This Day, May 9, in Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 9
1457
BCE: In the 15th century BCE, Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III
and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh. The victory of
Thutmose extended the orbit of Egyptian influence into Canaan and Syria which
might help explain some of the events described in the last chapters of Genesis
and the opening portion of Exodus.
According to one source, the Exodus took place in 1456 which would not
be consistent with the information surrounding the battle. Other sources indicate
that Joshua and the Israelites crossed the Jordan around 1200 BCE. Based on archeological evidence, Megiddo was
a site of military importance during the time of King Solomon and he kept a
chariot force stationed there. The
Judeans lost a battle with the Egyptians in 609 BCE and the British scored a
significant victory over the Turks at the same site in 1918. Fighting at
Megiddo would play a significant role during the War of Independence as both
sides sought to control the Jezreel Valley. It is the first battle to have been
recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail. According
to Christian doctrine, there is supposed to be a battle between the forces of
good and evil in th end of days. The
battle is known as Armageddon which is Greek form of the Hebrew Har-Megiddo (Mt
of Megiddo).
1222:
The Synod of Oxford, which enacted “harsh anti-Jewish laws” that meant that “"social
relations between Jews and Christians were blocked; church tithes were levied
against Jews, and English Jews were forced to wear an identifying badge” while construction
of new synagogues was also prevented” was held today at Osney Abbey.
1224:
Innocent IV issued “Impia Judoerum Perfidia,” a papal bull that ordered the
French King to brun the Talmud and forbade Jews from employing Christian
nurses.
1317:
In his will dated today, the infante
Don Pedro, ordered that Judah Abravanel be paid: (1) 15,000 maravedis for clothes delivered; (2)
30,000 maravedis as part of a
personal debt, at the same time requesting Judah to release him from paying the
rest. Judah had been in great favor with King Alfonso the Wise, with whom he
once had a conversation regarding Judaism.
1408:
Gabriele Condulmer, who as Pope Eugene IV “would decree and order that from now
on, and for all time, Christians shall not eat or drink with the Jews, nor
admit them to feasts, nor cohabit with them, nor bathe with them. […]
They cannot live among Christians, but in a certain street, separated and
segregated from Christians, and outside which they cannot under any pretext
have houses” was elevated to the position of Cardinal1457 BCE: In the 15th
century BCE, Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite
coalition under the King of Kadesh. The victory of Thutmose extended the orbit
of Egyptian influence into Canaan and Syria which might help explain some of
the events described in the last chapters of Genesis and the opening portion of
Exodus. According to one source, the
Exodus took place in 1456 which would not be consistent with the information
surrounding the battle. Other sources indicate that Joshua and the Israelites
crossed the Jordan around 1200 BCE.
Based on archeological evidence, Megiddo was a site of military
importance during the time of King Solomon and he kept a chariot force
stationed there. The Judeans lost a
battle with the Egyptians in 609 BCE and the British scored a significant
victory over the Turks at the same site in 1918. Fighting at Megiddo would play
a significant role during the War of Independence as both sides sought to
control the Jezreel Valley. It is the first battle to have been recorded in
what is accepted as relatively reliable detail. According to Christian
doctrine, there is supposed to be a battle between the forces of good and evil
in th end of days. The battle is known
as Armageddon which is Greek form of the Hebrew Har-Megiddo (Mt of Megiddo).
1664:
In Lemberg and Cracow, Poland, anti-Jewish riots by students and peasants
resulted in damages and death in both communities. In Lemberg, the cantor was
killed during when the synagogue was attacked.
1712:
In Berlin, the cornerstone of the first public synagogue was laid in
Heiderentergasse.
1775:
Birthdate of Moses Philippson the Jewish writer, teacher, translator and
publisher who was related to 16th century Rabbi Joshua ben Joseph
Hoseschel and who taught at the Jewish School in Dessau.
1775:
David Salisbury Franks was released after having been under arrest for six days
on charges of having spoken “disrespectfully” about King George III. Franks,
who was living in Montreal at the time, became such an ardent supporter of the
American Revolution that he joined the Continental Army.
1778(12th
of Iyar): Chasidic Rabbi Samuel Shmelke Horowitz, author of Divrei Shmuel,
passed away today.
1788(2nd
of Iyar): Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Vitebsk, autheo of “Peri Ha-Aretz,” passed
away
1798:
Napoleon Bonaparte arrived at Toulon as the French prepared for a military
campaign that would take them Jaffa, Acre and a promise by the French leader to
restore the Jews to a state in Palestine.
1800(14th
of Iyar, 5560): Pesach Sheni
1800:
Birthdate of Justus Olshuasen, the German philologist who published a textbook
on the Hebrew Language in 1861 and Emendation of the Old Testament.
1800:
Birthdate of abolitionist John Brown, best known for his seizure of Harper’s
Ferry. However, he had played an active
role in the fighting between slave owners and free soilers in Kansas during
1850’s. When he led the raid on
Pottawatomie, Kansas, he was joined by three Jews – August Bondi, Jacob
Benjamin and Theodore Weiner.
1804:
In Amsterdam, Rachel Cornelia Bernard and Abraham Levy who were married in 1799
gave birth Jacob Abraham Levy, the future resident of Richmond, VA who married
Martha Ezekiel in 1828 ater which they gave birth to 11 children.
1805(10th
of Iyar, 5565): Sixty-six year old Boston businessman Moses Michael Hays, the
New York born son of Dutch Jewish immigrants Judah Hays and Rebecca Michaels,
husband of Rachel Myers and brother-in-law to New York silversmith Myer Myers
and Rabbi Isaac de Abraham Touro who was a supporter of the American Revolution
and founder of the Massachusetts Bank which survives today as the Bank of
America passed away today at which he was “at The Colonial Burying Ground in
Newport.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/moses-michael-hays
1809:
Birthdate of Middlesex native Ralph Disraeli.
1812:
Birthdate of Egyptian-born Indian civil servant, Henry Edward Goldsmid who “entered
the service of the East India Company in 1832, and three years later became
assistant revenue commissioner for Bombay.”
1817(23rd
of Iyar, 5577): Three-year-old Frances Henrietta Hendricks, the New York born
daughter of copper manufacturer Harmon Hendricks and Frances Isaacs who was the
granddaughter of Joshua and Brandly Isaacs and Uriah Hendricks, “one of the 23
Jewish immigrants who founded Congregation Shearith Israel.
1819:Birthdate
of Wallerstein, Bavaria, native and pioneer in reform Jewish liturgical music
Leon Sternberger who in 1849 came to New York where he began a cantorial career
that took him from Anshe Chesed to the Norfolk Street synagogue, to Adath
Jeshurun to Congregation Beth El where he remained until his retirement.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1897/01/16/117896000.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1822(18th
of Iyar, 5582): Lag B’Omer
1822(18th
of Iyar, 5582): Seventy-six-year-old Bavarian born Jacob Naphtali Hart, the
husband of Lean Nathan passed away today in New York City.
1823(28th
of Iyar, 5583): Thirteen-year-old Justina Brandly Hendricks, the daughter of
copper manufacturer Harmon Hendricks and his wife the former Frances Isaacs and
the granddaughter of Uriah Hendricks, one of the founders of Congregation
Sheartih Israel passed away today in New York after which she was buried in the
Third Cemetery of Congregation Searirth Israel.
1824:
In Sejny, Poland, R' Moses Bacharach and Sheina Bacharach gave birth to Jacob
ben Moses Bachrach, the “grammarian and rabbi” who was the husband of Reva
Bachrach.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/bachrach-jacob-ben-moses
1828:
Birthdate of Somerville, OH and Jefferson Medical College trained physician
Levi Cooper Lane
1834:
In London, England, Philip Philips and his wife gave birth to Cleveland, OH
educated Morris Phillips, “the father of society news” in the United States who
“was the author of several books among them Home Abroad and the father
of Frederick Phillips, an associate editor of Town and Country.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/08/31/117947485.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1837:
In Philadelphia, PA, Julia Levy and Joseph Lyons Moss gave birth to Frank Moss,
the husband of Annie Bathurst Harrison.
1837:
Elisa Morpurgo (Parente) and Giuseppe / Joseph Baron von Morpurgo gave birth to
Emilio Isacco Baron de Morpurgo
1838(14tf
Iyar, 5598): Pesach Sheini
1840(6th
of Iyar, 5600): Parashat Kedoshim
1840
(6th of Iyar, 5600): Twenty-eight-year-old Elieser Elieser Duelken,
the Deutz born son of Markus Duelken and Beile Sibilla Duelken passed away
today.
1841(18th
of Iyar, 5601): Lag B’Omer
1841:
Leon Lewis Isaacs married Fanny Abrahams at the Great Synagogue today.
1841:
In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Pozhanski officiated at the wedding of Judah Bensadon
and Leah Hyams.
1849:
In London, Rabbi Moses Henry Myers, the London born son of Rabbi Henry Henoch
Myers and his wife Sarah H. Myers gave birth to Victor Myers
1850:
In Albany, NY, “Dr. Joseph Lewi and Bertha Schwarz” gave birth to “Isidor
Lewi,” an “editorial writer for the New
York Tribune” and publisher of the New
Era Illustrated Magazine.
1852:
As a sign of Christian determination to gain Jewish converts, Reverend William
Ramsay is scheduled to deliver the annual sermon before the American Society
for the Meliorating the Condition of the Jews in New York City.
1855:
The new building for the Jews Hospital in New York, located on 28th
Street between 7th and 8th Avenues, has been
completed. The building, which cost
$35,000 is four stories high and has room for 150 patients. Dedication ceremonies are scheduled for May
17.
1856:
An “English gossiper” described a meeting with Sir Lionel Goldsmid, Lord Mayor
Salomons and Sir Moses Montefiore in an article entitled “Three Great Jews”
published today.
1858:
In Lafayette, IN, Moses and Sophia Neumann Amberg gave birth to Henrietta
Amberg Born, the wife of Bernhardt “Ben” Born.
1859:
One day after she had passed a way, Catherin Jacobs, the wife of Isaac Jacobs
with whom she had had six children was buried toda at the “Halfway
(Queensborough) Jewish Cemetery.”
