This Day, June 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 12
816:
Leo III, the Pope whose aggressive plan to crown Charlemagne gave the Jews of
the Rhineland a comparatively benign ruler, passed away today.
1240:
Nicholas Donin, a renegade Jew under the patronage of Louis IX, convinced Pope Gregory
IX to confiscate the Talmud on the grounds that it was anti-Christian. A debate
ensued with Rabbi Yechiel ben Yosef of Paris and three other Rabbis speaking in
defense of the Talmud. Yechiel ben Yosef of Paris was a major Talmudic scholar
and Tosafist from northern France, father-in-law of Isaac ben Joseph of
Corbeil. He was a disciple of Rabbi Judah Messer Leon, and succeeded him in
1225 as head of the Yeshiva of Paris, which then boasted some 300 students; his
best known student was Meir of Rothenburg. But even a scholar like Rabbi
Yechiel could prevail since he was not allowed to counterattack or take the
offensive in his argument making the outcome a foregone conclusion. Ultimately
24 carriages loaded with Jewish books including all of the available copies of
the Talmud were burned. Rabbi Yechiel eventually left France and in 1260 the
rabbi arrived in Eretz Yisroel (Land of Israel) along with his son and a large
group of followers, settling in Acre. There he established the Talmudic academy
Midrash haGadol d'Paris. He is believed to have died there between 1265 and
1268, and is buried near Haifa, at Mount Carmel.
1247:
Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, the archbishop of Toledo who was so “vexed by the
prosperity of the Jews in his diocese” that he led a “mob” to the Synagogue
where “he dispersed” the Jews “and then began to plunder the houses of the
unbelievers.”
1519:
Birthdate of Cosimo de’ Medici whose reign was “originally beneficial for the
Jews as can be seen by his issuance in 1551of “an invitation to merchants from
the Levant, including Jews, to settle in Tuscany and do business there;
previously; giving asylum to refugees from the Papal State; and his refusal “to
implement the anti-Jewish restrictions issued by Pope *Paul IV or to hand over
the Jews to the jurisdiction of the Inquisition.” But when he wished to gain the favor of the
Pope he burned the Talmud and he “rigorously applied to the obligation to wear
the Jewish badge.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
1614:
John Thurloe, who as Secretary of State was part of mission to study “the
Jewish question” and entered into negotiations with the leading Jews of Amsterdam” was baptized
today.
1648(22nd
of Sivan, 5408): Rabbi Yechiel Michael ben Eliezer, the head of the Jewish
community in Nemirov was clubbed to death before his mother’s eyes during the
Chmielnicki Uprising, the worst massacre of Jews until the Holocaust.
1665:
The English rename New Amsterdam, New York. England had gained control of the
colony as a result of winning the war with the Dutch. Ironically, Peter
Stuyvesant the Dutch governor who had tried to keep the Jews out in 1654 had to
leave the colony while the Jewish settlers got to stay.
1713:
“Only a few weeks after the beginning of his reign,” Frederick William I,
“appointed Moses Leven Gumperts of the famous Gumperts family of Cleves as
Chief Court and Army Factor.
1720:
Birthdate of Isaac Pinto, translator of the first Jewish prayer book published
in America. A member of Congregation Shearith Israel in the city of New York,
he is remembered chiefly for having prepared what is probably the earliest
Jewish prayer-book published in America, and certainly the first work of its
kind printed in New York City. The work appeared in 1766, and the title-page
reads as follows: "Prayers for Sabbath, Rosh-Hashanah and Kippur, or the
Sabbath, the beginning of the year, and the Day of Atonement, with the Amidah
and Musaf of the Moadim or Solemn Seasons, according to the Order of the
Spanish and Portuguese Jews. Translated by Isaac Pinto and for him printed by
John Holt in New York." Pinto was the friend and correspondent of Ezra Stiles,
president of Yale College, who as late as 1790 mentions him in his diary as
"a learned Jew at New York." From Stiles' account it appears that
Pinto was a good Hebrew scholar, studying Ibn Ezra in the original.
1729(26th
of Tammuz, 5489): Spanish born, New York City merchant Jacob Louzada, the
father of Aaron and Moses Louzada passed away today after which he was buried
the Third Cemetery of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.
1755:
Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who had many Jewish friends and “believed
that that Judaism is concerned only with things of this world and lacks any
formulation of the concept of immortality” received his Ph.D. today. (Jewish
Virtual Library)
1773:
Birthdate of Amschel Mayer Rothschild “the second child and eldest son of Mayer
Amschel Rothschild, the founder of the dynasty, and Gutlé Rothschild née
Schnapper.
1776:
The Virginia Convention of Delegates unanimously adopted The Virginia
Declaration of Rights which includes Article 16 that states, “That religion, or
the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be
directed by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore, all
men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the
dictates of conscience;” The declaration was drafted by founding father George
Mason.
1777(7th
of Sivan, 5537): Second Day of Shavuot observed on the same day that General
George Washington met with his commanders to try and determine how to deal with
the British forces under General Howe that were massing near Brunswick, NJ.
1782(30th
of Sivan, 5542): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz observed as the ill-fated Crawford
Expedition, which was a defeating for Colonial Army, came to an end.
1796(6th
of Sivan, 5556): Shavuot is observed for the last time under the Presidency of
George Washington.
1796:
Birthdate of George Bush “an American biblical scholar, pastor, abolitionist
and Christian Restorationist academic” who was an early American supporter of
the creation of a Jewish state of Israel. “In 1844 Bush published a book
entitled ‘The Valley of Vision; or, The Dry Bones of Israel Revived.’ In it he
denounced “the thralldom and oppression which has so long ground them (the
Jews) to the dust,” and called for ‘elevating’ the Jews ‘to a rank of honorable
repute among the nations of the earth’ by re-creating the Jewish State in the
land of Israel. This, according to Bush, would benefit not only the Jews, but
all of mankind, forming a ‘link of communication’ between humanity and God. ‘It
will blaze in notoriety...It will flash a splendid demonstration upon all
kindreds and tongues of the truth.’”
1799:
Rabbi Abraham Azuby officiated at the wedding of Phillip Cohen and Eleanor
Moses, the daughter of the later Myer Moses, a successful Charleston SC
merchant.
1804:
David Moses, the father of Rachel Moses was buried today in the UK.
1807(6th
of Sivan, 5567): Shavuot
1807:
For the first time since 1785, Reb Nachman of Bratslav observed Shavuot without
his wife Sashia who had passed away Erev Shavuot.
1811:
Amsterdam native Hyman Polock married Rebecca Barnett in London today after
which they had two children, Miriam and Sarah who was born in Philadelphia.
1814:
Birthdate of Hungarian author and liberal political leader Baron Zsigmond
Kemény who came to the defense of Jewish people when violence broke out against
them during the 1848 revolt when for example “in Pest, the symbol of the “Legal
Revolution,” the assembled citizens proposed throwing all the Jews out of the
country and forbidding them from enlisting in the National Guard.
1826(7th
of Sivan, 5586): Seventh Day of Shavuot observed as the Greeks continued to
fight their protracted war to gain independence from the Ottoman Empire.
1827:
In London, Daniel Meyers and Hester Levy gave birth to Angel Meyers.
1829:
In the United Kingdom, Ephraim and Phoebe Benjamin gave birth to Solomon
Benjamin.
1830: The French begin their colonization of
Algeria when they land 34,000 troops at point just to the west of the capital
city, Algiers. Initially the French
administration conferred citizenship only on Frenchmen living in the
colony. The Jews, who had been living
there for centuries, were, like the Arabs, treated as indigenous people and
allowed to maintain their communal and judicial systems.
1832:
Rabbi Aaron Worms was unanimously elected chief rabbi of Metz.
1844:
Opening of the Rabbinical Conference of Brunswick “convoked by Levi Herzfeld
and Ludwig Philippson.”
1844:
In Bohemia, Lambert Furth and Cezilie Treulich gave birth to Jacob Furth,
husband of Jenny Bloch, “founder of the Night School for Immigrants” in St.
Louis and President of Associated Wholesale Grocers who served as a board
member of the Jewish Orphan Asylum and the Mt. Sinai Hospital in Cleveland,
Ohio.
1845(7th
of Sivan, 5605): Second Day Shavuot
1846:
In Cincinnati, OH, “Joseph Abraham and Sarah De Young” gave birth to Victor
Abraham the Cincinnati Law College trained attorney and husband of Emma
Dreyfoos, who was “President Hebrew General Relief Association,” “President and
trustee of K.K. B’nai Israel,” and active member of the B’nai B’rith.
1847(28th
of Sivan, 5607): Sixty-six year old philanthropist Abraham Muhr who fought for
the full emancipation of German Jews passed away today.
1853(6th
of Nisan, 5613): Shavuot
1854:
In Posen, Prussia, Joseph Brown and his wife gave birth to A.B.J. Brown who
served as a rabbi in Seattle, San Jose and Oakland before assuming the position
at Shaarey Zedek in San Francisco.
1855:
In London, Jacob Quixano Henriques and Elizabeth Waley gave birth to Elizabeth
Waley Henriques.
1856:
“Slidell, Blemont and Buchanan” published today described the role of “Auguste
Belmont, the Austrian Jew” who was John Slidell’s nephew by marriage in a
conspiracy to nominate James Buchanan as President of the United States. Belmont was described as an “agent of the
Rothschilds.”
1856:
In Dubuque, IA, Solomon and Rosetta (Lippman) Rauh gave birth to Enoch Rauch
the husband of Bertha Rauh and the father of Helen and Richard Solomon Rauch.
1857:
In Weaverville, CA, German born and future San Francisco resident Samuel Lachman
and his wife Henrietta Lachman gave birth to Albert Lachman.
1858:In
Coffeeville, Mississippi, Esther Lichtenstadter and Leopold Newburger gave
birth Spring Hill College graduate and since 1880 cotton merchant Joseph Newburger,
the husband of Rose Cohen who was one of the founders of the Children of Israel
Congregation in Memphis, TN>
1859:
The Comstock Lode was discovered near Virginia City, Nevada. As with other such strikes, Jews were among
those who arrived seeking to make their fortune. Among them were David H. Cohen and Marcus
Goldbaum whose names appear in connection with numerous other strikes. One Jew who made did make his fortune from
the Comstock Lode was Adolph Sutro. Sutro was not the run of the mill
prospector. Rather he was “a self-taught
financier and mining engineer” who developed a new ore extraction process and
built the Sutro Tunnel that was designed to provide ventilation for the miners,
“ease the hauling of ore and drain water from the mines.” He sold Nevada interests for five million
dollars and moved back to the more civilized environs of San Francisco.
1859:
Lord Palmerston who while serving as of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
during which tinw the British blockaded the port of Piraeus as part of
the response to Greece’s abuse of David Pacifico, whom Palmerston defended as
this “man of Jewish persuasion” and on whose behalf he “made a celebrated
speech which concluded that all British subjects ought to be able to say, as
did citizens of ancient Rome, "Civis Romanus sum" ("I am a
citizen of Rome"), and thereby receive protection from the British
government” began serving as Prime Minister today.
