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987: HughCapet was elected King of France making him the first of the Capetians. During this period, power lay with the noblesand the leaders of the Church. Amongother things this meant that the kings were unable to do anything to protectthe Jews against the anti-Semitic teachings of the clergy and the resultinghostile actions of the ordinary people against the Jews. To make matters worse, when Hugh Capet wasstricken with a mystery malady a Jewish physician was summoned to treathim. Unfortunately, the King died andthe Jews were accused of killing him.
1096: Duringthe First Crusade, the first of two massacres of the Jews took place Xanten,the town in Rhenish Prussia.
1204: KingPhilip Augustus of France conquered Rouen, the historic capital of Normandywhich had been operating under a charter that allowed for self-government. Considering how poorly the French kingtreated his Jewish subjects, his seizure of Rouen could not have been good newsfor the city’s Jewish population which numbered 6,000 and was strong enough tosupport its own Yeshiva. During the second half of the twelfth century, whenRouen was governed under the terms of a charter that allowed for self-government,the town was home to 6,000 Jews (approximately 20% of the population) and wasthe site of yeshiva. The site of ayeshiva. At that time, about 6,000 Jews lived in the town, comprising about 20%of the population. In addition, there were a large number of Jews scatteredabout another 100 communities in Normandy. The well-preserved remains of theyeshiva were discovered in the 1970s under the Rouen Law Courts and thecommunity has begun a project to restore them. In 1215, Rouen would be the siteof the Fourth Lateran Council which adopted a panoply of ant-Semitic measures.
1252: AlfonsoX is elected King of Castile and León. Known as El Sabio (The Learned One) thewell-educated Christian monarch set outto “to create a Christian culture in the north of Spain that as equal in gloryto Moorish culture in the South…He ordered both the Koran and the Talmud to betranslated into Latin.” One of the mostprominent scientists in his realm was the Jewish astronomer, Yehuda ben MosesCohen.
1424: BenedictXIII the “antipope” who was zealous in his drive to force Jews to convert in aneffort to gain legitimacy passed away today.
1434: KingWladislaus II of Poland passed away. During his reign, persecution of the Jewsintensified and Wladislaus did nothing to protect them or reinforce the rightsthat had been granted to them by his predecessors Instead he actually tooksteps to limit their business activities by issuing an edict limiting theirright to lend money.
1582: TheMunicipal Council of Pressburg “decreed that no one should harbor Jews, or eventransact business with them.”
1635: Todaythe widow of William Leake, the publisher who reissued the “Merchant of Venice”– an act that “did no Jews no good turn” “transferred her late husband’scopyrights to William Leake II also known as “William Leake, the younger.”
1656: The Jewsof New Amsterdam are allowed to practice their religion, after reminding theDutch West India Company that Jews "in quietness" were allowed topractice in Holland and other Dutch colonies.
1757: The HMS Diana,a 32 gun frigate which would play a keyrole in the capture of Louisburg during the Seven Years War and was commandedby Captain Sir Alexandr Schomberg, the son of German-Jewish doctor who wasraised Jewish but baptized so he could further his naval career was “ordered”today after which its keel was laid down by the end of June of 1757.
1764: The Sejm abolished the Council of the FourLands. Supposedly this was not an actaimed to harm the Jews. Rather it waspart of a plan to re-organize the tax system.
1774:According to one source, Samuel Judah and his wife gave birth to NaphtaliJudah, the printer/publisher who was a member of the Tammany Society andpresident of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City.
1778(6thof Sivan, 5538): Shavuot
1775: AbrahamSolomon “enlisted in Col. John Glover’s Regiment, known as the Marbleheaders,to take part in the glorious Battle of Bunker Hill. Later he was shifted withhis company to Cambridge. When the soldiers received their pay, they had tosign for it on the company’s muster roll. Solomon’s fellow soldiers, many ofwhom could not write, were allowed to make their Xs. But Solomon could write —just not in English — so he was allowed to sign his name in Hebrew. It isbelieved that this is the only Revolutionary War muster roll to be signed inHebrew.”
1780: RachelPinto who had taken refuge in New Haven, CT returned to New York City which wasunder British control today “and a fortnight later took the oath of allegiance.”
1778(6thof Sivan, 5538): Shavuot observed as Washington’s Army prepares to leave ValleyForge after spending the infamous winter encampment there where almost 2,000men died.
1785: InSavannah, GA, Sarah Sheftall and Abraham de Lyon, the parents of Abraham deLyon, Jr. were married today.
1786(5thof Sivan, 5546): Erev Shavuot
1786: InLemberg, Aharon Chaim Rapoport and his wife gave birth to “Galician rabbi andJewish scholar” Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport, the husband of Franziska FreideHeller and son-in-law of Areyh Leib Heller, who switched from a career inbusiness to serving as a rabbi in Tarnopol and Prague.
1789(7thof Sivan, 5549): As the fledgling government of the United States created bythe Constitution took form, the 2ndday of Shavuot was observed on the sameday “An Act to Regulate the Time and Manner of Administering Certain Oaths”which prescribed the text of and procedure for the administration of the oathof office was signed into law
1790:Birthdate of Rabbi Solomon Judah Löb Rapoport, the native of Lemberg who wasone of the founders of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement andauthor of several biographies including one Saadia Gaon.
1792: Kentucky admitted as the 15th state of theUnited States. Benjamin Gratz, one of the son’s of the famous Michael Gratzfamily of Philadelphia, who was a lawyer and veteran of the American Revolutionwas one of the earliest Jewish settlers of Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky would become home to thestate’s first congregation, Adath Israel which was incorporated in 1842. While serving as a delegate from Kentucky atthe Republican Convention, Louis Naphtali Dembitz was one three who placedLincoln’s name in nomination. He was theuncle of Kentucky’s most famous Jew, Supreme Court Justice Louis DembitzBrandeis.
1796: Moses deMattos Mocatta, the London born son of Abraham Lumbroso de Mattos and EstherIsaac Lumbroso de Mattos Mocatta and hiswife Abigail Mocatta gave birth to Abraham Lindo Mocatta.
1796:Tennessee admitted as the 16th state of the United States. The first Jewssettled in upper East Tennessee in the 1770s and to Middle Tennessee by the1820s. The Nashville Jewish community dates from the 1790’s with enough Jewsliving there to hold services in the 1840’s and establish a burial society inthe decade before the Civil War.
1797(7thof Sivan, 5557): Second Day of Shavuot observed as future president ThomasJefferson wrote to future President James Madison from Philadelphia about themeeting of the House of Representatives and the general condition of the U.S.economy which is “stagnant” in part because “in England the merchants seemdisposed to on their oars”
1798(6thof Sivan): Fourteen-month-old Joseph Defflis, the son of Solomon Defflis passedaway today in the United Kingdom.
1803: NathanHyams married Rebecca Barnet at the Great Synagogue in London.
1808(6thof Sivan, 5568): Shavuot observed for the first time after The Act Prohibitingthe Importation of Slaves” had gone into effect.
1811: In NewYork City, Frances Isaacs and Harmon Hendricks, who were married in 1800 gavebirth to Montague M. Hendricks, the husband of Rachel Seixas Nathan with whomhe had nine children.
1816(5thof Sivan, 5576): Parashat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot observed on the same day that“a treaty of peace and friendship made and concluded at St. Louis, betweenWilliam Clark, Ninian Edwards, and Auguste Chouteau, commissionersplenipotentiary of the United States of America, on the part and behalf of thesaid states, of the one part, and the undersigned chiefs and warriors,representing eight bands of the Sioux, composing the three tribes called theSioux of the Leaf, the Sioux of the Broad Leaf, and the Sioux who shoot in thePine Tops, on the part and behalf of their said tribes, of the other part
1817: InDenmark Hartvig Philip Rée and Thamar (Terese) Rée gave birth to Julius Rée,the husband of Louse Ree and the “father of Martin Carl Rée; Marie Julie Hertz;Eduard Philipp Rée and Therese Cecilia Rée.”
Brother ofHertz Hartvig Rée; Bernhard Philip
1817: InSafed, Rabbi Eliezer Yeruham Elyashar, who was also a shochet and his wife gavebirth to Yaakov Shaul Elyashar who backed the Chief Sephardi Rabbi in Palestinein 1893.
1819:Violinist Joseph Böhm was appointed to serve as a professor at the ViennaConservatory.
1823(22ndof Sivan, 5583): Joseph Hart-Myers, the New York born son Naphtali Hart-Myersand the husband of Leah Hart-Myers and Jane Hart Meyers – Solomons passed awaytoday in London.
1824(5thof Sivan, 5584): Erev Shavuot observed for the last time during the Presidencyof James Monroe.
1827(6thof Sivan, 5587): Shavuot
1828(19th ofSivan, 5588): Raphael Meldola passed away. Born in Leghorn in 1754, he was oneof the most prominent members of the Meldola family. He received a thoroughuniversity training, both in theological and in secular branches, and displayedsuch remarkable talents that when only fifteen years old he was permitted totake his seat in the rabbinical college. He was preacher in Leghorn for someyears, and in 1803 he obtained the title of rabbi. In 1805 Meldola was electedhaham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain and proved a worthysuccessor of Sasportas and Nieto. His name will ever be indissolubly associatedwith that of Bevis Marks Synagogue. Possessed of a remarkably virile mind, hewas a dominant factor in the British Jewry of his generation. He was the authorof Korban Minhah, Kuppat Hatanim (1796), and Derekh Emunah,published by his son after his death. He left several other works inmanuscript. His scholarship attracted around him a circle in which were many ofthe most distinguished men of his day, including Benjamin Disraeli and IsaacDisraeli and it is noteworthy that he opposed the policy which produced thefamous rupture between the latter and the mahamad. He maintained a literarycorrespondence with many of the most prominent Christian clergymen and scholarsof his time; and his acquaintance with the Archbishop of Canterbury and theCanon of Windsor led to his being received by King George III. Meldola marriedStella Bolaffi (Abulafia), by whom he had four sons and four daughters.
1832(3rdof Sivan, 5592): Twenty-three-year-old Joseph Solomons, the “son of SolomonSolomons and Alice Abrahams and brother of Caroline Solomons; Fanny Solomonsand Emma Solomons” passed away today in Georgetown, SC.
1833(14thof Sivan, 5593): Parashat Nasso
1833(14thof Sivan, 5593): Eight days before her 39th birthday, Rachel Lopez,the Charleston born daughter of David Lopez and the wife of Jacob Cohen whomshe had married in 1816 passed away today.
1833: The“Jews’ Law” enacted today “conferred citizenship on the wealthy and educatedclasses” Jews of Posen.
1835: Nineteenyear old Giuseppe / Joseph Baron von Morpurgo married Elisa Parente.
1836: Henry Lyons married Rachel Hart at the HambroSynagogue in London.
1843: InAmsterdam, Johannes Jonas Wertheim and Maria Rosenik gave birth to KarelAbraham Wertheim
1845:Birthdate of Caroline von Gomperz-Bettelheim “a Hungarian-Austrian court singerand member of the Royal Opera, Vienna” who was the older sister of AntonBettelheim.
1846(7thof Sivan, 5606): Second Day of Shavuot, Yizkor
1847: At St.Helier, Maurice S. Mawson of Pernambuco married Rose Phillips, the seconddaughter of Michael Phillips of Jersey (As reported by the Jewish Chronicle.
1848:Birthdate of Bavaria native and New York resident Leopold Affelder the husbandof Rebecca Kahn Affelder with whom he had four children – Minnie, William,Harry and Jeanette.
1852: TheDemocratic National Convention during which Philip Philips, the Charleston bornCaroline Lazarus and Aaron Phillips, “prominent members of the Jewish community”gave a speech in support of future President Franklin Pierce, opened today in Baltimore.
1853: A description of an attack byGreeks on the Jews of Smyrna during Easter which may have been started byRussian agents and which was put down by the Turks was published today.
1853: It was reported today that the issue of Jewish Disabilitiescontinues to be a problem in Parliament. In response to a question from Mr.Milner Gibson on this topic, Lord Russell responded that he did not think ameasure that dealt only with this and that he would be submitting a measurethat would deal with the general question of Oaths to be taken by Members ofParliament.
1854(5th of Sivan, 5614):Erev Shavuot
1854: Fourteen-year-old Louis Barnett,a “Welsh-born English Jew” “became a student-teacher at the Jews’ Free School”after which he “entered the University of London” where he earned a Bachelor ofArts degree nine years later.
1857: Isaac Jackson who was either 17or 18 years old was shot and killed today by Charles Jones. Jackson is one of four Jewish brothers whoown a stored in Westfield, MA. YoungJackson was driving a wagon of merchandize on the road between Westfield andRussell when he was attacked.
1858: In Baltimore, MD, Hannah andSolomon Van Leer gave birth to the “music master of southern Delaware CharlesVan Leer who with his brother-in-law Emanuel Greenbaum “founded the firm ofGreenabaum Brothers which grew to be one of the largest canneries on thepeninsula,” served as the director of various opera companies including theWilbur Opera Company and was a member of Temple Oheb Shalom in Baltimore, MD.
