This Day, May 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 30
70: During the
Siege of Jerusalem, Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of
Jerusalem. The Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a
circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometers.
1096: In …
May 30
70: During the
Siege of Jerusalem, Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of
Jerusalem. The Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a
circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometers.
1096: In one
of the few instances of individual courage, the local Bishop of Cologne and
some of the local Burghers offered the Jews protection in their own houses. The
Bishop later escorted them to towns under his protection. Crusaders reached
Cologne and found the gate to the city closed by order of the bishop. Of all
the Jewish communities in the path of the Crusaders, Cologne's Jews were the
only ones to escape total destruction.
1096(6th
of Sivan): In Cologne, Mar Isaac and Rebecca perish in an act of Kiddush
Ha-Shem
1096(6th
of Sivan: Isaac of Mayence committed suicide on Shavuot two days after he had
he submitted to forced baptism to save the lives of his mother and
children. According to legend, he set
the synagogue on fire to keep it from being turned into a church. (As reported by Abraham Bloch)
1201:
Birthdate of Theobold IV, Count of Champagne. When Louis VIII issued an
ordinance that prohibited his officials from recording debts owed to Jews,
Theobold was the only French baron who refused to accept the royal decree since
this would interfere with extra income he gained by being able to tax Jewish
financial transactions. The issue here
really had nothing to do with either party caring about the Jews. The issue was money and who would have the real
power; the monarch or his barons.
1252: Saint
Ferdinand III, the King of Castile and King of Galicia and Leon passed away.
The King must have been both courageous and practical. He stood up to the powerful Catholic Church
when refused the Pope’s demand that Jews be forced to wear special badge and
clothing. He was afraid that the requirement would force the Jews to leave for
Muslim Granada which would had a disastrous effect on revenue collections for
his kingdom.
1434: “After
the defeat of the radical Hussites or Taborites in the battle of Lipany, about
700 ordinary soldiers who surrendered after promises of renewed military
service were burned to death in nearby barns.
1497: King
Ferdinand of Spain “proclaimed in a royal decree that Luis de Santangel and his
family, present and future, were to be protected from the inquisition.” Born at
Valencia Santangel, a baptized Jew, was the finance minister to the Spanish
monarchs who convinced them to sponsor Columbus’ voyage to the new world. He
raised the funds himself.
1574: Henry III becomes King of France on the death
of his brother, Charles IX. Henry had
been serving as the King of Poland at the time of his brother’s death. He owed his selection as ruler Poland to a
Jew named Solomon Ashkenazi who was an advisor to the Turkish Sultan.
1593:
Twenty-nine year old Christopher Marlowe the English playwright whose work
included “The Jew of Malta” which like Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice”
portrays the Jews in such a way that it is assumed to be anti-Semitic passed
away today.
1599:
Birthdate of Samuel Bochart, the French Protestant biblical scholar who was an
expert on Oriental languages including Hebrew and who delivered a series of
unique lectures on Genesis including “the names contained in the Table of
Nations.”
1635: During
what will be known as the Thirty Years War (it started in 1618 and ended in
1648) the Peace of Prague is signed marking the start of the end of
hostilities. The war will finally end with the Peace of Westphalia. The
war pitted Protestants against Catholics with Jews caught in the middle For
example the Jews of Vienna suffered as a result of the occupation of the city
by Imperial soldiers in 1624 when Emperor Ferdinand II confined the Jews to a
ghetto. The fighting centered around Germany, Austria, France and the
Netherlands and throughout many towns in Germany and Moravia, the Jewish
population was expelled, which resulted in thousands of refugees fleeing to
Cracow and other Polish cities. These Jews would get caught up in the uprisings
that took place in Polish dominated Ukraine. The good news is that the end of
the Thirty Years War would mark the rise of a flourishing Protestant
Netherlands that would prove a home to European Jews.
1762:
Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Emden, Prussia.
1775: In
Charleston, Miss Rachel De Costa married Jacob Tobias.
1778:
Voltaire, the French philosopher and author passed away. Voltaire is generally regarded as a great
thinker. However, as can be seen from
his own words, he was a rabid anti-Semite. He described Jews as being “small,
ignorant and crude people.” Voltaire did
not base his anti-Semitism on the Jews adherence to their religion. Cure them of their religion, he wrote and
there is still the problem of their in-born character.
1781(6th
of Sivan, 5541): On the same day that Jews on both sides of the Atlantic
celebrate Shavuot, George Washington dealt with reports of British movement
along Lake Champlain and the presence of their army in South Carolina and
Virginia.
1789(5th
of Nisan, 5549): Parashat Bamidbar; erev Shavuot observed for the first time
during the Presidency of George Washinton.
1791: In
Norfolk, Philip Moses Russell and his wife gave birth to Moses Russell.
1797(5th
of Sivan, 5557): Erev Shavuot observed at the same time that French Forces bask
in the glory of four straight months of victories that will signal an end to
what later became known as the War of the First Coalition.
1796: In the
United Kingdom, London financier and leader of the Jewish community, Levi
Salomons and Matilda de Metz gave birth to their eldest son, Philip Salomons.
1798: Isaac
Harris and Esther Abrahams were married today at the Great Synagogue in London
1800(6th of
Sivan, 5560): Shavuot celebrated for the first time in the 19th
century.
1805(2nd
of Sivan, 5565): Mrs. Esther Azuby, the wife of Abraham Azuby passed away today
in Charleston, SC
1806: “A
decree was issued today requesting that a special assembly of Jewish leaders
and Rabbis from all of the different French departments, would meet in Paris
and discuss all outstanding matters including answering questions dealing with
accusations against the Jews made by the anti-Semites.”
1806: Joseph David Sinzheim was among those
attending the Jewish Assembly
of Notables convened by Napoleon I.
1807: Today,
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall officiated at the ceremony
during which Marcus Levi and Simon Z. Block, both born in Germany, became U.S.
citizens.
1814: Signing
of the First Treaty of Paris. The treaty
officially returned the Bourbons to the French throne which marked the official
beginning of a period of reaction which was not good for the Jews who had
gained many rights during the Napoleonic Wars.
1814:
Birthdate of Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin whose anti-Semitic views would
seem to prove that anti-Semitism is the common denominator for Russians be they
Romanovs or Revolutionaries.
1822: In
Berlin, Robert L. Bienenstock and his wife gave birth to Simon (Isadore)
Bienenstock who settled in St Louis and raised a family of eight children with
his wife Helena.
1826: One day
after she had passed away Elizabeth (Harris) Davis, the wife of Charles Davis
was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1828: William
Huskisson, who took “the first step toward” freeing the Jews from their
disabilities by presenting “a petition” to Parliament “singed by 2,000
merchants and others from Liverpool” completed his service as Secretary of
State for War and the Colonies
1829:
Birthdate of Lewin Goldschmidt, the native of Gdansk who became a leading
German jurist and an ardent supporter of Chancellor Bismarck’s idea of a united
German Empire that exclude Austria and its polyglot empire.
1838(6th
of Sivan, 5598): Shavuot
1839:
Birthdate of. Hermann Adler, the Hanover born Rabbi who succeeded his father as
Chief Rabbi of the British Empire a position he held from 1891 until his death
in 1911.
1844(12th
of Sivan, 5604): Italian physician and author Benedetto Frizz (AKA Benzion
Raphael Kohen) passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0007_0_06900.html
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6399-frizzi-benedetto-benzion-raphael-kohen
1844(12th
of Sivan, 5604): Sarah (Sally) Solomon, the daughter of Hyah (Catherine) Bush
and Myer S. Solomon who were married in 1778 passed away today in Philadelphia,
PA, her mother’s hometown.
1845: In
Colmar, France, the chief rabbi and his wife give birth to French physician
Theodore Klein who “was also a member of the Jewish Consistory of Paris, and
for eighteen years president of the Société de l'Etude Talmudique”
1846(5th
of Sivan, 5606): Parashat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot observed on that natal day of
Carl Feberge the creator of the famous Fabrege Eggs including the enamel and gold
“clock egg” which was “long among the holdings of the Rothschilds.
https://thejewishnews.com/2012/11/08/bejeweled/
1849: In
Raudnitz, Bohemia, “a petty merchant” and his wife gave birth to law student
turned journalist Emil Schiff who wrote for the "Deutsche Zeitung, Spener'schen
Zeitung and Neue Freie Presse.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13267-schiff-emil
1850(19th
of Sivan, 5610): Joseph Hackes, the husband of Zidone Wald and the father of
Simon and Yetta Hackes, passed away today
1852(12th
of Sivan, 5612): Sixty-seven year old Isaac Mendez Seixas Nathan, the husband
of Sarah Nathan and the father of Grace Nathan passed away today in New York
City.
1853: Elias
Landauer, the German born son of Raphael Löb Landauer and Lucia Pessel Landaue
and his wife Karoline Kehle Landauer gave birth to Samuel Löb Landauer.
1857(7th
of Sivan 5617): Second Day of Shavuot and Shabbat were observed on the same day
that mutinies at Muttra and Lucknow began during the Sepoy Mutiny.
1858:
Ordination of Fond du Lac native and Harvard trained Episcopal priest Charles
Chapman who became the Episcopal Bishop of Fond du Lac and who in 1903, as
Russia was rocked by waves of anti-Semitism, said that at bottom the cause “of
all Jewish suffering in Russia” is the “crafty, wealth-getting spirit of
Jacob.”
1860: In
Charleston, SC, Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs officiated at the wedding Daniel
Ottolengui and Helene R. Rodrigues, the daughter of Dr. B.A. Rodrigues.
1861: Edward
Storm a German Jewish immigrant living in Greenville, MS enlisted in the
Confederate Army.
1862(1st
of Sivan 5611): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1862(1st
of Sivan, 5611): Nineteen-year-old Albert Moses Luria, the Florida born son of
Eliza Matilda Moses and Raphael Jacob Moses
died today after being wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines after which
he was buried in Georgia.
1865: In
“Wollstein, Germany, Rabbi Nathan and Johana (Braun) Rosenau” gave birth
University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College educated Rabbi William
Rosenau, the faculty member of Johns Hopkins where he had earned his Ph.D. who
served several congregations including Temple Israel in Omaha, and the Eutaw
Place Temple in Baltimore who married Myra Kraus after his first wife, Mabel
Hellman, passed away.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0041/ms0041.html
1865: Today,
Springfield resident Julius
Hammerslough, of the firm of Hammerslough Brothers, who had enjoyed very friendly
relations with Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln today wrote an appeal for funds for a
monument to be erected in Lincoln’s honor which began, “It is above all,
fitting in this land where the Hebrews have won so proud a name and are so
greatly respected and honored that they should thus show their love and
veneration for the fallen chief of the nation, whose wisdom, honesty and purity
of purpose were so highly appreciated by foreign nations and who was so beloved
at home.”
