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April 28
66: After stealing money from the Temple Treasury, the Roman Procurator Gessius Florus allowed his troops to "loot the Upper Market" of Jerusalem. He also unleashed his Cohorts on the crowds of Jews who gathered to protest the theft. This would prove to be the precipitating event that would start the Great Revolt which would end in disaster for the Jewish people.
70: Following an early repulse of his forces, the Roman Legions commanded by Titus retake and destroy Jerusalem's middle wall. The Romans followed this victory by quickly building a wall that will surround the city, cutting off all shipments of food and causing increased starvation among the Jewish defenders.
1192: Conrad I, newly crowned King of Jerusalem was assassinated in Tyre only days after ascending the throne. According to one source, the assassins were Moslems who may have been in the pay of Conrad's Christian enemies. The whole affair of Conrad's selection during the time of the Third Crusade points to the fact that these were not noble religious adventures at all. This makes the treatment of the Jews during this period all the more despicable.
1560(2nd of Iyar): Rabbi Kalman of Worms passed away.
1694(3rd of Iyar, 5454): Judah ben Samuel ha-Kohen Cantarini the Talmudist and physician who had a large number of Christian and Jewish patients passed away in Padua.
1758: Birthdate of James Monroe, leader of the American Revolution and fifth President of the United States. During the Revolutionary War, Monroe was one of the many patriots who accepted "loans" from Haym Salomon. This money enabled Monroe and the others to live in Philadelphia and carry on the war against the English.
1775: Birthdate of Judah Touro. Born in Newport, Rhode Island Touro, who never married, was a famous merchant and philanthropist who supported many Christian and Jewish charities. He started as a merchant selling soap, candles and codfish, and would eventually become one of the wealthiest men in all of America. Touro's father was of Portuguese Jewish extraction, by way of Jamaica.
1778(1st of Iyar, 5538): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1778(1st of Iyar, 5538): The eldest son of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Horowitz of Chortkiv, Shmelke of Nikolsburg who was one of the earliest great Chasidic Rebbes from both the The Nikolsburg Hasidic dynasty and the Boston Hasidic dynasty passed away to in Nikolsburg.
1788: Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. By the time of the ratification, there are enough Jews living in Baltimore that the community can maintain its own burial site. Among the families living in Baltimore are the Ettings, headed by the widowed mother Shina and her five children including two sons, Reuben and Solomon. Jews do not enjoy full civil rights at this point in time. Under the spirit of the "Toleration Act" those are reserved for people who believe in Jesus Christ. In 1797, Jews and their Gentile supporters make their first attempt to remove the religious test. It failed along with all subsequent efforts until 1825 when the so-called Jew Bill passed in the Lower House by one vote. It would not be until 1826 that the religious test for office would modified so that anybody declaring "his belief in a future state of rewards and punishment" could hold a position of public trust.
1801: Birthdate of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury who was an early supporter of plans to populate "Greater Syria" (the name for the territory part of which became Palestine and finally the state of Israel). In 1853, when he was President of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews wrote to Prime Minister Aberdeen that Greater Syria was "a country without a nation" in need of "a nation without a country... Is there such a thing? To be sure there is, the ancient and rightful lords of the soil, the Jews!"
1824: Mark Friedberg married Buena Pass at the Great Synagogue today.
1824: Maurice Solomon married Louisa Raphael at the Western Synagogue today.
1824: Henry Weiler married Bloomy Hart at the Great Synagogue today.
1834(19th of Nisan): In Mantua, philanthropist Samuel Trabotti passed away today.
1835(29th of Nisan, 5595): A. Löwy, the chief rabbi of Dresden passed away today
1838: Birthdate of Tobias Michael Carel Asser a Dutch jurist, co-winner (with Alfred Fried) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911 for his role in the formation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the first Hague peace conference (1899). He also advocated for the creation of an international academy of law, which led to the creation of The Hague Academy of International Law. He passed away in 1913.
1847: Birthdate of Arthur Strauss who was first elected the House of Common in 1895, serving into the 1970's when he earned the unofficial designation of "Father of the House" and who like so many of his generation paid the price of patriotism when his son Victor, a Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps "was killed in action in 1916."
1854(30th of Nisan, 5614): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1854: Rabbi Solomon Jacobs officiated at the wedding of Henry Davis of Charleston, SC and Dinah Joel, the daughter of the late David and Catherine Joel of London, England.
1859: Accompanied by Odo Russell, a British diplomat, Sir Moses Montefiore went to the Vatican where he met with Cardinal Antonelli with whom he discussed the Mortara Case and reasons for returning the boy to his Jewish parents. The meeting proved to be a fruitless waste of time.
1860(6th of Iyar, 5620): Sixty year old Amsterdam born poet Isaac De Costa whose prose works included Israel en de Volken, a multi-volume survey history of the Jewish people that was translated into English under the title Israel and the Gentiles passed away today. In 1822, De Costa converted to Christianity.
1864(22nd of Nisan, 5624): As Jewish soldiers in the Union Army participate in the Wilderness Campaign in Virginia and follow Sherman on his march to Atlanta, they celebrate the 8th day of Pesach.
1865: Birthdate of Adolph Bluthenthal, the native of Bavaria who settled in Pine Bluff, AR where his daughter Adele was born.
1865: L'Africaine premiered today almost a year after Giacomo Meyerbeer's death at the Salle Le Peletier
1867: Today's "Current Literature" column contained a lengthy expert from The Jew's Revenge.
1872: In Camden, SC, Isabelle ("Belle") Wolfe and Dr. Simon Baruch gave birth to Herman B. Baruch the physician turned diplomat "who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Portugal.
1874: Jacob Kraus, a papermaker, and his wife Ernestine, née Kantor Jacob Kraus, a papermaker, and his wife Ernestine, née Kantor gave birth to Karl Straus, Austrian writer and journalist. Kraus converted to Catholicism in 1906 but left the church in 1923. Freud found him so irritating that he referred to him as a "mad, half-wit." He passed away in 1936.
1875: Nathan Strauss married Lina Gutherz with whom he had six children, among them Sissie Strauss who would become the wife of Chief Judge Irving Lehman.
1881(29th of Nisan, 5641): Sixty-three year old French sculptor and photographer Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon passed away in Paris.
1881: In Kherson, Elizabethgrad, a tavern dispute over blood libels spawned massive outbreaks against the Jews (often joined by the soldiers) in Odessa and Kiev. In all, over a hundred and sixty riots occurred in southern Russia. Ignatiev, the Minister of the Interior, insisted that the Jews caused the pogroms. General Drenbien refused to endanger his troops "for a few Jews."
1881: Czar Alexander III suggested to his ministers that outside agitators must have incited the mobs against the Jews, and that reports of policy and military laxity in quashing the pogroms were a disgrace.
1882: It was reported today that Jewish leaders in Berlin have received word from their co-religionists in Russia that "they will quit the country en masse if" their persecution continues. (This would be a triumph of at least part of the Russian one third policy. The government planned on solving its Jewish problem by having one third convert, one third immigrate and one third die.)
1886: Bernhard Liebentahl, a young Jew from Schafenburg, Germany was among the passengers who arrived in New York today aboard the SS Main.
1886: Birthdate of photographer Erich Salomon the native of Berlin whoworked as a carpenter and studied to be a lawyer before he found his true calling. He was a genius in the use of the then newly developed 35 mm camera. He is considered one of the founders of photojournalism. His fame as a photographer of the European leaders and celebrities spread beyond Germany. One French politician joked that no conference could be considered important if Salomon were not there to take pictures. His artistic skills did not save him and he died at Auschwitz at the age of 58 on July 7, 1944. In one of those great ironies, the daily blurbs on many websites list him as "a German photographer" and simply give the date of his passing with no mention as to the place or its significance.
1887(4th of Iyar, 5647): Fifty-six year old Isaac Hendricks passed away today at the home of his brother-in-law, H.S. Henry. A retired businessman and part of a prominent Jewish family, Hendricks was a member of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum Society.
1889: As churches and synagogues in New York held services observing the centennial of George Washington's first inaugural (April 30, 1789) Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs spoke at an assembly of youngsters at B'nai Jershrun. The students had been greet by a larger banner framing a portrait of Genereneral Washington that hung across the center door of the synagogue. The program included a program of patriotic music and recitations by the children.
1890: It was reported today that the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society has a rejected a proposal from the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum that the two organizations consolidate. The Brooklyn organization is caring for one hundred children while the New York organization is caring for 559 children.
