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This Day, November 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Kathryn Levin<\/a><\/h3>\n

Sunday November 15th, 2026 02:47:29 AM<\/i><\/p>\n

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November
\n15<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

687: After proclaiming that his
\nson-in-law Egica would succeed him Ergi who \u201cissued 28 laws condemning Jews
\nwith the support of the Twelfth Council\u201d \u201cretired to a monastery today as a
\npenitent.\u2019<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1215:<\/span> Pope Innocent III opened the convocation of the
\nFourth Lateran Council, considered the most important council of the Middle
\nAges. By its conclusion it issued seventy reformatory decrees. Among other
\nthings, it encouraged creating schools and holding clergy to a higher standard
\nthan the laity. It also forbade clergymen to participate in the practice of the
\njudicial ordeal, effectively banning its use. At the Fourth Lateran Council,
\nInnocent III and his prelates legislated against subordination of Christians to
\nJews. Canon 69 forbade “that Jews be given preferment in public office
\nsince this offers them the pretext to vent their wrath against the
\nChristians.”<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1280: Albertus Magnus, the German
\nDominican Friar and Bishop also known as Albert of Cologne who while in Paris
\ntook part in the council that ordered the burning of the Talmud but who took a
\nspecial interest in Jewish literature and who according to Manuel Jo\u00ebl drew
\nmany of his ideas from Jewish writers including Maimonides, passed away today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1316: Birthdate of King John I of
\nFrance who lived for only five days.  <\/span>He
\nwas the son of Louis X who readmitted the Jews to France.  <\/span>He was succeeded by his uncle Philip V, who according
\nto some may have played a role in the death of the infant monarch.  <\/span>Regardless, Philip followed the policies
\ninitiated by Louis that among other things, protected them from the enmity of
\nthe clergy.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1397: Birthdate of Pope Nicholas V
\nwho in 1450 canonized of Italian Catholic priest and Franciscan missionary
\nBarnardino Siena, a \u201cmajor protagonist of Christian anti-Semitism” who
\nblamed the poverty of local Christians on Jewish usury, called for Jews to be
\nbanished and isolated from their wider communities and often used his words to
\nreinforce actions against Jews, and his preaching left a legacy of resentment
\non the part of Jews,<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1380<\/span>: Charles VI <\/span>ascends the French throne: He told a mob that he would
\nrelieve some of the taxes but not expel the Jews. Screaming “Aux
\nJuifs” they plundered and murdered in the Jewish quarter for four days.
\nSome Jews took refuge in the royal prison. Hughes Abriot, the Provost, obtained
\nan order for restitution of all property and the return of all infants forcibly
\nbaptized. Because of this, he was accused of converting to Judaism and sent to
\njail for a year in penance. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1477: The first and very brief reign of King John II of Portugal who
\nemployed Abraham Zacuto, the Spanish born Rabbi who for the lunar crater Zagust
\nwas named, as his Royal Astronomer, came to an end today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1492: Six Spanish Jews and five
\nSpanish Conversos were <\/span>accused of using black magic<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1515: Thomas Cardinal Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.  <\/span>A year before getting his \u201cred hat\u201d Wolsey
\nhad been named Bishop of Lincoln. This is the same town of Lincoln which had
\nbeen home to one of the five most important Jewish communities in England, well
\nestablished before it was officially noted in 1154. In 1190, anti-Semitic riots
\nthat started in Lynn, Norfolk, spread to Lincoln; the Jewish community took
\nrefuge with royal officials, but their habitations were plundered. The
\nso-called “House of Aaron” has a two-storey street frontage that is
\nessentially 12th century and a nearby “Jew’s House” likewise bears
\nwitness to the Jewish population. In 1255, the affair called \u201cThe Libel of
\nLincoln\u201d in which prominent Jews of Lincoln accused of the ritual murder of a
\nChristian boy (“Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln” in medieval folklore)
\nwere sent to the Tower of London and 18 were executed. The Jews were expelled
\nen masse in 1290.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1554: Thomas Lorkin, the father-in-law of Edward Lively, the Regius
\nProfessor of Hebrew at Cambridge and considered \u201cthe greatest of Hebraist,
\nmoved from being a fellow at Queens College to being at fellow of Penrose\/<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1616: Sir Edward Coke, who in a case that involved whether Jews were
\nprotected by English law, ruled that \u201cAll infidels are in law\u2026perpetual enemies
\n(for law presumes not that they will be converted, that being a remote
\npossibility, for between them, as with the devils, whose subjects they be, and
\nthe Christian there is a perpetual hostility and can be no peace,\u201d completed
\nhis service as Chief Justice of the King\u2019s Bench today<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1643: Today, during the investigation of the surrender of Bristol by
\nNathaniel Fiennes William Prynne who was an outspoken critic of re-admitting
\nthe Jews to England, \u201cpresented articles of accusation against Fiennes to
\nParliament. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1650: Sir Thomas Pack, who surprisingly joined with merchants in London in
\nopposing the readmission of Jews, today was chosen to meet the committee of
\ncouncil appointed to consider the proposals of Manasseh Ben-Israel on behalf of
\nthe Jews.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1658: \u201cAlexander VII., in bull “Ad ea per qu\u00e6,” orders Roman Jews
\nto pay rent even for unoccupied houses in ghetto, because Jews would not hire
\nhouses from which Jews had been evicted\u201d (As reported by the Jewish
\nEncyclopedia)<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1660: Asser Levy was licensed as the
\nfirst <\/span>kosher butcher in New York City. 
\n<\/span>From such humble beginnings came such great institutions as the Second Avenue Deli<\/i> of blessed memory<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1688 (28th of Cheshvan): Rabbi Zev Wolf, author of Nahlat Binyamin, passed
\naway<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1724(10th<\/sup> of Kislev, 5485): Portuguese born physician Fernando
\nMendes who settled in England in 1669 where he was the physician to Catherine
\nof Braganza, the wife King Charles II of England during the Restoration.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900\/Mendes,_Fernando<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1727(2nd of Kislev): The General Assembly of New York passed an act
\npermitting Jews to omit the phrase \u201cupon the faith of a Christian\u201d from the
\noath of abjuration.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1755(11th<\/sup> of Kislev, 5516): Parashat Vayetzei read as the people
\nof Portugal, none of whom are Jews cope with the aftermath of the earthquake
\nthat occurred on the first day of the month.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1756: Birthdate of Revolutionary War veteran and merchant David Judah, the
\nFairfield, CT born son of Michael Judah who was the husband of Constance Bennet
\nand who \u201cbecame completely assimilated in the Christian community\u201d as can be
\nseen by his \u201cChristian burial\u201d at the time of his death in 1824.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1759: German native Maier Wimpfheimer and Rebecca Wimpfheimer gave birth to
\nBeile Wimpfheimer.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1760(7th<\/sup> of Kislev, 5521): Parashat Vayetzei read for the first
\ntime since the British took Montreal from the French which opened the way for
\nJews to settle in Canada.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1761: In New York City, Joshua Levy and his wife gave birth to Isaac Levy.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1771: Orders were given to ban auto-de-fe’s from taking place in public, and
\nto ban the production of lists of persons who would be sentenced. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1780: In Mecklenburg, Germany Louis Wolf and his wife gave birth to William
\nLeo Wolf who was the father to at least three doctors \u2013 Moritz, George and
\nJoseph Wolf.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1782: In Scotland, printer Thomas Dobson, and his wife, the former Jean
\nPaton gave birth to their third and youngest daughter, Catherine after which
\nthe family moved to Philadelphia where Dobson would be the first person \u201cto
\npublish a complete Hebrew Bible.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Thomas_Dobson_-_Hebrew_Bible.jpg<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1790: In Munich, Germany, Rebecca Heller and Nathan Loebl Bomeisler gave
\nbirth to Louis Bomeisler, the husband Elizabeth McKaraher and the father of
\nCharles, Edwin, Theodore, Evelyn and Josephine Bomeisler.2<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1790: The Jews of Hungary organized a celebration marking the coronation of
\nKing Leopold II.  <\/span>The celebration was
\nheld in anticipation of the expectation that the new king would approve the
\ndecision of the Diet to grant them citizens.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1791: Georgetown University, America\u2019s first Catholic college opens its
\ndoors. Georgetown has followed the trend at a number Catholic colleges and
\nuniversities in offering programs in Jewish studies.  <\/span>Today Georgetown offers approximately 35
\ncourses in its Jewish Studies Program and offers a Major in Jewish
\nstudies.  <\/span>About 650 of its 6000
\nundergraduates are Jewish.  <\/span>Approximately
\n1,000 of the schools 6,000 grad students are Jewish.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1793: \u201cMarx Berr\u2026who had been a Jacobin until the purge during the Terror\u201d
\nhad his tax bill of 25,000 reduced to 10,000 today after having appeal the
\noriginal ruling of October 31, 1793,<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1796: At the age of 16, \u201cDaniel Meijer took the lawyer’s oath, becoming the
\nfirst Jewish lawyer and one of the youngest lawyers in the history of the
\nNetherlands.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1800(27th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5561): Parashat Chayei Sara is read for
\nthe last time during the Presidency of John Adams who signed the treaty that
\nstated that the United States was not a Christian nation.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1802: A delegation of German Jews came to Ratisbon where the German princes
\nwere trying to create the government that would replace the now defunct Holy
\nRoman Empire and today presented a petition asking for “passive
\ncitizenship.”  <\/span>The petition, which
\nprobably originated with the Jews of Frankfort, requested freedom to live any
\nplace they desired and to pursue a wide variety of occupations and trades. At
\nthis time, Jews in many parts of the empire had been classified as
\n“serfs” regardless of the economic level.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1803(30th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5564): Rosh Chodesh Kislev observed as
\nLewis and Clark move down the Ohio River and arrive at the confluence with the
\nMississippi on an expedition that will end exactly two years later when the
\narrive at the Pacific Ocean.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1805: At Hamburg Abraham Mendelssohn and Lean Salomon, a granddaughter of
\nDaniel Itzig gave birth to Fanny Mendelsohn.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1809: Edward Hime married Priscilla Elkin at the Great Synagogue today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1812: Two days after she had passed away, 91-year-old \u201cAbigail Fano, the
\nwife of Hyam Fano\u201d was buried today at the \u201cBrady Street Jewish Cemetery.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1816: Birthdate of Isidor Kalisch, the German born Rabbi who became the
\nspiritual lead of  <\/span>the Tifireth Israel
\ncongregation in Cleveland, Ohio in 1850.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1817: Birthdate of Bavaria native Caroline Waterman, the future resident of
\nRichmond, VA and the wife of Joseph Myers.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1817: Birthdate of James Koppel Gutheim, the native of M\u00fcnster, Germany who
\ncame to the United States in 1843 and became a prominent American rabbi. He
\nserved in that capacity in several southern towns and cities including Temple
\nBeth El in San Antonio and Congregation Shangarai Chasset of New Orleans<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1822(1st<\/sup> of Kislev, 5583): Rosh Chodesh Kislev observed as the
\nGreeks are fighting to free themselves from the rule of the Ottomans.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1825: Birthdate of Frankfurt, Germany, native Leopold Fulda, who with his
\nwife Gitta had four children \u2013 Emily, Charles, Alice and John Fulda.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1829: In Mobile, AL, Elizabeth Swepston Gayle and Jabez Wiggins Heustis gave
\nbirth to University of Louisiana trained medical doctor James Fountain Heustis,
\nthe husband of Rachel Leila \u201cLaLa\u201d Lyons Heustis and son-in-law of Jacob Cohen
\nLyons and Louisa Elizabeth Lyons who served in the U.S. Navy and Confederate
\nArmy and who precited medicine in Mobile while teaching at the Medical College
\nof Alabama.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1829: Birthdate of Benjamin Szold, the Hungarian born American scholar who
\nbegan serving as the Rabbi for Temple Oheb Shalom in Baltimore, Maryland and
\nwho was the father of Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1831: Birthdate of Bavrian native David Weil, a private in the CSA and
\nhusband of Rosina Simon Weil.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1832(22nd of Cheshvan): Hannah Adams, early American author of a book on
\nJewish history, passed away<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1832: Birthdate of Abraham Printz a native of the village of Kashua (\u201cnow a
\npart of Slovakia\u201d) and husband of Rosa Printz who was buried in the Rodef
\nShalom Section of the  <\/span>Tod Homestead
\nCemetery in Youngstown, Ohio.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1834: Lord Palmerston who while serving as of Secretary of State for Foreign
\nAffairs during which time the British blockaded  the port of Piraeus as
\npart of the response to Greece\u2019s abuse of David Pacifico, whom Palmerston
\ndefended as this \u201cman of Jewish persuasion\u201d and on whose behalf he \u201cmade a
\ncelebrated speech which concluded that all British subjects ought to be able to
\nsay, as did citizens of ancient Rome, “Civis Romanus sum” (“I am
\na citizen of Rome”), and thereby receive protection from the British
\ngovernment\u201d completed his first term in office as Secretary of State for
\nForeign Affairs. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1835: In Novogrodak, Yaakov Harkavy and Dvora Weisbrem gave birth to Dr.
