OCTOBER 5
610: Phocas, theByzantine Emperor during whose reign the Jews of Antioch revolted was murderedby his successor Heraclitus.
610: Byzantine Emperor Heraclius, an ArmenianChristian” during whose nine-year rule over Jerusalem “carried out a campaignof vengeance against the Jews,” “decreed the forcible conversion of Jews toChristianity in all the European and Asian territories of the Byzantine Empireand in 632 extended the conversion decree to North Africa” began his reigntoday.
816: Second coronation ofLouis the Pious who was faithful to the principles of his father Charlemagne,granted strict protection to Jews, whom he respected as merchants. Like hisfather, Louis believed that 'the Jewish question' could be solved with thegradual conversion of Jews; according to medievalist scholar J. M.Wallace-Hadrill, some people believed this tolerance threatened the Christianunity of the Empire, which led to the strengthening of the Bishops at theexpense of the Emperor.
871: A scribe stoppedwriting a ketubah that he had dated the 16thday of Tishreibecause he had made a mistake on the date.[This ketubah would turnout to be the oldest dated document found when the Genizah of Cairo was openedin the 19thcentury]
1143: The kingAlfonsoVIIof Leon recognizes Portugal as a Kingdom. When Alfonsocame to the throne he sought to curtail the rights granted them by his father,but he saw “the error of his ways” and moved to restore these rights in attemptto gain the benefits of having loyal Jewish subjects on hisside.“In the beginning of his reign, AlfonsoVII(1111)curtailed the rights and liberties that his father granted the Jews. He orderedthat neither a Jew nor a convert may exercise legal authority over Christians,and he held the Jews responsible for the collection of the royal taxes. Soon,however, he became friendlier, confirming the Jews in all their former privilegesand even granting them additional ones, by which they were placed in paritywith Christians. Judah ben Joseph ibn Ezra had considerable influence with theking, and after the conquest of Calatrava (1147) the king placed Judah incommand of one of his fortresses, later making him his court chamberlain.”
1167: Raymond Trencaval,a French viscount who was looked upon favorably by the Jews of Beziers (France)was murdered. His son, Roger raised troops to punish those responsiblefor the murder. He spared the Jews because they had been faithful to hisfather. This all had more to do with what became known as the AlbigensianHeresy than it did with the Jews. In fact, Roger employed Jews asSheriffs one of whom was Moses de Cavarite.
1214: King Alfonso VIIIof Castile passed away. Alfonso enjoyed the company and pleasure of Jewishparamour, Rahel la Fermose (Rachel the Beautiful).She reportedlyused her position to gain the appointment of her co-religionists to position ofpower.This made her numerous enemies among the Christian nobles andclergy who plotted the murder of Rachel and several of her Jewishcompatriots.According to some, Alfonso was present at the time ofher murder. This tale of monarchal love and betrayal has provided the theme forseveral literary works including “Die Jüdin von Toledo” a novel by LionFeuchtwanger
1285: King Philip III ofFrance passed away.During his reign, the Inquisition, which hadbeen instituted in order to suppress the heresy of the Albigensians, finallyoccupied itself with the Jews of southern France who converted to Christianity.The popes complained that not only were baptized Jews returning to their formerfaith, but that Christians also were being converted to Judaism. In March 1273,Gregory X formulated the following rules: relapsed Jews, as well as Christianswho abjured their faith in favor of "the Jewish superstition", wereto be treated by the Inquisitors as heretics. The instigators of suchapostasies, as those who received or defended the guilty ones, were to bepunished in the same way as the delinquents.”In an era whenmonarchs were dueling with the Church over who had the ultimate power, KingPhilip did nothing to resist the papal pronouncements.
1450: LudwigIXexpelled the Jews from Lower Bavaria.
1533(16thofTishrei, 5249): Second Day of Sukkoth observed for the last time during thereign of Vasili III Ivanovich, the father of Ivan IV or as he is better known“Ivan, the Terrible.”
1600: Birthdate ofThomas Goodwin the English Puritan theologian and preacher the author ofMosesand Aaron: Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, Used by the Ancient Hebrews
1682(3rdofTishrei, 5443): Abraham Abele Gombiner the Polish rabbi born in 1635 known asthe Magen Avraham passed away today.
1737:António Joséda a Brazilian dramatist, known as "the Jew" (O Judeu) and hiswifeD.Leonor Maria de Carvalho, whose parents had been burnt by the Inquisition wereimprisoned by the Inquisitionon charges of “judaizing” based on a slave’sdenunciation of the two made to “the Holy Office.”
1762(18thof Tishrei, 5523): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1765(20thof Tishrei, 5526): Shabbat shel Sukkoth
1769:Uriah Hendricks, the son of Aaron Hendricks and his first wife Eva EstherHendricks gave birth to Mordecai Gomez Hendricks.
1770(16thof Tishrei, 5531): Second Day of Sukkoth
1776(22ndof Tishrei, 5537): Shmini Atzeret and Shabbat
1778(14thofTishrei, 5539): Erev Sukkoth observed on the same day that the British fleetwas kept from getting into the harbor at Little Egg, NJ where it was supposedto land forces to thwart the advance of Americans under Count Pulaski.
1781:Birth of Baltimore native, Samuel Lyons, the son of Eleazar Lyons who marriedSarah Marks after he was first married to Dinah Levy.
1784(20thofTishrei, 5545): Sixth Day of Sukkoth as the United States seeks to sign acommercial treaty with Sweden.
1785(1stof Tishrei, 5546): Rosh Hashana
1787(23rdofTishrei, 5548): Simchat Torah
1788(4thof Tishrei, 5549): Richa Levy, the unmarried daughter of Hayman Levy and SloeLevy and the sister of Rachel, Haya, Zipporah, Miriam and Abraham Levy passed away today afterwhich she was buried in the First Cemetery of Congregation Shearith Israel inNew York City.
1789(15thofTishrei, 5550): First Day of Sukkoth observed during the Presidency of GeorgeWashington.
1792(19thofTishrei, 5553): Fifth Day of Sukkoth observed for the first time in theRepublic of Rauracia, the name the French gave to newly liberated Swiss city ofBasel
1795(22ndofTishrei, 5556): Shmini Atzeret
1795: In New York City,Leah Nathan and Jacob Naphtali Hart who were married in 1778 gave birth toRachel Hart the husband of Angels Jacobs whom she married in 1822.
1796: In Pohrebyshche.Sholom Shachne, Rebbe of Prohobisht, the son of Rabbi Avrohom HaMalach and thegrandson of the Maggid of Mezritch and his wife gave birth to Chasidic rebbeIsrael Ruzhin, known as “The holy one from Ruzhyn.”
1799(6thofTishrei, 5560): Last Shabbat Shuva of the 18thcentury.
1800(16thofTishrei, 5561): Second Day of Sukkoth observed for the last time during thePresidency of John Adams.
1802(9th ofTishrei, 5563): Kol Nidre
1803(19th ofTishrei, 5564): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1806(23rdofTishrei, 5567): Simchat Torah
1806: In Warrenton,N.C., Rebecca and Jacob Mordecai gave birth to Augustus Mordecai.
1808(14thofTishrei, 5669): Erev Sukkoth
1808: In Charleston, SC,Rabbi Jacob Suares officiated at the wedding of Israel Solomons to EstherOttolengui.
1809: Isaac Seligmarried Rachel Raphael today at the Western Synagogue.
1811(17thofTishrei, 5572): Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
1812: In Charleston, SC,Alice Abrahams, the daughter of Emanuel and Judith Abrahams and her husbandSolomon Solomons gave birth to Caroline Solomons.
1818: Lew Way, “anEnglish clergyman” “the real founder of the reorganized London society forPromoting Christianity Among the Jews delivered a petition to Emperor AlexanderI of Russia and the allied rulers” with which he sought “to advance theemancipation of the Jews of Europe.”
1809(25thofTishrei, 5570): Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev, “also known as the Berdichever” adisciple of the Maggid of Mezritch passed away today after his son Israel“succeeded him as leader in the Chasidic Movement.
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1007604/jewish/A-Brief-Biography.htm
http://www.berdichev.org/rabbi_levi_yitzhak.html
http://www.hasidicstories.com/Stories/Levi_Yitzchak_of_Berdichev/generals.html
1812(29th ofTishrei, 5573): In Charleston, Solomon Solomons, the Amsterdam born “son ofJoseph Solomons and Judith (Juddy) Solomons and his wife Alice Abrahams” gavebirth to Caroline Solomons
1814(21st ofTishrei, 5575): Hoshana Rabba
1818: Lew Way, “anEnglish clergyman” “the real founder of the reorganized London society forPromoting Christianity Among the Jews delivered a petition to Emperor AlexanderI of Russia and the allied rulers” with which he sought “to advance theemancipation of the Jews of Europe.”
1820: In Arhus Denmark,Thamar (Terese) Rée and Hartvig Philip Rée gave birth to Anton Hartvig Rée
1821(9thofTishrei, 5582): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1822(20th ofTishrei, 5583): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1822: In Liverpool,Miriam Aaron and Abraham Franklin gave birth to Ellis A. Franklin, “theVice-President of the Anglo-Jewish Association, Life Member of the Council ofUnited Synagogue” and a “Member of the Board of Deputies” who was the husbandof Adelaide Samuel with whom he had seven children.
1823: Twenty-year-oldGerman-born composer Julius Benedict was introduced to Beethoven today inVienna following which “he was appointed Kapellmeister of the Kärnthnerthortheatre at Vienna.”
1823: Lawrence Phillipsmarried Zipporah Rees today at the Western Synagogue.
1825(23rd of Tishrei,5586): Simchat Torah observed for the first time during the Presidency of JohnQ. Adams.
1827(14thofTishrei, 5588): Erev Sukkoth
1827: Birthdate of Wilnanative Moses Ha-Kohen Reicherson the grammarian and Hebrew teach who came toNew York in 1890 where he continued teaching and writing until his death in1903.
1829: Birthdate ofGerman painter Ludwig Knaus whose works include “The Ghetto.”
1838(16thofTishrei, 5599): Second Day of Sukkoth
1840: In Cleveland, OH,Bavarian born Moses Alsbacher and his wife Jetta gave birth to their secondchild and first son, Isaac Alsbacher, the husband of Rebecca Klien.
1841(20th ofTishrei, 5602): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1842: In London,“solicitor Joshua Alexander and his wife Jemima, the daughter of Sara deAbraham Mocatta and David Abarbanel Lindo” gave birth to David Lindo Alexanderthe English barrister and Jewish community leader who joined with ClaudeMontefiore in opposing the Balfour Declaration and the Zionist movement and whowas the husband of Hester Joseph, the daughter of stockbroker Simeon Joseph.
1842(1st ofCheshvan, 5603): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1842(1st ofCheshvan, 5603): Bendix Rosenwald, the Prussian born son of Jacob and Mariannedaughter of Marcus and husband of Vogel Rosenwald passed away today inLubbecke, Germany.
1845(4th ofTishrei, 5506): Tzom Gedaliah
1846(15thofTishrei, 5607): Sukkoth
1848:Isaac NoahMannheimer, a Jewish scholar, who had been returned by Brody to the AustrianReichstag, delivered a “memorable” speech on the subject of the Jewishtax.Mannheimer was held in such high regard that “On his seventiethbirthday the city of Vienna conferred honorary citizenship upon him.”
1848: Birthdate ofAlexander Kisch, the native of Prague who tutored the family of Baron Horace deGunzburg before starting his rabbinic career which took him to Bohemia, Zurichand finally back to Prague.
1848: In London, SaraLevi, an Italian from Pesaro, and Mayer Moses Nathan, a naturalized Briton ofGerman origin gave birth to Ernesto Nathan who served as Mayor of Rome fromNovember 1907 to December 1913.
1849: In Wien, “Mose andRegina Finzi” gave birth to Alfred Abraham Frinzi, the “husband of RacheleFinzi” with whom he had five children.
1851(9th of Tishrei,5612): Erev Yom Kippur
1852(22ndofTishrei, 5613): Shmini Atzeret
1853(3rdofTishrei, 5614): Tzom Gedaliah observed for the first time during the Presidencyof Franklin Pierce.
1853: Birthdate ofZanesville, OH native and Amherst graduate Rudolph Kauffman, the newspaperpublisher and trustee of the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington, DC.
