November 20
331 BCE (21st of Kislev, 3431): According to the Talmud, Simeon the Justdestroyed the Samaritan Temple at Mount Gerizim. The Samaritans had undermined the effortsduring the post-exilic period and this move was as much about establishingpolitical sovereignty as it was about wiping out a “high place” intended tocompete with Jerusalem. The victory wasmarked by a minor festival called Mt. Gerizim Day.
284: Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor.Diocletian began a policy of subdividing the various provinces of theRoman Empire into increasingly smaller administrative units. Palestine, the name the Romans gave to EretzIsrael, was divided into three territories: Palaestina Prima including Judea,Samaria, and the coastal plain, Iduemea and Peraea with Caesarea (the one onthe Mediterranean that had played such a key role in the Great Revolt againstRome) as its capital; Palaestina Secunda, consisting of the Galilee and theGolan with Beth-shean (the city to which the ancient Philistines had taken KingSaul’s decapitated body) as its capital; Palaestina Terita consisting primarilyof the Negev with Petra as its capital.In a further division of powers, each of these new subdivisions had amilitary and a civilian head. All of the new bureaucrats who came with thesenew subdivisions took on aura of divinity connected in keeping with their roleas representatives of the Divine Emperor.What it meant for the people of the empire was further subjugation andimpoverishment. Diocletian was also thelast of the Roman Emperors took actively persecute the Christians. His ultimate successor would adopt a policythat represented a 180 degree and would mark even worse times for the Jewishpeople.
542: The Nea Church which contains a the Madaba Map, the oldest survivingoriginal cartographic depiction of the Holy Land and especially Jerusalem aspart of its floor mosaic was dedicated today.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/02/10/jerusalem.road.discovery/index.html?hpt=T2
1194: Palermo, Sicily, is conquered by Emperor Henry VI. By the time ofHenry’s conquest, Jews had been living on the island of Sicily for over athousand years. Jews had been living in Palermo since the sixth century becausewe have evidence that in 590 “Pope Gregory the Great ordered the ecclesiasticalauthorities to reimburse the Jews of Palermo for the damage suffered by theexpropriation of their synagogue.” Furthermore, just prior to the conquest, thefamous traveler Benjamin of Tudela mentioned the Jewish community of Palermo inhis writings.
1272: Edward I proclaimed King ofEngland. Edward is remembered as the English king, who, after stripping theJews of their wealth, expelled them from his realm in 1290.
1316: King John I of France died. Hisfather, Louis X had issued a decree in 1315 allowing the Jews to return. We do not know how John felt about the Jews(or anything else for that matter) since he only lived for five days. We do know that the Jews were allowed toremain in France until the end of the 14th century when they wereagain expelled.
1316: King Phillip V, also called Phillip the Long or Phillip the Tall beganhis reign during which “300,000 men, headed by a deposed priest and a renegademonk began their desultory march to the Holy Land: which included ravaging theJews of Navarre, slaying 6,000 Jews in Estella and laying siege to Verdun wherethe Jews took their own lives rather than the victims of this so-called“Shepherd’s Crusade”
1451: Pope Nicholas V issued an edict empower the bishop of Osma and thevicar of Salamana to appoint new inquisitors to examine the cases of"new-Christians suspected of Judaizing.The inquisitors were authorized to punish the convict, imprison them,confiscate their goods and disgrace them, to degrade even priests and hand themover to the secular arm - a church euphemism for condemning them to theheretic's stake.
1521: All Jewish wine was dumped by Arabs and heavy fines imposed on theJewish community of Jerusalem. The Arabs blamed the Jewish use of wine for asevere water shortage.
1600: Robert Wilson “the Elizabethan dramatist” who “is generally acceptedas the author of The Three Ladies of London,” a play that portrayed Jews in asympathetic light which went against the accepted view of them usurers andShylocks passed away today.
1616: Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of foreign affairs/War. Richelieu was the power behind the throneduring the reign of King Louis XIII. Any decree issued over the signature ofLouis was probably written by Richelieu.While Jews had long been banished from France, exceptions were made. Forexample, when the French captured the city of Metz, a special letter was postedallowing the Jews to remain because their presence was a necessity for the goodof the Kingdom. Furthermore, the banagainst Jews was not enforced during Louis XIII’s reign in his overseaspossessions. Once again, thanks to economic needs, in places such asMartinique, the Jews were allowed to settle while engaged in trade andpracticing their faith.
1657(24th of Kislev, 5418): Manasseh Ben Israel passed away.Manasseh Ben Israel will always be remembered as the Jewish leader whonegotiated with Oliver Cromwell to gain the right for Jews to settle inEngland.
http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/jb-Menasseh-ben-Israel
https://archive.org/details/menassehbenisra00isragoog
http://www.jewish-history.com/Occident/volume3/may1845/menasseh.html
1661: In the United Kingdom, today the Corporation Act 1661 which was designedto keep anyone, including Jews, who were not members of the Anglican Churchfrom holding public office, went into effect.
1685: In Burlington, NJ, Elizabeth Harvey and John Day gave birth toElizabeth Day, the wife of Thomas I. Branson with whom she had 13 children.
1729(10th of Kislev, 5490): Isaac de Sequeira Samuda, a Britishphysician and poet, the first Jew to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society(in 1727) and who in 1728, he gave an oration at the funeral of Haham DavidNieto passed away today after which “he was buried in the Portuguese Jews'"Velho" (Old) Cemetery in Mile End Road, Stepney…”
1738: Amsterdam native Hannah Solomons married Prussian born BenjaminSheftall today in Savannah, GA, after which they had two children, Levi andSolomon.
1766: Birthdate of Rebeca Barnett, daughter of Nathan Barnett and youngersister of Love Barnett
1772: In Philadelphia, PA, Sara Cohen and Henry Marks gave birth to HymanMarks, the husband of Grace Siexas Judah with whom he had 7 children.
1774: Hart Aaron, “a Long Island Merchant” and “Shochet in New York Citymarried Richa Simson today.
1775: In New York City, Rachel Mears and Moses Isaacks gave birth to JudahIsaacks.
1778: In Amsterdam, Belia Meijer Wolfe and Emanuel Levie Duitz gave birth toElias Emanuel Duitz.
1779: Marks Lazarus and his wife gave birth to Benjamin Lazarus who died ininfancy.
1785: “The earliest known Yiddish letter from the United States was writtenby Barnard Gratz of Philadelphia to his brother Michael in London today.
1789: New Jersey became the first state to ratify the amendments to the U.S.Constitution known as the Bill of Rights with its guarantee of Freedom ofReligion. It would take another twoyears for the Bill of Rights to become part of the Constitution. Virginia wouldput it over the top in December of 1791.
1790: Governor of Georgia Edward Telfair authorized a charter for the"Parnas and Adjuntas of Mickve Israel at Savannah" under which thecongregation still operates.
1796: David Levy married Hannah Solomons at the Great Synagogue today.
1799(22nd of Cheshvan, 5560): Seventy-year-old Abraham Ezekiel,the Rotterdam born son of Abraham Ezekiel, the husband of Sarah Ezekiel and the“father of Rose Nathan; Ezekiel Abraham Ezekiel; Catherine Ezekiel; AnnieJonas; Henry Ezekiel; Amelia Ezekiel; Benjamin Ezekiel; Peter Ezekiel and PeterPhilip Ezekiel” passed away today in Portsmouth, Enland.
1808: During a debate on “Jewish emancipatory legislation Friedrich LeopoldFreiherr von Schrötter, the Prussian minister of state and veteran of the SevenYears War, expressed his opinion about the demonstration of “Jewish valor onthe battle field in which he said “The Jew has fiery oriental blood in hisveins and vivid imagination, all indicative of virile courage, when utilizedand carried into practice. He was verybrave in the ancient and middle epochs and even in very recent times” during“the American as well as French Revolutionary Wars. The timidity of the Jews arises, according tomy opinion, from the serfdom in which they are kept and from the contempt inwhich all nations regard them.”
1811: Moses Phillips married Esther Jacobs at the Great Synagogue today.
1814: In London, Annie Jonas, the Exter, England born daughter of Sarah andAbraham Ezekiel and her husband Benjamin Jonas gave birth to George Jonas, the husbandof Rosalie Jonas and “father of Benjamin Jonas; Hebert Jonas; Lucia Jonas;Rosalie M. Jonas; Eleanor Jonas; and Eva Lyons.”
1816: In Mir, Belarus, Yaakov Berlin, a merchant and Torah scholar, and hiswife gave birth to Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin “also known as Reb Hirsch LeibBerlin, and commonly known by the acronym Netziv who was an Orthodox rabbi, dean of theVolozhin Yeshiva and author of several works of rabbinic literature inLithuania and who married Batya-Miriam, the mother of Yaakov Berlin and Rabbi MeirBar-Ilan after the death of his first wife, Reina-Batya, the mother of Rabbi ChaimBerlin, Sarah-Rasha (the wife of Rabbi Rafael Shapiro) and Drerezl (who marriedRabbi Shapira after the death of her sister.)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/naftali-tzvi-yehudah-berlin-the-netziv
1820: Teresa Barbarin and Baruh Jonas, the Devon, England born son of AnnieEzekiel and Benjamin Jonas were married today in New Orleans.
1823: Birthdate of Baruch Hirsch Strousberg, the native of Neidenburg, EastPrussia, who gained fame as Christian convert Bethel Henry Strousberg, theGerman industrialist who lost most of his railway empire following businessreverses that took place after the Franco-Prussian War.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9505E1D6113BE033A25755C1A9609C94659FD7CF
1824: Kitty Etting and Benjamin I. Cohen who were married in 1819 gave birthto Benjamin Cohen who would only live for 13 months.
1825: In Germany Liebman Oppenheimerand Adelheid Loeb gave birth to Salomon Oppenheimer the husband of FannieScheur whom he married in 1862.
1827(1st of Kislev, 5588): Rosh Chodesh
1827: One day after she had passed away, 34-year-old Sophia (Minden) Cohenthe wife of Aaron Cohen, was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1829: The Jews were expelledfrom the Russian cities of Nikolayev and Sevastopol.
1833: Samuel Cohen married Hannah Phillips at the Great Synagogue today.
1836: Seventy-year-old Aaron Lazarus, who had married Ann Levy after hisfirst wife Sophia Lehman had passed away, was buried today in the UnitedKingdom.
1840: Today, forty-three-year-old Mary Eula Heidt, the Georgia born daughterof John George Heidt II and Salome “Sarah” Remshat Heidt and the widow of IsraelShubdrein married Godliff Israel “Gottlie” Nease.
1842: Birthdate of Italian lawyer, editor and political leader Caser Porec.
1842: Morris Lee married Rebecca Duke today in the City of London
1845: Bolette Salomonsen and Zacharias Isaac Levy gave birth to Herman Levywho was buried in Denmark when he passed away in 1895.
1845: In Philadelphia, Clarissa Alman and Joseph M. Asch gave birth toCharles J. Asch, who enlisted in the Union Army in 1862 and later served as “aspecial gent of the War Department in Washington, D.C.”
1847: In St. Louis, Austrian Jewish immigrants Anna Abeles and “wool broker”Charles Taussig gave birth to U.S. Naval Academy graduate and Rear AdmiralU.S.N. Edward David Taussig who was raised as a Unitarian, who was the first ina four generational family that graduated from Annapolis and who played anactive role in the Pacific Theatre during the Spanish American War.
https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-people/t/taussig-edward-d.html
1850: Birthdate of Joseph Samuel Bloch, an Austrian rabbi, who aggressivelyfought August Rohling, one of the leading Austrian anti-Semites – a stand whichresulted in his being elected to the Chamber of Deputies.
1850: In Columbia, SC, Rabbi P.S. Jacobs officiated at the wedding of JacobLevin and Julia Mordecai.
1856: Birthdate of Piemonte, Italy native and coal dealer Pacifico Ghironthe husband of Ida Dolce Foa Ghiron and the father of Anna Ghiron Fubini.