\nAlbert (Avraham Eliyahu) Harkavy.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1835: In, Baltimore, MD, \u201cBenjamin I and Kitty (Etting) Cohen gave birth to
\nEdward Cohen the brother of Israel Cohen and the nephew of his business mentor
\nSamuel Etting, who left his native city at the start of the Civil War and
\nsettled in Richmond where married Caroline Myers, \u201cbecame president of the City
\nBank of Richmond and supported numerous civic porjects.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1840: Birthdate of Jacob Furth, an Austrian native who became a prominent
\nbanker and businessman in Seattle, Washington where he was a member of Ohaveth
\nSholum, the city\u2019s first synagogue. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1842: At Borek, Prussia, Louis Gerechter and his wife gave birth to Emanuel
\nGerechter who came to the United States in 1866 and who began serving as Rabbi
\nof Temple Zion, in Appleton, Wisconsin while serving as Professor of Hebrew and
\nGerman Literature and Lawrence University.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1843: \u201cGerman Christian Lawyer\u201d Carl August Buchholz who championed for the
\nrights of Jews of Lubeck and served as the representative of the Jewish
\ncommunities of Lubeck, Hamburg and Bremen at the Congress of Vienna where
\nsought laws that would ensure the emancipation of European Jewry passed away
\ntoday.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1845(15th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5606): Parashat Vayera read for the first
\ntime during the Presidency of James K. Polk<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1846: Birthdate of Reicheribach, Saxony native and Protestant theologian
\nFrederik Eduard King, the author “The Revelation Concept of the Old
\nTestament, “The Main Problems of the Old Israelite Religious History,”  <\/span>“The Religious History of Israel,”
\n“Historical-Critical Introduction to the Old Testament,” “The
\nExiles’ Book of Consolation,” “Stylistics, Rhetoric, Poetics
\nComparatively Presented in Relation to the Bible\u201d and \u201cThe Question of God and
\nthe Origin of the Old Testament” <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.jewishencyclopedia.com\/articles\/9451-konig-friedrich-eduard<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1848: In the Berlin national assembly, together with two other deputies,
\nJohann Jacoby initiated the resolution calling for citizens to withhold paying
\ntaxes as an attempt to combat the coup d’\u00e9tat<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1849(30th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5610): Rosh Chodesh Kislev observed on the
\nsame day that the boilers of the steamboat Louisiana exploded as it \u201cpulled
\naway from the dock at Gravier Street in New Orleans\u201d which caused it to sink
\nwithin ten minutes at cost of between 150 and 200 lives.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1849: Birthdate of Kolmar, Prussia native Max I. Boshwitz, the poet and
\nresident of Memphis, TN who was \u201cactive in the settlement of Jewish refugees\u201d
\nand who passed away at the age of 80 in 1930.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1851(20th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5612): Parashat Vayera read on the day
\nafter the publication of Moby Dick by Herman Melville<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1851(19th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5612): Nineteen-month-old Pauline
\nBodenheimer, the daughter of Elka Hrischfelder and Hermann Bodenheimer pass
\naway today after which buried in the Durbach Jewish Cemetery in Offenburg,
\nGermany.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1852: Birthdate of Rev. Samuel Walter Gamble, who was internationally known
\nfor his production of the lost Hebrew calendar who \u201cin 1904 was chosen by an
\ninternational committee for the World\u2019s Sundy Rest Congress to lecture at the
\nSt. Louis Exposition on \u2018The Transfer of the Sabbath from the Jewish to the
\nChrisitan Sabbath.\u2019\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1852: Hermann Goldschmidt discovered his first asteroid today which was
\nnamed 21 Lutetia.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1854: Said Pacha, the Viceroy of Egypt gave a French company headed by
\nFerdinand de Lesseps the concession to dig the Suez Canal, which would link the
\nMediterranean Sea with the Red Sea.  <\/span>The
\ncanal would create a short, all-water route from Great Britain to its most
\nvalued possession, India.  <\/span>Defense of the
\nCanal became one of the keystones of British foreign policy for the next
\nhundred.  <\/span>This British obsession would
\nplay a key role in the development of the Jewish homeland in Eretz Israel.  <\/span>Sometimes the effect was positive; more often
\nthan not, it was negative.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1855: In Russia, Chatzkel Sivitz and his wife gave birth to Rabbi Moses
\nSimon Sivitz who lead congregations in Baltimore, MD, Cleveland, OH and Toledo,
\nOH before becoming the \u201cRabbi of Congregations Shaare Tora, Ohel Jacob and
\nAnshe Emunah in Pittsburg, PA.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1855: The 34th<\/sup> anniversary of the Hebrew Benevolent Society was
\ncelebrated tonight at the Chinese Assembly Rooms in New York City.  <\/span>The event, which was attended by 250 to 300
\npeople rasied $4,000.  <\/span>During his
\naddress, the society\u2019s president reported that they had provided assistance to
\n1,600 applicants which had depleted the organization\u2019s treasury of its $4,500
\nin receipts. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1856(17th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5617): Parashat Vayera<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1856(17th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5617): Seventy-six-year-old War of 1812
\nveteran Isaac Minis, the Charleston, SC born son of Judith Pollak and Phillip
\nMinis and the husband of Dinah Cohen, \u201ca sister of Solomon Cohen, Jr.\u201d with
\nwhom had eight children \u2013Sarah, Philippa, Abram, Frances, Maria. Rebecca,
\nCeclia and Philip, \u201c noted Savanah physician\u201d \u2013 who served several terms on the
\nSavannah City Council and who was a passenger on the last ill-fated voyage of
\nthe SS Savanah as well as \u201cone of the first members of Savannah’s Hibernian
\nSociety when it was formed in 1812\u201d passed away today in Philadelphia
\nafter which he was buried in the Laurel Grover Cemetery in Savannah,<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1856: <\/span>\u201cTonight, a German Jew named
\nIsaac Morris was arrested at West Hoboken by Officer Stephen H. Manly, of
\nBaltimore, and Deputy-Sheriff Robins of Hudson County, on the charge of
\nobtaining goods by false pretenses. He was apprehended upon the authority of a requisition
\nfrom the Governor of Maryland.\u201d <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1857: Three days after he had passed away, Abraham Davidson, a London
\nsurgeon and the husband of Hannah Davidson with whom had seven children, was
\nburied to at the Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery with whom he had had eight
\nchildren, was buried today at the \u201cBrady Street Jewish Cemetery.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1857: Two days after he had passed away, 70-year-old Eleazer Hart, the
\nhusband of Sarah Hart q<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1858: \u201cThe Mortara Casa\u201d published today reported that Jews of New York are
\nplanning on holding a meeting to protest the \u201crecent abduction of the child
\nMortara and the extraordinary pretensions of the Pope in regard to such cases <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1859: Birthdate of Leo Lerner, the native of Bessarabia born \u201cseventeen days
\nafter his father\u2019s death\u201d who came to \u201cthe United States with his wife and five
\ndaughters in 1891\u201d after which he earned an LL.B. from NYU, practiced law
\nstarting in 1897 and served as the President of the Hebrew National Orphan Home
\nand the President of the original federation for Bessarabian Jewry of which he
\nwas one of the founders.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1859: In New York, Sarah Naar Cardozo, the daughter of Dr. Daniel Moses Levy
\nMaduro Peixotto and Rachel Lopes Mendes Peixotto and her husband Abraham Hart
\nCardozo gave birth to Edwin Joseph Cardozo.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1860: Birthdate of Simeon Samuel Grigoryevich Frug, the native of the
\nUkrainian \u201cJewish agricultural colony of Bobrovy-Kut, Kherson\u201d who gained fame
\na multi-lingual poet and early Zionist support Simon Frug.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/encyclopedia.yivo.org\/article\/1075<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1861: Judah P. Benjamin completed his service as Attorney General for the
\nConfederate States of America.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1862:  <\/span>In Padding, Adelaide and Ellis
\nAbraham Franklin gave birth to their third son, Barrister at Law Leonard
\nBenjamin Franklin, the Treasurer of the Burial Society of the United Synagogue,
\nand Vice President of the Jewish Working Men\u2019s Club who was the husband of
\nLaura Agnes, son-in-law of William Ladenburg and nephew of Samuel Montagu.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1862: Birthdate of Isidor Baumann who was buried at the Balls Pond Road
\nJewish Cemetery when he passed away in 1890.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1862: During the Civil War, First Lieutenant Michael Rosenstein began his
\nservice with Company K of the 173rd<\/sup> Regiment.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1863(4th<\/sup> of Kislev, 5624): Barnett Abrahams passed away.  <\/span>Born at Warsaw in 1831, he moved to England
\nin 1839..  <\/span>Following a rigorous education
\nprogram that included study with Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler, he started serving
\nas the rabbi at Bevis Marks in 1851 and was serving at the Principal of Jew\u2019s
\nCollege at the time of his death. His sons Joseph and Moses became rabbis and
\nIsrael \u201cbecame an author and teacher.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/jewishencyclopedia.com\/articles\/616-abrahams-barnett<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1864: Colonel Edward S. Salomon (later General), one of a small group of
\ngeneral officers who were both at the Battle of Gettysburg and the Battle of
\nAtlanta, was among those who marched out of Atlanta as Union forces began their
\nmarch to Savannah, one of the major Atlantic seaports still in Confederate
\nhands.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1866: In Kovno, Moses and Esther Macht gave birth to Baltimore realtor
\nEphraim Macht the husband of Annie Marowitz and builder of the Macht Building
\nwho in 1866 came to the United States where he started the Macht Real Estate
\nand Banking Business and do to \u201cthe harsh anti-Semitism  <\/span>which prevailed in Baltimore\u201d at that used
\nthe name of an Irish real estate salesman\u201d when building the edifices while
\nserving as one of the founders of the Jewish Home For Consumptive and director
\nof the Associated Jewish Charities in Baltimore.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1866:In Brest-Litvosk, Moses Hirsh and Sarah Bernstein gave birth to
\nSavannah, GA businessman and realtor Jacob Bernstein, the grandson of Reb
\nBenjamin Chaim Wilners and husband of Sarah Leah Bernstein and father of Morris
\nH. Bernstein, who served as Assistant Solicitor General in George, Augusta
\nBernstein, pianist and composer Molly Bernstein and Albert Bernstein, \u201ca
\ncontributor to The Georgian.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1868(1st<\/sup> of Kislev, 5629): Rosh Chodesh Kislev<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1868: Esther Mocatta the daughter of Rebecca and Jacob Abraham Mocatta was
\nburied today at the \u201cBalls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1868(1st<\/sup> of Kislev, 5629): Seventy-six James de Rothschild who
\nfounded the French branch of the family banking empire with the opening of De
\nRothschild Fr\u00e8res and whose name lives on among wine drinkers when they order a
\nbottle of Lafite-Rothschild passed away today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1869: At \u201cBiala-Zerkoff, Russia, Malka Freinkel and Mordecai Minkowsky gave
\nbirth to Cantor Abraham Minkowsky, the husband of Bertha Osoffezky, the father
\nof Canto Phinehas Minkovsky and graduate of the Moscow Imperial Conservatory of
\nMusic who served as the \u201cCantor of the Great Temple in Odessa\u201d and for the
\ntemple in Cherson before settling in the United States.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1871: Louis and Sarah Aloe Newburgh gave birth to Madeline Newburgh, the
\nsister of Emma, Nanna Pauline and Sidney Newburgh who was buried in the Walnut
\nHills Cemetery after she passed away in Cincinnati, OH at the age of 93.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1871: \u201cBarnard Lawrence Phillips,\u201d the son of Lawrence Phillips and Esther
\nSpyer and the husband of Emma Phillips with whom he had two children was buried
\ntoday at the \u201cBalls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1872: In Gorki, Russia, Dora Herman and Sussman
\nHorowitz gave birth to \u201cauthor and playwright Solomon Libin the husband of
\nSophie Plutkin who in 1891 moved to London and then to the United States where
\n\u201che wrote short stories for the Arbeiter Zeitung and Abendblatt and in 1897
\nbecame a member of the staff of the Jewish Daily Forward\u201d while scripts for
\n\u201cfifty plays\u201d including \u201cBroken Hearts,\u201d which had lengthy runs in New York and
\nin London before being adapted for a film starring Maurice Schwartz. (JTA)<\/o:p><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/span>https:\/\/www.harlemworldmagazine.com\/solomon-libin-yiddish-short-story-writer-playwright\/<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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1873: In Poland, Rachel Machkonsky and Abram Markson gave birth Portland, ME
\nresident  <\/span>Eldar Markson the husband of
\nJennie I. Ginsburg and founder the chain store known as Markson Brothers who
\nwas chairman of the United Palestine Appeal for the State of Maine and a member
\nof B\u2019nai B\u2019rith.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1873: Rabbi Raphael D.C. Lewin delivered a sermon on the subject of
\n\u201cJudaism\u201d in the new synagogue at 63rd<\/sup> & Lexington in New York
\nCity.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1874: A service was held to honor the memory of Rabbi Abraham Geiger, of
\nblessed memory, who had passed away in October of 1874.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1875(17th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5636): Seventy-eight-year-old German born
\nHannah Bachman Butzel, the wife of Moses Butzel with whom she had three
\nchildren \u2013 Martin, Magnus and Fannie \u2013 passed away today after which she was
\nburied at the Woodmere Cemetery in Detroit.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1876: In Minsk, Russia, Aaron S. Raisin and his wife gave birth to
\nUniversity of Cincinnati graduate and HUC trained rabbi, Jacob S. Raisin, the
\nhusband of Jane Lazarus Raison and father of Aaron, Mordenai and Rachel Raisin
\nwho served Congregation Gemiluth Chesed in Port Gibson, MS before eventually
\nleading Congregation Beth Elohim in Charleston, SC .<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1877: In Luling, TX Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Amolksy gave birth to Etta Amolsky,
\nwho became Etta Schatzkey when she married Albert Schatzkey in 1900 and with
\nwhom she lived in Houston, TX before moving to Jefferson City, MO.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1878: Birthdate of Jacob Polakavetz, the native of Kamenetz-Litovsk who came
\nto the United States where he became a successful merchant in Troy, NY.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1879: Rabbi De Sola Menes will deliver the first in a series of lectures on
\nthe history of Jewish literature at the Young Men\u2019s Hebrew Association this
\nevening.  <\/span>The lectures which begin at
\n8:30 are free and open to the public.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1880: Birthdate of Bialystok native the Yiddish author and actor Julius
\nAdler who came to the United States in 1904and who should not be confused with
\nanother Polish born American transplant by the same name who was born in 1906.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Adler,
\nJulius \u2014 Congress for Jewish Culture<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1881: One hundred sixty Jewish refugees from Russia arrived in New York
\ntoday aboard the SS Bohemia. The Alliance Israel Universelle helped pay for
\ntheir passage.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1881: Chicago native Simon Cook was promoted to the rank of Ensign today in
\nthe United States Navy.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1881 In Chicago, \u201cMoses and Clara Schlossberg Adams gave birth to Franklin
\nLeopold Adams who gained fame as Franklin Pierce Adams or F.P.A,, the alumnus
\nof Armour Institute and the University of Chicago, husband of Esther Sales Root
\nand author whose works ranged from newspaper columns at various New York
\nnewspapers the most famous of which was \u201cThe Conning Tower,\u201d a \u201chumorous
\nsyndicated column.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/timesmachine.nytimes.com\/timesmachine\/1960\/03\/25\/105423068.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1881: A report published today described plans for an upcoming lecture to be
\ndelivered by Julius Franks sponsored by the Young Men\u2019s Hebrew Association
\nentitled \u201cThe Jew: Has he Still a Mission?\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1881: The Federation of Organized
\nTrades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada, which would become The
\n<\/span>American Federation of Labor (AFL) was founded in Pittsburgh.  <\/span>Samuel Gompers, a Jewish immigrant from
\nLondon, was the first President.  <\/span>In
\nfact, with the exception of one year, he served in that capacity until his
\ndeath in 1924.  <\/span>Unlike more militant
\nleaders of the labor movement, Gompers believed in the capitalist system and
\nrejected the concept of class struggle. 
\n<\/span>As a member of the working class (he was a cigar maker by trade) Gompers
\nwas no na\u00efve fool.  <\/span>He and his union
\nfought for the concept of collective bargaining, binding written contracts and
\na ban on injunctions aimed against working men and women.  <\/span>When asked what the American worker wanted
\nGompers replied, \u201cMore!\u201d During World War I, Gompers showed that the American
\nlabor movement could be patriotic when he and the AFL supported Wilson in the
\n\u201cword to end all wars.\u201d  <\/span>Gompers
\nphilosophy was simple.  <\/span>\u201cReward your
\nfriends and punish your enemies.\u201d  <\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1881: In St. Petersburg, Russia, Julius and Rachel Gollomb gave birth to
\nColumbia trained author and journalist Joseph Gollomb, the uncle of actress
\nJudy Holliday. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0326579\/<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1882(4th<\/sup> of Kislev, 5643): Daniel Ehrmann, the Bohemian born
\nrabbi who \u201cedit the Jewish periodical Das Abendland was teaching at Brunn when
\nhe passed away today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1882:  <\/span>Birthdate of Felix
\nFrankfurter.  <\/span>Born in Vienna, educated at
\nCCNY and Harvard Law School, the young, legally brilliant Frankfurter became
\nthe prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of the very powerful Henry L. 
\n<\/span>Stimson.  <\/span>He began a
\ntwenty-five-year career as a professor at Harvard Law School in 1914.  <\/span>But Frankfurter was no cloistered Ivy tower
\negghead.  <\/span>He was a confidant of Woodrow
\nWilson and, among other things attended the Versailles Peace Conference.  <\/span>As a Zionist, like Brandeis, Frankfurter
\nworked to promote the cause of the Jewish homeland in Palestine.  <\/span>In the 1920\u2019s and 1930\u2019s the liberal
\nFrankfurter was an advisor to and supporter of Al Smith and FDR.  <\/span>Several of Frankfurter\u2019s former students were
\npart of the FDR\u2019s Brain Trust or held important positions in several regulatory
\nagencies created by the New Deal.  <\/span>FDR
\nappointed Frankfurter to the Supreme Court in 1939, making him the third Jew to
\nhold such a position since 1916.  <\/span>He
\nretired from the court in 1962 after suffering a stroke.  <\/span>Frankfurter\u2019s tenure on the court was a
\ndisappointment to many of his political allies and colleagues.  <\/span>They had expected him to be a liberal.  <\/span>However, Frankfurter believed in judicial
\nrestraint which meant he gave great credence to federal and\/or state
\nlegislative actions.  <\/span>He looked to the
\nlegislative branch to correct social ills. The pre-court liberal turned into a
\nHigh Court conservative.  <\/span>He passed away
\nin 1962.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/supremecourt\/rights\/robes_frankfurter.html<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1883: Three days after he had passed away, Lazar Schorstein, a Viennese born
\n\u201cfinancial editor\u201d and the husband of Clara Schorstein with whom he had three
\nchildren was buried today at the \u201cBalls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1883: In Pittsburgh, PA, Tinnie Klee married 27-year-old Rensselaer Polytechnic
\nInstitute educated Chemical Engineer Isaac W. Frank, the Pittsburgh born son of
\nPaulina Wormser and William Frank at time when he was working for Lewis Foundry
\nand Machine Company and a member of Rodef Shalom<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1883: In Russia \u201cAbraham B. and Sarah (Tikotsky) Dobsevage gave birth to
\nSocialist George I. Dobesevage who after attending CCNY and UNY pursued a
\ncareer in research and literature that included overseeing the illustration
\noffice of the Jewish Encyclopedia<\/u>, aiding in the \u201cpreparation of the
\nabridged editions of the Standard Dictionary <\/u>and serving as secretary of
\nThe Jewish Publication Society of America while being married to Elizabeth
\nBreslow. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1883: It was reported today that Annie Zeiss is claiming that she was
\nbetrothed to Morris Dampsky according to Jewish custom which is the basis for
\nher suit that she has brought against him for breach of contract (marriage).
