This Day, June 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 9
68:
The Emperor Nero died in Rome. Nero had appointed four governors of Judea each
of whom was crueler and greedier than his predecessor. The Jewish Revolt in 66
was caused, in part, by this succession of disastrous appointments by Nero.
Nero had ordered Vespasian to invade the Galilee and suppress the revolt of the
Jews. The political unrest that followed Nero's death as various parties vied
for the throne slowed down the final defeat of the Jews. In the end, Vespasian
was made Emperor thanks to the support of his legions and he sent his son Titus
to conquer Jerusalem.
423:
Emperors Honorius and Theodosius II forbid Jews from building any new
synagogues
721:
At the Battle of Toulouse, Odo of Aquitaine defeated the Moors led by Al-Samh
ibn Malik al-Khawlani, the governor of Al-Andalus. Al-Andalus refers to that
part of the Iberian Peninsula which was under the control of the Moslems. While
the defeat at Toulouse (in modern day France) helped to confine the forces of
Islam to territory south of the Pyrenees mountains, it served to reinforce the
fact that Spain would not be ruled by Christians. For a limited period of time,
this created what some called a Golden Age for the Jews of Spain. The reality
is a little more complicated. It would more than seven centuries for the
Christians to dislodge the Moslems from the Iberian Peninsula. Depending on the
whims and needs of various rulers (both Christian and Moslem), Jewish fortunes
waxed and waned. It would all end with the expulsion of 1492.
1171(4th
of Tammuz): A few days after decreeing
that the 20th of Sivan should henceforth be a day of fasting and mourning in
honor of the 51 Jews burned at the stake Blois, Rabbi Jacob Ben MeirTam, the
grandson of Rashi passed away
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0019_0_19552.html
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8436-jacob-ben-meir-tam
1239:
Today “Duke Frederick II…issued an order excluding” Jews in Vienna “from hold
those offices in which they might cause inconvenience to Christians.”
1286:
John le Romeyn, who on his way home from the Papal Curia at Rome in 1292 met in
Paris his old acquaintance , Bonami, the Jew and acquired from his claim to a
debt of £300 which was owed to Bonami by the Brindlington Priory, began his
term as Archbishop of York.
1493:
Jewish astronomer Abraham Zacut “was in Lisbon” today “working for Juan II of
Portugal.”
1595:
Birthdate of King Wladislaus IV who was King of Poland at the outbreak of The
Khmelnitsky Uprising and failed to check it at its inception. This failure
contributed to the worst massacre of Jews until the 20th century and the
Holocaust.
1672:
Birthdate Tsar Peter I of Russia, known as Peter the Great. He may have been
“great” to the worst of the world but not so great as far as the Jews were
concerned since he banned Jews from his domain even as he sought to modernize
it.
1693(5th
of Sivan): Rabbi Gershom Ashkenazi author of Avodat ha-Gershuni passed
away.
1703:
Today “receipt by Isaac Fernandez of £138, 12s 6d of Joseph Nunes of New York by order of my brother Isaac
Gomez, merchant of London which he promised to pay on demand.”
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43057642?seq=4
1732:
James Oglethorpe was granted a charter to establish the colony of Georgia. The
colony was settled in June of 1733. In July of 1733, “forty Sephardic Jews
arrived in Savannah” marking the beginning of the Jewish community in Georgia.
1753(7th
of Sivan, 5513): Just a month (July 7)
before royal assent is given to the Jewish Naturalization Act in Great
Britain, the Second Day of Shavuot is
observed
1758:
New York merchant Philip Cuyler wrote to David Franks concerning the upcoming
sailing of two of two the Jewish merchant’s ships that were sailing for Europe.
1763:
Joseph Simon Magnus married Bele Eliaser Cohen today in the United Kingdom.
1768:
Birthdate of Samuel Levin Egers, the native of Halberstadt who served as the
rabbi at Brunswick from 1809 until 1842.
1783:
Joshua and Brandy Lazarus Isaacs gave birth to
Frances
Isaacs Henricks, the wife of Harmon Hendricks, the leading manufacturer of
copper “whose father was a founding member of Congregation Shearith Israel” and
the mother of Selina Hendricks.
1787:
Birthdate of Sarah (nee Dias Fernandes) Aguilar the wife of Emanuel Aguilar and
the mother of author Grace Aguilar.
1790(27th
of Sivan, 5550): Purim of Florence is celebrated by Florentine Jews because on
the 27th of Sivan, 1790 they were saved from a mob by the efforts of the
bishop. The festival is preceded by a fast on the 26th of Sivan. The details of
the occurrence are related in full by Daniel Terni in a Hebrew pamphlet
entitled "Ketab ha-DaṬ," published in Florence in 1791.
1791(7th
of Sivan, 5551): Second Day of Shavuot observed on the same day the National
Constituent Assembly issues a decree on the publications from the Pope saying
that “no message from the head of the Catholic church can be published, unless
it has been sanctioned by the king.”
1793
the French Revolutionary troops opposed the Austrians just outside Arlon the
town where twenty years later Simon Fribourg founded a small grain-trading firm
that would eventually become the Continental Grain Company.
1794:
In Charleston, SC, David Lopez and his wife gave birth to Rachel Lopez who
married Jacob Cohen in 1816.
1794:
Birthdate of Julius Rubo, the native of Halberstadat who served as volunteer in
the war against Napoleon before pursuing a legal career and serving as leader
of the Jewish community in Berlin.
1799(6th
of Sivan, 5559): Shavuot observed for the last time in the 18th
century.
1797:
Birthdate of Charleston, SC native Rebecca Lopez the son of David Lopez who was
born exactly three years to the day after the birth of her sister Rachel
Lopez and the husband of Mordecai de
Leon.
1803:
Jacob David Goldschmidt, zum grunen Lowen and Edel (Adelheid) Goldschmidt gave
birth to Moritz Moses Jacob von Goldschmidt.
1810(7th
of Sivan, 5570): Jews observe the Second Day of Shavuot on the birthdate of
Otto Nicolai the German born musician who succeeded Felix Mendelssohn (the
grandson of Moses Mendelssohn) as Kapellmeister at the Berlin Cathedral
1815:
The Congress of Vienna came to an end. Europe enters into a period of political
reaction following the defeat of Napoleon. “After Napoleon's defeat and the
Congress of Vienna, the Germans took their revenge on the French and the Jews.
The Congress of Vienna had provided for full civil and political rights
"to differing parties of the Christian religion," but the "civil
betterment" of the Jews was put off for further study. The Congress stated
that Jews could retain such rights as they already had, but nearly everywhere
in Germany the rights that the Jews had won were disavowed and rescinded.
(Prussia was an exception: only some Jewish rights were abolished; most were
retained.) A period of reaction set in, in which anti-Semitism was a major
component.” Surprisingly enough, Prince Metternich, the reactionary Austrian
Foreign Minister played a positive role for Jews living in the German cities of
Frankfurt, Lubeck and Bremen while the Congress was in session. When the ruling
bodies of those cities attempted to take away rights previously granted to the
Jewish communities, the Jews appealed to Metternich for help. Metternich
interceded on behalf of the Jews because depriving them of their rights would
have been a violation of the guarantees made by the Congress of Vienna.
Metternich was not a philo-Semite. Rather he was aware of the economic power of
these Jewish leaders and he knew that they would be a force for stability.
Also, Metternich based Austria’s foreign policy on the decisions of the
Congress and he was opposed to anything that would undermine the agreements
reached there.
1817:
Birthdate of General Busac who in 1912 was reported to be the “oldest officer
serving in the French Army.”
1818(5th
of Sivan, 5578): Erev Shavuot observed as Prime Minister Jenkinson prepares to
dissolve Parliament in the UK.
1820:
Three days after he had passed away, 88 year old Joseph Moss was buried today
at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1832:
In Covent Garden, Eleanor Levy and Simon Marcus gave birth to their sixth and
youngest child, Matilda Marcus.
1837(6th of
Sivan, 5597) Shavuot is observed for the first time during the Presidency of
Martin Van Buren.
1838(16th
of Sivan, 5598): Thirty-eight year old Amalie Friedlander (nee Heine) a cousin
of the famous poet Heinrich Heine and the object of his unrequited love passed
away today in Berlin.
1841:
Samson Wetheimer married Helena Cohen at the Great Synagogue in London.
1843:
The Voice of Jacob reported that Mr. Woolfson and Mr. Marks laid the foundation
for the new synagogue on St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands
1843:
Birthdate of Nobel Peace Prize winner Bertha von Suttner known as “Jew Bertha
to the anti-Semites.”
https://depts.washington.edu/vienna/literature/suttner/suttner_bio.htm
1849:
Edward Angel married Julia Isaacs at the West London Synagogue.
1851:
In Hull, Bethel Jacobs gave birth to architect Benjamin Jacobs the President of
the Hull Hebrew Board of Guardians and Hull Hebrew Boys’ School while serving
on the London Committee of the Jewish Lads’ Brigade and “Hon. Major of the 2nd
E. York Volunteer Artillery.”
1851:
Birthdate of Mannheim, Germany native Ernest Thalmann who in 1867 come to the
United States where he eventually became a “senior member of the firm of
Landenburg, Thalmann and Company, one of the leading international banking
houses” in New York City.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/02/27/100519689.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1852:
Henry Berkowitz married Rosetta Poland at the Great Synagogue in London.
1852:
Two days after he had passed away, 86 year old Moses Solomon, the son London
born son of Tobias and Sarah Solomon, as buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham
Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1854:
The New York Times reports that “It is said that there is not a single
Jew in the United States engaged in agriculture.”
1855:
Birthdate of Gustaf Hermann Dalman “a German Lutheran theologian and
orientalist” who “did extensive field work in Palestine before the First World
War, collecting inscriptions, poetry, and proverbs. was appointed by Kaiser
Wilhelm II as director of the Deutsches Evangelisches Institut für
Altertumswissenschaft des heiligen Landes zu Jerusalem (German Evangelical
Institute for Ancient Studies of the Holy Land in Jerusalem)”
1856(6th
of Sivan, 5616): Shavuot
1856:
In Berlin, Simon Bienenstock, the Berline born son of Robert L. Bienenstock and
his wife Helena Bienenstock gave birth to Siegfried Bienenstock
1856:
Birthdate of Aaron David (A.D.) Gordon, the founder of Hapoel Hatzair.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ad_gordon.html
http://www.zionism-israel.com/bio/biography_gordon.htm
1859(7th
of Sivan, 5619): Second Day of Shavuot; on the Jewish calendar yahrzeit of
Jewish historian of Jacob Ezekiel
1859(7th
of Sivan, 5619): Hannah Isaacs the daughter of Abraham Isaacs, Jr who had been
born in 1785 and married Tobias Ezekiel in 1810 passed away today, two days
after her 49th wedding anniversary.
