This Day, June 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 30
713
CE: In Spain, Visigoth nobility which had held out against the invading Moslem
forces, throughout the winter of 712 finally surrendered to the Arabs. A
majority of the remaining Goths and Hispano-Roman people who lived in the newly
acquired areas eventually converted to Islam. The Jews, who had been persecuted
by the ruling Goths, proved to be the exception. They kept their religious identity and
flourished under the new rulers.
1270:
In Germany, Rabbenu Asher and his wife gave birth to Talmudist Judah ben Asher,
the rabbi at Toledo who was the brother of Jacob be Asher.
1294:
The Jewish community of Berne, Switzerland forfeited all financial claims
against non-Jews, and then was expelled from the country.
1298:
The Jewish community of Morgentheim, Austria was massacred.
1470:
Birthdate of Charles VIII, King of France. In 1494, Charles invaded Italy
leading to the occupation of the Kingdom of Naples in 1495. Charles conquest led to increased
persecutions of the Jewish population which lead to their expulsion in 1510,
two years after his death.
1487:
At Faro, Portugal, the printing of a Pentateuch was completed on the printing
pressed located in the house of Don Samuel Giacon. According to Konrad Haebler's Typographie
Ibèrique, “this was the first Hebrew book printed with vowel-points.”
1503:
Birthdate of John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony who in August of 1536 “issued
a mandate that prohibited Jews from inhabiting, engaging in business in, or
passing through his realm.
1522:
Johann Reuchlin “a German humanist and a scholar of Greek and Hebrew” who “for
much of his life… was the real centre of all Greek and Hebrew teaching in
Germany, passed away. “In 1510, Reuchlin was drawn into a bitter controversy
with the Jewish-Dominican convert Johannes Pfefferkorn, who had convinced the
emperor to confiscate and burn copies of the Talmud and other Jewish books.
Asked for his opinion on the issue, Reuchlin urged the preservation of this
literature and recommended the establishment of a chair of Hebrew in each of
the major universities. As a result of his efforts, the order to destroy the
Jewish books was rescinded. However, his enemies persisted, and Reuchlin had to
face charges from the Inquisition. He was able to deflect the accusations for a
time and returned to teaching …. Reuchlin is considered a hero in the history
of European Judaism.”
1602:
English author and Oxford University fellow Robert Burton who “in Anatomy of
Melancholy admitted that the Jews were ‘very industrious whilst amon Englishmen
the badge of gentry is idleness, to be of no calling, not to labour…to be a
mere spectator, a drone’” received his Bachelor’s degree today.
1650:
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
arrested today and imprisoned in Dunster Castle.
1651:
During the Khmelnytsky Uprising, Polish forces prevailed at the Battle of
Beresteczko. The victory only provided a
brief respite. The Cossack Revolt would
continue with thousands of more Jews dying in what would be the worst loss of
life until the Holocaust.
1680:
In Madrid, an Auto de Fe was held in honor of the marriage of Carlos II to
Louis Marie d’Orleans. It took place in the Plaza Mayor and lasted 14 hours.
Over 50,000 spectators came to see 118 accused sentenced to prison or burned. It marked the last time that a
"royal" auto was held since Carlos’ successor, Philip V, refused the
"honor."
1713:
Nehemiah Chiya Chayun arrived at Amsterdam and requested permission of the
Portuguese congregation to circulate his writings, which had been published at
Berlin.
1739:
Birthdate of Moses Ben Abraham Frankel the Berlin born rabbi who was the father
of David Frankel.
1760:
In Philadelphia, Lyon Nathan and Caroline Webb gave birth to Leah Nathan, the
wife of Jacob Naphtali Hart with whom she had twelve children.
1762:
In New York, 31 year old Uriah Henricks, a native of the Netherlands married
Eva Henricks.
1781:
In Danbury, CT, Solomon Simson and his wife gave birth to Sampson Simson the
first Jewish graduate of Columbia who went on to become a lawyer in New York.
(As reported by Dr. Yitzchok Levin)
1782(18th
of Tammuz, 5542): Because the 17 fell on Shabbat, observance of Tzom Tammuz
1783
(30th of Sivan, 5543): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1784:
In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Abraham Alexander officiated at the wedding of 16 year
old Rachel de la Motta, a native of St. Croix to Abraham de Pass of Jamaica.
1785:
James Oglethorpe, the founder of the colony (and later the state) of Georgia
passed away. Georgia had been created by
Oglethorpe as an alternative to Debtor’s Prison. However, when a boatload of Sephardic Jews
arrived in the colony a month after its founding, Oglethorpe welcomed them as
he did a subsequent arrival of German Jews who came a year later. Oglethorpe did this despite the opposition of
the trustees which surely endeared him to this remnant of the House of Israel.
1811:
In Philadelphia, Arabella Solomon and Zalegman Phillips who were married in
1805 gave birth to Henry Myer Phillips, who was ranked “as one of the best
constitutional lawyers” in the United States and a member of the Democratic
Party who represented the 4th Pennsylvania Congressional District in
the 35th Congress.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/henry-myer-phillips
1814:
Birthdate of Portsmouth, England native and future Detroit resident Isaac Hart,
the husband of Julia Cohen Hart with whom he had nine children – Catherine,
Alexander, Sidney, Elizabeth, Rachel, Nathan, George, Fannie and Henrietta.
1820:
Birthdate of Ernestine Anspach Louis, the wife of Samuel Louis with whom she
had four children – Bertha, Ray, August and Simon.
1819:
Ellen and Henry Naftali Isaacs were married to at the Great Synagogue.
1821(30th
of Sivan, 5581): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1821:
Birthdate of Sigmund von Henle, a descendant of Löb Berlin, the district rabbi
of Bamberg a lawyer who was held in high esteem by King Ludwig II.
1824:
Fishes Moses married Rachel Depass in Charleston, SC.
1830:
Birthdate of Richard Liebreich, the native of Königsberg and brother of
pharmacologist Oskar Liebreich who became a leading ophthalmologist and
physiologist.
1838:
The Swedish government abolished discrimination against Jews. Unfortunately due
to public objections it was repealed. Another 30 years were to pass before Jews
were given the right to vote.
1840:
Major Alfred Mordecai and Sara Ann “Hays” Mordecai gave birth to Alfred
Mordecai, Jr. the West Point Graduate who served with distinction during the
Civil War and Rose to the rank of Brigadier General.
1841:
One day after she had passed away, 87 year old Frances Nathan was buried today
at the “Brady Street Jewish Street Cemetery.”
1850:
Four days after he had passed away, Andrew Barnett, the father of Sophia,
Louisa, Jane and Harriet Barnett, was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham
Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1852:
Today, twenty-six year old Abraham de Sola, the London born “sixth child of
Rebecca Meldola and David Aaron de Sola” the rabbi at Shearith Israel married
“Esther Joseph, the youngest daughter of Henry Joseph and Rachel Solomons, with
whom he would raise a family in Montreal whose Jewish community benefited
greatly from his efforts as did the secular community as can be seen by his
appointment to the faculty at McGill.
1860:
Minnie and Joseph Polakoff gave birth to Louis Polakoff, the husband of Annie
Polakoff and the father of Minnie, Rosie, Charles and Joseph Polakoff who was
the co-founder of L. Polakofff and Company, the Buffalo base “wholesale and
retail dealers in coal and ice.”
1861:
Amalie Grinberg, the daughter of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer and Henrietta
(Gütel) Kalischer and her husband Moritz Grünberg gave birth to Henryka
Grunberg.
1862:
At Glendale, VA, seventeen year old Private Benjamin Bennett Levy, a
drummer-boy in the Union Army, picked up the “colors” when the color bearers
and carried them during the battle. He
saved them from capture by the Rebels and was awarded the Congressional Medal
of Honor for his bravery under fire.
[Nothing was of greater value to a regiment than its colors. Defeat in battle was one thing; losing the
colors to the enemy was a point of great disgrace. Color bearers were an easy target for enemy
soldiers so it was a high risk job.]
1862;
Ellis C. Strouss who had enlisted in the 57th Regiment on November
1, 1861 was wounded today at Charles City Cross Roads, as known as the Battle
of Glendale, which was part of the Peninsula Campaign where Union General
McClellan fritted away his opportunity to capture Richmond and suffered an
ignominious defeat at the hands of General Lee.
1863(13th
of Tammuz, 5623): Mordecai Ze'eb Ettinger passed away today at Lemberg. Born in 1804, he was the father of Rabbi
Isaac Aaron Ettinger, the nephew of Rabbi Moses Joshua Heschel and the
brother-in-law of Joseph Saul Nathanson with whom he co-authored
"Mefareshe ha-Yam"
1864:
During the Civil War at the Battle of Petersburg, Abraham Cohn, a Sergeant
Major with the 6th New Hampshire Infantry “bravely and coolly
carried orders to the advanced Union line while under severe fire from
Confederate troops” behavior for which he earned the Medal of Honor.
1865:
Philadelphian Michael Baer completed his service 204th Regiment as
Major.
1866:
Today, in Romania, Jews were attacked maimed and robbed. The Bucharest Synagogue was desecrated and
demolished. As a result of the violence
Article 6 of the 1866 Constitution was replaced by Article 7. Article 6 declared that "religion is no
obstacle to citizenship"; but, "with regard to the Jews, a special
law will have to be framed in order to regulate their admission to
naturalization and also to civil rights". Article 7 read that "only
such aliens as are of the Christian faith may obtain citizenship". All
this came to pass when Charles von Hohenzollern took the throne as Carol I and
was forced to deal with a riot against the Jews in his capital city.
1870(1st
of Tammuz, 5630): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1873:
Two days after he had passed away, Hart Robinson, the teenage son of George and
Sarah Robinson was buried today at “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1873:
In Berlin, Hanna Jakmuss and Edward Huhner gave birth to Columbia trained
surgeon, Max Huhner, the husband of May
Levy who “devised the accepted test for sterility known as the Huhner Test.”
https://www.library-archives.cumc.columbia.edu/obit/max-huhner
1874:
“Partial Destruction of a Town by Fire” published today described the two days
of fires in Berditchev, a Ukrainian city in the Russian “inhabited most by
Jews” have destroyed over 600 houses and left thousands homeless. [Berditichev
was a major center of Jewish life in the Ukraine, home to Mittnagdim and
Chasidim, the famous of which were the Berditchiver Hasidim and their Rebbe,
Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev
1874:
In Canton, PA, Isaac and Dora (Feldstein) Levy gave birth to Syracuse
University trained attorney and Syracuse College of Law professor T. Aaron
Levy, a delegate to the first Jewish World Congress and a leader of the
Syracuse, NY Jewish community who was active in the B’nai B’rith.
