#ourCOG This Day, June 13, In Jewish History, By Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
This Day, June 13, In Jewish History, By Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 13
823:
Birthdate of Charles the Bald, who as Holy Roman Emperor refused to comply with
anti-Semitic edicts of Amulo, the Archbishop of Lyon. In doing so, Charles was following in the
footsteps of his grandfather Charlemagne who had also refused to comply with
anti-Semitic edicts issued by Christian clerics.
1299:
Pope Boniface VIII allowed Jews accused by the Inquisition the right to know
who their accusers were.
1299:
Pope Boniface VII issued a bull today that declared
all the Jews “unimportant” except those who were of recognized
influence.”
1489:
Joshua Solomon Soncino completed the printing of Talmud Babli Hullin. During 1489, Soncino also completed the
printing of Talmud Babli Shabbat and Talmud Babli Baba Kamma
1688(25th
of Sivan, 5448): Felipe Nieto, the Venice born son of Phinehas Nieto and the
husband of Maria Flores Viya, passed away today.
1712(9th
of Sivan, 5472): Leffmann “Behrends’ daughter Genenendel who had married the
chief rabbi of Prague, David Oppenheim in 1681 passed away today.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Oppenheim_David
1727:
Moses Susman was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of Judicature for
having stolen property from Moses Levy that included “silver money, bag, rings
and some goods and chattels.”
1758(7th
of Sivan, 5518): Second Day of Shavuot
1761(11th
of Sivan, 5521): Parashat Beha’alotcha read for the first time after the death
of King George II and while England was awaiting the coronation of King George
III of American Revolutionary Fame.
1775:
In Vilnius, Michał Hieronim Radziwiłł and Helena née Przeździecka gave birth to
Prince Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł whose family controlled the fate of an untold
number of Jews living on their Lithuanian estates.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110576092-007/html
1777:
Marquis de Lafayette arrived to help the colonists in their War for
Independence. Lafayette fell under the
spell of Washington. He was instrumental
in getting French support the Americans which was key to ultimate victory. The values of the American’s took root with
Lafayette. Despite being an aristocrat,
he took part in the early days of the French Revolution. He voted in favor of a law that gave full
rights to all French Jews except for those living in the northeast part of this
country. Later, when commanding French
forces near the city of Metz, he assured the Jews that they and their property
would be protected. Unfortunately, not
even the word of Lafayette could stop up against the Reign of Terror which was
to follow.
1780: Rachel Pinto who had left New York when the
British occupied the city and then returned at the start of June took the oath
of allegiance to the crown today.
1782(1st
of Tammuz, 5542): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1783:
In New York City, Jacob Isaacks, the New York born son of Hannah and Abraham
Isaacs and his wife Rebecca Isaacks, the New York born daughter of Jochabed and
Judah Mears gave birth to Samson M. Isaacks who would die two weeks later.
1797:
In Amsterdam, marriage of Abraham Cohen and Eva Gompertz
1801:
In Vienna, the “Theater an der Wien” which Maximillian Steiner managed in the
1870’s opened today.
1804:
Nathaniel Nathan married Rachel Levy at the Great Synagogue in London.
1808:
In Plymouth, England, Bohemian native Samuel Hyman and his wife Elizabeth gave
birth to Henry S. Hyman.
1813:
In the Netherlands, future New York resident Emanuel Levie Goldsmith, the “son of Levie
Emanuel Goudsmit and Magdalena Hartog Goudsmit and his wife Alijda Joseph Joel
Goldsmith gave birth of Prof. Joel Emanuel Goudsmit, the wife of Renetta Netje
Benjamin Goldsmith
1814:
Joseph ‘Moses” Talano married Rebecca Romanel at Bevis Marks in London.
1815:
In London, Benjamin Wolfe Levy and Martha Levy gave birth to Lewis Wolfe Levy,
the successful Australian businessman.
http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/levy-lewis-wolfe-4017
1818:
In Hanover, Germany, Elchanan Eliasberg and Lehne Hindla Eliasberg gave birth
to future Montgomery, AL resident Bernhard Eliasberg the husband of Johanna
Eliasberg.
1819:
In London, Simon Marcus and the former Eleanor Levy gave birth to their third
child, Julia Marcus.
1819:
Carl Mayer von Rothschild and Adelheid Herz gave birth to their “eldest child
and only daughter” Charlotte von Rothschild who married her cousin Lionel
Rothschild in 1836.
1821(13th
of Sivan, 5581): Fifty-year-old Talmudist Rafael Aron (v. Haim David) de Sola,
the Amsterdam born son of Haim David
Aron de Sola and Sara Moses Jesurun de Oliveira and the husband of Sara v. Isaac Namias Torres and Simha v.
Abraham Barzilay whose progeny included Rabbi David Aaron de Sola the leader of
Bevis Marks in London passed away today.
1821:
Twenty-nine-year-old Elias Levy, the son of Lyon Levy married Rachel Moise
today in Charleston, SC.
1824:
Joseph Levy married Blumah Jacobs at the Great Synagogue in London.
1825:
Birthdate of Dusseldorf, Germany native Julius Eichberg, one of the greatest
violin teachers” in the United States “and director of the Boston Conservatory
of Music”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/01/20/106860123.pdf
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5075926/julius_eichberg_obituary_in/
1827:
Birthdate of Berlin born Brazilian photographer Alberto Henschel who “earned
the title of Photographo da Casa Imperial (Photographer of the Royal House),
allowing him to photograph the everyday life of the Brazilian monarchy during
the Reign of Pedro II, even photographing the emperor Dom Pedro II[7] and his family.”
1827:
In Charleston, SC, Rabbi S.C. Peixotto officiated at the wedding of Nathan
Cohen, to Clara Harris, the third daughter of Jacob Harris, Jr.
1828(1st
of Tammuz, 5588): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1828:
Birthdate of Nantes native and French painter Jules-Élie Delaunay who in 1878
painted the portrait of Genevieve Straus whose “salon” played a major role in
the world of French culture and was a center for pro-Dreyfus supporters.
https://jwa.org/media/portrait-genevieve-straus-jules-elie-delaunay
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/straus-genevieve
1829(12th
of Sivan, 5589): Parashat Nasso read for the first time during the Presidency
of Andrew Jackson who appointed Mordecai Noah to serve as the overseer of the
port of New York
1832:
Samuel Cohen married Rebecca Joseph at the New Synagogue in the United Kingdom.
1836:
Today, “two days after her seventeenth birthday, Charlotte Rothschild, the
daufhter of Carol von Rothschild and sister of Mayer Carl, Adolph and Wilhelm
Carl Rothschild married her cousin Lionel who was ten years older than and
moved from Frankfurt to England.
1843:
Birthdate of life-long Baltimore businessman David Hutzler
1843:
In Boston, a dinner was held at Faneuil Hall to celebrate the completion of the
Bunker Hill Monument. Judah Touro was honored for his role in the building of
the memorial. Bostonian patrician Amos
Lawrence had pledged to give ten thousand dollars to the project if anybody
would match his contribution. Touro, who
was living in New Orleans, heard about the challenge and immediately sent ten
thousand dollars to Boston. The toast read at the banquet said,
Amos and Judah
venerated names,
Patriarch and prophet,
press their equal claims
Like generous coursers,
running neck and neck
Each aids the other by
giving it a check,
Christian and Jew, they
carr out one plan,
For thous of different
faiths, each is in heart a man
1851:
Seventy-three-year-old Joseph Johlson the Jewish theologian who championed such
reforms as Shabbat services on Sunday, sermons in German and Confirmation for
boys and girls while expressing the belief that circumcision was no longer a
necessary ritual for Jews passed away today at Frankfurt am Main.
1851:
Jacob I. Moses, the Columbia, SC born son of Isaiah and Rebecca J. Moses and
his wife Sarah J. Moses Davega gave birth to Flora Moses, the wife of Dr.
Ottolengui Aaron Moses and the mother of Walter Otto Moses.
1852:
“Beis Hamedrash Hagadol was established at 60 Norfolk Street on the Lower East
Side of Manhattan. Its first rav was Rabbi Avrohom Yosef Asch, zt”l, who had
arrived in the United States earlier that year.”
1853(7th
of Sivan, 5613): Second Day of Shavuot
1855:
Henry Simmonds married Louisa Benjamin at the Great Synagogue in the United Kingdom.
1856:
Abraham Bittan married Miriam Solomons at Bevis Marks in London.
1860:
William Benjamin Collins married Dinah Abrahams in London today.
1863(26th
of Sivan, 5623): Parashat Sh’lach read as the Confederate forces attack the
Union Army on the first day of the “Second Battle of Winchester,” which was
part of Lee’s opening gambit for an “invasion of the North” which he hoped
would lead to a Southern victory that would allow the Confederates to
successfully secede from the Union and keep their slaves.
1864:
In Bethnal Greem, Moses David Levy and his wife gave birth to Sir Albert Levy,
the founder of Ardath Tobacco Company and member of the West London Synagogue
whose philanthropy earned him a knighthood in 1929
http://www.jta.org/1937/09/08/archive/sir-albert-levy-british-philanthropist-dead-at-74
1865:
In Vienna, Austrian Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise
Markbreiter gave birth to their second child Julius who became a surgeon.
1866:
In Hamburg, Moritz Moses Warburg and Charlotte Esther Oppenheim Warburg gave
birth to Dr. Abraham Moritz “Aby” Warburg, the husband of Mary Hertz Warburg
and father of Max Adolph Warburg
http://jewish-history-online.net/article/levine-obituary-aby-warburg
1868:
Birthdate of Austria native and Columbus, OH resident Ricky Frankel Weiss, the
wife of Morris Weiss whom she married in 1889 and the mother of Bexley, OH, resident Mildred Weiss Tarshish,
the wife of Allan Tarshish whom she married in 1930.
1868:
Birthdate of Edinburgh, Scotland native John Foster Fraser, the author of the Conquering
Jew which contains the results the author’s studies of the Jew, his
adaptability and vitality” as well as his views on the future of the Jews.
1869:
In New York City, Eudorah H. Hart and Gratz Nathan gave birth to Constance
Nathan.
1870:
In Russia, “Getchel and Deborah Mandell” gave birth to Max Sol Mandell, the
Columbia educated Instructor of Russian Language and Literature at Yale
University and husband of Dora Rubenstein who was also active in the New Haven
Jewish community as can be seen by his long term service as the secretary of
the “Jewish Charity Society of New Haven.”
1870:
“Prophetic Disraeli” published today provided a review of “Lothair,” the first
novel published by Benjamin Disraeli after he became Prime Minister and
discusses the as yet untitled sequel that includes several Jewish characters
and themes.
1871:
While visiting Jerusalem, former U.S. Secretary of State William H. Steward
today described the city as occupying “two ridges of a mountain promontory,
with the depress or valley between them.” According to Seward there are 4,000
Muslims living in the northeast quarter, 8,000 Jews living in the southeast
quarter, 1,800 Armenians in the southwest quarter and 2,200 Christians
belonging to assorted sects living in the northwest quarter.
