#ourCOG This Day, June 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
This Day, June 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 8
66 CE: Jewish insurgent forces captured the fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem. This
battle marked the outbreak of the Jewish revolt against Rome. This revolt would
end with the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E.
68:
The Roman Senate accepts Galba as the new Emperor. Galba was the second of men
who would claim title of Emperor in the eleven months between June, 68 and
July, 69. The first of the five was Nero
and the last of the five was Vespasian.
There are those who contend that there is direct connection between this
Imperial anarchy and the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple. Vespasian was determined to secure the throne
and to promote is son Titus as his heir.
He decided to take the unusual step of completely destroying the Jewish
capital and its house of worship as a way of demonstrating that he had the
power to hold the throne and put an end to the revolving door Emperors.
570:
Religion of Islam founded in Mecca. Like Christianity, Islam is rooted in
Judaism.
632:
According to tradition, the anniversary of the death of Mohammed, founder of
Islam. Mohammed had expected the Jews of Arabia to accept his new faith. When
they did not, he turned on them. This is an oft told tale in Jewish history.
1191:
Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade.
1374:
Geoffrey Chaucer is appointed Comptroller of Customs and Subsidy of Wools, a
position that pays ten pounds per year.
This steady income gave him the freedom to write The Canterbury Tales
which contained the “Prioress Tale” complete with its anti-Semitic featuring an
eight year old Christian child who is murdered in the Jewish quarter of the
town while singing hymns in praise of his faith. At the end, the Jewish community is wiped out
as punishment for the death of the Christian child.
1622:
Albrecht Wallenstein, the Count of Friedland, who was supportive of Jewish
economic activities as can be seen by his dealings with “former Prague banker
and merchant Jacob Bassewi” arranged a festive dinner today to be given “in
connection with the reckoning up of the malt tax” at Riechenberg.
1662:
Asser Levy bought a lot from Barent Gerritsen on Hoogh Straat (Stone Street) in
New Amsterdam [New York City]. By doing this Levy became the first
Jewish landowner in what is now the United States of America.
1664:
King John Casimir of Poland denied the Jews of Vilna the right to deal in
non-Jewish books
1723(5th
of Sivan): Seventy-nine year old Isaac Vita Cantarini, “Italian poet author,
physician and rabbi who was the author of Pahad Yizhak passed away
1753(6th
of Sivan, 5513): Shavuot observed one
day after the British Museum was
established by an Act of Parliament.
1772(7th
of Sivan, 5532): Second Day of Shavuot observed on the same day that the Hannah
was sailing off the coast of Rhode Island on the day before of what would be
known as the Gaspee Affair, one of the steps on the road to the American
Revolution.
1763:
Twenty-four-year-old
“Rebecca Claudia bat Zvi wife of Itsca [Isaac] Shnof
of Hamburg” who had died on Shabbat was buried today at “Alderney Road (Globe
Rd) Jewish Cemetery.
1776:
Aaron Hart, the father of Trois-Rivières, Quebec native and legislator Ezekiel
Hart, was among those who fought to repel American campaign to conquer Canada
which came to an end today with the Battle at Trois-Rivières, Quebec
1779:
Birthdate of “German Christian cabalist” Joseph Franz Molitor whose work was
intended “to show the superiority of cabalistic mysticism over that of the
Christian, and that Christianity is Judaism obscured by a false mysticism
1787:
Birthdate of Emanuel Aguilar, father of author Grace Aguilar.
1789: James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of
Rights in the House of Representatives.
Those favoring ratification of the U.S. Constitution promised that a
Bill of Rights (what would be the first ten amendments to the Constitution)
would be enacted as soon as the new federal government was formed. The First Amendment is of particular
importance to Jews because it guarantees freedom of religion in the nation’s
organic document. This has made the
experience of Jews in the United States different from all other Diaspora
Communities.
1791(6th
of Sivan, 5551): Shavuot observed on the same day that Secretary of the
Treasury Alexander Hamilton wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson
stating he thought “it would be productive of very useful information if some
Officer of the United States in each foreign Country, where there is one, were
instructed to transmit, occasionally, a state of the coins of the Country
specifying their respective standards weights, and values, and, periodically, a
state of the market prices of gold and silver in coin and bullion, and of the
rates of foreign exchange, and of the rates of the different kinds of labour as
well that employed in manufactures as in tillage.”
1796:
In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Abraham Azuby officiated at the marriage of London,
England native Hannah Abrahams, and local merchant Samuel Levy.
1799(5th
of Sivan, 5559): Parashat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot observed for the last time in
the 18th century.
1805(2nd
of Sivan, 5784): Parashat Bamidbar
1805:
Seventeen-year-old Philah Cohen Moise, the daughter of Gershon Cohen and sister
of Philip Cohen passed away toda two months after she had marred Aaron Moise,
Sr after which she was buried at the Coming Street Cemetery in Charleston, SC.
1809:
Thomas Paine, the author of “Common Sense” and political pamphlets passed
away. Paine relied on the experience of
the ancient Israelites when arguing against monarchy. “The quiet and rural
lives of the first patriarchs hath a happy something in them, which vanishes
away when we come to the history of Jewish royalty. Government by kings was
first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of
Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever
set on foot for the promotion of idolatry.”
1809:
Alexander Isaac married Sophie Levy at the Hambro Synagogue.
1810(6th
of Sivan, 5570): Shavuot
1810:
Birthdate of German jurist and political leader Moritz Warburg the Altona
native who served as a member of the Sleswick-Holstein constituent assembly for
22 years.
1810:
Israel Jacobson introduced an organ for the first time at a Reform service in
Berlin.
1812:
Birthdate of Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst the native of Moravia who was a child
prodigy when it came to playing the violin and the viola.
1815:
“The Congress of Vienna finally adopted Article 16 of the
“Bundesakte,” which guaranteed to the Jews in all German states the
rights which they had obtained “from” the various states, instead of
“in” the various states, as the original text read.”
1815:
During negotiations intended to guarantee Jewish rights in the Treaty of
Vienna, the Mayor of Bremen inserts language in “Article 16” that will
effectively end the rights gained by most German Jews during the military
successes of Napoleon.
1815:
Birthdate of German native Rabbi Samuel Hirsch, a leading advocate of radical
Reform Judaism in Germany and the United
States who was among the first to
propose holding Jewish services on Sunday.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hirsch-samuel
1817:
At “Berner Street, Commercial Road, London” Simon Marcus and Eleanor Levy gave
birth to Lewis Marcus.
1818:
Isaac Cohen married Rebecca Hart Myers at the Great Synagogue in London.
1818(4th
of Sivan, 5578): Fifty-nine year old Baroness Franziska “Fanny” von
Arnstein the daughter of Daniel Itzig and the wife of banker Nathan Adam von
Arnstein, a partner in the firm of Arnstein and Eskeles passed away today.
1819:
Birthdate of Glogau native Meir Wiener, the “headmaster of the religious school
at Hanover” and the translator of several works included those of Joseph
ha-Kohen and Solomon ibn Verga.
1827:
Birthdate of Wolf Frankenburger, the native of Bavaria who was a member of the
Reichstag, a proponent of German unification after the Franco-Prussian War and
“championed the rights” of his fellow Jews.
1829(7th
of Sivan, 5589): Second Day of Shavuot observed as Russian forces are scoring
victories over the Ottomans during the Russo-Turkish War which resulted in
Greece gaining its independence with all that that meant for the Jewish
population of all three countries.
1836:
Solomon De Lissa married Rosetta Solomon today at the Western Synagogue.
1837(5th
of Sivan, 5597): Erev Shavuot observed for the first time during the presidency
of Martin Van Buren
1838:
Birthdate of Italian Premiere Paolo Boselli who met with Nahum Sokolow and
expressed his support for the Zionist plans in Palestine.
1840(7th
of Sivan, 5600): Second Day of Shavuot observed on the last day of King William
III of Prussia’s reign.
1841:
In New York, Hayman Levy Seixas the son of Benjamin Mendes Seixas and Zipporah
Mendes Seixas and his wife Abigail Nunez Seixas gave birth to Moses Mendes
Seixas.
1842:
Aaron Barnett married Sarah Cohen at the Great Synagogue in London.
1842:
“The account of Isaac Lyon, for printing done by order of the” United States
District Court “amounting to $54.62 was ordered paid” today.
1843:
This afternoon Mr. Woolfson laid the foundation stone for the synagogue now
being built at Grove Place with the assistance of Mr. Marks, the congregation’s
President. (As reported by the Voice of Jacob)
1844:
At Lissa, Posen, Prussia, Saul Norden and his wife gave birth to Aaron Norden,
who served congregations in Baltimore, MD, Natchez, MS and Chicago where he
reached Rabbi Emeritus status the North
Chicago Hebrew Congregation.
1847:
In Hungary, David Goldfinger and his wife gave birth to Charles I. Goldfinger,
the husband of Celia Goldfinger with whom he had four children – Samuel,
Catherine, Sallie and Lillye.
1848(7th
of Sivan, 5608): Second Day of Shavuot observed five days after Austrian
Emperor Ferdinand had issued the second
of two manifestos that turned the Imperial Diet into a Constituent Assembly to
be elected by the people during a period of revolts that swept much of Europe
including Germany, Austria and France.
1856(5th
of Sivan, 5616): Erev Shavuot observed for the last time during the Presidency
of Franklin Pierce.
1857: An English Jew named Theodore Seymour was arrested
in Boston this evening on charges of having stolen an unspecified number of
gold bracelets from Tiffany & Co, the famous New York jewelry store.
Mr. Seymour, who also used aliases of Leman and Simon had worked there for a
year before being recently discharged. The police recovered the
merchandise valued at $500 during the arrest. Seymour will be sent back
to New York City to stand trial.
1858: Two days after he passed away, “Moshe bar Nathan”
was buried today the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1859(6th of
Sivan, 5619): Shavuot
1860: In Cincinnati, OH,
“Mayer Moritz and Caroline Frank” gave birth to 1881 Naval Academy graduate
Albert Mortiz, the husband of Caroline Frank who served on a succession of
ships starting with the Enterprise in 1882, served on shore as the “inspector of
machinery of the Battleship Maine of Spanish-American War Fame and “erected the
first ice-plant on Guam while rising to he rank of lieutenant commander in
1903.
1861: Philadelphian Joseph
Davidson, who reached the rank of First Sergeant and would killed at
Chancellorsville, began his service as a member of the 28th
Regiment.
1862: During the Civil War, the 11th Regiment
of the New York State Militia under the command of Colonel Joachim Maidhof
began serving in the 2nd Brigade in the Department of the
Shenandoah.
1863: Thirty-year-old William Moss, the Philadelphia born
son of Julia Levy and Joseph Lyons Moss married Mary Noronha today after which
they had three children Mary, Joseph and William Moss, Jr.
