This Day, June 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 27
1096:
Massacres of the Jews took place in Xanten and Eller (Germany). This was the
second massacre at Xanten in a month. Fifty Jews died. At Eller, five Jewish
community leaders were assigned the task (by the community) of killing all the
members and then themselves rather than suffer at the hands of the Crusaders.
Out of a community of three hundred, only four remained, badly wounded.
1240: In Paris, a commission that was making an inquiry
into the nature of the Talmud with a specific interest into alleged derogatory
comments about Jesus ended its deliberation after three days. The
commission condemned the Talmud to be burned. The sentence of
condemnation was not executed. Apparently Archbishop Walter Cornutus of
Sens, a prelate influential with the King, interceded on behalf of the Jews and
succeeded in having many of the confiscated volumes of the Talmud returned to
their rightful owners
1462: Birthdate of Louis
XII who expelled the Jews from Provence in 1501.
1458: Ferdinand I began
his reign as King of Naples during which he provided refuges for the Jews
expelled from Spain.
1570(23rd of
Tammuz): Cabbalist Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, known as Ramak, passed away in
Safed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Cordovero
1651:
William Prynne, the Puritan leader who was an outspoken opponent of
re-admitting Jews to England, and who “was sentenced to be imprisoned during
life, to be fined £5,000, to be expelled from Lincoln's Inn, to be deprived of
his degree by the university of Oxford, and to lose both his ears in the
pillory” for his attacks on dramatic performances and King Charles I was moved
to Taunton Castle today after spending a year in Dunster Castle.
1709:
Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava. The
Russian victory marked the beginning of the end for Sweden as a major European
military and political power. Charles XI, the father of Charles XII had banned
Jews from living in Sweden. Charles XII
did not adhere to his father’s wishes since he used Jewish merchants as court
treasurers and royal paymaster for his armies when they were in the field. The father’s religious concerns were
overridden by the son’s financial needs.
Peter the Great did not want Jews living in his ever expanding
kingdom. During the war with Sweden,
when the fighting reached Poland, Russian soldiers were given in a free hand in
looting and pillaging the Jewish property and taking whatever liberties they
wished with the Jewish populace.
1723:
Today, Isaac de Sequeira Samuda or Isaac de Sequeyra Samudaa British physician
and poet who was of Portuguese-Jewish descent and was the first member of the
Samuda family to settle in Britain was elected a
fellow of the Royal Society
1741:
Joseph and Leah Tobias gave birth to Rinah Tobia who became Rinah de Lyon when
she married Isaac de Lyone with whom she had four children – Esther, Judith,
Hannah and Abraham.
1758:
David Franks wrote Colonel George Washington regarding a shipment of freight to
him from Philadelphia and wishing him “a Successful Campaign.” (Editor’s note:
This was probably a reference to
fighting during the French-Indian War.)
1770:
In Amsterdam, Haim David Aron de Sola and Sara Moses Jesurun de Oliveira gave
birth to Rafael Aron (v. Haim David) de Sola, the “husband of Sara v. Isaac
Namias Torres and Simha v. Abraham Barzilay and father of Rabbi David Aaron de
Sola and Milca/Sara (Rephael) Aron de Josheph Bassan
1787:
After 25 years of work, Edward Gibbon completes the manuscript of the History
of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon had a very low opinion of the Jewish
people describing them as the “disturbers of the religious harmony of the
ancient world” who had emerged from the deserved obscurity resulting from the
enslavement by the Assyrians and Babylonians to observe their “peculiar rites and unsocial manners” with “sullen
obstinacy.” [Ed. Note: It only gets worse after this.]
1804: In Berlin, jeweler David Jacob Riess and his wife gave
birth to Peter Gottlieb Riess, who as physicist and mathematician Peter
Theophil Riess became the first Jewish member of the Berlin Academy
1805: Birthdate of Francis William Newman, the brother of
Cardinal Newman whose works included A History of the Hebrew Monarchy
published in 1847.
1806: King of Frederick of Wurttemberg issued a decree that said
“"in view of the various services that the Kaulla family has rendered to
the country in critical periods", he was conferring upon court banker
Jacob Kaulla and a number of his immediate relatives and their descendants of
both sexes all rights of citizenship in Württemberg.
1807: In Randegg, Germany, Rachel and Aron Schott gave birth to
Leopold Schott, the husband of Sara Randegger with whom he had three children –
Anna, Stella and Moses.
1809: Phineas Davis married Jane Isaacs at the Great Synagogue.
1819: Joseph Johlson “presented second edition of his book of
religion instruction in the Mosaic religion to the German National Assembly.
1821: Alexander Jones married Jane Jones at the Hambro
Synagogue.
1827: Seventy-four-year-old Johann G. Eichhorn, the German Old
Testament scholar who was a pioneer in "higher criticism," which
evaluated Scripture through literary analysis and historical evidence, rather
than by the unquestioned authority of systematized religious tradition as can
be seen in his seminal work Introduction to the Old Testament passed away
today.
1828(15th of Tammuz, 5588): Fifty-year old Abraham
Montel, the husband of Naumy Vidal Naquet and one of the Rabbis who attended
Napoleon’s Grand Sanhedrin, passed away today.
1829(26th of Sivan, 5589): Parashat Sh’lach
1829(26th of Sivan 5589): Eleven month old Harmon
Hendricks Levy, the son of Hayman and Alemeria Levy passed away today in
Columbia, SC.
1832: Morris Van Praagh married Sarah Boam at the Hambro
Synagogue.
1839: In Great St. Helens, Deborah and Israel Lindenthal gave
birth to Hannah Lindenthal.
1846(3rd of Tammuz, 5606): Parashat Korach
1846(3rd of Tammuz, 5606): Five week old Pauline
Einhorn the daughter of Karoline and Sigmund Max Einhorn passed away today.
1846: In Magdeurg, Rabbi Ludwig Philippson and his wife gave
birth to historian Martin Philippson
1850(17th of Tammuz, 5610): Tzom Tammuz
1851: Today, in Washington, D.C. twenty-five year Adolphus Simeon
Solomons, the New York City born son of Julia Levy and John Solomons married twenty-three
year old Rachel Seixas Phillips, the daughter of Naphtali Phillips and Esther
Seixas.
1854: “The British Ministry” published today reviewed the
changing fortunes of various English political leaders. The author expressed
the belief that Lord John Russell would not enjoy the continued support of
London’s Jews if here running for election today. The authors stated that “it
was solely due to his bad management” and lack of tact “that Jews were not
declared eligible to sit in Parliament.” If Lord Russell had allowed Mr.
Rothschild to follow the same oath pattern when he was elected in 1847 as the
Quaker Mr. Pease had used in 1833, Jews would now be sitting in the House of
Commons. Lord Russell’s insistence on
solving the problem with an Act of Parliament was counter-productive since such
a solution was bound to fail.
1854(1st of Tammuz, 5614): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1854(1st of Tammuz, 5614): Eighty-seven-year-old
“German philanthropist and communal worker” Amalie Beer, “wife of the banker
Jacob Herz Beer, daugher of Liebmann Meyer Wolf (known as "the Berlin
Crœsus"), and great-granddaughter of Lipmann Wolf Taussig” passed away
today. (Some sources show her death date as June 22 or June 24)
1854: Today, “plans for a synagogue” which would be the new home
for Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco” were approved and contract in the amount of
$10,258 was let to move the project forward.
1855: Ninety-year-old Anton von Schmid, a Christian who
published Hebrew books passed away today in Vienna. Toward the end of the 18th
century extensive Hebrew printing in Vienna began with the court printer Joseph
Edler von Kurzbeck, who used the font of Joseph *Proops in Amsterdam. He
employed Anton (later: von) Schmid (1775-1855), who chose printing instead of
the priesthood. Their first production was the Mishnah (1793). In 1800 the
government placed an embargo on Hebrew books printed abroad and thus gave him a
near monopoly. His correctors were Joseph della Torre and the poet Samuel
Romanelli (to 1799), who with Schmid printed his Alot ha-Minah for Charlotte
Arnstein's fashionable marriage (1793).
Among the works they printed were a Bible with Mendelssohn's Biur
(1794-95) and David Franco-Mendes' Gemul Atalyah (1800). Schmid also issued the
24th Talmud edition (1806-11) and the Turim (1810-13) with J.L. Ben-Zeev's
notes on Hoshen Mishpat.
http://www.hist-chron.com/eu/oe/EncJud_juden-in-Wien02-17jh-18jh-ENGL.html
1857:
Asteroid 45 Eugenia was discovered by Hermann Mayer
Salomon Goldschmidt.
1860: “The tenth subordinate lodge” of the Independent Order of
Free Sons of Israel “known as Naphtali Lodge No. 10” was formed today.
1860: The New York Times published the
following:
To the Editor of the New-York
Times:
Several New-York Archaeologists have, within the past
week, received various communications concerning the discovery of a very
curious stone relic, covered with Hebrew inscriptions, said to have been found
by Mr. WYRICK, of Newark, Ohio, in one of those artificial earthworks so
numerous in that vicinity. Some of these letters, which we had the pleasure to
see, are accompanied by full-sized drawings of the stone and inscriptions,
together with many-columns of newspaper notices, showing the deep interest the discovery
has created amongst Western antiquaries. One of these letters, we are informed,
was read at the last meeting of the American Ethnological Society; but, with
their usual caution, the members did not venture an opinion, preferring, we
presume, to defer an expression of it until after a more critical and
scientific examination of the relic itself, and all the circumstances connected
with its discovery shall have been entered into. For the purpose of giving your
readers some account of the discovery, we have condensed the various notices
into a reasonable length. First, as to Mr. WYRICK, the finder of the stone. He
seems to be an old and respected citizen of Licking County, by profession a
surveyor, and of late years has become enamored of archaeological pursuits. He
has recently been engaged in surveying, platting and constructing a
topographical map of the ancient earthworks so extensive in Cherry Valley.
During this process he has been prospecting in a quiet way by excavating the
mounds and embankments for the purpose of finding some implement or relic which
might repay him for the trouble. So on Friday morning, the 29th of June, he
started out with his digging implements, accompanied only by his son, a lad
eight or nine years of age. He concluded to try his luck in a new place,
influenced, he states, by a suggestion from Mr. SQUIER, that it might be well
to examine the "dug holes," conceiving they might be caches or hiding
places -- cemeteries or bone-pits, as they are called in New-York. "Having
found one in the woods more articulated than the others," he commenced a
trench in the greatest depression of the circle, and did not proceed down more
than two feet (through black loam) before he found a stone bale, then this
wonderful emblematic stone embedded in a bale of composition clay, adobe, or
sunburnt brick. On cleaning off the stone he discovered the inscriptions, but
was totally ignorant of their nature. Almost frantic with delight, he hastened
to his friends, who informed him that they were Hebrew characters.
DESCRIPTION OF THE STONE.
The material is novaculite, or hone-stone, not found in
places within the limits of Ohio, yet may be seen in any carpenter's shop. Now,
mark the description. It is very hard, with perfectly smooth surfaces, and has
apparently been polished; 5 3/4 inches long, with two flat sides, each 2 1/2
inches wide at the top, tapering down to 1 1/4 inches at the end. The edges are
square, and nearly the same width. On each of the four sides is an inscription
in Hebrew, each complete in itself. The letters are about one inch in length,
and cut as clear as a die -- a fair specimen of letter-carving in stone.
THE INSCRIPTION is as follows, which may easily be
rendered by any Hebrew scholar:
1. Kedosh Kedoskim -- The Holy of Holies.
2. Torath, J[???]hovah -- The Law of God.
3. Melec Erets -- The King of the Earth.
4. Devar Jehovah -- The Word of the Lord.
So much for the history of this stone and the character
of the inscription. Of course suck a discovery must give rise to numerous and
various speculations. Some have suggested that it might be a Masonic emblem --
the keystone which Master Masons anciently deposited in the corner-stone of
their temples. (But, unfortunately for this hypothesis, the shape is not the
same.) Others have supposed it furnished evidence of the presence of the lost
tribes of Israel. Copies of the inscription have been submitted to some of our
learned Rabbis, who generally agree that the above is a fair rendering of the
text. But a difference of opinion has been expressed with regard to the
antiquity of the characters, some carrying them back to the rime of Ezra,
whilst others think them more modern. But this discussion is neither here nor
there. The first and most important question to be solved by the cautious
archaeologist is, whether or not this is a genuine relic of antiquity? Taking a
general view of the subject, we might say, at the recent discovery of America
by the Europeans, they found millions of inhabitants, but no well authenticated
instance of an alphabet, or a single page of written history, other than
symbolic pictures. We hold that no people, whether savage or civilized, ever
occupied the earth's surface without leaving in the soil some trace of their
existence and arts. If the Lost Tribes came to this Continent, it was after
they possessed a written language and knowledge of certain arts, evidences of
which might naturally be recorded upon imperishable materials, as stone,
pottery and coins. And these evidences should be of frequent occurence to prove
anything -- as no single isolated case, no matter how well authenticated,
should-establish a theory. But no one will admit that enough has as yet been
discovered to justify this hypothesis. We will next allude to the internal
evidence of its antiquity, as derived from the published accounts. The stone is
said to be novoculite, or hone stone, with a high polish, with the characters
as sharply cut as if recently done by a lapidary. Now, everyone who claims any
knowledge on the subject must be aware that few varieties of stone can remain
long in the soil without losing a polished surface, and showing evidence of
decomposition. And, even those substances, as quartz and obsidian, not liable
to such change, are invariably (in the oldest mounds) found incrusted with
lime. Indeed, from all that we can gather, both from private and published
sources, we must classify it thus: Genus-bug-species-hum -- recalling the
celebrated Pickwickian stone -- belonging to the same category as the gold
plates of the Mormon Bible -- the graphic mica -- the brass plates with Chinese
characters, found in Illinois, perhaps akin to the Louisiana Hebrew inscription,
the last so skillfully conceived as to deceive our most astute archeologist,
(Mr. SQUIER,) who favored one of our Societies with a very learned paper on
this 1st of April hoax! The West, especially Ohio, seems fertile in false as
well as genuine antiquities, so that we would fain hope the Newark stone may
not prove "Lapis offensionis, et petia scandali, to the local antiquaries.
