JUNE 14
1287:Kublai Khan defeated the force of Nayan and other traditionalistBorjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria. It is quite possible that there were Jewishsoldiers serving under the great Mongol warrior who became Emperor of China. According to Marco Polo, Kubla Kahncelebrated the festivals of the Jews as well as those of the Muslims andChristians, indicating that a Jewish community existed that could make itselffelt at the highest level of the Empire.
1514:Azemmour, a city in Morocco, offered privileges to Jews fleeing from Portugal.
1637:William Prynne, an opponent Jews settling in England and Puritan leader whoopposed everything from stage plays to the celebration of religious holidays“was sentenced to a fine of £5,000, to imprisonment for life, and to lose therest of his ears.”
1656:Directors of the Dutch West India Company sent a strong letter to PeterStuyvesant in New Amsterdam ordering him to give "more respect" tothe "Jews or Portuguese people" in his city. A principle shareholderin the company, a Jew named Joseph d'Acosta had assisted in obtaining thisstatement.
1728(18thof Tammuz, 5488): Sixty-three-year-old Moses Raphael Levy, the German bornbrother of Joseph and Samuel Levy, who was an advocate for “erecting asynagogue to tale the place of the frame building which had been for a longtime in use on Mill Street,” passed away today in New York City.
1751Pope Benedict XIV issued an encyclical “On Jews and Christians Living in theSame Place” in which he bemoans the growing presence of Jews in Poland. (ThePope would seem to be a little late in dealing with this. Jews had been living in Poland for centuries,having been encouraged to settle their by the monarchs who saw them asfinancial and commercial asset. By themiddle of the 18th centuries, the position of the Jews haddeteriorated and in less than fifty years, Poland would disappear as an independentKingdom.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Pope_Benedict_on_Jews.html
1760(30thof Sivan, 5520): Parashat Tammuz; Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1786:Abraham Benjamin Cohen, the Dutch born son of “Benjamin Johan Cohen and EvaJacob” and his first wife “Elisabeth Gompertz” the daughter of of SalomonBarend Gompertz and Martha Gompert gave birth to “Lewis Abraham Cohen.”
1790:Today, George Washington wrote to the Hebrew Congregation of the City ofSavannah. “I rejoice that a spirit of liberality and philanthropy is much moreprevalent than it formerly was among the enlightened nations of the earth; andthat your brethren will benefit thereby in proportion as it shall become stillmore extensive.”
1796: French forces attacked Frankfurt. An artillery barrage aimed at the Austrianarsenal next to the ghetto struck the Judengasse instead. The subsequent fired burned so much of theghetto that 2,000 of its inhabitants were left homeless. This forced the city’s senate to suspend thedecree forbidding Jews from living elsewhere in the city. The fire effectively marked the end of theJewish Ghetto in Frankfurt.
1798(30thof Sivan, 5558): As events in France tumbled toward revolution, Rosh ChodeshTammuz was observed three days before the third estate, with itsrepresentatives drawn from the commoners, reconstituted themselves as theNational Assembly, a body whose purpose was the creation of a Frenchconstitution.”
1799(11thof Sivan, 5569): The avoidance of massacre when the French forces withdrew gaverise to the annual observance of Purim Ubrino
1804(5thof Tammuz, 5564): Forty-nine-year-old Isaac Abraham Euchel, the Copenhagen bornHebrew author and founder of the “Haskalah Movement” passed away in Berlin.
1809:Jacob Davis married Leah Barnett in the United Kingdom today.
1813:In Breslau, Roeschen and Alexander Baruch Schefftel gave birth to Simon BarcuhSchefftel, the husband of Henrietta Schefetel who was a successful merchant inPosen and the author of “a large Hebrew commentary on the Targum Onkelos whichwas published posthumously by his son-in-law Joseph Perles.”
1821(14thof Sivan, 5581): Seventy-two-year-old Chaim Volozhin (Chaim ben Yitzchok ofVolozhin), author of Nefesh Ha-Chaim passed away. Born in 1749, he studied with the Vilna Gaonbefore establishing the Volozhin Yeshiva in 1803 in which he applied themethods of his famous master. TheYesshiva outlived its creator, remaining open for 90 years.
1821:In London, Samuel Moss Solomon and Esther Solomon gave birth to ElizabethSolomon who became Elizabeth Cashmore when she married Michael Cashmore.
1822:In Freudenthal, Germany, Hayum Löb Moses Horkheimer and Händle Moses Horkheimergave birth to future Ohio resident Simon Horkheimer, the “son of Hayum LöbMoses Horkheimer and Händle Moses Horkheimer, the husband of Babette Horkheimerand father of General Morris Horkheimer; Bennett Horkheimer; Diana Horkheimer;Meyer Horkheimer and Nellie Horkheimer.
1828(2ndof Tammuz, 5588): Parashat Korach
1831:Birthdate of Copenhagen native and University of Copenhagen trained physician FrederikJacob Trier, the “resident physician of the clinical division of the CommunalHospital of Copenhagen, and president of the medical section of theInternational Congress of Physicians, held at Copenhagen in 1884, who was a member of the medical board of revisersof the "Pharmacopea Danica"
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14510-trier-frederik-jacob
1837:Birthdate of Lyon Levy Emanuel, the native of Philadelphia, PA and brother ofLouis Manly Emanuel who served in the Union Army from 1861 to 1864 and moved toNew York to pursue business interest before returning to Philadelphia due tobeing seriously ill.
1839(2ndof Tammuz, 5599): Alice Abrahams, the daughter of Judith and Emanuel Abrahams,the wife of Solomon Solomons and the mother of Caroline, Fanny, Joseph and EmmaSolomons passed away today in Charleston, SC.
1841:Colonel Charles Henry Churchill wrote to Sir Moses Montefiore expressing hissupport for the creation of Jewish state in Palestine and identifying the firststeps that must be taken. First, theJews must “take up the matter universally and unanimously. Secondly, theEuropean Powers” must aid them in their endeavor by taking Syria and Palestine“under their protection” and governing them “according to the spirit ofEuropean administration.” Churchill was a British soldier and diplomat who wasamong the first people, if not the first person, to propose a practicalpolitical plan for the creation of a Jewish state in what is now the state ofIsrael.
1842(6thof Tammuz. 5602): Dr. Joel Hart passed away today. Born in Philadelphia in 1874 he was trainedin London where he married his wife Louisa Levien. He served as U.S. Counsel ofLeith, Scotland from 1817 until 1832. Hewas a charter member of the Medical Society of the County of New York.
1845:In Melbourne, Michael and Elizabeth Cashmore gave birth to Esther Cashmore whobecame Esther Cohen when she married Henry Cohen.
1846:In Richmond, VA, William Thalhimer, the German born founder of Richmond, VA,Thalheimer Brothers, Inc. and Mary Millhiser Thalhimer gave birth to GustavusThalheimer, the husband of Pauline Thalhimer.
1847:Joseph Ullman, the German born “son of Hayim Simon Uhlmann and Rosa V Uhlmann”and his wife Sarah Ullman gave birth to Rosa Ullman who became Rosa Gottschalkwhen she married Albert Gottshalk.
1848:In Charleston, SC, Jacob J. Moses of Columbus, GA and Sara Ottolengui were wedtoday.
1848:Henry Woolf married Jane Silver at the Great Synagogue in London.
1852:In Wilkes-Barre, PA, David Coons and Helena Lang gave birth to attorney JosephDavid Coons the husband of Ella Constine who was an active member of the B’naiB’rith and President of Congregation B’nai B’rith in Wilkes Barre.
1854:In Baltimore, Md, Aaron and Augusta Straus Bachrach gave birth to futureIllinois resident John S. Bachrach, the husband of Emilie Mandel Bachrach.
1854:Saul Henriques Valeinte married Sarah Russel today in Bishopgate, London.
1855:In London, Rosetta Pinto, the London born Daughter of Rabbi David Aaron de Solaand Rebecca (Rica) de Sola and her husband Henry (Haim) Pinto gave birth toJessie Pinto who died as an infant.
1856:Rosa and Jacob Seligman gave birth to Washington Seligman
1858:Birthdate of the Marquis de Morès, an anti-Semitic French nobleman who attackedJews in France and Algeria
1861:In Eufaula, Alabama, Frank Rothschild, the German born son of Henreitte andIsack Rothschild and Amanda Blun, the Worms born daughter of Wilhelmina andNathan Blun, gave birth to Simon F.Rothschild, the husband of Lillian Abraham who served as member of the Board ofDirectors for the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and the Brooklyn society for thePrevention of Cruelty to Children.
1862:In Philadelphia, PA, Wolf and Caroline Meyer Steppacher gave birth to EmanuelMeyer Steppacher, the husband of Blanche A. Allman Steppacher.
1863:Twenty-six-year-old Aaron Friedenwald, the Baltimore born son of Merle Baierand Jonah Friedenwald married twenty-two-year-old Bertha Bamberger the Germanborn daughter of Babette Treu and Isaac Jacob Bamberger today in Baltimore, MDafter which they had five children – Harry, Julius, Bernard, Norman and Edgar.
1863:Today, the 38th Iowa Infantry crossed the Mississippi River, and occupied thebluff above Warrenton, Mississippi as part of General Grant’s plan to takeVicksburg and open the Mississippi River during the war to save the Union.
1867:In what is now the Czech Republic, Daniel Low, the son of David and Eva Low andthis wife Helene Low gave birth to Rich Low.
1864:German born Julius Freiberg, who established a successful distillery inCincinnati and his wife Duffie Freiberg gave birth to Sally Workum Heinsheimer
1868:In Baden bei Wien, Fanny Hess and Leopold Landsteiner gave birth to KarlLandsteiner, the Austrian born American physician who received the Nobel Prizefor Medicine for his work on differentiating the blood groups in 1930.
1872:In Kansas City, MO, founding of Congregation B’nai Jehuda whose membersincluded Leon Block, A.S. Flersheim, Alfred Hart and B.A. Feineman.
1874:In Berdychiv, Pauline and Fiebish “Feivel” Jolles gave birth to Estella(Estera) Jolles.
1874:“The Mystery of Metz: An Old Cause Célèbre” an article published todaydescribed the blood libel which took place at that ancient German city in1669. According to the author, whodescribed the even in great detail, this was an example of another groundlessattack that Jews had to suffer during the Middle Ages.
1876:Thirty-three-year-old Henry Solomon, the Plymouth, England born son of Josiahand Rose Solomon, who was “one of the founder of the Montefiore Home andHospital married Harriet Simon today in Cincinnati, OH.
1877:“While on their way home to New York City, Joseph Seligman and his family weredelayed by a boat accident and rerouted to the Grand Union Hotel in SaratogaSprings, New York. Saratoga was America’s top resort town, and the Seligmanshad summered at the Grand Union for the better part of a decade. This time,however, and seemingly all of a sudden, the Seligman family was not welcomed.This unexpected rejection and the commotion it caused, now infamous as theSeligman Affair, compelled Jews of the time to reckon with how ProtestantAmerica viewed and even ranked them.”
1878:In Berlin, Emil Cohn and Deborah Lenore Cohn, the daughter of Dr. Marcus Mosseand Ulrike Mosse gave birth to Else Franziska Hirsch
1878:In New York City, “Sol and Esther (Emden) Sulzberger gave birth to NYU trainedattorney Myron Sulzberger, the husband of Rena Fuld with whom he raised twosons, of Myron Jr and Edward and Democratic Party activist who served in theNew York Assembly and Judge while being an active member of the Jewishcommunity as can be seen by his services as a trustee of Tempe Beth-El and amember of the Beth-El Men’s Club.
