This Day, June 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
June 2
876 BCE (28 Iyar 2884): This is the traditional date of
death of Samuel, prophet and priest (born 2832).
455: The Vandals entered Rome and plundered the
city. Among the treasures they took with them were the spoils of the
Second Temple that had been brought to Rome by Titus.
1098: During the First Crusade, the first Siege of Antioch
ends as Crusader forces take the city marking one more step on their rode to
Jerusalem that would mean more death and destruction for the Jewish people
1128: Pier Leoni, “the son
of the Jewish convert Leo de Benedicto and founder of the great and important
medieval Roman family of the Pierleoni” who was said to be “the greatest man in
Rome in his time” passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/pierleoni
1430: “Moses Arragel, a Hebrew Scholar in Castile,
presented his translation of the “Old Testament” into the Castilian language to
Don Luis de Guzman, grand master of the Order of Catalrava”
1446:
William III of Luxembourg, “who mined a silver groschen known as the Judenkopf
Groschen” – a coin that “shows a man with a pointed beard waring a Jewish hat”
married Anne of Luxembourg today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_hat#/media/File:JudenhutGroschenObvEnlarged.jpg
1453: In Breslau, John of Capistrano led a mock trial of
alleged desecrations of the host. The Rabbi of the community hanged himself and
urged other Jews to commit suicide. Forty-one Jews were burned, their property
confiscated, and all children under seven were forcibly baptized.
1476: Printing of the first edition of Tur Orah Cahim
in Mantua, Italy
1485: The Jews of
Toledo plan an attack designed to kill the Inquisitors and then lock the city
gates. The plan did not come to fruition after it was betrayed. The Jews of the
city suffered later the following winter at the hands of the Inquisitors.
1495:
In Leiria, Abraham d’Ortas completed the printing of Jacob ben Asher’s Tur Or Hayyim.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_incunabula
1727: Elias Levy and Judith Hart were married today in the
United Kingdom.
1762: Hyman M. Levy, the German born son of Reyna and Moses
Levy and his wife Sloe Levy gave birth to Deborah Levy a sister of Eleazar
Levy, an American patriot and friend of Hyam Solomon.
1767(5th of Sivan, 5527): Erev Shavuot
1778(7th
of Sivan, 5538): Second Day of Shavuot as George Washington prepares to lead
his troops out of Valley Forge where they spent a horrific winter that in the
end re-shaped the military unit facing the British and their Hessian
mercenaries.
1780:
Rachel Pinto who, like most members of the Jewish community had left New York
when the British occupied the city returned to the city today.
1780: Seven years before his conversion to Judaism, Lord
George Gordon “headed a crowd of around 50,000 people that marches on
Parliament marking the start of the “Gordon Riots.”
1786(6th of Sivan, 5546): Shavuot
1790: Raphael Raphael married Julia Asher at the New
Synagogue in the United Kingdom.
1805(5th of Sivan, 5565): Erev of Shavuot
observed as Lewis and Clark continue their expedition of exploration.
1807: In what is now the Czech Republic Leopold Lobl and
his wife gave birth to Marcus Lobl.
1807: Zalma Rehine, a native of Germany became a citizen of
the United States today.
1808(7th of Sivan, 5568): Second Day of Shavuot
1811: “Copper manufacture Hamon Hendricks and the former
Frances Isaacs and the grandson of Uriah Hendricks, one of the founders of
Congregation Shearith Israel gave birth to Montague Hendricks.
1812: Birthdate of Wilhelm Stahl, the native of Munich who
became an economist and who converted to Christianity after living with his
older brother Friedrich Julius Stahl.
1813: In Great Yarmouth, Edward Emanuel Micholls and
Rosetta Micholls gave birth to Samson Micholls.
1813(4th of Sivan, 5573): Loyalist John Charles
Lucena, the son of James Lucena and he husband of Mary Anne Lanaster who went
to London during the American Revolution
and “became a consul General for the Court of Portugal” passed away
today.
1816(6th of Sivan, 5576): Shavuot
1816: Birthdate of Grace Aguilar, the British author whose
Portuguese Marrano forbearers found a safe home in 18th century
England.
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/His-StoryHer-Story-Grace-Aguilar
1819: In the Hague, Leonardus Levy Abraham Verveer, the
Dutch born son of Abraham Salomon and his wife Caroline Elkan gave birth to
Mathilde Verveer,
1821: David
Israel and Eliza Johnson gave birth to Frederick A. Johnson the first Jewish
child born in Cincinnati.
1824(6th
of Sivan, 5584): Shavuot observed for the last time during the Presidency of
James Monroe.
1827(7th
of Sivan, 5587) Second Day of Shavuot and Shabbat observed on the same day that
in that part of Mexico known as Texas, Francisco Ruiz wrote to Stephen Austin,
the leader of the American colony that the “Chiefs of Tahusacano and Waco
Indians wish to make peace” and are going to San Antonio for that purpose.
1830:
Rabbi Isaac Lesser delivered his first sermon in English at Congregation Mikveh
Israel in Philadelphia.
1832(11th
of Sivan, 5592): Parashat Nasso
1833:
In Jebenhausen, Germany Abraham Josef Kohn and Deichele Kohn gave birth to future
Chicago resident David Abraham Kohn, the “husband of Therese A. Kohn and
father
of Julia Bernheimer; Dr. Alfred David Kohn; Harry David Kohn and Edwin D Kohn.
1835(5th
of Sivan 5595): Erev Shavuot
1835:
Max and Sarah Oppenheimer gave birth to Nathan Hirsch Oppenheimer.
1835: Birthdate Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto who as Pope Pius
X granted an audience to Theodore Herzl who failed in his attempt to enlist the
Pope’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The Pope was polite but firm
in his rejection.
1837: In Philadelphia, PA, Judah Lazarus Hackenburg and
Maria Allen gave birth to William Hackenburg, the husband of Adeline
Schoneman, “manufacturer of sewing and
machine silks” and Chairman of the Silk Association of America whose many
leadership roles in the Jewish community including co-founding the United
Hebrew Charities in 1869, the Hebrew Charity Ball Association in 1859 and the
committee “to aid Russian refugees” as well as serving as President of the
Jewish Hospital and Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites, Treasurer of
Congregation Beth El Emeth and Vice President of the Board of Delegates of the
American Israelites.
1840: Three days after he passed away, Abraham Quixano
Henriques was buried today at the Nuevo Jewish Cemetery in London.
1840: As the furor over the Damascus Affair increases,
French Prime Minister Adolphe Thiers defended the behavior of Benoit
Laurent-Francois, Count de Ratti-Merion, the French Consul in Damascus during a
debate in the Chamber of Deputies.
Thiers attributed the uproar to the Jews whom he described as being
“more powerful in the world than they have pretensions to be.”
1840: In Higher
Bockhampton , Thomas Hardy and the firmer Jemima Hand gave birth to Thomas
Hardy whom the rest of the world the world may remember him as a British author
known for such works as Return of the Native and Far from the Madding Crown. But
for Jews he was a supporter of a homeland in Palestine as can be seen by the
fact that in February of 1919, “he signed a declaration of sympathy with the
Jews in support of a movement for ‘the reconstitution of Palestine as a
National Home for the Jewish People.’”
1841: Abraham Emanuel and Clara Joseph were married today
at the Great Synagogue in London.
1841: Henry Lazarus and Frances Barnett were married today
at the Great Synagogue in London.
1846: Birthdate of Hubert-Joseph Henry, the French officer
who killed himself after being arrested for forging the evidence that helped to
convict Alfred Dreyfus.
1846: Birthdate of Dr. Emil Bessels, the native of
Heidelberg, Germany, who was both a physician and Arctic explorer who worked
for the Smithsonian Institution.
1852: The
Democratic National Convention during which Philip Philips, the Charleston born
Caroline Lazarus and Aaron Phillips, “prominent members of the Jewish
community” gave a speech in support of future President Franklin Pierce, continued
for a second day in Baltimore.
1854(6th of Sivan, 5614): Shavuot
1856: President Franklin Pierce signed into law An Act for
the Benefit of the Hebrew Congregation in the City of Washington, ensuring its
right to own property in the District of Columbia making Washington Hebrew
Congregation the only Jewish house of worship in the United States to operate
with an act of the U.S. Congress as its charter.
1857(10th of Tammuz, 5617): Itzak Meisl, “the
husband of Ann Henrietta (Yetta) Bettelheim” passed away toda.
1857: Joseph Hyams and Julie Joel were married at the Great
Synagogue in London.
1857: The body of Isaac Jackson was discovered on a farm
near Westfield, MA and Charles Jones was arrested on charges of having murdered
him. Jackson was Jewish. Jones wasn’t.
1859: The USS Minnesota on which Adolph Marix served was
decommissioned for the first time today.
1860: Birthdate of Sarah Beck, the native of Brandenburg,
Germany, who became Sarah Hexter when she married Max Hexter with whom she
raised a family in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1862: In North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Hermann
Rosenwald, the son of Vogel and Bendix Rosenwald, and his wife Jeanette David
gave birth to Bendix Rosenwald
1863: During the Civil War, Jacob C. Cohen who was serving
with the 27th Ohio wrote home describing military life in and around
Memphis, TN. The 27th arrived
there after having served at Corinth, MS and fought several skirmishes
in northern Alabama. By being at
Memphis, Cohen and his comrades were being spared the hardship of that part of
Grant’s army trying to take Vicksburg.
But they would see plenty of action when Sherman began his campaign to
take Atlanta.
1863: Establishment of Congregation Emanu-El a synagogue in
Victoria, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island
1864:
Moroccan Jews and Jews from Gibraltar residing in Haifa requested a written
ruling from the British Consul for permission to pray. “The Turkish
authorities here made no objection to our thus assembling for prayer till
quite lately; when they declared that we cannot meet together without being
possessed of a firman from Constantinople.”
1865:
Twenty-one-year-old Philadelphia, PA native Charles Etting who was assigned to
the Army of the Potomac in 1861 and fought in every major engagement including
Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg before being sent
home to raise new regiments retired from military service today and returned to
his home town.
1867:
Simon Bennett was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1870:
“Religious Bigotry in Turkey – Massacre of Jews by Christians” published today
described “a horrible massacre of Jews by Christians in the Turkish province of
Romania.” On Sunday, May 29, the Christians attacked the Jews living in all of
the “principle towns” butchering “without mercy” thousands of Jews without
regard to age or sex.
1870:
“Mr. Disraeli’s Health”, published today, reported that the British Prime
Minister’s health had improved the extent that he could visit the Foreign
Ministry and dine with two American diplomats.
1870:
Based on dispatches received today in Washington, the Jews of Louisville, KY
have sent telegrams to their co-religionists in cities throughout the West
urging them to contact their Congressmen with a request that they do all they
can to prevent further attacks on the Jews of Romania which have been described
as a massacre.