1891: In Great Britain, The Pall Mall Gazette describes a plan to settle Jews living in Poland and parts of southeast Europe in uninhabited areas in Brazil and Australia. Baron Hirsch is so supportive of the plan that he has pledged 15 million dollars to set the resettlement project in motion. The plan could not come at a better time since the United States, which has been a haven for these Jews, is adopting laws designed to limit immigration. According to the Gazette, "This decision comes at an opportune moment for England, for the new United Sates legislation against the immigration of destitute aliens might result in converting the United Kingdom into a dumping ground for all the Hebrew refugees of Europe. They arrive here already at the rate of 18,000 annually."
1892(1st of Iyar, 5652): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1892: One hundred heads of Jewish families from Russia left Montreal for Oxlow in the Canadian Northwest where they plan to start an agriculture colony. As soon as they have built houses, these farmers will be sending for their family members. The colonization is part of the efforts of Baron Hirsch, the Baron Hirsch Colonization Alliance and the Young Men's Hebrew Benevolent Society of Montreal. If this initial settlement is successful, the Jews in Montreal plant to settle as many as 10,000 Russian Jews as farmers in Manitoba.
1893: Dr. H. M. Harris delivered a lecture at Temple Israel in Harlem entitled "The Religious Rights of the Minority, Apropos of the Movement to Convert the Jews."
1894(22nd of Nisan, 5654): 8th day of Pesach
1894: "Ex-rector Hermann Ahlwardt, the Jewbaiter who has been imprisoned several times for criminal libel" declared in a meeting this evening "his intention of publishing next week some revelations" concerning the formation of "annuity estates in Prussia" that would expose the "corruptness of the Jews and the criminal complicity of those in authority."
1894: This evening 30 young Jewish girls will be featured performers at a benefit hosted by the Young Ladies' Charitable Society at the Lexington Avenue Opera House.
1895: "A Free Art Exhibition" published today described an upcoming fundraiser to be held for the benefit of the University Settlement Society and the Hebrew Educational Alliance as well as providing a brief history of these organizations.
1895: The convention of the B'nai B'rith is scheduled to open in Cincinnati, Ohio today where it is hoped that the members from Atlanta, GA will be able to report that the new building the Hebrew Orphans' Home in their city has been completed.
1896: German Historian and Reichstag Deputy Heinrich von Treitschke who became a leading anti-Semite starting in 1878 when he began attacking the Jews for failing to assimilate as well as no longer being useful because the Aryans had learned the money management skills that had been the sole reason for allowing Jews to play a role in the German Empire.
1897: Mr. Goldstein and Mr. Meyer were among those arrested in Brooklyn today for operating an illegal still.
1897: Dr. Robert Ward, "a Harvard professor who founded the Immigration Restriction League" and falsely "apprised Congress" of plans for "a well-organized Jewish mass immigration" to the United States, married Emma Lane today.
1898: In Galveston, TX, Arthur Fischel Samson and Babette Levy gave birth to Dr. John Jacob Sampson
1899: Birthdate of Herman Shinbang, the University of Manitoba School of Medicine who served in Palestine during WWI the 40 Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, retired from the practice of medicine "due to permanent disabilities, and served a Major in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during WW II.
1903: Birthdate of Trenton, NJ, Saul Habas, the Rutgers University graduate and husband of Ruth Janette Zerkowsky who served as a rabbi and was buried in Natchez, Mississippi after his death in 1983
1903: In "The Jewish Massacre Denounced," The New York Times reported that "The anti-Jewish riots in Kishinev, Bessarabia, are worse than the censor will permit to publish. There was a well laid-out plain for the general massacre of Jews on the day following the Russian Easter. The mob was led by priests, and the general cry, "Kill the Jews," was taken up all over the city. The Jews were taken wholly unaware and were slaughtered like sheep. The dead number 120 and the injured numbered about 500. The scenes of horror attending this massacre are beyond description. Babes were literally torn to pieces by the frenzied and bloodthirsty mob. The local police made no attempt to check the reign of terror. At sunset the streets were piled with corpses and wounded. Those who could make their escape fled in terror, and the city is now practically deserted of Jews."
1906: Birthdate of Richard Rado the "German-born British mathematician" who fled Germany following the rise of the Nazis.
1908: Birthdate of Oskar Schindler, the Schindler of "Schindler's List" fame. He passed away in 1974. While much has been written about how authentic the tale told in the film and book was, the reality is that he saved over 1,200 Jews, which is more than most people can say.
1908(27th of Nisan, 5668): Jacob Voorsanger passed away today.
1911: Council of Rabbis of Constantinople decides to establish a yeshiva for the training of rabbis for Sephardic Jewry.
1911: Bedouins set fire to the synagogue at Tschebel (Tripoli, Barbary), entirely destroying the building which contained old and valuable manuscripts and books.
1912: In entitled "How A Russian Girl's Failure Was Turned To Success," published today provides a description of the work of the successful, important work of the Young Women's Hebrew Association and its fund raising drive that will enable it to enlarge its facilities.
1913(21st of Nisan, 5673): Seventh Day of Pesach
1913: In Atlanta, Leo Frank, a director with the National Pencil Company told the police that Newt Lee, the night watchman who had found the body of Mary Phagan had not punch his time card which "was supposed to be punched every half hour during his security rounds" at "three or four intervals."
1913: In Chicago, at Isaiah Temple, a Reform congregation, Rabbi Joseph Stolz is scheduled to lead services on the final day of Passover celebrated by Reform Jews.
1915: The International Congress of Women, where Rosika Schwimmer offered a proposal for a Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation between the governments of the belligerents fighting the World War began today in The Hague.
1915: As the British Empire was fighting for its survival in WW I, the soap opera triangle involving Prime Minister H.H. Asquith, Venetia Stanley, the Jewish Liberal M.P. Edwin Samuel Montagu reached a climax when Venetia, who would convert to Judaism, "finally accepted Montagu's proposal" of marriage.
1915: Birthdate of Bernard Phillips, the native of Minneapolis who earned a Ph.D. at Yale and became a professor of philosophy and religion.
1916: "Predicts a Massacre" published today described reports for a planned massacre of Jews that was being "arranged by reaction in Russia to being with the Easter holidays" as celebrated on the Greek calendar.
1916: "A sharp debate in an open session of the Senate today revealed the fact that a vote at the present time in the Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Louis D. Brandeis…for the Supreme Court of the United States would result in an adverse" because the Democratic members of the committee were not united behind Wilson's nominee and the supporters of Brandeis were looking to line up support among Republican legislators.
1916: It was reported today that "Benjamin Schlessinger, President of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union …said that if the manufacturers carried out their threat of a lockout, the entire industry would be tied up next week" – a sentiment echoed by Morris Hillquit, the counsel for the union who "also predicted a long fight.
1917(6th of Iyar, 5677): (Parashat Tazria-Metzora
1917: Jacob H. Schiff donated "$10,000 to the American Red Cross" to purchase equipment for three United States military hospitals.
1917: At Temple Israel of Harlem, Rabbi M.H. is scheduled to deliver a Shabbat morning sermon on "Master and Servant.
1917: At Temple Emanu-El, Rabbi Silverman is scheduled to deliver a Shabbat morning sermon on "The Liberalism of the Jews."
1917: "There were three names that called forth cheers each time they were mentioned at the opening of the eighth annual convention of the Kehillah of New York City in the Hebrew Technical School for Girls" tonight, three words that sum up the immediate heart interests of the delegates on the floor and crowds in the gallery – America, Russia, and Palestine."
1917: "Rabbi J.L. Magnes, Chairman of the Executive announced tonight "that it had been decided to sever from the Kehillah its two important Bureaus of Education and Industry" so "that the bureaus might develop unhampered and at the same the Kehillah might work out the democratic experience without hindrance."
1918: In New York, Morris Meltsner and Rose Klarman gave birth to Matilda Meltsner, the fourth of their five children.
1918: During World War I, The Jewish Board of Welfare Work and the Young Men's Hebrew Association of Camden (NJ), is scheduled to host a dinner this evening for all of the Jewish young men who are about to begin their training at Fort Dix, NJ.
1918: Louis Marshall presided over a special meeting of the American Jewish Committee where the attendees who until had not "taken any active part in the Zionist movement adopted a resolution supporting the project based upon the declaration of the British government" which has also been approved by the French government" saying that the organization favors "the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.
1919: The funeral for 26 year old Harry Zuckerman, the "son of Henry and the late Sarah Zuckerman" is scheduled to take place in Chicago today.
1919: It was reported today that "the Federation of Galician and Bukowinian Jews" has joined in the protests against a proposed ordinance being considered by the Board of Alderman in New York City "forbidding meetings of non-citizens and prohibiting the use of foreign tongues" at all meetings.
1919: It was reported today "The Jewish Soldiers' and Sailors' Legion is about to be organized under the auspices of a new society calling itself the American Jewish Seventy Elders."
