Comments (0)Top 90 News Events
August 28, 2009Phil Jacobs
Executive Editor
So, we need your suggestions.
On Sept. 24, the BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES will be 90. As part of the coverage of its anniversary, we’re going to feature the most important 90 news events since 1919.
After starting to look through many years of publications, there are just so many stories that could be part of this.
Later in October, we will be taking your suggestions, mixing them with what we’ve come up with and asking you to rank the 10 most important in order of priority.
How can we even debate the Holocaust and the creation of the State of Israel? They would absolutely be a guaranteed lock for first.
In no particular order after that:
- Six Day War.
- Riots of 1968 in Baltimore.
- Exodus ship leaving Baltimore.
- Founding of the Associated.
- Founding of Baltimore Hebrew University.
- Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
- Opening of Owings Mills JCC in 1976.
- Opening of Owings Mills JCC on Shabbat.
- The Munich Olympics massacre.
- Natan Sharansky released.
- Rabbi Herman Neuberger dies.
- Rabbi Jacob Max, founder and for 50 years the rabbi of the Liberty Jewish Center, convicted of molestation.
- Steven Oken, a Jew on death row, executed.
- Sept. 11, 2001.
- Hurricane Katrina.
- Israel makes peace with Egypt and Jordan.
- Founding of Ner Israel Rabbinical College.
- Welcoming of first Russian Jewish immigrants, first in the late 1970s.
- Weinberg Foundation grows to one of the nation’s leading foundations.
- Baltimore among the largest day school and yeshiva communities.
- Publication of the Stensaltz Talmud.
- Wedding ceremony of two men, Rabbi Peter Kessler and David Herman, occurs at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation.
- Silber’s Bakery closes down because of alleged rodent problems.
- Jewish Oriole Steve Stone an American League All-Star.
- Baltimore becomes among largest day school and yeshiva communities in the U.S.
- 1929 Hebron Massacre.
- Massacre in Mumbai and its close connections to Baltimore.
- New Levindale facility to be dedicated July 21, 1929.
- Baltimore Museum of Art holds formal opening with focus on art loaned by philanthropist Jacob Epstein.
- Albert Einstein turns 50.
- American Jews spend $235 million in 1928 for sectarian and non- sectarian philanthropies. This comes to $60 per person out of 4 million Jews.
- Suburban, Woodholme and Forest Park country clubs are “meccas for tired businessmen.”
- Philanthropist David A. Brown honored in New York.
- Associated Jewish Charities to create Jewish social services bureau. It will merge the Hebrew Benevolent Society, the Vocational Department of the Jewish Children’s Society and the Young Ladies Benevolent Society.
- New immigration expected to Palestine.
- “Jews Have Title to Palestine,” Winston Churchill.
- Eutaw Place Temple celebrates 100th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Benjamin Szold, father of Henrietta Szold and rabbi of Congregation Oheb Shalom.
There are many more stories on our list; also, many that you probably have that we are missing.
We’ll give you plenty of time to help prioritize the top 10. But we need to know what you think for our list of 90.
We all lived through many of these articles. Please let us know which ones were the most important in your lives and in the life of Jewish Baltimore.
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