This Day, July 9, by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 9
118:
Hadrian, Rome's new emperor, made his entry into the Imperial City. Regardless
of how history remembers him, for Jews, Hadrian is the Emperor who helped to
start the Third Rebellion against Rome. In this case it was the lead by Bar Kochba
and supported by Rabbi Akiva. It lasted from 132 until 135. It was the last
uprising against Rome and really marked the beginning of the end of a vital
Jewish community in Palestine.
425: A decree
of the emperors Theodosius II and Valentinian III, addressed to Amatius,
prefect of Gaul prohibited Jews and pagans from practicing law and from holding
public offices ("militandi"), in order that Christians should not be
in subjection to them, and thus be incited to change their faith.
491: Anastasius I begins his reign as the
Byzantine Emperor. The reign of Anastasius marked the renewal of warfare with
the Sassanid Empire. The Sassanid Empire was the name given to the
Persian Empire of the day. This renewal of warfare would have a negative
impact on the Jews who ruled the island of Yotabe also known as Tiran, which is
in the straits of Tiran. The Jews of Yotabe played an instrumental role
in the trade along the Red Sea and when the Byzantines sought to move East to take
control of this trade and defeat the Sassanids, they would replace the Jewish
leaders with their own people.
507:
At Daphne (near Antioch in Syria), a sporting event was held in the form of a
chariot race between two parties, the Greens and the Whites. For no apparent
reason, the supporters of the greens attacked the local synagogue killing those
Jews who were inside.
518:
Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I, whose war with the Sassanid Empire doomed the
Red Sea trading activities of the Jews of Yotabe, passed away today.
1228:
Cardinal Stephen Langton, who in 1218, as the Archbishop Canterbury “made Jews
wear an oblong white patch of two finger-lengths by four” which made them an
easy to identify mark for the mobs, encouraged by the Barons to ransack Jewish
homes and destroy the “records of the debts owed by the nobility, passed away
today.
721:
The Franks defeat the Muslims at the Battle of Toulouse. This victory checks the spread of Islam in
Western Europe which will be confined to Spain.
This will not be the last battle between these forces. That will be left
to Charles Martel who led the Franks at the Battle of Tours eleven years later.
1391:
Violence in Valencia, Spain that had begun a month earlier under the direction
Ferrand Martinez continued unabated. Ferrand Martinez was the Archdeacon of
Ecija in the fourteenth century, and one of the most inveterate enemies of the
Jewish people. Among Christians he was highly respected for his piety and
philanthropy. In his sermons and public discourses, he continually fanned the
hatred of the Christian population against the Jews, to whom he ascribed all
sorts of vices. As vicar-general of Archbishop Barroso of Seville he arrogated
to himself the right of jurisdiction over the Jews in his diocese, injuring
them wherever he could, and demanding that the magistrates of Alcalá de
Guadeyra, Ecija, and other places no longer suffer the Jews among them. The
community of Valencia was destroyed and 250 Jews massacred. Many others
including the king's physician converted to Christianity while still others
found refuge in the houses of their Christian neighbors.
1391: A
rabbi's personal letter written in Saragossa, Spain on this date is one of the
few firsthand accounts of the total chaos in Spain: "If I were to tell you
here all the numerous sufferings we have endured you would be dumbfounded at
the thought of them…On the day of the New Moon of the fateful month Tammuz in
the year 5151, the Lord bent the bow of the enemies against the populous
community of Seville where there were between 6,000-7,000 heads of families,
and they destroyed the gates by fire and killed in that very place a great
number of people; the majority, however, changed their faith.
1553:
“The Elector Maurice of Saxony” who in 1542 “expelled the Jews from Zwickau”
where they had lived since 1308 and who expelled them from Plauen in 1543
passed away today.
1667(17th
of Tammuz, 5427):
Joseph Athias’ father Abraham Athias, a Marrano Jew,
was burnt at the stake together with the Marranos Jacob Rodríguez Cáceres and
Raquel Nuñez Fernández in Córdoba by the Spanish Inquisition
1701:
During the War of the Spanish Succession which began today, Samson Wertheimer,
the Hungarian Rabbi turned Austrian financier and “court Jew” united with
Samuel Oppenheimer to procure the money necessary for the equipment of the
Austrian imperial army and for the supply of provisions.
1713: Lourença Coutinho the mother of Portugese dramatist António
José da Silva who was known as “O Judeu” or “The Jew” died today in today’s the
auto-da-fé
1730(24h
of Tammuz, 5490): Sixty-nine year old Issachar Berend Lehman, one of the
leading court Jews of the 16th and 17th century who used
the influence he gained with various German princes due to his business acumen
to better the lot of his coreligionists.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/09/1733/abigaill-levy-franks
1733:
Abigaill Levy Franks, the most noted of American Jewish colonial letter
writers, wrote her son Naphtali, admonishing him to eat nothing but "bread
& butter" wherever food preparation was "not done after our
Strict Juidacall [kosher] method."
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/09/1733/abigaill-levy-franks
1746:
“In the middle of the night, two Jews of the Roman ghetto, Amadio Abbina and
Sabato Isacco Ambron, left the city. (The description of their adventures and
the places they visited during their long pilgrimage to the Holy Land have
reached us for the first time in 2012 in manuscripts published by Paola Abbina
and Asher Salah. By providing a biographical sketch of these two intrepid
Jewish friends, this lecture by Asher Salah (Bezalel Academy) aims at
understanding the reasons why they undertook such a perilous journey.)
1749(23rd
of Tammuz, 5509):
Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen ben Abraham passed away.
Born in Lithuania was a Polish-German rabbi who served the communities at
Kėdainiai (Keidani) and Altona.
1754:
During the French and Indian War, the name of Michael Franks, a member of the
Jewish family that supplied soldiers in this and the Revolutionary War,
appeared as a private in a roster of created today by Captain van Braam.
1765: Samuel Israel, Alexander Solomon, and Joseph Depalacios,
three Sephardim who were the first Jews in Alabama bought property today in
Mobile County.
1774:
Birthdate of Yitlah Hays, the New York born daughter of Michael Solomon Ya6s
and the wife of Mark Salomon.
1789: Honoré Gabriel
Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, an early leader of the French Revolution who came
to be a defender of Judaism and Jews completed his service as a member of the
Estates General and began serving as a member of the Constituent Assembly.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mirabeau-honore-gabriel-riqueti-comte-de-x00b0
1791:
Judah Cohen married Gracia Da Costa in Kingston, Jamaica.
1797:
Edmund Burke, British philosopher and statesman, passed away. Burke is the author of the quote “The only
thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This quote has often been used by
commentators and historians in attempts to explain the Holocaust.
1797:
Gompertz Alexander married Betsy Simon at the Great Synagogue.
1800:
In Jamaica, Abraham Quixano Henriques, Esq, the “son of Moses Israel Henriques
and Abigail Henriques” and his wife Leah Rachel Henriques gave birth to Moses
Quixano Henriques, the English resident who was the “husband of Mary Ann
Henriques Ann Henriques and Elizabeth Mary Henriques and the ather of James
Quixano Henriques; Sarah Ellise Quixano Henriques; Moses Henriques and Grace
Rachel Henrique”
1804:
Birthdate of Jonas Bondi, the native of Dresden who was the rabbi at Anshe
Chesed in New York before he began publishing The Hebrew Leader and whose
daughter Selma married the founder of the Reform Movement in the United States
Isaac M. Wise.
1805:
Levy Ephraim Green married Emilia Hyams at the Great Synagogue.
1816: Argentina declares independence from Spain.
The first Jews probably came to Argentina as conversos following the Spanish
Inquisition. Bernardino Rivadavia,
Argentina’s first president gave support to policies that promoted freedom of
immigration and respect for human rights, including the abolishing of the
Inquisition. These changes in the social and political climate paved the way
for a new wave of Jewish immigration.
1818(5th
of Tammuz, 5578): Four-month-old Rebecca Phillips, the daughter of Abigail
Seixas and Benjamin Jonas Phillips who were married in 1804, passed away today.
1822:
In London, Maurie Solomon, the “on of Moshe Eliezer Lieberman Solomon and Betsy
(Elizabeth) Solomon, and his wife Louisa Solomon gave birth to Nathan Maurice
Solomon, “the husband of Ann Jones Solomon and Bertha Helena Solomons and father
of Stuart Kerr Maurice; Annie Louisa Louise Maurice; Julia Maurice; Clara
Eleanor Maurice; Clarence E Maurice; and Nannetta Minnie Maurice” who live for
eighty years.
1825:
Birthdate of Hamburg native, Julius Oppert, who eventually settled in France
where he gained fame as an Assyriologist.
1826: David Jonassohn married
Charlotte Bauer in Hamburg, Germany
1826: In London, Simon Marcus and
Eleanor Levy gave birth to Frederick Marcus.
1829: In Rotterdam, Harry De Groot
and Sarah Lit gave birth Marinus De Groot, the future President of the “Dublin
Hebrew Congreagation.”
1832: In “Little Pimlico, London,”
Simcha and Isabella Cohen gave birth to Philip Cohen today.
1833: In Mayence, Samuel and Sophie
Bondi gave birth to Baruch-Bertram Bondi.
1835(12th of Tammuz,
5595): Based on the tombstone in the Penang Jewish Cemetery, Mrs. Shoshana
Levi, the “English benefactress” passed away today.
1837: Marcus Simon Rosenbacher, the
German born son of Simon Aron Rosenbacher and Libussa Rosenbacher and his Franziska
(Fanni) Anna gave birth to Therese Michael, the wife of Viktor Isaac Michael
and the “mother of Leonie Eisner; Flora Cahn; Hermine Molling; Iwan Michael;
Ernst Michael; and Lea Bona Rosin.”
1839(27th of Tammuz,
5599) Eliza R. Levy Anderson, the Camden SC born daughter of Samuel and Sarah
Moses Levy and the husband of Edward
Henry Anderson passed away today.
1841(20th of Tammuz,
5601): Joseph “Yosef” Friedlander, the son of Aharon Jehuda Friedlander and the
husband of Gittel Rinkel who was a dealer in second hand close passed away
today.
1842:
Lt. Colonel Max-Théodore Cerfberr who served as president of the Consistoire
Central Israelite de France “took his seat in the Chamber Deputies” today “as
representative from Wissembourg.
1845:
In London, Dr. Nathan Marcus Adler “was inaugurated as Chief Rabbi of the Great
Synagogue.”
1845:
Joseph Magnus married Emma Fileman.
1845:
Lazarus Phillips married Bloomah Marks at the Great Synagogue.
1846:
The chief rabbis of Baghdad announced a curse (Herem) on the Christian
missionaries who had come to convert the Jews in their community.
1847:
“The Jewish Chronicle” went from being published every two weeks to being
published as a weekly.
1849:
In Rawicz, Poland, Rabbi Solomon Brann and his wife gave birth to German
Historian Marcus Brann
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/brann-marcus
1850: President Zachary Taylor died and Millard
Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States. Millard Fillmore is one the lesser known U.S.
Presidents. But he played a major role
in furthering the acceptance of Jews as full citizens of the United
States. In 1851, the United States
Senate considered a treaty with Switzerland.
The treaty included a clause that would the governments of the
individual Swiss Cantons to treat U.S. citizens in the same way they treated
their own citizens. Some of the cantons
had laws that discriminated against Jews.
Ratification of the treaty would have meant that American citizens could
be treated differently based on their religion. Fillmore declared that part of the treaty to
be “a decisive objection. In leading the
successful opposition to the treaty Fillmore declared that “neither by law, nor
by treaty, nor by any other official proceeding is it competent for the
Government of the United States to establish any distinction between its
citizens founded on differences in religious beliefs.”
1850: A major fire
struck Philadelphia in which “many Israelites shared in the same calamity,
which overwhelmed their neighbors.” Among the dead were two or three members of
the Marcus family including the eldest son and daughter. At least one other
Israelite was reported as being “severely wounded.”
1851: In London Caroline Antonine
Geradine Louyet married Jacob Levi Montefiore, the Isaac Levi and his wife
Esther Hannah, née Montefiore. “Esther
was a first cousin of Sir Moses Montefiore and connected to the Rothschilds by
marriage. Jacob and his brothers adopted the name of Montefiore.”
http://images.slsa.sa.gov.au/mpcimg/11250/B11232.htm
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Daniel_Guggenheim.aspx
1856: On Rikers Island, “Young
Barney Aaron won a” the son of British bareknuckle boxer Barney Aaron won a
bout that “lasted 80 rounds” or “2 hours and 20 minutes.
1856: Ellis Abraham Frankline
married Adelaide Samuel at the Great Synagogue today.
1857(17th of Tammuz,
5617): Tzom Tammuz observed as Abolitionists and Pro-slavery irregulars
continue the struggle in the multi-event known as Bloody Kansas which was a
dress rehearsal for the Civil War.
1858: In Minden Westphalia Sophie Meyer Boas gave
birth to Columbia University Professor Franz Boas, “the Father of American
Anthropology”
1859(7th
of Tammuz, 5619): Parshat Balak with its attendant greet of Shabbat Shalom
(Sabbath Peace) take on whole new meaning for the Jews of India since it is the
first Shabbat to be observed since the end of the Sepoy Rebellion which
officially came to an end on July 8.