1875:
Alfred Jacobs married Emily Flatau at the Freemason Tavern in London.
1876:
Esther Hellman Wallenstein, the founding president of the Hebrew Infant Asylum
and Solomon Wallenstein gave birth to the youngest child Milton H. Wallenstein.
1878:
According to today’s Foreign Notes column, before departing for the meeting of
heads of state in Berlin, the Earl of Beaconsfield received a letter from
Lionel de Rothschild in which he asked Disraeli to do everything he could to
get them to endorse measures that would put all religions on an equal footing
in each of their countries. Rothschild
made a special point of asking Disraeli to intervene on behalf of the suffering
Jews of Romania and Serbia. Disraeli
replied that he would do all that he could in this matter.
1879:
In Zbąszyń, Poland, Jacobi Bornstein and Thekla Bornstein gave birth to Paul
Bornstein the husband of Hanna Bornstein and the father of Toni Bornstein.
1882(13th of
Tammuz, 5642): Fifty-five-year-old Berlin born Brazilian photographer Alberto
Henschel passed away today.
https://luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/Alberto__Henschel/ABCDEF/
1882:
In Vilna, Michael and Hattie Goldstein Fishman gave birth to University of
Michigan Medical School graduate Dr. Casriel Fishman, the husband of Miriam
Goldman Fishman whom he married in 1912 before beginning his medical practice
in Oklahoma City in 1912 and serving on the faculty of the OU Medical School in
1918.
1882:
Between now and April of 1881, “no less than 225,000 Jewish families –
comprising over a million souls – have fled from Russia.”
1884:
Birthdate of Polish native Mendel Marczak who spent part of WWII hiding in
Liege.
1885(17th
of Tammuz, 5645): Tzom Tammuz observed as funds are being raised to assemble
the parts of the Statute of Liberty which had arrived on June 17 in several
crates on board a French steamer.
1888(21st
of Tammuz, 5648): Parshat Pinchas
1888(21st
of Tammuz, 5648): Eighty-eight year old Sing Sing, NY native Anna Marks, “a
founder of a Hebrew Sunday School” and a “Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum”
passed away today in NYC.
1888:
In Russia, Raphael and Clara Mitnick Massell gave birth to Atlanta businessman Levi
Massel a president of the Atlanta Desk and Table Company and founder of the
Atlanta Tammany Club who was the husband of Minnye Simmons Reitler and father
of Charles and Lee Massell.
1889(1st
of Tammuz, 5649): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1889:
In Philadelphia, PA, David Julius, a bookbinder who had fled Odessa, and his wife
gave birth to Emanuel Julius, who adopted the last name of his first wife
Marcet Haldeman to become Emanuel Haldeman-Julius “the nationally known
publisher of the ‘Little Blue Books’.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/08/01/88438961.html?pageNumber=24
1890:
Birthdate of Nathaniel Peffer, the native New Yorker was a “Far Eastern
correspondent for the New York Tribune” who parlayed his 25 years of living in
China into an academic career at Columbia University.
http://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/14/nathaniel-peffer-of-columbia-expert-on-the-far-east-dies.html?_r=0
1890:
It was reported today that the Romsey Abbey “founded more than nine centuries
ago” by Benedictine monks included a library “that was celebrated for its
collection of Hebrew books.”
1891:
In Kovno, Lithuania, “Jonah and Tillie (Hurvitz) Aronson gave birth to European
trained Rabbi Joseph Harry Aronson, the husband of Ida Jacobson and since 1922,
“the Director of the Rabbinical Seminary of New Haven, CT” while also serving
as the Charmain of the Board of the Board of the New Britain (CT) Hebrew
Institute.”
1891:
“The first of the weekly excursions” sponsored by the “Sanitarium for Hebrew
Children took place” today.
1891:
In Cincinnati, Ohio, Max and Sarah Hexter gave birth to Maurice Beck Hexter the
husband of Marguerite Hexter.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0338/ms0338.html
1891:
Robert Watchorn, the Immigration Commissioner who in 1907attended a Seder at
Ellis Island in 1907 where he gave “a speech dealing with the right of every
man in this country to worship God according to his own conviction and pointing
out that a man who served God was sure to make a good citizen married Almas
Jessica today in Columbus, Ohio.
1891:
In Kovno, Johan and Tillie (Hurvtiz) Aronson, gave birth to Rabbi Joseph Harry
Aaronson, the husband of Ida Isaacson who, starting in 1922 became the head of
Tephereth Israel in New Britain, CT while serving as Director of the Rabbinical
Seminary of New Haven, CT.
1891:
During the fiscal year ending today, Russia sent 33,504 immigrants to the
United States, “the majority of whom were Jews.”
1891: “The Nautch Girl,” a two-act comic opera
with music by Edward Solomon opened at the Savoy Theatre.
1891:
“To The Land Of Midian” published today described the plan of Dr. Paul
Friedman, a native of Berlin who lived in London before settling in New York,
to settle Russian Jews in “the land of Midian which extends from 26 degrees to
30 degrees north latitude and is situated on the Gulf of Akaba near the head of
the Red Sea. Friedman had originally sought to use Somalia for this purpose but
after visiting there “he concluded that it was not suitable.
1891:
Over four hundred people sailed up the Hudson as far as Yonkers today during
the first of the weekly excursions sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew
Children.
1892:
In an example of the problems with transliteration “The Holy Land Colonies”
published today described the activities of “Showey Zion meaning Returners to
Zion.” The author probably meant “Shavei Tzion” - שבי
ציון (Zion Returneees)
1892: It was
reported today that New York lawyer Adam Rosenberg is the President of
“Returners to Zion” a recently incorporated society “whose main object” is to
send Russian Jews to the Palestine “as colonists.”
1892:
Marriage broker or ‘Shatchen” Martin Klein brought suit in a Brooklyn court
today in an attempt to collect a $25 commission he claimed cigar maker Mauritz
Grauer owed him for having secured a husband for Miss Paulie Grauer. Klein also claimed that Grauer had promised
the groom, liquor dealer Joseph Ritter an additional $500.
1892:
An explosion at 26 Willet Street, a tenement that was home to Polish and
Russian Jews “wrecked the lower part of the hous and injured half a dozen
tenants.”
1892:
Rabbi Levy officiated at the marriage of Jacob Rosenstein of St. Louis and
Florence A. Belitzer which took place at the home of the bride’s mother in
Charleston, SC.
1893:
Birthdate of Harold Joseph Laski “an English political theorist, economist,
author, and lecturer, who served as the chairman of the Labour Party during
1945-1946.”
1894:
It was announced today that the Hebrew Institute will be hosting a series of
lectures by prominent doctors on the “Care and Feeding of Infants during the
Warm Weather.”
1894:
Representatives of the United Hebrew Trades Association spoke at tonight’s meeting
held in Union Square to support the proposed “under-ground rapid transit
system.
1894:
“Isaac Jacobs, a middle-aged Jew…was arrested” today “on a larceny warrant.”
(More to come)
1895:
“A troupe of German-speaking peasants are performing a passion play similar to
the one presented at Ober-Ammergau” at the “village of Selzach in the Swiss
canton of Solothurun.” A large number of
Berliners are expected to attend the performance.
1895:
In Cincinnati, Ohio, Isaac and Lilly Pichel gave birth to the co-author of A
Doctor Discusses Breast Feeding, Marie Pichel Warner the wife of Dr. Lewis
J. Levinson and Dr. Benjamin Warner and the mother of Dr. Richard R.P. Warner
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Warner-Marie-Pichel-Levinson
1895:
It was reported today that “a recent examination” of the books of the B’nai
B’rith Society in San Francisco showed that the shortage was actually $17,000
and not $13,000 as originally alleged.
The discovery of the original shortage led to the suicide of Louis
Blanc, the Society’s former treasurer.
He had not been prosecuted for taking the money, but the community
obviously failed he was responsible when they failed to re-elect him as
treasurer.
1895:
Annie Silverman, the wife of Wolf Silverman was buried today at Washington
Cemetery in New York.
1897:
A list of the graduates of the Hebrew Technical School for Girls published
today included the names of Mary Wiener, Esther Freed, Celia Levin and Sadie
Pearlman.
1899:
After having traveled in locked cabin for three weeks, Alfred Dreyfus completed
his voyage from Devil’s Island when he “disembarked today at Port Haliguen on
the Quiberon Peninsula” shrouded in a nocturnal cloak of secrecy.
1900:
Birthdate of New York City native and Columbia trained Urologist Gordon D.
Oppenheimer, the husband of the former Frances Reese.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1093008/
1900:
Birthday of Klintzy, Russia native Abraham Dubin, who in 1905 came to the
United States where he attended JTS and CCNY and served as a rabbi for
congregations in Brooklyn, San Antonio and Flushing, NY.
1900(3rd
of Tammuz, 5660): Chaya Chana Ettinger (nee Kluger), the wife of Yonah
Ettinger, passed away today.
1901:
In Albany, NY, this evening Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church which has been
holding serves in the building housing Temple Beth Emeth since its building
burned on May 9 and Temple Beth Emeth held a joint service led by Reverend A.
H. Lucas and Rabbi Alexander H. Lyon.
1902:
Herzl began a journey to London seeking support for his plans for a Jewish
homeland. The journey lasted until July 17.
1903:
Sir Marcus Samuel, the Lord Mayor of London, “received the Freedom of the City
of Sheffield” today.