1866: In Kiev,
Philip Thomashefsky and Bertha Wishnefsky gave birth to Boris Thomashefsky,
“leading actor, manager and lessee of the People’s Theatre in New York City.”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/boris-thomashefsky
1868: In
London, famed actress, Adah Isaacs Menken, gave
her last theatrical performance.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/may/30/1868/adah-isaacs-menken
1869: In
Portland, Oregon, founding of Ahavai Sholom a congregation with a religious
school that meets on Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday and is supported by the
Ladies’ Auxiliary and a cemetery “about two miles south of Portland.”
1870: Jim
Levy, an Irish Jew, survived his first gunfight in Pioche, Nevada. Levy shot it out with a local thug named
Michael Casey. After an earlier
gunfight, Levy contradicted Casey’s claim that he acted in self-defense. An
angry Casey challenged the unarmed Levy to a gunfight. Levy had to borrow a gun before he could
answer the challenge. Levy fired a
single shot which mortally wounded Casey.
Contrary to the popular image in Western Movies, the gunfight was not a
one-on-one combat. Dave Neagle, a friend of Casey, fired a shot at Levy while
he was facing Casey. The shot hit Levy
in the jaw but did not prove to be life threatening. The episode changed Levy’s lifestyle as he
went from peaceful miner to leading the life of a gambler and “professional
regulator” – a polite term for a fast gun for hire.
1872:In New
York City, Tessie Pukarch and Henry M. Greenberg gave birth to Meyer Greenberg,
the NYU trained lawyer, the husband of Lilian Rose Silverburg and member of the
New York State Legislature who was one of the organizers of both the Peoples
Hospital in New York City and the Order
of United Hebrew Brothers and a director and counsel of the Jewish Uplift
Society.
1873 One day
after he had passed away, James Dunn Simon, the son of John Simon and Rachel
Salaman, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1873: The
Jewish Messenger published an appeal for funds to support a program of summer
excursions for Jewish children in New York including those at the Orphan Asylum
and those attending “Free Schools.”
1873: Montague
Hyatt Eskell, the son of Louis Ezekiel Eskell and Emily Francis Woolf, was
buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1875:
Birthdate of Michael Fried, the native of Hungary and graduate Jewish
Theological Seminary of America who served as the rabbi of Ahavath Sholom Beth
Aron in Brooklyn and Congregation Tree of Life in Pittsburg, PA as well as
Chaplain of the J.M. Gusky Orphanage of Western Pennsylvania
1875: Ten days
after he had passed away, 27 year old Ephraim Nathan was buried today at the
“Balls Pond Jewish Cemetery.”
1876: A week
before his death, Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is replaced by his nephew Murat V.
As can be seen from the items below, Abd-ul-Aziz’s reign was a net plus for the
Jewish people. Several Jews served in prominent governmental positions. Sultan
Abdul Aziz allocated the "Alliance Israelite Universelle" 2600 dunams
of land east of Jaffa for the establishment of a school of agriculture and also
granted permission for importing all kinds of tools and machinery free of taxes
and customs. As Ben Gurion, said: "I doubt that the Israeli dream would
have been realized if the farm school of Mikveh Israel had not existed."
Upon recurrence of blood libel accusations, Sultan Aziz issued a firman taking
the Jews under his protection. Thanks to this firman the Greek Orthodox
patriarchate had to issue encyclicals to all churches, forbidding such
practices. Murat passed away three months after reaching the throne, leaving no
legacy for the Jews or any of his other subjects.
1876: Judge
McAdam is scheduled to render a decision today in a case involving a can-can
dance named Katie Forest and her Jewish partner, a jewelry salesman named
Solomon Care.
1876(7th of
Sivan, 5636): Second Day of Shavuot
1877: Based on
responses from 174 congregations and 125 charitable institutions to a
questionnaire sent by the Board of Delegates of American Israelites it was
reported these congregations have a total of 11,507 members, 11,341 in their
religious schools and 597 teachers providing instruction. The total property value comes to an
estimated six million dollars. There are
five Jewish hospitals, six orphan asylums, 3 homes for the aged and infirmed,
15 newspapers and magazines and four Jewish fraternal orders, the large of
which is the Order of the B’Nai Brith.
1878: It was
reported today that over seven million dollars had been collected in New York
City to provide relief for the Jews who suffering as a result of the war
between Russia and Turkey.
1879: It was
reported today that Benjamin Mayer has been sentenced to two and half years in
the state penitentiary and ordered to pay a fine of six thousand dollars for
his role in in defrauding thirty financial firms. During the sentencing statement, the Judge
stated that Mayer had received a fair trial and that his religious background
had no impact on the verdict or the sentence.
1880: H.S.
Allen presided over the sixth annual meeting of the United Hebrew Charities
which was held at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in Manhattan. The members re-elected Henry Rice to serve as
President and Mr. Allen will continue serving as First Vice President.
1882: In Berlin, Minna Eloesser and Jacques
Lewisohn gave birth to College of Charleston and Columbia University educated novelist
Ludwig Lewisohn, the professor at Wisconsin, Ohio State and Brandeis who was
the drama critic for The Nation and the editor of the New Palestine.
1884(6th of
Sivan, 5644): First Day of Shavuot as three bombs exploded in London as part of
‘the Fenian dynamite campaign,” another chapter in the Irish attempt to gain
independence from Great Britaino.
1885: Bishara
Cardahi, the “U.S Dragoman” at Acre wrote to Jacob Schumacher, the U.S.
Vice-Consul in Haifa.
1886: In
Philadelphia, PA, Isadore and Pauline Jacobs Bien gave birth realtor Morris
Bien, the husband of Bessie Dreifuss Bien and the brother of Walter Bien.
1886: During
today’s exercises celebrating the accomplishments of the 500 youngsters at the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Mrs. Jacob Bookman is scheduled to present the Betty
Bruhl prize which includes a one dollar award and Jesse Seligman, the President
of the Asylum Society will present the Malcolm Atherton Strauss Prize.
1887(7th
of Sivan, 5647): Second Day of Shavuot observed as Germany and Russia
negotiated the Reinsurance which replaced the “League of Three Emperors” part
of a network treaties designed to prevent a general European War which
ironically had just the opposite effect.
1888: It was
reported today that the dispute brought on by the death of Moses A. Isaacs last
year has been settled with the North American Relief Society for Indigent Jews
in Jerusalem, Palestine receiving $50,000 plus interest earned over the last
thirty years as provided by the will of Samson Simpson, the uncle of Moses A.
Isaacs.
1890: The
Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum will host its annual reception today.
1890: Birthdate
of Utyan, Lithuania, native David Isaac Traub in in 1926 came to the United
States where he served as a rabbi in New London, CT and was a member of the
Union of Orthodox Rabbis.
1890: Several
Polish Jews came to Essex Market Place Court today to file a complaint against
William S Wolf whom the claimed “had defrauded them out of money they had given
him” which he was supposed to have sent back to Poland.
1890: It was
reported today that New York City Mayor Grant has exercised his prerogative
under the law and appointed Isidor Strauss to serve as a bridge commissioner –
an appointment that will be matched by the governor.
1890:
Birthdate Paul Czinner the native of Budapest who was active in the Hungarian
world of cinema who spent WW II in the United States before moving to England
where he pursued his career as “a writer,
director, and producer.”
1890: Jacob
Epstein, a twenty-nine year old Russian Jewish immigrant and his wife Flora who
are in Gouverneur Hospital are not expected to survive their gunshot wounds
which were inflicted by Epstein during a fit of jealousy. The children are being cared for the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
1891:
Birthdate of Bernard Anzelevitz, the native of Bayonne, NJ, who gained fame as
Ben Bernie the jazz violinist and bandleader whose career included vaudeville
and radio in its golden age of pre-World War II variety shows.
1891: In New
York City Julius and Anna (Melnick) Bernie gave birth CCNY and Cooper alum
Benjamin Anzelwitz, the violinist who abandoned his engineering studies and
gained fame bandleader and radio personality Ben Bernie who married Dorothy
Wesley after divorcing his first wife, Rose Harris.
https://www.jazzstandards.com/biographies/biography_6.htm
1891: In
Baltimore, MD, Frances Solotoff and Michael Dorf gave birth to “cap
manufacturer” and Democratic Party supporter Morris Dorf the faither of Corrine
and Lorraine Dorf who supporter of the Hebrew Home for the Aged.
1891:
Birthdate of Jerusalem native Rabbi Aaron Ben Elias who came to U.S. in 1914
and who became a naturalized U.S. Citizen in 1943.
1892: As part
of today’s Memorial Day ceremonies the Honorary Staff of the Veteran Zouaves’
Association will present “a handsome silk flag” to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum
followed by a speech from General J.R. O’Beirne.
1892: Myer S.
Isaacs, A. S. Solomons of the Baron de Hirsch Fund, Judge Henry M. Goldfogle,
General Robert Avery, Joseph Blumenthal of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association
and Rabbi H.S. Jacobs addressed the children of the Baron de Hirsch Fun Schools
at today’s Memorial Day celebration.
1892: The Free
School at Jefferson Street and East Broadway, which was funded by Baron de
Hirsch, was the scene of a unique Memorial Day celebration. The school was
awash with patriotic paraphernalia including little American flags and red,
white and blue bunting. Visitors to the school were treated to four hundred
recently arrived Jewish children from Russia singing “My Country Tis of Thee”
in faultless English followed by a recitation of “Our Flag Shall Float” and
climaxed by these same youngsters singing The Star Spangled Banner. This program is an example of the
Americanization activities that are an integral part of the immigrant children’s
education.
1893: On his
21st birthdate NYU trained attorney Meyer Greenberg, the New York
City, born son Tessie Pukarch and Henry
M. Greenberg and member of the New York State Legislature who was one of the
organizers of both the Peoples Hospital in New York City and the Order of United Hebrew Brothers and a
director and counsel of the Jewish Uplift Society married Lilian Rose Silverberg
today.
1894: Memorial
services for the late Jesse Seligman were held at the Hebrew Benevolent and
Orphan Asylum on Amsterdam Avenue starting at three o’clock this afternoon.
1894: The
original Nathan Lattauer Hospital, which had been built thanks to the generous
support of his son Lucius Nathan Littauer was opened today.