1870:
As American Jews respond to the worsening conditions of their co-religionists
in Romania, in Washington, D.C., Simon Wolf receives the following telegram
from M.S. Isaacs, Secretary of the Jewish Board of Delegates of the United
States “Ask the President to instruct the Minister at Constantinople to help
the Jews of Romania.”
1870: As American Jews respond to the
worsening conditions of their co-religionists in Romania, in Washington, D.C.,
Simon Wolf receives the following telegram from
Henry Greenbaum, a leading Chicago banker “Please ask my personal
friends in Congress to cooperate with you in representations to the President
or otherwise, that the persecution and butchery of our brethren in Roumania be
stopped.”
1870:
A New York Times writer marvels at the fact that those who have most
recently escaped from the effects of religious persecution are the most likely
to persecute others for their religious beliefs. The case in point is the persecution of the
Jews by the Christians of Romania, who have so recently been “released from the
fear of oppression” by the Moslems. The atrocities are reminiscent of the
Spanish Inquisition and are a reminder that the “problems of the darkest ages”
are still found in the 19th century.
1872:
In Kovno, Hillel and Ida (Alter) Gorson gave birth to Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts trained artist Aaron Henry Gorson, the husband of Rachel fine whose
works included “Portrait of a Steelworker” and “Bridge Across a River.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20120425162753/http://artmuseum.msu.edu/collections/recent/Gorson.htm
1873(7th
of Sivan, 5633): Second Day of Shavuot
1876:
Today, The Evening Post praised the
new house’ of Wellington, NZ “entrepreneur and philanthropist” Lipman Levy
saying that “it is fitted with a number of unusual appliances including a high
pressure steam boiler in the kitchen” that supplies water to “all parts of the
house” and “handsome gaslights.”
1877:
Samuel Morais Hyneman was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia, PA. Hyneman played an active role in Jewish
communal affairs serving as the President of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association
of Philadelphia and serving on the board of trustees of both the Jewish
Theological Seminary and Gratz College.
1878:
Eliza Miller and Ralph Cohen were the recipients of this year’s “Betty Bruhl
Prizes” which were presented during “a gala event” that was held this evening
at Hebrew Orphan Asylum. The event also marked the third anniversary of the
distribution of the “Betty Bruhl Prizes.”
Four years ago, Moses Bruhl presented the asylum with $2,500.00 with the
stipulation that the interest on the amount was to be presented annually to tow
orphans – one boy and one girl – not older than 15 years of age. The money (which now totals $50 per award) is
to be invested with the principle and interest being given to the winner when
the leave the asylum. The award is named after Mr. Bruhl’s late wife who “was a
parton of the…asylum.”
1879:
The New York Times published a review of “The Historical Poetry of
the Ancient Hebrews” translated and critically acclaimed by Michael
Heilprin. The reviewer attributed the
content and style of the book to the possibility that Heilprin might be
Jewish. In fact Michael Heilprin was a
Jewish supporter of Kossuth who came to the United States after the revolt
failed. His father Phineas Mendel Heilprin was a noted Jewish scholar who had also
supported Kossuth and had moved to the United States. The younger Heilprin supported the Union and
was opposed to slavery. He was a Jewish
scholar and supporter of Jewish causes.
1879:
As a result of Russian mistreatment of Jewish American businessmen, the U.S.
House of Representatives requested the President to have all international
treaties which impair the rights of American citizens because of religion
amended to secure equal rights.
1880:
Birthdate of Vilnius native and Menshevik Leader Mikhail Issakovich Liber aka Mark Liber the son of father who
was both a poet and office clerk and leader of the Bund who fell afoul of
Stalin and as murdered during the Purges of 1937.
1881:
Birthdate of Cleveland native and “Manhattan fashion executive Sady Glautz
Weiss who divorced Nathan Weiss, a brother of magician Harry Houdini so she could
marry Dr. Leopold Weiss, another brother of Houdini.
1882:
The Hebrew Children’s Sanitarium is appealing to the public to send funds which
will be used to finance its annual summer excursions which are scheduled to
start later this month. Donations can be
sent to the office of the Jewish
Messenger on Grand Street.
1883:
Bernard Abraham, who had been commanding the Seventeenth Infantry was promoted
from Colonel to the rank of Brigadier General in the French Army
1884:
Birthdate of Viennese native Hermine Pfleger who gained fame as actress Mia
May, the wife of director Joe May and actress Eva May.
1885:
Birthdate of “Bessarabian Jewish immigrant” Frank Duchin, the Massachusetts resident of husband of Tillie
Baron who was the father of society pianist and bandleader Eddy Duchin and grandfather
of Peter Duchin.
1886:
Rabbis in Philadelphia met today to discuss the refusal of the principal at
Central High School to excuse the Jewish students from having to take final
exams scheduled for Shavuot. Principal
Taylor was aware of the conflict when preparing the exam schedule and refused
to make an allowance for alternative test dates. The Rabbis agreed to deliver a
letter to Taylor requesting that he re-consider his decision.
1888(23rd
of Sivan, 5648): Arnold Blum, Jr. the son of Jeanette and Abraham Levi Blum and
husband of Rosina (Rosa) Blum with whom he had six children passed away today
in New York
1888:
“Endowed In Heilprin’s Honor” published today described the plans to create a
fund in memory of the late biblical scholar Michael Heilprin. These include a
challenge by Jacob Schiff in which he said he will contribute $5,000 to the
fund if an additional $50,000 can be raised by others during the year.
1888:
It was reported today that Empress of Victoria has spoken out against
anti-Semitic agitation and told listeners that she is expressing the views held
by Emperor Frederick. The Emperor’s
defense of his Jewish subjects has met with strong outburst by some including
the posting of placards in English reading “The Jew Emperor, Frederick Cohen.”
1889:
As the Jewish population in Florence, SC continued to grow, “the foundation of
a Sunday was laid” today to which A.A. Cohen invited “all children of Israelite
parents” to attend.
1889:
It was reported today that the Semitic Department at Harvard will be offering
three new courses for the upcoming academic year including on covering the
history of Israel and one covering the history of the Hebrew religion. The professors teaching the new classes were
not Jewish.
1889:
It was reported today that Isaac Benseken has hosted a tea party arranged by
the American Consul at Tangiers. Two of the ladies at the party were dressed
“in the traditional gala dress of the Hebrew women of Morocco…” Refreshments
included green tea garnished with sprigs of mint in the Moroccan manner and
“Moorish sweetmeats consisting of a thin shell of sugar filled with sweet
almost paste…”
1889:
At 12 Portman Square, Claude Montefiore and Therese Alice, who would die one
day later, gave birth to Leonard Nathaniel-Goldsmid-Montefiore who “succeeded
his father as a leader of Jewish philanthropic organizations in the UK
including the Anglo-Jewish Association, the Central British Fund for German
Jewry, and the Jewish Board of Guardians” and who “was a founder and president
of the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide.”
1890:
As census takers fanned out across New York City, Jewish women responded with
fear when they were asked questions about “whether their husbands and sons had
done military service” because of their experience with destructive nature of
Jewish service in the Czar’s Army.
1890:
Based on information that first appeared in Pall Mall Gazette, it was reported
today that “a syndicate of Jews has offered $200,000 for the Vatican’s copy of
the Hebrew Bible.” The Vatican has possessed the Bible at least since 1512 when
Pope Julius II who needed funding to continue his fight with Louis XII
negotiated with a group of Italian Jews to sell them the Bible. For reasons that are still unknown, the Pope
changed his mind and kept the book. (Editor’s Note – This is the Pope who “paid
for the paint” that covered the Sistine Chapel.
1891:
In Vienna, Phillip and Esther Neuman Gilbert gave birth NYU trained ENT
specialist Dr. Charles N. Gelber, who was appointed medical examiner for
children by the Board of Health in 1916, who served as president of the New
York Physicians Society and who ran for Councilman in Manhattan in 1937.
1892(7th
of Sivan, 5652) Second Day of Shavuot
1892:
This morning, at Hamilton College, the Clark Prize for speaking was awarded to
Gregory Rosenblum, a young Russian immigrant who spoke on “The Jews in Russia.”
1892:
“A Woman’s Revenge” published today described a beating that former prize
fighter inflicted on Chicago merchant Joseph Fish. According to Fish, the beating “was prompted
by a young attractive-looking widow” whom he was no longer seeing since his
engagement to the daughter of a prominent Jewish Chicago citizen.
1893:
Three days after he passed away, Frederick Barnet Mozley was buried today in
the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1893:
An out of court settlement was reached in Schwab v Schwab which kept the Judge
from having to make a decision that would either render the defendant as a
bigamist or the plaintiff’s children as being “illegitimate.”
1893:
Myer S. Isaacs, President of the Baron Hirsch Fund testified before the Senate
Committee on Immigration at the New Netherland Hotel. In response to questions, he said that the
fund did not provide financing to bring immigrants to the United States. Rather it worked with immigrants who were
already in the United States to help them gaining an education and developing
the skills that would allow them to get a job.
1895:
Birthdate of Saul Edward “Sol” Weinberg, the Case Western Reserve College alum
who played “two games at tackle” in 1923 for the NFL Cleveland Indians (not to
be confused with the American League baseball team with the same name)
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WeinSo20.htm
1895:
Sarah and Isaac Hecker gave birth to Jacob Hecker, a Tommy who was killed in
Belgium in August 1917.
1895:
French railroad tycoon and philanthropist Baron Moritz de Hirsch meets Theodore
Herzl in Paris. Herzl hopes to convince
Hirsch to take the money he had been spending to settle Jews in agricultural
communities in places like Argentina and spend it instead on the creation of a
Jewish homeland in Eretz Israel.
1895:
Eighty-two-year-old German jurist Heinrich von Friedberg who became a
Protestant early in his career passed away today.
1895:
The list of the trustees of the newly incorporated Independent Young Pleasure
Club, a “landsmanshaftn” published today included Abraham Cohen, Kate Jacobs,
Jacob Levine, Meyer Libsohn, Samuel Gussoff, Davis Schroeder and Max Scharlin.
1895:
“Hands and Mind Drilled” published today traced the history of the Hebrew
Technical Institute, a vocational educational school begun over ten years ago
to meet the needs of newly arriving Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe who
lacked suitable job skills.
1896:
The Neue Freie Presse mentions
Herzl’s Der Judenstaat for the first time.
1896:
Johns Hopkins undergraduate and University of Maryland trained attorney, Eli
Frank Sr., the Baltimore born son of Moses and Isabella Frank and husband of
Rena Ambach with whom he had three children was admitted to the Bar today after
which he taught at the University of Maryland Law School, served as President
of the Maryland State Bar Association and was an active member of the
Association of Jewish Charities.
