This Day, June 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

JUNE 26

363:
Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire.
General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
According to various sources, Julian was a true Roman pagan who sought to roll
back the inroads that Christianity had made among the ruling classes.  He passed an edict of toleration. In the year
of his death, he ordered the Temple to be rebuilt on its historic location in
Jerusalem.  The plan died with him and
the exile continued.

1187:
Saladin crosses the Jordan River with an army of 20,000 in what will lead to
the final battle for control of Jerusalem. 
At this time, the Jews fare better under the Muslim leader than they do
among the European Christians who have slaughtered them and driven them from
their ancient homes in the “City of David.”

1409:
The Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is
crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in
Rome and Pope Benedict XIII in Avignon. While these various claimants to Papal
power were fighting amongst themeslves, they had time to bedevil the Jews.  In 1409, Pope Alexander V ordered the
Inquisitor of Avignon, Dauphiné, Provence and Comtat Venaissin to proceed
against several categories of persons “including Jews who practiced magic,
invokers of demons, and augurs” Benedict initiated the year-long
Disputation of Tortosa in 1413, which became the most prominent
Christian-Jewish disputation of the Middle Ages. Benedict was well known for
his oppressive laws against the Jews

1523: The first printed edition of the Sefer ha-Chinuch (ספר
החינוך) appeared. The printing of this comparatively obscure volume within
seven decades of the invention of Gutenberg’s printing press demonstrates how
quickly “the people of the book” took to the printing of books.  Sefer ha-Chinuch was not the first book to be
printed in Hebrew.  That honor probably
goes to Tractate Berakhot of the Babylonian Talmud which was printed by Joshua
Solomon Soncino in 1483. . 
According to the Hillel Website, “Sefer HaChinuch is a
unique work in many ways. It was published anonymously and scholars throughout
the ages have not succeeded in unearthing the humble author. The book dates to
13th century Spain and is a comprehensive description of the 613 commandments,
arranged according to their appearance in the Pentateuch. The description of
each commandment includes (a) the concept of the Mitzvah and its Biblical
source, (b) the philosophical underpinnings of the commandment, and (c) a brief
summary of the laws governing its observance. An English translation of this
important work is available.”

1541
(23 Sivan 5301): Rabbi Jacob Pollack passed away. Born in Poland 1460, he was
the first important Polish-Jewish Rabbinic scholar.  Prior to his time,
the great Talmudic centers had been found in Germany.  He helped establish
the Talmudic method of study called “Pilpul”. This complicated and
often hair-splitting method of explanation was originated in southern Germany.
It is called mental acrobatics by some, yet is also responsible for the
development of the sharp Talmudic mind. Pollack served as a Rabbi in Cracow,
moved to Eretz-Israel for a period of time and returned to live in Lublin where
he passed away.

1570(23
of Tammuz): Rabbi Moshe Codovero passed away.

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/83771/jewish/Rabbi-Moshe-Cordovero.htm

1612:
Coronation of Matthias, who acceded to the wishes of the Dutch and “established
religious peace” in their provinces which helped to turn the Netherlands into a
place of refuge for the Jews fleeing Spain and Portugal, as Holy Roman Emperor.

1629:
Rabbi Yom Tov Lipmann Heller was imprisoned. Rabbi Yom Tov Lipmann Heller was
born in 1579.  He was the author of Tossafoth Yom Tov,a major
commentary on the Mishna.  While he was serving as a Rabbi in Prague, he
was involved with the distribution of tax money.  He was wrongfully
accused by some of showing favoritism in his work.  He ended up being
taken to Vienna in chains.  The Christian officials respected his
integrity and released him.  Considering that this took place during the
Thirty Years War, it is surprising that Heller did not come to some barbarous
end.  He passed away in 1654, the same year in which the American Jewish
Community began.

1665:
Rabbi Simon Brandeis, the husband of Libele Perls and the son Rabbi Samuel
Brandeis passed away today.

1688:
English Philosopher Ralph Cudworth passed away. 
Born in 1617 he became professor of Hebrew at Cambridge in 1645. Among
those with whom he carried on an extensive correspondence was Isaac Abendana,
the Sephardic Jew who moved to England and taught Hebrew at Cambridge.  By the time he passed away in 1710, Abendana
had become a teacher at Oxford’s Magdalen College and had provided Hebrew books
for Bodleian Library.

1738:
Fifty-nine year old Konrad Bethmann, “the master of the mint for the Princely House of Nassau-Schaumburg” who brought
charges against two Jews “ Mencke and Abraham zum Hecht (father and son), for
theft of Schaumburg hellers in Schwalbach near Königstein and resale of stolen
property” –a charged that was dismissed with an out of court settlement passed
away today.

1774(17^th
of Tammuz, 5534): Tzom Tammuz observed as the Colonist respond to the
Intolerable Acts which among other things closed the port of Boston and led to
the meeting of the First Continental Congress in the fall of 1774.

1775(28th
of Sivan, 5535): Aryeh Löb ben Mordecai Ha-Levi Epstein (Ba’al ha-Pardes)
passed away. He was a Polish rabbi born in Grodno in 1708. At first he refused
to become a rabbi, preferring to devote himself entirely to study, but in 1739
he was forced by poverty to accept the rabbinate of Brestovech, Lithuania, and
in 1745 he became rabbi of Königsberg, where he remained until his death. He
corresponded with Elijah, Gaon of Vilna, and with Jonathan Eybeschütz, with
whom he sided in the quarrel about amulets (see Emden-Eybeschütz Controversy).
He is the author of Or ha-Shanim, on the 613 commandments
(Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1754), Halakah Aḥaronah and Ḳunṭres ha-Ra’yot (ib.
1754; Königsberg, 1759), Sefer ha-Pardes, in three parts: (1) on the Shema and
the observance of Sabbath, (2) sermons, (3) funeral orations (ib. 1759).
Several other cabalistic and halakic works from his pen are mentioned in his
own works or by his biographer. A prayer which he composed on the occasion of
the dedication of a new synagogue in Königsberg (ib. 1756) is found in the
Bodleian Library. Annotations by him and by his son Abraham Meïr Epstein are
published in some of the later editions of the Babylonian Talmud. He is called
“Levin Marcus” in Solowicz’s Gesch. der Juden in Königsberg, Posen,
1857.

1785(18^th
of Tammuz, 5545): Fast of the 17^th Tammuz observed because the 17^th
fell on Shabbat.

1785(18^th
of Tammuz, 5545): Sixty-four-year-old Esther Levy, the daughter of Moses Levy
and the wife of Jacob Hart passed away today in London.

1793:
In Charleston, SC, Rachel Moses and Moses Cohen, who were married in 1791 gave
birth to Isaac Cohen, the husband of Georgia native Rebecca Benjamin Sheftall
in 1816 after which they had ten children.

1798:
Birthdate of Charleston, SC, native Isaac Cohen.

1816:
Meyer Davidson married Jesse Cohen at the Great Synagogue.

1819:
“Emma di Resburgo,” an opera composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer, was performed for
the first time in Venice.

1813(28^th
of Sivan, 5573): Solomon Ben Joel Dubno, the Russian born Jewish poet,
grammarian, teacher and author who lived in Amsterdam from 1767 to 1772 before
settling in Berlin where he taught Moses Mendelssohn became his friend and
patron, passed away today.  Among other
his works was a commentary for Mendelssohn’s translation of the Bible.

1821:
Birthdate of Adolf Jellinek an Austrian born scholar who served as the rabbi of
The Leopoldstädter Tempel in Vienna.

1822:
Moses Cantor married Caroline Solomons at the Great Synagogue.

1827(1^st
of Tammuz, 5587): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1830:
King George IV who as Prince of Wales was a patron of boxer Daniel Mendoza,
died today and the Duke of Clarence who in 1797 while still the Prince of Wales
visited Barbados where “he visited the synagogue and was presented with an
address and a sword by the Congregation” succeeded him as William IV.

1831:
Birthdate of Julius Levy, who gained fame as poet and author Julius Rodenberg.

1835:
Birthdate of Ernest Abraham Hart, the son of a London dentist, who became a
member of the Royal College of Surgeons before pursuing his career in medical
journalism that began with the Lancet
in 1857.

1839:
Thirty-five-year-old Dutch born Rabbi Samuel Myer Isaacs who had moved to
London with his family in1814 married Jane Simons and “then embarked on a two
month sea voyage to New York” where he began serving as the spiritual leader
for B’nai Jeshurun.

1839:
In London , Esther Levy, the elder sister of English musician Henry Russell and
Isaac Levy, gave birth to Matthias Levy the grandson of Moses and Sarah Russell
and Matthias Levy who was also the nephew of Rebecca Levy and Solomon Moses
Drach, a “nephew of Lipman Woolf Drach one of the treasurers of the Great
Synagogue in London

1843:
The Treaty of Nanking which had the effect of opening up China to British
traders included David Sasoon, went into effect.

1843(28^th
of Sivan, 5603: Eighty year old Oxford graduate and attorney Joshua Montefiore,
the author the Commercial Dictionary, a captain in the York Light Infanry which
made him ‘the first Jews to hold a commission in England and who gave it all up
to move to the United States where he published a weekly political journal,
passed away today in St. Albans, VT.

1845:
In Baltimore, Simon Frank and Fanny Naumburg gave birth to Daniel Frank the
President of the Elysium Club and Temple Adath Israel and the husband of Rose
Liebman.

1845:
Emanuel Sheftall, the Savannah, GA born son of Emanuel Sheftall and his wife
Jane L. Seftall gave birth to Edward E. Sheftall.

1848:
In France the “June Days Uprising” came to end; violence which eventually
doomed the Second Republic and brought Louis Napoleon to power with all that
that would mean for France, the French Jewish community and Europe.

1848:
Captain Boris Moses, a graduate of Saint-Cyr was appointed “chief of battalion”
for distinguishing himself during the suppression of the Paris riots which
ended today.

1849:
Joseph and Nanny Rosenheim gave birth to Max Rosenheim who should not be
confused with the 20^th century British physician Max Leonard
Rosenheim.

1851:
In Germany, Helene Levy and Hart Ornstein gave birth Cincinnati, OH businessman
William Ornstein, the President of Ornstein and rice and husband of Caroline Winkler
who began serving as member of the executive committee of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations in 1915 and was a member of K.K. B’nai Yeshurun Temple.

1855:
Ninety-year old Anton Von Schmid a Christian publisher who published books by
Jewish authors including the works of Maimonides and of Judah Löb Ben-Zeeb, the
Hebrew Bible with a German translation as well as the Hebrew periodical
“Bikkure ha-‘Ittim,”

1856(23^rd
of Sivan, 5616): Sixty-two-year-old Charleston, SC native Abraham Tobias, the
merchant and accountant who was a “supporter of States Rights” passed away
today in his hometown.

1857:
The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London. The Victoria
Cross is the highest military award for valor granted within the British
military.  It is the English version of
the Congressional Medal of Honor.  Jewish
recipients include Frank
Alexander de Pass who received the award posthumously for requesting comrades
trapped in No Man’s Land on the Western Front in 1914 during World War I;  Captain Robert Gee who earned it for heroism
on the Western Front in 1917; Corporal John Patrick Kenneally who it for
heroism in Tunisia in 1943; Corporal Issy Smith, an Austrialian soldier who
earned it during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915; Private Jack White who
earned it in 1917 while saving the lives on fellow soldiers during fighting in
Mesopotamia.

1857: In Syracuse, NY, Israel Jacobson and Mary
Sulzbacher  gave birth to Syracuse
University trained surgeon Nathan Jacobson, the husband of Minnie Schwart who
served as the Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Syracuse University College
of Medicine.

1861: Levy Mandelson married Sarah Cohen at the
Great Synagogue in Sydney, Australia.