1894: Two days
after he had passed away, 86 year old
Danzig native Woolf Moss, the husband of Abby Moss and the father of
Sarah Moss was buried today in th UK.
1894: Charles
Dupuy, formed a new government and began serving as Prime Minister of France –
a post from which he would preside over the arrested and condemnation of Alfred
Dreyfus.
1894: During
an interview today, Mrs. Esther J. Ruskay, defended a paper she presented at to
a cross section of Jewish women at Temple Emanu-El in which she “declared that
among the Jews of America there was no family life because parents had allowed
themselves to drift away from the time honored observances of their faith.” She
attributed this to parent paying “too much attention…to their worldly
advancement…and a consequent drifting away from the synagogue” as cam be seem
by their “giving up” the observance of the Sabbath.
1895(7th
of Sivan, 5655): Second Day of Shavuot
1895: Cadets
from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum will march with the Fourth Division in today’s
Brooklyn (NY) Memorial Day Parade.
1895: J.
Ernest G. Yalden married Margaret Lyon, the sister of Cornell Agronomy
Professor T. Littleton Lyon. In 1894,
The Trustees of the Baron de Hirsch Fund hired him to be superintendent of
their school, a position he held for 25 years.
1896: In
Kensington, London, Abraham Moss, who was Jewish and his wife Sara Jane gave
birth British race car driver and dentist Alfred Ethelbert Moss who invented
the Morrison Shelter during WW II and the father of world famous race car
driver Stirling Moss.
1896: In
Philadelphia, founding of “Gmilus Chasodim” a society that “loans money to the
poor without interest” and whose member include S.L. Halperin and Rabbi David
G. Kratzok.
1898: The
newly elected officers of the League of Zionist Societies of the United States
are Dr. Phil Klein – President; Dr. Michael Singer – General Secretary; Morris
Neuman – Treasurer; Dr. Henry Wald – Chairman of the Executive Board.
1898: One day
after she had passed away, Sophia Moss, the daughter of Joel and Sarah Levy,
the wife of Moses Moss and the mother of Louley Moss was buried today at the
“West Ham Jewish Cemtery.”
1898: The
excursion for the grand opening of the country sanitarium of the Montefiore
Home for Chronic Invalids at Bedford Station, NY will leave New York City at
11:30 this morning.
1898: As part
of today’s Memorial Day observance, The Hebrew Union Veterans’ Association is
scheduled to hold memorial services at Temple Emanu-El this evening.
1898:
Birthdate of Parisian Cyril Gottlieb who came to the United States where as
Cyril Gottlieb he went from child actor to movie director.
1898: “Albert
Lasker arrived in Chicago” today “with $75 in his pocket – the money had given
him to launch his new life” which was temporarily thwarted when he arrived at
the offices of Lord and Thomas but found the doors locked because the business
was closed because of Memorial Day.
1898: It was
reported today that the Directors of the Maurice Grau Opera Company designated
Edward Lauterbach to prepare a set of resolutions expressing their regret over
the death of Hungarian born conductor Anton Seidel which are to be given to his
widow. Lauterbach was a prominent lawyer who served as a trustee of the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum for almost 4 decades.
1899: It was
reported today that the United States Grand Lodge of the Independent Order Sons
of Benjamin sent a telegram to the wife of the imprisoned Captain Dreyfus
expressing their support and commending her for her behavior at the “approach
of vindication.”
1899: In
Brooklyn, William and Henrietta (Haymann) Thalberg gave birth to American movie
producer Irving Thalberg,
http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/about/awards/thalberg.html
1899: Judge
Ballot-Beaupre read his report on the Dreyfus case before the Court of
Cassation.
1900: In New
York City, Eiesek and Sarah Korn gave birth to Long Island College Hospital
trained medical doctor Samuel Milton Korn, the physician for the Home of Sons
and Daughters of Israel and a member of
B’nai Israel in Linden and offices in Brooklyn
1900: Captain
Antoine Louis Targe began serve as aid-de Camp under General Andre, the French
Minister of War. Three years later,
under the Minister’s direction he began an investigation of evidence brought
against Dreyfus. Targe would produce
information that would help to free Dreyfus.
1900: The new
home of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association which is a gift from Jacob Schiff
and is situation ate 92nd and Lexington and includes a gymnasium,
classrooms and a library with 9,000 volumes was dedicated today.
1901: Three
days after she had passed away, Matilda Isaac, the daughter of Alexander Isaac
and Sophie Levy, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1901: Herzl
meets Grossherzog Friedrich of Baden, who tries to get him an audience with the
Czar.
1901: In
Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary, Hillel Manger, “a skilled tailor in love with
literature” and his wife gave birth to Yiddish playwright and poet Itzik
Manger.
1902: It was
reported today that the Judeans had hosted a dinner in honor of Professor
Solomon Schechter “who was induced to leave Cambridge University to become the
Dean of the new Jewish Theological Seminary during which Dr. Gottheil, the
Professor of Semitic Languages at Columbia “who claimed the distinction of
being one of Dr. Schechter’s first pupils” said that he was sure his department
and the new JTS would “work together in perfect harmony.”
1902: Lt.
Louis C. Wolf retired from the military today at Sheboygan, Wisconsin
1903: Herzl
informs Zadoc Kahn and Lord Rothschild about the failure of the El-Arish
Project.
1903: “Camden
At Hebrew Meeting” published today described plans for the upcoming meeting in
Philadelphia sponsored by the Kishineff Relief Committee which will be attended
by Mayor Nowry and to which Archbishop Ryan has already contributed $20.
1904:
Birthdate of Baltimore native Bernard J. Bamberger, the great-grandson Bavarian
born Abraham Bamberger, the Johns Hopkins graduate and husband of Ethel “Pat”
Kraus who served as the rabbi of New York’s Reform Congregation Shaaray Tefila
whose many literary works included a Commentary on the Book of Leviticus that
was part of the Reform movement’s modern translation of the Torah.
http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6qv67zp
1904: In Kiev,
“Harry and Rose (Morsoff) Young gave birth to University of Pennsylvania
trained attorney H. Albert Young, a leader of the Republican Party Illinois who
was the husband of the former Ann Blank and the father of Ronell, Stuart and H.
Alan Young.
1904:
Birthdate of Long Branch, NJ native Irving Katz, the real estate and insurance
agent who was president of the YM-YWHA and an officer of the Free Loan
Association.
1904: Today,
Jean Hess, the European explorer who has just arrived in Paris from Morocco,
gave his views on the turmoil in that country stating that “It is interesting
to note that the recent campaign in Europto divide up Morocco has been largely
promoted by the Alliance Israelite who special aim is doubtless to secure
better treatment for the Jews in Morocco where they have no civil rights.”
1904:
Birthdate of Meyer Parodneck, the Polish born American lawyer who developed
programs to get milk to poor children during the Great Depression. (As reported
by Richard D. Lyons)
1905: Charles
Vogel of the Educational Alliance placed second in the 100-yard dash at the
second annual championship games of the Intersettlement Athletic Association
“held on Columbia Oval at William’s Bridge.”
1906(6th of
Sivan, 5666): First Day of Shavuot
1906:
Sixty-year-old Michael Davitt, the Irish republican leader of the Home Rule
movement the author of Within the Pale, a book published in 1903 that dealtwith
the anti-Semitic persecutions in Russia” and which was published today A.S.
Barnes and Company passed away today.
1907: “A rate
collector appointed by the council of the metropolitan borough of Islington
made a complaint to Joseph H. Polak Esquire, one of the justices of the peace
for the county of London.
1908:
Birthdate of Mel Blanc. The San Francisco native was the voice
for a several cartoon characters including Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd and Porky
Pig.
1908:
Birthdate of Dr. Abraham Stone Freedberg, a Harvard cardiologist who developed
an early treatment for angina and whose pioneering work in identifying the
bacteria that cause stomach ulcers was initially all but ignored. However, he was vindicated when two
Australian physicians won a Nobel Prize for work based on his discovery.
1909: Reuben
Siegel laid the cornerstone for the first home in Tel-Aviv
1909: In
Chicago, Eastern European Jewish immigrants and Dora and David Goodman gave
birth to Benjamin David Goodman, better known as clarinetist Benny Goodman, the
King of Swing!
https://www.notablebiographies.com/Gi-He/Goodman-Benny.html
1910: Birthdate of German actress Inge Meysel. Meysel’s mother was Danish and her father was
Jewish. According to one source, she was
banned from acting during the Nazi period.
She resumed her career in the German city of Hamburg and continued
working until her death in 2004.
1910:
Birthdate of Harry Louis Bernstein, author of The Invisible Wall: A Love
Story That Broke Barriers, his “painfully eloquent memoir about growing up
Jewish and poor in a northern English mill town earned him belated literary
fame on its publication in 2007, when he was 96…” (As reported by William
Grimes)
1910: Julius
Meysel, and his Danish wife Anna Hansen gave birth to actress Inge Meysel who
was banned from performing during the Nazi era because her father was Jewish.
http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jul/14/local/me-passings14
1911: New
Yorker Joseph Mandelkern who recently returned from Russia said tonight, “I
wish to warn American naturalized Russian Jews against venturing back to Russia
under the terms of the recent assurances issued by the Russian Government under
representation from American State Department” since that he has learned that
“as Russian subjects they are likely to be arrested and sentenced to Siberia or
prison terms for treason.”
1912:
Birthdate of St. Louis, MO native and Washington University undergrad Alexander
Langsdorf, the holder of a doctorate in physics from MIT who played a key role
in the Manhattan Project and who along with his wife Martyl Langsdorft became
an advocate for the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
1912: In New
York, Polish-Jewish immigrants Charles and Emma (Rosenblum) Stein gave birth to
CCNY and Columbia University alum and playwright Joseph Stein whose most famous
effort was Fiddler on the Roof
1912: Birthdate of American biochemist Julius
Axelrod who won the Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine in 1970.
1913: In New
Jersey, official dedication of the Mountain Ridge Country Club.
1913:
Birthdate of Moe Goldman, who played center for CCNY before going on to play
pro ball in the American Basketball League.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/09/obituaries/moe-goldman-ex-basketball-player-75.html
1913: The
Balkan war, which had started in October, 1912 officially came to an end with
the signing of the Treaty of London. As a result of this Albania became an
independent state. Jews had lived in Albania since Roman times. The false messiah, Shabbetai Zevi spent his
final years in Albania and died there.
At the time that Albania gained its independence from Turkey, there were
probably only a couple of hundred Jews living in the country.