1857: In Westphalia, German Solomon Spiegel and Rosalie Herzberg gave birthto Cincinnati trained lawyer Frederick S. Spiegel, the husband of MinnieSteinberg who became a Judge of Court of Common Pleas in the 1stJudicial District of Ohio.
1858: The Executive Committee of the Representatives of the UnitedCongregations of Israelites of the City of New York addressed a letter toPresident James Buchanan concerning the Mortara Case. The letter includedreference to the letter sent by London Committee of Deputies of British Jews“to their brethren in the United States” seeking their support in having theboy who was kidnapped in Bologna returned to his family. The letter informed the President of the supportbeing offered by several European nations and of plans to hold a public meetingto enlist public support in the United States. The committee reminded PresidentBuchanan of the prompt action taken by President Van Buren in 1840 when he wasasked to intervene to aid the persecuted Jews of Damascus and expressed thehope that he would do the same.
1858: At Vienna, Dr. of Jurisprudence Gustav Fruend and Rosa Fruend gavebirth to Dr. of Jurisprudence Hugo Freund.
1858(13th of Kislev, 5619): Hirsch Edelman, the native of WhiteRussia, who worked at Oxford’s Bodelian Library where he produced several workson of the most famous of which was Derekh Tovim: The Path of Good Men,“a compilation of writings by Judah ibn Tibbon and Maimonides along with Arabicand Greek proverbs in Hebrew” passed away today.
1859: In Lancaster, PA, Moses Aaron and his wife gave birth to Israel Aaronthe graduate of the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College whoserved as a rabbi at Fort Wayne, Indiana, before filling the pulpit at TempleBeth Zion in Buffalo, NY.
1859: In Chicago, Jacob Alschuler and his wife gave birth to attorney SamuelAlschuler, the Democratic state legislator who lost in elections for Congress(1892) and governor of Illinois (1900).
1861: Morton and Phebe Phillips Cohen gave birth to Victoria Cohen Wertheim,the wife of Leopold Wertheim and the mother of Fanny Wertheim.
1863: During the Civil War, Philadelphian Albert M. Sigmund completed hisservice as an Assistant Surgeon with the 38th Regiment.
1864(21st of Cheshvan, 5625): Fifty-year old Jacob Ezekiel Lowy,the nation of Austrian Silesia passed at Beuthen where he had been serving asrabbi since 1854.passed away today.
1869: In Kalwaria, Poland, Nehemiah Spectorsky and Hannah Leah Hirschberggive birth to Isaac Spectorsky, the husband of Frances Hurwitz and graduate ofthe “New York University School of Pedagogy” who was superintendent of theEducation Alliance in New York and assistant principal of the Baron de HirschTrade School as well as the editor of the ClevelandJewish Free Press and the author of Yiddish Method of English forImmigrants.
1870: It was reported today that Robert C. De Large, a mulatto with a Jewishfather has defeated Mr. C.C. Bowen in the race for the Second CongressionalDistrict in South Carolina. A Republican, Mr. De Large “combines the shrewdnessof the Jew with the intuitive cleverness of the negro…”
1871: In Vienna, Louisa Wolf and Alexander Gutermann gave birth to CityCollege of New York graduate and humor poet Arthur Guiterman, the husband ofLouisa Wolf and editor of both the Woman’sHome Companion and the Literary Digest who was a cofounder of thePoetry Society of America.
1873(30th of Cheshvan, 5634): Rosh Chodes Kislev observed on thesame day that a partial ellipse took places for the second time in 1873.
1874: Thirty-two-year-old Joseph Naphthaly, the Prussian born son of Samueland Julia Naphthaly and San Francisco lawyer and his wife Sarah, “the daughterof Blaize L. and Pauline Schhmitt” gave birth to Samuel Leon, their first bornchild.
1874: In Allegheny City, PA, Henry and Henrietta (Naumburg) Rosenberg gavebirth to Columbia trained Attorney and “Renaissance man” whose interestsincluded art and poetry who was the husband of Bessie Herman, the son-in-law ofBoston shoe manufacturer Joseph Herman and the father Elizabeth Rosenberg Zeteland Anne Rosenberg, the husband of historian Maxwell Geismer
https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.5380.html
1875: Amelia Strauss, the Charleston, SC born daughter of Fannie and BendixAbraham Weinberg and her husband Alfred Abraham Strauss gave birth to Orangeburg,SC resident Mordechai Straus, the husband of Annie Elizabeth Strauss.
1877: In “Suwalki, Poland,” Louis and Rebecca Goldstein Rosenthal, gavebirth to Elizabeth “Lizzie” Rosenthal who became Elizabeth Feinberg when shemarried Moses Feinberg.
1880: It was reported today that the Purim Association will be hosting aball in March at the Academy of Music “for the benefit of the Hebrew OrphanAsylum.”
1880: In Germany, the members of the government are expected to facequestioning from deputies about anti-Semitic “agitation” that has been takenplace.
1880: According to a referee’s reported filed today described the scam byHenry Cone, Abraham Altman, Emanuel Levi and the Third National that enabledthem to gain control of the Buffalo clothing firm Friedman & Co owned byJacob and Burnet Friedman.
1881: It was reported today that “the King of Denmark has knighted four Jewsin Jutland.”
1881: A resolution was adopted by a group at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum tohold a meeting on November 27 to discuss ways to deal with the unprecedenteddemand on resources being created by the arrival of the wave of immigrants fromRussia.
1883: The Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum held its second annual charity balltonight.
1884: Birthdate of Norman Thomas social reformer and frequent Socialistcandidate for President of the United States.Thomas was not Jewish, but he was active in numerous causes thataffected the Jewish People. He was afounder of the American Civil Liberties Union.As a member of the America First Committee, he opposed America’s entryinto World War II until Pearl Harbor changed his mind. At the same time, he worked to changeAmerican policy during the 1930’s to make it possible for Jewish victims of theNazis to enter the United States.
1885: It was reported today that while the Reform movement has approvedsubstituting Sunday services for Saturday services, such will not be the casein Cincinnati, Ohio. Rabbi Wise, whospoke approvingly of the change said that it was not necessary to make thechange in the Queen City.
1886: Birthdate of Alexandre Stavisky, the Ukrainian born French financerwhose elaborate swindle gave rise to the infamous Stavisky Affair, a scandalthat rocked France in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s.
1886: Birthdate of Hungarian native Szoboszlo Hajdu who in 1895 came to theUnited States where, as James EugeneTischler he later became a Notary Public in Ft. Wayne Indiana.
1886: It was reported today that the recent decision of the Supreme Courtthat “affirmed the illegality of keeping open a shop on Sunday “for the purposeof doing business’” will work an extra hardship on Jewish merchants. The police had allowed them keep their shopsopen on Sunday “on the supposition” that because they observed the Sabbath onSaturday they were not covered by the law.Rabbi Solomon Schindler has already chaired a packed meeting at theColumbus Avenue Synagogue on this subject.The Jews will comply with the law but will work to have the legislaturechange it in the next session.
1886(22nd of Cheshvan, 5647): After having been struck by aHansom cab, 54-year-old artist Rebecca Solomon passed away today.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/solomon-rebecca
http://jwa.org/media/rebecca-solomon-wounded-dove-1866
1887: “Miss Adams, The Writer” published today traces the life and career ofHannah Adams, the first American woman to earn her living as an author. Her works included The History of the Jewswhich was published in 1812. The fulltitle was The History of the Jews from the Destruction of Jerusalem to thePresent Time and it may be the first book on this topic published in theUnited States.
1887: “Reading From Right to Left” published today relied on informationthat first appeared in the Hebrew Journalto speculate as to way Hebrew is read from right to left. “The most pertinent reason lies in the factthat our vision from right to left is much clearer and stronger than it is fromleft to right.”
1887: “Emma Lazarus” published today provided a laudatory obituary of theJewish poet who passed away yesterday.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9505E2DD1639E731A25753C2A9679D94669FD7CF
1887: Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler delivered a lecture to the congregants at TempleBeth-El entitled “Prejudice.”
1888: A concert was given tonight at the Metropolitan Opera House to raisemoney for the Aguilar Free Library, an institution supported by the leadingJews of New York City.
1888(16th of Kislev, 5649): Forty-seven-year-old Mitchell J.Asch, the “son of Clarissa and Joseph M. Asch” and the husband of “ManuellaAsch” passed away in New York.
1888: As the Third Republic continued to be torn apart by competing factions“Count Munster, the German Ambassador in Paris” reported to his government inBerlin that Baron Hirsch, the Jewish financier and philanthropist was willingto put “a few million” down in support of General Ernest Boulanger “the man onWhite Horse” who had risen to power originally with the support of one of thesons of the former Orlean kings.
1888(16th of Kislev, 5649): Simon Lederer, a prominent New York merchantpassed away today. Born in Austria in1823, he came to the United States in 1857 where he pursued a 17-year career inthe tobacco business first with GustavResiman and then as a partner in Bondy& Lederer. A life-long bachelor, he was a generous but modest supporter ofJewish charities.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9502E0DD1330E633A25751C2A9679D94699FD7CF
1889: Gustav Mahler’s 1st Symphony premiered. Mahler was born Jewish and was stillnominally Jewish when he wrote the First Symphony. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1897 sothat he could become Director of the State Opera.
1889: Birthdate of “German textile merchant and manufacturer Karl Amson Joelwho fled the Nazis via Switzerland and Cuba and was the “grandfather ofconductor Alexander Joel and musician Billy Joel.”
https://www.revolvy.com/page/Karl-Amson-Joel
1889(26th of Cheshvan, 5650): Sixty-seven-year-old Dutchbibliographer Meyer Roest who “tovarious Jewish periodicals, such as the Dutch Spectator and the TaalkundigMagazin, and edited the (non-Jewish) Navorscher and Israelietische Nieuwsbodefor several years and whose best known work is Catalog der Hebraica und Judaica aus der L. Rosenthal'schenBibliothek passed away in his native Amsterdam today.
1890: As the “run” on Citizens’ Saving Bank, located on the Lower East Sidewith a large number of poor, Jewish depositors, it was suggested “that ChiefRabbi Joseph be invited to examine the thousands of dollars in the bank’s vaultand then tell his people what he had seen” – a move that the Bank Presidenthoped would reassure the depositors and end the run.
1890: In Richmond, VA, “Philip and Mary (Meyer)” gave birth to dentist HarryBear, the first graduate of the School of Dentistry at Virginia CommonUniversity to serve as its dean and the husband of Betty Gellman.
https://dentistry.vcu.edu/about/history/
1890(8th of Kislev, 5651): On his 65th birthday, SalomonOppenheimer the German born so of Liebman Oppenheimer and Adelheid Loeb and thehusband of Fanni Scheur passed away today.
1892 (1st of Kislev, 5653): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1892(1st of Kislev, 5653): Seventy-two-year-old Haim NathanDembitzer the Galician rabbi and historian who worked with historian HeinrichGraetz and whose publications include abiography of Tosafist Joseph Porat passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5075-dembitzer-hayyim-nathan
1892: The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Military Band is scheduled to play at afundraiser at Central Turn Hall which will be addressed by Ferdinand Levy,Judge Henry M. Goldfogle and Dr. Herman Baar, the Superintendent of the HebrewOrphan Asylum
1892: A service is scheduled to take place this morning at Temple Emanu-Elto honor the memory of the recently deceased Seligman Adler.
1892: “Russia and Her Jews” published today provided a detailed review ofThe New Exodus” a Study of Israel in Russia by Harold Frederic a Presbyterianjournalist and novelist who had just visited Russia last summer.
1893: As of today, the tenants at 59, 61, 63, and 65 Moore Street, all ofwhom are Russian Jews are to have vacated the premises as ordered the CivilJustice in Brooklyn.
1894(21st of Cheshvan, 5655): Russian born pianist and composer AntonRubinstein passed away.
1894: Birthdate of English film composer and music director, Louis Levy.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/942790-Louis-Levy
1894: Pauline and George Washington Milius gave birth to Dorothy Milius whowas the wife of “Sidney Walter Kaufman and Sidney Salkey.”