1903:
As of today, “the Education for the Higher of Education of Orphans with
headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio” which “was organized in 1896, “counted 1,218
members living in 58 towns in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri,
Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and
Wisconsin. “
1904(17th
of Tammuz, 5564): Tzom Tammuz
1904:
On a day connected with the loss of the second Jewish commonwealth, Herzl, the
man trying to connect a modern Jewish commonwealth, suffers a severe bronchial
catarrh, which turns into pneumonia. Oskar Marmorek proceeds to Edlac with two
doctors.
1905:
In the year ending today, the Legal Bureau of the Educational Alliance reported
that it had “transacted business for 9,804 applicants” which marked a large
increase in providing serving for “Americanizing immigrants.”
1905:
Albert Einstein published the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving
Bodies" where he introduces special relativity.
1906:
In Brooklyn, Russian Jewish immigrants Eliahu and Rose Pinta gave birth to
Hebrew teacher Judith Pinta who gained fame as Mizrachi leader Judith
Mandelbaum, the wife of Mordechai Mandelbaum with whom she had one child, a
daughter named Rhea.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/mandelbaum-judith-pinta
1907:
Dr. Harry Friedenwald, the President of the of the Zionist Federation is
scheduled to preside over today’s session of the “Zionist Convention” at
Tannersville, NY where delegates are going to discuss “the formation of a
syndicate for the development of industrial opportunities in Palestine.”
1908(1st
of Tammuz, 5668) Rosh Chodesh Tammuz observed on the same day that an asteroid
struck eastern Russia in what is known as the “Tunguska Event.”
1908:
NYU trained neuropsychiatrist and neurologist
Dr. Emanuel David Friedman, the New York born son of Louis and Miriam
Deborah Friedman married Rose Borgenicht today in Manhatten after which they
had three children.
1909:
The Hebrew Benevolent Loan Society of Buffalo, NY contributed $5.00 to the
National Conference of Jewish Charities today.
1910:
“Still Expelling Jews” published today reported today that in the last two day
158 Jews have been forced to leave Kiev, 61 from Solomenka and 57 from
Demieffka.
1911:
In Paramaribo, Suriname, Daniel Joseph Hartogh and Estelle Celine Abrahams gave
birth to the first child and first son Salomon Maurits Hartogh
1911:
Today, Rabbi Nathan Krass of Temple Israel officiated at the funeral of
businessman and philanthropist Abraham Abraham who was so respected and popular
that a large crowd gathered along both sides of Bedford Avenue as the body was
being brought to the Temple and “and the inside of the Temple was thronged with
those who came to pay their last respects.”
1911:
“The department store on Fulton Street in Brooklyn and Macy’s department store
in Manhattan” were closed today out of respect for the late Abraham Abraham.
1911:
A Jew, Abraham Benrubi, former President of the Tribunal of Commerce at Cavalla
(Turkey) was appointed Judge of the Court of Appeal in Jerusalem.
1912:
A few weeks after serving as valedictorian for her high school graduation,
Bertha Alexander who would change her name to Beatrice and gain fame as “Madame
Alexander”, married Philip Behrman (Jewish Women’s Archives)
1912:
Lieutenant Albert M. Cohen, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Cohen of
Philadelphia was listed as one of the nine officers who had contributed “most
to the efficiency of the U.S. Navy battleship Delaware in the last year.”
1913:
The resignation of William Williams, the reform minded Commissioner at Ellis
Island whose exclusionary practices were challenged by the Jewish Immigrant Aid
Society, became effective today.
1913(25th
of Sivan, 5673): Nathan Waxman, “a communal worker in Brookline, Massachusetts”
passed away today.
1913:
Eighty-three year old Victor Henri Rochefort, the editor of La Patrie who joined with people like
Edoouard Drumont and Hubert Joseph Henry to promote the campaign against
Dreyfus passed away today.
1914:
In Rochester, NY, the convention of the Federation of the American Zionists
which Max Schulmam of the Knights of Zion and Miss Bessie Schulman of the
“Hoachuzah Order are attending as delegates is scheduled to come to an end day
1914:
Rabbi Henry Cohen of Galveston is scheduled to give the “Opening Prayer” at
tonight’s session of the 25th anniversary conference of the Central Conference
of American Rabbis being held at Temple Beth El in Detroit, Michigan.
1915:
Birthdate of Henritette Klatscherova, who 20 days before her 27th
birthday was transported from Prague to Ujazdow where she was murdred.
1915:
The convention of the Federation of American Zionists came to a close this
evening with the election of national officers. Dr. Harry Friedenwald of
Baltimore was elected President. Other officers chosen were Chairman of
Executive Committee, Louis Lipsky of New York; Honorary Secretary, Bernard A.
Rosenblatt of New York, and Treasurer, Louis Robison of New York. The delegates
to the convention received a pleasant surprise at this closing session when it
was announced that Nathan Starus, the famed philanthropist had turned over his
private yacht, valued at between $35,000 and $50,000, to the Zionists to help
them deal with the looming financial shortfall.
1915:
“Rabbi Hertz At Front” published today described the chief rabbi’s visit to the
Western Front where when holding services he discussed the peril facing the
British Empire and said that the “Jews of the empire had fully realized the
duty of the hour and nobly responded to the country’s call.
1916:
Seventy year old French Egyptologist Gaston Camille Charles Maspero passed
away. He was the author of The Struggles of the Nations which provided
an account of “the first Egyptian mention of the Hebrews ever found on an
Egyptian monument.”
1916:
It was reported today that an article appeared “in the current issue of the
American Jewish Chronicle supported by photographs which claims to prove that
the Russian Government was instrumental in the instigation of pogroms” in that
country.
1916(29th
of Sivan, 5676): Ninety-two year old Louis Hershfield, father of Isidore
Hershfield, the Director of HIAS who came to the United States from Russia more
than 70 years ago ago passed away today at the home of his daughter, Lillian
Hershfield today.
1917:
Birthdate of Bernard “Buddy” Rich.
Born in Brooklyn, Rich is best remembered as one of the greatest
drummers of all times. Later in his
career he was the leader of his own group – The Buddy Rich Band. According to one legend, when on his deathbed
a nurse asked him if anything was bothering him, Rich replied, “Yes, country
music.
1917: “The Ninth Annual Convention of Young Judaea” is scheduled
to open this evening at Asbury Park, N.J.
1917: Thirty-one year old Israel S. Wechsler, the Romanian born
son of Moses and Leah Wechsler and Bellevue Medical College trained neurologist
and psychiatrist married Minnie Wechsler with whom had two children - Miriam
and Robert.
1917: Nathaniel E. Harris, who was the governor when Leo Frank was
lynched, completed his terms as Georgia’s chief executive.
1917: It was reported today that the 1,000 immigrants who arrived
in New York last week from Rotterdam were the first Jews to “come here from
occupied Russia-Germany since the break in relations between the United States
and Germany.
1917: It was reported today that “the Jewish Ladies’ Aid Society
of the B’nai Jeshurun Congregation in Lincoln, Nebraska” which has 62 members
including its Secretary, Mrs. Henry Kohn, “has contributed $10 to the Hebrew
Union Scholarship Fund.” (Editor’s note – this entry serves as reminder that
Jewish communities existed in a wide-variety of locations beyond a few major
metropolitan areas.)
1917: “A Russian officer’s opinion of the effect of the revolution
on the Russian Army was cabled to Abraham Cahan editor of The Jewish Daily
Forward” which revealed “that thousands of high officer of the army were
slaughtered by their men at the outbreak of the revolution.”
1918: During a twelve month period starting today, 3,055 Jews were
admitted to the United States and 373 Jews departed from the United States.
1919: “Different from Others” a silent film directed and produced
by Richard Oswald who co-authored the script with Magnus Hirschfeld who
co-starred with Reinhold Schunzel was released today in the German Weimar
Republic.
1919:
Today, The Committee on Public Information for which Walter Wanger made short
propaganda films designed “to combat anti-war or pro-German sentiment in Allied
Italy” “was formally disestablished by an act of Congress”
1920: The
31st annual convention of The Central Conference of American Rabbis
is scheduled to continue to for a second day in Rochester, NY.
1920: Sir
Herbert Samuel the first high commissioner for Palestine arrives in Jaffa and
is received with a military ceremony.
Samuel served in the position for five years. He was the son of Edwin Louis Samuel,
a successful Anglo-Jewish banker. Samuel
had been raised as an Orthodox Jew and although according to at least one
source, he ceased to be a practicing Jew but remained active in Jewish affairs.
1920: Birthdate of science fiction author Sam Moskowitz.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/roboman/www/sigma/may97sig.html
1920: This afternoon at the St. Regis Hotel, Rabbi Nathan Stern
officiated at the wedding of “Juliette V. Roth, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
and Charles R. Roth” and “Louis Martin Levy, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H.
Levy.”
1920: “Carolyn Markowitz,” the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Markowitz married “Jerome C Levy” the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Levy.
1921: Today, as the fiscal year ends, no more than 450,000
immigrants have been admitted to the United States.
1921:
Jonas and Pauline Bernanke arrived at Ellis Island
today. The 30 year old Bernanke listed his occupation as “clerk.” The Bernankes eventually moved to Dillon,
South Carolina, where they ran a drug store and raised a son named Ben.
1922: In Philadelphia, a year after they had arrived in the United
States, “two Jewish immigrants gave birth to Max David Ticktin, the JTS trained
rabbi who served as the Hillel Director at the Universities of Chicago and
Wisconsin before becoming “a professor of Yiddish and Hebrew Literature at
George Washington University.
1922: The Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), the Reform
movement's professional organization, meeting in Cape May, N.J., voted 56 to 11 to
affirm in principle the right of women to become rabbis.
1922:
President Harding agreed to put the Merchant Marine Bill, which had been
championed by Albert Lasker, “on hold during a six week congressional recess”
that started today so that the Lasker, the advertising genius turned government
official, could rally support for the legislation.
1922:
A joint resolution of both Houses of Congress of the United States unanimously
endorsed the "Mandate for Palestine," confirming the irrevocable
right of Jews to settle in the area of Palestine - anywhere between the Jordan
River and the Mediterranean Sea:
" Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the
United States of America favors the establishment in Palestine of a national
home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be
done which should prejudice the civil and religious rights of Christian and all
other non-Jewish communities in Palestine, and that the holy places and
religious buildings and sites in Palestine shall be adequately
protected." (As described by Dr.