1854:Hermann MayerSalomon Goldschmidt discovered a new asteroid, 32 Pomona.
1854: Birthdate of SouthCarolinian Louis Seigman Ehrich the husband of Cornelia Sampson Ehrich and thefather of William Seigman Ehrich who is buried in the Beth Elohim Cemetery inGeorgetown, SC.
1855(23rdofTishrei, 5616): Simchat Torah
1855: Herman Tzvi Blauand Herman Tzvi Blau gave birth to Hungary resident Moses Blau.
1855: In Amsterdam,Rebecca Mozes Gans, the daughter of Moses Jacob Pereira Mendoza and Sara JosuaPereira Mendoza and husband of JacobGans gave birth Elsje Gans.
1856: Reverend CharlesHarris, "a Christian Jew" is scheduled to preach today at the firstMethodist-Episcopal Church in NYC. Apparently the Jews for Jesus typemovements are lot older than we think.
1857(17th ofTishrei, 5618): Third Day of Sukkoth
1857: The City ofAnaheim, CA was founded. According to recent figures2.11% in Anaheim (zip92804), CA are Jewish. Scott Schoeneweis may be Anaheim’s most famous Jew. Theson of a Jewish mother, he was only southpaw in the Anaheim Angels' bullpen forthe 2002 World Series, Scott helped his team win the first championship infranchise history.
1857: Birthdate ofJulius Plotke the German lawyer and communal leader who was “a trustee of theJewish Colonization Association, of the Alliance Israélite Universal and of theAid Society of German Jews.”
1862:The NewYorkTimes takes advantage of a letter that it has received from aJewish writer asking why he cannot receive an exemption from military serviceon religious grounds since he cannot pork, the food provided by the Army toreview the entire matter of the diet being served to the soldiers serving inthe Union Army.
We have before us aletter from a Hebrew correspondent, who adverting to the exemption frommilitary duty of Quakers, Shakers, and such religious orders as deem itincompatible with their religion to fight, asks the pertinent question:"Why should I not be exempted because of my religious abhorrence to thearmy ration? Must I be forced to partake of a flesh that is forbidden by mylaw, and of which a large portion of my allotted food is composed?" We canhardly take up the query and answer it as especially adapted to the Hebrew,although we believe there are many patriotic men of the persuasion marching onwith the Union army, but as a proposition applying at large, the pork questionis worthy of consideration. We hold it as a fact, not patent, that the smallestitem connected with the physical well-being of the army, assumes an importanceat this moment as great as that which affects its moral. Good food is as much anecessity of war as good powder and should be equally well tested and chosen.We candidly believe that our ill-arranged army ration is doing as much todestroy our men as the bullets of the enemy. Pork! pork! perpetually pork' andbeef, perpetually beef! It does not require medical authority to know thatthere is an instinctive craving in every organism for a variety of food; and nomatter how excellent any one article may be, too frequent use only inspiresdisgust and loathing, and consequently a failure to nourish. A ration composedwholly of cereals and animal food, is ill adapted for health in Winter, but inSummer is simply a slow poison. If, as is now the case, a large portion ofthose meats are salted, the evil is heightened, and the system works to thepromotion of bilious and scorbutic diseases. For the ill feeding of oursoldiers in the field there is no excuse whatever. Nothing is gained on thescore of economy, for the soldier that is ill-fed, whether it be by shortnessof provender, by badness of quality or by sameness and ignorance of dietary, isa burden upon the State, and unable to encounter the mental or physicalresponsibilities of his position. A battle upon a well-satisfied stomach ishalf won. There is no reason that a positive schedule for the soldiers' foodshould be laid down-and-strictly adhered to through every exigency and everyseason. The whole country teems with an abundance of food that would formadmirable substitutes for the perpetual pork and beans, an abundance that wouldnow in on our ill-fed armies if the signal be but given and the market thrownopen for competition. There is a vast glut of Fall vegetables and fruits;enough wasted in some small districts to put new life and health into a hundredthousand men. There is no reason why these necessities should not be forwardedfrom the localities of the formation of regiments, and the people called on tocontribute each his mile. They have responded grandly to the call for luxuriesfor the sick and wounded, is there any less reason that they should respond tothe wants of those that are in health when the object is to retain that healthwhich is to make the soldier effective on the battle-field? Again, the armyration gives no spices or strong aromatic substance, while every physicianknows that health cannot be kept without them, especially in a hot climate.Pepper, onions, thyme, sage, garlic, parsley, ginger, cloves, and cinnamon areas absolute as bread, and must find their way wherever alcohol is debarred.These are suggestions for every domestic circle having one of its members inthe camp. In these days of easy transportation there will be no difficulty ineach and every family sending forward that which will add to the comfort andhealth of the soldier. Whatever tends to alter the diet and make a change fromthe daily routine, will be as much an era as Delmonico's to the dinnerless, ora hotel feed to a Pike's Peak digger.
1863(22ndofTishrei, 5624): Shmini Atzeret
1863: Birthdate ofBerlin native and Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt who founded the GermanArchaeological Institute at Cairo 1907 which he served as director for 19years.
1864: Birthdate ofArthur Zimmerman, German Foreign Secretary who authored the Zimmerman Telegramwhich helped to push the United States into World War I on the side of theAllies which led to the Allied Victory, which led, eventually, to the creationof the State of Israel.
1865(15th of Tishrei,5626) First day of Sukkot
1865(15th ofTishrei, 5626): Michael Hart Cardoza, the Easton, PA born son of Sarah andIsaac Nunez Cardozo, “the husband of Ellen Cardozo and father of Isaac NunezCardozo, III; Sarah Hart Cardozo; Abraham Hart Cardozo; Albert Jacob Cardozo;Adeline Rachel Cardozo; Lavinia Abigail Cardozo and Augustus David Cardozo”passed away today in New York,
1865: The New York Timesreported that THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES. -- The Jewish "Feast ofTabernacles" commenced at sunset last evening and will continue for sevendays. It is an occasion of great joy. Boughs are suspended in the synagoguesand private houses, to signify that the children of Israel are dwellng inbooths. The observance commenced on the return of the Jews from the Babylonishcaptivity; and the book of Nehemiah expressly declares that "since thedays of Joshua, the son of Nun, had not the children of Israel done so."The first and eighth day being the Sabbath, on the occasion of a "solemnassembly," the residue of the time is devoted to mirth and hilarity
1865: Birthdate of SarahCatherine Elias, the wife of Ezekiel Ezra Isaac Elias, both of whom died inChina and the mother of Reuben Ezekiel Ezra Elias.
1866: Pauline andLeopold Cohen gave birth to Jacob H. Cohen, the mayor of Seneca, Kansas.
1867(6thofTishrei, 5628): Shabbat Shuvah
1867(6thofTishrei, 5628): Sixty-six-year-old French financier and political leaderAchille Fould, the son of Beer Leon Fould passed away today at Tabres.
1870: At today’s meetingof the Central Temperance Union, Reverend G. W. Samson attempted to harmonizethe group’s opposition to alcohol with the frequent to wine in the Bible. In aspeech entitled “Hebrew Wines and Bible” he “argued that the wine of theBible…was pure unfermented juice of the grape.” [This would come as shock toeverybody from the sons of Aaron to Samson, etc.]
1873: In Alsace, France,Jacob Weill and his wife gave birth to Albert Weill who died in Hong Kong andwho was the husband of Rosie Weill.
1876(17thofTishrei, 5637): Third Day of Sukkoth
1876: Aron YakovDubiansk and Chaya Mina Dubiansk gave birth to Harry Hessel Dubinsky, thehusband of Rose Paglin Dubinksy and the father of Anne Dubinsky Wexler andMaxell Henry Dubin, the long-time associate rabbi at the Wilshire BoulevardTemple in Los Angeles.
1877: Birthdate of BelleMoskowitz who served as a political advisor to Al Smith when he ransuccessfully ran for governor of New York and unsuccessfully ran for Presidentin 1928.
1878(8thofTishrei, 5639): Shabbat Shuva
1878(8thofTishrei, 5639): Seventy-eight-year-old Maria Michael (Miriam bat Mordecai)passed away today in the United Kingdom.
1878: Birthdate ofEsther Raphiel who would be buried in the Jewish Cemetery at Natchitoches, LA.
1878: The Medal of Honorwas issued to Sergeant George Geiger who received the highest decoration theU.S. issues to its service personnel while serving with Company H of the 7thCavalry.Atthe Battle of the Little Big Horn, “with 3 comrades during the entireengagement (he) courageously held a position that secured water for thecommand.”The Battle of the Little Big Horn is also known asCuster’s Last Stand.
1879: In Dvinsk, Russia,Isaac and Deborah C. (Rivkin) Avin gave birth to author and educator ElijahAvin, the husband of Chayah Missulowinwho moved toMinnesotain 1911 where “he developed the Talmud Torah ofMinneapolis
1880(30thofTishrei, 5641): Sixty-one-year-old composer and impresario Jacques Offenbachpassed away today.
http://www.biography.com/people/jacques-offenbach-9427247#synopsis
1882(22ndofTishrei, 5643): Shemini Atzeret
1882: It was reportedtoday in Vienna, the Emperor has thanked the Hungarian Prime Minister “for theenergy he has shown in suppressing the riots against the Jews in Pressburg.
1882: The Gemiles ChesedKranken Unterstuetzungs Verein, a Hebrew Society, was incorporated today in NewYork State.
1883: In Kharkiv,Ukraine Lvov Lev Leon Rubinstein and Ernestine Rubinstein gave birth to IdaRubinstein.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rubinstein-ida
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/07/arts/07iht-ida07.html
1884(16thofTishrei, 5645): Second Day of Sukkoth
1884: Forty-nine-year-oldGabriel Richter, a Polish Jew, was arrested tonight and taken to theSeventeenth Precinct State House on charges of arson. He denied the chargeclaiming he had been at the synagogue.
1884: It was reportedtoday that Sir Moses Montefiore had planned on fasting this past YomKippur.However, after 18 hours, the centenarian succumbed to hisdoctors please – “The Almighty does not want us to kill ourselves” – and brokehis fast.The physician has sent telegrams assuring everyone thatthe aging Jewish leader “is an excellent health.”
1884: It was reportedtoday that services will be held in synagogues all over Europe on the 26thand27thof October to celebrate the 100thbirthdayof Sir Moses Montefiore.
1884: Suicide In APolice Court” published today reported that Alexander Endelstine an English Jewwho tried to commit suicide at New York’s Jefferson Market Police Courtyesterday is being treated at St. Vincent’s Hospital and that he will beprosecutedfor embezzlement and attempted suicide if hesurvives.(Editor’s note – Was attempted suicide a capitalcrime?Makes you wonder about the justice system)
1884: The Association ofJewish Immigrants whose members included Louis E. Levy, Abraham Kaufman andSamuel S. Fels,was formed at meeting at Wheatly Hall inPhiladelphia, PA
1885: “As It WasWritten, A Romance” published today provides a review ofAs It WasWritten: A Jewish Musician’s Storyby Sidney Luska. (Sidney Luska isnot Jewish.It is the pseudonym of Henry Harland)
1885: “In Memory ofMontefiore” published described the Mincha Service at Temple Emanu-El whereAdolph Sanger, the President of the Board of Aldermen delivered “an eloquenteulogy on the life and character of Sir Moses Montefiore.”
1886: Martha May Cohenthe Australian born daughter of Julie and Lewis Wolfe Levy and his husbandLouis Samuel Cohen gave birth to Sir Jack Benn Brunel Cohen, whose legs wereamputated above the knees after being wounded at the Third Battle of Ypres and whoworked to improve the lot of disabled people while serving as an MP from 1918to 1931.
1886: City ofJohannesburg, South Africa founded.Many of the Jews living in CapeTown moved north to Johannesburg to take advantage of the discovery of diamondsand gold. Barney Barnato and Sammy Marks were two of the more famous Jewishentrepreneurs who during this period.Marks amassed a fortune fromhis activities in gold and diamond mining.After expanding hisbusiness interests, this practicing Jew assumed civic responsibilities as anegotiator during the Boer War and serving as a Member of Parliament. Barnatofounded the De Beers Consolidated Mines for mining diamond fields.