1859:
In Richmond County, NY, Anna Khu and Morris Pollitzer, gave birth to the
College of Physicians and Surgeons trained dermatologist Sigmund Pollitzer.
http://archderm.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=518874
1859:
The United States Grand Lodge of the Order of Brith Abraham whose members
included Samuel Dorf, Robert Strahl and Anson Stern was founded today in New
York Cit.
1861:
During the Civil War the Union began placing restrictions on trade with the
Confederacy for those living in Paducah, KY. This was one of many attempts by
the Union Army to deny the Rebels of many of the goods they could not produce
for themselves. General Grant’s
unfortunate order a year later was actually part of this larger attempt to
cripple the Confederate Army by crippling the Southern economy. This is not meant to excuse Grant’s action
but to put it into a larger context.
1862(14th
of Sivan, 5622): Jacob Goodman, who had enlisted with Company D at Keokuk,
Iowa, which became part of the 15th regiment died today. He had distinguished himself at the Battle of
Corinth (Miss.) where he was fatally wounded.
1862(14th
of Sivan, 5622): Forty-four-year-old Dr. Samuel Harby, the Charleston, SC born
son of Isaac and Rachel Mordecai Harby, the husband of Frances Levy Harby and
the father Octavia Rachel Harby Pollock, who was one of the editors of the New
Orleans Bee passed away today in New Orleans.
1862:
Three days after he passed away, eighty year old Barent Salomons was buried at
“Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery” today.
1867:
Following its defeat by Prussia, Austria reorganized itself into the
Austro-Hungarian Empire and granted legal equality to Jews living with the new
constituent states.
1868:
Birthdate of Marseilles native Isaac Felix Suares who gained fame as “poet and
critic Andre Suares.
1869:
Luna Aelion and Joseph I Suares gave birth to Alexandria, Egypt resident Alfred
J. Suares who at his death bequeathed
£,6.670 to Jewish and non-Jewish charities in Alexandria
1870:
The annual examination of students of the Hebrew Free Schools of New York took
place today at Steinway Hall. Several hundred students from the schools which
were established five years ago by the Hebrew Free School Association took part
in this rigorous, yet fun-filled annual event.
The students were quizzed by teachers from a cross section of the
faculties. They displayed “considerable
proficiency” in “their knowledge of the Hebrew language and of the primary
branches of English education. Follow
the exams, Alderman Henry Woltman addressed the attendees. At the end, the principal, Mr. J.C. Noot
distributed prizes to some fifty of the more “meritorious pupils.
1871:
In Louisville, KY, Lazarus Selligman and Carrie Sabel gave birth to Alfred
Selligman the graduate of University of Louisville Law School and husband of
Jennie Katz who was “the Republican nominee for Commonwealth’s attorney in
1903” and two term President of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
1871
Birthdate of Lithuanian native Viktoras Baranauskas, who in 1890 moved to the
United States where he gained fame “US Coin Designer and Engraver,” Victor D.
Brenner whose works included the famous “Lincoln Penny.”
https://www.usacoinbook.com/encyclopedia/coin-designers/victor-d-brenner/
1872(6th
of Sivan, 5632): Shavuot
1872:
Sir Saul Samuel began a second non-consecutive term as a member of the
Legislative Council of New South Wales.
1873:
According to a report published today the Hebrew Orphan and Benevolent Society
has received contributions totaling $65,075.21 for the year 1872-1873.
1874:
In Boston, Louis Hecht, Jr. and Rose Frank gave birth to Hattie Hecht who
became Hattie Sloss when she married M.C. Sloss who served as a member “several
Jewish charities in Boston” before moving to California where she was President
of the San Francisco Section of the Council of Jewish Women.
1874: According to a
report published today the Hebrew and Benevolent Society received contributions
totaling $70,688.26 for the 1873-1874 reporting year.
1875: The U.S.S. Minnesota
on which Adolph Marix, one of the first Jewish graduates of the U.S. Naval
Academy was recommissioned today.
1875: In Moteleh, Russia,
Rachel Leah Chemerinsky and Ave Ben Davis gave birth to Philip Davis the
husband of Belle Shomer whose education at the University of Chicago, Harvard
and Boston University Law School led him into the fields of social work, the
law and motion pictures where he served as the President of the National Motion
Bureau “from 1914 to 1940.” (Editor’s note: some sources show his birthdate as
1876)
1876: Two days after he
passed away on Shabbat, seventy-eight year old Lewis Lazarus was buried at the
“Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery” today.
1876: George Richardson
was fined ten dollars at the Tombs Police Court for having struck Louis
Raminsky with enough force to cut the bearded Jew’s lip. Richardson struck
Raminsky because he mistook him for a man named Rubinstein whom he identified
as a “murder”.
1877:
According to reports published today in the New York Times Jews living
in Bucharest are petitioning Secretary Evarts for protection. "They are
Russian and Austrians Hebrews, and comprise the very worst types of the race,
refusing either to work or to pay taxes
1877(1st
of Tammuz, 5637): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1877:
As part of their on-going and rather unsuccessful attempt to convert Jews, the
Conference on Jewish Mission “under the Presidency of the Lord Bishop of Bath
and Wells” ended its two days of meeting this afternoon.
1878:
A Coroner’s Inquest was held at the home of the late Lucien Levy to determine
the cause of the death of the Jewish businessman who had died yesterday. Among those giving testimony were his widow
and his brother Henry. After hearing all
of the evidence, the coroner determined that the death was indeed a suicide and
that no autopsy would be necessary.
1879:
In Cincinnati, Ohio, “Harry Rosenbaum, who rose to prominence in the dry goods
field as a director of Louis Stix & Co. in Cincinnati” and “his wife, the
former Sophia Hollstein” gave birth to Edith Rosenbaum who gained fame as Edith
Louise Russell, “an American fashion buyer, stylist and correspondent for
Women's Wear Daily, best remembered for surviving the 1912 sinking of the RMS
Titanic with a music box in the shape of a pig
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/edith-louise-rosenbaum-russell-1879-1975.html
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/edith-russell.html
1880(3rd
of Tammuz, 5640): A Jewish child named Kate Ungerleider died at police
headquarters in New York of whooping cough.
Her father who was a member of the Simon Benevolent Society had
abandoned Kate and her 3 siblings after their mother had eloped with one of his
friends.
1881:
It was reported today that no matter of foreign policy has attracted as much
attention in England was “the horrible persecution of the Jews in Russia.” While several Jews are trying to get the
government to aid their co-religionist, Baron Henry de Worms, the MP from
Greenwich, who is not Jewish is leading the way in this manner. When Parliament is sitting, “not a night
passes without” without putting one or more questions on this matter to the
responsible government minister.
1882:
“Jews Going of Russia” published today described the mass exodus of Jews
seeking to escape the oppression of the Russian Empire and the measures being
taken to deal with this in the West.
1882:
Joseph Wolf and Meyer Morris, two Jewish refugees from Russia who had arrived
in New York two weeks ago, were under arrest today on charges that they had
attacked a member of the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society when he did not comply
with their latest demands.
1883:
Birthdate of Robert Heinrich Löwe; who gained fame as Robert Harry Lowie an
Austrian-born American anthropologist.
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/lowie-robert-h.pdf
1884(19th
of Sivan, 5644): Eighty year old Rosa Gavay, passed away today at the Home for
Aged and Infirm Hebrews today she had an accident on the elevator and fell to
her death.
1884(19th
of Sivan, 5644): Sixty year old Sarah Cohen who had been born in Russia in 1824
passed away today in England.
1884:
At a time when many Jews were turning their backs on Hebrews, Protestants
provided another example of their interest in the language when Reverend John
M. Lansing was named to fill the newly created Gardner Sage Professorship of
Hebrew at the Reformed Church in America’s seminary at New Brunswick, NJ.
1885:
Today Boise Penrose who in 1911 described “discrimination by the Russian
Government against American Hebrews as an assault on American principles and
traditions” and assured a delegation of Jews from Philadelphia “that he agreed
with their contention that the violation of their treaty rights as American
citizens was not a proper subject for an arbitration tribunal but should result
in the passing of a resolution by Congress denouncing the present treaty” with
Russia completed his service as a member of the Pennsylvania House of
Representatives from the Philadelphia County district.
1886:
In Breslau Flora Jolenberg, the daughter of Henritte and Abraham Berliner and
her husband Siegfried Jolenberg gave birth to Estelle Lewin Phippsberg, the
Riga Ghetto victim and wife of Leon Phippsberg and Georg Lewin.
1886:
It was reported today that Rabbi James K. Gutheim passed away in New
Orleans. At the time of his death, he
was the leader of Temple Sinai. From
1868 until 1872 he had been the “English reader” at Temple Emanu-El in New
York. [Note – this was at a time when services were conducted in German] He was praised for his working to raise the
level of education and health among all the people of the city regardless of
their religious beliefs.
1887:
Oscar Straus, the U.S. Minister to Turkey had his first audience with the
Sultan
1887
In Manchester, England, Lithuanian born Abraham Moses Jacobson and his wife
Sarah Leah Jacobson gave birth to Fanny Jacobson
1887:
It was reported today that “the officers and managers of the Sanitarium for
Hebrew Children” are collecting funds so that, for the 9th year in a
row, they can provide outings for poor and sick Jewish mothers and their
children. Last year there were seven
such outings which provided service to over ten thousand woman, children and
infants. [These excursions were part of
an effort in urban America to get youngsters out of the tenement districts for
even a little while during the summer in the belief that fresh air would help
their health.]
1889:
In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Levy officiated at the wedding of Jacqueline De Leon,
the daughter of H.H. De Leon to Sam Keller of Sheffield, Alabama.
1890:
Over 500 people attended the graduation exercises of The Hebrew Technical
Institute that were held this afternoon at its facility on Stuyvesant Street
1890:
As of today, the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children has received $4, 017.50.
1890:
Currently the officers of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children are Nathan Lewis,
President; Hezekiah Kohn, Treasurer; Joseph Davis, Secretary.
1890(24th
of Sivan, 5650): Fifty year old Max Brüll de Domony the husband of Anna von
Brüll de Domony passed away in Budapest.
1890:
Birthdate of Shlomo Fritz Bernstein, the native of Germany who moved to
Palestine in 1936 and who as Peretz Bernstein signed the Israeli declaration of
independence.
1890:
Texas native Oren B Meyer who had been appointed to West Point from Ohio, began
serving as a 2nd Lt. in the 1st Cavalry.
1891(6th
of Sivan, 5651): Shavuot
1891:
West Point graduate Harry J. Hirsch began serving as a 2nd Lt. in
the 15th Infantry.
1891:
“A Trusted Agent’s Theft” published today described Julio Merzbacher’s theft of
between $300,000 and $500,000 from his former employer, New York Life Insurance
Company.
1891:
When Morris Vender was arraigned this morning in Newark, NJ on charges of non-support
he claimed that he was divorced and produced a Hebrew language document to
buttress his claim
1891:
“New Hebrew Cemetery Dedicated” published today described the services led by
Rabbi Bernard Drachman of Park East Synagogue dedicating the new cemetery on
Long Island. Joseph Blumenthal, the
President of the Mount Zion Association which owns the cemetery also spoke to
the attendees.
