#ourCOG This Day, June 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
This Day, June 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 23
79:
Vespasian, the Roman general who was in the process of conquering Judea when he
became Emperor, died.
79:
Titus, the Roman general whom the Jews will always remember for the destruction
of Jerusalem and the Temple succeeded his father Vespasian as tenth Roman
Emperor.
1295:
The newly chosen head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Boniface VIII, entered
Rome and spurned the Torah scrolls offered to him by the Jewish community.
1298:
Massacre of the Jews of Wiener-Neustadt, Austria.
1550:
“Queen Bona” awarded “the lease of the customs and inns of Pinsk, Kletzk and
Gorodetzk for a term of years” Goshka Moshkevich and Nahum and Israel
Yesofovich, the sons of Pesakh Yesofovich.
1608:
Samuel Pallache “a Jewish-Moroccan merchant, diplomat and pirate met stadholder
Maurice of Nassau and the States-General in The Hague to negotiate an alliance
of mutual assistance against Spain.
1661:
In spite of Spanish opposition, a marriage contract was signed between King
Charles II of England and Catherine, the Duchess of Braganza which “was of
benefit to the Marrano community” in several ways not the least of which was
the arrival “the brother Duarte and Fracisco de Sylva, the Portuguese bankers
of Amsterdam to whom was entrusted the management of the dowry that the”
Portuguese noblewoman brought with her.
1696:
Jews of Posen, Poland were saved from a mob set to avenge the murder of a
soldier when a peasant woman who was seized carrying the victim’s clothing,
confessed to her son’s murder.
1700:
Solomon de Medina was dubbed a knight by William III. He was the first Jew to receive this honor.
Medina was military contractor who would provide invaluable aid to the Duke of
Marlborough during the War of Spanish Succession.
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1751:
Dutch native Hyam Myers and Rachel Louzada, the parents of Belle Myers and the
in-laws of Samuel Asher Levy were married today in New York.
1762:
Today Mary Wilkinson married Joseph Priestly who in 1786, “published his Letter
to the Jews urging them to convert” which brought a strong response from
David Levi that “led to his three-volume Dissertation on the Prophecies of
the Old Testament.”
1779:
Birthdate of Markus Bär Friedenthal who was a leading banker in Breslau where
he was also active in Jewish communal affairs.
1784:
Zipporah Levy and Benjamin Medes Seixas who were married at Philadelphia in
1779 gave birth to Abigail Seixas.
1785(15th
of Tammuz, 5545): Ninety-year-old Arieh Loeb who had served as a rabbi in
Frankfort before becoming the Grand Rabbi of Metz passed away today.
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1786:
Today, just ten years after its founding with the signing of the Declaration of
Independence, the United States enters into the world of Islam and the Middle
East when it signed a treaty with the “Barbary Coast State of Morocco” that
“formally ended all Moroccan piracy against American shipping interests.” (Editor’s note – for the initiated, this
would be the first of many agreements made in this part of the world by the
United States that would not be honored and it shows that American interest in
this part of the world existed long before the Zionist movement. For more see Power,
Faith and Fantasy by Michael B. Oren)
1794:
With the second partition of Poland additional territory was added to the Pale
(the district in which the Jews were forced to live) that included parts of the
Ukraine and the city of Kiev. Jews were granted permission by Empress Catherine
II to settle in Kiev.
1807:
Birthdate of Ferdinand Hitzig, one of a number of non-Jewish biblical critics
who examined the Old Testament in light of the discoveries of archaeology and
linguists who wrote commentaries on several books of the Bible starting with
Isaiah in the 1830’s and ending with Proverbs in 1858.
1810
John Jacob Astor organized Pacific Fur Company at what is now Astoria, Oregon.
There seems to be some dispute as to whether or not Astor was Jewish or
“of Jewish origins.”
1810:
According to a report published today, “France had 250 Jewish manufacturers and
2, 360 Jews were in schools or were employed in ‘useful professions.’”
1815:
Merlo ben Aaron Falk was buried today at the Alderney Road Jewish Road
Cemetery.
1821(23rd
of Sivan, 5581): Parashat Sh’lach read as Simon Bolivar prepares to fight the
Battle of Carabobo which would gain Venezuela freedom from Spain.
1823:
Mordecai Manuel Noah, an early American Jewish leader who dabbled in politics
and journalism, wrote a twenty-page letter to President James Monroe seeking
his support for William Crawford’s candidacy for President of the United
States. Crawford lost his bid which
marked a decline in Noah’s self-appointed role a political kingmaker.
1836:
“After traveling to Egypt, Rabbi Avraham Shlomo Zoref, together with the
backing of the Austrian and Russian consuls in Alexandria, obtained the
long-awaited firman for the reconstruction of the Hurva Synagogue.
1839:
Birthdate of Philadelphian Simon Sterne who gained fame as an attorney and
economist.
1839:
Sixty-three-year-old Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope whose “archaeological expedition
to Ashkelon in 1815 is considered the first modern excavation in the history of
Holy Land archeology” passed away today. For more about her and her work see Memoirs
of the Lady Hester Stanhope as related by herself in Conversations with her
Physician by Dr. Charles Meryon.
1840:
“A large Jewish public assembly met at the Great Synagogue of London to map out
plans for the journey of Moses Montefiore to Egypt to intercede with Governor
Mehmet Ali to release eight Damascene Jews who had been tortured and charged
with a blood ritual, following the disappearance of Father Tomaso, head of the
Capuchin cloister.” (As reported by Abraham Bloch)
1841:
In Charleston, SC, Mr. M. Nathan married Ann Cohen the third daughter of Aaron
N. Cohen.
1842:
In Albany, NY, Sampson Rosendale and Fannie Sachs gave birth to Simon W.
Rosendale, husband of Helen Cohen who became the first Jew elected to a
statewide office in New York when he was elected State Attorney General. While
he was active in many American Jewish organizations including the Jewish
Publication Society, the American Jewish Historical Society and B’nai B’rith he
was among those who signed an anti-Zionist memorandum given to President Wilson
before the Versailles Peace Conference.
1846:
Birthdate of French Egyptologist and student of the ancient middle east, Gaston
Maspero. His works included a report of
what may have been the first “discovery of an Egyptian record in which the
Hebrews are mentioned.”
1848:
In Paris, tens of thousands of French workers took to the streets in what came
to be known as “June Days of Uprisings” which would lead to the end of the
Second Republic during which Jews had gained full rights including the
declaration that the “Oath More Judaico” was unconstitutional in 1846>
1858:
An incident, known as the Mortara Affair, began in Bologna: Edgardo Mortara, a
seven year old Jewish boy, was kidnapped by the Roman Catholic Church on the
pretext that a servant girl claimed that she had baptized him. The pope, Pious
IX, refused to surrender him despite many protests. The combination of the
Damascus affair and this affair led to unification among many Jews and later to
the establishment of the Alliance Israelite.
1860:
In Baltimore, the reconvened session of the Democratic National Convention
which nominated Stephen A. Douglas for President and which Henry Myer Phillips
attended as a delegation came to an end today.
(Editor’s note – the real significance of the convention was that it was
part of the secessionists planned road to bring an end to the United States so
that they could protect their slavocracy)
1861:
In Dayton, OH, Jacob and Janette Ach gave birth to Ferdinand Ach, the husband
of Carrie Kahn who was a director of both the Dayton Savings and Trust Company
and the Liberty Insurance Company of Dayton, President of the National Coffee
Roasters Association, a member of B’nai B’rith and President of “Congregation
K.K. B’nai Yeshurun.”
1863:
John Salmon a London born grocer and husband Catherine Polack with whom he had
8 children was burred today at the Brompton Jewish Cemetery.
1865:
In Toledo, Ohio, Henry Calisch and Rebecca Van Norden gave birth to Edward N.
Calisch the graduate of the University of Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College and
University of Virginia (M.A.), the rabbi at Congregation Beth Ahaba in Richmond
since 1891 and the author of “A Book of Prayer” and “A Child’s Bible.”
1865:
As the Union Army was disbanded after the Civil War, Samuel B. Salsburg who had
risen to the rank of Sergeant in Company C of the 138th Regiment and
who had been wounded at the Battle of Monocacy in Maryland 11 months ago
completed his military service today.
1866(10th
of Tammuz, 5626): Parashat Chukat
1866(10th
of Tammuz, 5626): Fifty-three-year-old physician and economist Sarphati Samuel,
passed away in Amsterdam, the city of his birth.
1868(3rd
of Tammuz, 5628): Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall passed away. Born at Stockholm,
Sweden, in 1798, “at the age of nine he was taken by his father, who was banker
to the King of Sweden, to Copenhagen, where he was educated at the Hebrew
grammar-school. Later he went to England, where he devoted himself to the study
of languages, for the better acquisition of which he subsequently traveled in
France, Germany, and Belgium. After lecturing on Hebrew poetry he began to
publish the “Hebrew Review, and Magazine of Rabbinical Literature,”
which he was forced to discontinue in 1836 owing to ill health. For some time
he acted as honorary secretary to Solomon Herschell, chief rabbi of Great
Britain. He made translations from Maimonides, Albo, and Herz Wessely;
conjointly with the Rev. D. A. de Sola he published a translation of eighteen
treatises of the Mishnah; and he also began a translation of the Pentateuch, of
which only one volume appeared. In 1840, when the blood accusation was made at
Damascus, he published a refutation of it in four languages (Hebrew, English,
French, and German) and wrote a defense of Judaism against an anonymous writer
in the London “Times.” In 1841 he was appointed minister of the
Birmingham Synagogue and master of the school. He continued in these capacities
for eight years, and then sailed for New York (1849). In that city he was
appointed rabbi and preacher of the B’nei Jeshurun congregation, where he
continued as pastor till 1866, his duties then being relaxed owing to his
infirm health. Raphall was the author of a text-book of the post-Biblical
history of the Jews (to the year 70 C.E.). He received the Ph.D. degree from
the University of Erlangen (Germany).”
1869:
In “Kirschseiffen, Germany, Sibilla Rothschild and her husband gave birth to
Bernhard Rothschild , the husband of Henriette Rothschild who would die at
Terezin during the Holocaust.
1872(17th
of Sivan, 5632): Seventy-year-old Aaron Ben Asher of Karlin “also known as
Rabbi Aaron II of Karlin” the famous Chasidic Rebbe whose daughter “Miriam,
married Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov Friedeman the first Rebbe of the Sadigura Chasidic
Dynasty” and the author of his seminal work Bet Aharon (Aaron’s House) passed
away today.
1873:
The children under the care of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Free School are
scheduled to enjoy their first excursion of the summer today. Lewis S. Levy is
the chairman of the committee that has organized the event.
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1873:
In Pawtucket, RI, “Alexander and Hannah (Falk) Strauss gave birth to Brown University
undergraduate Israel Strauss, the Columbia University trained neurologist and
Husband of “Hilda Newborg” who was the attending neurologist at Jewish
Hospital, Mt. Sinai Hospital and Beth Moses Hospital while serving as
“president of the Jewish Mental Health Association” and writing “numerous
articles on the pathology and symptomatology of the nervous system.”
1873(1st
of Tammuz, 5636): Rosch Chodesh Tammuz
1873:
In Pawtucket, RI, Hannah Falk and Alexander Strauss gave birth to Brown
University graduate and Columbia University trained neurologist Dr. Israel
Strauss, the husband of Hilda Newborg and attending neurologist at Mt. Sinai
Hospital, Beth Moses Hospital in Brooklyn who is the “author of numerous articles
dealing with the pathology and symptomatology of the nervous system and a
member of the American Jewish Physicians Society.