D.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23883302
1861: In Cincinnati, OH, Aaron and Hannah Rice Stix gave birth
to Charles A Stix, the husband of Sadie Fraley Stix.
1862(29th of Sivan, 5622): E.J. Sampson who served
with the 4th Texas of the Confederate Army was killed today and
subsequently buried in Richmond, VA.
1863(10th of Tammuz, 5623): Parashat Chukat
1863: Samuel Gluckstein, the native of Rheinberg, Germany who
came to London in 1841 and was employed as a tobacconist in 1861 “was employed
as a cigar manufacturer” today.
1865: Philadelphian Samuel A. Apple, a First Sergeant in Company
B of the Fifty-First Regiment completed his three year term of service in the
Union Army.
1865: In West Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Louis Monash and
his wife Bertha, née Manasse, two German Jewish refugees gave birth to Sir John
Monash, a civil engineer who would become his nation’s leading general during
WW I, serving with distinction and intellectual brilliance on the Western
Front.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/monash-sir-john-7618
https://johnmonash.com/john-monash
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Monash
1867:
In New Orleans, Rabbi Max Del Banco and his wife gave birth Chicago school
teacher Miriam Del Banco the graduate of State Normal School in Cape Giradeau,
MO and “assistant principal at the Von Humboldt School who was a noted poet as
can be seen by “Moses Mendelson” a poem she wrote that was published on “one
hundredth anniversary of his death.”
https://www.bartleby.com/98/592.html
1869:
In Kovno, Taube Bienowitch and her second husband Abraham Goldman gave birth to
Emma Goldman who gained fame as an anarchist and feminist whose views on
revolution and violence changed after she witnessed the aftermath of the
Russian Revolution. She became
disillusioned with Bolshevism and became a pacifist as a result of the horrors
she saw firsthand.
https://jwa.org/womenofvalor/goldman
1870:
“La Périchole an opéra bouffe in
three acts by Jacques Offenbach” premiered in London today.
1871:
In Baltimore, MD, M.B Greensfelder and Carrie Levi gave birth to Bernard
Greensfelder the St. Louis, MO, attorney who served as secretary and director
of the United Jewish Charities, director of the Hebrew Free School and director
of Shaare Emeth Temple.
1872:
Fanny Ottenheim and Elias Marx gave birth to Caroline Marx, the mother of
Milton, Semore and Rita Mayer.
1875:
“Secret Societies” published today offered a novel explanation for the
conversation of the Roman Emperor Constantine to Christianity. According to the
article an unnamed “Jewish Rabbi” and Pope Sylvester were contending with
another in the presence of the Emperor.
“The Rabbi whispered “Shemhamphorasch or the Tetragrammaton “into the
ear of an ox, which instantly fell dead.” Sylvester responded by saying, “’Arise, ox, in the
name of the trinity!’” “This showed the
Emperor the superiority of the Christian religion, and he accepted it at once.”
[Editor’s note - “The Shemhamphorasch is a corruption of the Hebrew term Shem
ha-Mephorash (שם המפורש), which was used in tannaitic times to
refer to the Tetragrammaton. In early Kabbalah the term was used to designate
sometimes a seventy-two Letter name for God, and sometimes a forty two Letter
name. Rashi said Shem ha-Mephorash was used for a forty two letter name, but
Maimonides thought Shem ha-Mephorash was used only for the four letter
Tetragrammaton.” This is four Hebrew letters (Yod, He, Waw and He) called The
"Tetragrammaton" is the unpronounceable name of God made up of four
Hebrew letters – Yud, Hay, Vav, Hay. There was a Pope Sylvester but his
relationship with Constantine was apparently more invention than fact; the
invention having been used to promote the concept of Papal authority over
temporal rulers.]
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E06E2DE1038EE3BBC4F51DFB066838E669FDE
1876: Moses Tannenholz obtained an affidavit
from Rachel Blumenthal stating that she was 18 years old. This affidavit, which was of questionable
validity, would figure prominently in a divorce case in which, among other
things, it was contended that the bride below the age of consent at the time of
the marriage rendering the nuptials null and void.
1876: In New York City “Isidor and Ida (Blun)
Straus gave birth to the Harvard educated R.H. Macy and Co vice president Percy
Selden, the husband of Edith Abraham who was active in several civic and
philanthropic organizations as can be seen by his service as President of the
Jewish Agricultural Society and Chairman of the Business Men’s Council of the
Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City.
http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=7815
1876: In New York Michael M. and Miriam
Peixotto Davis, gave birth to builder G. Richard Davis the descendant of a
family that has lived in New York since the 18th century whose edifices
included the Montana (site of John Lennon’s murder) and the General Motors
Building and the husband of the former Irma L. Bernstein whom he married after
“first wife, the former Benveneda Bricker” had passed away.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/04/08/113422396.pdf
1877: Following the refusal of Judge Hilton to
allow Jews to be guests at the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga, NY, Harry Ward
Beecher delivered “a long eulogy on the Hebrew race” today.
1878: In
Whitechapel, London, John and Rebecca Lipkind gave birth to Goodman Lipkind the
London rabbi who came to the United States where led several congregations
including Gates of Heaven in Schenectady, NY
1879: In London, Sir Julian Goldsmid, the 3rd
and last Baronet, the London born son of Caroline and “Frederick David
Goldsmid, MP” and his wife Virginia gave birth to Nora Octavia Goldsmid.
1880(18th of Tammuz, 5640): Tzom
Tammuz observed
1880(18th of Tammuz, 5640): Sixty-three-year-old
Berlin native Karl Wilhelm Borchardt, the Konigsberg educated mathematician who
studied in Paris before becoming “private-docent at the University of Berlin”
passed away today.
1880: Abraham Adolph Moses Lissauer, the Lubeck
Germany born “son of Moses Heinemann Heymann Lissauer and Betty Bertha Lissauer
and his wife Friedchen / Frieda Lissauer gave birth to Betty Kantorowicz, the
wife of Hugo Kantorowic and “””other of Ruth Margot Stein and Lilo (Liselotte)
Glick” who was murdered at Sobibor in 1943.
1880: It was reported today that the throngs
attending the fair in Hungary’s capital city included “Jews…by the hundreds,
German Jews, Hungarian Jews” dressed as Magyars, “Polish Jews in black toga and
long corkscrew curls, Transylvanian Jews in greasy brown cloth dressing gown
and sandaled feet, looking like dissipated Capuchin friars.” [This serves as a
reminder of the rich variety of Jewish cultures that flourished in
pre-Holocaust Europe.]
1880: It was reported today that the parties
attending the conference on Morocco in Madrid have reached an impasse. The Moroccans are expected to tell the
European powers that they cannot protect the Jews from “popular fanaticism”
unless the Europeans agree to “strengthen the authority of the Sultan” – or in
plain English give up some of their colonial power. This is something that the French and Spanish
will never agree to. The issue of
protecting the Jews is a smokescreen behind which the Europeans can hide their
imperial designs and the Ottomans can hide their attempts to protect their
crumbling empire.
1881: In Spain, Praxedes M Sagasta the
President of the Council of Ministers wrote to a prominent European Jewish
author H. Guedalla that “article 1 of the Constitution of Spain is the most
decisive revocation of the edict of banishment against the Jews in the year
1492. Thus all of your coreligionists
who wish can come to Spain without any obstacle whatever…”
1881: Birthdate of St. Louis native and Harvard
University graduate, Garfield Joseph Taussig, financier and businessman who
served as “vice president of Sterling Aluminum Products” and President of the
Lafayetter Federal Savings and Loan Association who died in 1968.
1882: “Bad for Russian Refugees” published
today described the financial crisis facing the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society in
trying to care for the tidal wave of Jewish immigrants fleeing eastern Europe.
The American Jewish community, much of which had only been in the United States
for only one or two generations, was small when compared to the millions in
Russia, Romania, etc. and had only limited financial resources to deal with the
crisis.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9401E1DB1E3EE433A25754C2A9609C94639FD7CF
1882(10th of Tammuz, 5642): Sixty-eight-year-old
“Dutch jurist and minister of justice Michael H. Godefroi who “delivered
exhaustive speeches insisting that the commercial treaty with Rumania should
not be ratified until guaranties should have been given that Netherland Jews in
that country should enjoy perfect equality before the law” passed away today.
1882: Referee Jerome Buck is scheduled to hear
more testimony in the hearing to determine the sanity of Samuel Obreight a
young Jew who had been institutionalized by his family after his recent
marriage to a young Christian woman.
1882: Mr. Cohn chaired tonight’s meeting of the
Cap-finishers’ Union which was held on Eldridge Street. The major concern was
the declining wages of the workers.
Wages have fallen percipitiously since last November when members were
earning fifteen to twenty dollars a week.
Now they can are earning between seven and eight dollars a week because
the manufacturers have found sources of cheap labor including Russian Jewish
immigrants who will work for $2.50 to 3.00 per week.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9402E1DC163AEF33A2575BC2A9609C94639FD7CF
1883: The first cruise of the season for poor
Jewish children and their mothers today sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew
Children is scheduled to leave at nine o’clock this morning.
1883: Today twenty-six year old year Jacob
Brenner who had passed the bar exam in 1879 and eventually became a Brooklyn
magistrate married Louise Blumenau, “the daughter of prominent Brooklyn real
estate developer Levi Blumenau” with whom head six children -- Arthur and
Mortimer both of whom became lawyers and “Republican party leaders,” Rose who
was President of the National council of Jewish Women, Rica, Selma and
Caroline.”
1883: “The Alleged Jewish Murder” published
today reported that “all the Christian lawyers at Nyreghhaza, Hungary, where
the trial of the Jews charged with a murdering a Christian girl” is taking
place “have adopted a resolution attacking the conduct of the Public
Prosecutor. At the same time, the
Hungarian government claims that it could not prevent the trial from taking
place but that it does “not believe the accusation to be true.” [The allegation is that the Jews murdered a
Christian girl in their synagogue – a case based on the coerced confession of a
Jew named Moritz Scharf.]
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9407E3D8153DE533A25754C2A9609C94629FD7CF
1884(4th of Tammuz, 5644): Ignatz
Kunreuther passed away. Born in Germany
in 1811, he came to Chicago from New York in 1847 and became the first rabbi to
serve KAM. He also served as the Chazan
and Shochet for six years before “retiring to private life.
1885: In Lithuania, Eva Gross Landy and Rabbi
Jacob Landy gave birth to Rachel (Rae) Landy the Cleveland, Ohio trained nurse
who “initiated the first public health and sanitation systems in Palestine and
whose 37 career in the U.S. Army included serving as “chief of nurses of the
Second Command at Governor’s Island, NY.
(“Landy's father established Hebrew Books, the first Jewish bookstore in
Cleveland, and her mother was instrumental in the founding of Menorah Park
Center for the Aging.”).
http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=LRD
1885: As the conflict between Orthodox and
Reform rabbis continued Rabbi Alexander Kohut took issue with remarks made by
Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler of Temple Beth-El today by declaring that “We cannot all
be authorities. No one is privileged to
say for himself ‘I am the authority, and I alone.’ Or ancient believers had
some very great prominent men, and should we not in this nineteenth century
follow the doctrines which are laid down for us in the Talmud?” [The answer to
this question is still one that some Jews are asking in the 21st
century.]
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20817FC355A1A738DDDA10A94DE405B8584F0D3
1888:
Birthdate of Ludwik Niemirowski, the Polish born Jew who gained famed “British
Zionist historian Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier.”
1888: “A Hebrew Fresh-Air Fund” published today
provided a summary of the annual report for Sanitarium for Hebrew Children
issued by its President, Nathan Strauss.
Last year the society provided 8 free excursions that served 4,732
infants, 3,631 children and 2,789 mothers.
1888: In Birmingham, England, Reverend Wilson
Trusted and his wife gave birth to Sir Harry Herbert Trust who served as
Attorney General for the British Mandate for Palestine from 1932 to 1936
following which he replaced Michael McDonnell as Chief Justice.
1888: It was reported today that that Jacob H.
Schiff has offered to contribute $10,000 to help the Sanitarium for Hebrew
Children build a new facility to meet the needs of underprivileged Jewish
children and their mothers.
1888: Birthdate of Ludwik Niemirowski, who
gained fame as the English historian, Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier.
1891: In Mlawa, Poland, Mordechai and Miriam Zloczower
gave birth to Chawa Złoczower who gained fame as Eva Kotchever and Eve Adams,
“the founder of the Lesbian Literary Salon known as Eve’s Hangout.”