1892:
The closing exercises of the Louis Down-Town Sabbath and Day School took place
this afternoon at Temple Emanu-El during which Rabbi Gustave Gottheil
“administered the Confirmation Rites” on the graduating students.
1893:
“Monument to Moses Mehrbach” published today described the unveiling ceremony
led by Rabbi Hirsch in the Hebrew section of Cypress Hills Cemetery of a
granite monument in honor of Moses Mehrbach, of blessed memory who was a note
philanthropist who served as a presidential elector for the Democrats in 1884
and 1888.
1893:
Colonel Weber, who had served as Superintendent of Immigration and who had been
in Europe studying “the character and habits of those intending to emigrate to
the United States said today that “the Polish Jews would dull indeed if they
did not take the expulsion of their coreligionists in Russia to heart.” The new
decrees, which could increase immigration to the United States are aimed at the
hitherto protected classes (protection cost 1,000 rubles) including doctors,
lawyers, engineers, architects, artists and university of graduates.”
1893(28th
of Sivan, 5653): The body of twenty-three year old Emanuel Weltman, a peddler
living with his sister Mrs. Rosenbaum was found near High Bridge this morning.
1894:
The Constitutional Convention’s subcommittee on Charities and Education visited
several institutions today including Mt. Sinai Hospital and the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum.
1894:
Virginia native Otho B. Rosenbaum began serving as a 2nd Lt. in the
7th Infantry.
1894:
The Governor’s Tenement House Committee reportedly found that the Tenth Ward
which is populated almost exclusively by Jews is in the worst condition of all
wards because “its population is three times as dense as the most crowded
quarter in London.” Some of the streets
in the ward have taken on the characteristics “of European Juden Strassess and
Ghettos.”
1894:
Last will and testament of Dr. Benhard Grunhut which names Abraham Stern and
William Ketcham as executors signed today.
1895:
Abraham and Strauss department store executive Edward Charles Blum the New York
city born son of Ida Deutsch and Adolphe Blum married Florence Abraham today.
1895:
“New Publications” published today included a brief review of As Others Saw
Him: A Retrospect, a novel about the life of Christ “given in the guise of
letters from Meshulam Ben Zadok, a scribe of the Jews of Alexandria” written to
a physician in Corinth.
1896:
Birthdate of Duqoin, IL, native and Washington University trained attorney
Milton Henry Tucker.
1896:
In Lithuania, “Rivka and Shimon Yehuda Troub” gave birth to Dovid Yitzchak
Troub, the husband of Rivko Traub who in 1926 came to the United States where
he served as rabbi of a congregation in New London, CT.
1897:
Birthdate of Anthony Eden. Eden was the Foreign Minister under Winston
Churchill and his loyal number two. Eden was an ardent anti-Nazi but many claim
that he was the English leader who prevented action being taken to save the
Jews of Europe during World War II. Eden became Prime Minister in the 1950’s
and was the British Prime Minister at the time of the Suez Crisis in 1956. Eden
agreed to the ill-fated plan that included a joint Anglo-French seizure of the
Suez Canal. Despite the success of the Israelis against the Egyptians, the
whole project falls apart in the face of joint U.S.-Soviet support for Egypt.
In the end, the British withdrew and Eden was forced from office.
1897:
The 700 peasants working on the estate of Baron Daniel, the Hungarian Minister
of Commerce attacked a Jewish farmer today.
When four gendarmes were called to protect him the mob rush them,
hacking at them with their scythes.
1897:
Birthdate of Polish-born French pianist Alexandre Tansman.
http://forward.com/culture/217468/on-alexandre-the-greatest-jewish-composer-youve-ne/
1897:
The Columbia University, home of the “Temple Emanu-El Library of Biblical and
rabbinical literature, numbering 3,500 books and pamphlets rich in medieval and
Modern Hebrew works” will be closed today for the first time in its history so
that it can move into its new facility which will open in October.
1898:
More than 100 pupils attended the closing exercises of the Religious School at
Temple Rodeph Sholom this afternoon at 63rd Street and Lexington.
1898:
In Montreal, Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Cohen, the Polish born son of Haim and Sarah Cohen
and his wife Krona Sarah Fierst gave birth to Louis Judah Cohen.
1899:
As the Zionist movement begins to gain strength, officers of the Order of
Knights of Zion in Chicago, “received official notification from the Jewish
Colonial Bank of London” that it now has 100,000 shareholders.
1899:
Birthdate of Fritz Albert Lipmann
American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this,
together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded half the Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine in 1953.
1899:
Birthdate of Usher Fellig who changed his name to Arthur Fellig after coming to
the United States from Austria to fend off anti-Semitism. He is best known as Wegee the American
photographer and photojournalist.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F40F1FFB3F54157493C5AB1789D95F4C8685F9
1900:
At St. Mathews, South Carolina, Rabbi Lesser officiated at the wedding of Flora
S. Pearlstine, the daughter of I.M. Pearlstine to Jacob Jacobs of Charleston,
SC.
1900:
Birthdate of Kishinev native Volf Vilensky, who gained fame as Israeli photographer
, topographer and IDF veteran Zev Vilnay, the husband of Esther Vilney and the
father of structural engineer Oren Vilnay and MK Mtal Vilnai
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Zev-Vilnay/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AZev+Vilnay
1901:
Birthdate of Ben Welden, the native of Toledo, Ohio who carved out a career as
a “character actor” – one of those faces you recognize but whose name you do
not know who are critical to the success of movies and television shows which
in his case included the classic mystery, “The Big Sleep.”
1902(7th
of Sivan, 5662): Second Day of Shavuot
1903:
Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity for Women (Alpha Chapter) one
of whose laureates in Beverly Sills, was
founded at the University School of Music in Ann Arbor, Michigan by seven
women.
1904:
“With impressive ceremonies and in the presence of more than 2,000 members of
the congregation and invited guests President Plonsky laid the cornerstone of
the Temple Agudath Jeshorim, in Eighty-Sixth Street, between Park and Lexington
Avenues
1905:
In Massachusetts, incorporation of the Plymouth Rock Cemetery which was used by
members of Congregation Anshe Sephard and Agudas Achim in Borckton.
1905:
“Envoy Found Menelek An Up-To-Date Ruler” published today, described the
meeting between Dr. Rosen, the German the Minister elect to Morocco and King
Menelek in Abyssinia who believes “that he is the descended from Prince Menelek
I, a son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, who went to Ethiopia with a group
of Sabians and Jews, “lived and thrive there and these Jews were the founders
of the present Abyssinian Semitic race.”
1906:
Today, the U.S. Senate passed The Wadsworth District Sunday Bill which would
have the effect of unduly penalizing Jewish merchants in Washington, D.C. who
would have to close for both days of the weekend.
1907:
Birthdate of Leeds, UK native Joel Martin Jacobson, who in 1909 came to the
United States where he earned a BS from Armour Institute before going on to a
career as an Aeronautical engineer that beane at Fairchild Aircraft.
1907:
Twenty-six-year-old Nathaniel Bilder, the New York City born son of Levi and
Amelia (Garfunkel) Bilder, the Chicago-Kent College of Law trained attorney
married Zerlina Hirsh today in Chicago.
1907:
In Cleveland, “all of the kosher shops were picketed by the women and children”
“of the Jewish District” who are angry “over the recent raise of four cents a
pound” for meat “and are urging others not buy” the meat.
1908:
It was reported today that “Charles Frohman, who is now abroad making
arrangements for increasing his European ventures and obtaining plays and
players for America, is going to have a genuine Fourth of July celebration in
Paris.”
1908:
“Gertrude Hoffman has been engaged to appear at Hammerstein’s Roof Garden”
later this this month.
1908:
Birthdate of Otto Skorzeny, the Austrian born German Waffen-SS Lieutenant
Colonel who may have been the only person to be decorated by Hitler with the
Iron Cross and to have worked for Mossad.
1909(23rd
of Sivan, 5669): Parashat Sh’lach
1909(23rd
of Sivan, 5669): Fifty-six year old Moses King, the London born son of “David
Woolf King and Sarah Lazarus, the St. Louis raised Harvard graduate and
publisher of travel guide books who raised three children with his wife Bertha
Maria Cloyes, passed away today in New York City.
1910(5th
of Sivan, 5670): Erev Shavuot
1910:
“Police Hunt Down Jews In Russia” published today described dispatches received
by the Jewish Aid Society Scoeity that “Jews are being unmercifully evicted
from their Summer Country residences throughout Russia” and that the police in
Smolensk “are drawing mounted cordons around whole districts” forcing many Jews
to hid in the surrounding woods where the “police are funding them like wild
game.”
1911:
In a letter written today, Mark J. Katz praised the career of Rear Admiral
Adolph Marix whose bravery during the Spanish American War, “displayed in his
spirit engages at Manzanillo earned him the high commendation “of his
superiors” and later the recognition of Congress.”
1912:
A kosher kitchen was installed at Ellis Island for use by immigrants.
1912:
Songwriter Al Sherman and his wife gave birth to Richard M. Sherman who joined
with his older brother Robert to crease scores for films including “Mary
Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Jungle Book, Charlotte's Web and The
Aristocats.”
1913(7th
of Sivan, 5673): Second Day of Shavuot
1913:
As reported today in the New Age, Anglo-Jewish
businessman Godfrey Charles Joseph Isaacs,, the brother of Rufus Isaac, 1st
Marque of Reading won his case for libel against Cecil Chesterton, a case that
had grown out the Marconi Scandal was awarded £100 plus costs,
1913:
Dr. Felix Levy and Max Shulman are scheduled to speak during Shavuot Services
at the Chicago Hebrew Institute.
1913:
“Mortche” Goldberg, “his wife Rosie Goldberg, Louis Barusch, Gussie Cohen and a
man still unnamed” were indicted today on charges related to their involvement
with the Vice Trust that earned $1,250,000 a year in profits “and paid nearly
$400,000 yearly for protection to the police.”
1914:
“Der Hund von Baskerville a German
silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles
directed by Rudolf Meinert, produced by Josef Greenbaum, with a script by
Richard Oswald and filmed by cinematographer Karl Freund was released today.
1914:
Birthdate of Nathan B. Sweedler.
1915:
In Kansas City, MO, attorney Benjamin Morris Achtenberg and his wife Minnie
gave birth to Irving Achtenberg, the husband of Gail Anita Achtenberg.
1915: During today’s hearing on the petition
of Leo M. Frank for the commutation of his sentence from death to life
imprisonment which last for more than three months, Governor Slaton invited
counsel for both sides to accompany him on visit to the National Pencil Factory
so he can “thoroughly acquaint himself with the physical features of the
building in which Mary Phagan met her death.”
1916:
Birthdate of Irwin Allen who gained fame as a producer of disaster movies.
Allen helped bring to the screen two of the most famous disaster films ever
made – The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. His name is now
synonymous with the genre – a name that can also be spotted amongst the
tombstones of late and great Jewish performers in LA’s Mount Sinai cemetery.