1863: “Charles August Lauff, the German native and
California businessman, and his wife, Maris J. Sebran gave birth to Oscar Lauff

1865: 
In Vilna, Lithuania, Albert Berenson and Judith Michliszanski gave birth to
Harvard University grad and husband of Marry Whitall Pearsall Smith Bernard
Berenson,  who was described by The New York Times as “an
American art critic.”  In fact, he had been born in Lithuania in
a small village known as Butrimants in Yiddish. His father’s name was Alter
Valvrojenski, his mother’s Eudice (Michliszanski). Berenson given name was
Bernhard.  As he sought the safety of assimilation after coming to
America, he had himself baptized as an Episcopalian.  Only after the
Hitler period did he come to realize that the world would always regard him as
“a Jew.”  While he did not renounce his baptism, he did allow
for Jewish cultural activity in his private life.  Some say that he was
the prototype for one of the characters in Herman Wouk’s Winds of War. 
He died in 1959.

1866:
Birthdate of Spanish American War veteran Milton Kraus, the native of Kokomo
and graduate of the University of Michigan who served in the House of Representatives.

1866:
In Kokomo, IN, Charles and Hannah Rosenthal Kraus gave birth to Spanish
American War veteran and University of Michigan trained attorney Milton Kraus,
the Republican political who served in the House of Representatives from 1917
to 1923.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/milton-kraus

1866:
Following the death of Rosanna Dyer Osterman, the Houston Weekly Telegraph wrote:

It
is an unjust and ungenerous thing to assert that “with insults you cannot
make a Jew fight.” How little has the Jew had to fight for in most
countries? In our late war, we have stood side by side with the Jew in battle,
and we have never seen men more gallantly than they, bare their breast to blue
lead and cold steel. In charity and kindness their women have often rivalled
our own. Every one resident in Galveston during the war, whether soldier or
civilian, knows that among the very foremost in deeds of kindness to our
suffering, sick and dying soldiers, one to whom the poor Confederate soldier
never applied in vain, one whose heart overflowed with all the kindliest active
charities, was a Jewess, equally distinguished for her piety and careful
observance of all the ceremonial duties of her religion. (Courtesy of Bill
Lowen)

1867:
Birthdate of Gustav Kahan, the husband of Julie Levy, both of whom would die at
Treblinka in 1942

1870:
The wedding ceremony joining Miss Elizabeth Abraham of Washington, DC and Mr.
Solomon Caro of New York in the bonds of holy matrimony began this afternoon at
a synagogue on 18^th street in the Nation’s Capitol but it did not
end there.  The ceremony began with the
entrance of the bridal party followed by a preliminary service and discourse by
Rabbi Jacob S. Jacobson on the subject of marriage.  But a commotion broke out when the Rabbi
began to perform the ceremony.  At that
point, the groom’s father, Rabbi Caro of New York, began a heated discussion in
Hebrew with his son.  At first people thought
he was objecting to the marriage. 
Actually, he was objecting to the lack of a chupah.  The synagogue had recently become a Reform
Congregation and had dispensed with many of the traditional customs and
ceremonies.  The President of the
congregation had assured the bride that a wedding canopy would be provided, but
had failed to follow through.  Once the
ceremony was stopped, the bridal party left the synagogue and went to the house
of the bride’s father on D Street where refreshments were served.  Once the Chupah had been put up the wedding
went on with the groom’s father and Rabbi Bernard Illowy of Cincinnati
performing the ceremony.  The service,
which was conducted in Hebrew and German, was followed by expressions of
congratulations for the newlyweds and an ample repast for the guests. [Bernard
Illowy was a distinguished 19^th century Orthodox Rabbi who played a
prominent role in the fight to maintain traditional Judaism.  Ironically, his last pulpit was in
Cincinnati, the home of Reform Judaism.]

1872:
In New York, a Coroner’s Jury rendered a verdict of accidental death in the
case of three year old Sarah Levy. She was with her father, Moses Levy, when
she was “run over and killed by a Fourth Avenue care in the Bowery.”  A civil suit has been filed against the
transit company in which the plaintiff is seeking $30,000 in damages.

1872:
Nathaniel Isaacs, the English adventurer who co-founded Port Natal (modern day
Durban) and who descried his life in Africa in Travels and Adventures in
Eastern Africa passed away today and was subsequently buried at Canterbury.

1873:
Birthdate of Frankfurt native Mortiz Julius Bonn, the internationally known
German economist who served as a government advisor during the Weimar Republic
who found refuge in England and later the United States after Hitler came to
power.

1873:
In Vienna, Theresa Steinbach and Joseph Pollack gave birth to Dartmouth Medical
College trained medical doctor Berthold Steinbach Pollack the medical director
of the Hudson County Tuberculosis and Clinics and financial secretary of the
Hebrew Orphans Home of Hudson, NJ  who
married Louise Gruber after the death of his first wife Hattie Gertrude Cohn.

1873:
Columbia trained attorney Erastus New, the son of Aaron and Ann New married
Julia S. Porter today.

1874:
Annie Grace Davis was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1875:
Birthdate of Carl Jung, one of the founders of psychoanalysis who learned from
and clashed with Freud.  Jung was one of
the few non-Jews to be involved with this new field of science. His
relationship with Sabina Spielrein was the subject of popular film that
highlighted the clash between the giants and Jung’s apparent “fascination” with
Jewish women.

1875:
In Morgan City, LA, on the banks of the Atchafalaya River Congregation Shaarey
Zedek on First Street was completed and dedicated. The Jewish community had
been working on this since February 1875 and its fundraising efforts included
hosting a “Grand Calico Ball.”

1878:
Twenty-nine year old Adolph Lewisohn, a successful American businessman who had
been born in Hamburg married Emma Cahn in Manhattan.

1881:
Today “Tobias Tal, a graduate of the Amsterdam rabbinical seminary, was elected
chief rabbi, a position he held until he was called to The Hague in 1895 which
led to his brother-in-law, Louis Wagenaar, formerly chief rabbi in Leeuwarden
and of the province of Friesland, being appointed his successor in Arnhem.

1881:
Birthdate of Ya’akov Cohen, the native of Slutsk who made Aliyah in 1934 and
became a prize winning “man of letters” who received the Tchernichovsky Prize
for exemplary translation, for translations from the German of the first part
of Goethe’s Faust and other Goethe’s works, Torquato Tasso and Iphigenia in
Tauris, as well as a selection of poems by Heinrich Heine.”

1881:
It was reported today The British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
Among the Jews condemned “the anti-Semitic agitation” that is currently taking
place in Europe.

1881(29^th
of Sivan, 5641): Seventy-two year old German-Jewish philologist and expert on
Sanskrit Theodor Benfey whose works also included one that proved that “the
names of the Hebrew months…were derived from the Persians” passed away today.

1881(29^th
of Sivan, 5641): Eighty-two year old baron Philipp (Fülöp) Schey von Koromla
who when he was granted “a patent of nobility by Emperor Franz Joseph” made him
the first Hungarian Jew to be made a noble passed away today.

1882:
In New York City, Joseph Herzog and the former Belle Adler gave birth to NYU
attorney Samuel A. Herzog, the nephew of Dr. Cyrus Adler and the husband of the
former Frances Rothschild who was a leading realtor as can be seen by his
presidency of the 907 Fifth Avenue Corporation, the Darco Reality Corporation
and the Samuel A. Herzog Building Company.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/01/17/94035237.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1882:
The Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society stated today the funds promised to care for the
8,000 refugees who have arrived since January have not been forthcoming.  A member of the society claimed that the
London Committee that had collected seventeen thousand pounds which were to be
used to assist in the settlement of the refugees, has not forwarded the money
to New York.

1883:
It was reported today that Rabbi George Brandenstein of Beth Elohim Synagogue
was the first to speak at an event honoring Henry Ward Beecher.  After saying a few words in praise of his
services “to men of all races,” he presented Beecher with a silver pitcher on
behalf of the members of his synagogue.

1883:
“The Alleged Passover Murder” published today recounted events surrounding
accusations that Moritz Scharf had murdered Esther Salomossy, a Christian girl
in Nyreghhaza, Hungary. Jewish witnesses claimed they had been threatened
before giving testimony and Moritz had been threatened with life imprisonment
if he did not confess that the murder had been committed in the synagogue.  As the blood libel charges unraveled it was
discovered that the young girl had quarreled with her mistress before her
disappearance and some of her friends thought she had committed suicide.
[Looking at the date, you can see how strongly entrenched the Blood Libel was
in gentile minds.]

1883:
Cornerstone laying ceremonies for the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of Brooklyn will
begin at 2 pm today.

1884:
Birthdate of Lithuania native Louis Isadore Brenner who in 1891 came Baltimore
where he attended Johns Hopkins and who worked as a “wholesale woolen
merchant.”

1887:
Nineteen year old Johanna Goldschmidt, a native of Frankfurt married Adolph
Stern, a native of Ziegenhain, who was the son of Salomon A. Stern and Sarah
Goldschmidt.

1887:
“Minister Straus Safe in Turkey” published today described the first month of
Oscar Straus’ service as U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.  Straus who arrived in May has already had his
first audience with the Sultan. He has taken up temporary resident in a hotel
at Therapia until he can find a house for more permanent quarters.  He has received a document of greeting
written in Hebrew from the Grand Rabbi and the leaders of the various Jewish
communities throughout the empire as well as letters of greetings from the
America Baptist Society and the missionaries of western Turkey who are meeting
in Constantinople.

1887:
Chicago millionaire Levi Rosenfield signed a codicil will which disinherited
his son Maurice by giving his share of the estate to his daughter-in-law Mattie
Rosenfeld, and should she predecease him to his son-in-law David Stettauer.
This decision would later disappoint Maurice’s creditors who refused to settle
his debts for twenty five cents on the dollar because they thought he was going
to inherit a large sum from his father.

1887:
“Minister Straus Safe In Turkey” published today described the cordial
reception enjoyed by Oscar Straus following his arrival at the Ottoman
capital.  In an unusual move, the Sultan
agreed to see the newly appointed ambassador even though it was Ramadan.

1887:
In Vilnius, Vigdor Chait, a poor peddler, and Sara Levin gave birth to Baruch
Zuckerman, a leading American-Israeli Zionist, one of the leading proponents of
Yad Vashem, editor of Yiddishe Kempfer, and a leading figure in the Farband and
Histadrut campaigns, and president of the Labor Zionist Organization of
America.”

1887(4th
of Tammuz, 5647): Lionel Louis Cohen who served as head of Louis Cohen &
Sons, a financial firm followed by his father Louis Cohen and who served as an
MP passed away today.

1887: In
London Leopold de Rothschild and Marie Perugia gave birth to their third and
youngest son British philanthropist Anthony G de Rothschild.

1887: “Judaic Romance” published
today reviews The Yoke of the Torah by Sidney Luska. But according to
Josh Lambert Luska did not exist.  He was
the creation of a young non-Jewish author named Henry Harland.

http://mobile.myjewishlearning.com/culture/2/Literature/Jewish_American_Literature/Immigrant_Literature/As_It_Was_Written.shtml

1888(17^th of Tammuz,
5648): Tzom Tammuz

1888: In Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Herz Elkan, the son of Joseph and Caroline Elkan and his wife Rosa Elkan gave
birth to Nathan Elkan who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1943.

1888: In New York City, “Sali and
Augusta (Goldenberg) Simonson gave birth to Phi Beta Kappa Harvard graduate and
WW I USA 2^nd Lt.  Lee
Simonson, the husband of Helen Strauss and scenic designer

https://npg.si.edu/exh/brush/simon.htm

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lee-Simonson

1888: Five days after he passed
away, David Frederick Schloss, the four month old son of David and Rachel
Schloss was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1889: Birthdate of Bay Shore, LI,
native Harold Fell, the University and Ohio Wesleyan trained physician Harold
Fell, the WW I veteran and cardiovascular disease researcher.