1891: “Jews Barred From Palestine” published
today reported that “there is little hope that the Sultan will consent to the
Jews settling in Palestine.”
1891: In Hungary, Bernard and Teresa
(Schlesinger) Weiss gave birth to Cornell educated engineer Chrles Weiss, the
Captain of Engineers in the AEF during WW I, “assistant supervisor on the
Pennsylvania Railroad” and winner of the Carnegie Hero Fund Medal” who was he
husband of Sari Kohn
1892: In Poland, Sarah and Srul Elie Cohn gave
birth to Ida Gevirtz, the wife Abraham Gevirtz
with whom she had three children – Harriet, Ruth and Allen
1893: During the Panic of 1893, the crash of
the New York Stock Exchange. The Panic
of 1893-94 was the worst economic depression to hit the United States until the
Great Depression that began in 1929.
During the panic, Nathan Strauss a prominent New York Jewish merchant
and philanthropist “started a chain of grocery stores that distributed
groceries and coal to the needy.” In Greeley, Colorado, Adolph Z. Salomon, one
of Colorado’s three famous Salomon
brothers, found himself forced into the “farm and ranch business” due to the
fact that so many defaulted on their loans.
These defaults resulted in major financial setback for Salomon.
1893: A convention of New York Republicans
adopted a resolution condemning the decision of the New York Union League Club
to blackball Mr. Seligman because he was Jewish.
1893:
Rector Hermann Ahlwardt, the Jew baiting member of the Reichstag has
been sentenced to three months imprisonment for libeling Prussian officials
again.
1893: In Yonkers, NY, founding of the Yonkers
Hebrew Benevolent Association whose members included David Klein, Joseph
Berger, Jacob Fuchs and Louis Mittler
1893: Birthdate of Mendel Dyner, who was
deported from to Ujazdow and then to Majdanek where he was murdered in
September of 1947.
1894: Wilhelm Diamant, the son of Herman and
Johanna Diamant, was buried today in Vienna.
1894 This morning wearing “a long skirt, corset
and high collar and carried with her a change of clothes and a pearl-handled
pistol” Annie Londonerry (Annie Cohen
Kopchovsky) set off from the Massachusetts State House on the first leg of her
round her attempt to be the first woman to ride a bicycle around the
world.
1896: Twenty-year old George H. Webb persuaded
Dora Henry, a 16 year old Jewess to leave her father’s house and then went the
home of Reverend C.A. Daniel where the Lutheran minister married them. The two
then separated and went back to their respective homes.
1896: “Lottery-Crazed Ghetto” published today
described the congested district east of the Bowery as being the Ghetto because
the preponderance of the population was Jewish.
“The Russian and Polish Jews who” live “in such large numbers in the
district extending from Division to Houston Streets are the most eager
purchasers of lottery tickets” which can make them the victims of the swarm of
agents selling these pieces of pasteboard.
1897:http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70F14F83D5414728DDDAE0A94DE405B8785F0D3
1897:
The Hebrew Free School Association sponsored the entertainment for 1,000 needy
New York children which was held at the auditorium of the Educational Alliance
at East Broadway and Jefferson Street.
1897:
“Dr. Benjamin F. De Costa preached on the ‘Diamond Julibee’ at the Church of
St. John the Evangelist” tonight “taking as his text Exodus XII:26 ‘What mean
ye by this service?’”
1897:
In Chicago, Bernard Schwager, a successful cigar market, kissed his ten day old
grandson for the first time today. The
child’s mother, who will convert tomorrow, was a Christian when she married
Schwager’s son over a year ago.
1897(27th
of Sivan, 5657): Seventy-eight year old Sir John Simon. Born at Jamaica in 1818, his father Isaac
Simon sent him study in England in 1833.
He wanted to become a rabbi but ended up becoming a lawyer. He returned to Jamaica after his marriage but
went back to London “for his wife’s health.” He began serving as Liberal MP in
1868. His career lasted for twenty years
and was marked by his efforts on behalf of the Jews of Russia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_John_Simon_Vanity_Fair_25_September_1886.jpg
1897:
The Young Folks’ League of the Hebrew Infant Asylum will leave for an excursion
today from the pier at the foot of West 129th aboard the SS Bay
Queen.
1899:
Albert Aschaffenburg, “a prominent New Orleans Capitalist and Real Estate
Developer who had planned to build the Pontchartrain Hotel next door to the
Orpheum Theater, and Elivine Schaefer Aschaffenburg gave birth Eugene Albert
Aschaffenburg, the husband of Janet Jacobs Aschaffenburg.
1899:
Rabbi Drachman delivered the opening prayer at the commencement exercises of
the Jewish Theological Seminary which were held in Tuxedo Hall tonight. Joseph Blumenthal, President of the Board of
Trustees, delivered the introductory address.
1899:
Ukrainian native Samuel Dreben, known as the “fighting Jew” enlisted in the 14th
Infantry Regiment after which he was shipped to the Philippines.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sam-dreben
1899(19th
of Tammuz, 5659): David Kraukauer, the benefactor of many Jewish charities
including the Montefiore Home and Mount Sinai Hospital, passed away today.
1900(30th
of Sivan, 5660): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1900:
In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Lesser officiated at the marriage of Harry Deitchman
and Rosa Fechter.
1901:
The funeral for the Honorable Samuel Edward Shrimski, the former Mayor of
Omarau currently serving as member of the New Zealand Parliament who was
survived by his wife Deborah, is scheduled to take place at 2 p.m.in the
Waikumete Cemetery.
1902(22nd
of Sivan, 5662): On the Jewish calendar yahrzeit of Rabbi Jehiel Michel of who
was murdered by the Chmielnicki Cossacks.
1902:
Seven years before Jewish immigrants began arriving as part of the Galveston
Plan, the Texas coastal city endured a record rainfall “as a result of
Hurricane Two.”
1903:
In Brownsville, NY, at a meeting of the Daughters of Zion,“Mr. Jacob Massel of
Glassgow” spoke “of the importance of ladies taking an active interest in
Zionistic work” after which attendees heard a concert that included “the
rendering of Jewish national songs.”
1903:
In the wake of the exoneration of Colonel Dreyfus, the French government
ordered the closure of 120 religious (Catholic) schools as a sign of a loss of
clout of those on the political right.
1904(14th
of Tammuz, 5664): On the Jewish calendar Yahrzeit of the 250 Jews murdered in
Rauthenburg, Germany.
1904:
Today, twenty-nine-year-old author and social activist married Russian Jewish
Miriam Finn after meeting her while they were both working at the University
Settlement House.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/scott-miriam-finn
1905:
During the 1905 Revolution which presaged the final fall of the Czar in 1917,
the crew of the Russian Battleship Potemkin mutinied which appeared to be the
first act in a planned mutiny of the Black Sea Fleet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtfsxK3zMeU
1906:
On the Lower East Side, 50,000 immigrant Jewish mothers stormed the local
public schools in response to a rumor that doctors were slitting the throats of
their children in public schools.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/27/1906/jewish-mothers-storm-public-schools
1907:
Birthdate of British jurist Sir Alan Abraham Mocatta.
1907(15th
of Tammuz, 5667): Forty-year-old Yiddish poet Abraham Michael Scharkansky
passed away today in New York.
https://www.librarything.com/author/scharkanskyabrahammi
1908:
Portrait of Louis Barnett Abrahams, “the head master of the Jews’ Free School
in London painted by British artist Solomon J. Solomon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_Barnett_Abrahams.jpg
1908:
In Cordisburgo, Brazil, Florduardo Pinto Rosa (nicknamed "seu Fulô")
and Francisca Guimarães Rosa ("Chiquitinha") gave birth to João
Guimarães Rosa who wrote a short story “La triosieme rive” which provided the
title for the autobiography of Polish born French economist Ignacy Sachs and
his wife Viola.
1908:
Gertrude Hoffman scheduled to begin a series of performances today at
Hammerstein’s Roof Garden that “will include an number of new imitations.”
1909:
The performance being given in memory of Jewish playwright Jacob Gordin at the
Manhattan Opera House was cut short and did not continue past midnight because
it would have violated New York’s Sunday-closing Laws.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/06/27/106720479.html?pageNumber=7
1910:
Today, as the drumbeat of anti-Semitism continued, 95 more Jews were expelled
from Kiev, 52 were expelled from Solomenka and 51 were expelled from Demieffka.
1911(1st
of Tammuz, 5671): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1911:
Louis-Lucien Klotz began serving as French Minister of Finance in Briand’s
third government
1912:
The Jewish Territorial Organization holds its annual meeting over four days in
Vienna. It passes a resolution thanking the Portuguese Chamber of Deputies for
the offer of land in Angola for Jewish colonists, but regrets the impossibility
of recommending individual colonists to undertake a task, which could be
successfully carried out only by an organization.
1912:
University of Cincinnati graduate and HUC trained rabbi Henry Englander, the
Hungarian born son of Max and Regina Englander who joined the faculty of HUC in
1910 as a Professor of Medieval Exegetical Literature married Esther Straus today.
1912:
The funeral for Julia Richmond the New Yorker who was an educator and defender
of the underdog including those suffering from consumption and Russian Jewish
immigrants is schedule to be held today.
1913: Birthdate of
“warehouse worker” Simon Levinson, who was arrested by the Nazis at Oslo in
1942
1913:
Birthdate of Wilkes-Barre, PA native Isadore “Izzy” Wienstock the All-American
fullback with the University of Pittsburgh Panthers who then went on to play to
play for three years in the NFL from 1935 to 1938.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WeinIz20.htm
1914(3rd
of Tammuz, 5674): Parashat Korach
1914:
Dr Max Raisin of Brooklyn delivered the following address at Berith Dodesh
Temple, a Reform Jewish Congregation in which he declared that while some
Reform Jews do not proclaim their Zionism, at heart they hope for restoration
as a people.
"Reform is what made Zionism what it is. Zionism has
found amongst reformers some of its staunchest upholders. Reform is only a
phase of religion, and religion makes for race consciousness. The integrity of
the Jews as a race depends upon the existence and survival of Judaism as a
religion. When a Gentile becomes a Jew by religion, he becomes ipso facto a Jew
by race; but when a Jew joins a Gentile religion he remains a Jew by race.
"When reform Jews in Washington some time ago told Congressmen some time
ago that the Jews were only a religious body, and not a race, opposition to the
statement arose from the very ranks of reform itself. Is the belief of the
reformer dogmatically different to that of the orthodox? Does it deny the hope
of the Jews for national restoration? There is a higher court than the
rabbinical conference. Reform Judaism goes to the prophets, and there is
nothing their opposed to national restoration. "You will say that all
reference to Zion has been stricken from your Prayer Book. That is quite true,
but that is a mere negative attitude for you to take. It is not true that
reform as a whole is opposed to Zionism. The Prayer book is one thing, and
Reform as a whole another thing. National restoration is a universal movement.
Reform looks upon nationalism, even if potentially, as a means to realize all
the hopes of Judaism. I content that Reform does stand upon national ground.
Zionism has again and again made itself felt in the camp of reform. If
nationalism is not included in your prayer book, it is not opposed or
denied."
1914:
In Rochester, NY, Dr Mordechai M. Kaplan of New York delivered a sermon at Beth
Israel Synagogue in Leopold Street this morning.
1914:
Fifty delegates to the convention of Zionists from Chicago and twenty-five more
from Cleveland reached Rochester tonight. They were among delegates invited to
attend an evening reception at the Jewish young Men's Association in Franklin
Square.
1915:
Birthdate of philanthropist, Bernard Roth, “an entrepreneur who built a major
company from a single gas station in Los Angeles by promoting self-service gas
pumps”
1915(15th
of Tammuz, 5675): Eighty-three-year-old pioneer shoe manufacturer Isaac Blyn
passed away in New York City.
1915:
This afternoon, during his tour of the battlefields in France, Joseph Hertz,
the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire led services for Jewish officers and men
at general headquarters and delivered a sermon in which he compared this visit
to his work fifteen years ago with British troops during the Boer War.
1915:
While delivering his sermon tonight from a platform of the Grace Methodist
Episcopal Church Dr. Christian F. Reisner “referred to form Governor Slaton of
Georgia who commuted the sentence of Leo Frank to life imprisonment” saying
“Governor Slaton has proved himself one of the bravest men in America.
1915:
“The convention of the Federation of Rumanian Jews held in the Manhattan Lyceum
today adopted resolutions condemning as undemocratic the plan of the American
Jewish Committee for a conference of 150 delegates in Washington in November to
consider Jewish affairs in connection with the war and its outcome” – favoring
instead “a Congress of many members...”
1915:
Congressman Isaac Siegel of the 20th District spoke this afternoon
at the dedication by the “Jewish charity workers of the Upper East Side and
west side and in Harlem” of “a home to be known as the Hebrew Sheltering
Society of Harlem.