1860(19th
of Tammuz, 5620): Forty-nine-year-old Charleston, SC native Eleazer Levy Hyams
passed away today in Natchitoches.
1860:
Dr. Barnard Van Oven who in 1827 had been appointed physician to the poor of
the Great Synagogue and who was one of the pioneers in the movement for the
removal of the disabilities of the Jews in England as can be seen by his
pamphlet "An Appeal to the British Nation on Behalf of the Jews “passed
away today. Van Oven was following in the footsteps of his father Joshua Van
Ovan the English surgeon who established the Jews’ Free School and the Jews’
Hospital in Mile End.
1861:
Union forces that would come to include the Cameron Dragoons (officially the 65th
Regiment led by Colonel Max Friedman and which contained a large segment of
Philadelphia Jews) skirmished at Vienna, Virginia as they made their way to
Manassas where they would fight the First Battle of Bull Run.
1862:
The Jew's Hospital is reported to be one of the places to which those wounded
on the battle fields of the Peninsula are being brought.
1862:
In St. Louis, Sigmund and Fanny Shulman Schiele gave birth to Edwin Schiele,
the husband of Mynne Kramer Schiele.
1862:
In Vienna, Ignatz Lajos and Rosali Konti gave birth to sculptor Isidore Konti
who originally came to the United States in 1890 to work on the Chicago
Exposition.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11363
1863(22nd
of Tammuz, 5623): Fifty-seven-year-old Bernard Etting, the son of Solomon and
Rachel Gratz Etting passed away today after which he was buried in the family
cemetery in Baltimore, MD.
1866:
Four days after he had passed away, forty-four-year-old Edmund Myer Tobias,
“the youngest son of Myer Tobias and Hannah Wolf” was buried today at the Balls
Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1868:
Birthdate of Minsk native Albert Kruger who in 1899 came to the United States
where he raised one son Lewis with his wife Yetta and served for more than
twenty-five years as Superintendent of the Home of the Daughters of Jacob.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/08/13/104182087.html?pageNumber=19
1869:
In Kovno, Levi and Ella Volpe gave birth to Arnold Volpe, the conductor,
violinist and composer who 1898 came to the United States where he founded the
“Lewishon Stadium concerts” and married Marie Michelson.
1870:
Jonathan Manly Emanual, the son of London born Dr. Manly Emanuel, who began
serving in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War in 1862 began an eleven-month
stint on board the Dictator.
1871(20th
of Tammuz, 5631): Sixty-six-year-old Lelio Hillel Della Torre, the Italian
rabbi who was the son of Solomon Jehiel Raphael ha-Kohen passed away today in
Padua.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0005_0_05060.html
1871:
In Berlin, Rosalie and Samuel Jacoby gave birth to Harvard graduate and
Columbia trained neurologist James Ralph Jacoby, who was the husband of Rae
Jacoby.
1873:
Birthdate of Lithuania native Gerson Guthman, the Chicago insurance and real
estate sales man and director of the Hebrew Theological College.
1873:
In Cincinnati, Ohio, a conference of Jewish leaders formed the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations and adopted a constitution for the
organization. The Union is committed to
establishing a theological college.
Membership in the Union is open to all Jewish congregations in the
United States.
1875:
A lodge of B’nai B’rith was formed today in Austin, TX making it the first
officially Jewish organization in the state’s capital city.
1875:
In New York, Judge Richard Larremore denied the motion for a permanent
injunction sought by Israel J. Solomon in which the plaintiff sought to enjoin
the trustees of B’Nai Jeshrun from making “innovations in the mode of worship.” Specifically, he sought to prevent the
congregation from putting an end to separate seating for men and women which
would mean that families could sit together.
He claimed that “the proposed mingling of the sexes” would in violation
of the charter” of the synagogues “and the ancient custom of Polish and German
Jews.” He also claimed that the change
violated “his rights as a pew owner” and was conducive to immorality.
Essentially, the Judge ruled that the matter at hand was, as a matter of law,
to be decided by the religious authorities and not the civil courts.
1876(17th
of Tammuz, 5636): Tzom Tammuz observed for the last time during the Presidency of U.S. Grant, the
first President to attend services marking the dedication of a synagogue (Adas
Israel, in Washington, DC) and first president to make a contribution to a
synagogue building fund.
1876:
In New York, Rose Lowenberg, the New York born daughter of Elizabeth and Moses
S. Cohn and her husband Solomon Henry Lowenberg gave birth to Alfred Lowenberg
who died six months before his fourth birthday.
1877:
Henry Hilton wrote a letter to a friend of his in Chicago defending his
decision to ban Jews as guest at the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga Springs,
NY. Hilton said that he had expected
some “adverse criticism” when he made the decision. The new hotel had been completed at great
expense and if he did not ban Jews, he would lose “other and more valuable
guests.” He did not fear a boycott of his businesses by the Jews and said that
if the reverse were done the Jews would be the ultimate losers. As far as Hilton knew, the law allowed an
owner to ban whomsoever he wished notwithstanding all of the objections from
“Moses and all his descendants.”
1878:
In New York, Louis R. and Henritte Ehrich gave birth to Yale, Stanford and
Colorado School of Mines trained mining engineer Walter Louis Erich, the
manager of the Bonanza Belt Mining Company and husband of Adelaide Wallach who
was a director of the Hebrew Technical Institute.
1879:
Delegates to the Sixth Council of the Union of American and Hebrew
Congregations enjoyed an excursion to Manhattan Beach today.
1879:
The Sixth Council of the Union of American and Hebrew Congregations met this
morning at 9 for it second and final day.
After approving committee reports, the council voted to meet again on
the second Tuesday of July 1881 in Chicago, Illinois.
1880(1st
of Av, 5640): Rosh Chodesh AV
1881:
“Old Indigo and the New” published today provided a history of this ancient
material which “the Jews first introduced into Europe as dye during the Middle
Ages.” The Jews “practiced the art of
dyeing with” indigo “and other coloring matters on the shores of the Levant.”
1882:
In Wheeling, West Virginia, General Morris Horkheimer, the Republican political
leader and Cecilia Horkheimer gave birth Herbert Morris Horkehimer
1882(22nd
of Tammuz, 5642): French native Adam Kahn, the husband of Dorothy Brobeck Kahn
with whom he raised nine children passed away today after which he was interred
in the Springville Cemetery in Madison, Indiana.
1882:
In “A Plea for the Egyptians” published today, Simon Wolf, the American Jew who
has been serving as the United States Consul-General in Egypt summarizes his
view of the current situation in Egypt.
After describing the divisions within the society and presenting a
socio-economic snapshot of the country, he reports the desire of the local
population to be free of the Ottomans but not at the expense of taking on a
European yoke. He sees the British as
the greatest threat to progress and independence and expresses the view that
America should support the Egyptians in their attempts to modernize their
society. [Note – In tone and in some case in fact, one can see a prequel of
descriptions and aspirations tied to the 21st century Arab Spring.]
1882:
Birthdate of Samuel Lionel "Roxy" Rothafel, the native of Stillwater,
MN, “a showman of the 1920s silent film era and the impresario for many of the
great New York movie palaces that he managed such as the Strand, Rialto,
Rivoli, Capitol, the eponymous Roxy Theatre in New York City and the Radio City
Music Hall who passed away in 1936
1883:
The funeral of Joseph Reckendorfer is scheduled to take place at his home in
New York City. Reckendorfer was a prominent member of the Jewish community as
can be seen by the notices requesting members of Temple Emanu-El, members of
the Board of Relief of the United Hebrew Charities and the Directors of the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum to attend the funeral.
His success in the world of commerce can be seen by a similar request to
members and officers of the Stationer’s Board of Trade. Reckendorfer will be
remembered by his associates as the man who bought Hyman Lipman’s patent for
attaching an eraser to the end of pencil in 1862 for $100,000 only to have the
Supreme Court declare the patent invalid in a case in 185 involving Faber
Castell.
1883:
In New York City, Samuel and Rosalie Abraham gave birth to Columbia University
trained chemist, who became chairman of the board of Ruberoid Company and
author of authoritative Asphalt and Allied Substances who was the husband of
the former Dorothy Jacoby.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/04/05/90311878.pdf
1884:
Birthdate of Mikhail Gruzenberg, the Belarus native known as Comintern agent
Mikhail Borodin.
http://spartacus-educational.com/Mikhail_Borodin.htm
1884: “Destruction of the Judengasse”
published today informed those planning to visit Frankfort this summer that one
of the sights described in their guidebooks – the Judengasse – will have
disappeared by the time they arrive in the German city. The Judgengasse (Jew’s
Alley) was the ghetto established for the Jews in the 15th century.
In 1808 the gates that had locked the Jews in were removed and most of them
have moved to other parts of the city.
Only houses on one side of the “alley” are left and they will soon be
demolished.
1885:
“In the village of Cabanas de Viriato in the scenic northern province of Beira
Alta, Portugal, Jose de Sousa Mendes, a well-to-do high court judge, and Maria
Angelina de Abranches gave birth to Aristides de Sousa Mendes the Portuguese
diplomat who defied his government and saved thousands from the clutches of
Hitler and the Gestapo.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/aristides-de-sousa-mendes
1885:
It was reported today that the first excursion for the poor children and their
mothers sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children has been scheduled for
next week.
1885:
“Jews of the Northern Caucasus” published today provided an account of Dag
Chufut or Mountain Jews who live in several communities “in the provinces of
Daghestan, Terek and Kouban. Numbering
about 500 families they claim to be descendants of Persian families who came
here in the 15th century because the local princes wished to exploit
their commercial skills. They speak the
local dialects but write in Farsi, the language in which their Talmud is
written. Religion is the only thing that
they have in common with Jews living in the eastern part of the Russian Empire
and they look to their own rabbis for spiritual guidance.
1885:
Josef Ahondorowsky, his wife and six children are scheduled to sail back to
Russia on board the State of Indiana today.
This Jewish family arrived on July 2 claiming that their passage had
been paid for by the Hebrew Aid Society of Paris while admitting that they had
no money.
1887:
“Squelching Rabbi Browne” published today described some of the embarrassing
antics of Rabbi E.B.M. Browne that included publicly proclaiming himself to be
the “Modern Maccabee” and the “Jewish Beecher” and his role in defending
convicted wife killer Adolf Reich. He earned further disdain for attempting to
play a role in the funeral of the later President Grant. He insisted that as an Orthodox Jew he would
have to walk to the cemetery because the funeral was held on Shabbat. Apparently he assumed everybody was ignorant
of the fact that Jews do not attend funerals on the Sabbath. The dwindling number of congregants at Gates
of Hope was the final blow to his remaining as leader of the congregation.
1887:
In Boston, Nathan and Ida Ginsberg Pinanski gave birth to Boston born, Harvard
Law School graduate and WW I Army veteran Abraham E. Pinanski, “a member of the
Massachusetts Superior Court since 1930,” the “President of the Hebrew Free
Loan Society of Boston” since 1936 and “President of the Jewish Child Welfare
Association” who was the husband of “Viola R. Pinanski” with whom he had four
daughters
1888(1st
of Av, 5648) Rosh Chodesh Av
1888:
In Leeds, Hannah Cohen and Michael Marks, the co-founder of major British
multinational company Marks & Spencer gave birth to Simon Marks, 1st Baron
Marks of Broughton.
1888:
It was reported today that a Bet Din consisting of 4 rabbis and led by Rabbi
Jacob Charif will meet twice a week to render opinions related to Jewish law.
However, Charif, the newly arrived Orthodox Rabbi who was brought to the United
States to lead the primarily immigrant community of Jews living on the lower
East Side has not made up his mind if he will remain in the United States or
return to Vilna.
1889:
The Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations assembled in Detroit
today and continued in session for three days. Among the many prominent Jewish
leaders attending, none will garner more attention than Rabbi Isaac Meyer Wise,
the President of the Hebrew Union College whose recent 70th birthday
was the cause for nationwide celebration among his Reform colleagues and other
supporters.
1889
Birthdate of Tupelo, MS native and University of Missouri trained journalist,
Leo R. Sack, the WW I veteran and former United States Minster to Costa Rica
who raised one daughter with his wife Regina passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/04/17/84883578.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1889:
Thanks to “the efforts of the Reformed or Liberal branch of the Jewish
teachers: the Central Conference of American rabbis was organized today in
Detroit Michigan.
1889:
Mr. Robert Bongynge said today that regardless of what the Board of Trustees of
the Harlem Club might do, he was sure that if a could be taken among the
general membership could be taken Senator Jacob A. Cantor would be admitted as
a member regardless of the fact that he was Jewish
1890:
Daniel Froman, the manager of the Lyceum Theatre arrived in New York City today
and went immediately to his country home in Stamford, CT.