1864(5th
of Sivan, 5624): Erev Shauvot observed as Union and Rebel forces clashed in the
“First Battle of Petersbrug.”
1863:
During the Civil War, Jacob Ezekiel Hyneman, a native of Richmond, VA serving
with the Union Army was wounded at the Battle of Brandy Station, the most
important clash of cavalry in the east which help to set the stage for the
Battle of Gettysburg.
1865(15th
of Sivan, 5625): In the Hague 52 year old Jacob Hirschel Kann, the husband of
Amalie de Jonge passed away today.
1866:
Birthdate of Cincinnati, OH native Samuel Hassenhusch, the St. Joseph, MO
furniture merchant and president of the Federation of Jewish Charities
1867(6th
of Sivan, 5627): Shavuot
1867:
“Edward Kirstein, an immigrant from Germany who first worked as a peddler and
eventually owned an optics store in Rochester” and the former Jeanette Leiter
gave birth to Louis E. Kirstein the businessman who was chairman of Filene’s
and philanthropist who was the husband of Rose Stein.
http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/downloadFile.cfm?FileID=19415
1869:
Rabbi J.H. Chumaceiro officiated at the wedding of David Bentschner and Hanne
Jacobi
1869(28th
of Iyar, 5629): Solomon ben Judah Aaron Kluger, Polish born rabbi and chief
dayyan passed away today at Brody, Galicia
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9394-kluger-solomon-ben-judah-aaron
1870:
Author Charles Dickens passed away. Dickens was considered an anti-Semite by
some because of his character Fagin in Oliver Twist. Dickens defended
himself against what he considered a false claim. In a later work, Our
Mutual Friend, Dickens created the sympathetic Jewish character Mr. Riah
who is the victim of a Christian moneylender. "The Jewish people are a
people for whom I have a real regard and to whom I would not willingly have
given an offense...for any worldly consideration."
1871:
It was reported today that French Banker Jules Mires has passed away.
1871:
The three-day long Rabbinical Conference, a meeting of leaders of the Reform
Movement, came to an end in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Twenty-three congregations were represented at the meeting. The Conference agreed to provide “a modern
prayer book” which would not contain any references to a return of the Jews to
Jerusalem, the offering of sacrifices or a personal messiah. It was also agreed
that services would be conducted primarily in English instead of Hebrew. In the
field of education, the Conference approved the establishment of seminary to
train rabbis and the development of a uniform course of study for
congregational Sabbath Schools.
1872:
At Papa Hungary, Carl Ellinger and Marie Deutsch gave birth to Emil Ellinger
who served as a Rabbi at Mount Vernon, Indiana and Sioux City, Iowa, before
taking the pulpit at “Congregation Gemilas Hasodim” in Alexandria, LA.
1873(14th
of Sivan, 5633): Sixty-one-year-old Moses Nathans, the father of Benveneda
Nathans Potsdamer Ella Cornelia Nathans
Thalman and Laura Augusta Nathans Sonneborn, and the husband of the former
Benveneda Valintina Solis who he had married in 1831 after breaking tradition
and negotiating directly with her father in 1830 over his desire for the
wedding, passed away today after which he was buried at Mt. Sinai Cemetery in
Philadelphia, PA.
1875(6th
of Sivan, 5635): Shavuot
1875:
In New York, a large number of Jews met at Adath Israel to memorialize the
passing of the James Gordon Bennett., the founder editor and publisher of the
New York Herald. Those in attendance
adopted a series of memorial resolutions that were to be sent to his widow and
son which described Bennett as “an honest supporter and true friend” of the
Jewish people who “always gave firm and true support to our creed.”1876: President U.S. Grant and Thomas Ferry,
the President Pro Tempore of the United State attended the consecration
services of Adas Israel, the new orthodox synagogue in Washington, DC. The
service was bilingual with prayers in Hebrew and an address by Rabbi George
Jacobs of Philadelphia in English. Adas Israel has moved twice since this event
but still remains located in the District of Columbia; its members under the
leadership of Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz, having made the courageous decision not
to move to the suburbs. It is one of the leading Conservative Congregations in
the United States.
1876:
Eighteen-year-old Helene Goldschmidt married Leon Yehudah Tedesco, the son of
Giacomo Tedesco and Therese Cerf.
1878:
In Paris, 34-year-old Adolphe Bloch married Noémie Bloch
1880: In New York City, the Young Men’s Hebrew
Association is scheduled to host a strawberry festival and concert at Lyric
Hall tonight to raise funds for its library.
1880(30th
of Sivan, 5640): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1880:
In Baltimore, Md, Max and Fannie Skutch gave birth to Bessie Skutch, who became
Bessie Cone when she married Dr. Sydney M. Cone and who was President of the
Baltimore Section of the National Council of Jewish Women and member of
numerous organizations including Hadassah, the Associated Jewish Charities of
Baltimore and the Sisterhood of the Hebrew Congregation in Baltimore.
1881:
It was reported today that the government is conducting a census among the Jews
living in Kiev with the goal of expelling those from the city who do not have a
right to live there under the restrictive residency laws applied to them.
1882:
“Death After Fasting Seven Month” published today described the death of a
Polish Jew named Adolph Schomger who stopped eating after having been sentenced
to the penitentiary in Nebraska after having been convicted of stealing. Schmoger was transferred to “an insane
asylum” but his starvation tactics continued causing his weight to fall from
150 to 80 pounds to his death.
1883:
Birthdate of Indianapolis, IN native Purdue University graduate Charles Sterne
Rauh the President of E. Rauh and sons Fertilizer Company, and director of the
Indiana National Bank and the Continental Steel Corporation who was a trustee
of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/08/03/86666296.html?pageNumber=20
1886(6th
of Sivan, 5646): Shavuot
1886:
Birthdate Posen native Dr. Julius Brodnitz, “the attorney and president of the
Central Union of Jews in Germany.”
1886:
Final exams are scheduled to be given at Central High School in Philadelphia,
PA despite the fact
that
it is Shavuot. The principal has refused
to make any accommodation for the Jewish students despite pleas from the city’s
Rabbis.
1887:
Dr. Sabato Morais, the rabbi at Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, became the first
Jew recognized by the University of Pennsylvania with an honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws.
1887:
In New York, Adolph Reich was convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to
death. Court officials said that it was
rare for Jews to be charged with murder since they were “as a rule orderly,
law-abiding citizen” and they could not remember one ever being executed.
1889:
Rabbi J.L. Kadushin officiated at the marriage of Otto Pierre Siegelstein and
Mary Bubis.
1889:
In Owensboro, KY, Minnie Wolff and Bernhard Blumenthal gave birth to University
of Kentucky, Yale University and University of Berlin educated chemist and
Buffalo resident Philip Lee Blumenthal, the husband of Julia Kiritz and during
WW I a cadet officer the Chemical Warfare Service who was a member of Temple
Betho Zion and president of the Temple Beth Zion Men’s Club.
1889:
In Austria, Joseph and Rosa Gerstenheim gave birth to Cooper Union trained
painter Louis Gerstenheim who in 1907 came to the United States where he wrote
Yiddish poetry, started painting in 1912 and Married Katherine Sullivan in
1921.
1890:
It was predicted today that Edmund Gosse’s biography of his father Philip Henry
Gosse whose works include The History of the Jews from the Christian Era to
the Dawn of the Reformation “will secure a place of importance among
forthcoming biographies
1891:
I.S. Isaacs of the United Hebrew Charities was among those who will be
attending a special meeting of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment where
the United Charities Association will present a proposal to establish a “free
lodging house” in New York.
1891(3rd
of Sivan, 5651): Eighty-one-year-old Samuel Adler “a leading German-American
Reform rabbi, Talmudist, and author” passed away. He was also the father of
Felix Adler, the well-known founder of the Society for Ethical Culture.” Born
at Worms in 1809, he came to the United States to serve as Rabbi at Temple
Emanu-El in New York; a position he held for seventeen years before accepting
the position as Rabbi Emeritus. He was an outspoken opponent of slavery and a
staunch supporter of Abraham Lincoln.
One of the happiest moments of his life came when saw Major Anderson,
the Union officer who had defended Fort Sumter, in his congregation. After service “he laid his hands on the
soldier’s head and pronounced…the anciently priestly blessing…”
1892:
“Emin’s Death Confirmed” published today described the demise of Emin Pasha,
who had been born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer to a Jewish family in Silesia. (The only problem is that Emin Pasha did not
die until October of 1892)
1892:
Birthdate of Aix-en-Provence native of Armand Lunel, “the last known speaker of
Shuadit” “also called Judeo-Occitan or less accurately Judæo-Provençal or
Judeo-Comtadin, is the Occitan language as it was historically spoken by French
Jews.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20070311033816/http://www.bh.org.il:80/Names/POW/lunel.asp
1892:
Three days after he had passed away, “Hugo Jokl” was buried today at the “Balls
Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1893:
Birthdate of Samuel Nathaniel Behrman, the Worcester, Massachusetts native, who
gained success writing scripts of stage and screen as well as doing profiles
for the New Yorker. Among his subjects were Chaim Weizman, George
Gershwin, Max Beernbohm, Joseph Duveen and Eddie Cantor.
The
Worcester Account
is an account of his childhood from 1893 to shortly after he moved to New York
City in 1917.
1894:
In Galveston, TX, Emma Schornstein, the New York born daughter of Bertha and
Hertzel Ber Bonart and her husband Samuel Zigmund Schornstein gave birth to
Richard “Dick” Schornstein, Sr, the husband of New Orleans resident Sarah C. Alcus.
1895:
The closing exercises of the Louis Downtown Sabbath and Daily Technical Schools
took place this afternoon at Temple Emanu-El.