1871:
To days after he passed away, David Nathan, the husband of Deborah Saltiel with
whom he had seven children, was buried at “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1873:
In Munster, Germany, Julie Rosenberg, the daughter of Abraham Bendix Weinberg
and Frieda Sophia Weinberg and her husband Isaac Rosenberg gave birth to Adolf
(Alfred) Rosenberg.
1873:
Birthdate of Hungarian born neuropsychiatrist and New York City School Board Member Emil Altman
who served as a Colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Reserve Corps.
1877:
London University graduate Lionel Edward Pyke, the Chatham born son of Joseph
Pyke, a warden of the Central Synagogue in London, was “called to the Bar” today
after which “his most extensive practice was in the Admiralty Court” while also
becoming “a member of the of the council of the Anglo-Jewish Association.’
1877:
Joseph Seligman, the famous New York financier arrived at the Grand Union Hotel
in Saratoga Springs, NY, as he had every summer for the past ten years. When he
asked for his rooms the manager told Seligman that “he was required to inform
him that” Judge Henry Hilton, the owner of the hotel, “has given instruction
that no Israelites shall be permitted in future to stop at this hotel.” After overcoming his astonishment Mr.
Seligman asked, “Do you mean to tell me that you will not entertain Jewish
people?” The manager replied, “That is our orders, Sir.” Seligman wanted to know the reason for this
asking, “Are they dirty, do they misbehave themselves, or have they refused to
pay their bills.” The manger replied
that these were not the reason. “The
reason is simply this.” Business at the hotel was not good last season and we
have a large number of Jews here. Mr.
Hilton came to the conclusion that Christians did not like their company, and
for that reason shunned the hotel. He
resolved to run the Union on a different principle this season and gave us
instruction to admit no Jew.” The manager expressed his personal regret at this
turn of events since Mr. Seligman had been coming there for years, but he had
to obey orders. An angry Mr. Seligman returned to New York where he wrote a
“bitter and sarcastic letter to Hilton” and then informed his friends as to
what had happened. [Editor’s Note – the treatment of Mr. Seligman would touch
off a minor cause célèbre. It would also mark the “official start” of a period
of increasing anti-Semitism in the United States that would include the public
banning of Jews from a variety of Christian only hotels, neighborhoods, country
clubs and other such institutions as well as the banning of Jews from certain
professions & occupations and the creation of quota system, the most
invidious of which was the one having to do with admittance to institutions of
higher learning. You might think of this period as an era of Jewish Jim Crow
and would persist into the last decades of the 20th century.]
1878:
“Mysterious Self-Murder” published today described the last days and
self-inflicted death of Lucien Levys, a prominent member of the New York Jewish
Community.
1878:
Lucien Levys, who took his own life for reasons which are still not clear, is
to be buried today at New York’s Salem Fields Cemetery with services provided
by Mishkan Israel, the congregation to which the family belongs. Survivors include his widow, a brother, Henry
and a sister, Mrs. Henry Block, all of New York City.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D04E4D7143FE432A25750C1A9609C946990D7CF
1878:
The Congress of Berlin, a summit of European powers where leaders discussed the
Balkan region including need to guarantee the civil rights for Rumanian Jews
opened today.
1880:
It was reported today that there are approximately 500,000 Jews living in
Morocco most of whom are descendants of Jews who were exiled from Europe during
the Middle Ages. They “are oppressed,
hated degraded and persecuted” in Morocco in a fashion worse “than in any other
country.” The Jews work in “various arts and trades” displaying “the ingenuity,
pliability and tenacity of their race.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E01E7DA1630EE3ABC4B52DFB066838B699FDE
1881:
In the Pale of Settlement Esther and Israel Pinchus Antin gave birth to
Maryashe Antin who gained fame American author and immigration rights activist
Mary Antin.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/14/1912/mary-antin
1881:
Birthdate of New York City native and Yale graduate William Richard Sidenberg,
1881:
Two days after he passed away, seventeen-year-old Frederick Davis, the son of
Hyman and Isabella Davis, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish
Cemetery.”
1882:
Joseph Wolf and Meyer Morris, two recent Jewish refugees who have just arrived
from Russia remained in jail because they could not pay the fine assessed them
for having attacked and beaten an official of the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9404EEDF1E3EE433A25750C1A9609C94639FD7CF
1883:
In Charleston, SC, Rabbi I.P. Mendes officiated at the wedding of David B. Falk
and Cissie Solomons, the daughter of J.M. Solomons of Savannah, GA.
1883:
Naphtali Hertz Cohn, the Hamburg, Germany born son of Doris Cohn and Rabbi
Ruben Simon Cohn and his wife Johanna Cohn gave birth to Ruben Cohn, the
brother of Recha Stein and Bernhard Cohn
1883:
Louis Ostheim began serving as 2nd Lt. in the 3rd
Artillery of the United States Army.
1884:
In New York City, Thedore and Leah Crohn, Jewish immigrants from Europe gave
birth to Columbia University College of Physicians trained gastroenterologist,
the namesake for Crohn’s Disease.
1884(20th
of Sivan 5644): Boris Moses who rose to the rank of Colonel in the French Army
and “became an officer of the Legion of Honor” passed away today.
1885(30th
of Sivan, 5645): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1885:
In New York, a bill was signed “to amend the Penal Code in regard to Jews and
the observance of Sunday.
1886:
The remains of James K. Gutheim who was the rabbi at Temple Sinai, lay in state
at the New Orleans Reform congregation until three o’clock this afternoon when
they were taken to the Metairie Cemetery in suburban New Orleans for final
internment.
1886:
Modern Jewish France was published today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F01E2DE1438E533A25750C1A9609C94679FD7CF
1887:
Birthdate of Bruno Frank, the native of Stuttgart who fled German after 1933
and who wrote the screenplay for the 1939 film version of “The Hunchback of
Notre Dame.”
1888:
It was reported that the staff of the Hebrew Journal plans to sponsor a
reception to raise funds for the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Agency.
1888(4th
of Tammuz, 5648): Minsk native Hanna Keila Friedland, the daughter “of R’
Gershon Ginzburg of Vilna and Rachel Leah Ginzburg” and wife “of R’ Moses Aryeh
Leib Friedland” passed away today in St. Petersburg
1889:
New York State Senator Jacob A. Cantor is invited to the opening reception of
the exclusive Harlem Club. When a member
learns that Robert Bonyge has proposed Cantor for membership, he publicly tells
Cantor, “Jake I have known you for a long time, and I am a friend of yours, but
I must stell yout that in this club we draw the line at Hebrews.”
1890:
Applications may now be filed for the Summer Session of the Hebrew Technical
School which will begin when the public schools close the year.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00C1FF9395F10738DDDAA0994DE405B8085F0D3
1891(7th
of Sivan, 5651): Second Day of Shavuot and Shabbat
1891:
Archibald H. Welch, a Second Vice President with New York Life Insurance
Company publicly revised the company’s previous versions surrounding their
former employee Julio Merzbacher.
Contrary to the first reports, Merzbacher, a 58-year-old Jewish
immigrant from Austria, had not retired but had left the company after reports
of major financial irregularities.
Contrary to previous reports, these losses did not total $325,000 but
probably exceeded one million dollars.
1892:In
Niles, OH, scrap dealer Abraham Alexander and Rose Alexander gave birth Leo Alexander, who began running the family
business in 1911 after his father’s death, the husband of Kate Lavine and the
son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Barnett Lavine of Cleveland, OH.
1892:
“Among The Russian Jews” published today provides a summary of the findings of
Arnold White who had gone to Russia “to determine whether the Russian Jew was
an agriculturist” or whether he had had ever been successful in that role.
White’s report, which first appeared in the Contemporary Review went far beyond
this and examined the conditions and character of Russian Jewry. For those who wonder about the bravery of
Jews, White answers the question “Will the Jew fight” as follows. “If bull-dog courage be the test of manliness
then the annals of the prize ring tells of brawny and burly with their fists,
three quarters of a century ago in England held their own. Three Russian generals have described the
dauntless courage of Hebrew soldiers at the Shipka Pass. In one instance a call for twenty-tive men to
engage in a forlorn hope was answered by thirteen Jewish soldiers.(Editor’s
note – The Schipka Pass is pass in the Balkans in modern day Bulgaria. In the 19th century it was the
site of five fierce battles during the war between the Russians and the
Ottomans. )
1893: “Russian Coercive Measures” published
today the comments of Colonel John Weber, the former Superintendent of
Immigration on condition of Russian and Polish Jews. New decrees “directed toward Russian Jews”
include ones that will force merchants who have been in business for the last
twenty years to move into the Pale. At
the same time “doctors of medicine, lawyers, engineers, architects, artists,
and graduates of the university…exactly the classes representing the highest”
intellect are also being forced to move into the overcrowded Jewish zone. As to
rumors of a mass exodus by Jews living in Poland, Weber said, “The Polish Jews
would be dull indeed if they did not take expulsion of their coreligionists in
Russia to hear.”
1893(29TH of Sivan, 5653): Kiva
Book, Annie Katzman and Joseph Mendelsohn died when they jumped to their deaths
from the burning building on Montgomery Street where they were working in
various tailor’s shops. Among the injured were Israel Amberg, Meyers Mymans, Morris
Nathanson, Alice Nathanson and Morris Siegel.
1893: In New York, Deputy Coroner Conway
performed an autopsy an unidentified Jewish man who was found floating in the
river with his hands tied together with a piece of twine.
1893: “Commissioner Senner’s Story” published
today described Immigration Commissioner Joseph H. Senner’s response to an
expose published in the American
Israelite that claims he “is masquerading under an assumed name” and that
he deserted his wife in Germany. The commissioner said this is the fourth time
these charges have been made and he has been exonerated each time. He admits to Americanizing his name when he
came to this country and insists that his wife who came with him still lives
with him in New York. He feels that his
decision “to renounce his Jewish faith” is what caused Rabbi Wise to publish
these falsehoods in his newspaper.
1893: The British government is willing to
receive a preliminary draft.
1894(9th of Sivan, 5654): Fifty five
year old Moses Levy, a native of Alsace-Lorraine who came to the United States
25 years ago passed away. The owner of a successful flour and feed business in
Brooklyn, he was a member of Temple Beth Elohim and a supporter of the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum.
1894: At the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan
Asylum, the band and drum corps under the command of Colonel Martin Cohen
entertained visiting officials from the New York State Constitutional
Convention
1897:
The annual confirmation exercises of the Hebrew Free Schools were held at the
Hebrew Institute this afternoon.
1897:
In Jamaica Plain, MA, “Max Zach, the former conductor of the St. Louis Symphony
Orchestra and Blanche Going Zach” gave birth to Harvard graduate and WW I Army
2nd Lt. Philip zach, “the advertising consultant to Life magazine.”