\nWhile sitting in jail, Dampsky is wondering if a secular court will accept a
\nreligious observance as binding under civil law.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1884: It was reported today that an unnamed Jewish cattle dealer had tried
\nto sell seventeen diseased cows to several farmers between Jamaica and Foster\u2019s
\nMeadow.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1885: Seventy-six-year-old \u201cItalian soldier and politician\u201d Benedetto
\nMusolino, the son of  Domenico Musolino and Francesca Starace who in 1851,
\nwrote “Gerusalemme e il Popolo Ebreo” – “Jerusalem and the
\nJewish People”, a plan for the establishment of a Jewish state in Turkish
\nPalestine, with Hebrew as its national language which had it been published
\nwhen written would have preceded Theodore Herzl’s Der Judenstaat by forty-five
\nyears, passed away today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1885: The annual fair of the Hebrew Ladies\u2019 Benevolent Society which opened
\nyesterday evening under the leadership of its President Mrs. I.L. Smith which
\nis raising money \u201cto succor the deserving poor and needy irrespective of creed
\nor nationality\u201d is scheduled to continued for a second day.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1886: In state Supreme Court, Judge Andrews heard a case that will determine
\nwhether or not $50,000 that was originally part of the estate of the late
\nSampson Simpson will go the North American Relief So city for the Indignant
\nJews of Jerusalem or two his surviving relatives. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1886: It was reported today that Jacob H. Schiff has given $10,000 to a
\nproject designed to establish a free library which will be \u201ccalled the Aguilar
\nFree Library Society\u201d and which will be open to \u201cpeople of all religions and
\nnationalities.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1886(17th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5647): Seventy-four-year-old Gustav Heine
\nvon Geldern the founder of Vienna Das
\nFremdenblatt<\/i>, a periodical that became the official organ of the Austrian
\nForeign Office, the brother of Heinrich Heine and the father of Maximilian
\nHeine, \u201cthe author of the libretto to Mirolan<\/i>\u201d
\npassed away today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1886: It was reported today that Judge M.S. Isaacs and Uriah Herrman
\naddressed a reception given in honor of Mrs. Julius Hammerslough, Mrs. Simon
\nSteinberger, Mrs. Solomon Loeb and Mrs. Louis Levy, members of the Hebrew Free
\nSchool Association\u2019s Board of Directors who have just returned from a trip to
\nEurope.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1886: It was reported today that the Hebrew Free School Association is
\ncurrently industrial education to 2,500 youngsters. The service is only
\navailable to youngsters who are enrolled in the public system.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1887: Birthdate of Austrian native Isidor Teitlebaum who in 1892 came to the
\nUnited States where he became a \u201cfurniture merchant\u201d, an honorary vice
\npresident of the American Jewish Congress and a trustee of Temple Adath Israel
\nin the Bronx.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1888: In Salida, CO, Sarah and Benjamin Disman gave birth to University of
\nColorado graduate, and Columbia trained attorney Butler Disman, the WW I
\nveteran, the husband of Minnie Disman and Selma Gertrude Powers who practiced
\nlaw in Kansas City, MO.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1888: In Baltimore, MD, Abraham H. and Bertha (Hamburger) Fisher gave birth
\nto Johns Hopkins Phi Beta Kappa graduate and University of Maryland trained
\nattorney Allen Herbert Fisher, an assistant attorney general for the state of
\nMaryland and husband of Esther Kahn who was a member of Har Sinai Congregation.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1888: The will of Sidney Greenberg who lived at the Caulfield Club Hotel was
\nprobated today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1889:  <\/span>Emperor Pedro II is deposed,
\nand Brazil is declared a republic. At the time, Brazil had a small community of
\nSephardic, mostly Moroccan, Jews. One group established a synagogue in Belem in
\nthe northern part of the country while another built a synagogue on the banks
\nof the Amazon River. A decade after becoming a republic, experimental
\nagricultural were established that provide a haven for Jews fleeing the
\nviolence of Czarist Russia.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1890: Birthdate of Wilna, Russia native Freida Tradounski who as Freida
\nAinbinder was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1890: In New York City, Deborah Badish and Morris
\nOrnitz gave birth  <\/span>to American
\nscreenwriter and novelist Samuel Ornitz, the husband of Sadie Florence Lesser
\nwho was one of the victims of the Hollywood blacklist which was the epitome of
\nRight-Wing America\u2019s paranoid reach for power.<\/o:p><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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1891:\u201dAn Oriental Bazar\u201d published today described the plans of a group of
\nprominent New Yorkers led by J.H. Schiff and Julian Nathan among others for
\nhosting a Palestine Bazar to raise funds for the Louis Down-Town Sabbath and
\nDaily School<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1891: Birthdate of Russian native and Zionist Isaac Hamlin who in 1909 came
\nto the United \u201cwhere he worked in tailor shop, rose through the ranks of
\nvarious Zionist labor organization before moving to Tel Aviv at the age of 65
\nwhere he \u201ctook over the direction of the American Histadrut Center.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1892: In Memphis, TN, the National Farmers\u2019 Alliance and the Industrial
\nUnion opened its convention at the hall of the Young Men\u2019s Hebrew Association.
\n(This agriculture alliance was considered to be \u201cradical\u201d and the Jewish owned
\nfacility may have been the only one that was available for its use.)<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1892: \u201cGraded Rates Established\u201d published today described the decision of
\nthe B\u2019nai B\u2019rith to adopt a sliding membership fee based on age starting with
\nthose between the ages 21 and 25 paying $15 rising to a maximum of $30 for
\nthose aged 50 and above.  <\/span>The sliding
\nscale was adopted to attract younger members, all of whom will be eligible for
\nthe same $1,000 in burial insurance.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1892: The trial of Reverend Henry P. Smith, the professor of Hebrew at Lane
\nTheological Seminary, goes into its second day. 
\n<\/span>The trial has gained national attention from members of many
\ndenominations because Smith has used modern scholarship to question the
\ninerrancy of the Bible \u2013 a conflict that was helping to divide Reform from
\nOrthodox among the Jewish people.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1892: Several parties of Russian Jews were reported today to have been on
\ntheir way to Hamburg now that travel restrictions in Russia have been eased.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1892: The funeral for Seligman Adler, the husband of Caroline Adler, who was
\na supporter of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Mount Sinai Hospital, is scheduled
\nto take place at 9:30 this morning at Temple Emanu-El.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1893: Birthdate of John H. Salman, the husband of Regina Salmen.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1893: Commissioner Senner said that the immigrants who arrived the SS
\nRoland, most of whom are Russian Jews, are \u201call nearly impoverished, unclean
\nand unkempt.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1894: In Hampstead, Hannah Lawrence and Jose de Sola Pinto gave birth to
\nAdrian de Sola Pinto who died before he reached the age of three months.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1895: Birthdate of Polish poet and writer Antoni S\u0142onimski, a Roman Catholic
\nwhose great-grand father was Abraham Sztern the Jewish inventor who \u201cmade
\nimportant contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/dictionary.sensagent.com\/list+of+polish+jews\/en-en\/<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1895: Birthdate of Yisrael Idelson, the Ukrainian native who made Aliyah in
\n1926 and as  <\/span>Yisrael Bar-Yedhuda became
\nan MK, Minister of Internal Affairs and Minister of Transportation.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/main.knesset.gov.il\/en\/MK\/APPS\/mk\/mk-personal-details\/310<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1895: According to Rabbi Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanu-El in New York,
\nduring the last 25 days ending on this date 15,000 Armenians have been
\nmassacred and \u201c200,000 souls have been rendered homeless and robbed of their
\npossessions.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1895: Birthdate of Bella Rosenfield Chagall, the first wife of Marc Chagall
\nwhom she met when he was a penniless painter in 1909, married in 1915 and posed
\nfor several of his pictures including \u201cBella with White Collar.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bella_Rosenfeld#\/media\/File:Chagall_Bella.jpg<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1895: Pennsylvania native Daniel M. Appel was promoted from the rank of
\nCaptain, Assistant Surgeon to Major\/Surgeon.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1895: Herzl began a two week visit to Paris and London designed to meet and
\ngain support from the leaders of these two Jewish communities In Paris he
\nconducted negotiations with Narcisse Leven, Chief Rabbi Zadoc Kahn among
\nothers.  <\/span>None of these leaders took the
\nassimilated Viennese journalist seriously.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1896: The National Council of Jewish Women opens
\nits first national convention at Tuxedo Hall in New York City. Founded at the
\nconclusion of the Jewish Women\u2019s Congress held at Chicago\u2019s World Columbian
\nExposition in November 1893, the National Council of Jewish Women was the first
\nnational open-membership organization for American Jewish women. Addressed by
\nthe leaders of the nation\u2019s leading women\u2019s organizations and numerous
\nprominent rabbis, it was clear that the Council was helping to establish the
\nlegitimacy of Jewish women\u2019s presence on a public stage. The convention
\nreceived extensive coverage in the New
\nYork Times<\/span><\/em> and other papers. With the NCJW’s creation in 1893,
\nlocal sections around the country began focusing on diverse activities ranging
\nfrom Bible study to education for children to active philanthropy in the
\ninterest of immigrant women and children. Representatives at the first
\nconvention summarized these achievements, established a clear institutional
\nstructure, and sought to offer guidance to local sections. Conflict emerged
\nduring the 1896 convention in relation to the Jewish character of the Council.
\nHannah Solomon of Chicago presided over the meetings, but some members objected
\nto her advocacy of Sunday as the Jewish Sabbath. Solomon memorably responded \u201cI
\nconsecrate every day in the week.\u201d As the New
\nYork Times<\/span><\/em> reported, \u201cPandemonium reigned for five minutes, and
\nthen Mrs. Solomon was re-elected.\u201d In its first few decades, NCJW transcended
\nreligious divisions by focusing especially on aid to newly arrived Jewish
\nimmigrants. In sections across the country, NCJW provided an early training
\nground for Jewish women leaders and a forum for Jewish women\u2019s concerns within
\nand outside the Jewish community.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1896: Mrs. Mary Low Dickinson, President of the
\nNational Council of Women is scheduled to deliver  <\/span>the opening address at the first  <\/span>convention of the National Council of Women followed
\nby address on \u201cPhilanthropy\u201d given by Mrs. E. M. Henrotin \u201cwho was the Vice
\nPresident of the of the Ladies\u2019 Board of Managers of the Columbian Exposition.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1896: It was reported today that in speeches
\ndelivered at Delmonico\u2019s Jacob A. Schiff and Senator Jacob A. Cantor urged Jews
\nto take \u201ca deeper interest in national affairs and Adolph S. Ochs spoke about
\nthe \u201cideals and influence of journalism.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1897: Birthdate of Aneurin Bevan the British Foreign Minister in the Labor
\nGovernment of Clement Atlee.  <\/span>Much to the
\ndismay of Zionist leaders, the Laborite government elected in 1945 opposed the
\ncreation of the Jewish state.  <\/span>Displaying
\nthat uniquely understated form of British anti-Semitism, when talking about the
\nplight of Jewish Displaced Persons, said that the Jews were always \u201cpushing
\ntheir way to the head of the cue\u201d instead of patiently waiting their turn.  <\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1897: Today, Rabbi Taubenhaus of the State Street Synagogue is scheduled to officiate
\nat the funeral of Mrs. Marion Levy a long-time member of the Hebrew Benevolent
\nSociety and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum who was the widow of A.S. Levy and the
\nmother of Bella Levy.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1897: When Mathieu Dreyfus, the brother of imprisoned Captain Dreyfus
\n\u201cdenounced Esterhazy\u201d today he responded by saying that \u201cCaptain Dreyfus had
\nforged his handwriting\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1898: One day after he had passed away, 80-year-old Morris Solomons, the
\nhusband of Caroline Abrahams with whom he had four children, was buried today
\nat the \u201cPlashet Jewish Cemetery in London.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1898: The demolition of the building on Clinton Street occupied by Ohab
\nZedek has been temporarily stopped which will give the congregants time to
\nraise enough money to save the structure.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1898: Novelist and playwright  <\/span>Israel
\nZangwill delivered a lecture this morning at the Waldorf Astoria \u201con the
\nghetto\u2026not the poetic Ghetto of his books, but the real specific Ghetto, the
\ndwelling place of the Jews\u2026closed by real gates and the home of a peculiar to
\nitself.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1898: The Berlin correspondent of the Times reported on the expulsion of
\nPolish Jews from Breslau which is part of a larger pattern of deportations
\ninstigated by the Prussian Minister of Finance \u201cwhich will serve as a pretext
\nfor more severe measures against aliens.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1898: Section two of the Constitution of the Union of Jud\u00e6o-German
\nCongregations commits the organization to providing funds for several purposes
\nincluding  <\/span>training for teachers and
\ncantors, for pensions for \u201caged officials\u201d and their families and for providing
\naid to released convicts.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1899: \u201cThe Merchant of Venice\u201d opened tonight at the Knickerbocker Theatre
\nwith Ellen Terry playing the Jewess Portia and Henry Irving delivering his
\nsignature performance of Shylock.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1899: Today twenty-year-old Edward Daily Levy, the Paris, TX born son of
\nHenry and Clara Levy and the future president of Pierce Petroleum married Katy
\nLevy Lewis in Ft. Worth, TX.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1900: In Washington, D.C., Dr. David Blaustein, the Superintendent of the
\nEducational Alliance testified before the Industrial Commission on the subject
\nof Jewish immigration where that the increased level of immoral behavior
\ngripping the tenements is a result \u201cof corruption on the police force of New
\nYork\u201d.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1901: It was reported today that Jacob A. Cantor, the president elect of the
\nBorough of Manhattan, Dr. Felix Adler and Jacob H. Schiff were each seated at
\nthe head table at the banquet celebrating the victory of the Fusion ticket
\nduring which the District Attorney elect delivered a speech in which he
\nattributed the success of the reform ticket on the East Side with its Jewish
\npopulation to the fact that they had their appeal to them as Americans and not
\na some separate ethnic group.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1902: \u201cThe Girl from Kays,\u201d which included songs by Paul Rubens, the London
\nborn son \u201cGerman Jewish stockbroker Victor Ruebens and Jenny Wallach\u201d opened
\ntoday at the Apollo Theatre in London.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1902: A political cartoon, \u201cDraw the line in Mississippi\u201d by Clifford K.
\nBerryman that \u201cspawned the Teddy Bear\u201d appeared in the Washington Post. Russian
\nJewish immigrants Rose and Morris Michtom created the Teddy Bear created the
\ncreature after seeing this cartoon which showed T.R. and bear cub.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:TheodoreRooseveltTeddyBear.jpg<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1903: Dr. Isadore Singer, editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia and Dr. W.E.S.
\nFales \u201cwere the principle speakers at \u201ca meeting of the Zion Educational League
\nthis evening presided over by Albert Sonberg where the attendees discussion
\n\u201cthe question of Jewish immigration from Russia.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1903(25th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5664): Seventy-year-old David Abraham
\nKohn, the German born son of Deichele and Abraham Josef Kohn, the husband of
\nTherese A. Kohn with whom he had four children \u2013 Julia, Alfred, Harry and Edwin
\n\u2013 passed away today in Chicago.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1904: Birthdate of Hungarian native and \u201cJewish historian and educator\u201d
\nJacob Katz who began teaching in Palestine in 1936 and became a full professor
\nat Hebrew University in 1962.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/katz-jacob<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1905: In St. Paul, MN, Grace Eslinger married grocery executive Julius C.
\nLang, the Weaverville, CA born son of the former Phillipina Loeb and Max Lang
\nwho was a member Temple De Hirsch in Seattle, WA and during WW I, the chairman
\nof all local Jewish War Relief Campaigns in Seattle.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1905: Further evidence that the drive to provide relief for the Jews being
\nmassacred in Russia is not a matter for the Jewish community will be seen this
\nevening when Bishop Coadjutor Greer of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and
\nthe Reverend Dr. Robert S. MacArthur of Calvary Baptist are among the speakers
\nat meeting sponsored by the Council of Jewish Women at Temple Emanu-El.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1905: Moses Plaut of L.S. Plaut & Co. is the driving force behind the
\nmeeting scheduled to be held in Newark, NJ tonight where \u201ca large sum of money
\nwill be raised\u201d to aid victims of the anti-Semitic violence in Russia.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1905: \u201cThe Odessa Relief Committee made up of former residents of that city\u201d
\nis scheduled to meet in the Apollo Hall\u201d for the purpose of raising funds for
\nthose suffering attacks in Russia.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1905: The New York Socialists\u2019 Organization is scheduled to meet this
\nevening to raise funds for the victims of the anti-Semitic attacks in Russia.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1905: \u201cThe United Hebrew Community which has a membership of over 4,000\u201d is
\nscheduled to meet \u201cin the Synagogue Beth Hamedrash Hagodol at 61 Norfolk
\nStreet\u201d where the leaders expect the attendees to add a considerable amount to
\nadd to the $500 that has already been raised.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1905: Birthdate of Bucharest native Alexander Paucker, engineer who gained
\nfame as composer Francis Chagrin the father of actors Nicolas and Julian
\nChagrin as well as the father-in-law of actress of Roland Chagrin.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.naxos.com\/person\/Francis_Chagrin\/39519.htm<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1906(27th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5667): Sixty-three-year-old Raphael
\nBenjamin passed away today at the Hotel St. George where he had been living for
\nthe past three years.  <\/span>A native of
\nLondon, he came to the United States 25 years ago and settled in Cincinnati
\nbefore moving to New York where he became the Rabbi of Temple Beth Elohim.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1906: Birthdate of New York City native and orthodontist Alexander Lawrence
\nUngar, military veteran who attended Columbia, NYU and Penn.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1907: One day after she had passed away, 29-year-old Dora Yanovsky Solomon,
\nthe wife of John Solomon and the mother of Betsy and Samuel Solomon was buried
\ntoday at the \u201cPlashet Jewish Cemetery in London.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.chessgames.com\/perl\/chessplayer?pid=19227#google_vignette<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/worldchesshof.org\/inductee\/al-horowitz\/<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1907:Birthdate of Brooklyn born American International Master of chess
\nIsrael Albert Horwoitz, aka I.A. Horowitz aka Al Horowitz.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1908: \u201cNathan Wise, one of the delegates of the Federation of Jewish
\nOrganizations, which held a meeting this afternoon at 311 East Broadway,
\ncharged that there was a system of petty graft in connection with the
\nnaturalization of ignorant applicants.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1909(2nd<\/sup> of Kislev, 5670): Mrs. Frume Rostowsky passed away
\ntoday.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1909: The Conference of the Central Conference of American Rabbis continued
\nwith their weeklong meeting in New York City.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1910: The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the state’s capital should
\ncontinue to be Guthrie, whose Jewish residents at the time included Felix Adler
\nwho \u201chad secured Oklahoma Territory\u2019s first wholesale liquor license,\u201d H.L.