1887: In Bayonne,France, Azarie "Henri" Cassin and Gabrielle Deborah Cassin gave birthto René Samuel Cassin - jurist, combat veteran of World War I, member of theResistance in WW II and leader of the French Jewish community, and winner of theNobel Prize Winner for Peace,
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1968/cassin-facts.html
1887: In Chicago,“President Grover Cleveland laid the cornerstone for the Auditorium Buildingdesigned by Dankmar Adler.
1888(30thofTishrei, 5649): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1888(30thofTishrei, 5649): Seventy-seven year old “German-American merchant JamesGotendorf who in 1830 came to the UnitedStates where he spent years in the commission business, befriendededitor Horace Greely who advised him to change his name “James Nathan” andengaged in a tempestuous relationship with Margaret Fuller passed away today inHamburg.
1889(10thofTishrei, 5650): Yom Kippur
1889: In New York Citywhere all the Jewish places of worship are open all day today, the services”for Yom Kippur “which are of very solemn and impressive character” end “withthe blowing of the shofar indicating the annual fast is over.”
1889: It was reportedtoday that “according to the latest available statistics” over seventy-sixmillion Russians belong to various Christian denominations while Jews, Moslemsand pagans constitute 5,626,000 of the Czar’s subjects.
1889: It was determinedtoday that the reason the Pioneers of Liberty not being allowed to hold theirdance and concert last night, erev Yom Kippur, at the Clarendon Hall wasbecause they had not obtained a license for a concert and if this Jewish group hadbeen content with holding a dance the authorities would not have interfered.
1889: Birthdate ofBrooklyn native “industrial engineer and pioneer in the field of timemanagement, Samuel R. Gerber, “a graduate of Cooper Union and the PolytechnicInstitute of Brooklyn” who was President of both the Kent Metal ManufacturingCompany and the Ortho Chemical Corporation and who was married to Tyl Gerberwith whom he had one son and one daughter.
1889: It was reportedtoday that thousands of Jews “who have been expelled from Russia…have takentemporary refuge in England.”Eventually they intend to settle inArgentina
1890: During his talktonight at the New York Academy of Music, Dr. Tallmadge described his recentvisit to Palestine including passing through “the tract of 800 acres belongingto the Universal Israelite Association” which points “to the reoccupation ofthe Holy Land by the Israelites.”
1890: Birthdate ofAlexander N. Sack the Moscow born, Russian lawyer and faculty member of theSaint Petersburg University who in 1930 came to the United States where he taughtat NYU and Northwestern while developing a reputation on international financeespecially as it dealt with the problems of governmental debt,
1891: “An Indictment ofRussia” published today which traces the history of mistreatment of Jews in theland of the Czars opens by saying that “The Jew represents at once humanity’soldest and least familiar fact.The records which he embodiesvisibility before us in his curled hair, in his eager eyes and bended nose, inhis gestures, his utterance, the peculiarities of his family and religious lifebelong to the very childhood of the race.” (Notice that even in praise 19thcenturyauthors unwittingly turned to offensive stereotypes.)
1891: “The Jews In OldenTimes” published today provides a detailed review ofA History of theJewish People in the Time of Jesus Christby Emil Schurer, the Germantheologian whose area of expertise was this period of history.
1892: Abraham Langer, aJewish poultry dealer related the story of the attempt to rob him to theincredulous Central Office detectives in New York
1892(14thofTishrei, 5653): Erev Sukkoth
1892 (14thofTishrei, 5653): Sixty-three-year-old Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss, the “father ofmagician Harry Houdini and the first rabbi of Zion Reform Congregation inAppleton, Wisconsin, passed away today.
1892: In Dubuque, IA,founding of Congregation of Sons Of Abraham which holds services every Saturdaymorning and whose members have included, Rabbi David Cohen and James Levi.
1893: The cornerstonewas laid today for the West End Synagogue on West 82ndStreetin New York City.
1893: Reverend ChristianAdolf Stoecker, the German “Jew baiter” and anti-Semite completes his tour ofthe United States and sets sail from New York for his homeland today.
1894: In Russia, Joshuaand Freida Schlover Danovich gave birth future Los Angeles resident Lillian DanovichTeplin
1894: In Pars, the nameof M. Pingault, the sugar broker who was arrested on charges of embezzling144,000 English pounds from Baron Hirsch, has been stricken from the list ofbrokers.
1895: Today, “Mrs.Hannah G. Solomon… organized the Louisiana Section of the Council of JewishWomen
1895(17thof Tishrei, 5656): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1895: “The WilliamBerrian Book Sale” published today provided a list of books belonging to theWilliam Berrian Library by Bangs & Company including John Allen’sModernJudaism,Beeton’s The Jews in the East, W.H. Rule’sHistoryof the Karaite Jews, Rabbi Grossman’sJudaism and the Science ofReligion, Iliowizi’sJewish Dream’s and Realities,Betteny’sJudaism and Christianity, T.A. Davis’sAm Ia Jew or a Gentile?and Betteny’sJew and Gentile.
1896: Among the giftsacknowledged t during this afternoon’s meeting of the Board of Trustees ofColumbia University was one $5,000 from Jacob Schiff “to aid needy students” go“through college” and a collection of Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts from WilliamWalter.
1897(9thofTishrei, 5658): Erev Yom Kippur; in the evening Kol Nidre is chanted for thefirst time during the Presidency of William McKinley.
1897: In Bremen, NorbertSalter and his wife who converted to Christianity in 1897 gave birth todesigner Georg Salter.
1897: “Truly ACosmopolitan Town” published today described Red Jacket, Michigan, “perhaps themost cosmopolitan town in the United States” with a population of 8,000 whoseno less than thirty different nationalities included an untold number of Jews.”
1898(19thofTishrei, 5659): Sukkoth Chol HaMoed
1898: Arthur Loew, thefounder of MGM, and his wife the former Mildred Zukor, daughter of Adolph Zukorgave birth to twin sons – Arthur Loew and David L. Loew who served as a memberof the board of directors of MGM and later established his own independentproduction company.
1898(19thofTishrei, 5659): Twenty-five-year-old Charles Koransky, who suffered fromconsumption who had been denied treatment at the hospital on Blackwell’s Islandbecause he was Jewish and planned on seeking treatment at Mount Sinai Hospital,died early this morning
1898: “Rabbi Honored InDetroit” published today described plans by Mayor Maybury and “pastors ofseveral city churches” to honor Rabbi Louis Grossman who will be leavingDetroit after 14 years to serve as Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew UnionCollege and Congregation B’nai Yeshurun in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1898: In Moldova, “ShinBen-Zion and Rivka Chaya Gutman” gave birth to Nachum Gutman
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nachum-gutman
1898:Herzl andDavid Wolffsohn want to establish the Jewish Colonial Bank immediately. TheBank was intended to handle the financial affairs of the Zionist movement.
1898: In an attempt todraw the Ottoman Empire into the German sphere of influence which wouldeventually have a major impact on the Jews of Palestine and the Zionistmovement Kaiser Wilhelm II visited Constantinople.
1899: Three days afterhe had passed away, “Alfred Lambert Falck, the youngest son of Ernest Flack”was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1899: Dr. SolomonMandelkern of Leipzig the poet who has translated several American authorsincluding Longfellow into Hebrew, arrived in New York aboard theSSWerraso he could visit his son Israel who lived at 196 East Broadway.
1899: One day after herdeath, Rebecca Hyams, “the widow of Moses Hyams” was buried today at thePlashet Jewish Cemetery in London.
1900(12th ofTishrei, 5661): Seventy-five-year-old Parisian native Adolphe Hatzfeld, the son of agoldsmith who obtained a Doctorate in Letters after which he was professor offoreign literature in Grenoble and a professor of rhetoric at the LycéeLouis-le-Grand in Paris passed away today.
1900:According toThe English Zionist Federation's poll: 60 candidates for Parliament declarethemselves in favor of Zionism.
1900: Birthdate of BaronFriedrich Carl von Oppenheim the German banker and industrialist who worked tosave Jews from the Nazis and was imprisoned for his alleged role in the attemptto assassinateHitler – activities for which he was honored by YadVashem.
1901(22ndofTishrei, 5662): Shemini Atzeret
1901: Birthdate ofGerman Banker and Zionist leader, Hans Beyth Shmuel
1902: Herzl sends a copyofAltneulandto the Grossherzog Friedrich of Baden and toRothschild.Altneulandappeared almost simultaneously in aHebrew translation,Tel Aviv, by Nahum Sokolow.
1902(4thofTishrei, 5563): Tzom Gedaliah observed
1902: In Philadelphia,Joseph Feinberg and Fanny Lieberman, the owners of “a watch-repair and jewelrystore” gave birth to Louis Feinberg who gained fame as Larry Fine, one of theThree Stooges.
1902: Birthdate ofHamburg born American art collector Curt Valentin who left Nazi Germany in 1934and established what became the Curt Valentin Gallery
https://www.moma.org/research-and-learning/archives/finding-aids/Valentinf
1902(4thofTishrei, 5563): Seventy-year-old Joseph Morris Asch, the Philadelphia born sonof Joseph and Clara Asch, and Jefferson Medical College trained physician whoserved with the Union Army during the Civil War after which he pursued a careeras a laryngologist in New York City passed away today.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/American_Medical_Biographies/Asch,_Morris_Joseph
1902: Thirty-three-year-old“concert violinist and composer” Sol Marcosson, the Louisville, KY born son ofLouis and Helene and Marcosson today married Dorothy Frew with whom he raisedfour children—“John, Fred, Ruth and June.”
1903: The Viennacorrespondent of The Times of London received a telegram from Novoselitzff,Bessarabia saying that 300 Jews were killed in attack at Mohileff, a town of“50,000 inhabitants of whom half are Jews.”
1904(10thofTishrei): 5660): Yom Kippur
1904: Founding of AlphaKappa Psi business fraternity which could not have any Jewish members until1950 when it dropped the restrictive clause limiting membership to men who were“of the Christian faith”
1905: In Manhattan,Morris and Fannie Getzler Rothenberg gave birth to Rose Rothenberg.
1906(16thofTishrei, 5667): Second Day of Sukkoth
1906: “PreservedHistory” published today provides a review of Peasant Life in the Holy Land inwhich the author Rev. C.T. Wilson writes that the “modern dwellers in theJordan Valley and the country round about are rarely Jews,” that “they are thedescendants of the heathen who occupied the country when the Jews first camethither,” and that “the Jews now in the country are notindigenousto Palestine” but “are immigrants…”
1907(27thofTishrei, 5668): Parashat Bereshit marks the start of the annual Torah readingcycle at the same time that the Republican and Democratic Parties are selectingthe nominees for state and local offices.
1908(10thofTishrei, 5669): Yom Kippur
1908: When “The MeltingPot” by Israel Zangwill opened this evening “at the Columbia Theatre inWashing, the audience included President and Mrs. Roosevelt, William Loeb, thepresident’s advisor; Secretary of State Elihu Root; Secretary of Commerce and LaborOscar Strauss, Simon Wolf and Isaac Solomon, a wealthy Baltimorean.”
1908 (10th of Tishrei,5669): In Houston Texas Adath Yshurun holds Yom Kippur Services. The morningservices began at 7a.m. with a sermon in German entitled “The Majesty of theLaw.”Minchah services began at 3:30 with a sermon in English entitled“The Waning Day.”
1909(20th of Tishrei,5670): Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
1909(20th of Tishrei,5670): Rabbi Falk Vidaver passed away today in New York City at the age of65.The cause of death was Bright’s Disease.Beforecoming to New York, Rabbi Vidaver lived in San Francisco where he was theleader of the largest congregation west of the RockyMountains.Vidaver served as the rabbi at the congregation at 72ndStreetand Lexington Avenue for 12 years before retiring three yearsago.He was a leading commentator on the Bible and was alsowell-known for his Hebrew poetry which was published in Russia, Hungary and theUnited States.
1909: WhenTheMelting Potopened in Washington D.C. this evening, President TheodoreRoosevelt leaned over the edge of his box and shouted, "That's a greatplay, Mr. Zangwill, that's a great play."Zangwill is IsraelZangwill.He was Jewish; T.R. was not.
1910(2ndofTishrei, 5671): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1910(2ndofTishrei, 5671): Millie Silverstein, the London born daughter of Sarah and JacobSilverstein and wife of Nathan Sack whom she married in London in 1909, passed awaytoday.