1873(1st
of Tammuz, 5636): Seventy-five-year-old Seligman Ben Schemmel Landauer, the
Bavarian born son of Rebecca and Samuel Joseph Arjeh Landauer and the husband
of Zirle (Cilli) Landauer today.
1876(1st
of Tammuz, 5636): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1876(1st
of Tammuz, 5636): Seventy-five-year-old Seligman Ben Schemmel Landauer, the
Bavarian born on of Samuel Joseph Arjeh Landauer and Rebecca Breindl Landauer
and husband of Zirle (Cilli) Landauer passed away today.
1876:
It was reported today that an unnamed Moor stabbed eleven Jews with a dagger at
Alcassar in the province of Fez, Morocco. Among the victims was Moses Abecasis.
The Moor, who has been arrested, insists that “he was not aware of what he was
doing when he committed the crimes.” The
British and Italian Vice Consuls have insisted that the provincial governor and
the leading citizens of Alcasar “have a
signed a document guaranteeing the lives and property of foreign Jews” living
there.
1877:
At Ahaveth Chesed on the corner of Lexington and 55th in New York
City, Rabbi Adolph Huesbech delivered a sermon based on Deuteronomy X:12, “And
now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to fear thy God, to
walk in all His ways, and to love Him and serve the Lord thy God with all thy
heart and with all thy soul.” In the
course of the sermon he spoke about the recent events surrounding the banning
of Jews by Judge Hilton which he referred to as the “grievous occurrences of
the past few days.” While he abhors
boasting, he believes that “the Jewish name must always be held in honor.” He
decried the fact that the Jews “had been placed in a false position” by this member of the nouveau riche who had
used his newly “attained social eminence” to arouse enmity aimed at the
Jews. In the end, the Rabbi said he
would fail. “The Hiltons will die away
but the principle of liberty as embodied in the American Constitution will live
forever.
1877:
Rabbi Samuel Isaacs, the leader of New York’s Gates of Prayer, described the
negative impact that Judge Hilton’s behavior would have on English Jewish
leaders including the Rothschilds and Sir Moses Montefiore who is “personal and
esteemed friend of Queen Victoria.” They
have always viewed the United States as a place where Jews were treated with
the utmost “consideration and courtesy”; a situation similar to the treatment
of Jews in the United Kingdom. If the
Queen can count Montifore among her friends, certainly Judge Hilton could treat
a person like Mr. Seligman with “common civility.” When asked Judge Hilton’s attempt to draw a
distinction between “trade Jews and real “Hebrews, Rabbi Isaacs responded by recalling
the “the words of the late Baron James Rothschild of Paris. ‘When we are poor
and ignorant we Jews; when we are well to do we become Israelites; when we are
rich and influential we are called Hebrews.’” Judge Hilton is trying to create
a distinction that does not exist as a face-saving maneuver.
1877:
“The Jewish Question” published today reported that both sides in the dispute
touched off by Judge Hilton’s banning of Jews from the Grand Union Hotel seemed
to hold firm to their previously stated positions. Various Jewish leaders, including Mr.
Seligman’s attorney have advised against any further public discussions or
meetings on the matter. They are
reassured by the public response and the decision by some not to do business
with the firm controlled by Hilton.
Hilton will not change his policy and still claims that he does not
dislike Jews. After all, the messenger
to whom he entrusts thousands of dollars each day is Jewish.
1878:
“The Jews and Titus,” an article published today, that originally appeared in
the English publication, Fraser’s Magazine reviews events surrounding
the decision of Titus to destroy Jerusalem and the Temple. The article points
out that the Jews had a favorable impact on the western world in the era
between Antiochus and Nero. Among other things the Jews are industrious and
hardworking just like the people living “in the American Union are at Salt
Lake.” Even their leaders worked at “mechanical
labor or rustic art.” Even the Roman
historian Tacitus acknowledged the virtues of the Jews. When Titus conferred with his officers about
sparing the Temple, they urged him to destroy it and the rest of the city as
well. Jerusalem had been the source of
“two detestable religions, the Jewish and the Christian, which best be
destroyed by uprooting their original home…”
Despite Roman cruelty and oppression which followed by “Christian
animosity” “the Jews and their religion”
have survived without any deterioration over the centuries. Unfortunately, the article concludes, the
Jews “still have to plead for toleration and from justice Slavonic Europe.”
1879:
The Literary Notes Column reported that “Mr. Nutt, the Librarian of the
Bodleian Library at Oxford University has edited” a manuscript in the library’s
possession that is “a commentary on Isaiah” written “by Rabbi Eleazar of
Beaugency.” Nutt has included a preface
that provides “a valuable account of Bibilical exegesis among the Spanish and
French Jews of the Middle Ages. [Eleazar was a 12th century French
Biblical commentary who lived at Beaugency. He was a “pupil of Samuel ben Meïr,
the eminent grandson of Rashi.”]
1880:
The Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Harlem is sponsoring a strawberry
festival this evening which is designed to raise funds for a gymnasium to be
used by the members.
1880:
Joseph Lipkie married Rachel Davies in the United Kingdom
1881:
Seventy-seven-year-old German botanist Matthias Jakob Schleiden, a co-founder
of the “cell theory” whose writings on Judaism “contrast with the academic
anti-Semitism of his time” but “also break with the anti-Judaism of Kant and
Fries.” “Schleiden’s apology for Judaism is shown to be deeply rooted in his
ideas about scientific progress, especially his methodology of microscopic
botany.” (As presented by Ulrich Charpa)
1882:
Rabbi Levy arrived at the New York office of the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society
from South Carolina. He told those in charge that the European Jewish refugees
“were unfit” for the work “on Southern Plantations.” He brought 11 of the 30 refugees who had been
placed in his care with him to New York.
He thinks that they could be successful working on small vegetable
farms. [This was part of the move to create agrarian opportunities for the
horde of Jewish refugees fleeing Eastern Europe.]
1882:
“Is He Sane Or Insane” published today described the travails of Samuel Obright
who has been committed to Middletown Lunatic Asylum. His wife, whom he married only a few days
ago, contends that his family and friends had him committed because Obright who
is Jewish chose to marry a Christian. The judge has ordered him held in the
custody of the Sheriff until the matter can be decided.
1882:
It was reported today that Dr. Julius Goldman had delivered a report to the
Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society entitled “Colonizing the Russian Refugees” and not
Dr. Julius Goodman as stated in an earlier article.
1883:
In Chicago, Illinois, “Samuel and Lena (Alexander) Taussig gave birth to
University of Chicago graduate Frances Taussig, the social worker who was the
“executive director of the Jewish Family Service in New York City.”
1883: As anti-Jewish riots resumed today in St.
Gall, Switzerland, dismounted dragoons were called out to disperse the mob.
1883:
It was reported today that those wishing to make contributions to support the
upcoming summer excursions sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children can
be sent to John Davis.
1883:
“Blood in Passover” published today described a trial at Nyreghhaza, Hungary,
where “a number of Jews are accused of having murdered a Christian girl at
Tisza-Ezlar for the sake of using her blood to mix with their Passover bread.”
The article conclude with “a Catholic priest admitted that he was the author of
an anonymous attack on the Jews accusing them of the murder of the girl.”
1884(30th
of Sivan, 5644): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1884:
In Southern Russia, fighting broke out between Jews and Armenians at Titlis.
1884:
Birthdate of the pro-Nazi German actor Werner Krauss who “simultaneously played
the roles of several stereotypical Jewish characters – among them Rabbi Loew
and Sekretar Levy – in Veit Harlan’s anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süß
(1940), implementing Harlan’s concept of a common Jewish root and Shylock in
Lothar Müthel’s extreme production of The Merchant of Venice staged at the
Burgtheater in 1943 which made him a person favorite of Hitler.
1885:
Mr. Julius Bien of New York, President of the B’nai B’rith opened a meeting of
the Jewish organization in Berlin. He was assisted in his efforts by Isaac
Hamburger of New York and Henry Gruenbaum of Chicago.
1886:
It was reported today that Harris Cohen had been awarded the Lewis May Award at
a reception sponsored by the Hebrew Technical Institute. Samuel Sass won the
Carl Schurz Prize for the best essay on technical education.
1887:
Birthdate of Hugo Hermann the Moravian born author, publisher and Zionist
leader who died in Jerusalem in 1940.
1887:
In New York City, Daniel Henry Cardozo, Sr., the New York born son of Sarah and
Abraham Hart Cardoza and his wife Clara Cardoza gave birth to Daniel Henry
Cardozo, Jr.
1887(1st
of Tammuz, 5647): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1887(1st
of Tammuz, 5647): Joseph Freedman, a Russian-Jew who was a tin peddler died
this evening at P.J. Kelly’s furniture store in New Haven, Conn.
1888(14th
of Tammuz, 5648): Parashat Balak
1888:
The Eldridge Street Synagogue was filled with congregants for today’s memorial
service held in honor of the late German Emperor. Rabbi Zinsler of the Henry
Street Synagogue delivered a eulogy in German followed by Coroner Ferdinand
Levy who delivered a eulogy in English.
[This was just one of many such services held by the Jews to honor the
late Kaiser.]
1888:
Emile Hirsch, who serves as the Rabbi at Temple Sinai in Chicago returned to
the Windy City after a brief visit to New Orleans.
1888:
This evening Rabbi Emile Hirsch addressed his congregation in Chicago outlined
his view on inter-marriage, declaring that “Judaism was more than a religion or
a creed…Judaism is a mission and a message of loved and righteousness.”
1889:
“In the Catskill Mountains” published today described the opening of the
various hostelries in this New York vacation venue including the fact that “the
anti-Hebrew crusade is practically a matter of the past.” Generally speaking this movement was confined
to the cottages at Pine Hill where Gentiles and Jews are equally welcome
provided they can afford to pay the fee for entertainment which can be as much
as one hundred dollars a week. [For those who connect the Catskills with the
Borscht Belt, the idea of Jews being banned must seem a little strange.]
1890:
The reviewer of The Origin of the Aryans by Isaac Taylor longs “for the old
days when it was comfortably agreed that Hebrew was the ‘oldest language’ and
all the rest made their appearance on a certain occasion when the descendants
of Noah were rebuked for their impiety and pride by the destruction of the
Tower of Babel.”
1890: In New York, the Coroner is investigating the
death of 35-year-old Hyman Harrowitz, a Russian Jew who died from ammonia
poisoning. At first, it was thought he
died at his own hand, but based on statements by his brother and friends, he
may have been given the wrong medicine by the local druggist which led to his
death.
1890:
Famed English archeologist Flinders Pitre has complained that the authors of Art
in Sardinia, Syria, Judaea and Asia, Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez
“have omitted several Jewish antiquities in their profusely-illustrated
volumes. The omissions are important because of the great scarity of objects of
art or architecture which can be assigned to the Jews.”
1892:
In Manhattan, Zelda and Morris (or Milton or Moshe) Kiviat gave birth to middle
distance runner and Olympic Medalist Abel Richard Kivat.
1892:
During the Dreyfus Affair, the Marquis de Mores mortally wounded Captain Armand
Mayer in a duel that the anti-Semitic noble had forced on the Jewish officer.
Mayer would die a couple of days later from his wounds.
1892:
In Chicago, the Democratic National Convention where George Washington Ochs
Oakes, a delegate from Tennessee, second “on behalf of his state the nomination
of Grover Cleveland who went on to win the election in November, came to an end
toda
1892:
The military band of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum played the opening march at the
annual reception and commencement exercises of Grammar School Number 43 on
Amsterdam Avenue in NYC.