1879:After having served in the United States Navy during the Civil War,Philadelphia merchant Edward J. Etting’s son, Theodore Minis Etting who had“studied law in the office of Henry R. Edumunds” and “attended lectures at theLaw Department of the University of Pennsylvania” “was admitted to the Bar”today.
1880:Mortiz Hartman, an official of the Simon Benevolent Association went to themorgue in New York and asked for the body of a young Jewess named KateUngerleider who had died of whooping cough. Hartman and Louis Davis took thebody of the child that had been given to them and brought it to the Bay RidgeCemetery where they turned it over to the wife of the cemetery caretaker sothat she could wash it and prepare it for burial according to Jewish law. The woman took the body into her house andimmediately came back out telling the men that the body was that of a Christianboy. They interred the remains in atemporary grave and returned to the morgue in search of Kate’s body. When no action was taken, Hartman went to theCommissioner of Charities and Corrections who instituted a successful searchfor the body. This was the third knowninstances of such errors in the last six weeks.The officials returned to the Bay Ridge Cemetery and interred it therein accordance with Jewish law.
1880(5thof Tammuz, 5640) A 32-year-old tailor named Maurice Moses Heineltrop took hisown life today after Seligman & May refused to pay him for a batch ofwaistcoats he had made for them.Heineltrop’s sense of desperation stemmed from the fact that he employed16 men and he would not be able to pay them for their work.
1880:It was reported today that Professor Grazidadio Ascoli, the chairman ofcomparative philology at the Accademia Scientifico-Litteraria of Milan isscheduled “to publish his essay on the Hebrew inscriptions at Venosa, inCalabria. These seem to be the earliestHebrew inscriptions found in Europe…” [This may be reference to theinscriptions in Hebrew, Greek and Latin found in Jewish catacombs that datefrom the 4th and 5th centuries of the Common Era.
1881:“A grand festival” is scheduled to be held at the Trocadero today “to assistthe unhappy Jews are just now have so rough a time of it in Southern Russia.”
1881:Ninety-year-old Bloomah (Jacobs) Levy the wife of Joseph Levy and the mother ofHenry, Israel, Samuel and Elizabeth Levy, was buried today at the “West HamJewish Cemetery.”
1881:Based on a Reuter’s dispatch from St. Petersburg, it was reported today thatpeasants living in a village in the district of Kiev have paid 800 rubles tothe Jews as compensation “for the sufferings they have undergone.
1882:In New Orleans, marriage of Miss Jessie Green and Isaac Feitel. Born an Episcopalian, she converted beforeher marriage. The couple had previouslybeen married in a civil ceremony.Today’s wedding was performed by a local rabbi.
1884:In Cincinnati, OH, Nannie and Emil A. Cohn gave birth to Pearl Trost, the wifeof Phillips Solomon Trost, and mother of Philip Solomon Trost, Jr.who workedfor the Curtis Publishing Company and was president of the Society for CrippledChildren.
1884:It was reported today that a half shekel coin from the time of Simon Maccabeuswas sold for $10.25 at an auction conducted this week to dispose of rare coinsheld by Thomas Warner, a member of the American Numismatic Society. The price compares favorably when youconsider that the rarest coin in the collection sold for 25 dollars. The half shekel had a chalice of manna with aHebrew inscription on one side and a render of a triple lily or Aaron’s Rod onthe other side.
1885(1stof Tammuz, 5645): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1885:In a demonstration of the impact of Jewish culture on Western civilization Dr.A.P. Peabody chose the words from Nehemiah “Then I consulted with myself” asthe text for the Baccalaureate sermon at Harvard. “He could not, he said think of any moreappropriate basis for his remarks than these words of the foremost figure inHebrew history from the time of Moses to the time of Christ.” [Yes, at Harvard, Jesus was apparentlyconsidered to be Jewish]
1887:Birthdate of Worcester, MA native and University of Pennsylvania graduate RabbiJulius J. Price, the holder of a Ph.D. from Columbia and graduate of JTS whowas “chaplain of the Bronx County Jail and spiritual director of Sinai Templewho was the husband of “the former Florence Cooper” with whom he had two sons,Winston and Ira Price.
1888:James H. Hoffman and H.M. Leipziger addressed the more than four hundredattendees at the fourth annual exhibition sponsored by the Hebrew TechnicalInstitute located on Stuyvesant Street.The exhibition gave the supporters of the school a chance to examine theprojects and accomplishments of the 78 youngsters attending the school.
1888(5thof Tammuz, 5648): Russian teacher and poet Wolf Ha-Kohen Kaplan, whose mostfamous work was "Ereẓ ha-Pela'ot" passed away today in Riga.
1890:In New Orleans, LA, Rabbi Max Heller and Ida Annie Heller gave birth to Cecile Mathilde Heller
1891:“Russia’s War On Jews” published today begins with an eyewitness account of theCzar’s plans for his Jewish subjects.“Jews in bands of from 1,000 to 2,000 are being escorted to differentpoints on the German frontier and put across the line into the lattercountry. There can be no question as tothe intention of the Russian Government to expel all the Jews from its domain.”
1891:“Helping Sick Children” published today includes a summary of the annual reportissued by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children.Among other accomplishments, the society sponsored ten free excursionslast year for 18,124 sick children and their mothers and is about to beginusing the new facility at Rockaway that cost $20,225.
1891:“Browning’s Story Told” published today provides a detail review of Life andLetters of Robert Browning by Mrs. Sutherland Orr. “Mrs. Orr begins thismemoir of Robert Browning with a refutation of a story current in his lifetimeand revived after his death, that Jewish blood coursed in his veins, activesupport of which was obtained from his known interest in the Hebrew languageand literature and his friendship for many members of the London JewishCommunity.”
1893:“Caught In A Death Trap” published today provided details of the fatal fire atbuilding on Montgomery Street that was the home to numerous tailoringoperations.
1893:While talking to reporters at the Victoria Hotel in New York City, PierreBotkine, Secretary of the Russian Legation said that “The Russian laws enactedagainst the Jews which resulted in driving many of them out of the country arenecessary to protect the Russians. Hewent on to say that these laws were not a matter of religion but were a matterof economics. “Jews are so much moreclever than Russians…that they would capture everything if granted liberty.”
1893(30thof Sivan, 5653): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1893(30thof Sivan, 5653): Moses Bloom the native of Alsace, France who opened whatbecame the “Moses Bloom Clothing Store” in 1857 at Iowa City, Iowa where heserved as an alderman and Mayor before serving in the Iowa House and the IowaSenate passed away today.
1893(30thof Sivan, 5653): Sixty-year-old Louis David, the German born son of DavidIsrael Davis and Caroline 'Ketchen' Israel/David and husband of Julia Bermannpassed away today.
1894:The annual commencement exercises of the Hebrew Technical Institute atArlington Hall. Abraham Steinberg who worked in the second floor shop of IsidorShlivek was one of the few who was able to escape down the stairway although healmost suffocated before reaching the street. Benjamin Signel, a Janitor at theHebrew Free School said he saw two men standing at the third floor window whowere afraid to jump. They tried the fire escape instead but one of the menstill fell to his death. (The TriangleShirt Fire made headlines, but fires like this were all too common in thegarment district for several decades. Ittook the labor unions to create safe working conditions. The description of this fire reminds one ofthose that take place in the 21st century in “third world garmentfactories”)
1894:Sidney Sonnino completed his service of Minister of Finance in Italy.
1894:Sophie Markison and Benjamin Ratner, the parents of actor Gregory Ratoff weremarried today in Russia.
1894:The Jewish Theological Seminary hosted its commencement exercises the MusicHall in New York City.
1894:Leopold Minzesheimer continued to serve as the Superintendent of the MountSinai Hospital in New York.
1894:Herman Baar continues to serve as the Superintendent of the Hebrew OrphanAsylum. The officers are Emanuel Lehman,President and Henry Rice, Vice President.The trustees are Morris Tuska, Nathan Necarsulmer, Julian Nathan, MyerStern, H.S. Allen, Theodore Seligman and S. J. Bach.
1894:It was reported that the daughter-in-law of Moses Levy, had obtained a judgmentof $12,000 after suing him “for alienating the affections of her husband.
1895:In Cincinnati, OH, Rabbi Simon Isaac Finkelstein, the Lithuanian born son of“of Judah Tsvi Finkelstein and Feyge Rive Finkelstein” and Hannah BashaFinkelstin gave birth to CCNY and Columbia educated JTS ordained rabbi LouisEliezer Finkelstein, the husband of Carmel Bentwich and starting in 1919, theleader of Congregation Kehilath Israel who was also an instructor in Talmud atJTS, vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly and the author of “JewishSelf-Government in the Middle Ages.”
1896:Based on information that first appeared in the London Chronicle it was reported today that fortune of the lateBaron Hirsch will eventually be inherited by an unnamed “little Roman Catholicgirl” who has been recognized of the heir of Lucien de Hirsch, the Baron’s sonwho predeceased his father.
1896:Louis Michael filed a response in the Chancery Court at Paterson, NJ in whichthe Jewish husband is being sued for divorce by his Christian wife.
1896:In St. Louis, during a dispute at the Republican National Convention, EdwardLauterbach the Chairman of the Republican New York County Committee was tauntedbecause of his “Hebrew descent.”
1897(14thof Sivan, 5657):When the British steamship Scot arrived at the Island ofMadeira off the west coast of Morocco, it was announced that Barney Barnato,the South African “diamond king” had committed suicide by jumping overboard.His body would be recovered and buried at Willesden Jewish Cemetery, Londonamidst protestation that he had not taken his own life.
1897:A fire broke out at the immigrant processing center on Ellis Island which hadbeen in use since January 1, 1892.
1897(14thof Sivan, 5657)
1897:“Hebrew Free Schools Confirmation” published today described the annualconfirmation exercises at which Albert F. Hochstadter, President of the HebrewFree School Association awarded the Freida Schiff Prize, The LinetteFriedlander Prize, The Myer S. Isaacs Prize and the Clarence Korn Memorial eachof which carried a fifty-dollar prize.
1898:The government has dispatched troops to Lemberg in response to anti-Semiticriots.
1898:Abraham and Grace Cahan gave birth to Morris Cahan, the “husband of LillianCahan” today.
1898:Morris I. Schamberg, D.D.S, M.D. today “enlisted as a private in Co. D, 1stPennsylvania Infantry.
1898:After day after her death, 32-year-old Rachel Koenigsberg, “the wife of JacobMoses Reese” with whom she had two children, was buried today at the “West HamJewish Cemetery on Buckingham Road”
1899:“Mr. Dunlop Before the Mayor” published today described a meeting between NewYork Mayor Van Wyck and Wilson W. Dunlop who is a missionary aggressivelytrying to convert Jews on the Lower East Side to Christianity. When Dunlopcomplained that he had been attacked while preaching in the street the Mayorsaid “You have been using the streets for a crusade against the Jewish religionand you musn’t do it anymore. This is afree country and you can make a fight against any religion you choose but youcan’t do it in the streets. If you wantto conduct a crusade against the Jews go and hire a hall.”
1900:Hawaii was organized as a territory of the United States. There wereapproximately four hundred Jews living in Honolulu at this time. A German Jew named Paul Neumann had servedas an advisor to the last King of Hawaii.In 1899, the first Jew born in Hawaii was married in Honolulu. The first synagogue would be established in1901.
