JUNE 22
217 BCE:Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeated Antiochus III at the Battle of Raphia. The Battle of Raphia, also known as the Battle of Gaza, was part of theongoing power struggle between the Seleucids and the Ptolomies for the landmass that included Jerusalem and the land mass of Eretz Israel. Ptolemy'svictory proved to be of short-term value.Antiochus would defeat the Egyptians at the Battle of Paneas in 198BCE. This would ensure Seleucid ruleover the Jewish population and set the stage for the Revolt of the Maccabees.
816: Papacy of Stephen IV began today. Stephen is the author ofthe Letter Against Jews Owning Land” which read in part, For this reason We aretouched by sorrow, anxious even unto death, since We have known through youthat the Jewish people, ever rebellious against God and derogatory of ourrites, within the frontiers and territories of the Franks, own hereditaryestates in the villages and suburbs, as if they were Christian residents; forthey are the Lord's enemies... Christian men cultivate their vines and fields,and Christian men and women, living with those same deceivers both in town andout of town, are day and night strained by expressions of blasphemy... What wassworn to and handed over to those unbelievers by the Lord himself... has beentaken away deservedly, in vengeance for the crucified Savior.” (As reported byAlexis Rubin in Scattered Among the Nations)
1038: Ferdinand the Great was crowned king of León and Castile inLeón, Spain during a period when his predecessors had allowed Jews to betreated on comparatively equal footing with Catholics when it came to owningreal estate and engaging in agriculture as could be seen by the Council of Leonheld in 1020.
1101: Roger I of Sicily, after whose conquest of Sicily Jews werefound to be living in Syracuse, Messina and Catania and whose wife wasreportedly a member of the Pierleoni family which “was baptized in the firsthalf of the 11th century, passed away today.
1425: Francesco di Simone Tornabuoni and Nanna di Niccolo di LuigiGuicciardini gave birth to Lucrezia Tornabuoni, the Italian Renaissance poetwho chose the Biblical figure of Queen Esther as a topic for her writings.
1559: Jewish quarter of Prague was burned and looted.
1689: Christiania, the former Queen of Sweden, during whose reignJews could only live in her kingdom if they were baptized as Lutherans wasburied today.
1691: Suleiman II’s brief reign, during which the Jews continuedto live in comparative peace and tranquility in the Ottoman Empire came to anend with his death.
1770: Birthdate of German philosopher and writer Wilhelm TraugottKrug who was an advocated for the emancipation of the Jews of Saxony.
1778: Today, in Amsterdam, “rabbi and talmudist” Saul Lowenstam, devotedmuch attention to the bet ha-midrash founded by his father Rabbi Levi SaulLowenstamm today occupied a new home which had been by the generous of theJewish community.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10148-lowenstamm-saul
1779(8th of Tamuz, 5539): One month old Hyam Jonas, the New Yorkborn of Lyon Jonas passed away today.
1791: One day after he hadpassed away, Aaron Isaac ben Gerson – aged 5 years and 11 months – was buriedtoday at the Aldnerney Road Jewish Cemetery in London.
1809: In Hamburg, Germany, Johanna and William Leo Wolf gave birthto Dr. George Wolf.
1809: In Newburgh, NY, 47 year old Isaac Isaacs, the convert toChristianity and the East Hampton bornson of Aaron Isaacs passed away today.
1822: An order of the Prussian cabinet (German: Kabinettsordre)united the Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg which Salomon Oppenheimer had beenserving as a banker and tax collector with the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhineprovince.
1822: Rutgers University graduate and Vincennes, IN attorneySamuel Judah, the New York City born sonof Bernard S. Judah married Harriet Brandon today in Picqua, OH after which heserved as Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Indiana Statelegislature and as U.S. Attorney in Indiana.
1834: Isaiah Simmons married Caroline Benjamin at the GreatSynagogue in the United Kingdom.
1835: Birthdate of Pennsylvania native John H. Mitchell, theSenator from Oregon who in 1901 fought to have the United States lodge a protest with thegovernment of Turkey concerning its new regulations that would prevent “anyforeigner of the Jewish faith” from “sojourning” in Palestine for “a periodlonger than three months
1836: Birthdate of Gaston Cremieux who along with fellow JewAdolphe Carcassone headed the Revolutionary Commission of the DépartementBouches-du-Rhône for which he was condemned to death and executed because of his role in the revolt that had followedthe Franco-Prussian War.
1836: Abraham Styer married Charlotte Levy at the HambroSynagogue.
1838: In Hanover, Germany Dr. Herman Herz Cohen and Sophie SaraCohen gave birth to artist Eduard Cohen, the husband of Ida Cohen.
1840: As Moses Montifiore prepared to go to Egypt to plead for therelease of eight Jews falsely imprisonedin a blood libel connected to thedisappearance of Father Tomaso, Lord Palmerston declared in Parliament, “I havealready directed the English consul-general Hodges to represent to Mehmet Aliwhat effect news of such atrocities must produce in Europe…I have also sentinstructions to her Majesty’s consul in Damascus to make a thoroughinvestigation…and to send home a report as to the part which European consulshad taken in this matter.
1841: The Jewish community in Mobile, Alabama purchased land to beused as a cemetery.
1843: In Heidelsheim, Baden, “Abraham Sulzberger, a chazzan,shochet and teacher” and the former Sophie Einstein, “an ancestor of AlbertEinstein gave birth to Mayer Sulzberger, an American judge and communal leader”who “went to Philadelphia with his parents in1848, and was educated at theCentral High School of Philadelphia, and after graduating he studied law in theoffice of Moses A. Dropsie. In 1864 he was admitted to the bar and attainedeminence in the practice of his profession. He was elected judge of the Courtof Common Pleas on the Republican ticket in 1895, and was reelected as anominee of both parties in 1904, becoming the presiding judge of the Court ofCommon Pleas No. 2.Sulzberger has throughout his career shown great interest inJewish affairs. While studying for the bar he taught at the Hebrew EducationSociety's school.” For a time he served as the Secretary of Board of MaimonidesCollege. “He was closely associated with Isaac Leeser, and assisted thatscholar in editing "The Occident," contributing to it a partialtranslation of Maimonides' "Morch Nebukim." After Leeser's deathSulzberger edited vol. xxvi. of "The Occident." He was one of thefounders of the Young Men's Hebrew Association, which he served as president;”He was chosen to serve as vice president ofand the Jewish Hospital of Philadelphia in 1880 and has been…chairman of the publicationcommittee of the Jewish Publication Society of America.” He was one of theoriginal trustees of the Baron de Hirsch fund and has taken a great deal ofinterest in the establishment of agricultural colonies at Woodbine, N. J., andin Connecticut” Sulzberger had “one of the best private libraries in America;it contained a very large number of Hebraica and Judaica, together with manyother early Hebrew printed books (including no less than forty-fiveIncunabula), and many manuscripts.” Hepresented these to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, an institutionwhich helped to reorganize. His younger brother, Jacob, is well known inPhiladelphia literary circles both “for his verse and for is unusual knowledgeof English literature.”
1850: Birthdate of Ignác (Yitzhaq Yehuda) Goldziher, the Hungarianborn Jew who was the one of the first Europeans who developed an expertise inIslam and the culture of the Muslim world
1851: In San Francisco, following a fire at their “temporary homein Merchant’s Court on Washington Street between Montgomery and Sansome,Congregation Shearith Israel moved to building on Kearny Street betweenWashington and Jackson Streets.
1851(22nd of Sivan, 5611): “Jacob Bach, a native ofPosen” died today in a fire in the building housing Sherith Israel after whichhe was “interred in a plot” the congregation had “set aside for noted men.”
1853: “Medical News” published today described a lecture deliveredby Professor Owen to the Royal College of Surgeons in which he said, “For 1800years the Jewish race has been dispersed into different latitudes and climatesand they have preserved themselves most distinct from any intermixture withother races of mankind.” He went on tosay that they though they may have taken on the racial characteristics of thoseamong whom they lived (dark skinned Jews living in Syrian and Lebanon; lightskinned blue-eyed Jews in northern Europe) they have still been able tomaintain themselves as unique people.
1856: In Norfolk, England, William MeybohmRider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet, gave birth toHenry Rider Haggard, the author of Margaret, a novel set in the Londonof Henry VII and Spain that features a heroine who “is the daughter of JohnCastell, a London merchant of immense wealth whose father was Marano whoconcealed “his Jewish origin” and the Marquis of Morella whose main mission is“to ferret out wealthy and secretly faithful Jews so they can be turned over tothe Inquisition.
1859: Harris Michaels married Elizabeth Daniel at the GreatSynagogue in the United Kingdom.
1859: In Breslau, Silesia, Helene von Heimburg, a former operasinger, and conductor Leopold Damrosch” whose father was Jewish gave birth toconductor Frank Damrosch
http://grandemusica.net/musical-biographies-d/damrosch-frank-heino
1862: Today “Wilhelm Marr published the first edition of his work,“Der Judenspiegel” [“A Mirror to the Jews”](editions 1-4, 56 pp), with thesecond through fourth editions appearing within a few weeks.”
1863: During the Polish uprising, in an attempt to gain thesupport Rabbis and Jewish religious leaders, The Insurgent National Governmentissued a proclamation, in which it promised to guarantee the equality of Jews,after gaining independence
1864: During the Civil War, a large number of those serving withthe 59th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment which had been formedby Philip J. Joachimsen near Petersburgduring the Wilderness Campaign.
1864: In Aleksota (Russian Empire), “Lewin Boruch Minkowski, amerchant who subsidized the building of The Choral synagogue in Kovno, andRachel Taubmann gave birth to mathematician Hermann Minkowski who in 1907“realized that the special theory of relativity, introduced by his formerstudent Albert Einstein in 1905 and based on the previous work of Lorentz andPoincaré, could best be understood in a four-dimensional space, since known asthe "Minkowski spacetime", in which time and space are not separated entitiesbut intermingled in a four dimensional space–time, and in which the Lorentzgeometry of special relativity can be effectively represented.”