1915:
“Reports continue today of an oath-bound organization which formed at a meeting
at Mary Phagan’s grave in Marietta have spread throughout Georgia whose purpose
is to ‘get’ Slaton (the governor who pardoned Leo Frank) and “Frank, no matter
how long it takes.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E01E6DA1631E733A05754C2A9609C946496D6CF
1915:
In Boston, Jacob de Haas will preside over the opening session of the
convention of the Zionists attended by representatives of the Zionist
Provisional Committee, the Federation of American Zionists, Hadassah, Order
sons of Zion, the New England Zionists, the Intercollegiate Zionist Conference,
Misrachi, Young Judaea and Hachoosa.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E00EFDA1631E733A05754C2A9609C946496D6CF
1916:
Among those who have reportedly already signed an application blank to serve in
the First New York Volunteers a unit of the New York National Guard being
formed by Jews was Nathan Schwartz who had served with the Marines and was
wounded while serving in Vera Cruz, Mexico.
1916:
Today in Chicago, Armour Institute graduate Sidney Teller, the son of Josephine
Zuckerman and George J. Teller, the chemical engineer turned social worker who
began his new career as the superintendent of the Deborah Boys’ Club married
Julia Pines with whom he created the Sidney and Julia Lecture Fund at the
University of Chicago.
https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/5534
1916:
Today Pratt Institute and Julien Academy trained painter Max Pratt, the
Bialystok born son of “Morris and Julia Weber married Frances Abrams.
1916:
Twenty-seven-year-old Columbia trained physician and biochemist Samuel Gitlow,
the son of Louis and Katherine Gitlow who among other things taught
biochemistry at his alma mater, “worked on alum baking powders in bread” and
was the director of the laboratory at the Bronx Hospital starting in 1926,
married Judith Leonora Rosenblum today.
1917(7th
of Tammuz, 5677): Lt. Edmond Enos died today during WW I joining others who had
had this month including Captain Fernand Halphen, Second Lt. Georges Levi,
Second Lt. Paul Molina at Verdun, and Chief Adjutant Leonce Rosenbaum
1917:
It was reported from The Hague that in an interview Djemal Pasha “in the
post-bellum period” “he would do his utmost” to opposed Jewish colonization
which he saw “as an indispensable step toward rooting out Entente influence.”
1917:
In Baltimore, the delegates to the 20th Annual Convention of the
Federation of American Zionists were scheduled to attend a general business
session.
1918(17th
of Tammuz, 5678): Tzom Tammuz
1918:Eighty-one-year-old
William Hackenburg, the Philadelphia, PA, born son of Judah Lazarus Hackenburg
and Maria Allen and the husband of Adeline Schoneman, who was a “manufacturer
of sewing and machine silks” and Chairman of the Silk Association of America
whose many leadership roles in the Jewish community including co-founding the
United Hebrew Charities in 1869, the Hebrew Charity Ball Association in 1859
and the committee “to aid Russian refugees” as well as serving as President of
the Jewish Hospital and Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites, Treasurer of
Congregation Beth El Emeth and Vice President of the Board of Delegates of the
American Israelites passed away today.
1918:
In Pittsburgh, the 21st Annual Convention of the Federation of
American Zionists came to an end.
1918:
In Pittsburgh, the fifth annual convention of Hadassah came to an end.
1918:
The volunteers of the Jewish Battalion in World War I were sent to the front.
In August 1917, thanks in part to the efforts of Jabotinsky; the formation of a
Jewish regiment was officially announced. Formation of such a unit had been
opposed by members of the British military and other members of the British
Establishment. By 1917, the Empire was desperate for soldiers. It
was probably this sense of desperation more than anything else that led to the
formation of the first Jewish combat unit since the Bar Kochba Revolt in 135.
The unit was designated as the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. It
included British volunteers, members of the former Zion Mule Corps and a large
number of Russian Jews. In April 1918, it was joined by the 39th Battalion of
the Royal Fusiliers, more than 50 percent of whom were American volunteers. In
June 1918, The 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers was sent to Palestine,
where the volunteers fought for the liberation of Eretz Yisrael from Turkish
rule.
1919:
In Switzerland, Walter Benjamin “passed his examination summa cum laude” today
following which he and his wife Dora would return to Berlin.
1920
Louis Marshall is scheduled to be one of the speakers at this afternoon during
the cornerstone laying ceremonies for the Bronx Jewish Center of the Talmud
Torah Shaarey Zion 1920: Birthdate of Itek Dommnici, the native of Rumania who
gained fame as I. A. L. Diamond, the Hollywood screenwriter and the longtime
collaborator of the director Billy Wilder and won an Oscar for the “Apartment.”
1920:
Mae Levy, the sister of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Levy married Henry M. Shapiro after
which they took a trip through the Adarondacks.
1920(11th
of Tammuz, 5680): Sixty-nine year old Julius Newman who had served as Rabbi of
the Moses Montefiore Congregation and had lived in Chicago for forty years,
passed away in California.
1920:
In Los Angeles, Elias Victor Rosenkranz and Mildred Rosenkranz, the daughter of
Emil and Benvenida Solis Firth, gave birth to Dorothy June Rubel
1921:
Mrs. Edith R. Sulzberger, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, went to
Crown Point, Indiana today and obtained a marriage license.
1922:
It was reported today that “In an effort to bring about unity in Zionist
circles, a resolution providing for the appointments of two committees, each
composed of seven representatives from the Zionist organizations of America and
the Palestine Development Council, was adopted by the Zionist organization” at
its annual convention.
1922:
Among the many questions that Italian Premiere Schanza is taking up with the
British government during his meeting in London “is the status of Italians in
Palestine” and the Vatican’s concern over the custody of “the holy places.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/06/28/109847775.html?pageNumber=5
1923:
Birthdate of Evelyn “Eva” Ruth Gorelick (nee Brounstein) the Canadian born
mother of “Kenny G.”
1923:
After having “signed his first big league contract for $5,000 with the Brooklyn
Robins (the Brooklyn Dodgers, he made his major league debut in the seventh
inning of a game with the Philadelphia where he played shortstop without making
any errors and “got a one hit in two at bats.”
1924:
“The legal wheel by which the prosecution hoes to convict” Jewish college
students “Nathan F. Leopold Jr and Richard A. Loeb, the self-confessed
kidnappers and slayers of “ Jewish adolescent “Robert Franks to another turn
today when the Coroner’s jury rendered a verdict finding that the lad met his
death at the hands of the two students.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1924/06/28/119040184.html?pageNumber=15
1925(5th
of Tammuz, 5685): Parashat Korach
1925(5th
of Tammuz, 5685): Seventy-five-year-old Hungarian-born American rabbi Sigmund
Hecht, the holder of a Doctorate of Divinity from the University of Alabama
passed away today after having served as the rabbi of Congregation B’nai B’rith
in Los Angeles from 1899 to 1919.
https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/rabbi-sigmund-hecht/
https://www.amazon.com/History-Sigmund-Hecht-Books/s?rh=n%3A9%2Cp_27%3ASigmund+Hecht
1926:
Twenty-eight-year-old Cornell trained engineer, the Toledo, OH born son of
Jacob and Lean Halperin who had been an engineer with Commonwealth Edison since
1921 married Edna Rosenberg today in Chicago.
1926:
The twenty-ninth annual convention of the Zionist Organization of America
opened here today with more than 1,000 delegates from all parts of the country,
including 200 from New York. Louis Lipsky, Chairman of the ZOA, delivered a
lengthy keynote address in which, among other things, he criticized England for
failing to cooperate with the Zionists under the terms of the mandate. “Emanuel Neuman, national director of the
United Palestine Appeal reported that over five million dollars had been raised
since last October” for projects in Palestine.
1926:
The Theatrical and Sports Field Day sports by the Amusement of Division of the
United Jewish Campaign which has the support of Sam Harris and Al Jolson is
scheduled to take place at the Polo Grounds today in New York City.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1926/06/19/98849232.html?pageNumber=12
1927:
Time magazine reported that “Pilot
Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and passenger Charles A. Levine were last week
enjoying the hospitality of Germans, resting in the watering place known as
Baden-Baden, inspecting huge multi-motored airships at the Dornier and Zeppelin
plants. Some of their doings: Frau Thea Rasche, Germany's only licensed woman
pilot, was taken for a ride over Berlin by Pilot Chamberlin. Skillful, she also
took passenger Levine for a ride. Correspondents heralded the trips as
strengthening to U.S. - German relations. Flyers Chamberlin and Levine hustled
to Bremen to meet their respective wives, who arrived from the U.S. Said Mrs.
Chamberlin on seeing her husband: "Why, your knickers are awful. Didn't
you even have them cleaned?" Then the two couples flew to Berlin in three
hops. The two wives were reported to be feeling ill after the first hop.
"The Columbia is not on the market," said Mr. Levine when Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll, a rich American then living in Germany, offered to buy the
monoplane. Mr. Bergdoll let it be known that he desires to fly to the U.S. to
show that he is no coward, that conscientious objection was his only reason for
refusing to fight in the World War.” [Levine was Jewish and laid claim to being
the “first passenger” to cross the Atlantic.]
1928:
The Democratic National Convention at which Herbert Lehman played a major role
as finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee continued for a second
day.
1929:
Max Schmeling, the German heavyweight champion who defied the Nazis by having a
Joe Jacobs as a manager and who saved two Jewish boys on Kristallnacht “beat Paulino Uzcudun by 15-round decision in
a boxing card before a crowd of 40,000 in Yankee Stadium.”
http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/saviors/others/schmeling/max-schmeling-aryan-champ/
http://www.auschwitz.dk/schmeling.htm
1930:
While meeting in Providence, RI, today, the Central Conference of Rabbis
discussed the report on making revision to the Union Hymn Book and voted to
included “Hatikvah,” the Zionist song in the book.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/06/28/98306722.html?pageNumber=32
1930:
“Jewish education without religion is estranging Jews from Judaism declared speakers
at the concluding session of the Fifth Annual Council for Jewish Education which
met a the Jewish Club.”
1931:
“A meteorite of unusual achondrite type and green color impacted at Tataouine” which
“was once home to a Jewish community with multiple synagogues and a cemetery.”
1931:
Labor economist Theresa Wolfson was the principal speaker at the opening of the
Barnard College Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
1931:
Birthdate of Philadelphia photographer David Martin “Dave” Heath.
http://www.daveheathphotography.com/
http://www.josephbellows.com/artists/dave-heath/bio/
1931:
In Montreal, Samuel and Saidye Rosner Bronfman gave birth to businessman and
philanthropist Charles Bronfman, the co-founder of the Taglit Birthright
program.
1932:
It was reported today that Sam Goldberg, President of the Louisville, KY Hebrew
School and J.D. Wlkow, who had assisted Rabbi Asher Lipman Zachary Z”L in
organizing the school are supervising a campaign to raise funds as a memorial
Rabbi Lipman, the city’s senior rabbi who had devoted so much of himself to the
school
1932:
Today, in Washington, DC, “the American Jewish Congress, at its closing meeting
approved the measures taken to convene a world Jewish conference at Geneva on
Aug. 14, and elected thirty-five delegates to attend, all but three of whom are
from New York City.”
1933
In Brooklyn, “Sidney and Helen Katz, née Holland, gave birth to Robert Katz,
“an author and screenwriter who incurred the wrath of the Vatican by accusing
Pope Pius XII of failing to act to stave off a Nazi massacre of Italians in
1944” and who was the husband of Beverly Gerstel with whom he had two sons –
Lee and Jonathan
1933(3rd of Tammuz, 5693): J. Harry Ulrich who had been Chief Surgeon of
National Guard unit and who reached the rank of Colonel while serving with the
U.S. Medical Corps during WW I passed away today in Baltimore.
1933: The Archbishop of Canterbury is scheduled to
be the “principal speaker” at a meeting at Queen’s Hall where attendees
including “thirty members of the British Parliament” “will protest against the
persecution of the Jews in Germany.
1933: At a rally in London, speakers protest
anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany.
1934:
Filming of “Imitation of Life” directed John Stahl (Jacob Morris Strelitsky)
began today.
1934:
In the Bronx, the Jacob H. Schiff Center is scheduled to host a children’s
operetta.
1934:
Abraham Reisin is scheduled to speak at his evening’s meeting of the Yiddish
Culture Society.
1935:
The Committee on Social Justice is scheduled to deliver its report today at the
meeting pf Central Conference of American Rabbis” which had “voiced its views
on war and peace” yesterday.
1936:
At Cape May, NJ, Rabbi William F. Rosenblum of New York’s Temple Israel
preached the annual sermon before the Central Conference of American Rabbis
today in which he “called for a reorganization of reform Judaism as well as a
restatement of its creed” saying that “The time has come to discard the policy
of having each congregation autonomous and each rabbi his own authority” and
proposing “the formation of a synod council made up of delegates from the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations” that will “reintegrate liberal Judaism in the
United States and help to increase the numbers of adherents of reform.”
1936:
As Arab violence continued in Palestine, “after a week of deliberation the Arab
High Committee today completed a long reply to Colonial Secretary William
Ormsey-Gore’s speech in the House of Commons” which included the insistence
“that nothing could restore permanent peace in Palestine except the stoppage of
Jewish immigration and the prohibition of the sale of lands to the Jews.”
1936:
The Democratic National Convention came to a close after re-nominating Franklin
D. Roosevelt for a second term. FDR enjoys overwhelming support among Jewish
voters. Among the delegates is Samuel Untermyer who is attending his last
national convention.
1936: In Asbury Park, NJ, Zelig Tygel the executive
director of the Federation of Polish Jews in America and Gershin Bader, the
organization’s honorary vice president eulogized the late Dr. Nahem Sokolow at
memorial services marking the opening of the 28th annual convention
of the federation.
