This Day, May 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 21
383:
As the emperor struggles to make Christianity the state religion of the Roman
Empire he promulgates a law that denies anybody who converts from Christianity
to another religion the right to make a will.
This law may have had some impact on the Jews, but the real target were
the Romans who sought to become pagans or Manichaens, followers of the Persian
prophet Mani. (Sometimes Jews are just
“collateral damage” in other people’s struggles for power)
878:
Syracuse is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily. This change from Christian
to Muslim rulers seems to have had little effect on the Jews of Syracuse.
Israelite traders who visited the ancient colony when it was ruled by the
Greeks were probably the first Jews to settle in Syracuse.
The
Jewish population grew after the destruction of the Second Temple when the
Romans brought Jewish slaves to Sicily.
Life for the Jews of Syracuse would take a negative turn in 1492 when
Sicily came under Spanish domination.
996:
Otto III begins his reign as Holy Roman Emperor which included modern day
Germany. Records exist that show Jews
had been living in Cologne during the reign of Otto’s predecessor, Otto II and
the community grew enough so that a synagogue was constructed in the first
decade of the 11th century.
1529:
Thirty Jews were burned in Bosnia, Hungary
1577:
Portuguese Marranos were granted permission to settle in Brazil
1662:
Catherine of Braganza, the Portuguese born wife King Charles II of England who
brought Portuguese native Fernando Mendes to serve as her personal physician
which made it possible for him to begin living openly as a Jew, began her reign
as Queen Consort of England, Scotland and Ireland..
1671:
Frederick William the Hohenzollern the Margrave of Brandenburg readmitted the
Jews to his domain including the capital at Berlin. Although they were
permitted to live and trade where they wished they had to pay a protection tax
of 8 Thalers, and a gold florin for every wedding and funeral. In addition,
Jews were not allowed to sell their houses to other Jews and were only
permitted to have prayer rooms but no Synagogues.
1674: John
Sobieski was elected by the nobility to be the King of Poland. The Jews of the
Polish town of Przemysl had suffered economic reverses and had been forced to
borrow from nobles prior to John Sobieski’s coming to the throne. In 1678, there was a major fire in the Jewish
section of Premysl and the King John granted them special dispensation from
their debt re-payment so that they could rebuild their portion of the town.
King John would make further extensions for his Jewish subjects because he was concerned
that they would leave the kingdom and take their mercantile and managerial
skills with them.
1759: Thirteen
year old Sampson Gideon, the son of Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron
Eardley, “a Jewish banker” and advisor to the British government, was “created
a baronet today.
1760(6th of
Sivan, 5520): As England and France clash during the Seven Years War, British
Jews observe the First Day of Shavuot.
The Jews had been expelled from France so there was nobody in Paris to
observe the festival.
1768(5th
of Sivan, 5528): Parashat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot
1769(14th
of Iyar, 5529): Pesach Sheni is observed a week after Charles III of Spain had
sent out Spanish missionaries, who found missions in San Diego, Santa Barbara,
San Francisco and Monterey which meant the Inquisition could come to what is
now the state of California.
1772(18th
of Iyar, 5532): Lag B’Omer
1772: In
Boston, MA, Single Copley and the former Susanna Clarke gave birth to John
Singleton Copley, the 1st Baron Lyndhurst who in 1852, as a member
of the House of Lords favored a bill design to remove the disabilities imposed
upon persons refusing to take the “oaths of abjuration” which kept Jews from
serving in the House of Commons.
1779(6th
of Sivan, 5539): Shavuot is observed as Benedict Arnold is beginning his
betrayal of the forces arrayed against the British in the American fight for
independence.
1796: In
London, New York native Joseph Hart Myers and the former Leah Jacobs gave birth
to Naphtali Hart Myers.
1798(6th
of Sivan, 5558): Two days before the Society of United Irishman, a group
including Protestants and Catholics start a rebellion against British rule,
Jews observe the First Day of Shavuot
1798: In
Charleston, SC Marks Lazarus and his wife gave birth to Emma Lazarus (not to be
confused with the poet of the same name)
1799: French
troops under Napoleon retreated from Acre thus ending a two months siege of the
Ottoman held city. The retreat marked
the end of Napoleon’s dream of an eastern empire which included a promise to
the local Jews that Palestine would become their home.
1802: Benjamin
Moses Van Praagh married Elizabeth Joseph Speyer today in the United Kingdom.
1809(6th
of Sivan): As the Napoleon faces the Austrians on the first day of the Battle
of Aspern-Essling, Jews observe the first day of Shavuot
1813:
Birthdate of English “engineer and politician” Jacob d’Aguilar Samuda, the
“younger son of Abraham Samuda” and brother of Jacob Samuda with whom he formed
Samuda Brothers and who was both an MP and the husband Louisa Samuda with whom
he had one daughter, Ada.
1814(2nd of
Sivan): Rabbi Aryeh Leib Berlin passed away
1817(6th
of Sivan, 5577): For the first time during the Presidency of the newly
inaugurated James Monroe, Jews in the United States observe Shavuot.
1819: Sander
bar Aharon’s wife Rosey Aaron who passed away yesterday was buried today at the
Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1820:
Elizabethtown, NJ farmer and United States consul to St. Thomas Judge David
Naar, the son of Hazan Joshua Naar and Sarah Naar and his wife Sarah Cohen Naar
gave birth to Joshua Naar.
1820 (NS):
Birthdate of Nikolaus von Giers, who served as Foreign Minister while Alexander
III promulgated the infamous May Laws.
1823: In
Naples, Carl Mayer von Rothschild and Adelheid von Rothschild gave birth to
Adolph Carl (Karl) Rothschild
1826(14th
of Iyar, 5586): Pesach Sheni observed as the Turks appear to be successful in
putting down the Greek revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
1827:
Birthdate of Hermann Byk, the son of Alexander Mendel Byk.
1829(18th
of Iyar, 5589): Lag B’Omer
1829: Jacob
Ansell married Rachel Isaacs at the Great Synagogue today.
1829: In
Frankfurt-on-Main Solomon Michael Geiger, the eldest brother of Abraham Geiger
and his wife gave birth to philosopher and philologist Lazarus Geiger
1832: In
Charleston, SC, Abraham Moise and Caroline Moses gave birth to Edwin Warren
Moise. A Sephardic Jew whose family had made its way from Alsace to the French
Caribbean before settling in South Carolina’s major seaport, pursued a career
as a lawyer, soldier in the CSA and adjutant general in the post-Civil War
Palmetto State. (As reported by Robert N. Rosen)
http://sc150civilwar.palmettohistory.org/edu/people/Moise-EdwinW.htm
1836(5th
of Sivan, 5595): Erev Shabbat; Parsashat Bamidbard
1837: In
Edenkoben, Germany, Daniel and Rebecca Scheuer Wolff gave birth to Athalia
Wolff Frank, the wife of Eleazer W. Frank with whom she had three children –
Benjamin, Matilda and Fannie.
1837: In
Columbia, SC, Jacob Cohen Lyons and Louisa Elizabeth Lyons gave birth to future
New Orleans resident Isaac Lazarus Lyons, the husband of Eva Lyon and the
father of Dr. Randolph, George and Isaac Lyons,
1841(18th
of Iyar,5600): Lag BaOmer
1843: In
Plymouth England, Rose Woolf and Josiah Solomon gave birth to Henry Solomon, the husband of Harriet Simon who was one of the founders of the
Montefiore Home and Hospital, one of the founders of the Jewish Protectory and
Hawthorne School in Hawthorne, NY, one of the founders and director of the
United Hebrew Charities of New York and a member of Temple Emanu-El in New York
City.
1844: Nathan
Elias married Sarah Moses at the Great Synagogue in London.
1845(14th
of Iyar, 5606): Pesach Sheni observed members of a convention gather in Texas
to vote on joining the Union.
1847(6th
of Sivan, 5607): Shavuot
1848(18th
of Iyar, 5608): Lag B’Omer
1848: Lazarus
Jacobs married Ann Isaacs at the Great Synagogue in London on the first day
when allowed by Jewish tradition. (See above)
1848: In
Vilna, Joshua Distillator and his wife gave birth to Samuel E. Distillator, the
cantor at Congregation Beth Tefillah in New York City.
1849: Montague
M. Hendricks, the New York born son of Frances and Harman Hendricks and his
wife Rachel Seixas Nathan gave birth to Adele Hendricks who died in infancy.
1850:
Birthdate of Hermann Frenkel, the Danzig born banker who also a noted art
collector.
1852: The
New York Times reported that in Germany “the citizens of ‘Luboc’ have
referred to a committee a decree of the Senate” that would place Jews on an
equal footing with other citizens.”
1853: The
New York Times reported that the Trieste Gazette had published a
letter from Jerusalem dated March 27 in which it described the outbreak of
violence between English missionaries and a group of Jews on March 24. The missionaries had gathered in front of the
Great Synagogue and while the Jews were praying inside, they began giving
“speeches against the Jews and the Talmud.
A Jew threw a cat at one of the missionaries which sparked a fight
between the two groups. Eventually, the
English retreated and the Chief Rabbi went to the European consular officials
to protest the offensive behavior.
1854: The Washington Sentinel printed an
editorial entitled “The Jews as Citizens” which said that the “the absence of
applications for relief was…not an index of Jewish affluence” but a result of
the Jewish community providing for the financial needs of their co-religionist.
After noting that Jews were absent from the jails and poorhouses, the
editorialist concluded that Jews “are among the best, most orderly well
disposed of our citizens.”
1857: The USS
Minnesota on which Adolph Marix would serve in 1880, was commissioned today.
1863: Fifty-eighty-year-old
Culling Eardley whose support of the Jaffa to Jerusalem railway was based on
his belief that “the railway would serve Christen missionary activity” caused
Moses Montefiore to back away from the project, passed away today.
1864(15th
of Iyar, 5624): Parashat Behar was read on the same day that the two week
segment of Grant’s Overland Campaign, known as the Battle of Spotsylvania, came
to end with Lee’s Army still uncaptured but being forced ever further back on
Richmond.
1864:
Birthdate of George Moses Price, the husband of Anna Kopkin and the native of Poltava who came to the NYC in
1882 where he earned a medical degree from New York University and became a
leader in the field of sanitation.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05244.html
1866(7th
of Sivan, 5626): Second Day of Shavuot
1866: In
Baltimore, MD, Max White and Annie Lewin gave birth to Henry “Harry” White a
labor leader in the garment industry who has served as general secretary of the
United Garment Workers of America (AFL) which he help to found since 1896 and
is the Editor of The Garment Worker and
The Weekly Bulletin of the Clothing Trade.