1865: Today, internationally known actor Daniel Edward Bandmann ,the Cassel, Germany born son of Rebecca and Solomon Bandmannwho in 1863 waswell received in his English-language debut at Niblo's Garden as Shylock,married Davenport, IA native Anee Herschel/
1865:The Archbishop of York chaired today’s first meeting of The PalestineExploration Fund, a society that “has been formed under the patronage of HerMajesty the Queen.” The society chose Captain Charles Wilson to go out as thechief director of the explorations in Palestine that are to be made by the newsociety. [Wilson gained fame as theauthor of Ordinance Survey of Jerusalem published in 1886.]
http://www.templemount.org/wilson1.html
1869: In Baltimore, MD, Max and Henrietta Ullman Lindau gave birthto Albert M. Lindau, the husband of Virginia native Miriam Charlotte “Lottie”Baach Lindau whom he married in 1891 and the father of Norman C. Lindau.
1869: Birthdate of Odessa native Jacob Magidoff who in 1886 came to theUnited States where he earned a law degree from NYU, co-founded the UnitedHebrew Trades of New York in 1899 and gave 42 years of service as the cityeditor of The Jewish Morning Journaland married Tinnie Magidoff with whom he had three daughters – “Bella, Dorothyand Helen”
https://www.jta.org/1943/08/29/archive/jacob-magidoff-jewish-morning-journal-writer-dies-in-new-york
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2017/06/yankev-magidov-jacob-magidoff.html
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/08/27/88563894.pdf
1871(3rd of Tammuz, 5631): Bernard (Yissochar Dov) Illowy, thegreat-grandson of Rabbi Jacob Illowy passed away. Born at Kolin, Bohemia in 1814, he moved tothe United States after the failed revolutions in the Habsburg Empire where hefilled pulpits for several Orthodox synagogues in St. Louis, New Orleans andCincinnati.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yissochar_Dov_Bernard_Illowy
http://www.jewish-history.com/Illoway/biography.html
http://kevarim.com/rabbi-yissachar-dov-bernard-illowy/
1873: In Chicago, a cyclone destroyed Congregation Beth-El
1873: Members of Beth-El Congregation met this evening and beganraising funds to replace their building which had been locate on the corner ofMay and Huron Streets on Chicago’s northwest side.
1873: In St. Louis, Rabbis Wolfenstein and Sonnenschein officiatedat the ceremony where the cornerstone was laid for a chapel at the Mount SinaiCemetery which was under the control of the Mount Sinai Cemetery Association.
1875(19th of Sivan, 5635): Sixty-one-year-old RabbiBernard “Yissachar Dov” Illowy who came to the United States after the failedRevolutions of 1848 where he served several congregations including UnitedHebrew Congregation in St. Louis, Shaare Zedek in New York, Congregation RodephShalom in Philadelphia and Congregation Kneset Shalom in Baltimore” passed awaytoday after which he was buried in Adath Israel Cemetery in “Price Hill, OH.”
1876: In Riga, Abraham and Sarah (Gator) Gutman gave birth toJacob Gutman, the “first Jewish honor graduate of Cornell Medical School” whowas a consulting diagnostician for the New York City Police Deparetment and tehusband of Rebecca Dogin.
1877: According to many of New York’s prominent Jewish merchantsA.T. Stewart, the company controlled by Judge Hilton, could lose the businessof the Jewish clothing merchants throughout the United States as a result ofthe Seligman Affair. These merchants areoffended by Hilton’s attempt to defend his actions by differentiating betweenHebrews and Jews. They contend that inthe United States there are many variations among Jews just as there are amongChristians. They feel that Hilton hasused Seligman as a way of attacking all Jews and they find thisunacceptable. They feel that Hilton istrying to create a clash between Americans and Jews while the real clash isbetween Hilton’s view of the Jews and the Jewish people.
1877: According to reports published today, Mr. Seligman, nor anyother Jewish leader, has plans to call for a public meeting protesting therecent action of Judge Hilton regarding the banning of Jews from the GrandUnion Hotel. Mr. Seligman said that ifChristian leaders wish to hold such a meeting they may feel free to so. Several of them have expressed their negativeview of Hilton’s behavior but the consensus appears to have developed to letthe matter die down. Apparently only theJews are still upset by this as can be seen from the decision by such firms asFescheimer, Goodkind & Co., the largest clothing store in New York,Fescheimer, Frankel & Co. of Cincinnati and Bierman, Heidelberg & Co ofPittsburg to end all business dealing with Hilton’s A.T. Stewart and Co.
1878: It was reportedtoday that a young Jew named Louis Hood from Newark, NJ had won the DeForest Medal at an oratorical contest conducted at Yale University. His topic was “The Ancient and Modern Jew.”
1878: “Jewish journalist, Egyptian nationalist and playwright”Yaqub Sanu (James Sanua) went into exile today “sailing on the ship Freycinetfrom Alexandria to Marseilles” after having been banished for publishing thesatirical magazine Aboud Naddara.
1878: In Vienna, Leopold and Caroline (Goldberg) Steindler gavebirth to University of Vienna trained surgeon, the husband of Louise Junk whomhe married at Waterloo, IA who became a professor of Orthopedic Surgery at theUniversity of Iowa in 1915.
1879(1st of Tammuz, 5639): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1879: In a review of The Lost Ten Tribes and 1882 publishedtoday, the author, Brooklyn minister Reverend Joseph Wild claims that “QueenVictoria is of ‘David’s Seed’ and the United States fulfills the role of thetribe of Manasseh.” In lampooning these and other such claims the reviewerconcludes, “No wonder the Jews are accused of arrogance; they such follyrampant in Christian pulpits that they must feel themselves wise men incomparison.”
1880: Detective Field arrested Ernest Fink, the former Treasurerof the Hebrew Benevolent Society Chebra B’nai Prasko on charges that he hadembezzled $600 from the society. He wasarrested at his shoe shop on Catherine Street and confined to the Tombs.
1880: The Conference on Morocco resumed today in Madrid. The conference is expected to adopt aproposal on religious freedom which will benefit both Christians and Jewsliving in the North African kingdom. [Editor’s note – the real issues revolvedaround colonial control and revenue.]
1881: Rabbi Reuben officiated at the marriage of Louis Lyons ofManning, SC and Rose Levy, the second daughter of Marx Levy at her home inCharleston, SC.
1881: In Romania, Jackotand Mirel Bercovici gave birth to author Konrad Bercovici the husband of NaomiLibrescu whose works included Crimes of Charity and Dust of New York.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/12/28/119434605.html?pageNumber=27
https://www.romanianculture.org/personalities/Konrad_Bercovici.htm
1882: During the Samuel Obright’s sanitary hearing, relatives toldthe Judge that “he had procured” ten dollars from his mother “by threatening tokill” her. His attorney denied thatcharge as well as one that he had threatened to kill her if she did not givehim $500 today.
1882: In Romania, Mirel and Jackot gave birth to author KonradBercovici, the Free Acres, Scotch Plains, NJ resident and husband of NaomiLibrescu whose works included Crimes of Charity and Dust of New York who alsoworked as a screenwriter with such actors as Charlie Chaplin
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0073393/
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Konrad-Bercovici/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AKonrad+Bercovici
1882: Birthdate of Jenny Shidorsky, the Norwegian homemakerarrested by the Nazis at Trondheim which was the first step on her road toAuschwitz.”
1882: Seventy Russian refugees arrived in New York from London byway of Boston and applied for assistance at the office of the Hebrew EmigrantSociety. The group has been given permission to stay at Castle Garden untiltheir permanent quarters are ready.
1882: The six orations given during today’s graduation ceremoniesof the University of the City of New York included Charles Harris Gelston Jonesspeaking on the “Persecution of the Jews in Russia” as one of the anomalies ofthe 19th century and Alden A. Freeman on “Benjamin Disraeli.”
1883: It was reported today that several political leaders andoffice holders will attend the upcoming cornerstone laying ceremony for theHebrew Orphan Asylum of Brooklyn.
1883: A number of Jewish were pillaged during anti-Jewish riots atSt. Gall, Switzerland. After police thepolice were stoned when they tried to stop the violence, authorizes summonedsoldiers to bring things under control
1884: “From Across the Water” published today described how the“barbarity of Hungarian Jew-baiting has been brought to the attention ofLondoners” with the arrival of Joseph Scharf, the emaciated sexton of thesynagogue at Tisza-Ezler who was forced to flee for his life followingaccusations that the Jews kidnapped a Christian peasant girl to use in theirreligious rites. While the charges wereeventually disproved, Scharf’s health was “shattered, his business ruined andhis property looted.” “Literally in danger of starvation he fled to Londonwhere his co-religionists are raising funds on his behalf.
1886: The Hebrew Technical Institute, under the leadership of itsPresident, James H. Hoffman hosted a reception and exhibition highlighting theaccomplishment of its 68 pupils. The visitors, including noted journalist andpolitical leader Carl Schurz, were told that the only limit on the size of thestudent body is the size of the facility since there are plenty of Jewishstudents who want to take vocational training courses.
1886: Ninety-five year old Elias Marks the Charleston born sonof “Humphrey and Frances Marks,” “thephysician and educator” who in 1828 founded “the South Carolina FemaleCollegiate Institute, an institution for the higher education of women locatedoutside of Columbia, SC” which “Marks called ‘Barhamville’ to honor his latewife and teacher Jane Barham” passed away today after which he was buried inWashington’s Oak Hill Cemetery where his gave is marked by a tombstone toppedby a cross.
1887(30th of Sivan, 5647): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1887: In St. Louis, MO, Pauline and George Washington Milius gavebirth to Evelyn Milius who became Evelyn Mosenfelder when she married SimonMosenfelder.
1887: In Danville, VA, Jennie Fogel and Toby Bamberger gave birthtoe University of Chicago graduate an Rush Medical College trained surgeonArrie Bamberger, the husband of Miriam Hitzelberger and a member of thesurgical faculty of the medical school of the University of Illinois.
1888:Isaac and Dina Cohen, née Wolf gave birth JeanetteWolff “one of the best-known German Jewish women in post-war Germany.” (Asreported by Jael Geis)
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/wolff-jeanette
1890: “First Introduction to A Russian Border Town” described avisitors first experience when he crossed into the Czars kingdom where “We werejust in time to see the sentinel half playfully clubbing and kicking an oldPolish Jew in his long gown and fur cap and to hear his piteous cries formercy.”