1893:
“Swears Back What He Swore” published today provides a snapshot of the
controversy surrounding the efforts of those aggressively trying to convert
Jews living on the Lower East Side which are being resisted by the United Hebrew Charities which feels
these people are the victims of coercion and deception.
1894: The Jesse Seligman Literary Circle, a new
Hebrew social and literary society has been organized in Orange, NJ
1895: “An East Side
Charity” published today traced the history of the Hebrew Sheltering House
where “the homeless and hungry are cared for without inquiring in their
religious faith…” The charity located on
New York’s lower east side is a creation of the Russian Jews who provide all of
the funds for its operation with the exception of $7000 given by Jacob Schiff.
1896:
Herzl is received as a journalist of the Neue Freie Presse. Herzl offers that
the Jews would undertake the regulation of the Turkish finances if they were
given Palestine. Herzl cannot obtain an audience with the Sultan.
1896:
“Abram and Sarah (Davis) Skirball” gave birth to Hebrew Union College and
Western Reserve graduate J. H. Skirball who began his career as the Assistant
Rabbi at the Euclid Avenue Temple in Cleveland before assuming the pulpit at
the Temple in Evansville, IN where he was active in a number of civic and
charitable institutions including the Community Chest, Big Brothers Association
and the Anti-Tuberculosis League.
1897:
Isabella Levy, the native of Middlesex and fifth daughter of Henry Levy was
buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1897:
The will of the late Moritz Cohn was filed for probate in the Surrogate’s
office today.
1898:
The funeral for Getta Schole, is scheduled to be held at the Crematory, Fresh
Pond, Long Island. Mrs. Scholle is the
widow of Jacob Scholle and was the Vice President of the Home for Aged and
Infirm Hebrews and a Directress of The Ladies’ Auxiliary Society for the
Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids.
1898:
President James H. Hoffman delivered the opening address at the commencement
exercises of the Hebrew Technical Institute which were held at Cooper Union.
1899:
Joseph I. Leiner was the salutatorian and valedictorian of this year’s
graduating class of the Hebrew Technical Institute for which he earned the Fred
M. Stein Prize, the Carl Schurz Prize and a special prize for his
accomplishments.
1899:
“New De Hirsch Fund” published
today reported that “a part of the income…of the Baron de Hirsch Fund
allotted to America” will be used to improve conditions in Brownsville, a
section of Brooklyn with a large Jewish population. The project is being spearheaded by Abraham
Abraham, a Brooklyn merchant and A.S. Solomon, the general agent of the Baron
de Hirsch Fund in New York.
1900(26th
of Sivan, 5660): Parashat Sh’lach
1900:
Louis Friedman, Joseph Goldstein and Morris Slepp, three Russian Jews “who were
arrested yesterday and charged with maintaining an illicit distillery in the
resident section of Mount Vernon” were arraigned today/
1901(6th
of Tammuz, 5661): Eighty-seven-year-old British composer and pianist Charles
Salaman passed away. In addition to his
purely secular successes, Salaman created a musical version of Psalm 93 which
is “sung on most Friday nights in the Sabbath eve service of the London Spanish
& Portuguese Jewish community”
1902:
University of Buffalo trained medical doctor and professor of gastroenterology
and dietetics at Wayne University College of Medicine Charles Dettie Aaron, the
Lockport, NY born son of Hanna Barnett and Abraham Higham Aaron married
Winifred Comstock today.
1902:
Lord Alfred Milner, a friend of Leonard Montefiore who wrote a foreward to
“Montefiore’s posthumously published ‘Essays and Letters’,” bean serving as 1st
Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony
1903
Johns Hopkins and Columbia University alum and Joseph N. Ullman, the Baltimore
born son of “Nathan and Dina (Oppenheim) Ulman
the lawyer, Baltimore Judge and member of the University of Maryland Law
School faculty who was President of the
Hebrew Benevolent Society of Baltimore, director of the Associated Jewish
Charities of Baltimore married the former Ella Guggenheimer today.
1904:
The Republican Convention where Theodore Roosevelt who had very positive
relations with the Jewish community was nominated for a second term, came to an
end today in Chicago.
1905:
Birthdate of artist Samuel Greenburg, the Ukraine native not to confused with
poet Samuel Bernard Greenburg.
https://www.illinoisart.org/samuel-greenburg
https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.33497.html
1905
Birthdate of Cape Town native and pioneering anthropologist Isaac Schapera.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jul/02/guardianobituaries.highereducation
1906:
Birthdate of Sadie Marks, the native of Seattle, Washington, who gained fame as
Mary Livingston “the wife and radio partner of Jack Benny.” (Nobody would have thought that this
All-American looking couple were really the children of Jewish immigrants.)
1907:
In Chicago members of Emanuel Congregation, a reform temple founded in 1880,
dedicated the cornerstone for their new facility on Buckingham Street near
Halsted.
1907:
“Moscowitz, the Madison Street baker was preparing to ‘Coney Island’ himself at
noon” today “ when his ten year-old-son Heiney ran into the house and told him
that Israel Metz, the twelve-year-old son of Aaron Metz had grown three new
sets of teeth in the night” which set off a chain of events that led to the appointment of a committee to investigate reports that
Controller Metz “was showing his teeth and was about to cause trouble” for
people in the Mayor’s office.
1907:
In New York City, Hungarian jews Ida Friedmann and Alexandr Pollacsek gave
birth to Sidney Edward Pollacsek who gained fame as Edward Pola, the “actor,
songwriter and radio/television producer” who “scored Harmony Heaven, one of
England’s first sound films.”
1908:
Birthdate of NYU graduate and WW II Army
Air Forces veteran Manuel Siwek, who as president of Grosset & Dunlap, the
book publisher, introduced a concept of mass marketing for books who was the
husband of the former Pauline Fancher with whom he raised two children – Donald
and Alexandra.
1908:
“ Jew Baiters Sentenced” published today reported that sentences have been down
“in the case of the participators in the Jewish massacre of 1905 at Bialystok,
when 11 Christians and 73 Jews were killed, and 23 Christians and 82 Jews were
wounded.”
1909:
Helen Rosenfield of Portland, Oregon who passed away in 1950 married Rabbi
Jonah Bondi Wise at the time was the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Israel He
passed away in 1959
1909:
Birthdate of political philosopher Valentin Feldman, the native of St.
Petersburg who took refuge in France after the Russian Civil War only to perish
at the hands of the Nazis during the Occupation.
1909:
It was reported today that Alfred
Seligman is one of the three members of the Louisville, KY, Sewer Commission
which is finally moving forward on the construction of a sewer system that had
first been talked about 18 years ago.
1909:
Birthdate of Berlin native Liselotte Herman, the
mother of a four-year-old son whose husband Fritz died in Gestapo custody and
who was guillotined at the age of 28 after having been convicted for opposing
the Nazi regime. (She was not Jewish, but it is important to remember those who
sacrificed to hold back the Night)
1909:
Birthdate of Leo Hurwitz, the native of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn,
brother of dancer Sophia Delza and psychoanalyst Marie Briehl and Emmy and Peabody award winning
documentary filmmaker who was blacklisted during the McCarthy period.
1910:
It was reported today that sixteen Jews have been expelled in Kiev, twelve from
Solomenka and eight from Demieffka.
1911:
Birthdate of New York native Hannah Weinstein the television producer and
political activist who worked in the campaigns of Fiorello La Guardia, Franklin
Roosevelt and Henry Wallace
1912(8th
of Tammuz, 5672): Polish immigrant Samuel Lapowski, the husband of Bertha
Stenbock and the father of financier Clarence Dillon (Clarence Lapowski), the
financier who is the “Dillon” in Dillon, Read and Company passed away today in
San Francisco.
1912:
Dr. Philip Klein, Professor Mordecai M. Kaplan and Dr. J.L. Magnes are
scheduled to be three of the speakers at the memorial services being held this
afternoon “in honor of Sender Jarmulowsky, under the auspices of Congregation
Derech Emunoh…”
1913:
Birthdate of Philadelphia, PA native and Yale trained pediatric nurse
Francis Marie Fleisher Dolowitz, the
wife of David A. Dolowitz who settled in Salt Lake City and was an officer of
the National Council Jewish Women.
1913:
Birthdate of New York City and social
worker Maxwell W. Luchs, a director of the welfare funds for the American
Jewish Congress who had joined the American Jewish in 1949 after having served
as an overseas personnel director for the Joint Distribution Committee and as field
secretary of the Michigan State Resettlement Service for Refugees.
1913:
“Rumanian Jews” published today reported that “a strong organization” has been
formed in the United States, including “men of all parties and various forms of
religious beliefs,” with “the immediate objective of which will be to secure
action by the governments which are parties to the treaty of Berlin” to make
the Romanian government comply with the agreement that requires Jews in Romania
be treated as full citizens.
1914:
Today is the last day to sign up for the sixth annual Tennis Tournament
sponsored by the Chicago Hebrew Institute.
1914:
Rabbi Joseph of Chicago’s Isaiah Tempe is scheduled to leave for Detroit where
he will attend the Central Conference of American Rabbis and then go on to
spend his vacation in Syracuse and Wisconsin
1914(23rd
of Sivan, 5674): Forty-six-year-old Isidor Wormser, the son of the late Simon
Wormser and the Uncle of the late Isidor Wormser passed away at his home in
France today. He had retired from the banking business several years ago and
moved abroad because of his ill health.
1914(23rd
of Sivan, 5674): Isaac L. Mintz who moved from Russia to Charleston, SC before
settling in New York in 1899 where he “engaged in the manufacture of clothing”
passed away today.
1915:
“Jewish Communal Workers Unite” published today described the organization of
an upcoming “training school for Jewish communal workers” which “will enable
those engaged in Jewish charitable labors to exchange in views.”
1915:
“Rumors of a possible attack on the Georgia Prison Farm” at Milledgeville, GA,
“where Leo M. Frank is confined, caused the management of the farm to increase
the number of guards on both day and night duty.”
1915:
“A committee of Atlanta Jews today made an appeal to Solicitor General Hugh
Dorsey, who prosecuted Leo M. Frank, in behalf of their co-religionists at
Marietta, where it was asserted that a movement had been initiated to drive the
Jews from the city as a result of the feeling aroused by the action of Governor
Slaton in commuting Frank’s death sentence.”
1915:
Thirty-four of those arrested by police during the protests against Governor
Slaton had hearings in Police Court where eight cases were dismissed and
nominal fines were imposed in eleven of the cases including a fine levied of
$15.75 imposed on “J.A. Bozeman, a policeman who said he would lead a crowd to
the Governor’s home.”
1915:
Birthdate of Joseph Greenberg, the husband of the former Marilyn Green with
whom he had two children, LouEllen and William.
1916:
“At the request of President Adolph Kraus of the order of B’nai B’rith, a
committee of the American League of Romanian Jews met in conference with him”
today “at the Hotel Astor, to arrange for a national and international
co-operative effort toward securing for the Jews in Romania equal civil,
economic and political rights with the citizens of that country.”
1916:
“The Executive Committee of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith decided”
today “that the order could not participate in the projected Jewish congress in
this country because as an international organization it could not in the
spirit of its constitution commit the European membership to the action of an
assemblage composed exclusively of American Jews.”
1916:
The Executive Committee of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith elected Henry
Morgenthau as a member at large and appropriated an additional $5,000 for the
relief of Romanian Jews.
1917:
As part of the Allied drive to dislodge the Turks from Palestine, a move
supported by the Zionists, British aircraft bombed the railway station at
Tulkarm, the airfield at Ramleh and the German military headquarters in
Jerusalem, located in the August Victoria church and sanatorium on the summit
of the Mount of Olives
1917:
In Brooklyn, the United Dramatic Circle performed “The Marriage Broker” in
Yiddish as a benefit for the Mother’s Club.