1914(5th
of Sivan, 5674): Parashat Bamidbar; erev Shavuot
1914(5th
of Sivan, 5674): Forty-seven year old Baltimore native Lewis Putzel, an 1888
graduate of the University of Maryland Law School and partner in the firm of
Steiner and Putzel and husband of Birdie Putzel who served as Baltimore City
Attorney and a member of both houses of the Maryland State Legislature passed
away today in his home town.
http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/014700/014777/html/14777images.html
1915: Because
of a question raised by Albert Lucas, the question of “whether the Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America should declare in favor of a Hebrew national
congress for the purpose of looking after the interests of persons of the
Jewish faith in the European war zone was discussed at the eighth convention of
the union which opened” today at the Harlem Hebrew Institute Building.
1915: In
Ottawa, Canada, Leon and Beckie Petegorsky gave birth to their only son David
W. Petegorsky, the ordained rabbi who received a Ph.D. from London School of
Economics and was the Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress.
1915: It was
reported today that “the total of Illinois petitioners” calling on the Governor
of Georgia to commute the sentence of Leo Frank “will exceed 1,000,000” by the
time the case is heard tomorrow and this does not count those received “from
the big towns in Indiana.”
1915: “In an
editorial addressed to the Prison Commission, the Atlanta Journal” made a final
please for Leo Frank which began “Frank’s sentence ought to be commuted to life
imprisonment because of the deep-seated and overshadowing doubt of his
guilt. The state cannot afford to
sacrifice human life on uncertainties.”
1915: The
three commissioners – Chairman R. E. Davison, Judge T.E. Patterson and E.L.
Rainey – who make up the State Prison Commission which will hear the plea for
commuting Leo Frank’s sentence arrived in Atlanta, GA tonight.
1915: “An
Atlanta Appeal For Frank” published today provided a complete reprint of the
text of James Gray’s editorial originally printed a week ago.
1915: In Park
Slope, Brooklyn drug store owner Abraham “Gus” Manulis and his wife Anna gave
birth to producer Martin Ellyot Manulis whose work included everything from the
sitcom “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” to the very dramatic “Days of Wine and
Roses.”
https://www.revolvy.com/page/Martin-Manulis
1916(27th
of Iyar, 5676): Eighty-two year old Adolph Frank, a German chemist and
businessman best known for his work in potash and the winner of the John Scott
Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1893 passed away today.
1917: During
the “First Conference on Democracy and Terms of Peace” which was “being held in
New York’s Garden Theatre, delegates adopted a resolution presented by Morris
Hilliquist, the Jewish Socialist, demanding “that the Government agree to a
peace in which neither territory nor indemnities for any of the belligerents
shall figure.”
1917:
According to information received in London, “an order of expulsion is hanging
over the heads of the Jewish residents of Jerusalem” despite the fact that the
order of eviction from the Turks has been suspended twice due to intervention
by the German government which is concerned about the effect such a move would
have on “the world’s public opinion.”
1918:
Birthdate of Bernard Wessler, the graduate of Baruch College who gained fame as
television writer Bernie West whose credits include “All in the Family,” “The
Jeffersons” and “Three’s Company.”
1918 During
the Battle of Cantigny, Frederick Hahn, a second lieutenant serving with United
States Army Field Artillery, “went into heavy shell fire to supervise the
repairs of telephone lines and to act as a runner when the further maintenance
of the wires became impossible.
1918: In
accordance with a proclamation sent out by President Wilson on May 13,
“Orthodox Congregations in the United States” are scheduled to “open all the
synagogues for prayer and that members” would fast “as if it were a holy day”
while uttering special prayers calling “for the speedy success of American
arms” which would lead to “a just peace.”
1919: Today,
just four days his 19th birthday, veteran journalist Abel Green’s
“byline appeared for the first time.
1919: A
national Jewish association is founded in Constantinople under the auspices of
the Jewish association Amicale, and with cooperation of the B'nai Brith Lodge.
Among its many goals, are the establishment of an autonomous Jewish homeland in
Palestine, and support for the communal administration of Jewish philanthropic
groups in Turkey.
1919: As the
National Conference of Jewish Charities continued its week-long meeting in
Atlantic City, NJ, Maurice B. Hexter is scheduled to lead a discussion on
Convalescent Care and Lt. Maxwell Heller is scheduled to deliver a talk on
“Care of Wounded Soldiers” after Friday evening services at Beth Israel Synagogue.
1919: Bernard
and Mildred Asch gave birth to Sidney Howard Asch, “a New York judge with a
Ph.D. in sociology who wrote scholarly works about civil liberties and made
notable decisions about landlord-tenant law, employment of gay people and a
man’s right to get his hair cut in a women’s beauty salon…” (As reported by
Paul Vitello)
1920: Memorial
Day in the United States
1920: “Major
General Clarence R. Edwards, commander of the Yankee Division in France”
delivered the main address during Memorial Services at the Free Synagogue in
Carnegie Hall where the attendees included “the Jewish Veterans of the Wars of
the Republic and their commander Maurice Simmons.”
1920: The East
Boston Y.M.H.A. held Memorial Day exercise this afternoon at Ohel Jacob
Synagogue where “a memorial tablet was unveiled and dedicated to the Jewish men
of East Boston who served in the World War.”
1920: Rabbi
Israel Goldstein and Rabbi Jacob Schwartz officiated at Congregation B’nai
Jeshurun’s Memorial Day service which included a special memorial “to the late
Herman Levy” who had served as the president from 1912 until 1920.
1920:
Birthdate of Carmen G. De Sapio’s press agent Sydney Stuart Baron, the “son of
a Brooklyn shoemaker,” “an ‘A’ English student at New Utrecht High School” and
husband of high school sweetheart Sylvia Schreibman whose public relations
clients included Anheuser-Busch, Iona College and Beth Jacob Schools.
1920: “The 21st
conference of the English Zionist Federation of London passed a resolution
‘expressing gratitude to the Supreme Council for incorporating the Balfour
declaration in the treaty with Turkey and for granting the mandate for
Palestine to Great Britain.’”
1920:
Ninety-one year Joseph Eduard Konrad Bischoff whose 19th century
novella Judas Makkabaeus
demonstrated a renewed interest in the non-Jewish world in the Jewish warrior
passed away today.
1921: In
Washington, D.C., Myer Solomon Cohn, the Russian born son of Leo and Sarah
Cohn, and his wife Bertha Cohn gave birth to Claude Cohn.
1922 Birthdate
of Rosel Lerner, the native of Worms and one of the children sent to Britain on
the Kinderstransport trains, who gained fame as Rose Evanksky, the inventor of
“blow-dry hair styling.” (As reported by William Grimes)
1923: “A plea
for the elimination of Henry Ford” the anti-Semitic auto maker, “from the
presidential race was made yesterday by the delegates to the fifth annual
convention of the Federation of Hungarian Jews in America at the Hias Building…”
1923: “Jews of
New York City have raised $1,800,000 for the Palestine Foundation Fund of which
more than $600,000 was in cash and the balances was in pledges.”
1923: Jack
Bernstein won the World Junior Light Championship today.
1924: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held this afternoon for “forty-three-year-old St.
Louis native Aaron Hoffman, “one of the most prolific writers for the American
stage, the author of a score of play and countless vaudeville sketches” and the
husband of Minna Z. Hoffman with whom he had one child, Phyllis.
1924: “Tragedy
in the House of Habsburg,” a historical drama about the suicide at Mayerling
directed and produced by Alexander Korda and starring Maria Corda was released
in Germany today.
1925(7th
of Sivan, 5685): Second Day of Shavuot
1925(7th
of Sivan, 5685): Seventy-five year old Dr. of Jurisprudence Albert Mosse, the
husband of Caroline Mosse and the son of Ulrike Mosse and Marcus Mosse, M.D.
passed away today.
1925:
Birthdate of John Henry Marks, the London born physician who served as Chariman
of the British Medical Associate from 1984 to 1990.
1925: In
Memphis, TN, Edward Bihari a Jewish immigrant from Hungary who worked in sales
and later ran a grain and seed business in Tulsa, OK and his wife gave birth to
Joseph Bihari, the youngest of 8 siblings who had a major impact on the
popularization of “R&B” as can be seen by his being the first to record the
music of B.B. King. (As reported by William Yardley)
1926: In
Philadelphia, The Hakoah Soccer Team is scheduled to play its final game against
the Philadelphia Soccer Club today at Franklin Field before leaving the United
States.
1926: A rodeo
featuring a troop of 120 Don Cossacks who recently arrived in the United States
from Russia is scheduled to take place tonight at Madison Garden. The proceeds of the event will go the United
Jewish Campaign of New York.
1927: Rabbi
Arthur S. Montaz is scheduled to deliver the invocation and Mrs. Leo
Freidenrich is scheduled to deliver “the address of welcome” at the opening
session of the Fourth Western Interstate Conference at Temple Emanuel in
Spokane, Washington.
1928: Today,
on Memorial Day, in North Carolina the Wilmington airport was named
Bluethenthal Field, in honor of Arthur Bluethenthal, who transferred from the
Lafayette Escadrille to the air arm of the United States Navy and was “the
first North Carolinian killed in action during World War I.”
1929: On the
West Side of Chicago, “Monroe Harriman Loeb,” the owner of a wrecking and
salvage company” and “the former Henrietta Benjamin, a milliner and teacher”
gave birth to Marshall Robert Loeb, the “business journalist” who made Money magazine and Fortune magazine into major publications. (As reported by Robert D.
Hershey, Jr.)
1929: Leonard
Jacques Stein stood as the Liberal candidate for Bermondsey West in today’s
General election where he finished second in a three way race.
1930: At a
meeting in Tel Aviv, the Vaad Leumi, the Jewish National Council called for a
national strike to begin next week to protest the British government’s order
suspending Jewish immigration pending an inquiry into land and immigration
problems by Sir John Simpson.
1930: In
Manhattan, Harold and Judith Heyman gave birth to their only child Ira Michael
Heyman the Chancellor of the University of California, Berkley and Secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/us/michael-heyman-smithsonian-leader-dies-at-81.html
1930: In New York attorney Maruice Janklow and
the former Lillian Levantin gave birth to Columbia trained attorney Morton L.