1861: In Montgomery, AL founding ofthe Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent Society whose members included Mrs. C. J.Hausman, Mrs. E.I. Cadden and Sylvania Marks.
1861: Philadelphian Nathan Rosenfeltwho would die of wounds suffered at Gettysburg, began serving as a Sergeant inCompany D of the 26th Regiment.
1861: Philadelphian Maurice Rosenbergwho would be wounded at Lookout Mountain and Leon Moser each began serving asSergeants in Company C of the 27th Regiment today.
1861: Philadelphian Daniel Epsteinbegan serving as a Second Lieutenant in Company D of the 27thRegiment on the same day that John Ulman began serving as a Sergeant in thesame unit
1862: At 212 Thompson Street in NewYork city, Asher and Pauline Sondeheim Bijur gave birth Columbia trainedattorney Nathan Bijur, the New York State Supreme Court Justice and husband ofLilly Pronich of Galveston, TX whom he married in 1884 and a leader of theJewish community as can be seen by his service as a trustee of the Baron deHirsch Fund and the Hebrew Free Trade School and his membership in the AmericanJewish Committee and Congregation B’Nai Jeshurun
1862: In New York City, PaulineSondheim and Asher Bijur to Columbia graduate and practicing attorney NathanBijur, the husband of Lilly Pronick and trustee of the Baron de Hirsch Fund whowas “a member of the commission appointed by Mayor Low to investigate the riotat the Rabbi Joseph’s funeral.”
1865(7th of Sivan, 5625):President Andrew Johnson designated today, the second day of Shavuot when Jewsrecite Yizkor, as a national day for memorial services to be held in honor ofAbraham Lincoln.
1865: In Kalvaria, Poland (then partof the Russian Empire), Phillip and Sarah Rachel Phillipson gave birth toBryant and Stratton Business College graduate and husband of Rachel BurtonSamuel Phillipson, the father of Emmanuel, Sidney, Libbie and SilvianPhillipson and the owner of Samuel Phillipson and Company, the Chicagowholesale and general merchandise company who was also the director of theChicago Hebrew Institute and the Jewish Home for the Aged.
https://www.amazon.com/Engraving-Samuel-Phillipson-Jewish-Relief/dp/B005DGQFCI
1865: Rabbi Sabato Morais delivered aspecial sermon at Mikve Israel in Philadelphia on “the day appoint appointedfor fasting, humiliation and prayer for the untimely death of the late lamentedPresident of the United States, Abraham Lincoln” in which he said :
If the essence of religion is what the great Hilleltaught us, then I unhesitatingly say that the breast of our lamented Presidentwas ever kindled with that divine spark. "To forbear doing unto otherswhat would displease us" . . . is the maxim he illustrated in the immortaldocument of emancipation that bears his honorable signature. It is that whichhe exemplified by his numerous acts ofclemency ...We must bear his name with a blessing upon our lips. (As reportedby the Jewish Virtual Library)
1869: Isidore Loeb “was appointed secretary of the Alliance IsraéliteUniverselle, a position he held until his death.”
1870: As a sign of his improvinghealth, Prime Minister Disraeli was able to visit the Foreign Ministry today.
1871: Lord Desart married his first wife whom he later divorcedwhich led to his second and final marriage to Ellen Cuffe, Countess of Desart,the daughter of Henri Louis Bischoffsheim
1873(6th of Sivan, 5633):Shavuot
1873: Dr. Aaron J. Messing, who hadbeen serving as Rabbi of Sherith Israel since 1870 retired today and “wassucceeded by Dr. Henry Vdaver.
1873: In “Whitsuntide: A Hebrew and aChristian Festival - Curious Customs and Interesting Ceremonies” publishedtoday the author compares the Jewish festival of Pentecost with the ChristianWhitsuntide. Pentecost, signifying the fiftieth, is the second of the greatfestivals of the Hebrews, held fifty days after the Passover, or feast of theunleavened bread. The time of the festival is calculated from the second day ofthe Passover, the 16th of Nisan.
1874: In New York, David and Pauline Wasserman Benolielgave birth CCNY and Columbia trained electrical engineer and chemist SolomonBenoliel who settled in Philadelphia and who developed “a practical process forthe manufacture of synthetic muriatic acid” while also inventing “manyscientific cleaning compounds for industrial uses.”
1875: Four days after she passed away,Emma Jacobs was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1876: Francis Mary Paul Libermann, who was known as JacobLiberman before he converted to Catholicism “was declared venerable in theRoman Catholic Church” today “by Pope Pious IX.”
1878: Birthdate of Ukrainian nativeSamuel Dreben who was known as the “fighting Jew” because of the manydecorations he earned while serving in the United States Army during the war inthe Philippines, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution and World War I.
http://www.theoccident.com/wildwest/dreben.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sam-dreben
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/dreben-samuel
1879: “Pianist Michael Hambourg” andhis wife gave birth to their eldest son Mark Hambourg, the musical childprodigy whose career really flourished after the family move to Great Britainat the end of the 19th century.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/08/28/99951894.pdf
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Hambourg-Mark.htm
http://www.hambourgconservatory.ca/bios/mark.html
1879: “Can’t You Wait?” publishedtoday reminds the reader of two famous examples of” hasty identification” thatturned out be erroneous. First was the case of a papyrus that surfaced atLeyden which contained a “report of a scribe” sent to his superior serving KingRamses II that said “he had ‘distributed the rations among the soldiers andlikewise among the Apuirui, or Aperiu, who carry the stones to the great cityof King Ramses.’” While most Egyptologists thought this referred to “theHebrews who built…the City of Ramses” Dr. Heinrich Brugsh, showed “clearly thatthese Aperiu were not Hebrews but an “Erythraean people…mentioned long beforein an inscription of Thutmes III as cavalry in the Kings Service.” The secondexample took place when a picture found in one of the tombs at Beni-Hassan (anancient Egyptian cemetery) was first identified as being representional “of thearrival of the children of Israel” until the same Dr. Brugsh set the recordstraight. [Were these really errors or was this an example of a GermanEgyptologist who had difficulty acknowledging the antiquity of the Jewishpeople?]
1881: It was reported today thataccording to a recent study conducted by the Opthamological Society in GreatBritain, “Jew are more color-blind than any other nationality, and theirdefects are usually of the most pronounced kind.” Oddly, the Quakers also show the samepropensity for this malady.
1881: In “Birthday of Old Rome”published today it was reported that noJewish will pass under the Arch of Titus with its depiction of theseven-branched candle labrum being carried in triumph by those who have sackedthe Temple because it is a monument of shame.
1882: In Vilna, Gilka Kaztzenelenbogenand Louis Billikkopf gave birth to Richmond College educated Jacob Billikopf,the hold of a Ph.B. from University the University of Chicago who worked at theUnited Hebrew Charities in New York before becoming “Superintendent of theHebrew Relief Society and resident director of the Settlement” in Cincinnati,OH.
1883: It was reported today that ananti-Semitic riot that had begun in Rostov has been quelled. Violence broke outwhen Jew was accused of killing a Russian.Fifteen rioters were arrested after they had destroyed 130 homesbelonging to the Jews of the town.
1884(8th of Sivan, 5644):Aaron Moses (A.M.) Pollak, the Austrian philanthropist who made his fortunemanufacturing matches in Prague London, New York and Sydney who was ennobled bythe emperor in 1869 which allowed him to be called Ritter Von Rudin passed awaytoday.
1884: In New York Jacques and EugenieMaximilian Kahn gave birth to thrice married Columbia trained architect ElyJacques Kahn, the father of author Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr. whose fifty yearcareer included the development of a style called Beaux Arts and whose projectsincluded the renovation of “Manhattan’s Central synagogue and the design forMunicipal Asphalt Plant as well as serving as the employer for co-religionistAny Rand whose work in his office was part of her research for the novel TheFountainhead.
ElyJacques Kahn, Leading Architect, Dies at 88 - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
1885: It was reported to today that aHebrew manuscript that appears to be quite old has been found in the SutroLibrary in San Francisco CA. Copies arebeing sent to scholars in the United States and Europe to ascertain itsimportance.
1885: Anti-Semitic riots have brokenout again in Vienna. At least forty Jewshave been injured in the attacks which have led to the destruction of severalJewish businesses. The riots appear tohave been brought on by the current elections which have seen the defeat ofLeopoldstadt Schnieder the anti-Semitic candidate who lost by six thousandvotes.
1885: It was reported that BenjaminHirschberg delivered the opening address at yesterday’s celebration of the 20thanniversary of the Hebrew Free School Association. Other youthful speakers included MichaelSchaap, Annie Nathelson and “ten-year-old Simon Noot” who “referred to GeneralGrant as the ‘Winner off battles and the savior of civilization.’”
1886: Deadline for Jewish troops whohad served in Finland to leave the Grand Duchy, by order of the Czar.
1886: Birthdate of Coschocton, OHnative and Ohio State University trained attorney Edwin J Schanfarber, the vicepresident and director of the National Hospital for Consumptives at Denver andthe president of the United Jewish Fund and the Jewish Welfare Federation.
1889: In Russia, Bertha Zeitlin andEphraim Kahn gave birth to Cornell trained physician Morris Hirsch Kahn and thehusband of Muriel Frumes who practiced at Mount Sinai Hospital where he workedwith Dr. Max Kahn with whom he co-authored Functional Diagnosisoriginally published in 1920 and rose to the rank of first lieutenant during WWI while serving at the base hospital at Camp Zachary in Taylor, KY.
1889: It was reported today that theSanitarium for Hebrew Children has just issued its 11th annualreport. The primary mission of theorganization has been to provide summer-time excursions for Jewish children andtheir parents. Last year theorganization hosted ten outings that served a total of almost seven thousandbabies and children as well as over 3,600 mothers. The society is seeking contributions for thepurchase of a barge that will allow it to provide daily trips.
1890: In “Meytshet (Molchad), Slonimdistrict, Byelorussia” Noyekh Meytsheter, a cantor known as “Reb Noyekh Liderand his wife gave birth to Elias Zaludkowski held posts as Hazzan in Warsaw,Vilna, and Liverpool, England, and in 1926 went to the U.S. where he officiatedas Hazzan in New York and Detroit.”
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2016/07/elyohu-zaludkovski-elias-zaludkowski.html
http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=32592&
1890: Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler willofficiate at the confirmation exercises for the students of the Hebrew FreeSchools which will be held this afternoon at Temple Beth El.
1890: The Ladies of the HebrewBenevolent and Orphan Asylum Society host their second “annual reception” thefirst one having been held on Decoration Day.
1890: Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs, Morris S.Wise, Joseph Jacobs, and Julius Lipman were among the dignitaries who attendedtoday’s annual reception for the Religious School of Congregation B’naiJeshurun.
1890: Rabbi Gustav Gottheil presidedover today’s closing exercises of the Temple Emanu-El Sabbath School forReligious Instruction
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2016/07/elyohu-zaludkovski-elias-zaludkowski.html
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/06/30/87420647.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1890: The two Jewish congregations atRondout, NY, will hold meetings today for the purpose of rasing money to bringto justice the murders of Samuel Hotz, a Jewish peddler whose body was found onthe first day of Shavuot in an old mining shaft at Wurtsborough, NY
1891: It was reported today that thein Russia, “the government is about to subject Hebrew elementary and religiousschools to more stringent control.”
1891: “Jewish Exodus From Russia”published today described the movement of Jewish immigrants from Russia throughGermany to Paris, London and/or the United States. According to the Jewish Relief Committee inBerlin, about 600 Jews pass through Charlottenburg Station every day. The Russian Jews are not permitted to enterBerlin and must spend the night in the station before taking the trains to theWest.
1891: The Viedmosti reported todaythat the Jewish Emigration Society has hired four Baltic steamers for the solepurposed of providing transportation for Russian Jews who have been forced toleave the country. The 60,000 immigrantsare primarily Lithuanian and Polish Jews.
1892: “The Festival of ‘Shebnoth’”published today described the celebration of the “festival…also known asPentecost and the Feast of Weeks, the latter designation having its origin inthe fact that the festival is celebrated just seven weeks after the first ofthe Passover feast.”
1892(6th of Sivan, 5652):Shavuot, “which is also the season chosen for the confirmation of the pupilsattending the religious schools attach to the” synagogues and temples of theJews.
1892: In Clinton, NY, students atHamilton College will compete for the Clark Prize for original oratoryincluding Gregory Rosenblum from Novgorod, Russia whose topic is “The Jews ofRussia.”
1892: A duel was fought today betweenMonsieur Drumont, the editor of La Libre Parol and Captain Cremieuz Foa, aJewish officer in the French Army.
1893: Birthdate of Czech architectOtto Eisler who survived both Auschwitz and the “death march to Buchenwald” in1945.
1893: The U.S. Senate Committee, whichis investigating the immigrant station on Ellis Island, which seems to beshowing a special interest in the arrival of Jewish immigrants from Russia isscheduled to resume its meetings today.