1916:
In Evansville, Indiana, Minnie Greenbaum and Mark Harry Joseph gave birth to
Harry J. Sonneborn who was raised in New York by his Aunt Jeanette and her
husband Louis Sonneborn who was a vice president of finances at Tastee Freeze
before join McDonald’s where he became “the first president and chief
executive.”
1916:
It was reported today that the officers of the Board of Directors of the Talmud
Torah Ansche Zitomerer are Max Myerson, President; Abraham Mazer and Henry
Linetsky, Vice Presidents; Mrs. Clara Cpazsik, President of the Ladies’
Auxiliary and Rabbi Abraham Gelerenter, School Principal.
1916:
“About 500 rabbis, Presidents of congregations and prominent laymen” are
scheduled “to attend a meeting” being held “this afternoon in the Aldermanic
Chamber in City Hall to investigate charges that many east side and Harlem
butchers have been selling fake kosher meat to Orthodox Jews” – charges
verified by Joseph Hartigen, Commissioner of Weights and Measures who “has
found fifty-seven butchers in the last months selling or exposing for sale meat
which was falsely represented as kosh
1917
The Ziegfeld Follies of 1917 featuring Eddie Cantor opened today.
1917:
The three day meeting of the Executive Board of the Jewish Congress Association
is scheduled to come to an end in Chicago.
1918:
Nineteen year old major league catcher Robert Leon “Bob” Berman played his last
game for the Washington Senators of the American League today.
1918:
Birthdate of Samuel Z. Arkoff. Born in Iowa, Arkoff was an entertainment
attorney when he went to work for American International Pictures or AIP. As a
producer at AIP he perfected a formula for low budget films in a variety of
genres including gangster, horror and "blaxploitation." His studios
produced everything from "The Amityville Horror" to the series of
beach party movies starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. He provided
the training ground for a many famous directors including Brian De Palma,
Martin Scorsese, and Fancis Ford Coppola, as well as such performers as Robert
De Niro, Jack Nicholson, and Melanie Griffin. He died in 2001 and is buried in
Mt. Sinai Cemetery in California.
1918:
It was reported today that William Edlin, the editor of The Day, described “those who demand the recognition of the Soviet
Government are the very same people who have been the pacifists and who have
opposed the entrance of the United States into the war against Germany.
1918:
At the age of 19, catcher Robert Leon “Bob” Berman played his second and last
game for the Washington Senators of the American League
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/26/sports/sports-of-the-times-the-day-he-caught-walter-johnson.html
1918:
West Point Graduate Meyer L. Casman was promoted to the rank of First
Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers.
1919(14th
of Sivan, 5679): Sarah Weechna bat Abram Tzvi (Waran) Levitsky who emigrated to
the United Kingdom in mid-1900's and made aliyah in 1911 or 1912 passed away
today after which was buried on the Mount of Olives.
https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/narewka/Y&SLevitsky.html
1919:
Meyer Casman completed his service as “student officer at the Engineer School.”
1920:
Birthdate of Dave Berg who gained famed as a cartoonist for "Mad
Magazine". He passed away in 2002.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Davebergself.jpg
http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/mad-on-cartoon-network/images/24503591/title/mad-magazine-wallpaper
1920:
Birthday of Stanley Sheinbaum, the native of New York City who transitioned
from a successful career as an economics professor to being a “peace advocate”
in many venues.
http://www.wrmea.org/1989-march/personality-stanley-sheinbaum.html
1920:
Having nominated Warren Harding for President, who would sign a congressional resolution
endorsing the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and Calvin Coolidge
for Vice President, the Republican National Convention came to a close in
Chicago.
1921(6th
of Sivan, 5681): Shavuot is observed for the first time during the Presidency
of Warren Harding.
1921(6th
of Sivan, 5681) Zvi Shimon Album, the Lithuanian born Russian rabbi who in 1891
came to the United States where he led
“Congregation Mishna Ugemoro” in Chicago and clashed with Rabbi Yaacov
David Willowsky over matters of Kashrut and leadership of Chicago Jewry passed
away today.
1922(26th
of Sivan 5682): Seventy-four year old Herman Tuholske, Meseritz, Prussia, born
Neuman and Johanna Arnfeld Tuholske and the
Missouri Medical College trained physician, surgeon and medical school
professor who co-founded he St. Louis Post-Graduate School of Medicine in 1882
and established the St. Louis Surgical and Gynecological Hospital in 1890 and
had three children with his wife Sophie Epstein Tuholske passed away today in
St. Louis after which he was buried at the New Mount Sinai Cemetery in Affton,
MO
1923:
Harry Houdini (Eric Weiss) freed himself from a straitjacket while suspended
upside down forty feet above the ground in New York City.
1923(28th
of Sivan, 5683: Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, the communal worker who founded the
National Farm School passed away today.
1923:
In Berlin, “German-Jewish theatre critic Alfred Kerr” and his wife, Julia Weismann
“the daughter of a Prussian politician gave birth children’s author Judith Kerr
“who came to Britain with her family in 1933 amid the rise of the Nazis.”
http://www.tracesproject.org/judith-kerr-obe/
1924:
The Republican National Convention which New Yorker Samuel S. Koenig attended
as a delegate came to a close today.
1925:
Hunter College graduate Estelle L. Silverman, the holder of a Master of Arts
from Teachers College at Columbia University received a recommendation for a principal’s
license today that read “She is the type of woman we need at the head of our
schools to Americanize, to refine and to lead.”
1925:
“An ancient wall with gigantic stones similar in construction and size to those
of the western wall, commonly known as the wailing wall, was unearthed” today
in Jerusalem by the Jewish Archeological Society.
1926(30th
of Sivan, 5686): Parashat Korach; Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1926:
Today, “Soviet justice punished four of the leaders of a pogrom which took
place at Egorievsk in 1905 which had been “deliberately planned by the Black
Hundreds.”
1927:
Arkansan Ben Altheimer, a long-time advocate for holiday honoring the U.S. flag
is scheduled to attend “a religious and patriotic service in front of the
Capitol Building in Washington, DC, this afternoon.” (JTA)
1928:
The second ballet version of Apollon musagète opened today in Paris “at
the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt” which had been renamed in honor of the actress in
1899 – a name by which it would be continued to be known until the French
surrender in 1940 when the Nazis or their Vichy stooges changed the name
because the actress was Jewish.
1928:
In Hamburg, “Otto Stern, a top executive for Royal Dutch Shell” and “Charlotte
(Goldschmidt) Stern gave birth to Howard Peter Stern, the refugee from Nazi
German who gained fame as “H. Peter Stern, the co-founder of Storm King Art
Center. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/obituaries/h-peter-stern-dead.html
1928(24th
of Sivan, 5688): Beilitz native Maurcie Blumenfeld, who gained fame as American
“philologist and Sanskrit Scholar” Maurice Bloomfield, the holder of a Ph.D.
from Johns Hopkins where he taught starting in 1881, who married Helen Scott
after the death of his first wife Rosa Zeisler and who was “the brother of
pianist Fannie Bloomfield Ziesler and the uncle of “linguist Leonard
Bloomfield” passed away today.
https://dbcs.rutgers.edu/all-scholars/8550-bloomfield-maurice
1929: In Frankfort, Edith (Hollander) Frank and Otto Frank gave birth to Anne
Frank, one of the most famous diarists in the history of Western civilization.
1929:
Birthdate of Frank Lawrence "Lefty" Rosenthal, sports handicapper and
a former Las Vegas casino executive who also hosted a television talk show in
Las Vegas during the late 1970s. He passed away on October 13, 2008.
1930(16th
of Sivan, 5690): Roxbury, MA native, Harvard alum and Boston University trained
attorney former state senator Edward J. Bromberg, the veteran of Spanish
American War, supporter of Palestine and husband of the former Henrietta Livingston
of Richmond, VA passed away today after having “suffered a sudden attack of heart
disease.:
1930:
In a fight for the “vacant heavyweight championship today at Yankee Stadium Max
Schmeling was knocked down in the fourth round by a low blow from Jack Sharkey”
forcing his Jewish manager Joe “Jacobs to jump into the ring and continued to
scream "foul" until the bewildered referee disqualified Sharkey.
1931:
In Brooklyn, the former Diana Ginsberg and elementary school principal Samuel
Jaffee gave birth to novelist Rona Jaffe.
1931:
Mickey Cohen fought and lost a match against World Featherweight Champion Tommy
Paul, having been knocked out cold after 2:20 into the first round.
1932:
Today, Adolph Gottlieb, the New York born son of Emil and Elsie Berger, who had
studied art in several European capitals including Paris, married Esther Dick
after which the couple spends the summer in Rockport, MA where he continues to
paint watercolors and oils” before renting an apartment in Manhattan in
September.
1933:
The Joint Distribution Committee’s German relief drive is scheduled to open
today in Newark, NJ under the leadership of Edgar S. Bamberger.
1933:
In Philadelphia, attorney Robert Abrahams and “the former Florence Kohn, a
homemaker and philanthropist: gave birth to pioneering “folklorist Roger David
Abrahams.” (As reported by William Grimes)
1933:
In Detroit, The Convention of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service
held it final meeting today.
1934:
It was announced tonight at the Metropolis Club “that a beefsteak dinner given
by the clothing an allied trades of the UJA of the Joint Distribution Committee
and the American Palestine Committee raised $45,000.”
1935(11th
of Sivan, 5695): Seventy-four-year-old Meyer Vesell “one of the leading cloak
manufacturers when he retired 12 years ago and one of the founders of the
Jewish Center on West 86th Street whose children included Sadie
Levy, the wife of Borough President Samuel Levy, passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/06/13/94620475.html?pageNumber=23
1935:
Birthdate of Sanford Morton Gorssman, the frustrated sports broadcaster who
“became an Emmy-winning director of National Football Games.” (As reported by
Richard Sandomir)
1936:
Two passengers were seriously wounded today when a bus headed for the “Jewish
settlement at Attaroth, six miles north of Jerusalem,” was fired on by Arabs.
1936:
Fourteen Jews were injured, five of them seriously, when a bomb was exploded in
a coach as “a train that Haifa for Lydda was pulling out of Kalkilya.”
1936:
“Collective security for Jews and resistance to destruction of their rights
throughout the world are general topics for discussion at a two-day conference
of 1,000 delegates which opened” in Washington, D.C. “under the auspices of the
American Jewish Congress of which Dr. Stephen S. Wise is president.”
1936(22nd
of Sivan, 5696): After a short illness, sixty-two year old Austrian author Karl
Kraus passed away today.
http://www.theabsolute.net/minefield/kraus.html
http://www.jta.org/1936/06/16/archive/karl-kraus-vienna-writer-dies-at-62
1937:
Congressman Emanuel Celler is among those scheduled to speak today “mass
meeting of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born.” (Editor’s
note – for those living in the 21st century this should serve as a
reminder that the issue of immigration is a not a new and of the role Jews have
played in an issue that reminds of the Biblical injunction that they should
protect “the widow, the orphan and the stranger in your midst.)