1890: “New Publications” included a review of The Burnt Million,a novel by James Payn that revolves around. The “burnt million” refers to moneyburned by a Jewish money lender who then ships his brother off to America. Fromthat point on the novel takes a rather convoluted turn where a Jewishmillionaire has plans to marry off his three daughters but they can onlyinherit if they marry a Jew. (And theplot thickens)
1890: Dr. Alexander Kohut is scheduled to deliver a lecture at theJewish Theological Seminary Association meeting this morning at Cooper Unionentitled “Entertainment Books in the Time of the Talmud.”
1890(4th of Tammuz, 5650): Thirty-five-year-old HymanHarrowitz, a Russian-Jewish immigrant died today a Gouverneur Hospital fromammonia poisoning.
1891: In Berlin, Dr. jur. Hugo Preuß and Else Preuß gave birth toErnst Gustav Preuß
1891: Today, Isidor Straus wrote to Abraham Abraham “Two membersof the firm of R H Macy & Co. contemplate finding their way to that suburbon the other side of the bridge Wednesday next Object of the expeditionprimarily to attend the unveiling of the Statue of Beecher - great men seem tobe a country product. Secondarily to see what a small dry goods establishmentlooks like. Lastly but not leastly to themselves for the of the expedition byinflicting on Mr. Abraham a genuine city appetite for lunch - N BWater is agood thing for bathing purposes. (Translation, Isidor and Nathan Straus ofMacy’s were coming to Brooklyn to visit their fellow Jewish merchant AbrahamAbraham)
1891: In Philadelphia, Nathan and Sarah (Horowitz) Solomon gavebirth to NYU law school honor graduate Louis H. Solomon, “a recognizedauthority on industrial litigation and disputes, an organizer of the BronxJewish Center and the husband of Sylvia Cohen.
1892: Cohoes, NY, Jacob andSaran Pawley gave birth to Morris Aaron Pawly, the Colorado businessman andcommunal fundraising executive who helped organize Aleph Zadek Aleph and wasactive in the B’nai B’rith.
1892(27th of Sivan, 5652): Sixty-nine-year-old BaruchRothschild, the native of “Bruck, Germany” who wives were Fanny Rothschild andMiriam Marianne Rothschild passed away today.
1892: The Democratic National Convention which was attended byGeorge Washington Ochs Oakes as a delegate from Tennessee continued for asecond day in Chicago.
1893(8th of Tammuz, 5653): Forty-two-year-old BenaiminoLuzzatto, passed away a Padua. Born in1850 at Padua, this son of Samuel David Luzzatto received his medical degree in1872 and served as an assistant professor at Padua University while pursuinghis medical career.
1893: In Romania, R' Yitzchak Yechiel Paneth, of Daish, the son ofR' Moshe Paneth, Daszer Rebbe and Malka Paneth and his wife Matil Lea Panethgave birth R’Elimelech Paneth, “the husband of Beila Paneth and father ofAvraham Haim Paneth; Meir Paneth; Moshe Paneth and Matil Lea Paneth” who diedat Auschwitz in 1944.
1894: In Budapest, Prime Minister Sándor Wekerle announced thatGovernment would introduce a bill next week “providing for equal religiousrights for Jews and Christians.
1894: Harry Houdini married Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner who becameknown as Bess Houdini who was his stage assistant as well as his wife.
1895: Georges Picquart who “became a Dreyfusard after havingidentified Estherhazy as the author ofthe incriminating bordeau, was appointedhead of the French military’s Intelligence Office today.
1896(11th of Tammuz, 5656): Forty-four-year-old actorand dramatist Sir Augustus Harries passed away at Folkstone. He also found timeto pursue a political career which included serving as one of the Sheriffs ofLondon starting in 1891. “He was of aHebrew family, and properly proud of his race.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40914F6385C17738DDDAA0A94DE405B8685F0D3
1897: The Board of Trustees of Williams College met today andannounced faculty appointments including S.T. Livingston to serve as theinstructor for Hebrew.
1897: Birthdate of Academy Award winning art director, VincentKorda, a native of Túrkeve, Hungary who joined his brothers Alexander andZoltan in England where they all pursued their film careers.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9800EFD91039E732A25755C0A9679C946890D6CF
1897: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Lydia and Millard William Mack gavebirth to William Jacob Mack.
1898: (19 Sivan 5658): Rabbi Samuel Mohilever passed away. Born in1824 in Russia, Mohilever was a Talmudic scholar and one of the leadingorthodox rabbis of Eastern Europe. A graduate from the famous Voloshin Yeshiva,he was conversant in math, engineering and a number of languages. Mohileverencouraged Baron Edmond de Rothschild to support the resettling of Russianfamilies in Eretz-Israel and was a mediator between the settlers and Rothschildin various disagreements that arose. He was the founder of Mizrachi, areligious Zionist organization. In 1881, he was one of the founders of the HoveveiZion, Lovers of Zion.
1898: Those attending today’s exhibition of work done by thestudents at the Hebrew Technical Institute saw electrical appliances made bythe boys including a birchromate battery, a galvanometer and models of anEdison dynamo.
1898: Albert W. Lilienthal began serving as a Captain with the 7thUnited States Volunteer Infantry today.
1898: Birthdate of oil executive Rudolf Sonneborn, the fourthhusband of New York Post owner Dorothy Schiff, President of the Israel BondDrive and a key player in the secret shipments of arms to pre-State Jewishforces. (As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)
1898: The Board of Trustees of the Home for Aged and InfirmHebrews held a special meeting day to adopt a memorial marking the passingGetta Scholle who was serving as Vice President at the time of her death.
1899: The Hebrew Technical Institute hosted its commencementexercises tonight at Cooper Union.
1899: Sixty year old Max Sandreczky, a German Christian pediatricsurgeon who settled in Jerusalem in 1868, where in 1872 he established and ranthe first pediatric hospital in Palestine where he treated all patients withoutregard to religious belief and refused to proselytize the children which meanthe operated without funding from any church sources passed away today.
1899; “Pierre Marie René Waldeck-Rousseau, the initiator of AlfredDreyfus's 1899 pardon, as well as the law that, in 1900, offered amnesty for"all crimes and misdemeanors related to the Dreyfus Affair, or that havebeen included in a proceeding relative to one of these deeds” began serving asPrime Minister of France today.
1899: The City College of New York held its 47th annualcommencement exercises at Carnegie Hall. Among those honor students giving“senior orations” were Menahem Eichler, Henry Moskowitz and A.W. Levy. This, along with a list of graduating seniorswith names like Pinchas Israel, Henry Mendelsohn, Leon Schwartz, and LouisJacob Cohen, attest to the extent to which Jewish youngsters availed themselvesof this country’s educational opportunities which were their passport intomainstream America.
1899: After 14 months, Julius F. Lewis completed his service withthe Hospital Corps of the 2nd U.S. Volunteer Infantry in Santiago,Philippines.
1900(25th of Sivan, 5660): Seventy-one-year-old LeopoldPappenheimer, the German born of Zeria Wormser and Salomon Pappenheimer and thehusband of Marie Pappenheimer pass away today in Cincinnati, OH.
1900: In Russia, Esther Shochet and Iman Shapiro gave birth to LeoShapiro, the University of Illinois trained electrical engineer, the“transformer designer” and Chicago “electrical contractor.
1900: “Hebrew Technical Institute” published today described the16th commencement exercises of the Hebrew Technical Institute where35 students received their degrees and where “a practical demonstration ofmolding a hand wheel and making a casting of it in lead by Samuel Goldfarb washighlight of the evening.
1901(5th of Tammuz, 5561): Parashat Korach
1901: In Berlin, Gertrude Ansbach and Henry Wittkower gave birthto Anglo-American Art historian Rudolf Wittkower, the husband of interiordesigner Margot Holzman who fled Germany for England because both were Jewishand who eventually became Chairman of Department of Art History and Archaeologyat Columbia passed away today in New York City.
https://www.nyrb.com/collections/rudolf-wittkower
https://arthistorians.info/wittkowerr
1901: Birthdate of “Finnish track and field athlete” Elias Katz, asilver medal winner at the 1924 Summer Olympics in the “3000 meter steeplechase” who made Aliyah in 1933 after which he was coach of the Palestiniantrack team for the 1948 Maccabi Games” before being killed by “Arabterrorists.”
1902: It was reported today that several chorus girls had met withPresident of Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor in Cincinnati,“vaudeville performers are to be formed in a union which will be affiliatedwith the Actors’ National Protective Association through it with Mr. Gompers AFof L while the chorus girls will become members of the newly formed TheatricalStage Employees’ National Alliance with a minimum wage scale of ten dollars aweek,”
1903: Justice Scott is scheduled to deliver an oral opinion in thecase of Isidor Wormser, Jr. versus Metropolitan Street Railway Company andInterurban Street Railway Company
1904: It was reported today that “Sir Charles N.E. Eliot, BritishCommissioner and Commander in Chief for the East Africa Protectorate, hasresigned the Commissionership because he is opposed to the proposed Jewishsettlement in the protectorate.”
1905: Former Texas Govern Frank Richard Lubbock, whose brother wasnamesake for Lubbock, TX whose first Jewish citizens arrived in 1916 and whoJewish population peaked in 1980, passed away today.
1906: The Jewish Chronicle reported that Mrs. Herman Cramer, anative of Jersey whose maiden name was Rebecca Amelia Lawton, gave a concert atSteinway Hall.
1906: In Sucha Beskidzka, Austria-Hungary Max and Eugenia (néeDittler) Wilder gave birth to Samuel Wilder who became famous a movie directorBilly Wilder whose hits included Some Like It Hot, Apartment, and Stalag 17.
1907: In St. Paul, MN, Oscar and Bertha Applebaum gave birth MeyerApplebaum, the husband of Eva Applebaum and the father of Howard Applebaum
1907: Birthdate of Saul Elkins, the motion picture writer anddirector who was the father of David Elkins.