1864(4th of Sivan, 5624): Sixty-three-year-old
Abraham Jonas, the Exeter, England born son of Annie Ezekiel and Benjamin
Jonas, who married Louisa Block after the death Lucy Seixas and who was an attorney and Postmaster of Quincy, Il.
passed away today in Quincy, Illinois.
1865: Sixty-one-year-old Sir Joseph Paxton designed
Mentmore Towarers, “one of the greatest country houses built during the
Victorian Era” for Baron Mayer de Rothschild and Château de Ferrières at
Ferrières-en-Brie near Paris for Baron James de Rothschild passed away today.
1866: Birthdate of Norfolk native Edward L. Brylawski,
the member of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange
and husband of Hortence Mendelsohn with whom he had four children.
1866: In
Baltimore, MD, Bertha Bamburger and Dr. Aaron Friedenwald, a “professor of
otology and ophthalmology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons” gave birth
to Julius Friedenwald, a graduate of Johns Hopkins and the College of Physician
and Surgeons in Baltimore who was the husband of Esther Lee Rohr and a
Professor of Stomach at the College of Physicians and Surgeons who co-authored
“a text book on Dietetics.”
1867(5th of Sivan, 5627): Parashat Bamidbar;
Erev Shavuot
1867: Birthdate of Frank Lloyd Wright who designed the
house of worship used by Beth Sholom Congregation in Elkins Park, PA (suburban
Philadelphia). “Construction began in 1953 and was completed in 1959. Wright
designed the building to look like a “luminous Mount Sinai,” with an
extravagant fountain at its entrance, carpet that’s meant to look like desert
sands, and a mountain-like roof that looks a bit like a Klingon spacecraft. The
building…has been accorded status as a National Historic Landmark. Wright’s
design surrounds congregants with meaningful symbols, adding a new spiritual
dimension to the very act of going to synagogue.”
1868: In Manhattan, Sigmund Housman and his wife gave
birth to Jennie Douglas Housman Cardozo, the wife of William Benjamin Cardozo
whom she married in 1890 and the mother of Mildred Rosalie Cardozo Furst, the
husband Arnold Samuel Furst who she married in 1930;
1869: With her health declining Jewish born feminist and
abolitionist Ernestine Louise Rose and her Christian husband William Ella Rose
set sail from the United States for a trip to England.
1871: Birthdate of Julius Fleischmann, the son of Charles Louis
Fleischmann of Fleischmann’s Yeast, who would become mayor of Cincinnati before
dying an untimely death in 1925.
1871: At today’s meeting of the Rabbinical Conference in
Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr, Max Lillienthal reported that he had not been able “to
effect a reconciliation between the members of the Conference that had met at
Philadelphia in 1869, and those who were attending the current Conference.
1871: Joseph Deutsch, the German born son of Moses
Deutsch and Sarah Levy and his wife Theresa Deutsch gave birth to Bertha
Deutsch who became Bertha Hurwitz when she married Ezra Hurwitz with who she
had four children.
1871: Today’s meeting of the Rabbinical Conference in
Cincinnati, Ohio, adopted the report of the Committee on the Establishment of a
Rabbinical Seminary favoring the development of such an institution and
instructed the committee to develop a “a more detailed course of study.” This is one of the steps that led to the
creation of Hebrew Union College.
1872: In London Alice le Strange married Laurence
Oliphant. Oliphant was a British journalist and MP who became a devoted
advocate of settling Jews in Palestine as can be seen by his fundraising
activities, his attempts to gain a lease from the Ottomans on a portion of
Eretz Israel for that purpose and his employment of Naftali Herz Imber as his
personal secretary.
1872: A special meeting was held tonight at the synagogue
on East 57th Street where resolutions were adopted to express the
Jewish community’s sense of loss following the recent death of James Gordon
Bennett, the fouder, owner and editor of the New York Herald. Besides describing him as a fearless, honest
and upright champion” of the general population, the resolutions said, “that in
him the Israelites generally had an honest supporter and a true friend and that
the New York Herald…always gave firm and true support to our creed.”
1875(5th of Sivan, 5635): Erev Shavuot
1878(7th of Sivan, 5638): Second Day of
Shavuot
1878: In Kiev, Otto and Hannah Zepin gave birth
University of Cincinnati graduate and HUC trained rabbi George Zepin the
husband of Laura Lehman.
1879: Birthdate of Dunkirk, NY native Ira Morris Gast,
the Columbia undergrad and NYU PhD, the author Foundation of American History
and co-author of Fundamentals of Educational Psychology.
1879: Rabbi Isaac C. Noot officiated at the corner-stone laying
ceremony for the new synagogue being built by Congregation B’Nai Israel. The building located at 289 East Fourth
Street will be the home to this Orthodox congregation which was founded in
1847. A copper box was placed in the
cornerstone containing a variety of items including copies of New York
newspapers and the issue of Frank Leslie’s Monthly that contained a history of
the Jews of New York. Dr. Lyon Berhard,
the oldest member of the congregation was given the honor of laying the
cornerstone.
1879: The officers and members of B’nai Israel lead the
cornerstone for the building that will house their new synagogue on E. 44th
Street in New York. The congregation is currently worshipping at its temporary
home on Rivington Street which it has been using since it sold its building on
Stanton Street so that it could afford to construct the new building.
1880: Three days after he passed away, “65-year-old Amos
Henriques” was buried at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1881: In Cleveland, Ohio, Louis Seasongood, “a rich
Hebrew from Cincinnati” lost his bid for the second time to be nominated as the
party’s choice for Lieutenant Governor.
1882: It was reported today that the body of young man
thought to be a Jew was taken to the morgue after it had been found hanging in
New Jersey’s Glendale Woods. [Editor’s note – it took me a few minutes to
figure out why they assumed he was Jewish]
1883: A jury in Westchester Country found Theodore
Hoffman guilty of murdering a Jewish peddler named Zife Marks. The judge sentenced the prisoner to death by
hanging.
1884: In the Kiev Governorate, Hersch Gottesmann and
Carna Birinska gave birth to “playwright, screenwriter and director Leo
Birinski.
1885: “Explorations in the Delta” published today
describe the recent explorations conducted in the Nile Delta region under the
auspices of the Egyptian Exploration Fund Society. As a result of these
archeological activities Edouard Naville has produced a memoir about Pithon,
the Biblical city built by the Israelite slaves.
1885: In Pennsylvania Reverend D.E. Shaw of Keokuk, Iowa
has been elected Professor of Hebrew at Lincoln University. [Since I am from
Iowa, I could not resist the entry]
1885: Attendees at a meeting of Baptist Ministers called
to examine the new translation of the Old Testament were critical of the
liberties taken with translating the Hebrew text into English feeling in
several cases that the new translation did not reflect the accurate meaning of
the Hebrew. They suggested that the
translators return to their work so that, for instance, in Genesis, the text
would read and the morning of the first day, rather than the one day.
1886(5th of Sivan, 5646): Erev Shavuot
1886: In Bavaria, Leopold (Lehmann) Schloss
and Karoline Schloss gave birth to Dorchen Schloss
1886: Birthdate of “Zaliztsi, Austrian Ukraine” native
Pauline Margulies, the wife of Max (Mendel) Margulies the mother of Ann Ross
and the mother-in-law of Paul Ross.
1887: “Bessarabian Jewish immigrants Augusta
“Gussie” (née Mendeburskey) and grocery store owner Israel Balaban”
gave birth to Barney Balaban, the eldest of their seven sons and the “president
of Paramount Pictures from 1936 to 1964.”
1888: Birthdate of Kovno native and Long Island College
Hospital trained medical doctor Mordecai “Max” Shevell the Yiddish poet and
associate editor of Hayom.
1889(30th of Sivan, 5659): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1889: Harry Marks, the founder of Financial
News was caricatured in Vanity Fair today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harry_Marks_Vanity_Fair_8_June_1889.jpg
1889: The Hebrew
Relief Fund made a contribution of $161 to aid those suffering from the effects
of the Conemaugh Floods.
1890(20th of Sivan, 5650): Charles Bienenstok,
the German born son of Simon and Helena Bienenstok and the husband of Sarah
Davis Bienenstok passed away today in St. Louis after which he was buried in
the United Hebrew Cemetery in University City, a suburb of St. Louis, MO.
1890: “Judah” the new play by Henry Arthur Jones which
will be performed next winter at Palmer’s Theatre in New York is reported “to
have been praised without stint” during its performances in London. The hero of the play is Judah Llewellyn the
son of Welch fatherand a Jewish mother who falls in love with a character named
Vashti.
1890: Julian Nathan presided over the closing exercises
of the Sunday School of the United Hebrew Charities which were held this
morning.
1890: “Jewish Annals” published today provided a detailed
review of Outlines of Jewish History From B.C. 586 to C.E. 1890 which
had been revised by Michael Friedländer
1891: In Toronto, Canada, Rabbi Isaac and Fannie (Singer)
Halpern gave birth to Jewish Theological Seminary Rabbi Abraham E. Halperin the
husband of Bessie Feinberg who served “Congregation B’nai Amoona, St. Louis,
Missouri for over 45 years.”
1891: Birthdate of South African cricketer Manfred John
Susskind in Johannesburg, Transvaal
1891: Pontiac businessman Joseph Barnett, the Werberon,
Russia born son of Aaron Michael Barnett married Rachel Rogopsky today in New
York after which they raised a family of thirteen children which supporting
several Jewish charities including the Denver Hospital and the Cleveland
Orphans Home.
1892: Today, the
Tegeblatt confirmed recent rumors that Emin Pasha had died of smallpox in
Africa. Born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer, the physician and naturalist was baptized
at the age of 7 when his widowed mother married a Lutheran. (The rumors were just that rumors since he
passed away in October of 1892)
1893: The American Israeli published what some considered
to be an exposé about Immigration Commissioner Joseph Senner.
1894: In Prague, “Gustrav Schulhoff, a wool merchant and
his wife Louise Wolf gave birth to composer and pianist Erwin Schulhoff who
died at the age of forty-two in a Nazi concentration camp.
https://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/camps/central-europe/wulzburg/schulhofferwin/
1894: In New York, Morris Jacobs testified before the
Lexow Committee, a New York State Senate committee investigating police
corruption in New York City, “that anybody who has ‘pull’ and $300 can get an
appointment to the police force without reference to his qualifications. In his own case, Jacobs or his political
supporters, did not think he could pass ‘the intellectual examination” because
the questions were “too technical” so “ex-policeman was induced to impersonate
Jacobs” and take the examination for him.
1895: One hundred delegates attended the first meeting
tonight of “a new anti-Semitic organization founded by Dr. Boetekel and Rechtor
Ahlwardt, the notorious Jew-baiters. Resolutions were unanimously adopted
calling for “the exclusion of all Jews and Germans having Jewish wives from all
public functions, from the learned professions and from all positions of all
authority in the army and navy,” the suppression of Jewish immigration and the
prohibition of Jews from acquiring ownership of landed property or from leasing
farms.” (This is 35 years before Hitler
came to power)
1895: Birthdate of Roxbury, MA, native Julius Daniels the
WW I veteran and Boston University alum with worked with Edison Electric.