1895:
It was reported today that the “anti-Semitic craze” that “has been making such
wild headway lately in Vienna” and the rest of Austria is not only not losing
strength “in several other great Continental states” but is growing in Germany. A congress of a newly formed anti-Semitic
party that just met in Berlin has adopted a program which regards any family
that has one Jewish member during the last three generations is Jewish.
Furthermore, all such “Jewish families” must be “excluded from the army, journalism,
the legal, medical and educational professions and prohibited from owning land
or taking public contracts (Shades of the Nazis)
1895:
The Sunday Closing laws were strictly enforced today in New York City as police
arrested any Jews or gentiles found in violation of the strictures which
included closing all stores by ten in the morning and all barber shops at one
in the afternoon.
1895:
Practical Benevolence” published today provided a history of the Mt. Sinai
Training School for Nurses which is funded by generous New York benefactors but
whose student body is only one quarter Jewish while the rest are Christians.
The officers who administer the school are: President – Leopold Weil; Vice
President – Isaac Stern; Treasurer – Samuel Stiefel; Secretary – George
Blumenthal; Directors – Human Blum, Isaac Wallach, David Wile, Julius Ehrman,
Myer Lehman and Max Nathan.
1895:
“Napoleon’s Times Pictured” provided a review George Duval’s The Romance of
the Sword a novel whose plot revolves around a mythic blade that the Count
d’Artois sold to Samuel the Jew
1896:
Birthdate of Nathaniel Lawrence Goldstein whose service as New York State
Attorney General paralleled the gubernatorial of Thomas E. Dewey
1896:
Birthdate of German jurist Karl Sack who was executed for his role in the plot
to kill Hitler on July 20, 1944.
1896:
Just days before his 38th birthday the Marquis de Morès, a French
anti-Semitic politician, was killed as he journeyed to meet the Mahdi, the
Muslim leader responsible for the death of General Charles “Chinese”
Gordon. De Morès was a member of The
Antisemitic League of France who challenged
Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus, a Jewish member of the Chamber of Deputies, to a
duel after Dreyfus wrote an article about him with which he disagreed.
1898: Today on what would prove to be the
day before his death Rabbi Samuel “Mohilewer wrote a circular letter to all
friends of Zion, recommending the foundation of the Jewish Colonial Bank and
the colonization of Palestine, and at the same time urging again the idea of
unity.”
1898: A conference of Jews from the United States and
Canada meeting at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue adopted a constitution
which “provided that the name” of the new organization “should be the Orthodox
Jewish Congregational Union of America.
1898: In New York, at Clark’s the annual meeting of the
Judeans, “an organization composed of gentlemen interested in literature,
science and the arts” was followed by a reception in honor of Oscar S. Straus
who has just been appointed U.S. Minister to Turkey.
1898:
Mr. and Mrs. I. Bierman hosted a garden party for the residence of the Home for
Aged and Infirm Hebrews.
1898:
During the Spanish American War, 1st Lt. Albert B. Frankel, Corporal
Sigamund Rochild, and Private Charles L. Reitz of Company A, from West Point,
Mississippi of the 2nd Mississippi Volunteer Infantry were among
those mustered into federal service today.
1899(1st
of Tammuz, 5659): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1899:
Prompt action today avoided a clash between those acting on behalf of
Congregation Sheavith Israel of New York and Jews living in Newport each of
whom are trying to assert control over the famous Rhode Island synagogue.
1899:
“Garden Party for Aged Hebrews” published today described the annual social
event held at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews which was attended by 230
residents who ranged in age from 60 to 90.
In addition to enjoying refreshment attendees enjoyed the music of the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band.
1899:
In Albany, NY, a certificate of consolidation was filed with the Secretary of
State which join the Educational Alliance and the Hebrew Free School
Association under the name of The Educational Alliance.
1899:
The French cruiser Sfax arrived at Devil’s Island. The ship’s mission was to
bring Dreyfus home after four years and three months of being imprisoned for a
crime he did not commit.
1900(12th
of Sivan, 5660): Parashat Nasso
1900:
“Prayer Book” published today provides a review The History of Book of
Common Prayer by Reverend Leighton Pullan which begins “with the use of
liturgical prayers, which in the time of Christ were to be found in the
services modeled upon the Jewish worship in the synagogue…”
1900:
Twenty-year-old Sylvan G. Robison, the Maryland born “son of Gerson Podrabinek
Robison and Seine Robison and the husband of PhD Sophia (Sophie) P. Robison”
who was active in the United Palestine Funds Appeal reportedly was working as a salesman as of
this date.
1901:
One day after he had passed away, “Nachum Meir ben Israel” was buried today in
Hong Kong at the “Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery.”
1902(4th
of Sivan. 5662): Sixty-seven-year-old Jacob Herzl, Theodore Herzl's father dies
in Vienna. Herzl goes back to Vienna for the funeral.
1902:
In the “Czech Republic,” Karl Low, the son of Helene and Daniel Low and his
wife Rosa Low gave birth to Leo Low.
1902:
By today, “the retail price of kosher beef had dropped back to 14 cents and the
kosher meat boycott began to lose steam.”
1903:
In New York, Bernard Glick and opera singer gave birth to Marcia Glick who
gained fame as author and critic Marcia Davenport.
1903:
The Six Annual Convention of the Federation of American Zionist is scheduled to
continue its meeting in Pittsburgh, PA.
1904: Senator Boise
Penrose who in 1911 described “discrimination by the Russian Government against
American Hebrews as an assault on American principles and traditions” and
assured a delegation of Jews from Philadelphia “that he agreed with their
contention that the violation of their treaty rights as American citizens was
not a proper subject for an arbitration tribunal but should result in the
passing of a resolution by Congress denouncing the present treaty” with Russia
began serving as a member of the National Republican Committee from
Pennsylvania today.
1904:
It was reported today that “nearly 300 Russian reservists and regular soldiers”
many, but not all “of whom are Jews” have deserted and crossed the Austrian
frontier during the past week.
1905(6th
of Sivan, 5665): Shavuot
1905:
Pogrom began in Lodz, Poland
1906(16th
of Sivan, 5666): Parashat Baha’alotcha
1906:
In “Needs of the United Hebrew Charities” published today, Nathan Bijur agreed
that he said that the United Hebrew Charities was facing a deficit of $40,000
but denied that he or another member of the leadership of the organization had
said that unless that amount was raise by August 10 the society would be
compelled to discontinue the giving of relief.
1907:
“Strong protest against the "insidious incursion" of proselyting
Christian missionaries into the faith of Jewish children, particularly on the
lower east side, was made at the afternoon session of the fourth annual
convention of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of the United States
and Canada, held today in the synagogue of the Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun,
in Eighty-fifth Street, near Lexington Avenue.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/06/10/106755162.html?pageNumber=7
1907:
President H. Pereira Mendes presided over the Fourth Biennial Convention of the
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of the United States and Canada
1908:
“Galician Jews Meet” published today described the opening of the new hospital
founded by The Federation of Galician and Bucovinian Jews that is supposed to
open on September 1.
1909:
It was reported today that Judge Honore has “ordered William Guggenheim of New
York and Grace B. Guggenheim to show cause why their divorce procured in
Chicago in 1901 should not be set aside.”
1909:
Today, Texas Aggie and University of Texas trained attorney Sol Engel Gordon,
the Judge of the City Court in Beaumont, TX and “special attorney for the state
of Texas responsible for gaining a guilty verdict in a case brought against the
“movie picture trust for violation of anti-trust laws” and who was the Mainepol, Poland born son of
Deborah and Isaac Engel married Pauline Mayer with whom he had two children –
Julius and Beverly,
1910:
“Jews Hunted Down” published today described the arrest and shooting of Jews in
the woods near Polichinok by secret police employed the Governor of Smolensk.
1911:
The Jewish community of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, publishes a protest
against the appeal of the Anglican Church to raise funds designed to “gather
Jews into the fold” i.e. create proselytes
1912:
In Bavaria, Germany, Max Neuberger, the German born son of Gretchen and Samuel
Neuberger, and his wife Bertha Neuberger gave birth to Atara (Gretel) Tzofar
(Pfeuffer) (Neuberger) the wife of Ze'ev (Willy) Tzofar.
1912:
In Tucson, AZ, Clara Ferrin a thirty-year old schoolteacher “married a local
merchant, David W. Bloom.”
1913:
Dedication of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association in Washington, DC.
1913:
Adolph Greenhut, a native of Bohemia who became a naturalized citizen in 1874
was elected Mayor of Pensacola, FL, a position he would hold until 1916.
1914(15th
of Sivan): On the Jewish calendar, anniversary of the birth and death of Judah,
the 4th son of Jacob and Lean. (As reported by Aish)
1914:
Today, during the 91st convocation of the University of Chicago, the
cornerstone was laid for the Julius Rosenwald Hall with the “donor taking part
in the ceremony as guest of honor.”
1915: Mrs. Nina Formby who moved to New York City
in February of 1914 was identified in print today as being the only woman to
have offered an affidavit showing that Leo Frank was a degenerate which she
later recanted “asserting that she made it under duress.” (Editor’s note – Nina
Formby may also have been known as Mrs. Nina Stevens who had claimed that she
had filed and recanted such an affidavit.)
1915:
This morning, the Prison Commission of Georgia submitted a report to Governor
Slaton in which “it declined to recommend that the death sentence imposed on
Leo Frank be commuted to life imprisonment.
R.E. Davison and E.L. Rainey voted for the report and Judge T.E.
Robinson voted against the report meaning that clemency was denied by a two to
one vote.
1915:
A friend of Leo Frank, Milton Klein, went to Frank’s cell in the Tower and in
the presence of his father and his wife told the prisoner of the decision not
to commute his sentence.
1915:
“Leo M. Frank said tonight that he believed even yet that his life would be
spared.”
1916:
“Jews Defended in Russian Duma” published today described the speech delivered
by Deputy A.I. Shingarev in the Duma in which he defended the Jews from attacks
by government ministers in which, among other things, they were blamed for
collaborating with the German Army,
1916:
Birthdate of Louis Werfel who gained fame as “The Flying Rabbi” when he served
as a chaplain during World War II. Werfel was one of only six Jewish chaplains
who died during WW II. He died while
returning from conducting Chanukah services at Casablanca in 1943.