1901(27thof Sivan, 5661): Frederick Knefler passed away. A native of Hungary, Kneflersettled in Indiana where he worked as a carpenter before becoming alawyer. When the Civil War broke out,Knefler enlisted in the 11th Indiana Infantry under the command ofhis friend Lew Wallace. He served with the Union Army in the west fighting in aseries of battles including Stones River, Chickamauga, and MissionaryRidge. He then played a leading role inSherman’s Atlanta Campaign where he commanded a brigade. His finest moment may have come at the Battleof Franklin where is bravery earned him the rank of Brevet Brigadier Generalmaking him one of the highest-ranking Jewish officers to serve during the war.After the war, he returned to Indianapolis where he practiced law, worked forthe government and devoted his spare time to veterans’ affairs.
1902(9thof Sivan, 5662): Parashat Nasso
1902:Jesus the Jew, Other Addresses by Dr. Harris Weinstock of Sacramento, CAwhich presents “ a discussion of the relations to the Jews to the Gentileworld” and in which “the author writing from the standpoint of a Jew, advocatesthe newer and more liberal views that are coming to the front by reason ofwhich the ‘middle wall of partition’ that has until now kep the Jew isolatedfrom the rest of mankind is swiftly crumbling to pieces” was published today.
https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Jew-addresses-Harris-Weinstock/dp/B0056WIQ7Q
1902:Birthdate of Chicago native and George Washington University graduate SamuelMayer Dodek, the Jefferson Medical College and Case Western University Reservetrained obstetrician and gynecologist and husband of Miriam Dodek with whom hehad two daughters – Samayla and Mariamne.
1903:Today twenty-three-year-old John Marshall Law School trained attorney BarnettEllis Marks, the Russian born son of Isaac and Jennie Marks Samson marriedFreeda Lewis after which he settled in Phoenix, AZ where he served as legaladviser to the Board of Supervisors of Maricopa County and a member of theboard of directors of Congregation Beth Israel.
1903:Macedonians attacked the Jewish quarter of Sophia, Bulgaria.
1903:In Colchester, CT, a group of young Jews met at the home of the Nahinsky familywhere they “organized a society under the name of the Colchester Zionists andelected officers including Leon Broder, President; Louis Cohen, Vice President;Esther Nahinsky, Second Vice President and David Nahinsky, Sergeant at Arms.
1904(1stof Tammuz, 5664): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1904:Birthdate of Margaret Bourke-White, whose father was from an Orthodox Jewishfamily and whose mother was Irish. Forthose who grew up in a world of hand-held video cams, satellite communicationsand cable network news, it is hard to appreciate the important role-playedphotographers and photo-journalists like Bourke-White. Her photos filled the pages of suchpublications as Life Magazine, whichbrought the world of natural disasters, war and high fashion to Middle America
http://time.com/4355162/margaret-bourke-white-cameras/
1904:In St. Louis, MO, Sadie Simon and Harry C. Bren gave birth to movie producerMilton Harold Bren, the movie producer whose most famous work was thelight-hearted comedy “Topper.”
1905:Sailors aboard the Russian Warship Potemkin mutiny. These events will provide the material for Battleship Potyomkin, a 1925silent film classic directed by Sergei Eisenstein.
1905(11thof Sivan 5665): Seventy-eight-year-old lawyer and government official Moritz Ellstätter, the son of DavidEllstaetter and Fanny Ellstaetter and husband of Marie Ellstaetter passed away today in BadenWurttemberg, Germany
1906(21stof Sivan, 5666): Sixty-four-year-old Heinrich Alphons Strauss, the son ofSamuel Strauss and Rosalia Drucker and the brother of English MP Arthur Strausspassed away today.
1906:Start of three days of anti-Jewish violence known as the Bialystok Pogrom. Theviolence began when “two Christian processions took place; a Catholic onethrough the market square celebrating Corpus Christi and an Orthodox onethrough Białystok’s New Town celebrating the founding of a cathedral. TheOrthodox procession was followed by a unit of soldiers. A bomb was thrown atthe Catholic procession and shots were fired at the Orthodox procession. Awatchman of a local school, Stanislaw Milyusski, and three women Anna Demidyuk,Aleksandra Minkovskaya and Maria Kommisaryuk were wounded. These incidentsconstituted signals for the beginning of the pogrom. Witnesses reported thatsimultaneously with the shots someone shouted, “Beat the Jews!” Once the shotswere fired, the violence began immediately. Mobs of thugs, including members ofthe Black Hundreds, began looting Jewish owned stores and apartments onNova-Linsk Street. Policemen and soldiers who had earlier followed the Orthodoxprocession either allowed the violence to happen or participated in itthemselves. The first day of the pogrom was chaotic. While units of the Czaristarmy, brought to Białystok by Russian authorities, exchanged fire with Jewishparamilitary groups, thugs armed with knives and crowbars dispersed throughoutthe main areas of the city to continue the pogrom.[10] Some Jewish sections ofthe city were protected by self-defense units, usually organized by the laborparties, which moved against the thugs and looters. They were in turn firedupon by Czarist dragoons. Thanks to the Jewish self-defense units severalworking class sections of the city were spared the violence and thousands oflives were saved.”
1907:Jacob Weinberger married Blanche Solomon.Blanche was the daughter of I.E. and Anna Solomon one of the earliestand most successful Jewish families to settle in the Arizona Territory
1908:Charles Dickinson was arrested today after trying to unsuccessfully tryingreach the roof garden of Hammerstein’s Victoria Musical.
1908:It was reported today that “Nathan Straus of New York has opened…an exhibitionof models his milk pasteruing appartauts” “at the Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin.”
1909:The Order of Brith Abraham held its Golden Jubilee dinner at the New StarCasino in New York. The dinner wasattended by 2,000 guests including several notables the most important of whichwas the District Attorney Jerome who was the featured speaker for the evening.
1909:Rabbi Judah Magnes addressed the Zionist convention being held at the TerraceGarden. Pointing to the changes that had come about in the Ottoman Empire dueto the recent Turkish revolution Magnes urged the Jews to “work for anautonomous state under Turkish suzerainty rather than an independentgovernment.”
1910(7thof Sivan, 5670): Second Day of Shavuot
1910:“Made Insane by Expulsion” published today reported that “the expulsion of Jewsfrom Keiff is attended with many pathetic incidents.”
1911:In Glasgow, Emanuel “Manny” Shinwell “played a prominent role in the six-weekstrike” by the National Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union which was part ofnationwide strike.
1912:Educator and advocate for social change, Julia Richman arrives in Francefollowing an ocean crossing on the Victoria Louise and is taken to the Americanhospital where she was immediately operated on for appendicitis.
1912:“Forty-nine Zionists” in Vnnitza, Russia, were each fined twenty rubles forattending a Zionist meeting.
1912:In Russia, “three hundred Jewish families were expelled from Lask.”
1912:In Kiev, the police demanded the “power to confiscate without a trial theproperty of Jewish merchants…”
1912:A clause in the Judicial Bill that would have permitted Jews to be selected asJustices of the Peace was defeated today in the Duma.
1913:President Wilson’s Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan, met for thirtyminutes with “Nahum Sokolov, a member of the Zionist Inner Actions Committee,Louis Lipsky, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Federation ofAmerican Zionists and Abram Goldberg, the editor of Dos Yiddishe Folk, at whichtime he “expressed his great interest in the work the Jews were doing for thedevelopment of Palestine” and “said that the endeavors of the Jewish people tobetter their condition by their own efforts had his sympathy and moralsupport.”
1913:Birthdate of Solomon Schwartz, the native of Whitechapel, England who gainedfame as composer and conductor Stanley Black
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1414500/Stanley-Black.html
1914:“The Fourth Annual Children’s Spring Festival of the Chicago Hebrew Institute”which “will consist mostly of high class and artistic dancing coach by the children’sleaders themselves” is scheduled to be held this afternoon.
1914(20thof Sivan, 5674): Seventy-eight-year-old Seattle, WA merchant Henry Greenbaumpassed away today.
1915:It was reported today that following the Zeppelin bombing raid on London, “twoshops owned by Russian Jews were attacked…in the belief that the owners wereJewish.”
1915:Attorney Frank representing Leo Frank and Solicitor Dorsey representing thestate of Georgia are expected to make their final arguments when GovernorSlaton resumes “the Frank hearing at 9 o’clock this morning.”
1915:Due to the fact that he had to leave Atlanta at eight o’clock tonight so hecould deliver the commencement address at the University of Georgia in Athensso at six o’clock this evening Governor Slaton adjourned the Leo Frank clemencyhearing promising to resume the day after tomorrow.
1915:“When a series of letters exchanged by Senor Juan Riano, the Spanish Ambassadorto the United States” on the one hand and “Louis Friedman of New York and OscarS. Straus” on the other “were made available for publication” today it becameknown that “after being closed for hundreds of years the doors of Spain havebeen thrown open to the Jews’ and that it is expected that “in a short time,thousands of Jews now living in the Balkans and the war-stricken area willrespond to the official welcome and return to Madrid.”
1916:Birthdate of Yale football player Albert “Al” Hessberg II the first Jewishmember of the Skull and Bones and a long-time practicing attorney in Albany.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/26/obituaries/albert-hessberg-2d-albany-lawyer-78.html
1916:Twenty-four-year-old University of Buffalo trained attorney A. Howard Aaron,the Buffalo born son of Nathan Esther (Freedman) Aaron who was a member of theJewish Federation for Service in Buffalo married Arline Schwartz today inBuffalo.
1916:Samuel Utermeyer attended the Democratic National Convention which opened todayas a delegate from New York.
1916:“The Board of Directors of the Board of Directors of the Young Men’s HebrewAssociation of the Bronx unanimously adopted a resolution” today “urging JacobSchiff to reconsider his intention of retiring from leadership in Jewishaffairs and assuring him of the esteem and affection in which the overwhelmingmass of Jews held him.”
1917(24thof Sivan, 5677): Solomon Canter passed away today in New York City.
1917:Biochemist and holder of a Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania Harry EnnisDubin, the Russian born son , Fanny Gold and Abraham M. Dubin whose worksincluded Physiology of Phenols married Estelle Amy Schacht today.
1917:It was reported today that the delegates at the “Zionist Convention which isnow being held in Petrograd “ “hailed President Wilson” as the friend of humanfreedom and the regeneration of the Jewish people” and declared their“gratitude to former Ambassador Morgenthau for his tireless efforts on behalfof the Jewish population in Palestine.”
1918:A list of the bequests made by the late Anna Shane published today includes$100 to the Jewish Sheltering Home in Philadelphia and Congregation RodephShalom of Atlantic City; $50 each to the Central Talmud Torah of Philadelphia,the Hebrew Orphans’ Home of Philadelphia and the Jewish Ladies’ Relief Societyof Camden, NJ; and $25 each the Jewish Consumptives’ Institute of Philadelphiaand the Talmud Torah of Atlantic City, NJ.
1918:The list of those representing the Camden (NJ) Hebrew Republican Club at theState League of Republican Clubs’ Convention published today included IsraelWeitzman, Human Bloom, and Joseph Varbalaw who will follow the lead of thePresident, Benjamin Natal.
1918:In Rome, “the Council of the Jewish Community” thanked “the government forendorsing the British declaration on Palestine.”
1919:In Chicago, Illinois, “Ukrainian Jewish immigrants from Nikolayev, tailorMaurice Wattenmacker (Manus Watmakher) and his wife Molly (Bobele) gave birthto Samuel Watenmaker who gained fame as actor and director Samuel Wanamker,“the father of actress Zoe Wanamaker.