1896: Morris J. Cohen, who would be killed while serving
with the Twentieth Kansas Regiment in the Philippines left his home today in
Jersey City “having undertaken to walk to San Francisco on a wager that he
would reach his destination before January 7, 1897.
1896: “Jews To Rule The Earth” published today described
the belief of Reverend Isaac M. Haldeman, a Baptist minister “that the Jews had
been persecuted by all the civilized nations of the world, so that they were
driven to lying, cheating and other vices.
No tongue could describe the tortures inflicted on them not by pagans
but Christians…”
1896: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Norman Salit, a
graduate of JTS and NYU Law School and President of he Synagogue Council of
America who was the husband of Ruth Salit and the father of “Mrs. Naomi
Birnbach.”
1897: “Baptist Worship With Jews” published today
described the joint service held at the Belden Avenue Baptist Church in Chicago
which was led by Rabbi Julius Newman and Reverend M.W. Haynes.
1897: “Jew Refrain From Voting” published today
attributed the light turn out during the recent judicial election in Chicago to
the fact that it was held on a Jewish holiday when the Orthodox members of that
faith would not be at the polls.
1898: Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes provide over the opening
session of conference of Jews from the United States and Canada meeting today
at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
1898: The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band is scheduled to play
at today’s “patriotic tea in honor of Alexander Hamilton sponsored by the
Hospital and Charitable Committee of the Parish Guild of St. Luke’s Church
1898: The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America was
organized. Or Chaim was one of the founding congregations. The Orthodox Union
has grown to be one of the largest umbrella organizations for Orthodox Judaism
in North America. One of its earliest
accomplishments was the establishment of Elchanan Theological Seminary, a
modern academic institution designed to train Orthodox Rabbis. It was the original School of what is now
Yeshiva University. The familiar sign of
the OU can be found on numerous food products indicating that they are Kosher.
1899: Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Beerman hosted their annual
garden party for those living at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews.
1899: German
anti-Semitic agitator Count Walter Puckler continued “his Jew-baiting crusade”
with a lecture in Berlin on “The Progressive Judaisation of Germany.”
1900: Today’s treasurer’s report of the Committee of
One Hundred on India Famine Relief listed a $25.00 contribution from the
“Jewish Community of Mobile, Ala.”
1900: In Sokolov, Mortiz Low, the son of Helene and
Daniel Low and his wife Kamilla Low gave birth to Marie Low who unlike other
members of her family moved London and escaped the Holocaust.
1901(21st of Sivan, 5661): Parashat
Beha’alotcha
1901: In Pine Bluff, AR, Joseph S. Kornfeld, the
United States Minister to Persia and his wife gave birth to Ohio State
University and Harvard educated “writer, editor, publicity and lecturer” Albert
Kornfeld, the editor in chief of House and Garden magazine, “founder of the
National Trust for the historic preservation of American house” and author of
the Complete Illustrated Guide to Home Decorating
1901: A protest is scheduled to be made this evening
at the meeting of the officers of the Eastern District Sabbath School
Association over the invitation by the Consistory of the First Reformed Church
issued to the Sunday School of Temple Beth Elohim to participate in their
church’s parade.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1901/06/08/101074629.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1902: It was reported today that even some Jews have
been found among those going to the Greek Church of the Virgin Gorgoepikoos
where people of all denominations have been seeking cures for the ailments.
1903: The Sixth Annual Convention of the Federation
of American Zionists continued today at Central Turners’ Hall in Pittsburgh.
1904: As of the week ending today, nearly 800
Russian reservists and regular soldiers, many of whom are Jews from Bessarabia
or Warsaw, have crossed the Austrian border on their way, they hope, to the
United States or Argentinia.
1905: Birthdate of Uman, Russia native and
University of Pennsylvania trained neurologist Dr. Morris Bender who raised
five children – Barbara, Leila, Adam, Barnaby and Victor – with his wife Sarah.
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/27/obituaries/dr-morris-bender-78-expert-on-brain-tumo
1905: In Baltimore, MD, Lewis J. Putzel, the son of
Sophia and Selig Gerson Putzel and Bertha (Birdie) Putzel gave birth to
Margaret Ney/Humel
1906: Yale University M.D. Max Ruskin Smirnow, the
son of Meir and Leah Smirnow and the winner of the Keene Prize in 1906 “for
original research work in medicine” who was an instructor at his alma mater”
and an “author of a number of papers on original research in pathology and
bacteriology” married Ellen Rebecca Shane today at New Haven, CT with whom he
raised Adele Smironow Beck, the University of North Carolina, Greensboro
trained medical technician and the wife of Dr. Sidney H. Beck.
1907(26th of Sivan, 5667): Parashat
Sh’lach
1907: Today, Pastor Roden, the Spanish missionary
who has come to Berlin to revise the existing Abyssinian version of the Bible
on behalf of the British Foreign Bible Society is quoted as saying “Abyssinian
Hebrews are the dark-skinned descendants of the original children of Israel”
and “although colored, they possess all the national Hebrew characteristics,
facial peculiarities and economic tendencies”.
1907: Having left Bremen yesterday, “the first
detachment of Russian Jews with which Zangwill’s Jewish Territorial
Organization is colonizing the Southwestern United States” are steaming across
the ocean aboard the Cassel bound for Galveston.
1908: Eight hundred delegates, representing the
60,000 members of The Federation of
Galician and Bucovinian Jews which was formed in June, 1904, to assist Jewish
immigrants from the provinces of Galicia and Bucovinia, Austria, to obtain work
attended its annual convention today at Tammany Hall.
1908: “The trial by jury of the thirty-six
participants in the pogrom of 1905” is scheduled to begin today “at Bialystock”
with the indictment containing the “entire list of causalities” which
shows 11 Christians and 73 Jews killed
and 23 Christians and 82 Jews wounded.”
1909: Judge Honore to-day ordered William Guggenheim
of New York, who was Jewishi and Grace B. Guggenheim, who was not to show cause
why their divorce procured in Chicago in 1901 should not be set aside.”
1910: “According to advices received” in St.
Petersburg, form Smolensk the governor us employing secret police “to trace
Jews who have been illegally residing: in the province: and has arrested and
deported at least ten some of whom were young men employed in the flour mills
at Polchinok, “an important flour center.”
1911: “Seeks Light on Jew Bias” published today
described resolutions in introduced by Representative Edwards of Georgia that
“would direct the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy to ‘institute
an immediate investigation to ascertain how far and what discriminations are
operating against Jews’ in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Naval Academy,
Military Academy and all branches of the services.”
1912: Hyman Gerson Enlow, the rabbi at Adath Israel
in Louisville, KY, who had turned down an invitation from Claude G. Montefiore
to come to England to help further the cause of Liberal (Reform) Judaism
“delivered the baccalaureate sermon at the graduation exercises of the Hebrew
Union College.”
1913:
Eleven students of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America became rabbis
this afternoon at the graduating exercises in Aeolian Hall, when Dr. Solomon
Schechter, the President of the seminary, conferred the degrees. The services
marked the tenth anniversary of the seminary’s reorganization.
1913:
Nine boys and nine girls were confirmed this morning at exercises held this
morning the Chicago Home for Jewish Orphans.
1913:
In Philadelphia, “S.L. Nusbaum, a bookbinder” and the former Jenny Singer gave
birth to Nathan Richard Nusbaum, who gained fame as author N. Richard Nash,
whose best known work is “The Rainmaker” which was a Broadway and Hollywood
success.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/19/arts/n-richard-nash-dies-at-87-author-of-the-rainmaker.html
1914:
“The Northwest Side Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Marks Nathan Orphan Home is
scheduled to give “a hard time party” this evening where guests were urged to
“wear your old clothes” because “it will cost extra if you dress your best.”
1914(14th
of Sivan, 5674): In Philadelphia, Rabbi Ershansky was shot to death by peddler
on his doorstep today.
https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p16007coll56/id/12375/
1914:
It was reported today that “the family of the late Professor Loeb has presented
the” the Jewish Theological Seminary “with the sum of $50,000 witch which to
erect a new library building.”
1915:
The Jewish National Committee is reported to be opposed to the creation of
Jewish congress “to demand full recognition of the rights of the eleven million
Jews in Europe when the war closes” because it believes “the committee is fully
capable of dealing with the situation through the State Department in
Washington.”
1915:
“Demands from some of the delegates that the national convention of the
Independent Order of B’rith Abraham record a protest” about the Russian
treatment of the Jews “were stilled when conservatives pointed out that should
Russia win in the war, the sufferings might be greatly increased.”
1915:
Mrs. Nina Stevens who had admitted to making false affidavits showing that Leo
“Frank was a degenerate” after having be “plied with whiskey by the Atlanta
police” was convicted today of “running a disorderly resort” for which she was
fined “one hundred dollars with an alternative of thirty days in jail.”
1915:
According to reports published today, The Tageblatt,
“is urging the government to put an end to the attacks” by German anti-Semitic
organs on Jewish soldiers “inasmuch as German Jews are dying gloriously by the
thousand on the fields of battle.”
1915:
According ‘to an announcement made this afternoon” “the Prison Commission will
make its report to Governor Slaton on the Leo Frank case some time tomorrow.”
1916(7th
of Sivan, 5676): Second Day of Shavuot
1916: “The
industrial department of the United Hebrew Charities…made a further appeal to
the public” today “for contributions of waste materials and discarded household
articles and old clothing for the utilization in some form for the benefit of
3,500 families.”
1917(18th
of Sivan, 5677): “Talmudic scholar Sheftel Rubin” passed away today in Dublin.
1917: Pope
Benedict received Nahum Sokolow, “a member of the Zionist Executive Committee
in a special audience” and declared “himself in sympathy with Zionist aims in
Palestine.”
1917: Italian
Premiere Paolo Boselli met with Nahum Sokolow today and stated that his
“government is prepared to favor Zionist aims in Palestine.”
1917: At a
meeting in Berne today, Abram I. Elkus, the former American Ambassador at
Constantinople told “Rabbi Messinger, the Second Chairman of the Swiss Zionist
Society” “that according to his reports” as of now, “no massacre” of Jews had
taken place and that “the rumors that massacres had accompanied the Jaffa
evacuation” were untrue.
1917:
Birthdate of Stanley Rabinowitz, the Duluth native, raised in Iowa who would
serve as the Rabbi at Adas Israel, Washington, DC’s premiere Conservative
Congregation.
1918: The
Philadelphia Inquirer described the plans of the Camden Jewish community to
raise $10,000 with which to complete the building of the new facility for the
Y.M.H.A. and Y.W.H.A. on Walnut Street.
1918:
Birthdate of Esther Vilenska, a native of Poland who made Aliyah where she
gained fame as an author and a member of the Communist Party.