1920: The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic came to an end today when it was replaced by the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic a product of the Red Army's invasion under the direction of Lenin. The creation of the Soviet puppet state brought an end to Zionist activities in the region and the banning of Jewish and Hebrew cultural activities. A few hundred Jews were able to leave for Palestine but the rest would remain trapped and would not have the opportunity for Aliyah until the 1970's
1920: Rabbi Ephraim Epstein, who has just returned from Poland, is scheduled to address a dinner meeting of the Directors of the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through The War on the conditions under which the Jews of Poland are living.
1921(20th of Nisan, 5681) Sixth Day of Pesach
1921: Lightweight Leach Cross (Louis Charles Wallach) fought his 141st bout.
1922: The first edition of The American Hebrew appeared.
1928: Birthdate of Yves Klein, French artist, who, among other things, was a major figure in school of art known as neo-Dadaism.
1928: Middleweight Seymour "Cy" Schindell fought his 21st bout today, which he lost.
1929: Birthdate of Avigdor Arikha, the Israeli artist who learned the power of art as a boy during the Holocaust when he sketched scenes from a concentration camp onto salvaged scraps of paper. Arikha, a painter, draftsman and printmaker, became one of Israel's most important contemporary artists, imbuing his portraits and scenes of daily life — a red umbrella against a wall, an overflowing bookshelf, a jumble of bottles in a cabinet — with enigmatic, disconcerting beauty.The artist, who abandoned abstract art for figurative work in the 1960s, was well-known for portraits of subjects including Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and his close friend, writer Samuel Beckett. He also produced many probing portraits of himself and his wife, poet Anne Atik. "I paint not to get a copy of nature but to get with the brush what I see while I see it," he told The Times in 1987. "It's an act of observation by means of the brush. The instant cannot be repeated and the brushwork is organic. When you retouch it, you disorganize it. I can't bear to go back." Born in Romania, Arikha turned to drawing to cope when he was sent to a Ukrainian labor camp at age 12. Seventeen sketches survived the war: One showed a pile of corpses in a wagon and a woman's naked body being tossed into a grave. Arikha and his sister were rescued when his drawings came to the attention of the International Red Cross during a camp inspection. Arikha's father died in the Holocaust, and his mother learned that her children were alive in Palestine only after the war. Arikha lived on a kibbutz, studied at the Bezalel School and fought in the war over Israel's creation, during which he was wounded in 1948. Recognizing his talent, supporters in Israel insisted he go to Paris to study and financed him. He arrived in Paris in 1949 and built on the foundations of his Israeli studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Arikha's works are in collections around the world, including the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He also wrote extensively about art and was named a knight in France's Legion of Honor in 2005. Arikha died at the age of 81 from complications of cancer at his home in Paris, where he spent most of his adult life.
1929: Birthdate of Carolyn Jones. Born in Amarillo, Texas, Jones carved out a career on the stage, in films and television. Her most famous role was as Mortica Addams, in the TV. hit, "The Addams Family." A convert to Judaism, Jones died tragically in 1983 at the age of 54, a victim of cancer.
1929: Aaron Rabinowitz and Lieutenant Governor Herbert Lehman take title to the building that had housed the Hoe & Co print plant so that they could convert the property into a cooperative housing project similar to one already created under the aegis of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx.
1930: Herman Bernstein, the U.S. Ambassador to Albania, presented his credentials today.
1932(22nd of Nisan, 5692): Eighth and Final Day of Pesach observed for the last time during the Presidency of Herbert Hoover.
1933: Birthdate of Warsaw native and Holocaust survivor Israel Himmelstaub who gained fame as Israel Shank, the Hebrew University Organic Professor and head of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights.
1933: Birthdate of Dr. Allan Rosenfield, who as dean of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University will become a leading advocate for women's health during the global H.I.V./AIDS epidemic.
1935: "The United Jewish Appeal, which seeks to raise $3,250,000 nationally on behalf of Jews in Germany, Eastern Europe and refugee settlements in Palestine" is scheduled to begin it drive today a dinner at the Commodore.
1936: Sixty-eight year old Faud I, the King of Egypt who continued the "friendly" attitude towards the Jews living in Egypt regardless of their citizen which had been followed during British rule passed away today.
1936: It was reported today that the Nazis "have waged a valiant battle to seize" the funds of the Felix Mendelsohn-Bartholdi Foundation to "assure that nobody of Mendelssohn's own race shall become a beneficiary of his generosity."
1936: In Nazareth, four British constables were injured by Arab demonstrators who stoned the police.
1936: A fire at a Jewish tannery in the Moledeth quarter near the village of Yazur 'was discovered in time to prevent" it from spreading.
1936: In Jerusalem, this evening a Jew was sent to the hospital after having been "stabbed twice in the back by Arab."
1936: Because of the Arab strike at the port of Jaffa, Tel Aviv merchants have stopped using the port and today "Jewish importers have cabled manufacturers abroad to send all goods to Haifa."
1937: When the seven day sale of the art collection of the House of Lionel Rothschild ended tonight at Sotheby's Galleries the items auctioned brought in a total of 125,262 pounds.
1938: The Palestine Post reported on the arrival in Jerusalem of the four members of the new Palestine Commission, which was expected to study the situation and recommend to the British Government how to implement the country's partition. The Palestine Government welcomed the Commission and set it up at the Jerusalem's Government House. The Palestine Arab leadership objected to the Commission's presence and announced a total business strike. But only a fraction of the Arab-owned shops and businesses remained closed for a day.
1938: "Today was the last day that the United States was taking requests for emigration from Germany to the United States" at the consulate in Stuttgart.
1938: "Max and Suse Ettlinger" the parents of future Monuments Man Harry Ettlinger who "had been applying for years to Switzerland, Great Britain, France and the United States for permission to emigrate" without success "rode the train fifty miles to the U.S. Consulate in Stuttgart in search of answers to a few a question but instead were given more papers to fill out which for some unknown led to their getting permission to leave for America a few days later.
1943: Thomas "Toivi" Blatt and his family, with about 400 other Jewish people from Izbica, was transported by the Germans to Sobibor, where "all of Blatt's family were killed there, along with most of the people from his village."
1943: During World War II, as British forces confronted the Axis Lance-Corporal John Patrick Kenneally single-handedly thwarted a planned attack by the Fascists when he charged down a slope at at Dj Arba, Tunisia, firing his Bren gun into the enemy formations. The enemy was so surprised that they broke and ran. Kenneally was awarded the Victoria Cross (VC). John Patrick Kenneally was an assumed name. He was the illegitimate son of a wealthy Jewish textile manufacturer in Manchester. His mother was an 18-year-old un-married daughter of a Birmingham pharmacist, who was disowned by her family.
1943: In the Warsaw Ghetto, the uprising enters into its tenth day.
1944: Mohammed Alim Khan "the last emir representative of the Uzbek dynasty" whom Levi Babakham, the father of Moshe Babakhanov and grandfather of Ari Babakhanov, served as "court vocalist" passed away today,
1944: "1,500 people suitable for labor were taken from the Kistarcsa internment camp to Osweicim" where "they were compelled to write encouraging notes to their relatives with datelines from "Waldsee" which "were brought by an SS-Courier to Budapest and were distributed by the Jewish Council.
1945: Benito Mussolini and his mistress were executed by Italian partisans and then hung by their heels from a sign at a local gas station.
1945: Polish born French trade unionist Henri Krasucki returned to France after having survived Drancy, Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
1945: The Big Red One, including the 16th division whose member had included Samuel Fuller, "arrived near Selb and began advancing further east through Czechoslovakia."
1945(15th of Iyar, 5705): Anna Kann, the wife of Jacob Kann and the mother of three children – Maurits, Johan and Jap – who died during the Shoah passed away today at Theresienstadt
1945: Tonight, "a secretly formed International Prisoners Committee took control of the main camp at Dachau after "Victor Maurer, a representative of the International Red Cross negotiated an agreement to surrender the camp to U.S. troops."
1945: Martin Dannenberg, "a counterintelligence officer" serving with Patton's Third Army and Frank Perls, both of whom were Jewish, "found a manila folder sealed with red wax embossed with swastikas inside of which was an original four-page copy of the Nuremberg Laws signed by Adolf Hitler in September 1935, which stripped German Jews of their citizenship and prohibited Jews from marrying "Aryans".
1945: Film crews captured the arrival of several ferries carrying thousands of concentration survivors at Malmo, Sweden where "the undernourished victims took their first steps in freedom."