\nCohen, the owner of a tailor shop, Samuel Goldstein, owner of Goldstein &
\nSons ready-to-wear clothing and Leo Meyer who moved to Guthrie in 1907 when he
\nwas appointed Assistant Secretary of State,\u201d who \u201cowned a local baseball team
\nin Guthrie and who became president of the Western Association baseball league
\nin 1909.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1910(13th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5671): Eighty-seven-year-old Marie Mariam
\nRosenstiel \u201cthe daughter of Salomon Bernheimer and Ella Bernheimer, wife of
\nBaruch Rosenstiel and mother of Leopold Rosenstiel; Zechiel Rosenstiel;
\nHeinrich Rosenstiel and Sigmund Rosenstiel\u201d passed away today in Schmieheim,
\nBaden, Germany.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1910: Birthdate of author and journalist Khonen Ayalti.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/congressforjewishculture.org\/people\/7030\/Ayalti-Khonen_1910-1992<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1911: Abraham \u201cAbe\u201d Washington Attell, the San Francisco born son of Jewish
\nparents known as \u201cThe Little Hebrew\u201d defeated Young Cohen tonight in bout
\nbetween featherweights at the Houston, A.C.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1912: Rabbi Gerson B. Levi is scheduled to lead Friday evening services at
\nB\u2019Nai Sholom \u2013 Temple Israel in Chicago.\u2019<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1912: University of  <\/span>Pennsylvania
\ntrained physician Dr. Jay S. Liebman , the Youngstown, OH born son Charles and
\nEmma Liebman and the grandson of Rabbi Lippman Liebman who was the examining
\nphysician of he United States Casualty Company married Helene Liebman today in
\nAtlanta.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1912: Rabbi Abram is scheduled to lead Friday evening services at Temple
\nSholom at the corner of Pine Grove Avenue and Grace Street.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1913: Birthdate of Chicago native and Harvard educated television director
\nCharles Friedman Haas who directed episodes for a long list of popular
\ntelevision shows including \u201cPerry Mason,\u201d \u201cBonanza,\u201d \u201cMaverick and \u201c77 Sunset
\nStrip.\u201d  <\/span>(Editor\u2019s note \u2013 if you grew up
\nin the middle of the 20th<\/sup> century in America, these names should be
\nquite meaning to you.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1914:Clarence I de Sola, presided over the opening session of \u201cThe
\nFourteenth Convention of the Federation of Zionist Societies of Canda opened
\nthis morning.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1914: \u201cA special meeting of the officers of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
\nSociety is scheduled to be held today Temple Emanu-El in NYC.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1915: Jennie Pose and Hugo Moses gave birth to Lotte Moses Grunwald, the
\nwife of Kur Grunwald with whom she had two children \u2013 Cecille and Roger.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1915: The list of the officers of the American Jewish Committee published
\ntoday included Louis Marshall, President; Judge Julian W. Mack and Professor
\nJacob H. Hollender, Vice Presidents; Isaac W. Bernheim, Treasurer; Jack H.
\nSchiff and Dr. J. L. Magnes, Executive Committee.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1915: President Clarence I de Sola presided over today\u2019s opening session of
\nthe \u201cFourteenth Convention of the Federation of Zionist Societies of Canada\u201d at
\nthe Auditorium Hall.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1916: Two days after she passed away, Caroline Spiers Boas, the daughter of
\nBenjamin Spiers and Sara Wolf and the wife of Hermann Boas with whom she had
\nseven children, was buried today at the Belfast Jewish Cemetery in Northern
\nIreland.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1917(30th of Cheshvan, 5678): Rosh Chodesh Kislev<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1917: In New York, Abraham Handelman, the Ukrainian born son of \u201cJoseph and
\nDobish Handelman\u201d and his wife Anna (Boorstein) Handelman gave birth to Lillian
\nHandelman who became Lillian Pollack when she married Jack Pollack<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1917(30th of Cheshvan, 5678): Fifty-nine-year-old Sociologist Emile
\nDurkheim, the son, grandson and great-grandson of French rabbis, passed away.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/durkheim.uchicago.edu\/Biography.html<\/span><\/a>a<\/span><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1917: As Allenby\u2019s forces continued their advance, \u201cthe 75th Division and
\nthe Australian Mounted Division advanced towards Latron where the Jaffa to
\nJerusalem Road enters the Judean Hills.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1917: Birthdate of Bernard Bellush, the Bronx native who became a Professor
\nof History at City College of New York.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1917: As British forces continued their successful campaign in Palestine,
\nANZAC forces occupied Ramleh and Lydda.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1917: It was officially announced today that British forces under General
\nAllenby had taken the junction point of the Beersheba to Damascus Railway with
\nthe Jerusalem line after fighting that resulted in heavy Turkish losses.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1917: In Budapest, \u201ca Jewish dentist\u201d and his wife gave birth to refugee
\nfrom Nazi Europe Andre Deutsch, the founder of his own publishing company who
\ndied in 2000 in London at the age of 82.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2000\/apr\/12\/news.obituaries<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/quartetbooks.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/05\/no-longer-with-us-andre-deutsch\/<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1918: Four days after the Armistice, Sergeant Abraham Blaustein who received
\nthe Croix de Guerre for heroism visited Lyon where he found out that the Army
\nCandidate School was to be closed since \u201cno more officer commissions will be
\ngranted.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1918: \u201cThe Jewish Press reported\u201d from Stockholm, \u201cthat anti-Semitic riots
\nhave broken out in several towns in Western Galicia and Poland\u201d where at least
\n\u201csix Jews have been killed\u201d in a village 55 miles southeast of Warsaw.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1918: \u201cJulian W. Mack, President of the ZOA and Louis Marshall\u201d joined
\ntogether and sent a telegram to President \u201cacquainting him the facts
\nconcerning\u201d the threat of Jews in Eastern Europe with a special emphasis on
\nPoland and Romania.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1919: Abram I. Elkus began serving as a Judge on New York State Court of
\nAppeals<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1920: Mr. Louis Mann is scheduled to deliver an address at the annual
\nmeeting of the Rodeph Sholom Women\u2019s Association this afternoon in Manhattan.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1921: Benjamin Schlesinger, the President of the International Ladies\u2019
\nGarment Workers\u2019 Union laid the cornerstone for the union\u2019s new headquarters
\nbuilding on West 16th<\/sup> Street in NYC.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1922: It was reported today that \u201cthe five brothers of the late Jacob Gimbel
\nof Philadelphia who was head of the Gimbel corporation operating stores in New
\nYork, Philadelphia and Milwaukee have arranged to give away more than one
\nmillion dollars which would have come to them as residuary legatee under the
\nterms of their brother\u2019s will\u201d and that \u201cthis money will go to charities Jewish
\nand non-Jewish and to nieces and nephews of Mr. Gimbel, so that his brothers
\nmay carry out what they believe to have been his desires expressed shortly
\nbefore his death.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1923: In Dublin, at about 11:30 pm, two Jews named Kahn and Millar were
\nwalking along Stamer Street heart of the Jewish quarter when they were ordered
\nto halt by two men, after which they were asked, \u201cAre you Jews?\u201d and when they
\nreplied in the affirmative, they ran for their lives as shots rang out on which
\nkilled Kahn.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1923(7th<\/sup> of Kislev, 5684): Rosalie V. Moses passed away today
\nafter she was buried at the Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, CO.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1923: Birthdate of Polish born Holocaust survivor Samuel Klein, the found of
\n\u201cthe Casas Bahia chain of department stores whose success has led him to be
\ncalled \u201cthe Sam Walton of Brazil.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1924(18th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5685): Parashat Vayera<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1924: In Hartford Max Rich and the former
\nBella Shub gave birth to DNA expert Alexander Rich.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/06\/us\/alexander-rich-dies-at-90-confirmed-dnas-double-helix.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1924: Russian born American journalist Isaac
\nDon Levine and his first wife gave birth to their only child, a son, named
\nRobert Don Levine.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1925: 
\n<\/span>Birthdate of Russian author Yuli Daniel<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1925: \u201cThe Fate of a Flirt\u2019 silent romantic
\ncomedy produced by Harry Cohn with a script co-authored by Albert Lewin was
\nreleased today in the United States.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1925: In Paris, Pierre L\u00e9on Dreyfus, the
\n\u201cson  <\/span>of Alfred Dreyfus and Lucie Eug\u00e9nie
\nHadamard\u201d and Marie Apollonie Dreyfus gave birth to Nicole Dreyfus<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1925: Birthdate of Jacek Zlatka, the native
\nof Warsaw who as \u201cJack P. Eisner used the millions he made in the import-export
\nbusiness to tell the story of how he survived the Holocaust in a book, play,
\nmovie and many public appearances.\u201d (As reported by Douglas Martin)<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/08\/30\/nyregion\/jack-eisner-77-holocaust-chronicler-dies.html<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1925: \u201cThe Road to Yesterday\u201d a silent film
\nstarring Joseph Schildkraut and Jetta Goudal was released today in the United
\nStates.                                                         <\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1926: The National Broadcasting Company, part of Robert Sarnoff\u2019s \u201cRCA
\nEmpire\u201d debuted with a radio network of 24 stations.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1926: CCNY and Cooper Institute alum Ben Bernie, the New York born son of
\nAmma Melnick and Julius Bernie and his orchestra were heard today \u201cvia a remote
\nbroadcast from the Hotel Roosevelt in New York City, on the first NBC broadcast.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1926: \u201cDerby, a German silent sports film directed by Max Reichmann\u201d was
\nreleased in Germany today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1927: A pre-Broadway tour of Showboat, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II
\nmusical based on Edna Ferber\u2019s novel began today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1928: The National Conference of Jews and Christians sent a telegram to
\nPresident-elect Hoover \u201ccongratulating\u201d him \u201con his upcoming trip to South
\nAmerica\u201d which the organization hopes \u201cwill bring all peoples and creeds both
\nat home and abroad into better relationships of mutual understanding and
\nhelpfulness.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1928: Leo Sirota, a Russian born Jewish pianist made his Japanese public
\ndebut today attracting overflow crowds to Tokyo’s Asahi Hall despite heavy rain
\nthat day.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1929: \u201cSeven Faces,\u201d a an early \u201ctalkie\u201d starring Paul Muni and produced by
\nWilliam Fox, president of Fox Movietone premiered today in New York.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1929: In Kansas City, MO, Russian Jewish immigrants, Lizzie (n\u00e9e Seliger)
\nand David Morris Asner gave birth to Edward \u201cEd\u201d Asner the multi-talented actor
\nwho could play everything from \u201cLou Grant\u201d to the menacing \u201cAxel Jordache\u201d in
\n\u201cRich Man, Poor Man.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/29\/arts\/television\/ed-asner-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1930(24th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5691): Parashat Chayei Sara<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1930: Northwestern, led by guard Hy Crizevsky, defeated the University
\nWisconsin by a score of 20-7 at Dyche Stadium in Evanston, IL.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1931: Tributes to Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, inspired by the
\nnoted jurist’s, seventy-fifth birthday last Friday, were voiced today by Rabbi
\nLouis I. Newman of Congregation Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of the
\nFree Synagogue,\u201d Judge Julian W. Mack and Jacob de Haas.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1932: Mrs. Arthur Brin of 
\n<\/span>Minneapolis, the President of the National Council of Jewish Woman and
\nDr. David de Sola Poole, the Rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue are
\nscheduled to address a meeting of the New York Section of the Council of Jewish
\nWoman.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1932: Birthdate of Haim Drukman, the native of Kuty who made Aliyah in 1944
\nand now serves as Rosh Yeshiva of Ohr Etzion Yeshiva.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1932: \u201cIn the Dough,\u201d a comedy \u201cfeaturing Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges
\nand Lionel Stander was released today in the United States.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1933(26th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5694): Fifty-five-year-old Max \u201cMaxie\u201d
\nIdelman, the Russian born son of Louis and Tillie Idelman passed away today in
\nMuskogee, OK after which he was buried in the Beth Hamedorosh Hagoldol Cemetery
\nin Ladue, MO.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1934: \u201cThe Strathaird arrived in Sydney but Egon Kisch\u201d who had escaped the
\nNazis \u201cwas not allowed to leave the ship.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1934:  <\/span>\u201cMrs. Mary G. Schonberg,
\nexecutive secretary of the National Council of Jewish Women\u201d is scheduled to
\nspeak on \u2018The Jewish Woman\u2019s Use of Leisure Time\u2019 over WNEW today under the
\nauspices of the School for the Jewish Woman.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1935: Under the Nuremberg Laws, German Jews are formally stripped of their
\ncitizenship meaning, among other things, that they cannot vote, hold public
\noffice or be employed by the government.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1935:<\/span> The German
\nChurches begin to collaborate with the Nazis by supplying records to the
\ngovernment indicating who is a Christian and who is not; that is, who is a Jew.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1935: \u201cA Night at the Opera\u201d the Marx Brothers comedy co-starring Kitty
\nCarlisle, produced by Irving Thalberg with a script by George S. Kaufman,
\nMorrie Ryskind and Al Boasberg was released in the United States today by MGM.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1936: In Hamburg Emma (n\u00e9e Dietrich), 
\n<\/span>a Communist Party activist, and 
\n<\/span>Dagobert Biermann, a German Jewish dockworker a member of the German
\nResistance gave birth to Wolf Biermann, a Jewish communist German
\nsinger-songwriter who survived the bombing of Hamburg in 1943. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1936: Funeral services were held today at Temple B\u2019nai Jeshurun and the
\nIsrael Orphan Asylum for fifty-six-year-old Hungary native Gustave Hartman the
\n\u201cson of Sarah Luchs and Kalman Hartman,\u201d 
\n<\/span>and \u201clawyer, municipal court judge, city court judge, Republican
\npolitical leader  <\/span>and philanthropist\u201d who
\n\u201cfounded the Israel Orphan Asylum\u201d and was honored by the creation of the
\nGustave Hartman Triangle in New York.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1936: Israel Rokach began serving as Mayor of Tel Aviv per the order of the
\nBritish general who was the High Commissioner of Palestine.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1936: The City Council of Tel Aviv voted to condemn the decision of the High
\nCommissioner to remove their choice for Mayor, Moshe Chelouche, and replace him
\nIsrael Rokach. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1936: \u201cIn Abraham\u2019s Ur of the Chaldes\u201d published today, Louise Maunsell
\nField provided an in-depth review of Abraham: Recent Discoveries and Hebrew
\nOrigins<\/u> by Sir Leonard Woolley.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/mem\/archive\/pdf?res=9905E7DA153DE33BBC4D52DFB767838D629EDE<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1937: The Habima Players of Tel Aviv \u201cwho have just ended a successful
\nseason at the Paris Exhibition open a season at the Savoy Theater\u201d today in
\n\u201ctheir second appearance in Britain. 