1910: Birthdate of Louis“Lou” Boasberg who played tackle for the 1931 Tulane University football teamthey went 11-0, finished second in the nation and went on to play in the 1932Rose Bowl.
1911: NYU trainedattorney George Leisersohn, the New York born son of Lena Schweitzer andLeonard Leisersohn and husband of Etta Davis began serving as the Grand Secretary of the Order of B’rithAbraham today.
1911: Today, the Bronxfurnished “an important deal and one of the largest in its immediate locality”with “sale of the old Hebrew Infant Asylum property” which became availablelast winter when the Hebrew Asylum “moved to its new building at KingsbridgeRoad and Aqueduct Avenue.
1912: In Fort William,Ontario, Max Laskin and Bluma Zingel, Laskin gave birth to Bora Laskin, the 14thChiefJustice of Canada.
https://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/opinions/remembering-bora-laskin-giant-supreme-court
1912(24th of Tishrei,5673): New York City gangster Jack Zelig was murdered in an apparent attempt tokeep him from testifying in the Rosenthal murder case. (The only problem withthe various descriptions of his death are that they say he was murdered on theday before a murder trial was supposed to start.But October 5 was aSaturday and it would have been highly unusual for a trial to have started on aSunday)
1913(4thofTishrei, 5674): Tzom Gedaliah observed for the first time during the Presidencyof Woodrow Wilson.
1913: “The Beth IsraelWest Side Hebrew School at 347 West 35 Street was opened this afternoon after ashort service at the Beth Israel Synagogue.
1914(15thofTishrei, 5675): Sukkoth
1914(15th ofTishrei, 5675): Seventy-one-year-old Maximilian “Max’ Weil, the Bavaria bornson of Therese and Jacob Weil, the husband of Gertrude Weil and “father ofHilda Irma Taussig; Mabel Williams Goldberg and Emma Cone” passed away today inBrooklyn, NY
1914: In Washington, DC,“a private dispatch” was received by the State Departure which “said conditionsin Jerusalem were such that food could not be obtained by a large portion ofthe population and that “many people were facing starvation.”
1915: It was reportedtoday from Berlin that “the truth is the distress of Russian Polish Jewry isappalling” with “hundreds of thousands literally starving” making it appearthat “Russia is trying to solve the Jewish question by annihilating the Jews.”
1915: “The NewSynagogue, the latest of the liberal Jewish congregations to be founded in NewYork City” which has been holding services at the Aeolian Hall “announced thatit has” purchased “the building at 43 West 86thStreet as itspermanent house of worship” and that the “structure will be transformed forsynagogue and school purposes.”
1916: Birthdate ofAbbeville native and fighter for the Free French Francis Huré who serve asFrance’s Ambassador to Israel from 1968 to 1973.
1916(8thofTishrei, 5677): Forty-year-old Francis Deak Pollak, a graduate of Columbia LawSchool and member of the firm of Sullivan & Cromwell since 1906 who was atrustee of the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society passed away todayat Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
1916: “Jewish HarmonyRestored” published today described the revised plan adopted for creating anAmerican Jewish Congress which “limits the number of delegates to be elected bythe Conference of National Jewish Organizations to 25 percent of the entirerepresentation, thereby removing the charge of the ‘democratic’ associationsthat the conference was trying to obtain control of the Congress.”
1916: Morris Israel whoused to check the hats and coats of diners at the Ritz Restaurant in Brooklynsued his former employer for violating the terms of his employment contractregarding the payment of tips.
1917(19thofTishrei, 5678): Fifth day of Sukkoth
1917(19thofTishrei, 5678):After four days of torture by Turkish authorities duringwhich she revealed nothing about her action or her fellow Jewish spies, SarahAaronsohn “shot herself in the mouth” cause a wound that was mortal but wouldnot prove fatal until several more days of suffering. The aid provided by Sarahand her brother Aaron to the British, helped convince some of the Englishleaders that it would be beneficial to replace “Turkish rule in Palestine witha Zionist entity under British rule.’
1917: In Karkov,speakers attending the Railway Congress “state that the same anti-Jewishprejudice is spreading in the Department of Ways and communications” that “ledto the resignation of the Jewish employees at the postal and telegraph officesin Odessa.
1917: At Stockholm, a“delegation of the Polei-Zion presented a memorandum to the Dutch-Scandinaviansuggesting” the following reforms for Palestine: 1) abolition of restriction ofimmigration and colonization by Jews, increased facilities for naturalizationand unrestricted freedom for institutions promoting Jewish colonization; 2)creation of modern, democratic legal conditions and political measures for thedevelopment of the productive forces of the country; conferring upon Palestineself-government; 3) grant of national autonomy of Jews there.”
1917: In Bessarabia, aplot masterminded by “German colonists and officials of the old Czarist regime”aimed at the new government and the Jews was discovered.
1917: In Pavlovsk,military authorities “finally restored order” after days several days of“anti-Jewish disorders.”
1918(29th ofTishrei, 5679) Parashat Bereshit
1918: The Battle of theHindenburg Line came to an end with the Allied forces successfully breachingthe final German line of defenses.Sir John Monash, theAustralian-Jewish General, played a key role in planning the offensive.
1918: The 165thRegiment,including Sergeant Abraham Blaustein hiked for ten hours from Jubecourt to Boisde Montfaucon in the Argonne Sector where they were held in reserve.
1918: Newly appointedGerman Chancellor Prinz Max von Baden asked the Allies for an immediateArmistice.Thus began the sequence of events that would lead to theArmistice that ended WW I in November and the myth that Germany was “stabbed inthe back” instead of defeated on the battlefield.
1919: “The MetropolitanLeague of the Young Men’s Hebrew Associations, which includes the thirteenbranch in and around New York City announced” today “its post-war program, thefeature feature of which will to inspired Americanism and reverence forJudaism.”
1920(23rdofTishrei, 5681): Simchat Torah
1920: The final sectionof the railway which ran between Jaffa and Lydda and which had been completedin September was “inaugurated at a ceremony” today attended by the British HighCommissioner, Herbert Samuel
1920: Evening classes,including courses in Public Speaking, Bookkeeping, Accounting, StenographyTyping. Americanization and English for foreigners, Business Preparation, Radioand Spanish are scheduled to begin at the 92ndStreet YMHAunder of the direction of Principal Henry Levy
1920: “Feelingincreasingly oppressed by life under Bolshevik rule where the family wasidentified as bourgeoisie, the family of Mendel Berlin, a timber trader andphilanthropist (and a direct descendant of Shneur Zalman, founder of ChabadHasidism), his wife Marie, née Volshonok and their son Isaiah Berlin “leftPetrograd today for Riga, but encounters with anti-Semitism and difficultieswith the Latvian authorities convinced them to leave, and they moved to Britainin early 1921 after which Isaiah graduated from Oxford and became a leadinghistorian and philosopher.
1921: Sixty-eight-year-oldNew York architect Cyrus Lazelle Warner Eidlitz who designed the New York TimesBuilding on Times Square and whose father was Jewish passed away today.
1922: It was reportedtoday that “The Council of the League of Nations has been compelled to postponeits final decision as the make-up of the commission which is supposed tosupervise the different religions and holy places in Palestine” in part because“Italy has not yet given her consent.”
1922: It was reportedtoday the Congressman Meyer London and Abraham Cahan were among the speakerswho addressed the recent massing meeting at the Second Avenue Theatre duringwhich “members of the Jewish labor unions” agreed to find the “ways and means ofraising $100,000 for the $500,000 fund of HIAS.
1923: “Young Medardus” asilent film directed by Michael Curtiz was released in Austria today.
1924: Birthdate ofWilliam Szathmary the sonof Hungarian Jewish parents better knownas BillDana who gained fame with his character “Jose Jimenez.”
1924: Birthdate of FritzMandelaaum, who gained fame as Frederic Morton, the biographer of theRothschilds.
http://www.literaturhaus.at/index.php?id=5660
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-20-oe-morton20-story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/books/frederic-morton-author-and-essayist-dies-at-90.html
1925(17th ofTishrei, 5686): Third Day of Sukkoth
1925: “Dr. Max L.Margolis, Professor of Biblical Philosophy at Dropsie College in Philadelphia,speaking” tonight “ at the opening exercises of the Jewish Institute ofReligion proposed that a $20,000 fund be raised to the site of Beth-ther, nearJerusalem where the Jews made their last armed stand against the Romans.”
1926: In Boston, Deridisher fihrer (The Jewish leader) edited by Sam Kaplan which began to appearin print in 1925 in Lynn, Massachusetts, later moving over to Boston was shutdown today.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2019/02/sam-kaplan.html
1926: Birthdate ofAvraham Eidelson who gained fame as Avraham “Bren” Adan “an Israeli MajorGeneral former Head of Southern Command who served in the military between 1947and 1973.”
1927(9thTishrei,5688): Erev Yom Kippur
1927: In Jerusalem, Belaand Eliezer Feinstein gave birth to Meir Feinstein, the WW II British ArmySoldier and member of the Irgun who chose to commit suicide with fellow fighterMoshe Barazani rather die at the end of a British rope.
1928(21st ofTishrei, 5689): Hoshana Raba
1928: Today, Major JohnA. Warner of the New York State Police “indefinitely suspended and reprimandedCorporal H.M. McCann of Troop B for the part he played in the questioning ofRabbi Berel Brennglass in Massena, NY, on September 22. Corporal McCann wassuspended ‘for gross lack of discretion in the exercise of these duties and forconduct unbecoming an officer.’”
1929(1stofTishrei, 5960): Rosh Hashanah
1929: “The Trespasser” afilm that had both a silent and talkie version edited by Cyril Gardner wasreleased in the United States today.
1930: In Lower Silesia,Adolf Selten, a Jewish bookseller and his Protestant wife gave birth to NobelPrize winner Reinhard Selten who was raised in the faith of his mother.
1930: Columbia trainedphysician and biochemist Samuel Gitlow, the Belarus born son of Elke andHerschel Gitlow, and his wife Esther gave birth to Lawrence Gitlow.
1930: It was reportedtoday that “the Jews of Santo Domingo have sent an appeal to HIAS for immediatehelp” since they “have lost everything in the recent hurricane.
1931: Radio station“WOR” broadcast “Palestine Traditions,” with Nathan Straus.
1931: It was reportedtoday that “George Bernard Shaw’s recent statement that Jew suffered from asuperiority complex” was denounced by Dr. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, rabbi of theFree Synagogue as a “cruel falsehood” and he also said that “Shaw’s plea for intermarriageof the Jew and the Gentile as a solution of the Jewish question would be“racial suicide for the Jews.”
1932: Birthdate ofsongwriter Ronald Norman Miller, the Chicago native whose career took off when“he was discovered by the founder of MoTown and whose daughter Lisa describedhim as "a young, Jewish songwriter with a very Rodgers & Hammersteinmusical theater writing style" who "wrote of peace and hope for abetter tomorrow during a time of war and the Civil Rights Movement.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1558383/Ron-Miller.html
1932: Birthdate of DameBarbara Goodman, DBE, QSO, JP “an Auckland, New Zealand politician. She wasMayoress of Auckland City as well as a former Auckland City Councillor for 12years. She was married to former Auckland City Councillor Harold Goodman, whobecame deputy Mayor of Auckland City in the late 1970s. Her husband died on 16August 1988 and she succeeded him onto the council in a by-election. DameBarbara was a councillor for the Citizens and Ratepayers group. While oncouncil, Dame Barbara championed liberal causes like tolerance towards the gaycommunity and pro-women's rights over abortion. For ten years she wasChairperson of Odyssey House Auckland, which operates a range of specialistprograms for adolescents, parents, and other adults experiencing seriousdifficulties with substance abuse, gambling, and other associated problems. Sheopposed the New Zealand government's plan to build a $500 million rugby stadiumon Quay Street in Auckland's waterfront area.[citation needed] She is the nieceof former Auckland City mayor, Sir Dove-Myer Robinson in whose honour DameBarbara spearheaded a memorial sculpture in Aotea Square, which was built in2002. The sculpture celebrates the contribution "Robbie Robinson"made to the city.