1890: In Philadelphia, PA, Jacob da
Silva Solis-Cohen, M.D. and Miriam Binswanger Solis-Cohen gave birth to Jacob
da Silva Solis-Cohen, Jr., the President of Mastbaum
Brothers and Fleisher and of Albert M. Greenfield and Company who was also the
President of the Jewish Publication Society of America.

1891: Benjamin Cardozo was admitted
to the New York State Bar.

1891: Birthdate of Minsk native
Rabbi Judah Louis Hahn who came to the United States where he served as an
“officer of the Zionist Organization of American” and during WW I, “the Jewish
Welfare Board.”

1892(1^st of Tammuz,
5652): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1892: The funeral of Captain Armand
Mayer, the Jewish officer who was killed in a duel the anti-Semitic Marquis de
Mores was held today in Paris.

1892” In Hillsboro, West Virginia
Stulting and Absalom Sydenstricker gave birth to Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize
winning author Pearl Buck whose works included Peony, a novel set in the Jewish
community of K’aifeng in the 1850’s.

1892: Thirty-one year old Edward
Lewis Heinsheimer, the New York born “son of Lewis and Emma (Goodhart):
Heinsheimer” was appointed a member of the Board of Governors of Hebrew Union
College today.

1892: “Aid Asked for Hebrew
Settlers” published today described the efforts of the 250 Russian Jewish
immigrants to make a new life for themselves in Rosenhayn, NJ.  By day they work for New York clothiers or as
farmers.  At night they attend a night
school sponsored by the Educational Society of Rosenhayn they formed to enhance
their ability to speak, read and write English.

1893: “Passed Creditable
Examinations” published today described the outcome of the exams administered
to the 24 pupils at the Jewish Theological Seminary.  All of the students performed in “an
exceedingly satisfactory manner,” but David Wittenberg and Joseph Hertz were
the most impressive as can be seen by the fact that they were “the senior prize
winners.”

1893(12^th of Tammuz,
5653): Seventy-seven-year-old Benvenida Valentina Nathans, the Wilmington, DE
born daughter of Sarah and Daniel da Silva Solis and wife of Moses Nathans
passed away today.

1894: Five year old Olive Frederica
Harinkirsch was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1894: Four days after he passed
away, 35 year old Nuremberg, Germany native Siegfried Scherer was buried today
at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.

1894: “A New Quarantine Commissioner”
published today described the decision of Governor Roswell P. Flower to appoint
Edward Jacobs, a prominent Jewish lawyer to serve as one of the three
Quarantine Commissioners.  Considering
the role that this position plays at Ellis Island, the selection of a Jew to
the position seems to be extremely appropriate.

1895: Joseph Nathan Joseph married
Lillian Julia Cohen at the Great Synagogue in Sydney, Australia.

1897: It was reported today that as
of 1895, of the 1,568,092 people living in Bosnia, 8,213 are Jews.

1897: Four days after she passed
away “Miriam, the wife of Jacob bar Jacob” was buried today at the Plashet
Jewish Cemetery in London.

1897: Myer S. Isaacs, the President
of the Baron de Hirsch Fund, was among the dignitaries who attended tonight’s
graduation exercises at the Baron de Hirsch Trade Schools.

1897: “An Interesting Study of
Conditions in Southeastern Europe” published today included a brief history of
the Jews of the Balkans, most of whom are descendants of the Spanish Jews who
were given permission to settle in Serbia and Bosnia by Murad III.  Unlike recent Jews who have moved here from
Hungary, most of them still speak Spanish. 
The community numbers about seven thousand, three thousand of whom live
in Sarajevo

1898: The Governor has telegraphed
his superiors that the situation in Galicia, where renewed anti-Semitic
violence has claimed the lives of 16 Jews, “is extremely serious.”

1898: Private Levy, a native of
Paris, France, transferred from Company H of the 2^nd Louisiana
Infantry to the Hospital Corps of the United States Army.

1900: Today, “The Russification of
Finland, where Jews would not be able to become full citizens until Finland
became independent in 1917, took a new direction when an Imperial ukase issued
from Tsar Nicholas II, replacing Finnish with Russian as the official language,
to be phased in over five years

1900: “Bernard Levy has purchased
for improvement the plot at the south corner of Riverside Drive and 94^th
Street in NYC.

1901: Thirty-six-year-old City
College alum and ordained Rabbi, Frank Lewis Rosenthal, the New York City of
Rubin and Francis (Littman) Rosenthal who served as Rabbi at B’nai Israel in
Hot Springs, B’nai Israel in Baton Rouge before settling in at Congregation
B’nai Israel in Columbus, GA, married Tilly Hollander today in New Orleans, LA.

1901:
Bicentennial of the Bevis Marks Synagogue, the oldest in England. Sephardic
Jews founded Bevis Marks in 1701.  The congregation is known as the
Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation.

1902:
Birthdate of Gracie Allen, the wife and comedic partner of George Burns.

1903(26^th
of Tammuz, 5663): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1903:
Minnie Klein who had been “buried in the old Jewish cemetery at Chavez Ravine
when she passed away in 1895 was “reburied” today “in the Home of Peach
Memorial Park on Whittier Boulevard which was also the final resting place for
Henry and Mamie Klein.

1904:
Birthdate of actor Peter Lorre. A refugee from Hitler’s Europe, Lorre gained
fame in American films as what was called “a character actor.” Two of
his more memorable appearances came in The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, both
of which starred Humphrey Bogart. One of Lorre’s few starring roles came when
he played the lead in the Mr. Moto movies. Mr. Moto was a clever detective of
undetermined European origins, sort of an urbane Columbo.

1904:
Birthdate of Sioux City, IA native and military veteran Martin L. Reiffel, the
NYU trained dentist.

1904:
New Jersey attorney, Justice of the Peace and Republican political leader  William Newcorn, the Cracow born son of Cecelia
Friedner and Nathan Newcorn and longtime president of both the United Hebrew
Association of Plainfield, NJ and Temple Sholem married Mamie Miller today.

1905:
The 20,000 Jewish residents of Lodz, a cultural center for Jews in Poland, flee
in the face of Pogroms and what are in effect, the Czar’s attacks on his own
citizens.

1906:
Birthdate of Albert Silverman, the New York native who gained fame as lyricist
Al Stillman whose works included the 1950’s Christmas standard recorded by
Perry Como – “Home for the Holidays.”

1906:
In Jerusalem, the Laemmel School a school established “for the secular
education of Jewish children” by Fra Elise Herz of Vienna under the auspices of
the poet Ludwig August Frankl “celebrated the semi-centenary of its foundation”
today.

1907:
University of Missouri and Harvard trained attorney Irvin V. Barth, the
Columbia, MO born son of Nettie and Victor Barth a member of Congregation of
Shaare Emeth and B’nai B’rith married Gussie Kahn today.

1907:
“The Future American” published today previews an upcoming article on the
question of the adaptiveness of immigrants by Professor Brander Matthews who
pointed out those concerned about the future should note “that a list of the five
most useful citizens of New York would have to included one Hebrew of German
birth and that if the list should be extended to it would contain the name of
another German Hebrew.”

1908:
It was reported that Russian Prime Minister Stolypin is “engaged in the active
consider of a measure” designed to ameliorate the conditions of the Jews of
Russia “which probably take the form of a considerable remission of the present
laws regarding the Jewish settlements.”

1909:
“After forty-one grueling rounds Leach Cross (born Louis C. Wallach) lost a
bout in California which was not as tragic as it may sound since boxing was a
side-line to his major occupation – dentistry.

1910:
NYU trained attorney and future general manager of the Jewish Agricultural Society
Gabriel Davidson, the New York born son of Hannah Gorechter and David Davidson
married Anna Perlowitz toda.

1910:
Today, 27 Jews were expelled from Kiev, 24 from Solomoneka and 17 from
Demieffka..

1910:
Russian born Louis Katcher, a future resident of Detroit, MI and his wife
Rebeca Katz Katcher gaive birth to Jack L. Katcher, the husband of Leona Berman
Katcher.

1911(30^th
of Sivan, 5671): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1911(30^th
of Sivan, 5671): Eighty-four year old Agnes Byk, the wife of Samuel Alexander
Byk, passed away today.

1911:
Twenty-six-year-old St. Louis businessman Edwin B. Meissner, the Milwaukee, WI
born son of Abe and Riekchen (Katz) Meisner, married Edna Rice today after
which board member of the Mt. Sinai Cemetry Association of St. Louis and
President of Shaare Emeth in St. Louis.

1911:
Joseph L. Seligman, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Newton Seligman of New York,
hosted his bachelor party tonight.  The
fifty guests celebrated his upcoming marriage to Josephine Knowles.

1911:
Birthdate of Edward Levi, professor of law, President of the
University of Chicago and Attorney General during the Ford
Administration.  The son and grandson of Rabbis, Levi’s grandfather
was one of the original faculty members of the University
of Chicago.  Levi was a total product of the institution graduating
from its lab school, undergraduate college and school of law.  When
Levi was named President of the University of Chicago in 1968, he was the first
Jew to hold such a post at a major American university.  In terms of
measuring progress, today such appointments are almost not worth
mentioning.  When he died in 2000, at the age of 88, Levi was eulogized
for a long and distinguished career in the law and academia.

1912:
New York College of Dentistry trained DDS 
and founder of Novovol Chemical Manufacturing Company, Mendel Nevin, the
Russian born son of Etta Feinberg and Isaac Nevin married Mollie Woronock today
in Brooklyn.

1912:
The 12^th annual meeting of the Alumni Association of the Jewish
Theological Seminary whose president was Jacob Kohn ended today in
Tannersville, NY.

1912:
The Board of Education paid tribute to the late District Superintendent Miss
Julia Richman, the energetic reform minded educator who passed away while
vacationing in France.

1912:
In New York Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Koner gave birth to dancer and choreographer
Pauline Koner.

1912:
“Bruno Walter led the Vienna Philharmonic in the world premiere of Mahler’s Symphony
No. 9

1913:
The American Zionists’ convention continues its meetings in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1913:
In Pittsburgh, PA, Sam and Sophie Kress gave birth to Academy Award winning
American film editor Harold F. Kress.

http://articles.latimes.com/1999/sep/28/news/mn-14897

1913:
In Springfield, Illinois, the annual conference of the American Association of
Officials of Charities and Correction which Simon W. Rosendale, Mortimer L.
Schiff and Henry Solomon all of New York were delegates came to a close today.

1913(21^st
of Sivan, 5673): Eighty-four year old Rabbi Arnold Levy passed away in New
York.

1914:
Birthdate of Shapour Bakhtiar, the last Shah’s last Prime Minister who,
according to Yossi Alpher, “the Mossad’s chief intelligence analyst on Iran,”
“had called in Eliezer Shafrir, the Mossad’s representative in Tehran, and
asked Mossad to assassinate Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni while he was still in
France, a request that Mossad rejected.

1914:
Jefferson Medical College trained orthopedic surgeon Arthur Julius Davidson,
the Philadelphia born son Florence Stern and Dr. Charles C. Davidson married Julia
Brown today in Philadelphia.

1915:
In Norfolk, VA, suffragette and Hadassah member Ella Shapiro and attorney Louis
Shapiro gave birth to Charlotte Gertrude Shapiro who gained fame as Charlotte
Zolotow, “a distinguished author and editor of children’s books.” (As reported
by Margalit Fox)

1915:
Middleweight Augie Ratner fought and won his first bout today.

1915:
Those who favored the imposition of the death penalty for Leo Frank are
scheduled “to show their disapproval” to Governor Slaton’s commutation today
“when the Governor retires from office and Judge Nat E. Harris is inaugurated.