1866: The
New York Times features a review of “Lectures on the History of the Jewish
Church Part II” by Arthur P. Stanley in which the author traces the history of
the Jews from Samuel to the Captivity.
1868:
Birthdate of Heinrich Brody (German) or Bródy Henrik (Hungarian) “a Hungarian
(after 1918 Czechoslovakian) rabbi. He was born in Ungvár, a town historically
part of Hungary, now of the Ukraine. He was a descendant of Abraham Broda.
Educated in the public schools of his native town and at the rabbinical
colleges of Tolcsva and Pressburg, Hungary, Brody also studied at the
Hildesheimer Theological Seminary and at the University of Berlin, being an
enthusiastic scholar of the Hebrew language and literature. He was for some
time secretary of the literary society Mekiẓe Nirdamim, and in 1896 founded the
"Zeitschrift für Hebräische Bibliographie", of which he was coeditor
with A. Freiman. Brody was the rabbi of the congregation of Náchod, Bohemia and
chief rabbi of Prague (both cities then part of Austria-Hungary), before moving
to Palestine. In Czechoslovakia, he was the leader of the Mizrachi movement. He
passed away in 1942.
1870:
Birthdate of Sarah Vasen, the first Jewish woman doctor in Los Angeles and
first superintendent and resident physician of Kaspare Cohn Hospital (later
Cedars-Sinai Hospital) (As reported by Julie Beardsley)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nholdeneditor/Sarah%20Vasen.htm
1871: Reverend
Howard Crosby delivered an address to group interested in the exploration of
the Holy Land. During his speech he
described plans for an upcoming expedition that hoped to find “the actual tombs
of the Kings, the ark of the covenant and the tables of stone written on by the
fingers of God…”
1872: It was
reported today that the U.S. House of Representatives adopted a motion by Mr.
Cox, requesting the President to join with the Italian government in its
protest against the intolerance and cruelty practiced towards the Jews of
Romania.
1872: One day
after he had passed away, 73 year old Abraham Edmon, the son of Eliaser Abraham
and Kitty Emdon, the husband of Lydia David and father of Eleanor Emdon was
buried today at the “Plymouth Hoe Burial Ground.
1872:
Mr. Benjamin J. Hart presided over tonight’s annual meeting of the Convention
of the Board of Delegates of American Israelites which was held at the
Forty-fourth-street Synagogue in New York City. The deteriorating condition of
the Jews of Romania dominated most of the evening’s discussion. A letter that Secretary of State Hamilton
Fish had sent to the United States Consul at Bucharest instructing him to
intercede with Romanian government was read to the convention. The delegates outlined a plan of action to
help bring pressure on the Romanians and created a Committee on Immigration to
help those who had been forced to flee to the United States due to the
persecution in Eastern Europe. The
delegates voted to hold the next annual convention in Washington, D.C.
1872:
The Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin reported that General Henry C. Wayne who
had served the Confederacy as the Adjutant-General of Georgia during the Civil
War, was supporting Grant over Horace Greely in the upcoming Presidential
election. In explaining Southern support for the General who defeated them he
wrote, “We cannot stand being carried in the pockets of a foreign Jew banker
though Tammany finds it a profitable investment.” [The “foreign Jew banker may have been a
reference to August Belmont, who was Chairman of the Democratic Party after the
Civil War. He resigned the post
following the Presidential election of 1872.]
1872:
Charles Netter wrote a letter today describing how pupils from Mikveh Israel
who had spent Passover with their parents in Jerusalem “were subject to
persecutions and publicly vilified.”
According to Netter, the parents were urged to withdraw their children
by Rabbis who did not object to Jewish children being sent to schools run by
Protestant missionaries. The rabbinic objection to attendance at Mikveh Israel,
was based on a fear that they would get less in the way of Halukkah funds.
Halukkah refers to funds collected in the galut to support Jews living in
Palestine; a collection that dated back to the Middle Ages. Founded in 1870, Mikveh Israel was the first
agricultural school operated by the Alliance Israelite Universelle.
1874(5th
of Sivan, 5634): Erev Shavuot
1874: In what
is now the Czech Republic, David and Eva Low and his wife Helene Low gave birth
Sofie Low.
1876: “The
Temple At Jerusalem,” published today reported that more has been written about
The Temple in Jerusalem than any other building in history and that most of it
has been totally inaccurate. The article
included references to modern efforts to map the Temple Mount including
Frederick Catherwood’s survey in 1833 and the even more accurate work done by
Captain Charles Wilson in 1864 and 1865.
1876: Judge
P.J. Joachimsen of New York presided over today’s annual convention of the
Board of Delegates of American Israelites in Philadelphia, PA. The report of the executive committee dealt
primarily with the conditions of the Jews of Palestine and Roumania. During the
afternoon, the delegates visited a Jewish hospital and in the evening elected
officers to serve during the coming year.
1876: In
Detroit, Michigan, David W. Simons and his wife gave birth to University of
Michigan trained attorney Charles C. Simons and husband of Lillian Bernstein
who was appointed by President Harding to serve as a U.S. District Judge in February
1923.
1878(18th of
Iyar, 5638): Lag B'Omer
1878:
Birthdate of Odessa native and Menshevik leader Lydia Dan, the sister Julius
Martov and the wife of Fyodor Dan who fell afoul of Lenin’s Bolsheviks and went
into exile in 1923, which given the purges of the 1930’s probably saved her
life.
1879:
Birthdate of Ada Rosenthal Salus the wife of University of Pennsylvania trained
lawyer and Republican political leader Samuel Salus and the mother of Arthur S.
Salus.
1881: The
American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.
Washington businessman Adolphus Simeon Solomons, a member of a prominent
Sephardic family, played a key role in the founding of the humanitarian
organization. In fact, Clara Barton
called him her "good vice president and kind counselor."
1883(14th
of Iyar, 5643): Pesach Sheni
1883:
Birthdate of Warsaw native and Syracuse, NY resident David M. Holstein, the
husband of Mrs. Viola Holstein with whom he had three daughters and one son and
“a founder and chairman of the board of the Syracuse Ornamental Company” who “a
board member of the Syracuse General Hospital and a founder of the Syracuse
Symphony Orchestra.”
1885(7th
of Sivan, 5645): 2nd day of Shavuot, Yizkor
1885: In
Lithuania, Morris J. and Sarah I. (Berkson) Paulive gave birth to Samuel E.
Paulive, the husband of Miriam Cauman,who came to the United States in 1897,
settled in Massachusetts and became a real estate and insurance broker as well
as a member of the Jewish Welfare Board and the YMHA.
1886: Construction was begun today for a new Sephardic
synagogue to be used by the Moses Montefiore Congregation.
1886: In Birmingham, AL Emma Washer and Jacob Bandman
gave birth to University of Alabama trained attorney Chester Gabriel Bandman an
husband of Lottie Coplan who was member
of Temple Emanu El in Birmingham and starting in 1925 the Educational Director
of Congregation Rodef Shalom in Pittsburgh, PA
1886(16th of Iyar): David Gordon who was born
in Vilna in 1831 and was both a supporter of Hibbat Zion and an editor for
HaMaggid, the first Hebrew newspaper passed away today. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/gordon.html
1889: Rabbi
David Levy officiated at the wedding of Walter Irving Harby of Sumter, SC and
Jacqueline Ellen Levy the daughter of Charles F. Levy at the Hasell Street
Synagogue.
1889: The
Moses Montefiore Congregation was dedicated in Bloomington, Illinois at a
ceremony which began at four o’clock this this afternoon, erev Shabbat.
1890: The
Board of Estimate and Apportionment authorized the transfer of $30,000 from
last year’s balances to be used for the furnishing of the new school to be
opened in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum Building on 77th Street near 3rd
Avenue.
1890: Today,
Marcus M. Marks, president of several clothing industry trade associations and
future Manhattan Borough President married “suffragist Esther Friedman” the
mother of his son Johnny Marks, who ironically wrote “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”
1891: The
manager of a “‘Shelter,’ an institution established for the reception” of
Russian Jews arriving in England disputed claims that a large number destitute
refugees are arriving in his country.
According to him, on average, only 20 destitute Jews arrive each week
and nine-tenths of them move on to the United States “or the English colonies.”
The Shelter provides them with enough funds so that they can show they are
capable of earning a living once they arrive at their final destinations.
1892: Among
the bills that the Governor Flowers of New York allowed to die today was one
introduced by Assemblyman Stein that would have provided a tax exemption for
the Hebrew Children’s Sanitarium at Rockaway Beach.
1892: In New
Orleans, LA, Helena and A.H. Gernsbacher gave birth to Myrtle Viola Gernsbacher
who became Viola Gernsbacher Brav when she married JTS and Hebrew Union College
educated Rabbi Louis Brav, who was the Rabbi at Temple Sinai in Lake Charles,
LA and a Professor of Romance Languages at Lawrence College in Appleton,
Wisconsin.
1892: Max
Cohen has just released by the annual report of the Maimonides Library.
1893(6th
of Sivan, 5653): Shavuot
1893:
Birthdate of New York native and New
York College of Dentistry graduate Dr. Herman L. Reiss, the WW I veteran and
“consulting oral surgeon at Sydenham Hospital.”
1893: There
were a number of Polish and Russian Jews among the three hundred steerage
passengers aboard the SS Amalfi which had sailed from Hamburg and arrived at
Ellis Island today.
1895: It was
reported today that a congregation that has been worshipping at 116 Siegel
Street in Brooklyn for several years has been ordered to pay its back rent to
the landlord.
1897(19th
of Iyar, 5657): Eighty-two year old Solomon Solomon Nunes Carvalho, the native
of Charleston, SC and husband of Sarah Miriam Carvalho passed away today in
Pleasantville, NY
1897(19th
of Iyar, 5657): Thirty-eight-year-old Hetty Barret Levy, the Charleston born
daughter of Laura Louise Levy and Charles Ferdinand Levy passed away today in
New York City.
1898(29th
of Iyar, 5658): Parashat Bamidbar
1898: In
Chicago, Fred and Hattie University gave birth to Cornell University graduate
and President of the Chicago Board of Trade Richard Frederick Uhlmann, the
husband of Rosamond Goldman with whom he had three children – Audrey, Janis and
Frederick
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/14/obituaries/richard-f-uhlmann-grain-dealer-91.html
1898: William
O. Cohn began his service with the U.S. Navy
1898:
Richmond residents Nathan Bernstein, Harry Bernstein, Isidore Cohen and Jack
Flegenhiemer were among those who joined the U.S. Military when federal
government began the process of mustering the 2nd Virginia Volunteer
Infantry in the service of the United States.
1898: The will
of Aaron Hershfield, which contained bequests to numerous Jewish charities was
executed today naming his son-in-law Daniel P. Hays and his sons Levi N. and
Mitchell Hershfield as executors.
