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1191: As theChristians seek to retake Jerusalem King Richard the Lionhearted arrived atTyre.
1142: Today,during the second Siege of Coria, Emperor Alonso VII of Leon and Castille“granted the village of Fradejas to the Diocese of Zamora” the home of Alfonsode Zamora “known in particular as one of the three main organizers and editorsof the Complutensian Bible Polyglot
https://zeramim.org/past-issues/vol-v-issue-2-spring2021-5781/alfonso-de-zamora-a-crypto-jew/
1242: Twodozen wagonloads of Talmudic volumes and 200 other rabbinic manuscripts wereburned at Paris.
1247: PopeInnocent IV contacts the king of Navarre. In a dispatch he requested the kingcompel Christian debtors to pay off their debt to Jewish lenders.
1249: KingLouis IX, the French King who made great effort to convert Jews, occupiedDamietta Egypt during the 7th Crusade.
1391: FerrandMartiniz of Seville incited a mob to attack the Jewish quarter. It soon spreadto all of Spain except for Granada. Over 10,000 Jews were killed; many otherschose conversion and became New Christians. Of these, many continued topractice Judaism in secret, while paying lip service to the Church. Thiseventually led to the Inquisitions. In Barcelona, the Jewish quarter, locatedfor over 400 years near the castle, was totally destroyed.
1391: “In theaftermath of the great massacres of Jews” in Spain “which began” today, Paul ofBurgos who “was original names as Solomon ha-Levi’ “converted to Christianity,and became an archbishop, lord chancellor, and exegete known as Pablo de Santa Maria.
1487: InSoncino, Italy, Joshua Solomon Soncino completed the printing of a Pentateuchwith a commentary by Rashi.
1490: Afterbeing interrogated by the Vicar-general of the Bishopric of Astorga, BenitorGaricia confessed to having secretly returned to practicing Judaism five yearsago and that he had encouraged two other conversos – a man named Franco fromTembleque and Juan Juan de Ocaña, from La Guardia – to return to Judaism. Eventually all three would be put to death oncharges of having participated in ritual murder of one who came to be known asthe Holy Child of La Guardia.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/la-guardia-holy-child-of
1506:Birthdate of King John III of Portugal.Persecution of Marranos and Conversos intensified during his reign withthe arrival of the Inquisition. On theother hand he met with David Reubeini in 1525 and the two negotiated over thepossibility of the King supplying this adventurer with as many as eight shipsto use in a fight against the Moslem leader, Selim I. Since much of the life of Reubeni is shroudedin myth and half-truths, we cannot be sure as to the reason the negotiationsfailed.
1536: TheInquisition was introduced into Mexico.Convsersos, Sephardic Jews who had been forcibly converted toCatholicism arrived in Mexico with Cortes and the Conquistadores. Among these first arrivals was HernandoAlonzo who built the boats used by Cortes during his conquest of Mexico. The most famous of these early arrivals was aLuis de Carvajal, the noble who established the New Kingdom of Leon in whattoday is part of northern Mexico. Thearrival of the Inquisition had an inimical effect on the Conversos, many ofwhom secretly practiced Judaism. Thedescendants of these people may be found among the crypto-Jews of New Mexicowho began trying to reconnect with their Jewish roots in the last decades ofthe 20th century
1629 (14th ofSivan): Rabbi Joseph ben Benjamin Samegah author of Mikrae Kodesh passedaway.
1716: The SS Restoration arrived in Massachusettscarrying several Jewish merchants who would help to form the core of the Jewishcommunity in the Bay Colony.
1746: “In theketab rabbanut or contracted dated today by which R. Simson ha-Levi was chosenrabbi of Julich-Berg, it is stipulated that inasmuch as R. Simson had taken uphis residence in Dusseldorf which is remote from parts of Julich, he must visitcentral localities like Julich and Duren at least once a year.”
1762: In York,PA, Shinah Solomon and Elijah Etting gave birth to Reuben Etting the husbandfor Frances Gratz whom he married in 1794 and with whom he had nine childrenand who was commissioned as first captain of the Independent Blues and wasappointed U.S. Marshal for Maryland by President Jefferson.
1764(6thof Sivan, 5524): Shavuot observed as General Gage seeks to end the uprisingknown as “Pontiac’s Uprising.”
1767: NewYorker Hayman M. Levy, the Hanover, Germany born son of Moses and Reyna Levyand his wife Sloe Levy gave birth to Abraham Levy.
1771: IsaacLindo presented the synagogue in Barbados with a Sefer Torah.
1772(5thof Sivan, 5532): Parshat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot
1774: On oftwo possible birthdates of Naphtali Judah, the New York born son of SamuelJudah, the husband of Esther Hendricks who served as president of CongregationShearith Israel in New York City.
1775(28th ofIyar): Leib Epsitein, author of Or ha-Shanim passed away.
1797:Birthdate of Dutch mathematician RehuelLobatto, the Amsterdam born son of “a Portuguese Jewish family” after whom “TheGauss-Lobatto quadrature method is named as are his variants on the Runge–Kuttamethods for solving ODEs, and the Lobatto polynomials
1782: Two daysafter he had passed away, “Moses Asher of Shulda” was buried today at the“Alderney Road (Globe Rd) Jewish Cemetery.
1799: LyonSamuel and Kitty Solomons were marred at the Great Synagogue in London today.
1802:Birthdate of Rabbi Aaron II of Klarlin the Chasid who was the grandson of Aaronben Jacob.
1808:Birthdate of Jacob Raphael De Cordova, Texas land agent and colonizer. A nativeof Jamaica, he settled in Philadelphia in the 1820’s with his father beforemoving to Texas in 1839. Jacob and hisbrother Phineas De Cordova operated one of the largest land agencies in Texas.Jacob was one of three men who helped lay out Waco in 1848. He passed away in 1868.
1818:Birthdate of I.M Rabinowitz
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/gorodets/gor094.html
1819: JosephMyers married Rebecca Cohen today in the United Kingdom.
1821(6thof Sivan, 5581): Shavuot
1821:Birthdate of Moses Isaac Tedeschi, the native of Triest whose knowledge of theBible and Italian enabled him to lecture “in the Talmud Torah in his nativecity.”
1821:Birthdate of Leone Levi, the native of Ancona, Italy who immigrated to Londonwhere he became a successful jurist, statistician and Presbyterian.
1821: AbrahamDurlacher, the son of Lewis Durlacher and Susannah Levy was circumcised todayin London.
1821:Influential 19th economist David Ricardo the son of Anglo-Sephardic Jews whobecame a Unitarian when he married Priscilla Anne Wilkinson voted in Parliamenttoday “for an inquiry into the administration of justice in Tobago.”
1826:Birthdate of Léon Say “a former employee of the Rothschild's NorthernRailway Company who became the Minister of Finance in 1872’ who supportedAlphonse de Rothschild’s attempt to preserve France’s bimetallism system.
1827: Phineas Nathan and Rachel Barnett were marriedtoday at the Great Synagogue in London.
1829(5th of Sivan, 5589): Parashat Bamidbar;erev Shavuot observed on the birthdate of Allan Octavian Hume, the Britishcivil servant who was so appalled by his country’s policies in India that hehelped to found the Indian National Congress.
1832: Englishphilosopher Jeremy Bentham “who spoke out many times on behalf of the Jews asan oppressed minority who were victims of popular prejudices” passed away For adetailed account of Bentham’s complex view of the Jewish people see “JerryBentham: Critical Assessments, Volume 4” starting on page 319.
http://books.google.com/books?id=DKh7r2zkyKUC&pg=PA325&lpg=PA325&dq=Jeremy+Bentham+and+the+Jewish+people&source=bl&ots=fV1N23EByW&sig=6ojynoT6yaRSb7fb0F67G9QquNE&hl=en&ei=e8_qTdiCPeHx0gHIie2qAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
1838(13thof Sivan, 5598): In Vienna, Judah Jeiteles, the son of Jonas Jeiteles, theauthor of “Mebo Lashon Aramitm” the first Hebrew language grammar of BiblicalAramaic passed away today.
1838: SamuelMagnus married Miriam Isaacs at Chatham today.
1839: Thefirst train of the Nordbahn, or Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn, Austria's firststeam railway company which was financed by Salomon Mayer von Rothschild whichhad come from Vienna arrived at Břeclav
1840(5thof Sivan, 5600): Parashat Bamidbard; erev Shavuot
1841: InSilesia, Gustavus Mosler, a lithographer, cigar maker and tobacconist and hiswife gave birth to Henry Mosler, who was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio where hebegan his career as a wood engraver, sketch artist and illustrator.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=940CE4D9133FE432A25751C2A9629C946195D6CF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Mosler#/media/File:Confederate_Bowling_Green_lithograph.jpg
1841: RaphaelPicard and Sarah Levy were married at the New Synagogue in London.
1841: InHungary, Hannah Heller Steiner gave birth to Cecilia Steiner who becauseCecilia Steiner Weiss when she married Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss in 1860, afterwhich they had seven children including Erich Weiss, better known as HarryHoudini.
1844: InLondon, George Williams founded the first YMCA which was the model for the YMHAand in America, the site of the creation of basketball which was for a time“the Jewish sport.”
1846:Birthdate of Colonel Nicolas Jean Robert Conrad Auguste Sandherr who whileserving in the Statistical Section (Counterintelligence) gather a secretcommission of inquiry to investigate the origin of documents that showed Frenchmilitary secrets were being sold to the Germans which concluded the CaptainDreyfus was the culprit.
1848(5thof Sivan, 5608): Erev Shavuot observed as The Party of Order sought to reversethe changes brought about by the Revolutions of 1848 in France.
1850: Birthdateof Fulda, Germany native and University of Berlin PhD, Kal Ferdinand Braum theNobel laureate in physics.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1909/braun/facts/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ferdinand-Braun
1851(6thof Sivan, 5611): Shavuot
1855: IsaacKaatz, Gottlieb Milhelm and Anton First were arrested today on charges ofhaving been involved in the theft of eight cows from a farm belong to ColonelLewis Morris. The three carcasses foundin the possession of the accused all bore a mark indicating that they wereKosher.
1855:Birthdate of Lunéville, France, native Emile Berr the businessman turnedjournalist who began writing for Fiagro in July of 1888.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3156-berr-emile
1858: InGreater London, Nathaniel Mayer Montefiore, the Brighton born son of Henrietteand Sir Abraham Montefiore and his wife Emma Montefiore gave birth to ClaudeJoseph Goldsmid Montefiore.
1859: InAustralia, Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales.By 1865, there were enough Jews living in the Queensland city of Brisbane thata congregation was formed that held services in a local Masonic hall until 1886when a sanctuary with a seating capacity of 400. In 1879, the Jews ofToowoomba, Queensland, built a synagogue which, as the community shrunk insize, was only used on the High Holidays.
1859: InBudapest, Dr. Lowinger Ignatius Salzer and his wife Berti gave birth to DonátBánki “the Hungarian mechanical engineer” whose invention included “thecarburetor for the stationary engine.”
1861(28thof Sivan, 5621): After having arrived in New York in May from France, German bornBenjamin (Wolf Jacob) Wolf Felsenthal, thefather of Marianna, Sara and Herman Felsenthal and the husband of Agatha HerzFelsenthal passed away today after which his wife “continued to Chicago whereshe settled.”
1861: Fifty-year-oldCount Cavour, a leader in the movement to create a unified Italy in which allpeople, including the Jews, would enjoy full civil liberties, passed away. While Cavour complained about Baron JamesRothschild because of his banking practices, he used him to finance the causeand counted among his closest advisors Isaac Atrom who was dissuaded fromresigning his position when Cavour passed away.
1863( 19thSivan, 5623): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1863: The 38thIowa Infantry left New Madrid and Pemiscot counties in Missouri for Vicksburg,Mississippi to join forces under General Grant.
1865:Birthdate of Dr. Max Rosenthal, the son of Herman Rosenthal, the gynecologistwho served as House surgeon at St. Mark’s Hospital and the Montefiore Home inNew York City. His young brother George became the manager of the EdisonGeneral Electric Company at St. Louis.
1866: In theUnited Kingdom, Judah P. Benjamin, the former Confederate cabinet member andunrepentant rebel “was called to the bar” today.
1867(6thof Sivan, 5657): Shavuot
1867: InCincinnati, Ohio, George Seeman, a cotton factor who was doing business withthe Lehmann brothers and Caroline (Carrie) Goodhart gave birth to Julia Seemanwho married Felix Drefyous at New Orleans’ Temple Sinai in 1891.