1863(20th
of Iyar, 5623): Parashat Emor
1863:
In Paris, Lazar Schorstein, the Vienna born son of Yithak Schorstein and his wife Clara Schorstein gave birth to
Gustave Isidor Schorstein
1863(20th
of Iyar, 5623: On Shabbat, during the Civil War, Lieutenant L.S. Lipman died
while serving with the 5th Louisiana.
1864(3rd
of Iyar, 5624): Lieutenant W.M. Wolf died while serving with Hagood’s S.C.
Brigade.
1864:
John Engel, a native of Maryland who had been working as a clerk in Mecklenburg
County (NC) enlisted in the Confederate Army today.
1864:
Walter Goodman arrived in Cuba where he worked as an artist and painting
theatrical sets and journalist writing articles and letters to the New York
Herald, using the nom de plume el Caballero Inglese.
1865:
In Memphis, TN, Marx and Rosa (Meyer) Levi gave birth to St. Louis realtor,
financial agent, and grocer Joseph M. Levi, the usband of Evelyn Eiseman with
whom he had two children – Doris and Joseph.
1865:
At Nashville, TN, Union Brigadier General Frederick Knefler led the 79th
Indiana Infantry Brigade in final review of the army under the command of
General George Thomas. Following the review, Knefler, one of the highest-ranking
Jewish officers to serve in the U.S. Army during the Civil War, took his troops
back to Indianapolis where they were mustered out of service.
1868:
The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded. Jews have been part of the Reno community
since the founding of the city.
According to the history prepared by Temple Emanu-El “One of the first
Jewish organizations was the "Reno Hebrew Benevolent Society"
established in 1879. The Society's purpose was to secure a piece of land for a
cemetery, assist sick members and, in case of death, provide for a decent
internment. The initial membership fee was $2.50 with a monthly membership
payment of fifty cents.’ For more about the history of the Jews in Reno see Jews
in Nevada: A History by John Marschall.
1871:
Lipman Emanuel “Lip” Pike played in his first major league baseball game as a
member of the Troy Haymakers.
1872:
The American Society for the Promotion of Christianity Among the Jews held its
second anniversary meeting this evening at the Union Presbyterian Church in New
York City. While the report of Reverend
Abraham C. Tris stated “that the progress of the work has been very
encouraging” it never provided any number of Jews who had actually converted as
a result of the society’s efforts.
1873: Myer Stern, President of the Hebrew and
Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society, a trustee of Temple Emanu-El and a
prominent businessman and political figure was one of three people nominated by
the Mayor to serve as Commissioners of charities and Correction in New York
City.
1874:
Birthdate of Posen, Germany native, Simon Peiser who in 1892 came to the United
States where he graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1896, was
ordained as a Rabbi at the Hebrew Union College and married Amelia Buchman in
194, “two months after becoming Superintendent” of the Cleveland Jewish Orphan
Asylum.
1876(15th
of Iyar, 5636): Pesach N. Rubenstein who had been convicted of murdering Sara
Alexander starved himself to death before he could be hanged for his crime.
1878:
Russia promulgated another set of regulations pertaining to the military
service of the Jews today.
1881:
Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Shpola and Ananyev, Russia. This was part
of a wave of anti-Semitic violence that would sweep back and forth across
Russia until the start of World War I. It was consistent with the
Czars 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 policy for the Jews. Things would
be so bad for the Jews that one third would convert, one third would leave the
country and one third would die. And Russia would be free of its Jewish
Problem
1882:
In “Biala, Russia,” “Raphael Shalom and Cheyah Sarah (Pilatsky) Rosenblatt gave
birth to the “King of the Cantors, Josef “Yossele” Rosenblatt, the husband of
“Taube Kaufman.”
1884(14th
of Iyar, 5644): Pesach Sheni
1885:
Rabbi Alexander Kohut of Grosswardein, Hungary delivered his first sermon at
Temple Ahavath Chesed in New York City.
1886:
Birthdate of NYU trained attorney Max Levy “a founder and first president of
the Jewish Community Center of Staten Island” and “founder and first President
of the Jewish Foundation School of State Island” who raised a son, Jack and a
daughter, Ralene, with his wife “the former Josephine Mendelson.”
1886:
In New York “500 people met at the Salem Fields Cemetery” today to dedicate a
monument honor Jewish philanthropist Seligman Solomon. Among other things, the 20-foot-high granite
shaft honored his work with the Hebrew Orphan Asylum calling him “A Father to
the Orphan and Humanity’s Noblest Volunteer.”
1890:
In the upper house of the Prussian Diet, right-wing politician Count Pfeil
moved that the government take measures to limit the educational opportunities
of Jewish students.
1892:
“Bay State Republicans” published today described status of the Massachusetts
Republican Party as it prepares for the upcoming national convention in
Minneapolis. This includes the role to
played by party secretary Ratchesky, “a very clever, shrewd and cunning Jewish
politician who has been useful in in the past in keeping his people in line for
the Republican ticket. He is a member of the Boston Common Council, a keen
debater and a man of unlimited political resource.” He is one of two men
described as exercising “absolute control over the machinery” of the Republican
Party.
1892:
Five days after she had passed away, Sarah Eliza Henriques, “the widow of
Joseph Gutteres Henriques” and the mother of Alfred and Frederick Henrqiues was
buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1893:
John B. Weber, the former Commissioner of Immigration expressed his views on
reports that the government of Russia has issued edicts expelling the Jews from
Poland. He is concerned that this latest wave of immigrants will not benefit
the United States and that the Czar and the Europeans are dumping their
unwanted Jews on the Americans.
1893:
The decision of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions to actively work to
convert Jews in the United States was made public today.
1893:
As of today, Annie Weisberg, the daughter of Polish-Jewish immigrants was the
only person reported to have been injured in the fire at the tenement house on
Suffolk Street.
1893:
Adolph Marix, a native of Germany who had enlisted in the Navy while living in
Iowa and was the Secretary to the Board of Inquiry that investigated the
sinking of the battleship Maine was promoted to the rank of Lt. Commander
today.
1893:
Based on information that first appeared in the Hartford Courant it was reported today the wholesale expulsion of
Jews from Poland began in the middle of February and has continued unabated
since then.
1894:
In Prague, Eduard and Elisabeth Bondy gave bird to Pavel “Paul” Bonday who
would be murdered at Riga during the Holocuast.
1894:
Esther Ruskay spoke on "The Revival of Judaism" at the founding
meeting of the New York section of the National Council of Jewish Women
1895:
The members of the New York Branch of the Jewish Woman’s Council was held today
at Temple Emanu-El
1895:
“The East Side Art Exhibition” published today praised the selection of the
paintings being shown at the East Side Free Art Exhibition taking place at the
Hebrew Institute which will continue for the next thirty days.
1896:
The Young Men’s Hebrew Association will hold its 19th annual
strawberry festival at Lenox Lyceum.
1896:
The palatial mansion of Diamond mogul Barney Barnato located in the Mayfair
section of London is reported to be nearing completion. Barnato’s new home is
on Park Lane, near the home of another Jewish Diamond Mogul, Alfred Beit.
1897:
In Little Rock, AR, B'nai Israel, a Reform Congregation, dedicated its new
house of worship which was designed by architect Charles Thompson. Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, the founder of Reform
Judaism gave the keynote address at the ceremony. The building was used until May, 1975 when
the Temple B’nai Israel moved into it current home in western Little Rock.
1898:
It was reported today that among fifty Jewish families who were at a mass
meeting praying for the success of the American Army in the war with Spain were
among 200 people left homeless by a fire
that swept through Duluth, MN.
1898:
Captain Bernard W. Salomonsky of Norfolk was among those who were mustered into
service today as the mustering in process began today for the 4th
Virginia Volunteer Infantry.
1898:
Private Will H. Freudenstein of St. Louis was mustered in today at Jefferson
Barracks, MO as members of Light Battery A Missouri Volunteers
1899:
Birthdate of Zhitomir, Ukraine native Max Cutler, the 18-year-old “Phi Beta
Kappa graduate of the University of Georgia” and John Hopkins University
trained physician who founded the Chicago Tumor Institute while raising three
daughters – Nina, Nancy and Susie – with “his wife, the former Bertie Berger.”
(As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)
1900:
During the Konitz Affair, a blood libel in West Prussia, “the Staatsbürgerzeitung, the leading
anti-Semitic organ of Berlin, said: ‘No one can help forming the impression
that the organs of the government received orders to pursue the investigation
in a manner calculated to spare the Jews’” even though the opposite was quite
true as could be seen by the detectives
and judges eagerly listened to “the most improbable statements implicating
Jews, while Christian witnesses withheld important testimony.”
1901
Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne. Elias Solomon, a native of
London who became an auctioneer in Freemantle was among the members of the
first parliament having won the Australian House Representative seat of
Fremantle for the Free Trade Party.
1901:
“Since the destruction of its house of worship by fire” today, “the
congregation of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church” has been holding services
at Temple Beth Emet in Albany.
1901:
In Russia, chemical engineer Ospivoch Ephrussi, the son of Kishinev banker
Joseph Ephrussi, and his wife gave birth to “Boris Ephrussi, the Professor of
Genetics at the University of Paris.”
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.ge.14.120180.002311?journalCode=genet
1901:
Sir Isaac Isaacs began serving as a Member of the Australian Party representing
the Division of Indi which is located in north-eastern Victoria. This is but
one of many governmental positions that Isaacs held during a long career
dedicated to public service.
1901:
Together with David Wolffsohn and Oskar Marmorek, Theodor Herzl traveled to
Constantinople in his quest to gain support from the Sultan for a Jewish
homeland in Eretz Israel. The trip will last until May 23.
1902(2nd
of Iyar, 5662): Ashe I Myers, the editor of the Jewish Chronicle who doubled and then trebled the readership of
this English journal passed away today.
(Other sources show his death date as May 11. This date comes from an article written in
1913)
1903(12th
of Iyar, 5663): Parashat Achrei Mot-Kedoshim
1903:
Half the proceeds of tonight’s performance “The Destruction of Kishineff” at
the Windsor Theatre are to go to fund being raised to help the victims of the
pogrom at “the capital city of Bessarabia.”
1904:
In Galicia, Israel David Irom and Sabina "Shifra" (Sadie) Blau gave
birth Abraham Simcha Irom who in 1915 came to the United States where he earned
a BS from Columbia and ordained as a rabbi by Yeshiva College while raising two
children – Joseph and Renee – with his wife Pauline Irom.
