JUNE 11
1509: Marriage of King Henry VIII of England andKatherine of Aragon. Before marrying Henry, the Spanish made him promise thathe would never permit Jews to live in his Kingdom. Henry agreed which was no big deal at thetime since Jews had been officially banished from the realm for centuries. In one of those ironic twists of history,Henry would rely on the book of Leviticus when seeking to divorceKatherine. He sought support from Rabbisin Italy whose interpretation of the divine text might be different from theprelates in England. The Italian Rabbisdid not jump at the opportunity to bail out the English monarch since they hadno desire of angering the “Bishop of Rome” who had power over their existence.
1557: Thereign of King John III of Portugal came to an end. During his reign, John brought theInquisition to Portugal and its colonies.Since the Jews had been expelled from his realm the Inquisition wasaimed at Conversos. Oddly enough, John met with David Reubeni in November 1525where the King promised to supply him with ships and cannons. The King recanted when he realize that it madesense to arming Jews while his Inquisition was hunting backsliding marranos.
1590: The entire Jewish quarter of Posen which was built almost entirelyof wood burned while the gentile population watched and pillaged. Fifteenpeople died and eighty scrolls were burned.
1616: Sir Henry Finch, author of a book that called “for the restorationof the Jews to the promised land” “was called to the degree of serjeant-at-law”today.
1634: After having been pilloried twice last month, William Prynne, anopponent of Jews settling in England sent a letter to Archbishop Laud charginghim with “illegality and injustice.”
1673: In Paris Etienne Picart gave birth to “French designer and engraverBernard Picart book plates “all of which are faithfully and carefully preparedand are among the earliest engravings on Jewish ecclesiastical and ceremonialsubjects.
1758(5th of Sivan, 5518): During the Seven Years War, Erev Shavuot observed as James Wolfe preparedhis men for the surprise attack on Lighthouse Point during the siege of Louisburg
1774: Jews inAlgeria escape the attacks of the Spanish army.
1776: In SouthMoravia, Chaile/Caroline and Salomon Strakosch “the elder” gave birth toLeopold "Löbl Jünger" Strakosch.
1776: Today,Joseph Lyon married Mary Underwood at Newport, RI.
1777(6thof Sivan, 5537): Shavuot observed on the first anniversary of Thomas Jefferson,John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston havingbeen appointed to a committee to draft a declaration of independence.
1788: InDenmrk MoroccanJew Joseph Sumbal who claimed to have founded a new world religion, accompaniedhis servants and soldiers to the backyard of a royal palace to preach to thecrowd about his «ground-breaking» religion.
https://en.yabiladi.com/articles/details/87401/joseph-sumbal-this-moroccan-claimed.html
1791: JohnCharles Lucena, the descendant of a Portuguese Marrano clan that had moved fromRhode Island to Georgia married Mary Anne Lancaster.
1796(5thof Sivan, 5556): Parashat Bamibdar and Erev Shavuot observed for the last timeduring the presidency of George Washington.
1798: Troopsfrom Napoleon’s Army that were on their way to fight the British in Egypt,Palestine and Syria disembarked at Malta in defiance of the Grand Master of theKnights, a reactionary opposed to the French Revolution.
1807(5thof Sivan, 5567): Erev Shavuot’
1807(5thof Sivan, 5567): Sashia, the wife of Reb Nachman of Bratslav and the daughterof Rabbi Ephraim, died today from tuberculosis
1807: Curacaobusinessman Moses Levy Maduro Peixotto landed in North America. He would not be able to return to Curacao andsettled in New York where he served as the Rabbi for Congregation ShearithIsrael
1813: In St.Thomas gave, Jacob Baiz, a native of Bayonne, France, and his wife Leah birthto Isaac Baiz
1826(6thShavuot 5586): Shavuot
1826: JamesAbraham Cohen-Stuart, the London born son of Elisabeth Gompertz and AbrahamBenjamin Cohen gave birth to Johanna J.Cohen Stuart
1829:Birthdate of Alphonse Millaud, the nephew of French published and banker MoïsePolydore Millaud
1832: Theoriginal version Robert le diable(Robert the Devil) an opera in five acts composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer wasperformed at the Haymarket Theatre in Great Britain.
1832: InBrussels, Jonathan-Raphaël Bischoffsheim a founder of the National Bank ofBelgium married Henriette Goldschmidt with who had three children, Clair,Ferdinand and Hortense.
1834: LewinAron (`Libesch') Pinner, who served as a rabbi in Bombst and Wronke became anaturalized citizen of Posen under the terms of the Emancipation Act of 1834.
1835:Congregation B'nai Israel laid the cornerstone for the first synagogue to bebuilt in Cincinnati, Ohio. The congregation would hire Max Lilienthal as itsRabbi in June of 1855.
1841: Twenty-year-oldRabbi Haim Nathan Dembitzer married Doba Duetscher who employed horse traderand Unterreissheim-on-the-Main native Karl FriedrichCerf, the convert to Christianity as his chief military agent passed awaytoday.
1842:Solomon Jacob Levy, Aaron Goldsmid and Samuel Lyon De Symons were the executorsof the will of Hyman Hymans of Middlesex which was probated today.
1843:In London, Moses Ascoli and Elizabeth Lee Levy gave birth to Esther Asoclli,the wife of Jonas Vaz-Martines whom she married at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagoguein London and with whom she had fifteen children.
1845(6thSivan, 5605): Shavuot
1845: InPikeln, Russian Empire, Rabbi Benjamin Rabinowitz and his wife gave birth toElijah David Rabinowitz-Teomim, who served as Rosh Yeishiva of Mir beforeemigrating to Jerusalem in 1901.
1846 In Tabor,which is now part of the Czech Republic gave Rabbi Gutmann Klempere and hiswife Julie birth to Dr. Jur. Alois Klemperer
1847: TheJewish Chronicle reported that Maurice S. Mawson of Pernambuco had married RosePhillips, the second daughter of Michael Phillips. The bride was from Jersey and the weddingtook place at St. Helier.
1849: At the14th meeting of The Free Sons of Israel, Noah Lodge Number 1, aconstitution was adopted marking the real date from which the society beganworking as an effective organization.
1850(1stof Tammuz, 5610): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz observed on the same day the DailyMorning News (Savannah, GA) advertises “Jew David’s Hebrew Plaster,” the“great remedy” for many ailments including gout and the rheumatism.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82015886/1850-06-11/ed-1/seq-1/
1852:“America’s Mail – Some Additional Items” published today included a copy ofLionel Rothschild’s “address to the independent electors of London” in which hethanked them for their twice electing him to the House of Commons even thoughhe has been denied his right to take his seat in Parliament and solicitingtheir support in the upcoming election so that the will of the people will holdsway and he will finally be seated.
1852: InHammerstein, Prussia, Marcus Hertzberg and his was wife gave birth to A.M.Hertzberg, the Mayor of Roma, “J.P. for the Colony of Queensland, Australia,”and husband of Miriam Cohen, “the third daughter of Samuel Cohen” who beganserving as President of the “Brisbane Hebrew Congregation” in 1894.
1853(5thof Sivan, 5613): Parashat Bamidbar; erev Shavuot
1853: In St.Louis, MO, “United Hebrew Congregation formed plans for the construction of anew building.”
1857:"Denominations in London," published today reports that according toMr. Low's Handbook to Places of Worship London has 11 synagogues with 8,642seats.
1857: Today,Kehillat Anshe Ma'arab, the first Jewish congregation closed its originalburial grounds which had been established by the now defunct Jewish BurialGround Society and had the first burial in its new cemetery.
1859: InBeaufort, SC, cotton plant owner “Morris Pollitzer and Anna Kuh Pollitzer gavebirth to Columbia University alum Sigmund Pollitzer, the dermatologist who “whoserved as a surgeon in the Serbian-Bulgarian War” and was President of theAmerican Dermatological Association.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/661088
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/11/02/94451130.pdf
1859: PrinceKlemens Wenzel von Metternich, who served as Austria’s foreign minister fornearly forty years, passed away. Metternich’s dealings with Jews were asdevious and Machiavellian as were his dealings with anybody else. Metternich was careful not to pursueanti-Jewish policies that would offend the powerful Salomon Rothschild. He did come to the defense of the Jews duringthe Damascus Blood Libel. But HeinrichGraetz, the Jewish historian who lived during the Metternich Era, viewed himnegatively saying that Metternich was prone to treat the Jews in a mannerconsistent with Maria Theresa rather than with the benevolence shown by EmperorJoseph II. During the Napoleonic era Metternich said of the Jews, “I fear that”they “will believe Napoleon to be their promised Messiah.”
1859: A majorsilver strike known as the Comstock Lode is discovered in Nevada. David H. Cohen was one of several who Jewsworked “as ordinary muckers and miners” where they earned four dollars forspending 12 hours beneath the earth.Adolph Sutro was a self-taught engineer who tried to bring moderntechnology to the mining operations.This included the building of the Sutro Tunnel which a “passageway”designed to improve ventilation in the mines while providing an easier way tohaul the ore and drain excess water.
1859: Disraeliwas replaced by his arch-rival William Gladstone as Chancellor of theExchequer.
1860:Today, Benjamin Disraeli stated,in a letter to Sir William Miles, that he wished to help "because, from myearliest years, my sympathies had been with the landed interest ofEngland".
1862: SolomonBenedict De Worms and his wife Henrietta, the “eldest daughter of Samuel-MosesSamuel gave birth to their second daughter Laura who would die before her firstbirthday.
1863: Today, the38th Iowa Infantry arrived in the vicinity of Vicksburg, where the Union Armyof The Tennessee under Major General Ulysses S. Grant was besieging the city.
1863: InFrankfurt, Selig Meier Goldschmidt and his wife Clementine Fuld the daughter ofHerz Salomon Fuld and Caroline Schuster gave birth to Hedwig Goldschmidt
1864(7thof Sivan, 5624): Second Day of Shavuot
1864: IgnazIsrael Bondy and Ottilie Bondy gave birth to Alois Ernst Bondy.
1864: Duringthe Civil War, Philadelphian Emil Myer completed his three year enlistment inthe Union Army mustering out as a Captain in Company C of the 27thRegiment.
1864: Duringthe Civil War, Philadelphian Jacob Luescher completed his three year enlistmentin the Union Army mustering out as Sergeant in Company A of the 27 Regiment.
1864: Duringthe Civil War, Philadelphian Henry Roengarten who had begun his service as aCorporal with Company completed his three year enlistment mustering out as aSergeant in Company K of the 27th Regiment.
1864: Duringthe Civil War, Philadelphian Jacques Adelsheimer, who had risen from the rankof private to Captain while serving with the 27th regiment and whohad been wounded at Chancellorsville in 1863 completed his three-yearenlistment.
1865(17thof Sivan, 5625): Elias Chaim Lindo, the nephew of Moses Mocatta who moved fromSt. Thomas to London in the 1830’s where he pursued a life of Jewishscholarship that included writing The History of the Jews of Spain andPortugal passed away today.
1865:Frederick Knefler is mustered out of the Union Army with the rank of BrevetBrigadier General. He had joined the army in 1861 with the rank of Lieutenant.
1867: InKönigsberg, which was then part of Germany, Pinkus and Ida Stern gave birth toGeorg Joseph Stern an electrical engineer who retired from AEG in 1930 and“devoted himself to his musical compositions until he passed away in 1934.
1868(21stof Sivan, 5628): Lazar Horowitz, the leading Orthodox Rabbi in Vienna whodefended the historian Heinrich Graetz against charges of heresy and whose mostfamous work was “Yad Eleazar” passed away today.