1933(15thofTishrei, 5694): Sukkoth
1933: William Dodd, thenew United States Ambassador to Germany, gave a speech explaining and defendingthe New Deal.When Dodd met with FDR before going to Germany, thePresident told his new ambassador that he wanted him to be a spokesman fordemocracy.Dodd would become increasingly outspoken in his warningsabout the dangers of the Hitler regime. Unfortunately, Americans were moreconcerned about making sure that Germany would make her reparations paymentsthan they were about the rise of totalitarian anti-Semitic dictators.
1934: Today,non-JewishFrench Communist Henri Barbusse, acting for theCommunist International, sent a cablegram which caused The Melbourne Herald topublish an article stating that” Herr Egon Erwin Kisch, a scion of a wealthy German-speaking SephardiJewish family in Prague is a German novelist, whose writing satirizing theHitler regime caused him to be sent to Nazi concentration camps for politicalprisoners, will be a visitor here for the Centenary celebrations... He willspeak on conditions in Germany during his tour of Victoria.”
1934: “The Crisis isOver” directed by Robert Siodmark, with a script co-authored by Curt Siodmarkand with music by Franz Waxman was released today.
1935: In Kovel, Poland,timber merchant Aaron Bernholz and his wife Paula gave birth to Berl Bernholzwho gained famed as movie entrepreneur Ben Barenholtz. (As reported by RichardSandomir)
1936(19thofTishrei, 5697): Fifth day of Sukkoth
1936: In Danzig, theNazi plans for the future of the city were outlined by the head of the Danzigdistrict of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party and the President of the DanzigCity who said “Jews must boycotted both socially and economically.”
1936: The American JointDistribution Committee reported today that “twenty-six centers in nine Europeancountries were training 1,248 young persons this Summer for emigration chieflyfrom German and Poland to countries of eventual settlement.”
1936: At Geneva, thePolish delegate told the League of Nations that the powers must agree to arelaxing of immigration quotas so Poland could reduce her Jewish population onwhich he cast aspersions.(Editor’s note: This was three years beforethe German invasion of Poland.The three million Jews of Polandsuffered a wave of anti-Semitism in the 1930’s that has been lost in the “fogof Holocaust rememberance.)
1936: While “fiftymarauders invaded” the Jewish neighborhoods in the East End of London smashingwindows and plate glass store fronts with brick and stones “Britain’s Fascistsannounced plans today for an augmented series of meetings in London’s East End.”
1937(30th ofTishrei, 5698): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1937(30thof Tishrei, 5698): Forty-nine-year-old Baltimore native Felix Lowythe vice president and general manager of the Holeproof Hosiery Company whichhad operations in Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis passed away today.
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1937: . In October,Hyman Rickover’s designation as an engineering duty officer became effective,and he was relieved of his three-month command of Finch at Shanghai today.
1937: Birthdate ofAbraham Riechstadt, the native of Safed who gained fame as Israeli musician AbiOfraim.
1938(10th of Tishrei,5699): Yom Kippur
1938: In Nazi Germany,Jews' passports were invalidated, and those who needed a passport foremigration purposes were given one marked with the letter J ("Jude" –"Jew").
1938:Followinga request by Heinrich Rothmund, head of the Swiss federal police, the Germangovernment recalls all Jewish passports and marks them with a large, colored"J." This is to prevent German Jews from passing as Christians andsmuggling themselves into Switzerland.
1939: Two months afterpremiering in the United Kingdom, New York City premiere of “U-Boat 29”, theAmerican version “The Spy In Black”produced by AlexanderKorda with a screenplay by Emeric Pressburger.
1940(3rdofTishrei): Shabbat Shuvah
1940: All soldiers whohave been granted furloughs “in compliance with War Department Circular No. 5”so that “they may observe Rosh Hashanah” are required to report for duty atnoon today.
1941: NYU and Cornell University educated authorand teacher Doris M. Isaac, the New York born daughter of Helen Oppenheimer andLeonard William Isaac became Doris Grumbach today when she married LeonardGrumbach whom she had met when they were both studying at Cornell and with whomshe had four daughters—Barbara, Jane, Elizabeth and Kathryn.
DorisGrumbach, Author Who Explored Women’s Plight, Dies at 104 - The New York Times(nytimes.com)
1941: City Collegeannounced that two professors in the Chemistry Department “have received agrant of $200 from the medical fund of the Ella Sachs Plotz Foundation tocontinue their studies on human detoxication.”
1941: Publication of areview Irving Fineman’sJacob,which the author describes as“an autobiographical novel.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/10/05/105899435.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1941 (14h of Tishrei,5702): Former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the first Jewish memberof the nation's highest court passed away at the age of 84. See thearticle from the Biography Website for more information about Justice Brandeis whowas living proof that one could achieve success in America while maintaininghis Jewish identity.Louis Brandeis was born in Louisville, Kentucky in1856 to a family tolerant of Jewish and Christian rituals. In later lifeBrandeis might be best described as a secular humanist. Although he completedhis secondary education in Germany, he returned to the United States where hestudied law at Harvard. After settling in Boston, Brandeis became a successfullawyer spending a good deal of his time pursuing cases with a political bent.In particular, he enjoyed representing small companies against giantcorporations, and aiding the cause of the minimum wage against companiesopposed to this principle. In 1912, he supported Woodrow Wilson's nominationfor Presidency and in 1916, was appointed a Supreme Court judge, the first Jewever to be appointed to this position. Brandeis showed little interest inJewish affairs until the turn of the century when a combination of hisprofessional work and a changing political climate brought about an alteration.He was introduced to Zionism by Jacob de Haas, an English Zionist, and laterstill by Aaron Aaronsohn, the Palestinian botanist and founder of Nili.Brandeis became active in Zionist affairs during the First World War, when heaccepted the role of Chairperson of the Provisional Executive Committee forGeneral Zionist Affairs. Brandeis had a major impact on the American branch ofthe Zionist movement, drawing to it a number of sympathizers, improving itsorganization and its finance. While he resigned his official position onjoining the Supreme Court, he nonetheless worked behind the scenes to influencePresident Woodrow Wilson to support the Zionist cause. After the war, Brandeisheaded a delegation of American Zionists to London where at a conferencedifferences emerged between Chaim Weizmann and himself. These arguments overthe role of the organization and its pursuit of political activities caused arift between the two leaders with Weizmann gaining the upper hand. Brandeiswithdrew from Zionist activity although he continued to take part in Eretz Israeleconomic affairs. Brandeis did intervene from time to time in political mattersfor example he appealed to Roosevelt to oppose the British partition scheme of1937 calling instead for the whole area of Eretz Israel to become a JewishNational Home. Brandeis represented a rather different genre of Zionism, oneborn out of the American context that affirmed Zionism as part of Americanethnic identity. It was Brandeis who coined the term that "to be a goodAmerican meant that local Jews should be Zionists." “The banks andwaters of the Jordan, once supposed to have miraculous healing powers have beendrained and freed of their malaria breeding places through a gift of $25,000given by Louis D. Brandies.”
1942:The Nazisdeported 1,000 Jewsfrom Theresienstadt to Treblinka.Another 6,000would be sent to the death camp at Treblinkaby the end of the month.
1942(24thofTishrei, 5703):The Nazis murdered 3,000 Jews in Dubno who had beenrounded up and marched to outlying pits. Silently, without screaming orweeping, they all undressed, bid each other farewell, and then were summarilyshot.
1942(24thofTishrei, 5703): “Xamp guards bludgeoned to death 90 French-Jewish femaleprisoners” “in the attic of a building of the Budy-Bor Auschwitz subcamp, nearthe main death camp set up by Nazi Germany during World War II in occupiedPoland.” (As reported by Cnaan Lipshiz)
1943:The Nazisdeported 1,260 children from Bialystok and 53 doctors and nurses weretransported from Theresienstadt to Birkenau. They were told their destinationwould be Palestine. They would all perish.
1943: Birthdate ofCongressman Richard Cardin, representing Maryland’s Third District in the Houseof Representatives.
1943: “Shortly beforebeing unloaded from their cattle cars in Danzig, the two hundred Danish Jewswho had been arrested by the Nazis were given some “filthy water” which was thefirst liquid they had been given since leaving Copenhagen.
1944(18thofTishrei, 5705) Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1944: As of today,nobody, including Arabs in Jerusalem, has any inkling as to what is beingdiscussed at the Arab intergovernmental talks begun in Alexandria a fortnightago in attempt to bring agreement on how to bring “the Palestine Arabs’ casedbefore the Allies peace councils when the time comes.”
1944: “Continuation ofthe present immigration laws was advocated in a resolution adopted unanimouslyby delegates to the forty-ninth National Encampment of the Jewish War Veteransof the United States at the opening session of its four-day convention in theHotel Commodore” today which stood in stark contrast to the votes at theconventions of the American Legion and VFW voicing their “opposition toimmigration.
1945: “Bloomer Girl,” amusical with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg opened at theShubert Theater on Broadway.
1945:In an eventreferred to as Black Friday a six-month strike by the set decoratorsrepresented by the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) boiled over into a bloodyriot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios in Burbank,California.Warner Brothers also had labor problems with the ScreenActors Guild.For those who think that Jews were always pro-laborleft-wingers, think again.
1945: In a final bid touse persuasion and diplomacy to change British policy, Chaim Weizmann meetswith Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Minister in the new LaborGovernment.Having turned its back on the party’s pro-Zioniststance, the belligerent Bevin tells Weizmann, “If you want a fight, you canhave it.”Even as Bevin is threatening the aging Zionist leader, BenGurion has decided to adopt a more militant stance creating the JewishResistance Movement which include members of Haganah, Palmach and in a new wrinkle,members of the Irgun and the Stern Gang.
1945:MeetThe Press makes its radio debut.The “granddaddy” of all newsinterview shows would later move to NBC where it continues to appear sixtyyears after is radio start.Meet the Press was the brainchild of itsfirst produced Lawrence E. Spivack.On television Spivack would playthe role of moderator.Sometimes he would join the members of thepress and be part of the four-person interview group.
1946(10thofTishrei, 5707): Yom Kippur
1946(10thofTishrei, 5707): Sixty-four-year-old Rabbi Avraham (Arthur) Marmorstein, the son“of Yehuda Leib (Leopold) Marmorstein and Rivka (Regina) Marmorstein and thehusband of Tobe (Antonia) Marmorstein passed away today in London.
1946: After a month, thecurtain comes down on Ben Hecht’s “A Flag is Born” at the Alvin Theatre.
1947:At the Ballroom ofthe Gotham Hotel, Dr. Jonah B. Wise, therabbi at the Central Synagogue officiated at the wedding of Lucy Greenbaum andWilliam M. Freeman both of whom are members of the staff of The New YorkTimes.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/10/06/87556857.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1947: Founding of TheActors Studios which starting in 1931 was led by Lee Strasberg who held thatposition until his death three decades later.
1948(2ndofTishrei, 5709): Second day of Rosh Hashanah
1948: Rabbi Morris NKertzer delivered a sermon at the Park Avenue Synagogue in which he warned that“Israel must guard against the threat of chauvinism, of arrogant nationalism”because “we shall find ourselves a majority people for the first time in twomillennia.”
1949: “Consolidation ofMax Udell Sons Co., Inc., which was founded by Max Udell in 1886 and J.Friedman Co. which is led by Max H. Friedman, two of the largest men's clothingproducers in the country, was announced today.
1949: After two years ofbeing broadcast by ABC, “You Bet Your Life” starring Groucho Marx was broadcastfor the first time by CBS radio.
1949(12thofTishrei, 5710): Sixty-two year old Boston born, Harvard Law School graduate andWW I Army veteran Abraham E. Pinanski, “a member of the Massachusetts SuperiorCourt since 1930,” the “President of the Hebrew Free Loan Society of Boston”since 1936 and “President of the Jewish Child Welfare Association” who was thehusband of “Viola R. Pinanski” with whom he had four daughters passed awaytoday.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/10/06/84222293.pdf
1950: Television gameshow “You Bet Your Life” starring Groucho Marx makes its debut.
1950: The 3rdMaccabiah which had opened on September 27 continued in the “new stadium inRamat Gan.
1951: In “CityOpera Offers ‘Dybbuk’ Premiere” published today Olin Downes reviews the openingperformance of David Tamkin’s opera which he wrote “was a remarkableaccomplishment.”