1890(21st
of Tammuz, 5650): Sixty-five-year-old German Rabbi Immanuel Heinrich Ritter
passed away today in Bohemia.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12775-ritter-julius
1890:
“Arthur Dale Chairman of the Joint Board of Cutters, tailors and contractors
received a letter from the United Hebrew Charities signed by James H. Hoffman,
Hyman Blum and M.W. Platzek, stating that it was their duty to assist in
settling the difficulty, and that they would be pleased to meet Mr. Dale or
other gentlemen who represent the interest of the working people that are
affected and discuss the situation with the view of arriving at a satisfactory
understanding.”
1891:
“A Home For The Jews” published today described a meeting “held at Lemberg, the
capital of Galacia between Arnold White representing Baron Hirsch, Herr Franzos
representing the Jews of Berlin, and Dr. Karunda” representing the Jews of
Vienna where the trio agreed that it would be best to direct Jews fleeing
Europe to settlements in Argentina especially since no plans can be developed
for settling Jews in Palestine.
1891: It was reported today that committees have been formed at
Odessa and other ports throughout Europe to help Jews reach Argentina.
1891: “The compilation of immigration statistics for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1891 was completed today” showing “that during the period
405, 654 immigrants” landed at New York, 33,504 of whom were from Russia and
“the majority of them were Jews.”
1891: Charles Stern, a New York peddler who went to Brazil claiming
to be a farmer, wrote a letter complaining that the government had not given
him farm but had put him to work on railroad construction “compelling him to
work like a slave.”
1892: In New York all of the delegates attending the annual convention
of American rabbis went to Sabbath services this morning at Temple Beth-El.
1892: Birthdate of Budapest native Sandor Harmati, the “American
violinist and composer” who in 1921 was a founding member of the American Music
Guild and is best
known for his song "Bluebird of Happiness" written in 1934 for Jan
Peerce”
1893.
Birthdate of Rzeszow, Poland native Al (Eliyahu) Irom, the husband of the
former Helen Fixler and father of Barbara Irom.
1893: The SS Red Sea
which is scheduled to arrive in New York today with 800 immigrants in steerage
including 120 Russian Jews will be met by immigration officials to ensure the
passengers meet the financial requirements for coming to the United States. Officials are trying to discourage the
trafficking in indigent immigrants that owners of tramp steamers have been
engaging in.
1894: Twice as many mothers are expected to attend today’s lecture
on the care and feeding of children during warm weather being held at the
Hebrew Institute than attended the first such lecture.
1895: It was reported today that Dr. Max Landsberg is scheduled to
deliver the welcoming address at the upcoming annual Central Conference of
American Rabbis which will be held at Rochester, NY.
1895: Judge Stover has vacated the order he had issued to allow
the District Attorney to exhume the body of the late Mrs. Wolf Silverman
because the insurance company thought her death was suspicious. The judge said that if the insurance company
had any proof to back up their allegations about her husband they should submit
them to the District Attorney.
1895: “Hebrews Want Representation” published today described
efforts of the Jews to have one of their co-religionist appointed as a School
Trustee of Tenth Ward where 95% of the students are Jews. Nathan Shevy, a New
York lawyer, has proposed that Trustee position held by Charles B. Stover be
declared vacant since he has not attended a meeting for seven months and that
he be replaced by a Jew. The only Jew
who had been a Trustee was not reappointed and currently all of the Trustees
are Christians.
1896: William Jennings Bryan gave his “Cross of Gold Speech” at
the Democratic National Convention.
1896: It was reported today that Lord Rosebery’s marriage to “a
wealthy Jewess at time when his finances were at the lowest ebb…was sufficient
to spoil his chances with the working classes” which has sealed his political
doom.
1896: Birthdate of Gershon Hadas, the husband of Anne Eisenberg
Hadas and the Rabbi at Beth Shalom Synagogue.
1896:
In the trial of Adolph Herschkopf for the murder of Lizzie Jaeger, the
prosecution rested today.
1897:
On the day after he passed away David bar Abraham HaCohen was buried at the
Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.
1898: The month-long mustering in process for the 6th
Virginia Volunteer Infantry whose members included Mathew N. Levy of Norfolk
began today.
1899: Columbia Medical College graduate and actuary Isaac Max
Rubinow, the Lunny, Russia born son of Max and Esther Rubinow In Lunny (near Grodno)
Russia, and author of The Quest of Security which “established him as
the most recognized theorist on social insurance in the first three decades of
the twentieth century married Sophie Himowich today.
1899:
Police made renewed efforts today in Worcester, MA, to enforce the blue laws
related to Sunday closings following a demand by Jewish merchants who had been
targeted by the police for selling merchandize on “the Sabbath.”
1899:
The Central Conference of American Rabbis, with offices at the Euclid Avenue
Temple in Cleveland, OH, was organized today.
1899:
The list of bequests made by the late David Krakauer published today included
$1,000 to the Montefiore Home and the Hebrew Sheltering Orphan Asylum; $2,000
for Mount Sinai Hospital; and $500 to the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews and
the United Hebrew Charities.
1900: In
Emden, Germany, Rosa Funk, the Dutch born “daughter of Israel Nathan Gruenberg
and Roosje Conrads Gruenberg and her husband Louis (Lazarus) Funk gave birth to Conrad
Funk, the husband of Trude Funk.
1900: Queen
Victoria of the United Kingdom gives royal assent to an act creating the
Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under
one federal government. The first Jews arrived in Australia, in 1788 when
European convicts settled in what was to become the city of Sydney. Jews played an active role in the growth and
development of the various colonies that would make up the CommonHealth of
Australia. Members of Montefiore family,
which was part of the clan headed by Sir Moses Montefiore the famed
philanthropist and businessman, developed several commercial ventures and held
numerous public positions during this time. The township of Montefiore stands
as a testament to the family’s active role in the development of Australia and
its Jewish community.
1901:
According to reports published in the New York Times, Montefiore Isaacs,
the nephew of the late Sir Moses Montefiore, is one of the most popular
bachelors who belong to the posh Metropolitan Club. Among other things, Montefiore is famous for
his skills as a magician; skills which he has used in “thousands of
performances” given for a wide variety of charities. He is also a well regarded for his knowledge
of Shakespeare and his collection of very rare books.
1902:
Another interview with Lord Rothschild takes place during which Herzl submits
the details of Colonization Company for the development of Sinai, El Arish and
Cyprus. Rothschild promises to discuss the plan with the British Minister for
the Colonies, Joseph Chamberlain.
1902:
In Aurora, Illinois, “Benjamin Philip and Lillian (Reinheimer) Alschuler gave
birth University of Chicago trained attorney Jacob Edward Alschuler who had
belong to ZBT while an undergrad at Wisconsin and was the husband of the former
Carolyn Strauss with whom he had three children – George, Benjamin, and
Rosalie.
1903:
Secretary of State Hay “was in further conference today” with some Jewish
leaders and communicated to them” the desire of President Roosevelt, who has
already decided “that the matter of the Jewish petition must be disposed of
before” any action can be taken because of the situation in Manchuria, that
they should consult with him at his summer home at Oyster Bay by July 14
regarding “the disposition to made of the Jewish petition to Russia.
1904:
The National Democratic Convention which Samuel Untermyer attended as a
delegate from New York and nominated Alton B. Parker to run against Socialist
Eugene Debs and Republican Theodore Roosevelt came to a close. In the fall, in
New York’s 8th Assembly District on the Lower East Side which was
dominated by Jewish voters, “Democrat Alton B. Parker crushed
Socialist Debs by nearly 3 to 1, but the “all-American” Republican, Theodore
Roosevelt, beat them both and easily swept the neighborhood.” (As reported by
Michael Medved)
1905: “The sole memorial service” honoring the recently deceased
Secretary of State John Hay “to be held in New York City” took place “in the
synagogue of the First Romanian-American Congregation” where “recognition of
the services of the United States in behalf of the Jews during Mr. Hay’s
secretaryship” were a key part of the event.
1905: The Ninth Summer Assembly of the Jewish Chautauqua Society
continued for a second day in Atlantic City, NJ.
1905: Twenty-two-year-old University of Oregon trained attorney Dr. David N. Mosessohn the Russian born son
of Dr. Nehemiah and Theresa Mosessohn, married Mayna Lerner today before moving
to New York City in 1918 where he pursued a varied career that including being
publish of The Jewish Tribune and Chancellor of the Council of American Jewish
Student Affairs.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/message-the-death-david-n-mosessohn
1906:
Birthdate of New Haven, CT native and
Yale trained psychiatrists Dr. Louis Harold Cohen, the husband of Sylvia Cohen
and father of Jonathan, James and Elizabeth Cohen whose writings on the subject
of mental health included Murder, Madness and the Law,
1906: Alfred Dreyfus continued living, as he had for almost two years in
a state of “virtual house-arrest” awaiting an official exoneration which would
finally take place three days later.
1907: “Dreyfus to Retire” published today reported that Major Alfred
Dreyfus is going to retire due to ill-health and accept a pension meaning that
it is unlikely “that he will again resume his military duties.”
1908: In Colorado, Samuel and Harriet Hattie Schwartz gave birth to Adele
Lehman Schlafer, the wife Nathan Henry Schlafter with whom she had two
children.
1908: In Yampil, a town in the western Ukraine, Bluma and Moshe Mikardo
gave birth to British Labor MP Ian Mikardo.
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/11/obituaries/ian-mikardo-84-dies-led-british-labor-party.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-ian-mikardo-2321404.html
http://spartacus-educational.com/TUmikardo.htm
1909:
The Jews of Persia took refuge inside the Turkish consulate during a revolt.
They appeal to the Hahambashi of Turkey to help them become Ottoman subjects.
1909:
In Daruvar, Rebekka (née Figel) Frankfurter and Rabbi Mavro Frankfurter gave
birth to David Frankfurter who assassinated German NSDAP leader Wilhelm
Gustloff
1910(2nd
of Tammuz, 5670): Parashat Chukat
1910:
A copy of the telegram sent by William H. Hughes, a member of Congress
representing the Sixth District of New Jersey to President Taft, which stated
that “the Jewish constituents of my district through the medium of the
Independent Order of the Free Sons of Joseph, desire me to call your attention
to the atrocities which occurred in Russia affecting the Jewish population…and
respectfully request that you as President of the United States on behalf of
the Jewish citizens of this country enter a protest to the Russian Government
in the name of humanity…” was published today
1911: In
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the 15th annual summer assembly of the Jewish
Chautauqua Society led by Chancellor Henry Berkowitz continued for a third day.
1911: In New
York, Sadye and Oscar Friedlander gave birth to Dorothy Geller, the wife of
State Supreme Court Judge Abraham N. Geller and mother of Susan and Bruce
Geller “who was a founder and long-time leader of the Women’s Division of the
UJA of Greater New York.
1912(24th
of Tammuz, 5672): Seventy-eight-year-old George Stause passed away today in New
York City.
1913:
Birthdate of Rabbi Sándor Scheiber, the director of the Rabbinical Seminary in
Budapest.
1914:
Today, twenty-three-year-old Dr. Ray Karchmer Daly, the Vilnius born daughter
of Kalmen and Anna (Levinson) Karchmer, and pioneering UT trained
ophthalmologist married Dr. Louis Daly whom she had met while attending medical
school.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/daily-ray-karchmer
https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/houpub/00078/hpub-00078.html
1914:
“Laughing Gas” directed by and starring Charlie Chaplain, who seventeen years
later in an interview with a German newspaper described “his mother as a ghetto
beauty” and his father as a Jewish dialect comedian was released today in the
United States.
1914:
Today, NYU trained attorney Morris Cukor, the Hungarian born so of Joseph and
Victoria Cukor who represented various Hungarian interests in legal matters in
the United States and who was a “member” of Tammany Hall married Cora G. Woodruff.
1914:
As Europe stumbled its way toward the World War which would have such an impact
of the Jews of the 20th century today, Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph
was advised the council was working on an ultimatum containing demands that
were designed to be rejected, thus ensuring a war without the “odium of
attacking Serbia without warning, put her in the wrong.”
1915:
Charles Edward Sebag-Montefiore and Muriel Alice Ruth de Pass gave birth to Lt.
Col. Oliver Robert Marne Sebag-Montefiore who passed away in October, 1993.
1915:
Birthdate of American composer David Leo Diamond who for more than five decades
figured prominently among mainstream American composers. Born in Rochester, New
York, to Yiddish-speaking immigrant parents from the area around Lemberg,
Galicia (now Ukraine), he received a typical Jewish religious education in the
local afternoon Hebrew school. At the age of seven he displayed musical gifts
on the violin, which he learned to play initially on his own, and he began
composing small pieces while still a child—also without formal instruction.
There followed violin lessons at public grammar school and, briefly, while his
family was in temporary residence in Cleveland, Ohio, during the 1920s, some
studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Later, he was awarded a
scholarship at the Eastman School of Music, in Rochester, where he studied with
Bernard Rogers. The premiere of his first orchestral work, a one-movement
symphony, was conducted by Eastman's resident composer and composition
department chairman, Howard Hanson. As a student in Rochester, Diamond was
fascinated by the cantorial art he heard in the local synagogue and at concerts
given by visiting cantorial celebrities—especially, as he could still recall
more than seven decades later, the famous Yossele Rosenblatt (1882–1933).