1893: In Superior Court Judge McAdamheard the case of Schwab v Schwab in which the wife of Moritz Schwab, “aprosperous butcher” sought to force her husband who may have been a bigamistbut who apparently had wanted to keep his marriage a secret from his familysince he was Jewish and she was not, to provide financial for her and their twosons – William and Joseph.
1893: “Mr. Engel Must Explain”published today described charges of excessive force being used to disciplinechildren at the Ladies’ Deborah Nursery.”
1893: In Petach Tikvah, TaubeMargalit, the Bialystok born daughter of Elijah and Sarah Golda Bloch and herhusband Mose Dov Ber Margalit gave birth to their daughter Hemda Margalit whobecame Hemda Diskin when she married Isaac Diskin.
1893: “Jews Driven From Poland”published today provides confirmation of reports that the Russian persecutionof the Jews has been extended to Poland.In the Ronda-Gonzowski district 480 families have been expelled in amanner where they were forced to abandon all of their real estate andbusinesses.
1894: In Rochester, NY, CongregationBerith Kodesh dedicated its new house of worship. The building which cost$130,000 “was designed by Leon Stern, a member of the congregation and wasbuilt on the corner of Gibbs and Grove streets.
1894: In Koretz, Lithuania, Sarah andZvi (Hershel) Honor gave birth to Leo Lazarus Honor who in 1901 came to theUnited States where he earned a Bachelor’s degree from CCNY, a Ph.D fromColumbia and married Jenny Honor while also serving on the College of JewishStudies in Chicago and the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
1894: Starting today, Moritz Schwab isscheduled to begin paying the mother of his children $25 a month – paymentsthat will last for four years.
1895: In Vienna “Reuben and Miriam(Amsterdam) Branin gave birth to Laval University (Montreal) educatedjournalist Joeph Branin who for two New York newspapers, used the pen-namePhineas Piron, served in Palestine as part of the Jewish Battalion under GeneralAllenby and served “as executive Vice President of the American Committee forthe Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot while rasing a son and a daughterwith his wife “the former Salomea Neumark.
1896: A number of Hebrew manuscriptswere presented to Columbia at today’s meeting of the college trustees “which,with those already in its possession makes Columbia’s collection the largest inthe country.”
1897(1st of Sivan, 5657): Rosh ChodeshSivan
1897: Between now and October 1 theSanitarium for Hebrew Children of the City of New York will provide 35excursions for underprivileged Jewish children and their mothers at no charge.
1898(11th of Sivan, 5658):On the same day that she had passed away, 52 year old Rebecca Bloom the wifeJacob Bloom was buried in London at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”
1898: In NewYork City, Polish born Louis Picon and his wife gave birth to Molly Picon, twoof whose more famous roles were in “Milk& Honey” and “Fiddler on theRoof.”
http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Mi-So/Picon-Molly.html
1898: In Kiev,“an important cantor with a Chasidic background” and his wife gave birth toCantor, composer and ardent Zionist Leib Glantz who, in 1926, moved to theUnited States where he perused a recording career, served as cantor at “OhevShalom in New York,” “Sinai Temple” in Los Angeles and “Sha’arei Te’filahsynagogue” in Los Angeles while also serving as a professor of Jewish Music atthe University of Judaism and raising two sons – Kalman and Ezra – with hiswife Miriam Lipton before moving to Israel in 1954
https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/leib-glantz/
1899:Birthdate of Mary Phagan whose murder in 1913 would lead to the lynching of LeoFrank.
1899: It wasreported today that in France, “the anti-Dreyfusites are not are not convincedby the declaration of M. Ballot de Beaupre that Esterhazy is the traitor” andwhile “they are all the more obstinate in refuse that Dreyfus is innocent…thepeople are so tired of the affair that by the time Dreyfus has returned toFrance angry passions will probably have subsided.”
1899:Thirty-three-year-old University of Pennsylvania trained attorney and authorDavid Werner Amram, the Philadelphia born son of Esther and Werner David Amrammarried Beulah Brylaswski today.
1899: Mr. KarlBlind wrote from Hempstead, UK, today that “In the appreciative biographicalnotice concerning Eduard Simson, the fact of his Jewish origin has not beenmentioned. The days of his politicalactivity were, fortunately, days when no man of any intellectual value wouldhave disgrace himself by taking part in an ‘anti-Semitic’ movement.”
1899: Today marks the end of the 23year tenure of Dr. Herman Baar as superintendent of the Hebrew OrphanAsylum. Dr. Baar had tendered hisresignation which was due to “old age” at the May meeting of the officers buthad stayed on until the first of June so that a suitable replacement might befound.
1899: Today is scheduled to Dr. Hermann Barr’s last day asSuperintendent of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, a position he has held for 23 yearsand is vacating due to his concerns about his health.
1899: Just weeks before his 78th birthday,French poet and political leader who was a founder of Alliance IsraeliteUniverselle passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50D16FA395913738DDDA80894DE405B8985F0D3
1900: “More Rioting in Konitz” published today reportedthat a contingent of troops has been dispatched to Konitz, formerly a city inPoland which became “German” after the partition, where there have been freshoutbreaks of violent “in connection with the death of the lad Winter, which thetownsfolk attributed to the Jews.”
1900: In Philadelphia, Sara Grosten and Abraham Berman gavebirth to Pennsylvania Academy of theFine Arts trained artist and WW I veteran Harry Grosten Berman, a post-warresident of the Washington Square neighborhood and a member of the “IsraeliLodge of the Judaic Union.”
https://www.askart.com/artist/Harry_G_Berman/28179/Harry_G_Berman.aspx
https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Harry-G--Berman/38E1838923CAE81E/Biography
https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Harry-G--Berman/38E1838923CAE81E
1901(14th of Sivan, 5661): Parashat Nasso
1901: It was reported today that Dr. Joseph Silverman, theRabbi at Temple Emanu-El of New York had delivered a paper on “The JewishConception of Jesus” at the meeting of the Free Religious Association ofAmerica who also said that he could say “Amen” to all that Professor NathanielSchmidt of Cornell had said about Jesus because that was consistent with the“historical conception of the Jews.
1902: “The second public meeting under the auspices of theIsraelite Alliance of America, in furtherance of the agitation to safeguard therights of American citizens in Russia, was held this afternoon, in the largehall of the Educational Alliance, on East Broadway.”
1902: Birthdate ofFargo, ND native and Temple University trained physician Dr. Maurice Borow, theNew Jersey gynecologist who received his license to practice medicine inFlorida in 1953 and “opened his office above Garl’s Drug Store in Ft. MyersBeach, FL.
http://fl-fortmyersbeach.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/63/The-Professions?bidId=
1903(6th of Sivan, 5663): First Day of Shavuot
1903(6th of Sivan, 5663): Montefiore Isaacs, “one of thebest known and most popular bachelors in New York Society” and the nephew ofSir Moses Montefiore passed away.
1904: A meeting of the committee of the New South WalesZionist League was held today at Synagogue Chambers in Sydney, Australia.
1904: Three French Army Officers are arrested in connectionwith the Dreyfus Affair. However, theverdict would not be overturned for two more years when Dreyfus would finallybe released from prison.
1905: Carl Jung discharged Sabina Spielrein, who had beenhis first patient, today.
1905; Forty-year-old to Duff’s College graduate and goldmedal award winning distiller Albert M. Hanauer, the Pittsburgh, PA born son ofMeyer and Henrietta Hanauer married Carrie Marx today.
1905(27th of Iyar): Ninety-year-old Moravia born “Austrian Talmudist and historianof literature” Isaac Hirsch Weiss,author of Dor Dor Ve-Dorshav which is a five-volume history of “Halakha fromBiblica Times through the expulsion from Spain” in 1494, passed away
1906: In Trier, Italy, after the Jews wereattacked by a mob and threatened with death, Bishop Egelbert offered to savethose who were willing to be baptized. Most chose to drown themselves instead.
1906: A pogrom broke out in Bialystok, Russia.
1906: Birthdate of Lodz native and co-founder of KibbutzEin Shemer Zvi Lurie who in 1924 made aliya, after which he served as generalsecretary of Hashomer Hatzair, signed Israel’s Declaration of Independence andhelped to establish Kol Yisrael.
1906: The JewishHerald reported today that “in Sydney, Australia, rabbis are not permittedto receive proselytes on the board of congregation passes on them.”
1907(19th of Sivan, 5667): Sixty-seven-year-oldJacob Freudenthal, the Professor of Philosophy at the University of Breslau whowas sent to England in 1888 where he developed an expertise on the philosophyof Spinoza passed away today.
1907: IN the Yorkville section of NYC, building contractor“Joseph Hecht and Rose (née Loewy) Hecht” gave birth to Oscar award winningproducer Harold Hecht.
1908(2nd of Sivan, 5668): Sixty-year-old AugusteSeligman, the wife of Theobald Epstein and the mother of German mathematicianPaul Epstein passed away today.
1908: The Cantors’ Association of America, the “successorto the Society of American Cantors” was organized today.
1909: Birthdate of Polish-American violinist and conductorSzymon Goldberg.
1909: Dorothy Montefiore (Micholls) and Walter Samuel, 2ndViscount Bearsted gave birth to Army Major Marcus Richard Samuel, 3rdViscount Bearsted, the Oxford graduate and wounded veteran of WW II who servedas a director of several companies and corporations including Lloyds Bank.
1909: Birthdate of Yechezkel Kutscher, the native ofSlovaki who made Aliyah in 1931 where he became a philologist and linguist.
1910: During a debate Turkish Minister of Interior TalaatBey stated, "Some deputies have spoken on behalf of Muslim, Greek andArmenian hospitals, but I note with regret no one has a word for the Jewishhospital, which renders great services. It admits all persons sent to it by thepolice without distinction of race and religion."
1911: Thirty-year-old theatrical producer Morris Gest, the Vilna born ofLouise and Leon Gest married Reina Victoria the daughter of David Belasco.
1911: Forty-four-year German movie producer and theatrechain owner Paul Davidson founded “the InternationaleFilm-Vertriebs-Gesellschaft” today.
1911:Birthdate of Bernard Rothman better known as Benny Rothman a UK politicalactivist, most famous for his leading role in the Mass trespass of Kinder Scoutin 1932 who passed away in 2002.
1911:Orthopedic surgeon Harry Finkelstein, the graduate of the College of Physiciansand Surgeons at Columbia and the New York City born son of Ethel Baltan andLouis Finkelstein married Rae B. Blum today in New York.
1912: The“Fifth Annual Convention” of the Federation of Romanian Jews of America whichhas 40,000 members is scheduled to begin today in New York City.
1912:Josephine Sophia and Isidore Vehon, the son of Anna and Silas Abraham Vehonwere married today in Kansas City, MO after which they lived in Salina, KS.
1913: SylviaAnnenberg, Beatrice Brown and Ruth Cohen are among those scheduled to beconfirmed this morning at Temple Sholom in Chicago.
1913: LeopoldKessler opened the English Zionist Federation’s conference today.
1914(7thof Sivan, 5674): 2nd day of Shavuot
1914: “B’rithAbraham’s Growth” published today described plans for the upcoming 28thannual convention of the Independent Order of B’rith Abraham to be held inAtlantic City which will be attended by 1,400 delegates from all over theUnited States representing 200,000 members in 720 lodges.
1915: As oftoday, President Wilson has not responded to a telegram from the IndependentOrder of Sons of Israel asking him to intercede on behalf of Leo Frank and hisappeal for clemency.
1915: Today,“at the final session of the meeting of the United States Grand Lodge of theIndependent Order of B’rith Sholom…a resolution was unanimously adoptedadvising Governor John M. Slaton of George that 50,000 members of the societyjoin with other bodies in asking him to commute the sentence of Leo M. Frank toimprisonment, so that if his innocence is later established the fair name ofGeorgia may remain unstained.”
1915: Today,the United States Grand Lodge of the Order of B’rith Sholom adopted aresolution presented by Judge Aaron J. Levy of New York” that “provides for theestablishment of a Jewish National Congress to which all Jewish societies shallsend delegates for the discussion and improvement of conditions affect the Jewsin this country?
1915: Althoughthe George Prison Commission had announced yesterday afternoon that the hearingconcerning the sentencing of Leo M. Frank was closed, it “decided today toreopen” the case “to hear opponents of commutation.”
1915: Today,Herbert Clay of Marietta, GA, Solicitor General of Blue Ridge Circuit head aparty of fifty of his fellow-townsmen” that included ex-Governor Joseph M.Brown and Elmer Phagan the uncle of Mary Phagan “who filed into the audiencechamber of the Georgia Prison and asked that the death sentence again Leo M.Frank be carried out.
1915: It wasreported today that Jim “Conley, who wassentenced to twelve months as accessory to the murder of Mary Phagan” isscheduled to “go free tomorrow getting two months off for good conduct.”
