Eddy Portnoy
By Eddy Portnoy
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Culture Actor Omar Sharif Won’t Compete in World Bridge Olympics with Israelis
1913 •100 years ago Jews of Kiev Evicted Reports from Russia reveal that the Jews of Kiev are under renewed attack. An official administrative order announced that 580 Jewish families must leave the city immediately. The order was issued in the wake of revelations that a large of number of Jewish families had obtained residence…
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Culture Nazi Spies Posing as Hookers Flood the Middle East
1913 •100 years ago Naked Boxer in a Mikveh East New York doesn’t have all the amenities that Brownsville has, and the mikveh on Wyona Street organized a special carriage that delivers immigrant Jewish ladies to the Brownsville mikveh from East New York. The fancy, horse-drawn carriage even has a sign on the side, “Free…
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Culture A Shooting After a Shvitz in a Lower East Side Bathhouse
1913 •100 years ago Shooting in the Shvitz Isaac Schwimmer, a civil engineer who lives on East 7th Street, was taking a shvitz in the Turkish baths on Third Street near Avenue A. Apparently overcome by the heat, Schwimmer fell asleep in the steam room. He awoke to find his diamond ring missing. Furious, he…
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Culture Leo Frank Emotionless as Judge Pronounced Death Sentence
1913 •100 years ago Leo Frank Sentenced to Death Brooklyn-born Leo Frank, superintendent of a pencil factory in Atlanta, was sentenced a week ago for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, an employee of the factory. At Frank’s sentencing, the judge asked him if he had anything to say. He responded: “False stories have been…
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Culture Murder of Jewish Teenager in Damascus Sparks Panic Among Syrian Jewry
1913 •100 years ago Witnesses Recant in Leo Frank Case A second witness in the Leo Frank case in Atlanta has come forward to say that prosecutors swayed him to provide false testimony during the trial that led to Frank’s conviction. A 15-year-old paper boy, George Epps, now contends that he was coached to testify…
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Culture Teenage Immigrant Busted for Pimping Women in Lower East Side Tenement
1913 •100 years ago Jewish Immigrant Arrested for Pimping After only eight months in the country, 17-year-old immigrant Arthur Goldman was sentenced to a stint in jail after being arrested as a pimp. His unfortunate story has more to do with his aunt, Fanny Bailik, who lived with Goldman in a tenement on Norfolk Street…
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Culture ‘Kosher’ Chicken Sold on ‘Holy’ Lower East Side Was Really Treyf
1913 •100 years ago Treyf Chicken Sold as Kosher “About strikes you’re willing to write, but about my slaughtered chicken with the treyf neck, you won’t write? What kind of paper are you? Where is your sense of justice?” It was with these words that Brooklyn resident Rokhl Beinisohn berated the editors of the Forverts….
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Culture Conductor of Israel National Opera Guilty of Nazi Collaboration
1913 •100 years ago Rebecca Edelman Steals a Hat Thirty-year-old Rebecca Edelman, a resident of the new Jewish town of Boro Park, in Brooklyn, was in Manhattan and needed to take a Third Avenue tram. As she entered the car, she went to throw a dime into the change box. She missed, and the dime…
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