1917(19th
of Sivan, 5677): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1917:
In Alexandria, Egypt, Leopold Percy Hobsbaum and Nelly Hobsbaum (née Grün) gave
birth to British Marxist historian Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm.
1917:
Two thousand Jews, including 200 rabbis from cities across the United attended
a celebration marking the 60th birthday of Hirsch Masliansky, the
rabbi at the Synagogue of Educational Alliance where he was praised by a wide
variety of speakers including prominent lawyer Louis Marshall, Rabbi Judah L.
Magnes and Commissioner of Education John Barondess.
1917:
Graduation Day at the Teacher’s Institute of the Hebrew Union College.
1917:
It was reported that the Karaites, who under the Czar “held themselves aloof
from Jewry from fear of…being subjected to anti-Semitic restrictions” held a
conference at Eupatoria where “the opinion gained ground that now” following
the overthrow of the old regime “there was nothing in the way of a closer”
relationship “between them and the general body of Jews.”
1918[ML1] : Led by Louis Brenner,
the Jews in Camden, NJ, will start a drive today to raise the money necessary
to complete the new facility to be shared by the Y.M.H.A. and the Y.W.H.A.
1918:
Seven hundred delegates representing 55,000 Jews from all over the United
States are scheduled to attend “the thirteenth annual convention of the
Independent Order of B’rith Shlom” opening today in Baltimore, MD.
1918:
In a speech at Washington Irving High School attended by representatives from
“more than 400 Jewish organization, Professor Thomas G. Masaryk, “urged the
Jews to give all their energies in support of the Allied cause” so that
co-religionists in Eastern Europe might “be liberated from the German heel.”
1918:
Morris Peltz, the son of Brooklyn residents Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Peltz, who had
enlisted in the U.S. Army four years ago was suffered wounds today in France
while serving with Company C of the 16th Infantry that would result
in his death.
1919:
Captain Montgomery Schuyler sent a telegram from the Headquarters of the
American Expeditionary Forces, Siberia at Vladivostock in which he said of the
“384 commissars” in Russia “more than 300 were Jews” of whom “264 had come to
Russia from the United States since the downfall of the Imperial Government.”
1920:
“Nathaniel Phillis, President of the League of Foreign Born Citizens delivered
an address before the Associated Lodges of the Independent Order B’nai B’rith”
today “on the subject of ‘Am I My Brother’s Keeper --- The Duty of the Native
Born to the Foreign Born.’”
1921:
Birthdate of Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, leading Jewish author, philosopher and
fighter for civil rights of all who passed away in 2006.
1921(3rd
of Sivan, 5681): Sixty-two-year-old Julius Walter Freiberg, the son of Julius
and Duffie Freiberg and the husband of Stella Freiberg passed a way today in
his hometown, Cincinnati, Ohio.
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2995682
1922:
Silent film star Beatrice Carpenter and Herman Axelrod gave birth to George
Axelrod. Axelrod’s father was a Russian Jew while his mother was not Jewish.
His breakout work was “The Seven Year Itch” which was a successful play and
film.
1923:
Twenty-nine-year-old violinist and pianist Paul Stassevitch, the Crimea born
son of Ilia and Clara (Sabsay) Stassevitch who in 1919 came to the United
States where he debuted “with the State Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in
1924, taught violin at the Mannes Music School married J. Marzrethe Somme
today.
1924(7th
of Sivan, 5684): Second Day of Shavuot observed on the same day that Mallory
and Irvine reportedly died in their quest to reach the top of Mt. Everest,
1925:
“For his "lofty thoughts and manly courage" in characterizing the
Jewish people as the "Hebraic mortar which cemented the foundations of
American democracy," President Coolidge received by resolution the
unanimous thanks of the Independent Order of B'rith Abraham at the thirty-ninth
annual convention, which closed at Atlantic City today.”
1925;
University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University graduate and JTS ordained
rabbi Lewis B. Grossman, the Shenandoah, PA born son of Rebeccah Zamalan and
David Grossman married Theresa Tomar Pear today after which he lead Temple Beth
Elohim in the Bronx.
1926:
Congressman Meyer London’s funeral was held in New York City with tens of
thousands filling the streets in his honor.
1927:
“In Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary), a spa town in the then German-speaking Sudetenland
area of Czechoslovakia,’ Arnold Stein who “had a small shop in the town selling
ladies' coats and dresses” and the former Erna
Eisenberger who “owned a knitwear business” gave birth to Gerda Kamilla
Mayer the English poet who had “escaped to England from Prague in 1939 on a
Kindertransport.”
1928:
Delegates representing 400 organizations are expected to attend today’s’
convention The Hebrew Religious Protective Association at the Broadway Central
Hotel.
1928:
In Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Bella Gitlin and Rabbi Elia Masa gave birth to
Yacov
Moseh Maza who grew up on the Lower East Side where he followed in the
footsteps of three generations of the men in his family when “he received
semikah from Moshe Feinstein but who left the rabbinate to gain fame and
fortune as comedian Jackie Mason. (One source erroneously report his birthdate
as 1931)
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jackie-mason
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/24/arts/jackie-mason-93-dies-turned-kvetching-into-comedy-gold.html
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jul/25/jackie-mason-obituary
1929:
At Temple B’nai B’rith in Los Angeles, “actress Carmel Myers married her second
husband, attorney Ralph Blum.
1930:
Thirty-eight-year-old Chicago Tribune journalist Alfred Lingle whose parents
converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism when he was eight years old was
shot and killed in a Chicago train station in what was assumed to be a mob
related murder
1930:
Birthdate newscaster, author and educator, Marvin Kalb. Kalb first gained fame
as a correspondent with CBS Television News. Kalb has an equally famous
brother, Bernard, with whom he sometimes shares the lecture circuit much to the
delight and enlightenment of the attendees.
1931:
Albert Otinger, the chairman of the of the New York campaign of the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee which is seeking to raise one million
dollars for the relief of suffering Jews in Eastern and Central Europe
announced that today another $12,400 has been raised for the cause including
$4,000 raised by Borough President Samuel Fassler.
1931:
Mayor James Walker greeted the Glasgow Celtics and the Hakoah Team, which is
composed completely of Jews today at City Hall in preparation for their game to
be played this weekend at the Polo Grounds.
1932:
It was reported today that members of the Business Men’s Club for Palestine
pledged $9,100 at a dinner given at the Hotel Astor by William Lowenstein.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/06/09/100758432.html?pageNumber=7
1933:
“Professional Sweetheart,” a romantic comedy featuring Gregory Ratoff as “Sam
Ipswich” was released in the United States today.
1933:
In Detroit, the convention of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service
who have already heard a special by Dr. I.M. Rubinow on “The Credo of a Jewish
Social Worker” is scheduled to continue for a second day.
1934(26th
of Sivan, 5694): Parsahat Shelach
1934(26th
of Sivan, 5694): Seventy-four-year-old Russian born Emanuel Abrahams, the
husband of Leah Horowitz Abrahams and father of Herman Abrahams passed away
today after which he was buried at Bayside Cemetery in Ozone Park.
1935(8th
of Sivan, 5695): Dr. Shermaryahu Levine passed away
1935:
In Pescara, Italy, a Christian “baritone singer from Budapest” and Jewish “prima
ballerina from Gratz, Austria” who were not married gave birth to Sandro Tot
who gained fame as Zvi Yanai, a member of Kibbutz Ramat David, an IDF veteran who
“was head of Israel's Ministry of Science in 1993–1997, and editor of the
periodical Mahshavot (Thoughts),”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/flashes/282734
1935:
Anti-Jewish riots occur in Grodno, Poland.
1936:
It was reported today The Jews of Germany, the new book by Marvin
Lowenthal, the author of A World Passed By that described the surviving
monuments and life of the Jew in Europe and North America, will be published at
the end of this month.
1936:
“Robert Edward Edmondson, publisher of anti-Semitic leaflets, lashed back at
Mayor La Guardia for having instigated the criminal proceedings against him”
calling the mayor “a radical Jew.”
1936:
In Buffalo, NY, Maxwell and Rose Ruttenstein, the owners of three clothing
shops gave birth to Kalman Ruttenstein the fashion director for Bloomingdale’s.
1936:
John F. Kennedy, future President of the United States left Jerusalem for
Lebanon and Syria.
1936:
Arabs attempted to attack Kfar Yeheskiel, a Jewish workmen’s settlement in the
Jezreel Valley. Jospeh Tavory, a Jewish truck driver was wounded during the
unsuccessful attack.
1937:
The Palestine Post reported that according to French press reports the
British government was expected to propose, at the June 18 session of the
Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations in Geneva, the
establishment of a Jewish republic and a joint Arab Palestinian-Jordanian state
under Emir Abdullah.
1937:
Chaim Weizmann gave an account of his dinner of the previous night where he had
dined with Winston Churchill and other Zionist supporters in Parliament to a
number of leading Zionists then visiting London including David Ben-Gurion
1937:
“The Christian Century, a Protestant
weekly magazine, publishes an editorial entitled ‘Jewry and Democracy’ which
questions the ability of a democracy to include a minority like the Jews.
1937(30th
of Sivan, 5697): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1937(30th
of Sivan, 5697): Thirty-seven year old Italian political leader Carlo Rosselli
and his brother Nello were beaten to death at “the French resort town of
Bagnoles-de-l'Orne” were beaten to death by French fascists alleged to have
been acting on orders from Benito Musssolini.
https://libcom.org/history/assassination-rosselli-brothers
https://primolevicenter.org/printed-matter/remembering-carlo-and-nello-rosselli/
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/12/19/reviews/991219.19stillet.html
1938:
“Rabbi Samuel J. Sherfman” is among those receiving his degree at today’s
commencement ceremonies for those attending Brooklyn Law School of St. Lawrence
University.
1938:
The Main Synagogue in Munich was burned down. Two thousand Jews throughout
Germany were arrested and were sent to concentration camps to do hard labor.
1939:
Birthdate of Letty Cottin Pogrebin, who has become one of the most well-known
figures in both the Jewish and secular feminist movements.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/09/1939/letty-cottin-pogrebin
1939:
“Against the pennant-winning Cincinnati Reds at the Polo Grounds, Harry Danning
was one of five Giants to hit a home run in the fourth inning, breaking the
prior record of four home runs by a team in one inning.