1915: Leo Frank and Jim Conley are scheduled to meettomorrow afternoon at a hearing “to be held in the jail in the case of Mrs.Coleman, mother of Mary Phagan against the National Pencil Factory” which sheis suing for $10,000 in damages for the death of her daughter.”
1915: As oftoday, the new officers of the Federation of Polish Hebrews of Americanpublished today including President Jacob Carlinger, Secretary David Troutmanand Treasurer Morris Kaufman.
1915: Theresolutions adopted by the Federation of Polish Hebrews of America publishedtoday included an expression of opposition “to laws further restrictingimmigration” and a call for “the holding of an American Jewish congress as soonas possible to help the Jews in war-ridden Europe and protesting againstmistreatment of such Jews.”
1916:Department store executive Samuel J. Bloomingdale who was educated at theColumbia University and School of Mines, the New York City born son of HattieCollenberger and Lyman Gustavus Bloomingdale, married Rita Goodman today
1916:Birthdate of New Bedford, MA native Boris Young who settled in San Franciscowhere he was an executive of the American Friends of Tel Aviv and active memberof the UJA and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.
1916: Thenomination of Louis D. Brandeis of Boston to be an Associate Justice of theSupreme Court of the United States was confirmed by the Senate in executivesession this afternoon by a vote of 47 to 22 with only one Democrat votingagainst confirmation.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/louis-d-brandeis
1917: HenriBergson who would later become a member of the Clemenceau Cabinet was “electedvice president of the France-Norway Committee” today.
1917: HerbertMerton Jessel, who would receive the Order of St. Michael and St. George inJanuary of 1918, was created a baronet today in the United Kingdom.
1917: Eighty-nine-year-oldHenry Lewis, whose family name had originally been “Solomons,” the son of AnnLevy was buried today in: Makaraka, Gisborne, New Zealand.”
1917: SirPhilip Magnus was created a baronet today in the United Kingdom.
1917:Princeton University All-American football player, Arthur “Bluey” Bluethenthalwho had joined the French Foreign Legion in 1916 and “served at the Battle ofVerdun with the French 129th Infantry Division” with suchdistinction that he was award the Croix de Guerre with Star joined “theEscadrille Breguet 227 of the Lafayette Flying Corps” today.
1917: CharlesRosenthal and Philp Sassoon received the Order of St. Michael and St. Georgetoday.
1917: Premiereof “The Princess of Neutralia” a German silent comedy filmed by cinematographerKarl Freund featuring Julius Falkenstein.
1917:According to Henry Morgenthau of the American Jewish Relief Committee“$10,000,000 must be raised in the United States” by today “if the millions ofJews in the eastern war zone” are “to be saved from starvation.”
1917: It wasreported today that reform Jews had agreed “that Orthodox dietary laws” wouldbe observed “in all Jewish charitable institutions and hospitals” as part ofthe agreement that has led to “the unifications of all Jewish charities” inBrooklyn.
1917: Thecampaign by the American Jewish Relief Committee to raise $10,000,000 “for thebenefits of Jews suffering from the war” to which Julius Rosenwald, Presidentof Sears, Roebuck & Co. has promised to contribute $100,000 for each$1,000,000 collected, is scheduled to come to an end today.
1917: Amemorandum is published describing the distress of the Jews in Belgrade.According to the document, “communities are destroyed, thousands are ruined andcompelled to leave their homes.”
1918(21stof Sivan, 5678): Parashat Beha’aloctcha
1918(21stof Sivan, 5678): Teacher and author Arye-Kahyim Godldin the son of a Latvianshochet and mohel passed away today in Lodz.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/05/arye-khayim-goldin.html
1918: TheNinth annual convention of the Kehillah opens at Carnegie Hall in Manhattan.
1919: TheNational Conference of Jewish Charities ended today with a business meeting atthe Hotel Breakers in Atlantic City, NJ.
1919: InQueens, NY, “Nellie (Baron) Graham, a schoolteacher, and Leon Graham, astockbroker” gave birth to “Judith Graham Pool, a physiologist whose scientificdiscoveries revolutionized the treatment of hemophilia.”
http://biography.yourdictionary.com/judith-graham-pool
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/pool-judith-graham
1919(3rdof Sivan, 5679): Forty-two-year-old composer Manuel Klein, the London born sonof dance teacher Adelaide Soman and professor of foreign language Herman Klein,the husband of Helen Klein and father of Marjorie and Gerald Klein who in 1896moved to the United States where “he was the music director for David Belasco'stheatre company in New York City for several years” before becoming musicdirect at the New York Hippodrome Theatre and after a dispute with JacobSchubert became music director of London’s Gaiety passed away today from thetraumatic effects of a Zepplin raid on London and the death of his brother Charlesthat took place during the sinking of the Lusitania by the Germans.
1920:Birthdate of David Samuilovich Kaufman, “one of the most important Russianpoets of the post-World War II era.”
1920: AttorneyHarriet B. Lowenstein, the “first woman to obtain the degree of CPA” in NewYork Sate, left the United States today “at the head of a staff of accountantsfor the purpose of establishing uniform accounting systems or American Jewishrelief activities” on a trip that would lead to her marriage in London to attorneyJonah Goldstein.
1920: Today,in Pittsburgh, members of “the Beechview Hebrew Congregation Beth El”unanimously approved “a constitution and by-laws.”
1921: Zionistauthorities and members of the Joint Distribution Committee for American JewishRelief are holding negotiations that would establish “a mortgage bank inPalestine” to which the committee is reportedly ready support with financing of$400,000.
1922(5thof Sivan, 5682): Erev Shavuot
1922: NYUtrained physician Michael A. Cohn, the son of Abraham and Zissel (Kornick) Cohnand a supporter of HIAS and the Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Agedas well as a “writer in English and Yiddish on social, political and economicquestions” married Annie Maretsky today.
1922: TheIsaacson Company which was formed by M.E. Speilman, Mrs. Hyman B. Isaacson andHarry D. Bornstein following the death of Hyman B. Isaacson and the dissolutionof the firm in which they all had a stake, today, at their Fifth Avenuelocation, present “their Fall Line…of high grade Juvenile Novelty suits in avariety of weaves and patterns at popular prices.”
1923: Thearticles published in today’s issue of The National Jewish Weekly editedby Isaac Landman included “Mr. Jacob of Virginia, “Poor Man’s Luck, ““Arbitration in the Business World” and “A Walking Encyclopedia.”
1923: “TheJewish Tribune in an open letter to William R. Hearst, published today,criticizes him for endorsing Henry Ford for President,” pointed out that Mr. Hearst in hispublications has consistently opposed Mr. Ford’s attitude toward the Jews andexpresses wonder that he should not suggest him as a candidate for President ofthe United States.
1924: Today,the law firm of Stanchfeld and Levy merged with Chadbourne, Babbitt and Wallace to createthe firm of Chadbourne, Stanchfield and Levy with Yale graduate and Columbiatrained attorney Louis Samter Levy, the Forkland, AL born son of Jennie Samterand Maurice Levy as a named partner.
1924:Thirty-year-old illustrator Aaron Broun, the London born son of Abraham andLean (Santman) Broun married Sadie Cohn today in New York City.
1925(9thof Sivan, 5685): Seventy-five-year-old Hannah Heller Sanger, the wife of SamuelSanger and the mother of Carrie, Charles, Asher, Alex and Eli Sanger passedaway today after which she was buried in the Hebrew Rest Cemetery in Waco, TX.
1926: Afarewell banquet is scheduled to held his evening for the Hakoah Team whichplayed its last game of the tour on Decoration Day at the Polo Grounds.
1926: BennyLeonard is the chairman of a committee sponsoring tonight’s scheduledtestimonial dinner being given in honor of the Hakoah Soccer team at thePennsylvania Hotel, on the eve of the team's departure from the United States.(As reported by JTA)
1926: BernardFlexner, President of the Palestine Economic Corporation, announced that theorganization’s primary activity will be to help provide financing for thehydroelectric station on the Jordan River and the necessary transmission linesto connect the existing Diesel engine power stations at Tel-Aviv, Haifa andTiberias. The Palestine Economic Corporation was organized in February, 1925.
1926: BerthaSolomon “was admitted to the Johannesburg Bar, becoming one of the firstpracticing women advocates in South Africa and the first woman to plead a casebefore the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in Bloemfontein.”
1926: InPortsmouth, UK, Morry and Becky Morris gave birth to Aubrey Jack Steinberg whogained fame as actor Aubrey Morris.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/16/aubrey-morris?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it
1926:Birthdate of Norma Jean Baker, who gained fame as Marilyn Monroe, the actresswho converted to Judaism before she marriedplaywrightArthur Miller.
1926(19thof Sivan, 5686): Hungarian political leader and government official VilmosVázsonyi died today after being assaulted “notorious anti-Semite LaszloVannay.”
1927: Hugo andMathilde Gutmann gave birth to Helen Eakley
1927: Winifred“Winnie” Mark and Victory Aubrey Lownes, Jr, the “parents of Playboy executiveVictor Lownes III” were married today.
1927: RabbiArthur S. Montaz gave the invocation this evening before dinner at thisevening’s session of the Fourth Western Interstate Conference in Spokane,Washington.
1928:Birthdate of Lazarus “Larry” Ziedel the Montreal native who played hockey forthe 1952 Stanley Cup winning Detroit Red Wings, the Chicago Black Hawks and thePhiladelphia Flyers.
1928: AttorneyGeneral Albert Ottinger’s investigation of complaints by the Hebrew ReligiousProtective Association against certain cemeteries was resumed today whenAssistant Attorney General Robert S. Conklin questioned Philip Gresner,Superintendent of the Baron Hirsch Cemetery at Port Richmond, Staten Island,about complaints by plot owners that charges were increased without warning andthat even “funeral processions had been halted to demand payment in arrears.
1929: Twenty-five-year-oldBaltimore native Bernard Jacob Bamberger received his Doctor of Divinity degreefrom Hebrew Union College today.
1929(22ndof Iyar, 5689): Parashat Bamidbar
1929(22ndof Iyar, 5689): Seventy-three-year-old New York political leader and formerU.S. Congressman Henry Mayer Goldfogle passed away.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/06/02/91801691.html?pageNumber=26
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/henry-mayer-goldfogle
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000260
1930(5thof Sivan, 5690): Erev Shavuot
1930: Thefuneral Judge Hugo Pam of the Superior Court in Chicago who is survived by hissisters Miss Carrie Pam and Mrs. Walter Blumenthal is scheduled to take placetoday followed by burial in Rose Hill Cemetery
1930:Birthdate of Jo Amar. Jo Amar, a Moroccan-born Jewish singer whose melding ofAndalusian and Israeli musical influences would make him a star in Israel and apopular performer in Jewish communities around the world. He passed away in 2009 at the age of 79.
1931: “TheSecond Little Show,” “a musical revue with lyrics by Howard Dietz and musicmostly by Arthur Schwartz” opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theater where itran for 136 performances.
1931(16thof Sivan, 5691): In the North Hills section of Pensacola, FL the cornerstonewas laid today for a building that would be home to Temple Beth-El, a reformcongregation which is reportedly “he oldest Jewish house of worship” in theSunshine State.
1931:Birthdate of Ira Pastan, the husband of poet Linda Pastan who “was awarded theInternational Antonio Feltrinelli Prize for Medicine.”
1932: FranzVon Pappen, who in 1933 would serve as vice chancellor under Hitler and whobelieved he could manage Hitler for his own ends, “succeeded today in form agovernment of ‘national concentration’ which had been envisaged by PresidentHindenberg.
1933(7th ofSivan, 5693): Second Day of Shavuot
1933: TheLeague of Nations approves The Bernheim petition which is a protest aimed atNazi anti-Jewish legislation in German Upper Silesia.
1933: MartinRiesenburger began serving ‘the Jewish Community in Berlin” where he served asthe rabbi “in the Jewish old people's home in Grosse Hamburger Strasse and inthe Jewish Hospital.”
1933: Germany introduces the Law for Reduction ofUnemployment, which provides for marriage loans and other incentives togenetically “fit” Germans. (Jewish Virtual Library)
1933: Americanmodernist writer Gertrude Stein published her autobiography, ironically titled The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas,
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/01/1933/gertrude-stein
1934: After aprolonged oratorical assault on "reactionary aristocrats, theintelligentsia and the philistine bourgeoisie," today “the Nazi campaignagainst "carpers and killjoys" seems to be shifting back again to theJews.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/06/02/94536055.html?pageNumber=9
1935(29thof Iyar, 5695): Parashat Bamidbar
1935: It wasannounced today that “proceeds of the 22nd annual Palestine FlowerDay” which is scheduled to take place tomorrow “will be used to aid the programfor acquiring land in Palestine as national property.”
1935: “TheGolden Shirts, a nationalist organization headed by Nicolas Rodriquez announcedthat it will energetically seek all means to combat Jewish activities inMexico” including withdrawal of citizenship for Jews living in Mexico,forbidding Jews to participate in politics and forcing Jews who own factoriesto turn them over to “Mexican Laborers.”