1937(18th
of Tammuz, 5697):Tzom Tammuz observed because the 17th fell on
Shabbat
1937:
Today “a 30-minute radio adaption of Babouk,” a novel by Guy Endore
(born Samuel Goldstein), co-produced and co-directed by Irving Reis “with
incidental music by Bernard Hermann” “was broadcast today as part of the
Columbia Workshop series on WCBS (AM).
1937(18th
of Tammuz, 5697): Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein is scheduled to deliver a sermon on
“How to Face a Crisis” at the Jewish Science Society today.
1938:
“The Jews of Palestine observed a day of semi-mourning today in sympathy for
the Revisionist youth, Ben Yosef, who is under a death sentence for having
fired on an Arab-owned bus. There were
special prayers and sermons in synagogues throughout the country. Shops were closed in the evening and places
of amusement were shut all day.”
1938:
Birthdate of Alan Coren, “the son of a plumber and a hairdresser from
Southgate, North London, England’ and humorist who appeared on BBC and was
editor for the famous “Punch” humor magazine.
1938:
Twenty-one-year-old publisher Roger Williams Straus, Jr. married “Dorothea
Leibmann, granddaughter of the founder of Rheingold Brewing,
1939(10th
of Tammuz, 5669): Sixty-nine year old “Dr. Israel Davidson of 92 Morningside
Avenue, New York, Professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature at the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America, Broadway and 122d Street, New York, and a
world recognized authority in his field, died today in his country home after a
brief illness
1939(10th
of Tammuz, 5699): Seventy three year old University of Pennsylvania Law School
graduate and faculty member David Werner Amram, a Zionist who was joined on the
faculty by his son Philip Werner Amram whose “most famous book was The Makers
of Hebrew Books which “details the earliest history of Hebrew book printing,
including the first complete edition of the Talmud published by Daniel Bomberg
in the early sixteenth century” passed away today
https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/davi/David%20Werner%20Amram.pdf
1939:
NBC Radio took over the Camel Caravan, a musical variety program that featured
regular appearances by comedian Lew Lehr.
1939:
The Irgun placed a letter bomb in the mailbox attached to the outside wall of
the Schneller Orphanage which was now a British military facility known as the
Schneller Barracks, which, when it exploded “collapsed part of the wall and
injured five Arabs in the vicinity.”
1940:
During a meeting of the Cabinet, Churchill again called for the arming of the
Jews of Palestine so that British troops could come back to defend the home
islands. Lord Lloyd spoke against the
move; anti-Semitism trumped strategic thinking as Lord Lloyd prevailed.
1940:
NBC broadcast the final episode of “I Love a Mystery” sponsored by Fleischmann’s
Yeast and featuring Tony Randall (Aryeh Leonard Rosenberg)
1941(2nd
of Tammuz, 5701): Fifty-nine-year-old Walter Wile Hamburger, the Chicago born
“son of Anette and Max Mayer Hamburger” and husband of Edna Hamburger who was
the Rush Medical College trained physician and WW I veteran and member of the
University of Chicago faculty passed away today.
1941(2nd
of Tammuz, 5701): On a day known as Red Friday: German units in Bialystok began
to randomly shoot Jews. Eight hundred were locked in the Great Synagogue, which
the Nazis then it set on fire. More were forced in during the blaze. Resisters
were shot. The Germans threw hand grenades into Jewish homes. By the end of the
day, 2,000 Jews were murdered. Similar horrors took place in Minsk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Synagogue,_Białystok#/media/File:Synagoga_Nomer_Tamid_02.jpg
1941: German troops gathered in a synagogue
courtyard in Niéswiez, Poland, beat and shoot exhausted Russian POWs.
1941(2nd
of Tammuz, 5701): Eighty-two-year-old San Francisco native Louis S. Hass, a
“retired member of the stockbrokerage firm of Sutro and Company,” an “honorary
president of the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and a member of the Jewish
Children’s Welfare Bureau” passed away today in his hometown with no relatives
to mourn his passing.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/06/30/104294319.pdf
1941: Romanian Iron Guard Legionnaires,
encouraged by the anti-Semitic policies of dictator Ion Antonescu, undertook
the extermination of the Jews in Falesti. Thousands are killed.
1941:
“Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu telephoned Col. Constantin Lupu, commander of
the Iaşi garrison, telling him formally to "cleanse Iaşi of its Jewish
population"
1942:
In Manhattan, Jerry Schechter, “a garment center pattern maker who became a
sculptor” and the former Ruth Lisa Lubin gave birth to Daniel Isaac Schechter
“whose media criticism became a staple of Boston radio and who went on to
champion human rights as an author, filmmaker and television producer.”
1943: “An enlarged and intensified program for
Jewish religious education "to meet the needs of Jewish children in
America in wartime and during the post-war period" was adopted today at a
meeting of the board of governors of the American Association for Jewish
Education in the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria.”
1943: The three day long convention of the
Independent Order of B’rith Abraham began today with speech by Grand Master Herman Hoffman in
which he “outlined a broad program for rehabilitation of European Jews and other
minorities as a post-war reconstruction project,”
1944(6th of Tammuz, 5704): Jewish Resistance
leader David "Dodo" Donoff, 24, is executed near Lyons, France.
1944:
Almost one half million Jews have been sent to Auschwitz since May 15, 1944.
1944:
After 475,000 Hungarian Jews had been deported, the Pope and the King of Sweden
intervened with Horthy as did President Roosevelt who issued the ultimatum-like
appeal to stop the brutal anti-Jewish persecutions.
1944:
Following his meeting with Joel Brand, Moshe Sharett wrote in his report,
"I must have looked a little incredulous, for he said: 'Please believe me:
they have killed six million Jews; there are only two million left
alive'."
1944:
A report was given to officials in London that Captain Isidor Newman who was
serving with SOE had been taken to a private house at Rue des Etats Unis in
Paris that had been turned into a Gestapo prison.
1945:
Birthdate of Amihai "Ami" Ayalon the native of Tiberias who grew up
at Ma’agan co-founded by his father Yitzhak who “emigrated illegally from
Romania and who served as a commander in the Israeli Navy before moving to a
career in politics.
1945:
Seventy two year old Emil Hacha, who as the last President of an “independent”
Czechoslovakia bowed to personal pressure from Hitler and became the “State
President of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia” where, regardless of what
else he did to help or combat the Nazis, signed “into law legislation modeled
after the Nuremberg Laws that meant the Jews were no longer Czech citizens in
any sense of that term” passed away today.
1945:
Having heard no further reply from Churchill over his request to suspend the
White Paper of 1939, a bitter Chaim Weizmann told his colleagues that the
“leaders of the Western world” had done what they had done to the Jews but did
not have “to swallow it.” He continued saying that Churchill and Roosevelt had
let the Jewish people down, “maybe not intentionally, but inadvertently. They made promises which did not carry out or
mean to carry out.” He had no faith in
the upcoming meeting of the Big Three – Stalin, Churchill and Truman because
“nobody cared about what happened to the Jews.
Nobody had raised a finger to stop them from being slaughtered.” And now they did not care about “the remnant
which had survived.” Weizmann, feeling
broken and betrayed expressed his willingness to resign his leadership position
regardless of the consequences.
1946:
U.S. premiere of “A Letter for Evie” directed by Jules Dassin and filmed by
cinematographer Karl Fruend.
1946:
The Josiah Wood which arrived at Haifa today with “1,257 passengers who were
interned at Athlit was later made a part of the Israel Navy under the name of
“Hasomer,” K-18.
1947:
In Manhattan, Morris Helprin the President of London Films and Broadway actress
Eleanor Lynn Helprin gave birth to American novelist, journalist, conservative
commentator, Mark Helprin.
1948:
As Count Bernadotte finishes preparing the Peace Plan for Palestine that he
will present tomorrow, General Lucius Clay cabled William Draper, the
undersecretary of the Army, with a summary of the situation surrounding the
Soviet blockade of Berlin which ends with a call for additional aircraft since
the planes available can only supply 600 of the 2,000 tons need for the city.
(Editor’s Note – two major international crises when the Presidential election
is heating up and the American people are looking for post-war peace and
prosperity.)
1948:
Today, “The general officers of the nascent Israel Defense Forces were sworn-in
in a ceremony.” (Jewish Virtual Library.
1949(30th
of Sivan, 5709): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1949:
"Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" a song by songwriter John “Johnny”
David Marks, the Mount Vernon, NY, Jewish son lighting engineer Louis B.
Marks and Margaret May Marks, the sister Robert L. May, the Jewish retailer “best
known for creating the fictional character Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” was
recorded today.
1949(30th
of Sivan, 5709): Sixty-five-year-old Milton S. Yondorf, the “retired president
of the S. Yondorf and Company, real estate and mortgage bankers” passed away
today in Chicago.
1949:
“Dr. Philipson Collapses” published today described the physical condition of
Dr. David Philipson, “the dean of the American Reform Rabbinate” who is resting
at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston where he was taken after he lost
consciousness at the sixtieth annual convention of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis. The 87 year old cleric
is the “oldest living graduate of the Hebrew Union College” and boasts that he
has never missed one of these conferences.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9D02E5DE113CE23BBC4F51DFB0668382659EDE
1949:
“Laboring Voice” published today described the birth of WFDR, a new non-profit
FM station “back by the 400,000 members of the ILGWU headed by David Dubinsky.
http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,800475,00.html
1949:
“Solomon Bennett, 1761-1838” by the Rev. Arthur Barnett was read today “before
the Jewish Historical Society of England.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/29777897?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
1950:
As proof that the Western democracies had learned the lessons from the
1930’s -- totalitarian dictatorships
should not be allowed to engage in aggression – President Harry Truman
announced that he was ordering U.S. forces to assist South Korea in repelling
the attack from North Korea.
1950:
Admiral Sir John Edelsten, Commander in Chief of the British Mediterranean
Fleet completed a two-day courtesy visit to the Jewish state. The Admiral’s
visit included stops at Haifa and Tel Aviv.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that 283,000 votes were
cast for the Zionist Congress elections. According to the rough estimates Mapai
was expected to send 103, Mapam 46, Hapoel Hamizrahi 26, Herut 21, Progressives
12 and Revisionists one delegate to the Congress. More than one million dollars
worth of food parcels sent by relatives abroad arrived in Israel every month.
About 70,000 such food packages were sent through commercial firms, and 40,000
were mailed directly by relatives.
1951: “Sirocco” a film based on Coup de Grace written by Joseph
Kessel, directed by Curtis Bernhardt and co-starring Lee J. Cobb was released
in the United Kingdom today.
1951: General Darius Paul Dassault, a hero of the French
Resistance in WW II, was awarded the Médaille
militaire.
1952(4th of Tammuz, 5712): Seventy-three year old
German born American mathematician Max Dehn passed away in North Carolina.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Dehn.html
1952: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 also known as
the McCarran-Walter Act was enacted today.
1953(14th of Tammuz, 5713): Parashat Balak
1953: After 248 performances the curtain came down at the Lyceum
Theatre on the original Broadway production of “Time Out For Ginger” starring
Melvyn Doughals and Philip Loeb.
1954: Meir Har-Zion “in a seven man squad led by Major Aharon
Davidi that launched a surprise attack on an Arab Legion camp at Azzun, 13 km
east of Qalqilya” tonight.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/06/28/issue.html
1957: “Sweet Smell of Success” a film based on novelette by Ernest
Lehman with a script co-authored by Clifford Odets and co-starring Tony Curtis
was released in the United States today.
1957: In New York City, Episcopalian remedial reading teaching
Marnie Fahr and Roy Henry Steyer, a Jewish partner in the staid law firm of
Sullivan and Cromwell gave birth to hedge fund manager who along with his wife
Kate Taylor have used his fortune to support Democratic Party candidates and a
variety of social justice initiatives including, ironically, “the Fair Shake
Commission on Income Inequality and Middle Class Opportunity, which was
intended to advocate policies for promoting income equality.”
1959(21st of Sivan, 5719): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1959: This evening at the St. Moritz, Rabbi Charles E. Schulman
officiated at the marriage of Linda Mazer and Leonard Berkowitz/
1959: It was reported today that “the state of Hesse has decreed
that history lessons in the last grade of all state must in the future
concentrate on the period after 1918” which came about because of the “recent
disclosure that the great majority of school children were almost totally
ignorant of the Nazi period.”
1960: In Bethesda, MD, a suburb of Washington, DC Jerry and Louise
Mayer gave birth to Michael Mayer “who won his first Tony Award for his
direction of the musical adaptation of Spring Awakening in 2006.
1960(2nd of Tammuz, 5720): Sixty-seven-year-old Helene
Baruch, the Gudensberg, Germany born daughter of Markus Levi-Elias and Veilchen
Levi-Elias, the wife of Siegmund Salomon Baruch and the mother of Inge Baruch
and Ellen Orenstein passed away today in Manhattan.