1939:
Today, “Canadian immigration officials” hostile to Jewish immigration led by
Frederick Blair persuaded Prime Minister” William Lyon Mackenzie King not to
provide sanctuary for the passengers aboard the SS St. Louis.
1940:
In a newspaper article published today, Vice Admiral Joseph K. “Taussig was
referred to as ‘the star scholar and strategist of the U.S Navy.”
1941:
Abraham Pais obtained his doctoral degree in theoretical physics today, just
five days before the deadline. His was the last Ph.D. issued to a Dutch Jew
until after the war. Abraham Pais
1941:
Kaiser Wilhelm II was laid to rest in the Mausoleum at Huis Doorn ,
Netherlands.
1941:
When the village of Lidice was destroyed today in reprisal for the
assassination of SS commander and Hitler favorite Reinhard Heydrich 199 men
were executed, 195 women were immediately deported to Ravensbrück concentration
camp, and 95 children taken prisoner. Of the children, 81 were later killed in
gas vans at the Chełmno extermination camp, while eight others were taken for
adoption by German families. All adults were murdered in the village of Ležák,
men and women alike. Both towns were burned, and the ruins of Lidice leveled.
1942:
Lord Wedgwood opened the debate in the British House of Lords by urging that
the mandate over Palestine be transferred to the United States, since Britain
had reneged on its commitments. He stated with bitterness: "I hope yet to
live to see those who sent the Struma cargo back to the Nazis hung as high as
Haman cheek by jowl with their prototype and Führer, Adolf Hitler
1942(23rd
of Sivan, 5702): Today, thirty-five-year-old Julius Bass, the Hamburg born son
of Herman Simon Bass and Rosalia Rothschild Bass and brother of Max, Bertha,
Emma, Frieda, and Alice Bass “was murdered in Neuengamme Concentration Camp,
Germany.
1942(23rd
of Sivan, 5702): When a Jewish mother at Pabianice, Poland, fights fiercely for
her baby during a deportation, the baby is taken from her and thrown out a
window.
1942:
A gassing van is sent to Riga, Latvia, for the execution of Jews.
1942:
German criminal police in the Lodz Ghetto reported that 95 Jews ‘have been hung
publicly here.
1943(6th
of Sivan, 5703): First Day of Shavuot
1944:
Jewish-Hungarian poet and Jewish-Palestinian paratrooper Hannah Szenes is
arrested in Hungary after completing her mission for the British in Yugoslavia.
She was attempting to help the Hungarian Jews who were being transported to
Auschwitz. Born in Hungary in 1921, Szenes witnessed the rise of anti-Semitism
in pre-World War II Hungary. She became a Zionist and moved to Palestine in
1938. By 1941 she had joined a kibbutz and the Haganah. She was one of many
European born Jews living in Palestine who joined the British Army and agreed
to be dropped behind enemy lines. Their purpose was two-fold - to add anti-Nazi
partisan forces and to help the Jews facing extermination. Just before her
death at the hands of her Hungarian captors Szenes wrote the following poem:
“One-two-three... eight feet long, Two strides across, the rest is dark... Life
hangs over me like a question mark. One-two-three... maybe another week, Or
next month may still find me here, But death, I feel, is very near. I could
have been twenty-three next July; I gambled on what mattered most; The dice
were cast. I lost." Most Israelis can recite the following lines,
"Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. Blessed is the flame
that burns in the secret fastness of the heart." Her most famous work is
one that is often sung in Hebrew and English.
"Lord,
my God,
I
pray that these things never end:
The
sand and the sea,
The
rush of the waters,
The
crash of the heavens,
The
human prayer
1944:
During the trucks for Jews negotiations, Adolf Eichmann (who probably was never
serious about saving the Hungarians) said: “If I do not receive a positive
reply within three days, I shall operate the mill at Auschwitz.”
1944:
Lew Lehr “was heard on the radio show “You Asked for It.”
1945:
Prime Minister Winston Churchill rejects a written request by Chaim Weizmann
for an end to all restrictions on Jewish entry into Palestine now that the war
with Germany is over saying “”There can I fear be no possibility of the
question being effectively considered until the victorious Allies are
definitely seated at the Peace table.” This statement effectively ended
Weizmann’s leadership role. Many Zionists viewed this as a betrayal by the
British in general and by the supposedly pro-Zionist Churchill in particular.
1946:
In “Wholesale Rescue” published today Julian Meltzer described how “nearly
twenty thousand children were spirited away from Hitler’s Europe.”
1947(21st
of Sivan, 5707): Jacob Shapiro, one of the organizers of Murder, Inc. died of a
heart attack at Sing Sing.
1948:
The INS Wedgewood was commissioned
today. A Flower class corvette, it was
named after Josiah Wedgewood.
1948:
INS HaTikvah (K-22) was commissioned today.
1949:
It was reported today that “eleven Hungarian Jewish leaders all identified with
the Zionist movement have been arrested and will go on trial June 17 on charges
of having promoted illegal mass emigration of Jews from Hungary.”
1949(12th
of Sivan, 5709): Eighty-six year old Dr. Moses Hyamon, the native of Russia and
distinguished scholar who served as Chief Rabbi of the British Empire before
World War I and who had been Rabbi of New York’s Orach Chaim passed away
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F40711FC3A5A157B93C3A8178DD85F4D8485F9
1949:
Mira (Miriam) Shefer left Cyprus on the SS Sha’ar Yishuv. After having survived the Holocaust, she
traveled from Poalnd, crossed the Alps into Austria before arriving in Italy
where she boarded the SS Kadima.
Although the ship was equipped for 400 passengers, this desperate voyage
took 800 Jews through the British blockade to Haifa. Unfortunately for Mira and the rest of the
passengers, the British sent them all to Cyprus where she endured life in an
internment camp until the creation of the Jewish state.
1950:
Jefferson Caffery, the United States Ambassador to Egypt, said that “last
month’s declaration by the United States, Britain and France on the Middle East
was not intended to picture the present frontiers between Israel and her Arab
neighbors as permanent borders.”
1950:
Israel responded to charges of mistreatment of infiltrators from Jordan by
telling the Arabs to “keep on your own side of the border.” The Israelis claim
that there only responsibility is to “escort the infiltrators to a point near
the border and send them on their way.” According to the agreement signed at
Rhodes in 1949 that ended hostilities between Israel and Jordan, “neither
troops nor civilians could pass into each other’s territory.”
1951:
The last group of Nazis convicted of war crimes during World War II is hanged
in Nuremberg.
1951(5th
of Sivan, 5711): Parashat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot
1951(5th
of Sivan, 5711): Esther (nee Rosengrass) Hyman who had been Esther Libbert, the
widow of Abraham Libbert when she married Titanic survivor Abraham Joseph Hyman
passed away today.
1952:
The Jerusalem Post reported that banknotes issued in 1948 by the
Anglo-Palestine bank as Israel’s legal tender had to be exchanged for new
notes, in different colors, issued by Bank Leumi L’Israel. A 10 percent
compulsory deduction for a 15-year loan, at 4%, was to accompany each exchange
of the old notes for the new, and a similar deduction was to be carried out
automatically on all bank deposits. The loan was expected to bring IL 25
million for the Treasury. Three hundred new immigrants marched in Tel Aviv
demanding better housing.
1952:
Birthdate of Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer, songwriter, composer and television
personality who died of a heart attack in 2004 at the age of 52
1953:
A day after Israel and Jordan signed an agreement, with UN mediation, in which
Jordan undertook to prevent terrorists from crossing into Israel from Jordanian
territory” gunmen attacked a farming community near Lod, by throwing hand
grenades and spraying gunfire in all directions killed one of the residents.
The gunmen threw hand grenades and sprayed gunfire in all directions.
1953:
Tonight, “another group of terrorists attacked a house in the town of Hadera.”
1955(19th
of Sivan, 5715): Seventy-three-year-old Pesach Liebmann Hersch the son of
Hannah-Dvorah Hersch (née Blumberg) and Meyer Dovid Hersch who gained fame as
the pioneering demographer and statistician Liebmann Hersch, the husband of
Liba Lichetenbaum with whom he had three children Irene, Joseph and philosopher
Jeanne Hersch passed away today.
http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=34147
1956(30th
of Sivan, 5716): Parashat Korach; Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1956(30th
of Sivan, 5716): Slobode, Byelroussia native Yosef Aksentsov, who in 1908 moved
to Argentina where he pursued a literary career that included serving “as assistant
editor of the weekly Der kolonist (The colonist), and later the technical
editor of the monthly Kolonist kooperator (Colonist cooperative)” passed away
today.
1956:
Thirty-two-year-old Cal Abrams played his last major league as an outfielder
with the Chicago White Sox.
1958:
In Washington, DC. Norman Harold Horwitz, a neurosurgeon,[5] and Elinor Lander
Horwitz, a writer, gave birth to Brown and Columbia educated Pulitzer Prize
winning reporter Anthony Lander “Tony” Horwitz the husband of Pulitzer Prize
winning novelist Geraldine Brooks and the author of Confederates in the
Attic.
1961:
Birthdate of Aaron Sorkin producer and writer for television hit, “The West
Wing
1962(7th
of Sivan, 5722): Second Day of Shavuot
1962:
In Tel Aviv, Yossi and Ilana Banai gave birth to Israel pop rock start Yuval
Banay.
1962(7th
of Sivan, 5722): Madame and bordello owner, Polly Adler, passed away.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/adler-polly
1963:
Barbra Streisand appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
1963:
After 304 performances at the Sheridan Square Playhouse, the curtain came down
“The Days and Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker” directed by Ulu Grosbard.
1963:
Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz of Adas Israel attended the ground breaking ceremonies
for the Abraham S. Kay Spiritual Life Center, the American University in
Washington, D.C.
1964(29th
of Sivan, 5724): Just weeks before his 80th birthday, Russian born
American pianist and composer Louis Gruenberg passed away
http://www.musicassociatesofamerica.com/madamina/1981/gruenberg.html
1965:
This morning, funeral services are scheduled to place in Brooklyn for Jack
Abrams, the husband of Lila Abrams and the father of Ona Stevens and Audrey
Betman.