1894: Birthdate of Austrian screenplay writer Carl Mayer who, with the riseof the Nazis, fled to Britain where he would die young, poor and almostcompletely forgotten.
1893: Twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate Jesse Isidor Straus, the NewYork born son of Isidor Straus and the former Rosalie Ida Blum, who became anexecutive with Macy’s and American Ambassador to France, today married IrmaNathan.
1896: Birthdate of Rakhel Peisoty, the native of the Ukraine who gained fameas American labor leader Rose Pesotta best known for her work with theInternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/pesotta-rose
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/pesotta-rose
1896: “Rachel Frank of California, the only woman rabbi who is famous as the‘inspired prophet’ of the Jews on the Pacific Coat” was “conspicuous among” thedelegates at the just completed first convention of the National Council ofJewish Women
1896: As the first convention of the National Council of Jewish Women duringwhich Joseph Jacobs of London gave an address in which he said “The future ofJudaism lies with Jewish woman and Mrs.Hannah G. Solomon was elected president came to an end.
1896: Professor H. L Sabsovich, the General Agent of the Baron De HirschFund officiated at the service dedicating the new synagogue in Woodbine, NJ, acolony settled by Russian-Jews. Theservice included a sermon in English by Rabbi Sabato Morris and a sermon inGerman by Dr. Morris Jastrow.
1896: Birthdate of Russian author Yevgenia Ginzburg.
1896: In Brooklyn, Joseph and Sarah (Lewis) Spero gave birth to economistand political scientist Sterling D. Spero, the holder of a doctorate fromColumbia best known for “co-authoring a famous study of African-American laborhistory entitled The Black Worker, the Negro & the Labor Movement.”
1897: The Beni Zion Association is scheduled to meet at 7:30 p.m. in King’sHall in London
1898: A summary of the United Hebrew Charities report for October revealedthat the society had processed 2,243 applications that would provide assistanceto 7,477 people.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50B17F73A5D11738DDDA90A94D9415B8885F0D3
1898(6th of Kislev, 5659): Fifty-five-year-old Emanuel Wachenheimpassed away tonight at Bellevue after he had beenbrought to the hospital fromthe Victor Hotel where he had registered under an assumed name and may havetried to take his own life.
1898: Birthdate of “German textile merchant and manufacturer” Karl AmsonJoel, “the grandfather of conductor Alexander Joel” and pop-star Billy Joel.
https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Karl%20Amson%20Joel&item_type=topic
1898: Vice President Maruice Untermyer gave the opening address at theformal dedication of “the new home of the Hebrew Infant Asylum” which includeda performance by the Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band.
1899: Birthdate of Bohemian born “Austrian-Swiss ophthalmologist andinventor” Hans Goldmann. (Some sources show November 21 as his birthdate)
http://www.ascrs.org/honorees/hans-goldmann-md
1900: Mrs. Alexander Kohut presided over the monthly meeting of the Councilof Jewish Women in the vestry of Temple Beth-El where Miss Annette Kohn read apaper on “The Jewish Problem in New York.”
1901: At the opening meeting of the Second New York State Conference ofCharities and Correction, Rabbi Adolph Radin of the People’s Synagogue andChaplain of the House of Refuge arose from his chair and said, “I wish toregister…my protest in the name of justice and humanity against the action ofthe Juvenile Asylum” to which “Jewish children are sent…and after a briefperiod are sent to Christian families.” He compared this form of proselytism tothe practices of Czar Nicholas II.
1901: A devastating fire broke out in a four-story brick factory building inBrooklyn, the top floor of which was occupied by Isadore Gerber’s sweatshop.
1901: Birthdate of Frankfurt, Germany native Albrecht Joseph, the“playwright, screenwriter and film editor”and husband of Anna Mahler, the daughter of Gustav Mahler, who fled NaziGerman and began working in Hollywood sometimes usings the name “Al Joseph.:
1902: “The Jewish Theological Seminary held its first public gathering thisevening in the hall of the Young Men's Hebrew Association at Lexington Avenuead Ninety-Second Street. Prof. Solomon Schechter, the professor at CambridgeUniversity, England, who is known for his archaeological work in the Genizah ofCairo, made his inaugural address as President of the Faculty of the newseminary.” Dr. Cyrus Adler, President ofthe Board of Trustees, followed with a speech that outlined the development ofJewish educational institutions in the United States.
1903: Birthdate of journalist and co-editor of the Menorah, Herbert Solowwho began as a Bolshevik and ended up working for Henry Luce’s Fortunemagazine, the bible of Capitlism.
1904: It was reported that there hasbeen “increased violence on the part of the part of reservists near the Russianfrontier “including the murder of a “Jewish storekeeper and his wife atBendzin.”
1905: “Says President Can Act” published today includes a challenge byCharles Fleisher a Boston Rabbi to the notion that there is nothing PresidentRoosevelt can do to help the Jews of Russia saying that “if both as anindividual and the representative of 80,000,000 people consecrated to decencyand brotherhood, Mr. Roosevelt express with character vigor the indignantprotest of America, then the Czar cannot choose but take notice.
1905: Oscar S. Straus presided over The National Committee for the Relief ofSufferers by Russian Massacre held a meeting today in Temple Emanu-El duringwhich reports were read by Treasurer Jacob H. Schiff, Secretary Cyrus L.Sulzberger “and the various trade committees that have been soliciting funds.
1905: As of today, the Jewish Relief Fund for the victims of the Russianmassacres has reached the $500,000 dollar mark including $152 from the Jewishcommunity in Hamilton, Ohio, $20 from Congregation Temple Israel in Portsmouth,N.H., $111 from the Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Ybar City, FL and $93from the Orthodox Jews of Wichita, KS,
1905: It was reported today that in England “at a good many churchespreachers have made references to the Russian atrocities” and that a number ofcongregations have adopted “formal resolutions expressing sorrow and shame thatin the name of Christ’s religion and in a Christian county such acts offiendish cruelty have been perpetrated.
1905: It was reported today that National Committee collecting money for therelief of the Russian Jews who are being massacred has raised $498,651including $500 from “the Jews of Bradford, PA,” $200 from Dr. Morris Skalmer,West Colfax Settlement, Denver, Colorado,” $93 from the “Orthodox Jews ofWichita, Kansas and $112 from the Canton Hebrew Congregation, Canton, Ohio.
1906: Thirty-four-year-old award winning“painter and sculptor” Marco Zim , the Moscow born son of Bella MiriamRatner and Jacob Samson Zim, married Minnie Orlo Cohen today.
1906: In New York City, the Fire Commissioner asked the Finance Committee ofthe Board of Alderman for an $8,000 for eight Fire Chaplains and “ $1,000 forHebrew interpreter” because as he saidcan you imagine “an Irishman trying to talk Hebrew to men who can’tspeak English!”
1907(14th of Kislev, 5668): Forty-two-year-old New York Citynative Samuel A. Tuska, the 1884 graduate of CCNY and “member of Heller, Hirsh& Co” who was a trustee of both the Aguilar Free Library society and theSociety for Ethical Culture passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/11/21/104712218.pdf
1907: Birthdate of New York City native Herbert Theodore Bergman who gainedas actor Alan Reed whose career included appearances in such major films as“Breakfast at Tiffany’s but is best known for being the voice of “FredFlintstone.”
1908: The Grand Vizir of Morocco sent a letter to President of the AllianceIsraelite Universelle approving educational work and stating that the newSultan is resolved to protect Jews.
1909: In Berlin, “architect Alfred Breslauer” and “Dorothea Lessing, thedaughter of art historian Julius Lessing gave birth to Marianne Breslauer, thenoted photographer who left Germany rather than have work published under apseudonym and the wife of Walter Feilchenfeldt whom she met in Holland.
https://www.museunacional.cat/en/marianne-breslauer-photographs-1927-1938
1909(7th of Kislev, 5670):Parashat Vayetzei
1909(7th of Kislev, 5670): Mrs. Schore Shapiro passed away today.
1909: The University of Michigan led by halfback Joseph “Joe” Magidsohn,“the first Jewish athlete to win a varsity ‘M’” who was the “first athleteknown to have refused to compete on the Jewish High Holy Days” defeated theUniversity of Minnesota today.
1909: The One-hundredth anniversary of the death of Moses Mendes Seixas wasobserved at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York. Gershom Mendes Seixas was the firstnative-born rabbi in the United States. He was one of seven children of Racheland Isaac Seixas. He was born in New York City on January 15, 1746. He was thefirst rabbi in America to give his sermons in English. He gave sermons whichdealt with Jewish participation in the life of the state and made appeals forsupport of the American Revolution and against the British-Indian raids in theNorthwest Territory. When the council members of Philadelphia made eligibilityfor an assembly seat dependent on professing the divine origin of the NewTestament, he and other Jews fought against this unconstitutional religioustest.
1910: Fifty-eight year old Hungarianborn Rabbi Joseph Zeisler married his second wife Hermine Kafka today in NewYork City.
1910: Twenty-seven-year-old Universityof Chicago graduate ad HUC trained rabbi Gresham George Fox, the Russian bornson Moses and Isabelle (Kuklinsky) who served as the Rabbi for CongregationBeth El in Ft. Worth, TX and found the South Short Temple of Chicago marriedHortense Lewis today.
1911: In Munich, Bruno Walterconducted the premiere of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.
1911: The Hebrew Congress meeting inLemberg, Galicia came to a close.
1911: As American indignation overthe Russian treatment of American Jews in Russia continued to grow, members ofthe “Progressive Order of the West” petitioned Missouri Governor Herbert Hadleyto “write to President Taft” asking him to “take action on the PassportQuestion.”
1911: Missouri Governor Hadley wroteto President Taft “advocating the abrogation of the Treaty of 1832” withRussia.
1911: It was reported today that inCamden, NJ, the Hebrew school will shortly open a course for girls since it nowsuccessfully is conducting three classes for male students.
1911: In Warsaw, “Regina andBenjamin Szymin, a respected publisher of Yiddish and Hebrew Books” gave birthto David Syzmin who gained fame as David Seymour famed photographer andco-founder of Magnum Photos.
http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/16/a-second-look-chims-children-of-war/#1
http://merrill.umd.edu/events/visible-scars-children-and-war-photography-david-chim-seymour
http://museum.icp.org/mexican_suitcase/bio_chim.html
1912: Lee K. Frankel of New York, Simon Rosendale of Albany, and William M.Rosendale of New York attended the second day of New York State Conference ofCharities and Correction at Syracuse, NY.
1912: The Alliance IsraeliteUniverselle New York branch which is led by its President Kaufman Mandellissued an appeal for aid on behalf “of our brethren who have been left homelessand falling victim to Cholera” as a result of the “massacres and devastationsof the Balkan War” in which thousands of more Jews have lost their lives.
1913: Arnold Schoenberg completed the opera "Die glückliche Hand" ("The Handof Fate")
1913: Birthdate of Charles Bettelheim, a French economist and historian andfounder of the Center for the Study of Modes of Industrialization (CEMI).
1913: Birthdate of Leo Hanin, the native of Vilna who found refuge in Chinaand Japan before finally making Aliyah in 1948
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/idcard.php?ModuleId=10006693
1913: Birthdate of Professor Henry A. Fischel, the noted linguist who playeda key role in the founding of the Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University
1914(2nd of Kislev, 5675): Seventy-year-old Lizzie SicherFishell, the Prague born daughter of Daniel and Lizzie Sicher and husband ofFerdinand Fischell with whom she had six children – Arthur, Regina, Samuel,Henry, Daniel and Mamie – passed away today after which she was buried at theNew Mounty Sinai Cemetery in Aftton, MO.
1914: “For the Relief of Jews” published today urged donors makingcontributions to The Central Committee for the Relief of Jews to send them toTreasurer Harry Fischel at the World Building.
1915(13th of Kislev, 5676): In Chicago, Dr. Adolf Decker aphysician and chess champion passed away.
1915: The New York County Chapter of the Red Cross of which Jacob H. Schiffis Treasurer “issued a Thanksgiving appeal for further funds for work inEurope.”