1897(2nd
of Sivan, 5657): Abraham Cohn, “an American Civil War Union Army Sergeant Major
and recipient to the highest military decoration for valor in combat — the
Medal of Honor — for having distinguished himself at the Battle of the
Wilderness, Virginia passed away in New York.
https://nmajmh.org/exhibitions/permanent-exhibitions/hall-of-heroes/civil-war/abraham-cohn/
1897:
In Vienna, with the German parties obstructing the formation of a new
government, the Count Badeni , today, by order of the Emperor who had refused
to ratify the election of Dr. Karl Lueger, the anti-Semitic mayor of
Vienna, prorogued (dismissed without
dissolving) the Parliament.”
1899:
In Hong Kong, Sir Elly Kadoorie and his wife gave birth to Baron Lawrence
Kadoorie, the noted businessman and philanthropist who was part of a clan of
Misrahi Jews who had made their way from Baghdad to Bombay to China.
1899: “A Noble German Jew” published today recounted an
1850 encounter between Bismarck and Dr. Eduard Simson when the latter was
serving as President of the Parliament and called the Chancellor to order. When Bismarck said that members of the “old
nobility knew how to conduct themselves” countered the Chancellor invocation of
his bloodline with the retort “you say that to me a descendant in the direct
line from the high-priest Aaron. To
which Bismarck replied, “Pardon me Mr. Speaker, but I had never looked upon the
matter from that point of view.”
1899: “The Situation in France” published today described
the view of the anti-Dreyfusites who “are not convinced by the declaration of
Monsieur Ballot de Beaupre that Esterhazy is the traitor” and the belief that
“the people are so tired of the affair that by the time Dreyfus has returned to
France angry passions will probably have subsided.” (Those opposed to Dreyfus
never accepted the confession and the passions really never cooled until all
involved had died.)
1899: A case of diphtheria was discovered today “in the
grammar depart of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society at 151st
Street and Broadway just two hours after a quarantine had been lifted on the
infant department of the same institution.
1900(5th of Sivan, 5660): Parashat Bamidbard and
Erev Shavuot
1900: Birthdate of Russian native and Washington University
trained attorney Israel Trieman who taught law at his alma, practiced law in
his adopted hometown of St Louis and earned a doctorate at Oxford while being
honored as one of the U.S.A.’s first Rhodes scholars.
http://archon.wulib.wustl.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=495&q=&rootcontentid=64876
1900: In Knonitz, the street riots continued because “of
the death of the lad Winter” which has been “attributed to the Jews.”
1901: Commencement exercises were held today at the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum on Amsterdam Avenue.
Prizes consisting of engraved certificates and $50 in cash were awarded
to the outstanding boy and girl at the institution. The prizes were created by the late Moses
Bruhl as a way to honor the memory of his wife, Bettie Bruhl.
1901: Sixty-two-year-old James A. Hearne who staged Israel
Zangwill’s “The Children of the Ghetto” in 1899 passed away today.
1902: Birthdate of Jerusalem native and John Hopkins Ph.D.
Aaron Morris Margalith the author and professor at Yeshiva University, who was
the husband of Helen Margaret Margalith, the hold of a B.A. from Hunter and
Master of Library Science of Columbia and the father of Joan and Carol Margalith.
1903(7th
of Sivan, 5663): Second Day of Shavuot
1903:
Birthdate of Max Aub, the Parisian born author whose shifting citizenship from
French, to Spanish to Mexican mirrored his changing literary and political
fortunes.
http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/03/max-aub%E2%80%99s-civil-war-in-english/
1904: “Camden
Hebrews’ New Synagogue” published today described the decision of the Board of
Trustees of Adas Israel “to erect a $25,000 synagogue at the southeast corner
of Fifth and Spruces Streets in Camden, NJ.
1905: It was
reported today that Oscar Straus had delivered an address on “The Permanent
Court of Arbitration and Peace at the Lake Mohonk International Arbitration
Conference in which he said “the cause for war had changed as the national
spirit changed.”
1906(9th
of Sivan, 5666): Parashat Nasso
1906: It was
reported today that Commissioner Stephen Smith has heard an application in the
office of the State Board for Charities for a license for a dispensary the
Hebrew Memorial Dispensary.
1907: It was
reported today that a Polish Jew named Abraham Kahn is being in the Jefferson
Market Court prison “under $1,000 bail” while police look into charges that he
swindled Miss Rosa Gostyuska out of $500.
1908: St.
Joseph’s College, Cornell University and University of Berlin trained chemist
Louis E. Levi, the Buffalo, NY bon son of Clara Sommers and Emanuel Levi
married Clara Krayeski today in Milwaukee where, after teaching at MIT he became
the chief chemitof Pfister and Vogel Lea Company.
1908: In
Vienna, actors Fritz Spira and Lotte Spira gave birth to actress Steffie Spira
who survived the Holocaust and settled in East (Communist) Germany after the
war.
1909: Alfred
Deakin became Prime Minister of Australia for the third time. At one time,
Deakin had been a political ally of the Jewish Australian politician Isaac
Isaacs who he appointed to the position of Attorney General in 1906.
1909: Birthdate of Benzion Netanyahu an
Israeli historian and Zionist activist who is also known for being secretary to
the father of the Revisionist Zionism movement Ze’ev Jabotinsky as well as the
father of Yonatan Netanyahu, former commander of Sayeret Matkal, who was killed
in Operation Entebbe and Israeli politician Benjamin Netanyahu
1910(24th
of Iyar, 5670): Sixty-year-old Emma Loewen, the Krotschin, Germany born
daughter Helena and Simon Bienstock and the wife of David Lowen passed away
today in St. Louis after which she was buried in University City, a suburb of
St. Louis
1910:
Columbia trained medical doctor Marcus Adolphus Rothschild, the Woodsville,
Mississippi born son of Emily Hart and Morris H. Rothschild married Edna E.
Liebmann today in Atlanta after which he served as a Major in the United States
Marines and as member of the executive committee for “Health Service for Jews.”
1911(6th
of Sivan, 5671): Shavuot
1911:
The Sultan of Turkey conferred the Order of Medjidie, Fourth Class, on Isaac
Jessua Bey of Salonica. He was the secretary to the Inspector General of the
Gendarmerie of the vilayet.
1912:
The Jews of Bialystok were alarmed “because of ritual murder accusations.”
1912: The
“Fifth Annual Convention” of the Federation of Romanian Jews of America which
has 40,000 members including Solomon Schechter, P.A. Seigelstein, Emil Koffler,
Charles I. Fleck and Herman Speier is scheduled to come to an end today in New
York City.
1913:
“The Federation of Galician Jews is holding its convention today” in New York
City.
1913:
It was reported today that Caroline Nesustadter, “the widow of Henry
Neustadter, a member of Neustadter Brothers of San Francisco” “who gave no less
than $1,500,000 to various Jewish and public charities” in New York and San
Francisco “left an estate which has been appraised at $3,320,000.”
1914(8th
of Sivan, 5674): Sixty-six-year-old “Chevalier N .B. Emanuel, assistant
director of the Chicago Grand Opera Company and museum of international note”
who had been named Chevalier by the King of Italy and who had been in “declining health for the
last year” passed away today “at the Winnetka sanitarium.”
1915:
“Jim Conley, on whose testimony Leo M. Frank was convicted of the murder of
Mary Phagan and sentenced to death and who himself was sentenced to twelve
months imprisonment as an accessory reached Atlanta today having be released
from the convict camp” because he got “two months off for good conduct.
1915:
“The meeting between Leo Frank and Jim Conley to give evidence in the suit of
Mary Phagan’s mother against the National Pencil Company to recover $10,000 for
the death of her daughter” scheduled for today “did not occur” because it “was
rendered unnecessary when attorneys agreed to accept evidence give at Frank’s
trial in regard to the girl’s death.”
1915:
Brooklyn attorney Joseph Goldstein sent “a petition signed by 6,000 Brooklyn
residents urging executive clemency in the case of Leo M. Frank, to Governor
Slaton of Georgia.”
1915:
The American Jewish Relief Committee issued a special appeal on behalf of the
Jews of Poland where “three million are starving” even though $800,000 has
already been sent to meet their needs.
1915:
The members of the American Jewish Relief Committee whose names were published
today included Felix Warburg, Cyrus Adler, Louis D. Brandies, Julian W. Mack,
Dr. J.L. Magnes, Louis Marshall, Jacob Schiff, Nathan Straus, Oscar S. Straus,
August Sulzberger and Mayer Sulzberger.
1916:
“The Austrian Supreme Court has decided that the law prohibiting marriages
between Christians and non-Christians applies to marriages contracted outside
of Austria” but did nothing to change the Austrian law that allows
“non-Christians to marry Jews” while prohibiting them from marrying Catholics
or Protestants.
1916:
“District Attorney Harry E. Lewis of Kings County, State Senator Charles C.
Lockwood, Joseph Barondess of the Board of Education, Rabbi Max Raisin of
Brooklyn” were among the prominent persons who “appeared before a special
committee of the State Board of Charities” today “to urge the grant of a charter
to the Beth Moses Hospital, a ‘kosher’ institution proposed for the
Williamsburg district.”
1917(12th
of Sivan, 5677): Parashat Nasso
1917(12th
of Sivan, 5677): Sixty-five-year-old Polish born American Rabbi, “Hebrew
Scholar and teacher” Simon Harris passed away today in Portland, OR where he
has lived for the past four years in the same town which is home to his
daughter Mrs. Ida Weinstein before which he lived in New York which is the home
to his son Louis Harris.
1917:
“The story of how the Jews of Jaffa were deported by the Turkish Government
ostensibly as a measure of ‘military precaution’ was received” today “from the
State Department by the American Jewish Relief Committee.”
1917:
“The first band concert and dance to be given by the Chicago Hebrew Institute
Band” is scheduled to “take place” this evening in the Assembly Hall of the
Administration Building at 8 o’clock.
1917:
This evening, the Jewish Educational Alliance Dramatic Club which has been
“making a study of what is best in Jewish Drama” hosted an evening devoted
Sholom Aleichem “in memory of the first anniversary of the great master of
Jewish literature.”
1917:
“Dr. Jacob S. Minkin of Hamilton, Ontario preached the baccalaureate sermon”
this “morning at the Jewish Theological Seminary” during which “he paid a
tribute to the late Dr. Solomon Schechter and touched on the present day needs
of Judaism.
1918:
It was reported today that 83 members of the Independent Order of B’rith Sholom
and 3,924 sons of the members are serving with the armed forces of the United
States and that its members “have subscribed” to over a million dollars “to the
Liberty Loans” and purchased $34, 842.75 worth of War Savings Stamps.
1918:
Harvard Law School trained attorney Samuel Spring, the San Diego, CA born son
of Hannah Glasser and Abe Spring married Imogene S. Morse today after which, in
1924, he “moved to New York as general counsel of the First National Pictures
Corporation.
1919:
Birthdate of American painter Nat Mayer Shapiro
1919:
“The newly established Bureau of Jewish Social Research will welcome visitors”
today.