Diamond also developed an intellectual interest in Jewish music history,
acquainting himself with much of the available literature. During his studies
with Rogers, he began writing short pieces that incorporated Jewish themes and
modes. Before completing the course at Eastman, however, Diamond left for New
York City, where he became a pupil of Roger Sessions and studied at the
Dalcroze Institute. Sessions, like Rogers, had been a student of Ernest Bloch,
and Diamond always felt that this provided him an indirect yet significant
influence of that acknowledged 20th-century master. Shortly after arriving in
New York, Diamond introduced himself to Lazare Saminsky then the music director
at Temple Emanu-El, the city's flagship Reform congregation. Saminsky, an
established and respected composer in the general music world who was also one
of the major personalities on the American Jewish music scene, took an interest
in the young composer's gifts and became something of a patron. He invited
Diamond to write various liturgical settings for Emanu-El's services, and
Diamond continued on his own to add to that repertoire. Saminsky's
encouragement proved significant on several levels: "It was really Mr.
Saminsky who got me writing more and more," Diamond later acknowledged. In
those initial New York years Saminsky also introduced him to the highly
regarded and well-established American born composer, the first composition
professor at The Juilliard School, Frederick Jacobi (1891–1952), who, like Diamond,
included Judaically related works among his overall opera. Jacobi quietly
organized some private financial assistance for Diamond to help him continue
his studies and pursue his artistic goals.
1915:
Having just returned from a tour of the Western Front, Chief Rabbi Joseph
Herman Hertz and Rabbi Michael Adler, Senior Chaplin for the Jewish soldiers
serving in the field, reported on the conditions of the Jewish troops serving
on activity duty. Based on published
figures, of the 200,000 Jews living in the British Isles, 20,000 are serving on
active duty and another 5,000 are in training units. Actually, there may be
more Jews serving than this tally indicates.
When many Jews were enlisting in the early days of the war, they
neglected to indicate their religion, so they were automatically labeled as
Church of England. The two clerics
quoted Field Marshall Sir John French as paying the highest possible tribute to
the bravery and patriotism of the Jewish soldiers serving in his command. The
enthusiastic response of the Jews is attributed to the treatment they have
received as citizens of the British Empire.
Rabbis of fighting age are serving in the ranks and the sons of Rabbis
who are of military age have almost all enlisted. The sons of the rich and
powerful are well-represented as can be seen by the names of Montefiore,
Rothschild and Henriques. In addition to
the males serving at the front, hundreds of Jewish women are serving as Red
Cross nurses both on the Western Front and on the home front.
1915:
As of today, “hundreds of Jewish women were serving as Red Cross nurses on the
battlefields” in France and “the hospitals” in Great Britain.
1916:
In Long Branch, NJ, ten-year-old Abraham Stollar greeted the delegates at the
morning session of the Young Judea Convention with a talk in Hebrew which was
replied to by Emanuel Neumann who also spoke in Hebrew.
1916:
At their convention in Far Rockaway, the United Synagogues of America “adopted
a resolution offered by Dr. Cyrus Adler calling on the organization to
co-operate with the army and navy branch of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association
in aiding dependents of the 5,000 Jews in the National Guard who have been
ordered to the Mexican border.”
1916:
As of today, the fund of the American Jewish Relief Committee of which Felix M.
Warburg is Treasurer has collect approximately $4,400,000.
1916:
It was reported today that among the contributions received by The Central
Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War of which Harr
Fischel is the Treasurer was a $196 from the Jewish community of Sioux City, IA
and $130 from Warheit Publishing Company in New York City.
1917:
It was reported today that “at a regular meeting of the Board of Alderman of
New York…a formal resolution of appreciation for the work carried on by Nathan
Strauss with his milk stations whereby he has save the lives of at least a
quarter of a million babies in the past twenty-five years was unanimously
adopted.”
1917:
“The Jewish Welfare Board was formed by a group of prominent Jewish Americans
today as a response by the American Jewish Community to the United States’
entry into the First World War on April 6th.
1917:
Jacob Schiff, Herbert Parsons, Dr. Henry Moskowitz, Morris Hillquit, and
Abraham Cahan were among the throng that greeted the Russian Commission led by
Boris Bakhmeteff at the Henry Street Settlement House.
1918
Bernard Baruch “was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal for services
rendered to help in the war effort.
The President of the United States
of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in
presenting the Army Distinguished Service Medal to Mr. Bernard M. Baruch, a
United States Civilian, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished
services to the Government of the United States, in a duty of great
responsibility during World War I, in the organization and administration of
the War Industries Board and in the coordination of allied purchases in the
United States. By establishing a broad and comprehensive policy for the
supervision and control of the raw materials, manufacturing facilities, and
distribution of the products of industry, he stimulated the production of war
supplies, coordinated the needs of the military service and the civilian
population, and contributed alike to the completeness and speed of the
mobilization and equipment of the military forces and the continuity of their
supply. War Department, General Orders No. 15 (1921)
1918
Colonel Harry Cutler, Retired, “was awarded the Army Distinguished Service
Medal for services rendered to help in the war effort.
The
President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July
9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Army Distinguished Service Medal to
Colonel (Retired) Harry Cutler, Rhode Island National Guard, a United States
Civilian, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services to the
Government of the United States, in a duty of great responsibility during World
War I as Chairman, Executive Committee, of the Jewish Welfare Board.
1918: By direction of the
President, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved today (Bul. No.
43, W.D., 1918), Private Lester Bergman (MCSN: 158340/117036), United States
Marine Corps, is cited by the Commanding General, American Expeditionary Forces,
for gallantry in action and a silver star may be placed upon the ribbon of the
Victory Medals awarded him. Private Bergman distinguished himself by gallantry
in action while serving with Company E, 5th Regiment (Marines), 2d Division,
American Expeditionary Forces, in action in the Bois de Belleau, France, 13
June 1918, in attacking, with eight comrades, an enemy machine gun nest.
1919: Three
days after she had passed funeral services were held today in Chicago for
Tillie (Weil) Cadden, the wife of Isaac Cadden with whom she raised a son and a
daughter after which she was interred at the Waldheim Cemetery.
1919(11th
of Tammuz, 5679): Morton L. Slottow, the “infant son of Hiram and Fanchon
(Bows) Slottow passed away today.
1919(11th of
Tammuz, 5679): Alexander Benjamin “Broadway” Smith, the turn of the century
major leaguer who played for the New York Giants, Boston Red Sox and Chicago
Cubs passed away today.
1919:
By a vote of 209 to 16 the German National Assembly ratified the Versailles
Treaty which the Nazis would use as part of their drive to power.
1920:
In London, Harriet B. Lowenstein, an attorney and the “first woman to obtain
the degree of certified public accountant” in New York married New York lawyer
Jonah Goldstein who “is actively identified with the work of the University
Settlement.”
1920:
It was reported today that “Dr. Israel J. Biskind and Dr. Joseph Sufrin of the
American Zionist Medical Unit have brought their families to Palestine from
America in order to settle there.”
1920:
“Who Is Jew in History?” published today described a review in The London
Jewish World of L’Anglais, est il Juif? by Louis Martin that “answers this
question in the affirmative” because “England belongs to the Jews” since the
Anglo-Saxons were really Jews because “the term Saxon is nothing more nor less
than an abbreviated form of Issac’s-son
1920:
Birthdate of Zalman Lev Steinberg, the Moscow native who as Leo Steinberg
became “one of the most brilliant, influential and controversial art historians
of the last half of the 20th century.”
1920:
In London, the International Zionist Conference met for a third day, after
which the conference would hold no sessions for two days because of Shabbat and
the weekend.
1921:
In Little Rock, AR “Randall Morris and Lucile (Kronberg) Falk gave birth to HUC
ordained Rabbi Randall Falk, the holder of a Doctor of Divinity Degree from
Vanderbilt in Nashville where he led “Congregation Ohabai Sholom” while raising
three children – Heidi, Randall and Jonathan – with his wife the former Edna
Unger.
1922:
Thirty-year-old Cornell trained civil engineer Abraham Wallerstein Fuchs, the
New York City born son of Samuel and Ethel (Wallerstein) Fuch, who settled in
Baltimore, MD married Hannah Gitlin today.
1922:
The Philadelphia Inquirer described the career of Dr. M. H. Spare who had
“directed the erection of a $35,000 building” to serve the needs of the Jewish
community of Chester, PA.
1922:
It was reported today that “in a recent campaign” the Young Men’s and Young
Women’s Hebrew Association of Camden have “increased their membership to
1,000.”
1923:
William Ormesby-Gore, the British representative on the Permanent Mandates
Commission of the League of Nations told the House of Commons today “that of
the 12,800 Jews who had emigrated to Palestine in 1922 only 200 were from
English-speaking countries and that “for the first five months of 1923 34 out
of a total of 4,000 emigrants were from such countries.”
1924(7th
of Tammuz, 5684): Sixty-four-year-old Russian-born American labor statistician
and Yiddish language intellectual Isaac A. Hourwich passed away today.
http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=1358888
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Hourwich#/media/File:Hourwich-isaac.jpg
1924: The Democratic National Convention, during
which Doctor
Stephen S. Wise, the Rabbi of the Free Synagogue had delivered the invocation”
came to a close today.
1924: In the
Brownsville section of Brooklyn, Russian Jewish immigrants Nathan and Dora
(Siegel) Schatz gave birth to Brooklyn College graduate Sylvia Schatz, the wife
of Family Court judge Leon Deutsch who gained fame as “Sylvia Deutsch, the only
person ever to head two of New York City’s most powerful land-use agencies,
posts that she used to expand housing, promote entertainment in Times Square
and usher in self-service gas stations…” (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1925(17th of Tammuz, 5685): Tzom Tammuz
1925: In
Cedarhurst, “a tea was held” this “afternoon in the interest of the Federation
for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic societies at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard L. Stein” where Solomon Lowenstein, the executive director of the
federation spoke to the attendees.
1926: It was reported today that a new edition of
the “Greenwich Village Follies” co-produced by Morris Green is scheduled to
appear in late November or December of this year in New York.
1926: “Abie’s Rose” is playing at the Republic,
1926:
Birthdate of Dr. Mathilde Krim, scientist and AIDS activist. She recognized
soon after the first cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) were
reported in 1981 that this new disease raised grave scientific and medical
questions and that it might have important socio-political consequences. She
dedicated herself to increasing the public's awareness of AIDS and to a better
understanding of its cause, its modes of transmission, and its epidemiologic
pattern. . It was during her doctoral studies that Krim converted to Judaism,
inspired in part by learning the truth about the Holocaust and in part by her
association with Jews from Israel (then Palestine) who were studying at the
University. In 1953, Krim moved with her husband and daughter to Israel, where
she found a position at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. At
Weizmann, she contributed to studies that laid the foundation for
amniocentesis, became one of the first experts in culturing cells, and studied
the viruses thought to cause some forms of cancer. After moving to New York
1958, she joined the research faculty at Cornell Medical College and later at
Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. For many years, she was deeply
involved in the study of interferons, natural substances that were considered
promising for the treatment of cancer. Just as the study of interferons was
falling out of favor, AIDS was becoming a major public health concern. Krim
left full-time research and became involved in AIDS treatment and activism. In
1985, she founded the AIDS Medical Foundation (AMF), the first private
organization concerned with fostering and supporting AIDS research. In August,
2000 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian
honor in the United States.
1927:
Birthdate of Boston native Harriet Shapiro who gained game as actress Susan
Cabot
http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/330/Susan+Cabot/index.html
1928(21st
of Tammuz, 5688): Talmudic scholar, Rabbi Shlomo Polachek passed away. Born in Grodna in 1877 when Jews constituted
almost half of the city’s population he served as rosh yeshiva in Lida and
Bialystok before moving to the United States in 1922 to serve as Rosh Yeshiva
at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) the Rabbinical School
of Yeshiva University and its Yeshiva College, America's first yeshiva.
1928:
Rabbi Irving F. Reicher of the Tremont in the Bronx officiated at “the funeral
of 87-year-old Michael B. Abrahams a member of the New York Times for almost
half a century” whom he eulogized as “a gentlemen in the highest and best sense
of the word; a man of character and intellectual attainments who proved himself
worth of the highest achievements.”
1929(1st
of Tammuz, 5689): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1929:
Writer and sculptor Alfred Dreyfus who was committed to the Manhattan State
Hospital in 1928 was transferred to Dr. McDonald’s house at Central Valley, NY.
1929: Birthdate of King Hassan II of Morocco. King Hassan served as a “back channel” during
negotiations between Israeli and Arab officials. He played a critical, if somewhat still
undefined role, in the Camp David Negotiations that led to the peace agreement
between Israel and Egypt in 1973.
1930:
At Michael Reiss Hospital in Chicago, Robert B. Bregman of Cleveland, Ohio and
his wife Claire Styne Bregman, the sister of songwriter Jule Styne gave birth
to musical arranger and record producer Buddy Bregman who is the father of
“Tracey Elizabeth Bregman, who plays Lauren Fenmore on Young & Restless and
Bold & Beautiful.”