1908: “Sentences were handed down to-day in the case of theparticipators in the Jewish massacre of 1905 at Bialystok, when 11 Christiansand 73 Jews were killed and 23 Christians and 82 Jews were wounded” which meantthat “the prisoners were sentenced to three years' penal servitude, 13 otherswere condemned to from six months to a year's imprisonment, and 15 wereacquitted.”
1909: In Minneapolis, Rabbi Chaim Golbogen and SophiaHellerman gave birth to Avrom Hirsch Golbogen who gained fame as Oscar winnerproducer Michael “Mike” Todd who brought Around the World in 80 Days using his“Todd-AO film format.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/mike-todd
1910: Birthdate of Montreal native and mezzo soprano JennieTourel, the wife of cardiologist and Columbia medical school professor, Dr.Henry Gross.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/11/25/148724172.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/09/1967/jennie-tourel
1911: Birthdate of Ludwig Teller who served who represented NewYork’s 20th Congressional District from 1957 until 1961.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ludwig-teller
1911: Birthdate of classical cellist Harvey Shapiro.
https://www.juilliard.edu/journal/harvey-shapiro-1911-2007
1911: Birthdate of Manhattan native Ludwig Teller, the WW II Navyveteran and law school professor who “was elected as a Democrat to the 85th and86th United States Congresses.’
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ludwig-teller
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/ludwig_teller/410700
1911: Prague native Hugo PIesen and his wife Annie gave birth toEdmond Ludwig Piesen
1911: The Anglo-Jewish boxer Matt Wells defeated “the great JewishNew York Boxer Leach Cross” in a ten round bout today at the Madison AthleticClub in New York
1911: George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeedinghis father, Edward VII.Lord Balfour and his king, George V, are proudlycommemorated all over Israel.
1912: The Republican National Convention adopted a plank in itsplatform that approved of the action taken by the President and Congress toprotect the rights of American Jews visiting Russia on business.
1913: In Chicago, dedication of the Rachel Jackson MemorialAddition to Rest Haven.
1913: Thirty-seven students are scheduled to receive theirdiplomas today during the 23rd annual graduation exercises of theJewish Training School in Chicago.
1913: The unveiling of the monument of Isaac Aaron is scheduled totake place this afternoon at Beth Olam Cemetery
1914: Lucille Fannie Hirsch, “the daughter of Isaac Hirsch”married Julian K. Hilborn of Philadelphia this evening at the Hotel Blackstonein Chicago.
1914: Birthdate of Philadelphia native Myer “Mike” Feldman the Uof Pennsylvania lawyer WW II Army Air Force Veteran and attorney with the SECwho went on to serve as White House Counsel under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
1915: Thirty-five-year-old David Klein, the sone of Jacob andChaia Klein who earned a Ph.D. from NYU and was a member of the faculty at CCNYmarried Hannah Herschorn today in Montreal.
1915: Today is the date set for the execution of Leo Frank inGeorgia. (The sentence was commuted, and the execution did not take place)
1915: “Martial law is still in force at Governor Slaton’s countryestate five miles from Atlanta where two battalions of infantry with machineguns” are protecting Slaton from a mob “that threw bricks at the troops”injuring several of the soldiers.
1915: After having spent his first night at the state prison inMilledgeville, Leo Frank is scheduled to be examined by the prison physician todetermine if he “is in the proper physical condition” to be put to “work as afarm hand – hoeing or plowing.”
1915: The remarks of Louis Marshall who had represented Leo Frankbefore the Supreme Court made when received news of the commutation werepublished today and concluded with “Whatever those who sought to consign Frankto the gallows may now think, the time will certainly come when they will showtheir gratitude to Governor Slaton for having saved the State from theperpetration of a stupendous crime, for it is as sure as truth itself that erelong Frank’s innocence will be triumphant established.”
1915: According to reports published today, The Rome TribuneHerald, in commenting on the commutation of Leo Frank’s sentence that “GovernorSlaton must be credited with having done what he thought was right in thecirc*mstances” and that Georgia will stand that much higher in the estimationof the country because of the Governor’s action.”
1915: In its editorial on the Frank commutation The Atlanta Journal concluded that “TheGovernor has shown wisdom and courage in his performance of an act of simplejustice and time will vindicate his moderation.”
1915: In its editorial on the Frank commutation, The Enquirer-Sunconcluded that the paper “has no inclination to criticize the Governor. On the contrary it believes that he deservesthe highest commendation for having performed his duty as he saw it.”
1915: In its editorial on the commuting of the sentence of LeoFrank, The Brunswik(GA) News wrote that the governor “has spared the life a manwhere the evidence upon which was convicted was clouded with doubt and theatmosphere at which the trial occurred was charged with prejudice and withpassion.” “Time will vindicate the Governor, and in the meantime, we commendhim for his conduct.”
1915: Pope Benedict was quoted in an interview published today assaying that he had “received from Austrian Bishops assurance…that the Russianson one occasion pushed before them 1,500 Jews so that they could advance behindthis living barrier thus exposed to the bullets of the enemy.”
1915: The New York Times editorially expressed the viewthat “The commutation of the death sentence of Leo M. Frank was the act of arighteous and fearless man”
1916: The Foreign Office replied to criticism directed at theBritish Government by Judge Leon Sanders, President of the Hebrew ShelteringAid and Immigrant Aid Society who said that the “British were holding up checksand drafts mailed from America for the relief of the suffering civil populationof Russian Poland” by claiming that “an arrangement has been made with theAmerican Express Company” to have that company convey remittances to Poland aslong as American Express can guarantee that the funds “will reach theindividual for whom they are intended and not fall into German hands.”
1916: Amelia and Milton Landau gave birth to George WashingtonUniversity trained endocrinologist and WW II veteran Richard L. Landau, thehusband of Claire Schmuckel with whom he had two children – Kay and Susan.
1917: Special Reception Committees are scheduled to meet alldelegates arriving in Baltimore, MD for the Twentieth Annual Convention of theFederation of American Zionists “at all railroad stations and steamerlandings.”
1917: In Chicago, the funeral for 76 year old Rosa Berman, thewidow of the late Lewis Berman is scheduled to be held at 1 p.m. at Waldheim.
1917: The funeral of Rose Stein Wolbach, the wife of Samuel N.Wolbach and the mother of Dr. S. Burt, Edwin J. and Emil Wolbach, is scheduledto take place in Grand Island, Nebraska.
1917: It was reported today that due to pressure from the Russiangovernment and the Romanian desire to take over Austrian provinces where Jewsnow enjoy complete rights of citizenship the government Romania is preparing togive the Jews of that country “complete citizenship.”
1917: “Socialists serving on a Reichstag Committee criticized theChancellor for forcing Jewish laborers in Poland and Lithuania to work forlower than standard wages” and get the committee to adopt a resolution callingfor treating “Jewish workmen from Poland and Lithuania on an equal footing withGermans.”
1917:In Wilmington, Delaware, Rabbi Samuel Rabinowitzdelivered a sermon about thoughts that should be in people's minds during thecoming summer months.
1918: Today, “in a cablegram to the Jewish Monthly Journal,Romanian Premier Bratiano stated: ‘Our determination to give Jews equal civiland political rights is unanimous and definitive” but “technicalities of theRomanian constitution oblige us to postpone the vote on this reform till afterthe new elections which will take place on after the liberation of ourterritory.” (Editor’s Note – Starting with the middle of the 19thcentury Romania would finds reasons not to fulfill its promises about fullcitizenship for the Jews, always stalling until the Holocaust made this a mootpoint.)
1918: The Cantors’ Association of America, “the official body ofthe cantors of Jewish synagogues” today organized “a war saving society”through which they pledged “to save and buy War Savings Stamps” and perform atno charge at any meeting held to increase the purchase of war savings stamps.
1918: The Federation of Oriental Jews, who, remembering theirpersecutions in Turkey, “are eager to help win the war” have formed a warsavings society.
1920: Cornell University and Cooper Union engineering studentturned viola soloist Sameul Lifschey, the New York City born son of Isaac andCelia Margolis Lifschey and during WW I, Bandmaster with U.S. Navey marriedSelma Marro today after which he served as principal viola pyer with the PhiladelphiaOrchestra and “faculty head of the Temple University Department of Music.”
1920: General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by SigmundFreud was published for the first time in the United States.
1920: Opening of the Ziegfeld Follies of 1920 featuring EddieCantor and songs written by the Banjo Eyed performer.
1920: At the Merrill Theatre in Chicago, Temple B’nai Jeshurunhosted a fundraising benefit to raise money for a new school and social center.
1920: Birthdate of Solomon Hersh Frees the Chicago native whogained fame as Paul Frees whose ability to provide the vocalization for avariety of cartoon figurers earned him the sobriquet “The Man of a ThousandVoices.
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-11-06/local/me-16406_1_paul-frees
1920: Inthe Bronx, “fur manufacturer Harry Wunderman” and “Dorothy (Horowitz)Wunderman” gave birth to advertising executive Lester Wunderman, “theco-founder of the Wunderman Group” and the “father of direct marketing.” (Asreported by Robert D. McFadden)
1921(16thof Sivan, 5681): “Dr. Morris Jastrow, Jr.,” one of the world’s foremostauthorities on Semitic languages and a “Professor of Semitic Languages at theUniversity of Pennsylvania since 1893 died suddenly today of heart disease atthe home of his brother-in-law, F.H. Bachman, in Jenkintown, a suburb” ofPhiladelphia. The sixty-year-oldacademic had not shown any signs of illness. A native of Warsaw, Jastowgraduated from Penn in 1881 and earned a Ph.D. from Leipzig University in1884. Besides his work with Semiticlanguages, Jastrow had written extensively about “religion, education and NearEastern politics. He edited the Semiticdepartment of the International Encyclopedia…and was a delegate to the last threeEuropean Congresses of Orientalists. Among “his more important works were‘Religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians,’ ‘The Study of Religion,’ ‘Hebrewand Babylonian Traditions,’ and ‘Zionism and the Future of Palestine.’”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30917F73D551A738DDDAA0A94DE405B818EF1D3
http://forward.com/articles/138271/
1921: In Brooklyn, “Yetta (née Miritch),a seamstress, and Samuel Papirofsky, a trunkmaker” gave birth to JosephPapirofsky, who gained fame as Joseph Papp, the producer/director best knownfor his Shakespeare in the Park. “Aside from his incredible creative talentswhich forever revolutionized the Broadway theatre, he immersed himself in doingacts of good deeds especially when the care and welfare of children wereconcerned. During his trips to Russia, he saw firsthand the desperateconditions facing the handicapped, orphaned and neglected children in theUkraine, which numbers in the thousands. It was then that he dedicated himselfto do whatever he could to enhance the lives of these children caught in themidst of economic and political turmoil. His untimely passing came before hewas able to fulfill his dream. Tzivos Hashem, with Gail Papp's blessing, hasvowed to continue Joe's dream. Thanks to the successful Tzivos Hashem sponsored"Joseph Papp Children's Humanitarian Fund" Dinners, thousands of*ckrainian homeless, deprived and starving children are being given a secondchance at life.”
http://www.filmreference.com/film/63/Joseph-Papp.html
1922:In Paris, the body of Louis Stern, the President of Stern Brothers, was takenfrom Claridge’s Hotel to the mortuary where it will remain until a decision ismade up where the burial will take place.The seventy-five-year-old Stern had gone abroad with his daughterBeatrice and her husband to recuperate following surgery that had taken placein May. He was also planning on visiting his daughter Baroness Leo deGrafferies and his grandchildren during the trip.