1870: Thefuneral of Mrs. D. Dinkelspiel, the wife of the Treasurer of the Hebrew MutualBenefit Society is scheduled to be held this morning at Number 7, West 53rdSt.
1871: InLouisville, KY, Lazarus Selligman and Carrie Sabel gave birth to AlfredSelligman the graduate of the University of Louisville law school, husband ofJennie Katz, defeated Republican candidate for Commonwealth attorney who is atrustee of the Jewish Free Hospital, director of the Young Men’s HebrewAssociation and leader of Congregation Adath Israel.
1871: It wasreported today that the Jewish Times hastaken issue with criticism published in some Connecticut newspapers of the factthat a rabbi had been asked to lead the opening prayer at the statelegislature. The Times contendedProtestant, Catholic or Jew could call upon the Divine to provide support forthe legislators and that anybody who questioned that was neither a Christiannor a gentleman.
1871: TheNotes and News column reported on the efforts of Polish authorities to enforcethe new Russian rules that require the Jews to give up their traditional garband hairstyle – including the requirement that they shave their beards, cut offtheir side curls, give up their long coats and their short pants. The Jews areresisting the changes and the authorities are resorting to trickery and forceto accomplish their goals.
1871: Hatzofeh B’Eretz HaChadashah (The NewLand Speculator) “the first Hebrew periodical in America published its firstissue today in New York.”
1872: On theday after his death, “watchmaker Joseph bar Yitzhak, the husband of Fanny andSarah Joseph and the father of Julia, Louis and Rose Joseph was buried today atthe “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1872: “Jewsversus Christians” published today described the efforts of various societies,many of which are located in England, to convert Jews. These efforts have metwith “very limited success.” Most Jewsdo not respond to these expensive attempts and the few that do “are of a sortwhose private life and reputation does not render them very valuableacquisitions as citizens.” The articlecontinues with a repute of the attacks on the Jews of Smyrna and suggests thatthe money might be better spent teaching the Christians of Smyrna to behavelike Christians. The article concludesthat considering the Christian violence in Smyrna, “people almost be excusedfor thinking that a liberal-minded Jew may easily be a better man than a SmyrnaChristian.”
1873: InHobken, NJ, founding of the Hebrew Ladies’ Aid Society of Congregation AdathEmuno which had been founded in 1871.
1876:Birthdate of NYU and JTS alum Bernard Calonius Ehreneich, the Hungarian bornson of Henry Reuben and Hannah Ehrenreich, the husband of Irma Bock and thefather of Rosemarie and Louis Sigmund Ehrenreich who served as a rabbi atCongregation Beth Israel in Atlantic City, Congregation Adath Jeshurun inPhiladelphia and Congregation Kahl Montgomery in Montgomery, AL.
1876:“Consecration of a Synagogue” published today described the servicesconsecrating a new orthodox synagogue in Washington, DC which were attended byU.S. Grant, the President of the United States and the Speaker Pro Tempore ofthe U.S. Senate (Editor’s note: The article fails to name the Synagogue wasAdas Israel which is still located in Washington, DC.)
1876: LouisRaminsky, a Jew living on Mott Street was assaulted by Irishman named George Richardsonwho mistook him for a man named Rubenstein.
1877(30th ofSivan, 5637): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1877: As partof their on-going and rather unsuccessful attempt to convert Jews, theConference on Jewish Mission began today “under the Presidency of the LordBishop of Bath and Wells.
1878: AtRochester, NY, Rabbi Sigmund Mannheimer and his wife gave birth to Universityof Cincinnati graduate and HUC trained cleric Rabbi Leo Mannheimer who beganserving as the spiritual leader of Mizpah Congregation in Chattanooga, TN in1902.
1878: InLandau, Germany, Jakob and Ida Baruch gave birth to Rosa Baruch.
1878(10thof Sivan, 5638): Thirty-eight-year-old Lucien Levy passed away thisafternoon. Based on the note found withthe body, he had committed suicide by taking strychnine. Levy, a successful NewYork businessman had been for a week prior to this death.
1879:“American Israelites in Russia” published today described the attempts of theU.S. House of Representatives to remedy an inequity when it came to Jews owinglanding in Russia. Under Russian law,Jews, including Jews who are citizens of the United States are not allowed toown land in Russia. British Jews are allowed to own land in Russia under atreaty that exists between those two countries.The House wants the situation remedied since it amounts todiscrimination again American citizens based on their religion; something whichthe legislators feel is intolerable.
1881: MaruiceLippmann and Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette Dumas gave birth to French gold medalwinning fencer Auguste-Alexandre Lippmann.
1881(14thof Sivan, 5641): British painter and engraver Solomon Alexander Hart, the sonengraver and Hebrew teacher Samuel Hart passed away. An observant Jew, “he was the first Jewishmember of the Royal Academy in London.” “Among Hart's Jewish works are:"Hannah, the Mother of Samuel"; and "The Conference BetweenManasseh ben Israel and Oliver Cromwell," which was bought by F. D.Mocatta, who subsequently presented it to Jews' College.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hart_Self_Portrait.jpg
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hart,_Solomon_Alexander_(DNB00)
1881: It wasreported today that there are 277,000 Jews living in Kiev; 155,000 in Kovno,143,000 in Minsk; 119,000 in Vilna and 98,000 in Bessarabia. The total Jewish population of Poland isreported to be 815,000. Largecommunities of Jews can also be found in St. Petersburg and Moscow where theyhave been settling since the ban instituted by Nicholas I was overturned by hissuccessors.
1882: The New York Times published a reviewof Spinoza: A Novel by Berthold Auerbach which has been translated intoEnglish from the original German.
1882: It wasreported today that a dispatch from St. Petersburg states appointing Jews asChief Surgeons in the Russian Army has been forbidden.
1882:Birthdate of Cacilie Altmann who was transported from Hannover, to Terezin andfinally to Auschwitz where she was murdered in 1944.
1883(6thof Sivan, 5643): Shavuot
1883: “FelixAdler and Israelites” published today described the belief of some Jewishleaders, including those who are friends of Felix Adler, that membership in hisEthical Cultural Society means that Jews have joined a group that is beyond thepale of the Jewish community. Dr.Solomon H. Sonneschein a leading rabbi in St. Louis has written an open letterpublished in the American Israelite that asks his friend Adler, “Are you stillan Israelite, a disciple of Moses and the prophets, a standard bearer of God’slove and truth, as understood by reformed Judaism…or have you hopelesslyabandoned the faith in which you were born and bred?”
1884: MyerLipman Nathan and Esther Sarluis were married today at the Great Synagogue inLondon.
1884:Birthdate of Brooklyn native Grace Baer Bachrach, the schoolteacher and wife ofattorney Clarence G. Bachrach with whom she had two children who was so activein various civic and cultural organizations including the “Brooklyn division ofthe Federation of Jewish Philanthropies” that was honored as “Brooklyn’s FirstLady of Philanthropy in 1956.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/06/19/82045594.pdf
1885: It wasreported today that a Jew named Solomon Ovitch has arrested for seditiouspractices at Kharkoff.
1886(8th ofSivan, 5646): James Koppel Gutheim, who has been serving as Rabbi at TempleSinai, the leading Reform congregation in New Orleans, passed away this eveningin the Crescent City
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9901E2DF1438E533A25751C1A9609C94679FD7CF
1886: In NewYork City “Louis Kelvin and Eva (Scollard) Steinman gave birth today to CCNYand Columbia educated award winning structural engineer David Barnard Steinman,the husband of Irene Hoffman.
https://www.asce.org/templates/person-bio-detail.aspx?id=11213
1886: LouisStix, the Westphalia, Germany born son of Deborah and Solomon Stix and his wifeYetta Stix gave birth to Caroline (Carrie) Stix who became Caroline Weiss whenshe married Samuel Weiss with whom she had four children – William, Nina, Louisand Carol
1887: Mrs.Abraham Bernstein, the wife of Jewish peddler living at Port Chester, foundtoday that her husband was living in Glenville, Connecticut, with anotherwoman. The towns are only a couple of miles apart.
1887:Birthdate of Max Sievers, the chairman of the German Freethinkers League whoseinability to get a visa while living in the United States in 1939 after havingfled the Nazis meant he had to return to Europe where he was evening beheadedby the Germans.
1888: In NewYork during trial being held in the Court of General Sessions, the defenseattorney “spoke to the Jury as Christians and became very indignant” when heldthem that Jews do not believe “in the divinity or miracles of Christ.” Heapparently forgot that five the jurors were Jewish.
1889:Birthdate of Joseph Lewis, the Montgomery, Alabama born Jew turned atheist whoas President of The Freethinkers of America” called on Jews to “renounce their‘antiquated creed’” and denounced “Yom Kippur as the ‘most degrading andhumiliating day in all the superstitious annals of religion’.”
1890:Birthdate of Pittsburgh native and University of Michigan trained attorneyNathan J. Gould, the Milwaukee resident and editor and president of TheWisconsin Jewish Chronicle.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/10/28/105165682.html?pageNumber=22
1891(5thof Sivan, 5651): Erev Shavuot
1891: InBerlin, an Associated Press correspondent met today with Herr Goldberg aprominent Jewish financer who is the Director of the International Bank inBerlin and serves as Consul General for Belgium
1891: Thefirst vice president and second vice president of the New York Life InsuranceCompany admitted today that Julio Merzbacher had not retired as the company’sSpanish-American because of ill health as previously announced but that he hadleft the company after his embezzlement of from $300,000 to $500,000 had beendiscovered.
1893: The newJewish cemetery on Long Island was dedicated today by the Mount ZionAssociation.
1893: TimothyJ. Campbell was among those who delivered a speech when “a granite monument wasunveiled today” in “memory of the late Moses Mehrbach” at Cypress HillsCemetery where Rabbi Hirsch “conducted the devotional services and made thededicatory address.”
1893: InAtlantic City, N.J., dedication of the Jewish Seaside Home took place toay..The home was the outgrowth of a project in which four cottages had been rentedto provide a refuge designed to help improve the health of invalid mothers andtheir children. The cottages were purchased and converted into a thirty roominstitution which would meet the needs of these women and their offspring.
1893: GeorgeKennan will the guest of honor at dinner in London in honor of Colonel Goldsmid“who has just returned from organizing Hirsch colonies in Argentina
1894(7th ofSivan, 5654): Second Day of Shavuot
1894:“Movement to Christianize the Jews” published today described a speech given atthe meeting of the American Hebrew Christian Society in New York where Rev.John Wilkinson, Director of Mildmay Mission to the Jews of London, England“said that he had come to tell his American brethren how to establish missionfor Christianization of the Jews and to try to influence the ChristianAmericans to take a more active part in reclaiming them.”
1894: InLigonier, Indiana, founding of the Little Helpers’ Club whose members includeRuth Selig, Ruby Solomon, Hortense Goldsmith and Stella Baum.
1895: S.K.Brown, the son of an Austrian rabbi was ordained as a Baptist minister inCamden, NJ.
1897: Dentalsurgeon and businessman Dr. Hugo and Minna Luise Ascher gave birth toMaragarete Lilly (Grete) the younger sister German expressionist painter FritzAscher.
1897: TheJewish community in München protests against holding the Zionist congress inthe city.
1897: Texasnative Andrew Moses began serving as a 2nd Lt. in the 11thInfantry, USA.