1904(24th
of Iyar, 5664): Hungarian born actress Jenny Gross who made her debut in 1878
in Vienna passed away today in Berlin.
1904:
Nissan Katzenelson visited Herzl in Franzensbad and reports the results of his
trip to London. Jacob Schiff had declared himself ready to negotiate a loan for
Russia if it proved to do something for the Jews.
1905:
“The rumors of a massacre of Jews at Zhitomir” in southwestern Russia were
confirmed from St. Petersburg based on “a dispatch to the Novosti” that “says
the rioting began on” May 7 and continued for 48 hours during which “Orthodox
Christians fell upon the Jews in the streets.”
1906(14th
of Iyar, 5666): Pesach Sheni
1906:
It was reported today that Congregation Temple Emanu-El has re-elected James
Seligman as President of the Board of Trustees, Moses H. Moses as Vice
President and James Seligman, Daniel Guggenheim and A.J. Dittenhoefer as
Trustees for three years.
1907:
“Tracts For Jews No Help” published today described a conflict between Dr.
Shearer and his American Tract Society who missionaries have been passing out
tracts to Jews and other immigrants “immediately on their landing” and
Immigration Commissioner Robert Watchorn who is concerned that Jewish
immigrants who received these Hebrew documents will scare them into hinking
that converting them to Christianity is some sort of U.S. government
policy.
1908(8th
of Iyar, 5668): Parashat Emor
1908:
It was reported today that during a debate the Duma about conscripting
non-Russians into the Czar’s army, “M. Krupensky, a Marshal of the nobility”
who was part of the anti-Semitic cohort of deputes “moved to strike Jewish
recruits from the conscript list and to impose a head tax on them instead.
1909(18th
of Iyar, 5669): Lag B’Omer
1909:
“Before an audience which crowded the pews and aisles of the Free Synagogue, in
West Eighty-First Street, to the doors Rabbi Leon Harrison of Temple Israel,
St. Louis, made a passionate appeal today to his fellow-Jews against
intermarriage with Christians.”
1910:
In what some say is a strange twist, Reverend Frank W. Stanford said that
sixty-six people from Portland, ME who had returned from “the Holy Land” had
abandoned their plans to establishment a settlement in Palestine.
1910:
It was reported today that the Hebrew Orphan Asylum “is celebrating the 50th
anniversary of the opening of its first home at 1 Lamartine Place” and that
during those fifty years, the society has “brought nearly 6,000 children with
only 57 deaths.”
1910:
Today, Albert Herman Woods, the Hungarian born Jewish producer “went to the New
York Supreme Court” today “to get a injunction
prevent the police from closing down “The Girl with the Whooping” over charges
of that it was indecent.
1911:
The Vatican placed the works of Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio in the Index
of Forbidden Books. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum The List of Prohibited
Books or The Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list of publications prohibited by
the Catholic Church was begun in the 16th century under Pope Paul
IV. Pope Paul VI finally discontinued it
in 1966. The lengthy list of forbidden
includes some names that are not surprising including Martin Luther, Voltaire
and Rabelais. Among the few “Jewish” names are Maimonides, Spinoza and
Heine. Mein Kampf never made the
List of Prohibited Books!
1912:
A cablegram that had been sent from London was received by the Jewish Daily News in New York reporting
“that ITO has decided to consider an offer by Portugal to establish a Jewish
colony in Angola.”
1913:
Today, Milton J. Rosenau of Brookline, Massachusetts was named an Assistant
Surgeon in the Medical Reserve Corps in the same month in which he was
“nominated by the Governor to be a member of the Massachusetts State Board of
Health.
1914(13th
of Iyar, 5674): Parashat Acrhrei-Mot Kedoshim
1914:
President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation that officially
establishes the first national Mother’s Day holiday to celebrate America’s
mothers
1915:
According to reports received by Provisional Executive Committee for General
Zionist Affairs in London, Henry Morgenthau, the United States Ambassador to
Turkey, has been successful in his attempts to halt, at least temporarily,
actions by the Turkish government which were proving to be inimical to the
Zionist settlements and Jewish communities in Palestine.
1915:
It was reported tody that “Detectives Lehon, Tedder, Rogers and Whitfield who
would have on the Leo Frank case for W.J. Burns” detective agency “are to be
tried this week for alleged misdemeanors in connection with their
investigation.
1915:
It was reported that “the trial of the Rev. C.B. Ragsdale and R.L. Barber who
accused W.J. Burns operatives Lehon, Tedder and Arthur Thurman of bribery in
the make of alleged false affidavits for the Leo Frank Defense is set for this
week.
1915:
In “What Is To Be Done With Turkey?” published today French politician Gustave
Hervé described his plan for carving up the Ottoman Empire after the war
including giving Russia Constantinople – a proposal to which no one would
object “if a Russian Government really resuscitated Poland by granting it full
autonomy, gave the Jews equal civil and political rights,” and lived up to the
promises made to the Dumas in 1906. (Editor’s note: The issue of improving the treatment of the
Jews of Eastern Europe was one that people spent a lot of time talking about
but did little to make a reality.)
1915(25th
of Iyar, 5675): London resident 2nd Lt. Herman Stern was killed
today while serving with His Majesty’s Forces.
1916:
The British and the French finalize the Sykes-Picot Agreement. This was a
secret treaty between the French and the British concerning the dismemberment
of Turkey that would take place once World War I would come to a close.
France was to gain control over most of what is now Syria and Lebanon.
Britain would control what is now Jordan, Iraq and effectively Saudi
Arabia. The British were also to control a small enclave around
Haifa. The rest of what is now Israel and the West Bank was to be under some
form of international control. This secret agreement contradicted Allied
promises that would be made to the Jews and the Arabs later during the
war. The treaty became public after the Russian Revolution when Lenin
released the archives of the former Russian government to public view. In
part, the Middle East is still living with the end product of imperial
duplicity as typified by the work of Sykes and Picot.
1916:
Today, President Wilson appointed Louis A. Sussdorf as a secretary of the
United States Embassy
1916:
Today “President Leon Sanders of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid
Society received a telegram from Secretary State Lansing” saying “that Isador
Herschfield “ who has been in Europe for eleven months “investigating
conditions among Jews in the war zones” has set sail from Rotterdam bound for
New York.
1917:
The University of Washington “Menorah Society presented ‘The Family’ by Louis
L. Schwartz” today “at the Moore Theatre” in Seattle.
1917:
Rabbi Nathan Krass, a member of the American Jewish War Relief Commission
returned to New York today from a fund raising lecture tour in the western
United States.
1917:
“Replying to a question in the House of Commons today as to whether any pledges
had been given to France or Italy which might interfere with the establishment
of an independent, integral Jewish Palestine under American or British
protection, Lord Robert Cecil, Minister of Blockade, said he was afraid he
could not answer any question with regard to pledges which might or might not
have been given to Great Britain’s allies in connection with the terms of
peace.
1917:
Birthdate of Fay Mitchell who as Fay Kanin the wife of Michael Kanin was “half
of the husband-and-wife team that wrote the Clark Gable-Doris Day comedy
“Teacher’s Pet” and the writer of television movies including Emmy-winning
vehicles for Maureen Stapleton and Carol Burnett…´(As reported by Alean
Harmetz)
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/mar/31/fay-kanin
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/arts/fay-kanin-95-writer-for-movies-and-tv.html?_r=1
1918:
In Brookline, MA, “Zina Wallik, who had come to the United States from a
Russian shtetl before the turn of the 20th century” gave birth to Myron Leon
Wallace who gained fame as American broadcast journalist Mike Wallace.
1919:
Birthdate of prodigy Julius Heldman, who earned his Ph.D. from Stanford at the
age of 23, played a key role in the Manhattan project and raised a daughter,
Carrie, with his wife Gladys, the publisher of World Tennis magazine.
1919:
Birthdate of Chicago native and University of Michigan and Loyal educated
publishing executive Ted Winter, a member of the board of education in Highland
Park, IL and an officer of the American Jewish Committee.
1919(19th
of Iyar, 5679): Eighty-one-year-old Samuel “Saul” Hirsch the German born son of
Therese Wromser and Leopold Hrisch and the husband of Serette Hirsch passed
away today in Memphis, TN.
1920:
In Chicago “a furniture dealer who had emigrated to Lativa” and “the daughter
of another Latvian émigré” gave birth to Art Institute trained artist and US
Army Air Forces veteran Alfred Cohen who on critic described as “a fresh and
accessible artist of considerable accomplishment whose abstract impressionist
compositions were enlivened by an acute charm of colour'.”
Alfred Cohen Art Foundation and Museum -
Alfred Cohen Art Foundation and Museum
1920:
Birthdate of Philip Klass, the London native who gained fame as American
science fiction writer William Tenn.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/books/14tenn.html
1921(1st
of Iyar, 5681): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1921:
Fiorello La Guardia, the son of Irene Coen “a Jewish woman from Triest” who
chose to father in father’s Catholic footsteps mourned the loss of his daughter
Fioretta Thea who passed away today.
1921:
Those attending the annual convention of the United States Grand Lodge, Order
of B’rith Abraham in Atlantic City “ will be called upon to adopt various resolutions”
in response to the anti-Semitic attacks by Henry Ford and his publications.
1921:
“Jews’ Aid To Columbus” published today described the assertion by Dr. William
H. Morgan, past of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore that “Jewish
financiers and Jewish scientists made possible the discovery of America by
Columbus,” that “a Jew, doctor and surgeon Luis De Torres was the first known
European to set foot on American soil” and that “the Jews convinced Vasco de
Gama of the possibility of sailing around the Cape of Good Hope” thus helping
to “revolutionize commerce.”
1921:
Birthdate of Sophie Scholl, a member of the White Rose resistance group whom
the Nazis was executed by guillotine. Scholl was a Lutheran, a truly Righteous
Gentile who did what she could to stop Hitler.
1922:
A noon service is scheduled to be held at the Marble Collegiate Reformed Church
on 5th Avenue which is part of weeklong effort by Reverend Joseph
Flacks of St. Louis “a Jew who says he has been converted to Christianity” and
preaches in Yiddish to convert Jews to his new found faith.