1966(21st
of Sivan. 5726): Fifty-eighty year old English botanist E.F.(Edmund Frederick)
Warburg, “son of Sir Oscar Emanuel Warburg, businessman and later chairman of
the London County Council, and his wife, Catherine née Byrne” and husband of
Primrose Barrett who served with the RAF during WW II and who in 1948 began
working in the department of botany “at Oxford as demonstrator in botany and
curator of the herbarium” after which he co-authored Flora of the British
Isles and Excursion of Flora passed away today.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1179/006813867804804188
1967(1st
of Sivan, 5727): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1967(1st
of Sivan, 5727): Fifty-nine year old “English author Pamela Frankau,” the
daughter of “the novelist Gilbert Frankau” and granddaughter of Julia Frankau
who wrote under the “pseudonym Frank Danby” passed away today.
http://www.bc.edu/sites/libraries/newsletter/2012spring/pamelafrankau/index.html
1967:
In a change of mind and policy, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan told Chief of
Staff Yitzchak Rabin that the IDF would take the Golan Heights after all. Rabin
began moving forces from the Central Command to the North. The fighting was
tough as the IDF advanced against the well-fortified Syrian positions. By
nightfall, the IDF seemed to be taking control of the battlefield and there was
already talk about advancing on the Syrian capital of Damascus. The Israelis
were concerned about the fate of the 15,000 Jews living in Syria. For years the
Syrian government had held them under virtual arrest, denying any of them the
right to leave the country.
1967:
While fighting on the Golan as part of the 78th patrol platoon of
the Alexandroni reserve infantry brigade 27-year-old Igal Pazi “stepped on a
foot mine on the platoon's way to Dabashia” costing him “his right leg below
the knee.” In a display of indomitable
will, Pazi turned himself into Gold Medal winning member of the Israeli Paralympic
volleyball team.
1968:
“This Piece of Earth,” published today Chaim Potok reviewed “Light on Israel”
by Maurice Samuel, “The Road to Jerusalem: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli
Conflict, 1967” by Walter Laqueur, “Under Fire: Israel’s 20 Year Struggle for
Survival”, edited by Donald Robinson, “The Resurrection of Israel” by Ann
Latour; translated by Maragaret S. Summers and “The Hand of Mordechai” by
Margaret Larkin.
1969:
Charles Eustace McGaughey began serving as Canada’s Ambassador to Israel.
1970:
(5th of Sivan, 5730): Erev Shavuot
1970:
(5th of Sivan, 5730: Seventy-four year old Irving A Mancher, who was
brought to the United States from his native Minsk at the age, lost his
eyesight at the age of 15, at still went on to run “two of the largest
independent coal and fuel-oil distributing concerns” while supporting numerous
causes including “the Jewish Institute for Religion” and raising two sons, Jay
and Horace, with his wife, passed away today.
1970:
“Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx” a comedy starring Gene Wilder was
released today in the United States.
1971:
U.S. premiere of “They Might Be Giants” the film version of James Goldman’s
play of the same name for which Goldman wrote the screenplay, co-starring Jack
Gilford.
https://www.aallnet.org/inductee/ervinpollack/
https://www.librarything.com/author/pollackervinharold
1975:
Malcolm Toon is appointed U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
1976(11th
of Sivan, 5736): Ninety-year-old, NYU trained attorney Milton M. Unger, a
Newark lawyer who once arrested the Graf Zeppelin on behalf of a client passed
away today.
1977:
President Gerald Ford received the first annual Yonatan Netanyahu Memorial
Award.
1977:
“Fire Sale,” a comedy directed by Alan Arkin who also starred in the film along
with Rob Reiner and Sid Caesar and with music by Dave Grusin was released in
the United States today.
1977:
The Jerusalem Post reported that, according to US Assistant Secretary of
State Alfred Atherton, it would be "perfectly reasonable" for Israel
to seek compensation from the Arab states for the property left behind by
Jewish refugees who came to Israel after 1948. The Prime Minister designate,
Menachem Begin, assured the press that his election wouldn't affect Israeli
relations with Germany.
1980:
Birthdate of Washington, DC native and NYU alum David Olive Cohen “the writer,
actor and entrepreneur’ and husband of Cristi Andrews whom he married in 2007
and with whom he had two children who along “with his brother Tanner Cohen and
Lara Schoenhals created a Twitter account called White Girl” Problems, writing
under the pseudonym Babe Walker, a fictional 20-something socialite.”
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169324/
1981(7th
of Sivan, 5741): Two days after the IAF destroyed the Osirak nuclear reactor
Jews celebrate the Second Day of Shavuot
1981:
Four days after he had passed away, funeral services were held today for ninety-three-year-old
Romanian native and American trained attorney Oscar Lazarus, who founded a
watch repair shop with his brother that became the Benrus Watch Company passed
away today.
1981:
“Western European governments were sharply crucial today of Israel’s air raid
that destroyed a French-built nuclear facility in Iraq” with the British
calling it “a grave breach of international law,” the French calling it a
“violation of French law” and the Italians expressing “grave concern.’ (Editor’s note – nobody said anything about
what would have happened if the Iraqis had been allowed to begin developing a
nuclear weapon.)
1981:
In Jerusalem, the former Shelly Stevens and “Avner Hershlag, an Israeli
fertility specialist gave birth Neta-Lee Hershberg, better known as Natalie
Portman the Harvard graduate and Academy Award winning actress who took her
grandmother’s maiden name for her stage name and has appeared in a wide variety
of films including “Star Wars :Episode III,” “The Other Boleyn Girl” and “Black
Swan.”
1982:
Today, the IAF launch “Operation Mole Cricket 19” an air campaign designed to
suppress Syrian air defenses in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080923153108/http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj89/win89/hurley.html1982: Units of the
Golani Brigade and the Barak Armored Brigade began their attack on Doha and
Kafr Sil, two villages on the outskirts of Beirut.
1983:
Leo Abse began serving as a Member of Parliament for Torfaen.
1983:
Julia “Neuberger,the Social Democratic Party candidate for Tooting” finished
third in today’s General Election , coming in third with 8,317 votes (18.1%).
1985:
Abraham David Sofaer completed his service as Judge of the United States
District Court for the Southern District of New York.
1987:
Gad Yaacobi began serving as Minister of Communications today
1987:
The trial of Klaus Barbie took a new turn today as historians, led by the niece
of Charles de Gaulle, began testifying over the objections of Mr. Barbie's
attorney. Genevieve de Gaulle, 66 years old, a survivor of the Nazi Ravensbruck
camp, told how gypsy girls were sterilized by X-ray and Polish girls were
mutilated in experiments. A historian, Leon Poliakov, 76, said the killing of
Jews, gypsies and mentally ill Germans was the cornerstone of Hitler's drive to
conquer the world. Countering claims that SS officers such as Mr. Barbie were
unaware of the fate awaiting Jews in the camps, Mr. Poliakov quoted Heinrich
Himmler, the SS leader, as telling officers in 1943: ''The Jews will be
exterminated. It is clear. It is part of our program.'' (As reported by
Reuters)
1989(6th
of Sivan, 5749): Shavuot
1989:
Rabbi Eugene J. Sack of Mountain View, CA, presided over the marriage of his
son Robert D. Sack and Anne Katherine Hilker who are “associates at the New
York law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.”
1990(16th
of Sivan, 5750): Parashat Naso
1990
(16th of Sivan, 5750): Seventy-one-year-old Grace Jean Leventhal
Goodman, the Texas born daughter of Jacob Frank Leventhal and Ida Tobolowsky Leventhal and the wife of Harold Goodman
passed away today after which she was buried at the Sparkman Hillcrest Memorial
Park in Dallas, TX.
1992:
In Toronto, Stuart Hyman, “the Chairman and Governor of the Markham Royals, and
Vice Chairman of the Ontario Junior Hockey League” and his wife Vicky gave
birth to Zachary Martin "Zach" Hyman, the Left Wing for the Toronto
Maple Leafs and “award winning” author of children’s books.
http://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/day-school-nhl
1992:
On the 25th anniversary of
the 1967 Middle East War, an article, entitled “Voices of Israel: To Many, the
Fruits of the '67 War Taste Bitter,” The New York Times reported on how
some Israelis view the road their country has traveled since that June.
1993(20th
of Sivan, 5753): Seventy-seven-year-old Anglo-Jewish political scientist Samuel
Edward Finer passed away today. (As reported by Dennis Kavanagh
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9394-kluger-solomon-ben-judah-aaron
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-professor-samuel-finer-1490939.html
1994(30th
of Sivan, 5754): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1995:
Today Irene Gut Opdyke, “a Polish nurse who gained international recognition
for aiding Polish Jews persecuted by Nazi Germany during World War II” and “was
honored as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem for risking her life to
save twelve Jews from certain death,” was honored with a papal blessing from
Pope John Paul II at a joint service of Jews and Catholics held at Shir
Ha-Ma'alot ,synagogue in Irvine, California, along with an invitation from Pope
John Paul II for her to have an audience with him.
1995:
“Congo,” a sci-fi thriller with music by Jerry Goldsmith was released today in
the United States.
1996(22nd
of Sivan, 5756): Twenty-six year old Yaron Unger and 25 year old Erfat “Unger
of Kiryat Arba, were killed when terrorists fired on their car near Beit
Shemesh.”
1999:
Haaretz reported that Israel and the U.S. are both demanding the
immediate release of 13 Jews arrested in Iran on charges of espionage, saying
the charges are trumped-up and may be motivated by anti-Semitism. The 13 Jews,
from Shiran and Isfahan in southern Iran, were arrested on the eve of Passover
and accused of spying for the "Zionist regime" and "world
arrogance" - references to Israel and the United States respectively.
However, the arrests only became public knowledge on Monday. Those arrested include
a rabbi, a ritual slaughterer and teachers.
2000(6th
of Sivan, 5760): First Day of Shavuot
2000:
In “How Six Day War Almost Led to Armageddon” published today, Isabella Ginor
described how close Israel’s victory almost led to nuclear war between the
Soviet Union and the United States.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/10/israel1
2001(18th
of Sivan, 5761): Parashat Beha’alotcha
2001(18th
of Sivan, 5671): Eighty-seven year old New York native Martin Meltsner, the son
of Morris Meltsner and Rose Klarman passed away today in West Palm Beach, FL.