1945: An armed revolt took place in the town of Dachau. Both former and escaped concentration camp prisoners, and a renegade Volkssturm (civilian militia) company took part. At about 8:30 AM the rebels occupied the Town Hall. The advanced forces of the SS gruesomely suppressed the revolt within a few hours.[
1945: Lieutenant Colonel Arkadi Timor entered the heart of Berlin at the head of the Fourteenth Soviet Armored Battalion. At twenty-four he was one of the youngest officers to hold this rank in the Soviet Army. Despite the fact the Timor already knew that the Nazis had wiped out his entire family from his 2 year old sister to his 96 year old grandfather he refused to take revenge on the Berliners. Instead, "he ordered his soldiers to hand out sop to the starving civilians" and he established the first kindergarten for German orphans. After rising to the rank of Colonel, Timor whose interest in Judaism had been re-kindled was imprisoned in 1956. His wife was told that he would never return from the Gulag. But in 1960, thanks to secret negotiations, he was allowed to move to Israel where he provided invaluable assistance to the Israeli Ordinance forces as well as serving with valor in combat.
1946: "Representative Emanuel Celler of New York declared that" the British "decision to hold all of the 180,000 Jews of Tel Aviv responsible for the killing of seven British soldiers…was 'Hitler technique.'" "Mr. Celler said that he as well as other responsible and God-fearing Jews deplored the terrorist activities, but to hold the entire city responsible 'is exactly the same kind of perverted law that the German military brought with when it occupied Europe.'" Representative Celler assailed the British for taking "a page out of Himmler's book."
1947: Birthdate of Robert Magnus who would serve as the 30th Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps.
1948(19th of Nisan, 5708): Fifth Day of Pesach
1948: Release date for "Letter from an Unknown Woman" based on story by Stefan Zweig and directed by Max Ophüls who also co-authored the script.
1948: Pitcher Saul Rogovin appeared in his first major league baseball game as a member of the Detroit Tigers.
1948: British troops pulled out of the last police fortress in their control in Upper Galilee, at Rosh Pinah in the valley immediately below Mount Canaan. The fort was then occupied by the Haganah.
1948: Approximately 50 children were evacuated from Kibbutz Gesher in the Jordan Valley. The Jordanian Legion had attacked the kibbutz which was on the banks of the Jordan River in an attempt to seize the kibbutz's bridge and an adjacent British police fortress. Afer a lengthy and bloody battle the kibbutz members decided to transfer the children in the dead of the night to a safe haven. The children were taken on a dangerous nighttime trek from the Kibbutz to Haifa and housed in an abandoned German monastery in the Bat Galim neighborhood adjacent to what is now the Rambam Medical Center.
1949: Birthdate of Dorothea Miriam Bratu, who as Miriam Hansen, "introduced a new level of sophistication to film studies with her groundbreaking study of American silent film and research on cinema and the human senses." (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1952: Alfred W. Stern, a resident of Chicago who is a collector of Lincoln memorabilia presented the United States Library of Congress with "a scrapbook in which Lincoln" had "pasted newspaper account of his historic diabetes with Stephen A. Douglas. The scrapbook was used as a printer's copy for a book edited by Lincoln" entitled Debates which became a bestseller in 1860 when it reportedly sold 50,000. Thanks to the generosity of this Jewish American, the library, and therefore the American people, own the only book ever written or edited by The Great Emancipator.
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that for the second consecutive day the Jerusalem Labor Exchange closed after only 120 of Jerusalem's 2,000 jobless were willing to accept the offered forestation work. More than 450 were needed for this work daily, but the unemployed were reluctant to accept such jobs since the payment was set up according to production norms.
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that Jerusalem was still short of water since the Municipality could not manage to settle the debt of IL60,000 owed to the Jerusalem Electric Corporation.
1953: "Jewish Chaplain, Wounded in Korea, Awarded Purple Heart" published today described the how Chaplain Samuel Sobel earned this commendations while serving with the First Division in Korea.
1956: The recording of "The Greatest!! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards" featuring "Tho Swell" and "This Can't Be Love" both by Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers, "Love is Here to Stay" and "S Wonderful" both by George and Ira Gershwin and "Fine Romance" by Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern began today.
1957(27th of Nisan, 5717): Yom HaShoah
1963(4th of Iyar, 5723) יום הזכרון Yom HaZikaron Israel Remembrance Day
1964(16th of Iyar, 5724): Seventy-one year old Alexandre Koyré the Russian born French academic whose field of interest was the philosophy and history of science passed away today in Paris.
1965: "My Name is Barbra" was broadcast this evening.
1966: Simon Gerson sponsored the Herbert Aptheker Testimonial Dinner at the Sutton Ballroom of the New York Hilton. (Pretty spiffy for an event hosted by members of the Communist Party USA)
1968: Birthdate of Daisy Berkowitz, original guitarist with Marilyn Manson.
1969: Dr. Farouk Shabtai and his two brothers were released after almost two years of imprisonment by Egyptian authorities. Over four hundred adult Jewish males were seized by the Egyptians at the start of the Six Days War and held in what they claimed was a form of "protective custody."
1970(22nd of Nisan, 5730): Eighth and final day of Pesach
1971(3rd of Iyar, 5731): Yom HaZikaron
1971: Release date of Woody Allen's "Bananas" co-starring Louise Lasser with music by Marvin Malisch.
1972(14th of Iyar, 5732): Pesach Sheni
1079: ABC broadcast the last episode of an "What's Happening!!" a ground breaking urban themed sit com produced by Bud Yorkin, Saul Turtletaub and Bernie Orenstein.
1980: Moisei Tonkonogy, from Odessa, who was an exit visa when "his parents and sister went to Israel in 1973" was sentenced to a year in custody "for parasitism".
1982(5th of Iyar, 5742): Yom HaAtzma'ut
1983(15th of Iyar, 5743): Eighty year old Hebraist Dr. Harry Blumberg passed away today.
1984: In promoting his contention that "One of the principal elements in the study of Rambam is the unification of Jewry," the Rebbe explained that when everyone studies the same thing on the same day, their learning is united across continents. The Rebbe added that when different people study the same topic, they will come to discuss and debate it. This friendly and scholarly debate, the Rebbe said, will bring people closer to each other, contributing to unity among Jews."
1985: Several thousand people attended a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, near Munich.
1987: Rabbi Arnold Resincoff deliver his prayer, "To Keep the Dream Alive," at the National Civic Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony in the Capitol rotunda.
1987: Today, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir went to Paris in order, as he put it, to ''undermine European support for an international conference.'' This puts him at loggerheads with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and threatens to end the Likud-Labor coalition currently governing Israel.
1988: The final episode of Season 4 of the Cosby Show which was co-created by Ed Weinberger who also scripts for the show, was broadcast this evening.
1990: After 6,137 performances at the Shubert Theatre the curtain came down on the original production of "A Chorus Line" with lyrics by Edward Kleban and music by Marvin Hamlisch.
1991: The New York Times reports that Israeli commemorative coins "appeal more to the heartstrings than to the purse strings." Some examples of this are "the coins struck for Israel's 1991 Independence Day to commemorate the immigration of Jews from around the world, a process that is continuing with the arrival of Jews from Ethiopia and the Soviet Union. In 1950, the Israeli Parliament passed the Law of Return, which guarantees citizenship to any Jewish immigrant. Since then, millions of Jews have immigrated. Previous surges of such immigration have strained the Israeli Government's resources, and the new surge's proportions are nearly overwhelming. To raise money for the new immigrants, Israel has been selling bonds and seeking donations. The Government Coins and Medals Corporation has minted three new commemoratives. The three coins are similar in design. Each shows immigrants alighting from a Boeing 747. Around the outside of the coin, in English and Hebrew, appears a phrase from the Book of Jeremiah: "I will gather them out of all countries." On the other side is a wide band running through the center of the coin with a large numeral -- the coin's value. The coins are available in one-shekel and two- and 10-sheqalim pieces. The smaller denominations are 92.5 percent silver, while the 10-sheqalim piece is 90 percent gold. The coins will have a limited mintage -- 15,000 of each silver coin and 6,000 gold 10-sheqalim coins. The silver shekel and the gold 10-sheqalim coin both weigh close to half a troy ounce, while the two-Shekalim coin is nearly a troy ounce of silver. The prices are $32 for the large proof silver two-Shekalim coin and $52 for both the brilliant uncirculated one-shekel and the proof two-Shekalim coins. The gold proof 10-sheqalim coin is $399. All are packaged in a presentation case. The coins may be ordered from the American Israel Numismatic Association."
1995: "Destiny Turns On The Radio" a comedy featuring Allen Garfield was released today in the United States.
1996: "Big the musical" with tunes by David Shire and a book by John Weidman, the son of Jerome Weidman opened on Broadway at the Schubert Theatre.
1996(9th of Iyar, 5756): Dora "Dutch" Sudarsky, who had been married to sportscaster Bill Mazer for fifty years, passed away today.
1999(12th of Iyyar, 5759): Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate passed away.
2000: "Rabbi at end of 1800's wasn't really a rabbi" published today declared that Jacob Voorsanger, a leading 19th century rabbi who led Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco was never ordained according to Visions of Reform: Congregation Emanu-El and the Jews of San Francisco 1849-1999 by Fred Rosenbaum.