1868: Birthdateof Amsterdam native and graphic artist Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, the husbandof Elisabeth de Mesquit with whom he was gassed at Auschwitz and the father ofJapp de Mesquita who died at Theresienstadt.
1869: In Ottweiler,Germany, Louise and Abaraham Buxbaum gave birth to Alfred Isidor Buxbaum, the husbandof Jettchen Störger Buxbaum with whom he had two children and who was murderedat Treblinka.
1870(7th ofSivan, 5630): Second Day of Shavuot
1870: Ameeting is scheduled to be held a Temple Israel in Brooklyn “to consider thedistressed condition” of the Jews in Romania.
1872: TheNew York Times reported that “the Greeks in the Levant have hit on a newmode of converting Jews.” After hearingthe “stale old fable…that a Christian child had been killed…by the Jews so asto mix its blood with their bread at Passover” the Greeks have been“inflamed…with a fine spirit of proselytism” that began with the seizure ofPolish Jew whose hair and beard they smeared with tar before setting it onfire. After enough Jews were tortured ina similar fashion, they sought shelter with the local Moslems.
1873: Today’sMinor Topics column described the progress that Jews of England have madeduring the 19th century. Thirty years ago a Jew could not sit in Parliament.And now Sir George Jessel, who was appointed Solicitor General last year, isabout to named Master of the Rolls, a position so prestigious that is justbelow the post of Lord High Chancellor.
1874: In NewYork City, “Isaac and Delphine (Wertheimer) Steinthal gave birth to New YorkCity high school graduate Albert E. Steinthal who went from working forSweetser, Pembrook and Company to forming “L. Steinthal and Bro.) with hissister Lena while being an active member of the Federation of JewishPhilanthropic Societies, the Free Synagogue and Temple Emanu-El
1874:Birthdate of Posen, Germany native, Simon Peiser who in 1892 came to the UnitedStates where he graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1896, wasordained as a Rabbi at the Hebrew Union College and married Amelia Buchman in194, “two months after becoming Superintendent” of the Cleveland Jewish OrphanAsylum.
1875:Birthdate of Novelist Thomas Mann. Mann was not Jewish but in 1905 he marriedKatia Pringsheim, daughter of prominent family of Jewish intellectuals. They had six children. Mann left Nazi German in 1933, four yearsafter having won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He lived in the United States for manyyears. He died in Switzerland in 1955,never having lived in his native land again.
1876: AloisSchicklgruber changes his name to Hiedler which morphs into Hitler. In this case a name change may have helped tochange history because as one comic said, can you imagine people saying HeilSchiclgruber with a straight face?
1877:Anglo-Jewish author Benjamin Leopold Farjeon married Margaret Jane “Maggie”Jefferson, the daughter of Joseph Jefferson, a member of a distinguishedAmerican acting family.
1877: InPhiladelphia, Sarah Behrend and her husband gave birth to Jefferson MedicalCollege trained physician Moses Behrend, the husband of Clara Rosenbaum
https://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(30)90197-4/abstract
1878(5th ofSivan, 5638): Erev Shavuot
1878: In “ThePentecost Festival” published today, the New York Times reported that “TheFestival of Pentecost, which will be celebrated this evening at sunset by allthe Jewish congregations in the world, is the second of the three great feastswhich mark the calendar of the Hebrew Church. These are the Passover Festival,or Feast of Unleavened Bread; the Pentecost Festival, or Feast of Weeks, andthe Tabernacles.” The article traces the history of the holiday from itsorigins as an agricultural festival to a celebration of the giving of theDecalogue to its modern observance which includes the ceremony of Confirmation.
1879: It was reported that problems of theJews in Romania are not a matter of religion but a matter of money. Supposedly until 1864 the Jews and theRomanians lived peacefully side by side. The Jews would lend money to the Romaniansat exorbitant rates of interest which the Romanians gladly paid since they hadno intention of paying off the loan.Furthermore, the loans were secured by mortgages; mortgages on which theJews could never collect because they were not classified as citizens and onlycitizens could own real estate. That allchanged when Napoleon III demanded that the Jews be made citizens. Reportedly, the Jews began foreclosing on themortgages, expelling the Romanians from lands their families had held forcenturies. This forced the Romanians to begin shooting and hanging the Jews ordriving them from the country. The Jews were being persecuted but not forreasons of religion. At the same time,the Romanian government contended that it was not violating the edict of theBerlin Congress regarding the treatment of Romanian Jews because the Jewsliving in Romania were “foreigners” and not citizens of the country. [Editor’snote – people may run out of money but they never run out of rationalizationsfor cheating and killing Jews.]
1880: In “ManBefore Adam” the reviewer of Preadmites: The Existence of Man Before Adampoints that Dr. Alexander Winchell challenges several Biblical basedconventions including that creation took place 4,000 before our era, that Adamwas created on the 6th, that Eve was from Adam’s Rib, that Adamlived for 930 years, that 1,656 after creation there was a great a flood thatdestroy everybody except Noah, his family and the animals on the ark and thatthe origin of the human species took place in Western Central Asia. [Winchellwas a Protestant minister. His book isan example of the challenges to the literal reading of the Bible taking placein the 19th century among many denominations. For Jews, this was a dominant motif of theReform movement and many German-Jewish biblical critics.]
1880: It wasreported today that The Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Harlem will behosting a strawberry festival later this month to raise funds for theorganization.
1880: It wasreported today that the last religious census in France showed that there werealmost 36 million Roman Catholics in the country but only 50,000 Jews.
1880: RabbiMeisner of the Rivington Street Synagogue officiated at the wedding of MissEssie Pakulski and Louis Mendelson, the son of the synagogue’s president The ceremony took place at Irving Hall andfollowed the Reform ritual.
1881: In Vilna,Susman Bulkin Trace ad Hannah Smith Trace gave it to future Isadore M. Trace, the husband of Miriam (Hackner) Trace and Florenceand Rita Trace who in 1908 came to the United States where he graduated fromNorthwestern University medical school, taught at Loyola University and servedas a consultant for the Jewish Home for the Aged. (Editor note: One sourceshows his birthdate as June 15.)
1882: Today,Abraham Cahan “arrived in Philadelphia at the age of 21 and immediatelytraveled to New York Cit where he lived for the rest of his life.”
1882: SamuelObrieght, a young Jewish man who was a partner in his family’s liquor business,suddenly married a Christian woman. Thisfact became part of the public record during Obreight’s sanity hearing.
1882: Afestival to raise funds for Russian Jewish immigrants is scheduled to be heldthis afternoon in the 23rd Ward Park in NYC. Speakers will include Algernon S. Sullivanand Steward L. Woodford. The Philharmonic Society under the direction of MaxMaretzek will provide the musical entertainment.
1883: It wasreported today that the cornerstone laying ceremony for the Hebrew OrphanAsylum in Brooklyn will take place later this month.
1883: In Brooklyn,attorney Bernad J. Douras and his wife gave birth to Irene Douras who gained fameas actress Reine Davis, the wife of Wilkes-Barre born Jewish producer and Broadwaydirector George Lederer whom she married in 1908 and divorced in 1912’
1884: InPalestine, Sarah Chafetz and Abraham Alpern gave birth to the NYU trained IsaacAlpern, the Perth Amboy, NJ businessmen who successfully worked in real estate,insurance and banking and was instrumental in the construction of new buildingfor the Young Men’s Hebrew Association and husband of Lena Pauline Coble.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/07/14/101470687.pdf
1885(23rdof Sivan, 5645)Bernard L. Jaworower, the agent of the United Hebrew Charitiesserving at Castle Garden fell overboard while leaving the steamer George Starr at the Castle Gardendock.
1885: InWilkes-Barre, PA, a fist fight broke during Shabbat services between two PolishJews – Abraham Rosenthal and Abraham Zubunsky – after “Rosenthal accusedZubunsky of being more of a Christian than a Jew.” Both men left the synagogue and went toJustices of the Peace and charged each other with assault and battery. Not much shalom in their Shabbat.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=990CE5DF173AEF33A25754C0A9609C94649FD7CF
1886:In Detroit the former Jeanette Marx and Aron Kaufmann gave birth to Edmund IKaufman the husband of Gertrude Dryfoos whom he married after the death ofLillian Swope, the mother of his three sons – Joel, Robert and Aron – who wasthe founder of Kay Jewelers and President of the ZOA
1887:Testimony resumed today in the trial of Adolph Reich, the Hungarian Jew who hasbeen charged with murdering his wife.
1887:Birthdate of Yale Sokolsky
1888:Birthdate of Louis Freeman, the native of Glasgow who gained fame as artistScottie Wilson.
1888: AlbertLevy sent a letter from San Francisco to his wife Katie in New York saying thehe had filed for a divorce and was going to Australia. [This correspondence came to light during analienation of affection suit that was brought by the Roman Catholic Katie Levyagainst her Jewish mother-in-law, Pauline Levy.]
1889(7thof Sivan, 5649): Second Day of Shavuot
1889: A groupof Jews met at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue to begin making plans forobserving the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America byColumbus and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain.
1890: In NewYork City, Isidor and Eugenia (Ascher) Kopeloff gave birth to Columbia alum andRutgers University trained research bacteriologist, Nicholas Kopeloof, theauthor of Why Infections in Teeth, Tonsils and Other Organs who was the husbandof Laura M. Gretsch.
1890: It wasreported today that the managers of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children havereceived $3, 688.50 in contributions which will be used to finance outings forunderprivileged children and their mothers.
1892: It wasreported today that Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs delivered an historical poem entitled“The Genius of Hebrew History” to those attending graduation of CongregationalB’nai Jeshurun’s religious school. The poem recounted the history of the Jewishpeople which he subdivided into a series of epochs, each with its own set ofverses.
1892: A groupof prominent Jews met this afternoon at the Jewish Theological Seminary andformed The American Jewish Historical Society.The meeting was chaired by Dr. Cyrus Adler who “explained that theobject was to collect, preserve and publish data having reference to thesettlement and history of Jews in America.
1893: Thefuneral for Joshua Hendricks, the fourth-generation head of Hendricks Brothers,is scheduled to be held at his home on Cliff Street followed by interment atCypress Hill.
1894: GovernorDavis H. Waite ordered the Colorado state militia to protect and support theminers engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike. Famed financier BernardBaruch was one of those who got his start in the “strike it rich” world ofCripple Creek. Arriving from the east,Baruch bought shares of stock in the San Francisco mine. During the day he worked as a “mucker” and atnight he played at the roulette wheel in a local gambling joint where he was sosuccessful that he was barred by the owners. Baruch took his winnings and headed back toNew York where he gained fame and fortune.Sam Butcher, a Hungarian Jew, was one of the few Jews who actually mademoney in industrial mining in Cripple Creek.Because many of his fellow miners were blatant anti-Semites, Butcher“took pains to conceal his identity” until he had gained financialsuccess. Sam and Bertha Flax were oneof the first, if not the first Jewish couple to marry in Cripple Creek. They tied the knot in 1909. Sam was not much of a miner but he wouldprove be a successful restaurant owner in Denver, Colorado.
1895(14th ofSivan, 5655): Fifty-six-year-old Henry Phillips the Philadelphia bornarchaeologist and numismatist passed away today.
1896:“Reverend Herman P. Faust of the Forsyth Street Hebrew-Christian Mission calledon Mayor Strong to see if something could be done” to help two Jewish peddlerswho had been driven from the streets by the police. The crackdown on street vendors is deprivingmany Jewish immigrants of their means of livelihood a matter into which MayorStrong said he would look into.
1897(6th ofSivan, 5657): For the first time during the Presidency of William McKinley,observance of Shavuot.
1897: InChicago, Jews and Christians prayed together as members of EmmanuelCongregation led by Rabbi Julius Newman joined members of the Belden AvenueBaptist Church led by Pastor Haynes at the latter’s house of worship for aservice where both ministers preached to the congregation.
1897: Elevenyoungsters participated in the Confirmation Service led by Rabbi Julius Newmanof Emanuel Congregation.
1897: “InWilliamsburg special services were held in Temple Beth Elohim on Keap Streetnear Broadway which is the wealthiest congregation in this section of the city”where 19 boys and girls participated in Confirmation services led by RabbiGreenfield.
1898: “HebrewFree Schools” published today described the Confirmation Services for theHebrew Free School during which Esther Krosovitch recited a prayer followed bythe singing of “The Heavens Declare” and “My God” by her fellow confirmands.
