This Day, June 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 4
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Conrad II passed away. Born in 990, he
served Holy Roman Emperor from 1027 until his death. His reign was part of
positive period for the Jews of the Rhineland. The first synagogue was built in
Worms in 1034 and Rabbi Gershom ben Judah taught at his famous academy in Mainz
until his death in 1028.
1391:
A riotous mob led by the Queen Mother’s confessor, killed many Jews in Seville,
Spain.
The
massive riots were part of Ferran Martinez’s plan to eradicate the Jews.
Historian Netanyahu stated the assault upon the Jewish community “resulted
in a bloodbath of massive proportions that all but annihilated the Sevillian
Juderia.”
1632:
Jacob Bassewi (Bassevi) and Leon Bassewi, his cousin and business partner,
“received a privilege from the Duke governing Prague that gave them “the right
to do business without any hindrance in all the town, markets and areas of the
dukedoms of Friedland, Sagan and Glogau”
1632:
Albrecht Wallenstein, the Count of Friedland, granted Jacob Bassewi and his
cousin Leon Bassewi in order to improve his possibilities for business and
living, the exceptional freedom to build a house in our town of Reichenberg at
the best location for him and in order to speed up the process we order, you
our chief officer, to support him with material and payments to the citizen
builders. In the event that he should find a house that is already built, we
give you the powers to allow him to buy it and allow him to have his friends or
children, Jewish or gentile, to live there and to direct his business from
there. We further order that, if the Bassewi people need protection anywhere in
our Dukedom or in all of the Kingdom of Bohemia, they shall enjoy our highest
official protection. Nobody shall dare to act against this our will without
punishment. We seal this letter with our great seal.”
1672(9th
of Sivan): Rabbi Moses Rikves, author of Be’er ha-Golah passed away
1695:
In Vienna, Joseph Juda Loeb Guggenheim, the Fankfurt am Main born son of Meir
Schaul Guggenheim and Mrs Marem Meir Schaul Guggenheim and his wife and Frumet
Guggenheim gave birth to Miriam Sara Sinhzeim, the wife of Löb Jehuda Efraim
Sinsheim
1697: Birthdate Rabbi Jacob Israel Emden, the Altona born Talmudic scholar most
famous for his fight against those whom he considered to be Sabbateans. His most famous dispute was the one with
Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschutz.
1733:
The Prattenburg, on which Jacob de Beer has been serving as ship gunner arrived
in Batavia today 211 days after its departure fomr the Netherlands.
1738:
Birthdate of King George III, the British monarch best remembered as the ruler
during the American Revolution. During his reign conditions of his Jewish
subjects would improve on several fronts as can be seem from the establishment
of the London Board of Shechita, establishment of the Jews’ Free School and
Jewish Blind Society. Alexander Zuntz, a Hessian Jew, came to North America in
1779 was a civilian commissary, army supplier, and adjutant of the Hessian
mercenary forces, that were employed by England’s King George III…
1767(7th
of Sivan, 5527): Second Day of Shavuot
1767(7th
of Sivan, 5527): Bezaleel, the son of Moses Brandeis ha-Levi, who like his
father “was the district rabbi of Bunzlau (Bohemia) passed away today
1751(11th
of Sivan): Rabbi Abraham Geron of Adrianople, author of Tikkun Soferim
passed away
1756(6th
of Sivan, 5516): Shavuot celebrated as George Washington writes to his
subordinates during the French and Indian War expressing his approval of the
advance of the Prince William Militia
1775(6th
of Sivan, 5535): Thirteen days before the Battle of Bunker Hill, while American
forces are besieging the British at Boston, observance of Shavuot.
1779:
In New York City, Abraham Isaac Abrahams and his wife gave birth to Charlotte
Abrahams.
1783:
Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga,
the future Pope Leo XII who would put the Gate back on the Ghetto and pursue
other policies inimical to the Jews, was ordained as a priest.
1789:
“The Captivity of Judah” by William Crotch was played at Trinity Hall,
Cambridge (UK). Crotch was not Jewish
but his pupil Charles Kensington Salaman, the British pianist and composer was. Crotch’s “most successful composition was the
oratorio “Palestine”
1794(7th
of Sivan, 5554): Second Day of Shavuot was observed on the same day that Tadeusz
Kosciuszko made changes in the military command of the rebels in Poland and
Lithuania, home to large Jewish community that included the Vilna Gaon, that
was fighting to end the Russian annexation of their country.
1800:
In New York City, just five days before her 17th birthday Frances
Isaacs, the daughter of Joshua Isaacs and Harmon Hendricks, the premiere
manufacture of copper “whose father was a founding member of Congregation
Shearith Israel were married today in New York City.
1805(7th
of Sukkoth, 5565): Second Day of Sukkoth is observed on the same day that Lewis
and Clark tried to find the true course of the Missouri River in what is now
Montana during the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase
1810:
In Curacao, Rev. Solomon Cohen Peixotto and Rachel de David de Isaac Peixotto
gave birth to Joshua Cohen Peixotto.
1811:
Jacob Reuben married Leah Lyons today in the United Kingdom
1813(6th
of Sivan, 5573): As the War of 1812 goes into its second year, observance of
Shavuot.
1821:
Influential 19th century economist David Ricardo the son of
Anglo-Sephardic Jews who became a Unitarian when he married Priscilla Anne
Wilkinson voted for criminal law reform as an MP.
1828:
Lawrence Hyam married Caroline Elias at the Great Synagogue in London.
1829(3rd
of Sivan, 5589): Hannah de Pass, the native of Kingston, Jamaica who was the
daughter of Ralph de Pass and the wife of Benjamin Milhado whom she had married
at Charleston in 1796 passed away today.
1832(6th
of Sivan, 5592): As Andrew Jackson prepares to seek re-election, celebration of
Shavuot.
1835(7th
of Sivan, 5595): Second day of Shavuot
1835(7th
of Sivan, 5595): Seventy year old Seckel Isaac Fränkel who in 1818 was the
rabbi for the new Reform Jewish Temple of Hamburg for which he wrote a new
prayer book passed away today.
1837:
Joseph Baum married Esther Harris today in the United Kingdom.
1840:
During the Damascus Affair, Adolphe Cremieux, vice president of the Central
Consistoire of French Israelites, dispatched an appeal to Sir Moses Montefiore,
President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, to join with him and a
delegation from the French Jewish community in a visitation to Mehemet Ali in
Alexandria, Egypt.
1841:
At a time when Jews in Prague “had been prohibited from spending the summer in
the suburbs” an edict was issued that allowed the Jews to own rural real estate
provided that they “worked the land themselves.”
1843(6th
of Sivan, 5603): Shavuot celebrated one day after the birth of King Frederick
VIII of Denmark, under whose grandfather King Frederick the VII, the
constitution removing the last restrictions on the Jews of that Denmark was
adopted two days after the infant heir’s second birthday.
1848:
French banker and opponent of Napoleon III’s imperial designs Michel Goudchaux
was elected to the Assembly today in a by-election “In the department of the
Seine.”
1851:
In Voyska, Bohemia Simon Steinbach and Rosalie Weisskopf gave birth to Lewis W.
Steinbach the husband of Johanna Rosenbaum who earned his medical degree at
Jefferson Medical College who became a leading surgeon in Philadelphia, PA.
1852:
Beth Hamedrash Hagadol “a congregation for Russian Jews was formed with the
help of former German Jewish immigrants. This traditional congregation opened a
school and soon became the center of Orthodoxy in the U.S. Abraham Joseph Ash,
an halachic authority, was elected as its rabbi in 1860 and held the position
until his death in 1888. So as not to be dependent on a community salary, he
also tried his hand in business without much success.” While some like to
emphasize the cleavages between the different elements of the New York Jewish
community, this synagogue formed for Russian Jews, with support from German
Jews, received financial assistance from a Sephardic Jew, a member of Shearith
Israel, who provided funds that helped with the congregation’s purchase of its
first building.
1852: The
Democratic National Convention during which Philip Philips, the Charleston born
Caroline Lazarus and Aaron Phillips, “prominent members of the Jewish
community” gave a speech in support of future President Franklin Pierce,
continued today in Baltimore.
1853(27th
of Iyar, 5613): Parashat Bechukotai
1856(1st
of Sivan, 5616): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1856:
Harry Gluckstein married Rose Lazarus at the Great Synagogue in London.
1857:
The Springfield Republican reported
that Isaac Jackson a Jewish boy who was either 17 or 18 years old had been
robbed and shot to death by Charles Jones while he was driving a wagon on the
road between Westfield and Russell, MA in a case of what the paper described as
“a dreadful murder.” Jackson was one of
four brothers who owned a store at Westfield and delivered merchandise to the
surrounding towns. The murder appeared
to have taken place on the first of June.
The missing wagon and the corpse were discovered on the second of
June. Charles Jones, a violent man with
a criminal record has been taken into custody.
1859(2nd
of Sivan, 5619): Parashat Nasso
1862(6th
of Sivan, 5622): First Day of Shavuot as forces under Robert E. Lee and George
McClellan square off in what was known as the Peninsular Campaign.
1864(29th
of Iyar, 5624): Parashat Bamidbar
1866:
In the Netherlands, Israel Nathan Gruenberg and Roosje Conrads Gruenberg gave
birth to Rosa Funk, the wife of Louis (Lazarus) Funk and mother of Ivan Funk;
Conrad Funk and Leo Funk
1866:
In Creglingen, Germany, Nannchen Sauer and Moses gave birth to attorney William
Kahn, the husband of Karoline Ottenheimer and, starting in 1900, “general manager
Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society.
1871:
Elizabeth and George Joseph Emanuel gave birth to Joseph Emanuel, the husband
of Ethel Emanuel
1873:
According to a report published today, the following New York City
institutions received these payments from the Excise Fund New York:
Hebrew Free Schools: 1871 – $3899.00
1872 – $1806.00
Polomes Talmud Torah School: 1871- $420.00
1874: Publication of the first edition of The Morecambe Visitor and General Advertiser,
(later just called The Visitor) which starting 1898 came under the sway of
Arthur Caunt who would be sued for libel when “he penned a diatribe against
British Jews for not doing more to prevent Zionist killing of British troops in
Palestine, describing ‘Jews as a plague on Britain.’
1877: Birthdate of Charleston, West VA, native Leo Loeb,
the University of West Virginia trained attorned who was a member of the City
Council.