1897:
“The Zionist Movement” published today described the two meetings held by the
New York Board of Jewish Ministers to prepare for the Zionist meeting which
will be held next August in Munich.
According to them, the Zionist movement has two main objectives. “Frist to rescue the unfortunate Hebrews who
are suffering under denial of civil and social rights and to encourage them to
leave their poverty and misery for agriculture in Palestine and secondly to
foster” the idea of “Jewish nationality.”
1897:
“The Brooklyn Board of Education” published today presented the biographies of
the members including Ira Leo Bamberger, a lawyer and a Republican who is the
son-in-law of Moses May, “the most influential Jew in Brooklyn.”
1898:
Emile Zola published his open letter (J’accuse) in defense of Captain Alfred
Dreyfus in Paris. This was part of the famous Dreyfus Affair that rocked French
society for the better part of a decade at the turn of the last century and
that gave rise to the Zionism of Theodore Herzl.
1898:
Birthdate of Kiev trained cantor and Zionist Lieb Glantz who lived in the
United States before settling in Israel in 1954 where he continued his literary
career passed away today.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/08/leyb-glants-leib-glantz.html
1898:
In New York City, Gershon and Jennie (Welsch) Cohen gave birth to St. Lawrence
University Law School trained attorney Max I. Cohen, the director of the Young
Peoples League of the United Synagogue of America and President of Young Israel
of Brooklyn who “took an active part in various Zionist and European relief
drives” while also serving as director of the Y.M.H.A of Williamsburg.
1898:
Two days after he passed away, seventy-two year old Louis Sandlowitz was buried
in London’s “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”
1898:
One day after he died, Lazarus Israel was buried at the “Plashet Jewish
Cemetery” in London.
1898:
The Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital. In 1902, when
Dawson’s Jewish population reached its high point of 200, Solomon Packer was
one of its leading merchants.
1898:
It was reported today that during the closing exercises of the Rodeph Shalom
Religious School Nanette M Beekman received a gold medal for general
excellence, Eva Heyman received a gold medal for excellence in Hebrew and
Florence Robison received a silver medal for best in Hebrew
1899:
Wilson W. Dunlop came before Mayor Van Wyck on charges of having caused riots
on the East Side by his efforts to convert Jews to Christianity with his
preaching on the corners of Orchard and Rivington Streets. The Mayor told
Dunlop, “You have been using the streets for a crusade against the Jewish
religion. This is a free country, and
you can make a fight against any religion you choose, but you can’t do it in
the streets. If you want to conduct a
crusade against the Jews go and hire a hall.”
1899:
“The Jewish Colonial Trust” published today described the involvement of the
Jews of Chicago in this Zionist venture.
So far, Jews in Chicago have subscribed for two thousand shares in the
Trust at a par value of five dollars.
The Union National Bank of Chicago represents the Jewish Colonial Trust
in the United States.
1900:
Sergeant Frank B. Yovits of Schenectady, NY was honorably discharged completing
a three year enlistment in the U.S Army that included tours in Cuba and the
Philippines during the Spanish American War.
1901:
Tonight, a large audience packed itself into the auditorium of the Educational
Alliance where they heard a presentation on the purposes of L’Alliance Israelite Universelle.
1901:
Birthdate of Rumanian native Harry Engel who in 1904 came to the United States
where he “studied for two years at
the Académie Ranson in Paris and later enrolled at the University of Notre
Dame, graduating with a degree in art education in 1928” after which he
accepted a position with the Art Department at Indiana University where he
taught watercolor and art history.
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Ar-VAA2679
1902:
Today, George Herman Ruth, Jr., an uncontrollable 7-year old truant, who would
gain fame as Babe Ruth and who in 1943 was the most prominent signatory of
advertisement of an ad denouncing Hitler’s treatment of the Jews, was turned
over to the St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys in Baltimore after his mother
was unable to take care of him.
https://www.jewishtimes.com/babe-ruth-and-the-holocaust/
1903(18th
of Sivan, 5663): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1903(18th
of Sivan, 5663): Eighty year old Solomon Cohen, the London born son of “Barnett
and Sierlah Cohen” and the husband of Julia Hannah Cohen with whom he had had
ten children, passed away today in Victoria, Australia.
1903:
I.M. Rosenthal presided over a meeting of “The Degel of Zion” at the Forsyth
Street Synagogue where Jacob Massel told the attendees in “glowing terms” about
the recent Zionist convention that had been held in Pittsburgh, PA.
1904(30th
of Sivan, 5664): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1904(30th
of Sivan, 5664): On the day before his 50th birthday, John S.
Bachrach, the Baltimore born son of Aaron and Augusta Straus Bachrach and the
husband of Emilie Mandel Bachrach passed way after which he was buried at the
Jewish Cemetery in Bloomington, Il.
1904:
Today, President Plonsky laid the cornerstone of the Temple Agudath Jeshorim in
the presence of more than 2,000 members of the congregation and invited guests.
1905:
The outbreak of the riots at Brest-Litvosk, was cause by Jewish merchants
trying to fend army reservists on their way to the Far East who were looting
their stores.
1906:
The rector of the University of Göttingen announced that Max Born had won ” the
prestigious annual Philosophy Faculty Prize” today a month before “he was
awarded his PhD in Mathematics, magna cum laude.
1907:
Based on information provided In the confession of Abe Ruef, the Mayor of San
Francisco was convicted and removed from office today.
1908(14th
of Sivan, 5668): Parsashat Nasso chanted for the last time during the
Presidency of Teddy Roosevelt
1909:
“An estimated 200,000 people lined the streets to watch the funeral procession
Yiddish actor Jacob Gordin “wind its way from Brooklyn to the Bowery, and back
again” today.
1909:
The annual meetings of the Grand Lodge of the Order B’rith Abraham which this
year marks the golden anniversary of the order, held its opening session today
at the Hippodrome.
1910(6th
of Sivan, 5670) Shavuot
1910:
The “crusade against the Jews ‘illegally’ “residing
1911:
The Milwaukee Journal reported today
that the “largest congregation in the United States” which was located at St.
Louis had chosen Goodman Lipkind, the rabbi at Milwaukee’s Sinai congregation
to replace Henry Messing as its new Rabbi.”
1912:
Orville and Katherine Wright arrived at the home of Arthur L. Welsh’s in-laws,
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Harmel two days after his fatal accident.
1912:
Funeral services were held for Arthur L. Welsh at Adas Israel in Washington
D.C. Joseph Gulshak, the congregation’s
cantor delivered the eulogy as the congregants looked at his tallit draped
casket. His pallbearers included Orville Wright, one of the famous Wright
Brothers, and Lt. Henry H. Arnold.
Arnold would gain as “Hap” Arnold the five star general who led the U.S.
Army Air Forces during World War II. “Arnold wrote in his autobiography years
later about Arthur Welsh, ‘He taught me everything I know, but he knew much
more.’”
1912:
Portuguese government continues to favor a plan which is reported to be
prepared to give Jews extensive concessions.
1912:
In Munich, Dr. Alfred Haas and his wife Elsa, the daughter of of Joseph
Schülein and Ida Schülein gave birth to
Charlotte ‘Lotti’ Schüller
1913
Birthdate of Yitzhak Fundik the native of Krakow who made Aliyah in 1933 and as
Yitzhak Pundak, rose to the rank of Major General in the IDF
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/168912#.U5j-DptOWpo
1913:
Birthdate of Ruth Willion, the Brooklyn native who married Morris Popkin in
1937 and as Ruth Popkin served as President of Hadassah and President of the
Jewish National Fund.
1914:
Today twenty-seven-year-old Canadian born publisher and co-founder of the Book
of the Month Club Harry Scherman married author Bernadine Kielty with whom he
had two children, Katherine and Thomas.
1914:
The Exposition and Congress of Woman’s Achievements is scheduled to open today.
1914:
In a meeting that would have unforeseen consequences that would lead to World
War I with all that that meant for the world in general and Jews in particular,
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany concluded his visit with Archduke Franz Ferdinand
of Austria after they had discussed the tenuous balance of power in the
Balkans…”
1915:
In the wake of the sinking of the Lusitania German press coverage includes the
following from the Berlin Tageblatt, a daily newspaper first published by
Rudolf Mosse and now run by his cousin Thedor Wolff who is the editor-in-chief
under the headline “On the Way to An Agreement” – “An agreement is possible and
the Washington government shows an honest desire to arrive at an
agreement.” “The hopes of our
enemies…that the Stars and Stripes soon would be floating bested the Union Jack
and the Tri-color are proved false.” All
indications are “that America by no means takes the position that the German
Admiralty must issue an order to end the submarine warfare…”
1915:
The text of the appeal from the Federation of the Rumanian Jews of America sent
to Governor Slaton, which began, “Five thousand member of the Federation of the
Rumanian Jews of America appeal to at this eleventh hour to exercise your power
and spare the life of Leo M. Frank” was published today.
1915:
In Atlanta, “another anti-Frank mass meeting was held on the Capital grounds
this afternoon.”
1915:
While Governor Slaton was engaged in studying the evidence today in the case of
Leo M. Frank…prayers were said for the governor in several Atlanta churches”
including the St. Luke’s Protestant Episcopal Church “asking that he be
divinely guided in dealing with the problem before him.”
1916:
Jacob Greenberg wrote from Brooklyn today that the New York Times was in error when it said that the Reform Jews
celebrated Pentecost (Shavuot) for a week and the Orthodox celebrated for eight
because “the Orthodox only celebrate two days and the Reform one day.”
1917:
Fifteen thousand ballots were cast in today’s election to select eighty
delegates “to the Congress of Salonica Jews.”
1917:
Birthdate of Israel Kugler, a leader of teachers’ and Jewish labor
organizations. Born in Brooklyn, to Eastern European immigrant parent, he
served in the Navy during World War II and was educated at City College and at
New York University. In addition to his work as an organizer, he was a
professor of social science in the CUNY system and author of the book “From
Ladies to Women: The Organized Struggle for Women’s Rights in the
Reconstruction Era.”Kugler’s parents were involved in the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter
Ring, which is the national Jewish labor organization, and Kugler’s own
children were sent to Workmen’s Circle shules (part-time Yiddish schools).
After he retired from teaching and organizing in 1980, Kugler was elected
president of the Workmen’s Circle. He held the office for two terms, until
1984. Kugler was also active in other progressive Jewish organizations, serving
as an officer of the Jewish Labor Committee and of the Forward Association, the
not-for-profit holding company of this newspaper. Philip Kugler followed in his
father’s footsteps, becoming a vice president of the American Federation of
Teachers. He passed away in October of 2007 at the age of 90.
1917:
In Chicago, the Sinai Center Players assisted by Sinai Center Orchestra is
scheduled to “give the closing performance” today at the Sinai Social Center
two one act plays – “Extreme Action” and “In Honor Bound.”