1898: It wasannounced today’s meeting of the Trustees Columbia University that Jacob H.Schiff has donated $15,000 “to establish a fellowship in political science.”
1899:“Increase In Death Rate” published today described the efforts of the Board ofHealth to contain the diphtheria outbreak which has included children from theHebrew Sheltering Guardian Society who go to the public grammar school “at thecorner of St. Nichols Avenue and 166th Street” forcing quarantinesto be put in place at both institutions.
1899: The listofficers of the newly reformed Educational Alliance published today includeBenjamin Altman, Henry Morgenthau and Isidor Straus
1900: “MayerSakel and Judith Golde (Friedman) Sakel gave birth to Manfred Joshua Sakel ,aPolish born neurophysiologist and psychiatrist who introduced insulin-shocktherapy for schizophrenics and other mental patients in 1927, while a youngdoctor in Vienna. Insulin-induced coma and convulsions, due to the low level ofglucose attained in the blood (hypoglicemic crisis) improved the mental stateof drug addicts and psychotics, sometimes dramatically. His findings indicatedthat up to 88% of his patients improved with insulin shock therapy. His methodbecame widely applied for many years in mental institutions worldwide. Heimmigrated to the U.S. ahead of WW II. in 1936. "Sakel's Therapy" isstill used in Europe, but in the U.S. it has been superseded byelectroconvulsive therapy and other means of treatment.
1900:Birthdate of Hunter College alum and philanthropist Sophie Spector Udell, thewife of Jerome Udell with whom she had two daughters – Helen and Edith.
1901: BellaWeretnikow, who became the first Jewish woman lawyer in Washington State, wasadmitted to the Bar of Washington State.
1902: PierreMarie René Waldeck-Rousseau, “the initiator of Alfred Dreyfus's 1899 pardon, aswell as the law that, in 1900, offered amnesty for "all crimes andmisdemeanors related to the Dreyfus Affair, or that have been included in aproceeding relative to one of these deeds” completed three years of service asPrime Minister.
1903: Dr.Kaufmann Kohler, for twenty-four years rabbi of Temple Beth-EI, delivered hisfarewell sermon this morning before going to his new duties as the head of theHebrew Union College of Cincinnati. At the conclusion of the service thecongregation individually bade farewell and Godspeed to the retiring rabbi.
1903: “Mr.L.S. Levine, the Assistant City Solicitor of Pittsburgh” represented the city’smayor at the opening session of the Sixth Annual Convention of the Federationof American Zionist which was being “held at the Central Turners’ Hall.”
1904: “TheSeventh Annual Convention of the Federation of American Zionists” which wasattended by 188 authorized delegates continued to meet for a fourth day atGermania Hall in Cleveland, OH.
1905:Birthdate of Laszlo Halaz, the native of Hungary who “was appointed he firstdirector of the New York City Opera” a position from which he mounted the firstperformance of “The Dybbuk,” an opera by David Tamkin.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/31/arts/laszlo-halasz-first-director-of-city-opera-is-dead-at-96.html
1906: Threedays after he had passed away, eighty-year-old Leopold Schloss, the husband ofAnnie Horatia Montefiore, passed away today
1906:Birthdate of Pretoria native, David Kessler, the son of mining engineer andZionist Leopold Kessler and grandson ofJohanna Feig and Jacob Kessler, the man who would play the leading role inmaking the Jewish Chronicle one of the most respected Jewish weeklies inthe world.
1907: DropsieCollege for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, a graduate school for biblical andrabbinical studies, was chartered in Philadelphia.
1907: “InChicago’s West Side Lawndale neighborhood Harry and Rebecca Beatrice Korshakgave birth to Sidney R. Korshak, the labor lawyer with alleged connections tothe Chicago mob and Hollywood insider whose career was the opposite of that ofhis younger brother Marshall Korshak and who raised three children – Stuart,Katherine and Harry – with his wife Bernice Steward.
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/22/us/sidney-korshak-88-dies-fabled-fixer-for-the-chicago-mob.html
1908(7thof Sivan, 5668): Second Day of Shavuot
1908: InSwitzerland, Isidor and Alice Nordman gave birth to Jean Nordman, the “husbandof Bluette Nordmann” and the “brother of Pierre Nordmann and Denise Levy whorose to the rank of Colonel in the Swiss Army.
1909:Birthdate of David Kessler, the man most responsible for making the Jewish Chronicle one of the mostrespected Jewish weeklies in the world.
1909: In Riga,“Mendel Berlin, a timber industrialist and direct descendant of Shneur Zalman(founder of Chabad Hasidism), and his wife Marie, née Volshonok” gave birth toSir Isaiah Berlin who most popular essay may be “The Hedgehog and the Fox.”
1910: “MysticAid Religion” published today reported on a speech given by Claude G.Montefiore of London, the President of the Anglo-Jewish Association and hePresident of the Religious Union for the Advancement of Liberal Judaism” inwhich he said “No great religion can get on, or can it thoroughly healthywithout mysticism or mystics” because “for a religion to be at its best somemysticism is imperatively required.”
1911: BrunoWalter “wrote to his sister that he was to conduct the premiere of Mahler's DasLied von der Erde”
1911(15thof Sivan, 5671): Seventy-two-year-old Alsace native Charles Weill, the husbandof Emilie Kahn Weil with whom he had had ten children passed away today afterwhich he was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in his native Alsace.
1911: Sixty-six-year-oldAmerican playwright and producer Edward “Ned” Harrigan the author and producerof “Mordecai Lyons” an 1882 drama which unlike some “Jew plays” is “serious andvaluable” when it comes to portraying its Jewish characters passed away today.
1912: JuliaRichman, superintendent of New York City Public Schools set sail for Francewhere she hoped to rest and improve her French language skills.
1913: TheFirst American Conference on Social Insurance to which Lee K. Frankel was adelegate opened today in Chicago.
1913: InGalveston, TX, Congregation B’nai Israel marked the twenty-fifth anniversaryHenry Cohen’s service as the Congregation’s rabbi during which he had marriedMollie Levy with whom he had two children.
1914(12thof Sivan, 5674): Parashat Nasso
1914(12thof Sivan, 5674): Seventy-seven-year-old Austrian born chemist Adolf Lieben “whodeath he held the chair of general and pharmacological chemistry at theUniversity of Vienna” passed away today.
1914: It wasreported today that due to “the hostile attitude of the immigration officers atGalveston,” “the movement to diver a part of the Jewish immigration from NewYork to Galveston, TX, started through the Jewish Immigrants’ Information in1907 with funds set apart for that purpose by Jacob Schiff will bediscontinued” starting in October.
1915:Dedication of the Hebrew Institute at McKeesport, PA.
1915: Thereasons for the opposition to commuting the sentence of Leo Frank offered byReverend A.C Hendley, the pastor an Atlanta Baptist Church published todayincluded his belief that “outside influences were attempt to dictate toGeorgians how they should administer justice” and that “Leo M. Frank was fairlytried and convicted and the United States Supreme Court…has affirmed thefindings of the Georgia courts.
1915: At itsannual meeting, the Federation of Oriental Jews of America “pledged its supportto President Wilson for upholding the rights and honor of the United States.”
1915:“Speaking at the graduation exercises of the Jewish Theological Seminary ofAmerica at Aeolian Hall this afternoon Dr. Solomon Schechter, President of theSeminary, attributed the catastrophe of the present world war to over-emphasison unreligious secular nationalism and declared that the regeneration ofhumanity that would result out of the present struggle and chaos would takeplace not in the direct of the religion of valor but in a return to thereligion of Israel with ideals no longer of strength, force and astuteness butof gentleness, humility and loving kindness.”
1915: InAtlantic City, NJ. “1,237 delegates representing 200,000 members cheered wildlyas” “Louis Brandeis of Boston” “sound a call for a United Judaism” at the 29thannual convention of the United States Grand Lodge of the Independent Order ofB’rith Abraham.
1915: “In thepresence of 200 men, women and child…more than half of whom were blind, theroof garden on top of the new Bank of the United States Building at 77 DelanceyStreet was formally opened this afternoon as a recreation and social center forthe Hebrew Association for the Blind.
1915: Based onletter that Hugh M. Dorsey has sent to Governor Slaton “it became practicallycertain today that when the case of Leo M. Frank…comes before the Governor forconsideration of the prisoner’s appeal for commutation to life imprisonment,Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey will appear to oppose any change in thesentence.”
1916(5thof Sivan, 5676): Erev Shavuot
1916: “Amongthose receiving degrees at the 99th Convocation of the University ofChicago held” today were Leo Mordecai Goldsmith of Aurora, Isadore MichaelLevin of Chicago and Harry Cohn of Collinsville
1916: It wasreported today that “British censors have confiscated almost 10,000 checksamounting in all to 800,000 marks (about $200,000) sent by Americans throughthe Hebrew Sheltering and Immigration Aid Society of American to dependentrelatives in Russian Poland.”
1916: Amongthe Planks of the Republican Platform that were agreed on today by SenatorsLodge, Borah and Sutherland was one on “Americanism” that recognized “the needof a treaty of commerce with Russia that will give full equality to Americancitizens of Jewish birth traveling in Russia.”
1917: Attoday’s “annual meeting of the East London Fund for the Jewish, the Bishop ofLondon expressed the hope that a Christian Power would control Palestine andcharacterized as folly” the belief “of some unthinking Christians that thecoming of the Kingdom of god in the east would hasten by filling Palestine withunconverted Jews because that would result in the establishment of an outpostagainst the spread of Christianity.”
1917: The lastregular meeting of the Sisters of Fidelity is scheduled to be held thisafternoon at the Masonic Temple.
1917:Birthdate of Selma Goldstone, who as Selma Goldstone Hirsch would become anoted humanitarian and an author who would enjoy a long association with theAmerican Jewish Committee.
1917: InPittsburg, Max Senior of Citizen is scheduled to chair this morning’s sessionof the National Association of Jewish Social Workers where the topic of“Americanization and Citizenship” will be discussed.
1917:Birthdate of George Kidd, the native of Glasgow, who was the first CanadianAmbassador to Israel.
1918:Birthdate of Budapest native Pereszlényi Gyula Márton who gained gave fame asMartin Julius Esslin, the “British producer, dramatist, journalist, adaptor andtranslator, critic, academic scholar and professor of drama, known for coiningthe term "theatre of the absurd" in his 1961 book The Theatre of theAbsurd.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/05/arts/martin-esslin-drama-theorist-dies-at-83.html
1918: Threehundred delegates from the United States and Canada attended the openingsession of the Jewish Labor Congress at the Central Opera House in New YorkCity.
1919: Kievnative Elias Elvove, the son of Joseph and Etta Elvove, and his wife Elka Elvovgave birth to Faiga Rose Elvove.
1920: RabbiHerbert Levintahl is scheduled “to deliver the baccalaureate sermon” at the“commencement exercises of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and theTeacher’s Institute” this afternoon at Aeolian Hall.
1921: InFrankfurt-am-Main, R' Dr. Joseph Breuer, the son of “Rabbi Salomon ZalmanBreuer and Sophie Tzipoorah Breuer” and his wife, Rika Breuer, gave birth toSamson Breuer.
1921: “It wasstated tonight on high authority that President Harding” is planning on namingJewish advertising mogul Albert D. Lakser, President of the Lord and ThomasAdvertising Company of Chicago to be Chairman of the Shipping Board.
1922: Americanactress and singer Lillian Russell who had been married to the Anglo-Jewishcomposer Edward “Teddy” Solomon passed away.
1922: InBaltimore, MD, on the day before his 28th birthday, University ofMichigan trained actuary and WW I veteran Stanford Z. Rothschild, the Richmondborn son of Solomon and Hannah Rothschild married Marie Lowenstein today.
1923(22ndof Sivan, 5683): Tzvo Yosef Goldberg whose daughter Fraida married Rabbi TzviHirsch Ferber passed away.
1923:Birthdate of Cambridge, Massachusetts native and Harvard educated Hollywoodcolumnist Joseph Hyams, the decorated WW II veterans and biographer whose worksincluded tomes on Humphrey Board and James Dean.
https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-hyams12-2008nov12-story.html
https://www.fightology.com/joe-hyams
1924(4thof Sivan, 5684): Eighty-seven-year-old painter Frank Moss, the Philadelphiaborn son of Julia Levy and Joseph Lyons who were wed in 1828 and the husband ofAnnie Bathurst Harrison passed away today in Wilmington, DE.
https://www.askart.com/artist/Frank_R_Moss/10038232/Frank_R_Moss.aspx
1925:Birthdate of Philadelphia poet Maxine Winkour who gained as poet and novelistMaxine Kumin who published her first collection of poetry, Halfway in1961. Influenced by the confessional style of poetry, it was followed in 1965by The Privilege and in 1970 by The Nightmare Factory, both of which exploreher Jewish identity and family. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1973.