1877: U.S. Secretary of State Seward received a letter
from Meyer S. Isaacs, President of the Board of Delegates of American
Israelites which requests that American diplomats help to protect Jews of
Russian birth living in and around Jerusalem.
The ruling Ottomans were hostile to the Jews because they were Russian
and because they were Jews.
1878: Three days after she had passed away, Sarah
Henriques, the wife of Moses Henriques and the mother of Elizabeth Henriques
was buried today in the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1878: The Ottoman Empire ceded control of Cyprus to the
British Empire. Ironically, Benjamin Disraeli was the Prime Minister when this
happened. After all for Jews, British
control of the island has a negative connotation. They turned the island into a
giant prison for Jewish refugees trying to get into Eretz Israel during after
World War II.
1878: Sarah, “the beloved wife of M.J. Henriques” was
buried today at the Balls Pond Jewish Cemetery three days after her death.
1880: Sarah Bernhardt signed a contract today for a
series of 60 performances to be given this winter at Booth’s Theatre.
1881(7th of Sivan, 5641) Second Day of Shavuot
1882: Today, in Germany, Fanny Ottenheimer and Elias Marx
gave birth to Rosa Mark, the wife of Heineman Neuman.
1882: A conference of delegates representing Jewish
organizations from across the United States and Europe opened this morning at
the Hebrew Orphan Asylum to discuss how to cope with the increasing stream of
Jewish immigrants from Russia. The
Executive Committee of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society had issued the call for
the meeting and H.S. Henry, the Society’s President, presided over the opening
session. Henry said that since its founding in December of 1881, HIAS has
collected over $75,000, all but $7,000 of which it has spent on helping over
3,000 immigrants. The leaders discussed
the seemingly overwhelming task of helping their suffering co-religionists but
affirmed their commitment to do so. One
of the practical programs discussed was the settling of refugees in the open
tracts of land in Minnesota and the Dakotas. According to figures presented to
the conference it would take over a thousand dollars to provide a single
agricultural settler with everything from provisions, fuel, seed, livestock, 80
acres of land, materials to build a house, furnishings and provisions until the
first harvest is sold.
1882:
“A general conference of delegates from the various Jewish societies in the
United States” which had been convened to discuss the challenges related to the
continuous arrival of refugees from Russia opened this morning in New York at
the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. “The meeting was called to order by H.S. Henry,
President of the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society of the United States.
1882:
It was reported today that appeal is being circulated in Paris to secure funds
to help Jews leave Russia. Famed author
Victor Hugo’s name is at the top of the list of those who signed the appeal.
1882: It was
reported today that President Chester A. Arthur and former President U.S. Grant
are among the leaders who will be attending the upcoming fundraiser designed to
provide aid for Jewish refugees from Russia.
1882: It was
reported today that European Jews are debating the direction Russian immigrants
should take – west to the United States or east to Palestine. An un-named Anglo Jewish citizen contends
that the United States is the better of the two destinations. The movement to
settle Palestine “is a mere hobby of Protestant Christians.” The Ottoman government would not support the
settlement and the Jews would be moving to a country less civilized than the
one they are leaving. Among the
advantages offered by the United States are a high state of civilization, large,
unsettled areas and the 400,000 Jews already living there who would help the
newcomers.
1883: In
London Benjamin Leopold Farjeon, the son of Orthodox Jews and Maggie
(Jefferson) Farjeon gave birth to British author Joseph Jefferson Farjeon
1883: In
Altona, Germany, Emilie (née Fischel) and Otto Ehrenberg gave birth to Hans
Phillip Ehrenberg a convert who co-founded the Confessing Church but who was
forced to flee to England because of Jewish ancestry when the Nazis came to
power. Hans Ehrenberg was one of the few German Protestant theologians, even
within the Confessing Church, to publicly express his vehement opposition to
the anti-Semitism of the Nazis and publicly declare his support of the Jewish
people. He strongly urged the Protestant church to take the same stand. He
criticized Christian anti-Semitism and emphasized the similarities between
Judaism and Christianity.”
1883: In New
York, Eva N. de Frece and Louis J. Bernstein gave birth to Zion de Frece the
husband of Helen M. Stroock and a member of Temple B’nai Jeshurun whose business
activities including first as the first vice president of the National Cloak
and Suit Company and the vice president of the National Snow Removal Corporation.
1884: The
Indian Agent at the Acoma Reservation wrote to the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs complaining the Solomon Bibo had violated “his Trader’s License” when
he entered into a business arrangement with members of that tribe.
1886(1st
of Sivan, 5645): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1886:
Printer Jacob Warschawski wrote in the American Hebrew today describing
conditions in Kansas saying, “We are
scarce of rain, and if it will keep back a little longer it will be very hard
for us new starters. We have organized a Home Protection Association in our
colony with our Christian neighbors, and we will soon have a post office by the
name, “Touro.” Among our colonists, and with our Christian neighbors
there is Sholem, peace.
1886: In New
York City, Louis M. and Augusta L. Ernst gave birth the New York Law School graduate
and WW I Field Artillery Officer, Walter Elmer Ernst, the “senior partner of
the law firm of McManus and Ernst” and Republican Party leader who was the
husband of Gerturde E. Ernst and a trustee of the West End Temple.
1887: In
Summit, NJ, Gustav Pollak, “an editor and writer for The Nation magazine” and
Cecilia Heilprin gave birth to Harvard trained attorney Walter Heilprin Pollak
who traded in career with white shoe law firm Sullivan and Cromwell to defend
the downtrodden and the underdog including “the Scottsboro Boys” while
developing a life-long friendship with Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo.
1887: In
Philadelphia, Julie Weiler and Henry Fernberger gave birth to University of
Pennsylvania educated psychology major and professor Dr. Samuel Weiller
Fernberger the husband of Eve Coons Wallerstein and member of Rodeph Shalom
Congregation who began his teaching career as an instructor at the University
of Pennsylvania where, in 1920 he had risen to the rank of assistant of
professor.
1888: In
Berlin, Rosalie and Arthur Seegall gave birth to Fanny Friediger, the wife of Chief Rabbi Max Moses Friediger, the
leader of the Danish Jewish community and Holocaust survivor and the mother of
Ludwig David Friediger; Charlotte “Lotte” Jacoby and Arthur Friediger.
1889:
Birthdate of Darmstadt, Germany and veteran of the WW I German army, Beno
Gutenberg, the award-winning seismologist who accepted as position at Cal Tech
after his career was stymied in the 1920’s because he was Jewish.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Beno-Gutenberg
1890: In South
Carolina, David L. Hart married Laura L. Levy today.
1892: Mrs.
Davis, the longtime matron of the Ladies’ Deborah Nursery and Child’s
Protectory offered an explanation for the discrepancy between their records and
those of the police magistrate’s clerks.
According to Mrs. Davis, the Jewish agency does a more detailed check
and often finds that the children are younger than originally reported which
leads to a longer a stay at the facility which in turn results in additional
charges to the government.
1892:
Birthdate of Lithuania native Boris Deutsch, the “modernist who specialized in
Jewish genre and figures” and who settled in Los Angeles in 1919 where produced
his “single film, ‘Lullaby’ in 1929.”
1893: The
Shirt Contractors’ Association posted a notice which the Jewish shirtmakers
“regard as the beginning of a fight by the Contractors’ Association against the
union.” As if to reinforce their fears,
4 of the contractors lock out their shirtmakers today.
1894:
Birthdate of Rumanian native and NYU trained dentist Dr. Moses Diamond, a
professor of dental anatomy at Columbia University’s College of Dental and Oral
Surgery who raised a son, Eli, with his wife Frances Goodman Diamond.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/10/07/84222951.pdf
1894: It was
reported today that Frederick Nathan was one of the members of the Finance
Committee of the Mutual Employment Society which was founded last winter to
help applicants find jobs at no cost to employers.
1894(29th
of Iyar, 5654): Eighty-eight year old philologist and lexicographer Wilhelm
Freund, author of Wörterbuch der
Lateinischen Sprache passed away today at Breslau,
1894:”
Reception at Montefiore Home” published today described the event which is
usually held on Decoration Day but was postponed because of memorial services
being held for the late Jesse Seligman.
1895: “Samuell
Casten, alias ‘Jew Sam’ was indicted by the Grand Jury” in response to charges
of grand larceny brought by Mrs. Helen Maillard/
1895: Henry
Lipkie married Jessie Mayer today in the United Kingdom.
1896: In
Bellaire, Ohio, the “Ladies’ Auxiliary Society of the Congregation Sons of
Israel” whose members included Mrs. Max Herzberg and Mrs. Harry Herzberg was
organized today.
1896: Judge
Myer S. Isaacs was among the members of Council of the University sitting on
the dignitaries’ platform at the New York University commencement exercises
being held in Carnegie Hall.
1897: In
Prague, Leopold and Valerie Pick gave birth to Holocaust victim Franziska Pick
who became Franziska Bondy when she married Pavel Bondy.1897: The first issue
of “Die Welt” appears. The English Hovevei Zion officially
dissociates itself from the Zionist Congress.
1897(4th
of Sivan, 5657): Sixty-eight year old Herford, Germany native Ferdinand Flak,
the husband of Jeannette Levy Falk and the father of Arnold, Gustave, Myron and
Gertrude Falk, passed away today after which he was buried in New Orleans at
Hebrew Rest Cemetery.
1897: Sixty-four-year-old
Leah Michaels, “the widow of Nathan Michaels” was buried today at the Plashet
Jewish Cemetery in London.
1897: Sixty-five-year-old
Louis Blum was sentenced to ten days in prison for violating the bottling law
when broke off the heads of empty siphons and used as them as hooks for a
chuppah that was building at the synagogue where he was the sexton.
1898(14th
of Sivan, 5658): Parashat Naso
1898:
Thirty-two-year-old Violinist and Conduct, David Mannes, the New York City born
son of Henry and Natalie (Wittkowsky) Mannes married Clara Damrosch today in
New York City.
1898:
Violinist and conductor David Mannes, the New York City born son of Henry and
Natalie (Wittkowsky) married Clara Mannes
1898: The
Human Rights League (Ligue des droits de l’homme or LDH) was founded today by
Ludovic Trarieux to defend Captain Alfred Dreyfus who was falsely convicted on
charges of treason.
1899: It was
reported today that The Hebrew Citizens League of Jersey, whose objectives
“will be to induce Hebrews are not naturalized to become citizens at once” and
“to protect their legal rights” has filed articles of incorporation with County
Clerk John G. Fisher.
