby Nazar Hindawi, a Jordanian who had several passports. The woman's fathersaid Mr. Hindawi had given Miss Murphy, who is pregnant, $300 to buy a weddingdress and promised that they would be married yesterday in Israel. At theairport, according to the police, Mr. Hindawi told his fiancée he had secondthoughts about flying on an Israeli plane and would take a different airline.He hurried off but was arrested later at a London hotel. A sophisticatedmicrochip timer was set to ignite the bomb after a stopover in Munich, thepolice said. It was possible that Miss Murphy, who had been working as a hotelmaid in the London Hilton, intended to disembark at Munich, the police said,but more likely she was an innocent victim of the plot.
1986(8thof Nisan, 5746): Steven M. Tielsch who while in a jail cell in Allegheny Countrywho “bragged that he had killed a Jew, and would often make antisemitic remarksand draw swastikas, a common antisemitic symbol, on himself” murdered NealRosenblum as he walked to the Kollel Bais Yitzchok Torah Institute Study Centerin Squirrel Hill to daven ma’ariv.
1986(8thof Nisan, 5746): Ninety-four-year-old French aircraft builder Marcel Dassaultwho as Marcel Bloch was imprisoned in Buchenwald for his refusal to collaboratewith the Nazis passed and who became a Catholic after the war passed awaytoday.
1987(18thof Nisan, 5747): Fourth Day of Pesach
1987(18th ofNisan, 5747): Comedian Dick Shawn, born Richard Schulefand, died on stage froma heart attack at age 63.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/19/obituaries/no-headline-625287.html
1987: “WildThing,” a murder mystery featuring Maury Chaykin and Shawn Levy was releasedtoday in the United States.
1987: In theUK, premiere of “Prick Up Your Ears” directed by Stephen Frears based on the byJohn Lahr.
1988(30thof Nisan, 5748): Eighty-eight-year-old Russian born American sculptor LouisNevelson passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/nevelson.html
1989(12thof Nisan, 5749): Eighty-year-old Bernard “Ben” Fishman, the son of Abrham andSarah Eckstein Fishman and the husband of Jeanette Felsen Fishman passed awaytoday after which he was buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery at Commerce City, CO.
1990(22ndof Nisan, 5750): Eighth Day of Pesach and Yizkor
1991(3rdof Iyar, 5751): Yom HaZikaron
1991(3rdof Iyar, 5751): Ninety-seven-year-old songwriter Jack Yellen whose most famousditty was FDR’s campaign song, “Happy Days Are Here Again” passed away today.
1997: The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra made its Carnegie Hall debut under thedirection of Jewish conductor Yakov Kreizberg
1992: “Twilight:Los Angeles, 1992,” produced by Benjamin Mordecai opened on Broadway at theCort Theatre.
1997: JoyceShepard of the Citizens Action Committee for Change met with Alan G. Hevesi andMayor Giuliani at City Hall where they promised her that more facilities wouldbe provided for the victims of domestic abuse.
1997(10th ofNisan, 5757): Chaim Herzog passed away. Born in Ireland in 1918, Herzogwas the sonof the distinguished Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog. Herzog movedto Palestine in 1935 and served in the Haganah during the Arab Uprising thatstarted in 1936. During World War II, Herzog served in the British Armywhere he worked with intelligence units liberating concentration camps.During the War for Independence, Herzog was a leader in the fighting at Latrun,part of the heroic campaign to keep the road to Jerusalem open thus ensuringthat the ancient city would be part of modern Israel. Herzog had adistinguished career in the IDF and retired in 1962 with the rank of MajorGeneral. In civilian life he pursued a career in business and the law whilealso serving as a media commentator on military matters. In the middleseventies, he returned to public service as Israel's Ambassador to the U.N. andthen as a Member of the Knesset for the Labor Party. He served two termsas Israel's President (1983-1993). His historical writings include The Arab-Israeli Wars, War of Atonement: The Inside Story ofthe Yom Kippur War, Who Stands Accused? and Israel's Finest Hour.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-04-17/news/9704180154_1_chaim-herzog-tel-aviv-shin-bet
1998(17thof Nisan, 5758): Third day of Pesach
1998(7thof Nisan, 5758): Fifty-six-year-old Linda McCartney the wife of Beatle PaulMcCartney, the granddaughter of Jewish immigrants from Germany and Russiapassed away today.