1937:
Samuel Untermyer is among those scheduled to speak tonight at the “29th
annual convention of Polish Jews in America” which is being held at the Hotel
Astor.
1938:
Birthdate of French journalist and essayist Jean-Francois Kahn the brother of
scientist Axel Kahn whose father was Jewish and mother was Catholic.
1939:
Leonard Kaplan graduates from West Point. Leonard Kaplan served as a captain, a
major, and upon leaving active duty in 1947, only eight years from graduation,
he was a lieutenant colonel. While in the Army Reserves, he ultimately reached
the rank of colonel. His service record included the Legion of Merit, the
Bronze Star with one oak leaf cluster, and a Purple Heart. During World War II
he served as a battalion commander of one of the first amphibious units,
serving in the South Pacific for33 months.
1939: Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' “Dr.
Cyclops, “the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor. Paramount was dominated by two Jews: Adolph
Zukor, the Chairman of the Board, and Barney Balaban, its President
1940(6th
of Sivan, 5700) Shavuot
1940:
Margaret and Hans Reys arrive at Etampes having pedaled 18 kilometers from
Paris. They find suitable lodging and
spend the night
1941(17th
of Sivan, 5701): Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss who worked for
Murder Incorporated was executed at Sing Sing.
1941(17th
of Sivan, 5701): Martin "Bugsy" Goldstein who worked for Murder
Incorporated was executed at Sing Sing.
1941:
Birthdate of Marvin Phillip Aufrichtig, the native of Brooklyn who gained famed
as the golden throated Marv Albert whose voice brought us basketball, football,
hockey and tennis championships.
1942:
Anne Frank received a diary on her thirteenth birthday.
1942:
Today “the first US bombing of a major European target took place at the
Ploiesti refineries” as part of the Oil Campaign that played a key, if
under-appreciated, role in the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of the Shoah.
1942:
George Frederick “Buzz” Beurling, who died in a plane crash after having
volunteered to fly for the IAF during the War for Independence, “had his
baptism of fire” this morning while flying his Spitfire over Malta today.
1942:
In Khmelnik, the Ukraine; babies, children and old people were ordered to
assemble. The children were taken away, never to be seen again.
1943: The Jewish community at Berezhany, Ukraine,
is wiped out. On Shabbat, in the morning, the Nazis led 1,180 Jews of Berezhany
to face death at the city's old Jewish graveyard, where the Nazis shot into a
mass grave.
1943 (9th of Sivan, 5703): In the Lódz
(Poland) Ghetto, the chiefs of Jewish police are forced to witness Nazi
executions of recaptured ghetto escapees: 23-year-old Hersch Fejgelis,
29-year-old Mordecai Standarowicz, and 31-year-old Abram Tandowski.
1943:
Birthdate of sportscaster Marv Albert.
1944:
In the weekly internal report of the War Refugee Board, it states that
Ambassador MacVeagh in Cairo reports there are still 5,000 Jews hiding in
Greece. "Those who have been able to join the Partisans reportedly run
less risk of being exterminated by the Germans, who have thus far avoided the
systematic pursuit of guerilla warriors."
1944:
The Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter was established in Oswego, New York
by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was operated by the War
Relocation Authority
1945(1st
of Tammuz, 5705): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1945(1st
of Tammuz, 5705): Sixty nine year old Theodore Hardeen, the magician and escape
artist who was the brother of Harry Houdini passed away today in New York.
http://www.all-about-magicians.com/theodore-hardeen.html
1946:
Fifty-two of the officials and guards from the Flossenbürg concentration camp
went on trial today.
1947:
U.S diplomate George Messermith, who made the “controversial decision to issue
a visa to Albert Einstein” while serving as US Consulate in Germany completed
his service as U.S. Ambassador to Argentina.
1948:
In New York, Phillip and Rosalyn (née Bauman) Wein gave birth to “comic book
writer” Leonard Norman Wein. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
1949:
In “Inspired By The Headlines” published today Elizabeth Pallette” told the
tale of “Sword in the Desert,” “the first picture to be made in Hollywood about
the struggles in Palestine.”
1949:
Today, at the commencement exercises of the Jewish Theological Seminary during
which sixteen students were ordained, Judge Louis E. Levinthal of Philadelphia
“asserted that the Jewish people must transmit to future generations ‘our
cultural and religious heritage as Jews so that our community may make its
specific, its finest contribution to the total civilization of our country.’”
1950:
U.S. release of 1950 film noir “Panic In the Streets” produced by Sol C.
Siegel, co-starring Zero Mostel with music by Alfred Newman.
1950:
Birthdate of American journalist and author and Richard Ben Cramer.
1950:
Eddie Cantor, his wife Ida and Mr. and Mrs. Yolanda Markson of Los Angeles
arrived in Israel this morning on what was Mr. Cantor’s first visit to Israel.
Among those greeting him at the airport was United States Ambassador to Israel,
James G. McDonald. Cantor has raised over ten million dollars to support the
Jewish state. He said that as a good
American it was his duty to support the young democracy and that doing so was
in the same spirit being shown by the United States in funding the Marshall
Plan which was designed to support the democracies of Western Europe.
1951:
After first being released in the United Kingdom U.S. premiere of “Sirocco”
based on a novel by Joseph Kessel, directed by Curtis Bernhardt with a script
co-authored by Hans Jacoby co-starring Lee J. Cobb and featuring Zero Mostel
and “Balukjiaan.”
1951:
In the UK, premiere of “White Corridors” produced by Joseph Janni
1951:
Eleven days after premiering in the United Kingdom, “Sirocco” directed by
Curtis Bernhardt based on a novel Joseph Kessel with a script by Hans Jacoby
and co-starring Lee J. Cobb and featuring Zero Mostel was released today in the
United States.
1951(8th
of Sivan, 5711): An unnamed Israeli soldier was killed when he sought to stop
Jordanian troops from crossing the border into Israel.
1952(19th
of Sivan, 5712): Rabbi Henry Cohen who “served Congregation B'nai Israel in
Galveston, Texas from 1888 to 1952” passed away. Born in 1863, Cohen played an
integral role in the Galveston Movement. The Galveston Movement operated
between 1907 and 1914 to divert Jews fleeing Russia and eastern Europe away
from crowded East Coast cities. Ten thousand Jewish immigrants passed through
Galveston, Texas during this era, approximately one-third the number who
migrated to Palestine during the same period.”
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fco13
1952:
Michael von Faulhaber, the Roman Catholic Cardinal who while Archbishop of
Munich in 1933 defended the Old Testament against the anti-Semitism of the
Nazis and courageously declared: “God always punishes the tormentors of his
Chosen People, the Jews." "No Roman Catholic approves of the
persecutions of Jews in Germany."
1953:
“Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick” produced by William Perlberg and starring Dinah
Shore was released today in Finland.
1953:
In Manhattan, Edith Snyder who “had been a buyer for the department start I
Magnin before her marriage” and Martin Goldberg, the owner of a company that
sold evening wear” gave birth to Carin Goldberg, a celebrated graphic designer
who brought an inventive postmodern sensibility to book and album covers. (As
reported by Penelope Green)
1954(11th
of Sivan, 5714): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1954:
Kenneth Nichols, the General Manager of the Atomic Energy Commissioner
recommended that Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance not be reinstated. In
five "security findings," Nichols said that Oppenheimer was "a
Communist in every sense except that he did not carry a party card," and
that he "is not reliable or trustworthy." The commission agreed, and
Oppenheimer was stripped of his security clearance.
1954:
After 115 performances at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, the theatre came down on
the original Broadway production of “The Girl in Pink Tights” “a musical comedy
with music by Sigmund Romberg; lyrics by Leo Robin; and a musical book by
Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields.
1955(22nd
of Sivan, 5715): Eighty year old “British botanist and potato breeder” Redcliff
Salaman, the author of The History and Social Influence of the Potato, the
700 page tome on this edible tuber passed away today.
http://neglectedbooks.com/?p=575
1955:
A production of “Guys and Dolls” starring Walter Matthau as “Nathan Detroit”
came to an end at the New York City Center.
1955:
Outfielder Al Silvera made his major league debut with the Cincinnati Reds.
1955:
Comedian Buddy Hackett married Sherry Cohen.
1955:
NBC broadcast the last episode of “Mr. Peepers” a sitcom with scripts by
Everett Greenbaum and featuring Tony Randall (Aryeh (Arthur) Leonard Rosenberg)
“as history teacher Harvey Weski.”
1956:
Recording was completed of the LP, “Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings” produced
by Buddy Bregman and featuring songs by Irving Berlin, Oscar Hammerstein II and
Jerome Kern.
1957:
ITV broadcast the final episode of “The Buccaneers” a dramatic series
co-produced by Hannah Weinstein.
1957:
After having premiered in New York City in May, “Joe Butterfly” a comedy
produced by Aaron Rosenberg, with a screenplay co-authored by Sy Gomberg and
filmed by cinematographer Irving Glassberg was released today in Los Angeles.
1959(6th
of Sivan, 5719): Shavuot
1959:
In New York, Dr. Israel Goldstein is scheduled to officiate at Congregation B’nai
Jershurun’s Confirmation Services.”
1960(13th
of Sivan,5782): Sixty-five-year-old New York native and WW I veteran Alvah (Al)
Psoesn the cartoonist best known as the creator of “Sweeney & Son” passed
away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/06/12/99500319.html?pageNumber=86
1961:
Walworth Barbour presents his credentials as the United States Ambassador to
Israel.
1961:
PM East/PM West a late night talk show co-hosted by Mike Wallace is broadcast
for the first time.
1962:
David Ben-Gurion sends a letter to Eliezer Steinman, in which he writes,
“Today, more than ever, the "religious" tend to relegate Judaism to
observing dietary laws and preserving the Sabbath. This is considered religious
reform. I prefer the Fifteenth Psalm, lovely are the psalms of Israel. The
Shulchan Aruch is a product of our nation's life in the Exile. It was produced
in the Exile, in conditions of Exile. A nation in the process of fulfilling its
every task, physically and spiritually . . . must compose a "New
Shulchan"--and our nation's intellectuals are required, in my opinion, to
fulfill their responsibility in this.”
1963:
U.S. premiere of “Cleopatra” directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz who co-authored
the script with Sidney Buchman, produced by Walter Wanger, co-starring
Elizabeth Taylor and Martin Landau
During the filming of the this epic flic, Taylor, who had converted to
Judaism and was married to Jewish crooner Eddie Fisher, began a torrid and
public affair with her co-star Richard Burton.
Burton and Taylor both left their respective spouses, married, divorced
and remarried.
1964:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today at the Riverside Chapel for
Ignacy Aleksandrowicz, a “Professor Emeritus as Hobart College at Geneva, NY.”
1964(2nd
of Tammuz, 5724): Seventy-seven year Morris Cafritz, Washington, D.C.
millionaire, pillar of the Jewish community and husband of leading hostess Gwen
Cafritz passed away tonight in Hot Springs, AR.
http://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/13/morris-cafritz-builder-dead.html
1965:
At Park Avenue Temple, Rabbi Sanford M. Shapiro officiated at the wedding of
Susan Linda Weinstein, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Weinstein and
Jeffrey Harold Loria, the son of Mr. Walter J. Loria, the owner of the Miami
Marlins baseball team and Mrs. Loria.