1951: In Ireland, Robertand Evelyn Geldof gave birth to singer-song writer and social activist BobGeldof.
https://www.biography.com/people/bob-geldof-9308389
1954(7th of Elul,5714): Seventy-four-year-old Albert Montefiore Hyamson the British historian,Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and President of the Jewish HistoricalSociety and Zionist who served as Chief Immigration Officer for the MandatoryGovernment in Palestine passed away today.
https://books.google.com/books/about/A_history_of_the_Jews_in_England.html?id=pW0LAAAAIAAJ
1955: FrancesGoodrich and Albert Hackett”s dramatization of "The Diary of Anne Frank,”opened at the Cort in New York. Directed by Garson Kanin, with sets designed byBoris Aronson with Susan Stasberg in the role of Anne, the play is deemed asuccess by the critics and audience alike.
1956: The Dinah ShoreChevy Show hosted by Dinah Shore (Frances Rose Shore) was broadcast for thefirst time on NBC television.
1957(10THofTishrei, 5718): Yom Kippur and Shabbat coincide.
1959: Mollie Abrams wasburied today at Beth Shalom in Shaler Township, PA.
1960(14th ofTishrei, 5721): Erev Sukkoth
1960: Eighty-four-year-oldAmerican anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber who was of “mixed Jewish andProtestant ancestry” and who was the husband of Henriette Rothschild whom hemarried in 1906 passed away.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/A-L-Kroeber
1961: “Breakfast atTiffany’s” sophisticated New York film produced by Richard “Dick” Shepherd,with a screenplay by George Axelrod and featuring Martin Balsam was releasedtoday in the United States by Paramount Pictures.
1961: The first clippingfor the show that would become Anyone Can Whistle appeared in The New YorkTimes today "For the winter of 1962, Arthur Laurents is nurturing anothermusical project, The Natives Are Restless. The narrative and staging will beMr. Laurents's handiwork; music and lyrics that of Stephen Sondheim. A meagerdescription was furnished by Mr. Laurents, who refused to elaborate. Althoughthe title might indicate otherwise, it is indigenous in content andcontemporary in scope. No producer yet." (As reported by Mark EdenHorowitz)
1961: Broadway premiereof “Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole” written by William and James Goldman whichfeatured a performance by James Caan.
1962: “Dr. No” based onthe novel of the same name produced by Harry Saltzman, featuring Joseph Wisemanand with music by Monty Norman was released today in the United States.
1962(7thofTishrei, 5723): Sixty-year-old Polish born Dr. Monah L. Bialik, the holder ofPh.D from Columbia and the dean of the Yeshiva of Flatbush who was the husbandof “the former Clara Telushkin” with whom had two children passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/10/07/121476085.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1963(17th ofTishrei, 5724): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1963: Final performanceof “Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet” written by Arthur Kopit.
1964(29thof Tishrei, 5725): Sixty-nine-year-old Mrs. Anna Hoffman Hartman the widow of Chicago native andUniversity of Michigan educated advertising executive Louis H. Hartman, thefather of Robert H. Hartman who had begun his career with Sears, Roebuck andCompany and was known for his activities as a beekeeper passed away today.
1964: “Quick, Before ItMelts” a comedy featuring Norman Fell was released in the United States today
1965(9thofTishrei, 5726): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1965: In “Jerusalem,Israeli Sector, Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and the holiest day in theJewish calendar began at sundown today.
1966(21st ofTishrei, 5727): Hoshana Raba
1967(1stofTishrei, 5728): For the first time Jews observe Rosh Hashanah in a unitedJerusalem, the capital of the modern state of Israel.
1969(23rd of Tishrei,5730): Simchat Torah is celebrated for the first time during the Presidency ofRichard Nixon.
1969: New York CityCouncilman Robert Ira Postel married the “former Joan Schwartzberg” after which“they left their honeymoon hotel, traveled to 68th Street and York Avenue, andbegan distributing political pamphlets for his campaign to become DemocraticCouncilman at Large from Manhattan.”
1969(23rdofTishrei, 5730): Sixty-nine-year-old Russian born, Harvard educated Dr. WilliamDameshek, “a pioneer in the study of blood” and leader in the movement to“establish hematology as a specialty” who was married to Rose Dameshek withwhom he had one child, passed away today.
https://dev.hematology.org/About/History/Legends/2077.aspx
http://www.bloodjournal.org/content/bloodjournal/15/5/580.full.pdf?sso-checked=true
1971(16thofTishrei, 5732): Second day of Sukkoth
1972:Birthdateof Nebraska defensive tackle and New England Patriots draft pick ChristianPeter whose “lengthy history of violence against woman” led Myra Kraft toconvince her husband to relinquish the team’s right to him “only a week after thedraft” had been completed.
1973: In London, AshrafMarwan, the son-in-law of Gamal Abdel Naser and the Mossad agent code-named“Angel” warned his Mossad handlers of the war that would begin the next day atsundown. Zivi Zamir, the chief of Mossad who was present at the meeting andfully aware of the ramifications of a massive mobilization of reserve soldierson Yom Kippur, called home and sounded the alarm (As reported by Tal Krz-Oz)
1973: “GeneralAriel Sharon was shown aerial photographs and other intelligence by YehoshuaSaguy, his divisional intelligence officer. General Sharon noticed that theconcentration of Egyptian forces along the canal was far beyond anythingobserved during the training exercises, and that the Egyptians had amassed allof their crossing equipment along the canal. He then called General ShmuelGonen, who had replaced him as head of Southern Command, and expressed hiscertainty that war was imminent.”
1973: “Soviet advisersand their families left Egypt and Syria, transport aircraft thought to be ladenwith military equipment landed in Cairo and Damascus, and aerial photographsrevealed that Egyptian and Syrian concentrations of tanks, infantry and SAMmissiles were at an unprecedented high.”
1973: Chief of MilitaryIntelligence Major General Eli Zeira reassured “special means” listeningdevices were not producing any warning signs that war was imminent. Only laterwould the Israeli government find that Zeira had not activated these devices.
1973: The Israelimissile boat flotilla concluded its first full-scale maneuvers the day beforethe start of the Yom Kippur War.These boats with their uniquemissile armament would play a key role in protecting the Israel coast during thefighting.
1973: On the eveof what would become the Yom Kippur War, the division manning the Israelidefenses along the Suez Canal requested reinforcements. The request was deniedbecause the Israeli General Headquarters had decided that the Egyptian troopsmassed on the west bank of the Suez Canal were engaged in military exercise;military exercises that senior command was sure were about to come to anend.
1973: Disturbed bycontinued massing of Egyptian and Syrian forces on their respective borderswith Israel and the withdrawal of Soviet ships from Egyptian ports, the Chiefof Staff puts the active Israeli Army on its highest level ofpreparedness.He also ordered a limited mobilization of certainreserve units.The numerical strength of the Israeli Army lay withthe reserves.Only a full mobilization of these forces could meetthe onslaught of combined Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian armies.
1976: YorkshireTelevision broadcast the second episode of “Dickens of London” with music byMonty Norman.
1977(23rdofTishrei, 5738): Simchat Torah
1977(23rd ofTishrei, 5738):Sixty-five-year-old New Jersey native Irving Linn, aprofessor of English at Yeshiva College and a member of its faculty for 40years who was the husband “of the former Clara Salinger” with whom he had twodaughters – Margaret and Eleanor – passed away today.
1979(14thofTishrei, 5740): Erev of Sukkoth
1979: “Starting Over” acomedy directed by Alan J. Pakula, produced by James L. Brooks who also wrotethe script and with music by Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager wasreleased today in the United States.
1979: “Cocaine Cowboys”with a score by Elliot Goldenthal premiered in New York City.
1979: “Nosferatu theVampyre” a horror film produced by Michael Gruskoff who began his career in themailroom of the William Morris Agency, was released in the United States today.
1980: Pitcher SteveRatzer made his major league debut with the Montreal Expos.
1981: Raoul Wallenbergbecame an honorary citizen of the United States.Using his status aSwedish diplomat, Wallenberg worked to save the lives of the Jews ofHungary.Thanks to his efforts he saved the lives of somewherebetween 20,000 to 100,000 Hungarian Jews. The bill to make Wallenberg anhonorary citizen was sponsored by Representative Tom Lantos, who as a teenagedHungarian Jews sought refuge in one of Wallenberg's safehouses.Wallenberg is listed as one of the “Righteous Among theNations” at Yad Vashem.
1983: During the Israelbank stock crisis “the stock exchange again opened with large numbers of selloffers.”
1983:MartinLeach-Cross Feldman assumed office as a Judge of the United States DistrictCourt for the Eastern District of Louisiana
1983: In Queens, NY,Barry Eisenberg and the former Amy Fishman gave birth to actor Jesse Eisenberg.
1984(9thofTishrei, 5745): Erev Shabbat and Erev Yom Kippur
1985(23rdofTishrei 5746): Simchat Torah
1985:After813 performances, the curtain came down on West End production of “Little Shopof Horrors” by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman
1985: Sixty-two-year-oldHolocaust survivor and successful real estate entrepreneur Joseph Kushner “thefather of Murray and Charles Kushner and the grandfather of Marc Kushner andTrump son-in-law Jared Kushner passed away today.
1985(23rdofTishrei, 5746):At Ras Burqa, an Egyptian soldier machine gunned a groupof Israeli tourists murderingHamman Shelach – an Israeli judge in theJerusalem Magistrates’ Court and the son of Israeli poet Yonatan Ratosh, hiswife Ilana, his 12 year old daughter Tzlil, 38 year old Anita Griffel, 10 yearold Amir Baum, 10 year old Dina Baria and 13 year old Ofri urel in episode madeeven worse by reports some Egyptian politicians hailed the killer as hero.
1986:The SundayTimes of Londonran a story on its front page under the headline:"Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal" based oninformation supplied by Mordechai Vanunu.”
1986(2nd of Tishrei,5747): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1986(2ndofTishrei, 5747): Seventy-five-year-old Rudolf Flesh, the holder of a PhD fromColumbia and husband of Elizabeth Terpenning best known for his popularworkWhy Johnny Can’t Readpassed away today
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/07/obituaries/dr-rudolf-flesch-75-authority-on-literacy.html
1986(2ndofTishrei, 5747): Eight-seven-year-old Ohio born Reform Rabbi and anti-waractivist Abraham L. Feinberg who marred Patricia Blanchard after the death ofhis first wife Ruth Katsh passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/08/obituaries/rabbi-abraham-l-feinberg.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/abraham-l-feinberg
1986(2nd ofTishrei, 5747): Movie producer Hal Wallis, the Chicago born son of Ewa Blumaand Jacob Wolowicz who had named him Aaron Blum Wolowicz and who married MarthaHyer in 1996 after the death of his first wife Louise Fazenda passed today atRancho Mirage after which he was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0909259/
https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813195384/hal-wallis/
1988:Israel bannedMeir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism.
1989: “The Punisher” anaction film with a script by Boaz Yakin was released in Germany today.
1990(16th of Tishrei,5751): Second Day of Sukkoth
1990(16th of Tishrei,5751):Meir Kahanefounder of Jewish defense league was assassinatedat the age of 58.
1990: “Henry &June” directed by Phillip Kaufman who co-authored the script along with hiswife Rose was released in the United States today by Universal Pictures.
1990: “Avalon” amust-see movie directed, produced and written by Barry Levinson with music byRandy Newman was released in the United States today by Tristar Pictures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon_(1990_film)#/media/File:Avalon_poster.jpg
1993: Seventy-five-year-oldRobert Constant Moses, a native of Phillip, SD, a graduate of Beloit HighSchool who was a WW II veteran, a draftsman at Barber Coleman and the father ofNancy Margulis, a pillar of the Cedar Rapids Jewish community, passed awaytoday.
1994: H. Lee Sarokincompleted his service as a Judge of the UnitedStates District Court for the District of New Jersey.