Yitzchok Levine)
1923(16th
of Tammuz, 5683): Parashat Balak
1923(16th
of Tammuz, 5683): Sixty-eight year old Albany born businessman and Republican
politician Louis I. Waldman passed away today.
1924(28th
of Sivan, 5684): Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael De Haan, a Dutch born Jew who was a
leader of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community opposed to Zionism was shot
outside of the synagogue moments after finishing his evening prayers. De Haan was scheduled to lead a delegation of
ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionist Jews to London where he planned to make their case
to the British government. His killer
was rumored to be a fellow Jew. The
Jewish community of Jerusalem, regardless of political affiliation was shocked
by the killing and 20,000 people turned out for his funeral. Forty years after the crime took place a 1970
broadcast on Israeli radio revealed that the killer had been a member of
Haganah who had killed De Haan because he was viewed as a traitor.
http://cf.uba.uva.nl/nl/publicaties/treasures/text/t44.html
1924:
AvrahamTehomi allegedly shot and killed the Dutch Jewish poet, novelist and
diplomat Jacob Israel de Haan, who was living in Jerusalem as a journalist.
1925:
Viscount Herbert Samuel completed his service as High Commissioner of
Palestine. He was the first person to hold
the position.
1925:
Birthdate of Samuel M. Ehrenhalt, “a poet of percentages who for 15 years as a
regional commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics transformed colorless
wage and employment figures into small, brightly lighted windows onto New Yorkers’
daily lives.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1926:
Birthdate of Paul Berg, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1980.
1926:
Governor Moore of New Jersey is scheduled to deliver the welcoming remark at
the opening session the annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Professor Louis Ginzberg and Rabbi Max
Drob are scheduled to address the meeting of North American rabbis being held
at the Scarboro Hotel in Long Branch, NJ.
1927:
Henry Ford retracted and apologized for the publication of the Protocols of
the Elders of Zion.
1927:
In Chicago, Marion (née Weil) and Maurice Clarence Goldman, gave birth today to
playwright and screenwriter James Adolf Goldman the old brother of novelist
William Goldman.
1928:
Birthdate of Oscar Muller, the student arrested at Bergen in 1942 and killed at
Auschwitz in 1943.
1929:
“Behind That Curtain’ a mystery produced by William Fox with a script
co-authored by Sony Levien was released today in the United States.
1929:
Two days after the release of the silent version, the sound version of
“Broadway Babies” a musical directed by Mervyn LeRoy was released today in the
United States.
1930:
“A passage at arms between opposing counsel occurred at the hearings of the
Wailing Wall Commission here today when the Arab attorney, Auni Abdul Hadji
accused the Jewish counsel, Dr. Eliash, of insisting that a Jewish witness
should speak Hebrew instead of Arabic in order to introduce a ‘question of
politics’.”
1930:
Julian “Mack was reassigned by operation of law to serve on the Second Circuit
only, pursuant to the provisions of 36 Stat. 539.”
1931:
“"A new deal all around" appears to be the sentiment of the delegates
of approximately fifty countries who gathered at Basile today for the opening
of the Seventeenth World Zionist Congress tonight.”
1932: Chaim Arolsoroff “wrote a long letter to
Chaim Weizmann” in which he estimated that the Zionist movement had only a
short period of time at its disposal” because within five to ten ears Europe
would be engulfed in war and the Yishuv would likely find itself facing wither
an Arab-British alliance or an Arab revolt and because cut off from the Jewish
world, its people and resources.”
1933:
“The Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda announced a new film law
today, the most important provision of which is the exclusion of Jews from any
part in the production of German films. This prohibition also applied to
American moving picture concerns producing in Germany.”
1934(17th
of Tammuz, 5694): Parshat Balak
1934:
Night of the Long Knives: Hitler ordered the execution of some of the SA (Sturm
Abteilungen) leaders of whose absolute loyalty he questioned including Ernst
Roehm. Until then the SS under Himmler was subordinate to the SA. The SS now
became independent and was given charge of the concentration camps.
1934:
“Baby, Take a Bow,” a comedy directed by Harry Lachman was released today in
the United States.
1934:
“Rabbi Benjamin Friedman of Temple Society of Concord, Dr. Aaron Burman,
president of the Jewish National Fund Council, Benjamin G. Rudolph, T. Aaron
Levy, Alexander Holstein and Samuel D. Solomon are the delegates from the
Syracuse, NY district of the ZOA attending the “37th annual national
convention of the Zionist Organization of America” scheduled to take place
today in Atlantic City, NJ.
1935:
At Bloomingdale’s swimsuits “made to sell for 5.95 o 8.95” are now on sale for
3.95.
1935:
Abraham & Straus is selling “Jacobean print cretonnes” made up by their
cutters for “$2.98” a yard and “English-type ready-made Slipcovers for Sofas
for $3.98.”
1936(10th
of Tammuz, 5695): Phineas H. Toldeano, the President of Toledano Exporting
Company, whose wife Rachel, the daughter of Mordecai and Ernestine Epstein was
“President of the Jewish Girls’ Welfare Society and a member of the Shearith
Israel Sisterhood’s board of managers passed away today in New York City.
1936:
Gretel Bergmann matched a German high jump record today. Two weeks later the
young Jewess would be kicked off the German Olympic Team.
1936(10th of
Tammuz, 5695): Mrs. Eva M/ Aronson, “a communal work” passed away today in
Seattle, WA.
1936: Polish Jews strike to
protest anti-Semitism.
1936: “Disturbances…of
an anti-Semitic character were reported today from Oran, Alger and
Constantine.”
1936:
Max Silverman is scheduled to be re-elected today as the Grand Master of B’rith
Abraham today.
1936:
In Paris, the Minister of the Interior “said the blue-shirted nationalist
‘Francistes’ had plotted to kill” Premiere Leon Blum.
1937:
Birthdate of Gideon Ezra, the native of Jerusalem who served as an MK and led
several government ministries.
1937:
“A tower and stockade kibbutz was established at Tirat Zevi (Zevi’s Castle) 6
miles south-east of Beisan and less than a mile from the Jordan border.” [As
the debate rages about the borders of the state of Israel and settlements on
the “West Bank,” please note the location of this kibbutz. Obviously, the Zionist pioneers assumed that
all territory west of the Jordan River was open to them.]
1937:
Under the auspices of the Bialiki Association, Chiam Nachman Bialik’s house was
opened to the public. The public display included: the archives of Bialik’s manuscripts and that
of other writers, Bialik’s private library and a museum with the poet’s
personal possessions.
1938:
In Austria, “at almost 10,000 Jewish owned commercial and industrial
enterprises…the employers announced to some 30,000 Jewish employees their
immediate dismissal on orders from various Nazi organizations.”
1938:
In Vienna when asked about the fate of the Jews, Joseph Buerckel, the Reich
Commissioner for Austria said that “This is a revolution” and “the Jews may be
glad that it is not on the French or Russian pattern.”
1939:
Tel Aviv attorney M. Seligman was released on bail, pending his appeal of a
conviction on charges of conspiring to assist in the illegal immigration of
Jews into Palestine which carried a six month term of imprisonment. “He was acquitted of 18 other charges
including brigery and corruption of Palestine Government officials.”
1939:
Premiere of “Bachelor Mother” directed by Garson Kanin.
1940:
“Nazi System Rules in Poland” published today reported that the Germans have
divided “the inhabitants of Poland into three categories” one of which are the
Jews who “have no civil rights” and who must “wear white armbands marked with a
blue Star of David” which is designed “to distinguish them from others.”
1940:
“An appeal to the British Government to defend the Jewish Homeland and to help
preserve democracy was made here today at the opening session of the Zionist
Organization of America by Ludwig Lewisohn, honorary secretary.”
1941(5th of Tammuz, 5701): Ninety Jews are
murdered at Dobromil, Ukraine.
1941(5th
of Tammuz, 5701): Ten year old Masha Blumenau was among those murdered by
German soldiers when they went to the City Hospital in Liepāja to arrest the
Jewish members of the medical staff whom they then killed.
1941: German troops enter Lvov, Ukraine, and
beat hundreds of Jews to death after running them ragged at gunpoint.
1941:
Two death trains left Iasi, Romania after a pogrom. One of them stopped in Podu
Iloaiei and the 1,194 Jews who died along the way from thirst and heat
exhaustion were buried there in a mass grave.
1941 Three hundred young Jews are deported from Amsterdam,
Holland, to stone quarries at the Mauthausen, Austria, concentration camp. All
will eventually perish.
1941: American radio commentator Father Charles
Coughlin celebrates Hitler's invasion of Russia as "the first strike in
the holy war on communism" and attacks "the British-Jewish-Roosevelt
war on Germany and Italy."
1941:
The Germans entered Lvov, Soviet Union, cite of the third largest Jewish
Community after Warsaw and Lodz. Thousands of Jews would be tortured and
slaughtered at the hands of rampaging mobs.
1941:
In Amsterdam, 300 Jews were deported to work camps.
1941: In Denmark, a collaborationist SS
organization, Freikorps Danmark (Danish Free Corps), is established.
1941: In Belorussia, a guerrilla
collaborationist organization, Belaruskaya Narodnaya Partizanka
(Belorussian National Guerrillas), is established.
1941: In Latvia, Viktor Arajs establishes the Perkonkrusts
(Thunder Cross), a collaborationist paramilitary unit.
1941:
Professor László “Radványi and his family arrived in Mexico” today.
1941: Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, tells
Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, that Hitler has ordered that the
"Jewish question" be solved once and for all and that the SS is to
implement that order. Auschwitz is the death camp that is to carry out the greater
part of the Jewish extermination. Mass gassings, not shootings, are determined
to be the most effective means to exterminate the large numbers of Jews.
1942: A headline in the London Daily
Telegraph reads: "MORE THAN 1,000,000 JEWS KILLED IN EUROPE." [Sort
of puts the “lie” the statement that people did not know what was happening to
the Jews in the clutches of Hitler.]