1920:
Russian-American composer and violinist, Joseph Achron, the son of Julius and
Bertha Achron married his wife Marie today at Petrograd, Russia.
1920:
Birthdate of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born German critic.
1920:
“According to word received” in New York today, Julius J. Lyons a director and
legal counsel to State Bank who was he son Rabbi Jacques J. Lyons and the
father of San Diego, CA, rancher Edwin Lyons had passed away on May 26 in San
Diego.
1921:
Birthdate of Sir Sigmund Sternberg, the Hungarian native who came to the UK in
1939 where he went on to become a “philanthropist, businessman and Labour Party
donor.”
1921:
“Investment banker” Edward Grover Platt the St. Louis born son of Sigmond Platt
and Bertha Simon and President of Waldheim Platt Company who was a supporter of
the YMHA, Jewish Shelter Home and Jewish Loan Association married Helen S. Waldheim
today.
1922(6th
of Sivan, 5682): Shavuot
1922:
New Yorker Bernard A. Rosenblatt who is a member of the Zionists Executive left
New York to arrange for the underwriting of the first Jewish municipal bond
issue in history.
1922:
Today, at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, Hyman “graduated 107th
out of 540 midshipmen and was commissioned as an ensign.”
1922: In Camden, NJ, Congregation Beth-El held
Confirmation Services which were led by Cantor Jacob Mickelman.
1923
Birthdate of mathematician and economist Lloyd Shapely who joined his
“Jewish-American colleague Alvin Roth in winning the Nobel Memorial Prize in
Economic Science for their work on market design and matching theory.”
1924:
In New Jersey, in response to complaints from Jews that the entrance
examination for the State Normal Schools were being held on Saturdays, an
exam is scheduled to be held today which
is a Monday.
1924:
The death certificate for Bobby Franks, the victim of Leopold and Loeb, which was
signed today by “Coroner Wolff” stated that “Cause of death: Injury to head and
body and suffocation, due to application of gag to the mouth, in city of
Chicago. Murder, (Blunt) end of chisel,”
1924:
Grigori Yakovlevich Sokolnikov began serving as a “candidate member of the 13th
Politburo.”
1925:
“Twenty-one young men and women, having successfully completed a two years’
course in Hebrew. Jewish history and religion and pedagogy, received diplomas tonight
from the Hebrew Union College School for Teachers at graduation exercises at
Temple Emanu-El, Fifth Avenue and Forty-third Street.”
1926:
The Hokoah teams which has been playing exhibition games in the United States
is scheduled to set sail today for its ultimate destination of Vienna.
1926:
In Vienna, Michael Hilberg and his wife gave birth to Dr. “ Raul Hilberg, a
Jewish émigré from Nazi-occupied Europe who helped begin the field of Holocaust
studies with his long and minutely detailed 1961 study of the massacre of
European Jews: (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1926:
Birthdate of physicists Arthur Rosenfeld, the Birmingham native who “received
the Energy Department’s Enrico Fermi Award in 2006 and the National Medal of
Technology and Innovation…” (As reported by Harrison Smith)
1927:
In New York City, Ben and Madeline Simon Katz gave birth to WWII Navy veteran
and secondary school teacher William Loren Katz, the graduate of Syracuse and
holder of an M.A. from NYU who gained fame as an historian and author of 40
books including Breaking the Chains: African American Slave Resistance, The
Black West, and Black Women of the Old West.
1928:
After 280 performances the curtain came down on the original Broadway
production of the Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar music “The Five O’clock Girl
1929:
It was reported today that during April there were 417 immigrants to Palestine
“including 322 Jews” and there 172 emigrants from Palestine “including 70
Jews.”
1930(6th
of Sivan, 5690): Jews celebrate Shavuot for the first time during what will
become known as The Great Depression.
1930:
In Camden, NJ, Ruth Barroway delivered the “opening prayer” during Confirmation
Services at Congregation Beth-El which is led by Rabbi Nachman S. Arnoff and
President Jacob Leventon.
1930:
At Union Temple in Brooklyn. Harold Grossman and Ben Ydelin “survived the first
round of the New York State one-wall doubles handball championship tonight .
1931:
Today, Albert Ottinger, the Chairman of the $1,000,000 New York Campaign for
Relief of Jews in Europe, announced that the campaign had received another
$9,500 in gifts.”
1931:
At a meeting tonight in the Hotel Biltmore, the executive committee of the
American Jewish Congress “adopted a resolution calling for a World Jewish
Congress in the near future, at which questions of discrimination and economic Antisemitism
can be discussed.
1932:
Ruth Barroway, Miriam Morris, Sidney Kantor, Leona Pinksy, Robert Kaplan and
Edward Gallob were confirmed today at Congregation Beth-El in Camden, NJ.
1932:
U.S. premiere of “What Price Hollywood?” directed by George Cukor, produced by
Pandro S. Berman and David O. Selznick with music by Max Steiner.
1932(27th
of Iyar, 5692): Simcha Gutman a Hebrew poet and novelist who wrote under the
pen name Ben Zion passed away at the age of 62/
1934:
In San Francisco, Robert Tandler Mack, the Cincinnati born son of Rebecca and
William Jacob Mack and his wife Jeanette Mack gave birth to Susan Jean Mack,
who became Susan Jean Thorstad when she married William Lawrence Thorstad.
1935:
“Max Silverstein of New York, Grand Master of the Independent Order B’rith
Abraham, pleaded for Jewish unity as the organization opened its annual
convention here today on the Garden Pier.”
1935:
“Admonishing the
graduating class to lend ethical and spiritual leadership to the world rather
than become “professional and hired defenders of Jews,” Rabbi Stephen
S. Wise today conferred three honorary degrees and ten Rabbinical degrees at
the tenth annual commencement exercises of the Jewish Institute of Religion, 40
West Sixty-eighth Street.”
1936:
The Tarbut School in Moletai, Lithuania, held its eleventh graduation.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/june/01.asp
1936:
During the Arab Riots, the Irgun defied the Jewish Agency’s call for restraint
by killing nine Arabs with an explosion at the Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate.
1936:
As “the Jews of Przytyk prayed all day in the synagogue for the acquittal of
fourteen Jews who were brought to trial today with forty-two Christians”
another day of anti-Semitic rioting took place in the town with “nationalist
parading in the streets and smashing windows in the homes of the Jews.”
1936:
“Continued sniping by Arab terrorists and burning of Jewish-owned crops were
reported to be continuing tonight” at the same time that rail service between
Jerusalem and Jaffa was suspended due to the derailing of the train running
between the two cities.
1936:
Forty-three Polish and fourteen Jewish defendants went on trial today in the
aftermath of the Przytyk Pogrom during which “hundreds of Jews were beaten and
their homes and shops were demolished.”
1937: The Palestine Post reported that the
Arab Higher Committee denounced the anticipated Royal (Peel) Commission’s
proposal for the partition of Palestine.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that the new
Central Railway Station opened in Haifa.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that the an
Arab who for £10 attempted to smuggle a Baghdadi Jew, Maji Shlomo Jarjana, from
Syria to Palestine was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment. Jarjana got a two
weeks jail sentence and deportation.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that the in
the Polish town of Bransk Jews were beaten and injured, their stalls
demolished, windows were smashed in their homes and at the synagogue.
1938: It
was reported today, that The Isaac Adler Prize which “was founded in 1934 by a bequest
of $20,000 made by Mrs. Frida Adler of New York City in memory of her husband” “has
ben awarded by Harvard to Dr. Wendell M. Stanley of Princeton, NJ of the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, or his work on the isolation of a
crystallizable factor hich has developed a new approach in the stud of viruses…”
1937:
Information published from Venezuela indicated there is an Ashkenazi community
of 100 members, most from Romania, and an indigenous Sephardic community
between 700 and 800 members, who have “no relations” whatsoever with
the Ashkenazim.
1938: “The
recent series of mass arrests” that had included shipping Jewish comedian and
composer Hermann Leopoldi and 750 other people to Dachau” ended today after a
group of 400 Jews, among whom were several doctors and lawyers who were sent to
Styria.
1939: The
Christian Science Church attacks Jewish refugees as causing their own troubles,
a position reportedly taken by many important Protestant journals of the time.
1940: The
concentration camp at Neuengamme, Germany, is upgraded to primary-camp status
1940:
Two days after he had passed away, fifty-six year old Kansas City, MO attorney
Benjamin Morris Achtenberg, the son of David and Hannah Achtenberg and husband
of Minnie Achtenberg was buried today in Raytown, MO.
1940:
The Jewish Institute of Religion held its 15th annual commencement
this afternoon. Rabbi Stephen S Wise ordained 8 candidates for the rabbinate.
Two men were honored with honorary degrees as Doctors of Hebrew Letters. One
went to Salmann Schocken, the publisher and businessman who had fled from Germany
to Palestine when the Nazis came to power.
The other was awarded in absentia to Rabbi Moses Schorr, “the former
chief rabbi of Warsaw, who is now languishing in one of Stalin’s prisons.
(Editor’s note – This is at a time when the non-aggression pact between the two
dictators is in effect and the Soviets have conquered their half of Poland)
1941(7th
of Sivan, 5701): Second Day of Shavuot
1941:
Second and final day of the Farhud Pogrom during which approximately 200 Jews
were murdered in Baghdad and more than 2,000 were injured. Property damage exceeded 3 million dollars.
1941: French law called for ‘administrative arrest’ for all
Jews.
1942: Four hundred volunteers from the Jewish Brigade under
the command of Major Liiebmann fought at the Battle of Bir-el Harmat in Libya
which began today and lasted until June 11.
1942: Three
thousand, four hundred Jews from Hurbieszow were sent to Sobibor, where
eventually all but 12 were gassed.
1942: Fred Traum’s parents, Elias Israel Traum and Gitel
Sara Traum left Vienna by train and reportedly were murdered by the Nazis three
to five days later when the train reached Minsk.
1942: When Viennese Jews were deported to
the Minsk (Byelorussia) Ghetto today, Elsa Speigel, decided to leave her 5 and
1/2-month-old son, Jona, behind. The baby will eventually be sent to the
camp/ghetto at Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, where he will survive the war.
1942: The
BBC reports that 700,000 Jews have been exterminated. Its information comes
from a report smuggled out of Poland by the Jewish Bund in Warsaw.
1942: Birthdate of producer Berry Levinson.
1942(17th of Sivan, 5702): Leo Katzenberger was
guillotined at Stadelheim Prison in Munich after having been convicted, in a
totally bogus trial, of “race pollution” because he allegedly had sexual
relations with his non-Jewish girlfriend.