1936(11th ofSivan, 5696): As Arab attacks continue, snipers fired on two buses nearJerusalem, killing one Jewish rider and wounding two others. In the evening, a Jewish constable in GivatShaoul was shot at by unknown assailants.This is the same district of Jerusalem where another Jews was killedyesterday.
1936: Leadersof the current Arab uprising reportedly have sent letters to wealthy Arabs“threatening their lives and homes unless they” provide economic support forthe uprising. In response, the targetsof the demands are “fleeing to Egypt, Lebanon and Europe.
1936: “A 50-year-oldJewish merchant, Moszek Laufer, his wife and three other customers were woundedthis morning when a bomb exploded in a baker at Milsona” which is near Warsawand “has long be a center of the anti-Semitic National Radicals.”
1936: “H.H.Trusted, speaking for the mandatory power assured the League of Nationspermanent mandates commission this afternoon” that “the British Governmentregards the establishment of order in Palestine as of first importance and willnot be deflected from its policy by riots or threats.”
1936:Alexander Kowalskis was sentenced to “two months in prison for singinganti-Semitic songs in Warsaw’s streets and courtyards” which were intended tostir up racial hatreds.
1936: Arabsnipers fired on Jewish motor vehicles in Palestine including two buses outsideof Jerusalem which one Jew dead and two more wounded.
1936: At theconclusion of its conference today, “the Zionist Federation of Great Britainand Ireland…expressed the opinion that no useful purpose would be “served bythe appointment of a royal commission to investigate the grievance of Arabs andJews in Palestine” and that the cause of peace would be better served by thegovernment taking “steps to make possible greatly accelerated immigration ofJews in Palestine and Trans-Jordan.
1937:Birthdate of Muhammed Wattad, “an Israeli Arab politician who served as an MKbetween 1981 and 1988.
1937: Birthdate of YisraelMeir Lau, the Polish born rabbi whose father died at Treblinka, who became theChairman of Yad Vashem and Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv.
1938: The Isaac Adler Prize whichwas founded in 1934 by Mrs. Frida Adler in memory of her husband, for 1938 wasawarded to Dr. Wendell M. Stanley for his work on the isolation ofcrystallizable factor which has developed a new approach in the study of viruses…”
1938: Superman created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadianartist Joe Shuster made his first appearance in D.C. Comics’ Action ComicsSeries issue #1 which sold for 10 cents.
1939: It was reported today that “The Palestine authorities have startedwholesale arrests of Jews suspected of the shooting and bombing of the last fewdays in which a half dozen Arabs have been killed and a score wounded.”
1939: Captain Gustav Shroeder of the Hamburg American liner Saint Louisinformed the Cuban authorities yesterday that he feared a "collectivesuicide pact" among his 917 German Jewish refugee passengers, who arescheduled to sail back to Hamburg with today, Cuba having refused to admitthem.
1940(24th of Iyar, 5700): Parashat Bamidbar
1940(24th of Iyar, 5700): Eighty-three-year-old Henry Belais,the brother and business partner of David Belais who had been a businesspartner with metallurgical chemist Sigmund Cohn passed away in New York.
1940: It was reported today that the Jewish Institute of Religion planson conferring an honorary degree of Doctor Hebrew Letters on Rabbi Moses Schorrwho is currently being held in a Soviet prison
1941(6th of Sivan, 5701): Shavuot
1941: “The outbreak of mob violence against Baghdad Jewry known as theFarhud (Farhud is an Arabic term best translated as “pogrom” or “violentdispossession”) erupted” today” which led to two days of anti-Semitic violence,murder and of course looting that marked the beginning of the end for thisancient Jewish community.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-farhud
1941: German mathematician Kurt Hensel, the grandson of Fanny Mendelssohnand therefore a descendant of Moses Mendelssohn passed away.
1941:In Baghdad, Pro Axis Rashid Ali,began his revolution against the British by attacking the Jewish community.Approximately 150 Jews were murdered and 800 injured during two days ofrioting. British troops stationed outside the city did not intervene. Thepogrom is known as the Farhood.
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=16275
1941: TheBattle of Crete comes to an end with German victory. There were fewer than four hundred Jewsliving in Crete at this time. “It was not until June of 1944, and almost as anafterthought, that the Jews of Crete were arrested and sent to Herakleion,where they were put on the ship Tanais, together with some 600 Greek andItalian prisoners. For some years the details of the last hours of the Tanaisand the fate of its crew and human cargo was not clear. What was known is thatthe ship had been sunk and that all had perished. Evidence has now appearedthrough the Foreign Office in London that in fact the Tanais had been sightedby a British U-Boat and was given two torpedo broadsides and sank within 15minutes.”
1941: Thedeportation of Bosnian Jews to regional concentration camps begins. By November, 14,000 Jews will have beendeported to these camps.
1941: Birthdate of Dr. Stanley I. Greenspan, a psychiatristwho invented an influential approach to teaching children with autism and otherdevelopmental problems. (As reported by David Corcoran)
1942: The story of a young Jew, Emanuel Ringelblum, (whoescaped from the Chelmno death camp after being forced to bury bodies as theywere thrown out of the gas vans), was published in the underground PolishSocialist newspaper Liberty Brigade.The West now knew the "bloodcurdling news ... about the slaughter ofJews," and it had a name-Chelmno.
1942:TheWorld Jewish Congress, based in New York, announces at a press conference thatEastern Europe is being turned into "a vast slaughterhouse forJews." As with the Sudan and Dafursixty years later, the world “does not hear.”
1942: Justice Frankfurter voted with the majority in Bettsv. Brady, a landmark case involving the right to counsel which was decidedtoday. (Ironically, Getts would be overturned by Gideon v. Wainwright whihwould find Justice Goldberg, the “Jewish Judge” voting in the majority.)
1942:Between June 1 and June 30 more than 23,000 Jews are gassed at the Belzec andSobibór death camps
1942: During June,Auschwitzis ravaged by an epidemic of typhus.
1942(16thof Sivan, 5702): Germans invade Jewish hospitals in Sosnowiec, Poland,murdering newborns and tearing patients from operating tables. Ambulatorypatients are sent to Auschwitz and gassed.
1942: Ayoung Sosnowiec Jew named Harry Blumenfrucht is captured and endures two weeksof Nazi torture. He refuses to name hisco-conspirators in a scheme to steal weapons. His suffering ends when he ishanged.
1942 (16th of Sivan, 5702 Jewsfrom Dabrowa Tarnowska, Poland, led by Rabbi Isaac and gathered in a Jewishcemetery, defy their Nazi captors when they hold hands, dance, and drink"to life." The enraged Germans shoot and disembowel the entire group.
1942: AtLutsk, Ukraine, Jewish resistance is led by Joel Szczerbat
1942: Startingin the first week of June, three thousand Jews at Pilica, Poland, are deportedto Belzec, but several hundred manage to escape before the journey is complete
1942:InNorway, Jews are given identity cards stamped with the letter "J."
1942(16th of Sivan, 5702): MordecaiGebirtig, a Kraków carpenter whose songs of freedom are sung throughout Poland,is executed at Belzec.
1942: During the first week inJune,PolishJews are deported from Hrubieszów to the Sobibór death camp. Another 500 willbe deported the following week
1942:Startingin June, Warsaw's underground newspaper, Liberty Barricade, published bythe Polish Socialist Party, reveals Nazi gassing activity at the Chelmno deathcamp
1942: I.G.Farben's Buna-Monowitz synthetic-rubber and oil works opens near Auschwitz
1942(16th of Sivan, 5702):Between today and the 7th of June seven thousand Jewsfrom Kraków, Poland, are murdered at the Belzec extermination camp.1942: Firstmention ever in the press, in this case the underground Warsaw newspaper"Liberty", of the ‘bloodcurdling news coming out of Chelmno.' SevenThousand Jewswere sent from Cracow to Belzec. On this day tracks began tobe built connecting to a new death camp, Treblinka. Treblinka had been preparedfor the Jews of central Poland.
1943(27th of Iyar, 5703):Jews of Dalmatia, Serbia, are transferred to the island of Rab, which isoff the coast of Croatia.
1943(27th of Iyar, 5703):Starting today and lasting throughout the first two weeks in June 10,000Jews from Lvov lose their lives in a combination of street assaults andkillings at Janówska, Ukraine,
1943(27th of Iyar, 5703): During liquidation of the ghetto atSosnowiec, Poland, which began on June 1 and ended on June 6, a spiritedresistance is led by Zvi Dunski. Ill-armed Jews fight back as deportationsproceed.
1943 (27th of Iyar, 5703: Seventy-year-oldSallie Goldfinger Kahane, the Philadelphia born daughter of Charles IgnatzGoldfinger and Celia Raucher Goldfinger and the wife of Max B. Kahane whom shemarried in 1889 passed away today in Chicago after which she was buried at theWaldheim Cemetery.
1943(27th of Iyar, 5703):The liquidation of the Jewish ghetto at Buczacz, Ukraine begins. It willend on June 6. Some Jews resist andescape.
1943(27th of Iyar, 5703):Actor Leslie Howard dies when the civilian plane he is flying on fromLisbon to England is shot down by German fighters. The reason for the attack remains shrouded inthe cloak and dagger world of W.W.II.Born Leslie Howard Stainer in1893, Howard’s parents were Hungarian Jews.He served in WW I and gained fame in both English and Americanfilms. He is best remembered for hisportrayal of Ashley Wilkes, the classic cavalier in “Gone With the Wind.”
1943(27th of Iyar:Just five weeks short of his 44th birthday, Wilfrid B. Israel, aBerlin born businessman who worked to rescue children from the Nazis, diedaboard BOAC Flight 777, the same plane that was carrying Leslie Howard.
1944: AnAmerican public opinion poll indicates that 57 percent of Americans anticipate"a widespread campaign in this country" against Jews.
1944: Fromtoday through June 30, 13,500 Jews are deported from Miskolc, Hungary, toAuschwitz.
1944: With 55,000 unused United States quota slotsfrom Occupied Europe, President Franklin Roosevelt agrees to allow only 1000Jewish refugees into the United States. They will be housed at Fort Ontario inOswego, New York
1944: After having been arrested on May 27, Mrs. Joel Brandand Rudolf Kastner are released by the Arrow Cross.
1945: Out of atotal of 77 of the “staff” of the Beslen Concentration camp arrested by theBritish in April, another 17 had died of typhus as of today.
1945: Birthdate of Rabbi Menachem Froman, the sabra who asparatrooper helped reunify Jerusalem in 1967 and then went on to help foundGush Emunim after which he worked to develop a peace accord with Hamas “knownas the Froman-Amayreh Agreement.”
1945: In Switzerland David Frankfurter was granted a pardonfor having assassinated the “Swiss branch leader of the German NSDAP WilhelmGustloff in 1936 in Davos, Switzerland.
1945: DisplacedJews atBuchenwald, Germany establish Kibbutz Buchenwald, an agriculturaltraining center designed to help young Jews succeed at kibbutz(communal) life
1945:Public-opinion polls taken during June indicate that Americans consider Jews afar greater threat to America than they consider German or Japanese Americans.
1945(20th of Sivan, 5705):Seventy-three-year-old Eduard Bloch who treated Adolf Hitler and hismotherKlara before WW I passed away today.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3816350,00.html
1945: KibbutzNili is established on the former estate of Nazi big-wig Julius Streicher, nearPleikershof, Germany, to train Jewish displaced persons in agriculture andprovide schooling for Jewish boys and girls.
1946: “Somewhere in the Night” directed by Joseph L.Mankiewicz who also co-authored the script was released in the United Statestoday.
1946: Followingthe murder of two Jews in Biala Podlaska, Poland, the town's remaining Jewsbegan leaving the country during June.
1946: IonAntonescu, the anti-Semitic former dictator of Romania, is executed after beingconvicted of war crimes.
1947: “James G. McDonald, former member of theAnglo-American Committee of Inquiry for Palestine who returned last week from avisit to that country, said tonight that its arid southern area the Negev couldbe restored to cultivation by irrigation and take care of tens of thousands ofJewish families now in camps in Europe.
1948: An Egyptian Ministerial Order carrying today’s date“declared that all laws in force during the Mandate would continue to be inforce in the Gaza Strip, the piece of Palestinian territory conquered by theEgyptian Army which they held on to for 19 years without any demands by thepeople of Gaza that it be given to them as part of an independent Arab state.
1948: The Arabstates and Israel agreed to a cease-fire. After two weeks of fighting, theArabs realized that pushing the Jews into the sea would not be such an easymatter after all.
1948:According to today’s Scotsman, 'After the Jewish surrender over 1000non-combatant residents were evacuated to Katamon, south-west of Jerusalem.”
1949: Todaymarks the start of “UJA Month” a major fundraising event for the United JewishAppeal.
1950(16thof Sivan, 5710): Sixty-six-year-old Solomon Stan Bauch who in 1900 came to theUnited States where he earned a medical degree at Long Island College Hospitaland developed a specialty in treating tuberculosis and who was the Romanianborn son of Rose Cohen and Meusha Chaim Bauch passed away today.