1931:
In Gadsden, Alabama, “Alvin Rosenbaum Lowi, who founded a chemical company, and
the former Janice Haas, a piano teacher and silent movie accompanist” gave
birth to Theodore Jay Lowi, the Professor in the Government Department of
Cornell University whose students included “Israel Serigo-Waismel-Manor, a
lecturer at the University of Haifa.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/us/theodore-lowi-dead.html?_r=0
1932:
Birthdate of Soviet refusenik Iosif “Yosef” Ziselovich Begun
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/13/world/iosif-begun-a-defiant-man.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/19/world/begun-leaves-soviet-ending-17-year-emigration-struggle.html
1933:
In North London, Dr. Samuel Sacks and Muriel Elsie Landau, one of the first
female surgeons in England gave birth to Oliver Wolf Sacks the neurologist and
author who was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in
2008.
1934:
Two days after he passed away in Saratoga Springs, NY, Melvin Beilis was buried
at the Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens which is also the final resting place of
Sholem Aleichem and Leo Frank.
1934:
“Dr. Franz Boas, head of the Department of Anthropology, Columbia University,
who celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday today at his home, 230 Franklin
Avenue, Grantwood, said behavior and not heredity is the prime factor in man's
being.”
1934(26th
of Tammuz, 5694): Sixty-five-year-old Hungarian native and City College
graduate Herman Weiss an attorney and Republican State Assemblyman who was part
of a bipartisan effort “to defeat Socialist Assemblyman Louis Waldman” and who
was president of the “Einigkelts Lodge of the I.O.B.A.” passed away today
1934: The
National Convention of Young Judaea and the annual meeting of the Central
Tri-State Region of Young Judaea are scheduled are scheduled to come to a close
today.
1935:
“Dr. Lienhard Bergel, dismissed German instructor at the New Jersey College for
Women testified today before a special committee of the trustees of Rutgers
University investigating the German Department of the women’s college, reiterating
his contention that his dismissal was based on his no-conformity with the
pro-Nazi views of Dr. F.J. Hauptmann, head of the department” and as part of
that testimony he produced a pamphlet take from the library of the Women’s
College that “contained passages expressing the Nazi opposition to the Jews of
Germany.”
1936: The Palestine Post reported
from London that Mr. Ormsby-Gore, the Colonial Secretary, admitted in the House
of Commons that since the Palestine Government's expenditure on Moslem
Religious Courts exceeded income, it was inevitable that the Jewish taxpayer
had contributed approximately £9,000 to the maintenance of the Moslem Supreme
Council, while Jewish religious courts and the Chief Rabbinate received no
support from the government. More British troops were transferred from Egypt to
Palestine. Ha'aretz and Haboker dailies were suspended for five days for the
"publication of false news, likely to create alarm and despondency"
(the comment on the failure of the British troops and of the Palestine Police
to deal effectively with Arab disturbances).
1936:
“The United States liner Manhattan arrived” at New York today “with 785
passengers” of whom 100 were “Jewish refugees from Germany.”
1936:
At Tannersville, NY, the convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America “endorsed a special campaign for a national
fund to plant 100,000 trees in Palestine to replace those destroyed during the
current disturbances” and “recommended that the next annual convention be held
in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the Jewish Theological
Seminary.”
1936:
In Paris, Francois Pietri, the former Minister of Finance told the Chamber of
Deputies that “the International Olympic Committee had received assurances from
German sport authorities that there would be no discrimination against Jews and
that the Jews would be represented among the German athletes.”
1936(19th
of Tammuz, 5696): Dr. George W. Bamberger, “a pioneer in bloodless surgery”
passed today in Chicago, Illinois.
1936(19th
of Tammuz, 5696): Zionist Morris Paul Tax passed away today in Milwaukee.
Wisconsin.
1937:
George Gershwin was rushed back to Cedars of Lebanon hospital after collapsing
tonight at the home of lyricist Yip Harburg where they had been working on the
score of the “Goldwyn Follies.”
1938(10th
of Tammuz, 5698): Famed jurist Benjamin Cardozo passed away. Cardozo was part
of Sephardic family that had deep roots in the American experience. One of his
ancestors fought in the American Revolution. Born in 1870 in New York, Cardozo
had a long, distinguished career as an author on legal matters and a jurist
before being named an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by Herbert Hoover
in 1932. Cardozo was the second Jew to reach this height; the first being Louis
D. Brandies. At one time, Cardozo was ranked as one of the "ten most
foremost judges in American Judicial history." Cardozo was an active
member of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York. During the 1930’s,
with the rise of European anti-Semitism and Hitler, Cardozo became a public
supporter of Palestine as a homeland for the Jews.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/02/reviews/971102.02rosent.html
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/p/polenberg-world.html
1938(10th
of Tammuz, 5698): Eighty-year-old Calude Goldsmid Montefiore the son of
Nathaniel Montefiore and the grandson of Sir I.L. Goldsmid passed away today
who was one of the founders of Liberal (Reform) Judaism in the United Kingdom
passed away today.
1938:
Two seventeen year old Jewish hikers were stabbed and seriously wounded this
morning “while passing through an Arab village, a mile from Tel Aviv on the
main Jaffa-Jerusalem road. They were
stripped and left by the roadside until found by a passing motorist.” The
attack marked the end of bloody week in which Arab attackers had killed 12 Jews
and wounded another 24.
1939:
“An eager army of 15,000 to 20,000 persons rolled eastward from the city today
in 3,000 cars, eighty-two chartered buses and two special trains to take
possession of the late Otto H. Kahn's estate at Woodbury, near here, in the
name of the Department of Sanitation Welfare Honor Relief Fund.”
1939:
Four days after had passed a way in Vienna, 78 year-old Dr. of Jurisprudence
Marcus Ettinger, the Tarnow born son of Rebecca Shapiro and Isaak Ettinger and
the husband of Adele Ettinger who died at
Bergen-Belsen was laid to rest
today.
1939(22nd
of Tammuz, 5699): Ukrainian born Boris Thomashefsky who came to the United
States in 1881 where his singing and acting skills made him “one of the biggest
stars in the Yiddish theatre” passed away today.
http://www.thomashefsky.org/index.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/boris-thomashefsky
1940(3rd
of Tammuz, 5700): Seventy-year-old Jacob
Harry Hollander, the Baltimore born son of “Meyer and Rosa (Meyer) Hollander
who became a “full professor” at his at alma mater Johns Hopkins and who was
the husband of “Theresa Gutman Hutzler” with he had three children – Rosamund,
David and Bertha – passed away today.
http://jewishmuseummd.org/2010/09/ms-2-the-jacob-h-hollander-papers/
1940: With the end of the subscription series of the Palestine
Symphony Orchestra the musical season has closed. Thirteen series have been
presented this year in Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem--compared to the ten
series of former years. Special programs for the colonies
1940:
Between today and the end of August, 2,139 Jewish and Gentile Poles received
visas from the Japanese.
1941:
Birthdate of Yosef Shiloach, the native of Iranian Kurdisan and Israeli actor
who made Aliyah at the age of 9.
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/55028/reel-deal
1941(14th
of Tammuz, 5701): In Liepāja, Latvia, Erhard Grauel, a detachment of
Einsatzkommando 2 under the command of Erhard Grauel, murdered another 100 people today, most of
whom were Jews.
1941: Birthdate of Bobby Frankel, one of the most successful
American thoroughbred trainers, whose horses included the champions Bertrando,
Ghostzapper and Empire Maker, the winner of the 2003 Belmont Stakes.
1941(14th
of Tammuz, 5701): Seventy-three-year-old Zionist leader David Jochelman who
opposed the offer of Uganda as a Jewish home and spent WW I in London where he
founded the Jewish War Victims’ Fund and the Russo-Jewish War Fund passed away
today.
http://archive.jta.org/1941/07/10/archive/dr-david-jochelman-noted-jewish-leader-dead
1941:
During the invasion of the Soviet Union, Zhitomir, a city in the Ukraine with
pre-war Jewish population of 29,503 was seized by the Nazis.
1941:
Hungary invaded the eastern Ukraine. Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany during
the war. Hungary's Jews suffered at the hand of homegrown anti-Semites.
But eventually Eichman arrived and the full weight of the Final Solution fell,
first in the countryside in places like Sighet and later in the big cities,
most notably Budapest.
1942(24th
of Tammuz, 5702): Eighty-two year old German historian Ernst Bernheim who lost
his career during the Nazi era because he was classified as a Jew died today.
1942:
Anne Frank’s family went into hiding in an attic above her father’s office in
an Amsterdam warehouse.
1942: Jewish partisan Vitka Kempner
returns to the Vilna Ghetto, having successfully planted a land mine and blown
up the engine and ammunition cars of a German military train.
1943(6th
of Tammuz, 5703): Sixty-year-old Isidore Goudeket, the Amsterdam native who was
part of the Dutch gymnastic at the 1908 Summer Olympics was murdered today at
Sobibor.
1943:
Operation Husky began tonight as Allied troops began landing in Sicily. The Germans and Italians were not expecting
the landings thanks, in large part, to Operation Mincemeat. Operation Mincemeat was one of the most
successful acts of subterfuge carried during World War II. It was mastermind by Edwin Montagu, a Colonel
in the British Army who belonged to of the UK’s most distinguished Jewish
families. Operation Mincemeat convinced
the Germans that the invasion would come at Greece or Sardinia and not the
island off the toe of the Italian Boot.
For more about this you might want to see “The Man Who Never Was” or
read the recently published Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre.
1944: Responding to Allied
pressure, especially threats to hold Hungary’s leadership responsible for the
shipment of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz prompted Admiral Miklos Horthy,
Hungary's regent, to stop deportations.
1944: Jack Simonowitz
and the former Rose Cohen gave birth to Evelyn May Simonowitz who gained fame
as Evelyn Lieberman who was “the first woman to serve as deputy chief of staff
to a U.S. President” and “banished” Monica Lewinskey “to a job outside the
White House.” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1944:
Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest where he presented visas for 630 Hungarian
Jews. Raoul Wallenberg was one of the greatest human beings in history. This
Swedish national risked his life over and over again to save the Jews of
Hungary. With only Chutzpah, Courage and a fair stash of cash, this man faced
down the Nazi murder machine and made it give up some of its Jews. He is living
proof that one person can make a difference. I have never been able to find any
satisfactory reason why he risked his life for this thankless undertaking. In
the end, the Soviets entered Budapest and took him away to a fate that is still
unknown. That the world remained silent while Six Million perished is an
oft-told tale. That the world (specifically the governments of the Allied
powers) did not push for this man’s release is a permanent stain.
1944:
Today the “Kasztner Rescue Train” which had left Budapest on June 30th
was diverted to Bergen Belsen today. [For more see Gaylen Ross’ 2 Disc Dvd of “Killing Kasztner” which is now
available on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Kasztner-Dealt-2-DISC-EDITION/dp/B00L5YJLN2
1944:
Ed Koch, the future Mayor of New York, who was fighting with U.S. Army in
Europe wrote in his diary: “Patrolling today. Our object was to get out of a
forest. We had to go from cover to cover. I hid behind a tree and assumed the
prone position. Lt. Reed came over with the Lt. Col. and said, “Koch, on what
side of a tree do you aim from,” I said, “On the right side.” He said, “So what
the hell are you doing on the left side?”
1945;
Birthdate of Donald Lee “Don” Novick, the native of Cheyenne, Wyoming whose
culinary skill and generosity would make him an unsung hero of the Cedar Rapids
Jewish community before his untimely death.
1945:
Birthdate of Rabbi Gene Levy, the spiritual leader, in the truest sense of that
term, of Temple B’Nai Israel in Little Rock, AR.
1945:
Sixty-three-year-old Amalie ("Emma") Henriette Jessen the widow of
German historian Ernst Bernheim who lost his career during the Nazi era because
he was classified as a Jew passed away today.
1946:
Today, Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, the President of the American Federation for
Polish Jews sent a cablegram to August Cardinal Hlond asking him “to raise the
voice of the Catholic Church against pogroms such as last week’s massacre of
Jews in Kielce.”
1946:
Today, President Truman had a final exchange of views with his cabinet
committee on Palestine prior to their departure tomorrow for London where they
will hold “high level consultations with British authorities.
1946:
“Well-informed Vatican circles said today they did not yet know anting about a
Jerusalem report that the Palestine problems was to be submitted to the Pope.”
1947:
Today, the day on which Noah Klieger was supposed to lead of a group of DP’s
across France to the port of Sete, plans were upset because “the French
trucking union opened a nationwide strike for higher wages and built road
blockades on all mainline roads.”
1948:
During the War of Independence, Egyptian artillery opened fire on Kfar
Darom. This was followed by an attack led by an armored column and
infantry. When the Egyptians entered the settlement they found that the
Jews had already decamped. Goliath had beaten David, but it was a pyrrhic
victory, since the defenders had upset the Egyptian timetable for taking Tel
Aviv. This military action took place during what was supposed to be a four
week cease fire between the Arabs and the Israelis.
1948:
The four week cease fire between the Israelis and the invading Arab armies was
set to end. The Arabs rejected attempts
by Count Bernadotte, the U.N. envoy, to extend the cease fire for another ten
days.