1926(24thof Sivan 5686): Thirty-four-year-old Blanche Adler, the daughter of Morris andJulia Weslosky and the wife of Ben Adler with whom she had – Morris and Frances– passed away today in her native Albany, GA.
1926: Secondbaseman Andy Cohen makes his major league debut with the New York Giants.
1926(24th ofSivan, 5686): As he was crossing Second Avenue at 15th Street, Meyer London,one of only two members of the Socialist Party elected to Congress was caughtin the middle of heavy automobile traffic passing in both directions. Londonbecame confused and when he halted in the middle of the road he was struck by acar, suffering internal injuries. The driver rushed him to Bellevue Hospital,where London’s daughter was an intern. When she saw her father London’s onlyconcern was that the driver not be punished. "It’s not his fault",said London "and he is a poor man." London died at 10 o'clock thatnight at the age of 56, after physicians had labored for 11 hours to save him.
1927(6thof Sivan, 5687): Shavuot
1927: In NewYork City, “Eugene and Ruth (Clark) Sterne gave birth to Navy Veteran RichardClarke Sterne, the holder of an A.B. from Columbia and Ph.D. from Harvard whopursued an academic career at several universities while writing literarycriticism and Dark Mirror: The Sense of Injustice in Modern European andAmerican Literature and raising three children – Lawrence, Samuel andDaniel – with his wife Ruth Cecile Winer.
https://www.thenation.com/article/memoriam-richard-clark-sterne-historian-nation/
1927: InAmsterdam, Jo Spier, “a newspaper illustrator and cartoonist, and the formerAlbertine van Raalte, a homemaker,” gave birth to “Peter Spier, anaward-winning children’s-book author and illustrator who depicted Noah’sbiblical journey…” (As received by Richard Sandomir)
1928: InCamden, NJ, the Sisterhood of Beth El Congregation is scheduled to hold itsfinal luncheon which has been arranged by Mrs. Herman Odlen.
1928: “Thefinal elimination contest for the Manhattan-Bronx region of the Young JudeaNational Oratorical Contest” is scheduled to take place tonight at theMontefiore Synagogue Auditorium afterwhich the winner will take part in the national finals the winner of which willwin “a free trip to Palestine.”
1929: Today,while meeting in Hamburg, the Jewish Women’s Congress “proclaimed thefoundation a world federation of Jewish women with headquarter in New York” andappointed Mrs. Rebeca Kohut of New York to serve as president for the firstfour years.
1930: “So Thisis London,” the movie version of the play with the same name with a screenplaywritten by Sonya Levien was released today in the United States.
1930: MartinSilverman of De Witt Clinton High School “received a watch fob” the secondprize in the sixth annual Inter-High School French Contest, “organized by theSociety of French Teachers of America” which was held today at Hunter College.
1931: After 271performances, the curtain came down on “Three’s A Crowd,” a 1930 Broadway revuewith lyrics by Howard Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz” which was produced by Max Gordon.
1931: After272 performances the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of“Girl Crazy” a musical with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and music by GeorgeGershwin.
1932(2nd ofSivan, 5692): Dr. A.S. Waldstein who helped to found Paole Zion in the UnitedStates in 1904 passed away in Tel Aviv at the age of 58.
1932(2ndof Sivan, 5692): Fifty-five-year-old Benjamin Schlesinger, who served two termsas President of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union who sufferedfrom Hodgkin’s Lymphoma passed away.
1933:“Magistrate Jonah J. Goldstein, President George J. Ryan of the Board ofEducation; Deputy Superintendent Harold G. Campbell; Dr. Eugene Colligan,president of Hunter College; Miss Adele Bildersee, dean of women at BrooklynCollege, and Dr. A. Broderick Cohen, dean of the evening session at HunterCollege” were the speakers at this evening’s dinner at the Hotel St.George where the one thousand attendeeswere beginning “a campaign to enroll25,000 new members in the Brooklyn Committee of the Jewish EducationAssociation and to increase attendance at the Jewish religious schools” inBrooklyn. (JTA)
1933: GovernorHerbert Lehman was scheduled to receive an honorary degree today the NYUcommencement ceremonies.
1933: TheCouncil of the League of Nations conducted a second day of hearings on “thepersecution of the Jews in Germany” in official response to the BernheimPetition. “Many of the speakers severely censured Germany for the treatment ofits Jews and demanded that they be accorded minimum human rights.” At the endof the hearing, the Council took the “bold step” of requesting Germany toprovide “information on further developments.”
1933: In theBronx, a Lithuanian Jewish “house painter” and an Jewish immigrant “dressmakergave birth to Michigan State University alum Eli Broad, the businessman andphilanthropist who at one time was ranked as “the 65th wealthiest person in theworld, with an estimated net worth of $7.4 billion.”
https://www.forbes.com/profile/eli-broad/
1934: In NewYork City, “Nina (née Peltzman) and Nathan Katz, who was a dress manufacturergave birth to Gilbert Katz who gained fame as director and producer Gilbert“Gil” Cates. (As reported by Michael Cieply)
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/movies/gilbert-cates-producer-of-oscar-shows-dies-at-77.html
1934: Today,Judge Julian W. Mack is scheduled “to be the guest of honor at a garden partygiven on behalf of the UJS by Mrs. Joseph Stroock at her home on 5thAvenue.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/06/02/94536020.html?pageNumber=5
1934:President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law,establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.) as part of thefabled New Deal. One of the purposes ofthe S.E.C. was to create a level playing field for all investors. The regulatory agency was created to end thekind of stock fraud and manipulation that had been rampant in the 1920’s andhelped cause the Great Depression. Likemany other New Deal agencies, the S.E.C. provided employment for the collegeeducated offspring of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States priorto World War I. In the case of theS.E.C., it gave several Jewish lawyers a chance to practice securities law, abranch of the law to which they had limited access because of the WASPdominated culture of the financial industry. Among those who worked for the SECwas Joseph B Levin an attorney who rose through the ranks to become AssistantGeneral Counsel.
1935: InLondon, premiere of “39 Steps” a murder mystery produced by Michael Balcon,co-starring Lucie Mannheim and with music by Louis Levy.
1936: TheAmerican Jewish Committee issued a statement reiterating it opposition to theworld Jewish Congress scheduled to be held in Geneva in August which Dr.Stephen S. Wise, head of the American Jewish Congress is a leading proponent.
1936: InParis, “by the enormous majority of 384 to 219 the new Chamber of Deputies thisevening voted confidence in Premier Leon Blum’s Cabinet to carry through theprogram of reforms for which the country voted when it returned the PopularFront to power a month ago.”
1936: TheBritish military commander of the Southern District published an orderprohibiting all Jewish motor traffic from entering or leaving Tel Aviv. This “blockade” of Tel Aviv was in responseto the murder of an Arab kerosene vender who was shot while riding on a highwaybetween Tel Aviv and Petach Tikvah.
1937: The Palestine Post militarycorrespondent reported that according to reliable sources, the number ofBritish battalions present in the country depended entirely on the securitysituation and the attitudes of the various sections of the population. Britainhad resolved not to take any more risks by reducing the defense force of theland to a mere police force, as the situation existed before the organized Arabtroubles of 1936, which left such a bloody aftermath.
1937: “TheJewish Theological Seminary of America held its 50th anniversaryconvocation exercises” this afternoon during which “eight graduates of theSeminary Rabbinical College were ordained as rabbis Dr. Cyrus Adler, thepresident of the seminary.”
1937: Today“two hundred delegates from 27 organizations” throughout the United States”heard “former Justice Jeremiah T. Mahoey and other speakers” protest “againstdiscrimination against Jews in Rumania and urge action on their behalf byAmerican Jews at the 28th annual convention of the United RumanianJews of America at the Hotel Astor.”
1937: ThePalestine Post reported that a mass meeting was held at the Tel Aviv's Mograbibuilding during which the participants vowed active support for the beleagueredPolish Jewry.
1938: Thanksto the intervention of influential friends Sigmund Freud, his wife Martha andhis daughter Anna arrived in London from Vienna via Paris.
1938(7thof Sivan, 5698): Second Day of Shavuot; Yizkor
1938(7thof Sivan, 5698): Seventy-five-year-oldMinnie Thalhimer, the Hungarian born daughter of Rabbi Dr. Aaron AlbertSiegfried Bettelheim and Anna Henrietta (Yetta) Bettelheim and the wife ofJacob E. Thalhimer with whom she had three children – William, Etta and Albert– passed away today in New York City.
1939: Becausehe felt that his terms were not being met, President Bru ended negotiationsconcerning the landing of the passengers from the SS St. Louis which wouldforce the ship to begin the return trip to Europe.
1939: It wasreported today that the Valedictorian at Columbia College was Abraham Genecin,the Minneapolis born son of a Russian immigrant who went on to earn a MedicalDegree from Johns Hopkins, and serve with the U.S. Army medical career afterwhich he worked as “a cardiologist, internist and associate professor at JohnsHopkins Medical School
1939: Amongthe passengers aboard the SS St. Louis who were filled with dread today as theship prepared to return to Germany were 15-year-old Arno Motulsky, who wouldsurvive to “become a founder of medical genetics,” his mother “the former RenaSass” and “his younger siblings,” – Leah and Lothar (As reported by DeniseGrady)
1939: TheJewish city of Tel Aviv was virtually cut off from the outside world todaywhen, by order of the British military commander of the Southern District, allJewish motor traffic into or out of the city was prohibited until tomorrownight. Only medical and milk transportation is permitted.
1940(28thof Iyar, 5700): Sixty-five-year-old Herbert E. Ottenheimer, the sone of Emanueland Laura Slaughter Ottenheimer and the husband of Blanche Beitman Ottenheimer,whom he married in 1905 and who was an officer of the National Council of JewishWomen, passed away today after which he was in The Temple Cemetery in Louisville,KY.
1940: The New York Times reported that theNazis had moved “through Amsterdam with ready-made lists of enemies and Jews,rounding them and having them shot en masse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Fb4BzHHfD4Y
1941: It wasreported today that another 47 “foreign Jews” have been arrested in or nearMarseilles “under orders of Admiral Francois Darlan, the Minister of theInterior, for the French government at Vichy.
1941: “Morethan one-third of the 15,000,000 Jews in the world are now in countries underGerman domination, subject to discriminatory antiJewish regulations that makesound economic and social existence impossible, Joseph A. Schwartz, vicechairman of the European field of the Joint Distribution Committee, reported inan address before the national conference of Jewish Social Welfare here today.“
1942:Following a failed attempt in 1940, the Nazis succeed in ordering Belgian Jewsto wear the Yellow Star.
1942: Duringhis sermon today, Rabbi Israel Goldstein told the congregants of New York’sTemple B’Nai Jeshurun that Japan's air raid on Dutch Harbor, Alaska, was the"final shattering blow to the illusion of those who until recently coddledthemselves with the thought that oceans can protect us from air attacks."
1942: In hissermon today, Rabbi Jacob Katz of the Montefiore Synagogue “advised parents tohave their children trained in mechanical skills as well as in culturalsubjects.”
1942: Duringhis sermon today, Rabbi Hyman J. Schachtel urged the congregants of the WestEnd Synagogue to do their part in the war effort by signing up with thecivilian protective services.
1942: Duringhis sermon at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Rabbi David de Sola Poolsaid, “The first great challenge to the fuehrer concept was thrown down byMoses…It is not without reason that the Fuehrer has singled out the people andthe religion of Moses for his most venomed hostility.”
1942: InCracow, Poland, thousands of Jews were rounded up for the second day in a rowfor deportation. Eichmann, worried about appearances asks that the words‘deportation to the East’ not be used, but instead, that ‘people are emigratedelsewhere.'
1942: Adolf Eichmann insists via a telegram sent toGestapo officials that residents of a mental institution must be included in aplanned mass deportation of Jews from Coblenz, Germany, to Lublin, Poland.
1942: The Jewish ghetto at Kraków, Poland, isliquidated; 6000 Jews from the city are murdered at Belzec.
1942: TheNazis burned the village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal for killing Heydrich.