1917:
Special Shabbat Morning Services will be held in Baltimore, MD prior to the
opening of the Twentieth Annual Convention of the Federation of Americans
Zionists.
1917:
In Brooklyn, the United Dramatic Circle performed “The Marriage Broker,” a
Yiddish play “for the benefit of the Mother’s Club.”
1918:
The twenty-first annual convention of the Federation of American Zionists
opened today in Pittsburgh, PA with a pledge of “loyal support and unlimited
aid of a united Jewry in the battle for democracy” delivered by Julian W. Mack
of Chicago.
1918:
“Jew Has High Rank In British Army” published today traces the career of Sir
John Monash, the Australian Jew who has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant
General and given command of a British Army Corps.
1918:
NYU trained attorney Samuel Markewich, the Lomza, Poland, born son Morris and
Hanna Rachel Markewich who was a partner in the firm of Kopp, Markewich and
Perlman who “as assistant district attorney investigated and exposed a
conspiracy against twenty-eight Jewish labor leader married Ida Jackson today.
1919:
“A pogrom took place today at Skvria in which 45 Jews were massacred, many were
severely wounded, and 35 Jewish women were raped by army insurgents. As Whites,
Reds and Cossacks battled for control of Russia during the Russian Civil War a
series of pogroms took place in and around Kiev known as the Kiev Pogroms.
1919:
Birthdate of Nathan Cohen, the Brooklyn born son of a New York publicist who
would gain fame as Lee Solters, “a foxy, flamboyant press agent who cranked up
his raspy Brooklyn-accented voice to hyperbolize about Broadway, Hollywood and
a raft of clients including Frank Sintra, Dolly Parton, Paul McCartney and
Wings, Led Zeppelin, Gregory Peck, Cary Grant, the Muppets, Mae West and
Michael Jackson. When he passed away in 2009, the New York Times would describe
him as, “One of the last surviving links to a Runyonesque era when publicists
would slip items to columnists at 1am over drinks at the landmark Manhattan bar
Toots Shor’s, Solters was a prominent press agent – or “flack”, as
the Americans call them – during the years when it was routine to
“plant” items about stars in showbusiness columns by such gossip
writers as Hedda Hopper and Walter Winchell. Over more than 40 years the
gravel-voiced Solters handled more than 300 shows, including the Broadway
musicals Annie, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady and Camelot,
“major motion pictures including The Graduate and the hit television series,
“Dallas.”
1919:
After serving in the position for all of World War I, Sidney Sonnion completed
almost five years of service as Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs.
1919:
As the negotiations to conclude the Treaty of Versailles, Gustav Bauer, the
head of the new German government gave in to the Allied ultimatum and sent a
telegram confirming that “a German delegation would arrive to sign the treaty.”
1920:Attorney
and decorated WWI veteran Milton J.
Foreman, the Chicago born son of Mary Hoffman and Jospeh Hoffman, the holder of
DSC, DSM and Silver Star was promoted today to the rank of Brigadier General in
the Illinois National Guard.
1920:
In “Want’s More Jewish History” a letter today “L. Sternberg” of Gainesville,
FL expressed his appreciation for The American Hebrew’s fight against
anti-Semitism while asking that the paper “give us some” more about “the Jewish
ancient history” so we would not forget “our younger day’s teaching about the
Jewish religion.
1920:
Dr. Louis Gross officiated at the wedding of Miss Mildred B. Behrend, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Behrend and Bertrand Weiss who served as a
Lieutenant in the Ordinance Department in the Navy and who was the son of New
Yorkers Mr. and Mrs. Albert Weiss.
1921(17th
of Sivan, 5681): “Communal worker” David Stanfield passed away today in South
Africa.
1922:
Today, in an editorial The Detroit Jewish did acknowledge that Naval Academy graduate Leonard
Kaplan who caricatured in the school’s yearbook as a character named “Porky” “was
a victim of antisemitism but did not view antisemitism as endemic in America”
stating that“The Kaplan incident is to be greatly regretted, but it is not at
all to be interpreted as a sign of the times.”
1922:
Prominent New York attorney, Republican political leader and civic benefactor
Edward Lauterbach paid tribute to the late Louis Stern, the longtime President
of Stern Brothers who passed away while vacationing in Europe. He described his
friend of 40 years as “Genial, kind hearted, good humored and never making an
enemy in all his life…” While Stern was active in numerous civic and Jewish
charities Lauterbach thinks “that the greatest achievement of Louis Stern was
what he did for the benefit of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum” which he served as
President for twenty years.
1923:
In Dallas, TX, grocery store owners Harry and Chaya Ruchel Andres gave birth to
“Dr. Reubin Andres, a gerontologist who advanced the study of diabetes but
gained his widest attention for arguing controversially that weight gain in
older people increases longevity.” (As reported by Leslie Kaufman)
1924:
It was reported today that more than six thousand Jews “who had left their
homes in Eastern Europe to come to America were stranded at European ports
because of the quotas” newly established by Congress.
1925(1st
of Tammuz, 5685): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1925:
In “Hampstead, London, England,” “Céline (née Aronowitz) and Harry Samuels, a
barrister, who specialized in industrial and trade union law gave birth to
Miriam Samuels who gained gamed as English actress Miriam Karlin, a member of
the “Anti-Nazi League” many of whose extended family members had been murdered
at Auschwitz.
1925:
In Houston, TX, Adolph and Marian (née Davidson) Blieden gave birth to Ivan
Lawrence Blieden who gained fame as actor Larry Blyden.
1925:
In Brooklyn George L. and Kitty Maizman Modell gave birth to Arthur Bertam
Modell whom the world will remember as Art Modell, the owner of the Cleveland
Browns and the Baltimore Ravens.
1926:
In Indianapolis, IN, Charles Fisher Kahn and Jennie Mack Kahn gave birth to
Rosanne Kahn who became Rosanne (Susie) Berman which she married Robert Nathan
Berman.
1926:
The College Board administers the first SAT exam. “In 1926, Harvard and other
Ivy League schools began using the SAT test to replace the admissions test on
which urban Jews had performed well.” This was part of an overall attempt to
limit Jewish attendance at these elite schools. “The SAT was grounded in the
earlier Ellis Island and U.S. Army World War I tests in which Jews, among
others, had performed poorly. That the poor performance was largely based on
the lower literacy of the foreigners and their unfamiliarity with English and
American terminology was not perceived to be the principal cause for the poor
test performance. Here was a test that had provided evidence Jews did not
perform well; its use might help bring about the desired results. Moreover, the
fact that some of the SAT questions were developed and tested on Princeton
freshman and Cooper Union students (all scholarship recipients), demonstrated
that smart Gentiles did well on the tests. Ironically, as time passed and Jews
became literate, absorbed American terminology, and learned how to take such
tests, the outcomes completely reversed. But that was in the future and not
anticipated when SAT testing began in 1926”.
1927:
In Atlantic City, “Mrs. Irma L. Lindheim, National President, reported today at
the opening session of the thirteenth annual convention of Hadassah that
American women raised $750,00 for Palestine in the year ending on June 1.
1928:
It was reported today that New York State Supreme Court Justice has ruled on
the custody of the sons of Louis Lowenstein their father who is the brother-in-law of Supreme Court Justice
Frankenthaler will have custody of the boys but their mother Ralphine Lowenstein
will have limited visitation rights.
1928:
Today, in New York Mayor Walker “announced the formation of a Mayo’s Committee
on Citizenship whose members including Abram I. Elkus, Rabbi S.S. Wise and Paul
and Felix Warburg.
1928:
The national finals of Young Judea National Oratorical Contest is scheduled to
begin today at Long Branch, NJ.
1929:
It was reported today that “under a unanimous decision by the Appellate
Division of the Supreme Court, Abraham J. Michlbacher, son of Solomon
Michelbacher, a member of the New York Cotton Exchange who died in August 1916,
must account as executor for $250,000 of the estate of his mother, Ella
Michelbacher who died in May, 1924”
1929: Birthdate of Simcha Dinitz “an Israeli
statesman and politician” who “served as Director General of the Prime
Minister’s office and political advisor to Prime Minister Golda Meir from
1969–1973, before becoming the Israeli Ambassador to the United States from
1973 to 1979.
1929: In Ozone Park, Queens, Dr. Edward Edelman
and his wife, the former Anna Freedman gave birth to Gerald Maurice Edelman who
won the 1972 Nobel Prize “for a breakthrough in immunology.” (As reported by
Bruce Weber)
1929: Birthdate of Polish born Australian
businessman Abraham “Abe” Goldberg who, in 1948 arrived in Australia where
found the Linter Group and then became embroiled in financial scandal.
1930:
Birthdate of Harvey Slom Ginsberg, the Bangor, Maine native “a New York book
editor who served long tenures at G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Harper & Row and
William Morrow & Company, and whose most loyal writers included John Irving
and Saul Bellow… His relationship with Mr. Bellow began at Harper & Row
with Mr. Bellow’s book “The Dean’s December,” published in 1981. Mr. Ginsberg
subsequently left Harper for Morrow, and for his next novel, “More Die of
Heartbreak,” Mr. Bellow followed him. Mr. Ginsberg began his long partnership
with Mr. Irving on the novel “The Cider House Rules,” published by Morrow in
1985, and he edited five other novels by Mr. Irving as well; they continued to
work together through 2005 on a freelance basis even after Mr. Irving moved to
another publishing house. His taste was high-minded, but he enjoyed a
well-executed popular novel as well. In 1975 he edited “Black Sunday,” a first
novel about a terror attack at the Super Bowl whose author, Thomas Harris, went
on to write novels featuring the man/monster Hannibal Lecter”
1930(27th
of Sivan, 5690): Sixty-six-year-old Professor of English Language and
Literature at King’s College Sir Israel Gollancz, a founding member of the
British Academy who served as its first secretary passed away today.
1930:
Bantamweight Herman “Kid” Silvers (Herman Silverberg) fought his final bout, a
defeat that left him with a lifetime record of 16 win, 15 losses and 4 draws.
1930(27th
of Sivan, 5690): Seventy-year-old Rabbi Maurice Henry Harris, the London born
son of Rachel Lewis and Henry Harris and the husband of Kitty Green, the holder
of three degrees of Columbia and founder of Hand in Synagogue in Harlem which
later became Temple Israel who was “a pioneer in the settlement house movement”
and President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis passed away today at
Mt. Sinai Hospital.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/06/25/96161672.html?pageNumber=18
1931:
“Anti-Semitic disorders among students of the University of Vienna followed a
decision today by the Austrian Constitutional Court that the famous
“Students’ Racial Regulation” was unconstitutional and must be set
aside.”
1932:Today
Bernard G. Richards, announced the opening of the Jewish Information Bureau of
which he is the director and whose purposed is “to assist Jewish people in
affairs affecting their interests and to help promote understanding between
Jews and non-Jews…”
1933:
Historian Abram L. Sachar and his wife Thelma gave birth to the University of
Pennsylvania trained psychiatrist. (As reported by Walter H. Waggoner)
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/28/obituaries/dr-ej-sachar-psychiatrist-and-hormone-expert-dead.html
1933:
Twenty-seven-year-old Harvard trained physician Henry Jacob Bakst, the
Providence, RI born son of Adolph and Sophie Bask married Ruth Elene Miller,
the mother of David Allan Bakst, the dean of the School of Medicine at Boston
University.
1934(10th
of Tammuz, 5694) Parashat Chukat
1934:
“Art Trouble” starring Shemp Howard (one of the original 3 Stooges) was
released in the United States today.