1917:
Fourteen German bombers attacked London dropping more than one hundred bombs
killing over 162 civilians. Some of the
bombs landed on school where fifteen students were killed and another 27 maimed
for life prompting some parents to send their children out the British
capital. Among those sent out were Lev Winogradsky, the future media mogul who
became Lord Grade and his brother Boruch Winogradsky, the famed theatrical
impresario who became Lord Delfont.
1918: The will of Mrs. Anna Shane, which named many
Jewish institution as beneficiaries was admitted to probate today.
1918:
Fire in a synagogue results in the total destruction of the famous Hebrew
library in Belgrade. The collection contained many rare manuscripts.
1918:
Fifteen thousand ballots were cast in today’s election where eighty delegates
were chosen to attend the Congress of Salonica Jews.
1918:
During WW I, Lester Bergman a private serving with the 5th Regiment
of the U.S. Marine Corps which was part of the AEF, attacked a German machine
gun nest in fighting in the Bois de Belleau. This conspicuous bravery would
lead to him being awarded the Silver Star.
1919:
Colonel Harry Cutler, chairman of the Jewish Welfare Board announced today the
“pursuant to the requestion of the commanding General of the Third Army,
“railroad canteens at Coblenz and Trier Germany, hitherto maintained by the Red
Cross, have been taken over by the Jewish Welfare Board” which “will continue
to supply the needs for from 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers.”
1920:
The Ahdut Ha’Avoda Party convenes in Kinneret. It decides to establish the
Haganah organization for a countrywide Jewish self-defense.
1920:
Birthdate of Joseph Gurwich, who as Joseph Gurwin, became a wealthy businessman
and philanthropist. Unfortunately, he was also a victim of the great swindler,
Bernard Maddoff
1920:
Louis Marshall and Abraham Elkus are scheduled to speak at the cornerstone
laying ceremony for new building being built by the Brooklyn Jewish Center
which is led by Rabbi Israel H. Levinthal.
1921(7th
of Sivan, 5682): Second Day of Shavuot
1922:
In Norfolk, VA, Latvian born Jews David and Sadie Shames gave birth to
decorated WW II paratrooper Colonel Edward David Shames.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/24/us/edward-d-shames-dead.html
1923:
Twenty-one-year-old Jewish middleweight Phil “K.O.” Kaplan who had turned pro
in 1919 fought “his first big fight” today when he fought Pete Latzo “to a
12-round draw.”
http://boxrec.com/en/boxer/26150
1924:
Bnei Brak founded on the coastal plain east of Tel Aviv. The Bnei Brak of today
was established by charedi Jews from Poland and is famed for its many yeshivas
and Chassidic communities. Judah Moses Tiehberg, the grandson of the
Aleksandrow Rebbe who was murdered at Treblinka re-established the dynasty at
Bnei Brak in 1953. In Biblical times Bnei Brak was located in the land of the
tribe of Dan. Its most lasting fame comes from the story in the Haggadah about
Rabbi Akiva and his colleagues.
1925:
In Manhattan Louis and Ralphina Steinhardt Lowenstein gave birth to Louis
Lowenstein, founding partner of Kramer Levin and “an influential business law
professor and former corporate executive who for nearly three decades dissected
the excesses of Wall Street and warned of the dangers of short-term
investing” (As reported by Dennis
Hevesi)
1926(1st
of Tammuz, 5686): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1926:
It was reported today that Rabbi Max Drob, President of the Rabbinical Assembly
of JTS will be one of the speakers to address the upcoming annual convention of
the Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary.
1927:
Today, at their national convention in Saratoga Springs, NY, the Independent
Order of Brith Abraham “resolved to petition President Coolidge and Secretary
of State Kellogg to permit more Jewish families to enter the United States
under the quota provisions of the Immigration Law.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/06/14/96654347.html?pageNumber=32
1928:
Florenz Ziegfield signs a contract with MGM to produce movie musicals.
1929(5th
of Sivan, 5689): Erev Shavuot
1929:
Western hero Wyatt Earp who was not Jewish, but whose last wife was, passed
away today after which she arranged for him to be buried in a Jewish cemetery.
1930:
“A gift of $5,000 made Eugene Meyer, Jr. was announced” today “by the local
Allied Jewish Campaign headquarters which is raising $2,500,000 toward the six-million-dollar
national fund being sought the 1930 budges of the Joint Distribution Committee
and the Jewish Agency for Palestine.”
1930:
“Rabbi Eleazer Silver” of Springfield, MA “ president of the Orthodox Rabbis of
the United States and Canada announced tonight that he had called for a day of
prayer attendant upon the recent suspension by Great Britain of immigration to Palestine.”
1930:
The annual convention of the Council of Young Israel which is scheduled to open
today at the Hotel Scarboro in Long Branch, NJ will feature “a discussion of
the existing unemployment conditions among Jewish youth.”
1931(28th
of Sivan, 5691): Parashat Sh’lach
1931(28th
of Sivan, 5691): Seventy-five year old Richmond born dramatist Sydney
Rosenfeld, the “first editor of Puck,” “one of the main movers in the effort to
secure a National Theatre for the United States” and husband of “Genie
Holzmeyer Johnson” who was the author of several plays including “A Possible
Case” and “The Club Friend” as well as several “operettas and musicals”
including “The Lady or the Tiger” and “The Passing Show” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/06/15/102239498.pdf
1931:
Shortstop Louis Brower made his major league debut with the Detroit Tigers.
1931: Birthdate of Dr. Irvin David Yalom Emeritus Professor of
Psychiatry at Stanford University, the recipient of the American Psychiatric
Association’s Oscar Pfister Prize (for important contributions to religion and
psychiatry) in 2000 and the husband of award winning “feminist author and historian”
Marilyn Yalom
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/marilyn-yalom
1932:
It was reported today that Nathan Straus, Jr. of New York had come to Boston “for
the first time in connection with the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and made an
appeal for financial support of the work that is going on in the homeland.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/06/13/100761432.html?pageNumber=2
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/06/13/100761444.html?pageNumber=3
1933:
In Berne, anti-Semitic pamphlets were distributed at meeting of the “Bund
Nationalsozialistischer Eidgenossen” (BNSE) which was addressed by Emil
Sonderegger, a former leading general in the Swiss Army.
1934(30th
of Sivan, 5694): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1934:
In Chicago, high school chemistry teacher Boris Duskin and his wife, poet and
homemaker Rita Schayer gave birth to Ruth Sondra Duskin who began appearing on
“The Quiz Kids” in 1941 and appeared in 146 episodes on radio and 11 on
television after the show moved there in 1949. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1934:
Hitler and Mussolini met for the first time.
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue9911/icon04.htm
1935:
James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer to become heavyweight champion of the
world. Baer had only been Heavy Weight
Champion for a year. There was always a
question as to whether or not Baer was really Jewish. He had been born in Nebraska and there were
those who claimed his father had been Dutch or German and not Jewish. Regardless, Baer adopted a Jewish persona in
the ring and won the hearts of the Jewish world when he defeated the German
boxer Max Schmeling.
1936(23rd
of Sivan, 5696):In the UK, Phoebe Levy, the widow of the James Levy of Brixton passed away at
Jersey and is survived by her daughter Bessie Marks.
1936:
It was reported today that “a factor in the current Palestine disorders that is
little known to the general public is a long-standing political feud between
the two leading Arab families, for which the Jews happen to be convenient
scapegoats.” Much of the violence stems from a conflict between the Husseini
family, which has filled the posts of Grand Mufti and President of the Supreme
Council, and the more moderate Nashashibis who are led by the former Mayor of
Jerusalem.
1936:
Today, “a meeting was held in Washington, D.C. by a group of Jews who seek to”
create a ‘World Jewish Congress’ which will “convene this Summer.”
1936:
“Immediate collective action to protect the Jews from progressive deterioration
of their rights was demanded at the opening session tonight at a conference
called by the American Jewish Congress” which was attended by more than 100
delegates.
1937:
At the Hotel Astor, ”Dr. Henry Szozkief, a communal leader and journalist in
Poland told the 29th annual convention of the Federation of Polish
Jews that immediate aid was necessary”
if uncounted number of Jews were to avoid death by starvation.
1938:
Birthdate of Morton H. Halperin “an American expert on foreign policy and civil
liberties. He served in the Johnson, Nixon and Clinton administrations and in a
number of roles with think tanks, universities and other organizations such as
the Council on Foreign Relations and Harvard University.” “The NATO doctrine is
that we will fight with conventional forces until we are losing, then we will
fight with tactical weapons until we are losing, and then we will blow up the
world.” (Morton Halperin)
1939:
Five Arab villagers were slain early today in Baled Es-Sheikh, near Haifa. An
armed gang, dressed in European clothes, dragged the five men from their homes
and shot them. A sixth villager was reported to have been abducted. The Arabs
claimed that the attackers were Jews.
1939:
In what appears to be an outbreak of inter-Jewish strife between Revisionists
and Laborites, “seventy persons carrying clubs studded with nails” attacked the
Revisionists headquarters in Tel Aviv injuring one severely and five slightly.”
1939:
“Eddie Cantor and his wife are guest of the 18,000 members of the Greater New
York Chapter of Hadassah at a luncheon in the Café Tl Aviv in the Jewish
Palestine Pavillion at the World’s Fair”
at the same time that they are celebrating their 25th wedding
anniversary.
1940(7th
of Sivan, 5700): Second Day of Shavuot
1940:
Walter Benjamin and his sister fled Paris and sought refuge in Lourdes before
the Gestapo could arrest him.
1941:
Birthdate of Esther Ofarim, a sabra who became a popular Israeli entertainer
and singer.
1941:
The Petain Government, also known as the Vichy Government, ingratiates itself
with the Nazis by announcing that 12,000 Jews have been sent to concentration
camps for hindering Franco-German cooperation.
1941:
Premiere of “Tom, Dick and Harry” directed by Garson Kanin.
1941:
Birthdate of Esther Zaied, the native of Safed who gained fame as
singer/songwriter. Esther Ofarim (she married Abi Ofarim in 1959). She actually
played a role in the 1961 film “Exodus” the film adaption of Leon Uris’ novel
making her one of the few Jews to appear in this pro-Zionist film.
1942(28th
of Sivan, 5702): Mordecai “Mort” Starabin, the Brooklyn native an all-star
tackle for Syracuse University in the 1920’s and teammate of Benny Moses and
Dave Ziff who refused to play on Rosh
Hashanah passed away today.
1942:
Nine Jews were hanged in Warta, 2 in Lask, and 2 in Lodz Ghetto as a tool to
scare Jews from resisting deportation.
1942:
Fifty-one-year-old Pilsen native Alfred
Adler was transported from Terezin to an unknown location where he was murdered.
1942: Three thousand Jews are deported from the
Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto to their deaths.
1942: British Ambassador to the Vatican Francis
d’Arcy Osborne observes about Pope Pius XII that his “moral leadership is
not assured by the unapplied recital of the Commandments.” British
comments must be taken with a grain of salt.