1960(2nd of Tammuz, 5720): Seventy-seven year old
German and University of Leipzig Dr. George Urdang, the “Professor Emeritus of
the History of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin, founder of “the
American Institute of the History of Pharmacy and husband of Gertrude Urdang
with whom he had two daughters – Eva and Ursula – passed away today in Madison.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/06/28/99748175.pdf
https://academic.oup.com/jhmas/article-abstract/XV/4/427/781625?redirectedFrom=fulltext
1961(13th of Tammuz, 5721): Seventy-one year old Rear
Admiral Ellis Mark Zacharias, the Jacksonville, FL born son of Aaron and
Theresa Budwig Zacharias and husband of “the former Clara Miller” with whom he
raised two sons –Gerald and Ellis M Jr. – who graduated from the U.S. Naval
Academy in 1912, skippered the cruiser Salt Lake City at the start of WW II
when “participated in the first United States counter-strikes against Wake and
the Marshall Island and came to public attention “as a practitioner of psychological
warfare” in the fight against Japan” passed away today. (Editor’s note – There
is no way that this blog can do justice to his long, distinguished and exciting
career.)
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/06/29/118043378.pdf
1961(13th of Tammuz, 5721): Seventy-five-year-old
Lester Lazarus, the husband of Esther Lazarus and father of Robert Lazarus,
“who retried eight years ago as vice president, J. Lazarus and Company, the
umbrella manufacturers” passed away today in Jamaica, Queens
1963: After 257 performances the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, the
curtain came down on the final performance of the original Broadway production
of “Little Me” the Neil Simon musical that featured “Sid Caesar in multiple
stage accents playing all of the heroine’s husbands and lovers.”
1964(17th of Tammuz, 5724): Parashat Balak
1964: NBC broadcast the final episode of “The Bullwinkle Show” a
cartoon satire featuring a flying squirrel and talking moose featuring theme
music by Frederick “Fred” Steiner
1965: In London “Stephen Eric Sebag Montefiore,” the descendant of
Sephardi Jews and “Phyllis April Jaffé, the descendant of Lithuanian Jewish family of scholars (talk
about your mixed marriages) gave birth to author and historian Simon
Sebag-Montefiore, a member of one of Britain’s oldest and most distinguished
Anglo-Jewish families whose Jerusalem: The Biography is a must read for
anybody with an interest in Jerusalem, the Middle East or the three so-called
Abrahamic Faiths should read, while Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man and Enigma:
The Battle for the Code by his brother Hugh are two World War II histories
that show an amazing depth and breadth of scholarship. (Can you imagine eating
dinner with this family?)
1965: In New York, at the Sherry-Netherland, Rabbi Charles E.
Shulman officiated at the marriage of Susan Ellen Kislak and Dr. Paul L.
Schulman.
1966: In New York City television producer Gerald W. Abrams and
executive producer Carol Ann Abrams (née Kelvin) gave birth to Jeffrey Jacob
"J. J." Abrams
1967: An episode of Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple,” a television
program starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman that had a baseball theme was
filmed tonight at Shea Stadium, the day before the Mets played the Pirates.
1968(1st of Tammuz, 5728): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1968: “Painter, textile artis and graphic designer Marguerite
Zorach” the wife and artistic colleague of William Zorach a Jewish Lithuanian-born
American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and writer who won the Logan Medal of
the arts passed away today.
1969(11th of Tammuz, 5729): Fifty-five-year-old Blanche
Loeb Sundheim, the Philadelphia born daughter of Louise Silberman Langsdorf and
Jacob Loeb Langsdorf and the wife of Harry G. Sundheim, Jr. passed away today
in Chicago.
1969: Two days after she had passed away funeral services were
scheduled to be held at noon today at the Universal Chapel for seventy-five
year old Alene Stern Erlanger, the wife of Erlanger Mills and Barnard College
graduate “who was responsible for the formation of the U.S.A.’s canine corps
during WW II passed away today.
https://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss243.html
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/06/26/78353833.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Pet-Poodle-Alene-Erlanger/dp/B008BLYWBI
1971: The New York Times featured a review of St.
Urbain's Horseman by Mordecai Richler
1972: It was reported today that “two-time world welterweight
champion Jackie Fields,” “one of the few welterweight title holders ever to
regain the title” after losing and a Gold Medal Winner at the 1924 Olympics
“has been officially inducted into the United Saveings-Helms Hall of Boxing
Fame in ceremonies at the Tropicana Hotel and Country Club.“
1973: “Scream Blacula Scream” filmed by cinematographer Isidore
Mankofsky was released in the United States today.
1973: “Live and Let Die,” the eighth spy film in the James Bond
series co-produced by Harry Saltzman, with a screenplay by Tom Mankiewicz and
co-starring Yaphet Kotto was released today in the United States.
1974: Birthdate of Mariano Idelman the Argentine native who became
a popular Israeli television personality.
1974: “Thirty-seven Vilnius Jews protested to the Communist Party
Central Committee against the arbitrary arrests of Jewish activists on the eve
of President Nixon’s visit.”
1974: “Forty American and 6 British scientists were denied entry
visas to participate in a refusenik scientists’ seminar.”
1974: “Professor Benjamin Levich’s sons Evgeny who had been
released from the army on May 24th was informed that he would be
allowed to leave for Israel within six weeks.”
1974: The KGB placed Vitali Rubin under house arrest.
1974: “Nine Minsk Jews including 4 former Red Army officers and 4
Jews in Odessa began a hunger strike in support of emigration.”
1974: “Fifteen Kishinev Jewish activists who demonstrated against
delays in granting of exit visas were arrested and sentenced to 10-15 days in
prison.”
1974: On the same day that the third Nixon-Brezhnev Summit opened
in Moscow, Andrei Sakharov began a hunger strike to “draw world attention to
the plight of political prisoners in the USSR” including the Jews who want to
leave for Israel.
1976: “An archaeological dig uncovered the Golan site of the
ancient Jewish fortress of Bamla, which was destroyed by Vespasian in the early
stages of the rebellion against Rome in the year 67.” (As reported by Abraham
Bloch)
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that US President Gerald
Ford finally upped the transitional aid to Israel to $275,000,000 and presented
this as his final offer to the Congress for approval. A new, $15,000,000 center
for cancer and allied diseases was opened at the Sharett Institute of Oncology
at the Ein Karem Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem.
1976:
News broke that four hijackers from the Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine and the German Revolutionary Cells had captured
an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris. The plane was diverted to Entebbe
in Uganda, where it was held pending terrorist demands for the release of 53
Palestinian prisoners from Israeli and various European jails. The separation
of Jewish passengers from among the hostages particularly alarmed the
authorities in Jerusalem.
1976: A revival of Rodgers and Hart’s “Pal Joey” opened at the
Circle in the Square Theatre.
1976: After 193 performances the curtain came down on Stephen
Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures” a musical directed by Harold Prince with scenic
designs by Boris Aronson.
1977(11th of Tammuz, 5737): Seventy-nine year old
Budapest born and University of Chicago trained organic chemist Dr. Louis
Sattler, “a retired Brooklyn College professor of Chemistry” and the husband of
“the former Julia Kaufmann” with whom he had one son, James, passed away today.
1978: Refusnik Simon Shnirman went on trial at Zaporozhye
1978: Morton I. Abramowitz began serving as U.S. Ambassador to
Thailand.
1979(2nd of Tammuz, 5739): Seventy-eight-year-old
Columbia trained journalist Theodore Menline Bernstein, the New York born son
of Saul and Sarah Bernstein who was “an assistant managing editor of The New
York Times, a journalism education and an authority on the use of the English
language” passed away today.
1982: In Rio de Janeiro, “Bernard Rajzman, a former professional
volleyball player and Michelle Wollens, a former professional figure skater”
gave birth to surfer Philp Wollens Rajzman
1984: After more than 59 years of use, the closing of “the
Greenville Hall synagogue at Dublin’s South Central Circular Road” which had
been led by Jack Segal who had followed in his father’s footsteps as President,
marked “the end of an epoch when the close-knit Jewish community was
concentrated almost entirely in the one small area and Greenville Hall was the
center of that compact universe.” (As reported by The Irish Times)
http://archiseek.com/2017/1925-greenville-hall-south-circular-road-dublin/
1985(8th of Tammuz, 5745): Sixty-six-year-old Sioux
City, IA born WW II veteran Morris Mirkin, the founder of Budget Rent-a-Car
Corporation and the founder of the Morris Mirkin Foundation which was dedicated
to helping children with learning disabilities passed away today in Beverly
Hillls.
1986: “Ruthless People” a dark version of the concept from the
short story “Ransom of Red Chief” directed by “David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and
Jerry Zucker” and co-starring Bette Midler was released today in the United
States.
1986: Jewish television Judge Joseph “Wapner appeared on the
Tonight Show to hear a case of David Letterman vs. Johnny Carson over alleged
damage to the headlight of Letterman's pickup truck when Carson had the truck
towed to the studio. Wapner ruled in favor of Letterman, granting him $24.95”
1987: Daniel Barenhboim is scheduled to conduct his final in a
series of concerts with the IPO that include performances by members of the
Paris Opera all of which are part of the celebrations marking the 50th
anniversary of the founding the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra.
1989(24th of Sivan, 5749): Seventy-eight-year-old
philosopher and author “Sir Alfred Jules ‘Freddie’ Ayer also known as A.J.
Ayer” the London born son of Reine Citroën, a member of a Dutch-Jewish family
who founded the Citroën car company in France” and “Jules Ayer, a Swiss
Calvinist financier who worked for the Rothschild family passed away today.
1991(15th of Tammuz, 5751): Sixty-nine year old New
York born WW II veteran Milton Subotsky best known for co-founding with Max J.
Rosenberg, Amicus Productions which churned out “low budget science fiction and
horror films” passed away in his adopted homeland of Great Britain which was
the home of his wife “Dr. Fiona Subotsky, is a prominent London psychiatrist,
and an historian of psychiatry.”
http://www.classic-monsters.com/milton-subotsky/
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/186526%7C113495/Milton-Subotsky/
1993: “After 487 performances and 23 previews” the curtain came
down on the original Broadway production of “Falsettos,” a musical with a book
co-authored by William Finn who also wrote the music and lyrics
1994: Alan Blinder began serving as Vice Chairperson of the
Federal Reserve System.
1997: “Face/Off” a dark, bizarre crime film co-starring Gina
Gershon was released in the United States today.
1997: Two weeks after premiering at the New Amsterdam Theatre,
“Hercules” an animated musical with a score by Alan Menken was released in the
United States.
1998(3rd of Tammuz, 5758): Parashat Korach
1998(3rd of Tammuz, 5758): Seventy-four-year-old journalist
and author Peter H. Wyden, the Berlin born son of businessman Erich Weidenreich
and concert singer Helen Silberstein who named him Peter Weidenreich, a refugee
from Nazi German and one of “the Ritchie Boys” passed away today.
1999(13th of Tammuz, 5759): Ninety-three-year-old
dermatologist Abraham “Dutch” Koransky, the Purdue University fullback,
graduate of the University of Chicago’s Rush Medical School and decorated WW II
Army Veteran who practiced medicine until 1985, passed away today.
1999: The New York Times featured reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Holocaust in American Life by Peter Novick.
2000: U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrives in
Israel. She met with Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat.
2000: NBC airs the final episode of Veronica’s Closet, a sitcom
created by David Crane and Marta Kaufman.
2001:One feature “of a broad set of guidelines on conversion to
Judaism that will embrace traditional practices once rejected by Reform
leaders, urge that converts make certain commitments to Jewish life and also
formally extend a strong welcome to men and women considering converting” which
are expected to be adopted today “by the Central Conference of American Rabbis
at its annual meeting here, would overturn an 1893 resolution holding that
traditional practices like immersing a prospective convert in a ritual bath, or
mikveh, are no longer necessary.”
2002: Rabbi Baruch Lanner “was convicted of sexually abusing two
teenage girls.” An appeals court later dismissed one of the child endangerment
changes in 2005. The case against Rabbi
Lanner had begun with investigative reporting done by Gary Rosenblatt of The
Jewish Week.
2002: In recognition of his
successful efforts to save thousands of Jews from the Nazis in France, Secretary
of State Colin Powell presented a posthumous "Constructive Dissent"
award to the children of Hiram Bingham IV at an American Foreign Service
Officers Association awards ceremony in Washington, DC.
2003(27th of Sivan, 5763): “Sgt. Maj. Erez Ashkenazi, 21, of
Kibbutz Reshafim, an Israeli navy commando, was killed in an operation in Gaza
to capture a Hamas cell, believed responsible for several bombings and the
firing of anti-tank missiles in the Netzarim area.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
2003(27th of Sivan, 5763): Eighty-nine year old Dr.
Arthur “Archie” Kameros, the “four year starting center for LIU-Brooklyn in the
mid-1930’s and graduate of the Columbia University School of Dentistry and
Bronze Star winning U.S. Army WW II veteran passed away today in Lake Worth,
FL.
2003: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services are
scheduled today “The Riverside” for Hyman Aaron, the husband of Betty Aaron and
the brother of Samuel, Helen, Abraham and Solomon Hyman.
2004(8th of Tammuz, 5764): St.-Sgt.
Roi Nissim, 20, of Rishon Lezion, was killed and five other soldiers were
wounded when their outpost in the Gaza Strip was blown up by Hamas terrorists
who tunneled under the position and detonated a massive explosive charge
2004: Three days after she passed away, funeral services were held
for Olga Rubinow, “the child psychologist and specialist in the emotional
health of children who was the wife Walter A. Lurie and the daughter of Sophie
Himwich Rubinow and “Dr. I.M. Rubinow, a noted authority on and advocate for
Social Security.”