1934:
In Manhattan, at the New People’s Synagogue, Rabbi Samuel Buchler is scheduled
to deliver a sermon on “Are We a Superstitious People?”
1934:
In Manhattan, at Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Dr. Louis I. Newman is scheduled
to deliver a sermon on “Von Papen’s Speech and the Coming Collapse of
Hitlerism.”
1935:
Birthdate of gold medal winning Hungarian water polo player György Kárpáti
1936:
Samuel Untermeyer was among the delegates who attended the opening of the
National Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, PA.
1936:
“As the Arab anti-Jewish campaign continued” “a passenger on a Jewish owned bus
was killed and three others were wounded today by rifle fire near Rosh Pinah.”
1936:
In Cape May, NJ, Dr. Felix A. Levy of Chicago attacked fascism and communism at
the opening session of the 47th annual convention of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis of America which was attended by “more than 200
rabbis from all parts of the country.”
1936:
In Bucharest, as “rioting by reactionary students’ organizations” continued
tonight the windows of Jewish lawyers and doctors were smashed after which many
of the offices were plundered.
1937:
George Gershwin was admitted to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital In Los Angeles for
observation after a series of health problems including headaches and mood
swings.
1937:
Radio station WJZ in New York broadcast “Easy Aces” at 7 pm.
1937:
“Bans Shakespeare Play” published today described the successful fight led by
Maurice Tobin to ban the “reading of ‘Merchant of Venice’ in Boston Schools as
result of complaints that the character of ‘Shylock’ was offensive to the
Jewish race..”
1937:
Birthdate of real estate developer John E. Zucotti, the husband Susan Sessions
Zucotti the American historians whose
studies and books about the Holocaust won her a National Jewish Book Award for
Holocuast Studies whose works included Under His Very Windows: The Vatican
and the Holocaust in Italy and Pere Marie-Benoit and Jewish Rescue.
1938:
Four persons were killed and at least a dozen seriously wounded in a series of
shootings in Jaffa today. With heavy police reinforcements, scores were beaten
by police clubs. Many bystanders were roughly handled by crowds. Residents of
Jaffa’s Jewish quarter fled out of fear most of them heading for near-by Tel
Aviv.
1938:
In explaining her motivation to become a rabbi, Regina Jonas, the first woman
to be ordained said today. ““If I confess what motivated me, a woman, to become
a rabbi, two things come to mind. My belief in God’s calling and my love of
humans. God planted in our heart skills and a vocation without asking about
gender. Therefore, it is the duty of men and women alike to work and create
according to the skills given by God.”
(She would perform her duties in Theresienstadt before being murdered at
Auschwitz Jewish Women’s Archive)
1938:
In New York City, David and Sylvia P. (Saffran) Shestrack gave birth to
Wesleyan University and Harvard trained museum curator Alan Shestrack, the
husband of Nancy Jane Davidson
1938:
“Three Jewish farmers from the Zichron Jacob mysteriously disappeared this
afternoon. It is believed they were
kidnapped by armed Arabs and carried off to the hills.
1939(6th
of Tammuz, 5699): Ninety-year-old Lean Biela passed away today in Charleston,
SC.
1939(6th
of Tammuz, 5699): Forty-seven-year-old British painter Mark Gertler passed away
today after which he was buried at the Willesden Jewish Cemetery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gertler_(artist)#/media/File:Mark-gertler-queen-of-sheba-1922.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gertler_(artist)#/media/File:Mark_Gertler,_by_Mark_Gertler.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gertler_(artist)#/media/File:Atelier,_external.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gertler_(artist)#/media/File:Gilbert_Cannan_at_his_Mill.jpg
1939:
Dutch Jewish diarist Esther “Etty” Hillesum took the first of her
master’s exams in Dutch Law.
1939:
Herman Goering, Hitler’s number 2, led a meeting of Reich Defense Council in
which he told them to prepare for total war. Hitler planned to conscript seven
million soldiers. This means production work is to be given to prisoners and
inmates of prisons and concentration camps.
1939:
U.S. premiere of “Daughters Courageous” directed by Michael Curtiz, produced by
Hal B. Wallis, with music by Max Steiner, a script co-authored by Philip and
Julius Epstein and co-starring John Garfield.
1940:
Today, Sunday, at 1:30 pm Margret and Hans Rey arrived in Lisbon.
1940:
“The day after France signed the armistice that marked the country’s official
capitulation and partial occupation, Adolf Hitler toured Paris” footage of
which “opens the earnest and unconventional French docudrama La Rafle the docudrama that “chronicles
the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup of July 1942, in which roughly 13,000 Jews living in
Paris (4,501 of them children) were removed from their homes by French police
and sent to detention camps in the countryside, before being deported to
Auschwitz.”
1941:
28th of Sivan, 5701): Avreml Vertilinksi, who as a youngster “worked
in his father’s shoemaking shop” while becoming a contributor to the Grodner Moment which published his prose and poetry “was killed by a Nazi bomb
during the occupation of his hometown of Grodneo
1941: In the evening, German forces enter the
village of Jedwabne, Poland
1941:
The great yeshivot of Slobodka and Telz closed their doors the day after
Germany invaded Lithuania.
1941:
One day after the German invasion of Latvia, the Holocaust began in the Baltic
Republic when Sonderkommando members murdered six Jews in the church cemetery in the town of Grobina, near Liepāja
1942(8th of Tammuz, 5702): Sixty-six-year-old
Hugo H. Piesen, the Prague born son of Rosalia and Moritz Piesen, the husband
of Annie Piesen and the father of Maurice, Robert and Stella Piesen who was known for his involvement in the
“philanthropic and civic affairs of Brooklyn, founding of Camp Sussex and
service as the treasurer of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/06/24/87714122.pdf
1942: The first selections for the gas chamber
at Auschwitz take place on a trainload of Jews from Paris.
1942:
A German convoy deported Jews from Morocco to the death camps of Europe.
1943: Ukrainian police surround a Jewish school
at Czortków, Ukraine, where 534 Jewish slave laborers are housed. The camp
commandant, Thomanek, shoots several prisoners and orders others carted off for
execution. In The Holocaust, Martin Gilbert describes how a local
gentile, Jan Nakonieczmy, risked his life to hide five Jews in his tiny
henhouse. “The henhouse was only two feet high, four feet wide, and thirteen
feet long. The five Jews were Henryk
Sperber, his mother, his sister, his fiancée and his cousin. All five survived the war. So did their savior.”
1943:
In Czortkow; Ukrainian police began an “action” that would destroy
the remaining Jewish population of about 600 people.
1943:
By this date 50,000 Jews had been deported from France. The slow pace was not
to the satisfaction of the Nazis.
1943:
Eighteen-year-old Henri Krasucki “was deported from Drancy to Jawischowitz, a
sub-camp of Auschwitz, and then to Buchenwald.
1943:
In Cincinnati, OH, Lawrence Levine, “a violinist who led dance bands under the
name ‘Larry Lee’ before entering his father’s clothing business” and “Helen
Goldstein Levine” who “was briefly an actress on Broadway perform as ‘Helen
Golden’” gave birth Metropolitan Opera conductor James Levine.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/james-levine-mn0000155653
1944:
Chaim Barlas, an agent of the Jewish Agency working in Istanbul received a copy
of a 30 page report known as the ‘Auschwitz Protocols’ complied by two Jews who
escaped from the camp that April. The
report made it clear that the camp was a killing ground for the Jews of Europe.
1944: Operations resume at the Chelmno death
camp.
1944: The Allies learn that more than 430,000
Hungarian Jews have been deported to Auschwitz and murdered since May. There
are about 300,000 Jews left alive in Hungary.
1944: A Red Cross delegation visits the
camp/ghetto at Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, and is apparently fooled by the
camp’s superficially benign atmosphere. However, the Red Cross almost
simultaneously sends an official protest to Hungary about deportations of
Hungarian Jews.
1944:
Under the direction of Raphael “Raifi” Schacter, Theresienstadt inmates
performed Verdi’s Requiem Mass, its final performance today
http://www.timesofisrael.com/music-used-as-resistance-to-the-nazis-captures-new-audiences/
1944:
After intensive search through the Lodz Ghetto for Jews, deportation began and
did not end until July 14. Jews were shipped out at the rate of 3,000 a week
for three weeks. They were told that they on their way to work as laborers in
Berlin or outside of Leipzig. Actually the Jews were shipped to Chelmo where
they would all perish once inside the camp.
1944(2nd of Tammuz, 5704):
Seventy-year-old University of Cincinnati graduate of and Medical College of
Ohio trained physician Samuel Iglauer, the Cincinnati born son of Deila
Fechheimer and Arnold Iglauer and the husband of Helen Ranshoff Iglauer who he
married in 1906 and with whom he had two children – Helen and Charles– who in
1916 became Professor and Director of Laryngology at the College of Medicine at
the University of Cincinnati passed away today after which he was buied at the
Walnut Hills Jewish Cemetery in Evanston, OH.
1944:
The Red Cross visited the Theresienstadt ghetto during which a picture was
taken of the children.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/june/index.asp
1945(12th
of Tammuz, 5705): Parashat Chukat-Balak
1945:
“An exhibit of Hebrew books printed in Palestine has been opened at the Jewish
Institute of Religion Library” which “included numerous books of Jewish
research and Hebrew translations of such classic writers as Plato, Aristotle,
Dante, Shakespeare and Heine.”
1946:
Twenty-seven-year-old University of Michigan grad and WW II Navy veteran Sidney
Davidson the Chicago born son of Mendel and Eva Slosberg Davidson, married
Freda Joy Sendler.
1947:
Forty-four-year-old Hans Biebow, “the German Nazi chief of administration of
the Lodz Ghetto was executed by hanging today.
1948:
The Central Conference of American Rabbis continued to meet today in Kansas
City, MO where delegates had heard Dr. Abraham J. Feldman’s plea for the end of
the political controversy over Zionism among Jews.
1949:
The convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis is scheduled to
begin today in Brenton Woods, N.H.
1949:
“Israel reacted coolly…to the United Nations Palestine Conciliation
Commission’s report that criticized her attitude toward the Arab refugees” in
part according to such newspaper as Hador because of the flawed tactics used by
the commission
1950(8th
of Tammuz, 5710): Ninety-year-old Samuel S. Fels, the Yanceyville, NC born son
of Bavarian natives Lazarus and Susannah Fels, the Philadelphia businessman and
philanthropist, the brother of Joseph Fels whose company produced Fels-Naptha
passed away today.
http://www.samfels.org/about/samuel-s-fels/
1952(30th
of Sivan, 5712): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1952:
In New York Philip Alexander Kaplan and Phyllis Quasha gave birth to University
of Connecticut trained journalist Robert David Kaplan.
1952:
In a letter to the New York Times, Lessing J. Rosenwald, President of
the American Council of Judaism, an anti-Zionist organization reiterated the
group’s disagreement with the Israeli government’s new policy concerning
citizenships, declaring that nationality and religion are two different issues.
1953:
Birthdate of Betzalel “Tzali” Reshef a Sabra who served as Labor MK
in the first decade of the 21st century.
1953:
In Los Angeles, Holocaust survivors Jack and Bluma Samuels gave birth to Lilly
Samuels the philanthropist and cancer fighter who is the widow of Brandon
Tartikoff and became Lily Tartikoff Karatz when she married Bruce Karatz in
2009.
1954:
Tax lawyer Martin D. Ginsburg married Ruth Bader, who gained fame as Associate
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
1956(14th
of Tammuz, 5716): Parashat Balak
1956:
Gamal Abdel Nasser is elected President of the Republic of Egypt in a landslide
in which 99.95 percent of the voters mark their ballots for him. A secular
pan-Arabist who was the ringleader of the “Colonel’s Revolution” Nasser
reportedly claimed that he did not hate the West because of Israel but hated
Israel because it was of the West.