After all, they were the ones who had written the White Paper locking
the Jews out of the only place that would accept them.
1943:
Mark Rothko, together with Adolph Gottlieb and Barnet Newman published the
following brief manifesto in the New York
Times:
“1.
To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by
those willing to take the risks.
“2.
This world of imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
“3.
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not
his way.
“4.
We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large
shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the
picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal
truth.
“5.
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one
paints as long as it is well painted.”
[Rothko
said “this is the essence of academicism”.]
“There
is no such thing as a good painting about nothing.
“We
assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which
is tragic and timeless. That is why we profess spiritual kinship with primitive
and archaic art.”
1944:
On D-Day plus 7, Roy Rogers, who had escaped from Austria before WW II,
returned to Continent as he and his tank crew came ashore at Normandy as part
of the British Army.
1943:
Lydia “Litvyak was appointed flight commander of the 3rd Aviation Squadron
within 73rd GvIAP.”
1944(22nd
of Sivan, 5704): Twenty-nine year old RAF Flying Officer Joseph Star, the
Canadian born son of Max and Bertha Star and the husband of Irene Ellen Star
who became a “Canadian Jewish Military Casualty” today after which he was
buried at Nottinghamshire, UK.
1944(22nd
of Sivan, 5704): Seventy-one year old San Francisco born artist, teacher and
lecturer Aaron Altman passed away today in his home town.
http://www.askart.com/artist/Aaron_Altmann/4399/Aaron_Altmann.aspx#
1944:
David Shames, the son of Jewish immigrants from Latvia, “received a battlefield
commission to second lieutenant” to day which was his 23rd birthday.
1945:
Weizmann decried Churchill’s letter rejecting the request for an end to
restrictions on Jewish immigration into Palestine as an insult to our
intelligence. A bitter Weizmann declared, “If Churchill had wanted to settle
things, he would have done so.” “For
Ben-Gurion, Churchill’s letter was ‘the greatest blow they (the Zionists) had
received.’
1946(14th
of Sivan, 5706): Seventy-three year old Sigmund G. Livingston “German-born
American Jewish attorney working in Chicago” who “was the founder and first
President of the Anti-Defamation League” passed away in Highland Park,
Illinois.
1947:
Today,Mollie and Sydney Hodes gave birth to Joel Hodes, the sister of Lisa
Hodes.
1947:
Birthdate of New York Congressman Jerrod Lewis “Jerry” Nadler.
1947:
Birthdate of Elyakim Rubinstein the native of Jerusalem who served Attorney
General of Israel before becoming a Judge on the Supreme Court of Israel.
1948(6th
of Sivan, 5708): Shavuot
1948(6th
of Sivan): Rabbi Abraham Mordecai Alter, the Gur rebbe, passed away
1948(6th
of Sivan, 5708): Seventy-four-year-old Roemerstadt, Austria native Dr. Otto
Marburg, the leading neurologist who became a “clinical professor of neurology
at Columbia” after fleeing the Nazis in 1938 and who said of the United States,
“I am full of gratitude to this great nation which wants nothing for itself but
helps as much as possible those who need help” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/06/14/84538495.pdf
1948:
Shear Yashuv Cohen, the future chief rabbi of Haifa arrived at a Jordanian
prison camp after having fought in the failed defense of the Old City of
Jerusalem.
1948:
Rumania and Finland recognize Israel
1949:
Birthdate of Brandon Tartikoff television executive with ABC and NBC who was
involved in the creation of such groundbreaking hits as “The Cosby Show” and
“Hill Street Blues” and whose creative light burned out tragically at the age
of 48
1949:
It was reported today that the body of Konrad Goebels, the “the 57 year old
brother of Nazi Germany’s Propaganda Minister” who had just finished serving a
three year prison term and who had told American agents in 1946 that “he was an
ardent and proud Nazi and would remain…hater of Jews “ has been found in “in a
forest near Huetental.”
1949:
“Miss Liberty” featuring music and lyrics by Irving Berlin that “includes the
song ‘Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor’, a musical setting of Emma Lazarus’s
sonnet “The New Colossus” (1883), which was placed at the base of the
monument in 1903” opened in Philadelphia today.
1949:
Today’s scheduled “meeting of the Palestine Conciliation Commission with the
Israeli delegation may well by decisive in determining the commission’s success
in translating the uneasy armistice in the Palestine war into a stable peace.”
(As reported by Sidney Gruson)
1950:
“An air transport agreement granting equal rights in Israel and the United
States for airlines designated y the two governments was signed in Teel Aviv
today by Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett and United States Ambassador James G.
McDonald. This is the first air
agreement between Israel and a foreign country and the first agreement with the
United States on any subject.”
1950:
An airplane bearing Jordanian markings which belonged to Arab Airways was
forced to land after it attempted to fly over the southern Negev. The pilot,
who was an American, cooperated with the intercepting Israeli aircraft and the
landing took place without incident. The
Israelis have made repeated requests to the international community to avoid
such over-flights due to the state of war that still exists in the region.
1950:
Eddie Cantor completed his day of touring immigrant camps by having lunch at
the immigrant transit camp at Natahnya. While the Jewish entertainer who has
raised millions for Jewish causes since the 1930 ate, he was eyed with great
interest and curiosity by the six hundred orphans living at the camp.
1951: The
Jerusalem Post
reported that Israel vigorously protested against the decision made by
Lieut.-Gen. William Riley, UN Chief of Staff, who supported the Egyptian
arguments against the opening of the Suez Canal to Israeli shipping. Migdal
Gad, a new immigrant town of 10,000, held its first municipal elections. There
were 1,950 eligible voters. No ice for home supply was distributed in Haifa
after the authorities discovered that many distributors used false weights to
cheat their customers.
1951:
Nine Jewish Kremlin physicians were “exposed” as British/US agents.
This became known as the Doctors’ Plot. It was part of Stalin’s last push to
get rid of the Jews of the Soviet Union. Only his death averted what could have
been a worse mass murder than the Holocaust.
1951:
“Laughter in Paradise” a British comedy with music by Stanley Black was
released today in the United Kingdom.
1951:
The College World Series in which Moe Savransky pitched for Ohio State
University began today in Omaha, Nebraska.
1952:
“The Tales of Hoffmann, a British Technicolor film adaptation of Jacques
Offenbach’s opera The Tales of Hoffmann, co-written, co-produced and
co-directed by Emeric Pressburger was released in the United States today.
1953(30th
of Sivan, 5713): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1954:
Cornerstone laid for Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM).
1954:
The New York Times features a review of “The Spark and the Exodus,” in
which Benedict and Nancy Freedman “have tried to recreate one of the tragic
periods of Jewish history: the Czarist oppression, the pogroms that fired the
Zionist dream of establishing a home land in Palestine.”
1954(12th
of Sivan, 5714): Sixty-three year old Yiddish author Esther Kreitman passed
away today in London.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/kreitman-esther
http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org&q=kreitman%2C+esther&submit=Search
1956:
The original Broadway production of “Shangri-La,” a musical with lyrics and a
book co-authored by Jerome Lawrence opened today at the Winter Garden Theatre.
1956:
“Start in the Dust,” a cowboy movie directed by Charles F. Haas was released
today in the United States.
1956(4th
of Tammuz, 5716): Sixty-two-year-old “historian, literary and theater critic,
editor, bibliographer, lexicographer, lecturer, teacher and librarian” Dr.
Jacob Shatzky the native of Warsaw who came to the United States in 1923 and
helped to found “the U.S. Section of the YIVO Institute for Jewish research”
passed away today in New York City.
http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=131233
1959(7th
of Sivan, 5719): Second Day of Shavuot
1959:
Rabbi Judah Nadich is scheduled to deliver a sermon “Three Paths to Eternity”
this morning at Park Avenue Synagogue.
1959:
Rabbi William Berkowitz is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Converting to
Judaism” at Congregation B’nai Jershurun.
1959:
Rabbi Max Felshin is scheduled to lead Yizkor Memorial Services at the Radio
City Synagogue.
1960:
Former U of Chattanooga guard and 2 year veteran of the CFL Hamilton-Cats
signed with the newly minted Boston Patriots (now New England Pats) for whom he
played 14 games.
1961:
Florence Morgenstern, the widow of Felix Morgenstern and the mother of Henry K.
Morgenstern married Maximillian Bergere today.
1962:
“Merrill’s Marauders” a film about the famous WW II fighters starring Jeff
Chandler (Ira Grossel), directed by Samuel Fuller who also co-authored the
script and with music by Franz Waxman was released today in the United States.
1962:
A revival of “Fiorello!” a musical with a book by Jerome Weidman, lyrics by
Sheldon Harnick and music by Jerry Bock opened at the New York City Center.
1963(21st
of Sivan, 5723): Seventy-four year old stockbroker Ira Haupt the Brooklyn born
son of Mary and Adolph Haupt and founder of the “Wall Street securities concern
of Ira Haupt and Co whose son Stuart and his grandson Ira 2d gave him the
unique distinction of have three generations hold seats on the NYSE passed away
today.
1964(3rd
of Tammuz, 5724): Parashat Korach
1964(3rd
of Tammuz, 5724): Seventy-seven year old Washington realtor and philanthropist
Morris Cafrtiz, the husband of Super Socialite Gwen Cafritz passed away today.
1965:
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Halberstram, the son of Jewish school
teacher Balance Levy and Army surgeon Charles Halberstram married “popular
young actress Elzbieta Czyzweska.”
1965(13th
of Sivan, 5725): Eighty-seven-year
philosopher, author and intellectual Martin Buber passes away. There is no way
to do write just a few words about Buber.
His impact was too great in too many spheres. The best way to honor his memory is to try and read a little bit of Buber. Whether it is something as complicated as I
and Thou or as relatively simple as a collection of Chasidic tales, there
is something for all of us.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0208.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/martin-buber
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/modernity-faith-and-martin-buber
1966:
Simon and Garfunkel recorded “A Simple Desultory Philippic ( Or How I Was
Robert McNamara’d into Submission) and
“A Poem on the Underground Wall” for the album “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and
Thyme.”
1966:
Birthdate of mathematician Grigori Perelman.
True confession – I do not have a clue as to what his work is all about
but the experts say the Russian born genius is best known for his work in
comparison geometry. He has also
published papers purporting to prove Thurston’s Geometrization Conjecture and
Poincare’s Conjecture. So far, nobody
has found the flaw in his work.
1966:
After having premiered in Los Angeles in May, “Start in the Dust,” a western
directed by Charles F. Haas was released today in the rest of the United
States.
1966:
Birthdate of Ben Horowitz, the native of London who was raised in the United
States where he became a “high tech entrepreneur and investor.”
http://jamsidedown.com/2010/08/ben-horowitz-high-techs-new-andy-grove.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Horowitz
1967(5th
of Sivan, 5727): Erev Shavuot observed for the first time since the June War.