1898: “LondonLiterary Notes” published today includes a review of Jew, Gypsy and El Islam inwhich the author, the late Sir Richard Burton expresses his admiration forMohammedanism but “abuses the Jews.”
1898: Today eighteen-year-oldZionist Rebecca Schweitzer the Russian born daughter of Hannah Levine and HirschGabrowitsky married Peter J. Schweitzer who passed away in 1923 which led to herassuming the Presidency of Peter J. Schweitzer, Inc “the largest importers andexporters of cigarette paper in the Unite States” which maintained a factory inVanduss, France.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/schweitzer-rebecca
1898: “Mr. andMrs. Bierman’s Garden Party” published today described the soiree given formore than 100 residents of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews who were servedrefreshments after enjoying musical selections played by the band from theHebrew Orphan Asylum
1898: “New Rabbis To Be Ordained” published today described the upcomingplans for the graduation exercises to be held at the Hebrew Union College inCincinnati, Ohio.
1899: “Dreyfus and Picquart” published today noted that Captain Dreyfus“has done nothing, absolutely nothing to become the center of all this furyexcept not have sold the military secrets of France.” The real hero of affair is Major GeorgePicquart, the Minister of War.
1899: The ninth version the French anti-Semitic publication of Anti-Juif du Midi was published atMontpellier.
1899: “Aid Asked for a Worthy Family” published today described theefforts of the United Hebrew Charities to raise $400 for a 35 year old man, hiswife and four children. “Throughoverwork, both the man and the wife have become chronic invalids” and the moneywould be used to help them open “a notion store” that would provide them withincome and allow the family to stay together.
1899: “In The Russian Capital” published today described the attack inNicolaieff in which an unknown number of Jews have been killed or wounded.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0711FA3F5414728DDDA80994DE405B8985F0D3
1900: Birthdate of journalist, producer and broadcaster Lawrence ESpivak, one of the creators, first producers and first moderators of Meet thePress the original television news interview show. It was unique for its timebecause it put a major political or other such leader on live television facingthe unfiltered question of four members of the working press. In variousformats, this program has survived for almost six decades. Spivak died in 1994.
1900: In Saxony, Hesse, Germany native Hulda Schickler who was murderedat Theresidenstadt and her husband Adolf Aron Schickler gave birth to KaetheKate Wolff, the wife of Siegfried Isak Wolff,
1901: “The first annual meeting of the National Conference of JewishCharities” took place at Chicago,
1901: In London Herzl attends a banquet at the Maccabaeans with IsraelZangwill and Sir Francis Montefiore and other influential and wealthy Jews. Butthe successes in London are merely social.
1902(6th of Sivan, 5662): Shavuot
1903: Leo Wise wrote a letter to Rabbi Zadok Kahn, the Chief Rabbi ofFrance
1903: Rabbis Pereira Mendes and Rabinowitz address of joint meeting ofB’nai Zion Kadimah and Benoth Zion Kadmah at the First Romanian Synagogue onRivington Street.
1903: In Boston, the Hebrew National Association held a meeting todayduring which new officers were installed and was then followed by concert thatraised $65.00 for the Kishinev Fund.
1904(28th of Sivan, 5664): Parashat Sh’lach
1904: On her 18th birthday, Yiddish and English-speakingactress, Vera Gordon, the Russian born daughter of Teiga Nemirovsky and BorisPogrorelsky who had been performing on stage since she was eleven years oldmarried Nathan A. Gordon, twelve years before she began performing inVaudeville and on the legitimate stage in such works as “The Land of the Free”and “The Gentile Wife.’
Vera Gordon | JewishWomen's Archive (jwa.org)
1904: “Russia” published today provided a lengthy review of GeorgeDrage’s Russian Affairs in which the author writes “Concerning the Jews”that “from 1887 to 1890 all Jews resident districts were harried from the homesand forced to living in the Pale” and that the Russian persecution stands apartfrom other of the anti-Semitic movement on account of its unparalleledmagnitude and ferocity and also because it is the direct act of a governmentdeliberately, systematically, remorselessly seeking to reduce to utter miseryabout four and a half million of its own subjects.\
1905: Samuel Shimansky “acted as master of ceremonies” today when “thecornerstone of the new synagogue of the Congregation Beth Israel was laid thisafternoon” while ten policeman “were on guard fearing the possibility that theceremony would be disturbed.”
1906: As a prelude to the Bialystok Pogrom, “the Police Chief ofBiałystok, Derkacz, was murdered, most likely on the orders of the Russiancommissar and fervent anti-Semite Szeremietiev. Derkacz, who was Polish, wasknown for his liberal sympathies and opposition to anti-Semitism; for this hewas respected by both the Jewish Bund and the Polish Socialist Party. On aprevious occasion, when Russian soldiers attacked Jews in the marketplace,Derkacz had sent in his policemen to put down the violence and had declaredthat a pogrom against the Jews would occur “only over his dead body”.
1906: Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed The WadsworthDistrict Sunday Bill which would have the effect of unduly penalizing Jewishmerchants in Washington, D.C. who would have to closed for both days of theweekend.
1907: In Mulhouse, Constance Kenendel Lang and Baruch Kahn gave birth toArthur Kahn
1908: The Old Windsor Theatre on the Bowery “which in the last decade hasbeen given over to Jewish plays and players” is scheduled to be torn down “toclear the way for the approaches of the new Manhattan East River Bridge.”
1908: “Word was received today from Albany of the incorporation of theEducational Theatre for Children and Young People, which as has heretofore beenrun as a department of the Educational Alliance of which Samuel L. Clemens willserve as President, Minnie Hertz as Secretary and Otto Kahn as one of itsDirectors.
1909: In New York, a two-day conference that has created Young Judaeacame to an end.
1909(22nd of Sivan, 5669): Jacob Michailovitch Gordin “a Russian-bornAmerican playwright active in the early years of Yiddish theater” who “is knownfor introducing realism and naturalism into Yiddish theater” passed away.https://www.bartleby.com/228/0852.html
1910(4th of Sivan, 5670) Parashat Naso
1910: While sentencing Michael Lazarus and Maxy Mayer to the Workhousetoday “for attempting to pick pockets, Magistrate Cornell in the Essex MarketCourt said, “It is perfectly appalling to me to see the number of young Hebrewswho come to this court these days” because “when I was first a Magistrate therewere few Hebrews that came before me for this offense.
1911: “Colonel Garrard Explains” published provided Fort Meyer CommandantColonel Joseph Garrard explanation “for expressing, in an official indorsem*nt,the sentiment that a Jew, the son of a tailor would be a desirable army” sayingthat “the custom in the service requires officers to call on and receive callsfrom brother officers and their families” and this would not be appropriate inthe case of a Jew and besides which he was sure that the papers explaining allof this had been stolen and given to attorney Solomon Wolf who then gave themto the President.
1912: Twenty-seven-year-old Lumzer native Charles Belsky, the Holyoke, MAbusiness who is a partner in Belsky and Goldberg married Esther Cohen todayafter which they had three children and were members of “Rotve SholamCongregation.”
1912: The City of Sumter, South Carolina where Jews purchased land for acemetery in 1874 and is the home of Temple Sinai, adopted the council-managerform of government, making it the first city in the United States to do so.
1912: As of today, there are four Jewish candidates seeking election tothe Duma from Odessa.
1912: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Benjamin R Epstein, the Pennsylvaniaeducated former director of the ADL and author who raised two children – Ellenand David – with his wife Ethel.
1912(26th of Sivan, 5672): Arthur L. Welsh passed away. Born in Kiev in1881, Leibl Welcher, came to the United States with his father Abraham andmother Deborah at the age of 10 where he would become Arthur L. Welsh. After trying a variety of careers, includinga stint in the U.S. Navy, Welsh found his calling as test pilot with Orvilleand Wilbur Wright. In 1912,the Wrights had sent Welsh to the U.S. Army Signal Corps in College Park, MD,to serve as a civilian test pilot for a new plane being developed for the WarDepartment. On June 11, 1912, Welsh, accompanied by Signal Corps Lt. LeightonW. Hazelhurst, was attempting to complete final military tests of the WrightModel C airplane when the airplane buckled under its 450- pound load. Both menwere killed instantly, the first-ever fatalities at College Park. Hap Arnold who gained fame as one of the most decorated leaders of theU.S. Army Air Force during World War II was one of his most famous students.
http://www.earlyaviators.com/ewelsh.htm
http://www.jewishdayton.org/observer/the-first-jewish-aviator/
1913(6th of Sivan, 5673): Shavuot
1913: Cantor Millard conducted Shavuot services at the Chicago HebrewInstitute.
1913: Rabbi Gerson B. Levi officiated at the Confirmation Services heldat B’nai Sholom-Temple Israel in Chicago.
1913: While fighting in the Philippine Islands against rebels resistingthe American occupation, Private Louis C. Mosher “risked his life” so that hecould “rescue a wounded soldier under enemy gunfire.” He was awarded the Medalof Honor for this rescue.
1913: In the Bronx, Christian Steenberg, a Norwegian American and SadieMechanic who was Jewish gave birth to Risë Gus Steenbergwho would gain fame as “Risë Stevens, the internationally renownedmezzo-soprano who had a 23-year career with the Metropolitan Opera, where shepractically owned the role of Carmen during the 1940s and ’50s.” (As reportedby Margalit Fox)
1914: Birthdate of actor Gerald Mohr, who although notJewish joined Tony Curtis as a pallbearer at the funeral of fellow actor JeffChandler (Ira Grossel)
1915: American ambassador to Turkey, Henry Morgenthau, received anhonorary degree of LL.D. from University of Constantinople.
1915: In Youngstown, Ohio, dedication of Rodef Sholem Temple.
1915: In Chicago, the Executive Board of the Anti-Capital PunishmentSociety of America is scheduled to host “conference for those active to saveLeo M. Frank from the gallows” at the Auditorium Hotel.
1915: Tonight “former State Tax Commissioner Joseph S. Schwab, Chairmanof the New York Committee on the Commutation of the Sentence of Leo M.Frank…sent a telegram to Governor Slaton of Georgia asking clemency for Frank.”
1915: Several prominent men from Illinois including Governor Dunne,Senator James Hamilton Lewis and Harlow N. Higinbotham “sent final pleas bywire today” asking Governor Slaton to commute Leo Frank’s death sentence.
1915: Based on remarks he made to attorneys representing both sides ofthe case, it was reported today that Governor Slaton does not want “to pass LeoFrank’s application over to his successor, Governor-elect Nat E. Harris, but todecide it himself.”
1915: In Copenhagen, at the second day of its meeting, The ActionCommittee (Va;ad HaPoel HaZioni) rejected Jabotinsky’s “plan to establish a Jewish Legion”resolving that "The Jewish Legionproject stands in deep contradiction to the principles of Zionist activity...no Zionist will participate or support this activity." (Editor’s note –“Jabotinsky refuses to heed them and despite objections by the majority of Zionistleaders, moves to London where he continues to work towards the establishmentof a regiment.”)
1915: It was reported that “mass meetings are being held daily throughoutthe state” of Georgia at which resolutions are being adopted protestingagainst” the commutation of Leo Frank’s death sentence.
1916: Aaron Mann, the Kovno born son of Zelick Mann and the brother HarryMann, the owners of Mann Iron and Steele Company in Norristown, PA todaymarried “Miss Sadei Leftco of Philadelphia, PA with whom he had one daughter.