1959(17th
of Sivan, 5719): Seventy-nine-year-old San Luis Obispo, CA, native Rebecca
Cerf, the University of California Graduate, WW I veteran of the Army Medical
Corps and the sister of “San Francisco Superior Judge Marcel E. Cerf, Stockton
rancher Cedric E. Cerf and Reed College Professor Barry Cerf” who was “a member
of the Women’s Overseas Service League” died today when fire burned down the
Stalheim Hotel in Norway.
1959:
Sixty-five-year-old Mrs. Sidney S. Kahn of San Francisco survived today’s fire
at Norwegian resort hotel.
1960:
Premiere of “Bells Are Ringing,” a musical comedy co-starring Judy Holiday,
produced by Arthur Freed, written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green with a score
by Jule Styne.
1961:
In Pittsburgh, PA, Harold Leavitt, a Stanford University professor and his wife
Gloria, “a political activist gave birth to David Leavitt, a professor at the
University of Florida whose works include the short-story collection Family
Dancing which was the finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
1962(21st
of Sivan, 5722): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1962(21st
of Sivan 5722): Sixty-two-year-old New Jersey born, Princeton educated and WW I
veteran Berry Pink, known as the “Marble King” because his company Barry Pink
Industries manufactured billions of the little glass balls which had been his
childhood passion, passed away today after suffering a heart attack.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/06/25/82047422.pdf
1962(21st
of Sivan, 5722): Fifty-eight-year-old movie producer and writer Harvey
Bernhard, the son of Moe Bernhard and the former Rose Minnie Cohn passed away
today.
http://www.filmreference.com/film/64/Harvey-Bernhard.html
1962:
“Palisades Park” a pop song written by Chuck Barris reached No. 3 on the
Billboard Hot 100 today.
1964(13th
of Tammuz, 5724): Sixty-four-year-old Mrs. Bertha Heller Topefer, “a fond of
the Jewish Memorial Hospital in New York” and “one of the first members of
Hadassah” who was married to Solomon Toepfer with whom she had one daughter and
two sons, passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/24/archives/mrs-solomon-toepfer.html?searchResultPosition=1
1965:
U.S. premiere of “Harlow” the cinematic treatment of Irving Shulman’s Harlow:
An Intimate Biography produced by Joseph E. Levine, filmed by cinematographer
Joseph Ruttenberg and starring Carroll Baker and Red Buttons.
1966(5th
of Tammuz, 5726): Forty-six-year-old NYU Dental School graduate and WW II Navy
veteran Dr. Seymour Kahn, an “associate visiting specialist in orthodontia at
Montefiore Hospital and the husband of Ruth Kahn, with whom he had two
daughters, Janice and Karen, suffered a fatal heart attack today at his home in
Queens.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/06/24/82815735.html?pageNumber=37
1967(15th
of Nisan, 5727): Seventy-three-year-old “Romanian born American businessman,
Benjamin Abrams, a “founder of Emerson Radio and Phonography Corporation” and
the Jewish communal leader who “was a founder of the Albert Einstein College of
Medicine and the Greater New York Committee for State of Israel Bonds” passed
away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/06/24/83124611.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20100105174830/http://www.ce.org/Events/Awards/441.htm
https://www.hbs.edu/leadership/20th-century-leaders/Pages/details.aspx?profile=benjamin_abrams
1967:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held this after at Temple Emanu-El in
Manhattan for Sixty-nine-year old Charles Gilman, Sr. the Chairman of the board
of the Gilman Paper Company, the New York born son of Isaac Gilman, the founder
of the company and the husband of “the
former Sylvia Phillips” with whom he had two sons – Howard and Charles, Jr.
–who had passed away “aboard the Michelangelo on his way home from Rome.”
1967:
Five thousand Muslims prayed on the Haram, including a thousand Israeli Muslims
who had been denied access during the nineteen years of Jordanian rule.
1969:
“Stereo” a Canadian movie directed, produced written by, filmed by and edited
by David Cronenberg was released in Canada today.
1969(7th
of Tammuz, 5729):Seventy-eight-year-old
New York City born and City College graduate Abraham Cohen, “a real
estate developer at Lake Mohegan, NY who donated loand and organzed the Lake
Mohegan Park district and who raised four children – Elias, Samuel, Natalie and
Hinda – with his wife Anna passed away today in New York City.
1971:
“Klute” an off-beat mystery produced and directed by Alan J. Paluka was
released today in the United States
1972:
In Southfield, Michigan, Judge Molly Ann (née Cooke) and Elliot I. Beitner gave
birth to Selma Blair Beitner who gained fame as actress Selma Blair.
1973(23rd
of Sivan, 5733): Parashat Sh’lach
1973(23rd
of Sivan, 5733): Seventy-nine-year-old Alexander Sachs the Russian born Harvard
and Columbia trained economist who is credited with being the first person to
interest FDR in the “possibilities of the atomic bomb” passed away today.
1974:
“The Groove Tube,” a comedy produced and directed by Ken Shapiro who also
co-authored the screenplay and co-starred along with Richard Belzer was
released in New York City today.
1974:
“Thirty-four years Soviet Jews including Vitali Rubin and Mikhail Agursky
appealed to US Senators Jackson, Javits and Ribicoff in connection with
intensification of repressions and urged them to obtain firm Soviet guarantees
on emigration before passing a trade bill.”
1975:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native, University of Florida grad and Fordham trained attorney
Howard Roseman, the husband of Mindy Roseman with whom he had four children and
since 2010 executive vice president and general manger of the NFL’s
Philadelphia Eagles and “a featured artist on “The Dreidel Song” as
covered by The Philly Specials.”
1975(14th
of Tammuz, 5735): Seventy-six-year-old Louis Reichenthal Gottschalk, the
University of Chicago professor and expert on French history passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9D03E3DE103CE034BC4D51DFB066838E669EDE
1976:
“Murder by Death,” Neil Simon’s parody of murder mysteries was released today in the United States.
1976:
“The Big Bus” featuring Harold Gould as “Professor Baxter” and Stuart Margolin
as “Alex” with music by David Shire was released today in the United States.
1977:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today at Forest Park Chapel, Philip
Lapidus, the husband of Clara Lapidus.
1977:
In “A New Israel” published today Bernard Avishai examined the outcome of last
month’s election when Likud won a “stunning victory” over the Laborites who
were awash in a series of seemingly criminal scandals starting with Prime
Minister Rabin’s currency violations.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1977/06/23/a-new-israel/
1978:
It was reported today that after Rabbi Leib Pinter has been sentenced to two
years in federal prison and fined seventeen thousand dollars for having bribed
Congressman Dan Flood “to obtain favorable treat for the social service
programs of the B’nai Torah Institute” the judge “imposed a special sentence of
zero to six years on Victory Mayer, one of Rabbi Pinter’s former students.”
1979:
Jacques Derrida “recounts his first meeting with Avital Ronell in a letter
bearing today’s date “from The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond.”
1980:
Today, Carnegie Hall whose designers included Dankmar Adler was designated a
New York State Historic Preservation Site.
1981:
Robert Badinter began serving as French Minister of Justice.
1981:
The U.S. Maccabiah Basketball Teams is scheduled to play an exhibition game
tonight at Queen College in Flushing, NY against the European Championship
Maccabi Tel Aviv Quintet, a month before the opening of the 11th
Maccabiad in Israel.
1982(2nd
of Tammuz, 5742): Sixty-five-year-old labor activist Nathan Peskin, “the
executive direct at the Workmen’s Circle” passed away today at Long Beach, NY
https://www.jta.org/1982/06/25/archive/nathan-peskin-dead-at-65
1986(16th
of Sivan, 5746): Seventy-four-year-old classical scholar Sir Moses I. Finley,
author of The Ancient Economy, passed away. Born Moses Israel
Finkelstein in New York City he graduated from Syracuse and Columbia before
taking the name of Finley in 1936. After
teaching at Columbia and City College he was fired by Rutgers when he “took the
5th” when called by Senator McCarthy’s red hunting committee. He and his wife Mary moved to Great Britain
where he pursued his career, another casualty of the Right Wing Red Witch Hunt.
(As reported by Edwin McDowell)
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/11/obituaries/sir-moses-i-finley-a-scholar-in-the-classics.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ancient_Economy_(book)
1987:
In Palm Springs, CA, funeral services were held today for 79-year-old Phil
Weintraub, the Chicago born baseball player and husband of Jeanne Weintraub,
who compiled a .295 batting average while playing first base and the outfield
for “the New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies.”
1989:
“Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,” starring Rick Moranis, a product of the Canadian
Jewish community, premiered today.
1989:
In the UK, premiere of “The Tall Guy,” a comedy starring Jeff Goldblum.
1991:
Tony Randall and Jack Klugman starred in a Broadway Performance of “The
Odd Couple.” Two Jewish actors took their television roles of Felix Unger
and Oscar Madison back to the New York stage from which these roles had sprung.
The author of this All- American hit was another Jew named Neil Simon.
1992: Maxine Frank Singer, a leading biochemistry
researcher and advocate of science education, was awarded the National Medal of
Science.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/23/1992/maxine-frank-singer
1992:
Yitzhak Rabin wins the Israeli parliamentary elections and becomes Prime
Minister for the second time. A sabra,
Rabin had begun his military career in the Palmach. He rose to be Chief of Staff during the
Israel’s smashing victory in 1967. Rabin
signed off on the Oslo Accords in a bold attempt to bring peace to the Middle
East. Rabin won the 1994 Nobel Peace
Prize for his efforts. Unfortunately
Rabin was murdered by a right wing zealot in 1995. This heinous crime robbed the Israelis of the
one leader who might have been able to move the process forward. Would things have been different if Rabin had
lived? We will never know. Obviously the assassin and his supporters
felt that by killing Rabin they could kill the peace process.
1992:
Retired IDF General Avigdor Kahalani began serving as Labour Party MK.
1994(14th
of Tammuz, 5754): Sixty-year-old Irish journalist Stanley Gebler Davis passed
away today.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-stan-gebler-davies-1424755.html
1994:
In Los Angeles premiere of “Forest Fump” produced by Wendy Finerman and Steve
Tisch, with a screenplay by Eric Roth.
1995:
“Pocahontas” an animated film based on the life of native-American “princess”
co-directed by Eric Goldberg, with music by Alan Menken was released today in
the United States.
1995(27th
of Sivan, 5755): Eighty-year old Dr. Jonas Salk, inventor of the first Polio
Vaccine passed away. Another Jew, Dr.
Sabine, invented the second Polio Vaccine. This is but one of the many
contributions that the American Jewish Community should be celebrating and
sharing with our countrymen during the 350th Anniversary of the
Jewish Community in the United States. (As reported by Harold M. Schmeck,
Jr.)
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1028.html
1997:
Anna Halprin received the Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for
lifetime achievement in modern dance.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/23/1997/anna-halprin
1996:
At Temple Beth-El in New Rochelle, NY, Rabbi Charles Feinberg is scheduled to
officiate at the wedding of 28 year old University of Pennsylvania graduate
Pamela Faith Schulman, “the development director for Congregation Emanu-El in
New York” and 34 year old Penn State graduate Bruce Goldstein, “an assistant
controller at the Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation.”
2000:
“Israeli warplanes flew over Beirut, violating Lebanese airspace for the first
time since Israel pledged to respect its neighbor’s sovereignty and ended a
22-year occupation of the south.”