1918: In
Syracuse, NY, “Edna and Louis Rosovsky, immigrants from Russia” gave birth to
Lillian Rosovsky who gained fame as Lillian Ross, the long-time reporter for
The New Yorker. (As reported by Michael T. Kaufman)
1919: While
delivering an address at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Commencement Ceremonies today Professor Louis Ginsberg read a letter from Harry
Cohen stating that Graduating Class has “decided to give a fit of about fifty
dollars to be used to purchased books, under the directions of the Librarian
and the Professor of Homeltics on the sociological and psychological aspects of
the religious problems of the day” and that graduates suggest that the gift,
which is the first of its kind, “be known as ‘The Class of 1919 Gift for the
Purchased of Books on Religious Problems of the Day’.”
1920: The
Republican Convention which nominated Warren Harding who would receive a
plurality of the Jewish vote in November, opened in Chicago today.
1920: Today,
at Buckingham Palace, King George V, “invested Captain Alexander Aaronsohn with
the Distinguished Service Order” for his espionage activity including
penetrating “the enemy lines in Palestine, bringing back valuable information
which made possible the British ‘push’ against the Turks north of Jaffa” and
whose sister Sarah had been tortured to death by the Turks because she
would not give away information about the British was honored by the erection of
a monument at Athlit. Before dying she had defiantly said “You may spill all
the blood you want, you may torture us but you cannot prevent the British Army
from coming here.”
1920: Osip
Maksimovich Brik, the son of Jewish jeweler and avant garde author, joined the
Cheka, the early version of the Soviet secret police.
1921:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native Rabbi Moshe Sherer the graduate of Torah Vodath
and Ner Israel rabbinical college in Baltimore
who turned Agudath Israel into a force to be reckoned with and who
raised two daughters – Rochel and Elky – with “his wife, the former Deborah
Portman.”
1922: Today,
as the United States grappled with the challenges of Prohibition, Adolphus
Busch, the son of Beer-Baron August Busch, forwarded a letter from his father
describing the sale of liquor aboard American ships to President Harding who
turned the matter over to Albert Lasker whose ships were selling alcohol for a
response.
1923: In
Brooklyn, Max Kaiser, “a house painter” and “the former Nettie Slavititski”
gave birth to Herbert Kaiser, the WW II Navy Veteran, Swarthmore College
graduate and Foreign Service Officer who in retirement raised millions of
dollars for training medical personnel in South Africa. (As reported by Bart
Barnes and Neil Genzlinger)
1923:
Birthdate of Ella Adler, the native of Krakow who survived Auschwitz and
eventually made a new life for herself in the United States.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/azcentral/obituary.aspx?n=ella-adler&pid=95738220#fbLoggedOut
1924:
Birthdate of Samuel Karlin, the Polish born, Chicago “raised mathematician who
applied his theoretical brilliance to such far-flung areas as economics and
population studies, before helping to find ways to analyze DNA swiftly and
comprehensively.” (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1924(6th of
Sivan, 5684): First Day of Shavuot
1924: In
Lancaster, Albert Freitag, an agent for a lock company and Lina Steinmuller
gave birth to Ruth Steinmuller Frietag a reference librarian at the Library of
Congress for nearly a half-century,
known for her encyclopedic knowledge of resources in science and
technology.(As reported by Katharine Q. Seelye)
1924: In
Kansas City, MO, Edith Adelman Pines and Sidney Pines, the owner of “a company
that installed heating and air-conditioning systems” gave birth to physicist
David Pines. (As reported by Kenneth Chang)
https://physics.illinois.edu/people/memorials/27512
1925: Today,
“Garrick Gaieties,” “a revue with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz
Hart re-opened today.
1926: In San
Francisco, violinist Mischa Elman and the former Helen Frances Katten whom he
married in 1925 and who is the daughter of San Francisco businessman Simon
Katten gave birth to Naida Elman.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1926/06/09/98478808.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1926: It was
reported today that “nearly 49 million dollars of Jeish capital were invested
in Palestine from October 1, 1917 until March 31, 1926, the eight and a half
years since Palestine” came under British control.
1926: Louis
Greenspan whose automobile struck and killed Congressman Meyer London was
released on bail today.
1927:
In Brooklyn, a bus driver named William Stiller and his wife Bella Citron
Stiller gave birth to Gerald Isaac the oldest of the four children who gained
fame as comedic actor Jerry Stiller best known as part of the team of Stella
and Meara and being the father of Ben Stiller.
1928: Attorney
General Albert Ottinger’s investigation into complaints made by the Hebrew
Religious Protective Association concerning the practices of certain New York
area cemeteries continued today. Among
the complaints was an allegation by Harry Kaplan, President of Adath Israel,
that his brother was buried in a grave at the Baron Hirsch Cemetery in Port
Richmond on Staten Island that contained four feet of water.
1929(29th
of Iyar, 5689): Parashat Bamidbar
1929:
Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) asked Britain for political asylum.
1930:
Birthdate of Robert John Auman the German born Israeli-American mathematician
and member of the National Academy of Sciences who married Batya Cohen after
the death of his first wife Esther Schlesinger and who, among other things
along with Michael Maschler used the Game Theory to analyze sections of the
Talmud.
http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/raumann/cv.htm
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2005/aumann-bio.html
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2005/aumann-lecture.html
1930:
At the Ritz-Carlton, in the Crystal Room, Dr. Simon R. Cohen officiated at the
wedding of Claire Sylvia Frankenstyne and Theodore Dresser.
1930:
This afternoon, at the Unity Temple, Dr. Solomon Foster and Dr. Henry A. Schoor
officiated at the wedding of Helene Claire Blum, the daughter of Irving Blum
“formerly assistant appraiser of customs under President Harding” and Emanuel
Grant Scheck.
1930:
Tonight, at the Pennsylvania hotel, Dr. Israel Goldstein officiated at the
wedding of Harriet Leve and J. Martin Weiss who will tour Canada before
settling down in New York City,
1931:
In Detroit, Adele and Nathan Schlafer gave birth to Victoria Schlafer who
became Victoria Levin when she married United States Congressman Sander Levin,
with whom she had four children – Andy, Jennifer, Matthew and Madeline.
1931:
“Neither Moslems nor Jews” were “satisfied with the Wailing Wall Commissions
report which was published” in Jerusalem today and which found that “Moslems
have sole ownership of and the sole proprietary right to the Wailing Wall and
the adjoining pavement” while also “granting the Jews free access to the wall
for purposes of devotions” but limiting the right of the Jews “to carry the ark
containing the scrolls of the law near to the wall on special occasions.’
1932:
“Pledges amounting to $9,100 were made” tonight “by the members of the Business
Men’s Club for Palestine at a dinner given by William Lowenstein at the Hotel
Astor” and which was attended by approximately 120 people.
1933:
This evening in Detroit, “Henry Wineman, the chairman of the board of governors
of the Jewish Welfare Federation” is scheduled to preside over the opening
session of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service.
1933:
It was reported today that “The German Dunlop Rubber Company which is
affiliated with the Dunlop organization in the United States” “has procured a
ruling from Nazis” saying that was “free of non-Aryan influence.” (Editor’s note: They no longer employ Jews)
1933:
In Brooklyn, Russian immigrants Meyer and Beatrice Grushman Molinsky gave birth
to Joan Alexandra Molinsky who gained fame as comedian and game show player
Joan Rivers.
1933:
Jesse Isidor Straus, whom President Roosevelt had appointed U.S. Ambassador to
France presented his credentials today.
1934: A death sentence was pronounced today against Abraham
Stavsky, who, with Zvi Rosenblatt, was on trial for the murder on June 16,
1933, of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, labor leader and member of the Jewish Agency
Executive of Palestine. Rosenblatt was acquitted on the ground of insufficient
evidence. Notice of appeal has been filed on behalf of Stavsky.
1935:
Birthdate of Montreal native Harold Tafler Shapiro, “the former President of
Princeton and the University of Michigan” and husband of Vivian Shapiro with
whom he had four children – Anne, Marilyn, Janet and Karen.
https://www.princeton.edu/~hts/
1935:
The owners of “Ruby Foo’s in Montreal: gave birth to Montreal native Bernard
Jack Shapiro, the twin brother of Princeton President Harold Tafler Shapiro,
who became “the first Ethics Commissioner of Canada and 14th
Principal of McGill University.
1936:
In Jerusalem, the Jewish community joins in the celebration of King George’s
birthday.
1936: As Arab violence
mounts two Arabs died, and 26 Arabs and Armenians were injured by a bomb which
exploded inside the Jaffa Gate today.
1936: Tonight,
as violence continues to escalate “High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell
Wauchope prohibited telephone communication beyond the borders of Palestine
except with special permission.
1936: Today
“Bucknell University conferred honorary degrees upon Roger Williams Straus of
New York and Newton D. Baker of Cleveland, co-chairman of the National
Conference of Jews and Christians for their promotion of religious liberty.”
1936: “Nazi
pamphlets printed in Arabic distributed in Acre…blamed the British government
for ‘favoring’ the Jews.”
1937(29th
of Sivan, 5697): Seventy-four-year-old Mir native Dr. Henry Sliosberg, the
lawyer and defender of Jewish rights who was President of the Jewish Community
of St. Petersburg before the coming of the Bolsheviks who imprisoned him for
three years and the president of the Russian community in Paris, passed away
today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=990CE2DA1E3AE23ABC4153DFB066838C629EDE
1937: “La
Grande Illusion” a war film starring Erich von Stroheim and with music by
Joseph Kosma was released in France today.
1937:
Chaim Weizmann presented his reasoning for supporting partition at private
dinner given by Sir Archibald Sinclair where his fellow diners included Winston
Churchill, James de Rothschild and several parliamentary supporters of Zionism. Weizmann was willing to “settle for a Small
state at once” rather than wait for a “Large state” that might come in some
distant future. Churchill opposed partition and contended that the Jews should
wait for their state in all of Western Palestine as envisaged by the White
Paper issued in 1922.
1937:
In Wadesboro, NC Harry and Minnie Levine who “ran a general store…in
Rockingham” gave birth to Leo Levine the
founder of the Family Dollar discount store chain. (As reported by Alex Traub):
https://www.leonlevinefoundation.org/leon-levine/
1938:
Sixty-six-year-old Austrian attorney and amateur photographer Dr. Emil Mayer,
the Bohemian born son of Leopold and Anna Mayer and husband Elisabeth Deutsch who was baptized as a
Catholic in 1894 committed suicide along with his wife today after the Nazi
annexation of Austria.
1938:
It was reported today that Hugo Andriessen Spanjaard donated a gymnasium to
Brussels University.
1938:
A year before the Nazis invade Poland, anti-Semitic riots began in Warsaw
today.