1915:
“The feelings aroused by Governor John M. Slaton’s in commuting the death
sentence imposed on Leo M. Frank …culminated today at the Capitol in a
demonstration against the Governor when he retired from the Executive office
and Judge Nat E. Harris of Macon was inaugurated.  For the first time in the history of Georgia
a Governor left office with a crowd hurling epithets at him  and crying ‘Lynch him!’ and escaped bodily
harm only through the protection of a large force of police and State troops.”

1915:
In New York, “the Woman’s Peace Society is scheduled to hold a reception in the
Assembly room of the Cosmopolitan Garden this afternoon for those who signed
the petition to Governor Slaton asking for the commutation of the death
sentence of Leo Frank and to those who worked to obtain the signatures.”

1915:
“Early this morning” Rabbi Eichler conducted services at Temple Ohaibe Shalom
on Union Park Street for forty delegates who will be attending the convention
of American Zionists in Boston

1915:
“An informal dance and reception” was held in Boston this evening to mark the
opening of “the great convention of American Zionist, the first such national
gathering of Jews on American soil.”

1915:
In Ohio, Beachwood was incorporated as Beachwood Village, the Cleveland suburb
that is home to Cleveland College of Jewish Studies, Agnon School and Cleveland
Hebrew School.

1916:
It was reported today that “the de Hirsh society has tendered a check for
$1,500” to be used for the construction of a Hebrew Orphan Asylum to be built
in Hudson County which is a pet project of Henry Morgenthau. 

1915:
Birthdate of Berlin native Yitzhak Danzinger, the Israeli sculptor who was one of
the pioneers of the “Canaanite Movement.”

1916:
It was reported today the Joint Distribution Committee “is made up of Felix
Warburg of the American Relief Committee, Jacob Goldberg of the People’s
Committee and Harry Fischel of the Central Relief Committee.

1917:
In Baltimore, the delegates to the 20^th Annual Convention of the
Federation of American Zionists were scheduled to attend a presentation by the
Young Judeans.

1918:
Major Brooman White, the British recruiting agent told those attending the 21^st
annual convention of the Federation of American Zionists being held in
Pittsburgh, PA that “at the end of the ninety-day period established by the
agreement between the United States and England, American Jews” will not be
allowed to “enlist in the Jewish Legion of Honor for service with the British
forces in Palestine.”

1918:
The Fifth Annual Convention of Hadassah met for its third session today.

1918:
In Bavaria, Max and Bertha Neuberger gave birth to future Baltimore, MD
resident Herman Naftali Neugerger, the husband of Judith Neuberger and the
father of Rabbi Sheftel Meir Neuberger.

1918:
During World War I, Allied Forces including units of the AEF under General John
J. Pershing defeated units of the German Army under the command of Crown Prince
Wilhelm.  Among the Americans who fought
in this critical battle was a Jewish Marine from Buffalo New York named Lester
Bergman. Born in 1889, “Bergman was the first person from Buffalo, NY, to
enlist in the Marine Corps during World War I. He was wounded during extremely
heavy fighting at the battle of Belleau Wood in France, where he participated
in the capture of a Maxim gun, 23 machine guns and 170 German soldiers.  Bergman was subsequently awarded the
Distinguished Service Cross and the French Croix de Guerre.” He passed away in
1958.

1918:
CCNY graduate Louis Maurice Josephthal, the New York born son of Theresa Wise
and Mortiz Josephthal and husband of Edyth Guggenheim who was “one of the
organizers of the Naval Militia of the State of New York in which he enlisted
as an Ordinary Seaman in 1891” was appointed Paymaster today.

1919:
The first national conference of the Religious Zionist Organization, Mizrachi,
closes.

1919:
In the Weimar Republic, premiere of “The Oyster Princess” a silent film
directed and written by Ernst Lubitsch.

1920(10^th
of Tammuz, 5680): Parshat Chukat

1920:
Dr. Joseph Silverman is scheduled to officiate at Shabbat services at Temple Emanu-El

1920:
Rabbi Ephraim Frisch is scheduled to lead services this morning at the New
Synagogue on Broadway.

1920:
Rabbi Max Reichler is scheduled to lead services this morning at “Sinai of the
Bronx.”

1921:
In Hampstead, Simon Beloff and Marie Katzin gave birth to Anne Beloff the
sister of Renee Soskin, Nora Beloff, John Beloff and Max Beloff  and wife of Nobel Prize Winner Ernst Borst
Chain who gained fame as British biochemist Lady Anne Ethel Beloff – Chain.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/beloff-chain-anne-1921-1991

1921:
“Dorothy Turk, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Turk of Rochester, NY, is
scheduled to marry New York City resident John Goldhaar, the “graduate of
Cornell and NYU” who “was decorated by the French Government with the Medaille
d’Honneur for his war work” at Temple Beth El today.

1921:
In Paris, Englishman Charles George Bushell and French dressmaker Reine Blance
Leroy gave birth to Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushell who as Violette Szabo
served with the SOE during WW II and was executed by the Nazis at Ravensbruck.

1922:
Gimbel Brothers, which “established their business in New York 12 years ago,”
announced today “that they had acquired by leased the building on 33^rd
and 34^th Street which is now occupied by Saks and Company” which
will soon be occupying “a new building on 5^th Avenue and 50^th
Street which is under construction.”

1922:
Frank Taffel, the native of Galicia, who founded Atlanta, Georgia’s Fulton Auto
Exchange and co-founded Congregation Beth Jacob became a United States citizen
today.

1923:
At Yankee Stadium Princeton lost to Yale despite the fact that Moe Berg went
two for four (single and a double) and played shortstop with enough skill to
interest major league scouts.

1924:
In New York the mayor Mrs. Isaac L. Rice, the widow of German-Jewish
businessman and chess patron Isaac L. Rice and her son Isaac L. Rice, Jr. to
serve as members of the commission overseeing the activities of the Rice
Memorial Foundation which in this case is dedicated to the development of “the
city’s park and playground development programs.

1924(24^th
of Sivan, 5684): Sixty-nine-year-old Bezalel, the Sulzburg born son of Leopold
Dukas and Magdalena Madel Dukas and husband of Emma Dukas passed away today In
San Francisco.

1925:
The 148^th Session of the New York State Legislature in which Philip
M. Kleinfeld served as a State Senator came to a close today.

1925:
Forty-three-year-old Cornell and University of Pennsylvania trained
entomologist, David Ely Fink, the Russian born son of William and Hodel Fink
Nellie Snyder today in Philadelphia.

1925:
“The Gold Rush,” starring Charlie Chaplin premiered in Los Angeles.

1925:
Brenham, TX native Rosa Levin, who had attended Blinn College and Rice
University, married Sam H. Toubin after which she would  write two books about Jewish history in Texas
including History of B’nai Abraham Synagogue.

1926:
In Jerusalem, Rabbi Moshe Ber Rivkin and his wife gave birth to Shlomo Rivkin
the last Chief Rabbi of St. Louis, MO.

1927:
The New York Times reviewed Fairy Flowers by Isadora Newman.

https://www.alephbet.com/pages/books/38503/isadora-newman/fairy-flowers

1927:
Birthdate of Jerry Schatzberg, the Bronx born photographer and movie director

http://www.jerryschatzberg.com/

1928:
In Calgary, Alberta, Polish fishmonger turned Canadian furniture businessman
and “the former Hinda Fishman” gave birth to “corporate raider and
philanthropist” Samuel Belzberg, the husband of Frances Belzberg with whom he
had four children – Marc, Lisa, Wend and Sherry (As reported by Brooks Barnes)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/obituaries/samuel-belzberg-dead.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1928:
When the Democratic National Committee convened, today Belle Moskowitz was the
only woman at the table, but she was as influential as any man there. The
networks she had created in New York helped to secure the Presidential
nomination for Al Smith, the first major Catholic candidate for U.S. President.
After his nomination, she directed national campaign publicity. When Smith lost
to Herbert Hoover, Moskowitz stayed on as his press agent, and coordinated his
campaign for the 1932 nomination, which Smith lost to Franklin Roosevelt.

1929:
Birthdate of Bronx native and graphic designer Milton Glaser the creator of “I ❤
NY logo.”

1930:
It was reported today that New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt has filled
the vacancy on the Niagara Frontier Bridge Commission created by the
resignation of Emanuel Boasberg.

1930:
Three days after his death, Sir Israel Gollancz, the former Professor of
English Language and Literature at King’s College was buried at the Jewish
Cemetery at Willesden after which he was memorialized by awarding of the Sir
Israel Gollancz price for Early English Studies by the British Academy.

1931:
“The Man in Evening Clothes” a comedy featuring music composed by Casimir
Oberfeld who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1945 was released in the United
States today.

1931:
In Brooklyn, theatrical haberdasher Harry Minoff and his wife gave birth to
Marvin Minoff the movie and television producer who married Bonnie Franklin.

1932(22^nd of Sivan, 5692): Mrs.
Bessie Simon Rosalasky, the wife of Judge Otto A. Rosalasky of the Cpirt of
General Sessions passed away tonight.

 

1933: “The Akademie für Deutsches Recht
(Academy for German Law) is founded to rewrite the entire body of German law to
NSDAP specifications” The NSDAP is the Nazi Party.

1933: The Federation of Jewish Communities of
Switzerland the Berne Jewish Community files suit against the right-wing Swiss
National Front for distributing anti-Semitic literature including the “Protocols
of the Elders of Zion.” At the end of the litigation, the court will hold that
that the “Protocols are a forgery, are plagiarized, and qualify as ‘obscene’
literature”

1934: Birthdate of Selwyn Raab, another product
of the Lower East and City College of New York who went on to a career in
journalism with the NY World Telegram and Sun and NY Times, broadcasting with
NBC News and literature where he wrote several volumes on crime and “the mob.”

https://us.macmillan.com/author/selwynraab

1934: In Littleton, CO, a female pianist and
male violinist both from Riga, gave birth to Academy and Grammy award winning
composer and arranger Robert David “Dave” Grusin whose “first film score” was
for the 1967 comedy “Divorce American Style.”

1934: Additional funeral services are scheduled
to be held in New York today for fifty-three-year-old Russian born, Jefferson
Medical College trained surgeon Abraham P. Fishman who had passed away “from
blood poisoning resulting from a slight cut on the hand suffered during an
operation on a patient for throat abscess ten days ago” which will be followed
by burial in the family plot in New Jersey.

1934: The New York Times reported that
the Tel Aviv “has issued notices to holders of its external twenty-year sinking
fund six and a half percent public improvement sterling bonds…have been drawn
for redemption at par, on the current rate of exchange for sterling on the day
of presentation” (As reported by Austin Cline)

1935(25^th of Sivan, 5695):
Fifty-five year Vinnytsia native and composer Oscar Potoker who after coming to
the United States created several movie scores and became a close friend of
fellow composer Josiah Zuro with whom he was riding when the latter died in a
fatal automobile accident passed away today.

1936: Germany adopts an ordinance banning Jews
from serving the Army.

1936: San Francisco” a film set at the time of
the city’s famous earthquake with music by Walter Jurman and featuring Al
Shean, the uncle of the famous Marx Brothers and Harold Huber was released in
the United States today.

1936: In the aftermath of the The Przytyk
Pogrom, the worst anti-Semitic violence that occurred in pre-war Poland, the
trial of those charged with taking part in the violence came to an end.  There were 43 Polish defendants and 14 Jewish
defendants.  The Jews claimed that they
had acted in self-defense.  But the court
sentenced eleven of the Jews to prison terms ranging from 6 months to 8 years
for demonstrating “aggressive behavior toward Polish peasants.”  Thirty-nine of the Poles received sentences
ranging from 6 to 12 months.