1899: It was
reported today that “the Dreyfus affair has been instrumental in weakening the
bonds of friendship between Russia and France and in destroying the faith with
which Russian military men had in the discipline of the French Army” which
appears to be leading to a “rapprochement between Russia and Austria-Hungary.”
1899: A riot
broke out at the Auteuil racecourse where the mob expressed its hostility for
President Loubet with a variety of verbal assaults including the call of “Down
with Traitors, Jews and Dreyfusites.!”
1899: The
officers of the newly incorporated Hebrew Citizens’ League of Jersey City are:
President – Louis Strang; Vice President – Samuel Lastage; Treasurer – Harris
Steirman; Financial Secretary – Henry Weisberg; Counsul – Peter James; Sergeant
at Arms – William Steirman.
1899: “Harsh
Treatment of the Jews” published today described the “latest outrage against
the Russian Jews” which took place at Nikolaev where an anti-Semitic movement
started by religious fanatics who “pillaged” every shop owned by the Jews and
left over 200 of them wounded, “many of them fatally.”
1899: “The
Library of Princeton University” published today described the history of the
institution and some of its prized tomes including “Jonathan Edward’s Hebrew
Bible, a large folio with the celebrated theologian’s autograph.”
1899: “Science
and Industry,” a compilation of activities in Europe published today described
the opening of a Spinoza museum “in the house where the famous Hebrew
philosopher lived and polished lenses for his bread at Rhynsburg, near Leyden”
which “has been restored to its 17th century style.”
1899:
The Neue Freie Presse publishes
Herzl’s editorial about the return of Colonel Dreyfus.
1900(7th
of Sivan, 5660): Second Day of Shavuot
1900:
Birthdate of New Jersey native Helen Rovine, the husband of Benjamin Grossman
with whom she had three children
1900:
Birthdate of Nelson Glueck, American Jewish archaeologist. Director of the
American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem between 1932 and 1947, he
explored and dated over 1,000 ancient sites in Palestine and the Near East. One
of his popular works was Rivers in the Desert.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0160/ms0160.html
1901:
“According to the Kreuz Zietung, the
recently organized German Hebrew Aid Society will enter competition with the
Alliance Israelite Univserselle in succoring Jews in distress in Southeastern
Europe.
1901:
Birthdate of Dr. Gregory Razran, the professor of psychology at Queens College
and a leading authority on Russian psychological research
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/razran-gregory
1902: While in Paris,
Herzl receives the invitation to appear before the Royal Commission for Alien
Immigration in London. The meeting is scheduled to last two days.”
1903:
Herzl renews his efforts to gain support from Great Britain and again submits
plans to Constantinople for a Charter for Mesopotamia.
1905: Today, Acting Secretary Loomis of the State Department has
been officially informed by Ambassador Meyer, at St. Petersburg, of the
proposed new law in Russia under which all American passports, including those
for citizens of the Hebrew faith, will be recognized there.
1906: It was reported today that Solomon Lowenstein was among the
speakers at the “annual distribution of the Betty Bruhl and other prizes to the
children of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum” “which amounted to about one thousand
dollars in cash and were awarded for general excellence, proficiency in
studies, and good grades.
1906: Rabbi Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanu-El told a meeting of
men who were looking at ways to distribute immigrants throughout the United
States “about the Jewish ‘Removal Office’” which works to final Jewish
immigrants in the Western States.
1907:
Max Margolis wrote to the Central Conference of American recommending the
adoption of the report prepared by the Committee on the Uniform Pronunciation
of Hebrew under the chairmanship of Dr. Henry Malter.
1907(22nd
of Sivan, 5667): Young Barney Aaron, the English born American bare knuckle
boxer who ws the U.S. Lightweight Champion and the son of English boxer Barney
Aaron who was called “The Star of the East” passed away today on Long Island,
NY.
1908(5th
of Sivan, 5668): Erev Shavuot
1908:
“The Festival of Shovous” published today reported that “this evening and
tomorrow the festival of Shavuos. “the second of the three important festivals
of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, when it was incumbent upon all males to go
upt to the Temple at Jerusalem and make their offerings” “will be celebrated by
the Jewish people throughout the world.” (The article is notable because it was
published in a major daily Jewish newspaper and not some Jewish or Yiddish
broadsheet)
1908:
“Several of the Jewish charities” are being “imposed upon” by people who use
their visits to these institutions as a way of “leaving their children behind”
as was the case when Mrs. Sadie Feinberg of 326 Stanton Street abandoned all
four of her children yesterday at the offices of the United Hebrew Charities.
1908:
Alfred Dreyfus was wounded by a disgruntled journalist while “attending the
ceremony” during which the ashes of Emile Zola were interred in the
Pantheon. Zola was the French journalist
and author who led the fight to free Dreyfus during which he exposed the
anti-Semitic and corrupt nature of the French officer corps.
1909:
The President of the Turkish Chamber of Deputies speaks in favor of Jewish
immigrants being admitted to the Ottoman Empire. He sees it a as a necessity
for the growth of the country.
1910:
Birthdate of Mannheim, Germany native and Heidelberg trained attorney Frank L.
Auerbach who in 1938 fled Nazi Germany and came to the United States where he
earned a Masters in Social Work from Columbia and became an expert on
immigration law while raising two sons – Ernest and Steven – with his wife
Gertrude.
1910:
“The Girl in the Train”, the English language of Die geschiedene Frau (The Divorcée), an operetta in three acts by
Leo Fall was performed for the first time today at the Vaudeville Theatre in
London.
1911: The Hahambashi receives several telegrams from Arabia and Syria
describing attacks on Jews. Details of the attacks were given to the
authorities who could then intervene.
1911:
Ground was broken today for the new building to be occupied by the Marks Nathan
Jewish Orphan Home.
1912:
Massachusetts became the first state to pass a minimum wage law. Boston
attorney Louis Brandeis, the future Supreme Court Justice, was an ardent
advocate for minimum wage laws.
1913:
Leo “Frank’s wife released a statement insisting upon her husband’s innocence
and accusing Solicitor Dorsey of torturing witnesses in order to get false
evidence>”
1913:
This evening, at the Columbia Club in Dallas, TX, David Eliassof, the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Eliassof of Chicago married “Marguerite C. Repp, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Repp of Dallas, TX.”
1913(28th
of Iyar, 5673): Rabbi Abraham Samuel Neumark passed away today in New York
City.
1913(28th
of Iyar, 5673): Journalist Lewis Godlove passed away today in St. Louis at the
age of 55.
1914:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Theresa Kresham, the mother
of four daughters and one son, Edwin Kresham after which burial will take place
at Mount Israel.
1914:
Two days after he had passed away, funeral services were held today at Furth’s
chapel for sixty-six year old “Chevalier N .B. Emanuel, assistant director of
the Chicago Grand Opera Company and museum of international note” who had been
named Chevalier by the King of Italy
1915:
As of today, “Warsaw newspapers which have been smuggled through the lines say
that the number of homeless Jews on the Russian side is increasing steadily.”
1915:
In Rochester, NY, Mayor Hiram H. Edgerton presided over a “mass meeting…in
Convention Hall to protest against the scheduled execution of Leo Frank” which
was condemned by the featured speaker by James. G. Cutler, the former Chairman
of the Executive Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
1915:
According to the remarks of Ohio Judge Rufus R. Smith published today, “The
execution of (Leo) Frank or even his imprisonment for any length of time would
constitute an indictment of the administration of criminal law in this country
which would be shameful and humiliating.”
1915:
Irving Berlin and Jerome Siegel were chosen to serve as Governors at the annual
election of officers today at the Friar’s Club on West 45th Street.
1915:
In New York, The Appellate Division reversed a judgment that had been rendered
in favor Daniel Guggenhiem’s Guggenheim Exploration Company and decdied that a
mining engineer who had worked as assistant manager and consulting engineer for
the company was entitled to stock in the Yukon Gold Company valued at more than
$100,000.”
1915:
“Fearing that a mass meeting which to be held on the State Capitol grounds” in
Atlanta “tomorrow night for the purpose of protesting again the commutation of
the death sentence of Leo M. Frank, may result in a riot, Mayor James G.
Woodward this afternoon wrote Governor John M. Slaton urging that the latter
have the military on hand at the meeting.”
1916:
Herman Bernstein, editor of The American Hebrew received a cable from
Lord Reading, Chief Justice of England, expressing his approval of Louis
Brandeis taking his seat on the Supreme Court.
“Membership in the Supreme Court of the United States,” the English jurist
wrote, “is one of the greatest distinctions known to the legal world and I
heartily congratulate the new Associate Justice.”
1916:
“The Central Committee of the United Krakauer War Relief Fund held its first
meeting tonight at the Temple Israel at 120th Street and Lenox
Avenue” where it began efforts to raise $50,000 to provide “relief for the
destitute Jews of Cracow.”
1916:
The National Farm School, “a Jewish institution in Bucks County” held its 19th
annual Spring exercise marking the consecration of festive and memorial trees
and the installation of the 52 students of the freshman class” was addressed by
former U.S. President William Howard Taft.
1916:
“Jacob H. Schiff informed the Kehillah at it its seventh annual convention
today “that he had been hurt by recent attacks made upon him in connection with
his efforts to help to solve the problems of his co-religionists and that
hereafter Zionism, national, the Congress movement and Jewish politics in what
form they may come up would be a sealed book to him.”
1917(13th
of Sivan, 5677): While serving with His Majesty’s forces, 19-year-old Second
Lieutenant Vivian Sylvester Moses was killed today.
1917:
In Cleveland, Ohio, Anna (née Klafter) and Charles I. Metzenbaum gave birth to
Howard Metzenbaumn, a Democrat and a liberal, who served in the U.S.
Senate representing the state of Ohio.
https://case.edu/ech/articles/m/metzenbaum-howard-morton
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/13/local/me-metzenbaum13
1917:
On the second day of anti-Jewish rioting at Leeds during which the Jewish
quarter was looted, “Victor LIghtman…called upon the chief constable who
assured them that immediate states would be taken to restore order.”
1917:
In Pittsburgh, PA, the National Association of Jewish Social Workers Annual
Convention went into its second day with presentations by Edwin Goldwasser,
Morris D. Waldman and Solomon Lowensein.