2000: Birthdate of Jacob Levin. A native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Mr. Levin is the most wonderful grandson in the world.
2001(5th of Iyar, 5761): Seventy-six year old Yaakov, the sabra who the Israel Prize Winner whose architectural work included the Charles Bronfman Auditorium and the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, both in Tel Aviv, passed away today.
2001(5th of Iyar, 5762): Ninety four year old Vienna born Professor Marie Jahoda, the foremost social psychologist who "worked as a researcher for the American Jewish Committee" passed away today. (As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)
2002: An exhibition entitled "New York: Capital of Photography" opens at The Jewish Museum in New York City.
2002: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Master of the Senate by Robert Caro
2003: Ira Herskowitz, the Brooklyn born American geneticist passed away in San Francisco.
2004: Omer Golan made his international debut for the Israel national football team when he came on as a 74th minute substitute for Eyal Berkovich in a friendly against the Moldova national football team" today.
2005(19th of Nisan, 5765): Fifth Day of Pesach
2005: In Waterloo, IA, three year old twins Ben and Noah Susskind along with their parents Robin Gurien and Josh Susskind rise to the challenge of celebrating Pesach in a semi-rural Eastern Iowa.
2006(1st of Iyar, 5766): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
2006(1st of Iyar, 5766): Israeli composer Ben-Zion Orgad, the native of Gelsenkirchen, Germany who made Aliyah in 1933, passed away today in Tel Aviv.
2006: Ninety-seven year old Noble prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini attended the first meeting of the Senate in Italy.
2006: "The TV Set," a comedy directed and written by Jake Kasdan who co-produced the film with Judd Apatow premiered at Tribeca today.
2007: The Cedar Rapids Gazette featured an article entitled "Temple Judah Plans for big crowd at Big Dinner." The article describes the preparations and purpose for this major event in the Jewish community that is scheduled for Sunday, May 6. The article includes a large picture of Rugalach "a sweet pastry prepared by members of Temple Judah."
2008: Seven months after a "limited theatrical release, the DVD of "I Want Someone to Eat Cheese with" a comedy directed, produced and written by Jeff Garlin who also starred in the film with Sarah Silverman was made today.
2008(23rd of Nisan, 5768): Ninety year old air pioneer Diana Barnato Walker passed away today.
2008: The Jerusalem Cinematheque presents a screening of: "We Who Remained Among the Living" and "Pizza At Auschwitz"
2008: The New York Times reports that "Schindler's 100th Birthday Is Private Affair for Survivors." As he does every year on the birthday of Oskar Schindler, Nahum Manor will make a pilgrimage to the famed factory owner's grave on Mount Zion. Manor, 85, met his wife while working in Schindler's factory. "My life changed very dramatically when I started working at Schindler's factory," he said. "We moved from hell to a kind of paradise." April 28 would have been Schindler's 100th birthday, and around the world there will be scattered, locally inspired memorials to the factory owner who saved 1,100 lives during the Holocaust and was immortalized in Steven Spielberg's 1993 film "Schindler's List." In New Jersey, Sol Urbach, a Schindler survivor, will be at a small ceremony at the Kaplen Jewish Community Center in New Jersey that his daughter helps organize every year. In Krakow, Poland, last month, 30 Schindler survivors joined a march to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the liquidation of the city's ghetto, winding from the ghetto to the concentration camp to remember the liquidation and honor Schindler. The march ended at the Palace of Art, where more than 500 photos of Schindler and his factory were on display. Many elements of Holocaust memorialization have become ritualized to intense levels of detail and organization. But Schindler has not yet earned any regular form of commemoration. The homegrown ceremonies that have sprung up around his birthday suggest the personal ways in which many Holocaust survivors are still dealing with their experiences of horror and heroism. "What we have seen recently is the routinization of Holocaust commemoration," said Michal Bodemann, a professor at the University of Toronto who has written about Holocaust remembrance. Bodemann said the individualized commemorations of Schindler hark back to an earlier era. "From 1945 up to 1978, all commemoration was personal, out of the public eye," Bodemann said. "It is important to see," Bodemann added, "that the Schindler Jews have their own private way of celebrating Schindler that is very different from what is happening in public." Schindler was born in 1908 in Svitavy, Austria-Hungary, which is now a part of the Czech Republic. Under his watch, his family's business dissolved into near bankruptcy. But when the war started, he saw a business opportunity in following the German army into Poland. There, he used his connections to secure a factory in Krakow that made pots and pans and defective munitions for the German forces.Driven by profits, he used the cheapest labor around: Jews. But on March 12, 1943, Schindler changed his life, the life of his workers and history. Addressing his workers, he told them not to go home that night. The Krakow ghetto, he said, would be liquidated the next day. Schindler had witnessed the killings and decided he must protect his laborers. He built his own concentration camp as a satellite to Kraków-Plaszów, and his staff compiled the now famous list of workers he wanted transferred to his camp.Schindler's dramatic change in character - from a self-absorbed playboy to a caring hero willing to risk his life to save others - attracted Thomas Keneally, the Australian author who wrote "Schindler's Ark." The book was later renamed "Schindler's List," and used in Spielberg's movie. "You'd expect Oskar to be a perfect Nazi," Keneally said from his home in Melbourne, Australia. "He was a good German lad. You'd think he'd be a pushover for the dominant propaganda about race, but he wasn't. It is a remarkable legacy in that way." Schindler's story has become the core of many of the personalized efforts to commemorate the man. Lili Haber, whose father was on Schindler's list, organized a symposium that will coincide with Schindler's birthday, to take place in Ariel, Israel, on behalf of the Association of Krakovians in Israel. Haber hopes to fill the 400-seat auditorium with students. The symposium will include a panel discussion featuring a Holocaust scholar and 10 to 20 survivors. "It is important for young people to learn Schindler's legacy," Haber, said. "This way, we show young people Schindler's great accomplishments and what he risked." In New Jersey, rather than focusing on history, the Schindler admirers have designed a ceremony that will have more of a personal, religious bent. Families and members of the community will gather in the Kaplen JCC. The ceremony will begin with a playing of Itzhak Perlman's music from "Schindler's List." The Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the deceased, will be recited, as will the "El Maleh Rachamim," the prayer for the souls of the deceased. A candle lighting will take place, too, and a survivor will address the audience. "Schindler was a very personal hero," said Barbara Urbach Lissner, Urbach's 53-year-old daughter. "That is always acknowledged on a personal level, but as a community the focus is on the tremendous loss and the tremendous sadness." For many survivors, the personal nature of the connection to Schindler means that remembering the man does not require his birthday or a ceremony. "I think of Schindler most of the time. I don't have to wait for his birthday," said the youngest member of Schindler's list, Leon Leyson, who is 78 and lives in Los Angeles. "I could be spreading margarine on my toast," Leyson said, "and I'll remember having that little piece of margarine as part of the ration and remember that Schindler had given me bread and, at that time, that was as precious as you can imagine." In Jerusalem, where Schindler is buried, there are always a number of people who congregate at his grave for his birthday, though not in any organized fashion. Manor said he was considering going to Krakow this year, but he did not need to return to remember. "It wouldn't be right to say we are going back, because we are always back," he said. "We never leave Krakow, nor Schindler, nor the war."
2008: Yossi Harel was be buried at the Caesarea-area kibbutz, Sdot Yam today. Harel, who commanded four ships bringing Jews to Israel illegally, died at the age of 90 in Tel Aviv. Harel assisted 24,000 Jews in reaching Israel aboard four ships, including the famed SS Exodus, between 1945 and 1948. Great Britain, which controlled the region at the time, banned Jewish immigration due to Arab pressure. The other three ships were called Knesset Yisrael (Gathering of Israel), Atzma'ut (Independence) and Kibbutz Galuyot (Ingathering of the Exiles).The Exodus was made famous by a film of the same name. Born in 1919, Harel was the sixth generation in his family born in Jerusalem. At the age of 15 he joined the pre-state Haganah defense force. By the age of 28 he oversaw the clandestine immigration operations bringing Jews, many of them survivors of the Holocaust, to the Holy Land. Later on, Harel oversaw the IDF's Unit 131, an intelligence unit that ran a spy ring in Egypt until the so-called Lavon Affair of 1954.
2009: "Picturing the Shoah," a film festival sponsored by YIVO that explores how movies have represented the Holocaust from radical, provocative, and unexpected angles continues with an exhibition of "Lili Marleen."