1998: In“Putting the Inquisition on Trial” published today, Richard Boudreaux reportson newly published records from the Vatican that shed light on the ancientpractices of the church.
http://articles.latimes.com/1998/apr/17/news/mn-40292
1998: Sixmonths after it opened in the U.S., ”Deconstructing Harry” a Woody Allen comedyco-starring Bob Balaban, Richard Benjamin and Billy Crystal was released in theUnited Kingdom today.
1998:Marek Edelman one of the last surviving leaders of the Warsaw GhettoUprising was awarded with Poland's highest decoration, the Order of the WhiteEagle.
1998: U.S.premiere of “The Object Of My Affection” directed by Nicholas Hytner, with ascript by Wendy Wasserstein and co-starring Paul Rudd.
1999: InAustralia, a production of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” closed today at theSydney Theatre Company.
2000: “TheIsraeli police today recommended that Transportation Minister Yitzhak Mordechaibe prosecuted on three counts of sexual assault, dealing a humiliating blow tothe former general, who ran for prime minister last year as the first Sephardiccandidate in Israel's history.”
2001: “Israeliofficials said today that the overnight airstrike in Lebanon, which demolisheda Syrian radar installation and killed three soldiers, was meant as a warningto Syria and not as an invitation to further conflict in the region.”
2002(5th ofIyar, 5762): Yom Ha’atzmaut.
2002: “Shortlyafter calling a game between the Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers on TNT,”Marv Albert was injured in a car crash in which he “sustained faciallacerations, a concussion, and a sprained ankle” leaving him unable to call theopening game of the NBA playoffs.
2003(15thof Nisan, 5763): Pesach
2003: “Tonight,survivors of last year's” Passover attack at the seaside Park Hotel where aPalestinian terrorist murdered 29 people “were invited back, along with otherIsraeli victims of Palestinian violence for another Seder meal that begins theweek of Passover, the most significant holiday on the Jewish calendar
2004: For thefifth time terrorists, in this case Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Bridge, stagedan attack at the Erez Crossing.
2004: An Israeli missilestrike killed Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi. In the words of theAssociated Press, "Rantisiwas Hamas' top leader in Gaza and one ofthe most hard-line members of the militant movement who rejects all compromisewith Israel and calls for the destruction of the Jewish state."
2005: TheNew York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including “The Outlaw Bible of AmericanLiterature” Edited by Alan Kaufman, Neil Ortenberg and Barney Rosset and therecently released paperback edition of “Alexander Hamilton” by Ron Chernow.
2005: AJewish Museum of Belmonte (Museu Judaico de Belmonte) opened today.
2006: Atprecisely 4:00 P.M., President Moshe Katsav calls the 17th Knesset to order inits maiden session with three blows of the gavel
2006(19thof Nisan, 5766): Nine people were killed and at least 40 wounded in a suicidebombing near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv. The blast ripped throughFalafel Rosh Ha'ir, the same restaurant that was hit by an attack on January19. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah’s Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades both claimedresponsibility for the attack. The Hamas led PA government defended the suicidebombing, calling it an act of "self-defense." Hamas officialspokesman Sami Abu Zuhri called the attack "a natural result of thecontinued Israeli crimes against our people".
2006(19th ofNisan, 5766): Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, a leading Jewish scholar and civilrights advocate known for his provocative, often contrarian views, has passedaway at the age of 84. The cause of death was heart complications.Hertzberg was president of the American Jewish Congress from 1972 to 1978, andvice president of the World Jewish Congress from 1975 to 1991. He also wrote adozen of books on Jewish thought and history. Dedicated to the creation ofIsrael, he angered many Jews by also calling for a Palestinian state. An earlyadvocate of civil rights for blacks, Hertzberg was among the prominentparticipants in Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington. Nine yearslater, he headed the first Jewish delegation to meet formally with the Vaticanabout the Roman Catholic Church's silence during the Holocaust. Born insoutheastern Poland, Hertzberg's family emigrated to the U.S. when he was five.He studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and met his wifewhile serving as an air force chaplain in Britain. After returning to the U.S.,he became a congregational rabbi at the conservative Temple Emanu-el in NewJersey, where he served until 1985.
2006: Today “tomark the centennial of the birth of the playwright Clifford Odets, LincolnCenter Theatre is scheduled to open a new production of “Awake and Sing!,”Odets’s first full-length play and the one that made him a literary superstarin 1935, at the age of twenty-eight.”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/04/17/stage-left
2006: Intoday’s issue of The New Yorker Seymour “Seymour Hersh reported on theBush administration's purported plans for an air strike on Iran” that wouldinclude “the possible use of B61-11 bunker-buster nuclear weapon to eliminateunderground Iranian uranium enrichment facilities.”