Janklow “the storied New York literary agent who struck megadeals with
publishers for best-selling authors, ghostwritten celebrities, several
presidents and a pope, and who influenced international book lists and the
reading habits of millions for decades…(As reported by Robert D. McFadden)
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/pioneering-literary-agent-morton-l-janklow-dies-aged-91
https://www.law.columbia.edu/news/archive/memoriam-morton-l-janklow-53-preeminent-literary-agent
1931: It was
reported today that Isaac Landman who has agreed to return as the rabbi of
Congregation Beth Elhoim in Brooklyn will still serve as the editor of The American Hebrew and editor-in-chief
of The Standard Jewish Encyclopedia,
1932: As the
Weimar Republic descended into the chaos that would bring Hitler to power
Chancellor Brüning announced his cabinet's resignation after President
Hindenburg and his fellow Junkers “opposed his policies of distributing land to
unemployed workers.”
1932:
Birthdate of Baltimore native Solomon Wolf Golomb, the son of a rabbi and
linguist who gained fame as an electrical engineer and mathematician.
http://coding.yonsei.ac.kr/kart-berlekamp.pdf
https://news.usc.edu/100264/in-memoriam-solomon-golomb-communications-technology-pioneer-83/
1933(5th of
Sivan, 5693): Erev Shavuot
1933: In
Camden, NJ, variety store owners Sylvia Pfeffer and Aaron Sidney “Sid” Mark
Fliegelman, “a longtime disc jockey in Philadelphia who made Frank Sinatra’s
songs the center of his wide-reaching musical universe for more than six decades…”
(As reported by Richard Sandomir)
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/224098/philadelphia-radio-icon-sid-mark-passes-at-the-age-of-88/
1933: The
Bishops saw a draft of the Concordat as they assembled for a meeting of the
Fulda bishops conference led by Breslau’s Cardinal Bertram
1933: The
League of Nations held the first of two days of debate about the persecution of
the Jews in Germany.
1934(16th
of Sivan, 5694): Mrs. Jacob Meyer, a probation officer passed away today in New
York.
1934: Storm
troopers “severely mistreated” the sixty year old Jewish man who was the
proprietor of a business in Munich.
1935: “The
memory of fifteen Jews who served in the Revolution and the War of 1812, whose
bodies lie in the old Bowery Cemetery east of Chatham Square was honored at the
memorial service in the cemetery today under the auspices of Manhattan Post 1
of the Jewish War Veterans.”
1936: “It was
learned today that the Palestine Government was considering the mobilization of
1,000 Jews into a special until to help government forces cope with the Arab
revolt.”
1936: William
Cohen, the president of the National Association of Jewish Center Executives
addressed the organization’s annual meeting at the Hotel Chelsea in Atlantic
City where George L. Hyman, executive director of the Central Jewish Institute
of New York “praised the Maccabiah games as a means of bringing all elements of
the Jewish community as spectators and participants.”
1936: The
Palestine (British) Government today warned all mukhtars (chieftains) that
their villages would be subject to collective punitive measures unless the
cutting of telephone wires, bomb explosions, attempts to demolish railway lines
and other acts of brigandage ceased.
1936: “It was
learned today that the Palestine Government was considering the mobilization of
1,000 Jews into a special unit to help government forces cope with the Arab
revolt.”
1937: Police
investigated charges by the Grand Mufti Haj Amin el Husseini, that he had been
ambushed by a “party Jews attempting to take his life.
1938: The Palestine Post published the full
text of the letter, written by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, addressed to the High
Commissioner for Palestine. The letter was accompanied by the Annual Jewish
Agency's memorandum prepared for the League of Nations Mandates Commission. The
Agency accused the Palestine Government that 1937 was a year of an artificially
limited immigration and a "chequered development". The Jewish
economic structure had shown strength and resilience in the face of the Arab
terror. Exports increased, but there was insufficient Government aid for
industry and control of imports.
1939: Dr.
David De Sola Pool, the rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
officiated this afternoon at memorial exercise in the small triangular remnant
of the once extensive cemetery of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue which
was meant to honor “the Jewish soldiers who died for this country in the Revolutionary
War.
1940: French
driver Rene Dreyfus finished 10th today in the Indianapolis 500.
1941: Germany seizes the Greek island of
Crete. The Germans would leave the Jews
of Crete alone until 1944. In 1944, the
Germans loaded the Jews of Crete on to a ship called the Tanais along with a
mixed bag of Greek and Italian prisoners.
The ship was sunk as it headed for the mainland. It is unclear whether a German U-boat or a British
submarine sank the Tanais.
1941: At ten o'clock in morning, Yunis al-Sabawi,
the newly self-appointed pro-Nazi Military Governor of Baghdad "summoned
the Chief Rabbi, Sasson Hedouri to his office and ordered him to instruct the
Jews to go to their homes and stay there until noon. He was also supposed
to tell them to pack a suitcase for each family member because they were being
taken to detention camps 'for their own safety." In the meantime,
Sabwai "instructed the broadcasting station to issue a call to the
Baghdad public to massacre the Jews." The broadcast was to be made
at noon. (In Ishmael's House by Martin Gilbert.
1941: At
meeting with the Mayor of Baghdad, Arshad al-Umari, The Chief Rabbi, Sasson
Khedouri asked him to thwart the plans of Yunis Al-Sabawi for the destruction
of the city's Jewish population.
1941: Yunis Al-Sabawi, the pro-Nazi governor of
Baghdad, took refuge in Persia when the Mayor of Baghdad, Arshad al-Umari,
took control of the city and ended the threatened massacre of the Jewish
population.
1942: After 467, “Lady in the Dark” closed at the Alvin
Theatre in New York City. It could be called “a Jewish musical” since Kurt
Weill wrote the music, Ira Gershwin did the lyrics and Moss Hart supplied the
book and the direction.
1942: Members of the Wehrmacht deported the remaining 75
Jews from Hanau, Germany.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/may/09.asp
1943:
U.S. premiere of “DuBarry Was a Lady” a musical comedy produced by Arthur Freed
photographed by cinematographer Karl Freund and featuring Zero Mostel as “Rami
the Swami.”
1943: During
WW II, the Battle of Attu in which American forces that included Dr. Abraham
Koransky confronted Japanese forces in the only WW II battle fought on the
American mainland came to an end today.
1944:
Bernhard Bästlein, a genuine leader of the anti-Nazi resistance was rearrested
by after having escaped from Plötzensee Prison during an Allied bombing raid
and taken to the Reichssicherheitshauptamt for the first of several days of
torture.
1944:
Rudolf Breslauer “a German-Jewish inmate of Westerbork camp in Holland” filmed
one of only two cinematic works known to have been produced inside a
functioning concentration camp for Jews.” (As reported by Cnaan Liphshiz)
1945:
In Paris, “several thousand repatriated prisoners” marched down the Avenue de
l’Opera “demanding clothes” and then “marched down the Boulevard Sebastopol
crying ‘Down with the Jews.’”
1946: In a play that
anticipates a scene in The Natural by Brooklyn-native Bernard Malamud,
the Braves' Bama Rowell smashes a double in the 7-run 2nd inning of the second
game of a doubleheader at Ebbets Field. The ball shatters the Bulova clock high
atop the right-field scoreboard at 4:25 P.M., showering glass down on the
Dodgers' Right Fielder Dixie Walker. An hour later the clock stops
1947(10th
of Sivan, 5707): Seventy-three year old journalist Meir (Myer Jack) Landa who
had worked for the Daily Gazette in Birmingham, passed away today in London.
1947:
It was reported today that Congregation Rodeph Sholom has elected the following
officers, Joseph Pulvermacher, President; Jacob S. Manheimer, vice president;
Henry Hofheimer, treasurer and Charles B. Myers, honorary secretary.
1948:
At dawn this morning forces of the Irgun captures Ras el Ein near Petah Tikva
the source of Jerusalem’s water supply.
By nightfall, the Jewish troops had to give up their hard won victory
because of counterattacks from a larger force of Iraqi soldiers.
1948:
Milton “Milt” Rubenfeld, that native of Peekskill, NY who had flown for the RAF
and the U.S.A.A.F. flew his first mission for the infant Israeli Air Force
taking off at 0530 as the wingman for Ezer Weizman with whom he was supposed to
attack positions around Tulkarm.
1948: In the
skies above Israel, Arab aircraft were on the attack striking at Jewish forces
in several locations including Zirin, a village near Jenin, Kinereth near
Timeria, Rebovoth, near Ramleh, Merchavia and Afula which was the target for
incendiary bombs. The newly-minted
Israeli air force struck at Tel el Kasser on the Trans Jordan border and at an
area near Isdud where Egyptian forces were assembling to move on Jaffa. The Israelis lost one plane in the attack.
1948:
“Israel’s last remaining dissident organization, the Stern Group, announced
tonight that it had been incorporated into the regular Israeli army.” (Ed. Note: This was part of Ben Gurion’s
determined effort to create a modern state with only military. This was not a popular effort and it meant
with resistance from a wide spectrum of political opinion. If Ben Gurion had not pushed forward with his
plan the Jewish community of the day would have looked Gaza in the 21st
century.)
1949:
Birthdate of Charles Samuel Shapiro “an American diplomat and a former U.S.
ambassador to Venezuela. He went on to become Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary at the State Department from 2007 to 2009, and now heads its free
trade agreement task force. Some supporters of President Hugo Chavez accuse
Shapiro of having supported the 2002 coup d'état, including a meeting with
interim president Pedro Carmona Estanga one day after the coup. Shapiro and other US sources have denied this
and claim that he urged Carmona to reinstitute the dissolved national
assembly. Shapiro has degrees from the
University of Pennsylvania and Georgia State University, and served in the
United States Coast Guard.
1949: In “Fine
Singing Heard At Jewish Festival” published today Hugh Thomson provided a
review the annual Jewish music festival held in celebration of the Sabbath of
Song which opened Jewish Music Month in Toronto.
1951:
“Goodbye, My Fancy” a romantic-comedy directed by Vincent Sherman based on a
play by Fay Kanin was released in the United States today.
1951: Birthdate of Dallas native Stephen
Tobolowsky, character actor whose most famous role might be that of Ned
Reyerson, the obnoxious insurance salesman in Groundhog Day.
1951: Austrian
born author Hermann Broch passed away. Broch was imprisoned in a concentration
camp after the Anschluss. During his
imprisonment he began writing the most important of his three major works, The
Death of Virgil. Broch’s influential friends including James Joyce obtained
his release and got him into the United States.
He converted to Roman Catholicism prior to his death in 1951.
1952(6th
of Sivan, 5712): Shavuot
1952: In
Charleston, West Virginia, “Harold Marks, who operated a linen supply business,
and the former Beverly Rosenthal, a painter on Judaic themes” gave birth to
Gilbert Stanley Marks “a culinary historian who wrote widely on the
relationship between Jewish food and Jewish culture in a manner that was both
scholarly and friendly.” (As reported by Bruce Weber)
1952:
Birthdate of Giles Uriel Bernheim, the native of Aix-les-Bains, Savoie who was
elected chief rabbi of France in 2008.