1943: HelgaDeen saw 1,300 children leave Vught, a Dutch internment camp, for Sobibor andAuschwitz. In her diary she wrote, “Transport.It’s too much. I’m destroyed andtomorrow again.” Deen would later be shipped to Sobibor where she was murderedby the Nazis.
1943: Jacob Gens, the leader of the Jewish Councilin Vilna, argued that Vilna's Jews will have an improved chance of survival ifthey demonstrate their usefulness as workers.
1943: “We WillNever Die” was performed at the Boston Garden, with guest stars Ralph Bellamy,Lionel Atwill, Howard Da Silva, Berry Kroger, and Jacob Ben-Ami in prominentroles. The Boston Jewish Advocate reported: “This spectacle must have impressedand stirred the imagination of the many who saw it to a degree impossible toachieve through the printed word.” (Jewish Virtual Library)http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/pageant.html
1943(3rd ofSivan, 5703): Germans execute all 1000 Jews still remaining in the Rohatyn(Poland) Ghetto after German authorities discover a plot of local Jewishpolicemen to purchase weapons.
1944: “Despitehaving no parachute training”, Mickey Marcus who had Ranger training “traded onbeing a West Point classmate of General Maxwell Taylor to parachute intoNormandy with the first wave of the “Screaming Eagles
1944: Alliedforces led by the United States land on the beaches of Normandy. While no exact figures exist for the numberof Jews who took part in “The Longest Day” the graves marked by Stars of Davidattest to the fact that Jews were not only present but paid the last fullmeasure. According to one source 550,000Jews served in World War II in the U.S. military. Of those, 11,000 were killed,40,000 were wounded, and 52,000 were decorated for gallantry. Jews made up some3.5 percent of the U.S. military during the war.
1944: Amongthe units landing at Normandy today were a contingent of the Ritchie Boys. The Ritchie Boys was a special U.S. Armyintelligence unit of approximately 10,000 German speaking soldiers most of whomwere Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria. Trained at Fort Richie,Maryland, they were able to use their special language skills and intimateknowledge of the culture to infiltrate behind German lines, capture andinterrogate prisoners and conduct disinformation campaigns. Among those makingthe land was Stefan Heym who would confound people by moving back to Europeafter the war and taking up residence in the German Democratic Republic(Communist East Germany)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPlUMe_nKO0
1944: MariaMadi, a native of Budapest wrote in her diary today “B.B.C. announces at 9:30am that allied invasion has begun on the Normandy peninsula, between Cherbourgand Le Havre. I almost gave up hope these days, am trembling all over fromexcitement. If only it would be a success“This afternoon, very few G[erman]soldiers can be seen on the streets, they are shut up in their quarters, Isuppose, in order not to hear the news. Here the noon papers brought the news,without any trace of G[erman] measures taken against the invasion…”
1944: LesterMilton Bronstein, the father of Ambassador Michael Oren, was among those whotook part in the D-Day Invasion.
1944: RobertCapa is part of the first wave of troops to land at Omaha Beach. He goes in with Company E armed with a Contaxcamera. After ninety minutes ofshooting, he heads back to London with ten rolls of films that capture thefirst moments of the invasion. Due tomistakes made by the lab technician employed by Life Magazine, only 11 of the106 pictures survived the development process.
http://www.skylighters.org/photos/robertcapa.html
1944: Lt. BertKatz led a unit that hit Easy Red Sector of Omaha Beach at “H plus sevenminutes” which means that his platoon hit the beach seven minutes after thestart of the “Longest Day. In a testament to the withering fire faced his unit,“within the first ten minutes” he lost 23 men and while he himself was woundedhe stayed with his men as they fought their way across Europe during the next11 months until VE Day. This is the same Bert Katz who returned to CedarRapids, Iowa where he became a successful businessman, philanthropist andleader of Temple Judah and the Jewish community.
1944: MajorBenjamin “Ben” Dunkelman, who had enlisted as private in The Queen’s Own Riflesof Canada in 1939 landed at Juno, the beach assigned to the Canadians duringthe Normandy Invasion.
1944:Lieutenant Mortimer Caplin (the future Commissioner of the IRS) “was commanderof a Naval Beach Master Group on Omaha Beach” who used his wits and imaginationto force a reluctant Liberty ship skipper to run his ship aground so that itscargo of ammunition could distributed among the tankers and artillerymenheading inland and was award the French Legion of Honor for being part ‘of theinitial landing force.”
1944: PrivateMax Fuchs, “a rifleman in the First Infantry Division” came ashore today atNormandy having no idea that in October he would be leading “an open-airservice” at Aachen, “the first Germany city to fall to the Allies” completewith all of “the traditional Sabbath hymns.”
1944: LouisRabinowitz who had been appointed Senior Jewish Chaplain of the British Armyfollowed up his service with Allied forces in the Middle East by taking part inthe Normandy invasion.
1944: CaptainCharles Stein, “an Austrian Jewish refugee” landed on Omaha Beach today.
1944: SarahLevnedeal, the wife of Max Levendal and the mother of Isaac Levndel wasarrested today and sent to Drancy
1944: SS-Obergruppenführer and Nazi Party leaderCarl Rudolf Werner Best was told today of the refusal of the Danish police toprotect “57 enterprises the Germans deemed at risk of sabotage by the Danishresistance movement.”
1944: WhenGerman authorities become aware that news of the Allied invasion is circulatingthrough the Jewish ghetto at Lódz, Poland, a search is mounted for illegalradios. Six Jews are arrested. On the same day the Germans rounded up all 1,795Jews on the Greek Island of Corfu and deported them to Birkenau death campwhere 1,500 were murdered by gas upon arrival. The Germans also captured 260Jews this day on the Island of Crete.
1944(15th ofSivan, 5704): A German deportation ship with approximately 260 Canean Jewsaboard is sunk off the coast of Crete. Latter-day accounts conflict as to thedetails: In one version, the ship carried the corpses of Jews murdered byNazis, who set the ship afloat and sank it to destroy evidence of the crime. Inanother, the ship was bound for Auschwitz but was torpedoed and sunk by aBritish submarine. Besides Jewish people, the ship may have carried 300 ItalianPOWs and 400 Greek civilians.
1944(15th ofSivan, 5704): In Poland, 150 police, all of whom were Nazi sympathizersambushed Jacob Allweiss and his two sons Zygie and Sol. Jacob is murdered. The two sons escaped.
1944: Two moreAuschwitz inmates, Arnost Rosin and Czeslaw Mordowicz, arrived in Zilina. Theyreported that trainloads of Hungarian Jews were being massacred.
1944: InCorfu, Greece, the Germans rounded up 1,795 Jews. One thousand, five hundred ofthem were then gassed at Birkenau.
1944:Birthdate of Rene Rivkin, Australian entrepreneur, investor, investmentadviser, and stockbroker. He was a well-known stockbroker in Australia for manyyears until his conviction for insider trading.
1944: As JoelBrand sought to help save the Jews of Hungary Anthony Eden expressed hissympathy regarding the decision to block the negotiations with Eichmann, butsaid he had to act in unison with the United States and Soviet Union.
1945: The Ladyand the Monster” based on a novel by Curt Siodmak with a script by FrederickKohner co-starring Erich von Stroheim was released in Sweden today.
1945: RobertCapa met Ingrid Bergman for the first time.The meeting marked the beginning of passionate love affair between theJewish was photographers and the Scandinavian cinema star. Their relationship will be part of the plotfor the Alfred Hitchco*ck thriller “Rear Window.”
1945: No. 294Squadron RAF which was made up of Wellington medium bombers completed its serviceat RAF Station Lydda which became the IAF’s Lod Air Force base.
1945: The FortOntario Emergency Refugee Shelter also known as "Safe Haven," locatedin Oswego, New York the first and only refugee center established in the UnitedStates during World War II which housed almost 1000 European refugees, most of whomwere Jewish was closed today.
1946(7thof Sivan, 5706): Second Day of Shavuot
1946: While alreadyserving as president of the American Hockey League, Maurice Podoloff was appointed president of the newly formedBasketball Association of America (BAA), becoming the first person to lead twoprofessional leagues simultaneously
1946: Birthdateof Tony Levin, bassist for King Crimson.
1946: No. 208Squadron and No. 621 Squadron of the RAF began operating from the Ein ShemerAirfield, located east of Hadera.
1947: “TheWorld Jewish Congress announced here” tonight “that Austrian authorities hadgranted permission to 250 Rumanian Jewish refugees to enter the United Stateszone in Austria after their train had been stranded for several days on arailway bridge…”
1947: Fourdays after his burial at Willesden Cemetery, the obituary of Myer Jack Landawas published today.
1948: The IAFcompleted its move to a new base in Herzliya.
1948: In NewYork City, literary critic Alfred Kazin and his wife gave birth to GeorgetownUniversity history professor Michael Kazin who earned his Ph.D at Stanford,became the co-editor of Dissent, “a left-wing intellectual magazine founded in1954 whose previous editors have included Irving Howe, Mitchell and Cohen andMichael Walzer and “married physician Beth Horowitz” with whom he had twochildren.
https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/faculty-profile?netid=mk8%2F
1949: InJerusalem “A group of religious zealots knows the guardian of the City hasdeclared war against the ‘pagan’ Jews and by methods often as violent as thoseof terrorists organizations is attempting to impose upon them its religiouspractices especially the strict observance of the Sabbath
1950:Birthdate of director Chantal Anne Akerman, the native of Brussels whose motherNatalia (Nelly) had survived Auschwitz “where her own parents had died”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/arts/chantal-akerman-belgian-filmmaker-dies-65.html?_r=0
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/08/chantal-akerman
1950:“Odette,” a biopic about British agent who was not executed at Ravesnbruckfilmed by cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum was released today in the UnitedKingdom.
1950: Mrs.Martha Sharp left New York tonight by plane to visit “her 20,000 children” inIsrael. “These thousands of Israeli boys and girls are Mrs. Sharp’s charges bylong-range adoption since she is a founder and national vice chairman ofChildren to Palestine, Inc., an American organization that is bringing them outof starved and fear-ridden backgrounds to a new life in a new land.” Mrs. Sharpis the wife of a Unitarian minister in Chicago. In the next month she will helpsome of them move into the only real homes they have ever known and watchothers learn to play children's games for the first time.
1951(2ndof Sivan, 5711): Hilda Aaron passed away today after which she was interred atthe Adath Jeshurun Cemetery in Hampton Township, PA.
1952: “Inevery case where one member of a pair of identical twins suffered frommanic-depressive psychosis, the other twin also showed a tendency toward thesame mental illness, Dr. Franz Kallmann of Columbia University reported” today.
1952: TheJerusalem Post reported on the ground- breaking ceremony for the projected $10million Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School on the bare Judean hills,west of Ein Kerem. Speakers declared that this construction did not mean theabandonment of Hadassah facilities on Mount Scopus which were effectively underArab control in violation of existing U.N. guarantees.
1953(23rdof Sivan, 5713): Parashat Sh’lach
1953(23rdof Sivan, 5713): Sixty-eight-year-oldNYU trained neuropsychiatrist Dr. Emanuel David Friedan, the New YorkCity born son of Louis and Miriam Deborah Friedman and the husband of RoseBorgenicht passed away today,
1954(5thof Sivan, 5714): Erev Shavuot
1954: “Secretof the Incas” featuring Leon Askin the Vienna bon son of Holocaust victimsMalvine Susman and Samuel Aschkenasy, in the role of Anton Marcu. was releasedtoday in the United States
1954: InBrooklyn Harriet (née Gilbert), a school librarian, and Irving Fierstein, ahandkerchief manufacturer gave birth to actor Harvey Fierstein
1954:Funeralservices are scheduled to held today for eighty-two-year-oldMontgomery, ALnative and University of Virginia trained physician JosephHenry Abraham, the laryngologist and member of the faculty of New YorkPolytechnic and husband Eleanor B. Abraham
1955: InFlint, Michigan Jeanette and Jerome Bernhard, a proctologist, gave birth tocomedienne Sandra Bernhard whose humor can be heard on “I’m Still Here…DamnIt,” her 1998 comedy album.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Still_Here..._Damn_It!#/media/File:Sandrabernharddamnit.jpg
1955: Birthdate of Samuel Michael “Sam” Simon, the“co-creator of the ‘The Simpsons.’”
1955(16thof Sivan, 5715): Seventy two year old British author Joseph Jefferson Farjeon,the son of Benjamin Leopold Farjeon passed away.