1917:
According to a dispatch from Paris, the “Spanish government has instructed its
representatives in Berlin, Vienna and Constantinople to present an urgent note
demanding the cessation of the persecution, deportations, and looting practiced
against the Jews in Palestine.”
1917: The Pulitzer Prizes for journalism,
literature and music are awarded for the first time. America’s premier honor for arts and
literature was created under the terms of the will of publisher Joseph
Pulitzer, an immigrant from Hungary whose father was Jewish and whose mother
was Roman Catholic.
1917:
In Argentina, President Iriogyen replied “favorably to a Jewish delegation
which appealed for the intervention of the Government to bring about the
cessation of massacres in Palestine.”
1917:
During World War I Jules Cambon, Director-General of the French Foreign
Ministry wrote to Nahum Sokolow offering vague words of support for Zionist
efforts in Palestine. Much to the chagrin of the French, these vague assurances
helped pave the way for the issuance of the Balfour Declaration.
1917:
In Argentina, “President Irigoyen replied favorably to a Jewish delegation
which appealed for the intervention of the government to bring about the
cessation of the massacres in Palestine.
1917:
The Ladies’ Auxiliary of Temple Shalom are scheduled to host the first meeting
of a Red Cross unit being formed by Jewish women “on the North Side and North
Shore suburban towns” this afternoon at 1 p.m.
1917:
In the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn Abraham Miller, a tailor whose original
last name was Milstein and his wife Lillian Blaban gave birth to Moishe
(Morris) Miller who the world would know as Robert Merrill, the Baritone who
gained fame singing for NBC and the Metropolitan Opera.
1918:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native Herbert M. Mandell, a CPA and partner in the
public accounting firm of Clarence Rainess and Company who was the deputy may
of the Village of Hewlett Harbor, NY and the husband of Lenore Mandell with
whom he had three children — Marjory, Richard and James.
1918:
Catcher Bob Berman made his major league debut with the Washington Senators.
1918:
Birthdate of Pennsylvanian Paul Friedlander, the Carnegie Tech quarterback who
led his 6th ranked team to play No. 1 Texas Christian University in
the fifth annual Sugar Bowl.
1918:
Encouraged by the British, “Dr. Chaim Weizmann met the Emir Feisal, the leader
of the Arab Revolt, near the port of Akaba, and worked out with him what seemed
to be a satisfactory Arab support for a Jewish National Home in Palestine.”
1918:
It was reported today that an epidemic of typhus is “raging at Safed where
there at present over 500 Jewish orphans.”
1919(6th
of Sivan, 5679): Shavuot
1919: Birthdate of Robert Merrill. Born Morris (Moishe) Miller in Brooklyn,
New York, Merrill was the son of two Jewish immigrants from Warsaw named
Milstein who Americanized their name to Miller.
Robert Merrill became one of the greatest operatic baritones of the 20th
century. Lest anyone question his
Jewishness please note that when Merrill died in 2004, he was buried in the
Sharon Gardens Cemetery, the Jewish section of the Kenisco Cemetery.
1919:
By a vote of 56 to 25 the United States passed the 19th Amendment
which had the support of many Jews including the National Council of Jewish
Women.
1920:
It was reported today that Rabbi William Fineshriber will lecture at Tulane
University on “The Hebrew Prophet as Mystic,” “Jewish Devotional Literature”
and “Hebraic and Jewish Genius” as part of The Jewish Chautauqua Summer
Courses.
1920:
Alfred N. Bergman and Henry J.D. Meyer were promoted to the rank of Lieutenant
while serving with the Field Artillery of the United States Army.
1920:
Willard S. Isaacs was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant while serving with the
Infantry of the United States Army.
1920:
Herman H. Meyer, an officer serving in the Infantry was promoted to the rank of
Captain in the U.S. Army.
1920:
Albert Nunez of New Arabi, LA and Harry E. Rice of Xenia, OH were appointed
postmasters today.
1920:
Cavalry trooper Sol M. Lipman was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in the
United States Army.
1921(27th
of Iyar,5681) Parashat Bechukotai
1921:
It was learned today that leaders of the American Zionist organization headed
by Judge Julian W. Mack plan to introduce a number of proposals aimed at
settling between the organization of Dr. Chaim Weizman at the 24th
annual Zionist convention which is scheduled to begin tomorrow.
1922:
Twenty days before they assassinated Walther Rathenau, the same two assassins
attempted to murder former Phillip Scheidemann, a non-Jewish leader of the
Weimar Republic who was forced to flee Germany when the Nazis came to power.
1923:
The convention of The Independent Order of Brith Abraham which was organized in
1887continued for a second day in Saratoga Springs, NY.
1923(20th
of Sivan, 5683): Eight-six-year-old Bavarian native and Ohio Law College
trained attorney Simon Wolf, the husband of Caroline Hahn and the father of
Florence Wolf Gotthold, who enjoyed friendships with Presidents Lincoln, Grant,
McKinley and Wilson and who served in several governmental positions including
counsul general Egypt while serving as an unofficial spokesman for the Jewish
community passed away today.
https://www.jhsgw.org/exhibitions/online/lincolns-city/exhibits/show/mr-lincolns-city/president-ear
1924:
Birthdate of British immunologist Maurice Hart Lessof, the husband of Leila
Liebster and President of the British Society for Allergy who said food
allergies are common illness “that should be taken seriously” and that “many
people have been forced to lead miserable lives because narrow-mined doctors
are unwell to accept food allergy as a major cause of illness!”
1924:
“The American-Palestine which recently inaugurated the first direct steamship
service between New York City and Holy land is negotiating for the purchase of
two more steamers according to an announcement made today by Judge Jacob
Strahl, President of the line.”
1925:
It was reported today that The Rev. Dr. Nathan Krass, rabbi of Temple Emanuel,
told the members of the Keren Hayeson Women’s League, at its annual meeting at
the Hotel Pennsylvania, that Judaism would have perished during the Middle Ages
if it had not been for the women of the race who preserved its sentiment and
ideals.”
1926:
Dr. Nathan Ratnoff, Chairman of a Joint Hospital Committee representing
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America and the American
Physicians’ Committee, announced plans to establish a college of medicine at
Hebrew University and to upgrade hospital facilities at the Mt. Scopus
institution as part of a program to improve health conditions for those living
in Palestine. The committee plans on
raising at least one million dollars to make the plans a reality.
1926
Ignacy Mościcki who would appoint Biblical scholar, historian and Jewish
community leader Moses Schorr to serve in the Senate despite growing
anti-Semitism, began serving as President of the Republic of Poland today who
in 1935 as President of Poland and despite the growing anti-Semitism in the
country appointed Biblical scholar, historian and Jewish community leader Moses
Schorr to serve in the Senate.
1926:
In Kiel, Germany, Rosel (née Zamora) and Rabbi Max Malina gave birth to Judith
Malina “an American theater and film actress, writer, and director, who was one
of the founders of The Living Theatre.” (As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://forward.com/the-assimilator/218426/judith-malina-theater-rebel-dies-at-88/
1927:
Today, Chief Justice William H. Taft appointed Judge Jacob Trieber, the first
Jew to sit on the Federal Bench, to hear an Antitrust Case.
1927:
Two weeks after Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris, Charles Levine’s plane
Columbia took off from New York for what was supposed to be the first flight to
Berlin. Clarence Chamberlin was the
pilot, but Levine was planning to lay claim to being the first trans-Atlantic
passenger. The flight ended at Eisleben,
100 miles short of Berlin but was longer than the Lone Eagle’s flight.
1927:
Birthdate of Richard Allen Silberman, the native of Kansas City, MO who gained
gamed as movie producer Richard “Dick” Shepard.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-richard-shepherd-20140116-story.html#axzz2qhGPobF0
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/entry/view/id/25048
1928:
“The Kellogg proposal for a multilateral treaty against war was characterized
as a ‘new spirity coming over the life of the American people and the world’ by
Rabbi Stephen S Wise in an address today at the 23rd annual
convention of the Independent Order Brith Sholom.”
1929:
In accordance with the terms of his seventy-one year old Nathan Lamport, who
had passed away at Dobbs Ferry, in 1928 was buried in Jerusalem along with his
late wife Sarah next to the grave of his father on the Mouth Olives in a
service attended by his eldest son Samuel, his daughter-in-law Miriam, his
brother Solomon and Samuel L. Sar, the “registrar of Yeshiva College of which
Mr. Lamport was President.
1930:
A sequel to the original Garrick Gaieties directed by Philip Loeb opened on
Broadway today.
1931(19th
of Sivan, 5691): Seventy-one-year-old Northwestern University trained attorney Sigmund Zeisler, the Austrian born
son of Ignatz Zeisler and Anna Kanner and husband of concert pianist and his
second cousin Fannie Bloomfield Ziesler passed away today after which he was
buried at Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago.
1931:
It was reported today that Miss Dorothy Duveen, the only daughter of Jewish art
dealer Sir Joseph Duveen is engaged to marry the son and heir of Sir William
Garthwaite, William F.C. Garthwaite.
1931(19th
of Sivan, 5691): Mortimer L. Schiff “an American banker and notable
early Boy Scouts of America (BSA) leader” passed away. “Mortimer Leo Schiff was the only son of the
German-Jewish American banker and philanthropist Jacob Schiff and his wife
Therese. While he worked as a partner in the financial firm of Kuhn, Loeb &
Co. from 1900 until his death in 1931, he also devoted much of his time to the
development of scouting in America. He was a member of the World Scout
Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the Theodore
Roosevelt Council Executive Board. After a long tenure as vice-president of the
BSA beginning in 1910, during which he also appeared on the cover of Time
magazine on February 14, 1927, he was elected president of the organization in
1931. However, his untimely death came only one month later. He had also been
serving as the BSA’s International Commissioner for several years. The property
for the Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation was subsequently purchased by his
mother, named in his honor, and donated to the BSA for their national training
center. His son John Mortimer Schiff was also involved with the BSA.” Schiff
was awarded the Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of
the Scout Movement, granted by the World Scout Committee for exceptional
services to world Scouting. Both Mortimer and his son, John M. Schiff, received
Silver Buffalo Awards from the BSA.”
1931:
Birthdate of Sir Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal, AC, CBE, FRS, FAA, an Australian
research biologist.
1932:
As Germany spirals into political chaos In Germany, President Paul von
Hindenburg dissolves the Reichstag and sets new elections for next month which
are likely to be won by Hitler and his Nazis.