1922:George Washington University trained doctor and surgeon Harry Samuel Lewis, theWashington, DC, born son Bertha E. Roginski and Solomon and “author of numerousmonographs on various medical subjects” who was a member of the board ofdirectors of directors of the Herew Home for the Aged and a member of theWashington Hebrew Congregation married Fedora Lewis today.
1923(8thof Tammuz, 5683): Sixty-year-old “Moshe Jacob Alter” later known as MorrisRosenfeld, the Polish born sweat shop tailor and diamond cutter turnedjournalist who became editor of the JewishWorld and a delegate to several Zionist Congresses while raising a familywith his wife Bella Guttenberg passed away today.
https://yiddishkayt.org/view/morris-rosenfeld/
1924:In, Makó, Hungary, Terezia (Riesz) and liberal journalist Emo Vermes, gavebirth to Geza Vermes “a religious scholar who argued that Jesus as a historicalfigure could be understood only through the Jewish tradition from which heemerged, and who helped expand that understanding through his widely readEnglish translations of the Dead Sea Scrolls” (As reported by William Yardley).All three converted to Catholicism when Geza was seven years old which did notsave his parents from dying in the Holocaust.
1924:“In Koenigsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), textile industrialist TobiasIsraelit and homemaker Ethel Meirovich” gave birth to Dorothea Israelit whogained fame as “the pioneering” photographer Dorothy Bohm who as a teenager inLithuania was given a Leica “as she boarded a train to flee the Nazis.” (Asreported by Daniel E. Slotnik)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/arts/dorothy-bohm-dead.html
DorothyBohm obituary | Photography | The Guardian
https://printsales.thephotographersgallery.org.uk/artists/55-dorothy-bohm/overview/
1925(30thof Sivan, 5685): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1925:Today, Mildred Fish-Harnack, who would be beheaded for her role in resistingthe Nazis, was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities]
1926:On his 35th birthday Yale graduate and NYUtrained attorney Louis H. Solomon, the General Counsel for the American Cloakand Suit Manufacturers’ Association who was “an organizer and life member ofthe Bronx Jewish Center and the Philadelphia born son of Sarah and Nathan Solomonmarried Sylvia Cohen in New York City.
1926:Birthdate of Arthur Rosenfeld, the Birmingham born “physicist who became widelyknown as the father of energy efficiency for championing energy-savingrequirements for appliances and buildings.”
1926:In Washington, DC, Harold Ripley and actress Mabel Ida Albertson, the sister ofJack Albertson gave birth to George Englund whose film resume includesdirecting “The Ugly American” a provocative look at Viet Nam before it became anational crisis and producing “The Shoes of the Fisherman” which provided anunconventional look at the Papacy.
1927:“Men Before Marriage” a silent film directed by Constantin J. David and musicby Artur Guttman was released today in Germany.
1928:Wall Street Bankers Louis and Sayra Fischer Lebenthal gave birth to Princetontrained businessman James “Jim” Avram Lebenthal , the husband Jacqueline Beymerand a nominee “for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for hisfirst and only film production T Is for Tumbleweed.”
1928:“Louis Lowenstein, president of theNassau Smelting Company and a brother-in-law of Supreme Court Justice Frankenthaler,may have custody of his three sons, none of whom is more than 10, but theirmother, Ralphine Lowenstein shall be allowed to see them Supreme Court Valentedecided” today.
1928:In the Bronx, Louis Slobodkin and Florence (Gersh) Slobodkin to ProfessorLawrence B. (Larry) Slobodkin one of the leaders in the field of ecology towhom, if the world had listened, it might have avoided the damage done byextreme weather in the first part of the 21st century
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/nyregion/22slobodkin.html?emc=eta1&_r=0
1929:In Baltimore, MD Israel and Fannie Gravitz Rehert gave birth to Rose Rehert whogained fame as American journalist and breast cancer advocate Rose Kushnerauthor of Why Me? What Every Woman Should Know About Breast Cancer to SaveHer Life.
1929:Under a unanimous decision by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court,Abraham J. Michelbacher, the son of Solomon Michelbacher, a member of the NewYork Cotton Exchange who died in August, 1916, must account as executor of $250of the estate of his mother.
1929:Max Dick who helped to build the Home of the Sons and Daughters of Israel, hiswife Mae, his daughter Georgette, Mr. and Mrs. Ignatz Reich and their sonLeonard are scheduled to depart on the Cedric today for his birthplace inKossower, Austria, where they will $25,000 “to relieve distress among the inhabitantsof his native place.’
1930:On the same day that word was receivedthat the Soviet government plans to end the exile of Rabbi Lazarus, the chiefrabbi of Leningrad who will be allowed to lived any place in Russia exceptLeningrad, “the Leningrad Soviet informed members of the large synagogue” inthat city “ that permission would again be given for the use of the synagogueas a house of worship.”
1931(7thof Tammuz, 5691): Seventy-nine-year-old to Max Eckmann, the Berlin born son ofEzekiel and Caroline (Lowenstein) Eckmann who in 1874 emigrated to the UnitedStates, where he married Marie Slupecki in 1875, became a manufacturer ofnovelties, helped organized the Independent Order of B’rith Abraham and servedas a Repubican in the New York State Assembly passed away today.
1932:Tonight, at a dinner at the Hotel Astor “attended by officials of variousZionist organizations and several hundred of their members” “Louis Lipsky,national chairman of the American Palestine Campaign, announced that thenationwide drive, which will continue until the end of the year, had so faryielded $609,293.98.”
1933:In Chicago, “The XXXIII Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations”is scheduled to come to an end today.
1933: The Jewish world continues to reel from the shock of themurder Hayim Arlosoff, a Zionist leader who was killed just outside of TelAviv. The Labor Zionist leaders contended that the killer was Abraham Stavsky,a member or the Revisionists. The victim’s widow who was walking with him onthe beach at the time of his murder identified Stavsky. Stavsky was foundguilty but his conviction was overturned on appeal because of a lack ofcorroborating testimony. The facts surrounding the case are murky to this day.But the episode help to further poison the relationship between the LaborZionists and the Revisionists. Ironically, Stavsky was killed aboard theAltalena in 1948. The issue stills looms large in the memory of the earlyZionists. Leah Rabin made reference to this episode when she talked about thecauses of her husband’s death in 1995.
1933: The Social Democratic party was officially banned as Hitlerconsolidated his power.
1933: In San Francisco, Betty Rosenburg and Dr. Leon Goldman, “a surgeonwho was the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland” gave birth to Dianne EmielGoldman who gained as Dianne Feinstein. Feinstein Mayor of San Francisco and a United States Senator from California.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/us/politics/dianne-feinstein-obituary.html
https://www.congress.gov/member/dianne-feinstein/F000062
1934: “Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the executive committee ofthe Graduate School for Jewish Social Research is scheduled to deliver theaddress of welcome at the eighth annual commencement exercises of theinstitution this afternoon in the auditorium of the Federation Building.”
1934: “Private hearings of the Congressional committeeinvestigating Nazi and other foreign activities are scheduled to be diverted toCommunists today when Samuel Dickstein, vice-chairman of the group interviews anumber of alleged reds in the Bar Association Building on West Forty-fourthstreet.’
1934(9th of Tammuz, 5694): Seventy-six-year-old Chicagoborn banker Moses Greenbaum a member of the board of Hebrew Union Collegepassed away today in his hometown.
1935(21st of Sivan, 5695): Sixty-nine-year-old thePolish historian who promoted the “idea of describing a nation's historythrough its social and economic development as well as its international anddiplomatic backdrop” and whose works included Danzig and Poland passedaway today.
1935(21st of Sivan, 5695): Eighty-one-year-old Adelheidvon Rothschild the Frankfurt born daughter oof Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild andMathilde Hannah von Rothschild who married Edmond James de Rothschild in 1877had three children – James, Maurice and Miram – passed away today in Parisafter which her remained would be reinterred alongside her husband at RamatHaNadiv in 1954.
1936: Today, NYU trained attorney Samuel Mandelbaum, the Polishborn son of Nettie Blum and Alexander Mandelbaum who as New York State Assemblyman had introducedlegislation “regulating the sale of Kosher food,” began serving as serving as federal judge since 1936while being a member of Young Israel Synagogue
1936: ThePalestine Postreported a seven-hour battle fought near Tulkarm between Arab terrorists whoambushed a convoy and British troops. British infantry and police roundedanother Arab gang near Nablus where they lost a sergeant and a private. Arablosses were not known but might have been considerable.
1936:The Paris Tageszeitung reported today that “Germany has placed a ban on themotion picture ‘The Country Doctor” staring the Dionne quintuplets” because ofthe participation of “non-Aryans” in the production of the picture. (Thenon-Aryan may have been a reference to script writer Sonya Levien.)