2009 (4 Iyar): Yom Hazikaron – Israel Remembrance Day - Israel's National Memorial Day for the Fallen and the Victims of Terror http://www.jafi.org.il/education/festivls/ZKATZ/ZK/index.html
2009(4 Iyar, 5769) Richard J. Pratt passed away. Born Ryszard Przecicki, in 1934 he "was a prominent Australian businessman, chairman of the privately owned company Visy Industries, and a leading figure of Melbourne society. In the year before his death Pratt was Australia's fourth richest person, with a personal fortune was valued at A$5.48 billion dollars. Pratt was appointed an Officer, of the Order of Australia; however he returned his awards in February 2008 after he was fined $36 million for price fixing."
2009: Journalist and motivational speaker Jean Chatzky discusses her new book, "The Difference: How Anyone Can Prosper in Even The Toughest Times," at the U.S. Department of the Interior.
2009: The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) welcomes Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter to the Democratic Party following the longtime Republican Senator's announcement today that he is "crossing the aisle." Specter becomes the 12 Jewish Democratic Senator. The number will rise to 13 with the seating of Al Frankin from Minnesota
2010: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to sponsor "Daughters of Sara, Mothers of Israel: Jewish Women of Medieval Gerona," the first of two lectures on the Jews of Catalonia.
2010: Israeli singer songwriter Danny Robas, one of Israel's most unique musicians in the last 20 years is scheduled to perform at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City.
2010: "The Duel," a film based on the novel of the same name directed by Israeli Dover Kosashvili was released in the United States today.
2011: Rabbi Joseph Krakoff is scheduled to lead the discussion at Congregation Shaarey Tzedek's "Tequila and Talmud" in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
2011: Graveside services will be held today at Zion Memorial Park for Holocaust survivor Gora Hudesa Gora
2011: A bomb killed 15 people including two Jews who were among 10 foreigners in Morocco's bustling tourist destination of Marrakesh, state television said today in an attack that bore the hallmark of Islamist militants. The Jewish woman was reportedly an Israeli citizen and pregnant. The blast ripped through a cafe overlooking Marrakesh's Jamaa el-Fnaa square, a spot that is often packed with foreign tourists. A Reuter's photographer said he saw rescuers pulling dismembered bodies from the wreckage.
2011: Wisconsin offensive guard Gabe Carimi was drafted in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears.
2012: Jacob Wertheimer, the son of former Heavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammad Ali's daughter Khaliah Ali Wertheimer and her husband Spencer Wertheimer had his Bar Mitzvah ceremony in the congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia
2012: "Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life," a film that tells "the story of a boy born to Russian-Jewish parents in Nazi-occupied Paris rising to international fame" is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2013(18th of Iyar, 5773): 33rd day of the Omer – Lag B'Omer
2013(18th of Iyar, 5773): Eighty-eight year old world renowned cellist Janos Starker passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2013: Rabbi Alfredo Borodowski is scheduled to lead "Finding God: A Workshop" at the Skirball Center
2013: Lubavitch of Iowa City is scheduled to host its annual Lab B'Omer BBQ this afternoon
2013: The Jewish Food Festival is scheduled to be held at the River Market Pavilion in Little Rock, AR.
2013: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner and Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary by Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen
2013: The Maccabeats are scheduled to perform at the Yom Ha'Atzmaut celebration sponsored by the Jewish Community Association of Greater Phoenix.
2013: "Steal a Pencil for Me," the opera composed by Gerald Cohen with a libretto by Deborah Brevoorst will debut at Congregation Shaarei Tikvah in Scarsdale, NY.
2013: Friends and family gather to celebrate the birthday of Jacob Levin
2013: Phil Hochberg was honored before today's game between the Washington Nationals and Cincinnati Reds.
2013: The Israel Air Force bombed two sites in the Gaza Strip early this morning in response to a Qassam rocket that was fired from Gaza into southern Israel last night.
2013: While some in Israel are enjoying the first flush of summer of recent days, hitting the beach and packing out the cafes and boulevards, the unseasonably hot weather has brought the usual spate of wildfires and heatstroke cases as people celebrate Lag B'Omer
2013: Israel will not tolerate a "drizzle" of rockets on its territory, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the cabinet today, explaining an IAF strike in Gaza hours earlier against a terror facility and weapons storage site in southern Gaza.
2014(28th of Nisan, 5774): Yom HaShoah
2014: In New Orleans, the keynote speaker at the Holocaust Memorial Program is scheduled to be eighty-eight year old Philip Bialowitz, one of only seven survivors of the Sobribor revolt at the Nazi death camp who was 17 at the time of the revolt, joined with his brother and others to overwhelm the guards and helped free 200 of the 600 prisoners housed there" whose memoir is A Promise at Sobribor: A Jewish Boy's Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland. (As reported by the Crescent City Jewish News)
2014: Rabbi Sara Luria is scheduled to present the first in a three part lecture series "Jewish Spirituality Through Water: Reclaiming an Ancient Tradition" at the Skirball Center.
2014: Rob Reiner is scheduled to be honored tonight at the 41st Chaplin Award Gala by several notables including James Caan and Billy Crystal.
2014: As part of The William Rosenwald and Ruth Israels Roswenwald Course in Contemporary Jewish History Yitschak Schwartz is scheduled to lecture on "How We Here: Judaism in America, 1654-2014
2014: Lena Gilbert, a leading member of Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA, is scheduled to deliver a lecture tonight at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon on her life as the daughter of Holocaust Survivors.
2014: Friends and family prepare to celebrate the natal of Jacob Levin, whose academic, musical and Hebraic skills mark him as a budding "Renaissance Man" adding to the fact that he has already proven himself to be a Mensch par excellence
2015: "The Dove Flyer" and "Almost Friends" are scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2015: The Washing Society of Jewish Deaf is scheduled to present a screening of "Lost and Sound."
2015: Dr. Michael Hornum Archaeologist and Smithsonian Scholar is scheduled to deliver his final lecture on the "Archaeology of Israel – From Canaanite to Israelite" The Transformation from Bronze Age City States to the Iron Age National State" at Beth Shalom in Howard County, MD.
2015: The Jewish Historical Society of England is scheduled to sponsor a presentation by Shirli Gilbert author of Music in the Holocaust in which she "examines the role of music in the Nazi ghettos and camps and the insight it offers into victims' responses" For more see http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/ and
2016(20th of Nisan, 5776): Sixth Day of Pesach
2016: The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host an evening with Paul Krugman of the New York Times discussing the condition and future of the economy.
2016: Despite Prime Minister Netanyahu's public support of the Republican position on the Iran nuclear agreement, "President has proposed granting Israel the largest package of military aid ever provided by the United States to another nation" – a proposal that the Israeli Prime Minister is challenging based, some say" on his "calculation that he can reach a more advantageous deal with a future president."
2016: Hainan Airlines, the largest private carrier in China, is scheduled to begin flights between Ben Gurion Airport and China today.
2016: The exhibition "Dorothy Bohm: Sixties London" opened at the Jewish Museum in London.
2016: "Paul Rudd Set To Star As Moe Berg In Fact-Based WWII Tale The Catcher Was A Spy" published today described plans for Paul Rudd to start in "The Catcher Was a Spy" directed by Ben Lewin and based on the biography about Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff.
2016: Friends and family celebrate the all-important 16th birthday of Jacob Levin!
2017: Today "it was announced that an eight-episode revival of 'Roseanne'" starring Roseanne Barr, "was in the works."
2017: Today "President Trump proclaimed May 2017 Jewish American Heritage Month, marked annually since 2006 across the United States and preceded each year with an announcement by the sitting President.
2017: MJE is scheduled to host "Spring Season – Opening Day" – a baseball themed Shabbat dinner held in conjunction with B'nai B'rith
2017: The Iowa Community Theatre performed "The Diary of Anne Franke," a played based on The Diary of Young Girl, newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman
2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society the first Friday night service and Shabbat dinner for this term.
2017: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Holocaust Survivor Dr. Jacob Eisenbach is scheduled to speak at Temple Judah, the congregation he once served as President.
2017: In addition to Kindling the lights of Shabbat, the friends and family of Jacob will be lighting the lights for his 17th birthday.
2018(13th of Iyar, 5778): Parashat Acharay-Kedoshim; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2018: Double mitzvah – Shabbat and celebration of Jacob Levin's 18th birthday which fittingly enough falls when Jews start reading "The Holiness Code."
2018: Atara Frish's "The Love Letter" is scheduled to be shown for the last time at the Tribeca Film Festival.
2018: Zoe Pelts is scheduled to become a Bat Mitzvah at Temple Israel, Memphis, TN's largest congregation.


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Hi All--I am one of those people who uses the computer's spell checker a lot. However, not on my worst spelling day did things get so bad that I might have spelled "Masquerade" as "Shironakafu Otome", even if I had been in an oriental mood. So how do we explain the confusion over today's cultivar? There are several photos listed in the Hosta Library under the name Shironakafu Otome but the Library's data base does not contain the name. Neither does the AHS registration list. Lemke's data base lists the name but quickly says that the correct name for the plant is Masquerade.