\n<\/span>They will open with \u2018The Dybbuk,\u2019 probably their finest as well as their
\nmost popular production.  <\/span>The plays all
\nwill be performed in Hebrew, but the realism of their acting surmounts to a
\nlarge degree the barrier of language.\u201d 
\n<\/span>During the course of the season Habima will also be performing \u201cUriel
\nAcosta,\u201d \u201cThe Wandering Jew,\u201d and \u201cThe Goldem\u2019s Dream.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1937: Birthdate of actor Yaphet Kotto, both of whose parents are African
\nJews from Cameroon. In an interview he said being fully Black and Jewish gave
\nothers even more reason to pick on him growing up in New York City. However, to
\nthis day, he remains a devout, practicing Jew. Yaphet Kotto is a regular on
\nTV’s, Homicide: Life on the Streets<\/i>
\nplaying the role of Lt. Al Giardello <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1937: Haaretz<\/i> and Davar<\/i>, two of the leading Jewish dailies in
\nPalestine, \u201cpublish strong editorials \u201ccondemning recent acts of violence by
\nJews brought on by the last two years of Arab attacks.  <\/span>The two papers called on \u201cJews to \u2018take revenge\u2019
\nonly through constructive activities.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1938: \u201cThe first solo exhibition of the work of Frida Kahlo\u201d which had been
\nmounted by Julien Levy at his gallery at 15 East 57th<\/sup> Street came to
\na close today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1938: Jewish students were barred from German schools<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1938: In Saxony, eleven-year-old Zeev Raphael was expelled from the
\nHans-Schemm-Schule.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.raoulwallenberg.net\/holocaust\/testimon-25\/chronicle-growing-up-third<\/span>\/<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1938: Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay, the British anti-Semitic Nazi
\nsympathizing politician attended a luncheon at the German Embassy in London
\nwhere he met with other Englishmen who sympathized with Hitler.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1938:<\/span> In the wake of the
\nbloody pogroms of Kristallnacht,<\/i> United States President Franklin Delano
\nRoosevelt withdraws the United States ambassador from Germany<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1939: The <\/span>Nazis began the
\nmass murder of Warsaw Jews.  <\/span>The war
\nstarted on September 1, 1939.  <\/span>After only
\ntwo and a half months, the War Against the Jews was in full swing.  <\/span>This is one more fact that puts the lie to
\nthose revisionists who contend that genocide was not an essential part of the
\nNazi program from its very outset.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1939:<\/span> The anti-Semitic Fideikommissariat<\/i>
\n(Estate commission) is established to “Aryanize” Jewish-owned
\nbusinesses in Occupied Poland.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1939: In New York City Avraham Kotto who claimed to be related to Jews who
\nhad ruled a region in Cameroon and Gladys Marie, a nurse and Army officer who
\nhad converted before marrying her husband gave birth to actor Yaphet Kotto,
\nwhose most famous role may have been that of Lt. Al Giardello in the
\noutstanding series \u201cHomicide: Life on the Street.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1940: The Nazis officially declared the Warsaw ghetto to be in existence as
\nworkers began to build walls to encircle district.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1940: Welterweight Al \u201cBummy\u201d Davis (Albert Abraham Davidoff) lost a
\nnon-title bought in which he committed so many fouls that he was disqualified
\nfrom boxing by the New York State Boxing Commission.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1941: Four days after his death in a plane crash, Charles Huntziger, one of
\nthe French generals who signed \u201cthe anti-Semitic Statue on Jews in 1940\u201d and
\nwhose widow was decorated by the regime at Vichy was buried today at Vichy<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1941: \u201cBlues in the Night\u201d a musical directed by Anatole Litvak, produced by
\nHal B. Wallis and with a script by Robert Rossen was released in the United
\nStates today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1941: Today, Leon Banov, \u201cthe Charleston County health officer\u201d wrote to
\nnewly elected Senator Burnet R. Maybank outlining the public health challenges
\nfacing Charleston because of the influx of war workers at the Charleston Navy
\nYear and asking his assistance in bringing these concerns to the attention of
\nthe Surgeon General.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1941: Although it had been operating for months Treblinka was \u201cfounded
\nofficially\u201d today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1941: Hinrich Lohse, the Nazi official who had created the ghetto in Riga,
\nLatvia, by rounding up all of the Jew\u2019s living in the city and its surrounding
\nareas asked his boss Alfred Rosenbeg to confirm that all the Jews were to be
\nkilled \u201cregardless of economic considerations.\u201d 
\n<\/span>The response would be in the affirmative since the goal was to make
\nLatvia \u201cjudenrein\u201d or \u201cJew free.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1942:<\/span> The Soviet-based
\nJewish Antifascist Committee releases a report, “The Liquidation of the
\nJews in Warsaw.”<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1942: In Japanese occupied Shanghai, \u201cthe idea of a restricted ghetto was
\napproved\u201d today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1942:<\/span> In an action led
\nby Mayer List, two Jewish women partisans in Paris place two time bombs at a
\nNazi barracks window, which will kill several soldiers.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1942: <\/span>In his diary, Rudolf
\nRederlin described the scene at Belze after a train was unloaded. The men were
\nstripped naked and sent directly to the gas chambers, the women brought to the
\nbarracks to have their head shaven. Then they went to the chambers. The head of
\nthe Judenrat was ordered to stay behind and beaten to near death as an
\norchestra played on. Then the man was shot in the head and pushed into the
\nbundle of gassed Jews.  <\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1942: In Buenos Aires, Aida (n\u00e9e
\nSchuster) and Enrique Barenboim gave birth to pianist and conductor Daniel
\nBarenboim who married Elena Bashkirova in 1988 after the death of his first
\nwife Jacqueline du Pre.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1942: Birthdate of <\/span>Devra G.
\nKleiman, \u201ca conservation biologist who reintroduced into the wild the tiny,
\nendangered monkey known as the golden lion tamarin, and who learned so much
\nabout the lives of giant pandas that scientists could later help them reproduce
\nin captivity\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1943:
\nIn describing Leonard Bernstein’s first performance as conductor
\nof the New York Philharmonic which occurred last night, The New York
\nTimes<\/i> editorial remarked, “It’s a good American success story. The
\nwarm, friendly triumph of it filled Carnegie Hall and spread far over the air
\nwaves.”<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1943: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put
\n“on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps”.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1943(17th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5704): Twenty-one-year-old Lawrence
\nBalfour \u201cDuke\u201d Abelson, a Flying Officer with the Royal Canadian Air Force from
\nOttawa, Ontario, \u201cwas killed during a training flight\u201d today after which he was
\nburied in Cheshire, England.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1943(17th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5704): Salo Landau, a Galician born Dutch
\nChess Champion was probably murdered today at Auschwitz. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1944: Actor and director Kurt Gerron was killed today at Auschwitz.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/holocaustmusic.ort.org\/places\/camps\/western-europe\/westerbork\/gerronkurt\/<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1944(28th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5705): Seventy-nine-year-old Morris
\nDiamond, the father of former Supreme Court Justice David Diamond and the
\nfounder of the Buffalo Hebrew School passed away today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1944: The deportations of Hungarian
\nJews living in Budapest continued In the meantime the authorities establish an
\n\u2018international ghetto’ consisting of dozens of buildings that housed Jews
\ntechnically under the protection of the Swiss Legation.  <\/span>This rescue operation was engineered by Carl
\nLutz, a Swiss official representing Great Britain\u2019s interests in Hungary.  <\/span>Lutz\u2019s rescue work mirrored that of the
\nother, more famous, hero of Hungarian Jewry, Raoul Wallenberg. <\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1944: \u201cThirty Seconds Over Tokyo\u201d
\nthe film version of the Doolittle Raid directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by
\nSam Zimbalist was released in the United States by MGM.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1945:<\/span> Today is a day of prayer and fasting to protest British foreign minister
\nErnest Bevin’s actions. <\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1945: A complete curfew is declared
\nat noon in Tel Aviv, Palestine by the British government. Anyone (this means
\nJews) carrying a weapon may be punished by execution.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1945: In Haifa, Palestine, Zionist
\nsailors serving in the British navy protest.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1945:  <\/span>Forty people who were part of the staff of
\nthe concentration at Dachau go on trial. 
\n<\/span>The trial would last until December 14, 1945, resulted in thirty-seven
\nof the accused being sentenced to death.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1946: As the Irgun continued its
\nviolent attacks aimed at driving the British out of Palestine, it was reported
\ntoday that an Arab fireman \u201cwas killed while riding on train that had struck a
\nmine Jaffa\u201d and that \u201ctwo British soldiers were killed in a road explosion in
\nJerusalem.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1947(1st<\/sup> of Kislev,
\n5708): Rosh Chodesh Kislev<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1947(1st<\/sup> of Kislev,
\n5708): William Marias Malifsoff, \u201ca research biochemist based at different
\ntimes in Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York City\u201d whose \u201cinterest in science
\nand its philosophical aspects led him to found the Philosophy of Science\u201d in
\n1934, died suddenly today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1947: The <\/span>British foreign office denies that Britain plans
\nto take over financial surplus in Palestine treasury to pay for costs of
\nevacuation and fighting illegal Jewish immigration.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1947: Moses A. Leavitt, the executive vice chairman of The Joint
\nDistribution Committee, said that the committee \u201cwould increase its food
\npurchases to eight million pounds for the last quarter of this year\u201d and that
\nit would be shipped abroad immediately to aid \u201cdistressed Jews\u201d in Europe.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1947: In Atlantic City, NJ, where 250 delegates had gathered for the
\nopening of the 38th<\/sup> annual convention of the American Federation of
\nPolish Jews, Dr. Schwartzbart, a \u201cmember of the World Zionist council and a
\nmember of the Polish Parliament in pre-war Poland, said that \u201cthe Jewish people
\nmay be far from reaching their goal of a Jewish state\u201d because \u201cthe way is
\nstill fraught with obstacles.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1947: \u201cUniversal relief over the fact that Britain has formally announced
\nher intention of getting out of Palestine, surrendering her mandate and
\ndisassociating herself from the United Nations partition\u201d plan was evident in
\nLondon today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1948:<\/span> <\/span>Moshe Shertok declares that Israel will fight
\nbefore it gives up Negev.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1948: \u201cEl Al was incorporated and became Israel’s national flag carrier\u201d
\ntoday,<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1948:<\/span> <\/span>Israel announces its peace conditions: (1) Jewish
\ncontrol of modern Jerusalem corridor to remainder of Israel; (2) no Arab use of
\nHaifa port or Lydda airport except under Israeli terms; (3) retention of
\nWestern Galilee as long as area is needed for Israel’s defense; and (4) no
\nreadmission of Arab refugees to Israel until peace is established. Israel also
\nrequests UN admission.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1948: As of today, another seven Spitfires had been prepared for the
\nlong-range flight to Israel, but Czech authorities refused to let them take
\noff.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1948:<\/span> <\/span>Salah el-Kuntar, leader of Druse tribesmen’s
\nNational Army, says Druses want their 4,000-square-mile area shifted from Syria
\nto Israel. Druses helped drive Syrian troops out of Upper Galilee.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1948: The Metropolitan Opera Association\u2019s new roster released today listed
\nthree new conductors including Walter Taussig. <\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1949: It was announced in Tel Aviv tonight that \u201cEliahu Sasson, director of
\nthe Middle East division of the Israeli Foreign Office, has been appointed
\nEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Turkey.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1950: The Israeli Cabinet appointed
\na planning unit \u201cto examine the possibility of\u201d establishing a \u201csettlement in
\nthe northeastern Negev desert and the Arad area.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1950: \u201cKansas Raiders\u201d an \u201coater\u201d filmed by cinematographer Irving
\nGlassberg was released today in the United States.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1952: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover met with Lewis Wester Jones the
\npresident of Rutgers University to discuss pending security cases including one
\ninvolving ancient and classical scholar Moses I. Finley.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1952: The Bugs Bunny Cartoon Rabbit’s Kin<\/i> featuring the voice of Mel
\nBlanc is released in theaters throughout the United States.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1952: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
\nmet with Lewis Webster Jones, President of Rutgers University to discuss the
\ninquiry into the loyalty of faculty members including Moses I. Finley (born
\nMoses Isaac Finelstein) who was accused of being a communist.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1953:\u201dNorman
\nSalit, president of the Synagogue Council of America, presented today to
\nBritain\u2019s Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie, a facsimile copy of a letter written by
\nPresident George Washington\u201d \u201cwhich Washington had sent to the congregation of
\nthe Touro synagogue in Newport, RI expressing the first President\u2019s belief in
\nreligious tolerance.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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1953: The 17th<\/sup> annual
\nmeeting of the United Israel Appeal which had been meeting in Chicago for the
\nlast two days came to an end. \u201cIn response to Prime Minster David Ben-Gurion\u2019s
\nplea for aide, the delegates pledged to carry out a program, apart from
\nfund-raising. Of borrowing a minimum of $75,000,000 for a period of five years
\n\u2018in order to refund Israel\u2019s short-term obligations which were incurred as a
\nresult of the unprecedented immigration policy.\u2019\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1953(8th<\/sup> of Kislev,
\n5714): Retired Brooklyn textile merchant and founder of Mizrachi Abraham
\nStavisky, \u201ca director and benefactor of the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School and
\nhusband of Fanny Stavisky with whom he had five children passed away today in
\nAtlantic City while attending \u201cthe annual convention of the Mirzrachi
\nOrganization of America.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1953: Alexander Wiley, the
\nRepublican Senator from Wisconsin and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
\nCommittee clashed with Guy Gillette, the Democratic Senator from Iowa and the
\nsenior member of the committee over the issue of U.S. support for Israel.  <\/span>Gillette took issue with the Eisenhower
\nadministration\u2019s policy in the Middle East which he described as appeasing the
\nArab states by kicking Israel in public.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1955(30th of Cheshvan, 5716): Rosh
\nChodesh Kislev<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1955: \u201cMilton Cohen\u2019s seventh
\nanniversary as executive director of the Federation of the Handicapped was
\nobserved\u201d today during which the staff gave him \u201ca scrapbook illustrating the
\nfederation\u2019s twenty years of work\u201d and money which Cohen said, \u201cwould be used
\nto transport homebound adults to and from recreational activities held at the
\nfederation building seven nights a year.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1957(21st<\/sup> of Cheshvan,
\n5718): Eighty-six-year old Gertrude Stern Florsheim the Rockford, IL born
\ndaughter of Henry Stern and Esther Raab and the wife shoe manufacture Milton S.
\nFlorshiem with whom she raised two sons, Irving and Harold passed away today in
\nChicago after which she interred at Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1957(21st<\/sup> of Cheshvan,
\n5718): Seventy-seven-year-old Oswego, NY native and Columbia trained urologist
\nDr. Clarence Garfield Bandler, the son of William and Eva Fox Bandler and the
\nhusband of Miriam Zack passed away today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/timesmachine.nytimes.com\/timesmachine\/1957\/11\/17\/132854902.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1958(3rd<\/sup> of Kislev,
\n5719): Parashat Toldot<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1960: A theatre party at today\u2019s
\nperformance of \u201cPeriod of Adjustment\u201d which was organized by Mrs. Irving
\nMitchell Felt \u201cwill benefit a fund for student scholarships and teachers\u2019
\npensions at the Lenox School in New York.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1962(18th<\/sup> of Cheshvan,
\n5723): Seventy-nine-year-old \u201cEnglish collector, connoisseur and philanthropist,\u201d
\nThe Honorable Nillie Londes, \u201cthe second child and the elder daughter of Sir
\nMarcus Samuel and his wife, the former Anny Benjamin who married architect
\nBasil Ionides after the death of Major Walter Henry with who she had four
\nchildren \u2013 Mary, Winifred Tob and Vivian \u2013 passed away today after which \u201cshe
\nwas buried at Golders Green Jewish Cemetery, the final resting place of first
\nhusband, Walter Henry Levy<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1962: The General Assembly of the
\nCouncil of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds formally opened its first
\nsession today in Philadelphia.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1962: Birthdate of Judy Gold the
\nNewark, NJ native known as a comedian but who has also \u201cwon two Daytime Emmy
\nAwards for her work as a writer and producer on The Rosie O’Donnell Show.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1962: Funeral services are scheduled
\nto be held today for Dr. Milton Simon Fine, the husband of Frances Fine and the
\nfather of Stephen Isaac Fine in Manhattan.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1962: Funeral services are scheduled
\nto be held today for Celia Fishman, the wife of Dr. Harry Fishman and mother of
\nMuriel Feuerman and Dr. Stanley Fishman at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
\nwhere she is remembered for her \u201cgracious service to the synagogue\u201d of which
\nher husband was President.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1963(28th of Cheshvan, 5724):
\nSymphony conductor Fritz Reiner passed away. 