1915: “A Great Thinker” published today described Dr. Cyrus Adler’s view ofhis friend and colleague, Dr. Solomon Schechter of blessed memory whichincluded his statement that Schechter’s “most notable scientific discovery wasthe great find of the Hebrew treasures in the so-called Genizah at Cairo, Egyptwhich was the greatest single discovery of ancient manuscripts that has everbeen made by one man” and that included “the lost original of the Hebrew textof Ecclesisasticus.”
1916: According to reports published today the new facility of the YoungMen’s and the Young Women’s Hebrew Association being built in Brooklyn “is thefirst of its type to provide equal accommodations for men and women” and willbe “equipped with two gymnasiums and swimming pools
1916: Birthdate of Lilian Halpernova, who was transported from Prague in1942 to Ujazdow where she was murdered.
1917: “The Chicago Woman’s Aid” is schedule to “hold its next regularmeeting today at 2:00 p.m. at Sinai Center.”
1917: “Approximately five thousand men and women composing the 1917Committee For Six Thousand” are scheduled to “attend the Opening Dinner Rallyat the Standard Club” this evening which will mark the “launcing of the Ten DayCampaign to raise additional funds for the Associated Charities” in Chicago.
1917(5th of Kislev, 5678): Caroline "Carrie" Goldman Bendel, thedaughter of Lewis and Sarah Peterson Goldman and the wife of Edward HenryBendel passed away today after which she was interred in the IndianapolisHebrew Congregation Cemetery.
1917: As the Empire of Russia collapses, the Ukraine declares itself anindependent republic. In the ensuing civil war, as many as 100,000 Jews mayhave been killed in organized pogroms or by forces competing for control whohad one thing in common --- anti-Semitism.
1917: “The Woman’s Society of Zion Congregation” is scheduled to act as“hostess to the Jewish women of the sixty-three organizations affiliated withthe ‘Chicago Conference’’ this afternoon at the Zion Temple on Ogden Avenue andWashington Boulevard.
1917: Nathan Straus, Henry Morgenthau and Jacob Schiff were among those whoattended a meeting tonight where plans were discussed for the upcoming campaignin which New Yorkers were aiming to raise five million dollars for JewishRelief and for the Jewish Welfare Board in the United Army and Navy.
1917: In Palestine, during the Battle of Nebi Samwil, which was part of theBritish offensive designed to capture Jerusalem, the 75th Divisionadvanced along water-logged muddy roads and seized the villages of Saris andKuryet el Enab which had been held by a rearguard detachment which meant themain body of the Ottoman Army was still waiting for them.
1917: In Johannesburg, SA, those attending “a mass meeting” adopted aresolution “favoring the establishment of a national home for Jews inPalestine” and “thanking the Imperial Government for its sympathy and support”in attaining this end.
1918: In “Palestine Needs Aid” published today an appeal was made for the“contributions of clothing for men, women and children for immediate ship toPalestine” where “an epidemic of pneumonia is threatening the population ofGalilee who are facing the cold weather in a practically naked condition.”
1918: Rabbi Joseph Silverman is scheduled to officiate at the funeral ofCivil War veteran and successful Peoria (Illinois) businessman Captain JosephB. Greenhut this morning at 10 o’clock at Temple Emanuel with burial at SalemField Cemetery.
1919: “A call for men to serve in a unit of expert relief and welfareworkers to aid in the rehabilitation of the Jews in Poland was issued” today “by the Joint Distribution Committee.”
1920(9th of Kislev, 5681): Parashat Vayetzei
1920: Rabbi Max Reichler is scheduled to deliver a sermon this morning on “ThePursuit of Happiness” at Sinai of the Bronx this morning
1920: Twenty-seven-year-old Rabbi Reuben Levovitz, the Minsk born son ofChaim Joseph and Zive Lebe (Mandel) Levovitz who to the United States in 1920where he was a member of Rabbincal Board of New York City and a member of theOrthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada married Zlate Kustonowitz in Minis.
1920: Rabbi Samuel Schulman is scheduled to deliver the sermon this morningat Temple Beth-El at 5th Avenue and 76th Street.
1921(20th of Cheshvan, 5682): Seventy-seven-year-old David ZviHoffmann passed away today in Berlin.
http://seforim.blogspot.com/2012/01/rabbi-david-hoffmann-zl-by-eliezer-m.html
1922: The Conference of Lausanne, one of the many peace conferences held towindup World War I which was covered by Albert Karasu opened today. Born in1885 in Ottoman Salonika, he went to school in Switzerland before returning toIstanbul where he founded Le Journal d’Orient which survived until 1971, 11years before Karasu passed away.
1923: In Springs, Transvaal, Unionof South Africa, Isidore Gordimer, aJewish immigrant watchmaker from Žagarė and Hannah "Nan" (Myers)Gordimer gave birth to Nadine Gordimer. a South African Jewish novelistand writer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in literature and 1974 BookerPrize. Gordimer was educated at anAnglican convent school. Thereafter she studied for a year at WitwatersrandUniversity, but did not complete her degree. During the 1960s and 1970s shetaught at several universities in the United States. She drew praise for herdemand that South Africa re-examine and replace its long held policy ofapartheid. As such, most of her works deal with the moral and psychologicaltensions of her racially divided home country. Her first novel, The LyingDays, was published in 1953. A founding member of the Congress of SouthAfrican Writers, Gordimer has been awarded numerous honorary degrees, as wellas France's Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
1924: Universityof Cincinnati graduate and HUAC ordained rabbi, Dr. Harry W. Ettelson, theholder of Ph.D from your Yale and Lithuanian born son of Miriam Harris andSamuel Ettelson who served as Chaplain in the U.S. Navy in WW I and ledcongregations in Ft. Wayne, Hartford and Philadelphia before assuming theleadership of Temple Israel in Memphis, TN married Nell R. Schwab today
https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/harry-w-ettelson/
1924: Birthdate of mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot. Mandelbrot is a leading proponent offractal geometry. He is Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Emeritusat Yale University and
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/17mandelbrot.html
1925: “Countess Maritza” a silent film with a script by Max Glass wasreleased today in Germany.
1925: In Moscow, Rachel Messerer-Plisetskaya, a silent-film actress and“Mikahil ‘Misha’ Plisetski, a diplomat and engineer” gave birth to “balletdancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress Maya MikhailovnaPlisetskaya.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/russia-mourns-jewish-ballet-rebel-maya-plisetskaya/
1925: Birthdate of Robert F. Kennedywho was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan in 1968 be he was supposedly upsetbecause Kennedy was a supporter of the state of Israel.
1926(14th of Kislev, 5687): Parashat Vayishlach
1926: “Hundreds of delegates representing American Jews in 27 states” are inBoston tonight “for the national conference for the United Palestine Appealushering in the 1927 campaign” to raise ten million dollars.
1927: “At the opening session of the Jewish Agricultural Society’s nightschool at 301 East 14th Street, Gabriel Davidson, general manager ofthe society declared” tonight “that Jews were turning to farming” in the UnitedStates “in larger numbers than before.”
1927: The Jews are neither a race nor a religion; they are a historiccommunity, according to Rabbi Nathan Krass, who delivered the first lecture ofthe current season Sunday Morning Services today on "Why We RemainJews" at Temple Emanu-El, at Fifth Avenue and Seventy-sixth Street”
1927: Today WW I veteran and dental school dropout turned renowned sculptorMax Kalish, the Lithuanian born son of Hannah Levinson and Joel Kalichick whowas raised in Cleveland, OH and who “at the outset of World War II, wascommissioned by the Museum of American History to sculpt forty-eight bronzefigures — one-third-life-size — of those involved in the war effort, includingPresident Roosevelt, his cabinet and other important people” married AliceNeuman with whom he had two sons, Richard and James Kalish.
1928: Birthdate of “Sgt. Alec ‘Moishe’ Freedman,” the native ofStepney-Middlesex who was wounded when the 1st BattalionLeicestershires attacked Hill 317 “on the night of November 6th,1951.”
1928: “For the first time in the history of the Zionist movement in America,150 leaders of the Zionist and non-Zionist facts met at a dinner” tonight atthe Hotel Astor” where “they discussed plans for the intensive development ofPalestine as the national home of the Jews and joined in praising Dr. ChaimWeizmann…for his recent achievement in healing the split between Zionists andnon-Zionists.”
1929:Birthdate of Joyce Beber (née Sacks) the yesihivastudent turned advertising executive who co-founded Beber Silverstein &Partners and created numerous memorable campaigns for the Helmsley group ofhotels, which successfully promoted Leona Helmsley and her hotel chain, but ledto her being hired and fired four times by Helmsley.
1929: Rabbi Judah P. Magnes declares that Palestine must be a place forChristians, Moslems and Jews. He sees Palestine as an international home forpeople of all three faiths and calls for “the renunciation of all ideas ofJewish political domination” along with the development of “cultural Zionism.”
1929: Today, Gertrude Berg's popular radio program, The Goldbergs,about an upwardly mobile American Jewish family debuted on NBC radio. Bergdeveloped the kernel of the show as a series of live sketches to entertainguests at her family's Catskills hotel. It was produced in recurrent runs as adaily 15-minute program on NBC and other networks for nearly two decades beforeshifting to television in January, 1949. On both radio and TV, Berg served asthe sole writer, producer, and star of one the nation's most popular programs.Throughout its 30 years on radio and television, as well as in presentations onBroadway and on film, The Goldbergs dealt explicitly with Jewish life inthe United States, joking about the cultural differences between "oldworld" immigrants and their American-born offspring. Berg's Molly became acultural touchstone, a figure combining old world wisdom, new world commonsense, and a mother's humanity in confronting the perplexities of Americanlife. Over the show's three decades, the Goldberg family moved from a New YorkCity tenement to the Bronx and later to suburban Connecticut, mirroring theupward progression of many Jews into the American mainstream. Although Bergcontinued to produce The Goldbergs into the 1950s, the show's popularitydeclined. The demise of The Goldbergs reflects the homogenizing trend inpostwar American society. As millions of ethnic Americans fled theirtraditional urban enclaves in search of an un-hyphenated, simply"American" identity in the suburbs, programming explicitly groundedin ethnic cultures gave way to more all-American shows like Leave it toBeaver and Father Knows Best. The Goldbergs went off the airin 1955.
1930: “A provisional committee of four which will act on behalf of theAmerican members of the Jewish Agency for Palestine has been established,according to an announcement made tonight by Dr. Cyrus Adler, joint chairman ofthe council of the Jewish Agency, through the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.”
1930: “The Rev. Dr. Isaac Landman, editor of The American Hebrew,announced today that Newton D. Baker of Cleveland, President Wilson's Secretaryof War, had been designated as the first winner of the publication's annualMedal for the Promotion of Better Understanding Between Christian and Jew inAmerica.”
1931: “Anti-Semitic attacks occurred today in Vilna, its suburbs and in theneighboring towns of Lida and Trock” and “attacks against the Jews were alsocarried out in Suvalk, Province of Grodno.”
1932: “A unified program consolidating all work for the upbuilding of theJewish National homeland in Palestine was adopted at the conference onPalestine” being held in Omaha, NB, “today which leaders of seven nationalJewish organizations attended and where Professor Gustav Klausner of St. LouisUniversity was elected “president of the newly consolidated central andsouthwestern divisions the Zionist Organization” which “embraces thirteenstates.”
1933(2nd of Kislev): Rabbi Moses Mordecai Epstein, author of LevushMordecai, passed away today.
1934: Lillian Hellmann’s "Children's Hour," premieres in New YorkCity.
1934: The Hartford Symphony Orchestra, which Fritz Mahler served as musicdirector from 1953-1962 performed for the first time tonight.
1934: At their home at 145 Central Park West, Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Gevirtzhosted a dinner honoring “Judge Otto A. Rosalsky and the dinner committee ofthe Bar Mitzvah celebration of the Jewish Education Association during which“Judge Rosalsky was installed as the acting president of the association.”
1934: After Nazi students interrupted his lectures, Felix Hausdoff stoppedteaching his Calculus III course during the winter semester.