1943:
“Liquidation of the Lwów Ghetto, located in German-occupied Poland, was
completed, with the last surviving Jewish residents deported to the nearby
Janowska concentration camp. At one time, there had been 160,000 Jews in Lwów
which the Germans had renamed Lemberg. Nearly all of the former dwellers would
be killed by November. After the Soviet victory in World War II, the city would
become part of the Ukrainian SSR and renamed Lvov.”
1944: Itzhak
Gruenbaum, the chairman of the Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency, requests
the bombing of rail lines that lead to Auschwitz.
1944: The
Allies begin a bombing operation (Operation Frantic) in the Balkans, the goal
of which is to distract the Germans from upcoming Allied landings in France.
Bombing routes overfly the railway lines leading from Hungary to Auschwitz. The
operation lasts for four months, during the deportation of tens of thousands of
Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz. The railway lines carrying the Jews are never targeted.
1944: In the Bronx, Max Hamlisch and his wife gave birth to Marvin
Frederick Hamlish “the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who imbued his movie and
Broadway scores with pizazz and panache and often found his songs in the upper
reaches of the pop charts.” (As reported by Rob Hoerburger)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/arts/music/marvin-hamlisch-composer-dies-at-68.html
http://www.filmreference.com/film/14/Marvin-Hamlisch.html
1945(21st of Sivan, 5705): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1945: As delegates are meeting to establish the United Nations,
the Soviet Union demanded a right of veto for the permanent members of the
Security Council.
1945: Forty-seven-year-old August Hirt, the doctor who performed
experiments on concentration camp inmates and developed a program based on
collecting Jewish skeletons for Himmler, committed suicide today.
1945: Less than a month after VE, when a remnant of Jews were DP’s
(displace people) Pope Pious XII, who had found a way to co-exist with the
Fascist warned the College of Cardinal of the dangers of “those mobs of
dispossessed, disillusioned disappointed, hopeless men” wandering Europe.
1946: Today No. 6 Squadron RAF began operating from RAF Ein Shimer”
the largest military airfield in pre-state Israel.
1946(3rd of Sivan, 5706): Sixty-one-year-old Yiddish
author and journalist Joseph Chaikin, “the former managing editor of The Day passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/06/03/93116400.pdf
1946: Birthdate of Tel Aviv native Gidon Remez the prize winning
Israeli author who along with Isabella Ginor is responsible for the innovative
history Foxbats Over Dimona and The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973
https://truman.huji.ac.il/people/gideon-remez
1947:
Bernard M. Baruch, former United States member of the
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, said today that it would be
“sheer suicide and sheer madness if we didn’t adopt the compulsory
military training plan just recommended by the Advisory Commission on Universal
Training.”
1947: Meir (Myer Jack) Landa who passed away on May 30 was buried
today at Willesden Cemetery in London.
1947: In Germany, Rachel and Moshe gave birth to Hairm
Bar-Zeev(Reichberger) who immigrated to Israel a year later and was lost when
the Submarine Dakar went down with all hands in 1968
1947: The United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP)
elected its Chairman, Emil Sandstrom, a Swedish Supreme Court Judge and set
sail for Palestine.1948:
Viktor Brack, who was Hitler’s supervisor of the installation of gas chambers
in Poland, was executed.
1948:
An Israeli attack on Egyptian positions at Ashdod marked the turning point in
the war between Israel and Egypt.
1948:
Today, the IDF
began to encircle the Jenin to prevent the garrison from fleeing, while the
Israeli Air Force continued to carry out bombing raids.
1948:
The Golani and Carmeli brigades attacked Jenin today
1948:
Birthdate of Roni Bar-On, the Tel Aviv native who served as a Lieutenant
Colonel in the IDF before pursuing a political career that included service as
an MK and cabinet minister.
1949: The Kingdom of Transjordan was renamed The Kingdome
of Jordan. The kingdom had been named Transjordan because it was across
(trans) the Jordan river. In 1948, Jordan’s army crossed the
Jordan River and seized the eastern portion of Jerusalem and the territory
now called the West Bank. Since the country was now on both sides of the
Jordan River, it was no called Jordan. This name change proved that the
government of Jordan planned to remain permanently on the west bank of the
Jordan River and there was no intention to create a Palestinian State.
1949(5th of Sivan, 5709): Erev Shavuot
1949(5th of Sivan, 5709): Fifty-three-year-old
Hungarian author Béla Zsolt author of Nine Suitcases, “one of the earliest
Holocaust memoirs” passed away today
1949:
“Studio One,” a CBS television anthology series broadcast an adaptation of
“June Moon,” the 1920’s drama co-authored by George S. Kaufman.
1949: In Washington, DC, Helen and Frank Hart Rich gave
birth to Frank Hart Rich, Jr. who would gain fame and fortune as Frank Rich,
one of the finest and wittiest writers to write for the New York Times
1950: Plans to build a village in Israel bearing the name
of President Truman to be called Kfar Truman were announced at the White House.
1950: Violinist Jascha Heifetz, who is on a concert tour in
Israel, said today that he founded Israeli audiences to be “a little too
sophisticated but quite wonderful.” In the 12 performances to date, he has
enjoyed enthusiastic audience response.
1950(17th of Sivan, 5710): Sixty-one-year-old
New York born “attorney, writer and educator” Meyer Jacobs passed away today in
his hometown.
1951(27th of Iyar, 5711): Parashat Bechukotai
1951: After 30 weeks and 235 performances the curtain came
down on the “Country Girl” written and directed by Clifford Odets, starring
Steven Hill as “Bernie Dodd” with sets designed by Boris Aronson who won a Tony
for his work.
1952: Birthdate of Elan Steinberg, the native of Rishon
LeZion, “who brought what he called a new, “American style” assertiveness to
the World Jewish Congress as its top executive, winning more than $1 billion
from Swiss banks for Holocaust victims and challenging Kurt Waldheim, the
former United Nations secretary general, over his Nazi past…” (As reported by
Douglas Martin)
1952: Birthdate of Gary Bruce Bettman, the commissioner of
the National Hockey League.
1952: “Lydia Bailey” based on the novel of the same name,
with a screen-play co-written by Michael Blankfort, the Jewish born son of
Dorothy Stiles and Michael Blankfort as released today in the United States
1952: The Jerusalem Post
reported that according to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, and contrary to
persistent rumors, no definite reparation offer had yet been received from
Western Germany.
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that an
Israeli mother, who drowned her sick and handicapped five-year-old child in the
sea, received a one year prison sentence. The judge pointed out that there was
a waiting list of more than 300 handicapped children waiting for proper treatment.
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that
prospective emigrants were ordered to give up their ration books before leaving
Israel.
1955: Twenty-four-year-old
Brooklyn born right-handed pitcher Hyman Cohen played in his final major league
game as a member of the Chicago Cubs.
1956: In
Paterson, NJ, Irving Polansky and his wife Edith gave birth Purdue graduate,
Air Force officer and NASA Astronaut Mark Lewis “Roman” Polansky who “took a
teddy bear from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum” on STS-116.
1956:
Birthdate of Efi Oshaya, the Israeli political leader who served as an MK for
Labor and One Israel.
1959:
Allen Ginsberg wrote his poem “Lysergic Acid,” in San Francisco.
1960:
“In Friendly Theatre Foes” published today provides a sketch of Burton Abraham
Zorn and his role as the attorney representing Broadway producers.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1897/09/26/102085182.pdf
1960(7th
of Sivan, 5720): For the last time during the Presidency of Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Jews observe the second day of Shavuot
1961(18th of Sivan, 5721): Famed playwright George S.
Kaufman passed away.
http://www.georgeskaufman.com/
1961: Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, “accompanied by his
Private Secretary, Yitzhak Navon (later President of Israel) and the Israeli
Ambassador to London, Aruthur Lourie” meet with Winston Churchill in
London. During their conversation,
Ben-Gurion outlines his views on the situation in Iraq, the stability of the
Jordanian monarchy and the threat posed by Egypt which now possessed twenty or
more MIG-19 air craft which were better than anything the Israelis possessed.
1961: The World Wrestling Championship in which Boris
Gurevich would win a Silver Medal opened today in Japan.
1962: On Shabbat, during his sermon today, Rabbi Bernard J.
Bamberger told congregants at Shaaray Tefila in New York, “that the current
discussion of medical care for the aged had been confused by warnings of ‘the
danger of socialized medicine.’”
1962: Dr. Kurt Klappholz, the Rabbi at Congregation and
Talmud Torah Tifereth Israel, an Orthodox synagogue in Brooklyn delivered a
sermon today in which he was highly critical of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis for urging the government of Israel to spare Eichmann’s life
four hours before he was to be hung. The
Klappholz family was wiped out by the Nazis.
1963: AT ‘the age of 18, Rabbi Yisroel Hager married Rebbetzin
Sarah Chaya Chana Twersky, the daughter of Rabbi Meshulom Zishe Twersky,
previous Grand Rabbi of Chernobyl in Bnei Brak.”
1964(23rd of Sivan, 5724): Fifty-three-year-old
motion picture and television executive Mathew Fox, the husband of former Miss
American Yolande Betbeze suffered a fatal heart attack today.
1965: London property developer and philanthropist Baron
Max Rayne married his second wife Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart.
1965: The United Synagogue
which was established for charitable purposes by the Jewish United Synagogues
Act of 1870 was formally registered as a charity today in the United Kingdom.
1967(23rd of Iyar, 5727): Chase F. Isaacs, the
widow of University of Cincinnati and Harvard University trained hematologist
and “the mother of Dr. Benjamin H., Lucian B. and Dr. Mark L. Isaacs” passed
away today in Maryland.
1968(6th of Sivan, 5728): Shavuot
1968: In St. Louis, Evelyn and Lou Cohen gave birth to
Boston University grad Andrew Joseph Cohen an American radio and television
talk show host, producer, and writer who is the brother of jewelry designer
Emily Rosenfeld
1968(6th of Sivan, 5728): Sixty-seven-year-old
Russian born HUC trained Rabbi, Dr. Charles E. Schulman the Ohio Northern
University Law School trained attorney who served as Navy Chaplain during WW II
and led the Riverdale Temple in the Bronx for twenty years while being married
“to the former Avis Clamitz” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/06/03/77090475.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1969(14th of Iyar, 5729): Pesach Sheni
1969(14th of Iyar, 5729): Fifty-one-year-old
actor Leo Bernard Gorcy best known for being the loud-mouth leader of “The
Bowery Boys” passed away today.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.obituaries/JsoWI9sPqoQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Gorcey#/media/File:Leo_Gorcey_1945.JPG
1971(9th of Sivan, 5731): Sixty-three-year-old
Ephraim Epstein, who served as the rabbi for Congregation Shaare Zedek in St.
Louis, MO from 1934 to 1969 passed away today.
1971(9th of Sivan, 5731): Eighty-two-year-old
Brooklyn restaurant owner Minnie Epstein, the wife of Hyman Epstein and the
mother of Mollie Shlesinger and Dr. Samuel Epstein passed away today in
“Parsons Hospital, Flushing, Queens.