1898: In New
York City, Julius and Rose (Lipshitz) Hammer gave birth to businessman Armand
Hammer the owner of Occidental Petroleum who was also an art collector and
philanthropist.
1899(12th
of Sivan, 5659): Forty-nine year old Leopold S. Levy, a salesman who lived with
his wife on West 26th Street
passed away today in the New York Hospital after having had his skull fractured “at his
home by a crowd of boisterous young men who struck him with a lobster and a tin
can.”
1899: Mrs.
Leopold S. Levy, the wife of the late Leopold S. Levy is in critical condition
at New York Hospital after having been brought there by a janitress at her
tenement who thwarted her attempt to commit suicide by taking laudanum..
1899: Dr.
Felix Adler is scheduled to officiate at the funeral of Julius Hirsch, a native
of Germany who was a partner in the tobacco firm of Hirsch, Victorious &
Co.
1899: The
Hebrew Technical Institute was among the many organizations that endorsed the
Women’s Memorial presented to the just completed Peace Conference held in New
York City.
1899: The
Hebrew Free School Associated hosted the confirmation exercises today for the
118 boys and girls who had completed the six year course of study.
1900(22nd
of Iyar, 5660): After having irreparably damaged his health a year ago while
helping to put out a fire at Virginia Tech, 19-year-old David Jacobs passed
away today at his parent’s home in Richmond.
1900: Herzl
turns to Prime Minister Ernest von Koerber to intervene for the Rumanian Jews
who have no permission to cross the border to Austria.
1900:
Anti-Semitic riots broke out in Stolp and Bütow
1901: Herzl
dictates the résumé "for the special benefit of the weak understanding of
His Imperial Majesty of the Khalifate."
1901: In
Harlem, Russian immigrant Hannah and Max Jaffe gave birth to the fourth and
youngest child, producer and agent Sam Jaffe.
1902(14th
of Iyar, 5662): Pesach Sheni
1902:
Birthdate of Mikhail Anatol Litvak, the native of Kiev and refugee from Nazi
German who gained as American filmmaker Anatole Litvak who directed several
films with future Oscar winner but whose finest cinematic moments may have been
the making of a series of film warning of the Nazi menace and the “Why We Fight” series.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anatole-Litvak
1903: During a
conversation on this date, Dr. Cyrus Adler of the Smithsonian Institution,
Secretary of the International Jewish Association, and editor of the Jewish
Year Book, discussed the massacre of Jews in Russia, including the official
utterances on the subject by Count Cassinf, the Russian Ambassador.
1904(7th
of Sivan, 5664): Second day of Shavuot, Yizkor
1904: Herzl
returns to Vienna after an unsuccessful therapy in Franzensbad.
1905:
Birthdate of grocery store owner Arnold Kohn, the native of Dobrovac (now part
of Croatia) and Auschwitz survivor whose community work earned him the “Medal
of the Socialist Alliance of Working People.”
1905:President
Edwin Wolfe presided over the “annual meeting of the Jewish Publication Society
of America” held this afternoon in the Assembly Hall of Keneseth Israel in Philadelphia.
1905(16th
of Iyar, 5665): Seventy-eight-year-old German born St. Louis hat merchant Jonas
Meyberg, the husband of Emma Kornick Meyberg and the father of Bertha, Mitchel,
Eugene, Jacob Aimee and Sadiess Meyberg passed away today after which he was
buried in the New Mount Sinia Cemetery.
1906: It was
reported today that the Y.M.H.A. whose employment bureau has filled 593 jobs
will be lead by Directors Dr. Louis Fischer, Simon Gottschall, Kaufman Mandel,
Julius Mayers, Rabbi F. De Sola Mendes, William Brager and Henry F. Toch for
the next three years.
1907: The
proprietors of the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel in Atlantic City apologized to
Bertha Rayner Frank for her experience with anti-Jewish discrimination at their
hotel.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/may/21/1907/bertha-rayner-frank
1907: In
Amsterdam, Alexander Polak, violin builder and concertmaster of the
Concertgebouw Orchestra, and Janet Kiek, who founded the first Home Economics
Budget Bureau gave birth to Fred Polak “one of the founding fathers of future
studies…best known for theorizing the central role of imagined alternative
futures in his classic work The Image of the Future.”
1908: It was
reported today the William Hammerstein, the son of Oscar Hammerstein “has
engaged the Kremo Family, the famous European acrobats to open at the Roof
Garden on July 6” in what will be their first appearance in the United States.
1909:
Birthdate of Guy Édouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild the Parisian who was the
son of Baron Édouard de Rothschild, who had headed the bank before Baron Guy,
and the great-grandson of James, who founded the French branch of the
Rothschild empire in 1812 (As reported by Paul Lewis)
1910: It was
reported today that the American Jewish Committee has issued a stating that the
victims of the expulsions from Kiev and Moscow which have been ordered by the
Russian government “will be driven into the already crowded cities of the Pale
or forced to emigrate, the United States may expect a large” increase in the
“immigration of Russian Jews within the next few months as the measures of
repression concern not only Moscow and Kiev but practically all other cities
outside he Pale in which Jews have been living, many of them for generations.”
1910:
Birthdate of Luisa Kramer who became Luisa Abrahams when she married Sir
Charles Myer Abrahams.
http://www.radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/lady-luisa-abrahams-a-truly-remarkable-life-1
1911(23rd
of Iyar, 5671): Eighty-five-year-old Solomon Belais, the son of Rabbi Abraham
Belais and Naomi Belais and the husband of Jael Belais passed away in New York.
1912(5th
of Sivan, 5672): Erev Shavuot
1912: David
Defilipov, a chemist who was born in the Ukraine, immigrated to the United
States at the beginning of the twentieth century and Sonia née Gerdstein, gave
birth to “singer, director, producer and impresario Edis De Philippe, who
founded the Israel National Opera Company in 1947 and ran it with an iron hand
until her death.” (Jewish Women’s Archives)
1913(14th
of Iyar, 5673): Pesach Sheni
1913(14th
of Iyar, 5673): Sixty-five year old merchant Herman Shwarz passed away today in
Napa, CA.
1913: “While
the Fulton County Grand Jury was considering evidence of the murder of 14 year
old Mary Phagan today, disclosures showed that the case had become entangled in
a local political fight involving the war that has been waged against Chief of
Police Beavers.”
1913(14th
of Iyar, 5673): Fifty-nine year old wholesale grocer Isaac Horner passed a way
today in Chicago.
1914: In
Vilna, Mina Owczyńska,a Litvak actress from Švenčionys and Arieh-Leib Kacew a
businessman from Trakai gave birth to Roman Kacew who gained fame a novelist
Romain Gary.
1914: “The
charge of ‘ritual murder’ in connection with the killing last December 9 of
Yoshel Pashkoff at Fastoff, 40 miles from Kiev, was abandoned today by the
Public Prosecutior” since “after investigation authorities decided that the
murder was an ordinary crime.”
1915: Rabbi
Leventhal is scheduled to deliver a talk at the semi-annual examinations of the
Hebrew Free School in Camden, NJ.
1915: “Judge
Arthur G. Powell, a former member of the State Court of Appeals” wrote to
Govern Slaton and the Prison Commission declaring his conviction that Leo M.
Frank did not murder Mary Phagan” and “as an intimate friend of the late Judge
Roan who presided at Frank’s Trial” asserted “that Judge Roan did not believe
Frank was guilty.”
1915: Samuel
Sonnenschein who has been locked up in Ludlow Street Jail “because he could not
pay a judgment for $169” was still a prisoner tonight despite “efforts” being
“made by the United Hebrew Charities to get a surety bond for him.”
1915: As of
today, “there are said to be several hundred petitions in circulation in
Atlanta” and hundreds of others” in the rest of the state asking Governor
Slaton to commute Leo Frank’s death sentence
1916(18th
of Iyar, 5676): Lag B’Omer
1916:
Birthdate of Joseph Janni, the native of Milan who immigrated to England in
1939 and after a brief internment on the Isle of Man began decades-long career
as a British movie producer.
1916:
U. of Michigan trained attorney Arthur Marowitz, the Omaha born son of Harry
and Anna Marowitz who served as the Director of the Assoc. Jewish Charities,
the Secretary of the Jewish War Victims Relief committee and the organizer and
president of the El Dorado Lodge of B’nai B’rith married Esther Epstein, the
mother of his son “Milton Harley.”
1916:
“Histadrut Ibrith,” an organization dedicated to the “revival of the Hebrew
Language and Culture” was organized today with offices in New York City
1916:
Birthdate of novelist Harold Robbins author of a series of bestsellers
including Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers and Betsy.
1916: The
Hebrew Sheltering Home was dedicated in Chicago, Illinois.
1916: The
Jewish Home for the Aged was dedicated in New Haven, CT.
1916: The
Central Jewish Institute was dedicated in New York City.
1917: Mr.
Louis Marshal had come to Chicago to “address the War Sufferers’ mass meeting”
spoke at luncheon at the Hotel La Salle sponsored by the Chicago Branch of the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America which was attended by Mrs. Benjamin
Davis, Max Schulman, Nathan D. Kaplan, S.P. Platt, Nathan Shure and A.S. Roe
among others.
1917: In
London, Solomon Kirsten, the husband of Sarah Kirsten with whom he had had
eight children was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”
1917: The
Great Atlanta Fire destroyed over 300 acres and 2,000 homes in Georgia and the
South’s leading metropolis. The fire was confined primarily to the city’s
Fourth Ward, which had a significant Jewish population on its north side.
Following the fire Rich’s, the Jewish owned department store “assisted bereaved
customers financially, even providing burial clothes for many of the victims”
without regard to whom they were.
1918:
According to the Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs,
the German People’s Party is pressuring the government to close “the old
frontiers of Germany” to any Jewish settlers coming from Poland, Courland and
Lithuania, all of which have been occupied by the German Army during the course
of the World War.
1919(21st
of Iyar, 5679): In Pittsburgh, Jacob Affelder, the husband of Kate Affelder and
the father of Minnie, Morris, Louis, Oscar, William and Harry Affelder passed
away today.
1920:
“Mourning Turned to Thanksgiving in Jerusalem” published today reported that
“the shofar was sounded in Jerusalem when the news of the restoration of the
Jewish National Homeland through Great Britain’s mandate over Palestine reached
the Jewish quarter of the Holy City, the first time in 2,000 years of Jewish
history that the trumpet of hope was ever heard outside of the ceremonies of
the two most sacred Jewish holidays, the Day of Atonement and the New Year.”
1921(11th
of Iyar): Author Akiva Fleischman passed away.