1952(6th
of Sivan, 5712): First Day of Shavuot
1952(6th
of Sivan, 5712): Seventy-two year old Albert Lasker, the Lord and Thomas
Advertising Agency executive who introduced the campaigns for such products as
Kleenex Tissues and Lucky Strike cigarettes passed away. He used his millions
to establish the Lasker Foundation and to endow the Albert Lasker Awards, given
annually “for outstanding contributions to clinical and basic medical research.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albert-Davis-Lasker
1953: After
263 performances, the curtain comes down at the Empire Theatre on “The Time of
the Cukoo” a play by Arthur Laurents directed Harold Cluman
1954: In New
York City, Hermann Merkin, who owned 37 percent of Overseas Shipping Group and
helped to found the Fifth Avenue Synagogue and his wife Ulla gave birth author
and journalist Daphne Miriam Merkin.
https://books.google.com/books?id=Q90NYXytQaUC&pg=PA218#v=onepage&q&f=false
1955(9th
of Sivan, 5715): Sixty-four year old Alexander N. Sack. the Moscow born,
Russian lawyer and faculty member of the Saint Petersburg University who in
1930 came to the United States where taught at NYU and Northwestern while
developing a reputation on international finance especially as it dealt with
the problems of governmental debt,
http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2662
1956(20th
of Sivan, 5716): Sixty-three-year-old Russian born, Columbia trained attorney
Samuel J. Levinson, “a partner in the law firm of Weinstein and Levison” who
was the husband of the “former Silvia Opalinsky” and the father of Mrs. Lila
Perlstein passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/06/01/86600975.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1958(11th
of Sivan, 5718): In front of a live audience of several thousand people and an
untold number of radio listeners sixty-eight year old “Maximillian Pilzer
struck his head on a strip of concrete” and suffered “fatal concussion to the
brain when he “ collapsed while conducting the Naumburg Symphony on the Mall in
Central Park.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/05/31/81884973.pdf
https://www.operamusica.com/artist/maximilian-pilzer/#biography
1958: Sarah
Churchill wrote to her father describing the ceremony opening the Churchill
Auditoriums at the Technion. “They love you very much and the auditorium was
designed to honor your achievements…”
1959: U.S.
premiere of “The Young Philadelphians” starring Paul Newman with music by
Ernest Gold who came to the United States after the Anschluss because his
paternal grandfather was Jewish.”
1959: “Sunrise
at Campobello” the gripping drama about FDR’s fight with Polio written Dore
Schary closed today after running for 556 performances at the Cort Theatre.
1960(4th of
Sivan, 5720): Boris Pasternak, author of Dr. Zhivago passed away
1961:
Birthdate of Tehran native Bob Yari, the graduate of U.C., Santa Barbara and
American movie producer.
1961: Today
“Rabbi Martin Reisenbruger, the spiritual of leader of East Berlin’s 960 Jews
was award the gold medal of the Patriotic Order of Merit, one East Germany’s
top decorations” which was part of the celebration of his 65th
birthday which was celebrated earlier this month, (JTA)
1961: Prime
Minister David Ben Gurion met with President John F. Kennedy in the
Presidential suite at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. The meeting
lasted for an hour and a half. The two
leaders discussed the sale of HAWK missiles to Israel, the reactor at Dimona
and need to make some sort of conciliatory gesture concerning the Palestinian
refugees.
1961(15th of
Sivan, 5721): Binyamin Mintz an Israeli politician who served as Minister of
Postal Services from July 1960 until his death today. Born in Łódź in the
Russian Empire (today in Poland), Mintz studied in a Hasidic Ger school and was
a member of Young Agudat Israel. He made aliyah to Mandate Palestine in 1925
and worked in construction and as a printer. In 1933 he joined Agudat Israel
Workers, and was later a member of the Provisional State Council. In 1949 he was
elected to the first Knesset on the list of the United Religious Front (an
alliance of the four main religious parties). Re-elected in 1951, 1955 and
1959, he was appointed Minister of Postal Services by David Ben-Gurion in 1960.
The village of Yad Binyamin, established in 1962, was named in his honor.
1962(26th
of Iyar, 5722): Seventy-eight year old Abel “Buck Warshawsky, the Cleveland
born son of Ezekiel and Ida Warshawsky who with his brother Alexander “attended
the Cleveland School of Art and the New York National Academy of Design” before
moving to Europe “where he divided his time between Paris and Brittany” while
painting “Breton peasants and landscapes” before moving to Monterey, CA just
before WW II where he continued to work while living with his third wife Ruth
Tate, passed away today.
1963(7th
of Sivan, 5723): Second Day of Shavuot
1963: Rabbis
Ira Einstein and Joachim are scheduled to office at funeral services for 86
year old Louis Lipsky, the “dean of American Zionists and a friend and colleague
of the late Dr. Chaim Weizmann in the building of the State of Israel” who will
be eulogized by Moshe Sharett.
1964(19th of
Sivan, 5724): Famed nuclear physicist Leo Szilard passed away. Born in
Hungry, Szilard sounded the early warning about Nazi plans to build an
atomic bomb and the need for the Western Powers to do it first. His
efforts led to the famous letter from Einstein, the Manhattan Project and the
successful building of the Atomic Bomb Hungarians/US nuclear physicist
http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v46/i9/p63_s1?isAuthorized=no
1965: Moshe
Carmel began serving as Minister of of Transport, National Infrastructure and
Road Safety
1965(28th of
Iyar, 5725): Fifty-eight-year-old Albany, NY born advertising executive and
Union College alum Sanford L. Hirschberg, who served in the Coast Guard during
WW II and who was the husband of “the former Helen Felton” as well as the
father of Gary and Nancy Hirschberg passed away today,
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/05/31/118546462.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1966:
Birthdate of Stephen Malkmus indie-rock musician who played with a band called
Silver Jews.
1966: Frank L.
Lazarus, the former New York City Commissioner of Real Estate and 1924 graduate
of West Point who had retired from the Army Reserve with the rank of brigadier
general “ joined the real estate of
another former city reality official, J. Clarenece, Inc, in the capacity of
vice president.”
1967: King
Hussein of Jordan visited Cairo. “At the meeting Nasser produced a file
containing the Syrian-Egyptian defense pact” King Hussein was, in his own words
“so anxious to reach agreement” that told Nasser to give him another copy of
the agreement, “replace the word Syrian with the word Jordan” so that he could
join the alliance without delay. Apparently, Hussein was not the reluctant
participant he would later claim to have been. This was part of Arab efforts to
create a united military front in what would become the Six Day
War which would begin a week later. When the war broke out, the
Israelis sent word to the Jordanians asking them to stay out of the fight.
The Israelis assured the Jordanians that they had no intention of attacking
them. The Jordanian response was to starting shelling Israel.
It was this action by the Jordanians which led the Israelis to the Green
Line and drive the Jordanians out of east Jerusalem.
1967: As “the
Arab noose” seems to be tightening around the Israeli neck, Meir Amit was sent
to Washington to check the American response if Israel launched pre-emptive
strikes at Egypt. He told the defense secretary Robert MacNamara: "All we
want is three things: One, that you refill our arsenal after the war. Two, that
you will help us in the UN. Three, that you will isolate the Russians from the
arena." MacNamara said to Amit: "I read you loud and clear."
1968: Martin
Noth, German Old Testament scholar, passed away. Noth was the first authority
to note that “First and Second Kings” contained virtually no mention of the
classic prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos and Hosea.
1969: Palestinian terrorists
blew up the oil pipeline which passes through the Golan Heights. Thousands of
tons of crude oil polluted the river-beds, but were blocked before they could
reach Lake Kinneret.
1970
"Minnie's Boys" a play about the Marx Brothers closed at
Imperial Theater in New York City closed after 80 performances.
1970: “The
Ballad of Cable Hogue,” an off-beat Western with music by Jerry Goldsmith and
co-starring David Warner who “was raised by his Russian Jewish father and his
stepmother.”
1971(6th
of Sivan, 5731): Shavuot
1971: In the
borough of Queens Helene and Stuart Mentzel gave birth to singer/songwriter
Idina Menzel who “originated the role ‘Maureen Johnson’ in the Broadway hit
‘Rent’ and its cinematic adaption.
1972: Final
exams are scheduled to be held today at The Bernard M. Baruch College of the
City University of New York. The exams had originally been scheduled to given
on May 19 which coincided with the celebration of Shavuot. The date of the exams was changed following
protests led by Hillel, the Anti-Defamation League and individual students.
1972: In Tel
Aviv, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre,
killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
1973(28th of
Iyar, 5733): Yom Yerushalayim
1974: “The
Henry Street Settlement” house which was founded by Lillian Wald the Cincinnati
born daughter of German-Jewish immigrants Max D. Wald and the former Minnie
Schwarz, was designated as National Historic Landmark today.
1975:
Eighty-year old Swiss born, non-Jewish actor Michel Simon who won the Best
Actor at the Berlin Film Festival in 1967 for portraying “a gruff anti-Semitic
peasant who come to love a young Jewish boy in in Occupied France during WW II”
in the film “The Two of Us” passed away today.
1975: Larry
Blyden began what would be his last vacation in Morocco.
1976: Birthdate
of child star Omri Katz
1977: In
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 27 year old Nina Bushkin daughter of jazz pianist Joey
Bushkin married 58 year old Alan Jay Lerner, the man who wrote the lyrics for
such Broadway hits as “My Fair Lady” and “Camelot.”
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that in his
inaugural Knesset address the new, fifth President of Israel, Yitzhak Navon,
called upon Egypt to renew peace negotiations and urged other Arab leaders to
follow suit. Knesset members were so pleased with Navon's appearance that they
broke a cardinal rule and spontaneously burst into applause. The Prime
Minister, Menachem Begin, looking pale after several days of fever, turned up
despite reports that his health might preclude his appearance.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that Tadiran
gave a sneak preview of its miniature, remotely-controlled pilotless
reconnaissance aircraft, the Mastiff.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that
according to Yigal Hurwitz, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, only huge
budget cuts of some four to five billion pounds, accompanied by a drastic
reduction of manpower in the service sector, could save Israel from the fast
growing inflation.
1983: As part
of the American Jewish Choral Festival workshops were scheduled to take place
today “on the tradition of Jewish choral music, on the choral music of Israel
and on the significance of texts in Jewish choral music, led by Hugo Weisgall,
Joshua Jacobson and the director of the festival, Matthew Lazar.”