1933: CBS radio broadcast the last episode of the first
season of “Lazy Dan, the Minstrel Man” starring Irving Kaufman today.
1933: Today, HUC ordained rabbi Morris Newfield, the
Hungarian born son of Seymon Sabbuttsi
Newfield and Lena Klein and University of Cincinnati graduate who was the
leader of Birmingham’s Temple Emanu-El officiated Beth El’s Confirmation
exercise today.
1933: Today, during “the eighth annual commencement
exercise of the Jewish Institute of Religion, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of the Free
Synagogue declared that “one of the major tragedies of civilization is being
enact in Germany where Jews are being oppressed and discriminated against by
Chancellor Hitler.”
1934: In Poland, “The ORT Technical Training School for
Girls, which carried on instruction in Yiddish received full state rights and privileges
which are granted other public educational institutions.”
1935: Today, ”Max Silverstein of New York was reelected
for a fifth term as Grand Master of the Independent Order of B’rith Abraham at
the closing session of its annual convention” in Atlantic City.
1936: In Poland, the Prime Minister, F.
Slawoj-Skladkowski, declared his support for the “economic war”
against the Jews.
1936: Professor Georg Bernhard the “German journalist,
statesman and economist who had given up his position as Chair of Economics at
the University of Commercial Studies in Berlin as part of his protest against
Hitler and is in the United States to raise fund for the German Jewish refugees
in France is scheduled to “be the guest this afternoon of the Administrative
Committee of the American Jewish Congress at a luncheon at the Hotel Biltmore.”
1936:
Leon Blum became the first Jew to be elected premier of France. Blum, a
socialist, instituted the 40-hour work week and many important social reforms.
His government fell over lack of parliamentary support for his financial
program, lasting only one year.
1936:
In France, Georges Mandel completed his term as Minister of Post during which
he “oversaw the first official television transmission in French.”
1936:
“In Gaza, where eight of the twelve municipal councilors had refused to join
the Arab strike, a bomb was thrown in the yard of the municipal offices” in an
apparent attempt to intimidate them.
1937(25th
of Sivan, 5697): Helmut Hirsch, a German Jew who was executed by decapitation,
for his part in a bombing plot intended to destabilize the German Reich. There
had been several efforts to intervene to save his life including a 11th
hour appeal to Hitler who turned down the request. While details about the
actual plan may be sketchy, there is no reason to doubt his courage.
1937: The Palestine Post reported from London
that the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Ormsby-Gore, told the House of Commons that in
view of the changed financial and security situation in Palestine, and the
uncertainty regarding the country’s future, pending the awaited recommendations
of the Royal (Peel) Commission, he could not encourage the initiation of any
schemes for immediate development in Palestine. He was leaving, however, open
options for urgent development projects approved by the Palestine High Commissioner,
Sir Arthur Wauchope.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that Kemal
Bey, the well-known Arab terrorist who led the attack against Tel Yosef in
1921, was killed in his village in the Huleh area, as a result of a family
dispute.
1937:
In London, Henri Armand Hugh Selbourne, and Sulamith (Amiel) Selbourne – “a
descendant of generations of Jewish thinkers and rabbinical scholars and, in a
cognate line, sharing an ancestry with Karl Marx” gave birth to David Selbourne
“a British political philosopher, social commentator and historian of ideas.”
1937:
The New York Produced Exchange announced today that Paul Linz has been elected
as an associate member.
1938(5th
of Sivan, 5698): Parashat Bamidbar; erev Shavuot
1938(5th
of Sivan, 5698): Sixty-nine year old Mary Goldfarb, the mother of three
children – Jacob, Samuel and Lillian – and an active participant in “Brooklyn
Jewish Charities” passed away today.
1938:
Sigmund Freud, his wife Martha, his daughter Anna, left Vienna on the Orient
Express bound for Paris, the way station on their final destination – London.
1939:
The SS St. Louis, a German passenger
liner carrying 900 Jewish refugees was denied permission to dock at any ports
in Florida. The ship steamed off the
coast of the United States where the passengers could see the lights of Miami. The Coast Guard had orders to keep the St.
Louis and its Jewish passengers from reaching the United States. The ship and its wretched cargo returned to
the Europe where many perished in the Holocaust. This episode became the basis for the film
“Voyage of the Damned.”
1940:
“Richard M. Lederer, chairman of the Woodside National Bank of New York announced”
today “a chance in the name of the bank to the Standard Bank of New York” which
will remain at its current location in Queens.
1940:
Under orders from Benito Mussolini, the Italians began building Ferramonti, the
largest of 15 concentration camps constructed just before Italy entered World
War II.
1940(27th
of Iyar, 5700): Forty-nine-year-old Zevi Hirsch Wolf Diesendruck, the Austrian
born scholar who translated Plato from Greek to Hebrew and “wrote several
volumes on Maimonides passed away today in Cincinnati, OH where he was the
chair of the Jewish Philosophy Department at Hebrew Union College.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0462/ms0462.html
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/06/05/113087822.pdf
1941(9th
of Sivan, 5701): Fifty-three-year-old Polish born, Brooklyn Law School
trained attorney Morris Michael Edeslstein, the two term New York Congressman
died today in “the cloakroom of the House of Reprsentatives.”
1941:
Eighty-two-year-old Wilhelm II, the last Kaiser died in exile in the
Netherlands. While thousands of German Jews fought and died for the Kaiser, he
was an anti-Semite who blamed his defeat and abdication on “the tribe of
Judah.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/morris-michael-edelstein
1941:
The republic of Croatia issued an order depriving all Jews of their property
and compelling them to wear a yellow badge with the letter Z.
1942(19th
of Sivan, 5702): Mordechai Gebirtig, Yiddish poet and songwriter was murdered
by the Nazis in the Krakow Ghetto on what was known as “Bloody Thursday.”
http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/ghettos/krakow/gebirtigmordechai/
1942: Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich
Security Police and SD, dies of blood poisoning caused by injuries suffered in
the May 27 attack by Czech partisans.
Heydrich chaired the conference in January of 1942 when the plans for
the last phase of the final solution were set in motion. The Czechs who killed him were working for
the British and his killing really had nothing to do with his virulent
anti-Semitic attitudes or plans.
1942:
“Mrs. Miniver” the Academy Award film that provided an idealized view of
Britain in the days of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain directed by William
Wyler, with a screenplay by George Froeschel and filmed by cinematographer
Joseph Ruttenberg was released today in the United States. (Editor’s note – I
love this film, corny as it may be)
1942: The Battle of Midway begins and will last
until June 6, 1942. The American victory
over Japan marked a major turning point on the road to victory for the Allies. The victory was an audacious gamble pulled
off by a comparatively small number of U.S. naval vessels against a major
Japanese armada. If the U.S. had lost,
the Pacific coast would have been open to invasion. The American victory was made possible, in
part, by the ability of the Americans to read the Japanese code. The team that cracked the code was led by
Colonel William Friedman. Friedman was
the son of Russian immigrant Jews. He
and his wife were two of the top cryptologists of the 20th
century. This was no mean fete in the
days before computers were available.
1943(1st
of Sivan, 5703): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1943(1st
of Sivan, 5703): Fifteen-year-old Louis Gans, the Amsterdam born son Isaac Gans
and Rachel Goet and the grandson of Mozes and Sientje Gans, was murdered today
at Sobibor.
1943(1st
of Sivan, 5703): Seventy-nine-year-old Burnet Wadel, the Summit, Mississippi
born son of Abraham and Ernestine Wadel, and pioneer settler in Tyler, TX where
he was a member of the Board of Education and President of the Salvation Army
passed away today.
1943(1st
of Sivan, 5703): Fifty-two year old
Dutch native Sabiena Cohen, the wife of Levie Van Praage and mother of Jacques
Van Praage was murdered today at Sobibor.
1943(1st
of Sivan, 5703): Fifty-five year old
Dutch native Levie Van Praage, the husband of Sabiena Cohen and father of
Jacques Van Praage was murdered today at Sobibor.
1943(1st
of Sivan, 5703: Hannah Karminski, who assumed more of a leadership role of the
Jüdischer Frauenbund, JFB (League of Jewish Women) after Bertha Pappenheim
passed away in 1936, was murdered today at Aushwitz-Birkenau.
1944:
Thirty-five-year-old Polish Olympic skier and artist Bronislaw Czech was
murdered by the Germans today at Auschwitz. (Editor’s note – He was not Jewish,
but we have an obligation to remember all who were the victims of evil; Zachor:
Remember lest you forget)
1945:
Lyndon Johnson visited Dachau. According to Lady Bird, when her husband
returned home, “he was still shaken, stunned, terrorized and bursting with
an overpowering revulsion and incredulous horror at what he had seen.”
1945: Soldiers of the Jewish Brigade had their
first contact with Jews from central or Eastern Europe when four young men who
had traveled from Poland, Rumania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia arrived at their
camp at Tarvisio, Italy.
1946(5th of Sivan, 5706): Erev Shavuot
1946: By a 6-1 vote, with Justice Felix Frankfurter
writing a concurring opinion, “the United States Supreme Court ruled in Morgan
v. Virginia that a Virginia law, requiring segregation of white and
African-American bus passengers, was illegal for interstate travel.”
1947: “The Jewish Agency for Palestine appealed today to
the United Nations committee of inquiry into Palestine to recommend the
establishment of a Zionist state” while also asking that General Assembly
remove “British restrictions on Jewish immigration and land settlement
immediately.”
1948: The IDF counter-attacked around 2:15 a.m. today,
aiming at outflanking the Iraqis by conquering the routes from Jenin to Afula
and Lajjun and “although bolstered with
reinforcements, the Israeli attack was repulsed amid numerous losses.”
1948: “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,” a most
charming comedy produced by Dore Schary and Melvin Frank, who co-wrote the
script and co-starring Melvyn Douglas was released today in the United States
after premiering in New York three months earlier.
1948(26th of Iyar, 5708); Samuel Krauss passed
away today in Cambridge. Born in 1866,
he served as professor at the Jewish Teacher’s Seminary in Budapest from 1894
to 1906 and then moved on to the Jewish Theological Seminary in Vienna where he
stayed until the Anschluss forced to take refuge in England in 1938. He was the author of the pioneering work on
archaeology, Talmudische Archäologie
1948:
The infant IAF began moving its units away from the front line toward a more
secure base at Herzliya.