1956: DavidMarshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister resigns. David Saul Marshall wasborn in Singapore in 1908 to a Jewish family that had originally come fromIraq. He became a lawyer and a leadingleader of the left wing. In later yearshe would serve in several diplomatic postiions before retiring after a disputewith the Prime Minister of Singapore.
1957(7th ofSivan, 5717): Second Day of Shavuot
1957: “TheDelicate Delinquent” produced, written and starring Jerry Lewis was released inthe United States today.
1957: TheSoviet government informed the Jewish community that it would permit theopening of a yeshiva in Moscow for the training of rabbis. The announcement wasmade on Shavuot, probably to "impress" world Jewry that the USSR wasdoing a wonderful thing for Jews and Judaism. It turns out that this was mostly"smoke". The laymen's council of the yeshiva was dissolved in 1961.The bulk of the students had come from Georgia. After Pesach of 1962, thesestudents were denied permits by the local government to return to Moscow. Thusthe yeshiva, reduced to a handful of students, could no longer hope to providerabbis for Russian Jewry.
1958(18thof Sivan, 5718): Eighty-three-year-old University ofVienna trained psychiatrist Dr. Benzion Liber, the professor of psychiatry atthe New York Polyclinic Medical School and “a director of the Mental HygieneClinic of New York Polyclinic Hospital who was the Romanian born son ofYitskhok Libresko, the cofounder of Yiddish theater the husband of Rosa Liberand the father of Dr. Amour F. Liber suffered a fatal heart attack today.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2017/03/ben-tsien-benzion-liber.html
1959: In PaloAlto, CA, Dorothy Jean St. Germain (née Rich) and Phillip Gary Schultz gavebirth to American Olympic wrestler, David Leslie "Dave" Schultz
1959: Ruth R.Wisse “arranged a rendezvous for the Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, who was thenon his maiden visit to North America.”
1960(13thof Sivan, 5750): Sevent-three year old Sigismund Lieberman, the Polish born sonof Natalia and Adolph Lieberman, “the husband of Mary S. Lieberman and thefather of George and Norma Lieberman” passed a way today in the Bronx, NYC
1960: “TheDamaged Eye” co-starring Herschel Bernardi and filmed by cinematographers HelenLevitt and Haskell Wexler was released in the United States today.
1961:“Hadassah-Ein Kerem opens with a moving day. Supervised by HMO senior staff,the Israeli Army meticulously and efficiently transports every patient in eachof Hadassah's five temporary hospitals to a preassigned bed at the new medicalcenter.”
1961: CarlJung, the man Freud called "his adopted eldest son, his crown prince andsuccessor" but who later broke with his mentor, passed away today.
1962: In NewYork, Enid (Rodman) and Harold Flender, a writer and screenwriter gave birth toactor, writer, director and producer Rodman Flender.
1963: InRichmond, VA, realtor Eddie Cantor and Mary Lee (nee Hudes), a schoolteachergave birth to Eric Cantor who represented Virginia’s Seventh District andserved as House Majority Whip before being defeated in his bid for re-election.
1963:Birthdate of British actor Jason Isaacs.
1965(6th ofSivan, 5725): First Day Shavuot
1965(6thof Sivan, 5725): Sixty-eight-year-old New York native Dr. John Henry Garlock amember of the faculties at Columbia and Cornell passed away today.
1965(6thof Sivan, 5725): Sixty-nine-year-old Philadelphia native Myer Feinstein, the“president of the Penn Federal Savings and Loan Association and chairman of theboard of the Central Mortgage Company who was past president of the UJH and the“first American to receive the Shield of Award” and the husband of the formerRosaline Berman with whom he raised a son and a daughter passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/06/07/97208191.html?pageNumber=37
https://www.jta.org/archive/myer-feinstein-noted-jewish-leader-dies-in-phildelphia-was-69
1966: It wasreported today that seventy-year-old New York native Sol Luckman who “was amongthe top leadership of the UJA and the Israel Bond organization as well asnumerous Cincinnati philanthropic endeavors” passed way “over the weekend.”(JTA)
1967: Thismarked the second day of Israel's Six Day War. Now that the Israelis hadcontrol of the skies, their armor and infantry could begin advancing againstthe numerically larger Arab armies. As accounts of the fighting will attest,this was no cakewalk. The fighting inSinai involved some of the largest clashes between tanks since World WarII. And the Jordanians foughttenaciously along the Green Line around east Jerusalem.
1967: At six o’clock in the morning the SupremeCommand of the Arab armed forces began broadcasting on the great lies that isstill believed to this day. Repeating areport that Nasser had made to King Hussein the night before, the Arab militaryleaders claimed that the Egyptian and Jordanian air forces had been demolishedon the first day of the war by U.S. planes attached to the Sixth Fleet and byBritish warplanes flying from unspecified bases. This tale had no basis in fact. It gave Nasser a chance to save face with theArab masses and to provide his Soviet patrons with an excuse forintervening. The Cold War is alreadybecoming a distant memory to those living in the 21st century. However, the conflict between the U.S. andthe Soviet Union was very real in 1967.The Soviets were actively looking for a way to gain control in theMiddle East and the Communist Bloc was Nasser’s patron, a factor that was partof the military and political equation facing the Israelis.
1967: DefenseMinister Moshe Dyan still refused to allow any military action to be takenalong the Golan Heights. With fightingraging in the Sinai to the South, he did not need additional military worries. What did worry Dyan was that the U.N. mightimpose a cease fire before Israeli forces could seize Sharm el-Sheik, thechoke-point held by the Egyptians that made it possible for them to close theStraits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.Dyan ordered Chief of Staff Rabin to move with all speed to seize Sharm. Rabin completed planes for a combined assaultthat was to be carried out the next evening.
1967: “TheEgyptian armored forces collapse. Ariel Sharon's division later joins anarmored brigade making its way to the Egyptian posts at Tamed and Nakhl. Whenthey arrive there, Sharon quickly reads the battlefield and successfullyambushes an Egyptian armored brigade. The Egyptian tanks column goes straightinto Sharon's trap and there they it is systematically destroyed. At the end ofthe day, what's left is a 20 mile long column of twisted and burned Egyptiantanks and vehicles, and hundreds of dead bodies beside them.”
1967: Egyptian troops are ordered to fall back tothe Suez Canal. In the evening,unbeknownst to the Israelis, Egypt evacuated the strategically importantposition of Sharm el-Sheik.
1967:According to transcripts released in 2017, “what to do with the Old City was ahot topic conversation in” today’s meeting of “the security cabinet.”
1969: Two daysafter she had passed away, funeral services were held today for eighty-two-year-oldLillian Schifrin, the Cincinnati born daughter of “Adolph Aira Berman and MaryAgnes Jacobs and the “ex-wife of Isidor Schifrin.
1970: Peggyand Dr. Milton D. Glick, who would eventually become President of theUniversity of Nevada, Reno, gave birth to their son David.
1970(2ndof Sivan, 5730): Twenty-three-year-old Josh (Eli Joshua) Bay the son of Charlesand Canadian born actress Frances Bay passed away today.
1971(13thof Sivan, 5731): Seventy-six-year-old Polish native, violinist and professoremeritus of bio-chemistry at the University of California Lila Berlin Hassid,the wife of Professor William Zen Hassid who was famous for her Yiddishlanguage skills passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/07/archives/mr-la-b-ha-yiddish-trator.html?searchResultPosition=1
1972(24thof Sivan, 5732): Eleanor Joan Clara Nathan, the wife of Baron and Major LouisNathan Nathan and mother of Captain Roger Carol Michael Nathan passed awaytoday.
1973(6thof Sivan,5733): First Day of Shavuot
1974: “Inanticipation of President Nixon’s visit, telephones of Moscow Jewish activistswere cut off and many of them received conscription orders particularly thoseorganizing scientific seminar
1974: TheSyrians returned the body of Avraham “Avi” Lanir. The Syrians captured him during the YomKippur War and tortured him to death in an attempt to extract information fromhim about Israel’s nuclear program.
1975: “Onehundred activists send an appeal to the United States and House ofRepresentatives in defense of Anatolii Malkin.”
1975: The USSRSupreme Soviet adopted a decree imposing a new tax of 30% on money sent toSoviet citizens from abroad i.e. money sent to aid reufsniks.
1975(27thof Sivan, 5737): Forty-nine-year Larry Blyden, a Jewish actor from Houston, TXpassed away today.
1976(8thof Sivan, 5736): Seventy-eight-year-old Brooklyn born Georgetown Universitytrained attorney Jacob Ark, a “sergeant first class in the Army’s air servicein WW I” and who served as New York State Supreme Court Judge from 1961 to 1968passed away today.
1976: “TheOmen” a horror film directed by Richard Donner, produced by Henry Bernhard,written by David Seltzer and with music by Jerry Goldsmith was released in theUnited Kingdom today.
1977:Birthdate of Jerusalem native and popular singer Alma Zohar whose debut albumwas Dabri which was released in Julyof 2008 and who is the half-sister of electronic musician Matan Zohar (a.k.a.Mat Zo).
1979(11thof Sivan, 5739): Seventy-one-year-old Sidney Bernard Finn, the Freedom, PA bornson of Abel and Rebecca (Gordon) Finn the Ohio St. Aluma and award winningHarvard trained dentist who was the husband of Irma Harriet Rubens with whom hehad two children – Catherine and Andrew – passed away today.
1979: Premiereof “Escape to Athena” a movie set in Nazi occupied Greek Island produced by LewGrade and co-starring Elliot Gould
1979(11thof Sivan, 5739): Ninety-year-old Rabbi Morris Samuel Lazaron Sr, the Savanah,GA born son of Samuel Louis Lazaron and Zipporah Alice DeCastro Lazron, and thehusband of Pauline Lazaron with whom he had had three children – Morris, Haroldand Clementine – passed away today after which he was buried in Maryland at theBaltimore Hebrew Cemetery.
1980: U.S.premiere of “Up the Academy” a comedy co-starring Ron Leibman and Barbara Bachwhose father was Jewish but whose mother was not.
1981: LeonLevine, the CEO of Family Dollar stores and his second wife Sandra Plitakoffgave birth to the their daughter Amy Beth.
1981: Finalplans were completed for “Operation Opera” the Israel attack on an Iraqinuclear reactor that Iran had tried and failed to destroy.
1982: Israelitroops enter Lebanon to drive out PLO. The PLO had established itself asa "state within a state." The government of Lebanon wasincapable or unwilling to put an end to this source of terror, so the Israelisacted accordingly. The triggering event was the attempted assassination ofShlomo Argov the Israeli ambassador in London. The invasion would becomea divisive and corrosive event for the Israelis that, to put it mildly, was notone of their shining moments.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/feb/25/israelandthepalestinians.lebanon
1982: Membersof the famous Golani Brigade attacked Beaufort Castle which was held by thePLO.
1983: In“Orthodox Jewish Women Push Role In Prayer” published today, Charles Austindescribed attempts to harmonize traditional roles with change social mores.
1984(6thof Shavuot, 5744): Shavuot
1985: Thegrave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remainsfound are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz' "Angel ofDeath". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February1979.
1986(28thof Iyar, 5746) Yom Yerushalayim
1986: U.S.premiere of “Raw Deal” written by Norman Wexler and co-starring Steven Hill andSam Wanamaker.
1987: “Poet,essayist and critic” Katha Pollitt “married Randy Cohen, author of the New York Times Magazine column ‘TheEthicist’” today.
1988(21stof Sivan, 5748): Twelve days before his 87th birthday Wellesley(Pinchas) Aron the London born graduate of Cambridge, founder of Habonim who asa Major in the British Army “assumed commanded of a Jewish Palestinian unit,later absorbed into the Jewish Infantry Brigade passed away today.
http://wasns.org/in-memory-of-wellesley-aron
1988: PitcherSteve Rosenberg makes his debut with the Chicago White Sox.
1990(13thof Sivan, 5750): Sixty-five-year-old Regina Elfenbein, the Chelm born daughterof Chaim and Chana Nankin and the wife of Cecil Donald Elfenbein passed awaytoday in Dallas, TX. (Editor’s note – sothe Chelmites were not just tales told to children)
1991: DavidJohn Pleat began serving as the manager for Luton Town football team.
1991(24thof Sivan, 5751): Stan Getz passed away.Born Stanley Gayetzky in 1927, Getz was the leading tenor sax player of histime. Even people who did not like jazzenjoyed listening to the smooth sound of Stan Getz.