2007: TheIsrael Project and The Hebrew University's Truman Institute sponsored a one-dayconference entitled “IRAN, HIZBALLAH and HAMAS: Money, Martyrdom and theMahdi.”
2007: TheNew York Times reviewed Shimon Peres: The Biography by MichaelBar-Zohar.
2008: Famedauthor Cynthia Ozick celebrates her 80th birthday. "Ozick isthe most high-browed of all the Jewish-American writers, completely lackingwell-read Saul Bellow's interest in the demimonde and the low-life. And yet herprose is always alive and crackling, flashy and sensuous, and as distinctive asthe markings on a hoopoe." - Clive Sinclair, Times Literary Supplement(3/11/2006) http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Ozick.html
2008: In CedarRapids, Hedy Epstein, whose parents died in concentration camps during theHolocaust speaks at Coe College and at Kennedy High School.
2008: In IowaCity, Iowa. Agudas Achim and Hillel hold a siyyum for the Fast of theFirstborn. For the siyyum, Professor Steven Green leads a presentation on theTalmudic section called “Yadyim,” which discusses the laws of Leviticalcleanliness or un-cleanliness of the hands.
2008:UNITE HERE, a union of textile workers and hospitality workers, organized arally outside the offices of Goldman Sachs in downtown Manhattan to advocatehigher wages for the company’s cafeteria workers. Though few of the cafeteriaworkers are Jewish, the rally will feature a mock Seder along with Passoversongs.
2008: “ACatered Affair” starring Harvey Fierstein who also wrote the book for themusical opened on Broadway today.
2009: A.B.Yehoshua, the award-winning Israeli writer, presents a lecture, "FromMythology to History," as well as discusses his latest novel, “FriendlyFire.” This event is part of the University of Maryland’s (CollegePark),"George Wasserman Family Israeli Cultural Event" series.
2009: In CedarRapids, Temple Judah hosts the final Musical Shabbat in this the second seasonof this popular celebration of the start of the “Day of Rest.”
2010: TheWestchester Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to show “Rafting to Bombay,” adocumentary about three generations of a family whor*collect their history among the European Jews who found safe haven in Bombayafter fleeing the Nazis and “Forgotten Transports: To Estonia,” thethird in Lukas Pribyl’s seminal series of documentaries on Czech Jews in WWIIwhich in this case, chronicles girls who were transported together through theNazi archipelago of camps in Estonia.
2010: JonathanBiss, American-Jewish pianist is schedule to perform at the Kaufman ConcertHall in New York City.
2010: As partof its pre-festival screening The Northern Virginia 10thInternational Jewish Film Festival showed of "No. 4 Street of OurLady" a film tells the story of a Polish-Catholic woman who rescues 16 ofher Jewish neighbors during the war.
2011: TheJewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor aworkshop entitled Women’s World War II Resistance at Beth El HebrewCongregation is Alexandria, VA.
2011: TheNew York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including “Sempre Susan: A Memoir of SusanSontag” by Sigrid Nunez.
2011: TheLos Angeles Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including “Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How theAncient City Ignited Our Modern World” by James Carroll.
2011(13thof Nisan. 5771): “The teenager who was critically wounded after Gaza militantslaunched an anti-aircraft missile at a school bus in southern Israel earlierthis month succumbed to his wounds today. 16-year-old Daniel Viflic died in theSoroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva after his condition seriously deterioratedlast week. The missile hit the bus traveling near Kibbutz Sa'ad just momentsafter it had dropped off the rest of the school children, wounding Viflic andthe bus driver, who was moderately wounded by shrapnel wounds in his leg."Sadly, Daniel passed away this afternoon," said Professor ShaulSofer, the director of the intensive care unit at the Soroka Medical Center."It wasn't a surprise for us. He arrived in critical condition and shortlyafterward his brain stopped functioning. Due to the sensitive nature of theevent, we continued treatments despite knowing that he had no chance ofrecovery." Yitzhak Viflic, Daniel's father, thanked the doctors and thesupporters of his family. "Daniel fought but passed away calmly. I ampositive he is in a good place now." Viflic was a resident of Beit Shemeshand studied in a yeshiva there. When he was wounded, he was on his way to thewestern Negev to visit his grandmother. Following the bus attack, cross-borderfire between Gaza and Israel seriously escalated. Palestinian militants fireddozens of rockets into southern Israel and IDF forces launched numerous attackson targets in the Gaza Strip.”