1970(9th
of Sivan, 5730): Parashat Nasso
1970(9th
of Sivan, 5730): Sixty-eight-year-old Abraham Ber Tabachnik, the native of
Russia who came to the United States in 1921 where he became “a writer,
literary critic and editor for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a wire service
for the Yiddish, Hebrew and Anglo Jewish press” and who raised his daughter
“Chana” with his wife “Frieda” passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/16/archives/ab-tabachnik-68-writer-and-critic.html
1970:
Sixteen people led by Sylva Zalmanson and Eduard Kuznetzov “attempted to hijack
a plane from the USSR…in an desperate attempt” to make the world aware of the
plight of Russian Jews who wanted to move to Israel.
1971:
“Drive, He Said” the movie version of Brandeis University grad Jeremy Larner’s
novel by the same name with music by David Shire was released in the United
States today.
1971:
The New York Times “published the
first of a series of articles on The Pentagon Papers today. “Gerald Gold, an
editor for The New York Times had supervised the herculean task of combing
through a secret 2.5-million-word Defense Department history of the Vietnam
War” prior to publication.
1972(1st
of Tammuz, 5732): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1972(1st
of Tammuz, 5732): Fifty-nine year old Nathan Bor, the native of Fall River,
Massachusetts who “was the 1932 United States Amateur Lightweight Champion and
won the bronze medal in the lightweight class after winning the third place
fight” Pass away today.
1973:
General Benjamin “Benny” Peled, the head of the Israeli Air Force, told Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan that in the event of another war with the Arabs, a
pre-emptive air strike would be critical to Israeli success. Dayan assured him that if the government
thought that the Arabs were about to attack, the air force would be given the
same operational latitude that it had in 1967. [Editor’s note: One wonders if
Dayan remembered this conversation in October of 1973 at the outbreak of the
Yom Kippur War.]
1974(23rd
of Sivan, 5734): Ninety-two-year-old Gertrude Kaplan, the “daughter of Abraham
and Anna (Hinde) Shemerinsky” and the wife of Jacob Kaplan with whom she had
had five children passed away today in Chicago after which she buried in Forest
Park, Illinois.
1974:
A Gallup poll on religious worship showed that fewer Protestants and Roman
Catholics were attending weekly services than ten years earlier, but that
attendance at Jewish worship services had increased over the same period.
1974(23rd
of Sivan, 5734): Seventy-nine-year-old Sholom Secunda the Ukrainian born
American composer who wrote the melody for “Bay mir bistu sheyn”
which the Andrews Sisters turned to a surprising hit song passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/14/archives/sholom-secunda-is-dead-composer-song-writer.html
1975:
“A squad of” terrorists “belonging to the Arab Liberation Front” crossed into
Israel from Lebanon apparently heading for the village of Kfar Yuval.
1976:
The West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D, a novel
written by Nicholas Meyer began an 11 week run on The New York Times Best
Seller List.
1976(15th
of Sivan, 5736): Seventy-two year old Rose Shanis Glick, the Polish born
daughter of Ely and Bernice Shanis, the wife of David Glick with whom she had
one son Stephen Jack Glick and who gained fame as the founder of Rose Shanis
and Company, a unique lending institution in Baltimore, MD, passed away after
which she was buried at the “Beth Tfiloh Cemetery” in Woodlawn, MD.
http://jewishmuseummd.org/tag/rose-shanis-glick/
1976: The
Jerusalem Post
reported that the former Air Force chief Mordechai Hod was granted a draft
agreement allowing him to set up a separate air-freight company in Israel. In
New York an estimated 75,000 marchers paraded up Fifth Avenue in the 12th
annual Salute to Israel. Over 400 cars a month were reported stolen in Tel Aviv
every month. In 1975 20,566 cars were stolen in Israel, an increase of 23 per
cent over 1974. Gary Davis, who declared himself to be the “First Citizen
of the World,” was turned away by the Ben-Gurion Airport police.
1978:
The IDF withdraws from Lebanon after entering the country to root out PLO
terrorists operating from this safe haven.
1979:
“The Madwoman of Central Park West is a semi-autobiographical one-woman musical
with a book by Arthur Laurents and Phyllis Newman and songs by various
composers and lyricists” including Leonard Bernstein, Barry Manlow, Adolph
Green, Stephen Sondheim and Ed Kleban opened on Broadway today.
1980:
“Wholly Moses!” a Biblical spoof produced by Freddie Fields and co-starring
Laraine Newman, Jack Gilford and Madeline Kahn was released today in the United
States.
1981(11th
of Sivan, 5741): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1981(11th
of Sivan, 5741): Eighty-seven year old Emanie Nahm Sachs, the Bowling Green, KY
born daughter of Max and Sunshine Friedman Nahm and the wife of Walter Edward
Sachs whom she married in 1917 passed away today.
1984:
“The Naked Face” the film treatment of Sidney Sheldon’s book by the same name,
produced by Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan and Rony Yacov, starring Elliot Gould
and filmed by cinematographer David Gurfinkel was released today in the United
States.
1985:
“A Time to Kill,” a James Bond thriller with a screenplay co-authored by Richard
Maibaum and co-starring Tanya Roberts, aka Victoria Leigh Blum the daughter of
Dorothy Smith and Oscar Maximillian Blum whose father “Theodor Blum has been
called “The most outstanding oral surgeon in America” for his
pioneering work in local anesthesia and the use of x-rays in dental care,”
1986
(6th of Sivan, 5746): First Day of Shavuot
1986
(6th of Sivan, 5746): Seventy-seven-year-old musical great Benny Goodman passed
away. The clarinet was his instrument of choice. In the Big Band
Era, he was known as “The King of Swing.” He gave jazz, or at
least his style of it, a certain touch of panache when he played Carnegie Hall,
which in those days was the High Temple of High Culture.
https://www.notablebiographies.com/Gi-He/Goodman-Benny.html
1986
(6th of Sivan, 5746: After having threatened the life of Russian
born Jewish gangster Marat Yakovlevich Balagula and demanding a payment of
$600,000, today, Russian born Jewish American gangster Vladimir Reznikov “was
shot dead by the Lucchese crime family, to whom Balagula was paying street tax.
1986:
“The Manhattan Project” a film directed by Marshall Brickman who also
co-produced and co-wrote the script was released today in the United States.
1987(16th
of Sivan, 5747): Eighty-seven-year-old author and screenwriter Vera Louise
Caspary, who created “Laura” which thanks to TCM is still thrilling movie
viewers in the 21st Century, passed away today in New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/17/obituaries/vera-caspary-screenwriter-and-novelist.html
1987:
This evening in Scranton, PA, at Temple Hesed, Rabbi Milton Richman officiated
at the wedding of high school guidance counselor “Ellen Oppenheim, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Oppenheim of Scranton” and Dr. Neil Feldman, “a
resident in internal medicine at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in
Philadelphia” and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Feldman of Willow Grove, PA.”
1988:
While serving as Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ben Briscoe declared today “Molly Malone
Day” following the unveiling of the Molly Malone statute on Grafton Street.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Malone#mediaviewer/File:Molly_malone_grafton_street-edit.jpg
1988:
Refusniks met with Richard Shifter today.
1988:
Birthdate of Gabe Carimi, the offensive tackle for the Chicago Bears who played
his college football at Wisconsin where he won the Outland Trophy in 2010. Carimi’s nickname is “the Bear Jew.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabe_Carimi
1990:
David Levy began serving as Israel’s Foreign Minister replacing Moshe Arens
1991:
The New York Review of Books featured
a review of Wartime Lies, the first novel by Louis Begley.
1994:
The New Yorker magazine published the obituary for Harvard graduate and
automobile accident victim Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr who began his career with the
magazine in 1937 and a “Talk of the Town Reporter.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/06/13/e-j-kahn-jr
1997:
Hercules an American
animated musical fantasy comedy film with music by Alan Menken, the Jewish son
of “a boogie-woogie piano-playing dentist, and a mother who was an actress,
dancer and playwright was released today in the United Sates.
1999: The New York Times featured reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “The
Nanny and the Iceberg” by Ariel Dorfman and “Between Memory and Desire: The
Middle East in a Troubled Age” by R. Stephen Humphreys.
1999:
Bruce Fleisher won the BellSouth Senior Classic at Opryland.
1999:
The Chicago Jewish Historical Society in cooperation with the Dawn Schuman
Institute is scheduled to sponsor “Chicago Jewish Roots” a tour of the Maxwell
Street area, Lawndale, Logan Square, Humboldt Park, Albany Park and Rogers
Park” led by Dr. Irving Cutler.
1999:
“The European premiere” of “The Eternal Road” an opera with dialogue by Kurt
Weil with a libretto by Franz Wefel “conceived by Meyer Weisgal” “took place in Chemnitz, German, as part of
the centennial celebrations of the composer’s birth.”
2000:
“The Israel Diamond Exchange said it would expel any member who ”knowingly
trades” in diamonds from rebel movements in Angola, Sierra Leone and Congo”
2000:
“With striking printers shutting its presses near Tel Aviv, the daily Yediot
Ahronot has been publishing sections of the paper in the Palestinian-ruled West
Bank, a rival newspaper, Haaretz, reported.”
2001:
“Israel and the Palestinians have accepted an American cease-fire proposal
after six days of intensive mediation by the director of central intelligence,
American officials said early this morning.”
2002:
Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, saw landmarks of the revived Jewish
quarter in the Kazimierz district
2002:
Publication of “Camp David and After” – Benny Morris’ interview with Ehud
Barak.
2003(13th of Sivan, 5763) St.-Sgt. Mordechai Sayada,
22, of Tirat Carmel, was shot to death in Jenin by a Palestinian sniper as his
jeep patrol passed by. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed
responsibility for the attack.
2003(13th of Sivan, 5763): Seventy-six year old Robert
L. Lehman, the German born son of Michael and Toni Lehman a teenage escapee
from Nazi Germany and U.S. Army veteran who went on to a distinguished career
as a Reform Rabbi that including leading Hebrew Tabernacle Congregation for
forty-one years and raised his daughter Sharon with his wife Loni Tucker Lehman
passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/30/nyregion/robert-l-lehman-rabbi-76.html
http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=2487976
2004: “The Fading World of Leopold Bloom” published today
described preparations to celebrate “the 100th anniversary of the day in 1904
on which Dublin’s best-known fictional Jew (and cuckold), 38-year-old Leopold
Bloom, wandered the city as a modern-day Odysseus and, after numerous
adventures located more in his mind than on the street, circumnavigated his way
home.
2004: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including the recently released
paperback edition Heart,You Bully, You Punk by Leah Hager Cohen
2004:
The world takes note of what would have been Anne Frank’s 75th
birthday.
2005(6th
of Sivan, 5765): Composer David Leo Diamond passed away at the age of 102.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jun/17/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
2005(6th
of Sivan, 5765): First Day of Shavuot.