1949:
Golda Myerson, the Israeli Minister of Labor, Social Insurance and Housing
arrived in New York today “where she emphasized the critical housing shortage
in Israel” and “asserted that 160,000 housing units were needed immediately to
take care of the heavy influx of immigrants.”
1949:
In New York, Florence and David Cohen, a Philadelphia City Councilman, gave
birth to their first child Mark B. Cohen who served in the Pennsylvania House
of Representatives for over forty years.
1950:
In “Trouble-Shooter Diplomat,” published today Gertrude Samuels provides a
detailed portrait of Israeli Diplomat Eliahu Elath who represented Israel at
the San Francisco Conference in 1945, served as Israel’s first Ambassador to
the United States and was about to assume a similar position at the Court of
St. James.
1950(19th
of Sivan, 5710): Sixty-five-year Pinchus Kahanovich who wrote under the
pseudonym “Der Nister” died today in the Gulag after having been arrested
during Stalin’s purge that was designed to wipe out Jewish authors and the
culture that had produced them.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Der_Nister
1951(29th
of Iyar, 5711): Russian born American symphony conductor Dr. Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky passed
away. Born in 1874, Serge, as he was
known, was music director of the Boston Symphony for a quarter of a century.
1952: The Jerusalem Post
reported from London that West Germany had tentatively offered to negotiate
with Israel a reparations offer, totaling approximately $585 million, on the
basis of 10 annual payments. The Times warned Germany not to make this
restitution offer entirely at the expense of its other contractual creditors,
and thus shirk its responsibility for the wrongs done to Jews by Hitler’s
Germany.
1952: The Jerusalem Post
reported that The Knesset approved amendments to the Patents and Designs
Ordinances, aimed at fulfilling the requirements of the International Charter
of 1934.
1952: The Jerusalem Post
reported that restrictions were announced on a gradual reduction of interurban
and urban bus services, ordered by the government in order to save fuel and
foreign currency. Plans were made, however, for a complete end to the rationing
of all textiles.
1953:
In the United States, release date for MGM’s “Julius Caesar” directed by Joseph
L. Mankiewicz and filmed by Joseph Ruttenberg.
1954:
Two days after he passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held today
at Temple Rodeph Shalom for Jon Miles Davidson, the son of Judge and Mrs. Irwin
D. Davidson and the brother of James and Mark Davidson.
1956:
New York Mayor Robert Wagner and Israeli Air Force General Shlomo Shamir
addressed the annual donor luncheon of the Mizrachi Women’s Organization of
America at the Waldorf-Astoria. Mayor Wagner told the 1,200 attendees that “the
children in the State of Israel must receive every opportunity to grow up to
become leaders and defenders of their country.”
1957(5th
of Sivan, 5717): Erev Shavuot
1958(16th
of Sivan, 5718): Eighty-two-year-old Florence Eiseman Swarts, the Memphis, TN
born daughter of Benjamin and Matie Butzel Eiseman, the wife Solomon Louis
Swarts whom she married in 1898 and the mother of John and Frederick Swarts passed
away today in St. Louis, MO.
1958:
Richard Gilder, Jr. the Yale educated
son of property manager Richard Gilder, Sr and “co-founder the Gilder Lehrman
institute of American History and his wife gave birth to Yale graduate and Olympic Medal winning rower Viriginia Anne “Ginny” Gilder, the co-owner
of the Seattle Storm woman’s professional basketball team.
1959:
At the Waldorf-Astoria, Rabbi Charles Schulman officiated at the marriage of Jo
Ann Cohen and Charles Gaynor.
1959
(27th of Iyar, 5719) Seventy-one one old Polish born, Columbia and
JTS trained Rabbi Max Drob the long-time chaplain at Manhattan State Hospital
and leader of the Concourse Center of Israel in the Bronx who raised four
children – Judah, Harold, Frank and Ruth – with his wife Dorothy passed away
today.
http://www.newkabbalah.com/max.html
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/06/05/82715648.pdf
1959(27th
of Iyar, 5719): Fifty-eight-year-old Hungarian born American movie director
Charles Vidor who passed away while filming his last movie “Song Without End”
passed away today.
http://www.hollywoodsgoldenage.com/moguls/charles_vidor.html
1961: Twenty-six-year-old Robert Bernard Alter, the New
York born son of Harry and Tillie Alter who became a professor of Hebrew at
Cal-Berkley and created his own translation of the bible, today married his
first wife, Judith Berkenbilt.
1961(20th of Sivan, 5721): Seventy-year-old
Barnard College graduate “Mrs. Rebecca Fischel Goldstein, the wife of Rabbi
Herbert S. Goldstein of the Institutional Synagogue,” the daughter of Harry and
Jane Fischel and the mother of Josephine Reichel, Naomi Cohen, Simeon Goldstein
Gabriel Goldstein, who founded the women’s Branch of the Union Orthodox
Congregations of America, the Hebrew Teachers Training School for Girls, and
the Yeshiva University Women’s Organization passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/06/05/118040768.html?pageNumber=31
1963(12th of Sivan, 5723): Seventy-seven-year-old
Riga native and Cornell undergraduate Samuel Berkowitz the holder of a master’s
from Columbia and the husband Frances Berkowitz with whom he raised three
children, Henry, Arthur and Evelyn, who was a retired public school principal
passed away today
1964:
Dodger pitcher Sandy Koufax threw his third no-hitter beating the
Phillies, 3-0.
1966:
The slowdown strike by 1,600 dock workers at the Port of Haifa continued today.
1967:
Meir Amit reported to the cabinet meeting that U.S. Secretary Robert McNamara
had said “I read you loud and clear.” in response to Amit’s request
“All we want is three things: One, that you refill our arsenal after the war.
Two, that you will help us in the UN. Three, that you will isolate the Russians
from the arena.” Amit told the cabinet this was a green light from the
United States if Israel launched a pre-emptive strike against its Arab enemies.
1967:
As war clouds gathered over Israel, General Mordechai “Mottie” Hod “briefed his
wing commanders.
1967: For seven hours Israel’s National Unity
Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol met to hear a review of the
military options presented by Moshe Dayan as well as an update by intelligence
sources on the situation in the Egyptian military command. Egyptian generals were pressuring Nasser to
let them strike the first blow. The
“Arab streets” were demanding action.
Delay was Israel’s enemy. Each
day the Arab forces grew stronger, while Israel’s forces were at their “optimum
level.” The Cabinet agreed that the
military option was all that was left.
The Cabinet voted unanimously to let Eshkol and Dayan choose the time
and place of attack. After the Cabinet
adjourned, the two Israeli leaders agreed that H-hour was 7:45, Monday, June 5.
The report delivered by General Meir Amit was considered critical to the
decision. Amit had just returned from Washington where he met with Defense
Secretary MacNamara who assured the Israeli General of America’s willingness to
re-supply Israel after the war, help the Jewish state at the UN and to keep the
Soviets out of the area.
1969: Rabbi Balfour Brickner said today that “eleven
Reform student rabbis will live and work in the slums of major cities this
summer in the third year of third year of the Rabbinic Internship in Urban
Affairs program.”
1969(18th
of Sivan, 5729): Eighty-two year old Lillian Schifrin, the Cincinnati born
daughter of “Adolph Aira Berman and Mary Agnes Jacobs and the “ex-wife of
Isidor Schifrin” passed away today in her hometown.
1970(29th
of Iyar, 5730): Seventy eight year old comedian Menasha Skulnik, known as
Menasha the Magnificent, passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C00EFDA103EE034BC4D53DFB066838B669EDE
1971(29th of Iyar, 5730): Sixty-nine-year-old
comedian Joe E. Lewis best known for having been mutilated and left for dead
after turning down a contract with Al Capone passed away today.
http://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/id39.htm
http://www.lvstriphistory.com/ie/joelewis.htm
1971(11th
of Sivan, 5731): Eighty-six-year-old Marxist philosopher György Lukács passed
away in Budapest.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lukacs.htm
1972:
After being released in the UK in May, “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg” directed
by Peter Medak and co-starring Janet Suzman was released today in the United
States.
1972:
Joseph Brodsky, Russian born Jewish poet and essayist who would go on to win
the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and would serve as Poet Laureate of the
United States in 1991 and 1992, was expelled from the Soviet Union.
1976(6th
of Sivan): First day of Shavuot is celebrated for the last time during the
Presidency of Gerald Ford.
1981:
The New York Times reported that
George Balanchine, choreographer and artistic director of the New York City
Ballet, has received the Jewish National Fund’s first Tarbut Award, given to
the choreographer in honor of his ”great achievements in expanding the scope
and dimension of dance in America and throughout the world.”
1981:
Begin and Sadat held a summit meeting at Sharm El Sheikh two days before the
scheduled of the Iraqi nuclear reactor – a fact known to Begin but not Sadat.
1982:
In attempt to dislodge the PLO from its bases, Israel attacked targets in
south Lebanon.
1982:
“Hank Panky” a comedy starring Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner was released today
in the United States.
1983(23rd
of Sivan, 5743): Parashat Sh’lach
1983(23rd
of Sivan, 5743): Seventy-year-old Yaakov L. Fishman who had been chief rabbi of
Moscow’s Choral Synagogue for twelve years passed away today.
1985: In the seemingly endless attempt by some
to breach the wall between church and state the U.S. Supreme Court rules in
Wallace v Jaffree that an Alabama law mandating a minute of silent mediation or
voluntary prayer at the start of the school day is unconstitutional.
1985:
At Hod HaSharon, Rafi Fefaeli and former fashion model Tzipi Levine gave birth
to actress and model Bar Refaeli.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bar_Refaeli_2011.jpg
1986:
Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pled guilty in US court
1987:
The IPO music director, Zubin Mehta, conducts with soloists Itzhak Perlman and
Gerry Mulligan in a classical-jazz concert.
1989:
Wendy Wasserstein became the first woman to win a Tony Award for Best Play, for
The Heidi Chronicles.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/04/1989/wendy-wasserstein
1990(11th
of Sivan, 5750): Jack Gilford passed away at the age of 82, a victim of
stomach cancer. He gained fame as comedic actor whose “rubber
face” was an acting trademark gained additional fame playing a
piece of fruit in the Fruit of the Loom commercials.
1993:
“Life with Mikey” produced by Scott Rudin, co-starring David Krumholtz and
featuring music by Alan Menken was released today in the United States.
1993:
“Reemergence: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe,” a film series featuring
“five recent movies and one short about the Jewish experience in Europe” is
scheduled to open in Washington, D.C.