1965:
After 540 performances a musical version of Budd Schulberg’s “What Makes Sammy
Run?” closed at the 54th Street Theatre in New York.
1966:
Ninety-two year old William Ernest Hocking who in 1930 wrote “Palestine An
Impasse?” in which he claimed that “two enemies of peace…are fanaticism and
fear” passed away today.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1930/07/palestine-an-impasse/306750/
1967:
First Israeli ship sailed through Gulf of Eilat after the Six Days War. It was
the closure of the Gulf of Eilat and the blockade of the port of Eilat by the
Egyptians in May that led to the June War.
1967:
The INS Dolphin arrived at Eilat
1967:
David Ben-Gurion “met with Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek in his Knesset office”
today.
1968:
“Rosemary’s Baby” the movie version of Ira Levin’s novel directed and written
by Roman Polanski and featuring Charles Grodin and the voice of Tony Curtis was
released in the United States today.
1969:
In Manhattan Same and Aline Schneider gave birth to NHL player who “won the
Stanley Cup in 1993 with the Montreal Canadians.”
1970(8th
of Sivan, 5730): Eighty-year-old Columbia trained attorney, the son of State Supreme
Court Justice and President of the Educational Alliance Samuel Greenbaum and
husband of sculptor Dorothea Greenbaum with whom he had two children Daniel and
Dr. David Greenbaum, passed away today.
1970(8th
of Sivan, 5730): Sixty-six year old Israeli political leader Yisrael Barzilai
passed away. Born in Poland in 1913, he
made Aliyah in 1934. A member of the
Knesset, he served in several ministerial positions including Minister of Postal Services and Minister of
health. Barzilai Medical Center in
Ashkelon was named in his honor.
1971(19th
of Sivan, 5731): Parashat Baha’aloctcha
1971
(19th of Sivan, 5731): Sixty-two year old Columbia trained
psychiatrist Nathan Ward Ackerman, the Bessarabia born son of pharmacist David Ackerman and Bertha (Greenberg)
Ackerman who served as the “chief psychiatrist at the Menninger Clinic” as well
as serving in the capacity for “the Jewish Board of Guardians in New York City”
passed away today
http://psychology.jrank.org/pages/7/Nathan-Ward-Ackerman.html
https://www.amazon.com/Nathan-Ward-Ackerman/e/B001K8FF8I
1972(30th
of Sivan, 5732): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1972(30th
of Sivan, 5732): Sixty-three year old Saul David Alinsky radical, writer and
social activist, passed away. Born in 1909, the son of Russian Jewish
immigrants, Alinsky had a passion for justice that originated from his
experience growing up in Chicago's Jewish ghetto where he witnessed suffering
during the Depression.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/06/13/80792596.html?pageNumber=46
1974:
“The Soviet government expressed a strong diplomatic protest” to the Jewish
demonstrations that greeted the arrival of the Bolshoi today in Britain.
1975(3rd
of Tammuz, 5735): Seventy four year old Arthur Kober, the husband of Lillian
Hellman who gained his own measure of fame as a screenwriter and author whose
works appeared in The New Yorker
passed away today in New York.
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/13/archives/arthur-kober-humorist-is-dead-at-74.html
1975:
Today “The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects conferred a
"Special Citation upon Robert Caro....for reminding us once again, that
ends and means are inseparable
1977:
After 1,944 performances at the Imperial Theatre, the curtain came on the
original Broadway production of “Pippin” the Tony-award musical with lyrics and
music by Stephen Schwartz starring John Rubinstein, the son of concert pianist
Arthur Rubinstein.
1977:
In “The Yiddish” published today Luna Rosenfeld traced the rise of the Yiddish
Theatre from the Lower East Side featuring actors like Jacob Adler and
playwrights like Jacob Gordin.
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/12/archives/the-yiddish.html
1979:
The Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of
Connecticut in Storrs which was founded by the Board of Trustees in February of
1979, was formally launched at an Inaugural Program today when Nobel Laureate
I.B. Singer addressed nearly 1,000 persons
1980(27th
of Sivan, 5740): Seventy-six year old Rabbi and Biblical scholar Bernard Jacob
Bamberger, the graduate of Johns Hopkins and HUC, spiritual leader of New
York’s Congregation Shaaray Tefila and
the husband of Ethel “Pat” Kraus with whom he had two sons –Henry and
Pat—passed away today.
1981:”Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today at the East Midwood Jewish Cemetery
for” Eighty-two year old Harry Halpern who served as the Rabbi at the East
Midwood Jewish Center for forty nine years and “professor of pastoral
psychiatry at JTS” while fighting for Civil and Human Rights
1981(10th
of Sivan, 5741): Seventy-year old Louis Solomon who went from high school teach
to producer and writer while raising two daughters, Hilary and Dinah, with his
wife Wilma Shore, passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/17/obituaries/louis-solomon.html
1981:
U.S. premiere of ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark” directed by Steven Speilberg, with a
screenplay by Lawrence and story co-authored by Philip Kaufman based on finding
the Ark built by Moshe.
1982:
Today “500 NJA members marched in the Disarmament Rally in New York, which was
at that time the largest Disarmament Rally in American history.”
1983(1st
of Tammuz, 5743): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1983(1st
of Tammuz, 5743): Academy award winning actress Norma Shearer who converted to
Judaism when she married Irving Thalberg, passed away today. (As reported by
Eric Pace)
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/14/obituaries/norma-shearer-film-star-two-decades-is-dead.html
1984:
Having premiered a month ago at the Cannes Film Festival, “Under the Volcano”
with music by Alex North was released in the United States today.
1986(5th
of Sivan, 5746): Erev Shavuot
1986:
In “The Jewish Freud,” published today Michael
Ignatieff begins his review of “Freud’s Discovery of Psychoanalysis: The Politics of Hysteri” by
William J. McGrath and “Freud and
His Father” by Marianne Krull with the following story. “When
Sigmund Freud was twelve and out walking with his father Jacob in the streets
of Vienna, his father wanted to show his son how much better things had become
for Jews since the days when he was a poor peddler wearing a beaver hat and a
kaftan in the shtetls of Galicia. So he told his son about the time in
Tysmenitz when a gentile had crossed his path on the pavement and had knocked
his hat into the gutter jeering after him, 'Jew, get off the pavement.’”
1986:
Jewish gangster Vladimir Reznikov entered the headquarters of Jewish gangster
Balagula headquarters at the Odessa nightclub,” pushed a 9mm Beretta into
Balagula's skull and demanded the $600,000 that he alleged Balagula owed him.
1987:
“Million Dollar Mystery” starring Tom Bosley which was the “final
feature-length film directed by Richard Fleischer” was released today in the
United States.
1988: A revival of Stephen Schwartz’s “Godspell”
opened at Lambs Theatre.
1990:
Moshe Arens completed his term as Foreign Minister.
1991:
Premiere of “The Boneyard, a “direct-to-video horror film” co-starring Norman
Fell.
1993(23rd
of Sivan, 5753): Parashat Sh’lach
1993(23rd
of Sivan, 5752: Ninety-seven year old Lower East Side native Moses Polakoff,
the WW I Navy veteran and NYU trained attorney who worked in the United States
Attorney’s office before going into private practice where some of his most
notorious clients were Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky and the father of “three
daughters, Joan, Suzanne and Nancy, passed away today.
1994(3rd
of Tammuz, 5754): Ronald Goldman is murdered along with Nicole Brown
Simpson. OJ Simpson was found not guilty
in the criminal case. The civil trial
turned out with just the opposite verdict.
1994 (3rd of Tammuz, 5754): The Rebbe, Rabbi
Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, passed away. Rabbi
Schneerson, or simply "The Rebbe" as he was known by his
followers and admirers, was the leader of the Lubavitch movement for
decades. He is most famous for the outreach program that he began
which reached Jews throughout the world. Thanks to his effort, it is
almost impossible to go any place and not find a
Chabad House. He sent "lamplighters" out into to the
world to bring the light of Torah to Jews who were in darkness whether they
were in Moscow, Morocco or Little Rock, Arkansas. One did not have to
accept all of tenets of Lubavitch to be welcome. For more about this
remarkable man see the following
http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?AID=142232
1996(25th
of Sivan, 5756): Seventy-four-year-old German composer Hermann Scherchen who
left Germany in 1933 to protest the Nazi takeover passed away today.
https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Scherchen-Hermann.htm
1997(7th
of Sivan, 5757): Second Day of Shavuot
1997:
Publication of Messages From My Father: A Memoir by Calvin Trilling.
https://books.google.com/books?id=rEuYqL3zRQcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22calvin+trillin%22+jewish
1998:
In an article published today describing the history of Savannah, Georgia,
reporter R.W. Apple, Jr. reminded his readers of the early Jewish connection to
this colonial seaport. “Only five years after General Oglethorpe's arrival in
1733 to found the last of the original 13 colonies, a group of Jews landed
here, and descendants of some of them, including Sheftalls and Minises, remain
prominent in Savannah's economic and cultural life. Temple Mickve Israel, built
in 1876, is the only Gothic Revival synagogue in the United States; its
interior has cast-iron cluster pillars, a fine Spanish chandelier and good
stained glass. The temple owns the oldest Torah in America and a valuable
collection of books and documents, including letters from Washington, Jefferson
and Madison. Some of Savannah's prettiest squares and best antiques dealers are
clustered in the same neighborhood as the temple. Prices are high, but so is
quality.”
1998:
“Can’t Hardly Wait” a comedy starring Seth Green and featuring Jason Segel was
released in the United States today.
1998:
Today Congregation Bene Naharayim sent a letter “to the members of the Iraqi
Jewish Community in New York” describing the life and death of “Dr.Gourji Raby,
a former Professor of Physiology at the University of Baghdad, and former Vice
President of Congregation Bene Naharayim.”
1998:
“Six Days, Seven Nights” directed and co-produced by Ivan Reitman along with
Roger Birnbaum with music by Randy Edelman and co-starring David Schwimmer was
released today in the United States.
2000:
“Israeli leaders proclaimed today that the death of President Hafez al-Assad of
Syria had ushered in a new era or at least ushered out an old one in the Middle
East,” “but no one could predict what
that portended beyond a potentially problematic transition period.