1936: The Palestine Post reported
that circulars urging Arab villagers to put an end to disorders were dropped by
British Army planes. The leaflets promised that the king would send a Royal
Commission to inquire into the Arab grievances, but only when a complete order
was restored. Some 50 well-armed Arabs attacked a convoy made up of 10 buses
and accompanied by two armored cars close to Nablus. One British soldier and
six Arabs were killed before the convoy was able to continue. The Post
published the full text of the House of Commons debate on Palestine (11 pages)
and continued a series of articles by Maurice Samuel which explored the
possibilities of an Arab-Jewish reconciliation. A Jew was badly wounded by an
Arab who had asked for a drink in an orange grove near Petah Tikva. A similar
incident happened a week earlier.

1936: Birthdate of Edith Pearlman,
the native of Providence, RI and Radcliffe graduate who won the 2012 Harold U.
Ribalow Prize presented by Hadassah magazine
for outstanding Jewish fiction.

1936: “Religious objection to the
policy of any State which strikes at the very practice of religion, specifically
the treatment of Catholics in our sister republic of Mexico” was expressed
tonight by the Central Conference of American Rabbis at its annual convention,
when it approved a recommendation submitted by the committee on resolutions.”

1936: “Police and military patrols
on the streets of Bucharest were doubled today as the government decided to
take firm measures to suppress attacks on Jews.”

1937: Laurence A. Steinhardt
completed his service as U.S. Ambassador to Sweden

1937: This evening “thousands of
Berlin Jews packed the city’s grand Brüdervereinshaus to bid farewell to Rabbi
Joachim Prinz, who had been ordered by the Gestapo to leave Germany immediately
or face an almost certain death sentence for political subversion.”

1937(17^th of Tammuz, 5697):
Parashat Balak

1937: Rabbi Louis I. Newman is
scheduled to deliver a sermon “Should Jews Avoid the Professions?’ at Temple
Rodeph Sholom.

1937” Rabbi William F. Rosenblum is
scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Season of Romance—And After” at Temple Israel.

1937(17^th of Tammuz.
5697): On Shabbat, Sam Frank, Nevada’s first Jewish mayor passed away.  A native of California, Frank moved to Reno,
NV in 1903. Prior to Prohibition, Frank worked in the wholesale liquor
business.  When America went dry, he and
his brother opened a soft-drink bottling company. Frank became Mayor when Edwin
E. Roberts passed away.  He was defeated
for re-election in 1935.  Unlike his
brother Ben, Sam Frank was not active in the Jewish community for many years; a
situation some attributed to the fact that he had married a non-Jews. (For more
see Jews in Nevada by John P. Marschall)

1937: George Gershwin was released
from Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles with a diagnosis of “likely
hysteria” since tests had shown no physical cause of “the headaches and
olfactory hallucinations he had been experiencing..

1938: Five more
bombs exploded today in the quarter between Jaffa and Tel Aviv wounding fifteen
Arabs. Soon after the first bomb exploded in the morning a mob of Arabs raided
a Jew’s shop and stabbed the proprietor.

1938: Joseph C. Hyman, the
executive director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
announced today that “efforts are being made to provide for Austrian Jews the
experience and facilities of the Jewish organizations in Germany that have been
engaged in vocation training, economic aid and the facilitation of emigration.”

1939: Final broadcast of the CBS
version of Camel Caravan starring Eddie Cantor.

1939: Adolf Hitler wrote a letter
today to Dr. Hans Posse, Director of the Dresden Gallery “to build up the new
art museum for Linz Donau.”

1939: After opening at the Labor
Stage Theatre the
ILGWU production of “Pins and Needles” a revue with music and lyrics by Harold
Rome who also wrote the book along with several others including Marc
Blitzstein, directed by Charles Friedman and choreographed by Benjamin Zemach
transferred to the Windsor Theatre.

1939: “Five hundred people attended a session
of the convention of the National Council of Young Israel which was held today
in the Temple of Religion at the World’s Fair. 
‘The event was chaired by Henry G. Fromberg.  Cantor Aaron Caplow and the Oscar Julius
Choir provided the music for the event.

1940: Today, the British Ambassador in Madrid
wrote to London “The arrival of the Germans to the Pyrenees is a
tremendous event in the eyes of every Spaniard because it may mean the passage
of Nazi troops through Spain to Portugal or Africa, a fear that lead the
Spanish government to declare the visas issued by Sousa Mendes (the Portuguese
Schindler) to be null and void.

1940: A split takes place among the leaders of
Etzel, also known as the Irgun. They cannot decide whether or not to cease
attacks against the British for the duration of the war. Abraham Stern, believing
that the timing was ripe to pressure the British by any means to allow full
immigration sets up the LEHI (Lohamei Herut Yisrael) Freedom Fighters of
Israel. The group was also known as the Stern Gang. This splinter terrorist
group will eventually kill a UN peace envoy during the War for Independence –
an act that will be condemned by the Jewish leadership.

1940: United States
Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long determines to obstruct the
granting of visas to Jews seeking entry into the United States. He seeks
indefinitely to “delay and effectively stop” such immigration by
ordering American consuls “to put every obstacle in the way [to] postpone
and postpone and postpone the granting of visas.” His goal will be
realized over the next four years. 
Breckinridge Long represents what is called “genteel anti-Semitism,” a
disease which lingered after the war among what Harry Truman called the striped
pants boys at Sate.

1940: Today following France’s capitulation to
the Nazis “the main HIAS-HICEM Paris Office was authorized by Portuguese ruler
António de Oliveira Salazar to be transferred from Paris to Lisbon.”

1940: The Nazis
confined Cardinal Emmanuel Celestin Suhard, the Archbishop of Paris “in his
archiepiscopal residence” preparatory to a planned move to ship him off to a
concentration camp.

1941(1st of Tammuz,
5701: Hundreds
of Jews from Kovno, Lithuania, were executed at the fortified Ninth Fort on the
city’s outskirts.

1941: In Atlantic City, NJ,  funeral services are scheduled to be held
this afternoon at Beth Israel for sixty-five-year-old Rabbi Henry Fisher, the
husband of the former Madeline Schubert who served as the Rabbi for Beth Israel
for 38 years.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/06/25/87634033.html?pageNumber=20

1941: Lithuanian fascists massacred 2300 Jews
in Kovno. The sad fact of the matter is that the Nazis had many willing helpers
among the population of various European countries.

1941: The invading Nazis seized hundreds of
Jews in Kovno, USSR and murdered them.

1941: German forces “rolled into Łuck” where
the retreating NKVD had murdered “4,000 captives including Poles, Jews and
Ukrainians” and the Nazis would establish a Ghetto as the first step toward
wiping the Jewish population.

1941: The Germans reached Bialystok home of the
bialy. Another large Jewish population center would now fall victim to the SS
Killing Squads. 

1941: In Jedwabne, Poland, a local priest
convinces the Poles who had begun attacking their fellow citizens who were
Jewish, to halt their pogrom.  He assures
them that the Germans would take care of the Jews.  However, the Poles refused to sell food to
the Jews in the town amid rumors that the Germans “would be issuing orders that
all Jews be destroyed.

1942: “There’s One Born Every Minute” a comedy
that marked the film debut of Elizabeth Taylor the convert to Judaism who had
two Jewish husbands was released today in the United States today.

1942: For the first time British radio carried
reports about the fate of the Polish Jews. It said that 700,000 Jews had been
killed in Poland to date. This would have meant that over two million of
Poland’s reported three million Jews were still alive and could have been
saved.

1943: Dr.Karl Landsteiner the Austrian born
American physician who the 1930 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on
differentiating the blood groups passed away in New York and who had converted
from Judaism to Roman Catholicism when he was twenty one years old.

1943: On Shabbat, special prayers were offered
for the nation’s leadership asking them to lead us toward “a peace of
righteousness and permanence” at a service in Temple Emanu-El. The service
was held today in conjunction with the annual convention of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis, who represent the Reform Rabbinate in the United
States.

1944: The last Jews from Random were deported
to Auschwitz today.

1945: The United Nations Charter is signed in
San Francisco. At a time when there was multi-faceted opposition to the
creation of a Jewish state, the United Nations would provide the legal
framework for the creation of the modern state of Israel. 

1946: Today, “Tzadok”, the leader of the Beitar
branch in Bruna, wrote on the back of a photograph of parade of Beitar members
“As an eternal memory for our friends, from the opening of Kibbutz Beitar in
Bruna, which took place on April 22-23 […] in Linz.”

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/april/16.asp

1947: In New York City, Joseph Siegel “a
commercial education teacher” and the former Edith Joffe’ “a secretary at
Stuyvesant High School” gave birth to Peabody Award Winning NPR journalist
Robert Charles Siegel, the husband of Jane Claudia Schwartz and the father of
“musician Leah Siegel” and Erica Anne Siegel.

1947(8^th of Tammuz, 5707)
Fifty-seven year old Columbia University trained gastroenterologist and WW I
veteran Dr. John Leonard Kantor, the son of Dr. William L. Kantor and Katherine
Gordon Kantor who during WW II “commanded the 49^th General Hospital,
saw active service in New Guinea and was the father of “Dr. Thomas Gordon
Kantor and James Downes Kantor” passed away today.

1948: Today, while President Truman watched
events in Israel with one eye, with another eye he watched “32 C-47s lift off
for Berlin hauling 80 tons of cargo, including milk, flour, and medicine” in
what was the start of Operation Vittles, the Western Allies attempt to overcome
the Soviet blockade of Berlin which, if it failed, could lead to WW III or the
triumph of Soviet Imperialism.

1949: Eighty-seven year old David Philipson,
“the Dean of the American Reform Rabbinate” collapsed today at the convention
of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.

1949: Jewish golfer Herman Barron, the 1948
Goodall and 1947 Tam O’Shanter champion teamed with William J. Cobb to win the
annual pro-member tournaments at the Bonnie Briar Country Club in Larchmont,
NY.

1950: “Admiral Sir John Edelsten, Commander in
Chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet arrived in Israel today” when HMS
Surprise, his flagship, docked at Haifa. 
It was the first such visit since the British left the country two years
ago.

1950(11^th of Tammuz, 5710):
Sixty-six year old Montezuma, GA born, Harvard trained attorney Louis Maxwell
Cohen, the father of Maxwell and Allen Brenner and a “member of the Lawyers’
Panel of the ACLU, passed away today.

1950: The Memorial Park which was a product of
the work of Alfred Lippman and Bernard Rodetsky was dedicated to today Temple
Beth Miriam in Long Branch, NJ.

1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that contracts had been signed for
the widening of the Kishon River outlet near Haifa, building of a bridge over
it and the construction of a port and dry dock there.

1952: An Israeli army spokesman said that
fourteen Arabs had been killed during the last two weeks during operations
designed to keep infiltrators from crossing into the Jewish state. Two more
were arrested and two were wounded.

1952: Birthdate of NYC native and Harvard and
NYU educated writer and film critic Michael Sragow who plied his trade with the
San Francisco Examiner and Rolling Stone Magazine.

1952(3^rd of Tammuz, 5712):
Seventy-one year old Joseph Baskin, the Minsk born son “Nachim Mendel and Rose
Baskin,” the husband of the “former Mary Plotkin,” the father of Geraldine and
Gilbert Baskin and since 1916 the “general secretary of the Workmen’s Circle”
and “editor of The Friend” passed
away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/06/27/92667566.pdf

1954: “The Rev. Dr. Barnett R. Brickner, rabbi of the
Euclid Avenue Temple in Cleveland, was unanimously elected president of the
Central Conference of American Rabbis today at their meeting in Pike, N.H.