1936:This evening at a dinner at the Waldorf Astoria movie producer Carl Laemmle,Nathan Straus, Judge Julian W. Mack and Member of Parliament Major Henry AdamsProctor urged attendees to provide the maximum amount of support to the UnitedPalestine Appeal which is working to raise $3,500,000 for the settlement ofpersecuted German and Polish Jews in Eretz Israel.
1937:Leon Blum resigned as Prime Minister of France after losing support due toremain neutral during the Spanish Civil War.
1937(13thof Tammuz, 5697): Seventy-one-year-old Buffalo, NY tobacco merchant andphilanthropist Emanuel Boasberg who had “made a gift of $100,000 to theUniversity of Buffalo to establish a professorship in America history” passedaway today “while the body of his nephew, Hollywood humorist Al Boasberg, wason its way home form California where he had passed away last week.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/06/23/94394308.html?pageNumber=25
1937:James Braddock who had had defeated Max Baer to become heavyweight championlost his championship to Joe Louis whose manager Mike Jacobs had promoted Louisin an era of prejudice against African-American athletes and who wasresponsible for the bout taking place.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jacobs-michael-strauss
1937:Al Jolson is scheduled to serve as Master of Ceremonies on WABC’s variety showstarting at 8:30 this evening.
1937:Three days after arriving in Spain, twenty-four-year-old David Robert Altman,the Milwaukee born son of Robert and Jeanette Altman entered the InternationalBrigade where he “served with the XV BDE, Mackenzie-Papineau BN.”
1937:The final report of the Royal Commission on Palestine chaired by Earl Peel wassigned tonight but its contents remain secret and will probably not “publisheduntil early July” when it is presented to the League of Nations in Geneva.
1938:Father John LaFarge, American Jesuit, met with Pope Pius XI about the draftingof an encyclical to condemn racism and anti-Semitism. LaFarge is told:"Simply say what you would say if you were Pope!" Impressed withFather LaFarge's antiracist writings and activism in America, Pope Pius XI goesoutside the usual Vatican personnel to assign LaFarge the job of secretlywriting Humani Generis Unitas ("The Unity of Humankind") to condemnracism and anti-Semitism. Father John LaFarge's draft of this encyclical iscompleted in September but it delayed by the Vatican bureaucracy. It won'treach the pope's desk until he suffers a heart attack in February 1939. Hissuccessor, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, takes the name Pope Pius XII and shelvesthe encyclical. No one hears about it again until well after the Holocaust. (Asreported by Austin Cline)
1938:Joe Louis beat Max Schmeling in the re-match that had been arranged by theGerman boxer’s Jewish manager Joe Jacobs, whom Schmeling had refused to firedespite intense pressure from the Nazis.
1939(5thof Tammuz, 5699): Forty-seven-year-old painter Mark Gertler, the London bornson of “Polish Jewish immigrants Louis Gelter and Kate ‘Golda’ Berenbaum” whosedeath The Times descried as "a serious loss to British art.Opinions of his work are likely to vary", it conceded, "but it issafe to say that a considered list of the half-dozen most important paintersunder fifty working in England would include him" passed away today afterwhich he was buried at Willesden JewishCemetery.
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/search/actor:gertler-mark-18911939
1939:Birthdate of Ada E. Yonath “an Israeli crystallographer best known for herpioneering work on the structure of the ribosome. She is the current directorof the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure andAssembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 2009, she received the NobelPrize in Chemistry along with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz forher studies on the structure and function of the ribosome, becoming the firstIsraeli woman to win the Nobel Prize out of nine Israeli Nobel laureates, thefirst woman from the Middle East to win a Nobel prize in the sciences,[citationneeded] and the first woman in 45 years to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.However, she said herself that there was nothing special about a woman winningthe Prize.”
1940(16thof Sivan, 5700): Parashat Sh’lach
1940:After 1,108 performances the curtain came down on the ILGWU production of “Pinsand Needles” a revue with music and lyrics by Harold Rome who also wrote thebook along with several others including Marc Blitzstein, directed by CharlesFriedman and choreographed by Benjamin Zemach.
1940:In Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, Katherine Flora (née Leverson) andHenry Barnato Rantzen gave birth to Dame Esther Louise Rantzen, the Englishjournalist and television personality best known for the 21 years she spentwith the television series “That’s Life!”
1940: The French Government led by 84-year-old MarshalHenri-Philippe Petain and Pierre Laval signed a cease-fire agreement withGermany. This would mark the start of one of the most shameful periods inFrench history. The fascists at Vichywould not only do the bidding of the Germans when it came to the Jews, theywould actually move more quickly than expected in round up after round up ofJewish refugees and native born French Jews.
1940: When France surrendered today “one of the terms of thearmistice gave the Germans the right to demand that France surrender all"Germans named by the German Government" to the German occupationauthorities” including Herschel Feibel Grynszpan who had assassinated Ernst vonRath in 1938.
1940(16th of Sivan, 5700): Three days before his 75thbirthday, Rabbi Julius “Hesselson” Hess who served several congregations in theMiddle West passed a way today after suffering perforated stomach ulcer.
1940: In Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, Katherine Flora (néeLeverson and Henry Barnato Rantzen gave birth to British journalist andtelevision personality Esther Louise Rantzen
1940: General Charles de Gaulle, the self-appointed leader of theso-called “Free French” broadcast an appeal to the French people to continuethe fight against the Nazis. He assuredthem that the Americans and the British would support them in the effort. Winston Churchill gave permission for theFrench brigadier to give the address over the BBC. At a secular level, there is real irony inthis since de Gaulle would become “the cross of Lorraine” that Churchill wouldhave to carry throughout the war. SeveralJews would rally to de Gaulle, the Resistance and the Free French. As to Frenchmen in general, to put itpolitely, Drancy and Vichy were exemplars of their true feelings for anextended period of time.
1941: OperationBarbarossa begins. Germany began its surprise attackon the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the two nations had signed anon-aggression pact in 1939. Stalin had ignored a myriad of warnings that theattack was coming. For days after the attack, Stalin still refused to believethat Hitler had struck since the Russians had been supplying the Nazis withvital material. This day would see the start of systematic destruction ofJewish towns and communities. German killing squads, the Einsatgruppenwould begin to organize local collaborators in Lithuania, Latvia and theUkrainian states. Thousands of Jews would be killed within the next few days.Within a few weeks millions more of the Jews of the Soviet Union would fallunder Nazi rule.
1941: While many refer to Operation Barbarossa that began today asa “surprise attack” such was not really the case since the Soviets receivedwarnings from several sources including Krystyna Skarbek better known asBritish intelligence agent Christine Granville.
1941:Special mobile killing squads--Einsatzgruppen--each assigned to a particular area of the Occupied Soviet Union began killingJews on the spot wherever they are found; often with the help of localanti-Semites recruited to help.
1941:Birthdate of David P. Landau, the winner of theAneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics and Director of theCenter for Simulational Physics at the University of Georgia
1941:Twenty-six year old American author and historian Milton Meltzer married Hilda"Hildy" Balinky
1941(27th of Sivan, 5701):In the Sovietvillage of Virbalis, Einsatzgruppen machine-gunned all adult Jews andcover the corpses with lime. Local children are seized by the ankles, and theirheads are smashed against walls and roads. Many of these children are buriedalive.
1941:In Brooklyn, George Lerner, “a fisherman and antiques dealer” and his wifeBlanche gave birth to Academy Award nominated actor Michael Lerner.
1942(7thof Tammuz, 5702): Sixty-six-year-old Hugo Piesen, the native of Prague andhusband of Annie Piesen passed away today in Amityville, NY.
1942: The Jewish Brigade was formed was formed as part of theBritish military. The Jewish Brigade fought in Italy and after the war helpedmany Jewish refugees escape to Palestine, despite the British Blockade.Veterans of the brigade would use their skills in the War For Independence.
1943: “So Proudly We Hail!” produced and directed by Mark Sandrichwith music by Edward Heyman was released in today in the United States.
1943: In Poland, 5,000 Jews were deported from the Będzin Ghettoto a Nazi death camp.
1943: In Aberdeen, Scotland, German Jewish émigrés, pioneeringbiochemist Hans Walter Kosterlitz and Hannah Gresshöner, German Jewish émigrés,gave birth to John Michael Kosterlitz, the winner of the Lars Onsager Prize in2000 and the Noble Prize in Physics in 2016.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2016/kosterlitz/facts/
1944:The SS closed the concentration camp atRiga-Kaiserwald, Latvia.
1944:Birthdate of Edna Arbel, the native of Jerusalem whose legal career includedserving as State Attorney for 8 years before starting her service as a memberof Israel’s Supreme Court.
1944: FDR signed the GIBill of Rights. Viewed as part of thewar effort, this modestly named law was one of the most far-reaching piecessocial legislation ever enacted. It gavea whole group of Americans a chance at homeownership and college education thatwould not have otherwise occurred. AmongJews, it sent people as disparate in temperament as Art Buchwald and HenryKissinger on to the college campus.Along with the automobile, the G.I. Bill of Rights created suburbiawhich destroyed many old Jewish neighborhoods and provided new challenges forJews seeking to maintain their ethnic identity and religious customs in whatwould become a culture of rootlessness.
1944: One thousand Jews were transferred from the death camp ofBirkenau to work in the factories of Dachau. They were "lucky" if youcan call being at Dachau lucky. Ninety-eight percent of the Jews sent toBirkenau were gassed there. One thousand, five hundred pairs of twins weretortured by Dr. Joseph Mengele in during his "medical experiments".
1944: Sir Nicholas George Winton the Englishman “who organized therescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia on theeve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the CzechKindertransport” “was commissioned as an acting pilot officer on probation”today.
1944: In Lyon Janine Sochaczewska and Alter Mojze Goldman, whowere not married, gave birth to Pierre Goldman, “a French left-wingintellectual who was convicted of several robberies.”