1923:
In Alexandria, LA, Bernard F. and May Violet Kaffie Rosenthal gave birth to
Tulane grad, attorney and Democratic Party leader Arnold Jack Rosenthal.
1924:
It was reported today that I. Edwin Goldwasser, secretary of the Nathan
Hofheimer Foundation and Vice President of the Federation for the Support of
Jewish Philanthropic Societies delivered a speech on “The Relation of Large
Foundations to Local Welfare Agencies” at the 12th annual meeting of
the Children’s Welfare Federation.
1925:
Twenty-six-year old NYU trained attorney and New York state legislator Morris
Weinfeld, the New York born son of Abraham and Fannie (Singer) Weinfeld married
Beatrice Margel today
1926:
“Louis W. Osterweis, a New York attorney, was elected President of the District
No. 1, Independent Order B’nai B’rith, the largest American Jewish fraternity
with a membership of over sixty thousand, at the seventy-fourth annual
convention of the Order held today at the Astor Hotel. He succeeded Bertram M.
Aufsesser. (As reported by JTA)
1926:
U.S. premiere of “Shipwrecked,” a silent adventure film starring Joseph
Schildkraut as “Larry O’Neil.”
1926(25th
of Iyar, 5686): Seventy-five year old Oscar Solomon Strauss passed away. A
successful businessman he served two tours as U.S. Minister to the Ottoman
Empire and was Teddy Roosevelt’s choice to serve as Secretary of Commerce and
Labor making him the first Jew to serve as a Cabinet Secretary.http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/straus-sarah-lavanburg
1927:
“Felix M. Warburg, President of the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and
Albert G. Becket of Chicago, one of its directors, arrived in Moscow tonight
from China” where “they were met by Dr. Reinhardt Kahn, European director, who
came especially from Berlin, and Dr. Joseph Rosen, who is President of the
Agrojoint, for Russia.
https://www.nytimes.com/1927/05/10/archives/warburg-to-inspect-colonies-in-russia-his-report-on-the-jewish.html?searchResultPosition=3
1928:
“A preliminary meet was held at the home Aaron Hein to discuss the organization
of Men’s Club at Congregation Beth El in Camden, NJ.
1929:
Eighty-four-year-old Gustave Schlumberger, an award winning French historian
and numismatist and an ultra-conservative, an active supporter of the
anti-Dreyfusard movement who “stormed out of the salon of the hostess Genevieve
Straus when her friend Joseph Reinach pointed out Dreyfus' innocence” passed
away today.
1930:
Birthdate of Mordechai “Motta” Gur who commanded the division that reunited
Jerusalem in 1967 and served 10th Chief of Staff of the IDF.
1931(22nd
of Iyar, 5691): Parashat Behar-Bechukotai
1931:Lieutenant
Governor Herbert H. Lehman is scheduled to receive the Gottheil Medal named “in
honor of Professor Richard J.H. Gottheil of Columbia University which has
previously been award to Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, David Brown of Detroit, Aaron
Sapiro, Julius Rosenwald of Chicago and Felix M. Warburg.
1931(22nd
of Iyar, 5691): Seventy-eight-year-old Nobel Prize Winner, Albert Abraham
Michelson passed away. Born in Prussia in 1852, Michelson came to the
U.S. two years later. He grew up in San
Francisco graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1873,
something highly unusual for a Jewish youth of his day. After
finishing his naval career, Michelson went to enjoy a distinguished career in
the United States and Europe as a physicist with a specialty in optics.
He won the Nobel Prize in 1907. He was 87 at the time of his
death.
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1907/michelson-bio.html
1931:
Birthdate of Tel Aviv native and Israeli politician Amnon Rubinstein.
1932:
The local police disclosed that “Dr. Paul Groguloff, the Russian who
assassinated President Doumer of France was actively engaged in anti-Semitic
propaganda while living in Czechoslovakia.”
1933:
In Vienna, “protests were filed at the United States Consulate today by nine
American students” including Nathan Shapiro, Maxwell Silberman and Eli Starr
“who said they had been struck Nazis in anti-Jewish rioting that started at the
Vienna Anatomical Institutes.
1934:
U. S. premiere of “Sadie McKee” a romantic drama based on "Pretty Sadie
McKee” by Viña Delmar, produced by Lawrence Weingarten with lyrics by Arthur
Freed.
1935:
“The Informer” a film version of the novel by the same name with music by Max
Steiner was released today in the United States.
1935:
The American Jewish Olympic team arrived in New York today on the Italian liner
Conte di Savoia. The United States athletes were returning from the second
World Maccabiah staged at Tel-Aviv, Palestine.
1936:
The world takes another step toward a general war when Italy formally annexed
Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa.
The Western Powers did nothing to stop the Italian dictator and the
League of Nations was totally helpless in stopping Mussolini. This lack of will
and impotence gave Hitler further proof that he could swallow up much of Europe
without firing a shot. Orde Wingate, the
British officer who would play a critical role in the liberation of Ethiopia
was serving in Palestine and was one of the few British officers who
sympathized with the Jewish settlers and helped train them in self-defense when
they came under attack from armed Arab gangs bent on mayhem and murder.
1936:
It was reported today that “among the questions to come before” the first
Jewish World Congress which is scheduled to meet in August “will the defense of
Jewish equality, re-establishment of the rights Jews in Germany, the struggle
against anti-Semitism and the participation in Jewish reconstruction work in
Palestine.”
1936:
A detachment of British tanks is scheduled to be shipped from Alexandria, Egypt
to Palestine in response to the Arab attacks and violence.
1936:
At the 25th anniversary dinner of the Syracuse University chapter of
Zeta Beta Tau “Dr. James Grover McDonald, former High Commissioner of the
League of Nations for Refugees from Germany was extolled as one of the world’s
outstanding contributors to the cause of international understanding” as he was
named the recipient of the “Gottheil Medal which is given annually to the
American who has, in the previous year, done the most for Jewry.”
1936:
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee reported today that services
agencies it supported help more than 1,500 “German Jews and German Jewish
refugees to migrate from their homes” during the month of January.
1937:
For the second day in a row, Jews in Grabow were beaten by a mob angered at
reports that Pole had been stabbed in an altercation with a Jew.
1937:
“The Second Hurricane,” an opera in two acts by Aaron Coplan “was today on CBS
Radio in a one-hour broadscast.
1937:
“Make Way For Tomorrow” produced by Adolph Zukor and featuring Maurice
Moscovitch as “Max Rubens, the Jewish shopkeeper” was released in the United
States today.
1938:
The Arabs continued their boycott of the Partition Commission and refused to
meet personally with the British officials.
But they did submit a memorandum to the commission today rejecting any
“scheme” that would result in partition.
They demanded an entity in which the Jews “would remain a minority” with
what are called “full guarantees.”
1938:
La Acion, the Judeo-Spanish newspaper
of Salonica wrote that the community of Salonica had never been richer with the
public property have a value totaling 2,000,000 Drachmas.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that the
101st Session of the League of Nations opened with a negative balance of
unsolved problems like the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, the German
occupation of Austria and the Japanese invasion of China. The German and
Italian intervention in Spain, where they fought against the
democratically-elected government and the steadily growing refuge problem also
figured high on the League's distressing agenda.
1939:
The Rothschild-Hadassah University Hospital and Medical Center was opened on
Mt. Scopus. Mt. Scopus would be cut off from the Jewish held section of
Jerusalem at the end of the War for Independence. When the city was
re-united, Mt. Scopus again became part of Israel and Jewish institutions were
re-built and revitalized.
1940:
Rabbi Louis Finkelstein met with President Roosevelt in the White House today.
1940:
As he continued his flight in the face of Nazi conquests Leo Bretholz entered a
hospital in Antwerp for hernia surgery.
1940:
The visas of the family of Dutch art dealer Jacques Goudstikker expired today
“just as the Nazis invaded the Netherlands”
1940:
As he tried to escape from Germany, Hugo Gutman, “an officer in the very
regiment in which Adolf Hitler was an enlisted man” received his immigration
visa today so that he and his family could catch the train for France.
1941 “Billie Holiday recorded the classic jazz song ‘God Bless the
Child’” which she had written with “Arthur Herzog, Jr in 1938.”
1942:
Belgrade becomes the first Axis-conquered city to murder or eliminate its
Jewish Population, largely with the help of Serbian collaborators.
1942:
The first deportation train set out from Eisenach for the Belzyce Ghetto
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/may/06.asp
1942: The Jews of Markuszow, Poland, led
by Shlomo Goldwasser, Mordechai Kirshenbaum, and the brothers Yaakov and
Yerucham Gothelf, escaped to nearby forests.
1942:
American poet Ezra Pound, who was working for the Fascist Italian government,
broadcasted from Italy: "You would do better to inoculate your children
with typhus and syphilis" than allow more Jews into the United States.
America, Pound continues, is ruled by Jews and their allies, who are "the
dirtiest dirt from the bottom of the Jew's ash can."
1943:
On the eve of the 10th anniversary of a mass book burning in Nazi
Germany, Wendell Willkie, the 1940 Republican nominee for President of the
United States declared that the Nazis, “arrogant with power…burned books which
contained the accumulated the truth of centuries.” However, “those very flames lit horizons of
the spirit everywhere and today liberty-loving men are united to wipe out the
forces of barbarism and brutality – forces which cannot live where men read
books.” (Willkie’s sentiment are a case of war driven revisionism since Americans did not see the threat of the Nazis
until after the attack on Pearl Harbor and even then for many it was a
reluctant realization.)
1943(4th
of Iyar, 5703): The Skalat, Ukraine, Jewish community is destroyed.
1943:
Despite the death of most of the leadership at the Headquarters at Mila 18, the
resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto continues.
1943:
Twenty-six year old Eddie Turchin played his first big league game as a member
of the Cleveland Indians.
1944:
Today, “The Soviet 4th Ukrainian Front captured Sevastopol” where
approximately 4,000 Jews had been murdered by the Nazis during their two year
occupation of the city.
https://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=623
1945:
Friedrich Krüger, an SS-Obergruppenführer
responsible for mass exterminations of Polish Jews, committed suicide.
1945:
By the time that Red Army liberated Prague today, two-thirds of city’s 92,000
Jews had “perished in the Holocaust.”