1955(6^th of Tammuz, 5715):
Fifty-four year old Borrah Minevitch the Ukrainian born harmonica player who
led The Harmonica Rascals, a ten piece ensemble that recorded for Brunswick and
Decca records passed away today in Paris.

1955(6^th of Tammuz, 5715):
Sixty-nine-year-old realtor Morris Bien, the Philadelphia born son of Pauline
Jacob and Isadore and husband of Bessie Dreifuss Bien passed away today after
which he was buried in Adath Jeshurun Cemetery in Philadelphia, PA.

1956: Under President Nasser, Egypt seized
control of the Suez Canal. 

1957: Eighty-seven year old German-American
author Bruno Alfred Döblin who converted to Catholicism while spending World
War II in Los Angeles passed away today.

1960(1^st of Tammuz, 5720): Rosh
Chodesh Tammuz

1960: It was reported today that American Nazi
leader George Lincoln Rockwell has sought the help of the ACLU in over-turning
Mayor Wagner’s decision to deny him a permit to speak on July 4 at Union Square
because they Mayor said that “the request of a permit was ‘an invitation to
riot and disorder from a half-penny Hitler.’”

1960:  In
Brooklyn  Supreme Court Justice Philip
Halpern of Buffalo officiated at the wedding Sarah Margaret Szold and Emanuel
Boasberg, 3^rd, the son of Buffalo residents Mr. and Mrs. Boasberg,
Jr.

1960: “Eichmann and the U.N.” published today
described Argentina’s complaint to the Security that Israel had violated its
sovereignty by seizing the Nazi and taking him Jerusalem where he would stand
trial for his crimes” while failing to offer any explanation for the henchman
of the Final Solution being able to find refuge in their country for the last
15 minutes.

1961(12^th of Tammuz, 5721):
Seventy-five-year-old Milton Alfred Hellman, the son of Louis and clementine
Lange Hellman and the husband of Alice Stix Eiseman Hellman passed away today
after which he was buried at the New Mount Sinai Cemetery and Mausoleum in
Affton, MO.

1961: Operation Morale, “a clandestine effort
headed by Mossad to facilitate the emigration of Jewish Moroccan children to
Israel” began today when the first of five convoys left the North African
country “under the guise of taking a supposed holiday to Switzerland.

1963: “Levi Eshkol took over Mapai and formed
the eleventh government.

1963: Levi Eshkol replaced David Ben Gurion as
Minister of Defense.

1963: Birthdate of Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky one of Russia’s wealthiest oligarchs who
lost his business empire and his freedom when President Putin felt threatened
by him. “Because Khodorkovsky’s father is Jewish, some concerns have been
raised that his persecution is motivated by anti-Semitism, and that it is only
one of many steps to clearing Russian economy from Jews.”

1965(26^th of Sivan, 5725): Parashat
Sh’lach

1965(26^th of Sivan, 5725):
Seventy-eight year old Mendel B. Silberberg who was “once called the most
important lawyer in the U.S.” and “also referred to as the most powerful Jew in
Los Angeles next to Rabbi Edgar Magnin” passed away today

1966: Birthdate of Daniel Hamidou, the Berber
born Jew who gained fame as French comedian Dany Boon who played “Private
Ponchel” in Joyeux Noël, a gem of a
film.

1966: After twenty-three performances the
curtain came down on a revival of “Guys and Dolls” starring Jan Murray as
Nathan Detroit at the New York City Center.

1967: Spain granted Jews and Protestants the
right of public worship for the first time since Ferdinand and Isabella
proclaimed Catholicism as Spain’s only religion.

1968(30th of Sivan, 5728): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1968 (30^th of Sivan, 5728:
Fifty-four year old jazz trumpeter Harry “Ziggy” Elman, the Philadelphia born
son of Minnie and Alek Finkelman, the husband of Ruby Elman and father of
Martin J. Elman who gained fame during the big band era with the Benny Goodman
Orchestra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/06/27/76949310.pdf

1968: Birthdate of Rich Eisen anchor on ESPN’s
“SportsCenter.”

1969: Four days after he had passed away, a
memorial service is scheduled to held today for eighty-one-year old German born
and University of Berlin educated “Dr. Wladimir G. Eliasberg, a leading
psychiatrist and author of hundreds of articles and books on criminology,
propaganda, industrial relations, neurology and general psychology” who was the
husband “of the former Esther Talbot” with whom he had four daughters – Eva “who
is Israel’s minister plenipotentiary to Switzerland,” Hannah, Miriam and Susan.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/06/23/89002250.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1969: Birthdate of Sociology Professor Philip
“Phil” Zuckerman whose works include Society Without God.

http://forward.com/opinion/138392/why-i-decided-to-study-non-belief/

1970: Today’s Bulletin described the reading of the Book of Ruth after services
on the second day of Shavuot by Louise Brott, Erica Shacter and John Diamond,
the first time that this has occurred at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in
Montreal.

1974: “Police arrest cyberneticist Mikhail
Agursky in Moscow.”

1974(6th of Tammuz, 5734): Eighty-seven year
old Ernest Gruening, the long-time liberal Democrat who served as Governor of
Alaska before being elected Senator passed away.  Gruening had been trained as a doctor at
Harvard and Harvard Medical School although he never practice medicine.  He is best remembered as only one of two
Senators who voted against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, a move that cost him
his Senate seat. (As reported by John T. McQuiston)

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F60B13F73F5E1A7493C5AB178DD85F408785F9

1974: “For Pete’s Sake” a comedy produced by
Stanley Shapiro who co-authored the script and starring Barbra Streisand was
released today in the United States.

1974; Today, at 8:01 a.m., “a 10-pack of
Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum slid down a conveyor belt and past an optical
scanner. The scanner beeped, and the cash register understood, faithfully
ringing up 67 cents. That purchase, at a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, was
the first anywhere to be rung up using a bar code.  A Jew did not invent the now ubiquitous bar
code, but Alan Haberman, of blessed memory, “led the industry
committee that chose the bar code over other contenders — circles, bull’s-eyes
and seemingly random agglomerations of dots — in 1973.  By all accounts, he spent years afterward
cajoling manufacturers, retailers and the public to accept the strange new
symbol, which resembles a highly if irregularly compacted zebra. His efforts
helped cement the marriage between the age-old practice of commerce and the new
world of information technology led the industry committee that chose the bar
code over other contenders — circles, bull’s-eyes and seemingly random
agglomerations of dots — in 1973. By all accounts, he spent years afterward
cajoling manufacturers, retailers and the public to accept the strange new
symbol, which resembles a highly if irregularly compacted zebra. His efforts
helped cement the marriage between the age-old practice of commerce and the new
world of information technology.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)

1975: It was reported today that Undersecretary
of State for Political Affairs Joseph J. Sisco has “has told an assembly of
Jewish community relations leaders that the ‘forces of moderation in the Middle
East’” now have “the upper hand, thus strengthening possibilities for further
agreements through the ‘diplomatic process.’”

1976: Pacific Overtures, a musical with music
and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by John Weidman, directed by Harold
Prince closed today after 193 performances on Broadway

1976: Maxwell Raab, a Wall Street lawyer who
played a prominent role in the Eisenhower presidency was inducted as a fellow
of Brandeis University.

1976: In case of Jew versus Jews, in “Omen Is
Nobody’s Baby” published today Richard Eder panned “The Omen” which was
directed by Richard Donner and written by David Seltzer.

1977(10^th of Tammuz, 5737):
Eighty-eight year old Bertha Levy passed away today after which she was buried
at Temple Beth-El Cemetery in Pensacola, FL

1978: Mariia Slepak was the latest person to go
in the dock Moscow as part of the anti-Zionist trials.

1979(1st of Tammuz, 5739): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1980: Birthdate of actor Jason Schwartzman

1981: “Stripes” an Army comedy film directed by
Ivan Reitman who produced along with Daniel Goldberg who in turn co-authored
the script with Len Blum, Daniel and Harold Ramis who played the role of Pvt.
Russel Ziskey and with music by Elmer Bernstein was released today in the
United States.

1982(5^th of Tammuz, 5742): Parashat
Korach

1982(5^th of Tammuz, 5742):
Seventy-seven year old Columbia trained attorney and WW II U.S. Marine veteran
Myron Sulzberger, the Democratic Party leader and the husband of “Luba Malina”
passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/29/obituaries/myron-sulzberger-jr.html

1982(5th of Tammuz, 5742): Forty-six year old
André Tchaikowsky, a Polish born composer and pianist who as a small child
survived the Warsaw Ghetto, passed away.

1982: “The Last American Virgin” directed by
Boaz Davidson who also wrote the script, produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem
Golan and filmed by cinematographer Adam Greenberg was released in Japan today.

1982(5th of Tammuz, 5742): Seventy-two year old
Chaim Grade, a Yiddish poet and novelist whose work gained wide attention
because of its passion and intensity in dealing with Jewish life in Eastern
Europe and with the trauma of the Holocaust, died of a heart attack today in
Montefiore Hospital. (As reported by Richard F. Shepard)

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/01/obituaries/chaim-grade-yiddish-novelist-and-poet-on-the-holocaust-dies.html

1984: Barbra
Streisand records “Here We Are at Last.”

1984(26^th of Sivan,
5744): Sixty-nine year old Carl Foreman who wrote the scripts of such classics
as High Noon, The Guns of Navarone and The Bridge on the River Kwai passed away
today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/27/obituaries/carl-foreman-producer-and-river-kwai-screenwriter-dies.html

1985: Two months after premiering
at Cannes, “Kiss of the Spider Woman” directed by Héctor Babenco was released
in Brazil and the United States today.

1985: “Pale Rider” a “dark cowboy”
film with music by Lennie Niehaus was released today in the United States.

1986(19^th of Sivan,
5746): Sixty-eight-year-old University of Virginia trained architect  Benjamin Joseph Massell, Jr. the son of Fannie
Wolfson Massell and Benjamin Joseph Massell “who headed the Massell Investment
Company and was an active member of the ADL passed away today in Atlanta, GA/

1987(29^th of Sivan,
5747): Eighty-three year old Columbia trained economist Dr. Arthur Burns, the
Galician born of “Polish-Jewish parents Sarah Juran and Nathan Burnseig, the
husband of Helen Bernstein and father of David and Joseph Burns who helped to
shape economic policy in the three decades staring with the Presidency of Eisenhower
passed away today.

https://www.federalreservehistory.org/people/arthur_f_burns

1989(23rd of Sivan, 5749): Trude Weiss-Rosmarin passed away. Born in 1908, she was a
German Jewish writer, editor, scholar, and feminist activist. With her husband,
she co-founded the School of the Jewish Woman in New York in 1933, and in 1939
founded the Jewish Spectator, a quarterly magazine, which she edited for
50 years. She was the author of 12 books, including Judaism and Christianity: The differences (1943), Toward Jewish-Muslim Dialogue
(1967), and Freedom and Jewish
Women (1977).

1991(14th of Tammuz, 5751): Ninety
year old Wolfgang Zilzer, the Cincinnati born German character actor who often
performed under the name of “Paul Andor” and who married his film fiancée in
“Casablanca passed away today after which he was buried in Berlin.

1992: NBC broadcast the final
episode of seasons 2 of Seinfeld.

1994(17th of Tammuz, 5754): Tzom
Tammuz

1994: Alan Blinder completed his
service as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers.

1994: After 73, the curtain came
down on the original production of “Broken Glass” “a play by Arthur Miller,
focusing on a couple in New York City in 1938, the same time of Kristallnacht.”

1996(9th of Tammuz, 5756): Staff
Sgt. (Res.) Asher Berdugo, 22, of Kiryat Bialik; Sgt. Ashraf Shibli, 20, of
Shibli; and Cpl. (Res.) Ya’acov Turgeman of Rishon Lezion were killed in an
ambush along the Jordan River north of Jericho by terrorists who infiltrated
from Jordan.