1921:
“Hundreds of Ku Klux Klansmen marched through downtown Dallas, singing “Onward
Christian Soldiers” as they passed the Majestic Theatre” during a decade when
the Jewish community feared for its physical well-being as this hood band of
rightwing bigots and racist exercised political power based on the same kind of
coercion and nativism that would wash across the streets of Germany in the
1930’s.
1921:
Birthdate of New York art dealer and historian Louis Pollack.
1921:
Birthdate of Harold Lane David, the son of Jewish immigrant who owned a
Brooklyn delicatessen owner, later known as Hal David the award winning
lyricist who created such musical questions as What’s it all about?,” “What’s
new, pussycat?,” “Do you know the way to San Jose?” and “What do you get when
you fall in love?,” (As reported by Rob Hoerburger)
1921: Luigi
Luzzatti, the scion of wealthy Vennitian Jewish family completed his service as
Minister of the Treasury today.
1922:
Birthdate of Eugene Harold Ehrlich, a self-educated lexicographer who wrote 40
dictionaries, thesauruses and phrase books for the “extraordinarily literate,”
not to mention people just hoping to sound that way. (As reported by Douglas
Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/books/15ehrlich.html
1923(6th
of Sivan, 5683): Shavuot
1923: “Aren’t
We All?” a comedy featuring Leslie Howard premiered on Broadway today.
1923: For the
first time (but not the last) Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister of Great
Britain following the resignation of Arthur Bonar Law. Baldwin will serve in this capacity, off and
one throughout the 1920’s and 1930’s. He
is viewed as one of those politicians who turned a blind eye to the rise of
Hitler and Mussolini and thus helped to bring on World War II with all that
that would mean for the Jewish people.
On the other hand, in 1938, a year after he left office, Baldwin “led a
major appeal to provide financial assistance for Jewish refugees from Nazi
brutality.”
1923: Seventy-five-year-old
Ferdinand Esterhazy, the French officer who was the traitor selling secrets to
the Prussians – a crime for which Dreyfus was wrongfully convicted – died
today.
1924:
University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murdered
14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing." The two killers and their victim were all
members of wealthy Jewish families.
1925: Lord
Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer is named High Commissioner in Palestine. Born in
1857, Plumer had a long, distinguished career in the British Army. He
actually was one of the few competent commanding officers on the Western Front
during World War I and was promoted to the rank of Field Marshall after the
Armistice. The appointment to Palestine came when he was 68 and lasted
until 1928. He proved to be a capable administrator who resisted Arab
attempts to undermine the terms of the Mandate. The economic downturn
that occurred during his tenure was not of his making. He returned to England
where he served in the House of Lords until his death in 1932.
1926: S. Stanwood
Meken, the Jewish born son of Memphis clothier and “founder of the National Security
League” an a convert to Christianity declared in an address tonight that the
winners of the National Oratorical Contest were “the future protectors of
America.
1926: “David
M. Bressler, Acting Chairman of the United Jewish Campaign, sent a message
yesterday, to the 1,500 workers to aim to put the $6,000,000 drive over the top
by $250,000 by May 24.”
1927: National
Jewish Book is scheduled to begin today.
1927: On the
day that Charles Lindbergh completed his trans-Atlantic flight, Jewish
businessman and airplane enthusiast Charles Levin announced that his airplane
would fly farther on a $15,000 transatlantic flight challenge from America to
Germany and carry a passenger.” Levine’s
plane had been sitting the hanger, grounded because of a court battle, when
Lindbergh had taken off for Paris.
Levine would accomplish his goal the following when he flew aboard the
Columbia, as a passenger while Clarence Chamberlin was at the controls.
1928: In
Newark, NJ, Dr. Ralph Shapiro and “the former Sylvia Smith, a reporter for the
Newark News” gave birth to Dorthea Shapiro who gained fame as “art historian
and critic” Dore Ashton. (As reported by William Grimes)
1928(2nd
of Sivan, 5688): Sixty-seven-year-old British born American drama critic Alan
Dale, the husband of Carrie L Frost and father of Margaret Dale, who had
changed his name from Alfred J. Cohen passed away today while traveling on a
train headed for his native Birmingham, England
1928: “The
first Pacific Coast Jewish Social Service Conference” under the chairmanship of
Mrs. M.C. Sloss” opened this evening at Yosemite Valley, CA marking “the first
time that representatives of all Jewish social service agencies” serving the
entire Pacific coast from the border of Mexico to the border of Canada have
gathered together.
1928: A dinner
honoring Dr. H. Peretra Mendes was to have been held this evening. The dinner was postponed until October.
1928: The
House of Representatives is schedule to consider the Jenkins Bill which is
designed to grant enlarged preference within the
quota to the wives and children of aliens
1929:
“The upbuilding of Palestine” is scheduled to be the topic of discussion at
today at the second session of the annual convention of the Union of Orthodox
Rabbis of the United States and Canada being held in Belmar, NJ.
1929:
Today the ballet Le Fils Prodigue premiered
in Paris at the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt named “after the renowned actress Sarah
Bernhardt, who produced there from 1899 for nearly two decades.”
1930: Racecar driver Woolf Barnato, the son of Fanny Bees and Barney Barnato
took delivery on “a streamlined fastback” known as the “Sportsman Coup” which
“became known as the Blue Train Bentley.
1931(5th
of Sivan, 5691): Erev Of Shavuot
1931:
Today, “Bishop William T. Manning and Dr. S. Parkes Cadman joined in the appeal
for help for the American joint distribution committee’s campaign for one
million dollars for the relief of Jews in Eastern and Central Europe.
1932:
U.S. premiere of “Attorney for the Defense” produced by Harry Cohn with a
script co-authored by Jo Swerling.
1932:
“The Rich Are Always with Us” a romantic comedy produced by Samuel Bischoff was
released in the United States today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/05/22/102235467.html?pageNumber=11
1933: “An attack upon the treatment of Jews in Germany by
Chancellor Hitler and praise for Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General of the
League of Nations, for putting on the council's agenda a petition asking the
abrogation in Upper Silesia of all Hitlerite anti-Semitic laws and regulations
featured the second day of the emergency session of the American Jewish
Congress being held here in Washington.
1934(7th
of Sivan, 5694): Second Day of Shavuot
1934: The New
York Council of Mizrachi Youth of America is scheduled to hold a Shavuot
celebration tonight at 224 Henry Street with proceeds going toward the
Hachshara farm, a Mizrachi training camp for Palestinian pioneers.
1934: U.S.
premiere of “Murder at the Vanities” co-starring Kitty Carlisle.
1934: Dr. I.
Mortimer Bloom is scheduled to deliver a sermon today entitled "Pilgrims
of Eternity" at Temple Oheb Sholom on West 93rd Street.
1934: Rabbi
Milton Steinberg is scheduled to deliver a sermon entitled "Time and
Religion" at the Park Avenue Synagogue.
1934: Dr.
Samuel Benjamin is scheduled to deliver a sermon entitled "Jews Without
Memory;" at Congregation Hope of Israel in the Bronx.
1934: Rabbi
Solomon Reichman is scheduled to deliver a sermon entitled "Sinai-a Symbol
of Israel" at the Bronx Y. M. and Y. W. H. A.
1934: Rabbi
Robert Gordis is scheduled to officiate at Yizkor services today at Temple
Beth-El, Rockaway Park.
1934: Rabbi
Henry Fisher is schedule to deliver a sermon entitled “Belief and Practice” at
Congregation Derech Emunoh.
1934: “Murder
at the Vanities” a musical starring Kitty Carlisle was released in the United
States today.
1935: “Reichsfuehrer
Adolf Hitler decreed today an elastic universal military service law that gives
him virtually unlimited powers to draft for service all able-bodied non-Jewish
German men between the ages of 18 and 45.”
1936: A crowd
of Arabs fired from the hilltops on a Jewish-operated bus coming from Tel Aviv
seriously wounding a Jewish man and girl.
According to officials at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital, dum-dum bullets
had been used by the Arab attackers.
1936: Two
British soldiers were wounded by Arabs when the Cameron Highlanders were
attacked 12 miles outside of Jerusalem as they attempted to restore order along
the highway.
1936: It was
reported today, that in the wake of Arab attacks, “only 200 Jewish families out
of a former total Jewish population of 5,000 remained in the Old City.”
1937(11th
of Sivan, 5697): Seventy-two-year-old philanthropist Mrs. Reba C. May
Bamberger, a former member of the NYC Board of Education passed away today.
1937: It was
reported today that Lord Melchett, British industrialist and chairman of the
Council of the Jewish Agency in Palestine, declared at dinner sponsored by the
United Palestine Appeal that Palestine was the only hope of millions of Jews
facing mass destruction in Germany, Poland and other countries.
1938: In Poland, the ruling party adopted "13 articles
pertaining to Jewish affairs," stating that the Jews are 'an element which
hinders the normal development of the forces of the Polish nation and
state."
1939: In a
column published in Davar the pro-labor Hebrew language newspaper, David
Ben Gurion said of the White Paper, “This document is not the final word of the
British people. This document meanwhile
is only a proposal of their government.
The conscience of Britain and the whole world still can be awakened.”
[Ed. Note: This time B-G got it wrong]
1939: The British arrest the Irgun
leadership, including Commander David Raziel. In February, 1938 the
Revisionists under Jabotinsky had held a Zionist Congress in Prague. They
rejected the notion that Jews could not settle on either side of the Jordan.
More importantly, after two years of Arab violence they decided that
the Jewish Agency’s policy of restraint was not working. The Irgun
was to respond to each act of Arab violence with force and
alacrity. The increased tempo of attacks against the British and
Arabs must be viewed against the backdrop of the times: the worsening situation
of the Jews in Europe, the issuance of the White Paper that would close
Palestine to the Jews and guarantee a permanent Arab majority and the unabated
violence of the Arabs. The Irgun and the Revisionists did not reflect the
majority view of the Jewish population. Finally, in 1948, Ben Gurion took
military action to bring the Irgun under control. Ironically, Menachem
Begin, the leader of Irgun, would be the right wing politician who broke the
hold of the Labor Zionists on the Israeli government.
1940: Chairman
Willem Vogt fired all Jewish employees at AVRO, the Dutch broadcasting company
1941: Dutch
Singer and Nazi collaborator Johan Heesters visited Dachau concentration camp.
1941: A
collaborationist group, Nederlandse
Arbeids Dienst (Dutch Labor Service), is established in Holland.
1942(5th of
Sivan, 5702): Erev Shavuot
1942(5th
of Sivan, 5702): In Koritz, on the eve of Shavuot, 2,200 Jews were taken
to the edge of town and shot into pre-dug pits. The dead included the wife and
13 year old daughter of Moshe Gildenman who was soon to become famous as the
partisan “Uncle (Dyadya) Misha”.