1945:
On the day after World War II ended in Europe, Captain Bo Foster flew captured
Nazi leader Hermann Goering to the U.S. 7th Army’s headquarters for
interrogation. Foster and a group of
officers from the Army's 36th Infantry Division gathered on a tiny airstrip
outside Kitzbuhel, Austria, to transport the highly-prized war prisoner back to
Germany in an unarmed, two-man reconnaissance plane. Then he took one look at
the one-time heir to Adolf Hitler and commander of the fearsome Luftwaffe — all
300-plus pounds (136-plus kilos) of him — and knew he needed a bigger plane.
According to Foster, "They wanted to get him back where he could be
debriefed. There was a strong rumor that in a mountainside in the Alps right
down there in Bavaria there was a concentration of (German) military,"
Foster said. "He just acted as though it was a nice, friendly trip."
Goering, 52, had surrendered to the US Army's 36th Infantry Division the day
before. He had fallen out of favor with Hitler and hadn't played an active role
at the end of the war, though he remained Reichsmarschall of Nazi Germany.
Before his capture, Goering wrote a letter to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, offering to work with Eisenhower on the
conditions of the German army's surrender, according to an account of Goering's
capture by Brigadier Gen. Robert Stack kept by the 36th Infantry Division
Association. After receiving the letter, Stack and a group of soldiers drove
from the division's base near Kitzbuhel across the border into Germany and
intercepted a convoy that included Goering, his wife, daughter, sister-in-law,
household servants and military aides, according to the account. Goering agreed
to surrender unconditionally but asked that his family be cared for, and the Nazi
leader was delivered to Foster for transport the next day. The 33 year-old
Foster didn't fear getting shot down carrying such precious cargo alone in an
unescorted, unarmed plane. He didn't worry about Goering taking advantage of
the lack of a guard to wrest control of the aircraft. The main problem was
getting the two of them off the ground — the nimble, lightweight Piper L4 that
Foster piloted in his artillery spotting missions wouldn't support both him and
Goering. But the division only had the small airstrip that was fine for
Foster's aircraft, but was problematic for taking off and landing larger
planes. They'd have to upgrade to the one L5 in the division's inventory, a
slightly larger aircraft Foster hadn't flown in years. Goering stood on the tiny
airstrip in a plain, gray uniform that was unadorned but for a pistol at his
hip and a medal around his neck. Still wearing the pistol, he stepped toward
the plane. A Goering aide emerged from the group that had gathered and relieved
Goering of the weapon. The Nazi leader settled into the back seat and tried to
fasten his seat belt. It wouldn't stretch across his belly. He held the strap
in his hand, looked at Foster and said, "Das goot!" — that's good.
The two men spent the 55-minute flight from Kitzbuhel to Augsburg, Germany,
conversing in a mix of German and English. Goering asked Foster to avoid any
talk of Hitler or the war but appeared to relish pointing out the sites below
them. In a letter to his wife, Virginia Lou Foster, written soon after the mission,
Foster told her that the Nazi leader was "effeminate" and "gave
me the creeps." [Foster returned to Montanan where he became a General in
the National Guard and was awarded the French Legion of Honor for his World War
II service. (As reported in the
Jerusalem Post)
1945:
Due to quirk of time zones, in the Soviet the ninth and not the eighth of May
is the official end of WW II.
1946:
In Haifa, “Yechiel Bin-Nun (Fischer) and Shoshana Bin-Nun (Rosa First),
educators and researchers in Judaism and the Hebrew language” gave birth to “Yoel
Bin-Nun (Hebrew: יואל בן an Israeli religious Zionist rabbi and one of the
founders of Yeshivat Har Etzion, Gush Emunim, Michlelet Herzog and the
settlements of Alon Shevut and Ofra who “fought in the Six Day War and was part
of Israel's 55th Paratroopers Brigade that liberated Old City Jerusalem.”
https://www.thetorah.com/author/yoel-bin-nun
1946:
Based on the rulings of courts in Poland, today is the date used for people
whose death date was not documented but in all likelihood occurred during World
War II including the Polish children’s author Janusz Korczak who used the pen
name of Henryk Goldszmit and died at Treblinka with the children from his
Warsaw orphanage.
1947:
“Dr. Chaim Weizmann, who may resume the role of world Zionism's chief spokesman
when the United Nations debates the future of Palestine in the autumn,
entertained the British High Commissioner, Lieut. Gen. Sir Alan Cunningham, at
lunch today.”
1948: Pinchas Ben Porat “was one of ten pilots who left Israel to
enroll in Avia S-199 training in Czechoslovakia.”
1949:
In the Bronx, German born classical pianist Howard (Helmuth) Joel, the son Meta
and Karl Amson Joel, and the former Rosalind Joel, the daughter of Philip and
Rebecca Nyman, gave birth to William Martin Joel who gained fame as singer and
piano player, Billy Joel the brother of Judith Joel and half-brother classical
conductor Alexander Joe.
1951(3rd
of Iyar, 5711): Sixty-eight-year-old “writer,
translator, educator and important woman of letter Marietta Federn, the Vienna,
born daughter of suffragist Ernestine Spitzer and Dr. Salomon Federn the sister of economist Walther Federn, psychoanalyst Paul
Federn and social worker Else Fdern passed away today in France.
https://libcom.org/article/federn-marietta-aka-etta-1883-1951
1952(14th
of Iyar, 5712): Pesach Sheni
1952:
“The Sniper” a film about what would someday be labeled as a serial killer,
produced by Stanley Kramer was released in the United States today.
1953:
Birthdate of Roslyn, NY, Doctor Judith Steinberg who became Judith Steinberg
Dean when she married fellow medical student Howard Dean, the future governor
of Vermont.
1954:
Gertrude Berg made her first appearance as the “mystery guest” on What’s My
Line, signing in as Molly Goldberg, the iconic character she had created.
1955:
Ten years and one day after VE Day, West Germany joined N.A.T.O. which raised
concerns about how quickly the home of the Nazis and the Holocaust was being
normalized in the cause of the “fight against Communism.”
1956:
In Brooklyn, “award winning Yiddish and English poet Menke Katz” and his wife
gave birth to “Yiddish author, educator and cultural historian” Dovid Katz, the
editor of the website DefendingHistory.com
1956:
Outfielder Cal Abrams played his last major league baseball game with the
Chicago White Sox.
1957:
The Libyan government issued a decree ordering all Libyan Jews with relatives
in Israel to register with the Libyan boycott Office, the main pressure group
opposed trade with Israel. Since more
than ninety per cent of Libyan Jews had left the country between 1949 and 1952,
this decree applies to almost every Jewish family in Libya." (In
Ishmael's House by Martin Gilbert)
1958:
U.S. premiere of the psychological thriller “Vertigo” with music by Bernard
Herrmann
1958:
Otto Brinkman, who “had been convicted in the Einsatzgruppen Trial” was
released from Landsberg Prison today at the conclusion of the U.S. War Crimes
program.
1959(1st
of Iyar, 5719): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1959:
Hank Greenberg resigned from the Chicago White Sox. Following his successful
career as a baseball player, Greenberg became an equally successful
executive. He was the general manager of the 1954 Cleveland Indians that
broke the Yankee's pennant winning streak. He then became a part-owner
and executive of the Chicago White Sox who beat the Yanks for the pennant in
1959. Greenberg left baseball to become a successful investment banker.
1960(12th
of Iyar, 5720): Funeral services are scheduled for Murray Goodman, the husband
of Bess Goodman and brother of Max Goodman and a member of The Samuel Tichner
Society.
1961:
“Fiorello!” a musical about New York’s most famous mayor who spoke Yiddish when
he campaigned for Congress moved from the Broadhurst Theatre to the Broadway
Theatre where it continued its first run on Broadway.
1962(5th
of Iyar, 5722): Yom HaAtsma’ut
1962:
Doubleday is scheduled to publish Three Days which describes the
“seventy-two hours leadup to the birth of the modern state Israel through the
eyes of author Zeev Sharef who was a member of the Haganah and “was one of the
key men concerned with transfer of Palestine’s administration from to British
to Jewish hands.”
1962:
In the New York City Council Chamber, Mayor Robert F. Wagner is scheduled to
“officially proclaim today as Israel Independence Day.”
1964:
The day after her birth Paul Gilbert and Barbara Crane adopted actress Melissa
Gilbert best known for her portrayal of Laura Ingalls in “Little House on the
Prairie” where the television father was the Jewish actor Michael Landon.
1965:
CBS broadcast the last episode of “For the People” a legal drama created by
Stuart Rosenberg and starring William Shatner (before he was Kirk) and Howard
Da Silva
1956:
Senator Jacob K. Javits, the New York liberal said today that “he would rather
see the Republican nomination for Mayor go to any one of the three Republicans
mentioned now most prominently mentioned for it than I.D. the builder who is
seeking “the Republican and Democratic nominations for Mayor.”
1961:
“Fiorello,” a musical about the Mayor Fiorello La Guardia with music by Jerry
Bock and Lyrics Sheldon Harnick moved to The Broadway Theatre today.
1965:
Birthdate of journalist Mark Leibovich who “is the chief national correspondent
for the New York Times Magazine.”
1968(11th
of Iyar, 5728): Seventy-three-year-old producer, director and author Albert
Lewin, the holder of an MA from Harvard who, with the support of Irving
Thalberg, “produced his first picture, ‘The Kiss,” which was Greta Garbo’s last
silent film” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/05/10/77087938.pdf
1972:
One day after Sabena Flight 571 was hijacked by four terrorists from Black
September demanding the release of 315 convicted Palestinian terrorists in
exchange for the passengers, a rescue mission was mounted. A group of commandos led by Ehud Barak that
included Benjamin Netanyahu took back control of the plane, free the passengers
with the loss of only one life, not counting the two dead terrorists.
1973(7th
of Iyar, 5733: Comedian Jack E Leonard passed away. Born Leonard Lebitsky in Chicago, Illinois,
Leonard was a heavy-set, cigar-smoking practitioner of an aggressive form of
humor. His movie credits included the
“Disorderly Orderly,” “The Fat Spy,” and “Target: Harry.”