1935: Benito Mussolini, Hitler’s partner in the original “Axis of evil”“declared government control of all the gold in Italy.”
1935: In Michigan, MiriamMeckler-Horowitz, a piano teacher, and Ben Meckler, an English teacher, inDetroit, gave birth to Ruth Meckler who gained fame as pianist Ruth Laredo.
1935: King Levinsky, who had recently been knocked out by a youthful JoeLouis, “fought professional wrestler Ray Steele in a bout that attractednational interest.”
1936: William Green, the President of the American Federation of Labor today“protested again the persecution of the Jews in Germany by the Hitlergovernment voicing indignation against the attacks on a race which hadcommitted no wrong and which, during the centuries, ‘has made its contributiontoward freedom and the spiritual welfare of the world.’”
1936: At Temple Emanu-El, Rabbi Samuel H. Godenson is scheduled to deliver asermon on “The Stone That Became the Altar.”
1936: At the Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall, author Marvin Lowenstein isschooled to deliver an address on “The Jews of Germany.”
1936: At Temple Rodeph Shalom, Rabbi Louis I Newman is scheduled to delivera sermon “Where is the Gates of Heaven?”
1936: In Perth Amboy, NJ, Murray Goldstein and the former Evelyn Bier gavebirth to Charles Arthur Goldstein a successful attorney who worked to recoverHolocaust art.
1936: Today, Premier Benito Mussolini sent money and an invitation to cometo Italy to the Polish-Jeish student Janien Berg, who has been unable to finishhis studies” in Warsaw “because of anti-Semitic riots.
1937(16th of Kislev, 5698): Parashat Vayhishlach
1937: In Detroit, Michigan, “Miriam Meckler-Horowitz, a piano teacher, andBen Meckler, an English teacher” gave birth to Ruth Meckler who gained fame asconcert pianist Ruth Laredo, the wife of violinist Jamie Laredo.
1938: In Schenectady, N.Y., H. Edwardand Shirley (Diamond) Weinstein gave birth to Tufts University educated Dr.Ronald Winstein, a pioneer in telepathology, which enables specialists torender diagnoses and other medical opinions from afar using telecommunicationstechnologies, the husband of Mary (Corabi) Weinstein with whom he had twochildren, Katherine and John. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
Dr.Ronald Weinstein, Telepathology Pioneer, Dies at 83 - The New York Times(nytimes.com)
1938: Father Coughlin made the first of his many anti-Semitic attacks on hisradio show. Using Nazi documents, American radio commentator Father CharlesCoughlin contends that Jews are responsible for Russian communism and forGermany's problems. All of Coughlin's radio programs are approved by hisarchdiocese as not contradicting Catholic faith or morals. Some Catholicsprotest Coughlin's broadcasts, including Chicago's Cardinal George Mundelein,but most of the American Church is silent.
1939: In what had been Poland, the Nazi Generalgouvernement blocked all bankaccounts held by Jews. Withdrawals were limited to thirty dollars per month.
1939: In a letter bearing today’s date sent to Representative Martin Dies,Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on un-AmericanActivities, Harry A. Jung, honorary general manager of the American VigilantIntelligence Federation wrote that he had never corresponded with Oscar C.Pfaus, “director of a Nazi propaganda agency called Ficte Bund” or “anyone elseabout going on any publication board for an alleged Nazi magazine”
1940: Britain announced a more stringent policy aimed at Jews trying toenter Palestine illegally. Jews found onships running the British blockade will not be allowed to enter Palestine. They will be taken to an undeterminedcolonial destination where they will be imprisoned until the end of thewar. At that time, there finaldestination, which will not be Palestine or the site of the imprisonment willbe determined.
1940: The Jewish Agency informed Prime Minister Churchill of the inhumaneconditions under which Jewish detainees are being held on the island ofMauritius.
1940: In Manhattan, attorney Walter J. Loria and his wife Ruth gave birthJerry Loria, the art dealer who bought the Miami Marlins major league baseballteam.
1940: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joiningthe Axis Powers. This is the first step on the long road which will belatedlybring the Holocaust to the Jews of Hungary including Nobel Prize Winner ElieWeisel.
1940: In Vienna, in his talk with Hitler Hungarian Prime Minister Teleki“brought up the Jewish question” saying “that when peace was concluded the Jewswould have to be moved out of Europe” to which Hitler “replied that he regardsthe solution of the Jewish question for Europe as one of the biggest problemsof peace”
1941(30th of Cheshvan, 5702): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1941(30th of Cheshvan, 5702): Approximately 7000 Jews from Minsk,Belorussia, are killed at nearby Tuchinka.
1942: Today, Samuel Margoshes, editor of the New York City Yiddish newspaperThe Day wrote in today’s “issue of the Congress Weekly, a publication of theAmerican Jewish Congress” that “the American public at large is still laboringunder the misapprehension that by that both the New York Times and itspublisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger speak for most, if not all Jews.”
A Tragic "Fight in theFamily": "The New York Times", Reform Judaism and the Holocauston JSTOR
1942 (11th of Kislev, 5703): Rechaviah Lewin-Epstein, who was in charge ofthe economic work of the American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs diedin Cairo today at the age of 49 while on his way to Palestine to continue hiswork. Mr. Lewin-Epstein, the son ofauthor and Zionist leader Elias W. Lewin-Epstein, established The Bureau ofAmerican Economic Committee for Palestine an organization he headed until 1938. He returned to New York in 1939 after he had“facilitated the settlement of thousands of refugees in agriculture, industryand trade” in Palestine.
1942: U.S. premiere of “Strictly in the Groove” featuring Shemp Howard
1942: Birthdate of folk singerNorman Greenbaum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPPlGFh6OpQ
1943: Facing withering fire from Japanese artillery and machine guns, U.S.Marines land on Tarawa. This bloodybattle provided part of the backdrop for “Battle Cry,” the World War II novelby Leon Uris.
1943: This afternoon several hundred residents of Tel Aviv protested thesearch that had been carried out at Ramat Hakovesh. The protesters also demanded the release ofmen who had been arrested during the search.
1943: After 36 performances at the Plymouth Theatre, the curtain came downon “The Naked Genius,” a play produced by Mike Todd.
1943: “Winged Victory,” a play originally created and produced by the U.S.Army Air Forces during World War II as a morale booster and as a fundraiser forthe Army Emergency Relief Fund” with a script by Moss Hart that “tells the story of a group of recruits strugglingto make it through pilot training” opened in New York at the Forty-FourthStreet Theatre today and became a smash hit, playing to over 350,000 people in226 performances.
1943: Madeline Dreyfus who had chosen to remain in France as part of theResistance instead of joining most of her family in the United States was sentto Auschwitz. Her grandmother Lucie Eugénie Hadamard, Colonel Dreyfus’ widowstayed with her. She would be hidden ina convent, survive the war and not pass away until 1945.
1943: Eight days after his 38th birthday, Kieff native JosephNarodetzky was on a convoy headed for Auschwitz.
1943: The Nazis auctioned off the furniture and household possessions of thefamily of Isak Plesansky in an example of how the property of Norwegian Jews“mysteriously” disappeared.
1944: Forty-five-year-old anti-Nazi resistance leader Leo Drabent who hadbeen arrested by the Gestapo along with his wife and eight other comrades was”guillotined at the Brandenburg-Gorden Prison” today.
1944(4th of Kislev, 5705): Havivah Reik and Rafael Reiss, together with agroup of captured Jews, were murdered in the Kremnica forest by the Germans andtheir Slovakian fascist collaborators. They dumped the bodies into a largeditch that served as a mass, unmarked grave.
1944: “Thespecial People’s Court sentenced “Hans Neumann, Leo Drabant, hiswife along with eight other resistance members” “to death because they had‘attempted to destroy the resistance of the German People…”
1944(4thof Kislev, 1944): Twenty-six year old Madeleine Levy, the daughter of Jeanneand Pierre-Paul Levy died today at Auschwitz.
1944(4th of Kislev,5705): Haviva Reik was capturedand executed by the Nazis and members of the Ukrainian Waffen SS. Born in 1914,she was one of four volunteers from the Yishuv in Eretz Israel who parachutedinto Slovakia to help the uprising against the Nazis. In September 1944 shesucceeded in helping the Jews who were left in Banska Bystresis. When it fellthey moved into the mountains with other Jewish partisans. Kibbutz LahavotHaviva and the Givat Haviva center are dedicated to her memory.
1945: Twenty-four Nazi leaders went on trial beforean international war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg in which Colonel BenjaminKaplan, “who later became a Harvard law professor and served nine years on theMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court” played a key role in crafting theindictment.
1945: Birthdate of Deborah Eisenberg, an American short-story writer, actorand teacher who is the long-time companion of actor Wallace Shawn.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/books/review-your-duck-is-my-duck-deborah-eisenberg.html
1945: In Oceanside, NY, clothing store owners William and Bettina (May)Barasch gave birth to Bettina Barash who gained fame as “Bettina Plevan, a toplitigator who made her name defending employers in sexual harassment and genderdiscrimination cases, and who helped pave the way for women to advance in thelegal profession after shattering glass ceilings herself.” (As reported byKatharine Q. Seelye)
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/bettina-plevan-obituary?pid=200514348
1945: Joseph Newman wrote to the War Office today to ask why the Gestapo hadreleased Denise Desvaux so quickly, how did they know that Isidore Newman was aBritish officer and had she betrayed him to the Nazis.
1946: As tensions rise in Palestine, a bomb exploded in Jerusalem.
1947: The New York Times includesa review of The Victim, Saul Bellow’s novel about Asa Leventhal, “afrightened and lonely, man.”
1947: "Meet thePress" makes network TV debut on NBC. The popular television news showbegan as a radio program in 1945, produced by Lawrence Spivak. A panel of fournews people interviewed a prominent leader of the day. When the show shifted to television, Spivakwas the permanent panel member and some time served as moderator.
1947: Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," premieres inNew York City.
1947: It was reported today that Lessing J. Rosenwald, the President of theAmerican Council of Judaism, has expressed his strong opposition to “plans toestablish the American Jewish Conference on a permanent basis to coordinate allJewish activities in this country.” TheAmerican Council of Judaism was a leading anti-Zionist Jewish organization inthe United State.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9804EED9113AE233A25753C2A9679D946693D6CF
1947: British diplomat Sir AlexanderCadogan delivered his country’s response to United Nations General Assembly’sCommittee on Palestine.
1948: “The Little Ballerina” a British drama featuring Anthony Newley wasreleased in Sweden today.
1948: In New York City, “high school counselor Claire Masure” and herhusband who was a pharmacist gave birth to actor Richard Masur who “served twoterms as president of the Screen Actors Guild.”
1948: “An unarmed RAF photo-reconnaissance De Havilland Mosquito of No. 13Squadron RAF was shot down by an Israeli Air Force P-51 Mustang flown byAmerican volunteer Wayne Peake as it flew over the Galilee towards HatzorAirbase. Peake opened fire with his cannons, causing a fire to break out in theport engine. The aircraft turned to sea and lowered its altitude, then explodedand crashed off Ashdod.” Both members of the crew were killed. (So much for themyth of British neutrality in the Middle East.
1948: The first preliminary armistice talks begin when William E. Riley,chief UN truce observer, meets separately with Israel Foreign Office officialsand Egyptian commander Fouad Sadeh Bey.
1948: Dr. Philip C. Jessup announces U.S. policy regarding peace talks inthe Palestine including a proviso that any changes in Israel’s boundaries mustbe agreed to by the Jewish state and a willingness to examine some parts ofCount Bernadotte’s plan including the internationalization of Jerusalem.
1949: The Jewish population of Israel reached one million.