1942:
Today, in London, “a delegation of Jewish leaders from Poland and
Czechoslovakia presented Ambassador Anthony Drexel, Jr., “a comprehensive
reported on the Jewish situation in their respective countries” which are now
“under Nazi occupation.” (JTA)
1942: Three-year-old Jewish twins in Sosnowiec,
Poland, Ida and Adam Paluch, are spirited away from Gestapo agents by their
aunt and sent to live with separate Catholic families
1942(15th
of Tammuz, 5702): Sixty-one year old Russian born “landscape painter” Abraham
Manievich who fled his homeland after the Revolution and arrived in the United
States in 1921 passed away today.
https://www.jta.org/1942/07/01/archive/abraham-manievich-prominent-jewish-painter-dies-in-new-york
https://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/3474-destruction-of-the-ghetto-kiev
1943:
Thirty-three days after The Green Hornet crashed in the Pacific killing most of
the crew including Sergeant Frank Glassman, the son of Russian Jewish
immigrants, Sergeant Francis McNamara, one of the three survivors died on a
raft in the Pacific.
1943:
In Maryland, Albert Weiner, the son of Soloman Weiner and Gertrude Talesknic
and his wife Sylvia Cooper gave birth to Randy Weiner
1943:
After almost 8 years, the New Deal agency known as The Federal Art Project
(FAP) whose artists included Leon Bibel, Adolph Gottlieb, Harry Gottlieb, Isaac
Soyer, Moses Soyer. Raphael Soyer and Lee Krasner came to an end
1944:
After having been “placed in charge of the JDC activities in North Africa in
1943, Max S. Perlman today moved “to the organization's new office in Bari,
Italy to assist in the repatriation and relief of Jewish refugees following the
Allied victory in Europe.
1944: By now, more than 500 Jews are being secretly
protected by industrialist Oskar Schindler.
1944:
Joel Brand and Rudolf Kasztner working together with the Jewish Agency and the
War Refugee board concluded a deal with and Adolph Eichmann. It became known as
“Blut fuer Ware” ("Blood for Goods"). This date marked the first of
three transports from Hungary to Switzerland. A total of 3344 Jews were sent on
a special transport at a price of $1,000 per head. The deal was the subject of
a great amount of controversy and later even resulted in a defamation trial,
which reached the Israeli Supreme Court in June of 1955.
1944:
“Max Perlman, originally the Joint Distribution Committee representative in
North Africa was transferred Italy where he became the head of the JDC office
in Bari, Italy which was opened today “to assist in the repatriation and relief
of Jewish refugees following the Allied victories in Europe.”
1944:
One thousand, seven hundred, ninety-five Jews arrived from Corfu arrived at
Birkenau.
1944: The crematoria at Auschwitz are working
at full capacity when 2044 Jews from Corfu and Athens, Greece, arrive. At day's
end, lightning rods on crematoria chimneys are warped from the heat generated
by the furnaces.
1944:
The 461st Bombardment Group under the command of Frederick E.
Glantzberg bombed Blechhammer an area home to a synthetic oil plant whose
workers included inmates from Theresienstadt concentration camp who probably
lived in fear of the Taschenofen (mobile pocket furnace) located there.
1945: "Lest We Forget," an exhibition of
death-camp photography organized by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the
Washington Evening Star began a
tour in Boston, Massachusetts, and then on into Midwest. By tours end nearly 90,000 Americans will
have viewed this testament of the Holocaust.
1946:
“Irgun Zvai Leumi…issued an ultimatum tonight saying it would kill three
British hostages if the British executed two Irgun members condemned to death.”
1946:
Fifty-one year old Israel Brodie, the second son of Aaron Brode, drapery
traveller, and his wife Jane, née Magid, immigrants from Kovno (Kaunas),
Lithuania who served as a chaplain in the RAF in WW II and who was “appointed
principal of Jews’ College” today married “Warsaw-born school teacher Fanny
Levine” today at the Great Synagogue in London. (As reported by Hilary L. Rubinstein)
1946:
British soldiers and police officers rushed into the Tel Aviv business district
when pamphlet bombs exploded in this predominately Jewish city. They snatched
the pamphlets from “the hands of the jeering populace. “The pamphlets, signed
by Irgun, said, ‘All this, and what will follow, will not change our
determination to take the lives of these three if our two die.’ The pamphlets
referred to the three of the five British soldiers kidnapped by Irgun two weeks
ago. Two of the British soldiers have
already been released in response to pressure from the Haganah.
1946:
“Despite the detention of 2,000 “ Jews “in the largest mass arrest ever made in
Palestine, the secreted radio of the Jewish resistance movement announced
tonight that its leadership and general staff had not been ‘silenced’ by the
campaign that British forces opened against’ Jewish forces “yesterday morning.
1946:
As the British continued to wage war against the Jews of Palestine, the city of
Haifa was placed under a curfew tonight following a spontaneous demonstration
that had taken place earlier in the day.
According to unofficial reports, four people were wounded when the
British fired on the demonstrators.
1946:
As the British crack down on the Yishuv, there are reports that the Mandatory
Government will cease to recognize the Jewish Agency and replace it a variety
of local councils. Moshe Shertok had
already expressed the view that withdrawal would not mean the end of the Jewish
Agency since it was supported the community in Palestine.
1947:
Birthdate of Major General Yedidya Ya’ari, the native of kibbutz Merhavia “who
was the commander of the Israeli Navy from 2000-2004.” Ya’ari is one of at least prominent Israelis
from Merhavia the others being Golda Meir and Yaakov Shabtal, the novelist,
playwright and translator who is the brother of Aharon Shabtai who is also a
poet.
1947:
U.S. premiere of “Brute Force” a “film noir” directed by Jules Dassin, produced
by Mark Hellinger with a screenplay by Richard Brooks,
1948:
“Max Elitcher and Morton Sobell drove to Catherine Slip where Sobell met with”
Soviet spy “Julius Rosenberg to exchange microfilm” today.
1948:
U.S. premiere of “A Foreign Affair” a comedy directed by Billy Wilder who also
co-authored the screenplay.
1948:
The last British armed forces left Israel.
1948:
American pilot Coleman Goldstein transferred from Squadron 101 to Air HQ today.
1948:
Irving Berlin’s “Easter Parade” a musical produced by Arthur Freed, with a
script co-authored by Sidney Sheldon and featuring a score by Berlin, the
Jewish songwriter who seemed to have penchant for writing popular melodies for
Christian holidays (White Christmas) was released today in the United States.
1948:
An Israeli convoy led by commandos arrives at the isolated settlement of Kfar
Darom, south of Gaza. The convoy brought
food for the Jews and was supposed to evacuate the wounded and the women. The Egyptians were able to prevent the convoy
from departing which meant that the commandos and the defenders would now be forced
to share the meager supplies as they wait for relief from the outside.
1948:
Shai was disbanded as part of a reorganization of the Israeli secret service.
Shai, “an acronym for Sherut Yediot” was
established in 1940 as “the intelligence and counter-espionage arm of the
Haganah.”
1948,
Meir “Tobianski was taken into custody and interrogated by Isser Be'eri, David
Kron, Binyamin Gibli and Avraham Kidron during a drumhead court-martial. Be'eri
had already prepared a firing squad consisting of six soldiers from the Palmach
Yiftach Brigade, which was in control of the Jerusalem corridor zone. Tobianski
was found guilty and executed in Bayt Jiz, where his body was buried. Tobianski
had received neither a lawyer nor a right to appeal, and his case was not reviewed
by a higher court. Be'eri knew of his innocence, but still ordered his
execution. In 1949, Be'eri was tried and found guilty of manslaughter. At the
trial the court found that as there was a ceasefire in effect at the time, any
information supposedly passed by Tobianski could not have served the Jordanian
artillery. Be'eri received one day of prison time due to his extensive service
to Israel. He was pardoned on the same day by the president, Chaim Weizmann.”
1949:
Birthdate of Alain Finkielkraut the French author and intellectual the son of
manufacture of fine leather goods who survived Auschwitz, whose works include
“In the Name of the Other: Reflections on the Coming Anti-Semitism.”
http://azure.org.il/article.php?id=211
1949:
After opening in London three months ago “The Queen of Spades” filmed by
cinematographer Otto Heller was released in the United States today.
1949(3rd
of Tammuz, 5709): Seventy-two year old Arthur Adler Fleisher, the Philadelphia
born son of Ida Marie Fleisher and Benjamin W. Fleisher, Jr., “an industrialist
who was active in Jewish communal affairs passed away today in his hometown.
1949:
“House of Strangers” based on the novel by Jerome Weidman directed by Joseph L.
Mankiewicz, produced by Sol C. Siegal, with a script by Philip Yordan and
starring Edward G. Robinson opened today in Los Angeles.
1949:
It was announced today, that “William B. Herlands, president of the Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America will leave New York on July 5 for a
six week mission to Israel to study methods of strengthening religious ties
between American and Israeli Jews.”
1949:
“Stand Against Zionism” published today summarized the anti-Zionist views of
the late Dr. David Philipson, a leading Reform Rabbi who supported the American
Council of Judaism.
1950:
“Just three days after the United Nations Security Council voted to provide
military assistance to South Korea, President Harry S. Truman orders U.S. armed
forces that would eventually include Major Joseph I. Gurfein, the West Point
graduate and Silver Star winner and Colonel Melvin Garnter who was award the
Distinguished Service Cross, to assist in defending that nation from invading
North Korean armies.
1951:”The
Prince who was a Thief” produced by Leonard Goldstein, filmed by
cinematographer Irving Glassberg and starring Tony Curtis opened in Los Angles
one day after premiering in Detroit.
1951(26th
of Sivan, 5711): Parashat Sh’lach
1951(26th
of Sivan, 5711): Seventy-year-old Dr. Hyman J. Epstein passed away today after
which he was interred at the Old Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens,
NY.
1951:
“Strangers on a Train” a movie adaption of the novel by the same name starring
Ruth Roman and a score by Dimitri Tiomkin was released today in the United
States.
1952:
Guiding Light, a soap opera created by Irna Phillips, debuted on
television on. It is one of the longest-running daily television programs.
1952: It was reported today that Geraldine Alice Warburg, the
granddaughter of the late Felix Warburg and the great-granddaughter of the late
Jacob Schiff is engaged to be married to Dr. Arthur Kohlenberg.