Gildenman succeeded in escaping with his son, Simcha, and a few others with one
pistol and five rounds of ammunition. His groups slowly grew in strength and
were eventually absorbed into Saburov’s brigade group. They were always known
as Uncle Misha’s Jewish groups. During the war, Gildenman received the Order of
the Red Star and finished the war with his son in Berlin. After the war, his
son returned to Koretz and upon meeting the Ukrainian who killed his mother and
sister - shot him.
1942:
Release date for “Tortilla Flat co-starring Hedy Lammar and John Garfield,
featuring Sheldon Leonard, with a script co-authored by Benjamin Glazer and
music by Frank Loesser and Franz Waxman.
1943:
Birthdate of CUNY philosophy professor Michael Levin, the husband of Professor
Margarita Levin.
1943:
Denise Madeline Bloch, the French Jewess who would be murdered at Ravensbruck
because she an SOE agent, arrived in London after a twenty-two day trip across
occupied France.
1943(16th of
Iyar, 5703): Three thousand Jews driven from Brody, Ukraine, to a waiting
transport train revolt, killing four Ukrainians and a few Germans. Many of the
Jews break free after being put on the train, only to be machine-gunned. The
remainder is killed upon arrival at the Majdanek death camp.
1943(16th of
Iyar, 5703): Members of the Jewish community at Drogobych, Ukraine, are
exterminated in the Bronica Forest
1944: The SS President Warfield, a packet steamer
built in the 1920’s to carry passengers and cargo between Norfolk and Baltimore
(sheltered waters), was returned by the British so she could serve in the U.S.
Navy. The Warfield would become famous as the SS Exodus.
1944(28th
of Iyar, 5704): Forty-five year old WW I Marne veteran Errold Baum Lapowski,
the Gainesville, TX born son of Nathan and Eva Lapowski, the husband of Eleanor
Lapowski and the father of Jean and Emily Lapowski passed away today after
which he was buried at the Temple Mt. Sinai Cemetery in El Paso, TX.
1944(28th
of Iyar, 5704): A day after her husband famed Austrian biologist Hans Leo
Przibram died at Theresienstadt, his wife Elizabeth committed suicide.
1944: The
Gestapo imprisons all 260 Jews of Canea, Crete, at Rethymnon, Crete
1945: Members
of the Jewish Brigade posed for a photo with trucks from the Beriha Movement.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/may/15.asp
1945: Today,
many liberated survivors continue to live at the Dachau concentration camp two
weeks after the end of the war.
1945: German
war criminal Heinrich Himmler was captured
1945: Lauren
Bacall (born Betty Pinsker) and Humphrey Bogart were married. (She was
Jewish; Bogy was not.)
1945: “Flight
from Folly” a British musical filmed by cinematographer Otto Heller and with
music by Benjamin Frankel was released in the United Kingdom today.
1946: One of
several post-war Hungarian pogroms took place today at Kunadaras where peasants
murdered two Jews and wounded eighteen others.
1947: “William
Gallacher, Communist member of the House of Commons, was ignored today during a
discussion of Palestine when he asked this question: "In view of the fact
that the mandate laid it down that Palestine was to be provided as a home for
the Jews how then could there be such a thing as an 'illegal immigrant' ?"
1947:
“Haganah, which has long been sitting on the sidelines merely watching
developments, sent a punitive expedition tonight against Arab brigands
operating against Jewish settlers in the Petah Tiqva area near Tel
Aviv.(Editor’s note – Brigands, what nice word for terrorists.)
1948: For the
second time in two days, the 53rd and 54th battalions
attacked the Egyptian-held fort of Iraq Suwayden which the British had handed
over to Muslim Brotherhood as they departed Palestine. The irony is that the British had built the
fort in the 1930’s to help quell the infamous Arab Revolt.
1948:
Today, “at dawn the Golani staff reported that the enemy was repelled but that
they were expecting another attack. The full report read:
‘Our
forces repelled yesterday a heavy attack of tanks, armored vehicles and
infantry that lasted about 8 hours. The attack was repelled by the brave stand
of our men, who used Molotov cocktails and their hands against the tanks.
3" mortars and heavy machinery took their toll on the enemy. Field cannons
caused a panicked retreat of the enemy, who yesterday left Tzemah. This morning
our forces entered Tzemah and took a large amount of booty of French ammunition
and light artillery ammunition. We have captured 2 tanks and an armored vehicle
of the enemy. The enemy is amassing large reinforcements. We are expecting a
renewal of the attack.’”
1948: Haganah
troops returned to Tzemah today “and set up fortifications, the damaged tanks
and armored cars were gathered and taken to the rear. The settlers returned
that night to identify the bodies of their comrades in the fields and buried
them in a common grave in Degania.”
1948: Abba
Eban names Arthur Louie, Jacob Robinson, Moshe Tov, Michael Comay and Gideon
Rafael as his alternates and advisers at the United Nations and names I.L. Kene
as the delegation’s spokesman.
1948: The
former American icebreaker USCGC
Northland became “the first warship of the Israeli Sea Corps” when it was
commissioned as the INS Eilat. The ship
would be renamed INS Matspen in 1957
when it began serving as a barracks.
1948:
“Egyptian dive-bombers struck at Tel Aviv four times today without, however,
causing serious damage” while other “Egyptian planes, flying high on their
regular visits throughout the day, dropped clusters of small bombs on the
city’s fringe.”
1948: “In the
South, Beit Eshel was shelled by the Egyptians and Yad Mordechai was a target
for heavy infantry assaults” all of which were repulsed.
1949(22nd
of Iyar, 5709): Parashat Behar Bechukotai
1949: The
original Broadway run of Moss Hart’s “Light Up the Sky” today, for a total of
214 performances
1949(22nd
of Iyar, 5709): Forty-two-year-old Klaus Mann, the son of Thomas and Katia Mann
(who was Jewish) passed away today.
1949: The
National Geographic Society issued new maps of Europe and the Near East which show “Palestine partitioned into Israel
and the Arab states.”
1950(5th
of Sivan, 5710): Erev Shavuot
1950: “Cairo
Road,” a crime film co-starring Laurence Harvey and featuring Abraham Sofaer
was released in the United Kingdom today.
1950: As a
sign that Israel was taking its place among the family of nations, the
government announced that Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett will meet with South
African Prime Minister Daniel F. Malan during his upcoming trip to the African
state.
1951:
Birthdate of comedian turned U.S. Senator, Al Franken
1952(26th of
Iyar, 5712): Actor and film star John
Garfield passed away at the age of 39. Born Jacob Julius Garfinkle in New York
City, he was sent to a school for problem children after the early death of his
mother. It was there that he was introduced to boxing and acting. He won a
scholarship to an acting school hosted by Maria Ouspenskaya, and made his
Broadway debut in 1932. The play Golden
Boy that featured a young prize fighter was written for him, but he was
passed over for the role. He decided to leave Broadway and try his success in
Hollywood. He earned an Academy Award nomination for his role in the 1938 film
Four Daughters. He gained further fame as the handyman drifter in the Postman
Rings Twice. He appeared in several war movies during WW II, usually playing
the part of the wisecracking enlisted man (once as the gunner on a B-17 and
once as a seaman aboard a sub) who sees the light and comes to understand why
America was in the war. Garfield’s liberal politics brought him to the attention
of the McCarthyites during the Red Scare of the late 1940’s and 1950’s.
He was forced to appear before the infamous House Un-American Activities
Committee; an appearance which proved detrimental to his career
http://tyforum.bravepages.com/artc/p-2-67.html
1952: During a meeting of HUAC a letter from Lillian
Hellman was read that stated "I cannot and will not cute my conscience to
fit this year's fashions..."
1953: The
Jerusalem Post reported that upon his return to the U.S., Mr. John Foster
Dulles, the U.S. Secretary of State, expressed satisfaction from his first,
recent visit to Israel, and recommended to his government a sizeable aid for
the country's quick development.
1953: The
Jerusalem Post reported that two marauders who shot at an Israeli patrol in
Jerusalem's "Corridor" were killed in an exchange of fire.
1953: “The
President’s Lady” a biopic about President Andrew Jackson directed by Henry
Levin, produced by Sol C. Siegel and with music by Alfred Newman was released
in the United States today.
1953(7th of
Sivan, 5713: Second Day of Shavuot
1954(18th of
Iyar, 5714): Lag B'Omer
1955(29th
of Iyar, 5715): Parashat Bamidbar
1956(11th
of Sivan, 5716): Eighty-one year old Johns Hopkins graduate and Columbia Law
School trained attorney Bernard M. Cone, the Baltimore born son of Herman Moses
Cone and Helen Guggenheimer Cone and the husband of Elain Wolf Cone who owned
several mills in North Carolina which in 1945 were “re-organized un Proximity
Manufacauring” and the in 1948 merged with Revlution cotton to form Cone Mills,
Corp., “the largest producer of flannel in the world” passed away todayin
Greensboro, NC after which he was buried in Cone Cemetery.”
1957:
Birthdate of New York City native Seth Andrew Klarman the Cornell and Harvard
Business School trained fund manager and billionaire and husband of Beth
Schultz Klarman who was one of a handful of Republican major donors who urged
their “comrades” to contribute to the Democrats because Donald Trump was unfit
to be President.
1958:
The Savanah Morning News published pictures of the nine-hour long fire at
Adler’s Department Store which had been founded by Leopold Adler and
subsequently run by his son Sam G. Adler, the husband of Elinor Grunsfeld Adler
and his grandson Lee Adler, the husband of Emma Morel Adler and was the worst
such conflagration to strike the city since 1899
1959: Gypsy a
musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by
Arthur Laurents opened at the Broadway Theatre for the first of 702
performances.
1960: Marlene
Sanders, former ABC News and CBS News correspondent, and Jerome Toobin, a news
broadcasting producer gave birth to Harvard University trained attorney Jeffrey
Ross Tobin, the author and CNN legal analyst.
1961(6th
of Sivan, 5721): Shavuot
1961(6th
of Sivan, 5721): Yiddish comedian Israel Shumacher who worked with Shimon
Dzigan passed away today.
1963:
Birthdate of Richard Appel who tried to follow in the footsteps of his parents,
Nina Appel the Dean of Loyola Law School and Alfred Appel who was a professor
of literature at Northwestern. Appel
graduated from law school before turning to a life of writing and producing
comedy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Appel
1965: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held today at the Progressive Synagogue for seventy-six-year-old
Cooper Union trained civil engineer Israel Orlian, the Lomza, Poland born son
of Shrma Zalkrud and Abraham Oliansky and the husband of Sophie Schmalowitz who
was a member of the Progressive Synagogue and a “founder of the Albert Einstein
College of Medicine at Yeshiva University.”