2001(18th
of Sivan, 5671): Social activist and “avid golfer” Louise Sulzberger, “the
widow of stockbroker David Hays Sulzberger” and sister-in-law of New York Times
publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger passed away today at the age of 103.
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jun/13/local/me-9905
2002: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including “Back Then” by Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan and “Nuremberg: The
Real Trial of the Century” by William F. Buckley Jr.
2003(9th
of Sivan, 5763) “The three main Palestinian militant groups staged an unusual
joint attack today on an Israeli Army outpost here, killing four soldiers and
later killing a fifth soldier in a
second attack later today in the West Bank city of Hebron.
2004:
Following yesterday’s resignation of Effiam Etiam and Yitzhak Levy from his
cabinet, today Prime Minister Sharon is fighting “to maintain his shaky
coaltion.”
2005:
Yisrael Meir Lau reinstalled as Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv
2005:
“Free Zone,” “second film of Amos Giai’s Border Trilogy, co-starring Natalie
Portman was released in Israel today.
2005:
Richard and Robert B. Sherman were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
2006:
Congressman Timothy V. Johnson delivered a speech in the House of
Representatives honoring and recognizing “Joel M. Carp upon the occasion of his
retirement after 28 years of service with the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Chicago.”
2007:
In Cedar Rapids, Jonathan Chadick becomes a Bar Mitzvah at Temple Judah.
2007:
In an effort to encourage people to get out of their cars and start riding
bikes instead, municipal authority packed Tel Aviv's Rabin Square with bicycles
for riders who wish to spend part of their day on an urban bicycle trek. A
total of 600 street bicycles and 100 bikesfor children above age 6, are offered
free of charge to those who want to get to know Tel Aviv on two wheels and use
this opportunity to learn about bike-riding as an alternate means of
transportation. Dr. Moshe Tiomkin, head of the Tel Aviv Authority for Traffic,
Transportation and Parking, explained that the municipality plans to create a
web of paths connecting the entire city, so residents may ride bicycles from
one point to another, "to work and class, and to run errands on
bicycles."
2007:
“Stan Lee Media sued Stan Lee; his newer company, POW! Entertainment; POW!
subsidiary QED Entertainment; and other former Stan Lee Media staff at POW.”
2007(23rd
of Sivan, 5767): Centenarian plus two Rudolf Arnheim, a refugee from Nazi
German whose knowledge of psychology, philosophy and critical skills were the mark of what
used to be called an “educated man” and also made him an outstanding professor
of the psychology of art at Harvard, passed away today. (As reported by
Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/obituaries/14arnheim.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
2008(6th
of Sivan, 5768): First Day Shavuot
2008:
MSNBC newscaster Andria Mitchell apologized on air today for having “referred
to the voters of southwest Virginia region, including Bristol, as rednecks”
saying that what she had said was “stupid.”
2008:
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates nominated General Norton Schwartz a
Jewish 35-year-old veteran with a background in Air Force special operations,
as the new Air Force chief of staff. Schwartz, a pilot with more than 4,200
flying hours, served as Commander of the Special Operations Command-Pacific, as
well as Alaskan Command, Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense Command
Region, and the 11th Air Force. Prior to assuming his current position,
Schwartz was Director, the Joint Staff, in Washington, DC. He attended the Air
Force Academy and the National War College, and he participated as a crew
member in the 1975 airlift evacuation of Saigon. In 1991, he served as chief of
staff of the Joint Special Operations Task Force for Northern Iraq in operations
Desert Shield and Desert Storm. When the Jewish Community Centers Armed Forces
and Veteran's Committee presented its Military Leadership Award to Schwartz in
2004, he said he was "Proud to be identified as Jewish as well as an
American military leader."
2009(17th
of Sivan, 5769): Sixty-two year old Ralph Lazarus the husband of Barbara
(Ullian) Lazarus who split his time between Lake Worth, FL and Chestnut Hill,
MA passed away today.
2009:
The Foundation for Jewish Studies Northern Virginia Lunch & Learn
presents Paul Forbes, teaching “Traditional Biblical Stories: Fact or Fiction?”
(The archeological evidence available about the Garden of Eden, Noah’s Ark and
Sodom & Gomorrah) at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia
2009:
U.S. special Mideast envoy George Mitchell assured Israel today that Washington
would remain its close ally despite differences over West Bank settlements and
peacemaking with the Palestinians. Mitchell said the U.S. commitment to Israeli
security is unshakable, adding, "We come here to talk not as adversaries
and in disagreement, but as friends in discussion." The envoy made the
comments with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side before a meeting
with the premier Tuesday evening.
2009:
Jody Wagner won the Democratic nomination for Lt. Governor in Virginia.
2010:
The Uri Gurvich Quartet is scheduled to perform at the Washington Jewish Music
Festival.
2010:
Gilad Hekselman Quartet is scheduled to perform at the Jazz Standard in New
York City.
2011(7th
of Sivan, 5771): Second Day of Shavuot
2011:
The Ivri Lider Electronic Trio, featuring Ivri Lider – “one of Israel’s biggest
selling artists of all time” – is scheduled to perform at (Le) Poisson Rouge in
New York City.
2011:
Carolyn Fine, the valedictorian at a northern California high school is
planning to deliver her graduation address via a pre-recorded audio message in
order to observe Shavuot.
2011: Today was the 135th anniversary of the dedication
of the oldest synagogue in the national capital city. On June 9, 1876, less
than the month before the nation's centennial, Adas Israel Congregation
dedicated its first synagogue. Flowers
and "festoons of evergreens" decorated the sanctuary and American
flags "drooped gracefully" over the Ark. The room was filled to
capacity and several latecomers were turned away. President Ulysses S. Grant,
the first U.S. president to attend synagogue services, sat at the front of the
sanctuary on a sofa rented especially for the occasion. He donated $10 to the
synagogue's building fund, the equivalent of $200 today.Grant's attendance
reflects the unique relationship between the Washington, D.C, Jewish community
and national leaders. His presence also held special meaning because, as a
Union Army general during the Civil War, Grant issued General Orders No. 11,
expelling Jews "as a class" from the areas under his command. Grant dodged charges of anti-Semitism
throughout his political career and perhaps attending this dedication was an
overture to the Jewish community.The three-hour dedication ceremony was covered
in several local and national newspapers, including The National Republican,
The Jewish Messenger, and the Washington Chronicle. In fine detail, the
articles described the decorations, prayers, and sermon given by visiting Rabbi
George Jacobs of Philadephia's Congregation Beth El Emeth. [As reported by The
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington]
2012: Ufruf of Jacob Kline and Alice Baker is scheduled
to take place at Aguas Achim in Iowa City, IA.
2012: Ambassador Princeton N. Lyman is scheduled to
deliver a talk entitled “Sudan Twenty Seven Years after Operation Moses” which
will begin with a reminder of the “evacuation of 9,000 Jewish Ethiopian
refugees from Sudan in 1984.”
2012(19th of Sivan, 5772): Eighty-two year old
“Israel Shenker, a scholar trapped in a newsman’s body who was known to readers
of The New York Times for his vast erudition and sly, subversive wit,” passed
away today at Kibbutz Shoval in southern Israel (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/obituaries/17shenker.html?pagewanted=print
2012: Today, Shabbat, approximately 200 people rode buses
commissioned by the Meretz Party as part of a campaign calling for public
transportation on the Shabbat.
2012: Speaking in Tel Aviv, Israeli political leader
Shelly Yechimovich called on the international community impose a complete
embargo on Assad’s Syria.
2013:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Slippage by Ben Greenman
2013:
The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington is scheduled to host “Israel@65”
2013:
The Maccabeats are scheduled to perform at Temple Oheb Shalom in Baltimore, MD
2013:
This year’s Dan Prize Awards Ceremony is scheduled to take place at Tel Aviv
University. Among the winners is Leon Wieseltier the literary editor of The New
Republic who wrote the must read Kaddish
2013:
The Hillel Milwaukee is scheduled to receive “a Torah scroll owned by the
former Beth El Ner Tamid Synagogue before it combined with Congregation Beth
Israel to form Congregation Beth Israel Ner Tamid.
2013:
When Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, holds its congregational meeting this
evening, Laurie Silber will complete her tenure as President of the
Congregation which will mark the end of an era.
For decades, Laurie has served the Cedar Rapids Jewish community in ways
too numerous to count. These include Sunday School Teacher (second and third
grade for 26 years), Sisterhood President and two terms as President of the
Congregation. She was the driving force
behind several initiatives that enriched the community including the quarterly
Musical Shabbats and the Shabbat Alive appearances by Rick Recht. Laurie joins
a group of unique Jewish women that includes Jochebed, Tzipporah and the
daughters of Zelophehad all of whom were more concerned about getting things
done right instead of getting to stand in the limelight. We will miss her steady hand, her iron-willed
determination, her passion for her people and the joy she brought to Judaism. Others may follow in her footsteps, but none
will be able to fill her shoes.
2013:
As he completes 34 years of service Rabbi Harold Berman is honored with a
dinner at Congregation Tifereth Israel in Columbus, Ohio
2013:
Despite predictions of ten thousand demonstrators, only several hundred
ultra-Orthodox men turned this morning at Jerusalem’s Western Wall to protest
the Women of the Wall’s monthly prayer gathering.
2013:
“According to documents released today by the state archives,” several months
before the 1973 Yom Kippur War, then-Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir used
West German diplomatic channels to offer Egypt most of the Sinai Peninsula in
exchange for peace,
http://www.timesofisrael.com/golda-meir-offered-egypt-part-of-sinai-for-peace/
2014:
The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host an evening with Jewish
feminist and broadcast journalist Lynn Sheer author of Sally Ride, “the
definitive biography of America’s first woman in space.
2014:
Today “Dov Ben-Shimon, an executive with the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee, was named the executive vice president/CEO of the Jewish Federation
of Greater MetroWest NJ. (JTA)
2014:
“The Knesset authorized in second and third reading today a bill which
allocated some one billion shekel to holocaust survivors. The bill was
sponsored by Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Welfare Minister Meir Cohen and is
the legal cornerstone of a national program to aid survivors.”
2014:
“Two Jewish teenagers and their grandfather are chased by an ax-wielding man
and three accomplices as they walk to their synagogue in the Paris suburb of
Romainville on Shavuot.”