1948:
Israeli forces launched Operation Danny, an offensive designed “to capture
territory east of Tel Aviv” and then open the road to Jerusalem in a bid to
break the Arab stranglehold on the city. The offensive was named after Danny
Mass, the commander of “Convoy 35” and was under the command of Yigal Allon and
Yitzhak Rabin. The undertrained and
poorly armed Jewish forces were up against the Arab Legion, the elite British
trained army of Jordan. The ultimate key
to victory would in the need to capture the seemingly impregnable Arab position
at Latrun. “Convoy 35” refers to an attempt made by a detachment of Haganah
troopers to bring supplies to the Gush Etzion kibbutzim in January of
1948. Thirty-five died in the attempt
and many of their bodies were mutilated beyond recognition.
1948:
Israeli forces launched an all-night bombardment as part of an attempt to
re-take the Old City.
1948(2nd
of Tammuz): Twenty-six-year-old Robert “Bob” Vickman a WW II veteran of the
USAAF who was a member of 101 Squadron died today while fighting against
aircraft from the REAF.
http://101squadron.com/101real/people/vickman.html
1948:
The fifth Israeli attack on the Egyptian-held police fort of Iraq Suwaydan came
to an end with the installation still in the hands of the Arabs.
1948: Mordechai Weingarten “was chosen to meet Abdullah el Tell,
now the Jordanian Military Commander of the Old City, to discuss the release of
the prisoners taken in the Jewish Quarter, the burial of bodies left in the
Quarter, and the rescue of any Scrolls of the Law that had survived.”
1949(12th
of Tammuz, 5709): Parashat Chukat-Balak
1949(12th
of Tammuz, 5709): New York native and Zionist Mrs. Ray F. Schwartz, the
executive director of the YWHA in New York City from 1917 to 1942 passed away
today in her hometown.
1949:
“Lebanon Accepts Israel’s Bid” published today tells of a decision by the
government of Lebanon to “accept Israel’s request for help in reuniting Arab
families separated as a result of” the war which began in 1948.
1950(24th
of Tammuz, 5710): Seventy-six-year-old Norman Friedenwald, the son of Bertha
Bamberger and Aaron Friedenwald who were married in 1863, the husband of
Beatrice Shewbrook and the father of Norman Friedenwald, Jr. passed away today.
1950:
The Notre Dame Alumni Association made a contribution to the United Jewish
Appeal to aid in the settlement of homeless Jews in Israel.
1950:
In Israel, 100 orderlies joined 2,000 nurses who were already on strike. Both groups are “demanding better working
conditions.”
1951:
Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom ended their state of war with
Germany today.
1951:
Haifa native Ivry “Gitlis made his debut in Paris, playing a recital at the
'Salle Gaveau', sponsored by the music manager.”
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported
that Jerusalem was assured of a regular supply of ice for domestic purposes
from outside of the city and that the government granted a subsidy, due to the
cost of the transport of ice from the coast. The Jerusalem Program for Zionism,
replacing the Basel Program drawn up at the First Zionist Congress in 1897, was
drawn up for the 23rd Zionist Congress to be held in Jerusalem on August 14.
1952:
In Hollywood, CA, Nicholas M. Schenck of New York, president of Loew’s, Inc.
outlined plans for the company’s first sweeping economy move since the Great
Depression which included an immediate pay cut of 25 to 50 percent for any
executive making more than $1,000 a week.
1954:
“Apache,” with music by David Raskin was released today in the United States.
1955(19th
of Tammuz, 5715): Parashat Pinchas
1955(19th
of Tammuz, 5715): Eighty-six-year-old Chicago born Albert Pick, Sr. the founder
of what has become the Pick Hotels Corporation which is now headed by his son
Albert Pick, Jr and the father of Mrs. Gertrude Edmunds passed away today in
Miami Beach, FL.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/07/10/293896172.pdf
1955:
Today “just two weeks before the Big Four…are scheduled to meet at Geneva”
where nuclear disarmament will be an agenda item, pacifist Earl Russell is
scheduled to released “a statement on nuclear weapons by Dr. Albert Einstein”
which the Nobel Prize winner had given him shortly before his death.
1955: The
Russell-Einstein Manifesto was released by Bertrand Russell in London. The manifesto was
an attempt by the “peace advocates” to deescalate the Cold War by calling
attention to the dangers of nuclear weapons.
It contained a call for an international conference to deal with issues
of nuclear disarmament. The Einstein in
the manifesto was Albert Einstein who died shortly after the manifesto was
issued.
1956(1st
of Av, 5716): Rosh Chodesh Av
1956:
Today, in what was seen as a partial victory for Jews and others seeking
government jobs in the state of New York, “the controversial practice of
inquiring about the religion of an applicant for a probation officer’s job with
the Domestic Relations Court has been abandoned.”
1957(10th
of Tammuz, 5717): Fifty-five year old Maxwell Abbell, the Polish born son of
Morris and Freida Abell, husband of Fannie Abell with whom he had five children
and Harvard graduate who worked as an accountant in Chicago until he passed the
Illinois bar 1938 after which he became the “owner of hotels and buildings
throughout the United States” and a leader in the Jewish community as can be
seen by his service as “vice president of the
American-Palestine Trading Corporation,” President of the United Synagogues
of America and trustee of the JNF passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/07/10/90823629.pdf
1957:
“Loving You” the first of Elvis Presley’s musicals directed Hal Kanter who
co-wrote the screenplay and produced by Hal B. Wallis and with music by Walter
Scharf was released today in the United States (Editor’s Note – Elvis was not
Jewish but all of the others were.
1958:
Shayetet 13 operatives infiltrated Beirut harbor in Operation Yovel. They were
discovered, and a gunfight and chase ensued. The commandos were able to retreat
without any casualties.
1959:
“The movement of a few Jews from Communist Rumania to Israel via Vienna
continued today” as “three families alighted from the Orient Express from
Bucharest.
1961:
Israel officially recognized South Korea.
1961:
This afternoon at Temple Israel in Lawrence, Long Island, Rabbi Joel W. Zion
and Cantor David Benedict officiated at the wedding of Carole Joyce Katz and
Charles Jacob Hujsa who is working on a doctorate at NYU while working “with
the Professional Examination Service of the American Public Health Association.
1962:
“Yossele Schumacher, who was reunited with both his parents last night for the
first time in more than two years,” is scheduled to take the stand today “in
Jerusalem District Court in the trial of a couple charged with hiding him
before he was spirited out of Israel.”
1962:
Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman) recorded the folk music classic “Blowin in
the Wind” today.
1962:
Funeral services are scheduled to held this afternoon in Forest Hills, NY for
Robert Herbert Shapiro, the husband of Shirley Shapiro and the father of Jerry
ad Richard Shapiro.
1962:
Birthdate of New York native and Ivy League educated (Penn and Harvard Law)
investor Steve Eisman who gained fame after appearing The Big Short by Michael
Lewis which provided the fodder for the film of the same name that exposed the
sub-prime market and who is a vocal opponent of “for profit colleges” – the
educational equivalent of the sub-prime cesspool.
1963(17th
of Tammuz, 5723): Unbeknownst to anybody, last observance of Tzom Tammuz during
the Presidency of John Kennedy.
1963(17th
of Tammuz, 5723): Eighty-eight-year-old Lawrence A. Tanzer, the Ivy League
educated lawyer (Harvard and Columbia University Law School) the son of Arnold
and Ida Tanzer and husband of Florence Keller Tanzer with whom he had two
daughters who was a civic reformer and a driving force behind creation of the
city charter that was in effect until January of this year, passed away today.
1964:
Mr. and Mrs. Zeev Jabotinsky are scheduled to be reinterred in a Jerusalem
cemetery today.
1964(29th
of Tammuz, 5724): Eighty-year-old Chicago born University of Michigan alum and
advertising executive Louis H. Hartman who began his career with Lord and
Thomas in 1922 and who raised bees while raising his son Robert with his wife
Ann Hoffman Hartman, passed away today.
1965(9th
of Tammuz, 5725): Seventy-one-year-old Alvin Thalheimer, the holder of an A.B
from Harvard and PhD from Johns Hopkins who became “a vice president of the
American Trading and Production Corporation and chairman of the Maryland
Welfare Board” while raising a son, Herbert, with his wife Fanny Blausten
Thalheimer, passed away in his hometown, Baltimore, MD.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/07/10/96706051.pdf
1967(1st
of Tammuz, 5727: Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1967: “Mezzo-soprano Jennie Tourel joined Leonard Bernstein for a
concert on Jerusalem's Mount Scopus to celebrate the end of the Six-Day War. It
was a moment that brought together several of the themes of her life: music,
dedication to Israel, and work with prominent composers and conductors. Born in
Vitebsk, Belorussia (now Belarus) in 1900, she trained as a singer in Paris,
where she debuted at the Opéra Comique in 1933. She won acclaim for her
performance of the title role in Bizet's Carmen. For nearly a decade,
she was the star of the Opéra Comique, singing the roles of Charlotte in
Massenet's Werther and the title role in Thomas's Mignon. Fleeing
Paris just a week before the Nazi invasion, Tourel made her way to New York via
Portugal, Cuba, and Canada. Though at first she had trouble finding work, she
eventually impressed a musical agent who arranged an audition with the
conductor Arturo Toscanini. Toscanini, in turn, hired her to sing with the New
York Philharmonic, and she soon appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and
the Philadelphia Orchestra as well. Later, Leonard Bernstein wrote the Jeremiah
Symphony especially for her voice, and Tourel performed it all over the
world. In her late forties, Tourel became well-known as a song recitalist.
Though she had received critical and popular acclaim for her work in opera, her
performances of French, German, and Russian songs, including Ravel's Shéhérazade,
Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death, and works by Schubert and
Schumann, gained her an even wider circle of fans. At an age when many singers
retire, Tourel continued to give acclaimed performances to eager audiences. She
continued to perform until past the age of seventy. In addition to performing
all over the world, Tourel taught at New York's Juilliard School, and annually
at the Samuel Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. In 1949, she became one of
the first internationally-known artists to visit the infant Jewish state.
Following that first visit, she remained involved in the musical life of
Israel, with frequent visits and master classes. Tourel died on
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/09/1967/jennie-tourel
1967:
INS Eilat, a Z Class destroyer commanded by Yitzhak Shushan, set sail due west
toward the Sinai coast.
1967:
Ninety-three-year-old Dr. Eugene Fisher the member of the Nazi Party who was
appointed rector of the Frederick William University of Berlin by Adolf Hitler,
who provided the basis for many of Nazi policies on eugenics and who escaped
prosecution by whitewashing his record, passed away today.
1968:
In the United States Polish born Jew Jacob Felder and Hungarian born Jewess Eva
Surek Felder gave birth to multi-dimensional musician Hershey Felder who has
created dramatic persona of such musical giants as Gershwin, Chopin, and
Leonard Bernstein.
https://pagesix.com/2018/08/28/hershey-felder-tells-the-story-of-irving-berlin-in-one-man-show/
1969: Egyptian commandos raid an Israeli tank
depot, killing 8, wounding nine and taking one prisoner.
1969:
Twenty-two year old Israeli singer/song writer Mike Brant, who had changed his
name from Moshe in an attempt to increase his appeal, arrived in Paris today
where he was told he could meet a producer who would further his music career.
1969:
“Spotlight on Israeli Products” published described items such as “suede coast
in a rainbow of colors, pleated skirts that look like fabrics but are actually
leather, Sabra Girl pantyhose and hand-carved menorahs” all of which “bear the
label Made Israel” which are “on sale at B. Atlman during the storie’s
month-long spotlight on products from Israel.
1970(5th
of Tammuz, 5730): Fifty-four-year-old Long Island College of Medicine trained
Dr. Jacob Halpern, the “attending physician in internal medicine and head of
the endocrine clinic at Long Island College Hospital” who raised four children
– David, Philip, Joseph and Susan – with his wife “the former Dr. Helen Bliss.”
1970: “Where’s Poppa?” a comedy starring George
Segal and Ron Leibman directed by Carl Reiner who cast his son Rob as “Roger”
was released in the United States today.
1970: A London revival production of a musical “with
a book by Moss Hart” and lyrics co-written by Oscar Hammerstein II opened today
at the Drury Lane Theatre.
1972(27th of Tammuz, 5732): Eighty-four
year old Colonel Wilfred Horatio Micholls, the Paddington born son of Ada and
Edward Montefiore Micholls passed away today in Devon.
1973: The Ninth Maccabiah games open in
Tel Aviv, Israel.
1974(19th
of Tammuz, 5734): Seventy-year-old Lithuanian born “choreographer and dance
teacher” Sonia Gaskell who in 1939 move to her husband’s home in the
Netherlands where she survived the war and continued teaching until she passed
away today in Paris.
http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095844879
http://www.jewishvilkaviskis.org/Sara__Gaskel_Album_.html
1975:
“Smile” a satirical comedy with a screenplay by Jerry Belson that Marvin
Hamlisch would convert into a 1986 Broadway musical was released today in the
United States.