1916: Djemal Pasha, military governor of Palestine for Ottoman Turkey,issued a warning to the Jewish settlers that the creation of future settlementswould become more difficult. (This may have been in reaction to fact that a lotof the Zionists were Russians and the Turks assumed that they would make commoncause with the Czar whose army they were fighting.)
1916: Today, “the Board of Directors announced the purchase of the HopeChapel” on East Fourth Street in New York so that it could become “the newlocation for a new Jewish school – Talmud Torah Ansche Zitomerer.”
1916: Eight hundred people attended the wedding of Jacob Scheiner, theson of Rabbi Samuel Scheiner and Bella Schwartz, the daughter of SamuelSchwartz in New York.
1916: In the seven months following today’s meeting of the ExecutiveBoard of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Greensboro HebrewCongregation in Greensboro, NC, United Hebrew Congregation in St. Louis, NewSynagogue in NYC and Temple Sinai in Lake Charles, LA have joined the Union.
1916: “Seven candidates received the degree of rabbi, Preacher andTeacher in Israel and twenty-two young men and women” were “awarded diplomasfrom the Teachers’ Institute during the graduating exercises of the JewishTheological Seminary this afternoon where attendees heard speeches from Dr.Cyrus Adler, acting President of the Seminary and Professor Mordechai Kaplanwho said that “the fundamental duty of the Jewish home is to keep alive hedemand for religious training of the young” and that “Jewish education mustcome to be regarded as the one constructive activity in Jewish life which is ofsupreme important and to which every man, woman and child in Israel should induty bound to contribute something whether it be in means, energy or inidealism.”
1916: The Federation of the Oriental Jews of America held its thirdannual meeting in New York. JosephGedalecia served as President and Albert J. Amateau served as secretary. The1000 member organization's purpose was the "Americanization and bettermentof condition of Oriental Jews."
1917: “The Women’s Proclamation Committee, the national women’sorganization for Jewish War Relief began its Summer Campaign in behalf of theTen Million dollar Fund which has already received a contribution “fromprominent women in Kingston, Jamaica” which was sent to Mrs. Albert Lucas, thecommittee’s executive secretary.
1917: The Executive Board of the Jewish Congress Association is scheduledto hold the first of two days of meetings concerning the upcoming meeting ofthe national organization.
1917: It was reported from New York today Judge Julian W. Mack of Chicagoand Dr. Horace M. Kallen of Madison, WI, will participate in “a summer courseof lectures on Zionism” sponsored by the Intercollegiate Zionist Association ofAmerica.
1917(21st of Sivan, 5677): German banker Julius Rosenheim passed awaytoday in Berlin.
1917: “Scores of counters were employed all day” today at theheadquarters of the American Jewish Congress Committee in the MetropolitanBuilding opening ballot boxes tallying the votes for delegates to the upcomingmeeting of the American Jewish Congress.
1918: In Stamford, CT, “Leila (née Hughes), an opera singer, and AlfredE. Aarons, a Broadway theatrical producer gave birth to Table Tennis (PingPong) Champion Ruth Hughes Aarons who went on to a career as theatricalmanager.
1918: In Odessa, Ukraine, Rabbi Joseph J. Kaplan and Chava Lerner Kaplangave birth to American philosopher Abraham Kaplan, author of The Conduct ofInquiry.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/24/us/abraham-kaplan-75-author-and-teacher.html
1918: During World War I, at Bois de Belleau, France, “after all theother members of his group had been killed or wounded by from an enemy machinegun” Jean Mathias, a Private in the U.S. Marines, “charged the gun positionalone, killing three of the crew and capturing the gun” – an action for hewhich he was “awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Navy Cross and theFrench Croix de Guerre.”
1919(13th of Sivan, 5679): Seventy-one year old German bornU.S. Naval Academy Graduate Adolph Marix who served aboard the battleship Mainewhen she exploded before the Spanish American War and who was promoted to therank of Admiral in recognition of courageous conduct during the Battles ofManzanillo during that conflict and who was the husband of Grace F. Marixpassed away today after which he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/adolph-marix.htm
1920: Birthdate of Irving Howe graduate of City College and a veteran ofWorld War II who was a professor at CUNY, Brandeis and Stanford. A notededitor of Yiddish literature who discovered the author Isaac Bashevis Singerfor an English-speaking audience, his work includes A Treasury of YiddishPoetry. His greatest popular acclaim came with the writing of World of Our Fathers. He was a lifelong Socialist and was considered to be one of thiscountry's most influential literary critics until his death in 1993.
1920: It was reported today that “General Allenby has sent hisresignation to the government in London as a protest against the appointment ofHerbert Samuel as High Commissioner of Palestine.”
1920: It was reported today that “the head office of the Jewish NationalFund has received messages from all parts of the world to the effect that bigmovements were being organized everywhere to raise the money the Jew NationalFund needs for carrying out the immediate tasks” of settling Palestine.
1921(5th of Sivan, 5681): Parashat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot
1921: In Manhattan, Joel Russ, the founder of Russ and Daughters and hiswife Bella gave birth to Ann Russ, the future Anne Russ Federman, one of the“daughters” in Russ and Daughters. (As reported by Sam Roberts. (If you haven’tbeen to Russ and Daughters, you haven’t lived, or at least that is what my wifewould say)
1921: Birthdate of London native Michael Leverson Meyerson the scion of“a timber merchant family of Jewish origin” who “won the 1971 Whitbread Awardfor Biography” and whose “autobiography Not Prince Hamlet was publishedin 1989.
1921(5th of Sivan, 5681): Daniel Joseph Jaffé, the son ofMartin Jaffé and a nephew of Sir Otto Jaffé, passed away. A noted waterworksconsulting engineer, his most famous efforts were completed in China. Evidence of his fame can be seen Hong Kong’sJaffe Road which was named in his honor.
1922: Prominent New York merchant Louis Stern arrived in Paris havingcrossed the Atlantic on board the SS Homeric.
1922: “The betrothal of Dora Harrison and Fred Sirsky of Camden wassolemnized today in Prosperity Hall.
1922: In Mannville, Alberta, Canada, Max Goffman and Anne Goffman (néeAverbach) gave birth to sociologist Erving Goffman, the 73rd president of the AmericanSociological Association
1923: “An official statement of the Soviet Government says that all Jewswho wish to join relatives in America may do so by applying for emigrationpassports.”
1924: In Brooklyn Morris and Pauline Faust gave birth to high schoolguidance counselor and author Irvin Faust.
1924: Rabbi Samuel Schulman offered the invocation at the opening of thesecond day of the 1924 Republican National Convention during which he spokewith appreciation for "the Republican Party's precious heritage of thechampionship of human rights" and he called for "every form ofprejudice and misunderstanding" to be "driven forever out of ourland." 1926: Louis Greenspan who had been arrested after the car he wasdriving struck and killed Congressman London is scheduled to return to courttoday when police believe they will have completed their investigation into thefatal accident.
1925(19th of Sivan, 5685): Sixty-six-year-old Flora Jolenberg,the daughter of Abraham and Henriette Berliner and the wife of SiegfriedJolenberg with she has two daughters, Estelle and Yvonne, passed away today inBerlin.
1926: The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that “a concert hall will beerected in Tel Aviv through the efforts of Palestinian Jewish musicians as acommemoration of the 25th anniversary of the musical composerEngel.”
1927(9th of Iyar, 5687): Fifty-seven-year-old Louis Samuel Montagu, 2ndBaron Swaythling, “the first professing Jews to inherit a peerage and seat inthe House of Lords, the President of the Federation of Synagogues andanti-Zionist who opposed the Balfour Declaration passed away today.
1928: It was reported today that “a resolution attacking the SovietGovernment of Russia for persecuting Jewish Zionist workers has been adopted ata special conference of the American Jewish Congress at the Hotel Pennsylvania.”
1928: Following the death of Eliezer David Greenwald, “an electioncommittee established by the Orthodox community’s board chose Joel Teitelbaum”as his replacement today.
1929: The British High Commissioner wrote to the Mufti defending theright of the Jews to ‘conduct their worship’ (at the Western Wall) as in thepast.
1929: Manny Sinwell began serving as Financial Secretary to the WarOffice.
1930: After an agreement was reached between the competing parties today,Joel Teitelbaum “was invited to serve as Satmar’s chief rabbi.
1930: Theodore Lesser, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Lesser, and hisbride, the former Claire Sylvia Fankenstyne are scheduled to sail today aboardthe Leviathan for their honeymoon trip to Europel
1931: Seventy-five year old Franklin Giddings, the professor of Sociologyat Columbia who in 1907 had told a group attending a lecture at the People’sInstitute in Cooper Union that he favors “the recent movement by the Jews tokeep Christian ceremonies out of the public schools” and that while “he favoredthe Zionist movement, he feared that could not be made attractive to the Jewsto be successful” passed away today.
1932(7th ofSivan, 5692): Second Day of Shavuot and Yizkor are recited for the last timeduring the Presidency of Herbert Hoover who appointed Justice Cardozo to theSupreme Court.
1933: It wasreported today that the German government “is digging through the backgroundsof over 350,000 civil servants to find out who is of ‘Jewish extraction’ andthus ‘liable to dismissal.’”
1933:“The Jewish organizations of Silesia hld a conference to discuss thesafeguarding of rights of German Jews.”
1933:In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, William J. and Jeanne (Baer) Silberman gave birth toJerome Silberbman the University of Iowa graduate who gained fame as themulti-dimensional creator of comedy Gene Wilder.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/movies/gene-wilder-dead.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/29/gene-wilder-obituary
1934: Birthdate of Murray Wolfe, successful businessman, playwright,poet, Yiddishist, and, most important of all, a first-class mensch. If you didnot know that Murray was a real person, you would think his life story was oneof those big historic novels written by Leon Uris.
1934(28th of Sivan, 5694): Lev sem*novich Vygotsky a developmentalpsychologist known for his socio-cultural perspective passed away. Born into amiddle-class Jewish family in Orsha, Russia in 1896, Vygotsky's faith andsocial standing shaped many of his choices and views.
1935: In Oklahoma City, OK Sylvan N. Goldman and Margaret Katz Gold mangave birth to real estate developer and philanthropist Monte H. Goldman.
1935: Birthdate of Gene Wilder. Born Jerome Silberman in MilwaukeeWisconsin, Wilder is known for his roles in “Young Frankenstein” and “SilverStreak.”
1936: As the wave of Arab violence increased, ThePalestine Postreported that many Arabs were injured and a number might have been killed in abattle with police and British troops in the Ein Harod area and during ademonstration in Hebron. Arab crowds were dispersed in Jaffa where a Britishconstable was stabbed. Arab terrorists cut telephone wires and set some forestson fire. The Second Battalion of the Dorset Regiment arrived in Jerusalem fromEgypt. Over a thousand one-year-old citrus trees were uprooted in Kfar Yona andthe late Field-Marshal Allenby's statue was damaged in Beersheba
1936: As theArab uprising continued, arsonists set fire to the fields of Kfar Joshua and tothe forest at Ataroth which is located outside of Jerusalem. Guards at theforest fired shots at the arsonists as they escaped.
1936: In NewYork, a Grand Jury voted to indict anti-Semitic pamphlet Robert EdwardEdmondson on charges of libel Dean Virginia Gildersleeve of Barnard College,U.S. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and “the Jewish religion.”
1937: Marx Brothers' "A Day at the Races" released to popularacclaim.
1937: Stalin moves forward with the Great Purge which was animated inpart by anti-Semitism as the Soviet Dictator went after those whom he claimedwere followers of Trostky and which denuded the general staff of many seasonedofficer which helps to explain the abysmal showing of the Russians when theGermans invaded in 1941.