1939:
Rabbi Isaac Landman and Rabbi Sidney S. Tedesche are scheduled to officiate at
the funeral of Dr. Alexander Lyons the rabbi of the Eighth Avenue Temple in
Brooklyn and husband of the former Ida Eisendrath with whom he had one daughter, Irene.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/06/07/93925066.html?pageNumber=29
1939:
In Palestine, Sir Harold MacMichael, British High Commissioner hosted a garden
party in honor of the King’s birthday.
All Jewish leaders had declined the invitations as a way of expressing
their displeasure with the recent White Paper that, if enforced, will put an
end to Jewish immigration in the hope of a Jewish home in Palestine.
1939:
In response to an order by Chief Rabbi Herzog, all synagogues pronounced the
usual prayers for the King and his family in honor of the monarch’s birthday.
1940(2nd
of Sivan, 5700): Parashat Nasso
1940:
“More than 400 delegates and guests attended tonight’s dinner in Asbury Park,
NJ marking the opening of the thirty-second annual convention of the Federation
Polish Jews in America where Count Jerzy Potocki, the Polish Ambassador to the
United States, told diners “that Poland would be a free country again and that
there would be no place for anti-Semitism in the new Poland.
1941:
In Nashville, TN, musicologist David Robison and Naomi Robison gave birth to
flutiest Paula Robison.
1941(13th
of Sivan, 5701): Seventy-four-year-old Julius Friedenwald, a graduate of Johns
Hopkins and the College of Physician and Surgeons in Baltimore who was the
Baltimore, MD born son of Bertha
Bamburger and Dr. Aaron Friedenwald, a “professor of otology and ophthalmology
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons” and
the husband of Esther Lee Rohr and a Professor of Stomach at the College
of Physicians and Surgeons who co-authored “a text book on Dietetics passed
away today.
1941: During World War II, “mixed squads, some
made up of Palestinian Jews and Australians, others entirely Jewish”
went into operation for the first time in Lebanon and Syria which were
controlled by Vichy Government. It was
during this combat that Moshe Dyan lost his eye and began wearing his famous
eye-patch.
1942:
In Poland, at the urging of the Jewish Council of Pilca, hundreds of Jews flee
for the forests.
1943(5th of Sivan, 5703): Erev
Shavuot, The Jewish community at Zbaraz, Ukraine, is destroyed.
1943:
Eighty-five-year-old Dr. Hiram N. Vineberg, the consulting gynecologist at
Mount Sinai Hospital who “is responsible for relieving women of suffering and
disablement by insisting, half a century ago, that reproductive organs be
conserved during operations” and whose adventure filled life included treating
Princess Liliuokalani for black tongue while in Hawaii is scheduled to be
“honored this afternoon at the hospitals Blumenthal Auditorium.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/06/08/83927299.pdf
1943:
In Jerusalem, Blanka and Joseph Davis, both of whom came to Palestine during
the 5th Aliya gave birth Uriel “Uri” Davis, whose pro-Palestinian
views led him join Fatah and convert to Islam after marrying Miyassar Abu Ali, a Palestinian, in 2008.
1943:
Dr. Albert Menasche arrived at Auschwitz from Greece. He “joined” the
camp orchestra. The orchestra would play as the new arrivals entered the
camp. The orchestra came to public
notice after the war in the film, “Playing For Time.: Dr. Menasche was the only one of a family of
more than thirty to survive.
1943: A transport arrived in Auschwitz today and after a
selection 220 men and 88 women are admitted into the camp. The other 572
deportees are murdered in the gas chambers.
1943:
What may have been the last transport of Jews sent from Salonica left for
Bergen-Belsen today. Included in the
transport was the Chief Rabbia of Salonica, Rabbi Zvi Koretz and his family. A
list of all of the Jews of Salonica with their addresses and ages was given to
a Jew named Vital Hasson by the chief rabbi. Hasson was said to have escaped to
Albania.
1944:
“President Franklin Roosevelt signed a memorandum directing the establishment
of an Emergency Refugee Shelter at Fort Ontario, Oswego, NY.”
http://www.oswego.edu/library/archives/EmergencyShelter.pdf
http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/?content=fort_ontario
1944: “The Greek tanker Tanias, commandeered by the
Germans was torpedoed by the British submarine HMS Vivid 53 kilometers west of
Heraklion, capital of the Greek island of Crete. On board were all of the
265 Jews of Crete including many children, all of whom perished.
1945: “Wonder Man” a musical starring Danny Kaye, “based
on a short story by Arthur Sheekman,” and produced by Samuel Goldwyn was
released in the United States today.
1946:
Today, during Aliyah Bet, Haviva Reik, carrying 462 passengers, was intercepted
by HMS Saumarez but not before, “150 people had previously transferred from the
Haviva Reik to the Rafi off the Palestinian coast, and the crew had
disembarked.”
1947(20th of Sivan,
5707): Eighty-nine-year-old Bertha Lindau Cone the Chicago born daughter “Manasse “Max”
Lindau (Lindauer originally), a Jew who had immigrated from Jebenhausen,
Germany in the 1840’s, and Henrietta Ullman, an immigrant from Ulm, Germany”
and the wife of Baltimore businessman Moses Cone who managed her husband’s
business empire “Flat Top Manor” following his untimely death passed away today
after which she was buried in Blowing Rock, NC.
1947: The Oujda and Jerada pogrom came to an end leaving 42 Jews
dead and approximately 150 injured. The
excuse for this pogrom in northeastern Morocco was the local Muslim reaction to
fighting in Palestine.
1948(1st
of Sivan, 5708): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1948:
Birthdate of Rabbi Harold Berman who will enjoy a 34-year career at Tiftereth
Israel in Columbus, Ohio.
1948:
Today twenty-four-year-old Newark, NJ native Gideon Lichtman became the first
fighter pilot in the young Israeli affair to shoot down an enemy fighter in
aerial combat, a feat that would make him a target for terrorists and force him
use a an assumed name while teaching high school in Florida for thirty years.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article204127679.html
1948:
“The Milton Berle Show” premiered on NBC TV. This aging Jewish
vaudevillian would come to “own” Tuesday night. He was the first
national star of the infant medium.
1948: During The War of Independence, David
Ben-Gurion ordered his military leaders to attack the fortress at Latrun for a
third time. This is one time that Ben-Gurion will not be able to bully the
opposition into doing things his way.
Ben-Gurion is desperate to break the Arab stranglehold on the road to
Jerusalem and to ensure that the “City of David” is part of the new Jewish
state. Yigal Allon, the chief of staff,
and his brigade commanders oppose the attack.
Allon’s position gains additional credibility when Mickey Marcus adds
his voice to the opposition. Marcus is a
West Point graduate who reached the rank of Colonel in the American Army during
World War II. No longer on active duty,
Marcus is serving as “military advisor” to Ben-Gurion. In fact, under the name Stone, Marcus has
been given the responsibility of opening the road to Jerusalem. The military leaders all oppose the attack
for the same reason it will fail just as the first two attacks have with great
loss of life. Besides which, they do not
see the capture of Latrun as being the key to opening the road to
Jerusalem. Two Israeli soldiers have
discovered an alternative route to Jerusalem.
It is a donkey trail that goes beyond Latrun. If the Israelis are lucky, they can widen the
path, turn it into a passable road and break the siege. The Jews must work on the project at night
and quietly enough that they will not attract attention from the Arab army. If their presence is discovered, they will be
sitting ducks, the road will not be completed, and Jerusalem will not be united
with the Tel Aviv before the impending cease-fire.
1948:
Mordechai “Modi” Alon took off from the new airstrip at Herzliya leading Gideon
Lichtman on his first combat mission for the IAF during the War for
Independence.
1948:
After seeing four Egyptian Spitfires heading for Tel Aviv, Gideon Lichtman shot
down one of them and the other three attacked the Jewish city.
1949:
Cardinal Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, the Archbishop of Paris who had initially
supported Petain but “wrote a public protest against the deportation of the
Jews and condemned Vichy in 1942” “was buried in the crypt of the archbishops
in Notre-Dame Cathedral” today.
1949:
Numerous celebrities including Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye,
Frederic March, John Garfield and Edward G. Robinson were named in an FBI
report as members of the Communist Party.
The disproportionate number of Jews named in what later was proven to be
a bogus report, set the stage for claims that the Jews were responsible for the
Communist menace.
1949: In Lviv, concentration camp survivors Joachim
and Hellen Ax gave birth to American pianist Emanuel Ax who first captured
public attention in 1974 when, at the age of 25, he won the first Arthur
Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv and who raised “two
children, Joey and Sarah” “with his wife, pianist Yoko Noazaki.
1950:
“Dance Hall” a film about romantic encounters featuring Sydney Tafler as “Jim
Fairfax” was released today in the United Kingdom.
1950:
According to reports published in the New York Times, the government of
Israel, in response to a request from Secretary State Dean Acheson, is
investigating charges of the mistreatment of Arab infiltrators who have crossed
into the Jewish state from Jordan. Acheson’s request was triggered by
complaints from Arab states, who, it should be noted, still consider themselves
to be officially at war with the state of Israel.
1951:
Oswald Pohl, chief of the economic office of the SS, Otto Ohlendorf,
responsible for the murder of 90,000 Ukrainian Jews, and Colonel Paul Blobel,
organizer of the massacre of the Jews of Kiev, were hanged.
1952:
Movie producer Sidney Luft, the son of Jewish immigrants, married film star
Judy Garland. His marriage to her is his only real claim to fame.
1953:
Fifty-nine-year-old Sir Alexander Korda married twenty-five-year-old Alexandra
Boycun in what was his third trip to the alter and her first.
1954(7th
of Sivan, 5714): Second Day of Shavuot
1954: Society
for the Protection of Nature in Israel founded
1959(2nd
of Sivan, 5719): Seventy-six-year-old Austrian native Harry “Baum a volunteer
settlement worker on the Lower East Side who became one of basketball’s
greatest coaches during the early decades of the 20th Century and is considered
the father of fundamental basketball tactics” passed away today in New York.
1959:
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg
Foundation, Inc. was created on today, as a Maryland nonprofit private
foundation after which Harry Weinberg decided to dedicate his fortune to his
foundation.
1960(13th
of Sivan, 5720): Seventy-four-year-old University of Pennsylvania trained
dentist, Dr. Bernhard Wolf Weinberger, the graduate of the Angle School of
Orthodontia, the husband of Louise Weinberger and the father of Bernard
Weinberg and Suzanne Schwartz passed away today in New Orleans where he had
been living since he closed his practice in New York City.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/05/09/105432055.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1961:
Information regarding Malka “Mala” Zimetbaum “a Belgian woman of Polish Jewish
descent, known for her escape from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
and the resistance she displayed at her execution following the escape’s
failure” was made available to the public in the official testimony of Mrs Raya
Kagan today during Session 70 in the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in Jerusalem
1962(6th
of Sivan, 5722): Shavuot
1963:
Rabbi Samuel Soskin officiated at the wedding of Barnard graduate and medical
editor for Grun and Stratton Norman and Harvard graduate Jack F. Hyman, Jr.,
the supervisor of recreational therapy in the Adult Psychiatric Unit of
Bellevue Hospital.