2011 Israelisecurity forces have arrested two teenage residents of the West Bank Arabvillage of Awarta for allegedly carrying out last month's murder of five familymembers in the settlement of Itamar, the lifting of a gag order revealed today.
2011(13thof Nisan. 5771): Ninety-four-year-old Dr. Alfred M. Freedman, a psychiatristand social reformer who led the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 when,overturning a century-old policy, it declared that hom*osexuality was not amental illness” passed away today.
2012: Dr. NeilGillman is scheduled to begin teaching “The Prophets: An Anthology” at theSkirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning.
2012: “On therun from the Nazis. A Boynton man remembers” published today.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/on-the-run-from-the-nazis-a-boynton-man-remembers/nN3DP/
2012: “PaulGoodman Changed My Life is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish FilmFestival followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Jonathan Lee.
2013: Dr.Diane M. Sharon is scheduled to begin teaching “Reading the Hebrew Bible in OneYear’ at the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning.
2013: TheCenter for Jewish History, Leo Baeck Institute and Taschen Books are scheduledto present “The Hanover Esther Scroll, 1746 – a Masterpiece of Jewish ScribalArt Rediscovered.
2013: “Let MyPeople Go and “Simon and the Oaks” are scheduled to be shown at the WestchesterJewish Film Festival.
2013: ReneeFirestone, the native of Hungary who survived Auschwitz is scheduled to addressstudents at Washington High School, Xavier High School and Coe College.Mrs. Firestone’s “is sponsored by the Joan and David Thaler Holocaust MemorialFoundation. Dr. David Thaler was a native of Lvov who graduated from theMedical School at the University of Paris and came to the United States beforeWW II. He served in the United States Army where, ironically, he treated GermanPOWs. He settled in Cedar Rapids in 1946 where he practiced until hepassed away. Dr. Thaler’s father and sister perished in the Lvov Ghetto. Dr.Thaler established the foundation as an educational tool that brings Holocaustsurvivors and their children to Cedar Rapids each year to provide a human faceto what for some is an imaginable event. Joan Thaler has graciouslycarried on the work started by her late husband to ensure that this vitaleffort continues.
2013: TheHelly Nahmad Gallery remained closed today following the arrest of HillelNahmad for his alleged role in an international money laundering and gamblingconspiracy. Nahmad is the scion of a prominent family that traces its roots tothe famous Jewish community of Aleppo where it was led by the patriarch who wasalso named Hillel Nahmad
2013: Two Gradrockets were fired on the southern city of Eilat this morning. One landed in aresidential neighborhood and the other in an open area in the outskirts of thecity
2014:Alexander Fiterstein, Ian David Rosenbaum and Arnaud Sussman are scheduled toperform at the Kaplan Penthouse.
2014: “TheJewish Cardinal” is scheduled to be shown at the JCC Rockland InternationalJewish Film Festival.
2014:"Zero Motivation” a zany, dark comedic portrait of everyday life for aunit of young female Israeli soldiers is scheduled to be shown at the TribecaFilm Festival.
2015(28thof Nisan, 5775): Ninety-one-year-old real estate tycoon A. Alfred Taubmanpassed away today.
2015: “PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett todayand later with Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman as well, as an initialdeadline for the formation of a new governing coalition approached with nodeals yet made.”
2015: It wasreported today that “over 90 people had attended a Yom HaShoah Commemoration atthe Dublin Hebrew Congregation sponsored by the Jewish Representative Council.
2015: “Womanin Gold” is scheduled to open in Israeli theatres today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/as-woman-in-gold-premieres-meet-the-man-who-battled-for-the-klimt/
2015: “RueMandar” and “The Art Dealer” are scheduled to be shown at the WestchesterJewish Film Festival.
2015: “Lost Stories, Found Images: Portraits of Jews in Wartime Amsterdam” whichhas been on display at the Goethe Institute in San Francisco is scheduled tocome to an end today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/wartime-mystery-on-display-with-new-portrait-trove-of-dutch-jews/
http://www.jewishfed.org/news/events/lost-stories-found-images-portraits-jews-wartime-amsterdam
2016(9thof Nisan, 5776): Eight-four-year-old broadcaster Elton Spitzer, the drivingforce behind WLIR, passed away today.