However, the plants shown in the Hosta Library as Shironakafu Otome are certainly a different cultivar than Masquerade. Also, the plants we have been growing in our garden for many years as Masquerade have much more white tissue than the plant we received as a gift for our Friendship Garden labeled as Shironakafu Otome so local climate can not be the explanation.
I'm sure someone here can help clear up the confusion.
By any name, the plant we have been calling Shironakafu Otome is an attractive little thing, measuring 5x3 in both of its years here. The first photo is of Shironakafu Otome and the second photo is a group shot of our bed of Masquerades.
Registry - not registered as of Nov. 2012
MyHostas - http://myhostas.be/db/hostas/Shironakafu+Otome
Hosta Library - http://www.hostalibrary.org/s/shironakafuotome.html


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I searched and searched the internet till I found it
Given that I am aware of the benefits of using pictures in blog posts, I set out to find the best possible means of getting what I want – quality pictures at no risk of copyright infringements.
Most popular means of getting pictures that I have tried out include: Comflight, Flickr and of course Google.
These services are free but like most free things, they are assailed with what I consider landmines (and landmines can explode anytime, you know.) Remember Linda Ikeji's blog and how it was taking down by Google in October 2014? That's a quintessence of landmines. She was accused of copyright violation regarding the pictures she used in her posts.
There are so many other reasons why these services are not really reliable. Unless you really want to tag your pictures with source attributions, you should embrace this discovery of mine which I made after so many searches on the world wide web.
Even if you want to tag the source attributions of your pictures, not all sources provide a clear-cut way of doing so, and so you waste a lot of time reading privacy and copyright policies.
I've been down there and I've found my way up. Now I want to show you just how you can enjoy this great picture service and get quality pictures for whatever use you may wish to put the pictures to.
I give you: Kozzi
Kozzi prides itself as a huge online database of quality pictures. It has several photo categories from which you can make your choice.
Where Kozzi stands out from other picture services is that you can download and use pictures from Kozzi without adding attribution tags to your blog posts that indicate photo source.
There's also the freedom to download as much as 5 photos in a day. This is really good as this implies 150 pictures in a month!
The pictures you get on Kozzi are really High pixel pictures and you wouldn't need to bother about the pictures getting blurred after applying zoom or enlargement.
Like all products, Kozzi has its own terms and conditions:
Kozzi offers you FREE pictures for a duration of 30 days after which you have the liberty to decide if you want to pay $4.95 every month.
Your satisfaction with the 30-day free pictures service will be the litmus test with which you can decide if $4.95 is worth paying for a continued experience with Kozzi pictures. Honestly, I think it's a fair deal given that no other service SAVES you time, gives you QUALITY and allows you NO ATTRIBUTION TAGS.
So, you can choose to cancel your subscription after your 30 days trial or continue by paying $4.95 every subsequent month.
Getting started with Kozzi is very easy. I'll show you…
Kozzi Registration
- Visit kozzi.com
- Click on "Register Now For Free"
- Choose FREE 30-Day Trial by clicking "Start Free Trial"
- Enter your name, address and MasterCard or Visa details and click "Start Subscription"
NB: You cannot use Verve card for this process.
The next page you see indicates your free subscription is successful.
There are basically two reasons why Kozzi asks for your credit card information:
- To disallow fraudulent opening of multiple free trial accounts by one individual.
- To provide an easy way of continuing your subscription after 30 days, in case you enjoyed their service.
All done…
You can now start to enjoy the great picture experience Kozzi offers. Simply type the word that best describes the picture you want in the search box at the top of the page and click search.
Up to 26933 pictures were displayed when I searched for the term "Study". That's a whole lot to choose from.
The pictures displayed after your search will be watermarked with the term "Kozzi", but not to worry. Go ahead and click on the picture that got your fancy and then click "download Image"
After your download, you won't see the watermark. So, you can now you can now use the picture for your blog posts or wallpaper or any other thing you may wish to use it for.
NB: If you still wish to cancel your subscription after the 30-day free trial … keep reading. I'll show you how.
- Login to your Kozzi account, click on the drop-down icon beside "My Kozzi" and select "My Plan"
- Click "Cancel this subscription". That's all.
To avoid being charged $4.95, you must cancel your subscription within the first 30 days.
NB: If you have any issues or problem that requires their attention, feel free to contact Kozzi. The customer care is top-notch. Scroll down to the footer of the website and click "Contact us". You can then send them an e-mail and they will respond in the shortest possible time.
There you have it. Kozzi is a great online picture store house that you can rely on for fast and quality pictures devoid of attribution tags. Enjoy a life of quality pictures.
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The journaling speaks for itself, but basically it was my son's "Off" day of attending Kindergarten and there was an entire 4 class field trip that he wanted to do. He was WAY MORE excited about going on a school bus for the very first time without his Mom. Pretty funny! Oh... and he says the movie was good too. :)
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Welcome to issue 266 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of April 7 to 27, 2013.
Quotes of the Week
- hpc: the dirty secret of haskell programmers is that their power does not come from their PhD, but their bowtie
- tibbe: I think I have implemented a reverse state monad by mistake. The numbers suggest I'm getting the values tunneled back from the future. :/
- SaulGorn: A formalist is one who cannot understand a theory unless it is meaningless.
- cmccann: laziness by default is a shortcoming. eagerness by default is a bigger shortcoming.
- monochrom: #haskell-blah has brilliant people too. for example me.
- limo: OK, guys was nice meeting you and now I'm a proud owner of a GHCi icon on my desktop
- otters: lens law #1: the implementation must be shorter than the type
- MartinDeMello: Any sufficiently well-commented Lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
- tgeeky: whatever man. Jesus only had twelve or so deciples, lens has 80!
- SatnamSingh: I always thought that category theory was something that happened to other people. (#ICFP)
- cmccann: see the thing is tabs are good for indentation. haskell doesn't use indentation, it uses alignment. it is not indenting. it is ASCII art.
- JohnVonNeumann: In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
- edwardk: you can view Yoneda f as enforced fmap fusion and Codensity f as enforced bind fusion.
Top Reddit Stories
- Functors, applicatives, and monads in pictures. From (adit.io), scored 136 with 67 comments.
- What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell, Stephen Diehl [39 slides, Left/Rgt-arrow key to back/advance]. From (dev.stephendiehl.com), scored 119 with 37 comments.
- git clone in Haskell from the bottom up. From (stefan.saasen.me), scored 86 with 6 comments.
- Vinyl: Modern Records for Haskell. From (jonmsterling.com), scored 56 with 27 comments.
- Follow-up: Web Woes for Haskell. From (self.haskell), scored 49 with 9 comments.
- What does "coalgebra" mean in the context of programming? (StackOverflow). From (stackoverflow.com), scored 45 with 23 comments.
- The Mother of all Monads - School of Haskell. From (self.haskell), scored 42 with 27 comments.
- Why do all the Haskell Web Frameworks rely on Template Haskell?. From (self.haskell), scored 40 with 59 comments.
- Job opening for Haskell developer in Nijmegen (NL). From (self.haskell), scored 39 with 6 comments.
- Tutorial: Building a Sample Application with Haskell Snap, PostgreSQL, and the PostgreSQL Simple Snaplet. From (janrain.com), scored 39 with 17 comments.
- Haskell for all: Defaults. From (haskellforall.com), scored 38 with 20 comments.
- Haskell for all: pipes-concurrency-1.0.0: Reactive programming. From (haskellforall.com), scored 38 with 23 comments.
- Haskell in Ipython. From (github.com), scored 38 with 7 comments.
- A taste of Curry (Wolfgang Jeltsch). From (jeltsch.wordpress.com), scored 38 with 0 comments.
- Complete and Easy Bidirectional Typechecking for Higher-Rank Polymorphism. From (semantic-domain.blogspot.co.uk), scored 37 with 21 comments.
- Template Haskell on impossible architectures (x-post from r/programming). From (joeyh.name), scored 37 with 14 comments.
- inefficient Ackermann implementation not obvious how to improve. From (stackoverflow.com), scored 37 with 20 comments.
- Haskell for all: pipes and io-streams. From (haskellforall.com), scored 37 with 20 comments.
- Build applications with Shake build system. From (lethalman.blogspot.it), scored 35 with 5 comments.
- What's in a number? criterion edition. From (serpentine.com), scored 34 with 6 comments.
- Announcing postgresql-simple 0.3.1. From (blog.melding-monads.com), scored 34 with 5 comments.
- LGtk: Lens-based Gtk Interface. From (people.inf.elte.hu), scored 32 with 64 comments.
- Introduction to QuickCheck testing (new FP complete SoH tutorial). From (fpcomplete.com), scored 32 with 7 comments.