1992(5thof Sivan, 5752): Eighty-four-year-old Marvel comic founder Martin Goodmanpassed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/11/obituaries/martin-goodman-84-began-marvel-comics.html
1994(27thof Tammuz, 5754): Sixty-nine-year-old Yohai Ben-Nun, the sixth commander of theIsraeli navy passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/10/obituaries/yohai-bin-nun-69-ex-israel-navy-chief.html
1996: Thechapel of Temple Emanu‐El was the setting this evening for the weddingof Miss Barbara Joy Welt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard David Welt ofBuffalo, to Charles Alexander Bernheim, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard HenryBernheim of 930 Park Avenue.
1997(1stof Sivan, 5757): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1997(1stof Sivan, 5757): Seventy-two-year-old television director and WW II veteran Edward“Ted” Nathanson the Philadelphia born son of Ethel Nathanson and Benedict Gimble,Jr. of Gimbel Brothers fame and the husband of Edith Nathanson with whom he hadthree children – Michael, Laua and Carla – who “rose to become coordinatingproducer of football and tennis for NBC Sports” passed away today.
https://variety.com/1997/scene/people-news/edward-nathanson-1116680145/
1997: “Crash”a thriller directed and produced by David Cronenberg who also wrote the scriptand with music by Howard Shore was released today in the United Kingdom.
1999: The New York Times featured reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers includingthe recently released paperback editions of Confederates in the Attic:Dispatches From the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz, Damascus Gateby Robert Stone and Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by RuthReichl.
1999: Deb andMitchell Levin marry at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He moved up in class and she got an adultchild to try and housebreak. For thoseof you who have not figured it out, she is the one who makes this daily workpossible. On top of being an AyshishChayel in the truest sense of the word, she is also is great at everything fromcreating blogs to making homemade Kosher pizza, to creating memorable siddurimto hosting the visiting chazzan who is a kosher vegetarian.
2000:“Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright arrived in Israel today for her firstvisit in six months, seeking to inject a sense of urgency into the long-runningIsraeli-Palestinian negotiations and to lay the foundation for a three-wayretreat-style summit meeting.” (As reported by Deborah Sontag)
2001: An Arabsuicide bomber massacred 21 young Jewish teenagers and injured a hundred moreoutside a Tel Aviv discotheque.
2001: JoeLieberman began serving as Chairman of the Senate Committee on HomelandSecurity.
2002: Today,in retaliation for a suicide bombing carried out by an Islamic Jihadterrorist, “the IDF executed a new siegeof the “Ramallah Muquata’a after having attacked the headquarters with tanks,bulldozers and armored vehicles” leaving Arafat's office building and otherparts of his compound partly destroyed.
2003(6thof Sivan, 5763): Shavuot
2003: Today,“Yasir Arafat implicitly criticized Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas for havingfailed to win any concessions from Israel” during talks designed to stopattacks on that country.
2004: Firstday of a Birthright trip to Israel - Towards a Sustainable Future for Israel:An Environmental Leadership Seminar for Students and Young Professionals –focused on the environment sponsored as a joint project of COEJL, the HeschelCenter for Environmental Leadership and Learning, the Jewish Agency for Israel,and Hillel.
2004: The New York Times featured reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers includingthe recently released paperback edition of “Sloan-Kettering: Poems” the Israelipoet and famed partisan Abba Kovner’s poetic chronicle of his losing battlewith cancer which he describes with ruthless honesty, even as he celebrates histenacious grip on the world he is leaving.
2004: PrimeMinister Ariel Sharon’s government approved an amended plan for disengagementform Gaza.
2004: AvigdorLieberman completed his term as Minister of Transport, National Infrastructureand Road Safety
2005: MajdiHalabi was officially listed as M.I.A. (missing in action).
2005 (28th ofIyar): Observance of Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day). Jerusalem ReunificationDay celebrates the reunification of Jerusalem on June 7, 1967 which was the28th day of the month of Iyar. Theobservance follows the Jewish calendar so it seems to “float” on the secularcalendar. On the 28th of Iyar, soldiersof the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) reunited the Old City of Jerusalem which hadbeen illegally occupied by the Jordanian Army since 1948 with what was thenreferred to as the New City of Jerusalem.(Please note, there never was a city called “East Jerusalem.” The termeast Jerusalem is strictly geographic as in the southeast side of CedarRapids.) This was the first time that all of Jerusalem was under Jewishsovereignty since the days of the Second Temple.
2006: The New York Times and The Washington Post reported that “theC.I.A. knew where Eichman was hiding” and made no attempts to inform thegovernment of Israel, which was actively looking for him and other Nazi warcriminals. This revelation came to lightas large quantities of government documents describing U.S. relationships withex-Nazis after World War II were declassified.While it had been known for some time that the U.S. and later the WestGerman government employed former Nazis in their intelligence agencies, thesedocuments show the depth and the folly of the involvement. Apparently, many of these former Nazis turnedout to be double agents who working for the Soviets and who did a great deal ofharm to Western intelligence efforts during the Cold War.
2006: Britishauthor Naomi Alderman has won the 2006 Orange Award for New Writers with herdebut novel Disobedience. The novel isset in the Orthodox Jewish community of Hendon, London where Alderman grew up.
2006(10thof Sivan, 5766): Eighty-eight-year-old Arnold Newman, a portrait photographerand so much more who is part of that seemingly unending line of Jews with acamera passed away today in Manhattan. (As reported by Andy Grundberg)
https://jmof.fiu.edu/exhibits/traveling-exhibits/newman/
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/arts/07newman.html
2007:Professor Norman Finkelstein is a guest on daily global affairs programproduced by Chicago Public Radio station WBEZ (91.5) where he presents a“revisionist view of the Six Day War.”
2007: JackMarkell officially launched his candidacy for Governor of Delaware
2007: Anexhibition styled “Image of His Soul" Max Liebermann – Works on Paperopens at the Hecht Museum in Haifa.
2007: The SirZelman Cowen Prize in medical research is awarded to Prof. Nir Friedman at theHebrew University's Board of Governors' meeting by fund trustee Michael Dunkel,a member of the Board of Governors.
2008: At theJCC in Washington, D.C. cantor, composer, arranger, choral conductor, anddirector of the ensemble Vocolot, Linda Hirschhorn will co-lead a musical ErevShabbat service with Rabbi Robert Saks of Congregation Bet Mishpachah, theevent’s co-sponsor. Linda Hirschhorn will play the guitar during the service.
2008: Openingof “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” starring Adam Sandler playing an Israeliassassin turned hairdresser.
2008: Today,Frank Stella, the non-Jewish “artist who turned destroyed Polish shuls intogreat art co- published an Op-Ed for The Art Newspaper decrying a proposed U.S.Orphan Works law which "remove[s] the penalty for copyright infringementif the creator of a work, after a diligent search, cannot belocated."
2009: AlysaStanton the first African-American female rabbi is ordained at Hebrew UnionCollege-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. Stanton, a convert andmother to an adopted 14-year-old daughter, is a trained psychotherapist whospecializes in trauma and grief. In August, she will become the spiritualleader of Congregation Bayt Shalom in Greenville.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/06/2009/alysa-stanton
2009: AtTemple Judah, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Sophie Shiffman, daughter of HowardShiffman of Toronto, Ontario and Peggy and Don Aungst of Independence, IA iscalled to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah.
2009: TheVatican says it has "taken action" to track down Jewish children whowere hidden by the Church and Catholic families during the Holocaust and laterdisappeared.
2010: TheNew York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including Alone With You by MarissaSilver
2010: I wishthe American Jews who feel misrepresented by the lobby would stand up by PhilipWeiss
2010: Membersof the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington are scheduled to lead aspecial tour of Jewish sites in Old Town Alexandria that will include visits tothe sites of two former synagogues and several Jewish businesses.
2010: TheWashington Jewish Music Festival is scheduled to open with a screening of theJazz Baroness and a performance by Danny Sanderson.
2010(24th ofSivan, 5770): Rabbi Jacob Milgrom passed away today in Jerusalem at the age of87. He was “considered by many the worlds’ foremost authority on the biblicalBook of Leviticus. Milgrom’s three-volume series on Leviticus,interpreting Jewish dietary and purification rituals and the Bible’s positionon hom*osexuality, concluded that the ban on hom*osexuality applies only toJewish men.”
2011: “Musicand Healing” a program designed to acquaint attendees with “contemporary, folkand traditional songs that can help them through times of need and comfort isscheduled to take place at Tefereth Israel in Washington, DC.
2011: TheChildren of Israel Journeyed: Selections from the Chagall Bible Series, anexhibit at the Jewish Museum of Milwaukee, “showcasing twenty-one hand-paintedetchings by Marc Chagall” and The Haggerty Museum’s massive Chagall Tapestry isschedule to come to a close. TheHaggerty is part of Marquette University.
2011: Israelimilitary officials disputed today the casualty figures announced by Syria a dayearlier, after Israeli forces fired on protesters who had tried to breach theSyrian frontier with the Israeli-held Golan Heights, the discrepancy in numbersunderlining the messages being conveyed by both sides.
2011:Dominique Strauss-Kahn pleaded not guilty today in a New York court appearance.
2011: New YorkCongressman Anthony Weiner admitted that his twitter account had not beenhacked and that he had been sending pictures of himself to at least six femalefollowers.
2011: Eighty-five-year-oldZev Birger, the concentration camp survivor who reinvigorated the JerusalemInternational Book Fair passed away today. (As reported by Isabel Kershner)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/world/middleeast/13birger.html?_r=1
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=224206&R=R2
2012: A YoungLeadership Concert featuring Itamar Zora and the Salome Chamber Orchestra isscheduled to take place at Congregation Shearith Israel (The Spanish &Portuguese Synagogue)
2012: The LosAngeles dance company BODYTRAFFIC is scheduled to perform the world premiere ofthe latest work by Israeli choreographer Barak Marshall with guest artistMargalit Oved at the Joyce in New York City.
2012: In ChevyChase, MD, Ohr Kodesh is scheduled to host a concert presented by Zemer Chai.
2012: TheWiener Library in the UK is scheduled to present ‘Target Heydrich: LaurentBinet on HHhH’ in which the author will talk about her historical novel aboutthe two men who killed the man known as “Himmler’s Brain.”
2012: In aninterview today Robert Levine “discusses moving to Saint Louis Park, Minnesotain the early 1950s and Jewish life there.”
2012: In aninterview today Avis Held “discusses moving to Saint Louis Park, Minnesota inthe early 1950s and Jewish life there.”
2012: It islucky 13 for me as we celebrate our anniversary. And it is lucky for anybodywho reads this because if it weren’t for Deb none of this would exist!
2012: Israel'sKnesset voted down a bill that aimed at legalizing homes on the Ulpana Hillneighborhood in the West Bank settlement of Beit El, which were built onprivately owned Palestinian land. (As reported by Jonathan Lis and OzRosenberg)
2012: DefenseMinister Ehud Barak acknowledged Israel's offensive cyberspace operations forthe first time. Speaking during a conference at Tel Aviv University, Barakstressed that in cyber warfare, as opposed to conventional warfare, it is moreimportant to invest in defense than offense, and admitted for the first timethat Israel has been developing and working on both tactics. "Our goalwith cyber defense, which is the more important and difficult component, is toprevent damage," Barak said. "It is more than we can benefit from anoffensive action, even though both aspects exist." (As reported by GiliCohen and Oded Yaron)
2012: Openingof National Hebrew Book Week
2012: “AdamRichman's Best Sandwich in America,” an American food reality television seriespremiered today on the Travel Channel
2013(28thof Sivan, 5773): Ninety-four-year-old Nobel laureate Jerome Karle passed awaytoday. (As reported by Kenneth Chang)
2013: TheAssociates of AFIPO are scheduled to present “Vintage Thursday,” a winetastingand silent auction evening to benefit the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra,
2013: InLondon, the Weiner Library is scheduled to present “Film Talk” ‘Kosher Nostra’– Screening the Memory of the Jewish-American Gangster in ‘The Godfather PartII’”
2013: Israel’sGesher Theater is scheduled to perform “Enemies, A Love Story” by IsaacBashevis Singer at New York’s Lincoln Center.
2013: Syrianopposition and government forces today were engaged in hours of fierce battlesat and around the Quneitra border crossing, the only crossing between Israeland Syria.
2013(28thof Sivan, 5773): Ninety-two-year-old Berlin born physicist Eugen Merzbacher whofled Nazi Germany passed away today.
http://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?merzbachere
2013: “SpertusInstitute screens Hava Nagila (The Movie), the definitive, glorious, musicalstory of how a traditional melody from Ukraine became a Jewish staple andworldwide hit.”