2001(21st
of Sivan, 5761): Sixty-nine year old “Amos Perlmutter, a Washington-based
political scientist, author and commentator on Middle Eastern affairs” passed
away today. (As reported by Wolfgang
Saxon)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/16/world/amos-perlmutter-69-expert-on-middle-eastern-affairs.html
2001:
In ‘Anatomy of a Bagel” published today
C. Claiborne asks “How many calories are in a plain, sesame or poppy
seed bagel from a New York coffee shop? What are the ingredients and
nutritional value?” and then provides the following answer: “Let us assume that
you get the biggest plain, enriched bagel analyzed by the United States
Department of Agriculture, 4 1/2 inches in diameter, weighing 110 grams, about
3.8 ounces. The ingredients -- flour, water, salt, yeast and malt, but no
sugar, if it is a classic bagel -- are boiled and then baked. They add up to
302.5 calories, the U.S.D.A. says. On a standard nutrition facts label, the
bagel would boast 1.76 grams of fat, no cholesterol, 587.4 milligrams of
sodium, 111.1 milligrams of potassium, 58.74 grams of carbohydrate and 11.55
grams of protein. Vitamins and minerals include a significant amount of folate,
96.8 micrograms, from the enriched flour, but most are present in trace
amounts. A bagel preserved with calcium propionate has more calcium than one
without it: 81.4 milligrams, compared with 19.8 milligrams. Oddly, the U.S.D.A.
does not differentiate among plain, onion, poppy seed and sesame bagels. Poppy
seed, which the department considers a spice, not a food, would probably not
add enough calories to make a weight watcher feel guilty. There are only about
15 calories in a teaspoonful, fewer than a spoon of sugar. Sesame seeds have
perhaps 26 calories in a teaspoonful, figured at a sixth of an ounce, by
volume.”
2002:
“A Palestinian with a bomb hidden under his shirt walked into a restaurant
today on a main street in this town north of Tel Aviv, asked for a bottle of
water and blew himself up, killing a 15-year-old girl and wounding eight other
people.”
2003(12th
of Sivan, 5763): Avner Maimon, 51, of Netanya, was found shot to death in his
car near Yabed in northern Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed
responsibility for the attack. (Jewish Virtual Library)
2003(12th
of Sivan, 5763): Ninety-three year old Samuel “Sam” Schulman a businessman and
own of professional sports teams passed away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jun/14/local/me-schulman14
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/16/sports/sam-schulman-93-team-owner-who-defied-nba-draft-rules.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/16/sports/sam-schulman-93-team-owner-who-defied-nba-draft-rules.html
2004 Ehud Barak defeated Amir Peretz in his bid
to be the leader of the Labor Party.
2005(5th
of Sivan, 5765): Erev Shavuot
2005:
Several families gather in the beit midrash at Milken Community High School in
Los Angeles, where the they fulfill a commandment derived from Deuteronomy
31:19 by each writing a letter in Torah scroll that will lead to its
completion.
2005: The
Cedar Rapids Gazette reported that Marv Levy, former coach of the Buffalo
Bills and Coe College graduate was the speaker Coe’s Alumni weekend. A 1950 graduate, Levy had excelled as a
college athlete and student having earned a Phi Beta Kappa Key. His topic for the alumnae address was “So You
Want to Write a Book.”
2005: The Chicago Tribune featured reviews
of two books that examined the role of Jews in the military. “GI Jews: How World War II Changed a
Generation” by Deborah Dash Moore examined the impact of military service
on American Jews and the gentiles with whom they came in contact during the
Second World War. “Company C; An American’s Life as a Citizen-Soldier in
Israel” by Haim Watzman examines the impact of military service on Jews,
the Jewish character and Israeli society based on his twenty years of service
as an active duty soldier and reservist. The reviewer does an artful job of
showing how these two books deal with similar issues from differing points on
the experiential compass.
2005: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including “Steinberg at The New Yorker” by Joel Smith and “Chaplin
and Agee:
The Untold Story of the Tramp, the Writer, and the Lost
Screenplay” by John Wranovics
2006:
JWA launches Katrina’s Jewish Voices, one of the
first online collecting projects
2006:
Representative Jan Schakowsky gave a speech in Congress today in “recognition
to Joel M. Carp, who is retiring this month as the Senior Vice President for
Community Services and Government Relations of the Jewish Federation/Jewish
United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago.”
2007: In
Los Angeles, The Skirball Cultural Center presents a double feature with the
showing of two films, Sisai and Melting
Siberia. “In Sisai, the title character, an Ethiopian Jew living in
Israel, learns the whereabouts of his biological father in Ethiopia.
2007: The
Jerusalem Post reported that “Eighty three percent of Jewish Israelis are
satisfied or extremely satisfied with their lives, according to the Central
Bureau of Statistics annual Social Survey 2006.”
2007: Akiva “Goldsman produced the Universal
Pictures feature ‘Lone Survivor,’ from writer/director Peter Berg, based on the
book Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost
Heroes of SEAL Team 10 “ which was published today.
2007: The
Washington Post reported about the programming on Shalom TV, a Jewish oriented
cable television channel that has expanded in to the Washington-Baltimore
region.
2007: News broke that two Bear Stearns hedge
funds speculating in mortgage-backed securities were melting down. (This “was
the precursor to the panics and collapses” that have led to the worst economic
crisis since the Great Depression which, when combined with activities of
Bernard Madoff, have gutted or threatened the well-being of so many Jewish
communal organizations)
2007: Ehud Barak defeated Ami Ayalon in a
run-off election held today for leadership of the Labor Party.
2007(26th of Sivan, 5767):
Ninety-eight year old Baron Guy de Rothschild passed away today in Paris. (As
reported by Paul Lewis)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/business/worldbusiness/14rothschild.html?_r=1
2008: Hazak Week of Study begins. Hazak is the
United Synagogue's organization for Jews 55 and over.
2008: The National Council of Jewish Women
(NCJW) will honor Mildred and George Weissman at its Israel Benefit Luncheon
today. Shari Eshet, director of NCJW's
Israel Office, will keynote the luncheon which is being held at the Jewish
Museum in New York City
2008: “Waiting for the Barbarians” an opera in
two acts composed by Philip Glass was performed today at the Barbican Center in
London
2009: Mark Kurlansky, the author of “A
Chosen Few,” discusses and signs his new book, “The Food of a Younger Land:
A Portrait of American Food, Before the National Highway System, Before Chain
Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal”
at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
2009: At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
Tessa Cohen, daughter of Terri and Brian Cohen, helps in leading Friday Night
Shabbat Services as she begins the weekend that marks her Bat Mitzvah.
2009: Funeral services for Ralph Lazarus are
scheduled to held this morning in Brookline, MA for Ralph Lazarus followed by
burial in Sharon, MA.
2009: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, D.C. reopened to large crowds after having been closed on Thursday
to honor the memory of Stephen T. Johns, the guard murdered by a anti-Semitic
white supremacist who had tried to shoot his way into the shrine on Wednesday.
2009: Opening of the Derfner Judaica Museum at
Hebrew Home at Riverdale in the Bronx.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/arts/design/11muse.html
2010(30th of Sivan, 5770): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2010: Golem with Girls In Trouble are scheduled
to perform at the Washington Jewish Music Festival.
2010: The sitting of shivah by the family of
Steve Averbach, who was injured thwarting an Arab terrorist attack, is
scheduled to end this evening.
2011: The award winning duet "Dinner"
by Israeli based Maya Stern and Tomer Sharabi is scheduled to be performed by
Tomer Sharabi and Tal Kol on the fifth and final night of Contemporary Israel
Dance Week.
2011: The Wisconsin Institute for Torah Study
is scheduled to celebrate its 31st Anniversary and the Graduation of the WITS
Class of 2011!
2011: Palestine Solidarity Group Chairman, Per
Gahrton who was reportedly responsible for the segregation of the Israeli team
at Malamo in 2009, is scheduled to deliver an address at the stadium where
Israel will play Sweden in major international handball completion an hour
after the speech.
2011: “I Married Wyatt Earp,” a musical based
on the life Josephine Marcus, the eccentric Jewish daughter of a successful San
Francisco family, is scheduled to have
its final performance in New York.
2011: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including “The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You” by Eli
Pariser, “A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s “Germania” From the Roman Empire to
the Third Reich” by Christopher B. Krebs and “In the Garden of Beasts: Love,
Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin” by Erik Larson that is a biography of William E.
Dodd, FDR’s first Ambassador to Hitler’s Germany.
2011: The Goodlove Family Reunion is scheduled
to take place in Central City, Iowa.
2011: In
a modern day story of David beating Goliath, Mark Cuban’s Dallas Mavericks
defeated the Miami Heat to win the NBA Championship.
2011: It was announced that Leonid Borisovich
Nevzlin had purchased a 20% stake in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, for NIS 140m. Nevzlin's acquisition leaves the Schocken
family with a 60 percent stake in the company
2011(10th of Sivan, 5771): Sixty-one
year old Laura Ziskin, the American film producer who helped gives Pretty Woman
and Spider Man, passed away. (As reported by Aljean Harmetz)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/movies/laura-ziskin-behind-spider-man-films-dies-at-61.html
2011(10th of Sivan, 5771):
Eighty-one year old Alan L. Haberman, the man who played a key role in popularizing
the now ubiquitous bar code passed away.
(As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/business/16haberman.html
2012: “Off-White Lies” (Orhim le-Rega) is
scheduled to be shown tonight at the JCC in Manhattan
2012: In an interview given today “Ellen
Riotenberg discussed her Jewish family and their background on the North Side
of Minneapolis” as well as the difficulty in getting jobs “even as a trained
professional if you were Jewish.”
2012: “The High Court justices who recommended
state support for non-Orthodox rabbis had conflicts of interest, Religious
Services Minister Ya’acov Margi charged today.”
2012: Beginning today, “a permanent exhibition
is scheduled to open on the ground floor of the landmark Eldridge Street
Synagogue, which is home both to K’hal Adath Jeshurun, the Orthodox
congregation that built it, and to the Museum at Eldridge Street, a nonprofit
that maintains and interprets the magnificently restored 126-year-old
structure, between Division and Canal Streets.
2012: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater
Washington is scheduled to sponsor “A Centennial Celebration of the First
Jewish Aviator” honoring Arthur “Al” Walsh.
2012: Aided by Orthodox, City’s Jewish
Population Is Growing Again published today described the changing face of the
Big Apple’s demographics.
2012: The Foreign Ministry announced today that
Russian President Putin is planning to make a visit to Israel this year,
although an exact date has not been set.
2012: Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said today
that Israel has an obligation to remember the murder of more than a million
Armenians at the hands of the Turks nearly a hundred years ago, but warned that
the issue should not be turned into an attack on the Turkish government of
today. (As reported by Gil Hoffman)
2012: According to Joseph Berger, “After
decades of decline, the Jewish population of New York City is growing again,
increasing to nearly 1.1 million, fueled by the “explosive” growth of the
Hasidic and other Orthodox communities, a new study has found.
2012: “Speaking to the Haves, in a Plea to
Consider All the Have-Nots” includes a review of End This Depression Now!
by Paul Krugman.
2012: Seventy eight year old Elinor Ostrom,
whose father was Jewish and is, as of this date the only woman to win the Nobel
Memorial Prize in Economic Science, passed away today. (As reported by Catherine
Rampell)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/nyregion/new-yorks-jewish-population-is-growing-again.html?hp
2013: “Wit’s End: The Satirical Cartoons of
Stephen Roth featuring the works of the “Czech Jewish artist whose cartoons
lampooned fascist dictators and put a wry spin on political events during the
Second World War” is scheduled to come to an end at the Wiener Library in
London, UK.
2013: The American Jewish Historical Society
and Yeshiva University are scheduled to present a Curator’s Tour of “Passages
Through the Fire: Jews and the Civil War.”