1938(12th of Sivan, 5698): Parashat Nasso
1938(12th of Sivan, 5698): Sixty-year-old Russian bornShmaryohu Leib Hurwitz, since 1927 rabbi, principal and director of theTiphereth Hagro Talmud Torah in Brooklyn, who was the husband of the formerSarah Kanewetzky, with whom he had two daughters and two sons, passed awaytoday.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/06/12/99544728.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1938: “Mr. Moto Takes a Chance,” “the fourth in a series of eight filmsstarring Peter Lorre as Mr. Moto” and produced by Sol M. Wurtzel was releasedin the United States today.
1939: “All business in the Jerusalem post office was suspended” todayexcept for telegraph and cable service following the explosion of a bomb thatkilled “a British constable” and the discovery of “an unexploded bomb which wasfound in the post office garage.”
1939: “Dr. Chaim Weizmann…sent a letter today to the Mandates Committeeof the League of Nations attacking Britain’s new policy on Palestine as ‘thetriumph of force over moderation.’”
1940(5th of Sivan, 5700): Erev Shavuot
1940: As the Nazis sweep across France, Eugène Tisserant, a FrenchCardinal working at the Vatican writes to the Archbishop of Paris lamenting thesilence of the Pope when it comes to the evil of the Nazis.
1940: “As a result of internal pressure from citizens objecting to thelarge number of “transient” refugees (many of whom were Jews fleeing Hitler’sEurope) who had reached Ciudad Trujillo and were waiting there to procure entryinto other North and South American countries, the Dominican Congress passed abill barring all immigration except of persons intending to make the Republictheir permanent home.” (JA)
1940: Leon Blum, who was in London, “decided to return to Paris” today.
1941: Following the bombing of Haifa, which is an important naval basefor the British, by German planes, the Vichy government has condemned reportsby the British that the German war planes “returned” to the Aleppo airfield inNorthern Syria. The term “returned” implies that the planes had flown fromAleppo to attack Haifa and the Vichy French claim that there are no Germanaircraft in Syria. Syria is a Frenchcolony which is supposedly governed by the Vichy government under the terms ofthe surrender agreement signed with the Nazis.
1941: Hans and Margaret Rey try to buy two bikes so that they can leaveParis. The search is fruitless.
1941: Hans Rey spent 1,600 francs for two unassembled bikes. He then spent the rest of the day puttingthem in working order.
1942:Major Liebmann and his hundredsurviving men (out of a company that had been 400 strong when the fight beganon June 2) linked up with the forces of General Marie Pierre Koenig of the 1stFree French Division who was in charge of the fort at Bir Hakeim. The Frenchgeneral had no idea that his unit had been supported by this group of Jewishvolunteers. In perfect French, Major Liebmann told him that his men werefighters from Palestine, but that they could not serve under their flag becauseof British rules. Koenig then told him to raise their Star of David flag, andall Free French officers around him saluted it.
1942:Onethousand Jews were deported from Prague, Czechoslovakia, to the “East,” wherethey are murdered.
1942(26th of Sivan, 5702): Ten thousand Jews from the ghetto at Tarnów,Poland, were murdered at the Belzec extermination camp.
1942(26thof Sivan, 5702): Thirty year old Herbert Baum a Jewish member of the anti-Naziresistance was tortured to death today at Moabit Prison.
1942: “TheyAll Kissed the Bride” starring Melvyn Douglas was released today in the UnitedStates.
1943: Himmler ordered the liquidation of all Polish ghettos.
1943(8th of Sivan, 5703): Twenty-four-year-old Benjamin Gans,the Amsterdam born son of Isaac Gans and Rachel Roet and the husband of DeboraKleinkramer was murdered at Sobibor today.
1943: U.S. premiere of “Coney Island” produced by William Perlberg,co-starring Phil Silvers, for which Alfred Newman received an Oscar nomination“in the category of Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture.”
1944: For the next seven days the Germans shipped an additional 50,805 HungarianJews to Auschwitz.
1944: Joel Brand, who is being held by the British, and Moshe Sharettcontinue their meetings where Brand continues to explain the “Jews for trucks”deal that he hopes will save the Jews of Hungary.
1945(30th of Sivan, 5705): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1945(30th of Sivan, 5705): Fifty-two-year-old Eliyahu Golombwho played a key role in the creation of the Haganah and the Palmach passedaway today. Born in Russia in 1893, he made Aliyah in 1909. After working atthe famed kibbutz Dagania Alef he served with the British in the Jewish Legionduring WW I. During the inter-war years he worked with the Revisionists to tryand form a unified Jewish military defense force. During the Arab Revolts inthe 1930’s he served with the FOSH.
1946:“President Truman created today aspecial Cabinet committee to assist him in formulating and implementing"such policy with regard to Palestine and related problems as may beadopted by this Government."
1946: “It was learned today” that Isaac Darwich has a given to letter tothe government of France form his uncle Haj amin el Husseini, thanking theFrench their hospitality before he snuck out of the country headed for Damascusand eventually Jerusalem. (Editor’s note – apparently the brave French had notrouble in providing refuge for the Grand Mufti who had spent of the war withHitler in Berlin)
1947: “Dr. Maurice N. Eisendrath, president of the Union of American HebrewCongregations and Francis J. Bloustein, acting chairman of the new RiverdaleTemple, in the Riverdale section of the Bronx announced” today “the election ofRabbi Charles E. Shulman as rabbi of the temple”
1947: “Forty business and professional men attended a private dinner”tonight “at the Hotel Astor sponsored the Men’s Committee of the AmericanLeague for a Free Palestine presided over by Paul O’Dwyer, chairman of theZionist organization working to raise $7,500,000.(Editor’s note – prior to1948, Palestine was a Jewish expression)
1948: Jordan’s King Abdullah ordered a “hunda” or ceasefire.
1948: King Abdullah visited Jerusalem and promoted Abdullah el-Tell tothe rank of Lieutenant Colonel and gave him command of three Jordanian infantrycompanies occupying the Old City. El-Tell would be the lead negotiator who metwith Jewish military leaders in matters regarding Jerusalem.
1948: The first truce between theIsraelis and the Arab invaders began. During four weeks the Israelis had notonly survived, they were in control of respectable amount of territory. This included the eastern and westernportions of the Galilee, the Jezreel Valley from Haifa on the Mediterranean tothe Jordan River, the coastal plain as far south as Ashdod, a major portion ofthe Negev and the corridor that connected Jerusalem with the rest of the Jewishcontrolled territory. The U.N.sponsored truce was supposed to last four weeks.
1948: As the first truce between Arabs and Israelis went into effect,Kfar Darom was completely surrounded by Egyptian forces laying siege to theNegev Kibbutz. The Kibbutz had beenunder attack since December. The MoslemBrotherhood had tried to capture it in April and the Egyptians had begun theirassault in May. Although the Kibbutz would eventually have to evacuated, itsgutsy stand gave heart to the embattled Israelis and prevented the Arabs fromsweeping up the road to Tel Aviv.
1948: David Shaltiel the Haganah district commander in Jerusalem beganthe first in a series of meetings with Abdullah el Tell the commander of theArab Legion under the auspices of the UN.
1948: As of today, 300 people havebeen killed and 1,400 more have been wounded since the battle for Jerusalembegan on May 14. The Arab Legion hadlobbed more than 14,000 shells at the Jewish defenders since the British HighCommissioner flew off to Haifa.
1948 (4th of Sivan, 5708): Asnight fell on the first night of the truce, tragedy struck. The Jewish commander of the Jerusalem Front,Mickey Marcus aka Mickey Stone, was shot by an Israeli guard. Marcus was spending the night with a Palmachbattalion. When return from a trip tothe latrine, Marcus was challenged by a guard.Marcus spoke no Hebrew and was unable to respond. The youngster fired a warning shot and calledagain for the password. Marcus did not respondbut kept moving forward. The young guardfired several more shots one of which hit Marcus, mortally wounding him. Marcus’ most famous accomplishment was theconstruction of the “Burma Road” – the roadway to Jerusalem built under thethreat of Arab guns that guaranteed Jerusalem would be part of the Jewishstate. Marcus’ body was taken back tothe United States, escorted by several leading Israeli leaders. Marcus was buried at West Point, the militaryacademy that gave him the training to fight for his country during World War IIand to fight for his people during the War of Independence.
1948: Syrian forces captured Bnot Ya’akov Bridge which spans the JordanRiver. The Syrians will be forced towithdraw as a result of the 1949 Armistice Agreement.
1948: Birthdate David Lehman, the son of Holocaust survivors the poet andeditor for “The Best American Poetry” series.”
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/076.html
1948: American Syd Antin and South African Lionel Bloch joined theIsraeli air force.
1949(14th of Sivan, 5709): Parashat Nasso
1949: “A message from President Truman was read tonight at the openingsession of the eleventh national convention of Pioneer Women, the woman’sZionist organization meeting in Philadelphia.
1950: “Israel notified Jordan that it was holding up the establishment ofmixed border patrols” that are intended “to check Arab infiltrations intoIsrael” and thus limit the possibility of clash between the military forces ofthe two neighbors. Israel said that itsaction was in response to Jordan’s failure to return three soldiers who hadbeen captured six weeks ago. Israelclaims that three are survivors of a five-man patrol that had accidentlycrossed the Armistice line with Jordan. The Jordanian killed two of theIsraelis and imprisoned the three survivors.In the meantime, armed Arab gangs continue to infiltrate the Jewishstate from Jordan.
1950:Plans to proceed with the constructionof what is to be the "Harry S. Truman" village (Kfar Truman) inIsrael were announced here tonight at the "Land for Israel" dinner ofthe New England Jewish National Fund. “Vice President Alben W. Barkley whoaddressed the 1,500 guest accepted honorary chairmanship of the project.” In aletter addressed to Dr. Harris J. Levine, chairman of the JNF which was read atthe dinner President Truman wrote, “I am highly honored and appreciate verymuch what you are proposing to do.
1950: It was reported today that Rosemary Sebag-Montefiore the daughterof Colonel Thomas Henry Sebag-Montefiore and the late Mrs. Sebag-Montefioreplans to be married in England this October to her fiancé, Dr. Joseph Richmond,Levenson, the Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard who is the son of Mr. and Mrs.Max Levenson of Massachusetts.
1951(7th of Sivan, 5711): Second Day of Shavuot.
1951: It was reported toda that sculptor Jo Davidson has flown to Israelfrom Paris “with plans for reproducing in marble the history of the birth ofthe new stated.
1951: Eleven days after having been released in the United Kingdom “Sirocco” a film basedon Coup de Grace written by Joseph Kessel, directed by Curtis Bernhardt andco-starring Lee J. Cobb was released in the United States today.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israelresumed the Hula drainage work with full UN authorization. Syria closed thefrontier with Lebanon as a protest against the expulsion of about 1,000 Syrianlaborers from Lebanon.
1952: TheIsraeli Foreign Ministry sent a note to the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry“drawing attention to the ‘atmosphere of mystery’ surrounding the arrest ofMardechai Oren, an Israeli citizen.
1953: Gunmenattacked a young couple in their home in Kfar Hess and shot them to death.
1953: Inresponse to a request made in March by Cardinal Pierre-Marie Gerlier, theArchbishop of Lyon, Germaine Ribière reported that the Finlay children beingheld Basque priests. She was a Catholicmember of the French Resistance who had rescued Jews during the war. The Finlay children were Jewish orphans whohad been baptized and were being kept from the surviving members of theirfamily.