1953(17th of Tammuz, 5713): Tzom Tammuz
1953: Between May 15, 1948 and June 30, 1953, the Jewish
population of Israel doubled from 640,000 to 1.3 million.
1955: Final broadcast of “Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator”
an NCB radio detective drama directed by Himan “Hi” Brown who began his
broadcasting career at the age of 18 reading newspapers with a Yiddish dialect
on WEAF.
1956: Between May 15, 1948 and June 30, 1956, the Jewish
population of Israel tripled from 640,000 to 2.1 million.
1957: Allied Artists released “Love in the Afternoon” a romantic
comedy that owed its existence to two Jews since it was directed and produced
by Billy Wilder with a screenplay co-written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L.
Diamond.
1957: Brooklyn College graduate Marilyn Greenberg, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Goldberg is scheduled to marry Maurice J. Gerstein, the
holders of a B.S. from Long Island University and an M.S. from Southern
Illinois University today.
1958: It was reported today that next month Highland Park Reform
Synagogue will raise the curtain on its first “temple-in-the-round” production
which Rabbi Sholom Singer will be the first in a series of dramatic readings
that will replace the customary Saturday morning sermon.
1959(24th of Sivan, 5719): American
composer Lazare Saminsky passed
away at Port Chester, NY. Born in Russian in 1882 he was a pupil of Lyadov and
Rimsky-Korsakov at the St Petersburg and Moscow conservatories from 1906 until
1910. He moved in 1920 to New York, where in 1923 he was a founder of the
League of Composers. He was musical director of Temple Emanu-El from 1924 until
1956 and author of several books. Saminsky wrote Jewish liturgical music and
drew on Jewish sources for his five symphonies, choral music and songs.
1959(24th
of Sivan, 5719): Eighty year old Bernard Semel, the “president of Bernard
Semel, Incorporated, wholesalers and exporters of textiles, the husband of
Sadie Semel with whom her raised three children – Herbert, Henrietta and Goldie
and active member of the Jewish community as can been by his founding of the Jewish Day, serving as “president of the
Federation of Galician and Bucovinian Jews, and acting as a trustee of the
Federation of Jewish Philanthropies” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/07/01/80590329.pdf
1960: “The
Grey Advertising Agency, Inc., announced yesterday that it was merging with the
L. H. Hartman Company, Inc.”
1960: In
Toronto, “Barbara Frum (née Rosberg), a well-known, Niagara Falls, New
York-born journalist and broadcaster in Canada, and Murray Frum, a dentist, who
later became a real estate developer, philanthropist, and art collector” gave
birth today Yale alum and Harvard educated lawyer David Jeffrey Fum, the
Republican political writer who has used his skills in the George W. Bush and
such journalistic outlets as The Atlantic and the National Review.
1961: “Side Show,” “the most famous episode of the 1961 television
anthology horror series Way Out” with a script by Elliot Baker was released
today.
1962:
LA Dodger Sandy Koufax pitched another no-hitter as the Dodger beat the Mets
5-0.
1962:
“Palisades Park” a hit song written by Chuck Barris finished a two week stint
at No. 3 on “the Billboard Hot 100.”
1963:
In the Bronx, “Leonard Schwartz, an electrical engineer, and Heda (Teitcher)
Schwartz, a vocational rehabilitation counselor” gave birth to Lisa Miriam
Schwartz, the NYU trained physician “who with her husband devoted her life to
warning patients about the dangers of unnecessary medical tests and treatment
and excessive diagnoses.” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1965:
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 proposed by New York Congressman
Emanuel Celler which abolished the National Origins Formula became effective
today.
1965:
“Ski Party” a comedy film featuring Robert Q. Lewis and Lesley Gore was
released today in the United States.
1966:
The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded at a meeting in Betty
Friedan's hotel room.
1968:
Four days after he had passed away funeral services are scheduled to be held
for jazz trumpeter Harry “Ziggy” Elman, a featured trumpeters with the Benny
Goodman Orchestra.
1970:
“Steambath,” the second play by American author Bruce Jay Friedman was first
performed Off-Broadway at the Truck and Warehouse Theater today.
1970:
During the War of Attrition Yitzhak Peer was taken prisoner when his F-4E II
Phantom was shot down by an Egyptian SAM.
1970:
During the War of Attrition, Rami Harpaz and Eyal “Los” Ahikar were taken
prisoner when their F-4E II Phantom was shot down by an Egyptian SAM. (Israel’s existence comes at a very high
price.)
1971(7th
of Tammuz, 5731): Herbert Biberman, screenwriter, director and part of the
Hollywood Ten, passed away today.
http://spartacus-educational.com/USAbiberman.htm
1971:
“Carnal Knowledge,” “a comedy-drama directed by Mike Nicols, produced by
Nichols and Joseph Levine, written by Jules Feiffer and co-starring Arthur
Garfunkel was released in the United States today.
1971:
“The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the New
York Times voting 6 to 3 allow resumption of the publication of the
Pentagon Papers, a project overseen for the Times
by Gerald Gold.
1971:
“They Might Be Giants” the cinematic version of the play by James Goldman who
wrote the script for the movie which co-starred Jack Gilford was released in
the United States tdaoy.
1971:
“Drive, He Said” the movie version of Brandeis University grad Jeremy Larner’s
novel by the same name with music by David Shire was released in Sweden today.
1972:
After three years Charles Eustace McGaughey completed his service as Canada’s
Ambassador to Israel.
1976(2nd
of Tammuz, 5736): Seventy year old South Carolina born civil rights lawyer,
Shad Polier who was one of the
courageous lawyers defending the Scottsboro Boys, the husband of Justine
Wise Polier and the son-in-law of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise passed away today.
1976:
As the crisis at Entebbe entered its fourth day, the Israeli government was
under intense pressure from families of the hostages to negotiate with the
terrorists even it meant releasing those with “blood on their hands.”
1976:
Unbeknownst to the public the Israeli government had ascertained through direct
conversations with Idi Amin that his government was cooperating with the
terrorists which meant that there was no hope that Uganda might help in any way
to free the prisoners.
1976:
Just before midnight an Air France jet landed at Orly Airport carrying 47 of
the released hostages some of whom provided what would become invaluable
information for those who would conduct Operation Thunderbolt.
1976:
Catcher Jeff Newman made his major league debut with the Oakland Athletics.
1978(29th
of Sivan, 5638): While shooting his last film, “Avalanche,” 64 year old
director Mark Robson died of a heart attack.
1979:
Seventy year old David L. Bazelon, the Wisconsin born son of “Russian Jewish
immigrants Lena and Israel Bazelon” began served as the “Senior Judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columiba.
1980:
A memorial service is scheduled to be held this morning for cinematographer
Boris Kaufman who won the Oscar in 1955 for “On the Waterfront” and who raised
a son, Andre, with is wife Helen.
1980:
At Arnhem, Netherlands the 1980 Summer Paralympics where Igal Pazi and Hagai Shamir
played for the Israel Volleyball Team took home the Gold came to an end today.
1981:
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns began serving as U.S. Ambassador
to Germany today.
1982:
“Forced Vengeance” an action drama featuring David Opatoshu as “Sam Paschal”
was released in the United States today.
1982:
Birthdate of actress Elizabeth Anne “Lizzy” Caplan the native of Los Angeles
and niece of publicist Howard Bragman who has nominated for Emmy, Satellite and
Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her
portrayal of “Virginia Johnson on the Showtime series ‘Masters of Sex.’”
1983(19th
of Tammuz, 5743): Seventy-seven year old Mary Livingston, born Sadye Marks, the
wife and comedic foil of Jack Benny passed away today.
1984(30th
of Sivan, 5744): Seventy-seven year old playwright Lillian Hellman a New
Orleans born Jewess passed away.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hellman-lillian
1984(30th
of Sivan, 5744): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1985:
In “Yuppies with Fetlocks” published today Jean Franco reviews “The Centaur in
the Garden by Moacyr Scliar.; translated by Margaret A. Neves. “This novel…is
reminiscent of the Chagall paintings in which the scenes of everyday Jewish
life are tenderly and oddly transmuted into fantasy. ''The Centaur in the
Garden'' is set..on a farm in southern Brazil, in one of the colonies of Jewish
immigrants established there at the beginning of this century by the
German-Jewish philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch…One Jewish family's
struggle to make a living in these unfamiliar and lonely surroundings is
thwarted by the birth of the youngest child, Guedali, who is a centaur.
1985:
In two separate bomb attacks on buses in Jerusalem, 6 people were injured.
1991(17th
of Tammuz, 5751): Tzom Tammuz observed
1991:
Proving once again that violence in the Middle East is not tied to Israel, “Christian
and Muslim towns in southern Lebanon came under attack today for the second
straight day as rival militias traded artillery fire.”
1992: Prosecution of East European Nazi collaborators who
had gained entry to the country posing as innocent refugees from Communism by
Australia's "Special Investigations Unit" met with failure and the
prosecution effort for all practical purposes was shut down on this date.
1994:
Catcher Mike Lieberthal made his major league debut with the Philadelphia
Phillies.
1995:
“Apollo 13” the space movie based on Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of
Apollo 13 co-authored by Jeffrey Kluger who began working at TIME magazine
in 1996 “specializing in science coverage” which meant he covered the death of
Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon in the Challenger explosion of 2003.
1996:
“A Fair Country” by Jon Robin Baitz which had premiered Off-Broadway at Lincoln
Center Mitzi Newhouse Theatre in February of 1996 was performed for the last
time today.
1996:
IN “New Museum Traces 2 Paths Into Jewish History in Atlanta” published today,
Ronald Smothers provides a snapshot of a Jewish culture captured south of the
Mason-Dixon Line.
1996:
In “A Question of Conscience” published today Eugen Weber reviewed The
Statement in which Brian Moore uses the German occupation of France and its
factious fallout as the raw material to produce a powerful new novel.
1999:
U.S. premiere of “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut” co-starring Mary Kay
Bergman with a score by Marc Shaiman.
2000:
“The Perfect Storm” a product of executive producer Barry Levinson was released
in the United States today.