2013(4th of Tammuz): Yahrzeit of
Rabbi Jacob Ben Meir Tam, the grandson of Rashi.
2013: In “Born Again” Nicole Krauss reminisces
Yoram Kaniuk , of blessed memory.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/06/yoram-kaniuk-postscript.html
2013:
Traces of the crippling polio virus, discovered last week in Beersheba and
Rahat, were found today in the sewers of Kiryat Gat and Ashdod as well. The
Ministry of Health believes that the traces originated in the Bedouin village
of Rahat. (As reported by Adiv Sterman & Stuart Winer)
2013: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
yoday that Israel sought a “historic compromise” with the Palestinians to end
the conflict “once and for all” and was ready to enter negotiations “without
preconditions [and] without delay.”
2014: “A visitor’s center telling the story of
the Eldridge Street Synagogue telling the s tory of the congregation and its
place in its Baltimore neighborhood” is scheduled to open today. (As reported
by Hillel Kuttler)
2014: The Israeli Film Center Festival is
scheduled to open at the JCC of Manhattan with a showing of “Operation
Sunflower.”
2014: In London, the Weiner Library is
scheduled to host “Karl Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind as a German-Jewish
Tragi-Comedy.”
2014: “David Blatt stepped down as coach of
European club champion Maccabi Tel Aviv today, saying he wanted to pursue his
dream of coaching in the NBA.” (Times of Israel)
2014: “A Berlin court has ordered Germany to
pay the heirs of Jewish owners of a department store chain an additional €50
million ($68 million) in compensation for property seized by the Nazis” saying
today that “the Schocken family lost its chain of stores, primarily in Saxony,
during the Nazis’ so-called “Aryanization” of businesses in the 1930s.”
2014: The Lower East Side Film Festival is
scheduled to open with a showing of “Sturgeon Queens.”
2014: “Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon today
approved the extension of the IDF’s seizure of a radical Jewish learning center
in the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar by three more months, saying the
military’s presence in the building helped reduce settler violence.” (Times of
Israel)
2014: The U.S. Senate “named Stanley Fischer
vice chair of the Federal Reserve “after confirming him to the board last
month.”
2014: At the age of 104, actress Rebekah
Isabelle "Carla" Laemmle the daughter of Carl Laemmle, the founder of
Universal Pictures who tried to save Jews from the Shoah, passed away today.
2015: Pennsylvania State Representative Brian
K. Sims and, Deputy Consul General for the Consulate General of Israel to the
Mid-Atlantic Region, Elad Strohmayer are scheduled to address a dinner
sponsored by J.PROUD, Jewish Philly LGBTQ Consortium and the Young Friends of
NMAJH celebrating a special Shabbat during Philadelphia Gay Pride Week.
2015: Lassana Bathily, “the Muslim store
employee who saved 15 French Jews during the terrorist attack on a kosher supermarket
was honored today by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who presented him with an
official city proclamation honoring him for his actions in the Hyper Cacher
attack in Paris.”
2015: “Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head
of the International Monetary Fund, was acquitted today of aggravated pimping
charges, concluding a case that made the private lives of public figures fair
game for the French news media, even if the French themselves still seemed
inclined to overlook dalliances by their political leaders.”
2015: Today, “a Gaza Strip-based Salafi group
affiliated with the Islamic State claimed responsibility for a rocket launched
at Israel” yesterday evening.
2015: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled
to host “Piano Games” as part of the Israel Festival.
2015: “Some 180,000 people marched through Tel
Aviv’s streets today in the city’s 17th annual Gay Pride Parade, the nation’s
largest and oldest gay pride event.”
2016(6th of Sivan, 5776): Shavuot
2016: “A woman and her infant child were attacked”
today “by an Arab man in the Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill.”
2016: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including In Praise of Forgetting:
Historical Memory and Its Ironies by David Rieff and the recently released
paperback editions of The Goddess Pose” The Audacious Life of Indra Evi, the
Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West by Michelle Goldberg and There
Is Simply Too Much To Think About: Collected Nonfiction by Saul Bellow.
2016: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Center is scheduled to host a presentation by Estelle Glaser Laughlin
who “was only ten-years-old when her family was forced into the Warsaw Ghetto
and hid in a secret room to avoid deportation during liquidations in 1942.”
2017: It was reported today that “the sensitive
intelligence that US President Donald Trump controversially revealed to the
Russians was gathered by an Israeli cyber warfare unit that penetrated an
Islamic State group bomb-making cell” (As reported by Stuart Winer)
2017(18th of Sivan, 5777):
Ninety-Six year old Morton Cohen, the Canadian born Columbia University
doctoral student and author of Lewis Carroll: A Biography passed away today.
(As reported by Richard Sandomir)
2017: In
Atlanta, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host the opening of the “Summer
Institute on Teaching the Holocaust.
2017: Lauren B. Strauss, Ph.D., Scholar in
Residence, Department of History at American University is scheduled to lecture
on “The Queen of All Migrations – Jewish Immigration in the Early 20th
Century” at Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church, Va.
2017: The Manhattan Jewish Experience – West is
scheduled to host a dinner followed by a discussion of the weekly Torah portion
and a “conversation with Rabbi Mark Wildes.”
2018: The Oxford University Jewish Society is
scheduled to “Shtisel” watch-party “followed by a discussion about the
religious issues arising from the show.”
2018: The Marlene Meyerson JCC is schedule to
host a “special preview” screening of “Outdoors” (Bayit Bagalil) directed by
Asaf Saban.
2018: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is
scheduled to host a presentation by “Israeli-born happiness expert Tal
Ben-Shahar who taught the most popular course in Harvard’s history and has
authored several books, including bestseller Happier
2019: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host two
screenings of “Eating Animals,” the film versions of Jonathan Safran Foer book
by the same name, “co-produced and narrated by Natalie Portman.”
2019: The Center for Jewish History and the Leo
Baeck Institute are scheduled to present “From Prauge to Princeton, the Story
of German-Jewish Family, during which archivist Sarah Glover will discuss the
use of archival materials to race the fate of the Kulbach family who had been
part of the German Jewish Intellectual Elite.
2019: In San Francisco, Congregation Emanu-El
is scheduled to host “Mother Daughter Relationships: Why Do We Feel So Close
and So Far Away!” with Rabbi Beth Singer and psychotherapist Sharon Epel.
2019: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is “to
honor the 90th birthday of Anne Frank” with a “Facebook Live
Episode” featuring “rarely seen photographs of Anne” which will enable viewers
to “learn about her life before the Holocaust.”
2020: Join acclaimed writer, speaker, and noted
Winston Churchill expert Lee Pollock as he leads a virtual Lunch and Learn on
“Winston Churchill and the Jews” which happens to be same name of a great book
written on the subject by Sir Martin Gilbert Z”L
https://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Jews-Friendship-Martin-Gilbert/dp/0805088644
2019: Judah Pearl is scheduled to accept the
Warrior Truth Award which had been posthumously given to his son Daniel Pearl
at “The Inaugural Alegemeiner West Coast Gala.
2020: Folk musician Gerry Tenney is schedule to
lead “Yiddish and Yinglish Songs,” “a sing-along for kids and adults.
2020: The Breman Museum is scheduled to host on
line “Two Cities, One Story: Rabbi Jacob Rothschild” during whichJeremy Katz,
Senior Director of Archives at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, and
Eric Lidji, Director of the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center,
will discuss the life of Rabbi Jacob Rothschild through their archival
collections.”
2020: The Israel Film Center Film, “JCC
Manhattan’s 8th annual film festival” is scheduled to host a virtual
screening of “There are No Lions in Tel Aviv” followed by a Q and A.
2020: The Asiyah Jewish Community is scheduled
to present an on-line “Kabbalat Shabbat Experience.”
2020: Temple Judah will live stream Kabbalah
Shabbat Services this evening where we will take special notice of the passing
of Steve Elliot, the cousin of Steve Ginsberg and Herman Ginsberg, one of the
Patriarchs of the Cedar Rapids Jewish Community.
2021: (2nd of Tammuz, 5781): Parashat
Korach
2021: The San Francisco Music Club is scheduled
to present “San Francisco Free Folk Festival,” that includes “bands, workshops
and storytelling includes Ellis Island Old World Folk Band and S.F. Yiddish
Combo.”
2021: On “what would have Anne Frank’s 92nd
birthday, the Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to feature Holocaust
Survivor Eva Schloss, Anne’ stepsister, as June’s interactive hologram in the
Abe and Ida Cooper Survivior Stories Experience holographic theatre.”
2021: Base Boston is scheduled to present
“Parsha in the Park,” that includes “schmoozing, a snack and bit of Torah in
the Rose Garden in Brookline.
2021: In Columbus, OH, Congregation Tifereth
Israel will hold its first Shabbat service where signups “will no longer be
required but proof of vacation will be “required for those eligible to receive
the vaccine.”
2021: Ensemble for Our Time is scheduled to
present the “finale in the chamber music series exploring works by composers
who fled to Hollywood in the 1930s and ’40s.”
2021: The delegation sponsored the Jewish
Federation of Greater Des Moines, Iowa, is scheduled to end its visit to
Israel.
2022: B’nai Jeshurun Congregation in Pepper
Pike is scheduled to celebrate Cantor
Aaron Shifman and his 24-year tenure with a Gala Cantorial Concert at 7 p.m.
this evening featuring Cantors Netanel Hershtik, Yaakov Lemmer and Alberto
Mizrahi joining Shifman, accompanist Eric Freeman and the B’nai Jeshurun band.
2022: As part of Hebrew Book Month, the
National Library of Israel is scheduled to host a conversation with Dror
Mishani a best-selling crime writer,
screenwriter and literary scholar, specializing in the history of crime fiction
whose novels were translated into more than 20 languages, and have won numerous
international prizes, including the prestigious Martin Beck Award for best
crime novel translated into Swedish, and the Prix Mystère de la critique in
France.
2022. The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Adriatic:
A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age by Robert D. Kaplan
2022: Tikvah’s 2022 Jewish Leadership
Conference is scheduled to be held today in New York City.
2022: The Jewish Federation of Des Moines, IA
is scheduled to host “Yom Sports Event.”
2022: At the AJC Global Forum 2022 Opening
Plenary, attendees are scheduled to get
firsthand accounts of the state of antisemitism in America today from The
Forward Senior Political Reporter Jacob Kornbluh, First Impression Rx Managing
Director DEI Strategy April Powers, and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute
of Religion President Andrew Rehfeld.
2023: Justice is scheduled to present, online, “The
Space Between: Jewish Wisdom From Jews of Color.
2023: YIVO is scheduled to present the “concert
premier of ‘A Dying Person,’ a new chamber opera by Evan Rapport and Daniel
London.”
2023: The Wiener Holocaust Library is scheduled
to host “Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Letters as People: Emotion and
Information in the Correspondence of German-Jewish Refugees from Nazism 1933-45.”
2023: The second week of the trial Robert
Bowers for the mass murder at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh which
has gone uncovered by the national media is scheduled to continue today.