Showing an uncanny knack for revitalization, this previously neglected
festival has gained new life in the opening decade of the 21st
century in America. Ice cream bars and
pizza (kosher of course) are now mainstays of the dairy menu and all night
study sessions have increasingly become normative in many cities.
2006:
On his first ever visit to China, the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel called on
the government to recognize Judaism as it has several other religions. Official recognition would be beneficial to
the Jews living in China. For example,
official recognition could lead to the Jews of Shanghai being able to use its
former synagogue which is currently used as a government building
2006:
The New York Times reported that an
international team of archaeologists has recorded radiocarbon dates that they
say show the tribes of Edom may have indeed come together in a cohesive society
as early as the 12th century B.C., certainly by the 10th. The evidence was found
in the ruins of a large copper-processing center and fortress at Khirbat
en-Nahas, in the lowlands of what was Edom and is now part of Jordan. Dr. Levy,
an archaeologist at the University of California, San Diego, said the research
had yielded not only the first high-precision dates in the region, but also
such telling artifacts as scarabs, ceramics, metal arrowheads, hammers,
grinding stones and slag heaps. Radiocarbon analysis of charred wood, grain and
fruit in several sediment layers revealed two major phases of copper
processing, first in the 12th and 11th centuries, later in the 10th and 9th.
The findings, Dr. Levy and Dr. Najjar added, lend credence to biblical accounts
of the rivalry between Edom and the Israelites in what was then known as Judah.
By extension, they said, this supported the tradition that Judah itself had by
the time of David and Solomon, in the early 10th century, emerged as a kingdom
with ambition and the means of fighting off the Edomites. In the context, Dr.
Levy and Dr. Najjar wrote, “the biblical references to the Edomites,
especially their conflicts with David and subsequent Judahite kings, garner a
new plausibility.”
2006: The Etty Hillesum Research Centre (EHOC)]
which studies and promotes the research of Hillesum’s World War II letters and
diaries was officially opened as part of Ghent University with a celebration at
Sint-Pietersplein 5.
2006: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including Mohr by Frederick Reuss and The Good
Fight: Why Liberals — and
Only Liberals — Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again by Peter Beinart
2006: The Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’
Remembrance Authority in Israel, an organization dedicated to preserving the
memory of Holocaust victims, honored the Reverend Waitstill Sharp, and his
wife, Martha Sharp, posthumously as “Righteous Among the Nations” for risking
their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.
2006: Random House published Virginity or Death!:
And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time by Katha Pollitt, a
collection of 84 of her Nation
columns which Publishers Weekly
called , “invariably witty, astute and relentlessly logical…”
2007:
The History Channel International presents two showings of “Great Spy Stories:
Mossad.” ”Born in the crucible of Israel’s war of independence and honed in the
struggle for survival against hostile neighbors, the intelligence service
gained a reputation for ruthlessness. Whether tracking down WWII war criminals
like Adolf Eichmann or eliminating terrorists like Black September, the Mossad
allowed nothing to stand in its way.”
2007: Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak defeated Labor MK Ami
Ayalon in the Labor Party primary.
2007: Vice Premier Shimon Peres is elected President of Israel by
the Knesset.
2007: “The 350th anniversary of the readmission of Jews to the
British Isles was commemorated by a service at Bevis Marks Synagogue in the
presence of Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, the Lord Mayor, and Prime Minister
Tony Blair. The synagogue is the only one in Europe which has had continuous
services for over 300 years.”
2008(10th of Sivan, 5768): Eighty-four-year-old Albert
Ullman passed away in Savannah, GA
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/savannah/obituary.aspx?pid=111563461#fbLoggedOut
2008: The New York Times
featured a review of Travel Pictures by Heinrich Heine and translated by
Peter Wortsman. In this work, “religion captivates” the poet who was born
Jewish, rejected and became “a Protestant convert out of convenience. Of the
three religions that dominated Europe he writes, “Catholicism: “I see no
pleasure in a religion in which our dear God, God help us, is dead, and it
smells of incense just like at a funeral.” Protestantism: “A harmless religion,
as clean as a glass of water, but it doesn’t do you any good either.” Judaism:
“I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. It gives you nothing but scorn and
shame. I tell you, it’s no religion at all, just a lot of hard luck.”
2008:
In a landmark ruling today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit held that Agudas Chasidei Chabad of United States (Chabad) may
pursue its claims in a U.S. federal court against the Russian Federation, the
Russian Ministry of Culture and Mass Communication, the Russian State Library,
and the Russian State Military Archive to recover a collection of sacred
religious books and archives. The D.C. Circuit held that a U.S. federal court
has jurisdiction over Chabad’s claims to recover an archive of sacred books and
manuscripts which were stolen by the Nazis during World War II and then taken
by the Soviet Red Army to Moscow in 1945 in violation of international law. In
addition, the D.C. Circuit cleared the way for Chabad to pursue its claims
against the Russian Federation to recover a library of sacred, irreplaceable
religious books which were seized by the Soviets during the Bolshevik
Revolution and then retaken by the newly formed Russian Federation in 1992
after the collapse of the Soviet Union. “This is a landmark ruling,”
said Marshall Grossman, a partner in Bingham McCutchen’s Santa Monica office,
who represents Chabad with Bingham partners Seth Gerber in Santa Monica and
David Salmons in Washington, D.C. “We hope and pray that the Russian
government will respect it.” In addition to the Bingham team, Chabad is
represented by Washington attorneys Nathan Lewin and Alyza D. Lewin of Lewin
& Lewin, LLP, and Wm. Bradford Reynolds of Howrey, LLP. “The Court of
Appeals’ decision clears the way for the Russian government to correct a
historic wrong that its predecessors have committed against the Jewish
community. We can only hope that the current Russian authorities will now
fulfill the assurances that were made to Chabad representatives and to United
States officials. It should not be necessary to engage in extended litigation
for the Chabad community, headquartered today in the United States, to recover
what rightfully belongs to it,” added Nathan Lewin. “This is a historic
victory for the Rebbe and for all people of faith and freedom. These sacred
books and manuscripts contain the souls of our Rebbes, and of their countless
followers who were persecuted and murdered by the Nazi and Soviet regimes. We
hope and pray the Russian government of today will now fulfill its moral and
legal obligations to return these sacred texts, “said Rabbi Boruch Shlomo
Eliyohu Cunin of Agudas Chasidei Chabad.
2008: The Third International Festival of New Jewish Liturgical
Music began today in Milwaukee in partnership with The Wisconsin Society For
Jewish Learning, Inc.
2009:
At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids Iowa, Tessa Cohen, daughter of Brian and Terri
Cohen, is called to the Torah as Bat Mitzvah. Tessa has completed her 7th grade
year at Oak Ridge Middle School. She is an excellent student who plays tuba in
band, electric bass guitar in jazz band and string bass in orchestra as well as
singing in chorus and show choir. She also enjoys playing her tuba with the
Musical Shabbat Band at Temple. Tessa has been playing soccer for 8 years. In
her last game she had an awesome save as goalie and scored a goal with her left
foot! Tessa’s other interests are cooking, especially cake decorating, and
preserving the environment. As part of her mitzvah project, Tessa is accepting
donations to the Indian Creek Nature Center in lieu of gifts. Thanks to Tessa,
Am Yisrael Chai!
2009:
ABC broadcast the final episode of “Pushing Daisies” produced by Bruce Cohen,
co-starring Ellen Greene, featuring Paul Reubens and including guest
appearances by Shelly Berman and Richard Benjamin
2009: Unknown assailants fired a Kassam rocket from Gaza
tonight. No one was wounded in the rocket attack and the Kassam, which hit the
Sdot Negev region, did not cause any damage. In related news, Gaza emergency
services reported that an 18-year-old was electrocuted this afternoon in a
smuggling tunnel under the Gaza-Egypt border. More than a dozen Palestinians
have died in tunnel accidents this year.
2010:
“Sondheim on Sondheim” is scheduled to have its final
performance at Studio 54 in Manhattan.
2010(1st of Tammuz, 5770): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2010(1st if Tammuz, 5770: Eighty-five-year-old Ernest
Martin Fleishman, a refugee from Hitler’s German who served as executive
director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 30 years passed away today.
2010: The New York Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Witz by Joshua Cohen and The Icarus
Syndrome: A History of American Hubris by Peter Beinart.
2010: The 30th Greater Chicago Jewish Festival is
scheduled to take place at St. Paul Woods in Morton Grove, Il.
2011(11th of Sivan, 5771): Ninety-two-year-old Viennese
native Max Moses Heller, the son of Israel and Leah Heller, the refugee from
Hitler’s Europe and husband for sixty-nine years of the former Trude Schonthal
who founded the Maxon Shirt Company and Mayor of Greenville, SC from 1971 to
1979 during which he courageously “desegregated all municipal departments and
commissions” passed away today in his “Adopted American hometown.”
2011: “Milton T. Okun published his memoir, Along the Cherry
Lane” today.
https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/milt-okun
2011: The funeral of Al Schwimmer, who smuggled planes to Israel
during the War for Independence and was the founder of Israel’s Aircraft
Industry, is scheduled to be held today.
2011: The Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning in New York
City is scheduled to host its annual Exhibition and Reception where it will
present the works of The Artists Beit Hamidrash and The Writer’s Beit
Hamidrash.
2011:
Sheri Blumberg is scheduled to facilitate a
discussion of “Hillel: If Not Now, When?” by Joseph Telushkin at the Jewish
Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
2011: Israel Police arrested three Yitzhar settlers today,
charging them with incitement to racism and violating the Shin Bet Security
Service laws for a website that calls for “price tag” attacks on
Palestinians.
2011: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi offered to
take personal steps to try to restart stalled peace talks between Israel and
the Palestinians, telling Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Rome today that
he would be willing to host negotiations in Sicily.
2011: Lisa Pulver, the co-founder and director of the Muru
Marri Indigenous Health Unit at the University of New South Wales, was
appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the annual Queen’s birthday
honors list announced today. Pulver also is a professor of indigenous health at
the university. Pulver is president of the Newtown Synagogue, in Sydney’s inner
west, and a board member of the Lowitja Institute, Australia’s premier
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led health research body. (As reported by
JTA)
2011: Israel Police arrested three Yitzhar settlers
today, charging them with incitement to racism and violating the Shin Bet
Security Service laws for a website that calls for “price tag”
attacks on Palestinians.
2012: In “Scholar Sarna says Grant ‘redeemed’ himself
after anti-Jewish edict” published today Robert Cohn, the Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus of the St. Louis Jewish Light
provides an insightful review of a marvelous volume When General Grant
Expelled the Jews by Jonathan D. Sarna.
2012: Canadian author Naomi Klein and her husband
“journalist and documentary filmmaker Avi Lewis” gave birth to their first
child, a boy named Toma.
2012: Cellist Elad Kabilio and pianist Reanana Gutman are
scheduled to perform as part of MusicTalks which aims to break down the
barriers between musicians and the chamber music audiences.