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/19/obituaries/sam-wanamaker-actor-74-who-led-new-globe-theater.html
1919:In New York City, “Meyer and Tillie (Lapidus) Dworkis” gave birth to Universityof Michigan graduate and NYU PhD Martin Bernard Dworkis, the USAA World War II veteranand husband of Ida Levine whose academic career was capped off by serving asthe first president of Manhattan College starting in 1964.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/08/21/101563141.pdf
1919: Birthdate of Eugene Klass, the Brooklynnative better known as Gene Barry whowent on to a long, commercially successful career in film and television. He often played suave, sophisticated typeswhose voices never betrayed even a bit of Brooklyn. Barry played a starring role in the 1950’sversion of War of the Worlds as wellas the title role in the television western series “Bat Masterson.”
1920: Birthdate of Dr. Arnall Patzin an ophthalmologist whose research upsetmedical convention but ended up saving countless babies from blindness. Hewas born in rural Elberton, Ga., the youngest of seven children. His father, animmigrant from Lithuania, was a peddler who insisted on maintaining Jewishcustoms in Elberton, where his was the only Jewish family. He passed away in2010 at the age of 89.
1920: Rabbi Herbert S. Goldsteinand Congressman Isaac Siegel are scheduled to address those attending thisevening celebration of Flag Day at the Institutional Synagogue.
1921: During a speech in the House of Commons,Winston Churchill, who had just returned from a visit to the Middle East,praises the accomplishments of the Zionist settlers and describes how the Arabshave benefited from their efforts. Hedenounced as “disgraceful” any action of the British government that would suchprogress to “fanatical attacks” by outsiders.
1921:During a debate on Palestine, Lord Winterton “warned Churchill that onceyou begin to buy land for the purpose of settling Jewish cultivators you willfind yourself up against the hereditary antipathy which exists all over worldto the Jewish race.” It would seem that from the earliest days, there was adirect connection between being anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic.
1922: Onthe Lower East Side of Manhattan, Romanian immigrants Joseph and Eva Barrisgave birth the youngest of their nine children – photographer George Barris.
http://www.georgebarrisphotos.com/
1923: Louis I. Newman, who was born in 1893 andwho wrote “The Voice of God” married Lucile Helene Uhry today with he had threechildren Jeremy Uhry Newman, Jonathan Uhry Newman, and Daniel Uhry Newman.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.447616032021695.1073741829.318795741570392&type=3
1923: In Berlin, German theatre critic AlfredKerr and his wife Julia gave birth to Anne Judith Kerr who arrived in Londonwith her family in 1935 where she became an author and illustrator.
1924(12th of Sivan, 5684): ParashatNaso
1924: It was reported today that ControllerCraig has made public a letter to Richard Seidenberg “testifying to hisadmiration of persons of German and Jewish ancestry and regrettubg thatanything he might have said had implied to the contrary.”
1925: Birthdate of Serge Moscovici a Romanianborn Jew who survived the Holocaust escaped from his native country followingthe Communist takeover and settled in France where, among other things hefounded the “European Laboratory of Social Psychology.”
1925: Birthdate of New Orleanian HenryThalsheimer.
1927: In Brooklyn accountant Nathan Lazar andhis wife, the former Rita Tannenbaum, gave birth to entertainment lawyerSeymour Lazar.
1926: It was learned today in Jerusalem thatabout “500 professors of American universities will visit Palestine in Februaryof 1927.”
1927: Flag Day celebrated today commemoratesthe 150th anniversary of the adoption of the design for the Americanflag by Congress. On the previousShabbat, in response to a resolution adopted by the Synagogue Council ofAmerica, rabbis devoted their sermons to this topic.
1929: Birthdate of Seymour Kaufman who gainedfame as Cy Coleman the Tony Award winning composer and pianist.
1929(6th of Sivan, 5689): Shavuot isobserved for the first time during the Presidency of Herbert Hoover.
1930(18th of Sivan, 5690): ParashatBeha’alotcha
1930: “A plea for more generous support for the Unionof American Hebrew Congregations and for ten regional rabbis was made” inAtlantic City “this evening by Ludwig Vogelstein of New York at a meeting ofthe executive board of the union, of which he is chairman.”
1930: The annual convention of the Council ofYoung Israel is scheduled to continue for a second day at the Hotel Scarboro inLong Branch, NJ.
1931: Meir Shapiro “was appointed Rav of Lublinin the old synagogue of the Maharshal.”
1931: Twenty-six-year-old Louis J. Lefkowitz,the future Attorney General for the State of New York married Helen Schwimmerwith whom he had two children – Stephen Lefkowitz and a daughter, JoanLefkowitz Feinbloom.
1931: Deadline for submitting results ofdelegate election to the Executive of the Jewish Agency which is making plansfor the Seventeenth Zionist Congress.
1932: Almost nine years to the day afterearning his B.A. at Johns Hopikins and three years to the day after earning hisDoctor of Divinity Degree from HUC,Rabbi Bernard J. Bamberg married Ethel “Pat”Kraus with whom had two sons: Henry, who was ordained as a rabbi in 1961 at theHebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and David, who wrote fourtextbooks for Jewish religious schools while pursuing a career as an operaproducer/director.”
1933(20th of Sivan, 5693):Seventy-seven year old Ukrainian native Isaac Piroshnikof, “the founder of theWarsaw Conservatory” and “military bandleader at Vilna” who in 1912 came to theUnited States where “he organized the Workmen’s Circle chorus…and several children’schoruses” passed away today.
https://www.jta.org/1933/06/16/archive/isaac-piroshnikoff-dies-popular-concertina-artist
1934(1st of Tammuz, 5694): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1934: A Nuremberg court sentenced a non-Jewishwife of a Jew to four months in prison as a ‘race-defiling female.'
1934: Hitler met with Mussolini for the firsttime. Hitler was the junior partner atthis first meeting. As the thirtiesprogressed the roles would be reversed and Mussolini would shift his policiesto satisfy the Nazi dictator.
1934: With a Star of David on his boxingshorts, Max Baer KO'd Primo Carnera in 11rounds to win the World HeavyweightChampionship. However, Baer’s Jewish persona was considered to be more of a boxoffice thing than a religious reality. Born in 1909 in Nebraska, his mother wasScotch-Irish and his father was described as "only nominally Jewish."Baer himself married a Catholic and did not take part in Jewish activities.
1935: In the Bronx, Louis and Bess Gornikc gavebirth to American author Vivian Gornick who “was the Bedell DistinguishedVisiting Professor in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa” and whose latestwork is The Odd Woman and the City.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gornick-vivian
1935: In Paris, Jacques Schiffrin “a RussianJew who had emigrated to France where he worked as publisher and his wife gavebirth author/editor Andre Schiffrin the Yale University graduate whose lifestory can be found in his 2007 autobiography A Political Education: Comingof Age in Paris and New York.
1935: Today, Warsaw born pianist, composer and musicteacher, Isidor Acrhon, the young brother of violinist and composer JosephAchron married Helsinki native Lea Karina, “a mezzo-soprano who made hersinging debut with the Helsingfors Symphony Orchestra in 1931 under the batonof Jean Sibelius.”
1936(24th of Sivan, 5696): Seventy-eight-year-oldPaducah, KY native Marcus“Marc” Alonzo Klaw, the son of Jewish immigrantsfrom Germany and the 1879 graduate of Louisville Law School who moved to NYCand went from serving as the legal advisor for theatre executive GustaveFrohman to being a partner of A.L. “Abe” Erlanger in Klaw and Erlanger, theleading theatrical booking agency passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/06/15/93521692.pdf
1936: Birthdate of Avraham Shochat, the TelAviv native, who helped found the city Arad and has served as an MK and heldseveral cabinet posts.
1936: A letter to the editor written by WilliamErnest Hocking, the Harvard professor whose writings fall somewhere betweengenteel anti-Semitism and Pro-Arab, published today, said erroneously thatPalestine was the shape and size of New Hampshire, that it is “a barren landlacking in rainfall” and that the “settling of the Jews on land in Palestinehas pressed the Arabs into the poorer parts of the land.
1936: In Washington, DC, the American JewishCongress, “which is acting as the organizing agency for the World JewishCongress” continued for a second day.
1936: “Disorders marked a ceremony by thenationalist war veterans’ organization, the Croix de Feu, to in honor of theJewish World Ward dead at a Paris synagogue.”
1936: “Colonel Francois de la Rocque, leader ofthe semi-Fascist organization was hooted by members of the League AgainstAnti-Semitism as he entered his car” and his followers fought with “the hootersuntil the policemen arrived.”
1936: The Palestine Post reported that once more the Jezreel Valleysettlements of Kfar Yehezkel and Tel Yosef were singled out for concentratedArab attacks. The settlement of Sejera in Lower Galilee suffered its stormiestnight ‚ grain and cornfields were set on fire and over 250 old olive trees werecut down. After all Arab train passengers left a train at Kalkilya, a bombthrown inside one of the coaches injured 18 Jews near Tulkarm.
1936: In attacks in and around Jerusalem todayArabs wounded five Jewish truck and bus drivers as well as an additional numberof and workers, two of whom are in a serious condition. Only recently, in thesame vicinity, Jewish travelers were killed in similar attacks.
1937: At the thirty-second annual convention ofthe Independent B’rith Sholom, a “Jewish fraternal order with 18,000 members intwenty-two states,” the delegates called on President Roosevelt and Secretaryof State Cordell Hull “ to intercede” with Polish government to put an end tothe ostracism of the Jews and the pogroms that were taking place. (Editor’snote: Yes, this is inter-war Polandwhere anti-Semitism was rife and helps to explain why the Shoah was so successfulin that country.)
1937: Chaim Weizmann wrote to Winston Churchillthanking him for the support he had given to Zionist cause by trying toconvince Colonial Secretary William Ormsby-Gore that the Southern part ofPalestine should not be incorporated into any future Arab state that would beset up in Palestine.
1938:All Jewishbusinesses that have not already been registered and marked must now complywith the Reich requirement.
1939: At that the same day that Flag Day wasbeing observed in Baltimore public schools, “the Congressional Committee onUn-American Activities announced plans to investigate the branding of 14-year-oldMelvin Bridge, a Jewish student at Gwynn’s Falls Junior High School” who saidthat he was attacked by “forty youths with swastikas inked on their arms” who“cut the letter ‘H’ on his neck.”
1940:Over two hundred papers throughout the United carried a full page ad for FlagDay co-sponsored by the Jewish War Veterans.
1940:Four Son” a movie set in Czechoslovakia after the Nazi conquest featuringLudwig Stossel was released today in the United States today.
1940:Auschwitz was opened. Approximately 2.5 million people were killed and another500,000 died of starvation and disease there. The first inmates, includedteachers, priests, and other non-Jewish Poles,
1940:Artist Jan Komskiwas in the first group of about 750 prisoners assigned toAuschwitz, in southern Poland, on the day it opened. His number, 564, wastattooed on his forearm.
1940(8thof Sivan, 5700): Forty-year-old Dr. David Perla, the “associate pathologist andimmunologist at Montefiore Hospital since 1927” who developed “a method for theprevention and treatment of surgical shock” and who along with his wifepublished “The Spleen and Its Relation to Resistance” died of a heart attacktoday.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/06/15/112741730.pdf
1940:German Forces entered Paris. At the time France housed 300,000 Jews. ErnstWeiss, noted novelist and German-Jewish refugee who was living in Paris committedsuicide.
1940:In Paris, Gestapo officers went to the flat of Walter Benjamin with the intentof arresting the expatriate German intellectual. They failed because Benjamin and his sisterhad already left Paris for Lurdes.