1966: In
Boston, MA, Dr. Alvin Edelstein and his wife Bonnie gave birth to actress and
playwright Lisa Edelstein.
1968(23rd
of Iyar, 5728): Sixty-one-year-old Lodz native and co-founder of kibbutz Ein
Shemer, Zvi Lurie, one of the signers of the Israel’s Declaration of Independence
who had made Aliyah in 1924 and was a member of Hashomer Hatzair passed away
today.
1968: Lt.
Governor Samuel Harvey Shapiro began serving as the 34th Governor of
Illinois when the incumbent “resigned to accept an appointment” as a federal
judge which made him the second Jew, after Henry Horner, to hold the post
1969: Israeli
planes shot down three Egyptian Mig 21s in the Suez Canal zone during what
would become known as the War of Attrition.
1969: A group
of about 10 saboteurs was intercepted today near Nahal Argaman in the Jordan
Valley. One saboteur was killed in a clash with an Israeli unit. Another was
wounded and a third escaped and joined other members of the gang hiding in
caves. After the area was surrounded, the saboteurs were ordered to surrender.
Six gave themselves up and two who resisted were killed.
1969: Robert
Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death. At the time, the
Jordanian youth said Kennedy had to die because of his support of Israel.
1973(19th
of Iyar, 5733): Eighty-nine-year-old of New York City native and attorney Edwin
Chester Vogel, a partner in the firm of Elkus, Vogel, Gleason and Proskauer, a
prominent art collector and a trustee of the Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies and Mount Sinai Hospital passed away today.
1973: “Panel
of Jewish Scholars Translating the Bible” published today described a
two-decades long project led by Dr. Harry M. Orlinsky to produce a new English
translation of the Bible sponsored by the Jewish Publication Society within the
next two years.
1974:
Elizabeth Holtzman, the youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives, castigated the government for laxness in allowing Nazi war
criminals into the U.S.
1974(29th
of Iyar, 5734): Eighty-three-year-old Hungarian figure skater Lily Kronberger
passed away today.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/kronberger-lily
1975(11th
of Sivan, 5735): Eight-four year old movie producer Samuel Bischoff whose
career spanned more than four decades from “Mixed Nuts” in 1922 to “The
Strangler” in 1964 passed away today.
http://www.cyranos.ch/spbish-e.htm
1975: While
casting parts for “Network” Paddy Chayefsky wrote a “letter to Paul Newman
offering him ‘any part in this picture you want’” -- an offer Newman turned down.
1977:
"Fiddler on the Roof" closed at the Winter Garden Theatre in NYC
after 167 performances
1978(14th
of Iyar, 5738): Pesach Sheni
1978: The
Jerusalem Post reported that Israeli security men and French policemen
killed three gunmen who attacked the El Al desk at the Paris Orly airport. One
French policeman was killed in this Arab terror attack and three French
passengers were wounded. Most El Al passengers were employees of a French
insurance company, who later left to tour Israel.
1979: “Iran: A
National Still in Torment,” published today described the execution of Habib
Elghanian, a plastics manufacturer and the first Jew to be condemned who was
convicted of spying for Israel, was said to have made huge investments in
Israel and to have solicited funds for the Israeli army, which the prosecution
claimed made him an accomplice "in murderous air raids against innocent
Palestinians." “The conviction of Elghanian caused concern among some
Jewish businessmen in Iran, who feared that they too could be charged with
contributing money to Israel.
1980(6th
of Sivan, 5740: Shavuot
1980: Four
days after premiering in Washington, D.C., “Star Wars Episode V: The Empire
Strikes Back” directed by Irvin Kershner was released in the United States.
1981: ABC
broadcast the final episode for season three of “Taxi” a series created by
James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels and Ed. Weinberger.
1982: In
“Housing Surge Alters Borough Park,” Alan Oser described the five year growth
in the Brooklyn neighborhood which he attributed to a steady expansion of
Borough Park's population of Orthodox Jews, about half of them Hasidim. They
require large apartments for large families, and accommodations near synagogues
and denominational schools.” The article
provides an interesting snapshot of the needs of this unique community.
1982: Delia
Ephron married Jerome Kass.
1982: A week
after having been summoned to “meet” with the KGB, Moscow refusenik and Hebrew
teacher Pavel Abramovich was summoned to the KGB for a second time.
1982(28th
of Iyar, 5742): Yom Yerushalayim
1983: David
Mark Rubenstein the co-found of The Carlyle Group married “Alice Rubenstein
(née Alice Nicole Rogoff), founder of the Alaska House New York and the Alaska
Native Arts Foundation and owner of Alaska Dispatch News.”
1984(19th
of Iyar, 5744): Sixty-six-year-old Manhattan born and NYU trained attorney
Meyer Drucker and husband of Pauline Drucker with whom he had three children –
Elinor, Laura and Aaron – who was “an independent arbitrator for the building
service industry and other industries in the metropolitan area and former
executive secretary of the State Mediation Board, died of cancer” today.
1987: James
Levine is scheduled to conduct the IPO as part of the orchestra’s 50th
anniversary celebrations.
1988(5th of
Sivan, 5748) Erev Shavuot
1988: Nation
of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is scheduled to address a dinner tonight hosted
by a group calling itself "Concerned Citizens for New York," an
alliance of black businesspeople. The dinner is being held at Terrace in the
Park, a kosher catering facility owned by Allen Sherel and Stanley Lewin. The owners agreed to rent the facility before
they found out that Farrakhan was the speaker.
The two Jewish owners promised to donate every penny they make from the
dinner to Jewish charities.
1990(26th
of Iyar, 5750): Sixty-two year old Morris “Mo” Levy, “owner of Roulette Records
and the Birdland jazz club passed away today before he could begin serving a
prison sentence after having been convicted of “conspiring to extort” in
connection with an investigation into mob involvement in the record industry.
1993: An
exhibition, at the International Monetary Fund Art Forum featuring the works of
Fritz Ascher, came to a close today in Washington, DC.
1993:
Birthdate of Arizona native and Barry University Laura Elizabeth the right wing
writer activist who was banned from the March 2019 Conservative Political
Action Conference (CPAC).
1994: Israeli
commandos captured Shiite guerrilla leader Mustafa Dirani
1996: CNN
broadcast today’s public memorial service for Admiral Jeremy Michael Boorda,
the 25th Chief of Naval Operations live from the National Cathedral
in Washington, D.C.
1997: CBS
broadcast the final episode of “Wings” a sitcom co-starring Rebecca Schull.
1998: Jack Lew
began serving his as Director of the Office of Management and Budget under
President Clinton.
1999(6th
of Sivan, 5759): Shavuot
1999: NBC
broadcast the final episode of seven season of “Homicide: Life on the Street:”
which was based on David Simon's book Homicide: A Year on the Killing
Streets
1999: U.S.
premiere of “The Love Letter” featuring Sasha Spielberg as the “Girl with
Sparkler.”
2000: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
“The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea That Rules the World” by David
Berlinski.
2000(16th
of Iyar, 5760): Ninety-six year old George Marshall, civil rights advocate and
conservationist and son of Lewis Marshall passed away today. (Wiki erroneously
reported this as having happened on May 15)
2001(28th
of Iyar, 5761): Yom Yerushalayim
2001: Radio
broadcast of the annual Alfred Deakin Lecture; this year entitled "My Country – A Personal Journey"
in which Robert Mamre describes what it is like for the son of Jewish
immigrants to grow up in an Australia that is considered Anglo-Celtic. Author and historian
Robert Manne is the Associate Professor of Politics at La Trobe University, a
columnist for The Age, The
Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald,
and a regular commentator on ABC Radio and Television
2001: The
Houston Post reports that American Jewish Congress v. Bost would be heard
in federal district court. American Jewish Congress v. Bost was an
establishment clause lawsuit concerning the separation of church and state
based on events that took place in Brenham, Texas. The case was the first
constitutional challenge to a charitable choice contract. In the community of
Brenham, Texas, the American Jewish Congress and the Texas Civil Rights Project
filed a lawsuit against a social services program that they believed used a
tax-funded jobs program to support religious practices that violated the
separation of church and state. Other accusations include use of funds to
proselytize, purchase bibles, and coerce participants to "accept
Jesus." The lawsuit went back and
forth between state and federal courts and was twice appealed. In January of
2003, the lawsuit that is believed to be the first constitutional challenge to
a "charitable choice" contract, came to a conclusion. The case was
finally dismissed "on the ground that there was no live controversy."
2002: “Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon fired ministers from the rigorously Orthodox Shas Party
from his cabinet tonight after they voted against an emergency economic package
in Parliament.”
2003: “New
York University is using a gift of more than $3 million from the Henry and
Marilyn Taub Foundation to form a research center for the study of modern
Israel. It will be called the Taub Center for Israel Studies and will be part
of the university's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.”
2003: “Israeli
Who Loves Israel Listens, Sees and Weeps” published today provides a review
David Grossman’s Death As A Way of Life.
2004(1st
of Rosh Choesh Sivan 5764): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
2004: “The
catchy show opening today at the Jewish Museum is the first big New York
retrospective of Amedeo Modigliani since 1951…” (As reported by Michael
Kimmelman)
2004: “Arab
leaders gathering today for a summit meeting on Saturday and Sunday in this
North African capital are expected to issue a collective criticism of the
United States for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners and what they view as the anemic
American effort toward ending the Arab-Israeli conflict.”
2005: In an
article entitled “BioHazards,” New York
Books reviews “The History of Love” by Nicole Krauss. Krauss willingly talks about her second novel
but refuses to talk about her husband, the Jewish writer Jonathan Safran Foer.
2005(12 of
Iyar, 5765): Eighty-six year old actor Stephen Elliot passed away.
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/may/24/local/me-elliott24
2005(12th
of Iyar, 5767): Ninety-one-year-old New York native Moe Frankel, the son of
Minnie and Sender Alexander Frankel passed away today in Hackensack, NJ.
2006: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
the recently released paperback editions of “Any Place I Hang My Hat” by Susan
Isaacs, “The History of Love” by Nicole Krauss and “Indecision” by Benjamin
Kunkel.
2006: Haaretz reported that author A.B.
Yehoshua predicted that Diaspora Jews would move to China if it were to become
a world power. Dr. Avrum Ehrlich, a
professor at the Center for Judaic and Inter-Religious Studies at the University
of Shandong (China) says that this process is actually already under way. ‘The
Jewish community in Hong Kong is thriving,’ he explains, ‘and there are at
least 300 Jews now living permanently in Beijing alone.’”
2006: The
first Sydney Jewish Writers’ Festival comes to an end.