1973(2nd of Sivan, 5733): Parashat Bamidbar
1973(2nd of Sivan, 5733): Sur Karl Cyril Cohen,
the Leeds educated solicitor, known as “KC,” the elected Secretary of Leeds
Jewish Representative Council and Chairman of the Paole Zion and Workers’
Friendship Circle who was appointed CBE in 1963 and knighted in 1968 passed
away today.
1973: Birthdate of David Bezmozgis, Latvian born Canadian
author
1974: It was reported today that “Red Cross aircraft took
off simultaneously from Tel Aviv and Damascus carrying 12 Israelis home from
Syria” and carrying 25 Syrians and one Moroccan “who had fought with the
Syrians” to Damascus as “Israeli and Syria carried out the second stage of
their troop-separation agreement.
1974: ‘Miss Arlene Popkin, who will receive an LL.B. degree
this month from the New York University School of Law, and Lieut. Stephen E.
Hirschberg, Medical Corps, U.S.N., who has just completed a residency in
internal medicine at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, were married” today
in a ceremony performed by Rabbi Marc Liebhaber of Minneapolis, MN
1974: It was reported today that “President Nixon and
Secretary of State Kissinger had conferred with Secretary General Kurt Waldheim
at the White House on the role of the United Nations peace-keeping force on the
Golan Heights…”
1974: It was reported today that Binyamin Kiryati, “an
Israeli P.O.W. released by the Syrians” had declared “It’s like being born
again.”
1974: Abba Eban completes his service as Foreign Minister.
1976(4th of Sivan, 5736): Eighty-five-year-old
“Dr. Alexander M. Dushkin, professor emeritus at the John Dewey School of
Education that he helped organize in 1950 at Hebrew University in Jerusalem”
passed away today.
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported from
Washington that the US and Israel fundamentally disagreed over the Arab
willingness to live in peace with a secure Israel. US officials believed that
Arabs were ready to accept Israel within the pre-1967 borders, but Israeli
leaders doubted Arab moderation.
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that Kennan
Moss, a new immigrant from South Africa, was held for allegedly crossing into
Jordan where he betrayed important Israeli security secrets.
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that the
Shippers’ Council sued the Marine Officers Union for losses caused by the
recent, prolonged marine strike.
1978:
Release of “Darkness on the Edge of Town, the studio album that featured Max
Weinberg on the drums.
1978: Six
months after being released in Japan, “Capricorn One” a space conspiracy movie
directed by Peter Hyams who wrote the script, starring Elliott Gould and with
music by Jerry Goldsmith was released in the United States today.
1978: The
R.H. Macy building at Herald Square on 34th Street which had been
built by Isidor and Nathan Straus in 1902 was added to the National Register of
Historic Places and designated as a National Historic Landmark.
1979(7th of
Sivan, 5739): Second Day of Shavuot
1982: Yad
Vashem recognized Jan Karski as Righteous Among the Nations. A tree bearing a
memorial plaque in his name was planted at Yad Vashem’s Avenue of the Righteous
Among the Nations in Jerusalem
1984(2nd
of Sivan, 5744): Parashat Nasso
1987:
President Ronal Reagan nominated Alan Greenspan to serve as Chairman of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.
1988:
The New York Review of Books publishes the letter signed from Natan Zach
and Nissim Calderon in which they resign as members of the advisory committee
of the International Poetry Festival due to take place in Israel as part of the
country’s 40th anniversary celebration.
1989(28th
of Iyar, 5749: Yom Yerushalayim
1989:
B’nai Jeshurun a synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City
founded in 1825 was added to the NRHP today.
1989:
Israeli journalist Eric Silver wrote an article in the London Jewish
Chronicle describing life in Jerusalem for Arabs and Jews; a life marred by
violence and suspicion. Responding to
Arab claims that “Jews are afraid’ Silver writes, “The Jews say it is not so
much fear as prudence. Why risk a knife in the back, a rock through the
windscreen? Who needs it?”
1991: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Chutzpah by Alan
Dershowitz.
1993(13th
of Sivan, 5753): Ninety-three-year-old University of California (Berkeley) and
founder of bot the Norton Simon Museum and Hunt’s Foods Norton Simon the
Portland, OR bon son of Lillian Gluckman and Myer Simon.
https://www.nortonsimon.org/about/about-norton-simon/
https://www.infoplease.com/biographies/society-culture/norton-simon
1993: A
revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
opened in the Wes End at the Royal National Theatre.
1995:
“Fluke” a movie based on the novel of the same name co-starring Max Pomeranc
and Ron Perlman was released in the United States today.
1996(15th
of Sivan, 5756): Fifty-nine-year-old cognitive psychologist Amos Tversky, the Haifa
born son of “Polish-born veterinarian Yosef Tversky and Lithuanian Jewish Jenia
Tversky (née Ginzburg), a social worker who later became a member of the
Knesset representing the Mapai (Workers’ Party)” a Stanford psychology
professor who with his longtime colleague, Princeton psychologist Daniel
Kahneman, jointly won the 2003 Grawemeyer Award for Psychology passed away
today. The $200,000 prize, awarded for the third time by the University of
Louisville in Kentucky, recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of
psychology. Working as a team for nearly three decades, Kahneman and Tversky
revolutionized the scientific approach to decision making, ultimately affecting
all social sciences and many related disciplines. Tversky died of cancer in
1996. His untimely death prevented him from sharing in a Nobel Prize with
his longtime colleague, Daniel Kahneman.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210303034115/https://news.stanford.edu/pr/96/960605tversky.html
1997(26th
of Iyar, 5757): Eighty-two-year-old Pittsburgh born Professor Emeritus of
Economics at Duke University Martin Bronfenbrenner passed away today.
https://www.hetwebsite.net/het/profiles/bronfenbrenner.htm
1998(8th
of Sivan, 5758): Seventy-six-year-old Beverly Levin, the wife of Dr. Jules
Levin and sister of actress of Charlotte Rae best known for her roles in “The
Facts of Life” and “Diff’rent Strokes.”
1998: Jacob
A. Stein and Plato Cacheris replaced William H. Ginsburg, the attorney who had
been representing Monica Lewinsky from the time the scandal first broke.
2000(28th
of Iyar, 5760): A month before President Clinton issued the formal invitation
to Ehud Barak and Yasar Arafat to come to peace talks at Camp David, Jews
observe Yom Yerushalyim
2001(11 of
Sivan, 5761): Fifteen-year-old Yael-Yulia Sklianik of Holon and 20 year old
Sergei Panchenko from the Ukraine died today of the wounds sustained when a
suicide bomber attacked the Dolphinarium.
2001:
“Talmud Display Honors Holocaust Survivors” published today described plans for
a volume of this special edition of the Jewish which is currently “on display
at the Chrysler Museum of Art” to “go on a national tour.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jun/02/local/me-5536
2002: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Sunday
Jews’: Proudly Half and Half by Emily Barton and Firehouse
by David Halberstam.
2002: HBO
broadcast the first episode of “The Wire” a creation of David Simon which
painted a gritty, dark picture of Baltimore, MD.
2002(22nd
of Sivan, 5762): Seventy-nine year old journalist Flora Lewis, best known for
her role as foreign affairs columnist at the New York Times passed away today.
2002(22nd
of Sivan, 5762): Seventy-six-year-old Detroit born producer Herman Cohen, the
who gave us the “ I Was A Teenage
Werewolf” series passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/12/arts/herman-cohen-76-producer-of-werewolf.html
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jun-09-me-cohen9-story.html
2003: The National Foundation for Jewish Culture, the leading
advocate for Jewish cultural creativity and preservation in America, hosts a
gala ceremony at the Plaza Hotel in New York where it presents today the
honorees for the fourteenth annual Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards.
2004:
Limrick Nelson, Jr. who in 1991 had fatally stabbed “Yankel Rosenbaum, a 29-year-old
Chasidic Jew” during a race riot in Crown Heights but who was only “convicted
in federal court of having violated the Jew’s civil rights” is scheduled to be
related from the Federal Penitentiary today thanks to “time off for good
behavior.”
2005: Award
winning Israeli singer and actress Miri Mesika married the musically record
producer Ori Zakh today.
2005: The San Diego Jewish Times, published
the following article by Donald H. Harrison entitled “Yossi Harel tells Exodus
Story From the Commander’s Perspective.”
http://www.jewishsightseeing.com/dhh_weblog/2005-blog/2005-06_blog/2005-06-02-yossi_harel.htm
I was
surprised after Yossi Harel finished speaking that the 40-50 people invited by
the Tel Aviv Foundation to hear him May 15 at Reina and David Shteremberg’s
home in La Jolla didn’t jump to their feet as one to give him a standing
ovation. Harel’s stirring story is the kind that makes your heart swell with
gratitude that God made you a Jew. Perhaps the more restrained response was
because Harel, today an octogenarian, seems so shy, and so modest about himself
that people didn’t want to embarrass him by their effusions. The simplicity of
the man—measured against his deeds—reminded me of the time I toured the
historic home of Paula and David Ben-Gurion in Tel Aviv. To pass between their
kitchen table and the cabinets, one practically had to turn sideways. Such an unassuming home for someone as
important to the Jewish people as Ben Gurion!
But he was not a man of large possessions, rather he was a man of big
deeds. So too might it be said about
Harel. Harel was a youngster in the pre-Israel Independence Haganah underground
forces when he was directed to study coastal navigation—study that led to him
being named the post World War II commander of the effort to smuggle immigrants
past the British blockade and into Palestine. Most people of my generation know
his story very well; as it was fictionalized in the movie Exodus starring Paul
Newman. The real Exodus was among the ships under Harel’s command. The captain
of that ship, Ike Arianne, coincidentally is coming to San Diego to speak June
5 to the Alpine Jewish Connection and June 8 to Congregation Beth Israel about
his experiences. In describing the
journey of the Exodus and other immigrant ships, Harel emphasized three major
points: the awesome sense of responsibility he felt trying to ferry people from
the camps of Europe, especially for the youth who had survived the Holocaust,
and the dangers that the clandestine ships faced along the way. Harel remembers
the children the most vividly. On one
ship, he remembers a boy who used to dig tunnels from a nazi-guarded ghetto to
the city outside. His father wanted him
to sneak his sister out, but the sister wouldn’t leave the parents. So the boy’s father told the boy to leave the
ghetto on his own, and not to come back.