1951:“Sirocco” a film based on Coup de Grace written by Joseph Kessel, directed byCurtis Bernhardt and co-starring Lee J. Cobb was released in the United Kingdomtoday.
1951: InWashington, DC, Milton S. and Berte (Luber) Garfinkle gave birth University ofPennsylvania graduate Adam Garfinkle, a speechwriter for Secretaries of StateColin Powell and Condoleezza Rice who has taught at several university in TelAviv University while raise three children – Gabriel, Hanna and Nathaniel –with his wife Priscilla Elizabeth Taylor.
1951: InBoulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, Nicole (née Raffel) and Serge Dassaultgave birth to French political leader Olivier Dassault, the grandson on MarcelDassault.
1952: Funeralservices are scheduled to held at “The Riverside” for attorney Louis B. Boudin,the husband of Anna Pavitt Boudin with whom he had two daughters, Eleanor andVera, and a leader of the National ORT League who was a supporter of the HotelTrades Council.
1953(18th ofSivan, 5713): Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman, a native of Kovno who served asDayan of the London Beth Din for 20 years, passed away today in Jerusalem.
1954: Twenty-seven-year-oldRobert L. Lehman, the teenage escapee from Nazi Germany, U.S. Army Veteran andLong Island University honor student was ordained as a rabbi today aftercompleting his studies at Hebrew Union College and began his career atBaltimore’s Temple Oheb Shalom as an assistant rabbisworking under RabbiAbraham Shaw.
1954: Funeralservices are scheduled to be held this afternoon for Jacob Cohen, the husbandof Frances Utitz Cohen Z”L who passed away on May 29.
1956: Fifty-four-year-old Newark, NJ native and NYU trainedattorney Lionel P. Kristeller the WW I veteran who was the husband of HelenSalmon Kristeller retired as president of New Jersey Bar Association.
1958: “TheLineup” a police movie directed by Don Siegel and starring Eli Wallach wasreleased today in the United States.
1958: InTrenton, NJ, at Adath Israel Synagogue Rabbi Joshua S. Kohn officiated at thewedding of Maxine E. Rosenthal and Harvard graduate Murray A. Lampert.
1958: Thisafternoon, at the Madison Jewish Center in Brooklyn, Rabbi Charles Ozerofficiated at the wedding of Susan Devra Shulman and Geoffrey Richstone.
1959: It wasreported today that Professor David Rudavsky of NYU and Samuel H. Dinsky of theJewish Education Committee of New York had compiled figures showing that “ofthe 335,000 Jewish boys and girls of high school age in the United States, only42,000 get some kind of Jewish education and of those half go to school one daya week, (Editor’s note – And from the view of sixty years ago, one can seewhere the seeds for many of the problems of the American Jewish community wereplanted)
1960(6thof Sivan, 5720): As JFK tries to nail down enough delegates to win theDemocratic Party nomination for President, Jews observe Shavuot.
1961: In SanFrancisco, Doris Feigenbaum Fisher and Don Fisher, the co-founders of Gap, Inc.gave birth to John J. Fisher who owns several athletic teams including theOakland Athletics baseball team.
1962: LeoFrederick Rayfiel, who has served on the federal bench for the last 15 years,appeared as witness today in the trial of State Supreme court Justice J.Vincent Keogh and former assistant U.S. attorney Elliot Kahaner who are chargedwith having attempted to fix a case being heard by Judge Rayfiel.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F50612FD3C5D167B93C0A9178DD85F468685F9
1963:Birthdate of Belarus native Arkadi Duchin who made Aliyah at the age of 15where he a popular “singer-song writer, musical producer and the husband ofSima Duchin.
1963(9thof Sivan, 5723): Parashat Naso
1963(9thof Sivan, 5723): Seventy-eight-year-old SamuelBrimberg, the Warsaw born son of Bessie and Joseph Brimberg, the husband ofFlorence Rosenberg and the father of Shirley and Elaine Rita Brimberg who in1901 came to the United States where he became a director of the NationalWholesale Women’s Wear Association and Merchants Ladies Garment Association,trustee of Beth Israel Hospital in NYC and a member of the Businessmen’sCouncil of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of NYC passed awaytoday.
1964: U.S.release date of “Kapò” an award winning Italian moved about the Holocuastco-starring Susan Strasberg, the American Jewish actress who created the roleof Anne Frank on Broadwa.
1964: EstelleSommers got her start in the dance world when she transformed her firsthusband's Cincinnati piece-goods retail store into a dancewear specialty shop.
1965:Militants attack a house in Kibbutz Yiftah.
1967: Havingseen its plans to organize an international flotilla to break the blockade ofthe Straits of Tiran come to naught, the United States government shifts itspolicy. Previously, President Johnsoncautioned Israel not to fire the first shot in even of war. On this day, when Secretary of State Rusk wasasked if the U.S. would restrain Israel from taking precipitate actions, hereplied, “ I do not think it is our business to restrain anybody.” On this same date, Abba Eban realized thatdiplomacy would not work and that war looked like the only viable option. However, the months of diplomatic negotiationhad earned Israel the support of the U.S. government, support it would need inthe coming weeks when the Soviet Union sought to reverse Israel’s militarysuccesses.
1967: In response to the mounting tensions andpopular demand, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol forms a government of national unitywith membership from the total spectrum of Israeli political. Moshe Dyan is named Defense Minister andmeets with Chief of Staff Rabin who outlines the military’s plans. Dyan approves that which had already beenprepared.
1968(5thof Sivan, 5728): Parashat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot
1968(5thof Sivan, 5728): Ninety-four-year-old Albert Bachrach, who worked in Bachrach’sclothing store which had been started by his father Henry, passed away todayafter which he was buried at Fairlawn Cemetery in Decatur, Illinois.
1968:Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson", theme for the hit movie “TheGraduate,” was number one on the charts.
1969: InBoston, Rabbi Roland Gittelson officiated at the wedding of NYU graduated PhyllisFox and 2nd year Columbia Law School student William F. Wolff 3rdwhose late father “was a senior partner of the New Yor law firm of Greenbaum,Wolff and Ernst.”
1969: At TempleBeth-El, Rabbi Jacob P. Rubin officiated at the wedding of Smith College andHarvard educated Rosaline Vee Avnet, “a daughter of Lester F. Avent, Chairmanof the board of Avnet, Inc a leading producer in the electronics industry and Yaleand Harvard educated attorney “Simon Lazarus 3rd, the grandson ofthe late Simon Lazarus, the Columbus department store mogul and executive directoro the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs” whose boss in Bess MeyersonGrant, who gained fame as Bess Meyerson, the first Jewish person to be named “MissAmerica,”
1969: Seventy-six-year-oldAustrian born, Columbia University graduate and veteran of the U.S Cavalry, Dr.Frank Tannenbaum, “the professor emeritus of Latin American history, founder ofand director of University Seminars at his alma mater who also had time tobecome a criminology teacher passed away today which would have been the 52ndanniversary of his wedding to Esther Abramson
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/06/02/90108763.pdf
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0032885511404382
1970(26thof Iyar, 5730): Seventy-four-year-old Brooklyn Law School and CPA AbrahamKraditor, the veteran of both world wars and the wife of the former HenriettaLipschutz who “was former national commander of the Jewish War Veteranssuffered from a fatal heart attack today.
1971:Birthdate of Tel Aviv native and accomplished linguist Ghil’ad Zuckermann the“Professor of Linguistics and Chair of Endangered Languages at the Universityof Adelaide, Australia
1971(8thof Sivan, 5731): Sixty-three year of old New York City native and textilemanufacturer Jack H. Fields, the ‘president of Garden State Prints’ and “thegrand secretary of the Free Sons of Israel” passed away today at the BeaconHotel on Broadway.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/06/03/79704307.pdf
1971: TheBroadway production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” a musical based onthe popular cartoon co-starring Bob Balaban as the blanket-hold Linus openedtoday at the John Golden Theatre.
1972: U.S.premiere of “The War Between Men and Women” directed by Melville Shavelson,produced by Danny Arnold with music by Marvin Hamlisch and featuring HerbEdelman as “Howard Mann.”
1973(1stof Sivan, 5733): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1973(1stof Sivan, 5733): Sixty-four-year-old Lillian Rosenthal Elmark, the wife ofU.VA. graduate Harry Eugene Elmark the president and editor of the WashingtonStar Syndicate which publishes Washington, DC’s evening paper, passed awaytoday.
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/02/archives/mrs-harry-e-elmlark.html
1974(11thof Nisan, 5734): Parashat Nasso
1974(11thof Nisan): Eighty-one-year-old economist Dr. Abraham D. H. Kaplan, “a formersenior staff member of the Brookings Institute,” “former chairman of theEconomics Department at the University of Denver and the author of severalworks including Big Business in a Competitive System and SmallBusiness: Its Places and Problems who raised two children – Stephen andNancy – with his wife Bella, passed away today.
1974: Sovietauthorities thwarted plans for an international symposium “on the basis ofscientific seminar of physics of scientist-refusenik Professor AlexanderVoronel.
1974:Seventeen Jewish activists, including Joseph Beilin, Anatoly Novikov and LevGendin staged a demonstration outside of the Moscow “Intourist Hotel” today.
1975:Refusenik Sender Levinson of Bendery, Moldavis was sentenced to six years in alabor camp for ‘speculation.’”
1978(25thof Iyar, 5738): Eighty-two-year-old New York City native and Cornell graduateCharles Marion Levy the foreign service officer who attended the University ofLyons passed away toda.
1978: Broadwaypremier of “Tribute” directed by Arthur Storch and produced by Morton Gottlieb.
1979(6th ofSivan, 5739): First Day of Shavuot
1979: A weekafter being released in the United States, “The Brood” a sci-fi thrillerdirected and written by David Cronenberg and music by Howard Shore was releasedtoday in Canada.
1980: Actressand singer Barbra Streisand appeared at an ACLU Benefit in California
1980: Today,“a new sports hall of fame built in Eger” was named for Ferenc Kemény theHungarian born Jew who was a founding member of the International OlympicCommittee and who avoided beings sent to the death camps in 1944 by committingsuicide.
1981(28thof Iyar, 5741): As Israelis celebrate Yom Yerushalayim they contemplate whatkind of friend the newly inaugurated Ronal Regan will make for Israel.
1981(28thof Iyar, 5741): Ninety-year-old “Tamar de Sola Pool, an author and educator anda former president of Hadassah, the women's Zionist organization, died today atLenox Hill Hospital.” (As reported by Walter H. Waggoner)
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/pool-tamar-de-sola
1981: Filmingof “The King of Comedy” co-starring Jerry Lewis, Tony Randall and SandraBernhard began today.
1981: NaimKhader, the PLO representative in Belgium, was assassinated in Brussels.
1983(20thof Sivan, 5743): Eighty-two-year-old novelist Anna Seghers who told the talesof the victims of Nazi Germany in such novels as The Seventh Cross and Transitpassed away today in Berlin.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130704063048/http:/www.kirjasto.sci.fi/seghers.htm
1983: Aftersix years, Wilem Polak completed his service as mayor of Amsterdam.
1984(1stof Sivan, 5744): Rosh Chodesh of Sivan
1984: A weekafter premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, “Once Upon a Time America” a filmthat “chronicles the lives of Jewish ghetto youths who rise to prominence inNew York City's world of organized crime” based on The Hoods by HarryGrey was released today in the United States.
1984: “Streetsof Fire” co-produced by Joel Silver and co-starring Rick Moranis was releasedin the United States today.
1984: SusanWeidman Schneider published Jewishand Female: Choices and Changes in Our Lives Today
1985: Princeton graduate and Oxford and Columbia trained attorneyCharles Anthony Fried, the Prague born son of Marta Fried and Skoda Worksexecutive Anthony Fried who fled Europe in the wake of Hitler’s invasion oftheir homeland and the husband of Anne Summerscale began serving as the 38thSolicitor General of the Unied States.
1986(23rd of Iyar, 5746): Eighty-seven-year-old RudolfSonneborn an American businessman whosesupport of the Zionist cause dates back to 1919 when as a 20 year old hevisited Palestine for the first time.(As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)
1987: Meir Rosenne ends his term as Israeli Ambassador to Washington.
1988(16th Sivan, 5748): Eighty-five-year-oldAustrian-American philosopher HerbertFiegl, the son of a Bohemian textile designer and husband of Maria Kaspar whoemigrated to Iowa where he taught philosophy at the University of Iowa passedaway today.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/feigl-herbert
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feigl/
1990(8th of Sivan, 5750): Eighty-one-year-old EstelleStrossman , the wife of Samuel Multer and mother of Rhode Island basketballstar Barry Multer passed away today.
1991(19th of Sivan, 5751): Parashat Beha’alotcha
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/04/obituaries/anthony-papp-jewelry-designer-29.html
1991(19th of Sivan 5751): Twenty-nine year old jewelrydesigner Anthony Papp, the son of Shakespeare Festival director Joseph Papp,passed away today.