1954:Archeologist Yigael Yadin sent a telegram to Teddy Kollek stating that fourDead Sea Scrolls, including the Book of Isaiah, had been brought to theUnited States and were being offered for sale.Yadin said they could be purchased for $250,000, what he considered apaltry sum for so great a treasure. Hesaid that he could raise the money from private sources but that it would takea year. He pleaded with Kollek to getthe Israeli government to provide the funds immediately. Prime Minister Sharett agreed and authorizedthe Minister of Finance to provide the funds.Thanks to the quick action, this national treasure was secured forIsrael.
1955(21stof Sivan, 5715): Parashat Beha’aloctcha
1955: Mr. andMrs. Eugene Lewis Lewin announced the engagement of Hope-Jane Lewin to GeraldI. Benson who will be married on October 16 in New Rochelle at Temple Israel.
1956: In GreatNeck, NY, “a dress manufacturer in Manhattan's garment district and a part-timepiano teacher” gave birth to Steven A. Cohen, one of the richest hedge fundmanagers in America who beat charges of insider trading.
1956:Recording began of the LP, “Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings” produced by BuddyBregman and featuring songs by Irving Berlin, Oscar Hammerstein II and JeromeKern.
1957: “PhilipKlutznick, president of B’nai B’rith and Moshe Feinstein, president of theHebrew P. E. N. Club of America. Dr. Moshe Davis, Provost of the JewishTheological Seminary of America and chairman of the Hadoar executive committeewere the speakers at a dinner celebrating the 35th anniversary of Hador, “the only Hebrew language weeklypublished in the United States.” (JTA)
1958: InCamden, NJ, the Beth El Choral Group conducted by Cantor Louis J. Herman andaccompanied by pianist Rose Solomon performed today at the installation of thecongregation’s board of directors.
1958: Twomonths after premiering in the United Kingdom, “The Camp on Blood Island”featuring Lee Montague and Wolfe Morris was released in the United Statestoday.
1959(5thof Sivan, 5719): Erev Shavuot
1959(5thof Sivan, 5719): Yiddish author Chaim Pett who had been born in Russia in Mayof 1902 passed away today in New York City.
http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=32818&top=1
1960(16thof Sivan, 5720): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1960(16thof Sivan, 5720): Seventy-one-year-old Romanian born Milwaukee, WI furniture salesmanJoseph Joshua Hirsch the husband of Rebecca Hirsch and father of Edith and AnneHirsch who “ served one term as a Socialist member of the Wisconsin StateSenate suffered a fatal heart attack at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee
1961:Funeralservices were held today for Ida Perlman, a member of the Sisterhood of OhavSholom and the New York Chapter of the Mizrachi Women’s Section of America.
1961: Afterthree months, the curtain came down on a production “Hamlet” at the PhoenixTheatre for which Karl Bernstein served as publicity dicrectory.
1962: CBSbroadcast “Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hal” a “musical showcase” written byMike Nichols for which Irwin Kostal was the musical director that included theintroduction of “Meantime,” a song with lyrics by Al Stillman.
1963:Twenty-year-old Barbra Streisand “made her debut at Mr. Kelly’s” today.
1964: “Do WahDiddy Diddy” “a song written by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich” was recordedtoday for the first time.
1965(11thof Sivan, 5725): Sixty-five-year-old Morris Raskin, the son “of Louis Raskinand Pia Reza Rose Pauline Raskin” and husband of Marjory Raskin passed awaytoday in Michigan
1965: In theUK, premiere of “Repulsion” directed by Roman Polanski who also co-authored thescreenplay.
1967:Eighty-year-old Estonian born, and University of Bonn trained Gestaltpsychologist Wolfgang Köhler who risked his carrier if not his life byprotesting against the dismissal of Jewish professors and the requirement tostart class with the Nazi salute passed away today.
1967: During ameeting at David Ben-Gurion’s home, “Defense Minister Moshe Dayan proposedautonomy for the West Bank, the transfer of Gazan refugees to Jordan, and aunited Jerusalem serving as Israel's capital. Ben-Gurion agreed with him butforesaw problems in transferring Palestinian refugees from Gaza to Jordan, andrecommended that Israel insist on direct talks with Egypt, favoring withdrawalfrom the Sinai Peninsula in exchange for peace and free navigation through theStraits of Tiran.”
1967: “Adelegation of former residents of the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem asked themunicipality for permission to rebuild their old homes.
1967: TeddyKollek arranged for 20,000 bottles of milk for infants to be taken into theMuslim, Christian and Armenian Quarters of the Old City.
1967: DavidBen Gurion visited the Western Wall today.
http://cdn.timesofisrael.com/uploads/2017/05/Kotel-Ben-Gurion.jpg
1968:Birthdate of Michelle Levin, mother and daughter-in-law par excellence
1969: PierreGoldman, the son of Alter Mojze Goldman, robbed the Royal Bank of Canada inPuerto La Cruz, taking 2.6 million bolívars (the biggest hold-up of that year).
1969: U.S.premiere of “Heaven With A Gun” starring Barbara Hershey as “Leelopa.”
1970(7thof Sivan, 5730): Second Day of Shavuot
1970: Two daysafter he had passed away funeral services were scheduled to be held today forninety-eight-year-old Buffalo, NY born textile manufacturer Herman W. Block,“an officer of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society” and an organizer of theJewish Children’s Clearing Bureau.
1970: Two daysafter he had passed away the funeral was held today for seventy-four year oldIrving A Mancher, who was brought to the United States from his native Minsk atthe age, lost his eyesight at the age of 15, at still went on to run “two ofthe largest independent coal and fuel-oil distributing concerns” whilesupporting numerous causes including “the Jewish Institute for Religion” andraising two sons, Jay and Horace, with his wife, passed away today.
1971(18thof Sivan, 5731): Seventy-year-old “television producer and writer LouisSolomon, the husband of “the writer Wilma Shore” with whom he had twodaughters, Hilary and Dinah, passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/17/obituaries/louis-solomon.html
1972: In EastBrunswick, NJ, psychiatrist Stanley Gottlieb and his wife Marsha gave birthMount Sinai Medical Center trained physician Scott Gottlieb, 23rdCommissioner of Food and Drugs who was nominated for the position by PresidentTrump.
1973: Funeralservices are scheduled to be held in Manhattan for 89-year-old Harry A. Hatrythe former vice president of Bloomingdales and long-time president ofJay-Thorpe, Inc, the women’s specialty store, the husband of the former MildredE. Eiseman with whom he had four daughters – Louise, Margaret, Helen andSydney.
1975: “Lepke”a movie based on the life of gangster Louis “Lepke” Buchalter starring TonyCurtis in the total role and featuring Warren Berlinger and Milton Berle whichwas directed and produced by Menahem Golan.
1976: Funeralservices are scheduled to be held this afternoon at Congregation Oheb Shalom inSouth Orange, NJ. ninety-year-old, NYU trained attorney Milton M. Unger, aNewark lawyer who once arrested the Graf Zeppelin on behalf of a client
1976(13thof Sivan, 5736): Eighty-six-year-old Rose L. Lipshultz Guzik, the wife of thenotorious gangster Jake Guzik passed away today.
1976: Thealbum “A Kind of Hush” featuring “You” by Randy Edelman was released today.
1976: TheJerusalem Post reported that in view of the voices emanating from Araborganizations "inviting Jews to return to Iraq and Morocco," PrimeMinister Yitzhak Rabin declared that Israel would not act under threats andwould deal with this issue "in fundamental fashion." Syrian troopswere reported to be moving east to face the Iraqi Army which expressedreadiness to man the Golan front. Both the US and Israel were concerned thatboth Algeria and Libya might participate in the Arab League's "PeacemakingForce" aimed to patrol a proposed Lebanese cease-fire.
1978(6th ofSivan, 5738): First Day of Shavuot
1978(6th ofSivan, 5738: Herman Barron, the first Jewish golfer to win a PGA Tour eventpassed away.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F30D17F83B5513728DDDAB0994DE405B888BF1D3
1978: InItaly, Premier Giulio Andreotti's government scheduled a national referendumfor today despite the fact that it had been told that it was a Jewish holidayand observant Jews would not be able to participate in the vote.
1979(16thof Sivan, 5739): Seventy-year-old Jesse Abramson, whose sport’s writing careerspanned fifty-six years passed away today
http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/JesseAbramson.htm
1980:Today, “Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft making him Microsoft's 30th employee andthe first business manager hired by Gates”
1981: AlanJoseph Shatter began representing Dublin South in the Teachta Dala.
1982: TheJerusalem Post published a front page photograph of 21 year old Yoav Bluman IDF soldier pictured holding a portrait of Yasser Arafat taken from thePLO’s headquarters in southern Lebanon.
1982: Israel and Syria stopped fighting in Lebanon. Israel has sincewithdrawn from Lebanon. Syria finallywithdrew its armed forces from Lebanon which the late President Assad liked toconsider was a province of Greater Syria. Syria continues to “meddle” inLebanon’s internal politics. At the sametime, Lebanon continues to be a battleground for a variety of political andideological groups that have interests beyond Lebanon including the destructionof the state of Israel. Israeli casualties so far: 214 killed, 23 missing inaction, one prisoner of war and 1,114 wounded.
1982: Today, “the Moscow refusenik and Hebrew teacher Pavel Abramovichwas summoned to the KGB for the fourth time in the course of a month.”
1983: Mayor Ed Koch and Bronx Borough President Stanley Simon arescheduled to a gathering that will celebrate the 10th anniversary ofLambert Houses, the award low-rising public housing buildings in the SouthBronx.
1983: Nigel Lawson completed his service as Secretary of State for Energyunder Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
1983: Nigel Lawson began serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
1985: Seventy-year old Sir Charles Myer Abrahams who “served aflight-lieutenant in the RAFVR” in WW II and was the Vice President of theNightingale House of the Home for the Jewish Aged and Vice President of theBritish Paraplegic Sports Federation passed away today.
1986: In Los Angeles, Shayna (née Saide) La Beouf who was Jewish andJeffrey Craig LaBeouf gave birth to actor Shia LaBeouf.
1987: Leo Abse completed his service as a Member of Parliament fromTorfaen
1988: Dire Straits, the rock group co-founded by Mark and David Knoplferregrouped today for Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert at WembleyStadium, in which they were the headline act,\.
1989: “Hotel Monterey” “a silent documentary” directed, produced andwritten by Chantal Akerman, the Brussels born daughter of Polish-JewishHolocaust survivor.
1989: After 153 performances at the 46th Street Theatre, thecurtain came down on a revival of Garson Kanin’s “Born Yesterday” with a castthat included Tony Award nominee Madeline Kahn
1990(18th of Sivan, 5750): Seventy-four-year-oldphilanthropist Beatrice Coleman, the widow of Dr. Joseph Coleman and head ofMaidenform since 1968 passed away today.
http://www.thecolemanfoundation.org/
1990: Ariel Sharon succeeded David Levy as Minister of Housing andConstruction.
1990: Avner Shaki succeeded Zevulen Hammer as Minister of ReligiousServices.
1990: Yuval Ne’eman began serving as Energy and Water Resources Minister.
1990: Roni Milo began serving as Minister of Public Security.
1991: “Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has added a new and potentiallydifficult qualification to the list of conditions that the Israeli Governmenthas attached to its participation in any American-sponsored regional peaceconference.”