2013: USmilitary aircraft and an Israeli passenger plane nearly collided over Eilattoday.
2014:The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host “Edward Henkel'sMovementTalks: The Power of Women Minding the Dance with Christine Dakin, DawnPaap and Catherine Peila”
2014:Rabbi Shira, Rabbi Laurie Green of Bet Mishpachah, and members of GLOE arescheduled to lead an inclusive service celebrating the diversity of ourcommunity at the Historic 6th & I Synagogue.
2014:On the 70th anniversary of the Normandy invasion as special homageis paid to the dwindling number of veterans who hit the beach on D-Day,residents of Cedar Rapids in general and members of the Jewish community inparticular an honor Bert Katz. As ayoung captain, Katz led his unit on to Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach sevenminutes after the start of the invasion.Despite the fact he was wounded and lost 23 of his men to murderousenemy fire, Katz saw to it that his unit performed their vital mission on “TheLongest Day” and the many days and months that would follow until the war’send.
2014:Today, “Spain’s cabinet approved a billallowing descendants of Jews forced into exile centuries ago the right to dual citizenshipbut said applicants will have to take a Spanish culture test in addition tohaving their ancient ties to the nation vetted by experts.
2014:“Labor Party MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer’s bid for the presidency seemed to havegone up in smoke today after police questioned him for nearly five hours onsuspicion that he illegally received millions of shekels from various sources,using some of the money to purchase a luxury apartment home in Jaffa. (Asreported by Advi Sterman)
2015:“Is That You?” is scheduled to be shown at the Israel Film Center Festival atthe JCC Manhattan.
2015:In Cedar Rapids, the traditional minyan observes D-Day Shabbat followed by “aspecial Kiddush celebrating the 81st birthday of Murray Wolf“complete with his favorite homemade delicacies” prepared by his wifeCharlene.”
2015:“Gender, Memory and Genocide” an international conference marking the 100thanniversary of the Armenian Genocide co-sponsored the Pears Institute of theStudy of Ant-Semitism is scheduled to come to an end today.
2015:“American Pharaoh” owned by Ahmed Zayat won the Belmont Stakes today which madehim the winner of racing’s Triple Crown.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/american-pharoah-gives-zayat-the-biggest-prize-in-racing/
2015:As we contemplate the miracles of Shabbat, on this Shabbat I cannot help but beoverwhelmed by the miracle that Deb Levin married me 16 years ago today!
2016:Ori Ronen, whose newest single is “I Have a Friend” is scheduled to perform atthe Cinema South Festival is Sderot.
2016:The 25th Annual Summer on Teaching the Holocaust is scheduled tobegin at The Lillian and A.J. Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education.
2016:Yemen Blues is scheduled to present their new show “Insaniya” (Humanity) atJoe’s Pub.
2016:“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today reiterated his rejection of theallegation that he received €1 million in campaign funding from Arnaud Mimran,but acknowledged for the first time that he had received a smaller sum from theaccused French fraudster.”
2016:The 17th Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival is scheduled tohost “Musical Soundscapes of Morocco: From Africa to America” and the New YorkAndalus Ensemble which “performs in Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish and Ladino.”
2016(29thof Iyar, 5776): Ninety-year-old Tony award winning playwright Peter Shafferpassed away today.
2016(29thof Iyar, 5776): Ninety-eight-year-old children’s author Rhoda Blumberg passedaway today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2016:“Fire Birds” and “Afterthought” are scheduled to be shown at the Israel FilmCenter Festival.
2016:Dan Margalit, the Tel Aviv native who in 1977, while working as a Washingtoncorrespondent revealed that Leah Rabin, wife of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin,had a United States bank account, illegal in Israel at the time” which “led toRabin's resignation and the nomination of Shimon Peres as the Alignment'scandidate for prime minister” “informed the public via his Twitter account thathe had been fired from Israel Hayom.”
2017:Today, Dan “Margalit informed the public via his Twitter account that he hadbeen fired from Israel Hayom”
2017: “Haim Naggar, who was 20 at the time of theSix-Day War” and Dr. Joseph Shinar who “was wounded during the Six-Day War” areamong those scheduled to address those attending “50 Years – Remembering TheSix Day War” sponsored by Iowans Supporting Israel.
2017: “A special screening of ‘Denial’ is scheduledto take place at the Imperial War Museum in London” which includes a special“Holocaust exhibition.”
2017: A preview screening of “Norman: The ModerateRise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer” which is Joseph Cedar’s first Englishspeaking film” and co-stars Lior Ashekenazi.
2018:The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host an After Party eventfollowing the opening of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” with David Serero in the titlerole.
2018:In Memphis, TN, Temple Israel is scheduled to demonstrate a commitment toscholarship with a learn over lunch on “Great Jewish Renegades” as well as acommitment to social justice with an evening of MIFA Mitzvah Opportunitypreparing means for “low-income” senior citizens.
2018:In Jerusalem Mercaz Hatarbuyot is scheduled to host a “Unique Trio Concert”featuring concert pianist Eliahou Zabaly, violinist Gabriel Chouraki andcellist Azure Kline.
2018:The Aleph Society is scheduled to host a dinner celebrating “the worldwiderelease of the remarkable new Steinsaltz Humash” hosted by Senator JoeLieberman where Francis Klagsburn and John Podhoretz will discuss “Jews andPower.”
2019:While most of the world are scheduled to celebrate the victories at Midway in1942 and Normandy in 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Deb and Mitchell Levin celebrate whatwould prove to be their last wedding anniversary.
2019:Today, “,lawmakers refused to include Volodymyr Zelenskyy'skey initiative on reintroducing criminal liability for illegal enrichment inthe parliament's agenda, and instead included a similar bill proposed by agroup of deputies.”
2019:The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host a discussion of
ThisLand Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto Hardcover with author SuketuMehta and Nancy Foner.
2019:At Oxford, “Interfaith Dialogues” are scheduled to take place “In JesusCollege’s Harold Wilson Room where attendees can enjoy the “usual kosher/halallunch.”
2019:On the 75th anniversary of the D-D invasion Cedar Rapidians have aunique opportunity to offer thanks Bert Katz, a veteran of the Longest Day whois still with us. Katz hit the beach with minutes after H-hour and despitebeing wounded and losing almost two dozen of his minute, went to workfulfilling their responsibilities in what would be their first step on themarch to free Europe from Hitler’s grip (As reported by Kim Ketelsen)
2019:As we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion weremember many individuals (see entries above for 1944) who were there on thatday including A.J. Liebling, the forty year old war correspondent for the New Yorker who went ashore at OmahaBeach in an LCI; Dr. Samuel Fieler, “a regimental dental officer” with the 82ndAirborne “who had escaped Berlin in 1938” and who had volunteered to jump with“assault echelon” in a night action that was predicted to have a 70 per centcasualty rate; 19 year old Private Harold Baumgarten of Company B, 116thRegiment, 29th Division, the first infantry unit on Omaha whohad “drawn a Star of David on the backof his field jacket” and who survived being wounded five times which may haveaccounted for his decision to go to medical school and become a practicingphysician after the war; and Corporal Peter Masters and Harry Nomberg twomembers of “3 Troop of No.10 Commandos” a unit made up of “European Jews whohad escaped to England” and who needed no extra encouragement to carry outwhatever plans their leader Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten had in store forthem. (As reported by Stephen Ambrose)
2020:D-Day Anniversary: June 6 marks the 76th Anniversary of thelanding at Normandy. Sadly, it is the first time we mark this anniversarywithout Temple Judah’s Bert Katz who stormed ashore that day and who passedaway earlier this year after leading a full life as a husband, father, grandfather,businessman, philanthropist and pillar of the Cedar Rapids Jewish Community
2020:The Maine Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The Spy Behind Home Plate” online today.
2020:The Asiyah Jewish Community is scheduled to present on-line Tai Chi &Torah: “The Lord of the Rings” Edition”
2020:Dorshei Tzedek is scheduled to host its weekly Zoom Shabbat experience
2020(14thof Sivan, 5780): Parashat Naso;
2021:The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including Letter to Comondo by Edmund de Waal, Plunder Napoleon’sTheft of Veronese’s Feast by Cynthia Saltzman, Hollywood Eden: ElectricGuitars, Fast Cars, and the Myth of the California Paradise by Joel Selvin,Proof of Life Twenty Days on the Hunt for a Missing Person in the MiddleEast by Daniel Levin and Spooked: The Trump Dossier, Black Cube, and theRise of Private Spies by Barry Meier.
2021:In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to hold it annual meeting viazoom which means no barbecue but it will include the a highlight film createdby the master of the camera, Steve Eckert, the maven of movie-making.
2021:Choreographer Ohad Naharin, the developer of Gaga language and author Nicole Krauss are scheduled to take part inan online lecture-demonstration and conversation about Gaga’s evolution duringthe pandemic.
2021:Exhibition curator Tony Casadonte is scheduled to be at The Breman thisafternoon, when he will talk about photographer Herb Snitzer, the son of Jewishimmigrants who were forced to leave Ukraine and tell stories about the imageson display in “A Jazz Memoir.”
2021:In Arlington, MA, The Regent Theatre is scheduled to host preview of “The Mom Show,” “written and performed by NewYork Times bestselling author and Tanglewood Festival Chorus tenor MichaelLevin,” in what “is a warm, emotional rollercoaster with original songs writtenand performed as a tribute to Michael’s mother and immigrant mothers of allbackground.”
2021:The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County, NJ is scheduled to host Zoom Presentation by Michael Craig Palmer on “EricMendelsohn: Synagogue Architect with a Vision.”
2021: The National Library of Israel is scheduled to host “StowedAway Portfolios of Award-Winning Advertising Campaigns for Jewish Life” with anintroduction by Matan Barzilai, Head of Archives, NationalLibrary of Israel and a presentation by the creator of the archive,GaryWexler, Communications and Advertising Expert.
2021: The Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs (FJMC) InternationalConvention is scheduled to begin today.
2021: The exhibition “Hebrew Manuscripts: Journeys of theWritten Word” is scheduled to come to a close today at the British Library.
https://www.bl.uk/events/hebrew-manuscripts#
2022(7thof Sivan, 5782):Second Day of Shavuot
2022: The National Library of Israel is scheduled to host alecture by Nadia Ufimtseva on “Ukraine's Jewish Printed Books and Its People.”
2022:The Jewish Museum of London is scheduled to host its “Virtual Teachers CPD thatexplores what it really means to be Jewish and how best to teach an authenticand inclusive Judaism in your classrooms.”
2023:The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to present the first session of thevirtual program “Who is a Jew? A Historical Overview.”
2023:In London, Rosebery’s is scheduled to host an auction of “Modern British, 20thand 21st Century Art” that includes works by Rena Behrman.
https://www.thejc.com/news/news/obituary-rena-behrman-1.436448
2023:Temple Emanuel of Newton, MA is scheduled to present a lecture by Ruth Zakarin,the executive director of the Massachusetts Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, whowill frame the work that is being done at the state level and how citizens canbe involved.
2023:The East Bay International Jewish Film Festival, Under One Tent and IndependentJewish World Cinema are scheduled to present a screening of “Speer Goes toHollywood,” a 97-minute 2020 documentary on the story of how former Nazi AlbertSpeer, a good friend of Hitler, tried to whitewash his past by writing aHollywood screenplay based on his bestselling wartime memoir.
2023:ASF’s Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to present Anne Albert as shediscusses her book Jewish Politics Spinoza’s Amsterdam as part of its“exclusive author series.”
2024:JWA is scheduled to host a book talk with Mimi Zieman author of Tap Dancingon Everest: A Young Doctor’s Unlikely Adventure.
2024:The 26th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled tohost screenings of “Nathan-ism,” “The Holy Closet” and “King of Sephardim.”
2024:JDC Archives Fellow Julia Schulte-Werning is scheduled to present a webinar on “ASanatorium for the Future: Tuberculosis, Jewish Organizations, and the State inDecolonizing Morocco.”
2024:Aviv Guedj is scheduled to perform songs from his latest album "WonderfulWorld Where Are You", alongside songs from different stages of his career“live at the National Library of Israel.
2024:On the 80th anniversary of D-Day Lady Esther Gilbert is scheduled to return foranother brilliant evening of readings from Sir Martin's works including “hisbooks on the Second World War and D-Day in which he “describes the build-up tothe invasion, the deceptions, the landings and the aftermath.”
2024:As June 6th begins in Israel, anunprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 244 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluidfor this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting atmidnight Israeli time.)