1941:Etty Hillesum, a student at Amsterdam University described the treatment ofDutch Jews by the Nazis. “More arrests,more terror, concentration camps, the arbitrary dragging of fathers, sisters,brothers. Everything seems so menacingand ominous, and always that feel of total impotence.”
1941:As the Final Solution came into full fury, 400 Jews were deported from Estonia.
1941:In the Netherlands, based on a decree by the German occupiers, today was thelast day on which doctorate degrees could be issued to Jews. Physicist Albert Pais, who had completed hisdoctoral work on June 9, was the last Jew to earn a doctorate in theNetherlands until World War II came to an end.
1942: Anne Frank begins to keep a diary
1942:Two thousand Jews break out of Dzisna,Byelorussia.
1942:Fifty-eight-year-old Austrian author Else Feldman “was captured by the Gestapo”today “and sent to Sobibór where she wasmurdered.
1943:“The Belgian Government in exile said today that the Germans had removed nearlyall 52,000 Belgian Jews to concentration camps in Germany, Poland and Russia.”
1943:Demonstrations were held today throughout Palestine and all adult Jews wereasked to sign a petition to the United Nations for the rescue of hundreds of thousands of persons in Europe.
1944:Two thousand Jews are deported fromCorfu, Greece, to Auschwitz.
1944(23rd of Sivan, 5704): Leon Sakkis waskilled by German machine-gun fire while aiding a wounded comrade in Thessaly,Greece. Sakkis was part of a group of Jewish resistance fighters, who alongwith other partisans were working to keep the Germans from enjoying the “fruits”of the harvest taking place in Greece.
1945:“War Comes to America” is the seventh and final film in the Why We Fight WorldWar co-directed by Antaloe Litvak, with a script co-authored by Julius J.Epstein and Philip G. Epstein and music by Dimitri Tiomkin was released today.
1945:In London, Randolph Churchill, Winston Churchill’s son, tells Chaim Weizmanthat he ‘had tried to save 115 Jews in Yugoslavia; he has save 112, but 3 hadperished.’ In 1944 Randolph Churchill had parachuted behind German lines toworth Marshall Tito and his Yugoslav partisans in the fight against theNazis. As part of that mission, youngRandolph worked to have Palestinian Jews parachuted into Europe to help thepartisans and to try and rescue the Jews who had not gone to the DeathCamps.
1946:In Paris, Jean and Jeanne Madeline (née Depierre) Louis-Dreyfus gave birth toRobert Louis Drefyus a great grandson of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, founder of theLouis-Dreyfus Group who became Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Adidas-Salomonand Saatchi & Saatchi.
1946:Bernard Baruch - widely seen by many scientists and some members of Truman'sadministration as unqualified for the task - presented his Baruch Plan, amodified version of the Acheson-Lilienthal plan, to the UNAEC, which proposedinternational control of then-new atomic energy. The Soviet Union rejectedBaruch's proposal as unfair given the fact that the U.S. already had nuclearweapons, instead proposing that the U.S. eliminate its nuclear weapons before asystem of controls and inspections was implemented. A stalemate ensued.
1947(26thof Sivan, 5707): Parashat Sh’lach
1947:It was reported today “that 9,000 Jews came to Palestine during the past sixmonths.”
1947:The Joint Distribution Committee announced today that it was sending a four manpsychiatric team headed by Dr. Paul Friedman to Cyrus to help develop a mentalhealth program for the detainees there’re, most, if not all, of whom areJewish.
1948(7thof Sivan, 5708): Second Day of Shavuot
1948:“The trial of the fifty-seven persons accused of the complicity in the massacreof more than 800 Jews in Jassy in June of 1941 began today.”
1948:The Paris representiatives of the Government of Israel issued a statement that“urged the public to be on guard against statements destined to create theimpression that the Israeli Government is not respecting the Palestine truce.”
1948:As Arab armies continue their attempt to destroy the state of Israel, “it wasannounced today” that “the Arab League has protested to the United Nationstruce control organization against the immigration of ‘several hundred Jews ofmilitary age’ to Palestine.”
1949:Tonight at New York International Airport, “Joseph Levy, owner of the McAlpinHotel” left for Israel where he will “supervise the construction of a modernoffice building in Tel Aviv” which marks “the first American sponsored projectof its kind in Israel.”
1949:In Cape Town South, Lithuanian Jews Margery (Abramowitz) and Emmanuel Sher gavebirth to “Sir Antony Sher KBE a British actor, writer and theatre director ofSouth African origin. A two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and a four-timenominee, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and toured in manyroles, as well as appearing on film and television. In 2001, he starred in hiscousin Ronald Harwood's play Mahler's Conversion, and said that the story of acomposer sacrificing his faith for his career echoed his own identitystruggles.”
1949:It was reported today that delegates at the annual convention of theIndependent Order of B’rith Abraham voted in favor of constructing a“rehabilitation hospital in Tel Aviv as a memorial to Colonel David Marcus whowas killed on June 10, 1948.”
1950:The Dumont TV network broadcast the final 15 minute version of “Easy Aces.”
1950:An Israeli army spokesman denied Jordanian charges that Arabs who hadinfiltrated Israel “had been mistreated while being returned across thefrontier” to Jordan. What the Jordanianshave not explained is why the Hashemites allow their Kingdom to be used as basefor those who want to enter Israel with the intention to attack the Jewishpopulation.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that Mapai won eight of11 seats in Migdal Gad's first municipal council elections. Hapoel Hamizrahiwon two and Mapam one. While there were 1,973 eligible voters, only 1,543actually voted. Nine additional clothing points and 11 shoe points werereleased for the month of July. The Kaiser-Frazer plant in Haifa which washailed as a model of American production efficiency assembled the first carsfor sale in Israel.
1951: In Albuquerque, NM, premiere of “Ace in the Hole” directed,produced and written by Billy Wilder.
1952: Birthdate of Leon Wieseltier, editor of The New Republic and the author of “Kaddish” one of the finestbooks of its kind which Theodore Bikel did a marvelous job of recording.
1952:The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus. This was a major milestone in the creation ofAmerica’s ace-in-the-hole in the Cold War – the fleet of nuclear attacksubmarines against which the Soviets never did develop an effective defense.Admiral Hyman Rickover, who suffered his share of anti-Semitism in the Navy,was the father of the nuclear Navy and the submarine fleet.
1953(1stof Tammuz, 5713): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1953:In Jaffa, two Polish born Holocaust survivors gave birth award winning actressHana Laszlo, the wife of “Israel media proprietor Aviv Giladi” with whom shehad two sons, Itamar and Ben, “film prouder that works for Len Blavatnik;sAl-Film.
1953:Herbert Aptheker was listed as a Sponsor of The National Committee to SecureJustice for the Rosenbergs and Morton Sobell
1953:One hundred and eight bachelor’s degrees were awarded during the commencementceremony at Brandeis University. It wasthe newly created school’s second commencement ceremony. Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, Professor of Talmud andRabbinics at JTS and George Alpert, Chairman of the Brandeis Board of Trusteesreceived honorary degrees during the ceremony.
1954: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs abill into law that places the words “under God" to the United States’Pledge of Allegiance. Despite itsapparent invocation of the divinity, this insertion did not evoke a storm ofprotest in the name of separation of church and state. Everybody knew that this was a politicalstatement, not a religious one. At theheight of the Cold War, it was a line in the stand between the West and theforces of “mindless, godless Communism.
1954(13thof Sivan, 5714): In Shenandoah, VA, “education advocate, philanthropist, artcollector, and college trustee Margaret Seligman Lewisohn passed away today.
1955(24thof Sivan, 5715): Seventy-two-year-old Eldon Spencer Lazarus, the son “of HenryLawrence Lazarus and Sarah Sallie E. Solomon,” the husband of Hilda Lazarus andthe father of “Virginia Lazarus who became Virginia Rich when she marriedRichard H. Rich” and Eldon S. Spencer Lazarus, Jr. passed away today afterwhich he was buried at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans, LA.
1956:The “Catered Affair” directed by Richard Brooks, produced by Sam Zimbalist’based on Paddy Chayefsky television play with music by Andre Previn wasreleased today in the United States
1957:Birthdate of Leonard “Len” Blavatnik the “Russian-born American businessman”who in 2015” was named Britain's richest man with an estimated net worth of£17.1 billion as of April 2015.”
1958:Birthdate of Wafa Sultan a Syrian born American author and critic of Muslimsociety and Islam who trained as a psychiatrist in Syria. Following one of hercritiques of Moslem culture in which she said "no Jew has blown himself upin a German restaurant" the American Jewish Congress invited her to visitJerusalem.
1958:In Hewlett Harbor, NY, textile manufacturer Reuben Geller and his life Lilliangave birth to “political activist” Pamela Geller who is co-founder andpresident of the American Freedom Defense Initiative and co-author of ThePost-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America
1959:David Joel Horowitz, the founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, marriedElissa Krauthamer in a Yonkers, NY synagogue.
1959:Funeral services are scheduled to be held at Park Wester for Bernard “Barney”Cohen, the husband of Miriam Cohen with whom he had three children – Rubin,Yvette and Shirley.
1961(30thof Sivan, 5721): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1961(30th of Sivan, 5721): Eighty-three-year-old Harry Goodwin, “afounder of Mother’s Food Products of Newark” passed away today in Montclair,New Jersey.
1961:Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Lea Bloom, a member andpast officer of the Highbridge Chapter of B’nai B’rith who was the wife of Morris Bloom and mother of AlfredBloom at “Park West.”
1962:U.S. premiere of “That Touch of Mink” a comedy with a script co-authored byStanley Shapiro who also produced the film along with Martin Melcher.
1963(22ndof Sivan, 5723): Fifty-nine-year-old actor and writer Alan K. Campbell who wasof “German-Jewish descent” and who was the husband of Dorothy Parker (DorothyRothschild) passed away today after which he was buried “at Hebrew Cemetery inRichmond, VA.”
http://dorothyparker.com/dorothy-parker-homes/los-angeles/west-hollywood-end
1964(4thof Tammuz, 5724): Seventy-nine-year-old Samuel Zuckerman, the Moldavian bornson of Fannie and Benjamin Zuckerman the husband of Elizabeth Moore and thefather of Sidney and Herma Zuckerman passed away today in Los Angeles.
1964:Funeral services are scheduled to be held this afternoon at the Weiss Memorialfor Archie Gould, the husband of Helen Gould with whom he raised two children,Henry and Carol.
1965:Chuck “Barris formed his production company Chuck Barris Productions” today.
1966:Funeral services are scheduled to be held this afternoon at “The Riverside” forRose Perry, the widow of Jerome Perry Z”L and the mother of June Levine andRobert Perry who was an active member of the Temple Beth Sholom sisterhood.
1967(6thof Sivan, 5727): First Day of Shavuot
1967(6thof Sivan, 5727): On the First Day of Shavuot an estimated 200,000 gathered inand around the Wall to celebrate the first major festival following thereunification of Jerusalem. When TeddyKollek appeared at the Wall he was hailed “as the first Mayor of GreaterJerusalem.”
1967:A contingent of Mossad agents that had fanned out across the West Bank to meetwith members of the Palestinian elite immediately following the Six Day Warsubmitted their classified report to the head of Military Intelligence. Itargued that an independent Palestinian state should be established as quicklyas possible in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, "under the auspices" ofthe Israel Defense Forces and "in agreement with the Palestinianleadership." They suggested that the borders of the Palestinian state bebased on the 1949 armistice lines that had served as the border until earlierthat month, with some minor adjustments. "In order to enable an honorableagreement," the document continued, Israel should "take upon itselfthe initiative to solve the [refugee] problem once and for all" byorganizing an international effort to resettle them in the new Palestinianstate.