2016:Under the leadership of Dr. Brian Horowitz, the chair of the Jewish StudiesDepartment, Tulane University is scheduled to host “Kol Minei Dvarim: All Different Things” - The Inaugural JewishStudies Colloquium
2016:In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, The Thaler Holocaust Memorial Fund under the leadershipof Dr. Robert Silber and the Inter-Religious Council of Linn County arescheduled to host the annual Yom HaShoah Service where “the speaker will be MagdaBrown, who was 17 years old in 1944 when she and her family were deported onone of the final transports to Auschwitz-Birkenau. In March 1945, Ms. Brown wassent on a 3-day death march from Birkenau Concentration Camp. Magda and severalother prisoners in her group escaped and hid in a barn. A few days later theywere discovered and liberated by two American Armed Forces. Only Magda and herbrother survived from her immediate family and only six cousins survived fromher extended family of 70.
2016:In Northern Virginia, the Olam Tikvah Men’s Club is scheduled to host itsSurvivors Tribute Brunch where Irene Fogel Weiss, “a survivor of Auschwitz who hasmade many presentations of her story and testified recently at the trial of aNazi Auschwitz official in Germany” will be honored.
2016:“Raise the Roof” is among the pictures to be shown on the final day of theNorthern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.
2016:In Atlanta, GA, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host Hershel Greenblat whospent the first two years of life hiding with other Jews in a dark cave inUkraine and the next five years in a DP camp before coming to the United Statesin 1950.
2016:“Rock in the Red Zone” is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish FilmFestival.
2016:The New York Times features reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding America’sWar for the Greater Middle East by Andrew J. Bacevich and the recentlyreleased paperback editions of Michelle Obama: A Life by Peter Slevin,Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women bySarah Helm, Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Securityby Sarah Chayes and Publishing: A Writer’s Memoir by Gail Goodwin
2017(21st of Nisan, 5777): Seventh Day of Pesach
2017(21st of Nisan, 5777): Eighty-one-year-oldforensic psychiatrist Dr. Robert L. Sadoff passed away today. (As reported bySam Roberts)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/us/robert-sadoff-dead-forensic-psychiatrist.html
http://jaapl.org/content/jaapl/36/3/286.full.pdf
2017: In Jerusalem, the Hebrew Music Museum is scheduledto host several “interactive exhibits and activities” as part of their Passoverprogram to acquaint visitors with “the rich traditions of Jewish and Israelimusic.”
2017: While hundreds of Palestinian prisoners began ahunger strike, Israelis used “life fire” to control the mobs who joined insupporting the prisoners, many of whom were convicted terrorists.
2018: The Jewish Federation of Cleveland Yom Hazikaronceremony is scheduled to take place today at the Mandel JCC StonehillAuditorium in Beachwood.
2018: Today, “the state attorney general plunged”Missouri Governor Eric Greitens, the Jewish Republican who had already“admitted to an extramarital affair with his former hairdresser” “even moredeeply into political and legal jeopardy saying the governor may committed afelony in using a charity’s donor list for political funding raising.”
2018: Today, four days after he had passed away funeralservices were scheduled to be held at Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor,Michigan for award winning chemist Charles Gelman, the New York born son of Fayand Rita Gelman and husband of Rita Gelman who was the holderof a BS from Syracuse and MS from the University of Michigan and who afterserving in the United States Army founded Gelman Instrument Company led to himbeing a “recipient of the Michigan Science and Technology Trailblazer Award.”
2018: The Leo Baeck Institute is scheduled to host a talkby Rudolf Klein a professor of modern architectural history at Szent IstvánUniversity” “on his new book, Synagogues in Hungary,1867–1918 “which “is the first comprehensive study that systematicallycovers all synagogues in Hungary from the Edict of Tolerance by Joseph II tothe end of World War I.”
2018:Holocaust survivor Michael Bornstein who was only four years old when liberatedand his daughter Debbie Bornstein Holinstat are scheduled to speak at KirkwoodCommunity College in Cedar Rapids and at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon as partof the Yom HoShoah memorial which is being sponsored by The Thaler HolocaustEducation Programming Committee chaired Dr. Robert Silber.
2018:Today in Jerusalem, Beit Avi Chais is scheduled to host a Yom HaZikaron eventthat will include “animated films from the Panim project” as well as music andpersonal stories.
2019:At the University of Pennsylvania, the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studiesis scheduled to host Dr. Keren Dotan as she shares her research on “HebrewProse by Late-Ottoman Rabbis from Eretz Israel.”