1997: Mervyn Taylor completed his
term as Minister for Equality and Law Reform which the Irish government then
abolished and merged with the Department of Justice.

1997: Barry Manilow was diagnosed
with bronchitis before a scheduled performance in Austin, TX.

1997: The International Congress of
the International Napoleonic Society came to an end at Akkesandria, Italy.

http://www.napoleon-series.org/ins/weider/c_jews.html

1998: Launch of the INS Tkuma, a
Dolphin class submarine.

1999: Natan Sharansky “signed an
agreement today to join the coalition government of Prime Minister-elect Ehud
Barak” after it was agreed that he would serve as the next Interior
Minister  which had been under the
control of the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party.

2000: ‘After a Conservative
synagogue in Jerusalem was set on fire Saturday night, Prime Minister Ehud
Barak condemned the crime today as ”an awful act that causes every Jew to
shudder.” (Editor’s note – Based on witness accounts, what makes this really
scary is that the fire was probably set by Jews)

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/26/world/synagogue-in-jerusalem-set-afire-barak-condemns-awful-act.html?searchResultPosition=2

2001: President Bush welcomed
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to the White House.

2001: In St. Petersburg, after
major reconstruction “the greater hall” of the Great Choral Synagogue was
reopened today.

2002: Today “in a commentary in NRO
titled “Taking Back the Market – By Force”, Larry Kudlow, a Jewish convert
to Catholicism who would go from television personality to Trump economic
advisor “called for the United States to attack Iraq, stating that Saddam Hussein
had “weapons of mass destruction at his disposal” and that “a
lack of decisive follow-through in the global war on terrorism is the single
biggest problem facing the stock market and the nation today”

2002: Jean-François
Copé began serving as a member of the National Assembly for Seine-et-Marne’s
constituency.

2002(16th of Tammuz, 5762):
Ninety-two year old Sadie Hurwitz Bregman “a homemaker and widow of Samuel “Bo”
Bregman the Washington businessman and homebuilder who “promoted the Joe Louis
vs Buddy Baer at Griffith Stadium in September, 1940 for the world heavyweight
championship” passed away today at the George Washington University Hospital.

2003(26^th of Sivan, 5763): Cape Town native and
pioneering anthropologist Isaac Schapera passed away today.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jul/02/guardianobituaries.highereducation

2003(26^th of Sivan,
5763): Amos (Amit) Mantin, 31, of Hadera, a Bezeq employee, was killed in a
shooting attack in the Israeli Arab town of Baka al-Garbiyeh. The shots were
fired by a Palestinian teenager, who was apprehended by police. The Fatah
al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

2004(7th of Tammuz, 5764): Israel’s renowned
composer and songwriter Naomi Shemer passed away at the age of 74.

Shemer is known to many as the composer of the
famous song “Y’rushalayim Shel Zahav” or in English, “Jerusalem of
Gold.”  For those of you who saw “Shindler’s List” this was
the song played at the end of the movie when the film turned from black and
white to color as the survivors were shown visiting the Shindler’s grave. 
The song was written at the request of Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kolek in
1967 several weeks before the outbreak of the Six Day War.  The song
expresses the longing of a person for Jerusalem who has to view
the Old City from the opposite side of the Green Line.  In
one of those ironic twists of history, “the song became the war’s
anthem. 

Jerusalem
of Gold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhvX0ipYLSQ

Lu
Yehi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ru-ced6v20

http://www.hebrewsongs.com/?songID=176

2005: Igo Feldblum writes a letter to historian Martin Gilbert
describing how young Jews in Palestine responded positively to the war time
slogan ‘Win We Will.’  ‘Confident in this
prophecy, many enlisted in the Jewish Brigade and fought alongside the
Allies.’  “Thirty thousand Palestinian
Jews fought in the British forces…and more than seven hundred were killed in
action.”

2005: The New York Times featured reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including King
of the Jews by Nick Tosches and The Woman From Hamburg by Hanna
Krall.

2005 (19th of Sivan, 5765): Eighty-one year old Louis
J. Sigel, a Teaneck, N.J., rabbi who was a prominent voice for integration of
the township’s public schools in the early 1960’s, passed away today at his
home in Hackensack, N.J. (As reported by George James)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/nyregion/01sigel.html?pagewanted=print

2005: Wild Desert, a horse owned by several businesspeople
including former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre, gave Robert J. Frankel his
first victory in the $1 million Queen’s Plate, the first leg of the Canadian
Triple Crown at Woodbine Racetrack.

2005: “Havoc,” a “crime drama” filmed by cinematographer
Kramer Morgenthau debut at the Munich International Film festival today.

2005: The Rubashkin Education Center in Postville is scheduled to hold its
grand opening this afternoon

2006(30^th of Sivan, 5766): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

2006(30^th of Sivan, 5766): Seventy-two year old Harvard
psychiatrist Joseph J Schildkraut passed away today. (As reported by Jeremy
Pearce)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/08/us/08schildkraut.html

2006: Twenty-four hours after attacking an IDF checkpoint
Palestinians fire Kassam Rockets into Israel. 

2007: At the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, an
exhibition inspired by the ancient flood story of Noah’

2007: The General Assembly of the European Jewish Congress elects
a new president for the EJC for a two year term.

2007: The President of Poland and Jewish leaders break ground for
the Museum of the History of Polish Jews on a site next to Warsaw’s monument to
Jews who resisted the Nazis during the 1943 ghetto uprising. 

2007(10th
of Tammuz, 5767): Belgian born American fashion designer, Liz Claiborne passed
away at the age of 78. (As reported by Eric Wilson)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/fashion/27cnd-claiborne.html?pagewanted=all

2007:
A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency
by author, attorney, blogger, and Salon.com columnist Glenn Greenwald was
published today, by Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House

2008:
In New York City the Gallery at the Astor Center presents, “A Taste of
Appetizing” featuring Mark Russ Federman, representing the third of the four
generations of famed Russ & Daughters who guides participants on a tasting
of his extraordinary wares. From humble Herring to luscious Lox, Mark will be
explain all—accompanied by a generous side order of the stories behind this New
York culinary landmark, judged by the Smithsonian Institute as “part of New
York’s cultural heritage.” Joining Mark will be Russ & Daughters’ long-time
manager, Herman “The Artistic Slicer” Vargas.

2008: A rocket fired from Gaza hit the Sderot industrial
area this afternoon, exploding near a gas station and shattering the truce for
a fourth time this week. While neither Prime Minister Ehud Olmert nor Defense
Minister Ehud Barak released statements following the rocket attack on Sderot
on Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni issued an uncharacteristically sharp demand for
an immediate military response.

2009(4^th
of Tammuz, 5769): Seventy-nine year old Jo Amar, a Moroccan-born Jewish singer
whose melding of Andalusian and Israeli musical influences made him a star in
Israel and a popular performer in Jewish communities around the world, died
today at the home of his son Ouri in Woodmere, N.Y. (As reported by Bruce
Weber)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/arts/music/09amar.html

2009:
Jews in the Washington Metropolitan Area have a wide panoply of choices when it
comes to welcoming the Sabbath Queen ranging from the Carlebach Minyan at
Kesher Israel to Congregation Adat Reyim’s unique folk service lead by their
folk group that group uses musical instruments and a variety of melodies from
Debbie Friedman, Craig Taubman, and others to add a wonderful musical aspect to
their Shabbat services

2009:
Russia told a U.S. court today that American judges have no authority to tell
the country how to handle sacred Jewish documents held in its state library,
which had been seized by the Nazi and Soviet armies.

2010(14th
of Tammuz, 5770): Eighty-four year old Shoista Mullojonova “a renowned
Tajik-born Bukharian Jewish Shashmakom singer” passed away today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEfxDXSKn0k

2010:
Ginsberg Jewelers, which is owned by Herman Ginsberg, a pillar of the Jewish
community and a mensch of the first order and is a mainstay of the Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, business community battled back from the Floods of 2008 and
hosted an Open House in its new, location today.

2010:
The Jewish community of Cedar Rapids is scheduled to gather this evening for
“Havdalah Under The Stars.”

2010:
Prize winning ice skater Loren Galler-Rabinowitz won the Miss Massachusetts
title.

https://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/26/2010/loren-galler-rabinowitz

2011:
Israel continued repositioning part of its contested barrier in the West Bank
today, four years after a court ruled it should be re-routed to give
Palestinians greater access to farmland.

2011:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including “The Druggist of Auschwitz: A
Documentary Novela” by Dieter Schlesak. Translated by John Hargraves

2011:
The Jewish Museum Milwaukee is scheduled to participate in a WWII Encampment
Reenactment program being staged by the Milwaukee County Historical Society at
Trimborn Farm. Local student and actor, Shane Skinner, is scheduled to present
a dynamic portrayal of the lives of Jewish servicemen during the war, drawing
on collections from the archives of the Jewish Museum Milwaukee.

2011: “The Washington Haggadah: Medieval Jewish
Art in Context” is scheduled to come to an end today at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art in New York City. The Washington Haggadah, an illuminated medieval
manuscript and, since 1916, a principal treasure in the Library of Congress, is
spending Passover in New York City on a snug reading stand in a display case at
the Metropolitan Mu­seum of Art.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/washington-haggadah-on-display-at-the-met/2011/04/15/AFYU6EwD_story.html?hpid=z11

2011: Mordechai Lewy, the
Israeli ambassador to the Vatican, “who caused a storm in the Jewish world by
praising Pope Pius XII for saving Jews during World War Two backtracked today,
saying his judgment was “historically premature.”

2011(24^th of
Sivan, 5771): Ninety-one year old Sidney Radner, owner of one of the largest
collections of material related to Harry Houdini passed away today. This was a
case of one Jew carrying for the legacy of another Jew.  (As reported by Paul Vitello)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/us/27radner.html

2011(24^th of
Sivan, 5771): Seventy-seven year old Joseph Hochstein passed away today in Tel Aviv.
In 1965, Hochstein and his father Phillip started the Jewish Week, a
Washington, DC publication that was the successor the National Jewish
Ledger.  It was renamed The Washington
Jewish Week after Hochstein sold the paper in 1980’s and made Aliyah.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/joseph-m-hochstein-editor-publisher/2011/06/27/AG5U58qH_story.html

2011: “After 28 previews and 73 performances”
the curtain came down on the second Broadway revival of “Born Yesterday”
written by Garson Kanin.

2012: Eating and drinking must be on the minds
of those at the 92^nd Street Y which is scheduled to offer programs
on “Wines of the Southern Hemisphere” and “Picnics Through the Ages.”

2012(6^th of Tammuz, 5772):
Ninety-two year old “Harry Levinson, a psychologist who helped change corporate
America’s thinking about the workplace by demonstrating a link between job
conditions and emotional health — a progressive notion when he began developing
his ideas in the 1950s” passed away today. (As reported by Claudia H. Deutsch)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/business/harry-levinson-whose-ideas-altered-the-workplace-dies-at-90.html?_r=2&hpw&

2012: As part of the Food for Thought program,
Rabbi Yosef Edelstein is scheduled to lead “Digesting Ethics, Mysticism and
Philosophy.”

2012: David Kilimnick, Razorback by birth and
Israeli by choice, is scheduled to host another “Open Mic” night at Jerusalem’s
Off The Wall Comedy Club on Ben Yehuda

2012: Four suspects from Jerusalem, Bnei Brak
and Ashdod are under arrest on suspicion of spray-painting hate slogans on the Yad
Vashem Holocaust Museum, Ammunition Hill and other landmark monuments over the
last couple months, police announced this morning.

2012: Fires raged in the forest around
Jerusalem today, with the largest fire near the suburb of Motza. The
Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway was closed to traffic as fire and rescue services
scrambled to control the blaze.