1968(18thof Sivan, 5728): Seventy-year-old Forest Hills resident “Abraham Waldman, a lawyerwho specialized in Surrogates Court work”passed away today in Queens.
1971:Funeral services are scheduled to be held this afternoon for Abe Gordon, thehusband of Fan Gordon, father of two doctors – Barbara and Gordon “and BoardMember of The Millinery Center Synagogue.
1972(2ndof Tammuz, 5732): Eighty-eight-year-old New York native and CCNY graduateSamuel Goldman, the husband of the former Jeanette Shalet and father of Dr.Virgina Miles and Robert Grey who in 1952 retired “as principal of PublicSchool 16 in Brooklyn” passed away today in Flushing, Queens.
1972:Martin Dies, former member of the House of Representatives from and Chairman ofthe House Un-American Activities Committee passed away today. A man ofconsiderable influence in his day, Dies was a red- baiting reactionary who,among other things, was an anti-Semite.
1974:“One thousand, two hundred twenty-five Jews were reported today to have theUSSR during May 1974 “as compared to an average of 3,000 a month in 1973.”
1974:“The Parallax View” directed by and produced by Alan J. Pakula was released inthe United States today.
1975:“Lev Yagman, David Chernoglaz and Lassal Kaminsky, convicted in the 1971Leningrad trial, were freed following completion of their five year sentences”
1975The film “Calculated Risk” which had been; filmed in Moscow with theparticipation of Anatoly Sharansky and Vladmir Slepak was screened in Englandtoday.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that EphraimKatzir became the first president of Israel to be entertained at the WindsorCastle by Queen Elizabeth of England. A British naval vessel arrived in Haifato purchase provisions for the Royal Navy in the eastern Mediterranean. The Britishmilitary attaché told the Post that"Haifa is a friendly port" and was therefore chosen. Such purchaseshave not been made in Haifa in the past.
1977(28thof Sivan, 5737): Sixty-nine-year-old actor Alan Reed, (Herbert TheodoreBergman) whose career included appearances in such major films as “Breakfast atTiffany’s but is best known for being the voice of “Fred Flintstone” passedaway today in Los Angeles.
1978:“I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road” produced by Joseph Pappopened at the Public Theatre in New York.
1980(30thof Sivan, 5740): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz; Parashat Korach
1980(30thof Sivan, 5740): Seventy-six-year-old Rabbi and Biblical scholar Bernard JacobBamberger, the graduate of Johns Hopkins and HUC, spiritual leader of NewYork’s Congregation Shaaray Tefila and the husband of Ethel “Pat” Krauswith whom he had two sons –Henry and Pat—passed away today.
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1980:“About 90 American Jews, some of them prominent, issued a statement aligningthemselves with the Peace Now movement in Israel, which opposes theGovernment's policy of establishing further Jewish settlements in the occupiedWest Bank territory.”
1982:Israeli tanks cut off Muslim West Beirut, trapping leaders of the PLO, duringthe Lebanese Civil War.
1985:TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah.Long before 9/11, Moslem fanatics were making war against the West. Supported by Iran, Hezbollah splits its timebetween terrorist activities aimed at Israel, trying to control Lebanon andmaking war against Western civilization.
1986(7thof Sivan, 5746): Sixty-seven-year-old composer Alan Jay Lerner passed away. Inone of the many cultural ironies that are so much a part of the American scene,Lerner composed with fellow Jew to write “Camelot,” a musical about Englishking that became a Broadway and cinematic classic that was loved by JFK, thefirst American Catholic President. (As reported by Samuel G. Freedman)
1986(7thof Sivan, 5746): Second Day of Shavuot
1987:Today, at the Sheraton Stamford Hotel Towers, Rabbi Elazar Cohen, a great-uncleof the bridegroom, officiated at the wedding of Deborah Shira Lewis and DavidAllen Isaac.
1987:The annual International Israel Festival which began on May 18 is scheduled tocome to an end today.
1991:Eighty-four-year-old artist Joy Finzi, the “found of the Finzi Trust, afoundation named for her deceased husband, composer Gerald Finzi passed awaytoday.
1993:President Bill Clinton nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be an associate justiceon the United States Supreme Court.
1995:Today David John Pleat began managing the Sheffield Wednesday Football Club.
1998:“The Cable Guy,” directed by Ben Stiller, co-produced by Judd Apatow and co-starring George Segal was released today in the United States.
1998:Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for the former Libby Polacheck,the widow of Rabbi Israel Mowshowitz and the “daughter of Rabbi SolomonPolachek, renowned head of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Rabbinical Academy ofYeshiva University (''the Meitchiter Illui''),”
1997(9thof Sivan, 5757): Seventy-seven-year-oldJay Ziskin, the California psychologist and lawyer who was the father of movieproducer Laura Ziskin passed away
1998:Yad Vashem recognized Sofka Skipwith as Righteous Among the Nations.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/righteous-women/skipwith.asp
1998: The New York Timesfeatured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest toJewish readers including “Ghost Country” by Sara Paretsky
1999(30th of Sivan,5769): Ninety-seven-year-old pediatrician and Harvard Professor Dr. LouisDiamond and father of author Jared Diamond passed away today.(As reported byNick Ravo)
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/25/us/louis-diamond-97-a-pediatrics-legend-dies.html
https://fa.hms.harvard.edu/files/hmsofa/files/memorialminute_diamond_louis_k.pdf
2000: “Pushing its habitualbrinkmanship to the latest brink, the Shas Party said today that its ministerswould quit the Israeli governing coalition at the next cabinet meeting on orderfrom its rabbis.” (As reported by Deborah Sontag)
2001: “Palestinians and Israelisbegan the delicate search today for ways to carry out the American-brokeredagreement reached earlier in the day to extend the truce that has reducedMiddle East violence during the last 12 days.” (As reported by Douglas Frantz)
2002: “The Bourne Identity” athriller directed and co-produced by Doug Liman and filmed by cinematographerSaar Klein was released today.
2003(14th of Sivan,5763): Parashat Nasso
2003(14th of Sivan,5763): Fifty-seven-year-old University of Pennsylvania trained attorney, realestate investor and philanthropist, Paul Bernbach, the son advertising greatWilliam Bernbach and the father of Thérèse Berbach with who he raised threechildren – Elizabeth, Sarah and Mathew – passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/nyregion/paul-bernbach-57-investor-and-art-patron.html
2003: At the Piccadilly Theatre,the curtain comes down on the West End production Ragtime, a musical based onthe E.L.Doctorow of novel of the same name produced by Sonia Freeman, starringMaria Friedman “in the role of Mother for which she won the 2004 Olivier Awardfor Best Actress in a Musical (The Freemans are sisters, the daughters ofRussian born, English violinist Leonard Friedman.
2004(25thof Sivan, 5764): Max J. Rosenberg, “an American film producer, whose filmcareer stretched across six decades” passed away in Los Angeles at the age of89. “He was particularly noted for hishorror or supernatural films and found much of his success while working inEngland. Rosenberg was born in the Bronx, New York. In 1945 he entered the filmbusiness by becoming a foreign film distributor. Although he primarily producedhorror or supernatural films, his first film Rock, Rock, Rock (1956) was amusical. His partner in this film was Milton Subotsky, and the two would startthe British company Amicus Productions in 1964. During his career he producedmore than 50 films, on some of which he was not credited. Among the horror andsupernatural films he produced were such titles as Tales from the Crypt (1972),The Land That Time Forgot (1975), and its sequel, The People That Time Forgot(1977). In 1957 he produced the first horror film in color, The Curse ofFrankenstein. Rosenberg also produced a children's film, Lad, a Dog (1962), apair of films based on the Doctor Who series, and director Richard Lester'sfirst film, It's Trad, Dad! (1962). He was particularly proud to have producedthe 1968 film of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, starring Robert Shaw anddirected by William Friedkin. He worked well into his 80s; his final filmcredit was 1997's Perdita Durango aka Dance With the Devil.
http://www.ducts.org/12_06/html/profiles/evanier.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/max-rosenberg-38700.html
http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jun/17/local/me-rosenberg17
2005(7thof Sivan, 5765): Second Day of Shavuot
2005:It was reported today that Lawrence A. Franklin, “a former Pentagon analyst”has been indicted by a federal grand jury that has charged “him with disclosingclassified information to an Israeli official, including intelligence about aweapons test related to Iran's nuclear program.”
2006:Leaders of the largest Orthodox rabbinical organization in the U.S. havereached a compromise regarding overseas conversions with Chief Rabbi ShlomoAmar.
2006:ABC broadcast the final episode of “Commander in Chief,” created by Rod Lurieand produced by Steve Bocho.
2007(28thof Sivan, 5767): Shirlee Mages, whose father owned a thriving Roosevelt Roadrestaurant in the 1930s and '40s and whose husband put his name on a sportinggoods chain, died today at the age 88“in her Gold Coast home of natural causes, said her daughter, Lili Ann Zisook.Mrs. Mages was the widow of Morrie Mages, a 1950s Chicago television staple whowas often in the company of the late broadcaster Jack Brickhouse touting hissporting-goods stores through the sponsorship of a late-night movie called"Mages Playhouse." Morrie Mages and his family had a chain of 14stores in the 1960s, but the business ran into hard times and was sold. Thatled Mrs. Mages to take a job managing the Pompian Shop, a ladies boutique onMichigan Avenue, her daughter said. "My mother was just a woman who didwhat she had to do," Zisook said. Morrie Mages subsequently rebounded witha smaller chain, anchored by a store at LaSalle and Ontario Streets. He died in1988 at 72. Mrs. Mages, born Shirlee Gold, grew up in the Lawndale neighborhood.Her father, Meyer, owned Gold's Restaurant at 810 W. Roosevelt Rd. Gold's had aballroom where many weddings were celebrated and future musical star BennyGoodman would sometimes play clarinet there, Zisook said. After her graduationfrom Marshall High School, Mrs. Mages attended Northwestern University beforegetting married in 1939. Always strong with numbers, she worked as a stockbroker in the 1950s, her daughter said. In retirement, during which shewintered in Palm Springs, Calif., she was devoted to the mastery of canasta andmah jongg. Mrs. Mages survived bouts with breast and colon cancer and quadruplebypass surgery, her daughter said. "She was such a strong woman, not somuch physically, but her mind," Zisook said. When her husband was alive,the couple organized the Morrie and Shirlee Mages Foundation, which providedsports equipment to needy youths. After his death, she led the charge to name aplayground in Lincoln Park after her late husband.
2007:An exhibition entitled The Other Promised Land: Vacationing, Identity, and theJewish-American Dream opens at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York.
2007:In a press release, Hebrew University announces that “the valuable and uniqueNuremberg Mahzor of 1331 has been scanned and uploaded to the Internet site ofthe Jewish National and University Library of the Hebrew University ofJerusalem. The Nuremberg Mahzor can be viewed at:
2008: Garrett Reisman “returned to Earth today on board STS-124 onSpace Shuttle Discovery.”
2008: “State Renews Efforts to Bring Disputed Jewish ManuscriptsFrom Russia published today described theefforts by the state of Israel to bring the Ginzburg Collection from Russia toa permanent home in the Jewish state.
2009: Esther M. Sternberg, a doctor and the author of TheBalance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions, discusses andsigns her new book Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Beingat Politics and Prose, in Washington, D.C.
2009: The Washington Post featured reviews of books byJewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including“Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing” by Steven J.Zipperstein and “The American Future: A History” by Simon Schama.