- Introduction to Haskell, Lecture 12 is Live (Category Theory). This is the last lecture in this series. Thank you for your support!. From (shuklan.com), scored 31 with 4 comments.
Top StackOverflow Questions
- What does "coalgebra" mean in the context of programming? votes: 134, answers: 3
- Ackermann very inefficient with Haskell/GHC votes: 39, answers: 7
- How to concisely express function iteration? votes: 21, answers: 3
- Does the GHC garbage collector have any special optimisations for large objects? votes: 16, answers: 1
- Parallel computations with fast randomness and purity? votes: 16, answers: 4
- Idiomatic Scala translation of Kiselyov's zippers? votes: 15, answers: 1
- Singleton types in Haskell votes: 14, answers: 1
- Encoding correctness constraints directly into the Haskell type system? votes: 14, answers: 2
- Monad transformers with identity monad votes: 12, answers: 2
- Extensible Haskell Type Classes votes: 12, answers: 4
- GADT's failed exhaustiveness checking votes: 12, answers: 2
- QuickCheck: Arbitrary instances of nested data structures that generate balanced specimens votes: 11, answers: 1
- What is this special functor structure called? votes: 11, answers: 1
Until next time,
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"It is a national popular force at the forefront of the historic battle alongside the Yemeni army in the face of aggression, which is the most dangerous to Yemen," said the committee statement. "It comes from the back to be described as a militia.
"The dignity of the blood of our comrades, the martyrs and the wounded, refuses to remain silent or to sleep peacefully."
The statement also said that "what Saleh said went beyond a red line could have happened only because he (Saleh) was besieged by evil, deposed from every evil and patriotism, religion, customs and ancestors disguised as a river of holy blood."
The popular committees in its statement said that "it (Saleh) bear what he said and the principle darker."
The statement said, "As we watch from our combat positions mobilize our great revolutionary Yemeni people to strengthen the fronts, this is a place of reverence, and a motive for footing and storming."
"We pledge our people to remain loyal and to our great leader and to be those men who bet on them to return to their people and their nation with victory, crowned with dignity, honor and sovereignty, not for the alliance of aggression and agents at home and abroad, only the terrible defeat."


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Kev and I enjoy exploring;, however, our grown-up lives don't exactly allow for extended adventures the way they used to. Before we both had careers and before the stain of infertility was spilled onto our seemingly blissful marriage, we knew how to throw caution to the wind and let the spirit of travel take us where it may. Some of our previous adventures include a three month hitchhiking trip across Mexico and a six week exploration of Italy. Now, our adventures are more like tiny jaunts to local spots. If we happen to have a free weekend, we might grab our atlas and find some place nearby to "explore."
These photos were taken last year on the Kaw River after the last big freeze in our area. Before I snapped these, we sat in awe watching seven bald eagles soar and land in the tree line high above the water. Despite the accumulated ice on the river, the water rushed by the frozen spots at a speed that was, at times, a bit frightening as I stood on the bank and contemplated nature. What makes some of that water stop and freeze on the banks while the rest of it carries on down the channel?
Lately, I have felt like this ice. I am frozen in time and progress as the fertile world rushes by like a river fighting the pause of winter. I watch as my friends and co-workers, nieces and nephews discover life-changing news, hopefully anticipate nine months, and welcome a beautiful miracle into their lives. And they should. And I'm happy for them. I only wish I could jump into that same water with them and enjoy my own ride to parenthood.
But I am stuck in the ice land of infertility.
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Kev and I enjoy exploring;, however, our grown-up lives don't exactly allow for extended adventures the way they used to. Before we both had careers and before the stain of infertility was spilled onto our seemingly blissful marriage, we knew how to throw caution to the wind and let the spirit of travel take us where it may. Some of our previous adventures include a three month hitchhiking trip across Mexico and a six week exploration of Italy. Now, our adventures are more like tiny jaunts to local spots. If we happen to have a free weekend, we might grab our atlas and find some place nearby to "explore."
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Every day, I come home from work and fly down the stairs in the hopes that the answering machine light will be blinking. Each day it happens to blink, I hold my breath in an attempt to stifle the pounding hopeful heartbeats as I hit the 'play' button. Inevitably, the message is from a well-wishing relative or an automated recording alerting me to the dangers of not refinancing my mortgage.
I realize that it's tough times for everyone in this economy. People are losing jobs, unable to find work, and dipping into 401K's just to make ends meet. But, come on. You can't do this to people who are daily waiting for the call that is to be the beginning of an open adoption.
You cannot call and leave a message like this:
"Hey, guys, it's me. I have some really important information for you and I need you to call me as soon as you can. Love ya."
Upon hearing this, people who anxiously await "the call" begin to dream. Maybe [caller] knows of a birth mother considering open adoption! Maybe [caller] is going to help us in some way! Hurry! CALL HIM BACK! NOW!!
And when you call the loved one back, you get an overly eager invitation to invest in a fail-safe-not-a-pyramid-scheme-money-making opportunity. And if you don't invest, it must mean that a) you have all the money you need or b) you're not interested in making money. How could it be anything else? Only fools do not invest in sure things.
Please. Don't do this to people who have been dealing with infertility for six years. Don't do this to people who are relying on loved ones to help them become adoptive parents. Don't do this and then try to make them feel foolish for keeping their hard-earned savings safe for the child they have been working for so long to bring home.
I know times are tough for everyone. But some of us need a call that will get us closer to our dreams of being parents - not yacht owners.
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Saturday, March 14, 2009
Kev and I are coming up on our seventh wedding anniversary in June. To celebrate, we always do something to remind us either of our wedding day or our honeymoon. Our wedding took place in the Gunnison National Forest in Colorado - kind of hard to duplicate that here on the Great Plains. Our honeymoon was a six week adventure exploring all of Italy. As strange as it may sound, pieces of that trip are actually easier to duplicate. Think wine, picnics, beaches, fountains, gelato, leisurely meals.
Anyway, one of the silliest places we visited on our luna de miele was the Leaning Tower of Pisa. We couldn't justify being in Italy for that long and not at least seeing it. Talk about a tourist trap! It really is just a building that leans and is supported by cables. Vendors have set up shop all around it selling things like mini versions of the tower that light up, t-shirts with corny slogans, etc. How aggravating!
We are more the kind of couple who enjoys spots off the beaten path, so this was not our idea of fun. So instead we made our own fun. We donned our snorkeling gear and walked around asking people to take pictures of us. Everyone we asked actually snapped a shot for us, and some of them were great. Here's my favorite.
Be sure to check out what the other kids are showing this week.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
It's been nine weeks since I started my diet, and I'm officially down 15 pounds. I realize it's not exactly a drastic change. I haven't been like Ruby who's on average dropped that each month, but I've got something going on. I definitely feel better. I feel like I look better too. I noticed today that for the first time in many months, the waist on my slacks didn't bisect me. I actually made it through an entire day of teaching without the clasps on my pants digging into my fat rolls. Hallelujah!
Honestly, I haven't adhered to my diet as well as I should have, but come on, it's a really strict diet. Not only am I limited to a few hundred calories per day, but I cannot have ANY sugar - none. And grains? Why, I can have an entire half piece of whole wheat bread per day. Throw on top of that the fact that I am already a strict vegetarian, and I'm pretty much left with a diet consisting of tofu, veggies, and soy milk.
The first month I was on the diet, I followed it very closely. I used the menu to plan my meals, measured everything, and never cheated. But, really I was miserable. I didn't feel like I could ever eat at restaurants or even at my mom & dad's. I felt guilty for being polite at dinner with my in-laws and eating what I knew was not on my diet. I felt guilty when my mother bought special groceries when I went for visits. I felt guilty for eating something that might have been made with too much olive oil or the wrong kind of cheese. I ended up feeling guilty a lot.
So after the first month (and first seven pounds), I reflected on my goal and decided that I needed to make a change. I decided not to be so hard on myself and to allow myself to enjoy good food (and even comfort food once in a great while), no matter how far off my diet it took me. And so, in my second month of dieting, I enjoyed non-fat frozen yogurt, pizza, key lime pie, and I even really splurged and had a serving of mashed potatoes! I did all that and continued to lose weight.
Has the splurging set me back a bit? Yeah, I probably could have lost more weight. Am I a little happier now that I allow myself occasional yummies? Maybe. Probably. Do I still feel guilty when I do splurge? Definitely. But at least my pants don't injure me anymore.
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Friday, March 6, 2009
I've been curious about what you all think. I'll write more later, but for now, I just want to ask the question...
What do you think Kev and I should be doing right now to grow our family? We've been eight years without contraception, six years trying various therapies, and two and a half years undergoing more aggressive reproductive treatments. We were approved for domestic adoption six months ago.
Please go to the right and vote.
More later...
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