1994: Premiere of “The Patriots’ a French film that provides afictionalized account of Mossad operations starring Yvan Attal as “ArielBrenner.”
1994: Today marked the final performance of the first West End rival ofStephen Sondheim’s “Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”
1995: James D. Wolfensohn began serving as the 9th Presidentof the World Bank Group.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/archive/history/past-presidents/james-david-wolfensohn
1996(14th of Sivan, 5756): Parashat Nasso
1996: This evening at the Pierre hotel in New York, Rabbi Amy Ehrlichofficiated at the wedding of Caryn Stephanie Nathanson, “the supervisor ofrights and clearance for NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live’” and “Jeffrey Adam Zuckerthe executive producer of NBC’s ‘Today’ show.” (Editor’s note- when NBC saysthat they are one big happy family they sure aren’t kdding(
1997: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interestto Jewish readers including The Rothschild Gardens by Miriam Rothschild,Kate Garton and Lionel de Rothschild, and the recently released paperbackedition of Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the HolocaustbyDaniel Jonah Goldhagen.
1997: For thesecond time Jack Lang began representing Loir-et-Cher in the French NationalAssembly.
1998(7thof Sivan, 5758): Second Day of Shavuot
1999: Brooksly E. Born, the wife of Jack Landauresigned as chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
1999: PaperBridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky the Yiddish poet who had passedaway in 1975 was published today.
https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Bridges-Selected-Poems-Molodowsky/dp/0814328466
2000: “Syriais ready to accept Israel's retreat last week from southern Lebanon as acomplete withdrawal, a United Nations envoy said today, a move that couldlessen the possibility of renewed violence along the Israeli-Lebanese border.”
2001: RapperShyne, whose legal name is Moses Michael Levi, was sentenced to ten years inprison after having been “convicted of, attempted murder, assault, and recklessendangerment.”
2001(10thof Sivan, 5761): Twenty-one Israelis were killed and another 132 were injured,most of whom were high school students when a suicide bomber blew himself up inTel Aviv at the Dolphinarium.
MariaTagiltsiva (14), Raisa Nimrovsky (15), Ana Kazachkova (15), KatherineKastaniyada-Talkir (15), Irena Nepomnyashchi (16), Mariana Medvedenko (16),Yulia Nelimov (16), Liana Saakyan (16), Marina Berkovizki (17), Simona Rodin(18), Aleksei Lupalu (16), Yelena Nelimov (18), Irena Usdachi (18), Ilya Gutman(19), Roman Dezanshvili (21), Diez Normanov (21), Ori Shahar (32), Yael-YuliaSklianik (15), Sergei Panchenko (20), Jan Bloom (25), Yevgeniya Dorfman (15
2001: AuthorsAyelet Waldman and Michael Chabon to their third child Ida-Rose or “Rosie.”
2002: “TheIsraeli Army imposed a curfew on Nablus, took over houses for sniper posts,surrounded the Balata camp -- birthplace and stronghold of the terrorist groupknown as the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades
2003: “Walkinga little faster and wearing more layers than usual, marchers in the Salute toIsrael Parade stepped and drove up a chilly, wet Fifth Avenue today beneaththousands of Israeli flags, their heads, caps and skullcaps tucked against theblowing drizzle.”
2004(12th ofSivan, 5764): Seventy-four-year-old ophthalmologist Charles Kelman passed awaytoday. (As reported by Eric Nagourney)
2005:"Celebrated Piano Instructor Kaplinsky Counts Student as CliburnFinalist".
http://keranews.org/post/celebrated-piano-instructor-kaplinsky-counts-student-cliburn-finalist
2005: UnitedStates premier of the Israeli film “Or” (my treasure starring Dana Igvy.
2005: U.S.premiere of “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” with a script by DeliaEphron.
2005: Moshe"Bogie" Ya'alon completed his term as Chief of Staff of the IDF.
2005: DanHalutz “was officially appointed the eighteenth Chief of Staff of the IsraelDefense Forces and was awarded the rank of Rav-Aluf (Lieutenant General). It isthe second time in the history of the Israel Defense Forces that a former IAFcommander became the head of the entire military.”
2005: TheJewish Family Service (JFS) of Los Angeles holds its annual gala. The honoreesare CAA agent Rick Kurtzman; his brother, Fox business affairs executive HowardKurtzman; and their brother-in-law, William Morris Agent David Lonner (marriedto their sister Janet).
2005: In“Sarah Aaronsohn's Heroic Silence” published today, Seth Lipsky provides areview of A Strange Death by Hillel Halkin which provides a look at this littleknown piece of Jewish history from WW I.
http://www.nysun.com/arts/sarah-aaronsohns-heroic-silence/14688/
2005: “After39 previews, the Manhattan Theatre Club production” of “After the Night and theMusic” a one-act play in three parts, written by Elaine May opened today at theBiltmore Theatre where it “ran for only 38 performances.
2006: TheMinnesota Twins drafted Danny Valencia.
2006: TheKennedy Center production “Mame,” a musical with a book by Jerome Lawrence andlyrics and music by Jerry Herman opened today.
2006: At acommencement address he delivered at Queens College today, Alan “Hevesi toldhis audience that Senator Charles Schumer was so tough he would "put abullet between the President's eyes if he could get away with it." Severalhours after his remarks, Hevesi apologized for his comments, calling them"beyond dumb," "remarkably stupid," and "incrediblymoronic\.”
2006:Archaeologists Ofer Bar-Yosef of Harvard University and Mordechai E. Kislev andAnat Hartmann of Bar-Ilan University report that they have found evidence thatancient people grew fig trees some 11,400 years ago, making the fruit theearliest domesticated crop. Remains of the ancient fruits were found at GilgalI, a village site in the Jordan Valley north of ancient Jericho,. Gilgal wasabandoned more than 11,000 years ago. Figs that are edible do not produce seedsand are propagated by planting shoots. Bar-Yosef said that ''In thisintentional act of planting a specific variant of fig tree, we can see thebeginnings of agriculture. This edible fig would not have survived if not forhuman intervention.''
2006:The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, in conjunction with theInstituto Cervantes and the Spanish Consulate in New York paid tribute toDiplomat and Savior of the Holocaust, Eduardo Propper de Callejón at theInstituto Cervantes in New York City.
2007:The Metropoline Company joined the Egged Bus Cooperative in providing busservice to Arad.
2007: Hadassahnational president June Walker’s appointment to head the Conference ofPresidents of Major Jewish Organizations goes into effect. The Presidents'Conference is the umbrella group that represents 50 American Jewishorganizations on issues of national and international concern.
2007: MichelGraber, the magistrate who has been overseeing the investigation into the firethat damaged Geneva’s largest synagogue on May 24 said that it was a criminalact which he described as arson. But he said there had been no indication thatit was set by extremists. The May 24 blaze raised fears among Geneva's Jewishcommunity that the fire might have been an anti-Semitic attack.
2007: On thesame day when three more Kassam rockets struck Israel, the IAF killed a memberof an Islamic Jihad Kassam cell in an air strike.
2007: “KnockedUp” a comedy directed, produced and written by Judd Aptow, starring Seth Rogenand Paul Rudd and featuring Jason Segal, Iris Apatow, Maude Apatow, HaroldRamis and James Franco was released in the United States today.
2007: Britishhistorian Geoffrey Alderman “joined the University of Buckingham” today.
http://www.geoffreyalderman.com/
2007:“Flyboys” a film about WW I allied pilots starring James Franco and DavidEllison, the son of Oracle CTO Larry Ellison, and with music by Trevor Rabinwas released in the United Kingdom today.
2008:Washington, D.C, Manhattan, NYC and Boston all host celebrations honoringIsrael at Sixty.
2008: Mrs.Jacob (Betty) Levin gathers with her family and friends for the unveiling ofthe Matzevah of Dr. Jacob Levin (of blessed memory). Of course, his real Matzevah is impact hemade on the lives of his loving family and devoted friends.
2008: “IsraeliPresident Shimon Peres honored David Littman for his role in Operation Muralwhich was designed to save the Jewish children of Morocco, at a Presidentialresidence special commemorative event with his wife and family and former keyMossad agents in attendance.”
2008: InChicago, the Spertus sponsors a book signing for “Louis Zukofsky The Modernist Poet as Jew” by Dr. Mark Scroggins.
2008: The Chicago Sun Timesfeatures a review of “The Dream” by ninety-eight year old HarryBernstein. “The Dream” follows “TheInvisible Wall” as the second in a trilogy that traces the life of theimmigrant son of Yankel and Ada Bernstein.
2008: The Washington Postfeatures a review of “1948: A History of the FirstArab-Israeli War” by Benny Morris as well as listings for “Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Rolein Protecting Democracy”, by Natan Sharansky, “Golda” by Elinor Burkett,” A History of Palestine: From the OttomanConquest to the Founding of the State of Israel” by Gudrun Krämer, “Jerusalem:City of Longing” by Simon Goldhill and The Story of Israel: From Theodor Herzl to the Roadmap for Peace”by Martin Gilbert.
2008(27th of Iyar, 5768): Yosef (Tommy)Lapid passed away at the age of 76. Bornin Yugoslavia in 1931, Lapid and his mother (his father died in the Holocaust)made Aliyah in 1948 where he became a successful journalist and politicalleader.
2008(27th of Iyar, 5768): In Cedar Rapids,Iowa, Penny Binger a student of Chasidic Judaism and devote of Shlomo Carlbachpassed away.
2008: In front page article entitled “Baghdad Jews Have Become a FearfulFew” The New York Times describes the plight of one of the world’soldest Jewish communities.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/world/middleeast/01babylon.html.
2009: Final showing of Sol LeWitt’s “Wall Drawing #260(1975)” at NewYork’s Museum of Modern Art.
2009: Sports Illustrated magazine features a review of BillRussell’s “Red and Me” which focuses on the close, unique relationship betweenthe all-star center and coach and Red Auerbach, Russell’s coach and mentor.Between the two of them, they changed the game and made a unique socialstatement. “Russell writes that they were drawn together by a mutualhardheadedness, united y the ‘tribulation of our tribes’: Russell was anAfrican American who grew up in the Jim Crow South and the Oakland projects,Auerbach a street-savvy urban Jews.” While everybody knows about the alliancebetween African-Americans and Jews that helped to make the Civil RightsRevolution, fewer people are aware of this unique Black-Jewish Alliance whichcreated its own revolution.
2009: The Washington Nationals drafted Danny Rosenbaum.
2009: During “Turning Point 3” the government’s emergency headquarterswill discuss coordination measures
2009: Security forces uprooted the outpost ofNahalat Yosef today and arrested several activists who protested thedestruction. Among those arrested was MK Michael Ben-Ari. Following thoseevents, security forces converged on Ramat Gilad, where residents are concernedat the prospect of a confrontation but say they will resist any attempts toevict them from the area.
2009: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak began around of meetings with top U.S. officials today in a bid to head off anincreasingly sharp dispute between the United States and Israel over theexpansion of Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory.
2009: The Saul Steinberg:Illuminations travelling exhibition, which displays original Steinberg workscomes to a close in Hamburg, Germany.
2010: Mothers Circle, aneducation and support group for non-Jewish women raising Jewish children isscheduled to have its first meeting for the summer at the Historic Sixth &I Street Synagogue.
2010: Peter Stansky review of TheSpanish Right and the Jews, 1898-1945: Anti-Semitism and Opportunism byIsabelle Rohr was published today.
http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/book-review-the-spanish-right-and-the-jews/
2010: In the wake of naval actionoff the coast of Gaza, Prime Minister Netanyahu does not meet with PresidentObama as originally scheduled.
2010: An Islamic militant group in the Gaza Stripsaid three of its members had been killed in an Israeli airstrike in northernGaza. The Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad group said its fighters were killedshortly after firing two rockets into southern Israel. Israeli authorities saidthe rockets landed in open areas and caused no injuries.
2011: The Masada, Dead Sea andJerusalem Opera Festival is scheduled to begin.
2011: Final session of HebrewLiteracy: Aleph, Bet, and Beyond is scheduled to take place today at theHistoric Sixth & Synagogue in Washington, DC
2011: In Washington, DC, AdasIsrael is scheduled to hold its Annual Meeting and honor the 2011 Yad Kakavodrecipient, David Bickart.
2011(28th of Iyar,5771): Yom Yerushalayim – JerusalemReunification Day
2011: President Shimon Peres said today that peacecould be achieved in Jerusalem in "our time", declaring that Israelhas replaced the divisions that once wracked the holy city by offering freedomto all faiths and creeds.
2011: The American JewishCommittee lauded the Obama administration today for its decision not to takepart in the upcoming United Nations’ Commemoration of the Durban WorldConference Against Racism, set to take place in September in New York.
2011: Susan Herbst is an Americanpolitical scientist and academic administrator began serving the 15th presidentof the University of Connecticut, making her the first woman to hold thatposition since the school’s founding in 1881.