2014:
“President Shimon Peres is scheduled to award Italian President Giorgio
Napolitano with the Presidential Medal of Distinction, Israel’s highest
civilian honor” today. (As reported Marissa Newman)
2015:
Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London
in collaboration with the SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies is scheduled to
present “Paupers and Bankers: Modern Representation of Jews and Money.”
2015:
“Arab Movie” is scheduled to be shown at the Cinema South Festival at Sderot.
2015:
“Is That You” and “Youth” are scheduled to be shown at the Israel Film Center
Festival hosted by JCC Manhattan.
2015:
Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport who “wasn’t allowed to defend her doctoral thesis in
1938 under the Nazis because she was part-Jewish” today became Germany’s oldest
recipient of a doctorate at when she received the degree today at the age 102.
2015:
The Center for Jewish History and American Sephardi Federation are scheduled to
present a screening of “Price for Freedom,” a film “dedicated to telling the
harrowing history of terror, torture, and triumph of author Dr. Marc Benhuri”
2015:
Today “a long list of major American Jewish organizations, many of which had
filed amicus briefs supporting the inclusion of the word “Israel” on passports
for US citizens born in Jerusalem, expressed dismay at yesterday’s Supreme
Court ruling that American citizens born in Jerusalem may only list their
birthplace as Jerusalem, rather than as Jerusalem, Israel
2016:
The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to hold its annual
meeting this evening.
2016:
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host the
“Inaugural Evelyn Greenberg Preservation Awards”
2016:
“Zion80 which “explores Jewish music – from Carlebach to Zorn and everything in
between – through the lens of the Afrobeat funk master Fela Anikulapo Kuti” is
scheduled to perform at the 17th Annual Washington Jewish Music
Festival.”
2016:
“A Tale of Love and Darkness” based on the novel by Amos Oz is scheduled to
shown on the closing night of the 4th Annual Israel Film Center.
2016:
The Center for Jewish History and the Leo Baeck Institute are scheduled to host
“From Vienna to New York” Jewish Exiles Remember ‘Austria’ in the Aftermath of
Holocaust” – “a discussion between scholars of Jewish –Austrian culture and
former Jewish-Austrian exiles on how ‘Old Austria’ is remembered in the United
States today.”
2016:
All decent human beings are in mourning over those killed in yesterday’s
terrorist that took place “at the restaurant-laden Sarona compound, across from
the Kirya military headquarters” in Tel Aviv and pray for the full recovery of
those who were wounded during the shooting spree.
2017:
“Leonid Slutsky will look to become the first Russian coach to manage in the
English Premier League after taking charge of second-tier Hull today.
2017:
“A proposed budget cut by President Donald Trump of $3 million to the US
Holocaust Memorial Museum has sparked a bipartisan backlash in the nation’s
capital” which led “sixty-four members of Congress to send a letter to the
president today demanding the budget proposal be amended to maintain the
museum’s current funding levels, while Anti-Defamation League chief Jonathan
Greenblatt issued a statement calling the cuts “a mistake.”
2017: “The Women’s Balcony,” the “number one film
of the year in Israel” is scheduled to open Kew Gardens and Malverne, NY.
2017:
“¿Que haré yo con esta espada?” (“And what will I do with this sword?”), “a 4.5
hour performance with two intermissions” is scheduled to be performed today, at
Sherover Hall, Jerusalem Theater.
2017:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host an after presentation
by Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield speaking on 'Between radical acceptance and Tikkun
olam: Rabbi Akiva's journey through an imperfect world.'
2017:
“Letters from Baghdad,” “the true story of Gertrude Bell and Iraq” is scheduled
to premiere in Metropolitan Washington.
2017:
In New York, Town and Village Synagogue is scheduled to host “20s & 30s
Broadway Shabbat.”
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/20s-30s-broadway-shabbat-tickets-34146246342?aff=erelexpmlt
2018(26th of Sivan, 5778):
Parashat Shelach-Lecha;
2018:
“Don’t Forget Me” is scheduled to be shown at the International Film Festival
at Long Beach Island, NJ.
2018(26th
of Sivan, 5778): Ninety-two year old American photographer Clemens Kalischer,
the Bavarian born son of physiotherapist “Ella (Norden) Kalischer” and
psychoanalyst Hans Kalischer and the husband of Angela Kalischer passed
away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
http://forward.com/articles/175376/photographer-clemens-kalischer-survived-holocaust/?p=all
https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/462/the-work-of-clemens-kalischer
2018:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to hold Shabbat services this
morning after which “freshers are invited to the Chaplain’s house for a hot,
home cooked lunch,” while sharing their stories from their first year at
Oxford.
2018:
Lovers of Literature are scheduled to “celebrate” the ninth anniversary of the
founding of Tablet.
2019: The New York Times featured reviews of books
by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth by
Josh Levin, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialize World by David Epstein and
the recently released paperback edition of The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner and Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and
Everything Else) by Ken Auletta, “the son of an Italian-American father and
a Jewish-American mother.”
2019: After a month, this evening, the Serenbe Playhouse
is scheduled to host the final performance of “Ragtime,” “the Tony
Award-winning musical based on E.L. Doctorow’s novel of the same name.”
2019: This morning Chabad of Iowa City, under the
leadership of Rabbi Avrohom Belsofsky is scheduled to host a reading of the Ten
Commandments followed by a family style dairy buffet.
2019(6th of Sivan, 5779): Shavuot
2020: The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to
host on-line Debbi Meyer as she lectures on The Trials of King David: Fallout.
2020: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled
to host a virtual poetry writing workshop inspired by “The New Colossus.”
2020: The Schusterman Center of Israel Studies is
scheduled to present online “Israel After the Elections: What’s Next?”
2020: The Israel Film Center Festival is scheduled to host
on-line a screening of “The Electrifiers” followed by a question-and-answer
session.
2020: San Francisco based JIMENA is scheduled to host
Iranian American Jewish journalist and activist Karmel Melamed provides a
virtual presentation about the lives Jews under Iran’s totalitarian government.
2020: An expert librarian from the Genealogy Institute at
the Center for Jewish History is scheduled host a lecture on Facebook on “how to Research Your Ancestor’s Town with the
Center's Online Resources.”
2020: The Combat Anti-Semitism Movement &
American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present: “How Muslims and Jews Can
Combat Anti-Semitism Together: A Dialogue with Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Al-Issa.”
2021: The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
is scheduled to present a “program about the response of German churches to the
rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.”
2021: Open Circle Jewish Learning is scheduled to
present, online, “Sabores de Sepharad: Exploring the Sephardic Jewish Community
Through Its Kitchen.”
2021: The North Shore Chamber Music Festival which
will feature “chamber music concerts directed by renowned violinist Vadim
Gluzman and concert pianist Angela Yoffe” is scheduled to being this evening.
2021: KlezCalifornia
is scheduled to presents games such as Jewish 20 questions, Jewish
Pictionary and Jewish word puzzles as part of a virtual “DrayMakhers: Play
Games with a Jewish Slant”
2021: Simon Goulden is scheduled to return to the
London School of Jewish studies “to continue his exploration of the history of
Anglo-Jewry.”
2021: The Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs
Convention is scheduled to continue today with a presentation on the Abayudaya
Jews of Uganda that features a documentary by Ari Beser which includes the
history of the community and how it is coping with the stress brought by the
Corona Virus.
2021: In today’s session of New Works Wednesdays
session, Dr. Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah is scheduled to “discuss her new book Baghdadi
Jewish Networks in the Age of Nationalism."
2022: The Alliance for Jewish Theatre is scheduled
to a “Community Conversation” on “Theaters” moderated by Leah Hamos.
2022: YIVO is scheduled to present as lecture by
Elias Pitegoff on “Modernist Form/Modern Hegemony: Reading the Politics of
Introspective Poetics.”
2022: In New Orleans, The Tulane University Hillel
is scheduled to hold its Board Meeting.
2022: The UK Jewish Film is scheduled to host the
initial screening of “Familie Brasch.”
2022: In London, Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre
is scheduled to present a lecture by Dr. Carlotta Ferra degli Uberti on
“Showcase Four Centuries of Italian Jewish History: Beyond the Ghetto.”
2023: Temple Judea is scheduled “Beach Shabbat at
Carlin Park led by Rabbi Yaron and Cantor Abbie.
2023: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to
host a food tour of the Lower East side that will include noshing on regulah,
pickles, knishes and dumplings.
2023: Kan Kol Hamuiska is scheduled to broadcast a
Young Artist Concert featuring Daria Vasileva, violin; Tom Mantel, viola; Noey
Gvili, Daphne Richman Poleg, cello and pianists Lior Lifshitz and Tomer
Kviatek,
2024: Volunteers’ Week 2024 is scheduled to come to
an end at The Wiener Holocaust Library.
2024: Elgin Hadassah is scheduled to host a lecture
by Michael Rothstein on “Antisemitism: A Difficult Conversation.”
2024: The 12th Annual Israel Festival at
the Marlene Mayerson JCC in Manhattan is scheduled to host screenings of “Seven
Blessings,” “The Future” and “A Room of His Own.”
2024: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host
a “visit historic Lower East Side sites and nosh on delicious rugelach,
pickles, knishes, and dumplings!”
2024: The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is
scheduled to hold its annual meeting.
2024; Israeli artist Gilad Erfat’s first solo show
in New York City is scheduled to come to an end at the Gordon Gallery.
2024: The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County
is scheduled to hold its annual meeting.
2024; Decent human beings everywhere revel in the
fact that “Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Shlomi Ziv and Andrey Kozlov, who were
abducted from the Nova music festival on October 7, are safely back in Israel
after being rescued in Operation Arnon.
2024: At the same time, all decent people mourn the death of Chief
Inspector Arnon Zamora, a Yamam commando who was critically wounded in the
rescue operation of hostages from central Gaza's Nuseira.
2024: The Nosher is scheduled to host its “first
online food festival” that will bring “together an array of renowned chefs,
restaurateurs and food historians for one incredible day of unique cooking
classes, demonstrations, and discussions.”
2024: The New York Times is scheduled to publish
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice by David S. Tatel.
2024:
President Brian Cohen, the latke king, is scheduled to expand his realm
as Temple Judah holds its annual President’s BBQ Dinner and congregational
meeting.
2024:
As June 9th begins in Israel, an
unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 247 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.)