1994(25th
of Sivan, 5754): Eighty-four-year-old Roberto Burle Marx “one of the most
influential landscape architects of the twentieth century” whose works are on
display at the Jewish Museum until September, passed away today
http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/roberto-burle-marx-brazilian-modernist
1995(6th
of Sivan, 5755): Shavuot
1995(6th
of Sivan, 5755): Seventy-six-year-old Leo Cantor who played fullback in the
same UCLA backfield as Jackie Robinson and went on to a career in pro-football
passed away today.
http://www.nfl.com/player/leocantor/2511023/profile
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CantLe20.htm
1995:
Outfielder Brian Kowitz made his major league debut with the Atlanta Braves.
1997(28th
of Iyar, 5757): Thirty years after the Six Day, Jews observe Yom Yerushalayim
1998:
The Republican controlled U.S. House of Representatives passes “a School Prayer
Amendment that would overturn the Supreme Court decision banning state-written
and state-mandated Christians in public schools.: While the Bill passed by a simple majority it
failed to gain the two-thirds majority necessary to move forward the amending
process.
2000: The
New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
the recently released paperback edition of The Lexus and the Olive Tree
by Thomas L. Friedman.
2001: Today, “in a day-long procession of grief” 19
young people, including Yelena and Yulia Nelimov, teenage sisters who came from
Russia to live in Israel, who were a victim of a Tel Aviv suicide bombing on
June 1, “were buried side by side here today in a row of eight fresh graves.
(As reported by Joel Greenberg)
2002: The BBC broadcast “Victoria and Her Sisters”
the 13th episode of “A History of Britain a documentary series
written and presented by Simon Schama” which began its second season tonight.
2003: Based on the unofficial election results
released today it was reported that “Jerusalem has elected its first
ultra-Orthodox Jewish mayor, Uri Lupolianski, a rabbi and father of 12 who has
pledged to improve city services and has refrained from confronting volatile
political issues
2004: In “Shul Life, Circa 1850” published today,
Adam Dickter provides a portrait of the “early days of Brooklyn’s Kane Street
synagogue.
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-95988109.html
2005(26th of Iyar, 5765): Parashat
Bamidbar
2005: Syria’s information
minister today denied Israeli claims that his country test-fired Scud missiles
on May 27, calling the accusations an “expression of Israel’s hostile
intentions.” (As reported by Steve Erlanger.)
2006: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback editions of Perfectly
Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman,
Edited by Michelle Feynman, What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation
Building by Noah Feldman and Wilt, 1962: The Night of 100 Points and the
Dawn of a New Era by Gary Pomerantz.
2006: In a show of the changing face of Jewish
involvement in all facets of life Haaretz reported that Israeli tennis
player Shahar Peer advanced to the last sixteen of the French Open, after a
resounding 6-4, 7-5 defeat of sixth-seeded Russian Elena Dementieva.
2007: In the “Verbatim” section Time magazine
featured the following quote by Rutka Laskier, “’If only I could say, It’s
over, you only die once … but I can’t, because despite all these atrocities,
I want to live, and wait for the following day.’” Rutka Laskier has been
described as the Polish Anne Frank. Like Frank, she wrote a Holocaust-era
diary, at the age of 14. Like Frank, Laskier perished during the Holocaust.
Apparently, the Nazis killed her at Auschwitz.
2007:
An article about Scholar and Rabbi Jacob Neusner entitled “The Pope’s Favorite
Rabbi” appears in Time Magazine. The
brief article briefly describes Neusner’s view of Christianity and their impact
on Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope devotes
20 pages of his new book to A Rabbi Talks with Jesus, a 161-page tome
published in 1993. In that volume, the professor (now at Bard College in
Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.) and non-congregational rabbi projected himself back
into the Gospel of Matthew to quiz Jesus on the Jewish law. He found the
Nazarene’s interpretation irredeemably faulty. In his 14-years-delayed
response, Benedict not only compliments Neusner as a “great Jewish
scholar” but also recapitulates the thesis of A Rabbi Talks and
spends a third of one of his 10 chapters answering it.
2008:
In Washington, D.C., the AIPAC Policy Conference comes to an end.
2008(1st
of Sivan, 5768): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
2008:
Today, the Great Synagogue of Brussels which had been designed in 1875 and
built in 1875 was dedicated as the “Great Synagogue of Europe” today
by President José Manuel Barroso and two of Europe’s leading rabbis who signed
a document of dedication.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7435232.stm
2008:
A judge declared a mistrial in the case of Navee Haq, the man who stormed into
a Jewish center two years ago and shot six women, killing one, as he ranted
against Israel and the Iraq war. The
jurors appeared to be hopelessly deadlocked over whether or not he was guilty
by reason of insanity.
2008: The Historical Society of Jews from Egypt asked the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to
intervene on its behalf with government in Cairo since
the Egyptians have refused to release archives connected to the Jewish
community.
2009:
Elinor Lipman, author of the bestselling novels The Inn at Lake Devine
and Isabel’s Bed, reads from her new novel, The Family Man, at
Sixth and I Historic Synagogue (formerly Adas Israel) in Washington, D.C.
2009:
Stanley “Drucker was awarded a Guinness World Record for longest career as a
clarinetist after his performance of Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto with the
orchestra. Guinness thus logged his Philharmonic career at “62 years, 7
months and 1 day as of June 4, 2009”.
2009:
The Israeli government praised U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech to the
Muslim world today, saying it shared his hopes for Middle East peace, but
stressed that Israel’s security interests remained paramount..
2010:
The “Waiting Room,” the first New York solo exhibition of Be’er Sheva native
Maya Bloch is scheduled to open at Thierry Goldberg Projects.
2010:
At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA, Friday night services feature the
baby-naming ceremony for Nicole Charley Hurwitz, the second granddaughter of
Ivy and Bill Hurwitz.
2010:
The Baltimore Zionist District is scheduled to sponsor “A Rally to Stand in
Solidarity with Israel” at the corner of Pratt and Light Street in Baltimore,
MD.
2010(22nd
of Sivan, 5770): Ninety-nine-year-old Himan Brown who created a series of
classic radio dramas including “The Adventures of the Thin Man”, “Dick Tracy,”
and “Inner Sanctum” passed away today. (As reported by Joseph Berger)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/arts/07brown.html
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=himan-brown&pid=143346493
2011(2nd
of Sivan, 5771): Eighty-three-year-old Felix Zandman, the Holocaust survivor
who “founded Vishay Intertechnology Inc., a $2 billion electronics firm traded
on Wall Street that supplies the computer, aerospace and other industries”
passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E1DA153AF931A25755C0A9679D8B63
2011(2nd
of Sivan, 5771): Ninety-one-year-old Leo Greenland, advertising man par
excellence, passed away. (As reported by Maraglit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/business/13greenland.html
2011:
The great New Zealand soprano Kiri Te Kanawa is scheduled to give a rare
recital tonight at the Jerusalem International Convention Center (Binyanei
Hauma)
2011(2nd
of Sivan, 5771): Thirty-six-year-old Buffalo Grove High and University of
Illinois alum Lindsey Durlacher, the Greco-Roman wrestler who won Gold Medals
in four Maccabiah Games passed away today as a result of the injuries he
suffered in a snowmobile accident.
http://www.legacy.com/ns/lindsey-durlacher-obituary/151604327
2011:
“Sundaes on Saturday” will be the theme of this month’s traditional Shabbat
Minyan at Temple Judah featuring a Kiddush where attendees will make their own
ice cream concoctions as everybody gets in the Shavuot Mood.
2011:
Thousands visited Krakow’s seven historic synagogues in an unprecedented event
aimed to foster Jewish identity among Krakow’s small Jewish community.
2011:
Around 5,000 people took part in a march in central Tel Aviv this evening
supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.
2012: Melting away “the first feature film in
the history of Israeli cinema dealing with the parents’ perspective on having a
transgender child” is scheduled to be shown in Washington, DC.
2012:
The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to offer “It’s Magic: Nine Decades of
Songs from Warner Brothers” which celebrates the role of music at the studio
owned by four Jewish brother starting with “The Jazz Singer.”
2012:
In Jerusalem, the Israel Festival is scheduled to host “Theatre ad Infinitum”
at the Khan Theatre
2012(14th
of Sivan, 5772): Seventy-four-year-old Steve Ben Israel passed away.
http://thevillager.com/2012/06/07/steve-ben-israel-countercultural-performer-dead-at-74/
2013:
The Alexandria Kleztet is scheduled to perform at Bethesda Blues and Jazz
Supper Club in Bethesda, MD.
2013:
Finerman’s Rules: Secrets I’d Only Tell My Daughters About Business and Life
by Karen Lisa Finerman was published today by Hachette Book Group’s Business
Plus
2013:
Revenge Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger, a sequel to The Devil Wars
Prada was released today and “debuted at No. 3 on the New York Times
bestseller list.
2013:
At Tel Aviv University the conference entitled “Holy War and Sacred Struggle in
Judaism, Christianity and Islam” is scheduled to come to an end.
2013:
Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns by Lauren Weisberger was
published today.
2013:
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and The Center for Jewish History are
scheduled to present a panel discussion entitled “Hungary and the Holocaust:
Assessing the Past; Preparing for the Future.”
2013:
Relations between coalition parties Hatnua and the Bayit Yehudi continued to
deteriorate today, with Religious Services Minister Naftali Bennett effectively
blocking a bill by MK Elazar Stern (Hatnua) to change the panel that chooses
the chief rabbis.(As reportedy Lahav Harkov & Jeremy Sharon)
2013:
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz has ordered a major reduction in the
employment of external advisers and cancelled all non-operational trips of IDF
delegations to militaries abroad today. Speaking at the site of an Infantry
Corps drill, Gantz said he believes the IDF is up to the “difficult
task” of making defense budget cuts. (As reported Yakkov Lapin)
2014
(6th of Sivan, 5774): Shavuot
2014:
Starting at 12:30 A.M. the JCC in Manhattan is scheduled to show “Tikkun Leil
Shavuot: Supermensch” a film at about Shep Gordon.
2014:
As part of the Shavuot celebration Jews in Little Rock are scheduled to gather
at the Chabad House under the leadership of Rabbi Pinchas Ciment for a reading
of the Ten Commandments followed by a delicious dairy Kiddush complete with
cheesecake and ice cream.