1983:
“International release date” of "It Might Be You” a song with music
written by Dave Grusin, and lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman.
1984(28th
of Iyar, 5744): Yom Yerushalayim
1984: A
revival of “Little Me” a musical written by Neil Simon, with music by Cy
Coleman and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh opened on the West End at the Prince of
Wales Theatre.
1990(6th of Sivan, 5750): Shavuot
1990: Good
luck as much as any other factor helped foil a potentially disastrous attack by
heavily armed seaborne terrorists on Israeli civilians today. Air, ground and
naval forces engaged the intruders, killing four and capturing 12 before they
could cause casualties or damage.
1991:
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt reviewed On the Third Day by Piers Paul Read
that begins with a discovery by an Israeli counterintelligence unit that leads
to the conclusion that Jesus did not survive the crucifixion and that he did
not rise on the third day
1992:
CBS broadcast the final episode of “The Trials of Rosie O’Neill” produced by
Barney Rosenzweig and featuring Ron Rifkin and Ed Asner.
1997:
Richard Danizg, a Clinton appointee, completed his term as Under Secretary of
the Navy. He was the 26th
person to fill this position since it was resurrected by Franklin Roosevelt in
1940. In another era, both Teddy
Roosevelt and FDR had held this same postion.
1997(23rd
of Iyar, 5757): Thirty-one year old Jonathan M. Levin, a son of the Chairman of
Time Warner was killed by a former student Corey Arthur. “Five years later, the
New York City Education Department opened Jonathan Levin High School for Media
and Communications in the same South Bronx building where he had taught,
declaring it “a living tribute” to the English teacher’s “spirit, values,
commitment and impassioned belief” that every child has a right to a quality
education.” (As reported by Al Baker)
1998(5th of
Sivan, 5758): Sam Aaronvitch, British economist, academic, working class
intellectual and senior member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, passed
away
1998: Tonight,
Erev of Shavuot, Jonathan Eisenthal and as many as 150 other members of Mt.
Zion Hebrew Congregation will be studying Exodus 19, the biblical passage in
which God first approaches the Israelites to become partners in a divine
covenant, and, through Moses, gives them the Torah. Traditionally observant
Jews stay up the whole first night of Shavuot studying texts related to
revelation, the giving of the Torah and the Book of Ruth. But among Reform Jews
like Eisenthal, staying up the whole night, or even part of it, to study is a
relatively new practice. Eisenthal is doing just what the head of the Reform
movement, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, hopes to inspire among more of his constituents.
Last November, in his first speech as president of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, the umbrella organization for Reform synagogues, Yoffie declared
that "Torah is at the center" of his movement. Hebrew literacy, and a
knowledge of core Jewish texts, was, he said, to be the focus of a new
campaign.
1999:
“Goodnight Mister Tom” director Jack Golds’ final film was released today in
the United States.
2000: Yitzhak
Mordechai completed his term as Minister of Transport, National Infrastructure
and Road Safety
2001:
President Bush welcomes Israeli President Moshe Katsav to the White House for a
working dinner with Jewish leaders and senior Administration officials.
2001: A car
bomb explodes outside a school in Netanya injuring 8 people for which
Palestinian Islamic Jihad took credit.
2001: CTV
broadcast the last episode of the mystery drama series “Twice in a Lifetime”
starring Al Waxman and featuring Polly Bergen.
2002: A
Jerusalem District Court indicted three Jewish settlers - Yarden Morag, Shlomo Dvir and Ofer Gamliel –
“accused of plotting to bomb a Palestinian girls’ school in East Jerusalem.”
2003: (28th of
Iyar, 5763) Yom Yerushalayim – Jerusalem Reunification Day
2003: “Finding
Nemo,” an Academy Award winnin animated comedy starring the voices of Albert
Brooks and Alexander Gould was released in the United States today.
2004 In “The
Perils of Pauline and Susan” published today, Michael Wood provides a complete
review of Sontag and Kael: Opposites Attract Me by Craig Seligman.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/30/books/the-perils-of-pauline-and-susan.html?searchResultPosition=6
2005: Sephardi
Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar decides to recognize the members of India's Bnei
Menashe community as descendants of the ancient Israelites.
2005:
President Moshe Katsav arrives in Germany to mark 40 years of diplomatic
relations during a three-day visit in which he is to address the German
parliament.
2005(21st of
Iyar, 5765): Thirty-eight year old Yona Peter Malina who had been “severely
injured” during a Hamas bombing on a city bus in Ramat Eshkol, Jerusalem, and
had been on a respirator finally passed away today.
2006: “A
commemorative stamp portraying Hiram Bingham IV” who served as U.S. Vice
Counsel in Marseille and helped over 2,500 escape the Nazis
2007: Elias
Chacour - Archbishop of Galilee, “an Arab Christian” who advocates for the
Palestinian cause” was interviewed by
Jerome McDonnell on Worldview on Chicago Public Radio station WBEZ.
2007: An exhibition, ''Sisters by Color'' comes to a close at
the Hebrew University. The exhibition, featuring works of art by sisters Rachel
Ziv and Gila Elyashar Stolisky, opened on April, 12, 2007, in the presence of
the Lithuanian Ambassador to Israel Asta Skaisgiryte Liauskiene.
2007: As the missile attacks continue, a Qassam rocket hit a high-voltage electricity pole and
landed on a building in the western Negev city of Sderot this evening. The
house sustained some damage, but the residents of the home had been secured
inside a protected room and remained unharmed.
2008: On Friday night, Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
celebrates the third and final Special Musical Sabbaths for this year.
2008: In Patterson, NJ, the Barnet Hospital named for Jewish
philanthropist and political leader Nathan Barnet officially closed its doors
today after 99 years of service.
2008(25th of Iyar, 5768): Lee Henkel, the former
general counsel to the IRS who ran Neiderhoffer Henkel the investment bank
founded by hedge fund manager Victor Niederhoffer passed away today.
2008: Outfielder Brian Horwitz appeared in his first major league
baseball game as a member of the San Francisco Giants.
2008: In “A Class For All Traditions,” published today the Chicago
Tribune reports on The Chicago Jewish Day School on its fifth anniversary.
2009(7th of Sivan, 5769: Second Day Shavuot –
Yizkor
2009:
Stephan M. Silverman, a clinical and school psychologist and Jacqueline S.
Iseman, a clinical psychologist specializing in children and adolescents lead a
discussion of “School Success for Kids With ADHD” at Borders Books in Rockville,
MD.
2010:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish of authors and/or
of special interest to Jewish readers including The Invisible Bridge by
Julie Orringer and Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the
Rule of Law by Gabriel Schoenfeld.
2010(17th
of Sivan, 5770): Eighty-eight year old Israeli political leader and Knesset
Member Aryeh “Lova” Eliav passed away.
2011:
Limmud Colorado’s Fourth Annual Conference is scheduled to come to an end.
2011:
Israeli Homeland Security Minister Matan Vilna'i and his Russian counterpart
Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu are scheduled to sign an agreement to
increase Israeli-Russian cooperation in emergency situations during a ceremony
at the Knesset today.
2011(26th
of Iyar, 5771): Yahrzeit Moshe Chaim Luzzatto. Born in 1707 he “was a prominent
Italian Jewish rabbi, kabbalist, and philosopher.” Known by the Hebrew acronym
RaMCHaL (or RaMHaL, רמח"ל), he passed in
1746.
2011:
The head of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Bernie Farber, announced he is
running for public office. Farber, who worked for the CJC for 27 years and has
been its CEO since 2005, announced he is taking a leave of absence to run as a
Liberal candidate in October's provincial elections in Ontario
2011:
According to some of the findings in Identity a la Carte, a landmark study of
post-Communist Jewish identity, affiliation and participation released today,
“a generation after the fall of communism, Jews in Central Europe feel
comfortable where they live but are concerned about anti-Semitism. They like to
visit Israel but don't want to move there. And they feel that they don't have
to be religious to be a "good Jew."
2011:
Funeral services will be held today in Toronto for Milton Avruskin with
internment at Interment at Pardes Shalom Cemetery, Temple Har Zion section.
2011(26th
of Iyar, 5771): Eighty-nine year old Rosalyn S. Yalow, the first woman to earn
a Nobel Prize in Medicine, passed away today. (‘As reported by Denise Gellene)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/us/02yalow.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
2012:
Judaism and the American Legal Tradition taught by Dr. Daniel Rynhold is
scheduled to hold its final course of the semester.
2012:
Funeral services were held today for “Award-winning
author, teacher, mentor and fierce fighter for social justice, Ellen Levine”
who had passed away on May 26.
2012:
Center for Jewish History and Leo Baeck Institute are scheduled to present a
concert featuring Vassa Shevel and Inessa Zaretsky of the Phoenix Chamber
Ensemble and guest pianist, Ellen Braslavsky
2012:
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said today that Israel should consider imposing the
borders of a future Palestinian state, becoming the most senior government
official to suggest bypassing a stagnant peace proce
2012:
For the second time in three years, Howard Michael Epstein “was shut out from
joining the Cabinet” when a new government was formed in Canada.
2012:
The European Jewish Community Center (EJCC), holds an event at the European
parliament commemorating Israel’s establishment of control over the eastern
part of Jerusalem in 1967, a week after the national holiday was held in
Israel. (As reported by Gil Shefler)
2012:
Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) chief Yoram Cohen told the Knesset Foreign
Affairs and Defense Committee today that terrorists funded by Iran have increased
attempts to attack Jewish targets around the world in the past year.
2013:
The award ceremony at which Francesca Segal will receive the 2013 Sami Rohr
Prize for Jewish Literature in recognition of her debut novel, The Innocents
2013:
The 4th International Conference of the Global Forum for CombatingAntisemitism
is scheduled to come to a close.
2013(21st
of Sivan, 5773): Seventy-nine year old actress Helen Haft passed away
today. (As reported by Paul Vitello)
2013:
The Wiener Library is scheduled to host a book signing for Rabbi Jonathan
Wittenberg whose latest work is Walking with the Light.
2013:
Leonard Saxe, Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Director
of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies as well as Director at the
Steinhardt Social Research Institute at Brandeis University, is scheduled to
speak at Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation on The Future of Liberal Judaism
in America: What We Can Learn from the Birthright Israel Generation.