1966:
A revival production of Frank Loesser’s “Guys and Dolls” starring Jan Murray
(Murray Janofsky) as “Nathan Detroit” opened at New York City Center
1966: In Spring Valley, NY, Francesca Goldberg, “a ballet dance
and eurythmy teacher” and “Paul Margulies, a writer, philosopher, and Madison
Avenue advertising executive” gave birth to American actress Julianna
Margulies.
1966: A merger agreement between the NFL and the AFL which was
opposed by Al Davis was announced today.
1966: Today, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel record “Patterns” which
was the second trick on the album “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.”
1967: In the one sour note
of the Six Day War, Israeli planes accidentally attack the American Naval ship,
U.S.S. Liberty. Despite numerous
investigations that proved otherwise, there are anti-Semites, those who are
anti-Israel and assorted conspiracy buffs who claim that the attack was
deliberate. American ships had been
ordered out of the area. Apparently, word did not reach the Liberty. We know from the episode of the U.S.S. Pueblo
the following year, that the American government did have some problems in
dealing with electronic listening or spy ships.
Some of the killed and wounded among the Liberty’s crew were
Jewish. They were on the vessel because
of the knowledge of Hebrew. Attached
please find the most recent article on this event based on the most recently
released transcripts of the communication between the pilots and their
controllers.
1967: President Nasser of Egypt accepted the cease-fire ordered by
the Security Council. This came too late to save the Egyptian military. In a change of plan, Dyan had already given
orders for the Israeli forces to push on to the Suez Canal. The Egyptians
continued to fight and in the end would leave 15,000 dead in the Sinai. There was still no agreement among the
Israelis as to how to deal with Syria, whose provocative, bellicose behavior
had helped to feed the flames of war.
The settlers living under the guns of the Golan Heights and the general
in commanded of the Northern Frontier pressured Prime Minister Eshkol to take
action and end the Syrian menace to the Galilee. Moshe Dyan showed the same reluctance he had
when it came to taking Jerusalem and opposed action against the Syrians. At the end of the meeting, the settlers and
the generals drove north, thinking that they had lost and Syria would continue
to menace them after the fighting stopped.
1969: In Silver Spring, MD, attorney Stanley Futterman and
psychoanalyst Linda Roth Futterman gave birth to actor and screenwriter Daniel
Paul “Dan” Futterman.
1969(22nd of Sivan, 5729): Seventy-one-year-old Bernard
W. Freudenthal, the Las Cruces, NM born on of Phoebus Freudenthal and Amalia
Freudenthal passed away today in San Diego, CA.
1969: After having had its U.S. premiere on May 1, the curtain
came down on the final performance of “Indians” written by Arthur Kopit.
1970(4th
of Sivan, 5730)
1970(4th
of Sivan, 5730): American psychologist Abraham Maslow, famous for his Hierarchy
of Needs, passed away.
http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/maslow.htm
1971:
Birthdate of Mark Feuerstein, the New York native best known “Dr. Henry Hank
Lawson” of the television hit show “Royal Pains.
1973(8th
of Sivan, 5733): Eighty-nine-year-old Harry A Hatry, the former vice president
with Bloomingdales and later long time president of Jay-Thorpe, Inc who was “an
ardent support of schools for costume design” and who was the husband the
former Mildred E. Eiseman with whom he had four daughters – Louise, Margaret,
Helen and Sydney – passed away today.
1974:
The “KGB detained Professor Voronel for several hours and threatened him with
imprisonment and exile in Siberia unless he ceases to sponsor a scientific
seminar for refuseniks ”
1975:
Near Beit Lid, soldiers killed terrorists who attacked hitchhikers and soldiers
with grenades.
1977:
“The Other Side of Midnight,” the movie version of Sidney Sheldon’s novel of
the same name produced by Frank Yablans, Howard W. Koch and Hawk Koch was
released in the United States today.
1979:
“Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany, at a meeting with American Jewish
Committee leaders, warned today that American failure to ratify the strategic‐arms treaty could mean a return to the cold
war, with harsh effects on the Soviet Union’s recently liberalized Jewish
emigration policy.”
1981(6th
of Sivan, 5741): Jews observe Shavuot for the first time during the Presidency
of Ronald Reagan.
1981(6th of Sivan, 5741): Eighty-two-year-old Aversa, Italy native
Sal B. Hoffman, the president of the Upholsters International Union who
used $2,500,000 of the union’s welfare-fund to build the 634-acre community of
Salhaven in Jupiter, FL which was a retirement community designed to house 500
union members and their families and predicted to cost $5,000,000 upon
completion passed away today. The plans were to build 240 cottages that would
be air-conditioned and completely furnished. There would also be 10 apartment
lodges.
1981:
Following yesterday’s bombing “Iraq’s Osiriak nuclear facility” by the IAF, the
U.S. State Department said today “in a prepared statement that ‘the
unprecedented character’ of the attack ‘cannot but seriously add to the already
tense situation in the area’ and said it was possible Israel had violated the
agreement under which it purchased the American F-4 and F-15 jet fighter
bombers used in the attack.”
1983:
“The State Department today described as patently false an assertion made by an
officially sanctioned Soviet anti-Zionist committee that most Jews who wished
to leave the Soviet Union had already done so. ”The contention that the
majority of Jews who desire to emigrate from the Soviet Union have already left
is patently false,” Alan D. Romberg, a State Department spokesman, said.”
1984:
After yesterday’s screening in Westwood, CA, the rest of the United States gets
its first chance to see “Ghostbuster” a comedy directed and produced by Ivan
Reitman with a script co-authored by Harold Ramis, co-starring Rick Moranis and
Harold Ramis, with music by Elmer Bernstein.
1986:
The comic strip “Dondi” co-created by Irwin Hasen ran for the last time today.
1986:
Former United Nations Secretary-General and veteran of Hitler’s Army, Kurt
Waldheim, is elected president of Austria. Before the presidential elections,
the Austrian weekly newsmagazine Profil revealed that there had been
several omissions about Waldheim’s life between 1938 and 1945 in his recently
published autobiography. A short time later, it was revealed that Waldheim had
lied about his service as an officer in the SA-Reitercorps
(stormtroopers), a paramilitary unit of the NSDAP (Nazi Party) before the war,
and his time as an ordinance officer in Saloniki, Greece from 1942 to 1943. It
is known and documented that many crimes against civilians were committed
during the military occupation of Greece. Instead, Waldheim had incorrectly
stated that he was wounded and had spent the last years of the war in Austria.
Speculation grew, and Waldheim was accused of being either involved, or
complicit, in “war crimes”.
During his Presidency Waldheim was not welcome in most capitals of the
world. One of the few exceptions to this
treatment was the Vatican which he visited twice during his Presidency.
1987:
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres agreed today to
appoint a career diplomat, Moshe Arad, as Israel’s next ambassador to
Washington.
1988(23rd
of Sivan, 5748): Eighty-three-year-old actor Eli Mintz who created the
character of “Uncle David” on the “Goldbergs” passed away today.
1989(5th
of Sivan, 5749): Erev Shavuot
1989:
In Pacific Palisades, CA, Lee Schwartz, a business consultant to manufacturing
companies, and Olivia Goodkin, an attorney gave birth to Cleveland Brown’s
Offensive tackle Mitchell Bryan Schwartz whose Hebrew name is “Mendel” and who
is the brother of Geoff Schwartz who plays for the New York Giants making them
the first duo of Jewish brothers to play in the NFL since 1923.
1990:
Andreas Cantor first introduced his
climactic scoring call to a U.S. audience, while working at Univision at
the 1990 FIFA World Cup which began today.
1991(26th
Sivan, 5751): Parashat Sh’lach
1991(26th
of Sivan, 5751): Ninety-year-old London native and University of Manitoba
graduate Lewis Samuel Booke who settled in Winston Salem, NC where he raised
Lewis Samuel Booke, Jr. with his wife Anne passed away today.
1991:
Outfielder Ruben Amaro, Jr., the son of Judy Amaro-Perez (née Herman)[3] is of
Russian-Jewish heritage and his father was a Marrano Sephardic Mexican-Cuban
made his major league debut with the California Angels.
1992:
In Paris, Atef Bseiso, the head of PLO Intelligence was killed by two
unidentified gunmen.
1995(10th
of Sivan, 5755): Seventy-five year old Colorado native, Isadore “Izzy” Spector
who played halfback for the University of Utah from 1939 to 1941 passed away
today.
1996(21st
of Sivan, 5756): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1996(21st
of Sivan, 5756): Ninety-five-year-old Sally Eleanor Margulius, the daughter of
Rose and Benjamin Agruss and the wife of Bernard Margulius passed away today.
1997:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Promiscuities: The Secret
Struggle for Womanhood by Naomi
Wolfe, Ovitz: The Inside Story of Hollywood’s Most Controversial
Power Broker by Robert Slater and the recently released paperback
edition of The Temple Bombing by Melissa Fay Greene in which “the
author shows the intertwining of racism and anti-Semitism in the South in the
1950’s, when Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, a Northerner, came to Atlanta to lead its
oldest synagogue. Enraged by Rothschild’s support of black civil rights, white
supremacists bombed the temple in 1958.”
1999:
In Cincinnati, Ohio, Judge Fred Carolano is scheduled to sentence 72 year old
Rabbi Jacob Lustig of Kneseth Israel Congregation who had pleaded guilty to a
variety of crimes that resulted in a “massive fraud involving instant bingo
games throughout Greater Cincinnati.
1999:
Oscar Goodman began serving as he 21st mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada.
2000(5th
of Sivan, 5760): Erev Shavuot
2000(5th
of Sivan, 5760):
Joshua Myron, one of the last of the camel-mounted
Zionist brigade that fought with Vladimir Jabotinsky against Turkey in
Palestine during World War I, passed away today
in Manhattan at the age of 102. With the outbreak of World War I, Mr.
Jabotinsky, then a Russian journalist, realized that the Ottoman Empire was
likely to lose to the British and that it would pay for the Zionist settlers in
Israel to back the winning side. He spread the idea of forming a Jewish Brigade,
sometimes called the Jewish Legion, to fight beside the British. The British
Army unit, which recruited Jews from both the Middle East and Europe, used
camels to move from front to front, and Mr. Myron rose to become company
sergeant in charge of transport. The brigade is believed to have contributed
significantly to the British war effort, and Mr. Jabotinsky believed its aid
was a major factor in winning the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which Britain
announced support for a Jewish national home in Palestine. ”Half the Balfour
Declaration belongs to the Legion,” Mr. Jabotinsky wrote. Among the other
members of the brigade was David Ben-Gurion, later the first prime minister of
Israel. Mr. Myron was born at Rishon Lezion, the first officially Zionist
settlement in Palestine, and devoted his life first to battling for a Jewish
homeland, then to supporting Israel after its establishment in 1948. After
emigrating to New York and becoming a pharmacist, he remained active in raising
arms and money for Israel. Mr. Myron’s father, Feivel Miransky, left Russia
with a group of pioneers called the Biluim to go to Palestine as one of the
founders of Rishon Lezion. Jews already lived in Palestine, but had not banded
together in settlements in support of the Zionist ideal. The settlement of
Rishon and other Zionist towns was financed by Baron Edmond de Rothschild, who
established a large vineyard there. Mr. Miransky set up a carriage service to
link Rishon with Jaffa, which became Tel Aviv. At the time, the trip took more
than two hours on a sandy, muddy road. Mr. Myron was born on Aug. 17, 1897,
into a frontier existence. His grandson Marc Lubin told of the time some of Mr.