2009: The New York Times featured reviews of books byJewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including 1948:A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris, Weimar Germany:Promise and Tragedy by Eric D. Weitz and Atmospheric Disturbances byRivka Galchen.
2009:A Kassam rocket fired by Gaza terrorists hit theAshkelon Beach region this afternoon. No one was wounded and no damage wasreported. The attack came hours after an explosive device was detonated nearIDF troops patrolling the Gaza border fence. None of the soldiers were woundedin the Sunday morning incident and no damage was reported. The bomb attack camehours after the IAF struck two smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip.
2010: Shabtai Rosenne was appointed to the Israeli specialindependent public Turkel Commission of Inquiry into the Gaza flotilla raid
2010: Mark Feuerstein “appeared as the guest host” on today’s“edition of WWI Raw to promote” an episode of his television show “RoyalPains.”
2010: The long history and deep roots of Jews in the Tar Heelstate are coming to life in an ambitious new multimedia project that isscheduled to begin today with an exhibit at the North Carolina Museum ofHistory in Raleigh. “Down Home,” which encompasses a slickly produceddocumentary film and handsomely illustrated coffee-table book, celebratesJewish contributions to North Carolina social, civic and commercial life. Butthe project also aims to capture a nearly vanished way of life for Jews in the state’smill and market towns, according to Leonard Rogoff, an organizer of the projectand historian at the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina, which isproducing “Down Home.” “Elderly Jews wholived the rural small-town experience are an endangered species,” said Rogoff,who also authored the companion book, “Down Home: Jewish Life in NorthCarolina” (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). “Synagogues haveshuttered in cities like Tarboro and Lumberton. Smaller communities areexpiring. We need to document them.” The project “tells an important part ofour state’s story,” wrote Linda A. Carlisle, Secretary of the North CarolinaDepartment of Cultural Resources, in an e-mail to the Forward. “Jewish culturehas helped shape North Carolina in its rural areas as well as its urban centersfor centuries.” North Carolina’s state legislature kicked in $350,000 towardthe project’s $1.25 million budget, according to Rogoff; the rest came fromfoundation grants and individual donations. The investment has paid off withresearch that “contributes new insights into Jews in the South,” Rogoff said.“Histories typically focus on the pre-Civil War era and German-Reform Jews asnormative southerners. We’ve emphasized the East European experience in the NewSouth as well, and it’s updated to include the Sunbelt.” Rogoff’s team at JHFNCis also creating classroom material for 4th- and 8th-grade “People of NorthCarolina” courses in the state’s public schools with talks about expanding thelessons “across all grades and disciplines,” he said. According to Rogoff, the“Down Home” project tells stories of Jews from Joachim Gans, who arrived onRoanoke Island on Sir Walter Raleigh’s expedition in 1585, to Jacob Henry, whoin 1809 delivered a speech in defense of religious freedom after his right toserve in the state legislature was challenged. And it spotlights civil-rightsera heroes like Harry Golden, publisher of the esteemed The Carolina Israelitenewspaper, “known nationally for his civil-rights advocacy, delivered in aLower East Side accent,” Rogoff said. In a folksier vein, the book, film, andexhibit highlight experiences of prominent, prosperous families like the clanof Eli Evans, whose own history provides one narrative thread of the “DownHome” project. Evans’s paternal grandfather was an immigrant peddler, hismother’s father a shopowner; his businessman father, Emanuel, became a wildlypopular six-term mayor of Durham in the 1950s, and his mother Sara served onHadassah’s national board for 40 years. Now a New Yorker, Evans himself went onto write what many consider the definitive history of southern Jews, “TheProvincials” (University of North Carolina Press, 1973), which has continuouslybeen in print for nearly three decades. “The story of the Jews is the untoldstory of the South,” said Evans, a onetime speechwriter for President LyndonBaines Johnson who went on to run several charitable endowments, including theCarnegie Foundation. “The region has whatever image it has from whateverviolence there was. But that’s not the story of the Jews. Ours is the story ofsuccessful integration and good relationships.” The Jewish experience in NorthCarolina was unique in the South, Evans said, because North Carolina was uniquein the South. “We didn’t have a strong Klan in our state. We had a commitmentto public education, a more moderate political atmosphere, and enlightenedpolitical leaders,” he said. “I’m not saying no antisemitism existed. But therewas a philo-Semitism that manifested itself in many ways.” The exhibit itself,which will travel across North Carolina over the next year, uses artifacts andphotos to recreate a series of “environments”: A synagogue sanctuary, dry-goodsstore, family Sabbath table, and a study based on Harry Golden’s Charlotte home.The 81-minute “Down Home” DVD documentary, (available through the JHFNC’swebsite), complements the museum show with a somewhat academic mix of archivalfootage, insightful interviews and unfortunately costumed re-enactments. Whilethe exhibit’s partly intended to educate North Carolinians about their ownhistory, Rogoff said he hopes “Down Home” might reach other Jews — especiallyfrom the Northeast. “All native southern Jews have humorous stories aboutmeeting New Yorkers who cannot believe that Jews actually live in the South,”he said. “They associate a New York accent, not a southern drawl, with beingJewish. That’s a very old cliché. New Yorkers especially can be terriblyparochial, and the famous Saul Steinberg cartoon of a terra incognita beyond theHudson aptly illustrates their provincialism.” While it spends a lot of timelooking back, the “Down Home” project also suggests a Jewish southern futurethat looks increasingly suburban and metropolitan. “Jews are findingopportunities in the hospitals, universities, research laboratories, andfinancial centers that have typified the development of the state’spost-industrial economy,” said Rogoff. “North Carolina is especially invitingfor two-career couples where both are professionals. Newcomers who explore thelocal Jewish communities generally report finding warm welcomes, contrastingthe neighborliness with what they found up north. You get a heckuva lot morehouse for the money, and the climate is a whole lot better.” But one area whereRogoff admitted the North may have an edge is bagels. “There isn’t much asidefrom the ubiquitous Bruegger’s,” he said. “Cary [near Raleigh] and Chapel Hillhave independent bagel makers, but a really good deli and Jewish-style bakeryare opportunities waiting to happen. “
2010: Israeli superstar David Broza is scheduled to perform at(Le) Poisson Rouge in New York.
2010(2nd of Tammuz, 5770): One of the Israeli police officers,Yehushua "Shuki" Sofer, who was shot in a terror attack on a patrolcar this morning in the Hebron Hills area has succumbed to his wounds. “
2011:Rabbi Bernice K. Weiss, author of “Converting toJudaism - Choosing to be Chosen: Personal Stories” is scheduled to lead “Basic Judaism for Jews and Non-Jews Alike” a “7-part seriesthat provides an overview of the Bible, Shabbat ritual and observances, how toobserve kashrut and the Jewish laws of death and mourning” at the Historic 6thand I Synagogue in Washington, DC.
2011: The 8th Grade Graduation is scheduled to takeplace at the Hillel Day School of Metro Detroit.
2011: Flag Day is celebrated in the United States to mark theanniversary of the Continental Congress’ adoption an official flag. According to Dr. Gary Zola, the Stars andStripes probably made their first appearance in American synagogues during theperiod surrounding the assassination of President Lincoln. This coincided with the Union victory thatmarked the end of the Civil War and a feeling of patriotism was running at fullflood. Zola thinks, although he canoffer no proof, that American flags appeared on the bima at Jewish houses ofworship during the First World War, another period of patriotic fervor. Dr. Jonathan Sarna believes that the custom of displaying the flag in housesof worship – Jewish as well as Christian – dates back to the Spanish AmericanWar of 1898. This also was a period ofgreat patriotic fervor, marking a popular war that enabled those of the North& South to join together in common cause.Regardless of when the flags first appeared, by the 1930’s they were apermanent ornamentation on the bimah, possibly as antidote to the simmeringanti-Semitism that was part and parcel of the Great Depression.
2011: National Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau instructed NobleEnergy to develop the Noa North gas reserve in the Noa license after concernsthat the field spilled over into Palestinian territory..
2011: Actress Natalie Portman has given birth to a baby boyfathered by a choreographer she met while she filmed her Oscar-winning role inBlack Swan, People magazine reported today.
2011:Today brought strange weather to both the northernand southern regions of Israel. Meteorologists confirmed that the ash cloudfrom an Eritrean volcano had indeed reached Eilat, but authorities insistedthere was no health danger to civilians and also that flights at both EilatAirport and Ben-Gurion International Airport were running on schedule. In the north of the country, residents of the Golan andGalilee regions were surprised this morning to awake to rain, an extremely rareoccurrence during the summer months. The precipitation was accompanied byincreased winds. The winter weather is not expected to last for long, however.Tomorrow’s forecast is dry with an increase in temperatures -- which is back tonormal for June.
2011:President Shimon Peres visited the Negev Beduinvillage of Hura today, praising the community as a prime example of Negevdevelopment
2011: Deputy Mayor of Economic and Housing Development and BrickCity Development Corporation Chair Stefan Pryor, Manischewitz Company Co-CEOsAlain Bankier and Paul Bensabat, Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger, and BCDCCEO Lyneir Richardson, will cut the ribbon to open the new CorporateHeadquarters and Plant for The Manischewitz Company,today, at 11 a.m.
2012: “Gershwin Shows’ TonysFuel Plans for a Musical” published today described plans by thetrustees of George and Ira Gershwin’s estates to produce more musicals in lightof the Tony won by “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess’ which won in themusical-revival category.
2012: Anouk Markovits, author of I Am Forbidden isscheduled to have a reading at McNally-Jackson on Prince Street in NYC.
2012: A Palestinian sniper in the southern Gaza Strip fired at anIsraeli farmer working in a field near Kibbutz Nir Oz in the Eshkol RegionalCouncil area today.
2012: Mahler on the Couch is scheduled to complete it New YorkCity theatrical run
2012: The Jewish Museum of Australia is scheduled to host themedia preview of its newest permanent exhibition, “Calling Australia Home
http://theschmooze.org/c/pdf/CAH%20MR_61412.pdf
2012: “SERET 2012” – the first London Israeli Film &Television Festival opened in London.Seret os the Hebrew word for “movie.”
http://www.close-upfilm.com/2012/05/seret-2012-the-first-london-israeli-film-television-festival/
2013: “Man of Steel,” a blockbuster film that brings Superman backto the screen is scheduled to be released to the general public today incovnentail , 3D and IMAZ theatres.Superman is a creation of Jerry Siegel and Jose Shuster. David S. Goyer wrote the screenplay andIsraeli actress Auyelter Zurer plays the role of Superman’s mother.
2013: “Fill the Void,” a film that “tells the story an OrthodoxChassidic family from Tel Aviv” is scheduled to open in several new venuesincluding the Music Box Theatre in Chicago and the Ritz at The Bourse 5 inPhiladelphia.
2013: After straining his back again, New York Yankee KevinYoukills put back on the disabled list.
2013: U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is scheduled to meetwith Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon in Washington, DC.
2013: In the United States, observance of Flag Day, a holidaypioneered by Ben Altheimer, Sr. a Jewish businessman from Arkansas whoconvinced President Woodrow Wilson to adopt it as a national holiday in 1916.
2013: According to a Lebanese report today, embattled SyrianPresident Bashar Assad plans to open a “resistance” front on the Golan Heightsand thinks such a move could unify the various factions in Syria.