1975(28th
of Iyar, 5735): Yom Yerushalayim
1976: Anne Bernays received the Edward Lewis Wallant Book Award
for her novel, "Growing Up Rich,"
1977(21st of Iyar, 5737): Eighty-year-old Byrdie Cohe
the daughter of Rachel and Isaac Aron Levin the wife Israel Cohen passed away
today after which she was buried in Baltimore, MD.
1978 -The Jerusalem Post
reported that a clear consensus developed in the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations
Committee in support of a compromise, proposed by the former Secretary of
State, Henry Kissinger, which paved the way for the sale of 60 F-15 fighters to
Saudi Arabia. The Senate agreed to support this sale, provided that the
Administration agreed to increase the number of planes slated for Israel.
1979(12th of Iyar, 5739): Seventy-three year old Lan
Adomain the Russian born son of a cantor who served with the Abraham Lincoln
Brigade during the Spanish Civil War passed away today.
1979(12th of Iyar, 5739): Habib Elghanian “ a prominent
Iranian Jewish businessman and philanthropist who served as the president of
the Tehran Jewish Society and acted as the symbolic head of the Iranian Jewish
community in the 1970s” was executed by a firing squad after having been
convicted by an Islamist Court.
1980 Funeral services are scheduled to held for Sue Freedman Mintz, the
wife of Jack Mintz and the mother of Terry Scharf and Dr. David Mintz at a
pre-funeral gathering this evening.
1981(5th of Iyar, 5741): On Shabbat, seventy-two-year-old
author Nelson Algren winner of the National Book Award for Man With a Golden
Arm, which later became a successful film, passed away today.
http://www.biblio.com/algren-nelson/author/1580http://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/10/obituaries/nelson-algren-72-novelist-who-wrote-of-slums-dies.html
1981: After 40 performances at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre, the
curtain came down on “Fools” a comedy written by Neil Simon, directed by Mike
Nichols with a cast that included John Rubinstein and Harold Gould.
1981: Rabbi David Posner of Temple Emanu-El officiated at the
marriage ceremony of Celine Leah Perle and Jeffery Martin Sinaw which was held
in his study.
1982: In “Oppenheimer – Examining the Scientist’s Relationship
With Society,” Michael Billington reviews ‘Oppenheimer,’ an upcoming television
mini-series that provides a portrait of the complex Jewish-American who was
known as the father of the atomic bomb and who lost his security clearance
during the Red Scare.
1983(26th
of Iyar, 5743): Eighty-three-year-old administrator, diplomat, and public
relations and manpower expert Anna Lederer Rosenberg, the Budapest born
daughter of Charlotte Sarolota Bacskai and Albert Leder er who married Paul G.
Hoffman after divorcing Julius Rosenberg an administrator, diplomat, and public
relations and manpower expert who advised multiple presidents passed away
today. https://erpapers.columbian.gwu.edu/anna-lederer-rosenberg-hoffman-1902-1983
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rosenberg-anna-marie-lederer
1984(7th
of Iyar, 5744): Eighty-three-year-old Israeli writer and poet Miriam
Yalan-Shteklis passed away today.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/yalan-stekelis-miriam
1984(7th
of Iyar, 5744): Eighty-one-year-old Nudie Cohn, the Kievan born tailor famous
for “decorative rhinestone-covered suits” passed away today,
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/automobiles/a-rhinestone-cowboy-who-grabbed-cars-by-the-horns.html
1985:
NBC broadcast the final episode of the first season “The Cosby Show” co-created
by Ed Weinberger
1986(30th
of Nisan, 5746): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1986(30th
of Nisan, 5746): Herschel Bernardi passed away at the age of 62. Born
in New York in 1923, Bernardi came from a long line of Yiddish
performers. According to one legend, it was his mother's portrayal of a
character called Yente that moved that term from a proper name to a descriptive
term. As an actor, Bernardi had trouble finding work outside of
ethnic productions and because of his political views which led to him being
blacklisted in the 1950's. His career finally took off when played Lt. Jacoby,
on the hit detective series "Peter Gunn" a role for which he won
an Emmy. Bernardi's unique voice made him the voice for Charlie the Tuna
and the Jolly Green Giant. He was the second actor to
play Tevye in the Broadway hit "Fiddler on the Roof."
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-05-10/local/me-4847_1_herschel-bernardi
1987(10th
of Iyar, 57467): American financier and national president of the Boy Scouts of
America, John Mortimer Schiff passed away. (As reported by William G. Blair)
1989(4th
of Iyar, 5749): Yom HaZikaron
1990(14th
of Iyar, 5750): Pesach Shenia
1991(25th
of Iyar, 5751): Eighty-seven-year-old Irving “Irv” Cohen, the Baltimore born so
of Ansel and Fannie Cohen the husband of Rebecca Sherman Cohen whom he married
in 1925 and the father of Morton Albert “Morton” Cohen who was buried exactly
15 years after his father’s death, passed away today after which he was buried
in the Beth El Memorial Park in Randallstown, MD.
1991:
Michael Landon appeared on The Tonight Show where he discussed pancreatic
cancer that would claim his life.
1992:
NBC broadcast the final episode of “The Golden Girls” a long-running sitcom created by Susan Harris
and co-starring Beatrice Arthur and Estelle Getty.
1993(18th
of Iyar): Lag B’Omer
1993:
“2 Views of a Horror” published today described differing views of the
Holocaust held by Israelis and Americans.
1994(28th
of Iyar, 5754): Yom Yerushalayim
1996: Pursuant to Article VII of the Interim Agreement
on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, dated September 28, 1995, the Israelis and
the Palestinians agree to the establishment of a Temporary International
Presence in the city of Hebron ("TIPH"). This agreement will remain
in force until such time as Israeli forces redeploy from Hebron, whereupon it
will be superseded by a new agreement to be negotiated by the two sides and the
TIPH established by this Agreement will be replaced by a new TIPH to be established
under the new agreement ("the new TIPH").
1997:
In a story entitled “Saga of Yanov Torah recounted at Yom Hashoah Rites,” the
San Diego Jewish Press Heritage recounts Rabbi Erwin Herman’s moving story of
the Yanov Torah and how it how survived the Holocaust and found a home in this
southern California metropolis
1997:
“Father’s Day” a comedy directed by Ivan Reitman who served as producer along
with Joel Silver, with a script co-authored by Lowell Ganz and co-starring
Billy Crystal was released in the United States today.
1998:
NBC broadcast the final episode of season one “Veronica’s Closet,” created by
Marta Kauffman.
1998:
Ninety-three year old comedy writer Nat Perrin who was also a prolific producer
of scripts for movies and television passed away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/1998/may/14/local/me-49635
1999:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including
Betty
Friedan. And the Making of 'The Feminine Mystique': The American Left, the Cold
War, and Modern Feminism by Daniel Horowitz and Betty Friedan: Her Life by Judith
Nennessee.
1999:
Michael Ovitz Is on the Line
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/09/magazine/michael-ovitz-is-on-the-line.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
1999:
In “Family Politics,” published today, Aaron L. Friedberg examined the Madeline
Albright’s reaction to revelation about the Jews in her family tree.
http://partners.nytimes.com/books/99/05/09/reviews/990509.09friedbt.html
2000(4th
of Iyar, 5760): Yom HaZikaron
2000:
Prime Minister Ehud “Barak and his advisors dropped hints today” that the date
for Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon “could be advanced…as a way to
put pressure on Lebanon to help curb the violence or to negotiate a withdrawal
arrangement.”
2001:
The bodies of two Israeli teenagers – Yaakov “Koby Mandell and Yosef
Ishran - who had been kidnapped
yesterday were found in a cave in the Judean Desert near their home which was
covered with the boy’s blood “reportedly smeared by their killers” who had
bound them, stabbed them and beaten them to death with rocks.
2001(16th
of Iyar, 5761): Ninety-three year old producer and director Saul Elkins, the
brother of Leon and Michael Elkins, passed away today Nevada.
2002:
“Roger Dodger” a comedy co-starring Jesse Eisenberg premiered at the Tribeca
Film Festival.
2002:
The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem came to an end
when the Palestinians inside agreed to have 13 suspected terrorists among them
deported to several different countries. The terrorists had taken over the
Christian shrine as they were pursued by Israeli security forces. Interestingly there was no complaint by
Christian leaders over this desecration of one of their holy places.
2002:
Yom Yerushalayim begins this evening.
2003 (7th of Iyar, 5763): Seventy-one-year-old
playwright Jack Gelber, the Chicago born son of “Molly (Singer) and Harold
Gelber” passed away today. (As reported by Mel Gussow)
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/10/theater/jack-gelber-71-connection-playwright.html
2003: “Leaders Honor Ghetto Fighters” published today described
a joint tribute that the Presidents of Israel and Poland paid to those who
fought in the 1943 uprising.
2004(18th
of Iyar, 5764): Lag B’Omer
2004:
The curtain came down on a revival of Baby for which David Shire wrote the
music at The Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, New Jersey
2004(18th
of Iyar, 5764): Comedian Alan King passed away.
“It’s not how long you lived, but how well you lived.” (As reported by
Bruce Weber)
2004: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
‘Our Mothers' War': The Just-as-Great Generation by Laura Shapiro.
2005:
In Berlin, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder led a delegation “of the senior member
of Germany’s government” at the ceremonies dedicating “The Memorial to the
Murdered Jews of Europe” designed by Peter Eisenman.
2006:
At New York’s Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin delivers a
lecture on his new book A Code of Jewish Ethics followed by a book party
and book signing.
2006(11th
of Iyar, 5766): Ruth Gay, a writer known for her nonfiction books documenting
Jewish life in the Old World and the New, died in the Bronx. She was 83 and
lived in Manhattan. She had been suffering from leukemia, and died at Calvary
Hospital, her family said. Ms. Gay's books include "Safe Among the
Germans: Liberated Jews After World War II" (Yale University, 2002), which
dealt with a little-studied subject: the more than 250,000 Jews who returned to
Allied-occupied Germany in the immediate aftermath of World War II. She also
wrote "The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait" (Yale University,
1992), which chronicled Jewish life in Germany from the fall of Jerusalem in
A.D. 70 to the rise of Hitler in 1933. (As Reported by Margalit Fox)
2006: Israeli archaeologists working for Israel's
Antiquities Authority announced today that they have uncovered a large
concentration of stone utensils on the southeastern rim of the city which were
used by prehistoric man hundreds of thousands of years ago.