1949: “The Austrian-born Joseph Floch who has been painting in” the UnitedStates “for a nearly a decade is exhibiting recent work at the galleries of theAssociated American Artists” in what is his third one-man show. (Editor’s note:What is left unsaid is that Floch was Jewish, and he came to the United Statesto escape the Nazis)
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/11/20/84287127.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/5/resources/14365
1951: Lewis L. Strauss addressed the second annual convocation of the JewishTheological Seminary in New York City.Dr. James Conant, President of Harvard, Dr. A. Whitney Griswold,President of Yale and Arthur Hays Sulzberger, president and publisher of TheNew York Times, received honorary degrees of Doctor of Letters. (Sulzberger wasthe Jewish member of the trio).
1951: Dr. Simon Greenberg, vice chancellor of the Jewish TheologicalSeminary conferred the degree of Doctor of Hebrew Literature on Rabbi ShragaAbramson, a visiting lecturer on the Talmud.
1951(21stof Cheshvan, 5712): Seventy-five-year-old Russiannative Philip Davis, whose education at the University of Chicago, Harvard and Boston University Law School led him intothe fields of social work, the law and motion pictures where he served as thePresident of the National Motion Bureau “from 1914 to 1940” passed away today.
1952: The Slánský trials- a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials- began in Czechoslovakia. The Slansky trials take their name from RudolfSlansky. “A veteran of revolutionary ofJewish origin, he had served as Secretary of the Czech Communitys Party. Slansky was accused of spying for Americanimperialism, for the State of Israel and for the Zionist movement; allegedly hewas a link in a chain of treachery” designed to undermine the authority of theSocialist Revolution i.e. Stalin and the Soviets. “Fifteen years later this affair wasofficially declared to have bee a despicable slander, the whole affair havingbeen fabricated by Soviet security agents working in Czechoslovakia.”
1955: It was reported today that City College has received a bequest of$6,000 from the late Eugene H. Hoeber, the nephew of “the late Professor AdolphWerner, a City College graduate of the Class of 1857, a City College facultymember from 1857 to 1915 and a twice acting president.
1955: Dr. Cari Alpert, special assistant to Yaakov Dori, president of theTechnion (Israel’s answer to MIT) “said a permanent peace between Israel andthe Arab states would result in the opening of Technion’s doors to Arabstudents.
1957: Morton Wishengrad's "RopeDancers," premieres in New York City. Wishengrad was raised on New York’sLower East Side by his Orthodox Jewish father.Wishengrad was not particularly interested in maintaining his Jewishidentity which was rather ironic because, in 1944, he became the first scriptwriter for the radio show, “The Eternal Light” produced by the JewishTheological Seminary.
1957(26th of Cheshvan, 5718): Seventy-two-year-old Vilna bornCooper Union trained engineer Joseph Halpern, the “director of the Bureau ofPort Planning and Development and the Department of Marine and Aviation, the husband of Ida Halpern withwhom he had three children --- Dr. Seymour, Adeline and Beatrice – passed awaytoday in Brooklyn.
1958: It was reported today that “Dr. Franz J. Kallman of the New York StatePsychiatric Institute is seeking to prove that hereditary physical factors makepersons susceptible to the disease” and “he has found that in schizophreniapatients a certain enzyme regulating the metabolism of blood cells behavesabnormally, possibly keeping the cells from transmitting proper substances tothe substances to the nervous system.”
1959:
1959: CBS broadcast “Time Enough at Last” the eighth show in Rod Serling’s“Twilight Zone” which was directed by John Brahm, a German who left Germanywhen the Nazis came to power.
1960(1st of Kislev, 5721): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1960(1st of Kislev): Seventy-nine-year-old Ya’akov Cohen, the native ofSlutsk who made Aliyah in 1934 and became a prize winning “man of letters” whoreceived the Tchernichovsky Prize for exemplary translation, for translationsfrom the German of the first part of Goethe's Faust and other Goethe's works,Torquato Tasso and Iphigenia in Tauris, as well as a selection of poems byHeinrich Heine” passed away today.
1960: When the White House announced today that James D. Zellerbach wasretiring as U.S. Ambassador to Italy, it released a letter from PresidentEisenhower to the Ambassador in which he wrote “You have served your countrywith a high sense of dedication and purpose of which you should be justlyproud.”
1961: Birthdate of Shaker Heights, OHnative and Temple Kol-Ami confirmand James “Jim” Meririll Brickman “an Americanpop songwriter, pianist and radio host. Brickman has earned two Grammynominations for his albums Peace (2003) for Best Instrumental, and Faith (2009)for Best New Age Album.”
1962: Birthdate of pianist andcomposer Robin Speilberg, the granddaughter of flutist Rubin Spielberg.
http://alextimes.com/2009/10/robin-spielberg-setting-her-life-to-a-s/
1963: It was reported that GeorgeMaislen, the newly re-elected president of the United Synagogue proposed “thata special committee be formed to help the Conservative clarify its philosophyand to present a series of appropriate statements in the field of ritualpolicies” that take into consideration and environments of our time.
1964: The Second Vatican Council, under PopePaul VI, condemned anti-Semitism, declaring that the Jewish people as a wholeare not to be blamed for Jesus' death.
1965(25th of Cheshvan, 5726): Parashat Chayei Sara
1965(25th of Cheshvan, 5726): Forty-two-year-old BrooklynPolytech graduate Boris Sherback who worked with the Textile Workers Union, theMarshall Plan and the Agency for International Development and who in 1946married Doris Hoffman Scherback with whom he had three children – David, Janetand Loren -- passed away today.
1965: In New York, “art dealer” Harold Diamond and “interior designer”Hester Diamond gave birth to Michael Louis Diamond who gained famed the rapper“Mike D.P
1968: In New Jersey, Stephen and Nancy Einhorn gave birth Cornell graduate DavidEinhorn, an American hedge fund manager and the founder of Greenlight Capitalwho “was includedinTimemagazine'sTime 100list of "100most influential people in the world" in 2013.”
1969(10th of Kislev, 5730): Sixty-three-year-old labor lawyer Lee Pressmanwho was accused of involvement with the Communist Party passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=980CE5DA1E3AEF3BBC4951DFB7678382679EDE
1970(21st of Cheshvan, 5731): Eighty-year-old Columbia graduateand JTS trained rabbi, Abraham Aaron Neuman the Austrian born of RachelRose and Max Neuman who in 1898immigrated to the United States where he eventually became President of DropsieCollege and served as Democratic elector in the 1940 presidential electionspassed away today.
1971(2nd of Kislev, 5732): Parsahat Toldot
1971(2nd of Kislev 5732): Seventy-three-year-old KatherineStieglitz, the daughter of photographer Alfred Stieglitz and Emmy Stieglitzpassed away today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Stieglitz#/media/File:Stieglitz-Katherine.jpg
1972(14th of Kislev, 5733): Eighty-year old Jennie Grossinger,the “queen” of Grossinger’s Resort Hotel passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/grossinger.html
1973(25th of Cheshvan,5734): Forty-eight-year-old author and songwriter Allan Sherman whowrote the popular musical satire CampGranada passed away.
http://jangle04.home.mindspring.com/sherman3.html
http://users.bestweb.net/~foosie/sherman.htm
1974: “In The Boom Boom Room” directed by Joseph Papp and co-starring EllenGreene and Helen Hanft opened today at The Public Theatre.
1975: Spanish dictator Francisco Franco passed away. A fascist who aligned himself with the Hitlerand Mussolini during the Spanish Civil War which would be seen as a “dressrehearsal for WW II” Franco refused to join the Axis and remained neutralduring the war. “According to the recentdiscovery of a World War II document, Franco ordered his provincial governorsto compile a list of Jews while he negotiated an alliance with the Axispowers.] Franco supplied Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler with a list of 6,000Jews in Spain, for the Nazis' "Final Solution". However, Franco builtno Jewish concentration camps on Spanish territory, nor did he voluntarily handJews over to Germany. Furthermore, Spanish diplomats extended their diplomaticprotection over Jews in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the Balkans
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/20/franco-gave-list-spanish-jews-nazis
1975: “The arrest of Boris Zaturensky, 33, in Minsk is reported. Zaturenskywas arrested on charges of buying and selling gold coins, not long afterhis application to emigrate to Israel.
1975: A fortnightly scientific seminar, similar to the one in Moscow, isbegun in Kiev with the participation of 15 Jewish scientists, most ofwhom were refused exit visas to Israel.
1976(27th of Cheshvan, 5737): Parashat Chayei Sara
1976: “Dorothy Schiff Agrees to Sell Post” published today described thedecision to sell the venerable afternoon New York newspaper to AustralianRupert Murdoch including information that was found Jeffrey Potter’s biography Men,Money and Magic which appeared last month.
1977: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to addressthe Knesset, Israel's parliament.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/sadat_speech.html
http://www.historycentral.com/Israel/1977SadatComesToIsrael.html
1978: The funeral of Judge Leo F. Rayfel is scheduled to take place today at2 pm in Farmingdale, Long Island.
1979: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of theKaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudigovernment receives help from French Special Forces to put down the uprising. Anybody who was paying attention would havenoted that violence in the Middle East has many causes that have nothing to dowith Israel and the conflict betweenSunnis and Shiites should be a real matter of concern
1981: “Israeli President Yitzchak Navon appealed to a number of Europeanheads of state to intercede with theSoviet Union to allow Dr. Alexander Paritsky to immigrate to Israel.:
1982(4th of Kislev, 5743): Parashat Toldot
1982: Andy Kaufman was forever voted off of Saturday Night Live by a live phone poll.
1982(4th of Kislev, 5743): Seventy-nine-year-old Abraham LouisPomerantz the Brooklyn trained lawyer who was “deputy chief counsel at theNuremburg Trials” and the father of Daniel Pomerantz and children’s authorCharlotte Pomerantz passed away today. (As reported by Edward R. Gargan)
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/21/obituaries/abraham-pomerantz-79-pioneering-lawyer.html
1983: ABC broadcast “The Day After,” a made for television film directed byNicholas Meyer, co-starring Steve Guttenberg and with theme music by DavidRaskin for the first time tonight.
1986(18th of Cheshvan, 5747): ninety-three year old MathematicianAlexander Markowich Ostrowski, the Kiev born son of merchant Mark Ostrowskiwhose “work was mainly, but not exclusively in algebra and number theory, andhe had a great interest in numerical methods as well as abstract mathematics”passed away today in his adopted home, Switzerland.
1987: Jerry Reinsdorf’s Chicago Bulls began a streak of sold out games thatwould only come to an end with the retirement of Michael Jordan in 1999.
1988: ABC broadcast the fifth episode of “War and Remembrance,” “an Americanminiseries based on the novel of the same name written by Herman Wouk”
1989(22nd of Cheshvan, 5750): One-hundred-four year old Universityof Heidelberg educated architect and art historian Rachel Bernstein Wischnitzer,the Minks born daughter of Sophie Halpern and Wladimir Bernstein, the wife of “sociologist,historian and editor of the Russian language of the Jewish Encyclopedia MarkWischnitzer and the mother of Leonard Wischnitzer who fled Nazi Germany in 1938and who after earning a masters degree at NYU’s Institute in 1944 became aprofessor at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University, 1956, passed awaytoday.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/wischnitzer-rachel
https://www.aejm.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Bio-Rachel-Wischnitzer-Ivanov-Sokolova.pdf
1990: Efraim Gur began serving as Deputy Minister of Transportation.
1991: Nadine Brozan described one of those strange coincidences in lifewhere Richard Dreyfus and Michael Burns who lived near each other as childrenboth became involved in projected related to Alrde Dreyfus. Burns authored Dreyfus: A Family Affair,1789-1945 while Dreyfus produced and starred in a film about the French Captainentitled “Prisoner of Honor” that focuses on one of those sought to freeDreyfus, Georges Picquart.
1992: ABC broadcast the episode of “Civil Wars” a legal drama created bySteven Bochco, the son of painter Mimi Bochco and concert violinist RudolphBochco.
1995: In a front page article, The Austin American Statesman reported that a group of
1998(1stof Kislev, 5759): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1998:After having premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, “The Rugrats Movie” with ascript co-authored by David N. Weiss was released in the rest of the UnitedStates today.
1999:In Paris, the 1999 Trophée Lalique figure skating competition which saw GalitChait and Sergei Sakhnovski give Israel a sixth place finish in Ice Dancing,came to an end.