2012(6^th of Tammuz, 5772):
Seventy-one year old Nora Ephron whose work included “Sleepless in Seattle and
“When Harry Sally” passed away today. 
(As reported by Charles McGrath)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/movies/nora-ephron-essayist-screenwriter-and-director-dies-at-71.html?hp&pagewanted=all

2012: New York City Councilman Charles Barron,
a fierce critic of Israeli policy who was opposed by Jewish lawmakers and top
party officials, was trounced his bid to secure the Democratic nomination in a
Brooklyn congressional race.

http://forward.com/articles/158500/charles-barron-loses-race-for-congress/#ixzz2XBDujVf4

2012: Today the Central Council of Jews in
Germany slammed the “outrageous and insensitive” decision of a regional court
to prohibit circumcisions, calling upon the German parliament to pass a law
that safeguards freedom of religion. (As reported by Raphael Ahren)

2013: “In a Strange Land: The Photographic and
Artistic Interpretation of Unfamiliar Environments,” a symposium sponsored by
the Israel Museum is scheduled to come to an end today.

2013: Aharon Oren, a Professor of Microbial
Ecology at the Hebrew University is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled
“Shipping Lanes of the Dead Sea: 2500 years of navigation” at the University of
Connecticut.

2013: The ICCJ International Abrahamic Forum
International Conference is scheduled to open at La Baume, Aix en Provence
France

2013: Cult leader Andrew “Cohen announced on
his blog that he would be taking “a sabbatical for an extended period of
time”, after confrontational exchanges with some of his closest students,
who helped Cohen to realize, as he put it, that “in spite of the depth of
my awakening, my ego is still alive and well.”

2013: In San Diego, CA, the Center for Jewish
Culture is scheduled to host a screening of “The Trotsky” – a film about
Montreal high school students who thinks he is the reincarnation of the famous
Russian revolutionary.

2013(18^th of Tammuz, 5773):
Eighty-three year old commercial photographer Bert Stern passed away today. (As
reported by Paul Vitello)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/arts/bert-stern-elite-photographer-known-for-images-of-marilyn-monroe-dies-at-83.html

2013(18^th of Tammuz, 5773):
Seventy-eight year old Jewish-American billionaire Marc Rich, who was pardoned
by then US president Bill Clinton over what had once been the biggest tax
evasion case in US history and busting sanctions with Iran, died today from a
stroke in Switzerland

http://www.jpost.com/International/Marc-Rich-King-of-Oil-pardoned-by-Clinton-dies-at-78-317808

http://www.kingofoil.com/

2013: Fishel Litzman, a New York police officer
in training and an Orthodox Jew, took the NYPD to court today for requiring him
to trim his beard for service. (As reported by Michael Wilner)

2014: The Pears Institute for the Study of
Anti-Semitism is scheduled to present “Debating Anti-Semitism: Why do Jews
Disagree so Much?”

2014: Historian Lisa Jardine delivered the
Conway Memorial Lecture today entitled “Things I Never Knew About My Father”
which focused on the life of her father Anglo-Jewish mathematician Jacob
Bronowski.

2014: Professor Anthony McElligott is scheduled
to deliver a lecture entitled The Last Transport: Writing a history of the
Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean at Wiener Library for the Study of the
Holocaust & Genocide

2014: “The Green Prince” is scheduled to be
shown at the 22^nd annual Portland Jewish Film Festival.

2014: Tel Aviv is scheduled to host its 11^th
White Night event

2014: “La Rafle” and “The Lady in Number 6” are
scheduled to be shown at the Chicago Jewish Film Festival

2014: A court in Versailles ordered the
extradition of 29 year old Mehid Nemmouche, “the man suspected of murdering
four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels” to Belgium.

2014: As firefighter worked “to put out remaining
hotspots from a major forest fire that broke out yesterday afternoon in
southwest Jerusalem” Fire and Rescue Commissioner Shahar Ayalon said a thorough
investigation had already begun amidst suspicions that the fire “was caused,
possibly intentionally.” (As reported by Lazar Berman)

2014: Eighty-three year old songwriter and
children’s author, Mary Rodgers, the daughter of Broadway’s Richard Rodgers
passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/28/nyregion/mary-rodgers-author-and-composer-and-daughter-of-richard-rodgers-dies-at-83.html

2014(28^th of Sivan, 5774):
Ninety-three year old Viennese born American opera and orchestra conductor
Julius Rudel passed away today.  *As
reported by Robert D. McFadden)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/arts/music/julius-rudel-longtime-city-opera-impresario-dies-at-93.html?_r=0

2015: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled
to host The Gertler Quarter as part of “The Future Generation Series.”

2015: “Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II made her
first trip to a former Nazi concentration camp today, visiting Bergen-Belsen
just over 70 years after it was liberated by British forces, on the final day
of her state visit to Germany.”

2016: “The Wedding Doll” is scheduled to be
shown at the 13^th annual Israeli Film Festival in Ottawa, Canada.

2016: “Israeli superstar David Broza is
scheduled to perform “An All Request Show” at the City Winery in NYC.

2016: “The Art Dealer” and “Demon” are
scheduled to be shown at the 24^th Portland, Oregon Jewish Film
Festival.

2016: The Jewish Genealogical Society and the
Ackman & the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at Center for
Jewish History are scheduled to host a presentation by Phyliss Kramer “who will
review Eastern European historical geography and cover researching a town using
JewishGen’s town pages, maps and gazeteers, Routes to Roots, Jewish Records
Indexing-Poland, Google and other key web sites.”

2016: In Cedar Rapids, IA, following a
fun-filled BBQ dinner and silent auction President Nancy Margulis is scheduled
to chair Temple Judah’s annual meeting

2016: The
New York Times featured books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s
Social Contract in the Age of Individualism by Yuval Levin, Jackson 1964
And Other Dispatches From Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America by Calvin
Trillin and the recently released paperback edition of Rebecca Dinerstein’s
first novel, The Sunlit Night.

2017: The Institute of Southern Jewish Life’s
annual Education Conference is scheduled to continue for a second day in
Jackson, Mississippi.

2017(2^nd of Tammuz, 5777): Sixty
year old “filmmaker and historian Suzanne Wasserman” passed away today. (As
reported by Richard Sandomir)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/nyregion/suzanne-wasserman-dead.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore&_r=0

https://wp.nyu.edu/archivesandpublichistory/suzanne-wasserman/

2017(2^nd of Tammuz, 5777):
Ninety-one year old Birkenhead born “celebrity solicitor” Elkan Rex Makin,
whose work with Brian Epstein led to his close association with the Beatles
passed away today

https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/240181/rex-makin-mr-beatlemania-dies-at-91

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/rex-makin-dies-liverpool-lawyer-13244311

2017: The Manhattan Jewish Experience is
scheduled to host a discussion of the weekly Torah portion with Steve Eisenberg
followed by a “conversation” with Rabbi Mark Wildes.

2017: In London, JW3 is scheduled to sponsor a
screening of Beyond the Mountains and Hills.

2017: “A traveling version” of “Before They
Were Heroes” Sus Ito’s World War II Images” which includes pictures of U.S.
Army units composed of Japanese-Americans who helped to save Jewish refugees at
the end of the war, is scheduled to come to an end at Harvard.

2018: “Britain’s Prince William whose
great-grandmother Princess of Alice of Battenburg was recognized by Yad Vashem
as a Righteous Among the Nations for helping to save a Jewish family in Greece
during the Holocaust, today visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in
Jerusalem, where he took part in a wreath laying ceremony and met with Jews who
were rescued by Britain as children.”

2018: “Shoshana Buchholz-Miller, Vice President
of Education and Exhibitions at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education
Center is scheduled to serve as the moderator of presentation on immigration
policy – “What Do We Need to Know? What Can We Do.?”

2018: The Center For Jewish History and the
American Jewish Historical Society are scheduled to host “ a discussion of The
Jewish Political Tradition: Volume III: Community, co-authored by Michael
Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam Zohar, and Madeline Kochen.

2019: In Edmonton, Alberta, The Gods of Gotham
by Lyndsay Faye is scheduled to be the subject of the JDIC Book Discussion
Group.

 2019:
JW3 is scheduled to host a screening “Promise at Dawn,” the movie version of
“Romain Gary’s memoir.

2019: The annual Jerusalem Light Festival is
scheduled to begin tonight.

2020: As part of the events being held “to mark
the 75^th anniversary of the founding of the United Natons in San
Francsioco, the local chapter of the American Jewish Committee” is scheduled to
host “a webinar featuring two former U.S. ambassadors to the U.N., John
Negroponte and David Pressman, will address how the U.N. has — and can —
advance U.S. national interests and protect human rights. “The U.N. at 75: What
Place in U.S. Foreign Policy.”

2020: San Francisco based JIMENA is scheduled
to host the virtual “Persian Jewish Music and Pre-Shabbat during which singer
and scholar Galeet Dardashti will explore Judeo-Persian music traditions
through live and recorded music, some of which she will teach.

2020: Following Shabbat services, Temple
Tefirth Israel is scheduled to host via livestream “a conversation about race
and Justice in America at this time.”

2020: In Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is
scheduled to host Shabbat Outdoor Services in the Silber Outdoor Sanctuary
where social distancing will be observed and masks will be provided all
attendees.

2020: The Breman Museum in partnership with the
Savannah Jewish Federation, Savannah Jewish Educational Alliance, and the
Southern Jewish Historical Society are scheduled to host via Zoom “Reform
Judaism in Charleston and Baltimore” during which “Mark Bauman, retired
professor of history at Atlanta Metropolitan College, will discuss the origins
of Reform Judaism in Charleston and especially Baltimore and how Jews from
these cities took Reform idealogy across the country as they moved westward.”

2020: Nominations for the Cleveland Jewish
News’ “18 Difference Makers” which recognizes those making a difference in the
Jewish world of northeast Ohio, is scheduled to come to an end this evening.

https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local_news/nominations-open-for-cjn-s-18-difference-makers/article_76dfd930-b15c-11ea-b27c-8720b5bcec22.html

2021(16^th of Tammuz, 5781): Parashat
Balak;

2021: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled
to host “The Glorious Sound of the Piano” featuring pianist Benjamin Hocman.

2021: In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is
scheduled to offer in person as well as Zoom Shabbat morning services with the
caveat that live attendees bring their masks and vaccination cards.

2022: JHMOMC is scheduled to present via ZOOM a
deep-dive into the connection between the Founding Fathers and the Jewish
Community presented by Rabbi Dr. Robert Fierstien.

2022: The Museum at Eldridge Street is
scheduled to host its 21st Annual Egg Rolls, Egg Creams, & Empanadas Street
Festival.

2022: The American Jewish Press Association
Annual Conference is scheduled to begin today.

2022:  As
part of Hebrew Book Month, the National Library of Israel is scheduled to host
conversation with award winning author Doris Rabinyan and Yuval Avivi.

2022: The New York Times featured
reviews of books written by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish
readers including the recent released paperback editions of Let the Record
Show: A Political Hist of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman and Ethel
Rosenberg: An American Tragedy by Anne Sebba.

2022: The Museum of Southern Jewish Experience
is scheduled to welcome New York Times bestselling author, activist, and
comedian Annabelle Gurwitch who will  tell
us about her newest work Your Leaving When? Adventures in Downward Mobility,
as well as her southern Jewish story in a way only she can – with humor and
insight.

2023: The Virtual Belfer National Conference
for Educators, sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is
scheduled to begin today.

2023: ASF’s Institute of Jewish Experience is
scheduled to present “Houses of Life: Synagogues and Cemeteries in Italy,” “a
virtual tour of an exhibit currently on display at MEIS – the National Museum
of Italian Judaism and the Shoah.”