2014 Event The cabinet of Israel approves a bill stating that the nation is both a democratic state and the Jewish homeland; the bill is meant to address political pressure from groups that deny or ignore Israel�s Jewish identity 2013 Event 'Hareetz', Israel's oldest daily newspaper, publishes a story in which Israel admits it has administered birth-control injections to Ethiopian Jewish immigrants, without fully educating recipients of its effects 2012 Event In a letter on a controversy in Germany over circumcision, the President of Israel, Shimon Peres stresses that circumcision is at the core of Jewish identity 2011 Event In his book 'Jesus of Nazareth Part II', Pope Benedict XVI exonerates the Jewish people for the responsibility of the death of Jesus 1997 Event Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish 1995 Death Ota Adler, Czechoslovakian/British fur trader (Jewish Aid Fund), dies at 83 1994 Event Bomb attack on Jewish center AMIA in Buenos Aires, 86 killed 1992 Death Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies 1991 Event Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn and Queens 1990 Death Max Tailleur, adjunct prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist, dies 1990 Death Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58 1987 Event Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun 1986 Event Armand Hammer returns to U.S. with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb 1980 Event A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18 1980 Event Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead 1978 Event Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 1978 Event Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois 1977 Event Joanne Carner wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 1977 Event Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason 1976 Event 1st Jewish film and TV festival 1976 Event Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 1975 Event Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 1974 Event U.S. General George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in U.S. over his treatment during the 1973 World Series 1974 Event Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 1973 Event Abe Beame eleceted 1st Jewish mayor on New York City 1973 Event Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 1972 Death Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement, dies at 87 1972 Event Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 1970 Event Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property 1970 Death Nelly Sachs, born in Schoenberg, Berlin, writer, poet, dramatist, Jewish, works include, 'Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels', dies at 78 1969 Event 1st Jewish worship service at White House 1967 Death David Cohen, historian/chairman (Jewish Council), dies at 84 1966 Event 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion 1965 Event Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain 1956 Birthday Judith Butler, born in Cleveland, Ohio, philosopher, professor, U of C, Berkeley, specialty, post-structuralism, Ph. D. Yale University, areas of study include feminist theory, Jewish philosophy, ethics, sexuality, developed idea of sex and gender as social construction 1955 Event D Shostakovich' "From Jewish Folk Poetry," premieres in Leningrad 1953 Event 9 "Jewish" physicians arrested for "terrorist activities" in Moscow 1952 Event Prague show trial against 14 communists (9 Jewish) begin 1952 Death Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies 1951 Event 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/U.S. agents 1950 Death Joseph Issac Shneerson, Jewish Lubavitch Chabal leader, dies 1949 Event Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000 1949 Event 1st Jewish family show "Goldbergs" premieres on CBS 1948 Event 20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo 1948 Event Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid 1948 Event Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek 1948 Event Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed 1948 Death Anna "Ans" van Dike, Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at 42 1947 Event Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine 1947 Event Day after United Nations decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked 1947 Event British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine 1947 Event 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat 1946 Event Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die 1945 Event Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, 1st U.S. Jewish College 1945 Event Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine 1945 Event Gerbrandy British government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy 1944 Death Hannah Senesh, Jewish poet, executed by Nazis in Budapest 1944 Event Raid on Jewish childrens house in Secretan/St-Mande 1944 Event All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died 1944 Event Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker 1944 Event Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazis 1944 Event 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo 1944 Event Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno 1943 Event Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed 1943 Event 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau 1943 Event Anti Jewish riot in Rome 1943 Event Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz 1943 Event Jewish ghettos of Minsk and Lida Belorussia liquidated 1943 Event 987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1943 Event Japanse occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo 1943 Death Ismar Elbogen, German/US learned/rabbi (Jewish Lexicon), dies at 68 1943 Event SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau 1943 Event Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting 1943 Event 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape nazis 1943 Event SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children 1943 Event Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided 1943 Event Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau 1942 Event Nazi's murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union 1942 Event Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp 1942 Event Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms 1942 Event Belgium Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star 1942 Event David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine 1942 Event Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed 1942 Event Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star 1942 Event Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star" 1942 Event Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands and Vichy-France 1941 Death Louis D Brandeis, 1st Jewish Supreme Court Judge (1916-39), dies at 84 1941 Event All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS 1941 Event Nazi's force German Jews, 6 and over to wear Jewish stars 1941 Event Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania 1941 Event Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish and Roosevelt administration" are trying to get U.S. into WW II 1941 Event Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated 1941 Event Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star 1941 Event German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children 1941 Event Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males 1941 Event Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania 1941 Event 200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine 1941 Event All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star 1941 Event Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated 1941 Event German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports 1941 Event Jewish veterans honor their dead 1941 Event Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music 1941 Event Nazi occupied Netherlands layoff Jewish journalists 1941 Event Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis 1941 Event Nazi occupiers in Netherlands confiscate Jewish assets 1941 Event Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies 1941 Event Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council 1941 Event Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen 1941 Event Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome" 1940 Event Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius 1940 Event Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw 1940 Event