2000:In Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum was nominated to serve as “Secretary of the of theEnvironment of the Federal District” today.
2000(22ndof Cheshvan, 5761): Sgt. Sharon Shitoubi, 21, of Ramle, wounded 2 days ago inthe Palestinian shooting attack in Kfar Darom, died of his wounds today
2000(22ndof Cheshvan, 5761): Miriam Amitai, 35, and Gavriel Biton, 34, both of KfarDarom, were killed when a roadside bomb exploded alongside a bus carryingchildren from Kfar Darom to school in Gush Katif. Nine others, including 5children, were injured.
2001:Toronto native and documentary film maker Avi Lewis, “the great grandson ofMoshe Losz, an outspoken member of the Jewish Bund,” “was featured on” today’s“Life and Times” episode of “The Lewis Family.
2001(5thof Kislev, 5762): Eighty-six year old Joseph Greenberg, the husband of theformer Marilyn Green and the father of LouEllen Barkan and William Greenbergpassed away today.
2002:In “Network Tries to Expand Jewish Nation” published today Mica Rosenbergdescribed the work of the Jewish Multiracial Network in dealing with thechanging demographics of the Jewish people.
https://www.jta.org/2002/11/20/lifestyle/network-tries-to-expand-jewish-nation
2003:Car bombings in Istanbul continues after the initial bombings targeted twosynagogues resulting in the death of 25 people and the wounding of 300 more.
2003:“The Last Samurai” directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick, with a scriptco-authored by Marshall Herskovitz and music by Hans Zimmer was released todayin Tokyo..
2004:“The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” a comedy produced by Barry Mendel and ScottRudin, with a script co-authored by Noah Baumbach and co-starring Jeff Goldblumpremiered in Los Angeles today.
2005: A symposium is held at the American Schools of Oriental Studiesentitled “The Tel Zayit Stone: A New Tenth-Century Inscription from the JudeanShephelah.” A dramatic discovery punctuated this year's excavation season atTel Zayit, Israel, where The Zeitah Excavations recovered a large stone bearingan incised, two-line inscription. The special importance of the stone derivesnot only from its archaic alphabetic text, which hints at formal scribaltraining at the site, but also from its well-defined archaeological context ina structure dating securely to the tenth century
2005: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authorsand/or on topics of special Jewish interest including the paperback edition of OutwittingHistory: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books byAaron Lanksy which recounts the adventures ofLansky, who won a MacArthur award in 1989, as president and founder ofthe National Yiddish Book Center, traveling the world to salvage and catalog aliterature once on the verge of oblivion.
2006: “A rally organized by Anglo students to raise Israeli awareness aboutthe genocide in Dafur is held at Zion Square in downtown Jerusalem. The rally is sponsored by Hatzilu et Amei Dafur (Save the Nationof Dafur) a group composed of Yeshiva and seminary students.
2006: Birthdate of Noah Pozner who would be the youngest victim at the SandyHook Mass Shooting
2007: In Jerusalem, as part of the International Oud Festival, Imad Dalalwho heads the Arabic music department at Safed College presents a program oftraditional and contemporary song.
2007: Prime Minister Olmert is reported to be going to Cairo for a surprisemeeting with Egyptian leaders.
2008: At the conclusion of his three-day trip to Great Britain PresidentShimon Peres is scheduled to meet Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace wherehe will be awarded a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St.Michael and St. George (KCMG), the sixth-most senior award in the Britishsystem, used to honor individuals who have rendered important services inrelation to foreign nations. After an audience with the queen, the presidentwill have a private meeting with Prince Charles, who celebrated his 60thbirthday this week. A meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, at hisresidence at 10 Downing Street, followed by dinner in his honor hosted by theprime minister and his wife in the State Dining Room, will mark the end ofPeres’ first official visit to the UK.
2008: After critical failures in the US financial system began to build upafter mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest levelsince 1997. This is part of the longdescent into what has been termed the worst economic crisis since the GreatDepression that will have a devastating on all Americans, Jew and gentilealike. Many Jewish organizations will beforced to down-size as funding sources dry up.
2008: In a secret ballot House Democrats voted 137-122 to have CongressmanHenry Waxman replace John Dingell as Chairman of the House Energy and CommerceCommittee.
2008: As part of the Live FromLincoln Center series, Jewish, Violinist Gil Shaham, the son of two Israelis,the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and pianist Jonathan Feldman perform thisintimate concert at the Stanley Kaplan Penthouse featuring the music of composerPablo de Sarasate in a panoramic survey of the music of his music on theoccasion of the 100 anniversary of his death.
2008: Poland's capital marked the completion of a massive restoration projectthat marks the borders of the former Jewish Ghetto that was walled in by Nazisoccupiers during World War II.
2008: The 45thanniversary edition of the New York Review of Books which was founded by RobertB. Silvers and Barbara Epstein was published today.
2009: The 92nd St Y inNew York, hosts the Shababa Bakery where you are invited to prepare for Shabbatby squishing, rolling and braiding your very own challah which you can takehome and bake.
2009: At Columbus, Ohio, at Tifereth Israel, Rabbi Unger leads TheMitzvah Initiative which features an unconventional approach to learning thatis a series of open and honest workshops and discussion by participants whichexamine some of the most critical elements of Jewish life. CongregationTifereth Israel is one of over forty Conservative congregations participatingin the Mitzvah Initiative that explores a variety of topics including, TikunOlam, Bikur Cholim (attending to the ill and suffering), and God, Love andMitzvah.
2009: The U.S. State Departmentissued a statement noting “a growing trend of anti-Semitic hate crimes anddiscrimination around the world.” The statement coincided with the appointmentof Hannah Rosenthal to serve as the U.S. State Department’s special envoy tomonitor and combat anti-Semitism. “Theposition has been vacant since GreggRickman left at the end of the Bush administration.”
2010: Sarah Michelle Levin andMelissa Ellen Levin are scheduled to be called to the Torah as B’not Mitzvah atNorth Suburban Synagogue Beth El. Theyare the twin daughters of Gigi Cohen and Michael Levin and the sisters of DanaLevin who celebrated her Bat Mitzvah in the same congregation in November of2008. They are the granddaughters ofZena and David Cohen of blessed memory Mrs. Betty Levin, an ayash chayil parexcellence and Dr. Jacob Levin, of blessed memory.
2010: JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to hold its 30th Fall Fundraiserhonoring Tanya and Stephen Bodzin.
2011: The New York Timesfeatures reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest ofJewish readers including “Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945” by Max Hasting,“Eva Bruan: Life with Hitler” by Heike B Gortemaker, “The Unmaking of Israel”by Gershom Gorenberg and Umberto Eco’snovel, “The Prague Cemetery,” that explores the history of “The Protocols ofthe Elders of Zion.”
2011: “Winston Churchill: WalkingWith Destiny,” a film Narrated by Sir Ben Kingsley, that recounts Churchill'syears in the political wilderness, his early opposition to Adolf Hitler andNazism, his support for Jews, his return to government by the demand of theBritish people and his rise to the Prime Minister's office in 1940, isscheduled to be shown at The Jewish Eye World Jewish Film Festival.
2011: Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper who thePardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem is scheduled to deliver alecture entitled the first in a three part lecture series entitled Rabbi Akiva:The Mystical Prayer of a Legal Authority at Ohr Kodesh in Chevy Chase,Maryland.
2011: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel isscheduled to speak at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa. Emanuel is Jewish. Jefferson and Jackson were not!
2011: Fears of a fuel crisis this morning followed last night's discovery of awater problem in Ben Gurion International Airport's jet fuel
2011:Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu today called for medical residents to returnimmediately to their hospitals as their representatives informed the High Courtof Justice that they were willing to return to the negotiating table and toaccept the court's proposal to appoint a mediator.
2012: TheJewish Community Center of Northern Virginias is scheduled to present the finalpart of the series “The Evolving Views on the Afterlife in Judaism.”
2012:Steven A “Cohen was implicated in an alleged insider trading scandal involvingan ex-SAC manager” today.
2012:Four rockets fired by Gaza-based terrorists exploded near a community in theEshkol Regional Council.
2012: As of midnight, Operation Pillar ofDefense enters its seventh day with the Israeli government holding off on aground offensive in the hope that talks in Cairo will lead to an end to massiveHamas assault on its citizens.
2012:Those living in southern Israel organize demonstrations against plans for acease-fire one of which is to take place in Kiryat Malachi where three Israelishad been murdered by terrorist rockets and one at Ashdod.
2012(6thof Kislev, 5773): Eighteen-year-old Corporal Yosef Partuk and an Arab-Israelicivilian identified as Alayaan Salem al-Nabari were this morning during a mortar attack
2013:Today Noah Pozner would be turning 7 if had not been gunned down last year atSandy Hook Elementary School.
2013:Yosef Mendeolovich is scheduled to discuss his memoir, Unbroken Sprit: A HeroicStory of Faith, Courage and Survival at the Center for Jewish History
2013:Temple Judah is scheduled to host the Hadassah Book Club which will discuss Breakfastat Stephanie’s by Nancy Margolis.
2013:“Inheritance” is scheduled to be shown at the Other Jewish Film Festival.
2013:Joseph P. Franklin a white supremacist who killed at least 8 people and woundedLarry Flynt and Vernon E. Jordant, Jr. in an attempt to start a race war wasput death in Missouri today by lethal injection for have having murdered GeraldGordon outside of a St. Louis Synagogue where this innocent non-Jew wasattending a Bar Mitzvah.
2013: Amid-range missile defense system, intended to close a large gap in Israel’saerial defense readiness, successfully completed an intercept test today, theDefense Ministry announced. (As reported by Mitch Ginzburg)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/missile-defense-system-intercepts-target-in-second-live-test/
2014(27th of Cheshvan):“2104 BCE (1657 from Creation), as the Flood waters finally subsided, Noah, hisfamily and the animals left the Ark. On this day, God commanded them torepopulate and resettle the earth
2014(27th of Cheshvan,5775): Ninety-one-year-old Samuel Klein whose founding of the Casas Bahai chainof Department Stores earned him the nickname “the Sam Walton of Brazil” andwhose philanthropies included major contributions to the Lubavitch Yeshiva inthe Born Retiro neighborhood passed away.
2014: “The Palestinian Authority hasarrested some 30 suspects over the last 72 hours thought to be planning terrorattacks, primarily against settlers, as well as operatives involved inincitement against Israelis, senior Palestinian sources told The Times ofIsrael today.”
2014: The American SephardiFederation is scheduled to present: “Mizrahi Music, Piyyut, and the Search forIsraeli Identity”
2014: “Authorities intercepted amassive shipment of tens of thousands of firecrackers, as well as knives,Tasers and other weapons today that police say was en route to rioters in EastJerusalem.” (As reported by Tamar Pileggi)
2014: Jerry Seinfeld backtracked onhis recent self-diagnosis of autism today, saying he was not on the spectrumbut only “related to it on some level.”
2014:“A Nazi Roundup, Chaotically Evoked In 'La Rafle'” published today provides aan informative review of movie that “chroniclesthe Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of July 1942, in which roughly 13,000 Jews living inParis (4,501 of them children) were removed from their homes by French policeand sent to detention camps in the countryside, before being deported toAuschwitz.”
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/164879883/a-nazi-roundup-chaotically-evoked-in-la-rafle
2014: The Center for Jewish Historyis scheduled to host a panel discussion “Towards Life: Reviving Jewish Life inContemporary Poland.”
2014: In the Senate, the MajorityLeader “filed for cloture on Noah Mamet’s nomination to serve as U.S.Ambassador to Argentina.
2014: In Melbourne, “A Match Made inHeaven” and “Zero Motivation” are scheduled to be shown at the JewishInternational Film Festival.