2014:
At least 46,000 tickets have been sold for the Rolling Stones first ever
concert in Israel which is scheduled to take place tonight at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon
Park. (Time of Israel)
2014:
The Shalom Hartman Institute is scheduled to hold English language study
sessions as part of the Shavuot observances led by Suzanne Last Stone, Gil
Tory, Menachem Fisch and Menachem Loberbaum.
2014:
The Iron Dome system fired intereptors as at least two mortars were fired from
Syria into the Golan Heights.
2014:
As Israelis celebrate Shavuot, they are experience a heat wave resulting in
record or near record temperatures at Beersheba, Kfar Saba, Haifa and Tel Aviv.
(As reported by Noam (Dabul) Dvir)
2015:
In Washington, DC, Theatre J is scheduled to celebrate “30 years of Charles
Busch” with a performance of “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife.”
2015:
The Israel Film Center Festival is scheduled to open the JCC Manhattan.
2015:
“The US Senate unanimously approved a resolution condemning anti-Semitism in
Europe” today.
2015:
The International Consortium for Research on Antisemitism and Racism; Center
for Research on Antisemitism, Berlin and the Pears Institute for the study of
Antisemitism are among the co-sponsors of “Gender, Memory and Genocide: An
International Conference Marking 100 Years Since the Armenian Genocide” is
scheduled to open today
2015:
The Cleveland Cavaliers, led by Coach David Blatt are scheduled to play the
Golden State Warriors in the first game of the NBA Championship series.
2016(27th
of Iyar, 5776): Completion of Vayikra
(Leviticus)
Bechukotai
(In my statutes);
2016:
“Tatram,” “an eclectic instrumental power trio for in Israel in 2011 is
scheduled to perform this evening at Iridium.
2016:
“Facts on the Ground,” a solo exhibition of the works Shimon Attie at the Jack
Sahinman Gallery is scheduled to end today.
2016:
The 17th annual Washington Music Festival is scheduled to open
tonight with a performance by “Yemen Blues.”
2016:
A solo exhibition featuring the works of Tal Eshed is scheduled to end at Tanja
Grunert Gallery.
2016:
The Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation is scheduled to host its Casino
Royale fundraising event.
2017:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Testimony by Scott Turow, Grown-Up
Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet
Massacre of 1913 by Daniel Wolff, Light Come Shining: The
Transformations of Bob Dylan by Andrew McCarron and Bob Dylan: The
Lyrics by Bob Dylan.
2017:
As part of the Israel Festival “The Incubator Theater is scheduled to bring its
treatment of “Job,” starring veteran actor Sasson Gabbay in the role of the
tormented emissary, supported by Keren Hadar as Job’s wife to the Henry Crown
Hall, Jerusalem Theater.”
2017:
“Shavuot Park Day” is scheduled to take place this afternoon at Hudson Springs
Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
2017:
Author Marty Brounstein is scheduled to “share a remarkable true story of
courage during the Holocaust, when Frans and Mien Wijnakker, a Catholic couple
in a small town, saved the lives of over two dozen Jews in southern Holland
during World War II at The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is
scheduled to host
2017:
“Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner who “has spent the past decade filing
lawsuits for the victims of terror attacks against the governments, banks and
corporations that enabled or financed the violence” is scheduled to “speak
about her work in a live interview in Jerusalem” today.
2017:
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host the “H
Street, NE Stroller Tour” where attendees will visit a neighborhood once home
to “75 Jewish-owned businesses.”
2017:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host an afternoon of
“Punting and Picnics.”
2017:
In Stony Brook, New York, an exhibit entitled, “Brilliant Partners: Judith
Leiber’s Handbags & The Art of Gerson Leiber” that “features nearly 200
examples of “his and her” art: 130 of her handbags and 50 of his pieces” is
scheduled to come to an end today.
2018:
Marc Jacobs, who won the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s Lifetime
Achievement Award in 2011 is scheduled to attend the organization’s award
ceremony tonight at the Brooklyn Museum where he is one of the nominees for
“the group’s top award, women’s wear designer of the year.”
2018:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host an evening with
former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary State of Collin
Powell, the only Yiddish speaker to hold both of these positions.
2018:
Tonight, “when some of fashion’s biggest names gather at the Brooklyn Museum
for the annual Council of Fashion Designers of America awards — often called
the Oscars of the fashion world — a familiar figure will again be celebrated: Marc
Jacobs.”
2018:
The Straus Historical Society is scheduled to host its Silent Auction this
evening.
2018:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host an evening with Rabbi
Ram Winograd, the graduate of Hebrew University and Oxford who “resides as
Judge at the Jerusalem District Court.”
2018:
In Los Angeles, Rabbi Mendel is scheduled to present the final session “Kabala
of Communication – It’s Art and Soul.”
2019(1st
of Sivan, 5779) Rosh Chodesh Sivan
2019(1st
of Sivan, 5779): Seventy-three-year-old Nacham Rivlin, the wife of President
Reuven Rivlin passed away today.
2019:
In Metairie, LA, meeting of the Rosh Choesh Society, a monthly night out where
“women of all walks of life” share and enjoy an evening of camaraderie” while
discussing “how to bring meaning to everyday life.”
2019:
In Atlanta, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host the second day of the Summer
Institute on Teaching the Holocaust.”
2019:
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to host “Hebrew Liederaband
– An Evening of Hebrew Music” which “was devised by YIVO’s Anne E. Leibowitz
Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music, Neil W. Levin, who will deliver the
pre-concert lecture on the development of the Modern Hebrew song tradition, its
literary basis, and the spirit of rejuvenation that drove it.”
2019:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host its annual Summer
Party including “a kosher barbecue, dancing, singing and beatboxing.”
2019:
As part of his series on “The Ten Lost Tribes” Rabbi Dr.
Raphael Zarum, the Dean of the London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to
lecture on the “Deportations: Where did the Ten Tribes go?”
2019: Avivah Zornberg, the author of Moses: A
Human Life is scheduled to end her latest American lecture tour today.
2020: Peninsula JCC’s Michele Solomon is
scheduled to host a virtual demonstration of how to make a rainbow challah in
honor of Pride month.
2020: The S.F.-based Jewish Film Institute is
scheduled to present the 26-minute pilot episode of “Lady Liberty” a comedy
about an aspiring Jewish comedian learning to claim her queerness followed by
conversation with creator-writer-star Julia Lindon and director Lee Nagel.
2020: Live on Zoom the American Jewish Historical
Society is scheduled to present “The Art of the Jewish Family.”
2020: The JCC of Greater Boston is schooled to
present PJ Library sisters Hannah and Lyla from their home as they guide you
through a step-by-step crafting tutorial.
2020:
Live via Zoom, JWA is scheduled to present “Leading through Crisis and Change:
Jewish
Women at the Turn of the 20th Century.”
2020:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker is scheduled to host Harvey Fierstein “for a
schmooze with Academy Award Winner Elinor Burkett.
2021:
YJP Boston is scheduled to present First Friday Shabbat Dinner Under the Stars,
with an open bar and plenty of room to mix, mingle, dine and network with young
Jewish professionals from the Greater Boston area.
2021:
Temple Emanu El is scheduled to host, via zoom a wine and cheese reception
before the Shabbat service.
2021:
The Hamas terror group urged Palestinians to hold a “Day of Rage” today in
order to confront what it called “settlers’ aggression” and the “storming of
the Al-Aqsa Mosque” in Jerusalem.” (As reported by Emanuel Fabian)
2021:
Tabard Theater and Silicon Valley Shakespeare are scheduled to “present Doug
Brook in a one-man play about a Jewish actor’s portrayal of Shakespeare’s
infamous character Shylock.”
2022:
The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host “The Best of Chamber Music with
Danny Erdman, clarinet; Raz Kohn, cello and Ron Regev, piano.
2022(5th
of Sivan, 5782) Parasha Bamidbar and Chapter 6 Pirke Avot
2022(5th
of Sivan, 5782): In the evening erev Shavuot.
2023:
Scholar Michael Goldberg is scheduled to discuss his debut novel, Zieglitz’s
Blessing which tells the story of a multigenerational search for identity
and the meaning of a man’s life. With coffee and bagels
2023:
Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Boston is scheduled to present “Yom
Sport 2023” which “provides athletes with disabilities throughout the Greater
Boston community an opportunity to come together and participate in a variety
of sporting events.”
2023:
Historian Ari Joskowicz is scheduled to discuss his new book, Rain of Ash:
Roma, Jews and the Holocaust which tells the story of how Roma turned to
Jewish institutions and funding sources as they sought to gain recognition and
compensation for Holocaust suffering.
2023:
Hebrew College is scheduled to present online and in-person the commencement
and ordinations for 2023/5783.
2023:
For the 58th year, New York City is scheduled to host the Celebrate Israel
parade today which is organized by the Jewish Community Relations Council of
New York (JCRC-NY) and other supporting partners such as the UJA Federation and
the Israeli Consulate in New York.
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2024:
In the evening Yom Jerusalem “an Israeli national holiday commemorating the
reunification of Jerusalem” is scheduled to begin.
2024:
In Metairie, LA, Congregation Beth Israel is scheduled to host a “Blintz
Workshop.”
2024:
In Princeton, NJ, the “Lobel Teachers Colloquia is scheduled to come to an end.
2024:
In Marblehead, MA, Temple Sinia is scheduled to host a Yom Yerushalayim
Bonfire.
The
12th Annual Israel Film Center Festival is scheduled to begin at the |Marlene
Meyerson JCC in Manhattan
2024:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host a pop-up class on “Is It A Mitzvah To
Love Your Enemy?’
2024:
The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present a lecture by
Tulane University Jewish Studies professor Golan Moskowitz on “WILD OUTSIDE IN
THE NIGHT: QUEER JEWISHNESS AND CHILDHOOD LIMINALITY IN THE PICTURE-BOOKS OF
MAURICE SENDAK.”
2024:
The National Library of Israel is scheduled to present on-line “Bruno Schulz
and the Hijacking of History: A Conversation With Benjamin Balint and Joshua
Cohen.”
2024: As Jews gather to begin to celebration Jerusalem
Re-Unification Day, they are filled with joy over the election of Claudia Scheinbaum
to serve President of Mexico and filled with deep sorrow that four more
hostages — Haim Peri, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Popplewell and Amiram Cooper – have
turned out to be corpses who died while in the hands of their captors.
2024:
As June 4th begins in Israel, an
unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 242 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid
for this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at
midnight Israeli time.)
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