2006: After
109 performances, the curtain came down on a revival of Neil Simon’s Theatre at
the Cort Theatre.
2006: The
United Jewish Community/Jewish Federation of Las Vegas hosts its biggest and
best Yom Ha’Azma’ut festival at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and the Jewish
Agency arranged a variety of day-long activities to celebrate Israel
Independence Day in downtown Budapest.
2007: The JCC
in Manhattan presents a program entitled “Bernstein & Robbins: Dybbuk in
Music & Dance.” Jean-Pierre Frohlich, ballet master and former soloist with
the New York City, discusses his work with Robbins in staging the ballets and
presents several dancers performing excerpts from Dybbuk. Ellen Sorrin, director of The George Balanchine Trust and
advisory council member of The Jerome Robbins Trust, serves as moderator.
2007(4 Sivan
5767): Shir-El Friedman is killed when a Hamas rocket struck vehicle near a
bakery next to shopping mall in Sderot. The35 year old woman was struck by
shrapnel and succumbed to her injuries as she was being rushed to the hospital.
2007: Mark
Helprin “was said to be shocked” by the negative response reported in today’s
New York Times to his op-ed piece “in which he argued that intellectual
property rights should be assigned to an author or artist as far as Congress
could practically extend them.”
2008: AJHS hosts the 2008 Emma Lazarus Statue of
Liberty Award Dinner, commemorating the Jewish Chaplains who led survivors of
the Holocaust from DP camps to Israel and the US. Sid Lapidus will be
honored for his deep commitment to the American Jewish Historical Society.
2008: The
finals of the European Champions League, soccer’s most prized club competition,
will have a decidedly Jewish flavor. Not on the field of the Loujniki stadium
in Moscow, where none of the 22 players of English teams Manchester United and
Chelsea will be Jewish — but on the sidelines. To wit, in the VIP lounge,
Chelsea’s owner, Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich, will square off against
American billionaire Malcolm Glazer, who bought Manchester United three years
ago. In addition, Chelsea’s coach is an unheralded 52-year-old Israeli by the
name of Avram Grant. A discreet man with no reputation in the soccer world, he
has incurred a constant flow of criticism for his lack of knowledge and for the
defensive style of his team. But the mood has changed drastically. Grant
managed to bring his club to the finals for the first time since Abramovich
began spending millions in 2003 to build a contender, igniting a buying spree
of top soccer clubs in England by such likeminded moguls as Glazer, who also
owns the Tampa Bay Buccaneers football team. Grant wears his Judaism on his
sleeve — literally. In the semifinals game, he wore a yellow armband bearing
the Star of David to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. After the victory, he took
a day off to travel to Auschwitz with his two teenage children to honor the
memory of his father’s family. His father, Meir, now 80, lost his parents and
five of his six siblings while they were hiding in a Russian forest to escape
the Nazis. Now Grant is going back to Russia to become the first Israeli coach
to win on the big European stage.
2008: In Jaffa, System
Ali plays on the roof of Mishkenot Ruth Daniel. Over the past year, System
Ali has been performing in different venues throughout Jaffa, Tel Aviv and
beyond, drawing impressive crowds whose diversity reflects that of the
individuals on stage.”
2008: The 92nd
Street Y presents “The Psychology of the Israeli-Palestinian Crisis.” Moises Salinas explores the way psychological
factors impede the peace process.
2008; Jewish
Braille International dinner was held at the Harmonie Club. “Founded in 1931 as
the Jewish Braille Institute by Leopold Dubov, the blind son of a rabbi, and
Rabbi Michael Aaronson, who had been blinded in World War I, today the JBI
library serves 35,000 individuals in 30 countries in eight languages — all at
no charge.”
2009: Michael
Sandel delivered the 2009 Reith Lectures on “A New Citizenship” today at
Oxford, UK.
2009: The Center for Jewish History and the Leo
Baeck Institute presented “Happy Birthday, Felix: Music of Felix
Mendelssohn and His Contemporaries” with Phoenix
Chamber Ensemble performing rare arrangements of Felix Mendelssohn's Hebriden, op.26 and Ruy Blas, Op.95 Overtures and Symphony No.1 in C minor for 1
piano-4 hands, violin and cello and Robert Schumann's 12 Four-Hand Piano Pieces for Small and Big Children, Op.85
2009: Writer
and essayist Phillip Lopate discusses “Notes On Sontag,” his reflections on the
late Susan Sontag and her role as essayist, novelist and playwright, at
Politics and Prose Bookstore, in Washington, D.C.
2009: Fred
Hochberg, the first son of Lillian Vernon and Samuel Hochberg “was sworn in”
today as Chairman and President of the Export-Import Bank
2009: Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delivered a speech at Ammunition Hill in memory of
soldiers who fell in the Six-Day War in 1967 in which he said, “Jerusalem was
always ours, will always be ours, and will never again be divided.”
2009: The four
men arrested last night in what the authorities said was a plot to bomb two
synagogues in the Bronx and shoot down military planes at an Air National Guard
base in Newburgh, N.Y. were petty criminals who appeared to be acting alone,
not in concert with any terrorist organization, the New York City police
commissioner said today. The four men arrested are all Muslim, a law
enforcement official said. According to a police informant James Cromitie, one
of the four men who was arrested said
that he was upset about the war in Afghanistan and that that he wanted
to do “something to America.” and “the best target” — the World Trade Center —
“was hit already.” According to the same informant the four men made statements
if “Jews were killed in this attack and that would be all right.”
2010: The 92nd
St Y schedules two events to celebrate Shabbat: in the morning a Shabbat Bakery
where participants can bake their own Challah and a Shabbat Rooftop Dinner, an
intergenerational family Shabbat dinner experience in a meaningful and
welcoming environment.
2010: Muriel
Siebert, the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, “was
honored at Wagner College during the 123rd Graduation Ceremony today with an
Honorary Doctorate.”
http://www.jwi.org/Page.aspx?pid=781#sthash.rHwxUyZt.jmCWHQmG.dpbs
2010: As part
of her Bat Mitzvah weekend at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA, Shannon
Williams and her family will be participating in Friday night services.
2011: “The
Source” directed by Radu Mihăileanu premiered in competition at the 2011 Cannes
Film Festival
2011: The AJMF
Festival is scheduled to host its Closing Night Party at Center Stage.
2011: Korin
Alal and Eran Zur are scheduled to present a joint concert at the JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly, NJ.
2011: Defense
Minister Ehud Barak said today that the differences between Israel and the
United States on the peace process are smaller than they seem. Barak said in an
interview with Channel 2 that "the meeting was less dramatic than it
appeared." "I think that the Americans know well the nuances of our
positions," Barak said. "I don’t think that the president's speech
was such a bad thing," he added. "I think it's good that the prime
minister brought attention to the fact that we expect the recognition of
settlement blocs and that we want the refugees to be absorbed within the
Palestinian state. I don’t think that the president said it was necessary to
return to the 1967 lines, but rather that we need to start the discussion based
on the 1967 borders."
2011: In
“Harold Bloom: An Uncommon Reader,” Sam Tanenhaus reviewed The Anatomy as a
Way of Life, the latest literary effort by 80 year Jewish man of letters
Harold Bloom.
2012: In
recognition of Jewish American Heritage Month, the DC Public Library to present
a lecture entitled “Jewish Civil Life at a Time of Civil War: American Jewry in
the Mid-19th Century” during which Dr. Lauren Strauss, assistant professor of
History and Judaic Studies at the George Washington University, will discuss
the Jewish-American experience before 1870, with a focus on the status of the
Jewish community in the decades surrounding the Civil War.http://www.dclibrary.org/node/30617
2012: In a
great example of “acts of loving kindness”, The Derfner Judaica Museum located
at The Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Bronx, NY is scheduled to offer private group
tours for individuals with dementia and their family members or care partners
that will focus on select highlights of this fascinating institution.
2012: Tefillat
HaShlah - the Shlah's Prayer should be recited today before sunset. The prayers was composed Isaiah Horowoitz, a
noted 17th century rabbi who moved to Palestine in the 1620’s,
living there until his death ten years later. “Rabbi Horwitz wrote that the eve
of the first day of the Hebrew month of Sivan is the most auspicious time to
pray for the physical and spiritual welfare of one's children and
grandchildren, since Sivan was the month that the Torah was given to the Jewish
people. He composed a special prayer to be said on this day, known as the
Tefillat HaShlah - the Shlah's Prayer”
2012: The
Buchmann-Mehta School of Music Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Zeev
Dorman is scheduled to perform at Carnegie Hall
2012: Aaron
Swartz delivered the keynote address at the F2C: Freedom to Connect 2012 event
in Washington, D.C. following the defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
2012: Israeli
violinist Vadim Gluzman is among those scheduled to perform at the Good
Shepherd Church in New York.
2012: The
Yellow Ticket with Alicia Svigals is scheduled to be the final performance at
the 13th Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival.
2013: The 7th
independent conference for the Hannah Arendt Circle sponsored by The Institute
of Jewish Studies and the Centre for Philosophy of Culture at the University of
Antwerp in Belgium is scheduled to come to an end.
2013: The IPO
annual Young Leadership concert is scheduled to take place in Manhattan
2013: Dudu
Fisher is scheduled to perform at the State Theatre in New Brunswick, NJ.
2013(12th
of Sivan, 5773): Eighty-year old Leonard Marsh the founder of the Snapple
Beverage Corporation passed away today.
(As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/business/leonard-marsh-80-dies-a-founder-of-snapple.html?hpw&_r=0
http://blog.aarp.org/2013/05/28/fun-facts-about-leonard-marsh-snapple-co-founder-ice-tea-drinks/
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324659404578499524275374196
2013: Eric
Garcetti was elected Mayor of Los Angeles making him the first Jewish person to
hold this position.
2013: Defense
Minister Moshe Yaalon and the IDF said today that Israel has destroyed an
unspecified Syrian target after fire from the Syrian side of the Golan Heights
border damaged an IDF vehicle
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/168169
2013: As the
debate over the operating hours of the capital’s largest and newest
(yet-toopen) movie complex Cinema City continues, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat –
who launched his reelection campaign last week – said today he supports its
forced Shabbat closure.
http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Barkat-defends-closing-of-Cinema-City-on-Shabbat-313885
2014: Today,
at the 4th International Writers’ Festival, S.Y. Agnon is scheduled
to be honored with “a series of events, including a visit to his home and
library in the neighborhood of Talpiot. The day’s events also include a writing
jam with Eshkol Nevo and Orit Gidali, and one of the Writing Here, Writing
There conversations, this time between A. B. Yehoshua and Nicole Krauss.” (As
reported by Jessica Steinberg)
2014: The
opening reception for “The Hidden Passengers” organized by Avi Lubin is
scheduled to begin this evening.