2013:Representatives passed a defense authorization billthat would make it U.S. policy to take “all necessary steps” to ensure Israelis able to “remove existential threats,” among them nuclear facilities inIran. (As reported by JTA)
2013: Donald Carr, the president of The Canadian Jewish Newsannounced today that the board of director has confirmed that the printnewspaper which has been publishing for the last 53 years will continue topublish canceling earlier plans to cancel the paper on June 20th.(JTAand JPOst)
2013: “Judge Judy” starring Judith Sheindlin won its first DaytimeEmmy for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program on its 15th nomination
2013: A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burningvillages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officialsto get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortlyafter World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press.
2014: “Operation Sunflower” and“Hanna’s Journey” are scheduled to be shown at the Israel Film Center Festivalbe held at the JCC of Manhattan.
2014: The search for three missing Israeliyouths who disappeared in the West Bank two days ago and who are presumedkidnapped by Palestinian terrorists will not be over within a matter of hours,and could last many days, a senior military official told Channel 10 news todayadding that it was not clear the three were still alive. (As reported by ItamarSharon)
2014: “Israeli officials todayreleased for publication the identities of three Israeli youths who wentmissing near Hebron on the night of June 12th. The three are Gil-ad Shaar (16)from the settlement of Talmon, Naftali Frenkel (16), a dual Israeli-Americancitizen from Nof Ayalon near Modi’in, and Eyal Yifrach (19) from Elad, nearPetah Tikva. (As reported by Itamar Sharon)
2014: The ZviDance which has alreadygiven a special performance sponsored by Israel’s Office of Cultural Affairs isscheduled to perform for the last time in New York City.
LéonBlum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist, Move: Putting America’sInfrastructure Back in the Lead, The Dorito Effect Saint Mazie byJami Attenberg
2015: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, MikeHeeren is scheduled to perform his last Presidential duty as the chief chef atthe BBQ preceding the annual congregational meeting where he will pass thebaton to the incoming President, Nancy Margulis which will guarantee thissmall, vibrant congregation the same kind of seamless leadership that theIsraelites experience when Moses passed the mantle to Joshua. Chazak, chazak!
2015: American female adventurerSonya Baumstein “was rescued off the Japanese Pacific coast a week into hersolo attempt to row across the Pacific, the Japan Coast Guard said today.”
2016:In Rockville, MD, Temple Shalom is scheduled to host Rabbi Dr. YehoyadaAmir speaking on “New Challenges: Reform and Liberal Judaism in ContemporaryIsrael.
2016: The American Jewish HistoricalSociety is scheduled to present “A Family Fun Night of Baseball In Celebrationof the Pop-Up Exhibition Chasing Dreams: Baseball and Becoming American” which“weaves together America’s favorite pastime and national identity with thestory of American Jewish immigration and integration,”
2017: Flag Day a holiday which wasreportedly originally conceived by banker and philanthropist BenjaminAltheimer, is schedule to be celebrated today in the United States.
2017: Amos Oz and David Grossman aretwo of the authors awaiting to know if they have been selected as the winnersof this year’s Man Booker International Prize.
2017: The Aleph Society is scheduledto celebrate the 80th birthday of Rabbi Steinsaltz at a dinner thisevening.
2017: Brooklyn Institute for Social Research& Center for Jewish History are scheduled to host the second session ofHannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism taught by Dr. Samantha Hill.
2018(1st of Tammuz, 5778): RoshChodesh Tammuz
2018: The United States is scheduled tocelebrate Flag Day, a day intended to honor the “Stars and Stripes” and allthat they stand for which ironically, was championed Benjamin Altheimer, a Jewfrom Pine Bluff who was born 13 years after the forces of the “Stars and Bars”which were committed to the destruction of the United States were defeated.
2018: The American Sephardi Federation isscheduled to present a performance of “Don Giovanni” starring David Serero inthe title role at the Center for Jewish History.
2018: “Israeli poet Amir Or” is scheduledvisit New York’s Cornelia Street Café for a celebration of “the publication ofhis latest collection, Wings, in an English translation by SethMichelson.”
2018: “The Alliance Theatre at the BremanMuseum” is scheduled to present “From Script to Stage: The Evolution of NewWorks of Art” at noon.
2018: As part of the 2018 Unpacking the BookEvents, the Jewish Book Council and the Jewish Museum are scheduled to host“Writers Make the Best Detective” featuring Rachel Kadish and Lisa Moses Leffin conversation with Stephanie Butnick
2019: In France, the Toulouse City Council isscheduled to debate whether to follow the example of Paris and erect a memorialto “Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, and two of his children, Arie and Gabriel, ages 6and 3, and Miriam Monsonego, 8” who murdered “at the Otzar Hatorah schoolTolouse” in 2012 by Mohamed Merah.
2019: In San Francisco, at a dinner followingservices “Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, PhD will speak on “The Meaning ofthe Hour: On Jewish Ethics in Times of Distress” at Congregation Emanu-El
2019: Starting today, the Illinois HolocaustMuseum is scheduled to begin allowing “Dads to visit free” as part of thecelebration of Father’s Day.
2020: Today, Daniel “Berger won the 2020Charles Schwab Challenge, and received a winner's check of $1.375 million.
2020: The New York Times featured reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including EverythingIs An Emergency: An O.C.D. Story in Words and Pictures by Jason AdamKatzenstein and The World: ABrief Introduction by Richard Haas
2020: The ASF’s Institute of JewishExperience & E’eleh BeTamar are scheduled to present “Yemenite Men&Women and their Music:during which Barak Oded, “amusicologist who specializes in Yemenite songs of all types, as well as thelanguage and tunes involved in the context of other Jewish communities. Inthese sessions will show the uniqueness of Yemenite song and prayers as theywere distinct from other communities.
2020:NYU Skirball Department and the Consulate Generalof Israel in New York are scheduled to co-host “a virtual discussion withfilmmaker Yair Qedar on his film about poet Avoth Yeshurun.”
2020: In the spirit of business must go on, in Cedar Rapids, TempleJudah is scheduled to host its Board Meeting over Zoom this afternoon.
2020: The Jewish Community Library is scheduled to host on line “FormerGTU and current U. of Toronto professor Naomi Seidman talks about her 2019 bookSarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement, about the education ofOrthodox Polish girls
2020: Temple Beth David of the South Shores is scheduled to present atalk entitled “Shattered Stars/Healing Hearts: Returning Home” during whichIrene Frielich Shares Her Family’s Holocaust Survival Story
2020: During the virtual presentation of “That Good Ole Jewish Sound,” Veretski Pass musician Josh Horowitz is scheduled to break down klezmermelodies into components to study them.
2020: “The Illinois Holocaust Museum and 60 other museums andcultural institutions around the world are scheduled to host the virtual event“We Are Here: A Celebration of Resilience, Resistance, and Hope” featuringaward-winning media personalities Whoopi Goldberg, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, AdrienBrody, Mayim Bialik, Jackie Hoffman, and Tiffany Haddish
2020: Flag Day, which gained its inspirationfrom Benjamin Altheimer, a lawyer born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas is scheduled tobe celebrated throughout the United States today.
https://www.jta.org/2011/06/14/default/is-flag-day-a-jewish-holiday
https://archive.jewishcurrents.org/tag/benjamin-altheimer/
2021: TheDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum is scheduled to host during whichvirtual book discussion led by Museum historians and educators will examine TheBoy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson.
2021: TheNational Library of Israel is scheduled to present, online, Professor Dr. PaulMirecki as he talks about “a Sefer Torah taken in 1840 from the synagogue inMedia, Algeria.”
2021: TheJewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston is scheduled to present,online, “a conversation with Senator Eric Lesser.
2021: The JoanS. Constantiner Fund for Jewish and Holocaust Films and the Israel Office ofCultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York are scheduled topresent a screening of “Asia” starring Shira Haas.
2021:JEWISHcolorado’s Shaliach Itai Divinsky is scheduled to about current events in Israel via Zoom.
2021: TheJewish Federation of Greater Des Moines, IA is scheduled to hold its annualmeeting today.
2021: ElishaWeisel (Eli Weisel's son), Michal Oshman (Tik Tok executive and author of WhatWould You Do If You Weren't Afraid), Dina Horowitz (Chabad Rebbetzin andinternational speaker), and more are scheduled to share timely lessons thatthey have learned from both the Rebbe's teachings and living example as Jewishcommunities from around the world, hear from inspiring Jewish personalities andperformers in an event commemorating the 27th anniversary of the Rebbe'spassing.
2022: After asix day closure due to Covid exposure, the Jewish Heritage Museum of MonmouthCounty is scheduled to reopen today.
2022: LBI isscheduled to present the New York premier of “Lieber Thomas(DearThomas).
2022: TheClosing Plenary of the AJC Global Forum is scheduled to included New York TimesOp-ed Columnist Bret Stephens and American University Professor of History andJewish Studies Pamela Nadell tackling the question: Is the Golden Age ofAmerican Jewry Over?
2022: LockdownUniversity is scheduled to host a webinar with Trudy Goal lecturing on “Zalmanof Liadi: The Creator of Chabad.”
2022: TheUnited States is scheduled to celebrate Flag Day, a day intended to honor the“Stars and Stripes” and all that they stand for which ironically, waschampioned Benjamin Altheimer, a Jew from Pine Bluff who was born 13 yearsafter the forces of the “Stars and Bars” which were committed to thedestruction of the United States were defeated.
2022(15thof Sivan, 5782): Eighty-five-year-old A.B. Yehoshua who has a special place inmy heart because he wrote a novel where the protagonist was a Jewish humanresources manager, passed away today.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/great-israeli-novelist-a-b-yehoshua-dies-aged-85/
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/a-b-yehoshua2\
2023: It ispredicted that both sides in the negotiations for judicial reform will confirman agreement has been reached breaking the logjam.
2023: JDCArchives Fellow Robin Buller is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “OttomanEchoes: Remnants of the Empire among Sephardi Immigrants to France, 1919-1945.”
2023: The ORTUK Business Breakfast is scheduled to return today with “an incredible panel ofsporting stars, as they discuss how they’re making an Impact through Football.”
2023: In NewOrleans, Tulane Hillel is scheduled to host its Board Meeting.
2023: TheWiener Holocaust Library is scheduled to host a “Virtual Exhibition Panel:Jewish Archives, Artefacts and Memory in Transit.”
2023: P&T Knitweaer is scheduled to hold abook signing with Dana Shem-Ur author of her debut novel Where I Am thatwill include a conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning author Joshua Cohen.
2023: Prosecutors plant to wrap up their casein of Robert Bowers who is on trial for the murder of 11 Jewish worshippers atthe Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA.
2024: As part of the Young Artists Concertseries, Kan Kol Hamusika is scheduled to broadcast a performance by The GertlerString Quartet.
2024: In San Rafael, CA, JFSC-Marin is scheduledto host its “volunteer appreciation lunch, featuring guest lecture by ProfessorMarc Dollinger on the complex history and sociology of Jews and racial identityin America.’
2024: Flag Day, which gained its inspirationfrom Benjamin Altheimer, a Jewish lawyer born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas isscheduled to be celebrated throughout the United States today as a wave of anti-Semitismrolls across the United States
https://www.jta.org/2011/06/14/default/is-flag-day-a-jewish-holiday
https://archive.jewishcurrents.org/tag/benjamin-altheimer/
2024: Rosalie Gerut, Kerem Shalom of Concord’scantor, is scheduled to lead an on-line “Shabbat Around the Table” during whichattendees will share our meals together with candle-lighting, singing, prayers,discussing the Torah parsha and remembering our loved ones with the Kaddishprayer
2024: As June 14th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave ofanti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengerson a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and theHamas held hostages begin day 252 in captivity.(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so weare just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