2000:
“A prosecution official has backed defense assertions that none of the 13
Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel will be sentenced to death.”
2000:
“Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl was accused of trivializing the Nazi persecution
of the Jews after he invoked it to describe his treatment by the ruling Social
Democratic government.”
2001:
British statistician Claus Adolf Moser “was made a Life peer with the title
Baron Moser, of Regent’s Park in the London Borough of Camden” today.
2001: The Dubnow Institute
hosted an international conference on “Restitution and Memory” came to an end
today in Vienna.
2002: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph
E. Stiglitz
2002(13rd Tammuz, 5762); Eighty-two-year-old
South-African architect and opponent of apartheid Lionel “Rusty” Bernstein
passed away.
http://www.rusty-bernstein.com/guardian-obituary.htm
2003: “The Supreme Court today struck down a
California law designed to help Holocaust survivors receive payment on
insurance policies that European companies have long denied, saying that the
law improperly interfered with United States foreign policy. (As reported by
Joseph B. Treaster)
2004: “Gen. Omar Suleiman, the director of Egyptian
intelligence, visited top Israeli and Palestinian officials today to work out
the precise role Egypt would play in overseeing security in the Gaza Strip once
Israel relinquishes the coastal territory to the Palestinians.”
2005(16th of Sivan, 5765): Eighty-two-year-old
violinist Isadore Cohen passed away today.
2005(16th of Sivan, 5765): Seventy-nine-year-old
ground-breaking print journalist Shana Alexander who was best known for part in
the “Point-Counter Point” segment on “Sixty Minutes” passed away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jun/24/local/me-alexander24
2005(16th of Sivan, 5765): Prof. Nahum
M. Sarna, z”l passed away.
https://www2.bc.edu/~langerr/NMSarna/JonathanSarna.htm
2005:
A roundabout in the 20th arrondissement of Paris was given the name “Place
Henri Krasucki” in honor of Henri Krasucki, the trade unionist who was gassed
at Auschwitz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Krasucki#/media/File:PHKParis.jpg
2006:
Shlomo Mola becomes the first Ethiopian to be chosen as a top executive of
World Zionist Organization. Mola who now
serves as the Jewish Agency’s senior consultant for Ethiopian immigrants, will
head the department for Zionist institutions. According to Haaretz, the nomination is especially significant, since his
confirmation would mark the first time an Ethiopian immigrant has been elected
to a key leadership position within the Zionist establishment that does not
deal specifically with the Ethiopian sector. “It was Prime Minister
Olmert’s idea to have an Ethiopian deal with non-Ethiopian issues,” said
one World Zionist Organization insider. “It was a way of showing that
after 20 years in Israel; Ethiopians can be the boss of run-of-the-mill Israeli
bureaucrats. The idea is that it shouldn’t be looked at as strange, that
Ethiopians have already become mainstream Israelis.”
2006:
According to a report published in a scientific journal, ancient beads that may
represent the oldest attempt by people at self-decoration have been identified
from sites in Israel and Algeria. The beads, made from shells with holes bored
into them, date to around 100,000 years ago, some 25,000 years older than
similar beads discovered two years ago in South Africa, researchers report in
the journal Science. The new find involves just three shells, two from Skhul in
northern Israel, which the researchers said were about 100,000 years old and
one from Oued Djebbana, Algeria, estimated to be 90,000 years old. The
researchers said the shells were found many miles from the sea, indicating they
were brought to those locations deliberately, most likely for bead-working.
2006:
Avraham Hirchson was quoted by Haaretz
in today’s edition saying, “There are people who are trying to harm me and
my family, by means of pressure and threats … Detectives are following me,
with the aim of harming me. This will not work with me; even if the threats
intensify, I will continue to promote the reforms that are so important for the
people of Israel.”
2006(27th
of Sivan, 5766: Eighty-three-year-old Television producer Aaron Spelling passes
away. (As reported by Bill Carter)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/24/arts/television/24spelling.html
2006:
Donald Lewis Kohn “began serving his four year term as Vice Chairman of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
2007:
In Cedar Rapids, Miriam Maikon becomes
a Bat Mitzvah, at Temple Judah.
2007:
The Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow opens. The
city’s historic Jewish quarter (called Kazimierz) fills with music, art, dance,
lectures and exhibits – all celebrating the 900-year history of Jews in Poland.
2007:
“Pangs of The Messiah” has its English Language World
Premiere at Theatre J in Washington, D.C.
2008: In Washington, D.C., Alan
Furst reads from and signs his new espionage thriller, The Spies of Warsaw, at Politics
and Prose Bookstore
2008: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at Temple Judah, a memorial service
for Penny Binger, a sweet soul who loved Chasidic stories and was a self-styled
“Shlomo Charlebach Groupie.”
2008: Overnight, Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip fired a
mortar shell into Israel – the first breach of the cease fire since it went
into effect five days ago.
2008: Time magazine
reviews “Apples and Oranges” by Marie Brenner
2009: Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, 1st day of Tammuz, 5769
2009:
Israel released the speaker of the Palestinian
Legislative Council from prison today, ending his three-year incarceration.
Aziz al-Dweik, considered a moderate Hamas leader in the West Bank, was one of
several Palestinian leaders arrested after the June 2006 abduction of Israel
Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit.
2009:
A bankruptcy trustee recommended today that SHF
Industries be allowed to buy most of the assets of Agriprocessors for $8.5
million, in addition to funds already committed to buy up about $21 million in
debt owed two of Agriprocessors’ largest creditors. SHF is led by Heshey
Friedman, the president of Montreal-based Polystar Plastics, which manufactures
packaging for poultry and other meats. Friedman has two other partners in the
venture, Daniel Hirsch and Mitch Kirschner.
2010:
The Yellow Submarine is scheduled to present Hatsai
Tzvaim Hatsai Kolot: Israeli poet Rachel’s poetry set to music, and The Naomi
Ensemble: a tribute to Naomi Shemer – a tribute to two of Israel’s finest
poets.
2010: In France, premiere of “The Chameleon” starring Ellen Barkin
as “Kimberly Miller.”
2010: Donald Kohn completed his four-year term as Vice Chairman of
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Syste,
2010:
Beit Avi Chai is scheduled to present “Tel
Aviv-New York — Authentic jazz with a touch of the Mediterranean”
2010: A conference organized by the Humphrey Institute for Social
Research at Ben- Gurion University meeting today dealt with “the political, social and
cultural role of diasporas and their links with their countries of origin or,
in the case of second and third generation diaspora children, the home
countries of their parents and grandparents.”
2011:
Sheriff David Clarke will speak on “Security and
Spirituality: Reflections on My Mission to Israel” at meeting sponsored by
the Jewish Community Relations Council in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
2011: A lively presentation
featuring Naama Shefi of the Consulate General of Israel entitled A Food
Lover’s Tour of Israel” scheduled to be held at the 92nd St Y will give attendees a
chance to “ddiscover what cutting-edge Israeli chefs
are creating in Israel and learn the history of dozens of the country’s most
famous dishes.”
2011: There are widening gaps between poor and middle-class
citizens in Israel in the rate of incidences of chronic disease, a report
published today revealed.
2011: The failure of Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon to retaliate in the Gaza Strip for rocket fire after disengagement – as
he promised – was one of the major mistakes made after the 2005 pullout, Dan
Kurtzer, who was the US envoy to Israel at the time, suggested today.
2011: The
Israeli Presidential Conference came to an end.
2011(21st
of Sivan, 5772): Eighty-eight-year-old composer and conductor Fred Steiner the
creator of theme music for such shows as ‘Gunsmoke,’ ‘The Twilight Zone,’ ‘Star
Trek,’ ‘Have Gun, Will Travel,’ ‘Rawhide,’ ‘Hogan’s Heroes,’ ‘The Bullwinkle
Show’ and other TV series passed away today. (As reported by Randy Lewis)
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/25/local/la-me-fred-steiner-20110625
2011(21st
of Sivan, 5772): Eighty-three-year-old Peter Falk, who became synonymous with
Colombo, the rumpled raincoat wearing detective who always had one more
question, passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
2011(21st
of Sivan, 5772): Eighty-four-year-old Gene Colan one of the leading comic-book
artists of the 20th century passed away. (As reported by Margalit
Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/arts/gene-colan-comic-book-artist-dies-at-84.html
2012(3rd
of Tammuz, 5772): 18th Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous
memory simply known as The Rebbe. This
blog cannot do justice to his impact on Judaism or the lives of individual
Jews. One does not have to be a Lubavitcher to have been impacted by the Rebbe
or his corps of “Lamplighters” such as Rabbi PInchas Ciment, who brought the
light of Chassidus and Judaism to some very dark places.
2012: “Hungry
Kite,” the creation of Choreographer Deganit Shemy is scheduled to perform for
the last time at the Chocolate Factory at Long Island City.
2012: Kulanu Toronto and Congregation Shir Libeynu are scheduled hold a pre-Pride
Karaoke Night after Shabbat.
2012: Rabbi Meir
Soloveichik is scheduled to discuss “Serving Man and God in the Twilight Zone:
Reflections on Judaism and Western Thought,” www.torahinmotion.org
2012:
Social activist Daphni Leef was treated today for
injuries sustained during clashes with police that took place during a
demonstration on Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard yesterday. Her arm was placed
in a cast. Leef and 11 others were arrested in what was widely described as a
violent sweep of crowd control.(As reported by Yoel Goldman)
2012: Gaza-based terrorists fired 25 rockets into southern Israel
today, causing damage to a school and factory. The latest attacks bring the
total number of rockets and other projectiles fired from the Strip to
approximately 150 over the past six days. Israeli security chiefs held a series
of emergency consultations today — including a meeting of defense chiefs with
Defense Minister Ehud Barak — and decided to try to avoid a further escalation
of hostilities. Amid reports from Gaza Saturday night that Hamas was now
seeking a ceasefire, security sources said “quiet will be met with quiet, but
further rocket fire will be met with further fire [from Israel].” Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was also involved in the consultations.
2013: The Israeli Squad is schedule to compete in the Cosmos Copa
for the first time ever when it plays a double header against Italy and the
Netherlands at Randalls Island.
2013: The New York Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas by Eric
Fischl and Michael Stone and Debtor’s Prison: The Politics of Austerity
Versus Possibility by Robert Kuttner
2013: The Spertus Institute
is scheduled to host a lecture by Daniel Belasco entitled “Jewish Graphic
Design from the Talmud to Today.”
2013: The Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger, currently
under house arrest on suspicion of financial crimes, announced today that he
was suspending himself from his official duties.
2013:
A Jerusalem court today ordered the release of a
Jewish youth who had been arrested on charges of praying on the Temple Mount.
The youth was also cleared of charges that he attacked an Arab during his visit
to the Mount. (As reported by David Lev)
2013: Terrorists from Hamas-controlled Gaza fired three rockets
into southern Israel tonight.The rockets landed in open areas in the Bnei
Shimon Regional Council and near the city of Netivot. There were no physical
injuries or damages. (As reported by Elad Benari)
2014: The UK Jewish Film is scheduled to host its Celebration of
Film Dinner.
2014: “The Sturgeon Queens” is scheduled to be shown at Portland,
Oregon, Jewish Film Festival.
2014: An Evening with Paul Robeson: A Recital in Homage to the
Great Singer and Humanitarian” is scheduled to be presented this evening in the
Rubenstein Pavilion of the Jewish Home and Care Center, in Milwaukee, WI.
2014: “The Israeli Air Force struck several targets belonging to
Assad’s forces on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights overnight, Israeli media
reported early this morning.”