\n<\/span>Born in Hungary in 1888, Reiner trained as both a lawyer and a
\nmusician.  <\/span>After a successful career in
\nEurope, he moved to the United States in 1922 where he served as conductor for
\nseveral symphony orchestras.  <\/span>He was <\/span>the
\nconductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the time of his death at the age
\nof 74<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1966(2nd of Kislev, 5727): William Zorach was a
\nJewish Lithuanian-born American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and writer who
\nwon the Logan Medal of the arts passed away.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/span>http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/mem\/archive\/pdf?res=FA0915FF355C14738DDDA90A94D9415B868AF1D3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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1966: At Staatsoper, world premiere of Paul Dessau\u2019s \u201cPuntila.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1967: Birthdate of actress Lisa Bonet. The daughter of a Jewish mother and a black father, Lisa Bonet first
\nfound fame in the mid-80s on The Cosby Show as Denise, one of the four
\ndaughters of Bill Cosby\u2019s character Cliff Huxtable.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1967: \u201cWho\u2019s That Knocking At My
\nDoor\u201d which marked the cinema debut of Harvey Keitel premiered today in
\nChicago.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1967: Two days after he had passed
\naway, funeral services are scheduled to be held today for <\/span>seventy-two
\nyear old Lemberg, Austria, native, Harry Salpeter, \u201can art deal and critic\u201d and
\nthe husband of Betty Berkowitz <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/timesmachine.nytimes.com\/timesmachine\/1967\/11\/14\/90417644.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.aaa.si.edu\/collections\/harry-salpeter-papers-9052<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1968(24th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5729): Seventy-two-year-old Polish born,
\nWW I U.S Navy veteran Sidney Cannold, the founder and chairman of the Manhattan
\nElectric Cable Corporation and \u201corganizer of the electrical division of the
\nFederation of Jewish Philanthropies passed away aboard the Oceanic while
\n\u201creturning from a cruise to Nassau.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1968: Birthdate of Dr. Michael Levin<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1969: In Washington, D.C. Maxine Rapport, a convert to Judaism and publisher
\nDan Rapport gave birth to Woodrow Wilson High School graduate Adam Rapoport,
\nthe disgraced editor of Bon Appetit <\/i>magazine.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1969: U.S. premiere of \u201cGoodbye, Mr. Chips\u201d a musical adaption of the novel
\nby the same name directed by Herbert Ross <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1970(16th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5731): Seventy-eight-year-old \u201centrepreneur,
\nphilanthropist, diplomat, and co-founder the American Oil Company Jacob
\nBlaudstein, the Baltimore born son of Louis and Henrietta Blaustein, the
\nhusband of Hilda Katz with whom he had three children \u2013 Morton, Barabara and
\nElizabeth \u2013 and \u201can ardent supporter of human rights, the rights of Jewish
\npeople, and an advocate for multilateralism through the United Nations, serving
\nas a United States delegate to the UN under five U.S. presidents\u201d who during WW
\nII \u201cwas president and chairman of the Overseas News Agency and Jewish
\nTelegraphic Agency which reported on antisemitic and other minority crimes
\ntaking place around the world\u201d and who \u201cserved as Senior Vice President of the
\nConference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany\u201d passed away today in
\nBaltimore.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.jta.org\/archive\/jacob-blaustein-jewish-leader-industrialist-diplomat-dies-at-age-78<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1970\/11\/16\/archives\/jacob-blaustein-is-dead-at-78-founder-of-the-american-oil-co.html<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1970: Today, \u201cKappa Guild, Inc. \u201ca charity founded in 1955 that raises funds
\nto support children’s health and welfare, providing medical equipment and
\nresources to pediatric hospitals and programs across Maryland\u201d \u201cpresented an
\nadaptation of Fiddler on the Roof at the Jewish Convalescent Home\u201d which was directed
\nby Lynn Rosen, , with piano accompaniment by Lee Markowitz.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1973: Egypt and Israel exchange prisoners of war following the Yom Kippur
\nWar.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1974(1st<\/sup> of Kislev, 5735): Rosh Chodesh Kislev<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1974(1st<\/sup> of Kislev, 5735): Morris Miller, a part-time cantor at
\nHar-Brook Congregation in Anne Arundel County and a founder of the Liberty
\nJewish Center passed away today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1974: \u201cEarthquake\u201d a disaster film produced and directed by Mark Robson,
\nco-starring Lorne Greene, whose Jewish immigrants Dora Grinovsky and shoemaker
\nDaniel Green named him Lyon Himan Green  <\/span>(under an alias) Walter Matthau was released
\nin the United States today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1976: Funeral services are scheduled to be held this morning for Louis Horn,
\nthe husband of Sarah Horn, the father and Ruth Lichtenstein and the President
\n\u201cof the First Rabbi Mayer Przemyslanor S. and B. Association, Inc.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1977: Birthdate of Wharton graduate Jonathan Benjamin \u201cJon\u201d Hurwitz, the
\nscreenwriter\/director responsible for among other things the \u201cHarold &
\nKumar\u201d movies.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1978: Today, in the District of Columbia, funeral  <\/span>services are scheduled to be at Washington
\nHebrew Congregation Rabbi Emeritus Alexander Steinbach, the husband of Joy
\nSteinbach who led Temple Ahavath Stator for 32 years.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/religion\/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps\/steinbach-alexander-alan<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span>1978 \u201cBetrayal\u201d written by Harold
\nPinter, the London born son of Jewish parents \u201cHyman Pinter and Frances
\nMoskowitz\u201d premiered today at the Lyttelton Theatre in London.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1979: Rodef Shalom, \u201cthe oldest congregation in Western Pennsylvania\u201d which
\ntraces its origins to formation of a burial society in Pittsburgh in 1847, was
\nplaced on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1979: The B’er Chayim Temple (Well of Life, a metaphor in which Torah is
\nlikened to water) in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland was added to the
\nNational Register of Historic Places Properties in Allegany County: Maryland
\nHistorical Trust; 2008-10-06. The Temple was built in 1866 for the local Jewish
\ncongregation. Originally Orthodox, it is now Reform. It is one of the oldest
\ncongregations in Maryland and its 1865 building is one of the oldest synagogue
\nbuildings in the United States.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B%27er_Chayim_Temple<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1980(7th<\/sup> of Kislev, 5741): Parashat Vayetzei<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1980(7th<\/sup> of Kislev, 5741): Seventy-two-year-old Arnold M. Grant, \u201ca
\nleading corporate and tax lawyer in the film industry who for many years was
\nactive in fund-raising efforts for the Democratic Party and Jewish
\norganizations\u201d passed away today at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount
\nKisco, N.Y.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1980\/11\/18\/archives\/arnold-grant-corporate-lawyer-in-the-film-industry-dead-at-72.html<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1981: A revival of Lerner and Lowe\u2019s \u201c<\/span>Camelot”
\nopens at Winter Garden Theater in New York City for 48 performances.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1982: \u201cE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial an audiobook and soundtrack companion
\nalbum for the 1982 blockbuster film directed by Steven Spielberg\u201d was released
\ntoday.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1984: 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe is the fourteenth album by singer-songwriter
\nBarry Manilow was released today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1984: After over two decades of building a reputation as a passionate and
\ngenerous member of the Jewish community through her activism and volunteer
\nwork, Baltimorean Shoshana Cardin was elected as the first woman president of
\nthe Council of Jewish Federations. (As reported by Jewish Women\u2019s Archives)<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1985: \u201cThe Last Romantic,\u201d \u201ca documentary filmed the townhouse of Vladimir
\nHorowitz\u201d produced by Peter Gelb was released in the United States today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1986(13th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5747): Parashat Lech-Lecha<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1986: <\/span>The SEC fined Ivan F.
\nBoesky $100 million for insider stock trading. Boesky was, and is, one of many
\nJews who have been involved in white collar crime stretching from the junk bond
\ndebacle to the collapse of Enron.  <\/span>To
\nparaphrase a character in a Faye Kellerman novel, God must have known that Jews
\nwere capable of theft.  <\/span>Why else would He
\nhave commanded the Jews not to steal?<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1986(13th<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5747): Eighty-nine-year-old composer
\nAlexandre Tansman whose career was a \u201ccasualty\u201d of the Holocaust passed away
\ntoday.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/forward.com\/culture\/217468\/on-alexandre-the-greatest-jewish-composer-youve-ne\/<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/artists\/t\/ta-tn\/alexander-tansman\/<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1987: After 1,761 performances
\nover four years, \u201cLa Cage aux Folles\u201d with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman
\ncame to a close.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1987(23rd<\/sup> of Cheshvan,
\n5748): Eighty-five-year-old \u201c<\/span>Hungarian-born British architect and
\nfurniture designer\u201d Erno Goldfinger, the husband of Ursula Blackwell with whom
\nhe had three children whose building
\nincluded Alexander Fleming House, Balfron Tower, Carradale House and Trellick Tower
\npassed away today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1988: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian
\nNational Council.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1988: \u201cGoetz Collection Picasso Sold for $24.75 Million\u201d published today
\ndescribed the auction of the art collection of the late William and Edith Mayer
\nGoetz.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/1988-11-15\/news\/mn-162_1_art-collection<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1988: ABC broadcast the second episode of \u201cWar and Remembrance,\u201d \u201can
\nAmerican miniseries based on the novel of the same name written by Herman Wouk\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1989: U.S. premiere of \u201cSteel Magnolias\u201d a film highlighting the strength of
\nsouthern women directed by Herbert Ross.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1989: Aaron Sorkin’s “Few Good Men,” premiered in New York
\nCity.  <\/span>Born in 1961, the Scarsdale native
\nwrote this successful court-martial melodrama without ever serving in the
\nmilitary or attending law school.  <\/span>He
\nshowed his versatility when he wrote the hit romantic comedy, American President.<\/o:p><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

1991: CBS broadcast the final episode of \u201cThe Trials of Rosie O\u2019neill\u201d
\ncreated and produced by Barney Rosenzweig.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1995(22nd<\/sup> of Cheshvan, 5756): Ninety-four-year-old  <\/span>Russian born CCNY and Columbia  <\/span>educated \u201cscholar, writer and educator in
\nYiddish and German literature Sol Lipzin who \u201cwas a founder of Bar-Ilan
\nUniversity and the Jerusalem University College\u201d and who raised Yelva and Karen
\nwith his wife Anna Ohrenstein passed away today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1996; \u201cThe English Patient\u201d a movie version of the novel of the same name
\nwhich won an Oscar for producer Saul Zaentz as the Best Picture of the Year,
\nwas released today in the United States.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1997: William Shatner weds Norine Kidd.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1997: Eighty-eight year old John Coulson \u201ca diplomat at the British Embassy
\nin Paris during the Exodus crisis \u201csuggested how to spin the Jews\u2019 confinement
\nin the camps to score a public relations\u201d when he wrote \u201cIf we decide it is
\nconvenient not to keep them in camps any longer, I suggest that we should make
\nsome play that we are releasing them from all restraint of this kind in
\naccordance with their wishes and that they were only put in such accommodation
\nfor the preliminary necessities of screening and maintenance.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1997(15th of Cheshvan, 5758): Eighty-five-year-old Saul
\nChaplin passed away.  <\/span>Born Saul Kapan in
\n1912, this leading American composer and musical director lists of hits include
\nthe scores for American in Paris, West Side Story and Seven Brides for Seven
\nBrothers.  <\/span>He collaborated with Sammy
\nCahn on that unique musical creation “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen\u201d a<\/span><\/i>
\npopular song, the title meaning “to me you are beautiful.” According
\nto at least one show biz legend, the original verson of the song was written
\nfor a Yiddish musical in 1932.  <\/span>In 1937
\nCahn and Chaplin heard two African American singers perform it at the Apollo
\nTheatre in Harlem.  <\/span>Impressed with the
\naudience response, they bought the rights to the song, reworked it, and the
\nrest is musical history.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1998: The New
\nYork Times<\/i> featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and\/or about topics
\nof Jewish interest including The Hidden Book In The Bible <\/u>Restored,
\ntranslated and introduced by Richard Elliott Friedman, Truth Comes In Blows: A Memoir<\/span><\/u> <\/b>by
\nTed Solotaroff, There Once Was A World: A Nine-Hundred-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok<\/span><\/u> <\/b>by
\nYaffa Eliach, Flora\u2019s Suitcase <\/span><\/u>by
\nDalia Rabinovich and Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright<\/span><\/u> <\/b>by Ann
\nBlackman.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1999: Irwin Cotler began serving as a Member of the
\nCanadian Parliament for Mount Royal.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1999: INS
\nLeviathan<\/i>, a Dolphin class submarine, was commissioned today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1999: A new exhibit on life and work of Jewish
\nactivist Rebecca Affachiner, known affectionately as “the Betsy Ross of
\nIsrael,” at Emory University’s Schatten Gallery will open with a special
\npublic program and reception today in the Joseph W. Jones Room of Woodruff
\nLibrary.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

1999: A dinner was held in Melbourne in honor of
\nthe late Ron Castan.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.hcourt.gov.au\/assets\/publications\/speeches\/former-justices\/kirbyj\/kirbyj_castan.htm<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2000: U.S. Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton
\n\u201cdelivered an emotional eulogy for Leah Rabin\u201d today in Jerusalem.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2001: After being hired today as President and CEO
\nof the Red Sox, Larry Luchino hired Theo Epstein<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2001: Ilyas Malayev an Uzbekistani musician and
\npoet who had emigrated to the United States, in part because he could not get
\nhis poetry published due to anti-Semitism became a United States citizen today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2002: \u201cInterview With The Assassin\u201d produced by
\nBrian Koppelman and David Levien was released today in the United States today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2002(10th of Kislev, 5763):Twelve people – 9
\nsoldiers and three civilians from the Kiryat Arba emergency response team –
\nwere killed and 15 others wounded in Hebron when Palestinian terrorists opened
\nfire and threw grenades at a group of Jewish worshipers and their guards as
\nthey were walking home from Sabbath prayers at the Cave of the Patriarchs. The
\ndead included civilian worshipers and soldiers, some of whom were caught in an
\nambush as they pursued the attackers. Three terrorists were killed in the attack,
\nwhich was claimed by the Islamic Jihad. The victims: Col. Dror Weinberg, 38, of
\nJerusalem; Border Police officer Ch.-Supt. Samih Sweidan, 31, of Arab
\nal-Aramsha; Sgt. Tomer Nov, 19, of Ashdod; Sgt. Gad Rahamim, 19, of Kiryat
\nMalachi; St.-Sgt. Netanel Machluf, 19, of Hadera; St.-Sgt. Yeshayahu Davidov,
\n20, of Netanya; Sgt. Igor Drobitsky, 20, of Nahariya; Cpl. David Marcus, 20, of
\nMa’aleh Adumim; and Lt. Dan Cohen, 22, of Jerusalem. The three civilian members
\nof the Kiryat Arba emergency response team killed were Yitzhak Buanish, 46;
\nAlexander Zwitman, 26; and Alexander Dohan, 33.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2002: In the following letter-to-the editor
\npublished in the New York Times, Martin Peretz, Editor in Chief, \u201cThe New
\nRepublic,\u201d comes to the defense of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen,<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

In a vast documentation of the culpability of
\nthe Roman Catholic Church in the Nazi genocide of the Jews, the archdiocese of
\nMunich has caught Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, the author of ”A Moral Reckoning,”
\nin one tiny mistake. It has gone to court to get an injunction against the sale
\nof the book, reviving the index of what it does not want people to read. Mr.
\nGoldhagen misidentified a cleric marching at a Nazi rally in a photograph
\nincluded in his text. Relying on the authority of a responsible scholarly archive,
\nhe indicated that the priest was Cardinal Michael Faulhaber. It wasn’t. Still,
\nseveral incidents involving the cardinal, cited in the book and not challenged
\nby anyone, are devastating. They support the author’s argument that the church
\nwas not a passive witness to the Holocaust but an active collaborator in it.