2000:
“The Patriot” a Revolutionary War movie co-starring Jason Isaacs as the “evil
British commander” was released today in the United States.
2001:
“As Secretary of State Colin L. Powell flew away this morning, he left Israelis
and Palestinians in inauspicious disagreement about what they had agreed to in
a timeline for cementing their wobbly cease-fire.” (As reported by Deborah
Sontag)
2001:
“Four years after Israel's High Court overturned an army ban on women as
fighter pilots, Second Lt. Roni Zuckerman, 20, became the first woman to
graduate from a rigorous pilot training course. Graduating sixth in a class of
70, she will enter an elite unit whose pilots fly F-16 fighter jets.” (As
reported by Deborah Sontag)
2002: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including 'Masters of Death': Himmler's Willing Executioners”
by Richard Rhodes and ''Trains of Thought,'' by Victor Brombert
2002: Jennifer Jason Leigh completed ten months of
playing the lead role in “Proof” during its original Broadway run.
2003(30th of Sivan, 5763): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2003: “Shortly after Peter Stone's death, in a
memorial ceremony held” today “at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, it was observed
that the two most famous ships of all time were Noah's Ark and the Titanic, and
that Stone had written Broadway musicals about both of them (Noah's Ark being
the topic of Two by Two).”
2003: Krastyu Radkov, 46, a construction worker
from Bulgaria, was killed in a shooting attack on the Yabed bypass road in
northern Samaria, west of Jenin, while driving a truck. The Fatah Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, in opposition to the
declared ceasefire.
2003(30th
of Sivan, 5763): Comedian Buddy Hackett passes away at the age of 78 (As
reported by Richard Severo)
2004:
Judith Rodin completed her tenure as the President of the University of
Pennsylvania.
2004:
Israeli singer and actor Arik Lavi, a longtime member of Tel Aviv's prestigious
Cameri theater troupe, the husband “actress and singer Shoshik Shani” with whom
he had two daughters – Noah and Yael – was buried today in Tel Aviv.
2005:
Sir James David Wolfensohn completed his service as the 9th
President of the World Bank.
2006:
In the evening, Jonathan Michael Kerbis participates in Friday Night services
as part of becoming a Bar Mitzvah.
2006:
After premiering at Sundance, “Forty Shades of Blue” directed by Ira Sachs, who
co-authored the screenplay was released today in the United Kingdom.
2006:
“The Devil Wore Prada” a cinema treatment of the novel by Lauren Weisberger
directed by David Frankel and produced by Wendy Finerman was released in the
United States today.
2006:
Ismar Schorsch, the sixth Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary,
retired.
For more information about the life of this
famed Jewish scholar and author see the following JTS sponsored website. http://www.jtsa.edu/progs/his/isschorsch/index.shtml
2007:
Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, officially resigned his position
today.
2008:
In New York, the 92nd Street Y presents “Debra Winger in
Conversation with Arliss Howard” during which Arliss Howard interviews his
actress wife who was raised as an Orthodox Jew in Cleveland Heights, spent time
on a Kibbutz in Israel and was called to the Torah during her son’s Bar Mitzvah
in 2000.
2008:
James B. Cunningham was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
2009:
In New York, Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of Presidents Major
American Jewish Organizations delivers the Fourth Annual Gershon Jacobson
Memorial Lecture, with an address entitled “The Media and Silencing the Support
for Israel.”
2009:
In the Czech Republic the Holocaust Era Assets Conference comes to an end.
2009:
Phoebus Energy is scheduled to unveil its first hybrid water heating system at
the Gilo community center in Jerusalem today.
2009:
Israel’s defense minister Ehud Barak is scheduled to meet with George Mitchell,
the special envoy to the Middle East, in Washington, D.C. today.
2009:
A concert featuring 100 cantors from the world is scheduled to take place in
Warsaw at The Grand Opera which is less than a kilometer from Tlomackie
Synagogue which the Nazi blew up during World War II.
2009:
Al Frankin was declared winner of the U.S. Senate election in Minnesota. The number of Jewish senators does not change
since he defeated Norm Coleman who was also Jewish.
2009:
Six weeks after authorities foiled an alleged bomb plot against two Bronx
synagogues, the Department of Homeland Security has allocated $1.83 million to
boost safety at Jewish institutions in another part of the city.
2009:
Haim Ramon announced that he was resigning from the Knesset.
2010(18th
of Tammuz, 5770): Eighty-eight year old producer Elliot Kastner whose works
included “Where Eagles Dare” a slick WW II spy movie passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/movies/02kastner.html
2010:
An English production Neil Simon’s “The Prisoner of Second Avenue” starring
Jeff Goldblum opened in the West End at the Vaudeville Theatre.
2010:
Humanity in Action: Resistance and Rescue in Denmark, a powerful photography
exhibition that explores the history of the rescue of Danish Jewry in 1943 and
provides a striking narrative of individual and collective resistance, has its
final showing in Washington, D.C.
2010:
Gaza terrorists attacked the Western Negev this morning with a Kassam rocket
before workers arrived, but it heavily damaged a packing house that was knocked
out of operation
2010:
American Eagle Outfitters Inc. has signed a multiyear franchise agreement to
open a series of stores in Israel by the spring of 2012. The teen retailer
signed a franchise agreement on today with Fox-Wizel Ltd., which operates more
than 170 FOX stores in Israel as well as 250 outlets outside of Israel
2010:
“The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector,” directed by Vikram Jayanti, opened
at Film Forum on West Houston Street.
http://www.thejewishweek.com/arts/film/feeling_phil_spector%27s_pain
2011:
The Galilee Music Festival is scheduled to open.
2011,
The Judy Gold Show: My Life as a Sitcom, a “one-woman show that is an homage to
the classic sitcoms of Judy Gold’s youth” began previews at Off-Broadway's DR2
Theatre in New York City.
2011:
It was reported that the case against Dominque Strauss Kahn was on the verge of
collapse because of problems with the credibility of the alleged victim, who
had, according to sources within the NYPD, repeatedly lied since making her
first statement.”
2011:
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present a lecture by Rebecca
Margolis entitled “ Yiddish Culture in Montreal: Yesterday and Today” that “ will examine the
origins and development of Yiddish culture in Montreal and discuss the changing
place of Yiddish from the era of mass Jewish immigration in the early 1900s
through today. The lecture is scheduled to be followed by a book-signing of
Margolis' new book, “Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Culture in Montreal,
1905-1945.”
2011: Tel Aviv “the city that never sleeps,” is
scheduled to host its annual White Night (Layla Lavan).
2011: Justice Minister Yaakov Ne'eman was
attacked while praying at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron today,
apparently by right-wing religious extremists protesting the arrest of
Hebron-Kiryat Arba Chief Rabbi Dov Lior.
2011: Israel's U.S. ambassador, Michael Oren,
outlined for Jewish leaders his country's list of priorities in framing peace
talks with the Palestinians.
2011: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised
the United States as a champion of freedom and a great ally of Israel in his
address to the annual Fourth of July celebration at the U.S. ambassador's
residence in Tel Aviv tonight.
2011:
Mark Halperin was suspended from his duties at MSNBC for "slurring"
President Barack Obama on the program Morning Joe, saying the President came
off as "kind of a dick" during the previous day's press conference
2011(28th
of Sivan, 5771): Eighty-four year old songwriter Ruth Roberts, the creator of
“Meet The Mets” passed away today. (As reported by Peter Keepnews)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/arts/music/ruth-roberts-meet-the-mets-songwriter-dies-at-84.html
2012:
Israeli cellist Yoed Nir is scheduled to perform at the Rock Werchter Festival
in Rock Werchter, Belgium.
2012(10th
of Tammuz, 5772): Ninety-six year old Yitzchak Shamir passed away today.
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=275812
2012:
Close associates of the prime minister prompted the cancelation today of a
meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Deputy Prime Minister
Shaul Mofaz, government sources said.
2012:
A week after protests resulted in violent clashes with the police,
demonstrators were set to return to the streets of Tel Aviv tonight.
2012:
Egypt’s newly elected president sent an implicit message of reassurance to
Israel in his first major address after taking office, but he also pledged
support for the “legitimate rights” of the Palestinians.
2013:
As part of the Jewish Plays Project, “Estelle Singerman” is scheduled to be
performed at the 14th Street Y.
2013:
The mandate creating the UN peacekeeping force on the border between Israel and
Syria which has been renewed every six months for the past thirty-nine years is
scheduled to expire to end today. (As reported by Mitch Ginsburg)
2013:
“It's a Thin Line: The Eruv and Jewish Community in New York and Beyond” is
scheduled to come to a close today at the Yeshiva University Museum
2013:
Bank of Israel Gov. Stanley Fischer is scheduled to step down as Israel’s
central banker today two years before the end of his second five-year term. (As
reported by Niv Elis)
2013:
“Shabbat – Inside and Out” is scheduled to come to a close today at the Yeshiva
University Museum
2013:
“The Mexican Suitcase: Rediscovered Spanish Civil War Negatives by Capa, Taro
and Chim” is scheduled to close at Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme
http://www.mahj.org/en/3_expositions/expo-The-Mexican-Suitcase-Capa-Taro-Chim.php?niv=2&ssniv=1
2013:
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation is schedule to vote today on a bill
that would enable the burial of non-Jewish soldiers alongside their Jewish
comrades (As reported by Haviv Rettig Gur)
2013: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers Life
including Robert Oppenheimer: A Life
Inside the Center by Ray Monk
2013:
The Ministerial Committee on Legislation passed an electoral reform bill
proposed by MK Ronen Hoffman today, clearing the way for legislation that will
change the electoral system to pass into law by the time the Knesset begins its
extended summer recess at the end of the month (As reported by Gil Hoffman)
2013:
US Secretary of State John Kerry wound up his whirlwind 72-hours of shuttle
diplomacy by announcing at Ben-Gurion airport this afternoon that "real
progress" was achieved, and that with a little more work
Israeli-Palestinian talks could be re-started. (As reported by Herb Keinon)
2014:
“By Dawn’s Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the
Nation’s Founding to the Civil War” an exhibition presented by the Center for
Jewish History and American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to come to
an end.