2013:
The Religious Services Ministry has said that it is moving toward a system in
which the serving rabbi of any congregation, whether Orthodox or non-Orthodox,
will be financially supported by the ministry. (As reported by Jeremy Sharon)
2013:
Nigerian authorities said today they had arrested three Lebanese in northern
Nigeria on suspicion of being members of Hezbollah and that a raid on one of
their residences had revealed a stash of heavy weapons.
2013:
Chaim Weizman “was posthumously honored by Governor Mike Pence as a Sagamore of
the Wabash today at CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center, in Terre
Haute, Indiana.”
2013:
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria displayed a new defiance in a television
interview broadcast today, warning Israel and suggesting that he had secured
plenty of weapons from Russia as his opponents falter politically and Hezbollah
fighters infuse force into his military campaign.
2014(1st
of Sivan, 5774): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
According
to the 17th century sage Isaiah Horovitz “the eve of the first day
of the Hebrew month of Sivan is the most auspicious time to pray for the
physical and spiritual welfare of one's children and grandchildren, since Sivan
was the month that the Torah was given to the Jewish people.
2014:
“Monologues from the Kishke,” “a Yiddishpiel Theater musical celebrating
Eastern European food and culture” is scheduled to be performed at the
Janco-Dada Museum in Ein Hod.” (As reported by Natan Skop)
2014:
Professor Manfred Gailus, Technische Universität Berlin; Dr François Guesnet,
University College London; Dr Hugo Service, University of Oxford are scheduled
to speak about “Pogroms: Contemporary Reactions to Antisemitic Violence in
Europe c. 1815-1950” at the Weiner Library in Russell Square in London, UK
2014:
“Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, whose ministry oversees the
Border Police, praised Border Policemen who prevented a suicide bombing attack
when they stopped a man from Nablus who had a 12 pipe bombs and a electric
detonator under the overcoat he was wearing in the 95 degree farenheit heat.
(Times of Israel)
2014:
David Saltiel, the head of the Jewish community in Thessaloniki said today that
vandals broke into the Jewish cemetery and “desecrated several headstones.”
2014:
In Silver Spring, MD, Congregation Har Tzeon-Agudath Achim is scheduled to host
a “Friday Night Tish” – “a modern taken on an old Chassidic tradition.”
2014(1st
of Sivan, 5774): Ninety year old Israeli actress Hanah Maron passed away.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-actress-hanna-maron-dies-at-90/
2015:
For the second and final time Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor are scheduled to
perform “Ship of Fools” at Abrons Arts Theatre.
2015:
Cellist Inbal Segev is scheduled to perform at Pioneer Works Center for Art and
Innovation in Brooklyn.
2015:
Lewis Black is scheduled to perform for the second and last time at the Event
Center in Riverside, Iowa.
2015:
The Israel Wind Soloists are scheduled to perform at the Eden-Tamir Music
Center.
2016:
In Jerusalem, Migdalei haYam haTichon is scheduled to host the Claude Bolling
Quartet Concert "AT THE BORDER OF JAZZ & CLASSICAL"
2016:
At Temple Beth Zion in Buffalo, NY, “Saving a Legacy: Jewish Cultural
Reconstruction,” “an exhibit about
Holocaust Ceremonial Objects that came to Buffalo in the 1950s is scheduled to
come to a close.
2016:
In honor of Memorial Day, the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
offers free admission for military personnel on the same day when Holocaust
survivor Agnes Schwartz is scheduled to talk about how she survived the Nazi
occupation of Budapest thanks to “the family maid.”
2016:
On a day when Memorial Day is observed on Memorial Days, Americans remember
those who made the supreme sacrifice for the United States and her citizens.
https://kaplancenter.org/memorial-day-and-united-jewish-people
http://forward.com/news/135331/profiles-of-our-fallen/#ixzz1DeAMPaIh
http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/07/18/jews-in-the-military/
2017(5th
of Sivan, 5777): Erev Shavuot
2017:
“With one day before the deadline, US President Donald Trump has not yet
decided whether he will sign a waiver that would delay moving the US embassy
from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem for six months, the White House announced today.”
(As reported by Eric Cortellessa)
2017:
“According to a press release issued” today “UN Secretary-General Antonio
Guterres told officials from the Simon Wiesenthal Center that “denial of
Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitism.”
2017:
MJE East and the Fifth Avenue Synagogue are scheduled to co-host a “festive
dairy dinner” followed by a study session all through the night complete with
cheesecake and ice cream and Rabbi Jonathan Feldman speaking about “Kabbalah
& Relationships: A Mystical Take on Shavuot.”
2017:
MJE West is scheduled to host “a beginners service and catered dairy dinner
followed by Rabbi Mark Wildes speaking on “1967: Six Days that Changed Jewish
Spiritual Life Forever” and midnight mimosas and a lecture “with Betty
Ehrenberg, Executive Director of the World Jewish Congress.”
2017:
In Pepper Pike, Ohio, Park Synagogue is scheduled to host its “annual erev
Shavuot study session “Musing, 50 Years of Thoughts” led by Rabbi Joshua
Hoffer.
2017:
In the UK, the Oxford Jewish Chaplaincy is scheduled to host “Tikkun Leil
Shavuot.”
2018:
In Cedar Rapids, funeral services are scheduled to take place for Deborah
Ekeland, the mother of Rachel Levine followed by burial at Eben Israel
Cemetery.
2018:
JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Entebbe” this evening in London.
2018(16th
of Sivan, 5778): Ninety-three year old con-artist Mel Weinberg, the hustler who
played a key role in the Abscam corruption case passed away today. (As reported
by Robert D. McFadden)
2018:
At Beit Avi Chai, Daniel Zamir is scheduled to “host Shlomo Gronich and Ravid
Kachlani in a unique, one-of-a-kind, and moving rendition of Israeli music
through the years.”
2018:
“The Hollywood Reporter TV Talks and the 92nd St Y” are scheduled to
host “Fauda Screening and Conversation” with Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz
2018:
In Cedar Rapids, the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to discuss A Life A La
Carte by Ina Loewenberg
2018:
As part of the “First Person 2018 Series,” the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum is scheduled to present a talk by Holocaust survivor Bob Behr.
2019:
The Lebo Baeck Institute is schedule to present a lecture by Dr. Frank Stern on
the impact of “Power/Jew Süss the 1934 British made film directed by Lothar
Mendes with Conrad Veidt in the leading role which was the first important film
of the German-Jewish exiles “ and “Jew Süss, the anti-Semitic movie directed by
Nazi filmmaker Veit Harlan.”
2019:
In Alberta, Canada, the 23rd annual Edmonton Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to come to a close with a screening of “Good Thoughts, Good Words,
Good Deeds: The Conductor Zubin Mehta.”
2019:
The Veterans Games which have been taking place in “Tel Aviv and Jerusalem at
rehab centers run by Beit Halochem” are scheduled to come to an end today.
2019:
A U.S. delegation led by “Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner:” which is
“seeking support for a late June workshop aimed at helping the Palestinians” is
scheduled to arrive in Jerusalem today
2019:
Israelis are confronted with the reality that Prime Minister Netanyahu has been
unable to form a coalition government and that for the first time since the
state was formed there will be “a second national election in less than one
year.”
2019:
The Comedy for Koby tour is scheduled is scheduled to play in Beit Shemesh this
evening.
2019:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the last two screening of “Outdoors”
starring Noa Koler.
2019:
“The Guiding Hand,” “an exhibition of Torah from Past and Present is scheduled
to come to an end today.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23600123?seq=21#metadata_info_tab_contents
2020(7th
of Sivan, 5780): Second Day of Shavuot, Yizkor;
2020:
In the United States, traditional Memoria Day, before it was decided what the
United States needed were more three day weekends!
2020:
The 2020 Jerusalem Film Festival, in partnership with the We Are One – A Global
Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Love Chapter 2” the award
winning film by Sharon Eyal and co-creator Gai Behar.
2020:
The Asiyah Jewish Community is scheduled to host “A Yizkor for Our Time” where
“we renew that tradition this Shavuot to include not only our grief for people,
but also the generalized sense of loss we have been feeling during the onset of
the COVID-19 era.”
2020:
For Shavuot, Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to present online workshops in
English and Hebrew, speakers and musical performances included a keynote
address by Ruby Namdar, author of Sapir Award-winning novel The Ruined
House.
2020:
In suburban Cleveland, OH, Confirmation Services are scheduled to be held via
Zoom at B’nai. Jeshurun Congregation.
2021:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein.
2021:
Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to co-present Coming Together which is a
virtual, community-engaged storytelling project that explores the meaning of
Jewish community, how we build it and how it has transformed during COVID-19.
2021:
The JWB Jewish Chaplains Council is scheduled to present the National Jewish
Community Observance of Memorial Day the theme of which is “Together in
Memory,” during which attendees will hear from post–9/11 Jewish Gold Star
Families.
https://www.nmajh.org/events/jwb-memorial-day2021/
2021:
S.F.-based JIMENA, Harif and other organizations are schooled to present the 80th
Anniversary of the Farhud, a “Canadian-based international commemoration of the
Shavuot massacre of hundreds of Jews in Iran in 1941 featuring a Sephardi
leader and rabbi in the U.K., a former Canadian justice minister, a poetess and
others. Organizations.
2021:
Based on previously published reports, Jewish institutions in New York City are
experience a heightened level of protection from the NYPD and the FBI as the
rise in anti-Semitic attacks continues to grow.
2022:
LSJS is scheduled to host “The Eternal Relevance of the Torah,” a pre-Shavuot
lecdture eith Rabbi Joseph Dweck and Rabbi Raphael Zarum
2022:
A double simcha – Memorial Day and natal day of Michael Heeren an active leader
of Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA.
2022:
In the United States Memorial Day, which really
was supposed to be observed on May 30 is actually celebrated on the
correct day.
https://kaplancenter.org/memorial-day-and-united-jewish-people
http://forward.com/news/135331/profiles-of-our-fallen/#ixzz1DeAMPaIh
http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/07/18/jews-in-the-military/
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a webinar during which Jeremy Rosen
lectures on Rabbi Abraham Kook and the Lubavitcher Rabbe: Two Sides of One Coin.
2023:
A webinar “Jewish American Contributions to the Jazz Tradition” that “explores
stories of Jewish contributions to the history of jazz” is scheduled to be
broadcast today.
2023:
The Spreckels Performing Arts is scheduled to host a screening of “The Honey
Girl of Auschwitz” after which Holocaust survivor Esther Basch, 95, of Arizona will
share her testimony and tell how she rebuilt her life.
2023:
Based on previously published information, Israelis are faced with the reality
that the Bank of Israel is scheduled to have little choice but to hike
borrowing costs in coming months.