\nAnd who was the mysterious father in the photograph? Alas, the papal nuncio,
\nCesare Orsenigo, the personal diplomatic representative of Pius XI.<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

2003(20th of Cheshvan, 5764): Laurence Tisch, former CEO of CBS passed away.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/11\/16\/business\/laurence-a-tisch-investor-known-for-saving-cbs-inc-from-takeover-dies-at-80.html<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2003(20th of Cheshvan, 5764): The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings,
\nin which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people
\nand wounding about 300. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2004: \u201cPiano Man: The Very Best of Billy Joel\u201d was released today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2005: Two years to the day after his brother passed away, Preston Robert
\nTisch, owner of Lowes Hotel and the New York Giants, passed away.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2005: Today, a fellow female police detective described her first meeting
\nwith Felicia Shpritzer \u201cwho in the early 1960’s broke a gender barrier in the
\nNew York Police Department when she earned a sergeant’s stripes, paving the way
\nfor the advancement of women in police work across the country\u201d saying that
\n\u201cshe was wearing a trench coat and loafers and carrying two shopping
\nbags.\u201d  <\/span>Speaking with \u201cher thick Yiddish
\naccent\u201d Shpritzer \u201clooked and acted like the typical Jewish mother\u201d who
\n\u201ccomforted her subordinates when they had problems and scolded them when they
\nwere wrong.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2005: When an Israir charter flight takes off this morning for Tunis it will
\nbe historic not only because it is the maiden trip of an Israeli airline to the
\nNorth African Arab country. More significantly, it will be carrying Foreign
\nMinister Silvan Shalom a man who left Tunisia, his place of birth, at the age
\nof one and is now returning for the first time as his adopted country\u2019s foreign
\nminister. Shalom is traveling to Tunisia to attend the UN World Summit on the
\nInformation. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2005: Judge Ulrich Meinerzhagen announced that the trial of Holocaust denier
\nErnst Z\u00fcndel on 14 counts of
\ninciting racial hatred \u201cwas to be rescheduled to allow new counsel time to
\nprepare.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2006: The building housing
\nGoldblatt Brothers Department Store, a Chicago firm found by Maurice and Nathan
\nGoldblatt that had been designed by Alfred Samuel Alschuler the Chicago born
\nson of Fannie Guggenheimer and Samuel Alschuler was placed on the U.S. National
\nRegister of Historic Places today.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2006: \u201cThe Jewish Eye-World Jewish film Festival\u201d opened at Be\u2019er
\nSheva.  <\/span>The festival featured the first
\nshowing of Director Ramin Farahani\u2019s Jews
\nof Iran.<\/o:p><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

2006: Jack Abramoff began serving his term in the minimum-security prison
\ncamp of Federal Correctional Institution, Cumberland, Maryland, as inmate
\nnumber 27593-112.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2007(5th<\/sup> of Kislev, 5768): Ninety-two-year-old Tani Lispector,
\nthe middle daughter of Pinkhas Lispector and Mania Krimgold Lispector and older
\nsister of Brazilian author Clarice Lispector passed away today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2007: Ruth Wisse, \u201ca pioneer in the development of Yiddish scholarship in
\nthe United States\u2026received the\u2026National Humanities Medal in a ceremony at the
\nWhite House.\u201d  <\/span>(As reported by Jewish
\nWomen\u2019s Archives)<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2007: In Stuttgart, the first German production of Stephen Schwartz\u2019s
\nmusical \u201cWicked\u201d opened at the Palladium Theatre.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2007: A children\u2019s book entitled Germ Stories<\/u> by the late Dr. Arthur
\nKornberg appears in bookstores.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2007: In Jerusalem, as part of the International Oud Festival, Muhammad Abu
\nAjaj presents Bedouin music and songs from the Negev.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2007: <\/i>The MFA in Creative Writing Program at George Washington
\nUniversity hosts an evening with four writers participating in the University
\nof Iowa’s International Writing Program including Alex <\/i>Epstein<\/i><\/span>, a fiction writer from
\nIsrael. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2008: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Curtis David Litow, son of Kathy and Charlie
\nLitow, is called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2008: <\/span>The Ninth Annual Rutgers New Jersey
\nJewish Film Festival presents \u201cJellyfish.\u201d \u201cSet against the background of
\nIsrael\u2019s most cosmopolitan city, Jellyfish tells the story of three very
\ndifferent Tel Aviv women \u2013 a waitress, a disappointed bride, and a domestic
\nworker from the Philippines. Subject to the whims of destiny, they struggle to
\nfind love as their intersecting lives create an unlikely portrait of modern
\nIsraeli life.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2008: On Saturday night MK Ya’acov Litzman was attacked by a group of
\nSlonimer Hassidim.  <\/span>Reportedly the attack
\nshows the anger with the Gur community over Nir Barkat’s victory in the
\nJerusalem mayoral race has continued past Election Day. The embattled Litzman,
\na representative of the Gur Hassidim within the haredi United Torah Judaism
\nParty, was allegedly cursed, pushed and kicked before being pelted with kugel
\nshortly after arriving at a family celebration being held at a Slonimer-owned
\nhall in Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim neighborhood. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2009: A revival of \u201cRagtime\u201d a musical based on the E.L. Doctorow\u2019s novel
\nwith lyrics by Lynn Ahrens opened at the Neil Simon Theatre.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2009: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington holds its 49th<\/sup>
\nannual meeting.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2009: The groups Adas Reads and Brunch & Learn present a reading and
\ndiscussion with New York Times<\/i> columnist Thomas L. Friedman, author of
\n“From Beirut to Jerusalem” and, most recently, “Hot, Flat, and
\nCrowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America,”
\nand Washington Post reporter Laura Blumenfeld, author of “Revenge: A Story
\nof Hope,” at the Adas Israel Congregation, the only Conservative Synagogue
\nlocated in the District of Columbia. The writers will discuss the influence of
\nrevenge on international affairs <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2009: The 40th Annual Book Festival sponsored by the JCC of Greater
\nWashington and The 4th annual Jewish Book Festival sponsored by The Jewish
\nCommunity Center of Northern Virginia come to an end.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2009: AJHS, CJH, and YUM sponsor an International Conference entitled
\n\u201cGenocide and Human Experience: Raphael Lemkin’s Thought and Vision.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2009: The New York Times<\/i> features reviews of books by Jewish authors
\nand\/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Humbling<\/u> by
\nPhilip Roth and the recently released paperback editions of Reborn: Journals
\nand Notebooks, 1947-1963<\/u> by Susan Sontag; edited by David Rieff and My
\nFather\u2019s Paradise: A Son\u2019s Search for His Family\u2019s Past<\/u> by Ariel Sabar
\nwhose \u201cfather was the last bar mitzvah boy in a Kurdish town where Jews had
\nlived for nearly 3,000 years. Soon thereafter, most of Kurdistan\u2019s Jews left
\nfor Israel, taking with them their ancient language, Aramaic, Jesus\u2019 tongue.
\nThe elder Sabar, reduced to manual labor in Israel, spent his time obsessively
\ncataloging his dying language. Sabar\u2019s book is a biography of his father but
\nalso \u2018part history, linguistics primer and memoir.\u2019\u201d <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2009: The Washington Post<\/i> features reviews of books by Jewish authors
\nand\/or of special interest to Jewish readers including America\u2019s Prophet:
\nMoses and the American Story<\/u> by Bruce Feiler and SUPERFREAKONOMICS:
\nGlobal Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life
\nInsurance<\/u> by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2009: In Crown Heights Chabad’s the 25th<\/sup> annual International
\nConference of Shluchim comes to a close. 
\n<\/span>The \u201clamplighters\u201d like the renowned Rabbi Pinchas Ciment of Little
\nRock, AR, return to the life-long labor of drawing their fellow Jews to warmth
\nof Torah and the love of Ha-shem. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2010: Internationally acclaimed photographer, videographer and filmmaker
\nShirin Neshat and best-selling author Angella Nazarian are scheduled to present
\na program entitled The Jewish-Iranian Immigrant Experience: At the Threshold of
\nTwo Worlds at the 92nd<\/sup> Street Y.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

2011: Julie Salamon, author of
\n\u201cWendy & the Lost Boys,\u201d Myla Goldberg, author of \u201cThe False Friend,\u201d and
\nWilliam Cohan, author of \u201cMoney & Power\u201d are scheduled to speak at the St.
\nLouis Jewish Book Festiva.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2011: \u201cThe Little Traitor\u201d a film
\nbased on a novel by Amos Oz is scheduled to be shown at the Jewish Eye World
\nFilm Festival.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2011:<\/span> Recent bouts of violence along Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip are
\nleading toward significant and offensive military action in the coastal
\nenclave, Israel Defense Forces chief Benny Gantz said today, adding that there
\nwas still a chance for a flare-up of West Bank violence over the Palestinian
\nstatehood bid at the United Nations. <\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2011:<\/span> About 100 senior doctors submitted their resignation today, in an
\napparent escalation of the residents’ struggle against a National Labor Court
\ndecision to cancel their previous collective protest resignation. <\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2011(18th<\/sup> of Cheshvan,
\n5772): Eighty-nine-year-old Hubert C. Wine \u201ca solicitor, District Court judge
\nand prominent member of the Irish Jewish community who served as the chairman
\nof the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland for fourteen years\u201d passed away
\ntoday.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/opinion\/analysis\/old-cutbacks-take-a-long-time-to-heal-26113474.html<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2012: \u201cThe Art of Spiegelman\u201d which
\nprovides a look at the world and studio of Art Spieglman, the creator of Maus,
\nis scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2012: World Music from Poland is
\nscheduled to meet Spanish Flamenco when Kroke Trio and Amir-John Haddad perform
\nat the International Jerusalem Oud Festival.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2012: The Canadian Folk Music Awards
\nis scheduled to open today in New Brunswick. \u201cSongs for the Breathing Walls,\u201d a
\ncollection of mainly Jewish liturgical pieces recorded by Lenka Lichtenberg in
\n12 Czech Synagogues has been nominated for two awards at the festival. (As
\nreported by Renee Ghert-Zand)<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2012: Final day for submitting
\nentries to the Agudas Achim Poetry Contest. 
\n<\/span>The poems are each intended to memorialize the congregation\u2019s former
\nhome on East Washington Street in Iowa City.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2012(1st<\/sup> of Kislev,
\n5773): Rosh Chodesh Kislev<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2012(1st of Kislev): According to
\nRabbi Judah, the start of the winter season in Israel<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2012:<\/span> The Israeli Air Force struck some 70 targets in the Gaza Strip in one
\nhour’s time, the IDF Spokesman’s Office said shortly before 10 p.m. tonight.
\nAmong the targets, the IDF statement said, were underground medium-range rocket
\nlaunching pads. The most recent blitz of air strikes brought the total number
\nto well over 300.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2012:<\/span> Booms were heard following an air raid siren in Tel Aviv this evening,
\njust an hour after a rocket from the Gaza Strip exploded in an open field
\noutside of Rishon Lezion. There were no reports of injuries in either strike.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2012(1st<\/sup> of Kislev,
\n5773): Mirah Scharf, 25, Aharon Smadja, 49, and Itzik Amsalem, 27 were murdered
\nby Hamas rockets at Kiryat Malachi (City of Angels).<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Features\/InThespotlight\/Article.aspx?id=292021<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2013: \u201cThe Fading Valley\u201d and \u201cUnder
\nThe Same Sun\u201d are scheduled to be shown 7th<\/sup> annual Other Israel Film
\nFestival.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2013: \u201cBoris Lurie: The 1940\u2019s\u201d, a ninety-five-piece
\nexhibition is scheduled to come to an end today at the Studio House Space.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/painters-hidden-work-on-display-for-the-first-time\/<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2013: The Alexandria Kleztet is
\nscheduled to perform at the University of Mary Washington in Frederiksberg, VA<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2013: In Encino, CA, Valley Beth
\nShalom a Yiddish evening of song featuring Eleanor Reissa.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2013: Today \u201cthe first baby was born
\nat the IDF field hospital set up the day before in the Philippines to help deal
\nwith the destruction Typhoon Haiyan has left in its wake. The mayor of Bogo
\nCity where the hospital was established announced the baby will be named
\n“Israel.” As reported by Ari Yashar) <\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2013:
\n\u201cJewish Identities\u201d published today included reviews Jews in Gotham<\/u>, The
\nRise of Abraham Cahan<\/u>, Hanukkah in America<\/u> and Jews and the
\nMilitary<\/u>.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/17\/books\/review\/jews-in-gotham-by-jeffrey-s-gurock-and-more.html?ref=review&_r=0<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014(22nd<\/sup>
\nof Cheshvan, 5775): Shabbat Chayei Sarah<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014:
\nIn New Orleans, Tulane University, home of the Tulane University Jewish Studies
\nDepartment chaired by Dr. Brian Horowitz is scheduled to play its first
\nHomecoming Football game in Yulman Stadium.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014(22nd<\/sup>
\nof Cheshvan, 5775): Sixty-five-year-old transgendered activist and author
\nLeslie Feinberg passed away today in Syracuse, NY.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/forward.com\/news\/breaking-news\/209405\/transgender-activist-leslie-feinberg-dies-at-65\/<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014(22nd<\/sup>
\nof Cheshvan, 5775): 
\n<\/span>Seventy-seven-year-old \u201cMervyn Smith, president of the African Jewish
\nCongress and a major anti-apartheid activist in the Jewish community\u201d passed
\naway today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2014\/11\/16\/news-opinion\/world\/mervyn-smith-south-african-jewish-leader-dies<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014:
\nThe 6th<\/sup> Annual International Holiday Bazar sponsored by Illinois
\nHolocaust Museum & Education Center is scheduled to open today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014:
\nThe Batsheva Dance Company is scheduled to perform for the third and last time
\nduring its current visit to New York.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014:
\nThe Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a chamber music concert
\nfeaturing works by Brahms and Tchaikovsky.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014:
\nIn Melbourne, \u201cNatan\u201d and \u201c24 Days\u201d are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish
\nInternational Film Festival.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014:
\n\u201cThe Sturgeon Queens\u201d and \u201cBethlehem\u201d are scheduled to be shown at the 18th<\/sup>
\nUK Jewish Film Festival.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014:
\n\u201cA 31-year-old Belgian rabbi was stabbed in Antwerp today while on his way to
\nhis synagogue, near a train station in the city\u2019s Jewish district.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/belgian-jewish-man-stabbed-in-antwerp\/<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014:
\nArabs threw rocks and fired fireworks at police as they clashed with Israeli
\nsecurity forces in East Jerusalem.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/palestinian-said-seriously-injured-in-east-jerusalem-clash\/<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2014:
\n\u201cUniversity professor Hassan Diab, a Canadian of Lebanese descent, appeared
\nbefore an anti-terror judge just hours after arriving from Montreal after
\nlosing a six-year legal battle against extradition\u201d and \u201cwas charged in Paris
\ntoday for his role in the deadly 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue that killed
\nfour and wound forty who were among the 300 worshipers attending Kabbalath
\nShabbat services.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/lebanese-canadian-accused-of-1980-paris-synagogue-bombing-extradited-to-france\/<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2015(3rd
\nof Kislev, 5776): Seventy-year-old songwriter P.F. Sloan (born Philip Gary
\nSchlein) passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/18\/arts\/music\/p-f-sloan-60s-songwriter-dies-at-70.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2015:
\nThe 17th<\/sup> Annual Jewish Children\u2019s Book Writers & Illustrators
\nSeminar sponsored by the Jewish Book Council is scheduled to be held today in
\nNYC.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2015:
\n“Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem” is scheduled to be
\nshown at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2015:
\nThe Jewish Federation of Greater Washington in partnership with the University
\nof Maryland Hillel are scheduled to host \u201cRoutes: A Day of Jewish Learning.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2015:
\nEighty-six-year-old Stephen Birmingham who was mistkenly thought to be Jewish
\nbecause he wrote Our Crowd\u2019: The Great Jewish Families of New York<\/u>, The
\nGrandees: America\u2019s Sephardic Elite<\/u> and The Rest of Us: The Rise of
\nAmerica\u2019s Eastern European Jews<\/u> passed away today. (As reported by Sam
\nRoberts)<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/19\/nyregion\/stephen-birmingham-chronicler-of-the-rich-and-other-elites-dies-at-86.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0<\/a><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2015:
\nDr. Stanton Samenow, author of Inside the Criminal Mind is scheduled to serve
\nas moderator at Beth El Hebrew Congregation\u2019s \u201cMeet the Authors\u201d program
\nfeaturing Ellen Brazer, Bea Epstein and Dr. Allan J. Lichtman.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2015:
\nTel Aviv born composer, pianist, singer and arranger, Yoni Rechter who \u201chas
\nworked closely with many of Israel’s top artists, including Arik Einstein, Gidi
\nGov, and Yehudit Ravitz\u201d is scheduled to perform at the B.B. King Blues Club
\n& Grill tonight in New York.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2015:
\nThe New York Times<\/i> features reviews
\nof books by Jewish authors and\/or of special interest to Jewish readers
\nincluding Killing A King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the
\nRemaking of Israel<\/u> by Dan Ephron, My Life on the Road<\/u> by Gloria
\nSteinem, Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few<\/u> by Robert B.