2014: Ziad Awad “a Hamas operative released under the 2011
exchange for Gilad Shalit and his son Izz Eddin Hassan Ziad Awad were indicited
today for gunning down Baruch Mizrahi near Hebron on Passover eve. The father
was the shoot while the son facilitated th getaway. (As reported by Marissa
Newman)
2014: Rabbi Haim Korsia was elected Chief Rabbi of France.
2014: “Ewan McGregor signed on to play the lead role of Seymour
“Swede” Levov, a former high school star athlete and successful
Jewish American businessman” in the movie version of Philip Roth’s novel
American Pastoral
2014: “The tires of three cars were found punctured, and four
others deflated, in a suspected racist tag attack in an Israeli-Arab East
Jerusalem neighborhood today.”
2014: J Street released a statement today saying that the
Presbyterian Church vote in favor of divestment “would not be helpful to the
cause of peace.” (As reported by Lazar Berman)
2015(6th of Tammuz, 5775): Ninety-three-year-old Harvey
Pollack who began compiling NBA statistics since 1946 passed away today. (As
reported by Richard Goldstein
http://www.thephillysportscave.com/2015/06/24/harvey-pollack-original-triple-double/
2015: In Paris, the prosecution is expected to rest its case
against 15 “members of the terrorist group Forsane Alizza “who planned attacks
on French Jews” and targets that included “five Jewish supermarkets of the
Hyper Cacher chain “
2015: “An anti-missile “color red” siren was sounded
after 10 p.m. tonight in the Hof Ashkelon regional council area, a region that
frequently has been a target of Hamas rockets from Gaza.”
2015: The 17th International Research Conference of the
Latin American Jewish Studies Association is scheduled to come to an end.
2015: The Center for Jewish For Jewish History is scheduled to
host a lecture by Joseph Berger, author of The Pious Ones: The World of
Hasidim and Their Battles With America.
2015: The Center For Jewish History is scheduled to host “Changing
Lives, Making History: CBST – The First Forty Years – CBST’s 40th Anniversary
Book.”
2016(17th of Tammuz, 5776): Parahat Balak
2016(17th of Tammuz, 5776): Eighty-five-year-old Jerome
Fisher, whose company at one time supplied “one out of every five pairs of
shoes” that American women buy passed away today. (As reported by David E.
Slotnik)
2016(17th of Tammuz, 5776): Seventy-one-year-old Harold
“Heshy” Jacob passed away today.
2016: Jewish Historical Society Program and Outreach Manager
Samantha Abramson is scheduled to explore “Jewish life and key personalities
during the Civil War and changes the war brought for the newly expanded Jewish
community of Washington, D.C.” in a lecture this evening.
2016: “Rabin In His Own Words” is scheduled to be shown at the 13
annual Israeli Film Festival in Ottawa, Canada.
2016: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host an
opening night reception in honor of David Serero’s performance of “Othello.”
2016: In the ongoing drive to make Orthodox Judaism the state
religion of Israel, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hold a “hearing the right
immerse in state ritual baths according to one’s own custom, as was enshrined
in a list of unenforced guidelines distributed by the Religious Affairs
Ministry two years ago.” (As reported by Amanda Borshcel-Dan)
2016: “The Kindergarten Teacher” is scheduled to be shown at the
24th annual Portland Jewish Film Festival.
2017: “Zionist Union MK Nachman Shai today warned that
backtracking on the government-approved plan to establish a pluralistic prayer
pavilion at the Western Wall would result in a rift with US Jewry.”
2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host
Kabbalat Shabbat followed by a Sabbath Dinner for anybody still around in 9th
week.
2017: Premiere screenings in Berkley and Sebastopol, CA of “The
Women’s Balcony,” the “number one film of the year in Israel.
2017: “Letters From Baghdad,” a documentary that tells the “true
story of Gertrude Bell and Iraq” is scheduled to open today at theatres in Palo
Alto, Sacramento, Minneapolis, Chicago and Philadelphia. (Editor’s note – if you do not who Gertrude
Bell is, then you should find out if you want to understand how the so-called
modern Middle East came to be)
2018: The 48th Convention of the Society for American
Baseball Research featuring a presentation by Lee Lowenfish, author of Branch
Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman is scheduled to continue meeting in
Pittsburgh, PA.
2018: Naomi Firestone-Teeter, the Jewish Book Council’s executive
director recommend spending Shabbat reading Memento Park by Mark Savaras
and A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen
2018: In Des Moines, IA, The Varsity Theatre is scheduled to host
a screening of “A Bag of Marbles” a screen version of “the 1973
autobiographical best-seller” that “tells the story of the Nazi occupation of
Paris through the eyes of two young Jewish boys.”
2018: Yedidya Lau, “the rabbi of the town of Alon” is scheduled to
teach at “the Weekly Parsha Club” hosted by the Menachim Begin Center.
2018: As Israeli’s seek to enjoy Shabbat filled with shalom
despite the attacks from terrorists, they are protected by Iron Dome and the
newly installed “Sky Spotter system, which is being used to track fire kites
and balloons launched into Israel from Gaza”
2018(10th of Tammuz, 5778): Parashat Chukkat;
2019: “Uptown Jewish Film 2019,” “a one-day film event held in
Columbia University’s Campbell Center is scheduled to begin at noon today.
2019: The Jewish Genealogical Society of NY and Ackman & Ziff
Family Genealogy Institute is scheduled to present genealogist and
JewishGen.org Vice President for Education Phyllis Kramer who will cover in
depth all types of records generated when a person dies, including death
certificates; newspaper obituaries and death notices; gravestones;
landsmanshaftn, undertakers, medical, Social Security, and probate records.
2019: In Georgia, the Marietta Museum is scheduled to host “a
special lecture on the Leo Frank case by legal expert Van Pearlberg.
2019: The New York Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including The Plaza: The Secret Life of America’s Most Famous
Hotel by Julie Satow, War and Peace: FDR’s Final Odyssey, D-Day to
Yalta, 1943-1945 by Nigel Hamilton, Strangers and Cousins by Leah
Hager Cohen, Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam by Elias Khoury and
the recently paperback edition of The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to
Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic by Benjamin Carter Hett as
well as “Herman Wouk Wrote Historical Novels, But His True Subject Was Moral
Weakness,” Adelle Waldman’s evaluation of the later authors work.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/books/review/herman-wouk-winds-of-war-war-and-remembrance.html?ref=headline&nl_art=&te=1&nl=book-review&emc=edit_bk_201906212020(1st
of Tammuz, 5780): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz;
for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2020: The Room Where It Happened,
John Bolton’s memoir about his time working as a security advisor for President
Trump that includes the revelation that “President Trump gave Prime Minister
Netanyahu the green light to attack Iran” is scheduled to go on sale today.
2020: Lynn Melnick is the author of
the poetry collections Refusenik, Landscape with Sex and Violence, and If I
Should Say I Have Hope, and the co-editor of Please Excuse This Poem: 100 Poets
for the Next Generation is scheduled to present a virtual poetry workshop that
looks at the “construction and techniques used in writing “The New Colossus.”
2020: The Illinois Holocaust Museum
is scheduled to host the award-winning podcast “Making Gay History” with Eric
Marcus.
2020: YIVO Institute for Jewish
Research and the American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present:
“Sephardic Art Song::A Musical Legacy of the Sephardic Diaspora” by
mezzo-soprano and music scholar Lori Şen
2020: The Streicker Center is
scheduled to host “From Selma to Montgomery: The Black-Jewish Coalition.”
2020: Jewish Museum of Maryland is
scheduled to host “History Is Now: Share Your Story.
2020: Jewish Currents is scheduled
to host a livestreamed discussion of Joe Biden’s approach to foreign policy,
and in particular how it will affect Israel/Palestine.
2020: On Facebook, an expert librarian from the
Genealogy Institute at the Center for Jewish History.is scheduled to present a
weekly short talk on a genealogy topic.
2021: Congregation Kol Emeth is scheduled to
present online “In This Place Together” during which “Penina Eilberg-Schwartz
will discuss her new nonfiction book about a Palestinian girl sent to prison at
age 14 for stabbing two Israelis who later led a nonviolent peace movement.”
2021: The first annual International Agnon
Festival is scheduled to come to an end with an “Agonian reading with
Professors Ariel Hirschfeld, Illana Pardes and WendyZierleer.”
2021: The East Bay Holocaust Education Center
is scheduled to present online “My Mother’s Escape on the Kindertransport”
during which “NorCal Kindertransport Association co-chair Linda Mason Waldroup
talks about how mother was one of the 10,000 kids who got safe passage to
Britain to flee the Nazis.”
2022: The Executive Committee of the Jewish
Federation of Greater New Orleans is scheduled to meet this evening.
2022: The American Jewish Historical Society is
scheduled to host a lunchtime “conversation” author Julie Salamon , a reporter
and film critic for the Wall Street Journal, and actress Anita Hollander whose award-winning
original solo musicals Still Standing & Spectacular Falls have played
Off-Broadway, at the Kennedy Center.
2022: Peninsula JCC and Oshman Family JCC are
scheduled to celebrate Pride month by presenting this stand-up comedy show
featuring the El-Salomons, a married Jewish-Palestinian lesbian couple “who can
never break up, because they can’t let people be right.” 21 and over. Protocols
enforced
2022: As part of its online History Course on
Jewish Women in Film and TV, the Jewish Women’s Archive is scheduled to present
“Penelope’s Journey: Haredi Women on
Israeli TV” during which Dr. Shayna Weiss will delve into what the portrayal of
Haredi women in Israeli television can teach us about gender, culture and
religion in Israel.
2022: In Oakland, CA, Temple Sinai is scheduled
host “Spicy Jews: Jewish Food around the World” during which J. food columnist
Faith Kramer discusses how Jews’ encounters with different spices influenced
what became “Jewish food.”
2022: Via zoom, in Columbus, OH, Congregation
Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host a study of “the classic commentary of
Rashi.
2022: Based on an announcement by the Israel
Teachers Union headed by Yaffa Ben David, “instructors will not be showing to
school at all” today.
2023: As Temple Emanu-El celebrate Pride Shabbat, it is scheduled to to be joined by Erez Ofer, the first openly
trans officer in the Israel Defense Forces.
2023: Kerem Shalom of Concord (MA) Cantor
Rosalie Gerut is scheduled to lead erev Shabbat services that will include an
open discussion of the Parsha and a tribute to Juneteenth.
2023: In Berkeley, CA, Berkley Rep is scheduled
to present “Out of Character,” a “one-man-show written and performed by Ari’el
Stachel about his life and career as an Israeli American of Yemeni Jewish
descent, exploring the intersections of race, mental health and survival.”
2023: Beit Agnon in Jerusalem is scheduled to
host the “second meeting the series ‘Wandering Jews’ with Roy Porat.
2024: The Jewish Federation of Greater New
Orleans is scheduled to host the “Lion of Judah Rush Brunch.”
2024: The Museum at Eldridge Street’s historic
Main Sanctuary is scheduled to host a symposium in partnership with CultureNOW
and the Lower Manhattan Historical Association, highlighting the cultural
richness of the restored Eldridge Street Synagogue and its Lower East Side home.”
2024:JHMOC is scheduled to host “Fiddler on the
Roof Concert: A musical performance by Rabbi Nathan Langer.”
2024: As part of the “Israeli Classics on the
Big Screen” festival the Quad Cinema is scheduled to host a screening of “Le
Trou.”
2024: A two-day celebration of the advancements
at Hadassah Medical Organization (HMO) is scheduled to come to an end today at
the Renaissance in Northbrook, IL.
2024: The JNF’s Volunteer in Israel, a four-day
mission is scheduled to begin today.
2024: As June 23rd 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 261 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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