2014: “Pope
Francis will adhere to a policy of “total balance” regarding the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, his close friend Rabbi Abraham Skorka said today
in Jerusalem, though he noted that Francis’s scheduled laying of a wreath at
the grave of Theodor Herzl would be “a meaningful act.” (As reported by Raphael Ahren)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/popes-rabbi-friend-hails-significance-of-wreath-laying-at-herzls-grave/
2014:
“Australian energy giant Woodside Petroleum pulled out of the massive Leviathan
gas joint venture off the coast of Israel — one of the largest deposits found
in the world.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/australian-company-pulls-out-of-israeli-gas-venture/
2014: Today,
“the commander of the Israeli Air Force described a top-to-bottom change that
has led to a 400 percent increase in the IAF’s firepower over the past two
years, drastically shortening the time it would take Israel to win a future
war.” (As reported by Mitch Ginsburg)
2014: A court
hearing is scheduled today for Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, associate director at the
Arab American Action Network in Chicago whose failure to disclose her
conviction for killing two people with a bomb in Jerusalem in 1969 should lead
to her deportation under U.S. Immigration law.
2015: The Jewish
Historical Society of England is scheduled to host a lecture on Do Jews Believe
in Saints? A Medieval Rabbi and his Posthumous Travels by Lucia Raspe.
2015: Professor
David Rechter is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Trauma on the Eastern
Front: European Jews and the First World War: at the University of London
2015: The
Anti-Defamation League announced today that Lady Gaga had accepted its Making a
Difference award for “work championing positive social change” through her Born
This Way Foundation.
2015: In “One of
earliest known copies of Ten Commandments sees the light of day” published
today William Booth described the importance of
“4Q41” and its rare public appearance the Israel Museum.
2016: The Eden-Tamir
Music Center is scheduled to present “Sounds of the Flute in Ein Kerem – The
French Connection featuring Noam Buchman on the flute and pianist Pazit Gal.
2016(13th of Iyar, 5776): Shabbat Emor;
2017: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage by Dani Shapiro and
an interview with actor Michael Tambor.
2017(25th
of Iyar, 5777): In Cincinnati, graduation ceremonies are scheduled to take
place at the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion
2017(25th
of Iyar, 5777): “Shulamit “Shula” Cohen-Kishik, a spy for Israel’s Mossad
intelligence agency who worked undercover in Lebanon for 14 years” passed away
today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-spy-shulamit-cohen-kishik-dies-at-100/
2017: Gilia Almagor
is scheduled to perform her one-woman show “The Summer of Aviya” at the
Streicker Center.
2017: Andres Roemer,
“the Mexican diplomat who was removed from his ambassador position for walking
out an anti-Israel vote by a United Nations agency” is scheduled to “be awarded
the International Sephardic Leadership Awards at a ceremony at the Center for
Jewish History in New York.
2017: Chief Rabbi Ephraim
Mirvis and Dayan Menachem Gelley, Rosh of the London Beth Din, walked the
grounds of a new United Synagogue cemetery in Bushy and buried a Torah scroll
as part of the consecration of the £8 million site. (As reported by Jewish
News)
2017: The Jewish
Federation of Houston is scheduled to present “The Big Gig” with Seth Meyers.
2017: “Israel
Aerospace Industries (IAI), the nation’s largest aerospace and defense company,
said today it has received an additional $630 million contract to supply
long-range surface-to-air missile (LRSAM) defense systems for four ships of the
Indian navy.” (As reported by Shoshanna Solomon)
2017: Cantor Aaron
Shifman, along with Joshua Nelson and Pey Dalid are scheduled to host “Joyful
Sounds” the annual concert spring at B’nai Jeshurun Congregation in Pepper
Pike, Ohio.
2017:
The Cleveland History Center is scheduled to celebrate the completion of “the
Soviet Jewish Oral History Collection, an archive at the Cleveland History
Center of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland.”
2018(7th
of Sivan, 5778): Second Day of Shavuot
2018(7th
of Sivan, 5778): Eighty-seven-year-old Elaine Markson, the Brooklyn born
daughter of Catskill hotel owners Leon and Lilyan Kretchmar and the wife of
“experimental novelist David Markson” who was one of “the first women to own a
literary agency” which she used “to further the careers of fledgling feminist
authors” passed away today (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2018: Susan “Herbst announced that she would
step down from her role as president of the University of Connecticut when her
contract expired on July 1, 2019, but would remain on the faculty, teaching
political science at the Stamford campus.
2018:
In Little Rock, the Arkansas Jewish Center under the leadership of Rabbi
Pinchas Ciment is scheduled to offer a full day of holiday observance including
Shacharis, Yizkor, Mussfa and a Kiddush followed by Mincha.
2019:
JB and Yeshiva University Museum are scheduled to host “Child Separation and
Refugee Crises From the Kindertransport to Today,” during which “Mark Hetfield, CEO of the Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society, and Alex Aleinikoff, Director of the New School’s
Zolberg Institute on Migration & Mobility and the former UN Deputy High
Commissioner for Refugees, discuss the history of popular opposition to
refugees and especially how it has impacted children, from the Kindertransport
to the Trump Administration’s child separation policy.”
2019:
In London, “the friends of the Rambam Medical Centre” are scheduled to present
“the world pre-premier of ‘Rocketman’.”
2019:
The Queen” The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth by Josh Levin iss
scheduled to go on sale to the general public today.
2019:
Rabbi Raphael Zarum, the holder of a PhD in theoretical physics and the Dean of
the London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to lecture this afternoon on
“Neo-Assyrian Empire and Northern Kingdom of Israel.”
2020:
Despite the fact that the Global Nação conference has been postponed The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is
scheduled to present “a glimpse into
the world of Western Sephardim through an academic perspective.”
2020:
United with Israel is scheduled to host a “special webinar program today in
honor of Jerusalem Day.”
2020:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host via zoom the only
Varsity match that actually matters, as Oxford and Cambridge JSocs battle it
out to be crowned the winner of Jewniversity Challenge!
2020:
The AJHS is scheduled to host “Photographs of the Depression: a Jewish Angle” a
Virtual Program Exploring The AJHS Photograph Collections.
2020:
The Pozez JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host and Les Bergen is
scheduled to host on line “Jewish Washington: A Scrapbook of an American
Community” which provides a chronicle of the people, places, and events that
shaped the history of the Washington area's Jewish community from 1795 to the
present,
2020:
Millions of lovers of Sabra, “the official dip sponsor of the National Football
League” can celebrate Hummus Day which is not to be confused with “National
Hummus Day” by chowing on this marvelous culinary creation
https://www.checkiday.com/354460d6cb20abb1746ace8ccb006319/hummus-day
2020:
Yom Yershualayim Day is scheduled to begin at sundown.
2020:
In a unique response to the Pandemic, Congregation Or Atid is scheduled to host
via Zoom Rabbi Louis Polisson for bedtime songs and stories to help youngsters
have a Lilah tov.
2020:
Stanford Text Technologies, Stanford University Libraries is scheduled to host
“The Cairo Genizah in the Digital Age: A Webinar with Marina Rustow.”
https://events.stanford.edu/events/878/87869/
2021:
In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Temple Judea is scheduled to host Shabbat B’Yachad
and Friday night services with Rabbi Feivel Strauss and Cantorial Soloist Abbie
Strauss.
2021:
In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host an “Outdoor In-Person
Shabbat Services and BYOP (Bring your own picnic) Dinner.”
2021:
The Jewish Baby Network is scheduled to host a workshop about pregnancy
rituals, labor and delivery, choosing a Hebrew/Jewish name, ceremonies and
more.
2021:
Temple Emanu El is scheduled to host via Zoom a wine and cheese reception
before Friday night services.
2021:
Pianist Orli Shaham is scheduled to return “to the Motor City for a
live-streamed performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra.”
2021:
Cinnabar Theater in Petaluma is scheduled to livestream “Becoming Dr. Ruth, “a
play about the origins of famous sex therapist Dr. Ruth, including her escape
from the Nazis, losing family in the Holocaust and her journey to Palestine.
2021:
A cease fire between Israel and Hamas is scheduled to go into effect early this
morning.
2022:
In Los Altos, CA, Congregation Beth Am is schooled to host the “Silicon Valley
Jewish Playwriting Contest during which “seven actors will read three
Jewish-themed three plays, and audience members will vote for their favorite in
a competition that spans the U.S., Israel and beyond.”
2022:
Temple Sinai of Marblehead is scheduled to present “the Fat City Band at
R&B Cafe
2022:
In Petaluma, CA, the B’nai Israel Jewish Center is schooled to present Storyteller
Joel ben Izzy shares some of his favorite Jewish tales from places such as Tel
Aviv, Tokyo, Rome and Rwanda as [art pf the “End of Year Celebration.”
2022
(20th of Iyar, 5782): Parshah Behar and Chapter 4 of Pirke Avot.
2023(1st
of Sivan, 5783): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
2023:
The Columbus Chapter of the Jewish War Veterans is scheduled to “replace
veterans’ graves.
2023:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center is scheduled to host a session of
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window on
Broadway!
2023:
The JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The
Pianist from Ramallah.”
2023:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to the “Jewish Gangsters Walking
Tour.”
2023:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Best Minds: A Story of
Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen
2023:
As part of the Jewish American Heritage Month, the Institute of Jewish American
Experience is schedule to host the Global Celebration of Jewish Diversity.
2024:
The Center for Jewish History and the Museum of Jewish Heritage are scheduled
to present “a screening of WHITE NOISE followed by a panel conversation with
director and journalist Daniel Lombroso, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, President of the
Center for Jewish History and Professor of History at Fairfield University, and
Anna Duensing, a historian specializing in evolving global politics of white
supremacy across the twentieth century.”
2024:
The Temple Emanue-El Streicker is scheduled to “welcome
the acerbic host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher upon the
publication of his new book, What This Comedian Said
Will Shock You, to speak about free speech, cops, drugs, race, religion,
election 2024, the Ivy League, cancel culture and the elevation of sensitivity
over truth.”
2024: The Weitzman national Museum of Jewish History is schedule
to a webinar on “From Telegram to Hyperlink: The Shneiderman
Legacy with Ben Shneiderman.”
2024: The American Association of Jewish Lawyers
and Jurists is scheduled to host a webinar “louis D. Brandeis: American
Prophent.
2024: The Firehouse Theate in Kingston, WA is scheduled to host a screening of “Farewell
Mister Hafman,” a film that tells the story of a Jewish jeweler trying to
survive the Nazi occupation of Paris.
2024:
As May 21st begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps the
United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day
228 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.)