The father knew the nazis eventually would take them all away. The boy did as he was told, later telling
Harel “I never again saw my father, my mother, my sister; they went to heaven
through the chimneys of Auschwitz.” To his La Jolla listeners, Harel reflected;
“You listen to this story and you begin to understand what is the command you
got.” On that particular ship, there were 4,000 passengers, and “everyone had
an equivalent story.” It gave rise to
the determination that while the British might be successful in stopping some
ships from disembarking its passengers in Palestine, it couldn’t stop all of
them. At one of the Displaced Persons camp from which Exodus passengers were
chosen, he remembered a girl who held a little boy’s hand tight. Was she the older sister, he wondered? No, he learned from the camp’s Haganah
commander. She had been sent by her Jewish parents to a monastery where she
posed as a Catholic. The little boy came
later, but was too young to understand what was required of him. At night, he cried in Yiddish for his
mother—dangerous because the Gestapo would yank such children from the
monastery and execute them. The girl
hushed him, taught him how to make the sign of the cross and other prayers, and
remained his protector to that very day. The immigrant ships navigated waters
that under normal circumstances were treacherous; let alone when the ships sat
deep in the water because they were overloaded with passengers. They were short
on food, fuel and water, often having to cut rations as they neared their
destination. On one ship, a Greek captain and senior crew member began making
the sign of the cross on their chests as they looked at the rocks of
Peloponese. “When you see the captain
and the chief do that, you know something is wrong,” Harel recalled, his
understatement prompting laughter from his La Jolla listeners. The strong waves
were driving the 50-year-old ship toward the rocks, and the heavy-in-the-water
vessel had insufficient power to counteract their force. Six miles from the rocks, than five miles,
then four miles… “I could see that the ship was going to wreck,” he said. “We didn’t have a single lifeboat, what can
we do? So you sit on the bridge, and you
watch, and all of a sudden you see the waves parallel to the coast beginning to
change direction. The winds
changed! Slowly we passed by maybe
200-300 yards offshore. We had 4,000
people aboard. Maybe the supplication of
the captain helped!” On another occasion, a ship had to be navigated through
the Bosporus—but to get to the straits, it needed to first sail through waters
that the Russians had mined during World War II. A Russian pilot refused to sail at night, so
a Haganah member was assigned to read the charts and get the ship through. “It was the longest night of my life,” said
Harel.
“Overall,” Harel said, “we brought 100,000 people but this was the bloodiest
war we ever had. In the War for
Independence, we had 600,000 Jews, and we lost 6,000 – one percent.” Running the blockade, he said, “we lost over
3,000 people drowned in the Black Sea—three percent…
“With all these casualties, they kept coming, they didn’t stop,” he marveled.
“A nation destroyed was coming back to life.”
2006(6th of
Sivan, 5766): First day of Shavuot
2006(6th of
Sivan, 5766): Sol W. Cantor, an early proponent of discount retailing featuring
warehouse style stores passed away at the age of 95. He was a major philanthropist who supported
the UJA, ADL and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.
2006:
Pittsburgh’s Malacandra Productions staged a nine-character play adapted by
John Regis from the classic William Tenn (Philip Klass) science fiction short
story, “Winthrop Was Stubborn”.
2007: In
Cedar Rapids, Melanie Abzug becomes a Bat Mitzvah at Temple Judah.
2007: The Cedar Rapids Gazette features an
article entitled “Mitzvahs Swell in Summer” by Molly Rossiter describing the
Bar and Bat Mitzvah Ceremonies and the way they are practiced at Temple Judah
in Cedar Rapids and Agudas Achim in Iowa City.
2007(16th
of Sivan, 5767): Martin Meyerson, former president of the University of
Pennsylvania who briefly led the University of California at Berkley during the
tumultuous 1960’s passed away at the age of 84. “He was the first Jewish head
of a major research university, and he and John Kemeny of Dartmouth College
were the first Jewish presidents in the Ivy League. A reporter once called Mr.
Meyerson ‘the Jackie Robinson of Jewish academia.’”
2008: AIPAC
Policy Conference opens in Washington, D.C.
2008 (28th of Iyar, 5768): Yom Yerushalayim – Jerusalem Reunification Day. This marks the celebration of the 41st
anniversary of the re-establishment of Jewish control over the entire “City of
David.”
2008(28th
of Iyar, 5768): Eighty year old Paul Sills, “the original director of Chicago’s
The Second City” passed away today. (As reported by Campbell Roberston)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/theater/04sills.html
2008:
Punter Adam Podlesh “was elected to the Rochester Jewish Sports Hall of Fame”
today.
2018: The
paperback edition of the award-winning novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret by
Brian Selznick, a distant relation of David O. Selznick was released today.
https://www.theinventionofhugocabret.com/about_hugo_intro.htm
2008: At
the Spertus in Chicago, the fourth and final session of “A Short History of
Anti-Semitism.” Taught by historian Dr. Dean Bell, the course covers
anti-Judaism in the classical world, the Crusades and expulsions in the Middle
Ages, tolerance and restrictions in the early modern period, and racial
anti-Semitism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dean Bell is
Dean and Chief Academic Officer at Spertus. He earned his BA at the University
of Chicago and MA and PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. He has
taught at Berkeley, DePaul University, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, and the Hebrew Theological College.
2008: Brian
“Horwitz hit his first major league home run today, off New York Mets starting
pitcher Óliver Pérez.”
2008: In
“Holocaust survivors passing memories to young people,” published today, The Chicago Tribune describes the
“Generation to Generation” program sponsored by the Illinois Holocaust Museum
and Education Center in Skokie which is designed to enable Holocaust survivors
to tell their story with a young recipient to ensure that the personal memories
are not lost.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-holocaust-survivorsjun02,0,11987.story
2009: The National Capital Mikvah offered a class on “The
Fourth Trimester: Childbirth and Beyond.” During an interactive lecture
Rebbetzin Sharon Freundel led a discussion on childbirth and post-childbirth
issues for Orthodox women including niddah after childbirth and when to return
to the mikvah, how to schedule a brit for both term and pre-term boys, and
other laws and customs.
2009(10th
of Sivan, 5769):
A gunman killed one person, seriously wounded a
second and said he tried to hit a third in an apparent shooting spree in
central Jerusalem early this morning, police said.
2009: A rising and falling siren sounded this morning at 11 A.M.
for a minute and a half as part of this year’s Home Front Command national
exercise, with all citizens encouraged to practice entering their protected
rooms.
2010: The
YIVO is scheduled to present a lecture entitled “Empire of Charity: American
Jews and the Rebuilding of Polish Lithuania, 1919-1939” which “focuses on the
role Jewish émigrés and their philanthropy played in reshaping political,
social, and economic life in Brisk and Vilna, the two historic intellectual
centers of Lithuanian Jewry.”
2010:
Funeral services were held today in Los Angeles for 88 year old Holocaust
survivor Sophi Lazar, the widow of Max Lazar with whom she had two children
Mordechai and Chana.
2010: In
“An Assault, Cloaked in Peace” published today Michael B. Oren explains why
those on Turkish ship Mavi Marmara were not promoters of peace, in the usually
understood meaning of that term.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/opinion/03oren.html?_r=0
2010:
Today, “the New York Post reported that Jeff Zucker would be paid between $30
million and $40 million to leave NBC Universal shortly after Comcast completes
its 51% acquisition in the company.”
2010: In “A
Viennese District Is Reborn” published today Kimberly Bradley described the
rebirth of the Karmeliterviertel, or Carmelite Quarter as a center for Jewish
culture. “Over the last decade or so the area has become one of the few places
in the world outside of Brooklyn and Tel Aviv where bohemians stroll alongside
groups of Orthodox Jews — the former buying chutney from Slow Food Vienna’s
booth at the market, the latter munching on matzo and hummus from Kosherland.”
2011: The
Masada Opera Festival is scheduled to “kick off with a celebratory opera
evening featuring works by Verdi, Puccini and Rossini performed by Svetla
Vasileva and the orchestra of Arena di Verona”.
2011: The
92nd Street Y is scheduled to present “Israeli Wines: Talk and
Tasting” a program offering a virtual
tour of several vineyards as well as a look at the unique Israeli wine-making
process facilitated by Udi Kadim, CEO of Yarden, one of the nation’s leading
importers of quality wines.
2011: Israel
has deployed an Iron Dome rocket interceptor outside Sderot, a Gaza border town
that has borne the brunt of Palestinian shelling attacks, posing a new test for
the fledgling system underwritten by Washington.
2011: Five people were arrested this afternoon in connection with
an incident earlier in the day, in which a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the
Binyamin Police commander’s car, setting it ablaze. Also, this afternoon,
Border Police and Civil Administration authorities demolished the Ga’on Yarden
settlement outpost in the Binyamin region of the West Bank, in which several
buildings were illegally built. It was the second demolition carried out in one
day.
2011: After
premiering at the Cannes Film Festival last month “Footnote” was released in
Israel today.
2011: It
was announced today that Jill “that Abramson would become the executive editor
of the Times in September 2011…”
2012: In
Atlanta, The Temple is scheduled to sponsor a concert featuring The Return
which will be both a fundraiser and celebration of the birthday of Rabbi Alvin
Sugarman
2012: In
Cedar Rapids, IA, Jessica Heeren is scheduled to be called to the Torah as a
Bat Mitzvah
2012: Seven historic synagogues in Krakow that are closed for
most of the year are scheduled to be open tonight as part of the second annual
7@nite-Synagogues By Night, an evening of exhibitions, music concerts and
fashion shows by young artists from Poland and around the world. The free event
is sponsored by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, JCC Krakow
and the Krakow Jewish community. (As reported by the JTA)
2012: “Thousands demonstrated for social
justice tonight in Israel’s three largest cities in an effort to rejuvenate the
movement that swept the country last summer with tent cities and weekly
demonstration. Many of the protesters, especially in Tel Aviv and Haifa, were
from the Meretz and Hadash parties, as well as from leftist youth movements.”
(As reported by Haaretz)
2012:
Dianna Agron hosted the GLAAD Media Award in San Francisco.
2013: A
grand ceremony to dedicate British Columbia’s first synagogue will be reenacted
today exactly 150 years to the day following the establishment of Congregation
Emanu-El in downtown Victoria, the picturesque capital of Canada’s western-most
province. (As reported by Arthur Wolak)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/canadas-oldest-synagogue-celebrates-150/
2013: The
American Society for Jewish Music and the American Jewish Historical Society
are scheduled to present “Music in Our Time: 2013” an annual concert that
features music with Jewish content.
2013: The
Israeli National Soccer Team is scheduled to play the Honduran National Team at
Citi Field in what will the Israeli team’s first New York appearance in 35
years.
2013: A
conference on “Holy War and Sacred Struggle in Judaism, Christianity and Islam”
is scheduled to open at Tel Aviv University
2013: A
farewell dinner is scheduled to be held in New Orleans for Rabbi Uri Topolosky
of Congregation Beth Israel and his wife Dahlia. (For more about the New
Orleans Jewish Community see the Crescent City Jewish News edited by Alan
Samson)
2013
American model Lisa S. (born as Lisa Selesner) and actor Daniel Wu gave birth
to their daughter Raven.