\nReich, Reading Claudius: A Memoir in Two Parts<\/u> by Caroline Heller and
\nBetween Gods: A Memoir<\/u> by Alison Pick.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2016(14th<\/sup>
\nof Cheshvan, 5777): Ninety-two year old music producer and arranger Milt Okun
\npassed away today. (As reported by Daniel E. Slotnik)<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/21\/arts\/music\/milt-okun-dead-cherry-lane-publishing.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2016:
\nKosherfest, \u201cthe world\u2019s largest kosher trade show\u201d opened today at Secaucus,
\nNJ.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2016:
\nAccording to a report by Channel 10 broadcast 10, David Shimron \u201ca long-time
\npersonal lawyer to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u201d and \u201cthe representative
\nof a German company trying to sell Israeli military submarines that Netanyahu
\nhas been pushing for Israel to buy against the will of the IDF\u201d \u201cis alleged to
\nbe at the center of a multi-billion shekel controversy involving Israel\u2019s
\npossible purchase\u201d of these ships.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2016:
\nIn collaboration with multiple organizations, including the Thaler Foundation
\nand Coe College, the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library are
\nscheduled to host Gideon Frieder, a speaker from the United States Holocaust
\nMemorial Museum\u2019s Survivor Speakers\u2019 Bureau to speak of his experience as a
\nHolocaust survivor at Coe College\u2019s Sinclair Auditorium.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2017: Lebanon is scheduled to announce which
\ncompanies have won the auction granting drilling rights \u201cto areas in the
\nMediterranean Sea contested by neighboring Israel.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2017: \u201cRa\u2019anan Boustan (Princeton University)\u201d is
\nscheduled to \u201cspeak on the paradoxical image of Rome as a repository for
\n\u201cJewish\u201d artifacts and strategies by which Roman Jews and Roman Christians
\nutilized these artifacts to make claims on the ancient past\u2019 at the Center for
\nJewish History<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2017:
\nThe Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host \u201cJewbilation MT17.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2017:
\n\u201cLand of the Little People\u201d and \u201cWest of the Jordan River\u201d are scheduled to
\nshown at the 21st<\/sup> UK International Jewish Festival.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2017:
\nKosherfest 2017 is scheduled to come to an end today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.kosherfest.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2017(26th<\/sup>
\nof Cheshvan, 5778): One-hundred- and six-year-old MIT graduate and numismatist
\nEric Pfeiffer Newman, the husband of Evelyn Newman with whom he had two
\nchildren, passed away today, (As reported by Robert D. McFadden)<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/16\/obituaries\/eric-newman-dead-leading-authority-on-coins.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=region&region=region&WT.nav=region&_r=0<\/span><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2017:
\nJewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to
\ncontemplate the lives of Jewish authors such as Dr. Brian Horowitz the author
\nof a series of books including Empire Jews<\/u> which paint a realistic of
\nthe world most know only from \u201cFiddler on the Roof\u201d and Jewish books for the
\nnext thirty days is scheduled to continue for a fourth day.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2018:
\n\u201cJonathan Franzen is scheduled to read from his new essay collection, The
\nEnd of the End of the Earth<\/u>\u201d at the 92nd<\/sup> Street Y today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2018:
\nThe American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host \u201cSeltzertopia\u201d
\nwhich will include the New York \u201cpremier screening of the short \u2018Egg Cream\u2019 and
\na celebration of the publication of Seltzertopia: The Extraordinary Story of
\nan Ordinary Drink<\/u> by Barry Joseph, followed by tastings of various egg
\ncreams.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2018:
\n\u201cDoubtful\u201d and \u201cSong of Black and Neck\u201d are scheduled to be shown at the 38th
\nGershman Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2018:
\nThe Maltz Museum is scheduled to host a lecture on \u201cTalmud and Literature: How
\nan Ancient Jewish Text Can Inspire Contemporary Art\u201d followed by a Q and A with
\nRuby Namdar, the author of The Ruined House<\/u>, \u201cwinner of Israel\u2019s 2014
\nSapir Prize.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2018:
\nColumbia University, Fordham University and YIVO Institute is scheduled to host
\n\u201cIn Dialogue: Polish Jewish Relations During the Interwar Period\u201d with \u201cSamuel
\nKassow, the Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, and one
\nof the world’s leading scholars on the Holocaust and the Jews of Poland\u201d and
\n\u201cPaul Brykczy\u0144ski, an independent historian, whose interests include
\nnationalism, antisemitism, and radical politics, in Eastern Europe and beyond\u201d
\nand whose \u201cfirst book, Primed for Violence: Murder, Antisemitism, and
\nDemocratic Politics in Interwar Poland<\/u>, won the Kulczycki Book Prize in
\nPolish Studies.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2018:
\nAs they awake this morning, Israelis look to see the impact of the resignation
\nof Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman while those living along the border with
\nGaza contemplate the impact of Netanyahu\u2019s ceasefire agreement.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2019:
\n\u201cA staged reading of Wonderdrug, a brand new feature screenplay by BAFTA
\nnominated writer Raphael Smith and Jamie Kutner. Wonderdrug tells the story of
\n24 year old Miles Mendelsohn, scientific genius and chronic nebbish, who
\ninvents a drug that cures almost anything and becomes a controversial folk
\nhero\u201d is scheduled to take place at the UK Jewish Film Festival.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2019:
\nIn Atlanta, The Breman Museum is scheduled to host \u201cThe Art of French Theatre.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2019:
\nThe Contemporary Jewish Museum is scheduled to \u201cThe Mystical Voice\u201d during
\nwhich \u201cJCCSF\u2019s Rabbi Zac Kamenetz gives a talk in the museum\u2019s gallery chat
\nseries on Kabbalah, in conjunction with Annabeth Rosen exhibit.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2019:
\nIn San Francisco, the Women\u2019s Building is scheduled to host \u201cAround: Watch and
\nBake\u201d during which attendees \u201cbake challah from scratch and while it\u2019s baking,
\nwatch \u201cAround,\u201d a 45-minute doc about why Bay Area Jews and non-Jews are making
\ntime to make challah.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2019:
\n\u201cThe Shabbat Project, a global, grassroots movement uniting Jews around the
\nworld using the magic is scheduled to being today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2019:
\nIsraelis are braced for more rocket attacks despite claims of cease fire that
\nis short on ceasing and long on firing.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2020:
\nThe New York Times<\/i> features reviews
\nof books by Jewish authors and\/or of special interest to Jewish readers
\nincluding The Language of Thieves: My Family\u2019s Obsession With a Secret Code
\nthe Nazis Tried to Eliminate<\/u> by Martin Puchner, The New Map: Energy,
\nClimate and the Clash of Nations<\/u> by Daniel Yergin, To Be A Man: Stories<\/u>
\nby Nicole Krauss, Shelter in Place<\/u> by David Leavitt and the recently
\nreleased paperback edition of A Good American Family: The Red Care and My
\nFather<\/u> by David Maranis.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2020:
\nThe Osman Family JCC is scheduled to presented online Rabbi Yonatan Neril
\ntalking about his new book Eco Bible<\/u>, which explores the Torah\u2019s
\nenvironmental wisdom<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2020:
\nThe Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies is scheduled to host a
\nZoom Webinar, \u201cIn Between: A Conversation with Film Direct Maysaloun Hamoud<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2020:
\nThe American Society for Jewish Music is scheduled to present the third session
\nvia Zoom of \u201cPsalmody through the Ages: Music and the Book of Psalms.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2020:
\nThe UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the UK premier of \u201cHappy
\nTimes.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2020:
\nThe Southern University Law Center is scheduled to host its final screening of
\n\u201cRosenwald.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2020:
\nThe American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to co-sponsor \u201cSIGD: A Global
\nIntrospection Event.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2020:
\nThe Peninsula JCC is scheduled to present the Israeli American cellist Amit
\nPeled with pianist Noreen Polera playing a concert in honor of Beethoven\u2019s
\n250th birthday.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2021:
\nAs part of its \u201cPeople of the Book Club\u201d series, the Center for Jewish History
\nis scheduled to present a Lauren Gilbert leading a discussion of The Vixen with
\nthe novel\u2019s author Francine Prose.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2021:
\nThe American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present Dr. Angy Cohen
\nlecturing on \u201cThe Voice of the Mothers: A Look Into Sephardi Feminist
\nApproaches to Tradition.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2021:
\nThe National Library of Israel is scheduled to present Professor Alma Rachel
\nHeckman lecturing on \u201cDivided Dreams: Moroccan Jews and the Post-Independence
\nMoroccan State.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2022:
\nThe Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host a lecture by Dr.
\nDaniel Lee author of The SS Officer’s Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life
\nof a Nazi.<\/o:p><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2022:
\nLBI is scheduled to present a lecture by Michael Simonson on the \u201cstory of
\nFredy Hirsch, a gay, Zionist athlete who became the head of the youth
\ndepartment of the Theresienstadt Ghetto.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2022:
\nThe Jewish Book Council is scheduled to host an exclu\u00adsive
\ntalk with Paper Brigade<\/span><\/em>\u200b\u2019s
\nedi\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal direc\u00adtor, Bec\u00adca Kan\u00adtor, and exec\u00adu\u00adtive edi\u00adtor, Car\u00adol
\nKaufman. <\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2022:
\nUK Jewish Film is scheduled to host screenings of \u201cWho\u2019s Afraid of Jewish
\nHumor\u201d and \u201cThe Forger.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2022:
\nThe Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at Berkeley Law is
\nscheduled to present \u201cThe Future of Shared Society in Israel Through the Lens
\nof Civil Society and Education\u201d during which Vice President for Diversity and
\nInclusion and associate education professor at Ben-Gurion U. of the Negev Sarab
\nAburabia Queder will discuss coexistence in Israel with University of Haifa
\nassociate professor Ayman Agbaria.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2022:  <\/span>As part of its Exclusive Authors Series The
\nASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to present  <\/span>Sarina Roff\u00e9 as she discusses her book Branching
\nOut from Sepharad.<\/o:p><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2023:
\nLockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Jeremy Rosen on \u201cMaking
\nSense of the Bible: Can its Ancient Text be Relevant Today?\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2023:
\nIn Cedar Rapids, the Hadassah Book Club under the leadership of Nancy Margulis
\nis scheduled to discuss Orphan Island <\/u>by Laurel Snyder.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2023:
\nThe Streikcer Center is scheduled to host a screening of \u201cThe Conspiracy,\u201d a
\nnew featuring documentary that offers a searing reminder based on the stories
\nof three families with nothing in common other than being Jewish: the Warburgs
\nfrom Germany, Leon Trotsky and the Dreyfuses of France all three of whom were
\nimplicated in the innovative fake news that began spreading in the late 19th
\ncentury that members of the \u201cHebrew sect\u201d weren\u2019t just followers of an outdated
\nreligion who murdered Jesus but were also provoking wars and manipulating
\nfinancial markets, the mass media and the international monetary system to gain
\nwealth and take over the world.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2023:
\nThe Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to provide an
\nopportunity for attendees to hear directly from an Israeli educator and combat
\nveteran on the situation in Israel through Iowans Supporting Israel.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2023:
\nYIVO is scheduled to present Ruth Wisse, Ofer Dynes and Curt Leviant discussing
\n\u201cThe Legacy of Chaim Grade.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2023:
\nThe Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present a screening of
\n\u201cRabbi on the Block.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2023:
\nAs part of the Jewish Values Strategy in Wartime series, the Tikvah online
\nAcademy is scheduled to lecture by Rabbi Mark Gottlieb on \u201cJewish Faith in Dark
\nTimes.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2023:
\nThe Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to present a lecture by
\nProfessor Emily Greble on ‘A Sarajevo Story: Jews, Muslims, and the
\nComplexities of Rescue in a Formerly Ottoman Town’. <\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2023:
\nAs November 15, begins in Israel, the world digests the implication of
\nyesterday\u2019s announcement by John Kirby, of the U.S. National Council that the
\nUnited States has intelligence that shows Hamas has been using hospitals in
\nGaza, including Al-Shifa as command centers and ammunitions depots, the
\nannouncement that Corporal Noa Marciano who was being held as a hostage by
\nHamas i has been identified as being dead and the announcement  <\/span>Vivian Silver, a Canadian-Israeli peace
\nactivist who had been presumed kidnapped by Hamas, was declared dead after her
\nremains were found at her home while  <\/span>the Hamas held hostages begin day 40 in
\ncaptivity<\/span><\/b>. <\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(Editor\u2019s
\nnote: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just
\nproviding a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2024:
\nThe Wilshire Boulevard Temple is scheduled to host \u201cA Touch of Torah with Rabbi
\nLeah Lewis at the Glazer Campus.\u2019<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2024:
\nIn Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host an \u201cInclusion Shabbat
\nService\u201d a Kabbalat Shabbat service \u201cdesigned for individuals or families of
\nindividuals with disabilities.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2024:
\nKan Kol Hamusika is scheduled to broadcast 
\n<\/span>\u201cYoung Artists in Concert\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2024:
\nThe Global Conference for Israel is scheduled to continue for a second day in
\nDallas, TX<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2024:
\nAs November 15th begins in Israel,an  unprecedented wave of
\nanti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers
\non a New York subway to raise their hands, demonstrations at a high school
\nproduction of \u201cThe Diary of Anne Frank\u201d and the beating of a college student in
\nChicago sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 406 in
\ncaptivity while Israelis brace for more rocket attacks by Hezbollah, Iran and
\nterrorists based in Iraq  (Editor\u2019s note: this situation is too fluid
\nfor this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at
\nmidnight Israeli time)<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2025:
\nAs part of the UK-Jewish Film Festival, the Phoenix Cinema is scheduled to host
\na screening of \u201cRachel\u2019s Game,\u201d a \u201cstylish French comedy thriller\u201d about \u201cglamorous
\ncaterer, Rachel (Fanny Ardant), a dominant and flamboyant matriarch, who is
\nraising her sons and grandson to be petty criminals.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2025:
\nIn Columbus, OH, the Kiddush Club is scheduled to Rabbis Yoni Nadivand Hillel
\nSkolnik and Julie Tilson Stanley described their recent trip to Israel.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2025:
\nToday at noon in Jerusalem, Agnon Hose is scheduled to host \u201canother joint
\nreading of Agnon\u2019s stories \u2013 The Parable and the Parable\u201d followed by a
\ndiscussion lead by Assaf Ofek  <\/span>\u201cwhich will
\nexamine the place of the story within the fabric of the stories of “City
\nand its Fullness”.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2025:
\nOdessa College, in Odessa TX is scheduled to perform Ben Hecht\u2019s \u201cFront Page\u201d
\nfor the last time this evening.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2025:
\nSaturday night demonstrations are scheduled to be held in Tel Aviv this
\nevening.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2025:
\nCelebrate Day Three of Jewish Book Month which is marking its 100th<\/sup>
\nanniversary by reading the works of Gabrielle Zevin who is of \u201cRussian, Polish
\nand Lithuanian Jewish ancestry\u201d which include The Storied Life of A. J.
\nFikry <\/u>the best-seller that went to being a very clever and
\nthought-provoking film. https:\/\/gabriellezevin.com\/<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2025:
\nBased on previous published information, the anti-Semites have so compromised
\nthe Israeli athletic community that  <\/span>The
\nOlympic Committee of Israel canceled its 2025 awards for athletes and coaches,
\nas the nation’s sports teams face growing global opposition, protest and safety
\nconcerns amid tensions brought on by those who support the terrorists who
\nraped, kidnapped and murder people living in Israel on October 7, 2023<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2025(24th<\/sup>
\nof Cheshvan, 5786): Chayei Sarah (The Life of Sarah) <\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2026:
\n92NY is scheduled to host an \u201cadvance screening of Netflix\u2019s new documentary
\nRob Lowe: The Outsider, followed by a conversation with Josh Horowitz about
\nfame, reinvention, and life behind the Hollywood image.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2026:
\nIn an example of irony par excellence, the self-described Jewish Leadership Conference
\nis scheduled to take place today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2026:
\nAJEX Remembrance Parade and Ceremony which is \u201chonoring generations of Jewis
\nmen and women who served and fought for our freedom\u201d as well as \u201cmarking 90
\nyears since the Battle of Cable Street\u201d is scheduled to take place at The
\nCenotaph, Whitehall. <\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2026:
\nThe Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to open the exhibition Hollywood on
\nTrial: The Blacklist and The Red Scare\u201d which tells the tale of HUAC\u2019s hunt for
\nCommunists in the movie industry which quickly took turned into a field day for
\nanti-Semitism.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2026:
\nAgnon House is scheduled to host the first of four online lectures by Dr. Dina
\nBerdichevsky that will compare the stories of Agnon and Nikolai Gogol.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2026:
\nBookhouse is scheduled to host \u201cPolitical Thinking\u201d during which Elad Lapidot,
\nProfessor of Hebraic Studies, University of Lille \u201cwill retrace a mythic
\nnarrative of the birth of the rabbinic movement from a Jewish world that the
\nRomans left in ashes\u201d and look at \u201cits lessons for Talmud as a mode and means
\nof political self-consciousness.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2026:
\nThe UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of \u201cWe Met At
\nGrossinger\u2019s\u201d and the world premiere of \u201cOslo Court\u201d which tells the tale of
\nthe importance of this restaurant to the Jewish community.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2026:
\nTulane University is scheduled to host \u201cDr. Marni Davis of Georgia State
\nUniversity and Dr. Michael Cohen, Director of the Grant Center, who will
\ndiscuss how Jewish immigrants and other newcomers to the South, including
\nGreek, Italian, Syrian, and Chinese immigrants, built their livelihoods through
\nsmall business ownership.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2026:
\nDay 12 of Jewish Book Month; read Bernard Lewis\u2019 What Went Wrong: The Clash
\nBetween Islam and Modernity in the Middle East<\/u> which offers a picture of
\nhow one knows that any civilization is on the decline.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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