2004:
Israel's renowned composer and songwriter Naomi Shemer was laid to rest today
at 6 p.m. in Kvutzat Kinneret cemetery in the Galilee, where many of Israel's
pioneers are buried. Shemer is known to many as the composer of the famous song
”Y'rushalayim Shel Zahav" or in English, "Jerusalem of
Gold." For those of you who saw "Shindler's List" this was
the song played at the end of the movie when the film turned from black and
white to color as the survivors were shown visiting the Shindler's grave.
The song was written at the request of Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kolek in
1967 several weeks before the outbreak of the Six Day War. The song
expresses the longing of a person for Jerusalem who has to view
the Old City from the opposite side of the Green Line. In
one of those ironic twists of history, "the song became the war's
anthem. She was 74 when she passed away on Saturday, June 26, in Tel
Aviv's Ichilov Hospital. The famous chorus of the song is follows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhvX0ipYLSQ
"Y'rushalayim
shel zahav, v'shel n'choshet v'shel or; Halo l'chold shi-rayich ani kinor
Jerusalem
of gold, of copper and of light, Behold I am harp for all your
songs."
JERUSALEM OF GOLD
The
mountain air is clear as water
The
scent of pines around
Is
carried on the breeze of twilight,
And
tinkling bells resound.
The
trees and stones there softly slumber,
A
dream enfolds them all.
So
solitary lies the city,
And
at its heart -- a wall.
Oh,
Jerusalem of gold, and of light and of
bronze,
I am the lute for all your songs.
The
wells ran dry of all their water,
Forlorn
the market square,
The
Temple Mount dark and deserted,
In
the Old City there.
And
in the caverns in the mountain,
The
winds howl to and fro,
And
no-one takes the Dead Sea highway,
That
leads through Jericho.
Oh,
Jerusalem of gold, and of light and of
bronze,
I am the lute for all your songs.
But
as I sing to you, my city,
And
you with crowns adorn,
I
am the least of all your children,
Of
all the poets born.
Your
name will scorch my lips for ever,
Like
a seraph's kiss, I'm told,
If
I forget thee, golden city,
Jerusalem
of gold.
Oh,
Jerusalem of gold, and of light and of
bronze,
I am the lute for all your songs.
The
wells are filled again with water,
The
square with joyous crowd,
On
the Temple Mount within the City,
The
shofar rings out loud.
Within
the caverns in the mountains
A
thousand suns will glow,
We'll
take the Dead Sea road together,
That
runs through Jericho.
Oh,
Jerusalem of gold, and of light and of
bronze,
I
am the lute for all your songs.
2004(8th
of Tammuz, 5764): Mordechai Yosefov, 49, and three-year-old, Afik Zahavi, were
killed outside a kindergarten when Palestinian terrorists in Gaza launched
Kassam rockets into the southern Israeli city of Sderot. Zahavi's mother,
Miriam, was seriously injured in the attack, and is struggling to recover in a
local hospital.
2004: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including 'Letters, 1928-1946': The Book of Isaiah (Berlin) by Sir
Isaiah Berlin and 'Sweet Land Stories': The Call of the Wild Ones by
E.L. Doctorow
2005: Author and Civil War Historian Shelby Foote
passes away at the age of 88. A native
of Greenville, Mississippi, Foote’s father was not Jewish. However, his mother’s family was. As a youngster, Foote regularly attended
services. He “stopped being Jewish”
because he found himself having to play the role of an outsider twice
over. He was a Southerner and he was
Jewish. He could only devote himself to
one of these and he chose his Southern heritage. It is ironic that the man who came to
personify Civil War for a whole a generation of television viewers and whose
drawl was the best that the Southern tongue could offer was a Jew.
2005:
The United States Air Force appointed Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, who had served as
a chaplain for 25 years in the United States Navy, to the newly-created
position of Special Assistant (for Values and Vision) to the Secretary and
Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force. Resnicoff served in this position from
for a year “at the equivalent military rank of Brigadier General, responsible
for making recommendations regarding policy and guidance in support of the Air
Force initiative to integrate core values into all Air Force operating concepts
and policies. His assignment took him around the world, beginning in the Middle
East, with Iraq, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, and continuing to
military bases throughout Europe and the Pacific, as well as installations
within the United States, including the United States Air Force Academy in
Colorado Springs, CO, and the Air War College, in Montgomery, Alabama, where he
met with Air Force leaders at every level of command. During this appointment,
Resnicoff was instrumental in terms of beginning service-wide discussions on
policies for religious free exercise within the Air Force.”
2005:
Today, McLaughlin and Associates concluded a poll commissioned by the Zionist
Organization of America.
2005:
Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff who had served 25 years as a Chaplain in the United
States Navy began serving “as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air
Force and Chief of Staff of the Air Force
2006(1st
of Tammuz, 5766): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz 2006: Rabbi, Arnold E. Resnicoff
completed his one year assignment as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the
Air Force and Chief of Staff of the Air Force. He was awarded the Air Force
Decoration of Exceptional Civilian Service for his years’ worth of work.
2006: Chaim Saban’s “Saban Capital Group led a
group of investors bidding for Univision Communications, the largest
Spanish-language media company in the United States.”
2006:
Yitro Asheri submitted a report to police say that his son Eliyahu was missing
(Unbeknownst to the father, the son had been kidnapped by terrorists two days
earlier and was dead by now.)
2007:
David Milliband’s last day as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs
2007: In Jerusalem, legendary
Israeli composer/singer Shlomo Gronich presents his newest compositions of
biblical sources on a wide spectrum of themes: justice, righteousness,
integrity, man and his identity, love songs & prayers. Performance includes
Gronich on piano & shofar, the Jerusalem String Quartet and percussion.
2007: Dr. Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian businessman
identified as the Mossad agent who tipped Israel off on the eve of the Yom
Kippur War about the coming surprise attack was found
dead outside his home in London's Mayfair neighborhood. Dr. Ashraf
Marwan was the son-in-law of the Egyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasser. There is a dispute as to whether Marwan was
really a spy for Israel or whether he was in a double agent who was feeding
disinformation to his Israeli handlers.
2007:
Social justice was the theme of the first Jurisprudence Awards dinner sponsored
by the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs at the Hilton Chicago. The event raised $50,000 for the work of the
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs which began during the civil rights struggles
of the 1960s and how promotes social justice through working with community
organizations in Chicago.
2007(11th
of Tammuz, 5767): Ninety-year old Albert Wattenberg “one of the scientists who
worked with Enrico Fermi on the first controlled release of nuclear energy”
passed away today.
http://vineyardgazette.com/obituaries/2007/07/06/albert-wattenberg-90-pioneered-nuclear-energy
2009:
The final performance of “Dov and Ali” by Anna Ziegler, at the Cherry Lane
Studio Theater, in the West Village. The drama revolves around the relationship
between Dov, a high school teacher and Orthodox Jew, and Ali, a 17-year-old
student and strict Muslim.
2009:
David Anthony Freud “was created a life peer as Baron Freud, of Eastry in the
county of Kent,and became a shadow minister for welfare in the House of Lords.”
2009: At the Durham
Performing Arts Center, the Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet presents the final
performance Israeli modern choreographer Ohad Naharin's “Decadance” which was
acclaimed by The New York Times as "dancing that pulls viewers right out
of their seats.”
2009: Today, the London-based A-sharq Al-awast reported that a deal trading
Shalit for over 1,000 Hamas prisoners was imminent. Hamas leader Haniyeh,
however, said that reports of a breakthrough on Shalit negotiations were
exaggerated. Israeli sources also continued to deny any impending deal.
2010: The Jewish Feast-ival is scheduled to take place at The Jewish Center
in Rock Island, Illinois.
2010: "The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer," a new musical
adaptation of the classic Yiddish play by Moyshe Gershenson, is scheduled to
have its final performance at The Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington
Avenue.
2010: The New York Times featured books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Faith and Power: Religion and
Politics in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis and Crisis Economics: A
Crash Course in the Future of Finance by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm.
2010: Jews from more than 15 countries are scheduled to compete in a “Jewish
World Cup" in New York today. “The soccer tournament, hosted by the Jewish
Community Relations Council of New York, will take place Sunday on Randall's
Island, between Manhattan and the Bronx. The tournament is for adults; soccer
clinics are planned for children. The tournament is part of JCRC’s effort to
reach out to overseas Jews living in New York and integrate them into the
American Jewish community. “There are many different groups of international
Jews in New York who are not connected to each other as a community, nor are
they connected to the broader community of New York Jews,” said Hindy Poupko,
director of Israel and international affairs at the JCRC. “Our goal is to bring
these groups together as international Jews and as a part of the broader Jewish
community.”
2010(15th
of Tammuz, 5770): Martin David Ginsburg “an internationally renowned taxation
law expert” who “was Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center in
Washington, D.C. and of counsel to the law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver
& Jacobson” passed away today. He
was the husband of Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (As
reported by Gardiner Harris)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/us/28ginsburg.html?_r=1
2011: Israeli violinist Misha Vitenson and the Jupiter musicians are scheduled to
perform Beethoven’s brilliant Sextet for 2 virtuoso horns and string quartet,
the Flute Quartet in E Minor by his pupil Ferdinand Ries, Webern’s Romantic
Langsamer Satz, and the Brahms String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major at the
Church for All Nations in New York City.
2011: Kiryat Arba Chief Rabbi Dov Lior, one of the senior figures of religious
Zionism, was arrested today after he refused to appear for questioning for his
endorsement of the controversial book, “Torat Hamelech,” which justifies
killing non-Jews. Following the publication of the book, police opened an
investigation on grounds of incitement. The author of the book, Rabbi Yitzhak
Shapira, was detained, questioned and released. An endorsement written by three
rabbis was added to the book, following a standard practice in books pertaining
to the Torah when a junior rabbi ask for approval from a rabbi senior to him.
Rabbi Yosef Ginsburg, one of the approvers, was investigated a year ago. Two
other rabbis, Dov Lior and Ya’akov Yosef, were summoned for questioning but
refused to attend. The police arrested Rabbi Lior this afternoon, who has said
in the past that the Torah is above the law, and that it is unacceptable for a
rabbi to be investigated for publishing Torah-related work. National Union MK
Michael Ben-Ari said in response that the “Public Security Minister should be
fired,” claiming that the police always treat Arab leaders carefully and here
they are disparaging a great figure in Israel. In February , Knesset members of
the National Union party, Shas and Agudath Israel proposed a “Dov Lior Law”
that would grant immunity for rabbis regarding halachic material they publish,
or concerning opinions they have given in relation to “The Torah of Israel.”
2011: Today Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu's inner cabinet instructed the Israel Defense Forces to be
firm in preventing the flotilla from reaching the Gaza Strip while operating
with maximal restraint to avoid causing injuries. The senior government
ministers also instructed the Foreign Ministry to continue its diplomatic
efforts to prevent the flotilla from setting sail to Gaza.
2011: Israeli director Guilhad Emilio Schenker won an award at
the Detroit Windsor International Film Festival 2011 today for his short film
Lavan. He picked up the award for Best
Short Film, a week after he received the Best Director Prize at a Washington
film festival.
2011: Kiryat Arba Chief Rabbi Dov Lior, one of the senior
figures of religious Zionism, was arrested today after he refused to appear for
questioning for his endorsement of the controversial book, “Torat Hamelech,”
which justifies killing non-Jews.
2011(25th of Sivan, 5771): Ninety-seven year
old Rabbi Michel Yehuda Lefokowitz passed away today.
2012: The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater
Washington, The American Jewish Committee, and The American Association of
Jewish Lawyers and Jurists are scheduled to present the next session in its
brown bag lunch speakers’ series: “Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American
Presidency from Ford to Obama” with Marvin and Deborah Kalb.
2012: Six months after its first screening at the
Sundance film festival, the rest of the United States has its first opportunity
to view “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” an “American fantasy drama film directed
by Benh Zeitlin.”
2012: "Going Up: Jerusalem" - a pilgrimage by
artists, social activists and intellectuals that is inspired by social protests
in Israel and abroad is scheduled to come to an end.
2012: Funeral services are scheduled to be held at B'nai
Israel Synagogue, 2601 Chestnut St. in Wilmington, NC for of Wendy Block, z”l,
of Wrightsville Beach, NC. She was the former chair of the Network of
Independent Communities of The Jewish Federations of North America, former
board member of National Women’s Philanthropy and campaign vice chair for
National Women’s Philanthropy. Mrs. Block passed away on June 25 at the age of
72.
2012: The Library of Congress obtained the papers of
astronomer Carl Sagan, the son of Ukrainaian-Jewish immigrants.
2012(7th of Tammuz, 5772): Two
Israel Navy officers were killed in a car crash on Highway 4 near Rishon Lezion
early this morning. An initial
investigation into the accident revealed that the officers, Captain Omri
Shahar, 25, of Kfar Saba and First Lieutenant Rafael Bublil, 22, of Ramat Gan,
were killed when their car collided with a truck and overturned at Holot
Junction. Two other officers were injured in the crash. One is in moderate
condition, while the other suffered serious injuries
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4247988,00.html
2012: Deep divides were exposed between coalition
factions today over the terms of legislation being formulated to raise the
number of ultra-Orthodox men in national-service programs.
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=275516
2012: In “How Iran Killed Its Future” published today
Shahrzad Elghanayan described how the execution of Habib Elghanian, Iran’s most
prominent Jewish industrialist and philanthropist, was a turning point for the
country.