2013:
“Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges” is
scheduled to have its final showing at the National Museum of American Jewish
Museum. (Special thanks to Rabbi Fred Davidow, an “authentic Southern Jew” and
a real mensch for making us aware of this)
http://www.nmajh.org/SpecialExhibitions/
http://articles.philly.com/2013-01-13/news/36314341_1_jewish-scholars-black-colleges-jewish-heritage
2013: The New York Times published reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Super
Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster – the Creators of
Superman by Brad Ricaa, No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth Wisse
and Lady At The O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by
Anna Kirschner.
2013: The Bayit Yehudi party has officially endorsed Rabbi David Stav as its
candidate for the position of Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi in a vote that took place
during a faction meeting this afternoon.
2014:
The JCC in Manhattan is scheduled to host a screening of “An Honest Liar.”
2014:
“Israel fired artillery shells at a target in Syria early this morning after a
mortar shell from the war-torn country hit Mount Hermon, opening a second front
hours after returning fire into Gaza.” (As reported by Lazar Berman)
2014:
“Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas swore in the ministers of a new
unity government” which he hailed as ending the split with Hamas which is part
of this reconciliation government, a fact denied by the United States which
says that it can negotiatie with the PA because members of Hamas are not
ministers in the new cabinet.
2014(4th
of Sivan, 5774): Eighty-eighty-year-old chemist Alexander Shulgin passed away
today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
2014:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “Rethinking Jabotinsky,” a
book talk with Hillel Halkin in conversation with New York Times cultural critic, Edward Rothstein, Columbia
University historian Rebecca Kobrin, and moderator Abe Socher, editor of The Jewish Review of Books.
2015:
The National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to sponsor a trip
to Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre to experience “Irving Berlin’s I Love a
Piano” a musical that follows the journey of a piano as it moves in and out of
American lives from the turn of the century to the present.
2015:
“The Pennsylvania Senate voted 49-0 today to confirm Dr. Rachel Levine as the
state’s physician general — making her the highest ranked out transgender
person ever to serve in Pennsylvania government.
2015:
Christopher Bandini reviewed Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Third Reich
by Emily Kurlioff.
2015(15th
of Sivan, 5775): “Just a few days shot of his 102nd birthday, former
JHSGW president Henry Brylawski passed away today.
2015:
“Channel 2’s Moshe Nussbaum reported” today that Israel did not attack Lebanese
territory earlier in the day meaning that reported by “Lebanese media outlets”
that IAF had struck near the city of Brital” and inflicted casualties were
false.
2015(15th
of Sivan, 5775): Eight-eight-year-old Nobel Prize winning chemist Irwin Rose
passed away today.
2015:
President Obama posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to Sergeant William
Shemin, who served in the Army during WW I.
2015:
Elsie Shemin-Roth is scheduled to receive the Medal Honor today on behalf of
her late father Sgt. William Shemin, “nearly a century after he pulled wounded
comrades to safety” during World War I. (As reported by Salter
2015:
Israeli pop star Kobi Peretz is scheduled to perform at the Highline Ballroom.
http://highlineballroom.com/show/2015/06/02/kobi-peretz/
2016: The 4th Annual Israel Film Center
Festival is scheduled to open tonight with a screening of the winner of the
2015 Israeli Academy Awards, “Baba Joon.”
2016:
In Israel, “the Energy Ministry confirmed that the Leviathan offshore field has
20 per cent less gas than previously reported saying that there were 500
billion cubic meters of gas in the reserve and not 620 billion cubic meters.
2016:
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at Temple Judah funeral services are scheduled to be
held for Harold Becker, a successful businessman, World War II veteran,
generous philanthropist and pillar of the Jewish community
http://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2016/May/Harold-Becker/
2016:
Sara “Hurwitz delivered the “A Message from the Dean” at Yeshivat
Maharat’s Semikha Ceremony, hosted at
Ramaz Lower School in which she applauded “the loud voices of those who
hired our graduates as spiritual leaders, who support our graduates in
fulfilling their dreams of serving the Jewish people as Orthodox clergy”
and expressed her belief that the graduates: Hadas (Dasi) Fruchter, Ramie
Smith, and Alissa Thomas-Newborn, “embody the ethic of optimism.”
2017: “The Women’s Balcony,” the “#1 Film of the Year in Israel”
is scheduled to open in Scottsdale, AZ.
2017: “Committee Elections for next terms are scheduled to be held
this evening following the Friday Night Dinner” hosted by the Oxford University
Jewish Society.
2017: “Letters from Baghdad” is scheduled to premiere at Lincoln
Plaza Cinema and Agelika Film Center.
2018(19th of Sivan, 5778): Parashat Behalotecha;
2018: ‘Keynote’ a Site Specific Installation by Tirtzah Bassel,
“an Israeli artist based in New York,” is scheduled to open today.
2018: Participants in the Silent Auction sponsored by the Straus
Historical Society scheduled to take place on June 4 begin previewing the items
today.
2018:
“A new event celebrating 50 years of educational partnership with Hebrew
University that was scheduled to take placed today at the UCLA Hillel” will not
take place as alumni express their outrage at violence “on the Gaza border” –
an outrage that apparently did not carry over to this week’s rocket barrage
from terrorists in Gaza launched against Israel.”
2019:
In Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is scheduled to hold its annual BBQ potluck
dinner and annual congregational meeting featuring a “Year-In –Review” prepared
by Steve Eckert, whose artistry proves once again that here is something about
a Jews and Cameras (or at least talented ones like Steve)
2019:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Funny Man: Mel Brooks, the
biography of the Jewish comedian by Patrick McGilligan and The Drama of
Celebrity, Sharon Marcus’ biography of Sarah Bernhardt.
2019:
Avodah New Orleans is scheduled to host its “Eighth Annual Partners in
Justice Jazz” honoring “three incredible heroes in the work for a more
equitable Louisiana.”
2019(28th
of Iyar, 5779): Celebration of Yom Yershualayim, marking the 52nd
anniversary of the re-unification of Jerusalem, marking the end of the illegal
19t year-long occupation of the eastern part of the city by Kingdom
of Jordan; an occupation that brought no complaint from the world community or
demand from the Arabs of Palestine to have it turned over to them as a capital
for their “state.”
2019:
Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled to host Deborah Ugoretz as she discusses
the practice by 19th century Jews in Poland and Poland “of making
decorative papercuts for Shavuot, often representing flowers and animal”
followed by her demonstration of this unique holiday custom.
2019:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present a performance of
Verrd’s “Nabucco” adapted by and starring David Seroro in the title role.
2020:
“Lynn Melnick, 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 lead a
“Poetry Writing Workshop Inspired by ‘The New Colossus’ sponsored by the AJHS.
2020:
Live on Zoom, The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to “The Muslim
World’s Reaction to the Six Day Work.
2020:
Live on Zoom the Leo Baeck Institute is scheduled to host a discussion of
Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday, featuring George Prochnik, author of The
Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World.”
2020:
Today on GiveNOLA Day donors can make contribution to JCRS (Jewish Children’s
Regional Service), an organization that really delivers the goods for Jewish
youngsters living throughout the southern United States.
2020:
LSJS is scheduled “Batsheva,” the third in a lecture series Debbie Meyer on
“The Trials of King David.
2020:
On-line, The Project on Russian and Eurasian Jewry is scheduled to present “The
Marriage of Véra Slonim and Vladimir Nabokov as Jewish, Russian and American
History.”
2021: The Temple Emanu El Brother is
scheduled to host syndicated arts columnist Bob Adelman who will discuss his
new book All the World’s a Stage Fright: Misadventures of a Clandestine
Crictic.
2021: The American Society for Jewish
Music and the Center for Jewish History are scheduled to present “To Bigotry No
Sanction,” “a magnificent new cantata, composed by Jonathan Comisar, based on
George Washington’s historic Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport,
Rhode Island” which was commissioned by Congregation Keneseth Israel in the
Philadelphia suburb of Elkins Park, PA.
2021: The Illinois Holocaust Museum a
live social justice and Nelson Mandela-inspired spoken word performance and
Q&A with Kareem K.W.O.E. Wells and K.W.O.E Foundation Executive Director
Judith Allen. Featured on ESPN and TEDx, and founder of K.W.O.E Group and
Foundation,
2021: The Kosher hot stand will not
return at today’s scheduled opening of Progressive Field, home of the Cleveland
Indians.
2022: In Cedar Rapids, the Hadassah Book
Club is scheduled to meet today and discuss via Zoom, The Woman with the Blue
Star by Pam Jenoff.
2002: Leah Rauch, the Director of
Education for the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Associate Manager of
Education Matthew are schedule to share,
online little-known stories of LGBTQ+ people who were murdered or survived the
Nazi regime and reflect on the importance of being a voice for those who were
silenced.
2022: The Jewish Book Council is
scheduled to host a literary program featuring Felicia Berliner, author of the
debut novel Shumtz and author Abby Stein
2022: Lockdown University is scheduled
to host a lecture by David Herman on the works of Lev Ozerov.
2023: The Israel Film Center Festival is
scheduled to continue at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan.
2023: “Songs of Truth,” an orchestral
concert with multimedia storytelling and conversation featuring music written
in concentration camps, performed by Golden Gate Symphony & Chorus is
scheduled to be presented by Holocaust Music Lost and Found with Citizen Film,
CJM and others.
2023: In Pittsburgh, the trial of Robert
Bowers the “alleged gunman” who murdered Jews in the synagogue shooting on
October 27, 2018 is scheduled to continue today.
2023: JWI urges its members to
participate in The Wear Orange Initiative as part of the 9th
National Gun Violence Awareness Day.
2024: Dayenu Circle of Jewish Silicon
Valley is scheduled to present “Moving Ahead on Climate Action” during which “Assemblymember
Marc Berman will discuss AB 2083, the Industrial Manufacturing Modernization
Act, which is designed to clean up the second-largest source of greenhouse-gas
emissions.”
2024: In New Orleans, Temple Sinai is
scheduled to host “Avodah’s annual Partners in Justice Fundraiser https://avodah.net/pij/
2024:Harvey Fierstein’s two-act adaptation titled “Torch Song” which opened May 9 at
Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley is scheduled to be performed today for the
last time.
2024: Jewish Folk Chorus of San
Francisco is scheduled to present its 98th annual concert, which features songs
by Yiddish poet and songwriter Mordechai Gebirtig.
2024:The 26th New York Yok
Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to open today.
2024: Lobel Teachers Colloquia is scheduled
to begin today in Princeton, NJ.
2024: JHMOMC is scheduled to present “A
Life of My Own: Meeting Eleanor Roosevelt with Actress and Impersonator Linda
Kenyon.”
2024: Eighty-third anniversary of the
end Farhoud, the Iraqi pogrom that marked the beginning of the end this ancient
Jewish community and which is proof positive that anti-Semitism in that part of
the world pre-dated the creation of the state Israel.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-farhud
2024:
As June 2nd begins in
Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 240 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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