1944: “You Always Hurt the One You Love,” a “pop standard withmusic by Doris Fisher “first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller charttoday and lasted 20 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1
1945(11th of Tammuz, 5705) Yisrael Yitzchak Hakohen,the son of Rabbi Yehoshua Falk Kahanovitchand the husband of Chiah Rachel Goldin with whom he had eight children,who gained fame as Israel Isaac Kahanovtich. “The Chief Rabbi of Winnipeg andWestern Canada” passed away today.
https://www.manitoba.ca/chc/hrb/plaques/plaq0602.html?print
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/kahanovitch-israel-isaac
1945: Birthdate of Alexander Pines, the native of Tel Aviv whobecame “Glenn T. Seaborg Professor of Chemistry at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, Senior Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division ofthe Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and a member of theCalifornia Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) and the Department ofBioengineering.”
http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/alumni/Seaborg/SEABORG_03/AlexPines_bio.html
1946(23rd of Sivan, 5706): Parashat Sh’lach
1946: “Jane Gets Married” directed by Vincent Sherman, whose Jewishparents named him Abraham Orovitz when he was born in Vienna, GA was releasedtoday in the United States.
1946: Birthdate of Westminster, London native Sir Stephen HarryWaley-Cohen, 2nd Baronet “an English theatre owner-manager and producer,following a career as a businessman and financial journalist.”
1946: “A cablegram to Ernest Evin British Foreign Secretary,assailing him for his stand on Palestine, was made public today by the Assemblyof Hebrew Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada.”
1946: In address broadcast this afternoon over station WEAF, Dr.Judah L. Magnes, the president of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem said “theestablishment of a self-governing bi-national Palestine, based on equality ofJews and Arabs would resolve the present complication situation there.”
1947: Birthdate of Maurice David Landau the native of the GoldersGreen neighborhood of London who was the diplomatic correspondent of TheJerusalem Post for 12 years, and its managing editor for four years followingwhich he founded the English edition of Haaretz of which he was editor-in-chiefand capped his career his career by serving as the paper’s editor-in –chieffrom 2004 to 2008.
http://forward.com/news/israel/213602/david-landau-provocative-israeli-editor-dies-at-67/
1947: Albert Einstein withdrew his support for the Albert Einstein Foundation for Higher Learning, Inc.
1948(15th of Sivan, 5708): Sixty-four year old JosephNunes Nabarro, the native of Islington, who was a partner in the firm ofNarbarro Nathanson (Solictors) who “was an Elder of the Spanish and PortugueseSynagogue and a strong Zionist” passed away today.
1948: Samuel Hamilton Kaufman, “received a recess appointment” tothe U.S. District Court” today from President Truman.
1948:Szapsel (Shabtai ) Rotholc, the boxer who had beenexpelled from the Jewish community for two years because he worked as a memberof the Jewish Police in the Warsaw Ghetto, “was reinstated as a member of theJewish Sports Federation.
1949: In a move that showed where the British really stood in theArab-Israel Conflict, Foreign Minister Bevin today told the House of Commonsthat Britain would no longer be making contribution to the United NationsInternational Children’s Emergency Fund, but said that instead it would onehundred thousand pounds “available to British voluntary societies for themaintenance of Arab refuges…”
1949: Two hundred Conservative rabbis met today at the RabbinicalAssembly of America’s 49th annual convention at Kiamesha Lake in NewYork.
1950:A Government spokesman disclosed today that Israelhad asked the United Nations to take all necessary steps to insureimplementation of the armistice agreement between her and Jordan.
1950(7th of Tammuz, 5710): Seventy-year-old legalscholar Max Radin, the son of Rabbi Adolph Moses Radin, passed away today.
1950(7th of Tammuz, 5710): Forty-three-year-old“cantor, radio and concert singer” Yssak Gladstone the native of Krivozer,Russia, passed away today in New York City.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel spent IL50m.during 1950 on housing and work for more than 100,000 immigrants. The UNallocated a yearly sum of $100m. for a plan to resettle the Arab refugees. Mr.Blanford, the newly appointed head of UNRWA, hoped that he would thus be ableto resettle some 30,000 Arab refugee families.
1951: In a statement made to the Sephardic Community ofSalisbury in Rhodesia Haham Solomon Gaon said, "The lack of spiritualleadership is unfortunately evident today even in the highest places. ASephardic institution for the provision of teachers, ministers and rabbinicauthorities is one of the most pressing needs of the present age…We, Sephardim,if properly organized, could give a lead to the Jewish world generally."
1952: A small home-made bomb exploded at 1:30 A.M. today on thedoorstep of the apartment of Minister of Communications David Z. Pinkas. Thebombing was seen as part of protest against restrictions on driving which areto go into effect next week. Israeliswill not be allowed to drive their car for two days of each week. One of the days that on which one cannotdrive is Shabbat. Opponents of the banclaim that the action has more to with attempts by Orthodox Jews to ban drivingon the Sabbath than it does with gasoline conservation. Pinkas is a leader of the Mizrachi Party andthought to be a leader of those supporting the Shabbat driving ban.
1952(29th of Sivan, 5712): Eighty-seven-year-oldactress Clara Lipman Mann, the Chicago born daughter of “Abram and Josephine(née Brumer) Lipman” and husband of fellow thespian Louis Mann, passed awaytoday.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/lipman-clara
1952: In Atlantic City, Samuel J. Borowsky of New York wasre-elected president of the Histadruth Ivrith of America – “a Hebrew languageand culture association” – at the close of its thirty-fifth national conventionwhich was attended by over two hundreddelegates.
1952: Journalist Ames Keinan and Shaltiel Ben Yair a reserve armyofficer who has no civilian occupation were arrested today for their allegedrole in the bombing of the apartment building housing David Z. Pinkas.
1952: In Israel, Scott George, the United States Vice Consul, saidthat because of upcoming changes in Israeli laws regarding citizenship,immigrants from the United States arriving in Israel after July 14 would losetheir American citizenship unless they “opt out” of receiving Israelicitizenship.
1956:“An all-Tchaikovsky program, with Pierre Monteux conducting and Mischa Elman assoloist in the Violin Concerto, drew a good-sized audience to Lewisohn Stadium”tonight.
1957:In Los Angeles, Art Ginsburg opened Art’s Deli – “where every sandwich is awork of Art.”
1957:After 717 performances the curtain came down “The Diary Anne Frank” which hadopened at the Cort Theatre in October of 1955 before moving to the AmbassadorTheatre.
1960:In Framingham, MA Edward and Sherrill Ann (Glovsky) Schiff gave birth toStanford graduate Representative Adam Schiff, Congressman for California’s 29thDistrict who married Eva Sanderson in 1955.
1960:The Mayor of New York announced at City Hall today that George LincolnRockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party, will not receive a permit to speakin New York “on July 4th or any other time” due to concerns for public safetyand Rockwell’s personal safety.
1962(20th of Sivan, 5722): Eighty-one-year-old Hugo GutmannHitler’s Jewish commanding officer who recommended him for the Iron Cross FirstClass and was known as Henry G. Grant in the United States passed away today inSan Diego, CA.
1962: Final broadcast of PM East/PM West, “a late night televisiontalk show co-hosted by Mike Wallace.”
1965(22nd of Sivan, 5725): Sixty-three-year-old movie producerDavid O Selznick, the son of silent film director Lewis J. Selznick, theson-in-law Louis B.Mayer and the manmost responsible for making the film classic “Gone With the Wind” passed awaytoday
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0510.html
1965: Dr. Milton D. Glick who would eventually serve as the 15thpresident of the University of Nevada Reno, married Peggy Porter today.
1966: U.S. premiere of “Born Free” produced by Sam Jaffe and PaulRadin with an Oscar-winning title song co-authored by lyricist Don Black.
1966: Release date for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” thecinematic version of Edward Albee’s play directed by Mike Nichols, produced byErnest Lehman, with a script by Ernest Lehman costarring Elizabeth Taylor andGeorge Segal.
1968:Jan Peerce made last appearance with the MetropolitanOpera Company today at a parks concert in ‘Faust.''
1969: Author Jonathan Lewis Nasaw, the son of attorney Joshua J.Nasaw and the former Beatrice Kaplan married Soo Stone.
1969(6th of Tammuz, 5729): Sixty-one-year-old Romanborn “historian of Italian Judaism” Attilio Milano passed away today.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/milano-attilio
1970: Birthdate of rock star Steven Page the lead singer for“Barenaked Ladies.”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/stevenpage.html
1970: Eighty-year-old Harvard trained archaeologist AshtonSanborn the husband of Agnes Goldman, “the granddaughter of Rabbi Samuel Adler”and the brother-in-law of Hetty Goldman of the Goldman-Sachs banking family whowas “executive secretary of the American Red Cross Commission with headquartersin Jerusalem after WW I passed away today.
1972(10th of Tammuz, 5732): Eighty-two-year-oldAustrian born British “writer, director and producer” Paul Czinner whose careerbegan with “Inferno” in 1919 and was still going strong in 1966 with “Romeo andJuliet’ starring Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, passed away today.
1972: Three days after he had passed away, funeral services werescheduled to be held this morning for sixty-nine-year-old Long Island CollegeHospital trained pathologist Dr. William Antopol, the husband of “the formerBella Scholer” and father of Michael and Stephen Antopol who was serving as“director of laboratories and research at Beth Israel Medical Center” when hepassed away in San Francisco.
1973(22nd of Sivan, 5733): Seventy-six-year-old Polishborn Joseph Ottenstein, the “founder and president of the District NewsCompany, distributor of magazines, books and newspapers in” the Washington MetropolitanArea and the husband of Mabe Ottenstein with whom he had four sons – Stanley,Joseph, Victor and Thomas – who was a supporter numerous Jewish organizationsincluding the United Jewish Appeal, the HebrewHome for the Aged and Brandeis University passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/24/archives/joseph-ottenstein.html?searchResultPosition=1
1973: “A Touch of Class” starring George Segal was released todayin the United States.
1973: Former U.S. New York Senator Kenneth B. Keating wasappointed U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
1974(2nd of Tammuz, 5734): Eighty-one-year-old “Frenchcomposer and teacher” Darius Milhaud whose students included Jazz Great DaveBrubeck and Burt Bacharach passed away today.
http://www.mills.edu/academics/library/special_collections/sc_milhaud.php
http://www.anb.org/articles/18/18-03766.html
1976(24th of Sivan, 5736): Fifty-nine-year-old “Dr.Maurice S. Sage, president of the Jewish National Fund” passed away thisevening “an hour after collapsing on the dais of Grand Ballroom of New York’sHilton Hotel.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/06/23/121483958.pdf
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that the prices offoodstuffs (bread, milk, cooking oil, sugar etc.) would increase by about 30percent due to another IL150m. subsidy cut.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that the US StateDepartment had announced that a public expression of thanks by President GeraldFord to the Palestine Liberation Organization for its assistance in evacuatingAmericans from Beirut did not represent any change of policy towards thisterrorist organization.