Myron’s father’s horses were stolen when he was 16. He reported the theft to
the police and was told he was on his own. He ended up crossing the Jordan
River and taking his horses back. After the war, Mr. Myron decided to move to
the United States. He immediately experienced what he regarded as a stinging
insult and a great inconvenience when the British refused to grant him traveling
papers, saying he was officially a Turkish subject. So, officially at least, he
arrived in America as a Turk. He had intended to study veterinary medicine at
Columbia University, but the school was not accepting new students at that
time. He studied pharmacy at Albany College of Pharmacy. While there, he
married Sybil Berkowitz, who died in 1973. In the early 1930’s, they returned
to Palestine, where their daughter, Naomi Scheurer, was born. She now lives in
Manhattan; Mr. Myron is also survived by three grandchildren. Eventually, the
Myrons moved to Suffern, N.Y. Mr. Myron commuted to Manhattan, where he owned
two Midtown pharmacies. Before the modern state of Israel was created, he sent
money and arms to those fighting to create it, his grandson said, and he never
lost his pugnacious streak. At his funeral, the rabbi remembered his response
to a move in his synagogue, the Congregation of the Sons of Israel, to share
more equally the honor of reciting prayers during holy days. It was decided
that each member would be limited to just one reading. Mr. Myron said that
sounded good. Then he asked, ‘Which two things am I doing?”
2001:
U.S. premiere of “Evolution” a sci-fi comedy directed and co-produced by Ivan
Reitman and a screenplay by David Diamond and David Weissman who were graduates
of Akiba Hebrew Academy in Merion, PA.
2001:
“Arafat’s Failed Utopia,” Amos Perlmutter’s last column appeared in the Jerusalem Post
http://www.unitedjerusalem.org/index2.asp?id=48208&Date=6/9/2001
2002:
“Today Jerusalem had its first gay pride parade, over loud protests from
Orthodox Jewish politicians and some demonstrators, who condemned it as a celebration
of sin.”
2003(8th
of Sivan, 5763): Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Assaf Abergil, 23, of Eilat; Sgt. Maj. (Res.)
Udi Eilat, 38, of Eilat; Sgt. Maj. Boaz Emete, 24, of Beit She’an; and Sgt.
Maj. (Res.) Chen Engel, 32, of Ramat Gan were killed and four reserve soldiers
were wounded when Palestinian terrorists wearing IDF uniforms opened fire on an
IDF outpost near the Erez checkpoint and industrial zone in the Gaza Strip.
Three terrorists were killed by IDF soldiers. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad issued a joint statement claiming
responsibility for the attack.
2003(8th
of Sivan, 5763):
St.-Sgt. Matan Gadri, 21, of Moshav Moledet was
killed in Hebron while pursuing two Palestinian gunmen who earlier had wounded
a Border Policeman on guard at the Tomb of the Patriarchs. The two terrorists
were killed.
2003(8th
of Sivan, 5763): Eighty-four-year-old Colin Legum “a journalist and writer on
African affairs” who was “strongly Zionist and anti-Marxist” passed away today.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/colin-legum-36609.html
2004:
FOX broadcast the first episode of “The Jury” a television series created by
Barry Levinson.
2005: “A year after making what was described as a historic pledge
to fight anti-Semitism, leaders from 55 nations gathered at Cordoba, Spain
today to discuss strategies for turning that promise into action.”
2006:
Nobel Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel has called on Israel to take in refugees
from Darfur. Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, says, “We as Jews are obliged
to help not only Jews. I was a refugee and therefore I am in favor of admitting
refugees. I thought it was very laudable when Israel became the first country
to admit the Vietnamese boat people. History constantly chooses a capital of
human suffering, and Darfur is today the capital of human suffering. Israel
should absorb refugees from Darfur, even a symbolic number.”
2007:
After having been first seen at the Cannes Festival, American audiences got
their first chance to “Ocean’s Thirteen” produced by Jerry Weintraub, with a
script co-authored by Brian Kppelman starring Ellen Barkin.
2007:
Haaretz reported that “despite the
increasing tensions with Syria, Israel will not ask to widen the mandate of the
United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) on the Golan, which is due
to be extended at the end of the month, government sources in Jerusalem said.”
2008: In San Francisco the Contemporary Jewish Museum officially opened the doors to its new building today with
a community-wide celebration.
2008:
Erev Shavuot 5768
2008:
At Temple Judah, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Erev Shavuot Confirmation Service
for Gabriel Kringlen and Jacob Muesham.
2008: The Sunday New York Times book section
features a review of The German Bride, a novel set among the German-born
merchants and traders who in the middle of the 19th century left Europe for the
raw possibilities of the American West written by Joanna Hershon
2008: Thomas
Friedman described the future of Israel. “From outside, Israel looks as if it’s
in turmoil, largely because the entire political leadership seems to be under
investigation. But Israel is a weak state with a strong civil society. The
economy is exploding from the bottom up. Israel’s currency, the shekel, has
appreciated nearly 30 percent against the dollar since the start of 2007. The
reason? Israel is a country that is hard-wired to compete in a flat world. It
has a population drawn from 100 different countries, speaking 100 different
languages, with a business culture that strongly encourages individual
imagination and adaptation and where being a nonconformist is the norm. While
you were sleeping, Israel has gone from oranges to software, or as they say
around here, from Jaffa to Java.” For the entire article go to;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/opinion/08friedman.html?hp
2008: An 18-year-old Palestinian was arrested at the
Hawara checkpoint near Nablus after military police on duty discovered he was
carrying six pipe bombs, an ammunition cartridge and bullets, and a bag of what
appeared to be gunpowder.
2009: Thomas
R. Frieden began serving as the 16th Director of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
2009: Center
for Jewish History and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum present a
program entitled “A Discussion of
Refugees and Rescue: American Diplomat James G. McDonald and the Jewish Refugee
Crisis, 1935-1945” The remarkable efforts of James Grover McDonald to call
attention to the threat faced by European Jewry and his tireless attempts to
relay these concerns to the highest levels of government are explored in the
acclaimed new volume Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G.
McDonald, 1935-1945, edited by Richard Breitman, Barbara McDonald Stewart,
and Severin Hochberg. As Chairman of the President’s Advisory Commission on
Political Refugees, McDonald personally interacted with many of the leading
figures who shaped the events of World War II and the Holocaust – President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, Cardinal Pacelli (the future
Pope Pius XII) – and numerous others. The evening’s discussion highlights new
insights into the Nazi regime and American responses to the Jewish refugee
crisis from the insider’s perspective of James G. McDonald’s remarkable and
well-documented experiences
2009: David W.
Jourdan, a former submariner in the U.S. Navy and the founder/president of
Nauticos, an ocean exploration company, discusses and signs his new book, Never
Forgotten: The Search for Israel’s Lost Submarine Dakar at the Library of
Congress in Washington, D.C.
2009: Israel
Defense Forces soldiers early today killed at least four Palestinian militants
who were trying to cross into Israel from the Gaza Strip.
2009(16th of
Sivan, 5769): Sheila Finestone, who had had a distinguished career as a
Canadian Member of Parliament and Senator passed away at the age of 82.
2010: “The
Naming,” the new multi-disciplinary work by Persian Jewish innovator Galeet
Dardashti, the driving force behind the popular band Divahn is scheduled to be peformed at the Washington
Jewish Music Festival.
2010: Russ
& Daughters is scheduled to welcome the New Catch Holland Herring with its
traditional first taste of “Hollandse Nieuwe”
2010:
President Shimon Peres, in South Korea to boost economic ties today, also did
his part for Israel’s aliyah (immigration of Jews to Israel) effort,
encouraging a special robot to get “upgraded” in Israel.
2011: Canadian
television journalist Joe Schlesinger received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters
from the University of Alberta in Edmonton for his long and distinguished
career. He also delivered a speech to the 2011 graduating class of the Faculty
of Arts, impressing on the new alumni that learning is a life-long endeavor,
and that one should not be complacent and allow their minds to stagnate. His
speech received a standing ovation
2011(6th
of Sivan, 5771): First Day of Shavuot
2011(6th
of Sivan, 5771): Ninety-six year old
Latvian born French physicist Anatole Abragam who “was awarded the
Lorentz Medal” and “elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences” passed away today.
2011:
Contemporary Israeli Dance Week is scheduled to begin this evening at La MaMa
in New York City.
2012(18th
of Sivan, 5772): Ninety-five-year-old Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz who had led
Washington’s Adas Israel for 25 “challenging” years passed away today on his
birthday. (On a personal note, my father served on the search committee that
brought Rabbi Rabinowitz to Washington from Minneapolis. My brother was his first Bar Mitzvah. And he was my teacher in a post-confirmation
class where he challenged our conventional views of Judaism and tried to get us
to see that being Jewish meant knowing the law but making sure that the
observance was consistent with spirit as well as the letter of the law. One of my regrets is that I only was around
him for two years before leaving for college.)
http://adasisrael.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/obituary-STANLEY-RABINOWITZ1.pdf
2012: The
Gallim Dance Company, which takes its name from the Hebrew word for waves, is
scheduled to have its opening night performance at The Joyce in NYC.
2012: Planet
Brass is scheduled to perform an evening of music created by Israeli Rafi
Malkiel at the David Greer Recital Hall.
2012: In Iowa
City, at Agudas Achim, Professor Robert Cargill is scheduled to facilitate a digital media presentation on “The
Coronation of the King: The Importance of the Gihon Spring and the Kidron
Valley to the Early Jewish Monarchy and to Later Prophets and Christian
Interpretive Traditions.”
2012:
Thousands of people participated in Tel Aviv’s 14th Gay Pride Parade today,
including many tourists arrived in Israel to attend the annual gay pride
week-long events.
2012(18th
of Sivan, 5772): In a tragic reminder of
the high price that Israel continues to pay for its vary survival Corporal Dor
Gan died tragically today in roll-over accident while patrolling on the Goland
Heights.
2013:
At Adas Israel in Washington, DC, Judith Hauptman, Professor of Talmud and
Rabbinic Culture at The Jewish Theological Seminary, is scheduled to deliver
the d’var Torah at the service honoring Rabbi Charles Feinberg’s 40th
anniversary in the Rabbinate.