2007:
As part of Jewish Heritage Month, the National Archives presented The Rape of Europa, a feature
documentary that tells of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction, and
miraculous survival of Europe’s art treasures during the Second World War. The
film skillfully interweaves the history of Nazi art looting with contemporary
stories of restitution. Tonight, following a screening of the 117-minute film,
a distinguished panel will participate in a discussion and a
question-and-answer session with the audience. Panelists include Lynn Nicholas,
author of “The Rape of Europa,” the award-winning book on
which the film is based; Robert M. Edsel, author of “Rescuing Da Vinci”
and a co-producer of the film; and Michael J. Kurtz, Assistant Archivist for
Records Services at the National Archives.
2007:
Students from Beit Hannah participate in the main ceremony on Karl Marx
Boulevard in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, commemorating the victory over the Nazis
in 1945.
2007:
“Under Pressure, New Rep Cancels Play” describes the cancellation of “To Pay
the Price” about the Raid on Entebbe because it was going to be paired with “My
Name Is Rachel Corrie.” The pressure
came from the family of Yoni Netanyahu, the only person killed when Israeli
commandos rescued Jewish hostages being held by Arab terrorists.
2007:
In “A Life Made Out of Wood, Metal and Determination,” published today Andreak K. Scott reviews an exhibition
styled “The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend,” a
compact survey of 66 works organized by Brooke Kamin Rapaport for the Jewish
Museum which is her first New York museum show in 27 years and examines the
career of this late-blooming artist. “Life isn’t one straight line. Most of us
have to be transplanted, like a tree, before we blossom.”
2008:
The Holocaust memorial in Berlin hosts a classical concert on the third
anniversary of its opening. 2008(4th of Iyar, 5768):
In Tel Aviv, Shmuel Katz, who was a close adviser to Menachem Begin, Israel’s
prime minister in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but who later became a
vociferous opponent of Begin’s peace efforts with Egypt and the Palestinians, passed
away at the age of 93.
2009(15th of Iyar, 5769): Noted editor and author David
Marcus, the County Cork native whose work included To Next Year in Jerusalem,
Who Ever Heard of an Irish Jew? and Other Short Stories and Oughtobioraphy
– Leaves From the Diary of a Hyphenated Jew passed away today.
http://www.irishwriters-online.com/marcus-david/
2009: Canadian born tennis pro Sharon Fichman who also holds
Israeli citizenship was the “runner-u[“ in the Portugal Open, clay court
tournament played in Estroril, Portugal.
2009:
The Jacob’s Ladder Spring Festival comes to a close. http://jlfestival.com/index.asp
2009:
As part of the Shabbat Lecture Series, the 92nd Street Y presents
“Jewish Giants of the
American
Songbook: Rodgers and Hammerstein” which examines the collaboration that
produced a series of musicals that began with adaption of “Green Grow the
Lilacs” into “Oklahoma” and continued with Carousel, The King and I, South Pacific and The
Sound of Music.
2009: “The Man That Got Away: After Ira, George” opens at the 92nd
Street Y in New York.
2010: Fradle Freidenreich is scheduled to lead a panel discussion
entitled “More Than a Book Launch...Passionate Pioneers: The Story of Yiddish
Secular Education in North America, 1910-1960” at the Center for Jewish
History.”
2010: In honor of Yom Yerushalayim, Young Israel
of Southfield (Michigan) is scheduled to show “Alone on the Ramparts,” a film
that tells the story of the battle for Jerusalem during the War of
Independence.
2010: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Trials of the Diaspora: A History of
Anti-Semitism in England by Anthony Julius, Heidegger:
The Introduction of Nazism Into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars
of 1933-1935 by Emmanuel Faye, Stranger From Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness by Daniel Maier-Katkin, The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: 1903-1942 by Olivier
Philipponnat and Patrick Lienhardt, Dimanche And Other Stories by Irène
Némirovsky and The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy by Richard A. Posner.
2010:
The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial institution is
scheduled to hold a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the Allied victory
over Nazi Germany beginning at 5:00 p.m. this evening at the Yad Vashem's
Memorial to the Jewish Soldiers and Partisans.
2010:
The Obama administration announced today that
indirect, American-brokered talks had resumed between Israel and the
Palestinians, capping a year of efforts by Washington to revive the peace
process.
2011:
The Center for Jewish History, American Society for
Jewish Music and Center for Traditional Music and Dance are scheduled to
present: The Weimar Klezmer Republic: Creating a Center for Yiddish Culture in
Germany
2011(5th of Iyar, 5771): Seventy-two year old
television news director Dennis Gralnick passed away. (As reported by Dennis
Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/business/14gralnick.html?_r=1
2011(5th of Iyar, 5771): Yom Hazikaron – Israel
Remembrance Day
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/yomhazikaron.html
2011:
At 11 AM today a two-minute siren sounded throughout the country to mark
Memorial Day, followed by ceremonies at Israel's 44 military cemeteries.
2011:
The 2011 Independence Day ceremony is scheduled to take place at Mount
Herzl in Jerusalem. Among the torch lighters are Orit Dror, a member of Kibbutz
Lavi who, together with her husband, donated her son's organs after he died of
a terminal illness, and saved the life of a 13-year-old girl; Zehava Dankner
(mother of businessman Nochi Dankner), a philanthropist who supported, among
others, residents surrounding Gaza, and who is involved in matters of
education, security and health; Barbra Goldstein, a representative of Hadassah,
the women's Zionist organization of America, which is marking its 100th
anniversary this year; Yovi Tsuma, a social activist who participates in a
group of young Ethiopian volunteers who help members of the immigrant community
who have encountered difficulties in absorption; and Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg, a
member of the Chabad movement, who lost his daughter and son in law in the
November 2008 terrorist attack at the Chabad house in Mumbai. This
annual ceremony in Jerusalem that marks the transition from the solemn Yom
Hazicharon (Memorial Day) to the joyous Yom Ha'atzmaut (Independence Day.)
2011:
Moshe Cohen, director of Heichal Hatora – an Orthodox
Jewish Day School in Buenos Aires - was hit in the head with an iron bar as his
assailant shouted "Jew, Jew." Cohen was hospitalized with a serious
head injury. The attacker was arrested. Buenos Aires was the scene of one of
the most murderous attacks on Jewish civilians outside of Israel.
2012(16th of Iyar, 5572): Eight-four-year-old Vidal
Sassoon passed away today (As reported by Bruce Weber)
2012: Kadima council chairman Haim Ramon marred the celebrations
in the party over its chairman Shaul Mofaz’s joining the cabinet today, when he
sent Mofaz a fiercely worded letter announcing that he was quitting his post
and leaving the party altogether. (As reported by Gil Hoffman)
2012(16th of Iyar, 5572): Eighty-four year old CPA
Milton Adler, the son of Leo and Bella Adler and the husband of Marion Adler
passed away today in Cherry Hill, NJ.
2012:
A special benefit concert for Woman to Woman - The
Jerusalem Shelter for Battered Women is scheduled to take place at the City
Winery in New York City.
2012: The Leo Baeck Institute is scheduled to present
“Autobiography and Biography: Herzl, Freud, and Stefan Zweig, during which Professor Mark Gelber is scheduled to discuss Stefan
Zweig’s brilliant but problematic depictions of Herzl (and Zionism) and Freud
(psychoanalysis, anti-Semitism, and Jewish survival) in his late
autobiographical work written predominantly during the period of his American
exile, The World of Yesterday
2012: Dr. Erica Brown is scheduled to address the annual meeting
of The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington.
2012: “Barbara Bain Remains ‘Love Struck’ When It Comes To
Theatre” published today describes the career of the Emmy award winning actress
who will be forever remember for her role in “Mission Impossible.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/09/entertainment/la-et-barbara-bain-20120509
2012:
The Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey is
scheduled to sponsor a public forum titled "Jews and Jazz" in
Whippany, NJ.
2012: The 2nd Annual Cleveland’s Funniest Rabbi Contest and Lag
B’omer Celebration is scheduled to take place tonight at the Maltz Museum of
Jewish Heritage.
2012: The United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act
of 2012, which was sponsored by House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.)
and House Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), passed today by a vote of
411-2
2013:
The National Archives will show the Academy
Award-winning HBO documentary of Gerda Weissman’s life, “One Survivor
Remembers” and then the celebrated author, 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom
recipient, and Holocaust survivor will discuss the film after the screening.
2013: Shiva minyan for Miles Lane, the brother of Harriet Gasway
and the brother-in-law of Bill Gasway was held this evening in Cedar Rapids.
2013: The Skirball Center for Adult Center for Jewish Learning is
scheduled to present a lecture by /Dr. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg entitled “To Be or Not to Be: A Tale of Five Sisters”
based on Torah narrative about the five daughters of Zelofchad.
2013: Researchers from Tel Aviv University are tentatively
positing that they may have discovered the origin of Alzheimer’s disease and
other forms of dementia. Despite immense amounts of research into dementia and
other cognitive diseases that affect vast numbers of people around the world,
and significant progress in addressing the illnesses, there are no known cures.
The Israeli research points at a protein in the brain called tomosyn as a
possible key to the diseases, Israel Radio reported today.
2013:
Criticism of Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s proposed
budget cuts and tax hikes mounted today, with social protest groups announcing
two planned demonstrations against perceived violations of Lapid’s pre-election
campaign promises.
2013(29th
of Iyar, 5773): Eighty-seven-year-old Alan Abelson the former editor of
Barron’s and iconoclastic business columnist passed away today. (As reported by
Douglas Martin)
2013(29th
of Iyar, 5773): Ninety-three-year-old Baruch Spiegel, “one of the last
surviving” Warsaw Ghetto fighters passed away today in Montreal.
2014:
“The Wonders” and “Joe Papp in Five Acts” are scheduled to be shown at the
National Center for Jewish Film’s 17th annual Film Festival.
2014:
Noah Thalblum and Curtis Litow are scheduled to “share their respective about
their experiences in Israel last summer” as Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids
celebrates another year of Israesli independence.
2015:
The Temple Emanu-El Skirball Center is scheduled to present “25 Questions for a
Jewish Mother” with Judy Gold.
2015:
“The Outrageous Sophie Tucker” is scheduled to be shown at the 18th
annual Jewish Film Festival.