2012: The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater
Washington’s 2012 Annual Gala is scheduled to take place this evening at Beth
Sholom Congregation and Talmud Torah in Potomac, MD.
2012: President Shimon Peres received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom for his singular achievements leading Israel and working for
peace tonight.
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=273781
2012: http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=273685
2013: In San Diego, the annual used book sale to benefit
the Samuel & Rebecca Astor Judaica Library is scheduled to continue today.
2013: The week-long Lights Festival in the Old City is
scheduled to come to an end in Jerusalem.
2013: The exhibition connected with the first Formula One
Race to be run in Jerusalem is scheduled to begin today at 4 pm.
2013: In the 18th inning, Oakland A’s rookie
Nate Freiman hit the game winning single against the start relief pitcher of
the New York Yankees.
2013: Third baseman Kevin Youkilis played his last major
league baseball game as a member of the New York Yankees.
2013: Alan Gross, who is currently imprisoned by the
government of Cuba is one of the honorees at gala scheduled to be hosted this
evening by the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington.
2013: Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that a
years-long spat with the United States over thousands of Jewish religious
writings should end now that some are on display in Moscow’s new Jewish museum.
Russia has resisted calls to return the so-called Schneerson collection to the
New York-based Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch group, descendants of the last private
owner of the writings, and Putin said they were part of Russia’s cultural
heritage.
2014: In Springfield, VA, Adat Reyim is
scheduled to host a special Kabbalat Shabbat service “geared toward families
with young children.
2014: “Policeman” the first feature film from
writer-director Nadav Lapid is scheduled to be shown at Lincoln Center.
2014: “The Classical Style,” a comic opera
inspired by Charles Rosen’s book of the same name “premiered today at the Ojai
Music Festival.”
2014: “About 20 masked Palestinians hurled
stones at police forces at the Mughrabi Bridge at the end of Friday prayers on
the Temple Mount.”
2014: “A senior Islamic Jihad official called
today on Palestinians to kidnap Israeli citizens, arguing that Israel had
proven in the past that it was willing to negotiate the release of Palestinian
security prisoners in exchange for the lives of its civilians.” (As reported by
Adiv Sterman and Mitch Ginsburg)
2014(15th of Sivan, 5774): Fifty-five-year-old
Kevin Skinner a devoted member of Temple Judah passed away today in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa.
2014(15th of Sivan, 5774): Seventy-nine-year-old
Brazilian banker and philanthropist Moise Y. Safra passed away today. (As
reported by Douglas Martin)
2014: “Three yeshiva students in their teens
are believed to have been kidnapped in the West Bank, Israeli officials
announced this afternoon.” U.S. Ambassador Daniel Shapiro was informed today
that one of the three victims is an American whose name has not been disclosed.
2014: “Wonders” and “Lia” are scheduled to be
shown at the Israel Film Center Festival hosted by the JCC of Manhattan.
2015: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled
to host a concert featuring soloists from the Israeli Philharmonic.
2015: Agudas Achim Congregation which has moved
from Iowa City to suburban Coralville is scheduled to host a gala honoring
Rabbi Jeff Portman who is retiring after 44 years of service.
2015(26th of Sivan, 5775): Sixty-one-year-old
executive chef Walter Schieb III was thought to have passed away today.
2016(7th of Sivan, 5776): Second day
of Shavuot
2016: “Refuge in Shanghai,” an exhibit that
“examines the lives of Jews who were able to flee to” that Chinese city “before
WW II and to eventually settle in Oregon is scheduled to come to an end at the
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education today.
2016: The Knesset is scheduled to vote for a
second time on the Gafni Bill which “would bar Conservative and Reform
conversions from taking place at public ritual baths in Israel
2017: It as announced today that David Grossman
was “the winner of the Man Booker International Prize of 2017 for his novel A
Horse Walks into a Bar translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen which makes him
the first Israeli author to win the prestigious literary award.
2017: Twenty-two-year-old University of
Virginia honors student Otto F. Warmbier who been “held by North Korea for 17
months” arrived in his native Cincinnati where he was hospitalized because he
was in coma – a coma from which he would never awaken.
2017: Kenneth J. Krupsky, Esq. and Baruch A.
Fellner, Esq., National Board Members, Jewish National Fund – USA are scheduled
to talk about the “exciting new initiatives to deal with the challenges of
overpopulation and affordable housing shortages in Israel’s center — the
Jerusalem/Tel Aviv/Haifa triangle — Israel’s economic, commercial and cultural
hub” at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia/
2017: The Rabbinic Council Ma’agal Tzedek at
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah is scheduled to host a session where attendees
can learn “more about Hate Free Zones and how rabbis, cantors and our Jewish
communities can be part of these important initiatives.”
2017: Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is scheduled to
be the keynote speaker at the Manny Cantor Center a “groundbreaking new policy response
to intermarriage and the evolving identities of Jewish America” will be
revealed.
2017: Two days after he had passed away, a
graveside service will be in Lansing, Michigan, for 84 year old Norman Pollack,
the husband of Nancy Pollack, the father of Peter and Sallie Pollack who taught
at Yale and Wayne State before becoming a Professor of History at Michigan
State whose “most recent work, Capitalism, Hegemony and Violence in the Age
of Drones” will be published posthumously.
2018: Lindsay Simmonds, “a Lecturer at the
London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS) and a PhD student at the Gender
Institute at the LSE, from which she already holds a M.Phil.” is scheduled to
deliver a lecture on “Korach: Form and Content” “in the Old Archive Room at
Balliol College.”
2018: Today, “at least 30 headstones at the
Urmston Jewish Cemetery in Manchester were smashed and vandalized.”
2018: The Center For Jewish History is
scheduled to host Joel Levy, former President and CEO of the Center for Jewish
History; Herb Sturz, founder of the Vera Institute of Justice; and Kevin
Keenan, Executive Vice President and Special Counsel of the Vera Institute of
Justice” in a discussion about philanthropist and “business leader” Rebecca
“Vera” Scwheitzer, “the founder of a hospital in Tiberias.
2019: This evening The American Sephardi
Federation and Consulate General of Spain are scheduled to open the exhibit
“Visados para la Libertad (Visas for Freedom)”
2019: This evening at the Illinois Holocaust
Museum and Education Center Dr. Danny M. Cohen, Dr. Phyllis Lassner and Dr.
Sarah Cushman are scheduled to discuss the re-release of Gisela Perl’s memoir I
Was a Doctor in Auschwitz.
2019: The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to host “A Genealogy Happy Hour” for young professional where experts
will show them “how to find out where their grandparents an great grandparents
lived, what kind of work they did and when they arrived in the United States.”
2019: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is
scheduled to host “A President Under Siege” with Graydon Carter and Michael
Wolff author of Fire and Fury.
2019: On the English calendar, 5th
anniversary of the passing of Temple Judah stalwart Kevin Skinner.
2020: Keshet and Kol HaChaverim are scheduled
to livestream a community Havdalah ceremony and concert for Pride weekend.
2020: Urban Adamah is scheduled to host, an
all-day gathering for people who have lost a sibling, parent, partner or close
friend.
2020: In Cedar Rapids, IA Temple Judah is
scheduled to host Shabbat services via the wonder of Zoom
2020(21st of Sivan, 5780): Parashat
Beha’alochta;
2021: JBC and the America-Israel Friendship
League are scheduled to host a conversation about contemporary Israeli
literature with Deborah Harris of Deborah Harris Agency and Yaniv Iczkovits
(author of The Slaughterman’s Daughter) who will discuss the latest books and
trends from today’s Israeli literary scene.
2021: Lawmakers will are scheduled to vote
today to approve the new government put together last week by Yesh Atid leader
Yair Lapid…
2021: CJP’s Boston-Haifa Connection is
scheduled to present online “How We Connect: Jewishness, Judaism and the
In-Between.”
2021: In New Jersey, The Jewish Heritage Museum
of Monmouth County is scheduled to host its annual meeting.
2021: The American Sephardi Organization is
scheduled to present “Original Ladino Music” with “Nani Noam Vazana, the
world’s first original Ladino artist” who will be discussing her new Ladino
album on Zoom and Facebook Live!
2021: In Laurel, MD, Oseh Shalom is scheduled
to host “Camp Night,” with s’mores, stories and a campfire.
2021: Chef Moshe Shek who grew up in India in a
Jewish community and who has lived on a kibbutz is scheduled to join “our
Jewish guide Joshua for a ‘Taste of India.’”
2021: The New York Times features
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Secrets of Happiness, a novel by Joan Silber, One Two Three,
a novel by Laurie Frankel, Mary Jane, a novel by Jessica Anya Blau, The
Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage by
Sasha Issenberg, Second Nature: Scenes From a World Remade by Nathaniel
Rich and Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York,
1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman.
2022: The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is
scheduled to present online a presentation by Professor Adam Mendelsohn on
“What’s in store for the Jewish community of South Africa?”
2022: The University of Manchester is scheduled
to host an online panel discussion of Familie Brasch, featuring director
Annekatrin Hendel, Professor Katie Trumpener and Dr. Juliette Brungs, moderated
by Professor Cathy Gelbin.
2022: The Monday Morning Plenary of the AJC
Global Forum is scheduled to open with a special video message from U.S.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
2022:The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center and
members of the Barbara C. Freedman Artists’ Beit Midrash are scheduled to present
“SHMITA, A Virtual Exhibition.”
2022: JDC Archives Fellow Lorena Cardona
González is scheduled to present a webinar on
“Not Undesirable but Unnecessary”: Jewish
Refugees from Nazism in Colombia (1945-1950)”
2023: LBI is scheduled to present a lecture by
Rachel Blumenthal and Elizabeth Anthony on “The Second Robbery: Aryanization
and Restitution of Jewish Property in Austria.”
2023: Scheduled premiere of “Soul Doctor,” the
film that tells “the untold story of rockstar Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and high
priestess of soul, Nina Simone.
2023: The Wiener Holocaust Library is scheduled
to host a Hybrid Curators’ Talk on “Holocaust Letters” with Christine Schmidt and Sandra Lipner.
2024: In Berkeley, CA, Urban Adamah is
scheduled to host a screening of “May God Be With You,” a film by Cléo Cohen, “who
investigates her own identity as the granddaughter of Jewish Arabs who
emigrated from Tunisia and Algeria to France.”
2024: Yesterday’s launch by Hezbollah of “some
215 rockets and several more missiles and drones” a coupled with Hamas’s response
to the hostage proposals which included changes that Secretary of State Blinken called “impractical” would indicate that the terrorists
in Gaza and in Lebanon are united in their effort of their stated goal.
2024: Base BSTN is scheduled to host its “third annual Shavuot kosher picnic/barbecue, featuring Hawaiian barbecue chicken, amazing
amounts of veggie options and sides and a generally great time.”
2024(7th
of Sivan, 5784): Second Day of Shavuot; Yizkorfor more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024: As June 13th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of
anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers
on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the
Hamas held hostages begin day 251 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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