1976:
The Jerusalem Post reported on the
tragic fate of Dora Bloch, who held both British and Israeli citizenship, and
who remained at a Ugandan hospital after all the other hijacked Israelis were
freed by the Entebbe IDF operation. She ominously disappeared from the hospital
after having been visited by a British official, one day after the Israeli
raid, and was suspected of having been later murdered. Israel cited this case
at the UN as an apparent example of Ugandan complicity in the high jacking of
the Air France plane.
1976(11th
of 5736): Eighty-two-year-old Columbus, OH native and Ohio State University
graduate Jeffrey L. Lazarus Sr., honorary chairman and former president of
Shillito's Department Store in Cincinnati” and husband of Adelaide Lazarus
passed away today.
1976:
In response to the demands of African governments, the UN Security Council is
met today “to take up their charge that Israel’s recuse of hijacked hostages at
Entebbe airport in Uganda was a case of ‘wanton aggression.’”
1976:
In Highland Park, Illinois, Joanne and Lewis Savage gave birth to actor
Frederick Aaron “Fred” Savage the older brother of actor Ben Savage and actress
Kala Savage.
1978:
After 147 performances a revival of David Merrick’s “Hello Dolly starring Carol
Channing came to a close at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
1979:
A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and
Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims
responsibility.
1981: The 11th
Maccabiah Games in which “3,500 athletes from 35 countries are participating”
continued for a fourth day.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Meyer-Levin
1986(2nd
of Tammuz, 5746): Seventy-five-year-old journalist, author and political
science professor Harold Isaacs passed away today. (As reported by Jane Perlez)
1989(6th
of Tammuz, 5749): Ninety-two-year-old New York born Columbia University School
of Journalism graduate Elliott Maxwell Sanger, the husband of Elkan Naumburg
with whom he had two sons --Elliot, Jr. and Kenneth – and a co-founder of “a
small 250 watt radio station WQXR-FM (originally the Interstate Broadcasting
Company) above a garage in Long Island City” who was an early advocate for FM
radio, “an interviewer in oral histories for the American Jewish Committee and
the author of the 1973 book, Rebel in Radio: The Story of WQXR,
published by Hastings House passed away today.
1991:
Playwright Ariel Dorfman’s “Death and the Maiden” premiered at the Royal Court
Theatre today.
1991:
In Red Bank, NJ, Eileen and Steve Kalish gave birth to major league left-handed
pitcher Jacob Louis Kalish, the brother of major league outfielder Ryan Kalish.
1993(20th
of Tammuz, 5753): Rabbi Yehuda N. Mandelbaum of the Talmudical Academy of
Baltimore passed away today.
1993(20th
of Tammuz, 5753): Sixty-seven-year-old television producer and director Steve
Previn, the brother Andre Previn passed away today.
1995:
The New York Times published reviews of books by Jewish authors or of special
interest to Jewish readers including Sparring with Hemingway and Other
Legends of the Fight Game by Budd Schulberg.
1997:
Michael Eitan succeeded Benjamin Netanyahu as Minister of Science and
Technology
1998:
ABC broadcast the final episode of “Prey” a sci-fi television series starring
Debra Messing.
1999: U.S.
premier of “American Pie,” the first in a series of coming-of-age teen movies
produced and directed Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz, featuring Eugene Levy as Noah
Levenstein and Eli Marienthal as Matt Stifler
2000: The
New York Times features reviews books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of
the World's Most Famous Passion Play by James Shapiro and Freud’s
Megalomania by Israel Rosenfield.
2001:
President George Bush awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 11 people
including A.M. Rosenthal of the New York Times and Katherine Graham of the
Washington Post.
2001: Hamas
took credit for today’s bombing at the Kussufim border crossing.
2001(18th
of Tammuz, 5761)(Capt. Shai Shalom Cohen, 22, of Pardes Hanna, was killed and
another soldier was wounded when an explosive charge detonated beneath their
jeep after leaving the Aduraim IDF base south of Hebron.
2001(18th
of Tammuz, 5761): Eighty-three-year-old “Morris H. Bergreen, a lawyer,
businessman and administrator who as president of the Skirball Foundation
oversaw the donation of millions of dollars to New York University, the
Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles” passed away today. (As reported by Eric
Pace)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/14/nyregion/morris-h-bergreen-83-led-philanthropic-group.html
2001: “Playing
a Bit of Wagner Sets Off an Uproar in Israel” published today described the
reaction to Daniel Barenboim’s decision to use a piece by the German composer
at a Jerusalem concert.
2002: A
production of “Pacific Overtures,” “a musical written by Stephen Sondheim and
John Weidman” set in Japan when the Americans were arriving in 1853 opened at
Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center.
2002: Moshe
"Bogie" Ya'alon was appointed IDF Chief of Staff.
2002: Today,
two days after he had passed away funeral services are scheduled to held in
Younkers, NY for eighty-two-year-old Israel Melman, “a pioneer in the
development of radio, color television, infrared communications, computer
informatics and the internet” who was the husband of Esther Melman and the
father of two doctors and one rabbi – Martin, Daniel and Baruch Melman –
followed by internment in Hawthorne, NY.
2002: “Zig
Zag,” a movie treatment of the novel directed by David S. Goyer was released in
the United States today.
2003: “Mahmoud
Abbas, the Palestinian prime minister, battled rival Palestinian leaders today
to retain control of negotiations with Israel over a new American-backed peace
plan, threatening to quit to face down a storm of criticism that he had gained
little for renouncing violence.” (As reported by James Bennet
2004: After
premiering in Los Angeles, “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” a comedy
produced by Judd Apatow and co-starring Paull Rudd was released throughout the
United States.
2004(20th
of Tammuz, 5764: Sixty-six-year-old Rudy “Roughhouse Rudy” LaRusso the
Dartmouth grad who went on career in the NBA passed away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jul/10/local/me-larusso10
2005(2nd
of Tammuz, 5765): Parashat Tammuz
2005: Israeli
soldiers assigned “to defend the construction work on the separation barrier
Israel is building” “arrested 10 Palestinians today” “including 6 who were said
to be members of the militant Islamic Jihad - 3 in Jenin and 3 in Hebron.”
2006(13th
of Tammuz, 5766): Alan Senitt, a 27-year-old political activist from north
London who was being prepped for a glittering career, was stabbed to death in
Georgetown. Police
said he was trying to protect his female companion when they were targeted by
armed robbers as they walked home in Washington DC. The former chairman of the
Union of Jewish Students (UJS), Senitt had moved to the US to work on Democrat
Mark Warner's presidential campaign.
2007:
“A Tale of Two Gordons” published today.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/07/a-tale-of-two-g.html
2007:
Ryan Kalish was named New York Penn – League Player for the week starting
today.
2007:
“Spielberg on Spielberg’ – a 90 minute documentary about the celebrated film
maker – appears on TCM, The Turner Classic Movies Channel.
2007:
In “Bishop mourns Latin decree, Jews ask for clarity,” published today,The Washington Post reported that “a
decree by Pope Benedict allowing priests to say the old Latin Mass more
frequently has sparked criticism within both Catholic and Jewish ranks… Some Jewish leaders have sharply criticized the decree,
which revives a passage from the old Latin prayer book for Good Friday calling
for Jews to be converted. Others, however, took a more measured tone and called
for clarification. “I think there are those who have interpreted it in an
extremely alarmist fashion,’ Rabbi David Rosen of the American Jewish Committee
(AJC) told Reuters.’ That doesn't mean that there aren't things that need
clarification but there is no question of Pope Benedict's commitment to
respectful relations with the Jewish people.’ The AJC's Rome representative,
Lisa Palmieri-Billig, said the text of the decree was ambiguous on the issue.
Church officials however had no doubt the prayer could now be said in certain
circumstances, even if its use would probably be rare. ‘I find it difficult to
believe that the Pope would permit the Good Friday prayer, it could be a
communication mistake,’ Palmieri-Billig said. ‘Conversion is a very sensitive
issue for Jews and if the prayer is allowed, it would be a step backwards for
dialogue.’ French Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, who warned last year against
meeting traditionalists' demands for the Latin mass, said on Saturday the
prayer could be changed if it caused difficulties with Jews.”
2007: In a nighttime
gathering, some 30,000 people including about 5,000
Negev residents attended the "We are all Sderot" solidarity concert
at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, to show support for the residents of Sderot and
other communities bordering the Gaza Strip, who live under the constant threat
of Qassam rocket fire.
2007:
French-Israeli
writer Andre Chouraqui, known for his French-language translation of the Bible
and his work in government in Israel, passed away at the age of 89 at his home
in Jerusalem.
2008: In Washington, D.C., Robert Wexler a six-term U.S. congressman from Florida,
discusses and signs Fire-Breathing
Liberal: How I Learned to Survive (and Thrive) in the Contact Sport of Congress
(written with David Fisher) at Borders Books.
2008: Ted
Koppel’s
four-part
Discovery Channel series, “The People’s Republic of Capitalism,” which
illustrates how dramatically China has changed begins with three other
installments at the same time on successive nights.
2008: At Temple Sinai in
Roslyn, NY, funeral services were held for Brenda “Bunny” Koppelman the wife of
Charles Koppelman.
2008: Professor
Sarah Stroumsa of the departments of Arabic Language and Literature and of
Jewish Thought has been elected by the Senate of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem as the institution’s new rector.
2009:
“The House Homeland Security Committee today will consider the Transportation
Security Workforce Enhancement Act of 2009, introduced earlier this year by
Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.). The bill gives workers the option to join a union,
codifies veterans preference in hiring and whistleblower protections.” (As
reported by Ed O’Keefe)
2009:
The Jerusalem Film Festival features a screening of “A Matter of Size,” a film
about a group of disillusioned dieting Jews from Ramla who, through the efforts
of one of their cohorts named Herzl and his Japanese employer, learn about the
wonders of Sumo wrestling which liberates them physically and spiritually.
2009(17th
of Tammuz, 5769): Tzom Tammuz:
2010: Chief of
General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi and Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced
a round of new appointments within the General Staff. The IDF military attaché
in Washington, DC, Maj.-Gen Benny Gantz, will be next deputy chief of general
staff, in place of Maj.-Gen Dan Harel. Two other contenders for the top post
were OC Northern Command Maj.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot and OC Southern Command
Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant. They will remain in their positions for another year,
although there is a possibility that Galant will be appointed head of Ground
Forces Command. Barak and Ashkenazi also decided that Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin,
head of Military Intelligence, will remain in his post for a fifth year.
Defense officials have said that disagreements between Ashkenazi and Barak have
been holding up a final decision on the new appointments. Ashkenazi was said to
have favored Eizenkot as his deputy. Barak was said to have preferred Gantz.
2010: The 7th
AICE Australian Film Festival is scheduled to show “Samson and Delilah” in Tel
Aviv.
2010: The Schalits expressed their disappointment when they left their meeting
with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu today
2010(27th of Tammuz, 5770) RabbYehuda Amital, the Rosh Yeshiva of
Yeshivat Har Etzion and a former member of the Israeli cabinet passed away
today.
2011: Jennifer Chadick is scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bat
Mitzvah at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA.
2011: William “Bill” Gasway, a pillar of the Cedar Rapids Jewish community
and an all-around “good guy” and his grandsons Adam & Sam, are each
scheduled to be called to the Torah in Door County, Wisconsin as part of a
Triple Header Bar Mitzvah. Bill joins the comedian Henny Youngman in proving
age is no bar to celebrating a Bar Mitzvah.
2011(7th of Tammuz): Yahrzeit of Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz
2011: In Detroit, Michigan, Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue is scheduled to
combine religious observance with popular culture in an evening of Havdalah and
The Difference, a music revue.
2011: A senior Hamas official hinted today that captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit
is still alive, Channel 10 reported.
2012: If Dani Dayan, the head of the settlers’ Yesha Council has his way a
vote of confidence will be held today to decide if there is popular support for
“his pragmatic strategy.”
2012: A day-long Golf Classic sponsored by B'nai B'rith Great Lakes Region
is scheduled to take place at the Wabeek Country Club.
2012: “The Sephardic Divas” and the band Ofir are scheduled to perform at
the Inaugural Gibraltar World Music Festival. (As reported by Mordechai
Shinefield)
http://forward.com/articles/158535/for-ladino-musicians-world-s-a-stage/?p=all
2012: The Israel Air Force fire on two Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip late
tonight, according to Ynet. The outlet first quoted Palestinian sources, then
noted that the IDF Spokesman’s Office had confirmed the air strikes. One target
was in Rafiah and the other was Khan Younis, according to Palestinian rescue
services.
2012:
Non-Orthodox US Jews below the age of 35 are
more attached to Israel than those aged 35-44, but are skeptical about Israeli
policies concerning the Palestinians, according to a recent survey..
http://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-shows-younger-jews-are-more-attached-to-israel/
2012: “The Levy Report, officially called Report on the Legal Status of
Building in Judea and Samaria an 89-page
report on West Bank settlements authored by a three member committee headed by
former Israeli Supreme Court justice Edmund Levy was published today.
2013: Paula “Abdul was a guest judge on So You Think You Can Dance.”