2015:
Israeli composer and sound artist Maya Dunietz is scheduled to present the U.S.
premiere of her solo work at the Abrons Art Center.
2015:
Israeli cellist Michael Katz and pianist Reanna Gutman are scheduled to perform
as part of “Echoes of Hope, “ a celebration of the work and lives of brilliant
composers who were directly affect by WW II and the Holocaust.”
2016(1st
of Iyar, 5776): Rosh Chodesh Iyar;
2016:
“A nascent Jewish community was officially born in Madagascar starting today
when 121 men, women and children began the Orthodox conversion process on the
remote Indian Ocean island nation” be coming before a beit din “comprised three
rabbis with Orthodox ordinations: Rabbi Oizer Neumann of Brooklyn, Rabbi Achiya
Delouya of Montreal and Rabbi Pinchas Klein of Philadelphia” at the Le Pave
Hotel..
2016:
In St. Augustine, FL, the City Commission of America’s Oldest European City is
scheduled to proclaim May as “St. Augustine Jewish Heritage Month” at the
Commission’s regularly scheduled meeting at 5:00pm this evening.
2016:
“Artis, in partnership with the School of Visual Arts (SVA), and the
International Center for Photography (ICP) is scheduled to present a lecture
with acclaimed photographer Miki Kratsman an Argentinean-born photographer who
has lived in Israel since 1971.
http://www.artiscontemporary.org/programs/lecture-with-miki-kratsman/
2017:
Lynn Downey is scheduled to speak about her book Levi Strauss: The Man Who Blue
Jeans to the World at the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society this
evening.
2017:
Dr. David Kraemer is scheduled to lecture on “The Books Jewish Tradition Forgot
– But Shouldn’t Have” this evening at the Streicker Center in New York City.
2017:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “The Zookeeper’s Wife.”
2018:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host an evening with Mel Brooks during
which he will talk about “his favorite film clips,” “growing up Jewish in
Brooklyn: and “his career an actor, producer and director.”
2018:
“How Michael Cohen, Denied Job in White House, Was Seen as Its Gatekeeper”
published today described the fate of the man who said “he would take a bullet
for Mr. Trump.”
2018:
Today, “CNN reported that investigators from the Special Counsel investigation
have questioned “Ukrainian born Viktor Vekselberg, “the owner and president of
Renova Group “about hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments his company’s
US affiliate had made to Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer” and
self-avowed “fixer,
2018:
“Simon and Theodore” and “Another Planet” are scheduled to be shown at the 26th
Toronto Jewish Film Festival this evening.
2018:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host “Uprooted: How 3,000
Years of the Middle Eastern Jewish Civilization Vanished” in which “Lyn Julius,
a British journalist (Guardian, Standpoint) and daughter of Iraqi-Jewish
refugees, explores the mass exodus of Middle Eastern Jewish minority
communities, the clamor for recognition, redress, and memorialization, and how
their cause can further peace and reconciliation between Israel and the Muslim
world.” (Editor’s Note: This is the
“Middle East Refugee Problem” that nobody talks about.)
2018:
“Back to Berlin” and “The Dead Nation” are scheduled to be shown at the
Washington Jewish Film Festival.
2018:
In New Orleans, Temple Sinai is scheduled to co-host “Do Justice: Meaning and
Action Across Our Traditions, a free social justice-themed course.”
2018:
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a presentation by
Holocaust survivor Susan Warsinger.
2019:
“Firefighters who were called to put out a fire in the Mea Shearim
neighborhood. were attacked by dozens of residents who tried to take down the
Israeli flag from the fire truck,”
2019:
After being introduced by Speaker of the House Nancy Peolosi, Omar Suleiman,
“an imam who has wished for the end of Zionism, called for a third Intifada and
likened Israel to Nazi-era Germany delivered the opening prayer for a session
of the US House of Representatives” today which coincides with the celebration
of Israel Independence Day. (As reported by Ron Kampeas)
2019:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Outdoors,” the winner of
“Best Screenplay” award at the Haifa International Film Festival.
2019:
The Jewish Book Council and Tablet Magazine are scheduled to host Dani Shaprio,
author of Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Fraternity and Love and Stephanie
Butnick as they discuss “how we become who we are, how Judaism shapes how we
think about our identity, and society's expectations on female artists and
Jewish women.”
2019:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host Chicago Tribune columnist Howard Reich,
the author of The Art of Inventing and child of Holocaust survivors as
he “looks back on his greatest
opportunity as a writer and journalist: numerous conversations with the Nobel
laureate Elie Wiesel. Howard will appear in conversation with another
child of Survivors, Regine Schlesinger, veteran WBBM News Radio 78 broadcast
personality.”
2019: Alarmed by Rev. Michael Pfleger’s
invitation for Louis Farrakhan to speak at his church, Illinois Holocaust
Museum officials spoke out this afternoon against Pfleger for “giving hatred a
platform
2019(4th
of Iyar): Yom Ha’atsama’ut – Israel Independence Day --- Seventy-one years and
counting.
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/yom-haatzmaut-israel-independence-day/
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yom-ha-atzmaut-israeli-independence-day
2020(15th
of Iyar, 5780): Parasha Emor and Chapter Four Pirke Avot;
2020:
Netta Yersushalmy is scheduled to present the livestream premier of part six of
Paramodernities, “A Response to Balanchine with special guest Perter N.
Miller.”
2020:
B'nai Jeshurun Congregation is scheduled to host via Zoom “Starbucks, Bread
& Torah Online.”
2020:
As of today, thanks to a ruling by Israel’s High Court and an amendment to the
Basic Law passed by the Knesset there appear to be no obstacles to the formation of a unity government headed by Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and supported by the Blue & White party under Benny Gantz.
2020:
Based on published reports, Israel’s total virus-related deaths has reached at
least 245 victims.
2021:
The East Bay International Jewish Film Festival program is scheduled to include
a talk by late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s son, Yair, and one of
the filmmakers of the 2019 documentary “Shamir, His Way.”
2021:
The Jewish Studio Project in Berkeley is scheduled to “present a gathering for
people who feel grief on Mother’s Day.”
2021:
In celebration of Mother’s Day, in Atlanta, GA, The Breman Museum is scheduled
to provide “all Moms with complimentary admission and a gift”
2021:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors/and or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Antiquities by Cynthia
Ozick, The Hard Crowd Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner, whose father
was Jewish and Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of
the Founding Mothers of NPR by Lisa Napoli which highlights the work of two
Jewish women, Susan Stamberg and Nina Totenberg and one, Cokie Roberts, who is
married to a Jew.
2021:
The Israel Office of Cultural Affairs is scheduled to co-sponsor a Mother’s Day
celebration “with music from the Jerusalem Orchestra East and West” which is a
“blended music program that will include selections of musical styles from
around the world.
2021:
The Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania is scheduled to
co-host a visit to “A Virtual Coffeehouse in Twentieth Century Cairo with Dr.
Alon Tam” who will “recreate the atmosphere” of what was “an urban hub for
Jewish working and middle class men and women.”
2021:
As Israelis arise this morning, they are left to wonder if yesterday’s rocket
attacks and riots in Jerusalem and Gaza, couple with violence earlier last
week, are “isolated incidents” or the prelude to another round of violence and
terrorism.
2022:
YIVO is scheduled to present a concert featuring music by Sergei Prokofiev,
Maurice Ravel, Joel Engel, Alexander Veprik, and Aaron Copland, alongside the
premiere of new works by Martin Bresnick, Annie Gosfield, Paul Alan Levi, and
Alex Weiser as part of its “Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today.”
2022:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host Yotam Ottolenghi as he discusses “why
he gave up a career in philosophy to become a cookbook author and restaurateur,
changing the way Londoners eat, working with refugees and why hummus could
bring world peace.”
2022:
The Jewish Book Council is scheduled to host the Paper Brigades editors and
Basia Winograd as they discuss her short story “The Realist.”
2022:
The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to present Professor Jeremy
Crang lecturing on “Sisters in Arms: Women in the British Armed Forces during
the Second World War.”
2022:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present Rick Sopher a look at
the basis of the very close practices of Jewish and Muslim dietary laws and
explain the history of this connection, which was first stated explicitly in
the Qur’an as well as a Jewish perspective on The Five Pillars of Islam.
2022:
The Baltimore Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present the first screen of
“Greener Pastures” and “Wet Dog.”
2022:
LBI and the Center for Jewish History are scheduled to present a discussion
between Angelina Palmen of the University of Oxford and Dr. Mila Ganeva on “A
Feminist Jewish Department Store in Imperial Berlin” which examines the
business practices of Berlin department store N. Israel in the first fourteen
years of the 20th century.
2023:
JWA is scheduled to a host a lecture by on “The Interwar Roots of Military
Resistance of Jewish Women in the Ghetto,” with Katarzyna Czerwonogóra.
2023:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host the fourth session of Naomi Miller’s
“Beginner’s Yiddish: Shopping, Cooking, Inviting and Eating For the Jewish
Holidays.”
2023:
Shalva Band is scheduled to be presented
by the Jewish Federation of Cleveland in celebration of Israel’s 75th
Independence Day.
2023:
YIVO is scheduled to host a lecture by Michael Casper on “Baruch Vladeck and
Movement for Public Housing.”
2023:
In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel and Agudas Achim are scheduled to host Lag
B’Omer Celebration that will include a “minyan, cookout and archery for kids
and fun for adults.”
2023:
The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the New York
premiere screening of “Paris Boutique” and the U.S. premiere of “Je t'aime -
Ronit Elkabetz.”
2023:
Chabad of Iowa City is scheduled to host a a Lag Ba'Omer BBQ in City Park.
2023(18th
of Iyar, 5783): Lag Ba’Omer
2024:
Qesher is scheduled to present “A Year of Music and Food in Jewish Italy.”
2024:
The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines and Iowans Supporting Israel are
scheduled to host an evening at Caspe
with Shachar Gal, founder of Hands On Israel and a friend to many in our
community who have toured with him in our Partnership community.”
2024(1st
of Iyar, 5784): Rosh Chodesh Iyar; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024:
The JDC Archives and the Jewish Book Council are scheduled to host a virtual
book talk on “The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands
of Poles during the Holocaust.
2024:
As May 9th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps the
United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day
216 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.)