1992: “A Federal appeals court in Ohio ordered the reopening of a caseinvolving the extradition of John Demjanjuk, the retired Cleveland auto workerwho has been sentenced to hang in Israel as a Nazi war criminal, after theJustice Department failed to reply to two letters inquiring about its handlingof the case.”
1993: In Boston, MA, Israeli Wendy Buchanan and her husband gave birth to“American-Israeli” figure skater Aimee Buchanan “was not able to enter theOlympics single women’s qualifier competition in Germany in 2017, because thequalifier was scheduled to take place on Yom Kippur.”
http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00054107.htm
1993(22nd of Sivan, 5753): Fifty-nine-year-old English actorBernard Bresslaw who appeared in 15 of the “Carry On Films” passed away today.
1994(2nd of Tammuz, 5754): Parsaht Sh’lach
1994: The Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the umbrellaorganization of the Reform Movement is scheduled to vote tonight on theapplication for membership by Congregation Beth Adam, a congregation whose“liturgy does not explicitly acknowledge…God”
1995: “ISRAEL, Jordan and Egypt have begun plans to tap the tourismpotential of the Sinai and the Red Sea, with its pristine reefs, vast stretchesof desert and gleaming white beaches.”
1996: “Shiite Muslim guerrillas killed five Israeli soldiers and woundedeight early today in an ambush in southern Lebanon. The attack brought to ninethe Israeli death toll in southern Lebanon since the Israeli election.”
1997: Herb Gray began serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Canada.
1997(6th of Sivan, 5757): Shavuot
1997: “All the Rage” directed and written by Roland Tec, the “son of Jewish-Polishand Holocaust-survivor parents Leon and Nechama Tec” was released today in theUnited States.
1997(6th of Sivan, 5757): Benjamin(Ben) Dunkelman passed away. Born in 1913 to Polish-Jewish parents who hadsettled in Toronto, he had a distinguished military career in the Canadian Armyduring WW II followed by service with the IDF during the 1948 War forIndependence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Dunkelman
1998: In “Turf; The Neighbors Rally Around the Mayor of Bedford Street,William Hamilton described Lawrence Selman’s fight to spend the rest of hislife at his Greenwich Village home.
1998(17th of Sivan, 5758): The former Libby Polachcek, “the widow of theeminent Rabbi Israel Mowshowitz; daughter of Rabbi Solomon Polachek, renownedhead of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Rabbinical Academy of Yeshiva University(''the Meitchiter Illui''); sister to Dr. Harry Polachek of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.and Dr. Abraham Polachek of Jerusalem; mother of Sylvia Orenstein (wife ofRabbi Jehiel Orenstein) of South Orange, N.J. and Dr. Solomon Mowshowitz(husband of Dr. Deborah Mowshowitz, of New York, N.Y.” passed away today.
1999: Polo Ralph Lauren became a public company traded on the New YorkStock Exchange under the symbol RL.
2000: TheNew York Times featured reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including OrdinaryResurrections: Children in the Years of Hope by Jonathan Kozol andthe recently released paperback edition of Another Life: A Memoir of OtherPeople by Michael Korda.
2001:The Right Honourable Barbara Rochecompleted her term as Minister of State for Asylum and Immigration under PrimeMinister Tony Blair.
2001: Five-month-old Yehuda Shoham was stoned to death by an unknownterrorist at Shilo.
2001: “Fear Factor” a game show that Jeff Zucker used to keep NBC ontop of the ratings game premiered this evening.
2002: The BBC broadcast “The Empire of Good Intentions” the 14thepisode of “A History of Britain a documentary series written and presented bySimon Schama” which is now in its third season.
2003(11th of Sivan, 5763): In Jerusalem, seventeen people - 11 women andsix men - were killed and over 100 wounded in a suicide bombing on Egged bus#14A outside the Klal building on Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem.
2003: Seventeen people were killed and over 100 wounded in a suicidebombing on Egged bus #14A outside the Klal building on Jaffa Road in the centerof Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Sgt.Tamar Ben-Eliahu, 20, of Moshav Paran; Alan Beer, 47, of Jerusalem; EugeniaBerman, 50, of Jerusalem; Elsa Cohen, 70, of Jerusalem; Zvi Cohen, 39, ofJerusalem; Roi Eliraz, 22, of Mevaseret Zion; Alexander Kazaris, 77, ofJerusalem; Yaffa Mualem, 65, of Jerusalem; Yaniv Obayed, 22, of Herzliya;>Bat-El Ohana, 21, of Kiryat Ata; Anna Orgal, 55, of Jerusalem; ZipporaPesahovitch;, 54, of Zur Hadassah; Bianca Shahrur, 62, of Jerusalem; MalkaSultan, 67, of Jerusalem; Bertine Tita, 75, of Jerusalem. Miriam Levy, 74, ofJerusalem died of her wounds on June 12. The 17th victim, male, who has not yetbeen positively identified, is believed to be a foreign worker from Eritrea.
2003:President and Mrs. Bush host 70 membersof the Jewish community at the White House for a Kosher dinner to honor of theUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 10th anniversary.
2004:After having premiered at the Palm Beach International FilmFestival, “Broadway: The Golden Age” featuring interviews with Beatrice Arthur,Tom Bosley, Kitty Carlisle, Betty Comden, Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Herman,,Martin Landau, Hal Linden and Arthur Laurents, among others was released todayin the United States.
2004: In “Hebrew National Certified Kosher – But Not Kosher Enough forSome” Miriam Colton and Steven I Weiss discuss the fate of this iconic brandthat has been the source of salamis and hot dogs for Jews across the decadesand all across America.
https://forward.com/news/5806/hebrew-national-certified-kosher-e2-80-94-but-not-koshe/
2004: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for 94-year-oldElaine Lippman, the widow of Samuel Lippman.
2005: The Queen’s Birthday Honors List published today awarded aknighthood (Knight Bachelor) to Michael Kadoorie.
2005(4th of Sivan, 5765): Eighty-six-year-old veteran Yiddishactress Lillian Lux passed away today.
http://forward.com/articles/3681/lillian-lux-burstein--yiddish-theater-giant/
http://www.nysun.com/obituaries/lillian-lux-86-international-star-of-yiddish-stage/15411/
2006:Shalshelet’s Second InternationalFestival took place today at Ohr Kodesh Congregation, Chevy Chase, Maryland
2006: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interestto Jewish readers including Mohr by Frederick Reuss and The GoodFight: Why Liberals — andOnly Liberals — Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again by Peter Beinart
2007: Nobel LaureateDr. Elie Wiesel delivered the 2nd AnnualGershon Jacobson Memorial Lecture at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York.
2007(25thof Sivan, 5767): Ninety-three-year-old Isadore Weinstock, the Denver born sonof Harry and Sarah Wilner Weinstock and the husband of “Helen A. KarshWeinstock” passed away today in his home after which he was buried at the RoseHill Cemetery in Commerce City, CO.
2007: On the40th anniversary of the Six Day War, U.S. News & World Report magazine features three articles onthe subject including “A Changing Mind-Set Among Jerusalem's Palestinians,” “ALook Back at the Six-Day War” and “Marking the 40th Anniversary of the 1967Six-Day War.” This last article was written by Fouad Ajami, a Lebanese bornAmerican professor who states that “at the heart of the war lay the willfulArab refusal to accept Israel’s Legitimacy and statehood.”
2008: In CedarRapids, Iowa, Temple Judah combines the Annual Congregation Meeting with a BBQDinner.
2008: In“Tulchinsky’s History of Canada’s Jewish In An Impressive Work” published todayBill Gladssone reviews the “magnus opus” by “Gerald Tulchinsky, professoremeritus of history a Queen’s University that examines almost 250 years ofCanada and her Jewish population.
https://www.cjnews.com/culture/books-and-authors/tulchinskys-history-canadas-jews-impressive-work
2008: TheCroatia Jewish Film Festival opened in Zagreb.
2008: The New York Times includes a review of TravelPictures by Heinrich Heine. OfJudaism, he writes, “I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. It gives you nothing but scorn and shame, Itell you, it’s no religion at all, just a lot of hard luck.” “Heine refers only once, bitingly, to Germananti-Semitism. Pointing out a huntingarea, he concedes the sport’s pleasure for some. ‘My ancestors, however, didnot belong to the hunters, but rather to the hunted.’”
2009: “SaulieZajdel Leaves Politics” published today provided a description of the career ofthe Canadian political leader.
http://www.lesactualites.ca/01_anciensite/?site=CDN§ion=page&1=C090610&2=C090610_ZajdelENG
2009:President Obama's former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright again sought to tamp downcontroversy in the wake comments blaming "them Jews" for keeping himaway from the president. He had meant to refer to "Zionists" and notall Jews, he said in an interview on SIRIUS Satellite Radio's "Make itPlain" with Mark Thompson."Let me say like Hillary, I misspoke,"Wright said. "Let me just say: Zionists."
2009: InWashington, D.C. the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is closed for the day inhonor of the memory of Stephen T. Johns who died from the wounds inflicted byan anti-Semitic white supremacist who attempted to shoot his way into thebuilding on Wednesday
2009(19thof Sivan, 5769): Eighty-seven-year-old Irving Schulman, MD who helped to foundthe Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital passed away today.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/june17/med-obitschulman-061709.html
2009: InWashington, D.C., David Makovsky, a fellow at the Washington Institute for NearEast Policy, signs copies of his new book, which he coauthored with AmbassadorDennis Ross, special advisor to the secretary of state for the Gulf andSouthwest Asia, entitled Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a NewDirection for America in the Middle East
2010:Men’s Club Shabbat, completed with the installation of next year’s Board ofDirectors is scheduled to take place Congregation Olam Tikvah
2010: “Called up to life- Legends of the Baal Shem Tov” isscheduled to open in Gaithersburg, MD.
2010: “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work,” comes out today.
2010: Two Border Police officers were lightly wounded in WadiJoz this afternoon when a pickup truck rammed into them as they entered theeast Jerusalem neighborhood amidst reports of potential rioting in the area.
2011: Shelby Zukin is called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah inIowa City, IA at Agudas Achim.
2011: In New York City the duet "Heroes" is scheduledto be performed by Israeli based Yossi Berg and Oded Graf on the 4thnight of the Contemporary Israeli Dance Week
2011: Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer has decided tobecome a candidate for head of the International Monetary Fund, Israel'sChannel Two News reported today.
2011:Representative Anthony D. Weiner planned to check himself into a treatmentcenter today after House Democratic leaders, including Nancy Pelosi, called onhim to resign and suggested he needed psychiatric counseling.
2012:The Carmen at Masada Opera Festival is scheduled to come to a close.
http://www.carmen-at-masada.com/
2012:Dr. Paris Chronakis is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “Greeks and Jewsin the 20th Century Salonika: History Through the Kaleidoscope,” at UCLA.
http://usa.greekreporter.com/2012/05/21/lecture-on-greeks-and-jews-in-20th-century-salonica/
2012:The Vatican is about to "indirectly recognize" Israel's annexation ofEast Jerusalem, according to a reportpublished today. This would be done if the draft of an economic agreementbetween the Jewish state and the Holy See, containing no distinction betweensovereign Israel and the territories occupied by it in 1967, is approved by thetwo sides, Ha'aretz online reported.
2012:Forty-year-old Scream star David Arquette, whose mother was Jewish, celebratedhis Bar Mitzvah today at the Wall.