2013(30th
of Sivan, 5773): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2013(30th
of Sivan, 5773): Eighty-three-year-old Yoram Kaniuk the iconoclastic Israeli
author of more thirty novels passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/books/yoram-kaniuk-maverick-israeli-novelist-dies-at-83.html?hpw
2013:
Opposition leader Shelly Yachimovich today urged Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu to take steps toward a political peace agreement with the
Palestinians, adding that her party would consider joining the coalition if
such a step were necessary to achieve that goal. (As reported by Michal
Shmulovich)
2013:
Police evacuated ten homes in the village of Roglit as brush fires raged near
Beith Shemesh today
2014: The New
York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the
NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald and My Salinger
Year by Joanna Rakoff
2014:
In Potomac, MD, the Potomac Community Center is scheduled to host a program of
klezmer music interwoven with an engaging narrative on the history of this
unique musical form and its impact on Jewish culture with Seth Kibel.
2014:
According to Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi, “Israeli President
Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will join Pope
Francis in a prayer for peace at the Vatican today. (As reported by JTA)
2014:
In Olney, MD Shaare Tefila Congregation is scheduled to host Dr. Erica Brown
speaking on “Why Be Jewish? Personal Commitments to Peoplehood.”
2014:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to present an evening with Isaac
Levendel, author of Hunting Down the Jews: Vichy, Nazis and Mafia
Collaborators in Provence 1942-1944
2014:
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Temple Judah is scheduled to hold Congregational Annual
Meeting preceded by a potluck dinner.
2014:
Sophie Okonedo won a Tony Award for “Raisin in the Sun”
2014:
“Emergency sirens sounded in several cities in southern Israel tonight, as a
rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip in the direction of Ashkelon, setting off
the Code Red alert in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council.”
2014:
“President Shimon Peres issued a prayer for a lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace
at the Vatican today, alongside Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
and Pope Francis.” (As reported by Marissa Newman)
2014:
Today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Australia’s announcement that
it would no longer use the term East Jerusalem because it was “judgmental
language” while the Palestinian leadership denounced the decision as
“disgraceful and shocking”, with the ministry making a formal
diplomatic protest. (As reported by YNET)
2014, Sophie Okonedo won a Tony for her performance in A
Raisin in the Sun.
2014(10th
of Sivan, 5774): At the age of 111 years and 124 days, Polish born American
chemist, parapsychologist and author Alexander Imich who passed away today.
http://www.lef.org/magazine/2008/10/Alexander-Imich/Page-01
http://forward.com/tag/alexander-imich/
http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/199709/alexander-imich-worlds-oldest-man-dies-at-111/
2015:
Today “the Supreme Court struck down part of a federal statute that allowed
Americans born in Jerusalem to record in their passport “Israel” as
the place of birth.
2015:
Professor Schaffer is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Jews in the British
Army 1900-45” at Leeds, UK.
2015:
“The IDF deployed an Iron Dome anti-missile battery beside the southern Israeli
city of Beersheba today, after multiple rocket salvos were launched at Israel
from the Gaza Strip over the past few weeks.”
2015:
In Chevy Chase, MD, Ohr Kodesh is scheduled to host “My Soul Longs for
You:Melodies of the Russian Jews with Kolot HaLev.”
2015:
Today, in Paris, prosecutors began presenting “their case against 15
defendants” all members of “the terrorist group Forsane Alizza” who are
“accused of planning jihadist attacks on French Jews and other targets.”
2015:
“Sacred Spem” is scheduled to be shown at the Israel Film Center Festival at
the JCC Manhattan
2015:
“My Beloved Uncles” is scheduled to be shown at the Cinema South Film Festival
in Sderot.
2015:
The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host “a special
screening of Paul Hirschberger’s ‘Touchdown Israel’” a film about the “Jewish
connection to football.”
2016(2nd
of Sivan, 5776): “Four people were kill and three were seriously injured this evening in a shooting at Sarona Market,
a popular out shopping center in Tel Aviv.
2016:
The Center Jewish History and YIVO are scheduled to host a book talk and
multimedia presentation featuring Joshua Rubenstein author of The Last Days
of Stalin.
2016:
“Bentwich” and “Dawn” are scheduled to be shown at the Israel Film Center
Festival in Manhattan.
2016:
“100 Years of Jewish Fashion Design” published today provided a history of the
Anglo-Jewish contribution to the world of clothing the best and not so best
dressed.
2016:
“Babylon Dreamers” is scheduled to be shown at the Cinema South Film Festival
in Sderot.
2016:
“Finding Dory” an animated comedy film featuring the voices of Albert Brooks
and Eugene Levy premiered today at the El Captain Theatre in Los Angeles.
2016:
The Geulah Trio is scheduled to perform at the 17th Annual
Washington Jewish Music Festival.
2017:
“La Putyka, a Czech circus, is scheduled to perform “Slapstick Sonata” and “La
Putkya,” a cornucopia of acrobatics, theater, live music and puppets at Zion
Square” today as part of Israel Festival.
2017:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Dough,” a comedy about “an
old Jewish baker” whose “failing business gets an unexpected boost when his
young Muslim apprentice, also a cannabis dealer, drops a load of dope in the
dough.”
2017:
As Britons go to the polls in the “snap general election” called by the
Conservative P.M. Zac Goldsmith is seeking to represent Richmond Park in the
House of Commons.
2018:
Today “was the most productive day for Jewish batters in Major League Baseball
history” as five players – Ryan Braun, Kevin Pillar, Alex Bregman, Ian Kinsler
and Joc Pederson – “combined for six home runs…to help their respective teams
to victory.”
2017,
In what was the first time the FDA had sought to withdraw a product based on a
risk associated entirely with the illicit use of a medical product, FDA
Commissioner Scott Gottlieb requested the market withdrawal of the opioid Opana
ER based on a risk associated with the illicit use of the product when the drug
was inappropriately reformulated for abuse through injection.
2018:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host Kabbalat Shabbat
services followed by festive dinner.
2018:
Tel Aviv hosted its 20th Gay Parade today which drew 250,000
participants and on-lookers.
2018:
JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Boy Downstairs” starring Zosia Mamet
and Matthew Shear in London.
2019:
Tonight, “starting at 8 p.m. the Oshman Family JCC and the Israel-based
education organization Bina are” scheduled to take over the Town and Country
Village Shopping Center in Palo Alto, CA “for “Night Shift,” a Shavuot festival
of music, food and learning that aims to give Palo Alto a little of the feel of
Israel, where Jewish celebrations are part of everyday life.”
2019(5th
of Sivan, 5779): Triple Header Shabbat – Start Bamidbar; Finish Pirke Avot with
Chapter 6; Erev Shavuot.
2020:
AISH.Com/LIVE is scheduled to host Covid-19 survivor Rabbi Yaakov Salomon as he
share his “life changing insights.”
2020:
Using a virtual format, the Israel Film Center Festival is scheduled to host a
screening of “Mossad” followed by a Q&A session.
2020:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to Chef Michael Solomonov’s
virtual “Edible Journey Across Israel.”
2020:
Today Adam Rapoport, a graduate of Washington, D.C.’s Woodrow Wilson High
School, home of The Tigers, resigned as editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit
,a monthly American food, “after a photo of him in brownface resurfaced online
and sparked widespread criticism.”
2020:
Hebrew College is scheduled to present “PsalmSeason Online Concert.”
2020:
In part 1 of a two-part series from S.F.-based JFCS Holocaust Center, Anita
shares her experiences surviving in the Netherlands as a hidden child in
virtual environment.
2021:
The Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture, is scheduled to present,
online “The Vilna Story Hour: If These Walls Could Talk.”
2021:
The Queer Jewish Arts Festival is scheduled to present a virtual conversation
with Rachel Sharona Lewis and Mónica Gomery as they talk about writing at the
intersection of Judaism and queerness.
2021:
Tribe Talk is scheduled to host, online, a “presentation by Ambassador Ido
Aharoni on the Abraham Accords and Israel’s new place in the Arab world.”
2021:
A delegation sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines, IA
scheduled to arrive in Israel toay.
2021:
YIVO is scheduled to present performance by Thomas Kotcheff “of Joel Engel’s
Jewish Folksongs Volume III (c. 1920): 10 Yiddish folksongs, dances, and
Hasidic nigunim in virtuosic piano arrangements.”
2021:
The Holland Society of New York, Andrew S. Terhune, The American Sephardi
Federation, The Netherland-American Foundation, and The New York Historical
Society are scheduled to co-sponsor author Daniela Weil in conversation with
historian Noah L. Gelfand, Ph.D. about The Diary of Asser Levy: First Jewish
Citizen of New York.
2022:
In New Orleans, The Jewish Community Center is scheduled to host a salute to local star athletes as
they prepare to represent the United States and the city of New Orleans in the
World Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem
2022:
The Israel Film Center Festival hosted by the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan is
scheduled to come to an end today.
2022:
The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to present New Works
Wednesday with Rabbi Dr. Sharon Shalom who will discuss his new book “Dialogues
of Love and Fear: A Rabbi’s Daughter, a Kes’s Son, and Hope for the Future.”
2022:
The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host the first session
via zoom of “In search of Churchill” with Allen Packwood.
2023:
At Temple Judea, the morning minyan is scheduled to be a family affair led by
Rabbi Feivel Strauss and Cantor Abbie Strauss.
2023:
In its semifinal, scheduled to be played today , Israel’s national under-20
team is scheduled to face the winner of Sunday’s quarterfinal clash between
Uruguay and the US.
2023:
“Solomon and Gaenor,” “The Oscar-nominated story of a young Jewish man in South
Wales who falls in love with a local girl scheduled to be available today
through UK Jewish Film.
2023:
JWA’s online course “Beyond the Gender Binary” is scheduled to begin today.
2023:
The Sir Winston Churchill Learning Center is scheduled to host a lecture by
Professor Elizabeth Imber on “Uncertain Empire: Jews, Palestine, and the Fate
of British Imperialism.”
2023:
Economy Minister Nir Barkat canceled an appearance at Israel’s consulate in
Boston scheduled for today, amid relentless anti-government protests against
coalition lawmakers as they travel abroad.
2024:
Rabbi David Wolpe is scheduled to speak about the Ten Commandments still matter
and how to apply them in the modern context during Shabbat Morning Services at
Temple Emanu-El.
2024:
The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host “The Best of Chamber Music’ with
violinist Roi Shiloah, cellist Zvi Plesser and pianist Miri Yampolsky.
2024(2nd
of Sivan, 5784): Bamidbar and Pirke Avot Chapter Six; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024:
The American Sephardi Film Festival is scheduled to host an “Israeli-Sephardi
Community Habdalah with Reymonde Amsellem” followed by “the Pomegranates Award
Ceremony, and the screening of Seven
Blessings and a Q&A with Reymonde Amsellem.’
2024:
As June 8th begins in Israel, an
unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 246 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.)
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