1994: H. Lee Sarokin beganserving as a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
1995(11thofTishrei, 5756): Ninety-one-year-old viola virtuoso Lillian Fuchs passed awaytoday
http://jwa.org/thisweek/oct/05/1995/death-of-lillian-fuchs-one-of-best-string-players-in-america
1996(22ndof Tishrei, 5757):Shemini Atzeret
1996(22ndofTishrei, 5757): Eighty-eight-year-old Elmer Berger, the Rabbi who was such aproud foe of a Jewish state that he authoredMemoirs of an Anti-ZionistJewin 1976, (As reported by Eric Pace)
1997:The SundayNew York Timesbook section featured reviews of books by Jewishauthors and/or on topics relating to Judaism or the Jewish peopleincludingSon of Rosemaryby Ira Levin,The BodyPerfect: An Intimate History of American Girlsby Joan JacobsBrumberg,TheJournals of Ayn Rand, edited by DavidHarriman andA Jewish Mother From Berlin and SusannabyGertrude Kolmar.This slim volume contains Brigitte M. Goldstein'stranslations of two short novels by Gertrude Kolmar, a poet who perished in theHolocaust in 1943. In these works, as in her verse, Kolmar explores alienationand misfortune with a vivid, emotionally piercing force; here maternal love,devotion and innocence become not refuges from tragedy but lightning rods thatseem to attract it. In'A Jewish Mother From Berlin,' written in1931, in which the title character loses her only genuine connection to theworld, her 5-year-old daughter, Kolmar's eloquence carries the reader pastcertain weaknesses in pacing and execution, taking us deep into the heart ofthe isolated mother's anguish. With ''Susanna,'' a later work, written in 1940,Kolmar's command is stronger, yielding a tighter, more persuasive fairy talethat also works as an erotic puzzle and a memoir. The title character is anelusive, mentally unstable girl, described from a distance of years by herformer governess with an incomprehension suffused with heartbreak. As we readboth these works, our estimation of Kolmar's worth as a writer must competewith our dismay over her destiny: a lifetime of effort strangled by thecalamities of history. The least her faithful, worthy achievement deserves isthe gratitude of successive generations of readers.
1997(4th ofTishrei, 5758): Tzom Gedaliah
2000: In “The Pogrom InLimerick” published today John Derbyshire contended that the “anti-Semiticpogrom of 1904” and not an episode in 1690 was “the darkest episode in thecity’s history.”
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2000/10/05/the-pogrom-in-limerick/
2000: At the outset ofthe second Intifada, Rabbi Chaim Brovender, the founder of Yeshivat Hamivtar inEfrat, was traveling along the Tunnel Road connecting Gush Etzion withJerusalem when a crowd of Arabs from Beit Jala stopped him. After being pulledfrom his car and severely beaten, he was taken to a Palestinian police stationin Bethlehem, where he was further harassed before being thankfully transferredto the IDF alive.
2001: Thirty-four-year-oldended his major league career today when he pitched his final game for theCleveland Indians.
2001:Today, aletter signed by at least 50 American Jewish figures -- including current andformer officials from some of the nation's most influential Jewishorganizations -- will be presented to the White House, expressing support forthe administration's war on terrorism and policy efforts in the Middle East.The letter comes after days of criticism of the administration's plans by theAmerican Jewish groups, including the main pro-Israel lobbying organization inWashington, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or Aipac. What ishappening, officials said, amounts to a fundamental division within atraditionally unified constituency on an important issue of American foreignpolicy.
2002: “As the currentPalestinian uprising enters its third year,” today “a gaggle of Palestinianboys beat a hasty retreat to the Balata refugee camp today after surging towardan Israeli patrol, stones in hand, in defiance of a curfew.
2002: In addition to theviolence of the Palestinian uprising, Israel is confronted with challenge ofhow to deal with the large arsenal of Scud missiles held by Iraq which canreach all the way to Tel Aviv.
2003(9thofTishrei, 5764): Erev Yom Kippur
2003: “‘The EternalRoad,’ In Endless Quest of a Stage” published today described the authorsfascination with “Max Reinhardt’s lavish pageant of Jewish biblical history andseemingly timeless persecution…first staged in 1937.”
2003: Israel bombed anIslamic Jihad base in Syria, the first Israeli attack deep inside Syrianterritory in three decades.
2003:The NewYork Timesbook section featured reviews of books by Jewish authorsand/or on topics relating to Judaism or the Jewish people includingTheGreat Unraveling:Losing Our Way in the New Centuryby PaulKrugman,They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam andAmerica, October 1967byDavid Maraniss,The Speakeasiesof 1932,Illustrations by Al Hirschfeld,Living A Year ofKaddishby Ari L. Goldman andThe Bielski Brothers:TheTrue Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Saved 1,200 Jews, and Built aVillage in theForest.by Peter Duffy. “After discovering thattheir parents and other family members had been murdered by the Nazis, threebrothers -- Tuvia, Zus and Asael Bielski -- took to the Soviet forests, andencouraged friends and relatives to join them. Tuvia, the eldest, did not wantto turn away any Jews, and helped others escape the ghettos of Novogrudek (nowNavahrudak in Belarus) and Lida; they once led a group of 800 through swamps tohide on an island deep in the forest. As Peter Duffy writes in his first book,''The Bielski Brothers,'' to survive, the brothers assigned groups to gatherfood, build shelter and fix weapons; informers were killed and whole villageswere threatened with burning in the event of betrayal. For two and a half yearsthe Bielskis offered the best chance for Belarusian Jews to live. ''We don'thave to be heroes,'' Tuvia said. ''We just have to live through this war.Whoever will make it, he is the biggest hero.'' When the brigade was disbandedin July 1944, the group had 1,140 members. Asael was killed seven months laterin East Prussia; Tuvia and Zus emigrated to Israel, where Tuvia died in 1987and Zus in 1995.
2004(20th of Tishrei,5765): Eighty-two-year-old comedian Rodney Dangerfield, the man who got norespect, passed away. (As reported by Mel Watkins)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/06/arts/06dangerfield.html?_r=0
2005(2ndofTishrei, 5766): Second Day Rosh Hashanah
2005: The WB broadcastthe first episode of “Related” created by Marta Kauffman and starring LizzyCaplan.
2005: “The Squid and theWhale” an “American arthouse comedy-drama film written and directed by NoahBaumbach” and co-starring Jesse Eisenberg was released in the United Statestoday by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
2005:Haaretzreportedon High Holiday Services being held in Houston, Texas.The serviceswere on the campus of Rice University and were intended to provide a gatheringplace for Jews from New Orleans who were in Houston because of HurricaneKatrina.For the New Orleans Jews the services took on the flavor ofa re-union.
2006:Amy Goodmanappeared on the Colbert Report in an effort to promote her new book wasStatic:Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People who Fight Back
2006: A Muslimjournalist facing charges of sedition for advocating ties with Israel wasrecently attacked and beaten by a crowd in Bangladesh that allegedly includedleading officials of the country's ruling party. Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury,editor of theWeekly Blitznewspaper, an English-languagepublication based in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, was working in hisoffice when nearly 40 people stormed the premises, beat Choudhury, leaving himwith a fractured ankle, and looted cash that was kept in the company safe.Choudhury was briefly hospitalized
2006: EliotSpitzer told the Empire State Pride Agenda that as governor he would work tolegalize same sex marriage in New York.
2006: In “LemonySnicket reaches ‘The End’, Todd Leopold describes the completion of “A Seriesof Unfortunate Events.”
2007(23rd of Tishrei,5768): Simchat Torah
2007: “Garage” an Irishfilm directed by Lenny Abrahamson was released today after having premiered atthe Cannes Film Festival in May.
2007: “Appomattox” anopera composed by Phillip Glass which takes its name from the place where Leesurrendered to Grant premiered at the San Francisco Opera today.
2008: As part of theyearlong celebration of pianist Leon Fleisher’s 80thbirthday,a concert titled Leon Fleisher & Friends is performed by an ensemble thatincludes keyboard colleagues and former students Yefim Bronfman, Jonathan Bissand Katherine Jacobson-Fleisher, Fleisher’s wife is performed in Baltimore, MD.
2008:Eighty-year-old,Dr. Ernest Beutler, “a leading hematologist whose studies opened an importantnew window onto the treatment of leukemia” passed away today. (As reported byJeremy Pearce)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/health/research/09beutler.html?_r=0
2008:The NewYork Timesfeatured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ontopics of special interest to the Jewish people includingHot, Flat andCrowded:Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew AmericabyThomas L. Friedman and paperback versions ofThe Indian ClerkbyDavid Leavitt,The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father’sNazi Boyhood,by Mark Kurzem,The Zookeeper’s Wife: A WarStoryby Diane Ackerman.The Diary of Petr Ginz: 1941-1942,editedby Chava Pressburger, translated by Elena Lappinas well as an essay aboutPulitzer Prize winning author Steven Millhauser
2008: At the KennedyCenter, final performance of nn “abridged version of Girl Crazy,” a 1930’sGeorge and Ira Gershwin musical.
2009:AttorneyStuart E. Weisberg discusses and signs his new biography, "Barney Frank:The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman," at theSixth & I Historic Synagogue, in Washington, D.C.
2009(17thofTishrei, 5770): Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
2009(17thofTishrei, 5770): Ninety-six-year-old Soviet mathematician Israeli Gelfand passedaway.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/6440484/Israel-Gelfand.html
2009: Captain BenSklaver was buried in family plot in Jewish cemetery in Connecticut.
2009:Shortly aftera border policeman was moderately wounded this afternoon when he was stabbed innorthern Jerusalem near the Shuafat refugee camp, Palestinians hurled rocks atsecurity forces in the area, leaving a policeman lightly hurt.
2009:This eveningarrested police in Dimona two men, a 41-year-old and a 57-year-old, who aresuspected of vandalizing the Uvdat National Park in the Negev on Sunday night.
2010: Center for JewishHistory, Yeshiva University Museum and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research arescheduled to present “16 mm Postcards: Home Movies of American Jewish Visitorsto 1930s Poland.”
2010:Avraham Talis scheduled to rule on Yigal Amir’s petition to end his separation from fellowprisoners.Amir is serving a life sentence for murdering YitzhakRabin. Amir says he does not pose a threat to his fellow prisoners because themurder of Rabin was a one-time that cannot be replicated. [Chutzpah- when achild who killed his parents pleads for clemency because he is an orphan.]
2010: Philip Roth"31st book, a novel entitledNemesis-- which involves a polioepidemic in 1940s Newark, N.J. -- is scheduled to come out to day
2010: A documentaryentitled “Nuremberg” scheduled to end its weeklong premier American showingtoday at the Film Forum.This hitherto unseen documentary was madeby Stuart Schulberg, brother of the famed writer Budd Schulberg.TheAmerican public is getting see this informative piece of cinema 62 years afterits creation thanks to the effort his daughter, Sandra Schulberg.http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/movies/29nuremberg.html
2010:Todaysettlers gave new copies of the Koran to Palestinians in a West Bank villagewhose mosque was burned in an attack blamed by Palestinians on settlers.
2011: Rabbi Mindy AvraPortnoy is scheduled to deliver the last lecture in the series “Not Matriarchs:Lesser Known Women of the Hebrew Bible” at the JCC of Greater Washington.
2010: Thanks to the effortsof the Traditional Saturday Morning at Temple Judah, the state of Iowaproclaimed today Raoul Wallenberg Day.
2010: PublicationofWashington: A Life, the prize winning biography of the foundingfather written by Ron Chernow.
2011:“An Israeliscientist won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering a materialin which atoms were packed together in a well-defined pattern that neverrepeats. Recent Nobel prizes have generally split credit for scientificadvances among two or three people, but this year’s chemistry prize andaccompanying 10 million Swedish kronor ($1.4 million) went to a single scientist:Daniel Shechtman, 70, a professor of materials science at Technion - IsraelInstitute of Technology. The citation from the Royal Swedish Academy ofSciences states simply, “for the discovery of quasicrystals.” Such regular butnon-repeating patterns, defined by precise rules, have been known inmathematics since antiquity and are found in mosaics of medieval Islamic tiles,but it was thought impossible in the packing of atoms. Dr. Shechtman discoveredthe same type of structure while studying a metal mix of aluminum andmanganese. His notebook recorded the exact date: April 8, 1982. Scientistsbelieved that crystals in materials all contained repeating patterns, and Dr.Shechtman took years to convince others. During the announcement, the Nobelcommittee noted that one colleague said, “Go away, Danny” and that he was evenasked to leave his research group. Quasicrystals have since been found in manyother materials, including a naturally occurring mineral from a Russian river.”(As reported by Kenneth Chang)
2011: The National LaborCourt suspended doctors' resignation letters this afternoon in response to thestate's request for an emergency hearing.