2014:
A special 2 DVD edition of Gaylen Ross’s
“critically acclaimed documentary “Killing Kasztner” is scheduled to be
released today in “commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the
departure of Kasztner’s dramatic rescue train from wartime Budapest.” For more
see the website www.killingkasztner.com
2014(2nd
of Tammuz, 5774): Eighty-four year old director and screenwriter Paul Mazursky
passed away today.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-paul-mazursky-20140701-story.html#page=1
2014:
“Hamas operatives were behind a large volley of rockets which slammed into
Israel this morning, the first time in years the Islamist group has directly
challenged the Jewish state, according to Israeli defense officials. (As
reported by Avi Issacharoff)
2014:
“Israeli searchers discovered the bodies of Naftali Fraenkel, 16, Gil-ad Shaar,
16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19, the three teenagers kidnapped on June 12 bound an
partially buried in an open field at Wadi Tellem.”
2015(13th of Tammuz, 5775):
Twenty-five year old Malachi Moshe Rosenfeld a resident of Kochav
Hashachar who was one of four civilians
wounded by terrorist gunmen yesterday “succumbed to his wounds” today.
2015: In Atlanta, the Mid-Year Fund Drive of
the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum with a goal of raising $15,000 is
scheduled to come to an end. For more
see
2015: Through today, all gifts to the 92nd
Street Y will be matched 100%
2015: As part of “Light! Camera! Great German
and Austrian Jewish Filmmakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age” program the 92nd
St Y is scheduled to host a screening of “Imitation of Life”
2015: After four and half years, Onno Hoes
completed his service as Mayor of Maastricht in the Netherlands.
2015: It was reported today that “extremist
groups” that ally themselves with ISIS have perpetrated several attacks on
Hamas in Gaza because they consider “Hamas as insufficiently pious.” (As
reported by Diaa Hadid and Majd Al Waheidi)
2015: PBS is scheduled to show “1913: The Seeds
of Conflict” a documentary that “traces the relationship between” Arabs and Jews
“at a time when the ruled over what was later designated as Palestine, and
then, Israel.”
2016(24th of Sivan, 5776): Eighty-one year old Jazz Man Don Friedman
passed away.
2016: Israeli pianist/composer Anat Fort is
scheduled to perform this evening at the Ottawa Jazz Festival.
2016(24th of Sivan, 5776): Thirteen
year old Hallel Yaffa Ariel was stabbed to death by a Palestinian as she slept
in her bed after having stayed up late the night before for a dance
performance. (As reported by Diaa Hadid and Myra Noveck)
2016: David Serero’s “Othello,” a Moroccan
adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic play sponsored by the American Sephardi
Federation in partnership with the Center for Jewish History is scheduled to be
performed for the last time this evening.
2016: After three months, “Beyond The Balcony”
an exhibition of the works of Michael Nachmany “that begin with Herzl as a
starting point and then explores the process of imagination, memory, and the
building of communities during the years leading to the founding of Israel, and
beyond” is scheduled to come to a close today.
2016: In Olney, MD, at final showing of
“Wondrous Watercolors” by Judy Wengrovitz at Shaare Tefila.
2017:
Jewish-American philanthropist and activist Jay Ruderman of the Ruderman
Family Foundation; Israeli-American entertainment mogul Haim Saban, a major
backer of the Israeli-American Council and a donor to the Democratic party;
Lynn Schusterman of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and the
Schusterman-Israel Foundation; Michael Steinhardt, one of the founders of
Taglit-Birthright and a hedge fund manager, and Seth Klarman, a hedge fund
manager and philanthropist who co-owns the Times of Israel were among the
sixty-five signatories” to “an ad in Hebrew and English” that ran “in several
newspapers” that “expressed their disappointment with the Israeli government’s
decisions earlier this week to renege on a plan for egalitarian prayer at the
Western Wall and to advance a controversial bill that would the Israeli Chief
Rabbinate the only body authorized to convert people to Judaism in Israel.
2017: “Letters from Baghdad” is scheduled to open
in St. Louis and Plano, TX.
2017:
“Alone in Berlin” a film adaptation of the novel by Hans Fallada is scheduled
to open in London
2017: “13 Minutes,” a film based on an attempt
to assassinate Hitler by Georg Elsner “a 35-year old carpenter and tinker in a
small Swabian village” was released today in theatres at New York and Los
Angeles.
2017: Marvin Krislov’s resignation as President
of Oberlin College is effective today.
2018: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Center is scheduled to host a “Survivor Talk” in which Ben Goldwater,
a resident of Mons, Belgium and the son of a member of the Belgian underground,
recounts how his family survived the Holocaust.
2018: “In the spirit of Rabbi Abraham Joshua
Heschel, who prayed with his feet, and in coordination with the Religious
Action Center of Reform Judaism,” Rabbi Joshua Davidson is scheduled to lead
those who are joining “with other New Yorkers in a national day of action at
the End Family Separation March in Foley Square” from Temple Emanu-El.”
2018: Today, Dr. Lizabeth Cohen, the Princeton
alum who earned her Ph.D. at U.C., Berkley, is scheduled to step down as Dean
of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, a post she has held since 2011
and “return to teaching and research in Harvard’s Department of History
following a year’s sabbatical.”
2018(17th of Tammuz, 5778): The fast
of the 17th of Tammuz is postponed until tomorrow because of
Shabbat.
2018(17th of Tammuz, 5778): Parashat
Balak;
2019: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Spying on the South: An Odyssey
Across the American Divide by Tony Horwitz, Never A Lovely So Real: The
Life and Work of Nelson Algren by Colin Algren and People, Power and
Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent by Joseph
Stiglitz.
2019: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled
to host a performance of Jeff Cohen’s play “The Soap Myth,” followed by a
discussion led by “Dr. Alvin Goldfarb, child of Holocaust survivors and
nationally known theater educator and administrator.”
2019: In Ottawa, Congregation Machzikei Hadas
and JET (Jewish Education Through Torah) are scheduled to host Rabbi Mordechai
Becher speaking on “Finding Pleasure Through Oneness.”
2019: After enduring waves of a firebombs being
sent from Gaza, Israelis begin the work wondering if the governments offer to
increase “the coastal enclave’s fishing perimeter to 15 nautical miles” will be
enough to stop the arson attacks.
2019: JCC Manhattan is scheduled to host a
screening of “Avi Nesher’s latest film ‘The Other Story.’”
2019: Bay Area Limmud is scheduled to come to
an end today.
https://limmudbayarea.org/program/
2020: The 2020 Annual Appeal of the Jewish
Heritage Museum of Monmouth County one of the many institutions fighting to
provide quality programs and service in the midst of the Pandemic, is scheduled to come to an end today
2020: LSJS is scheduled to host Debbie Meyer as
she lectures on “The Ideal King?”, the final course in The Trials of King
David.”
2020: In partnership with JW3, Film Night is
scheduled to host an online screening of “The Booksellers.”
In brings you new films plus access to the cast
and crew. This week we have a Q&A with director D.W. Young, available for
pre-order now
2020: After 32 years of service, 65 year old
Jyl Jurman, the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley is scheduled to
retire today.
2020: YJP Boston is schooled to present online,
“The Joy Factory: Virtual Girls’ Night Out.”
2020: The Jewish Museum of Maryland is
scheduled to host the first in the three-part series, “Connecting Generations:
Difficult Conversations About Race.”
2020: “Live on Zoom, Facebook and You Tube,”
the Leo Baeck Institute is scheduled to host “Jews and the Right: Heimat and
Hatred.”
2020: Live on Zoom, the YIVO Institute is
scheduled to host: Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music.
2021: According to a message sent by chief
executive JP Morgan Chase, today is the deadline for JPMorgan Chase employee to
disclose their “COVID-19 vaccination status.”
2021: Temple Sinai of Oakland is scheduled to present
a panel on how Ashkenazi Jews are at greater risk for certain cancers, with
Pamela Munster of UCSF’s Center for BRCA Research and others.”
2021: ASF is scheduled to present Original
Ladino Music with Nani Noam Vazana, one of the world’s only original Ladino
artists who will be discussing her new Ladino album on Zoom and Facebook Live!
2021: The Jewish Arts Collaborative is
scheduled to present online “Adriana Katzew and Yoni Battat in conversation
with CJP’s director of arts and culture, Sophie Krentzman, as they discuss
their work as the first cohort of the Community Creative Fellowship.”
2021: The National Museum of American Jewish
History in partnership The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present
Sephardi Cooking with Helene Jawhara.
2021: The Jewish Community Library is scheduled
to present Rabbi Jill Cozen-Harel, a Bay Area educator on domestic violence
issues, as she “talks about the role of women’s power and vulnerability in
Jewish texts.
2022: LSJS is scheduled to host online.
“Covenant and Continuity: Jew Interpretations of Rabbi Sacks’ weekly shiur.”
2022: The National Library of Israel is
scheduled to host a lecture online by Dr/ Oleksii Chebotarov on “Pogroms in the
Russian Empire and the Great Departure: History and Myth of the Role of
Violence in Jewish Migrations to the West.”
2022: Jerusalem Design Week is scheduled to
come to an end today.
2022: As part of the Yiddish Civilization
Lecture Series, YIVO is scheduled to sponsor lecture by Barry Trachtenberg on
“Displacement and Creative Resilience in the Modern Jewish Age.”
2022(1st of Tammuz, 5782): Rosh
Chodesh Tammuz
2023: Temple Judea is scheduled to host a
pre-Oneg before a Red, White and Blue Shabbat honoring Independence Day
followed by a congregational Shabbat Dinner.
2023: “History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust,”
a Holocaust Museum project, is scheduled to stop collecting submissions today.
2023: In Berkely, CA, Berkeley Reo is scheduled
to present “Out of Character,” a “one-man-show written and performed by Ari’el
Stachel about his life and career as an Israeli American of Yemeni Jewish
descent, exploring the intersections of race, mental health and survival.”
2023: The Museum at Eldridge Street is
scheduled to host “Eldridge Eats Food Tour: a History of the Lower East Side,”
featuring rugelach, pickles, knishes and dumplings.