2013: Hebrew Glosses and Notes by Marco Luzzatto Occurring in His Italian
Translation of Menasseh Ben Israel's "Conciliator," was digitized
today.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Hebrew_Glosses_and_Notes_by_Marco_Luzzat.html?id=c4Q6AQAAMAAJ
2013: “Sukkah City” is among the
films scheduled to be shown today at the 30th Annual Jerusalem Film
Festival.
2013: “Claims Conference board members Natan Sharansky, chairman of the
Jewish Agency for Israel, and Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish
Congress, demanded today that, to maintain independence, any such future
investigation must be composed mainly of representatives of the State of Israel
and of Jewish groups that do not sit on the Claims Conference board.” (As
reported by Paul Berger)
2013:
The British Association for Jewish Studies Annual
Conference is scheduled to come to an end today.
2013: Ravid Kahalani, an Israeli born Yemenite Jew, is scheduled to perform
at City Winery in New York City.
2013 Hezbollah blamed Israel for a powerful car bomb blasted
the illusive quiet in a Hezbollah area of Beirut t0day, wounding at least 50
people. No deaths have been reported, despite initial accounts that “one
to several” people died in the explosion. (As reported by Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu)
2013: IDF
troops found the remains today of the first rocket to be fired from Egypt since
the July 3 overthrow of the Islamist government there, a military official
said.
2013: A haredi
soldier was attacked by dozens of haredi men tonight in the ultra- Orthodox
Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea She’arim.
2014: In
Portland, Oregon, Congregation Ahavath Achim is scheduled to show “The Longest
Journey,” a cinematic tribute to the lost Jewish community of Rhodes.
2014:
According to reports today, filming of “Woman in Gold” was underway in Los
Angeles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_in_Gold#/media/File:Woman_in_Gold_film_poster.png
2014: The
Agudas Achim Sisterhood is scheduled to “provide signs, pompoms and cheers” as
part of “Sisterhood Night at the Ball Park.
2014:
“President-elect Reuven Rivlin, Chief Rabbi Lau, and an assembly of interfaith
leader called today for an end to violence which has engulfed southern Israel
and Gaza in recent days. "Stop the cycle of violence and prevent further
harm to innocent lives." (As reported by Kobi Nachshoni)
2014: “Barring
any unusual developments, three of the six suspects arrested for the murder of
Mohammed Abu Khdeir will be released on a seven-day house arrest tomorrow, the
Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court decided today.” (As reported by Aviel Magnezi)
2014(11th
of Tammuz, 5774): Ninety-two-year-old Holocaust survivor, successful
businessman and generous philanthropist David Azrieli passed away today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/holocaust-survivor-billionaire-azrieli-dies-at-92/
2014: “Code
Red sirens blared across southern and central Israel tonight, from Ashkelon to
Gan Yavne, as Gaza militants resumed their rocket-launching activities.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4540776,00.html
2014(11th of Tammuz, 5774):
Ninety-year old “Robert Stein, who helped expand the scope of women’s magazines
as editor in chief of McCall’s and Redbook in the early stages of the modern
women’s movement, publishing articles about race and politics and introducing readers
to the nascent writings of feminist leaders like Betty Friedan and Gloria
Steinem,” passed away today.
2015: “Following a lawsuit from Haaretz and
Yedioth Ahronoth a gag was lifted that made it possible for an Israeli security
source to tell reports that twenty-eight year old “Ethiopian-born Israeli
Mengistu” from Ashkelon who crossed the border into Gaza for unknown reasons in
September “is alive and being kept by Hamas in Gaza. (As reported by Ave Lewis,
Judah Ari Gorss and Raphael Ahren)
2015: The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to host Shelly Oria, a “New York based Israeli author, who will read
from her best-selling debut New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, and talk about
writing between the here and there of spaces and languages, about the
amalgamating Israeli and American literary influences on her work, and more.”
2015: “The opening of the Jerusalem
International Film Festival was punctuated tonight by booing for Culture and
Sports Minister Miri Regev (Likud) and remembrances for Lia Van Leer, the
doyenne of the country’s film scene who died earlier this year.”
2015(22nd of Tammuz, 5775): Seventy-four-year-old
“stockbroker-turned-composer Michael Masser” passed away today. (As reported by
Sam Roberts)
2015: Center for Jewish History, American
Jewish Historical Society and Leo Baeck Institute are scheduled to host the
event marking the opening the exhibition “Allied in the Fight: Jews, Blacks and
the Struggle for Civil Rights.
2015: Settlement Over Anti-Semitic Bullying at
Pine Bush Central Schools Is Approved published today.
2015: An exhibition of the works of Haifa born
artist Guy Yanai who now works and lives in Tel Aviv is scheduled to open in
New York.
http://www.amy-nyc.com/exhibitions/guy-yanai
2016(3rd of Tammuz, 5776): Parshat
Korach
2016(3rd of Tammuz, 5776):
Twenty-second Yahrtzeit of The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson of Righteous
Memory.
http://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/244372/jewish/The-Rebbe-A-Brief-Biography.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/schneerson.html
2016(3rd of Tammuz, 5776): Eighty-two-year-old
“Sydney H. Schanberg, a correspondent for The New York Times who won a Pulitzer
Prize for covering Cambodia’s fall to the Khmer Rouge in 1975 and inspired the
film “The Killing Fields” with the story of his Cambodian colleague’s survival
during the genocide of millions” passed away today. (As reported by Robert D.
McFadden)
2016: In Memphis, at Temple Israel, Rabbi
Kamin, son of Dawn Butler and Dr. Ehud Kamin is scheduled to be called to the
Torah as a Bar Mitzvah.
2016: “Indignation” a film based on the Philip
Roth’s novel is scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2016: “Opposition members raised the
possibility today of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu being forced to step
down in light of various investigations into his financial conduct.”
2017: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Doorpost of Your House and
On Your Gates by Jacob Bacharach, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our
Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky and the recently released paperback
edition of Mischling by Affinity Konar as well as an interview with A.
Scott Berg, “The biographer and consulting producer of Amazon’s “The Last
Tycoon”
2017: Today, “a few remaining survivors and
France’s Grand Rabbi Haim Korisa” gathered in the city of Sete which was
marking the 70th anniversary of attempt by approximately 4,500 Jews
to escape aboard “a rickety steamer” and run the British blockade in an attempt
to reach Palestine.
2017: In a testament to the vitality of “small
town Jewry,” in Coralville, IA, the Sisterhood is scheduled to host a Challah
Baking Demonstration.
2017: The HUB is scheduled to host “an Israeli
event featuring the best of Israeli food, music and entertainment” “at the
Maccabiah version of an Olympic Village.”
2017: The final performance of “Parade,” which
is based on the lynching of Leo Frank is scheduled to take place today at the
Writer’s Theater in Glencoe, a suburb of Chicago.
2017: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is
scheduled to present the “annual Mordkhe Schaecter Memorial Program.”
http://programs.cjh.org/event/schaechter-memorial-2017-07-09%20
2018: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of
Episodes 1-3 of “Your Honor” “binge-worthy thriller” from Israel.
2018: Based on reports last night from “Arab
media outlets” that the IAF had struck at Iranian forces stationed in Syria,
Israeli’s are bracing for an attack from forces in Gaza, north of the Golan,
Lebanon or Judea-Samaria.
2018: “Ben Gurion, Epilogue” is scheduled to be
shown at the 9th Annual Axelrod Israel Jewish Film Festival.
2018: “The Museum Teacher Fellowship Program”
sponsored by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum that “seeks to train leaders in
the field of Holocaust education” is scheduled to being today.
2019: The American Sephardi Federation is
scheduled to host Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” as adapted by director
David Serero who twice performed for Shimon Peres when he was President of
Israel.
2019: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a
screening of “Tel Aviv on Fire.”
2019: JCC Manhattan is scheduled to host a
screening of Aviv Kempner’s “The Spy Behind Home Plate.”
2019: The day after “Jewish sluggers Alex
Bregman and Joc Pederson” competed in a “home run derby, the Major League
Baseball All-Star is scheduled to be played this evening at Progressive Field,
the home of the Cleveland Indians whom Dennis Lehman serves as executive vice
president and whose most famous Jewish player was third baseman Al Rosen.
2020: The Hebrew College is scheduled to
present online “A Time to Mourn: Grieving Together in the Time of COVID-19.”
2020(17th of Tammuz, 5780): Fast of
the 17th of Tammuz
2020: The Addison-Penzak JCC is scheduled to
present online “a docent-educator from the Contemporary Jewish Museum telling
the history of Jewish San Francisco through the impact of Levi Strauss and blue
jeans.”
2020: Illinois Holocaust Museum, Bosnian
American Genocide Institute, and Srebrenica Memorial Center are scheduled to
host a discussion between eyewitnesses of the genocide in Srebrenica as they
share their memories and experiences during the genocide, and their ongoing
fight to combat genocide denial 25 years later.
2020: Via Zoom, in New Orleans, Touro Synagogue
is scheduled to present “News and the Jews with Rabbi Bauman.”.
2020: The Mandel JCC is scheduled to host a
challah making class in which attendees how to make different kind of challah,
including traditional, cinnamon raisin, tie-dye and chocolate chip.
2020: In Cedar Rapids, IA, the Hadassah Book
Club is scheduled to discuss The Only Woman in the Room, a novel by
Marie Benedict
2020: The JWA is scheduled to host a virtual
program ‘with Lizzie Skurnick, editor of Pretty Bitches and founder of Lizzie
Skurnick Books, an imprint devoted to reissuing the very best of young adult
literature, including the beloved All-of-a-Kind Family series.
2020: The Jewish Museum of Maryland is
scheduled to host a live stream evening with Lisa Cooper as she discusses her
book A Forgotten Land: Growling up in the Jewish Pale.
2020: As Israelis begin another day of dealing
with the Pandemic, they will be even more aware of the crisis they are facing
following yesterday’s stern warning issued to the government by over one
hundred doctors, claiming that if hospitals are not bolstered with more staff
and resources, the country's health services will face a "brutal
winter" and President Rivlin’s statement that the Netanyahu government has
failed to develop a 'clear and coherent doctrine' to help fight coronavirus.
2021: Jewish Baby Network is scheduled to
present a Shabbat celebration with music, dancing, puppets, prayers and playing
for kids 5 and under, and older siblings.
2021: Kan Kol Hamusika is scheduled to
broadcast a Young Artists Concert featuring Michael Shaham – Violin, Dani
Dvorkin – Piano, Naor Equba – Clarinet and Gabriel Beigel – Cello.
2021: Temple Beth Sholom in Framingham is scheduled
to present “Park and Pray,” an outdoor Friday night service.
2021: Isaac “Herzog, who is the son of Israel’s
sixth president, Chaim Herzog, and the grandson of Israel’s first chief rabbi,
will succeed Reuven Rivlin when the latter’s term ends” today. (As reported by
Raoul Wootliff)
2022: The Eden-Tamir Center is scheduled to
present “The Best of Chamber Music” featuring Simcha Heled and Friends.
2022: Israeli Anat Cohen, the Jazz Journalists
Association’s clarinetist of the year for 11 straight years through 2018, who
performs with trombone and slide trumpet player Wycliffe Gordon and a jazz
orchestra is scheduled to play at tonight’s Stanford Jazz Concert.
2022: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC offers
complimentary tickets for ATJ for the world premiere “Rise” which is scheduled
to take place today.
2022: Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to
present, online, a Song Circle Concert and Havdalah with musical
artist-in-residence Linda Hirschhorn.
2022(10th of Tammuz, 5782): Parashat
Chukat;
2023: Congregation Netivot Shalom is scheduled
to present “Singing on their Shoulders,” a “musical tribute to the Jewish
composers and lyricists whose timeless music paved the way for today’s
artists.”
2023: New Lehruhaus is scheduled to present
“The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton” during which U. of Oklahoma professor
Andrew Porwancher examines the roots and life of a Founding Father who he has
concluded was very likely born and raised Jewish.
2023: The New York Times features
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age,
in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro and Lincoln’s God: How
Faith Transformed a President and a Nation by Joshua Zeitz.
2024:The ADL's 25th Annual
Supreme Court Review, presented in partnership with the National Constitution
Center is scheduled to take place today.
2024: A meeting of the Interfaith
Alliance Against Christian Nationalism is scheduled to take place this afternoon
at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Iowa City.
2024: YIVO is scheduled to
present a lecture by Professor Dina Porat on “Instilling Yiddishkayt Into
Zionism” which will begin by examining the efforts of “WWII partisan, poet and
intellectual Abba Kovner tried to create a new kind of community at Kibbutz Ein
HaHoresh,”
2024: In Philadelphia, The Weitzman
Museum is scheduled to host an enlightening and inspiring conversation
moderated by Pennsylvania Governor Josh
Shapiro and co-authors Emily Amick and Sami Sage, that could change the way you
engage with our community and country.
2024(3rd of Tammuz):
Thirtieth anniversary of the passing of Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of
righteous memory.
2024: Lockdown University is
scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on “World War II, Jews and Zionism.”
2024: As July 9th begins
in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas
supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their
hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 277 in
captivity. (Editor’s note: this
situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a
snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