2011: In Helsinki, Ben Zyskowicz,a member of the National Coalition Party who was recently appointed speaker ofthe Finnish parliament, was attacked by a middle-aged man shouting a racialepithet against Jews.
2011: Attorneys for Howard Ackerman, an OrthodoxJewish prisoner in Carson City, Nev., filed a lawsuit against the state. Thesuit claimed that the state's corrections department intended to stop servingkosher meals to inmates within a week, thus violating their client’s freedom topractice his religion. Attorneys representing the state prison system filedcourt papers saying new menus are being considered, but that there are no plansto discontinue the kosher meal program.
2012: Cellist Yoed Nir isscheduled to perform tonight at Town Hall in New York
2012: Larry and Mindy Fogel arescheduled to perform a musical salute to the Carpenters in Kfar Vradim. arry and
2012: The Kühn Choir of Prague isscheduled to give an a-capella concert at the Henry Crown Concert Hall as partof the Israel Festival being held in Jerusalem.
2012: Jennifer Herren isscheduled to begin her Bat Mitzvah weekend in Cedar Rapids, Iowa by helping tolead Shabbat Eve services which will include a special appearance by singersand musicians of Shir Yehuda.
2012: Early this morning membersof the 12th Battalion of the famed Golani Brigade thwarted a bordercrossing which appears to have been the prelude to a major terroristinfiltration. Planes from the IAFfollowed up with targeted attacks on Gaza.
2012(11th of Sivan,5772): Eighty-one year-old Marion Sandler, the wife of Herbert Sandler, passedaway today. (As reported by Michael J. De La Merced
2012: Andy Samberg’s spokespersonannounced that he had left SNL
2012(11th of Sivan,5772): Twenty-one-year-old Golani Staff-Sergeant Netanel Moshiashvil, fromAshkelon, was killed today while stopping a terrorist infiltrator attempting tocross into Israel from Gaza.
2013: A children’s adaption of“As You Like It “ is scheduled to be performed as part of the Israel Festivalin Jerusalem.
2013: Professor KrzysztofJasiewicz , a Polish Historian, is scheduled to lose his position as head ofthe Department of Analysis of Eastern Issues following an interview in which hepartly blamed the Jews for the Holocaust. (As reported by JTA and Times ofIsrael)
2013: “For its first pavilion at the prestigiousVenice Biennale international art festival which is scheduled to open today,the Vatican is presenting an exhibit inspired by the first book of the Torah,rather than by a New Testament theme. Called “Creation, Un-Creation,Re-Creation,” the three-part show in the Vatican’s pavilion will draw on thefirst 11 chapters of Genesis, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of thePontifical Council for Culture, told reporters Tuesday at a news conferencepresenting the concept.” (As reported by JTA)
2013: Eilat residents wereslightly unsettled this afternoon as a mild earthquake shook the southerncity’s streets and buildings. There were no reports of injury or serious damage(As reported by Adiv Sterman)
2013: Today a French judge putunder formal investigation a 31-year-old man suspected of helping anal-Qaida-inspired gunman prepare a shooting spree in the southern France cityof Toulouse last year, a judicial source said.
2014: The New York Times featured reviews of books byJewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Deliciousby Ruth Reichl and Here Comes the Night The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and theDirty Business of Rhythm & Blues by Joel Selvin.
2014:”The Sturgeon Queens” is scheduled to be shown at theAllentown Jewish Film Festival
2014: A revival of “Driving Miss Daisy” is scheduled to beperformed at The Bayou Playhouse in Lockport, LA.
2014: “The 10th Annual Matzohball5K and 1 Mile Fun Run!” sponsored by Temple Isaiah in Fulton, MD, is scheduledto take place at Centennial Park in Howard County.
2014: “Palestinians in Gaza fired a rocketearly this morning at the Eshkol region in southern Israel.” (Times of Israel)
2014: “Maj.Gen. Yoav Mordechai, head of COGAT, the IDF’s civil administration in the WestBank, personally denied travel permission to Ramallah for three Palestinianleaders from Gaza slated to be appointed ministers in the expected Fatah-Hamasunity government.” (Times of Israel)
2014: Today, “European Jewish leaders on Sundaypraised the arrest of a suspect in the Brussels Jewish Museum attack and calledfor preemptive measures to protect Europe’s Jewish communities from additionalattacks.” (As reported by Marissa Newman)
2014: Samuel L. Jackson, who has appeared inover 100 films, was a joyful participant in todays annual Celebrate Israelparade in New York City. (As reported by Lazar Berman)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/samuel-l-jackson-celebrates-israel-at-ny-parade/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/with-pomp-and-flags-thousands-mark-celebrate-israel-parade/
2014: The cabinet approved the “JointInitiative of the Government of Israel and World Jewry” which “aims to enhancethe connection between the Jewish people and the State of Israel” today. (Asreported by Sigal Samuel)
2014: With Lewis Katz's sudden death yesterday,his son, Drew, is expected to assume a large role in the ownership andmanagement of the Philadelphia Inquirer and other organizations owned orinfluenced by his father.
2014: “Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of RuthGruber is scheduled to come to an end at the Illinois Holocaust Museum andEducation Center.
http://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/pages/exhibitions/special-exhibitions/
2015: Today “Israel accused the United Nations ofgranting "UN non-governmental organization status" to an associationlinked to militant Palestinian group Hamas that it said promotes"anti-Israel propaganda in Europe."
2015: Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. will preside overthe bench trial scheduled to begin today which will decide the ownership of “aset of silver Torah bells known as rimonim, thought to be worth more than $7million.” (As reported by Paul Berger)
2015: Today marked the “first International Farhud Dayat the United Nations.’
2015: The funeral and interment of Rochelle Shoretzwhose own breast cancer diagnosis “led to her founding of Sharsheret” wasscheduled to take place today.
2015: Daniel Kahneman “was awarded an honorarydoctorate from the Faculty of Arts at McGill University in Montreal.”
2016: Dr. Gary Zola is scheduled to “share insightsabout his work as Executive Director of the Jacob Radar Marcus Center of theAmerican Jewish Archives” which houses “over ten million pages of documentationand 8,000 linear feet of archives, manuscripts, nearprint materials,photographs, audio and video tape, microfilm, and genealogical materials” atluncheon at the Lillian & Albert Small Jewish Museum in Washington, DC.
2016(24th of Iyar, 5776): Ninety-seven-year-oldcartoonist Anatol Kovarsky passed away today, (As reported by William Grimes)
2016: In Portland, Oregon,Barnes & Noble is scheduled to host barbeque maven Steven Raichlen who willdiscuss his new book Project Smoke.
2016: “The landmark compromise over the future of theWestern Wall remains unresolved following a tense meeting today between Reformand Conservative leaders and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”
2017(7th of Sivan, 5777): Second Day ofShavuot
2017: Today,“the State Prosecutor’s Office won the postponement of hearing scheduled forthe following week into shortening the sentence of Ehud Olmert.” (As reportedby Raoul Wootliff)
2017: “The Israel Festival, an annual three-weekJerusalem-based celebration of local and international music, dance, theaterand performance art” is scheduled to begin today.
2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society isscheduled to host Shavuot services, followed by lunch and dinner.
2017: “Two men tied to Hezbollah” – Samuel El Debekand Ali Kourani – “who had been plotting attacks against Americans and Israelisin the US and Panama were arrested today.”
2018(18th of Sivan, 5778): Eighty-four-year-oldcookbook editor and food columnnist Barbara Kafka, the daughter ofLillian(Shapiro) Poses, one of the first women to graduate from NYU law schooland the wife of Dr.Ernest Kafka, passed away today.(Asreported by Sam Roberts and Matt Schudel)
2018: Today, Eric Greitens resigned from office asthe Governor of Missouri after the Missouri Legislature commenced a specialsession to consider impeachment
2018: In Jerusalem those craving the “real thing” canfind it at Joseph Burger and Diner Bar from 11 a.m. until the start of Shabbat.
2018: After premiering at Sundance six months ago, “AKid Like Jake” co-starring Landecker was released today in the United States.
2018: At 12 noon, JW3 is scheduled to host ascreening of Entebbe in London.
2018: As Israelis prepare for Shabbat, they “digest”the statement by Tamir Pardo, who served as head of Mossad from 2011 to 2016that Prime Minister Netanyahu had given “the order in 2011 for the military toprepare to attack Iran within 15 days.”
2019: The 2019 California Democratic Party StateConvention, where “a platform resolution authored by David Mandel” that is“fiercely critical of Israel” and includes a suggestion “that the Israeligovernment is partly responsible for the atmosphere for inspring last October’smassacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue” is scheduled to be introduced” continues tomeet for a second day” (As reported by JTA)
2019 (27th of Iyar, 5779): ParashatBechukotai: Chapter V Pirke Avot;
2019: At sundown, beginning of the observance of YomYersushalayim.
2019: “Jews and tourists” are scheduled to be barred fromthe visiting the Temple Mount today because it will be closed, as it is every,on “the last days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan” which ironicallycoincides with the start of Jerusalem Day.
2019: Today marks the scheduled beginning of Anne FrankMonth at the Illinois Holocaust Museum which coincides with the birth month ofthe famous diarist and Holocaust victim.
2020: Natalie Farahan, a Jewish communal professional ofIraqi Jewish-descent, and founding member of JIMENA’s Los Angeles Chapter isscheduled to serve as moderator for a Virtual“Remembering the Farhud, “ a look back at the pro-Nazi 1931 pogrom inBaghdad, featuring a man who lived through it, Joe Samuels, author of Beyondthe Rivers of Babylon.
2020: The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheuldedto present “Values and Consequences in the Halakhic Process: A SephardiPerspective” by Bar-Ilan University Professor Zvi Zohar
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host: The WomenofShtisel: Dikla Barkai, Shira Haas, Neta Riskin, HadasYaron, and Ayelet Zurer
2021: The Community Relations Council of Greater Boston isscheduled to present online, “The Crisis in Israel” with Israeli tour educatorRaz Shmilovich who family lives in Moshav Netiv Ha’asarah, the closest Israelicommunity to the Gaza Strip.
2021: Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid and Yamina chief NaftaliBennett hope to inform President Reuven Rivlin on today that they are able toform a government, with the aim of having it sworn next week on June 9. (Asreported by TOI)
2021: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled topresent “Dan Abrams in conversation with Floyd Abrams discussing The ForgottenTrial of Jack Ruby: America’s First Major Television Case.”
2022: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture“Study the Bible: Know What is in it and What is Not” with Rabbi Jeremy Rosen.
2022: The Streicker Center is scheduled to offer the finalsession of “Paul: Radical Convert or Lifelong Jew?” with Dr. Mark W. Weisstuch
2021:The Wiener Holocaust Memorial Library is scheduled topresent a “Testimonies of the Farhud in the Sephardi Voice,” a hybrid eventthat “will introduce the Sephardi Voices UK archive, explore testimonies ofthose who lived through the 1941 pogrom, the Farhud, and discuss the long-termeffects on Baghdad's Jewish population.”
2022: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled present“Standing Again at Sinai,” a virtual Shavuot Seminar with Rabbi Aviad Bodner.
2022: In New Orleans, Queen’s native Rabbi Phil Kaplan, thehusband of Abra Kaplan and the father Roee Kaplan is scheduled to begin histerm of office as the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Israel.
2022: The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduledto present New Works Wednesdays with Arnon Z. Schorr and Joshua Edelglass asthey discuss their new book José and the Pirate Captain Toledano”!
2023: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum isscheduled to present “Pride Month: Defying the Nazi Campaign to ControlSexuality.”
2023: The Jewish Museum of London is scheduled to host aworkshop where families can create their own personalized cookbook.
2023: Lockdown University if scheduled to host a webinarduring which Philip Rubenstein will lecture on “Fritz Bauer: The Man who FoundEichmann and put Auschwitz on Trial.”
2023: The 11th Annual Israel Film CenterFestival is scheduled to begin to at the Marlen Meyeson JCC Manhattan.
2023: Based onpreviously published information, “a far-right group is gearing up forpotential violence at Thursday’s Jerusalem Pride Parade, posting manythreatening messages in an internal chat group wishing for the deaths of thepro-LGBTQ marchers…” (As reported by Michael Bachner)
2024: The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host “MusicalJourneys: Between Vienna and Hamburg” featuring Gilad Harel, clarinet ;YoniGotlibovich, cello and Arnon Erez, piano.
2024: In Jerusalem, the Agnon House Book Club is scheduleto observe the 100th anniversary of the death of Franz Kafka with ajoint reading of his story "Epistle from the Emperor" after which AdinNer-David, “will compare the Kafkaesque story to the Kabbalistic parable aboutthe girl from the castle, which deals with knowledge of the Torah in all itsforms.”
2024(24th of Iyar, 5784): Parashat Bechukotai(In my statutes); Pirke Avot Chapter Five; For more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024: As June1st begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave ofanti-Semitism sweeps the United States and the Hamasheld hostages begin day 239 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluidfor this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting atmidnight Israeli time.)