France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status 1940 Birthday George Greenstein, author, Secret of a Jewish Baker 1940 Event Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes 1940 Event 1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazi) 1940 Event Australia refuses entry to Dutch Jewish refugees 1940 Event Governor of Suriname and Netherlands Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees 1940 Event AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees 1940 Event Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland 1939 Event New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed 1939 Event Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service 1939 Event Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem 1939 Event German Nazi's close last Jewish enterprises 1939 Event Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration 1938 Event Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland 1938 Event German and Austrian Jewish suffer 1 billion Mark damage in nazi 1938 Event Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities 1938 Event Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with letter J 1938 Event Jewish lawyers forbidden to practice in Germany 1938 Event Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public and High School 1938 Event Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany 1934 Birthday Ed van Thijn, Jewish, Dutch Foreign Minister/mayor, Amsterdam, 1983-94 1934 Event Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region 1934 Event 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine 1933 Birthday Madeleine M Kunin, born in Switzerland, Gov-D-Vt, 1st Jewish Governor of Vermont 1933 Event Jewish students are barred from school in Germany 1933 Event Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses 1929 Event Jewish Agency for Palestine forms 1926 Event Latkin Square in Bronx named for 1st U.S. Jewish soldier to die in WW I 1924 Birthday Bess Myerson, born in Bronx, New York, 1st Jewish Miss America, 1945 1922 Event President Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine 1921 Event Tel Aviv is 1st all Jewish municipality 1919 Event Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group 1918 Event American Jewish Congress holds its 1st meeting 1918 Event Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov) 1918 Event American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms 1917 Event Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine 1916 Event 1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson 1915 Event Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life 1915 Event Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine 1915 Event 1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho 1913 Event Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine 1910 Birthday Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star, 1932 Olympics bronze 1908 Birthday Max Tailleur, adjudant to Prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist 1906 Event Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Secretary of Commerce 1906 Birthday Abraham Beame, Mayor-D-NYC, New York City's 1st Jewish mayor 1906 Birthday Henry Roth, born in Galicia, Austro-Hungary, writer, short story writer, novelist, Call It Sleep considered masterpiece of Jewish American literature 1905 Birthday Anna "Ans" van Dike, "the Young", Jewish nazi collaborator 1905 Event Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk Lithuania 1903 Event Homel, 1st Jewish self defense organization founded in Russia 1903 Event 6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state 1902 Birthday Harry Golden, Jewish humorist and writer, 2 cents Plain, Only in America 1901 Event Jewish National Fund starts 1897 Event New York City Jewish newspaper "Forward" begins publishing (still active) 1897 Event 1st U.S. orthodox Jewish Rabbinical seminary (RIETS) incorporates in New York 1896 Event Herzl's "The Jewish State" is published 1891 Birthday Nelly Sachs, born in Schoenberg, Berlin, writer, poet, dramatist, Jewish, works include, 'Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels' 1891 Event 8 year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumor spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews 1890 Event Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law 1887 Event Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from U.S. (to Turkey) 1886 Death David L Yule, 1st Jewish U.S. senator, dies 1885 Birthday Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement 1882 Birthday David Cohen, Dutch historian/chairman, Jewish Council 1881 Birthday Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet and writer, Pipelines, Jewish Song 1867 Event Maimonides College in Penns is 1st Jewish college in the US 1864 Birthday Israel Zangwill, England, Jewish author/Zionist, Children of Ghetto 1859 Birthday Alfred Dreyfus, accused Jewish French officer, Dreyfus Affair 1858 Event Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament 1857 Event Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited 1855 Event Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela 1852 Event Anti Jewish riots break out in Stockholm 1849 Birthday Emma Lazarus, Jewish poet, "New Colossus" at the base of Statue of Liberty 1847 Birthday Solomon Schechter, U.S. Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader 1840 Event 9 Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails 1838 Event Arabs attack Jewish community of Safed 1835 Event Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine 1824 Event 1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC 1818 Event Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine 1801 Event 1st U.S. Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia 1798 Event Russia appoints 1st Jewish censor to censor Hebrew books 1791 Event 1st Jewish member of U.S. Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office 1786 Death Mozes Mendelssohn, Jewish/German philosopher (Haksalah), dies at 56 1760 Event 1st Jewish prayer books printed in U.S. 1753 Event English parliament grants Jewish English citizenship 1751 Event Amsterdam refuses establishment of Jewish ghetto 1750 Event Decree issued in Paderborn Prussia allows for annual search of all Jewish homes for stolen or "doubtful" goods 1730 Event 1st Jewish congregation in U.S. forms synagogue, "Shearith Israel, New York City" 1656 Event New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site 1656 Event 1st Jewish doctor in U.S., Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland 1655 Event Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery 1654 Event 1st Jewish immigrant to U.S., Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam 1654 Event 1st Jewish colonist arrive in U.S. (Jacob Barsimson in Manhattan) 1645 Event Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil 1619 Death Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow, dies 1596 Death Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico 1583 Death Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake 1563 Event Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled 1559 Event Jewish quarter of Prague burned and looted 1558 Event 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah) 1553 Event Pope Julius III orders confiscation and burning of Jewish Talmud 1524 Event Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome 1492 Event "Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed 1453 Event 41 Jewish martyrs burned at stake at Breslau 1415 Event Jewish autonomy in Palestine ends, as Raban Gamliel leaves office 1407 Event Mobs attack Jewish community of Cracow 1391 Event Castilian sailors fire attack Jewish ghetto of Barcelona, 100's killed 1391 Event Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surounds and sets fire to Jewish quarter of Seville Spain, surviving Jews sold into slavery 1349 Event Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated 1291 Death Sa'ad al'Da'ulah, Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated 1267 Event Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem 1241 Event 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany 1204 Death Maimonides, Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar, dies in Cairo at 69 1189 Death Jacob of Orleans, Rabbi, killed in anti Jewish riot in London England 1147 Event Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence 1138 Death Anacletus II, Pietro Pierleone, Jewish anti-pope (1130-38), dies 1130 Event Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II 1105 Death Rashi, Rabbi Shlomo Yitzaki, Jewish intellectual, dies