2012: “The Flat”directed by two-time winner of the Israeli Academy Awards, Aaron Goldfinger isscheduled to be shown at The Hamptons International Film Festival this evening.
2012: In Grand Forks,ND, B’nai Israel is scheduled to host a Shabbat Harvest Potluck Dinner withservices lead by Cantor Alane Katzew.
2012:Riots brokeout on the Temple Mount this afternoon as hundreds of Muslim worshipers threwstones at police officers, following a week of confrontations betweenright-wing Jews and Muslims on the site
2012: A 23-year-oldAmerican citizen snatched a security guard’s gun and opened fire in an Eilathotel this morning, leaving one person dead and three others suffering fromshock.
2012: While Congress isin recess until after the November elections, 2 Democratic legislators -SenatorRobert Menendez and Representative Howard Berman – are working on measure tostrengthen the sanctions against Iran.
2013: “DisplacedVisions: Émigré Photographers of the 20th Century,” is scheduled to come to anend.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-his-final-exhibit-an-emigre-curator-gets-personal/
2013: Shoshannah Nambi,a member of the Abadyudaya Jewish community is scheduled to speak on the rolesof the women in her community and the challenges they face this evening atCongregation Adat Teyim in Springfield, VA.
2013(1stofCheshvan, 5774): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
2013: In addition tocelebrating Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan and reading Noah, the traditional minyan atTemple Judah in Cedar Rapids will mark the 40thanniversary ofthe Yom Kippur War which began on October 6, 1973.
2013: A nine yearold girl who was shot in the neck by one or more terrorists at Psagot has beenevacuated to Shaarei Tzedek Hopitals “with what was initially described as aserious injury to her upper body.” (As reported by Gil Roen)
2013: APalestinian vehicle rammed a checkpoint this morning near the settlement ofElon Moreh in the West Bank, injuring two Border Police officers at the siteand speeding away
2013: Slamming the US asarrogant, dishonest, untrustworthy, and controlled by Zionists, Iran’s SupremeLeader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said today that “some” aspects of PresidentHassan Rouhani’s trip to the United Nations General Assembly in New York lastmonth were “not proper.” (As reported by The Times of Israel)
2014: The Center forJewish History is scheduled to host a series of symposiums on archivalresearch.
2014: Maccabi Tel Avivled by former NBA guard Jeremy Pargo, a one-time Cavalier is scheduled to playthe Cleveland Cavaliers coached by Israeli David Blatt, the former coach ofMaccabi Tel Aviv.
2014: “After the DefenseMinistry rejected a US request to establish field hospitals in theEbola-stricken western African countries, the Foreign Ministry announced todaythat it will dispatch three teams — in coordination with the Ministry ofForeign Affairs Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV) — tobordering African nations at risk of infection.” (As reported by MarissaNewman)
2014: The Israel DefenseForces said that its troops opened fire on “suspects” attempting to cross theborder from Lebanon, apparently hitting one and forcing them to retreat.According to UN monitors, the suspects were a Lebanese Army patrol, one of whosemembers was wounded.
2014:The NewYork Timesfeatures reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers includingThe Innovators: How aGroup of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital RevolutionbyWalter Isaacson, The Zone of Interestby Martin Amis andI’llDrink to That:A Life in Style, With a Twistby Betty Halbreichwith Rebecca Paley.
2015(22ndofTishrei, 5776): Shemini Atzeret – In the evening Simchat Torah
2015: The OxfordUniversity Jewish Society is scheduled to hold “a Simchat Torah evening servicewith lots of dancing” this evening.
2015(22ndofTishrei, 5776): Seventy-three-year-old producer Larry Brezner who played amajor role in the successful careers of Robin Williams and Billy Crystal passedaway today.(As reported by Margalit Fox)
2015(22ndofTishrei, 5776) Sixty-five-year-old Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, thedaughter of Holocaust survivors, passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/arts/chantal-akerman-belgian-filmmaker-dies-65.html
2016: In honor of theheroism and courage of Raoul Wallenberg, Governor Laurence J. Hogan hasofficially declared October 5th, 2016, as Raoul Wallenberg Day in the State ofMaryland.
2016: “One Week and aDay” and “Atomic Falafel” are scheduled to be shown on the opening night of afilm festival in Washington, DC celebrating contemporary Israeli Cinema.
2016: The University ofLethbridge in Alberta, Canada, announced today that Anthony Hall, “a professoraccused of promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and denying theHolocaust” “has been suspended without pay pending the outcome of an internalinvestigation into possible violations of Canada’s Human Rights Act.”
2016: A rocket firedfrom the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip exploded in the western Negev town ofSderot this morning.
2016(3rdofTishrei, 5777): Fast of Gedaliah
2016(3rdofTishrei, 5777): Thirty-four-year-old Major Ohan Cohen, a pilot with the IAF whowas returing from a raid on terrorist targets in Gaza, died today “afterejecting from his F-16 while attempting to land at the Ramon Air Base.”
2016(3rdofTishrei, 5777): Ninety-five-year-old cutting edge script writer Austin Kalishpassed away today. (As reported by Anita Gates)
2016: “As of today,” Dr.Victor Parsonnet “officially retired as chief of surgery as ‘the Beth,” “69years after he began his internship as what was then called Newark BethIsrael.”
2017(15thofTishrei, 5778): Sukkoth
2017: In “HarveyWeinstein Paid Off Sexual Accusers for Decades” published today Jodi Kantor andMegan Twohey documented the decades long abuse that has ended the powerfulHollywood mogul’s career.
2017: Raoul WallenbergDay
2017(15thofTishrei): Yarhrzeit of William “Bill” Schueller, beloved husband of EleanorSchueller, father of Deb Levin and father-in-law of Mitchell Levin
2017: University of IowaHillel is scheduled to celebrate Sukkoth this evening with the Lutheran CampusMinistry.
2017: The OxfordUniversity Jewish Society is scheduled to host Sukkoth morning service followedby lunch at the Chaplains’ house.
2018: As the day beginsIsraelis will see if today will mark another of the six months of the Friday’sof violence in which Hamas mobs attack IDF forces and breach the border or aday in which the peaceful words of Hamas leader Yehya Sinwar become a reality.
2018(26thofTishrei, 5779): Eighty-four-year-old Herbert David Kleber, the Pittsburgh bornson of Dorothea and Max Kleber and Jefferson Medical College trained physicianwho was a pioneer in the field of addiction treatment passed away today. (Asreported by Katharine Q. Seelye)
2018: Observance ofRaoul Wallenberg Day
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/raoul-wallenberg-3
http://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/stories/wallenberg.html
https://www.ushmm.org/collections/bibliography/raoul-wallenberg
http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/category/wallenberg/tributes/wallenday/
2019(6thofTishrei, 5780): Parashat Vayeilech; Shabbat Shuva.
2019: This evening, inPalo Atlo, CA, the Oshman Family is scheduled to host “Return: A Yom KippurExperience,” featuring “breakout sessions that offer opportunities to turninward and toward one in aother in the spirit of the High Holidays.”
2019: This eveningIsraeli entertainer Isaac Sutton is scheduled to perform “Broadway Israel,” acelebration of Broadway musicals at Feinstein’s/54.2019: In Memphis, TN atTemple Israel, Rabbi Feivel Strauss is scheduled to lead the Torah Studysession preceding Shabbat Morning Services.
2020: The Oshman FamilyJCC is scheduled to present a “virtual conversation with author Rachel Biale”as she talks about her memoirGrowing Up Below Sea Level: A KibbutzChildhood, which is about her life in Israel in the1950s-60s.”
2020: The London Schoolof Jewish Studies is scheduled to host through Zoom a trip to the wilds ofAfrica with conservations Ilana Stern as of the LSJS “Torah Wild Tour.”
2020: As part of theWebinar Series: Jews, Class and History, Professors Tony Michels and AliceKissler-Harris and New York State Senator Julia Salazar are scheduled todiscuss “1910s: Organized Workers.”
2020: The Jewish ArtsCollaborative is scheduled to present online “JLive Art with Audrey Markoff
2020(17thofTishrei, 5781: Third Day of Sukkoth
2020: Jews in Dubai canplan on sitting in Sukkah “builtincoordination with Dubai’s local authorities and security forces which waserected in front of the world’s tallest tower - Dubai’s prominent Burj Khalifatower - and unveiled by the rabbi of Dubai’s Jewish community, Rabbi LeviDuchman.”
2020:As Chol Hamoed begins, it remains to be seen if the clashes between police andthe Ultra-Orthodox flouting the pandemic related restrictions that marked thefirst two days of Sukkoth continue.
2021:S.F.-basedconsul generals of France and Germany, Frédéric Jung and Oliver Schramm, arescheduled to discuss current events, goals for their diplomatic missions in theU.S. and the state of Jewish community in Europe.
2021:Professor Rachel Gross, the author ofBeyond the Synagogue: JewishNostalgia as Religious Practiceis scheduled to discuss how Jewishnostalgia is very often expressed through artisanal delis, picture books, oldsynagogues and genealogy.
2021:The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to present a virtual specialprogram, on “Insurrectionist Threats to Our Democracy.
2021:Israeli President Isaac Herzog is scheduled to his trip Ukraine which is thefirst state visit of his presidency.
2021:The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present, live on Zoom,“Translating History Through Poetry: The Mexican Inquisition and Crypto-JewishMemory.”
2021:As part of its “Speaker Series,” The Jewish Community Center of the North Shoreis scheduled to present Jordan Rich discussing his memoirOn Air: My 50Year Love Affair With Radio.
https://www.amazon.com/AIR-50-Year-Love-Affair-Radio/dp/B08NJR5FJ4/
2021:In California, The Sonoma Jewish Film Festival, a virtual event is scheduled tobegin today.
2022:Haifa, ranked lowest of the 32 teams in the group stage, remains in the cellar,just below Juventus, which it will face in Italy today.
2022:In a tribute to the Jewish vitality that can be found in “small town” America,in Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to host a Reform service and aTraditional minyan
2022: On Yom Kippur Day Kanisse: A Modern Sephardic +Mizrahi Community is scheduled to host Multicultural High Holiday Services atConservative Synagogue of Fifth Avenue on 11 E 11th Street in New York City.
2022(10th of Tishrei, 5783): Yom Kippur– G'mar Chatimah Tovah
2023: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture byMilton Shain on “Fascists, Fabricators and Fantasists: Antisemitism in SouthAfrica: 1948 to the Present.”
2023: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present aperformance by the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble.
2023: The Hebrew language documentary “The Secrets of War”and “The Draughtsman’s Contract” are among the films scheduled to shown todayat the International Haifa Film Festival.
2023: An international group exhibition, “Conflicted,”featuring works by Hadas Amster, Orit Ben, Merav Kamel and Halil Balabin isscheduled to come to an at C24 Gallery.
2023: In Cedar Rapids, the Hadassah Book Club led by NancyMargulis is scheduled to discuss All About Me! My Remarkable Life in ShowBusiness by Mel Brooks.
2023: In New Orleans, the Jewish Community Center isscheduled to host a talk by Walter Isaacson on his latest book Elon Musk.
2023(20th of Tishrei, 5754): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
2024: At Agudas Achim in Coralville, IA, “on Shabbat ShuvahCorvin Greene is scheduled to read “from the Torah for the first time andgiving the D'var on parshat Ha'Azinu.”
2024: Based on previously published reports “somereservists summoned for service amid the intensifying fighting with Lebanon’sHezbollah were unable to reach their bases due to Israel’s prohibition onpublic transportation during the Jewish holidays and Shabbat, leaving thoseabroad without flights home and others with no rides to base.”
2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture byProfessor David Peimer on ‘God on Trial’: Jewish Prisoners Put God on Trial inAuschwitz.
2024: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host an eveningYotam Ottolenghi, the author of Comfort.
2024(3rd of Tishrei, 5785): Shabbat Shuva
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2024: As October 5th begins in the Middle East, Israel isconfronted with fighting a four-front-war following the attacks from Iran. (Editor’snote: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are justproviding a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
2024: As October 5th begins in Israel, an unprecedentedwave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionistpassengers on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United Statesand the Hamas held hostages begin day 364 in captivity while Jerusalem bracesfor more rocket attacks by Hezbollah(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)