2019:The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a presentationby Holocaust survivor Steven Fenves as part of First Person Conversationseries.
2019:The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a screening of “FromSwastika to Jim Crow” the documentary “based on the book by Gabrielle SimonEdgecomb.
2020:The day after Pesach ended, the Lido Kosher Deli and Ben’s Kosher Delicatessenare among the kosher eateries scheduled to open today.
2020(23rdof Nisan, 5780): Yahrzeits Rabbis Moses Tani of Safed and David Deutsch ofBudapest.
2020:The Israeli American Council in Boston is scheduled to present on-line “Flow NoFear: How to Stay Calm and Grounded During Challenging Times.”
2020:The ban on Muslim at the Temple Mount which has the approval of the Waqf whichmeans no Friday Prayers today, is now scheduled to continue through the end ofRamadan.
2020:As Israelis prepared for Shabbat, they can contemplate the impact ofyesterday’s decision to “slowly start re-opening businesses on April 19.
2021:After two successive nights of rocket attacks from Gaza, Israelis prepare for apossible third such attack as Shabbat ends this evening.
2021:This afternoon, the JCC Contra Costa is scheduled to present an in-person,Israel-themed scavenger hunt for Israel Independence Day.
2021:Jazz singer Noa Levy is scheduled to present Jewish contributions to Broadwaymusicals in her one-woman show that includes the 2019 documentary “On Broadway.
2021:The JCC of Greater Boston is scheduled to present the “PJ Library Woodland ArtHike.”
2021(5thof Iyar, 5781): Parashat Tazria-Metzora;
2021:Scott Rudin, a powerful Broadway producer facing renewed accusations ofbullying, apologized today for “troubling interactions with colleagues” andsaid he would step aside from “active participation” in his current shows. (Asreported by Michael Paulson)
2022(16thof Nisan, 5782): Second Day of Pesach
2022:Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County is scheduled to be closed today inobservance of Pesach.
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2022:For the first time UK Jewish Film is scheduled host an online screening of “TheDinner.”
2022:The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including Flight and Metamorphosis: Poemsby Nelly Sachs, “best known as a Holocaust poet.”
2023:The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host a lecture byProfessor Maiken Umbach on “Photographing Departures and Arrivals: Picturingglobal Jewish migrations in the era of the Holocaust.”
2023:Based on previously published reports the Labour party is scheduled to withdrawfrom talks sponsored by President Herzog “aimed at reaching a broad agreementover the government’s controversial judicial overhaul legislation, because itclaims that backroom deals were being cut without its involvement” at the sametime that the Netanyahu government is moving to pass legislation that wouldlower the age for Hardei exemption from serving in the IDF and otherlegislation that would “severely limited the power of ministry legal advisers.”
2023:The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to host its YomHaShoah observance this evening at Caspe Terrace.
2023:Through the generous support of the Stanley-UI Foundation Support Organization,the Provost’s Global Forum is scheduled to host the “Festival of CotemporaryMusic from Israel” which begins tonight.
2023:Feast Day of Pope Evaristus, who was “born in Greece of a Jewish father namedJuda, originally from the city of Bethlehem, reigned for thirteen years, sixmonths and two days, under the reigns of Domitian, Nerva and Trajan, from theConsulate of Valens and Veter (96) until that of Gallus and Bradua.”
2023:In the evening, beginning of the observance of Yom HaShoah (HolocaustRemembrance Day)
2024:The Elie Wiesel Foundation, chaired by the writer’s son Elisha, has joined theUyghur Human Rights Project and the World Uyghur Congress is scheduled to holda two-day New York conference starting today entitled “Disrupting Uyghur Genocide.”
2024:The Jewish Federation is scheduled to host it’s phonathon fund raiser“Wonderful Wednesday.”
2024:The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host an evening with RandolphChurchill and Allen Packwood as they discuss “Churchill, the Jews and Israel:Romantic Saviour or Political Pragmatist.”
2014:Town Hall in New York is scheduled to host a performance of “Address Unknown,”which is “based on the bestselling novel, which was written as an anti-fascistwarning and banned in 1930s Germany for dramatically exposing the threat ofNazism, Address Unknown tells the story of one friendship, one love, and onebetrayal.”
2024:Beit Agnon is scheduled to host a lecture by Rabbi Daniel Epstein on “What CanSocrates Teach Us These Days?”
2024:As April 17th begins in Israel, the Hamas heldhostages begin day 194 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.)