2012: “A small group of men gathered at the small
cemetery of Rehovot to pay respects to 53 year old Aharon Zandani of blessed
memory a pillar of Yemen’s Jewish community who was murdered in Sanaa. (As
reported by Elhanan Miller)
2012: Barry Landau, a “collector of presidential
memorabilia” who was convicted of stealing thousands of historic documents “was
sentenced to seven years in prison” and ordered to pay $45,525 to dealers to
whom he had sold stolen items.
2013: In the UK, The Wiener Library is scheduled to host
a book launch of Ruta’s Closet , “the harrowing and astonishing true story of how a
Lithuanian Jewish family fought to escape the deadly clutches of Hitler’s Final
Solution.”
2013: Joan
Silber, the novelist and short story writer who won PEN/Hemingway Award for Household
Words took part in a book signing at Barnes and Noble.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Silber#/media/File:JoanSilberLaughing.JPG
2013: Today, Nicholas “Winton received the Wallenberg
Medal in London.”
2013: JCCNV and
the Jewish Community Relations Council are scheduled to present an evening with
Elliot Abrams who will discussion the Israeli-Palestinian relationship under
President George W. Bush.
2013: Adas Israel Congregation, EntryPoint DC, and The
Foundation for Jewish Studies are scheduled to present a talk by Dr. Allan
Lichtman author of FDR and the Jews at the Lillian & Albert Small
Jewish Museum
2013: Israel is the center of the world “in so many
ways,” the archbishop of Canterbury said today in Jerusalem. He stressed
Israel’s legitimacy and right to security, and also spoke, in the context of
persecution of Christians by Islamists in the Middle East, about the Christian
imperative to “love our enemies.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/archbishop-of-canterbury-israel-the-center-of-the-world/
2013: Tel Avis White Night begins
http://www.timesofisrael.com/pull-an-all-nighter-in-tel-aviv/
2014: “G-D’s
Honest Truth” featuring Marcia Jean Kurtz and David Deblinger is scheduled to
be performed at the 14th Street Y.
2014: Eighty-two-year-old
poet Allen Grossman passed away today.
2014: “Friday
LIVE” is scheduled to start this morning at Tel Aviv.
2014: The first
round the Temple Menorah annual rummage sale in Milwaukee, WI is scheduled to
come to an end.
2014: The IAF
scored a direct hit on a car carrying two Palestinian terrorists who “were
involved in a cell responsible for the repeated rocket fire on Israel’s
southern cities over the past several weeks and were planning several terror
attacks on Israeli civilians. (As reported by Lazar Berman)
2014: Six
rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel today, two of which were
intercepted by Iron Dome and four of which landed in “open territory.” (Times
of Israel Staff)
2014: “New York Mayor Bill De Blasio delivered the
keynote address tonight at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the world’s largest
LGBT synagogue and a pioneering Jewish presence in the New York Pride Parade.”
(As reported by Brian Schaefer)
2014: “Stations of the Elevated” a “1981 documentary film
by Manfred Kirchheimer about graffiti in New York City’ was re-released today.
2014: An exhibition that brings together more than 175 of
Gary Winogrand’s most iconic images, a
trove of unseen prints, and even Winogrand's famed series of photos made at the
Metropolitan Museum in 1969 when the Museum celebrated its centennial opens
today.
Garry
Winogrand | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)
2015: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host
“The Best Miniatures for Two and Three Clarinets Solo.”
2015: In Coralville, Iowa Congregation Agudas Achim is
scheduled to a special luncheon following “Rabbi Jeff’s Last Shabbat.”
2015(10th of Tammuz, 5775): Sixty-seven year
old animator Jane Aaron who specialized in works for children passed away
today. (As reported by Sam Roberts).
2015: An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter Scale
“was felt in several Israeli cities” this morning.
2015: In Herzliya Pituach, Trioche is scheduled to host
an auction of Israeli and International Art.
http://tiroche.lndit.com/158new.htm
2016(21st of Sivan, 5776): One hundred three-year-old
Simon Ramo, the son of Jewish immigrants, the technology guru who co-founded
TRW passed away today.
2016(21st of Sivan, 5776): Eighty-seven-year-old
Alvin Toffler, the author of Future Shock, passed away today.
2016(21st of Sivan, 5776: Photographer Dave
Heath passed away today in Toronto on his 85th birthday.”
2016: While attending a meeting of the Jewish Agency
Board of Governors in Paris, Natan Sharansky, “the head of the Jewish Agency
for Israel said” today that “French Jewish have no future” in that country
because of “Arab immigration to France and deep-seated anti-Semitism.”
2016: “The Legacy of Absence Gallery” which features ”the
work of influential international artists expressing the impact of genocide and
other atrocities” is scheduled to close today at the Illinois Holocaust Museum
and Education Center and will not reopen until the Fall of 2017.
2016: “Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You” is
scheduled to be shown at the 24th Portland Oregon Jewish Film
Festival.
2016: Liverpool MP Luciana Berger who became Luciana
Clare Goldsmith when she “married Liverpool music manager Alistair Goldsmith at
the city's Princes Road Synagogue in June 2015” resigned her position as Shadow
Minister for Mental Health today.
2017: The Sacramento Historical Society is scheduled to
host a lecture by Lynn Downey, the author of Levi Straus: The Man Who Gave
Blue Jeans to the World.
2017: In Jackson, Mississippi, The Institute of
Southern Jewish Life’s annual Education Conference is scheduled to come to an
end today.
2017:
The British National Theater Live Productions are scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Cinematheque
2017(3rd
of Tammuz, 5777): Third of Tammuz marks the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Menachem M.
Schneerson, of Righteous Memory, known simple as “the Rebbe.”
http://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/142232/jewish/3-Tammuz.htm
2018:
After having visited Yad Vasham yesterday where is great-grandmother, Princess
Alice is honored for rescue of Jews, today, Prince William who is making the
first official by a member of the Royal Family to Israel, is scheduled to visit
Tel Aviv this morning to take part in what is being described as a “cultural
event.”
2018:
As “Firefighters battled to fight five blazes sparked by incendiary devices
flown toward Israeli communities from Gaza” today, Economy and Industry
Minister Eli Cohen said that those who launch the kites from Gaza should be
targeted, as the safety of Israelis living in the vicinity of the coastal
enclave must be the first priority.”
2018:
The Si-Yo Music Society Foundation and the International Institute of China are
scheduled to “present “Symphonic Reflections”, a rich cross-cultural concert
performed by China-based Israeli pianist Shai Rosenboimz” at the Lincoln
Center’s Bruno Walter Auditorium.
2018: At part of the “Home: Lens on Israel” series, the
Temple Emanuel Streicker Center is scheduled to open the photographic
exhibition “Children in the Southern Development Town of Kiryat Gat.”
2018: Paul Shapiro is scheduled to perform at Russ and
Daughters Kosher Herring Pairing Party this evening at The Jewish Museum.
2019: “Working Woman” is scheduled to be shown at the “16th
Annual Israeli Film Festival” in Ottawa, Canada.
2019: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled
to present a lecture in Yiddish by Eugene Orenstein on “A Birdseye View of the
Development of Yiddish Literature and Culture.”
2019: JW3 is scheduled to host two screenings of “Inside
The Mossad.”
2019: This evening in London, Israeli Asher Tlalim, “the
Head of FilmLab” is scheduled to deliver the lecture in the series “A Brief
History of Cinema.”
http://ukjewishfilm.org/event/filmlab-brief-history-cinema-part-1/
2019: It was reported today that yesterday Palestinians
had “poured scorn on the Trump administration’s $50 billion investment plan to
help achieve Middle East peace, but that U.S. Gulf Arab allies had said the
economic initiative had promise if a political settlement is reached.” (As
reported by YNET and Reuters)
2020(5th of Tammuz, 5780): Parashat Korach;
for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2020(5th of Tammuz, 5780): On Hebrew calendar,
day “set aside as a memorial fast day for the estimated 50,000 Ukrainian Jews
who had last their lives in Uman and other cities during the Haidmamack
uprising under Gonta and Zhelenyak
2020: After dropping off the ingredients and instructions
for Hummus, the Fairmont Young Professions are scheduled to host via Facebook a
“short Havdalah service led by Rabbi Joshua Caruso.
2020: Via Zoom jHub is scheduled to host “a family
friendly event” where attendees learn how to make no-rise bagels.
2020: The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to “The Best of
Chamber Music” featuring Dima Pocitari– violin; Kiril Michanovsky – cello; and
Julia Gurvich – piano
2020: As Shabbat is observed, residents of Bat Yam, which
was designated a restricted zone after 40 new coronavirus cases were found in
the central coastal city in just three days are learning to live with “a new
normal” because educational institutions have been closed, gatherings of more
than 10 people have been banned and authorities have increased enforcement at
weddings and other venue.
2021(17th of
Tammuz, 5781): Shiva
Asar Be-Tammuz (Seventeenth of Tammuz), a minor fast day that commemorates the
breaching of the walls of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. by the Babylonians and again
in 70 C.E. by the Romans. According to some sages, the Second Temple fell
because of the lack of love and community spirit. In America, whether it is
bullying or the coarsening of our public discourse, we are painfully aware of
the harm that speech can do. Since most American Jews do not refrain from
food and drink on the 17th of Tammuz maybe it has been proposed that we refrain
from Lashon Hara (i.e. Speaking Evil) on this minor fast day. To
paraphrase the old Chasidic tale, we will show as much concern for what comes
out of our mouths as we show for what we put in our mouths for one day, it
might become a habit. In 1776, the 4th of July fell on the 17th
of Tammuz. So, for those of you who want to get a head start on celebrating
American Independence, here is your chance
2021: Wilderness Torah is scheduled to present an
in-person day of nature, connection and reflection in honor of the ancient fast
commemorating the breach of the walls of Jerusalem before the destruction of
the Temple.
2021: The National Library of Israel is scheduled to
present online “The Diary of an Exile” a “talk that will examine the experience
of Jewish migration to Ireland during the so-called mass emigration period
(1881-1914), using a little-known resource acquired by the National Library of
Israel in 2016: the journal of Myer Joel Wigoder, who left Lithuania in 1889
and ended up in Dublin around a year later, by way of Antwerp, Amsterdam and
Leeds.”
2021: The Israeli American Council of Boston is schedule
to present “Israel’s May 2021 War” during “which Itamar Marcus, founder and
director of Palestinian Media Watch, analyzes the underlying cause of the
recent Hamas rocket attack on Israel and Jerusalem Day, which triggered a short
war and Israeli-Arab attacks on Jews across Israel.”
2021: Congregation Beth David is scheduled to present
genealogy expert Ellen Kowitt who will introduce “websites such as Ancestry,
FamilySearch and MyHeritage, with a focus on how to find Jewish data.”
2021: Shir Joy Chorus is scheduled
to present its last fully virtual concert with a combination of virtual choirs,
courtyard chorus and live commentary
2021: Yiddish singer-accordionist Jeanette Lewicki,
clarinetist Sheldon Brown and bassist Richard Saunders are scheduled to play
songs “from Bessarabia to Brooklyn” “at Congregation Shir Hadash parking lot.
2021: The Friends of the Arava Institute are scheuduled
to celebrate the Arava Institute’s 25th anniversary at an evening hosted by
award-winning performer Mandy Patinkin.
2021: JWA is scheduled to host a panel discussion on “The
Revolution and Impact of the Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, 1995–2021, with
Deborah Dash Moore, David Ellenson, Rachel Harris, Alma Heckman, and Jennifer
Sartori, moderated by Judith Rosenbaum
2021: In Atlanta, at the Breman Museum Tony Casadonte is
scheduled to lead the final the final tour of “a Jazz Memoir: Photography by
Herb Snitzer.”
2021: The New York Times features reviews of books
by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Morningside
Heights by Joshua Henkin, The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the
Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood by Julian Rubinstein and the
recently released paperback edition of Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and
Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork, by Reeves Wiedeman.
https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/american-jewry/11083/weshtick/
2022: The American Jewish Association Annual Conference
is scheduled to continue for a second day.
2022: After talks with between the Israel’s Teachers
Union and the Finance Minister yesterday “advanced significantly” schools in
Israel are scheduled to open normally today. (As reported by Tobias Siegal)
2022: The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to
present, online, Dr Shaina Trapedo, an expert on early modern literature for “Shakespeare
and the Talmud” during which she will
address timeless Talmudic questions in Shakespeare’s seminal works.
2022: The 2022 Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National
Conference for Educators, a virtual event sponsored by the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled begin today.
2023: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture
by Jeremy Rosen on “Magic, Superstition and the
Jews.”
2023: The
Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to “ Musical Connections to the Lower
East Side” an in-person program where
attendees will “enjoy a selection of favorite songs from stage and screen- like
White Christmas, Beauty and the Beast, and Rhapsody in Blue - and their
connection to the musical traditions of the Lower East Side's Jewish Community.”
2023: The Virtual Belfer National Conference for Educators,
sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to
continue for a second day.
2024: The Gan Shalom Fundraiser is scheduled to take place
today in Des Moines, IA
2024: JWA Book Talks are scheduled to continue
today with Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino, editors and translators, Mazaltob:
A Novel, by Blanche Bendahan.
2024: As
June 27th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has
included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York subway
to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages
begin day 265 in captivity. (Editor’s
note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just
providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