2014: “Unorthodox” is scheduled to beshown at the 18th UK Jewish Film Festival
2014: The 16th Street BookClub is scheduled to discuss The World to Come by Dora Horn
2015: After having premiered atCannes, “Carol” featuring Carol Brownstein as “Genevieve Cantrell” was releasedtoday in the United States
2015: “Soviet genocide in Ukraine” byRaphael Lemkin, the Polish Jew who “coined the term genocide” was added toRussian index of "extremist publications", whose distribution inRussia is forbidden
2015: Jeremy Katz, the Director ofthe Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History at the Breman Museum isscheduled to host a tour providing an in-depth look at the Breman’s latestSouthern Jewish History Exhibition Eighteen Artifacts: A Story of JewishAtlanta.
2015: Broadway previews of the latestproduction of Fiddler on the Roof are scheduled to begin this evening.
2015: The Oxford University JewishSociety is scheduled to host “Schnitzel and Shmooze” Friday night dinner.
2015: “The Hunger Game:Mockingjay-Part 2 produced by Nina Jacobson was released today in the UnitedStates.
2015: In a post on Facebook today,“said he planned to take two months of paternity leave after his daughter isborn this year” because “studies show that when working parents take time to bewith their newborns, outcomes are better for the children and families.”
2016: “Alone in Berlin” and isscheduled to be shown on the last evening of the 20th UKInternational Jewish Film Festival.
2016: “The Tenth Man” and “The LastLaugh” are scheduled to be shown at Brisbane as part of the JewishInternational Film Festival
2016: “50 Children: The RescueMission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus” is scheduled to shown as part of the Global Dayof Jewish Learning.
2016: “From Silence,” a new one-actplay by Anne Marilyn Lucas that explores how the trauma of the Holocaust getspassed on from one generation to the next is scheduled to be performed for thelast time at the Theatre for the New City, the Lower East Side theatre that hasgained a reputation for staging radical political plays… (As reported byCathryn J. Prince)
2016: The Skirball Center isscheduled to a mock trial “The People vs. King David” with Prosecutor ChrisCuomo and Alan Dershowitz defending the Jewish monarch.
2016: A screening of “Mir Kumen On”an “educational film from 1936 which is one of the precious few survivingmovies evoking Jewish life in Poland prior to its poisoning from external,racist forces” is scheduled to be shown at MoMA today. (As reported by JordanHoffman)
http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=cfb8b7e18d631d09f248bc525&id=c1a35cb9c2&e=e3800374ef
2016: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authorsand/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The People and theBooks: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature by Adam Kirsch, Moonglow by MichaelChabon and Eleanor Roosevelt The War Years and After Volume Three: 1939-1962 byBlanche Wiesen Cook
2017: “Holy Air” and “MonsieurMayonnaise” are scheduled to be shown at the 21st UK InternationalJewish Film Festival.
2017: “The New York Times said today that it was suspending Glenn Thrush,one of its most prominent reporters, after he was accused of inappropriatesexual behavior.”
2017: Jacob Wisse, director ofYeshiva University Museum is scheduled to lead “a walking tour through YeshivaUniversity Museum’s exhibition The Arch of Titus – from Jerusalem to Rome, andBack, exploring the image and legacy of the Arch of Titus from Imperial Rome tomodern-day Israel.”
2017: The Primo Levi Center isscheduled to host Michela Andreatta (University of Rochester), Serena Di Nepi(University of Rome La Sapienza) and Jane Tylus (New York University) in adiscussion of “Ariosto’s masterpiece Orlando Furioso in the context of an earlymodern Jewish quest to define minority status amidst a dramatic transformationof mentality, political equilibria, and power structures.”
2017: The Oxford University JewishSociety is scheduled to host its Chanumas/Chrismukah Party completed with “mincepies, doughnuts, xmas crackers and dreidels.”
2017:Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance tocontemplate Jewish books and the lives of authors such as Barbara Tuchman whoseworks included The Guns of August and The Proud Tower: A Portrait ofthe World Before the War, 1890-1914 continues today.
2018(12thof Kislev, 5778): On the Hebrew calendar yahrzeit of “Rabbi Yosef YitzchakKazen, the Director of Chabad Lubavitch in Cyberspace and considered by manythe pioneer of Jewish education on the internet.”
2018:“An International Jewish Festival for Contemporary Culture” which will feature“Erez Lev-Ari and The Suits doing Ari San, a tribute to Rabbi Shalom Shabazi”is scheduled to open today.
2018:The Streicker Center is scheduled to host lectures on “Zionism and Challenge toAmerican Jewry” by Rabbi Robert Hirt and “Two Faiths, Two Scriptures, One God:The Torah and the Quran” by Rabbi Leonard Schoolman and Dr. Hussein Rashid.
2019:The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “Leona” inGlasgow and Manchester.
2019The North Peninsula Jewish Community is scheduled to host a “From to Healing”which will include a screening of “Bogdan’s Journey.”
2019:Jews For Entrepreneurship is scheduled to celebrate its 10thanniversary at the Greenwich Mansion in San Francisco.
2019:JNEXT, the Jewish Federation’s “engagement vehicle for members of the GreaterNew Orleans Jewish community (and interfaith partners and spouses) in theirforties and fifties is scheduled to take place this evening featuring Chefs Alon Shaya and Graison Gil inconversation about their recent trip to Israel.”
2019:“The head of the European Jewish Association has written to an auction house inMunich, Germany asking for it to halt a sale of 147 different items from theThird Reich, including clothing belonging to Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun,Hitler's top hat and a silver-covered edition of Mein Kampf” which is scheduledto take place today. (YNET)
2020:In another session examining UC Berkeley’s Magnes Collection, curatorsFrancesco Spagnolo and Shir Kochavi are scheduled to talk about Austrian artistLazar Krestin’s 1905 painting “Jewish Resistance.”
2020:Ensemble for These Times’ Jewish Music & Poetry Project are scheduled topresent Dalit Warshaw live in N.Y.playing her piano piece “Winter Dream,” in memoriam of artist-writer CharlotteSalomon, who was killed in Auschwitz
2020:Park Synagogue is scheduled to host “So You Think You Know Cholent?” a virtualcooking class with Jared Skoff”
2020:The Maine Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present the last screening “GoodThoughts, Good Words” and the first screening of “Heading Home.”
2020:Beth Israel of Judea is scheduled to host Dr. Pamela Munster of UCSF Center forBRCA Research and Aimee Sax of Sharsheret as they discuss the latest in genetictesting, cancer prevention and how it impacts Jewish families.
2020:Everybody Is A Star Foundation, Value Culture and rapper Kosha Dillz arescheduled to present a Shabbat program celebrating people of all abilities,with live music
2020:In Palm Beach Gardens, Temple Judea is scheduled to virtual “Shabbat Worshipwith Rabbi Yaron Kapitulnik and Cantorial Solist Abbie Strauss.
2020:The JCC Literary Consortium is scheduled to co-present Mimi Lemay talking abouther memoir What We Will Become, about the odyssey of her transgenderchild, Jacob, and her own struggles
2020:The Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival goes dark because of Sabbat but isscheduled to begin again tomorrow.
2021:In Palo Alto, CA, the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host its “HebrewChannukah Party,” an “outdoor event for Hebrew speakers that includes menorahmaking with artist Shira Lao, doughnuts and dreidels.”
2021:In Waltham, MA, Temple Beth Israel is scheduled to present “Lift Every VoiceShabbat,” during which “Rabbi David will deliver a dvar Torah that lifts up oneor more voices from a marginalized group within the Jewish community.”
2021:The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to present Ensemble Modus featuring pianoquartets by Mozart and Brahms.
2021:The two-long Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end.
2021(16thof Kislev, 5782): Parashat Vayishlach;
2022:Kol Israel Foundation is scheduled to hold its Roll with Kol 2022 casino nightfundraiser in honor of volunteer Elissa Wuliger at B’nai Jeshurun Congregationin Pepper Pike, OH.
2022:The Louis and Marilyn Hurwitz Community Mikveh is scheduled to have its “grandopening” today. at Tifereth Israel Synagogue in Des Moines.
2022:The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host the “East Coast debut ofYale Strom's cantata in honor of those lost in the 1911 Triangle Factory Fireafter which the quintet will alsoperform klezmer and Italian melodies that would have been heard in NYC beforeWWI.
2022:AJEX (The Jewish Military Association) is scheduled to hold its annualRemembrance and Parade Ceremony today at the Cenotaph.
2022:The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host its Closing Night Gala atCurzon Mayfair.
2022:The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host a reading of The TattooedTorah, Q&A, and film adaptation screening presented by Beth Kopin, thefilm's executive producer, and Brett Kopin, co-screenwriter
2022:As part of the Molly Blank Concert Series, the Breman Museum is scheduled topresent the Annette Cohen Quartetinho
2022:The New York Times features reviews books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including Free Market: The History of anIdea by Jacob Soll.
2022:Six-time Emmy award-winner Andres Cantor, the Argentine-Jewish announcer and two-time Emmy nominee Sammy Sadovnik, “a proudJew from Peru are scheduled to cover the World Cup which begins today forTelemundo while Matt Turner and DeAndre Yedlin are scheduled to play for theUnited States.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rksq00euus
2023:“A concert supporting the Western Galilee is scheduled to take place in Omaha,Nebraska.”
2023:The St. Louis Jewish Book Festival is scheduled to come to an end today.
2023:A celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Brandeis-WellesleyOrchestra is scheduled to take place with a concert featuring Beethoven andHailstork.
2023:Temple Emanuel of Newton is scheduled to present online “Turmoil on Campus:Learn How Jewish Students Are Coping & Standing With Israel, and How We CanHelp.”
2023:Agnon House, the home of Nobel Prize winner S.Y. Agnon is scheduled to host thefirst lecture in a series that “will discuss Agnon's writing in the shadow ofthe war through reading the stories "Until Here" and "In Mr.Lublin's Shop".
2023:In Metairie, LA, the Jewish Community Day School board is scheduled to takeplace this evening.
2023:The Yiddish Study group sponsored by Agudas Achim in Coralville, IA is scheduled to meet via zoom .
2023:Funeral services are scheduled to take place this morning at the RiversideJewish Center for Hector Goldman,Z”L,husbandof Gisele Goldman, father of Judy (and Joel) Isaacson, DebbieRosenbloom and (David Levin) and Edward (and Devorah) Goldman.
2023:As November 20 begins in Israel, the Houthis have proven they are serious abouttaking an active role in the destruction “the Jewish state” as can be seen bytheir hijacking of a cargo ship in the Red Sea yesterday that they claim is anIsraeli vessel, The Israel Defense Forces has released “surveillance camerafootage from Shifa Hospital showing Hamas terrorists bringing a Nepali and Thaicitizen who were abducted from Israel on October 7 to the medical center and
the Hamas held hostages begin day 45 in captivity.
(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:The Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a “PostElection Look Ahead.”
2024:YIVO is scheduled to present “Representations of the Israeli Experience inYiddish Prose, 1948-1967.”
https://programs.cjh.org/event/yiddish-prose-2024-11-20
2024:The Tribeca Social Club Salon Book Series is scheduled to host its InauguralEvent“On Her Own” with author Lihi Lapid
2024:Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Professor Ken Gemes on “Whythe Jews Survived.”
2024:Central Synagogue is scheduled to host Israel Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrowwith Central’s resident Israel expert, shlicha Michal Abramoff
2024:The JBC Writers’ Conference is scheduled to “Why is This War Different fromAll Other Wars: Writing About Israel After October7th, with DeborahHarris, Julie Zuckerman, and Galina Vromen, moderated by Miryam Sivan.”
2024:A new series of JWI's Life$avings: Financial Empowerment for Survivors of Abusefacilitator training is scheduled to come to an end today.
2024:The Wilshire Blvd Temple is scheduled to host a noon time Women’s Torah Studywith Rabbi Susan Nanus
2024:The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the UK premier of “ThePerformance.”
2024:As November 20th begins in Israel, anunprecedented wave ofanti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengerson a New York subway to raise their hands, demonstrations at a high schoolproduction of “The Diary of Anne Frank” and the beating of a college student inChicago sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 411 incaptivity while Israelis brace for more rocket attacks by Hezbollah, Iran andterrorists based in Iraq(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluidfor this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting atmidnight Israeli time)