2013:Friends and family gather to celebrate the birthday of Michelle Levin anashyish chayil of the first order who has done a wonderful job of creating aJewish home for Jacob and Rachel Levin
2013:“Life in Stills” (Ha-Tzalmania) isscheduled to be shown at The JCC in Manhattan
http://embassies.gov.il/new-york/events/cultural_calendar/film/Pages/Life-in-Stills-1.aspx
2013(3rdof Tammuz): Yahartzeit the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteousmemory who passed away 19 years ago.
2013(3rdof Tammuz, 5773): Eight-six-year-old Nobel prize winning economist Robert W.Fogel passed away. (As reported by Robert D. Hershey, Jr)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/business/robert-w-fogel-nobel-winning-economist-dies-at-86.html
2013:Chairwoman of the Knesset Committee on the Rights of the Child Likud BeiteinuMK Orly Levy-Abecasis called for “real and substantial integration” ofEthiopian pupils into the education system with their native-Israeli classmatesat a meeting of the Committee on the subject held today. (As reported byDanielle Ziri)
2013(3rdof Tammuz, 5773): Evelyn Kozak, who at age 113 is reputed to be the oldest Jewin the world, passed away today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/evelyn-kozak-worlds-oldest-jew-dies-at-113/
2013:Professor Deborah Dash Moore, co-editor of Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia,Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon, film producer Scott Berrie,musicologist and conductor Leon Botstein, and Russ & Daughters, New York’scentury-old purveyor of appetizers were presented with the Jewish CulturalAchievement Award from the Foundation for Jewish Culture today.
2013:A bill to reserve four places on the rabbinical judges’ appointments committeefor women was successfully passed into law in this morning, but not beforeharedi MKs repeatedly stalled the legislative process due to their vehementopposition to the terms of the new law. (As reported by Jeremy Sharon)
2014:Despite opposition from 22 Arab nations, "People, Book, Land, The 3,500Year Relationship of the Jewish People to the Holy Land" is scheduled toopen today under the auspices of UNESCO.
2014:The Oregon Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a reception marking the openingthe exhibition “Vida Sefaradi: A Century of Sephardic Life In Portland.”
2014:The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, DC is scheduled to host its annualmeeting.
2014:The IDF said that today’s attack on a terror target in Sudaniya in the northernGaza Strip tonight by the IAF was a joint operation with Shin Bet that targeted“global jihad-affiliated terrorists” who were planning an attack on Israel. (Asreported by Roi Kais and Yoav Zitun)
2014:A day after being defeated by a Tea Party Challenger in the Republican PrimaryEric Cantor — looking composed and even unusually at ease — went before thepress this afternoon and announced he’s stepping down as majority leader,ending an 11-year run in Republican leadership. Cantor is the only JewishRepublican in the House of Representatives and the only Republican to have beendefeated so far this year in a primary challenge.
2015(24thof Sivan, 5775): Ninety-one-year-old Anglo-Jewish actor Ron Moody, whoironically is best known for his portrayal of “fa*gin” passed away today.
2015:In “Texarkana Synagogue Shuts Doors For Good” published today Ben Tinsleydescribed the fate Mt. Sinai Temple Congregation” – a fate which is beingendured by many small town Jewish congregations.
http://tjpnews.com/texarkana-synagogue-shuts-doors-for-good/
2015:“Zero Motivation” is scheduled to be shown on the final day The Israel CenterFilm Festival
2015:“Every Time We Say Goodbye” is scheduled to be shown today at the Cinema SouthFilm Festival today in Sderot.
2016(5thof Nisan, 5776): Shabbat Bamidbar – begin reading the fourth book of theTorah.
2016:As Jews observe Shabbat today they will mourn the victims of the Tel Avivterror attack – 42 year old Ido Ben Ari from Ramat Gan, 39 year old Ilana Navehfrom Tel Aviv, 58 year old Micahel Feige from Ramat Gan and 32 year old MilaMishayev from Rishon Lezion.
2016:Sara Shalva, Director of Jewish Innovation at the Edlavitch JCC is scheduled tolead “a musical exploration of the Book of Ruth using a brand new curriculum byAlicia Jo Rabins’s indie-folk project Girls in Trouble” at the 17thAnnual Washington Jewish Music Festival.
2016:The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a J.S. Bach Concerti Seriesfeaturing soloist: Tom Zalmanov, piano, soloist: Yevgenia Pikovsky, violin,soloist: Alon Mamo, piano and the Millennium Ensemble.
2017: The New York Times features reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including AlFranken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken and Swell, a novel byJill Eisenstadt.
2017(17thof Sivan, 5777): Eighty-four-year-old U. of Chicago grad and history professorDavid Fromkin author of the must-read A Peace to End All Peace passedaway today.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/fromkin-peace.html?_r=2
2017(17thof Sivan, 5777): Eighty-four-year-old historian Norman Pollack passed awaytoday. (As reported by Jesse Lemisch)
https://www.facebook.com/jesse.lemisch/posts/10213150328693549?pnref=story.unseen-section
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/16/farewell-dr-norman-pollack-1933-2017/
2017:Israeli Alon “Day won the NASCAR Whelen Euro race in England at Brands Hatch”which led to him joining “BK Racing for his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Seriesdebut in Sonoma Raceway's Toyota/Save Mart 350, driving the No. 23 ToyotaCamry” later in the month.
2017:Among those with a Jewish connection being considered for an award at tonight’sTony presentation are “Oslo,” J.T. Rogers’ play about the 1993 Oslo Accords,Paula Vogel’s “Indecent,” which recounts the bumpy journey to Broadway ofShalom Asch’s controversial Yiddish play “God of Vengeance,” “Falsettos,” amusical about neurotic Jews (are there any Jews who aren’t), “Hello Dolly,” BenPlatt in “Dear Evan Hansen and Patti LuPone who is not Jewish for her role in“War Paint” a musical about the two Jewish cosmetic queens. (As reported byLinda Buchwald)
2017:The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to host a familystyled BBQ followed by its annual meeting.
2017:The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Dudu Fisher InConcert.”
2017:The Jewish Genealogical Society is scheduled to hold its monthly meeting whereDr. Andrew Zallewski will speak on “Galician Portraits: The Story of Jews,Gentiles and Emperors.”
2018:In Atlanta, GA, The Breman Museum is scheduled to the “2018 Summer Institute onTeaching the Holocaust.”
2018:JW3 is scheduled to host three different screenings of “The Boy Downstairs”starring Zosia Mamet and Matthew Shear in London.
2018:The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to offer two choices for theMonday meal – Shawarma or Vegetarian Shawarma -- both of which are Kosher, ofcourse!
2019:Shavuot may have ended yesterday, but the simcha continues for another day asfriends and family are scheduled to celebrate the natal day of the womanextraordinaire, Michelle Levin, an Eishet Chayil in the truest sense of thatterm.
2019:The American Jewish Historical Society and The Village Temple are scheduled topresent “An Innocent Bystander: The Killing of Leon Klinghoffer” during whichauthor Julie Salamon and Warren Bass, Senior Editor at The Wall Street Journal, revisits the 1985 hijacking of the AchilleLauro and the brutal murder of passenger Leon Klinghoffer” by Palestinianterrorists.
2019:The Skirball Center is scheduled to host “Behind the scenes of the UnorthodoxDrama, Shtisel” during which attendees “watch clips from the series” and get tomeet the cast of this successful Israeli television show.
2019:Hadassah of the Upper Midwest is scheduled to host an informative evening whereStephanie Perelstein, St. Paul Hadassah President, will talk about her HadassahIsrael Mission Trip, Sara Lynn Newburger will speak about Hadassah’sinvolvement with the Hineni Summer Learning Series and Leslie Strohm will givean update on the “It’s Your Legacy” Program in the Twin Cities”
2020:S.F. JFCS Holocaust Center’s book club is scheduled to host a virtualdiscussion of Rywka’s Diary: The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the LodzGhetto.
2020:Kerem Shalom is scheduled to host “Fun with Yiddish Online Class.
2020:The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host the opening ofOrchestra of St. Luke's four-week (online) festival, Bach at Home 2020…”
2020:The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host a discussion The Choice:Embrace the Possible, a memoir by Holocaust Survivor and internationallyacclaimed psychologist Dr. Edith Eva Eger.
2020:The Israel Film Center Film Festival is scheduled a screening of “Chained”followed by a Q and A.
2020:As part of the “Leading through Crisis and Change: Jewish Women at the Turn ofthe 20th Century” is scheduled to feature Karla Goldman. the SolDrachler Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan and director ofthe Jewish Communal Leadership Program as she talks about Henrietta Szold.
2021:The Consulate General of Israel to New England is scheduled to present“Israel’s Yemen Blues Concert in Northampton.”
2021:Federation-JPNOLA Pride Shabbat Service is scheduled to take place this eveningat Temple Sinai in New Orleans, LA.
2021:The North Shore Chamber Music Festival which features chamber music concertsdirected by violinist Vadim Gluzman and concert Angela Yoffe is scheduled tocome to an end today.
2021:In Colorado, Farmside Shabbat is scheduled to return in person under the tentat Milk & Honey Farm” where participants will sing Shabbat songs, explorethe farm, read a story, and welcome Shabbat with the blessings on the candles,challah and grape juice.
2021:JCC East Bay and One Table are scheduled to present “Experts: A Queer ComedyShabbat” during which Jess Lehrman and Emily Lubomirsky, dubbed the “Bay AreaJewish Babes,” answers relationship questions, play silly games and celebratequeer community, followed by breakout rooms for shmoozing about queer life andallyship.”
2021(1stof Tammuz, 5781): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz;
2022:A double simcha as Shabbat coincides with the natal day of Michelle Levin, anashis chayil in the truest sense of the word.
2022:Al Gross, a physician who was raised in the Last Frontier’s close-knit Jewishcommunity, is one of 50 candidates who will be vying for the state’s lone Houseseat in the first round of a specialelection scheduled to held today in Alaska.
2022:The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host “The Glorious Sound of the Piano”with pianist Oxana Yablonskaya
2022(12th of Sivan, 5782): Parashat Naso
2023:The New York Times on-line reviewed books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including Anatoly Kuznetsov’s documentarynovel Babi Yar that relives theNazis’ execution of tens of thousands of Jews in 1941 and The Only Daughterby A.B. Yehoshua | Translated by Stuart Schoffman.
2023:The National Library of Israel is scheduled to host an online lecture by Dr.Aleksandra Jakubczak on “Jewish Women Migrating Within and From Eastern EuropeBetween the 1880s and 1930s.”
2023:The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County a summer concert
Irving Berlin Retrospective.”
2023:Jewish Care Family Fun Day complete with a kosher food court is scheduled totake place at Aldenham Country ParkEvent Field, Aldenham Road, Elstree WD6 3BD
2023:The Jewish Genealogical Society is scheduled to host a captivating program about the Civil War froma Jewish perspective that is designed to educate and entertain presented by BruceForm and Mira Form who are Civil War historians, re-enactors and livinghistorians.
2023:Israel U-20 is scheduled to play South Korea U-20 for 3rd place inthe U-20 World Cup.
2023:From near and far, friends and family celebrate the birthday of that epitome ofthe “woman of valor,” Michelle Levin.
2024:Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on “DifferentStrands in the Zionist Movement.”
2024(5thof Sivan, 5784): A double simcha with the birthday of Michelle Levin coincidingwith Erev Shavuot
2024:The Chabad of Cleveland is scheduled to hold a late-night event to celebratethe holiday of Shavuot on June 11 at the Waxman Chabad Center that will include“a midnight barbecue.”
2024:As June 11th begins in Israel, an unprecedentedwave of anti-Semitism sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 249 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.)