1977: Funeral services ae scheduled to be held today at The Riversidefor Ira Katz, the son Judith and Norman Kratz and the twin brother of StephenKatz.
1978: Neo-Nazis called off plans to march in the Jewish communityof Skokie, Illinois.
1978: Today, “Rabbi Leib Pinter of Brooklyn was sentenced to twoyears in prison after having pleaded guilty last month to bribing” aPennsylvania congressman “to obtain favorable treatment for the social programof the B’Nai Torah Institute.”
1979: “Escape from Alcatraz” a prison movie directed and producedby Don Siegel with music by Jerry Fielding was released in the United Statestoday.
1979: “The Main Event,” a comedy directed by Howard Zieff,produced by Howard Rosenman and starring Barbra Streisand was released in theUnited States today.
1979: “Nightwing” the film version of the book by the same namedirected by Arthur Hiller, produced by Martin Ranshoff and featuring DavidWarner and Stephen Macht was released in the United States today.
1979: Weeks after having been released in the United Kingdom “TheMuppet Movie” co-produced by Lew Grade with Frank Oz as the voices of MissPiggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam Eagle,and Marvin Suggs was released in theUnited States.
1980: The New York Times featured a review of Joshua Then and Now by Mordecai Richler.
1982:In Tucson, AZ, Howard Kinsler, college basketball player and “warden at a stateprison” and his Catholic wife gave birth to major league second baseman IanKinsler who was proud to be “featured in the 2008 Hank Greenberg 75thAnniversary edition of Jewish Major Leaguers Baseball Cards, licensed by MajorLeague Baseball, commemorating the Jewish major leaguers from 1871 through2008.”
1983:“The Survivors” an off-beat comedy co-starring Walter Matthau was releasedtoday in the United States.
1984:“The Pope of Greenwich Village” a crime film directed by Stuart Rosenberg andco-produced by Howard Koch was released today in the United States.
1986:Sir Moses I Finley, the American expatriate professor suffered a stroke todayupon hearing that his wife had passed away.
1987(25thof Sivan, 5747): Ninety-three-year-old Modesto, CA born WW I Army veteran songwriterJoseph Meyer whose included writing the melody for the 1925 hit “A Cup ofCoffee, a Sandwich and You” ‘inspired by the famous line "A Jug of Wine, aLoaf of Bread--and Thou" from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” and the 1967pop hit “Summer Colors.”
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0583214/
1989(19th of Sivan, 5749): In Jerusalem Professor Menachem Stern,a Hebrew University Scholar and member of the Israel Academy of Sciences andHumanities was stabbed to death by two teenage Arabs as he walked home.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-stabber-is-convicted-murderer-freed-in-2013/
1990: “Robocop 2” directed by Irvin Kershner was released in theUnited States today.
1990(29th of Sivan, 5700): Ninety-four-year-oldManhattan native Etta A. Finke Bubis the wife of Dr. Jacob Bubis and thedaughter-in-law of Herman and Sarah Fox Bubis passed away today in MapleHeights, OH after which she was buried at the Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.
1992: Gil Stein was announced as the new president of the NationalHockey League and formally took the position, succeeding John Ziegler
1996: Pitcher Al Levine made his major league debut with theChicago White Sox.
1997: The New York Times featured reviews of books byJewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Look,Listen, Read” by Claude Levi-Strauss, “Nazi Gold: The Full Story of theFifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions From Europe's Jews and HolocaustSurvivors” by Tom Bower
2000: Armed with a slingshot, a walkie-talkie and a pistol tuckedinto his pants, a Hezbollah guerrilla across the fence in Lebanon let anotherstone fly today toward a mesh-covered Israeli Army post on the outskirts of thenorthern border community” of Metula but Israeli soldiers at the border areunder strict orders not to fire unless they are fired upon, and since it isonly stones they must stoically not respond.
2001(21st of Tammuz, 5761): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2001: In Vienna, the International Conference sponsored by theDubnow Institute on “Restitution Memory” On Historical Remembrance and MaterialRestitution in Europe in Europe” continued for a second day.
2001(21st of Tammuz, 5761):Sgt. Aviv Iszak, 19, of KfarSaba, and Sgt. Ofir Kit, 19, of Jerusalem, were killed in a suicide bombingnear Dugit in the Gaza Strip as a jeep with yellow Israeli license plates,supposedly stuck in the sand, blew up as they approached. Hamas took credit forthe attack,
2001:Daniel Charles Kurtzer left his post as U.S.Ambassador to Egypt. [Yes, an American Jew represented the U.S. in Cairo.] Bornin 1949, he earned a Ph.D. from Columbia and served as dean of his alma materYeshiva University. President Clintonhad appointed him to the position in Egypt.President Bush would appoint him as Ambassador to Israel in 2001; a posthe would hold until 2005.
2002(12th of Tammuz, 5762): Seventy-eight year old Fred Rochlin, architect, artist,photographer and collector of Western Jewish Americana passed away.
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jun/26/local/me-rochlin26
2002: Funeral services for 92-year-old Nachman Libeskind thesurvivor of Russian labor camps and the Holocaust are scheduled to be heldtoday at the Plaza Jewish Community Chapel in New York.
2002(12th of Tammuz, 5762): Ann Landers passed away. EstherPauline Friedman was born in Iowa on July 4, 1918. She began writing an advicecolumn in the 1950’s. Her sister wrote an equally famous column under the nameof Dear Abbey. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2002: Actress Embeth Davidtz married entertainment attorney JasonSloane in a Jewish wedding in Los Angeles.
2003(22nd of Sivan, 5763): Eighty-one-year-old tennisplayer and trail-blazer phi beta kappa Stanford graduate Gladys MedalieHeldman, “the daughter of New York Court of Appeals judge George Z. Medalie andthe husband of Julius Heldman passed away
https://www.tennisfame.com/hall-of-famers/inductees/gladys-heldman
2003(22nd of Sivan, 5763): Sixty-seven-year-old JosephChaikin, the Brooklyn born “actor and director” who was raised in Des Moines,Iowa and attended Drake University passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/24/nyregion/joseph-chaikin-67-actor-and-innovative-director.html
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jun/26/guardianobituaries1
2003:Jonathan Andrew Kaye won the Buick Classic, a majorPGA tournament.
2004: “The United States wants Israel to follow through with apledge to dismantle settlement outposts in the West Bank, Daniel C. Kurtzer,the American ambassador to Israel said today.
2004: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for AlfredCohn, the husband of Carolyn Cohen, the father of Jeffrey and the late MatthewCohn and the stepfather of Jonathan and Daniel, three days after he had passedaway.
2005: Opening session of Security Israel - The 19thannual International Homeland Security Exhibition
2006: The Red Cross humanitarian movement overcame Muslimobjections and cleared away the last obstacle to full Israeli membershipsetting up formal admission after nearly six decades of exclusion, Israel'sambassador to international organizations in Geneva said. The InternationalConference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent approved a resolution that enablesIsrael's Magen David Adom society to join while retaining its Red Star of Davidinstead of having to adopt the Red Cross or Crescent used by other societies,Ambassador Itzhak Levanon said.
2006: In “Brooklyn’s Oldest Synagogue Celebrates Its 150thAnniversary, Evan Barton traces the history of the Kane Street Synagogue.
http://50.56.218.160/archive/category.php?category_id=27&id=6493
2007: In Jerusalem, the Center Stage Theater presents a matineeperformance of Shakespeare’s "Much Ado About Nothing," followed byspecial party after the show.
2008: A new government strategy to redefine ties with the Diasporadesigned to be less patronizing and more humble which was developed jointly byCabinet Secretary Ovad Yehezkel and Alan Hoffman, director-general of theJewish Agency’s Education Department is unveiled.
2008: In New York City, The Yeshiva University Museum presents the2nd annual Family Puppet Festival.
2008: In New York City, Logan Joseph Kleinwaksv presents“Searching Online Historical Directories - and - A New Tool for Shoah Research”at the Center for Jewish Studies.
2008: In an election to select France’s next Chief Rabbi threehundred rabbis and communal leaders choosebetween the incumbent, Joseph Sitruk, a 63-year-old Sephardic rabbiknown for his common touch, and the challenger, Gilles Bernheim, a 56-year-oldAshkenazic philosopher who is the rabbi of Paris’s largest synagogue.
2008: The general assembly of the Central Consistory elected GilesBernheim Chief Rabbi of France.
http://forward.com/articles/13660/new-chief-rabbi-appointed-in-france-/
2008: The New York Times featured reviews of books byJewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “ThePolitical Mind: Why You Can’tUnderstand 21st-Century Politics With an 18th-Century Brain” by Jewishlinguist George Lakoff.
2008: The Washington Postfeatured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest toJewish readers including Darin Smith’s “More Than It Hurts You” “a polarizingnovel in which a black doctor accuses a Jewish mother of child abuse” and “My Five Years in Iraq” by Richard Engel, the Middle Eastcorrespondent who when he was interviewing the President was asked by Mr. Bushif he was Jewish; a question which he answered in the affirmative.
2008: The New York Timesreported on the downbeat emotional and political attitudes of Israelis as the“truce” with Hamas begins in an article entitled “Israel in the Season ofDread.”
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/weekinreview/index.html?8dpc
2009: Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, 5769 (first day of a two day RoshChodesh)
2009: In “Dead Sea Peril” published today Joseph Marks describedthe growing impact and causes of sinkholes on this unique Middle Eastern bodyof water.
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2009365892_apmlisraeldeadseasinkholes.html
2009: In the United Kingdom, John Simon Bercow waselected Speaker of the House of Commons making him the first Jew to hold thatposition.
2010: Funeral services are scheduled to be held at ShaareZedek Synagogue in University City, MO for seventy-five-year-old Stanley EarlGoldstein, the husband of Nancy Leve Goldstein with whom he had three children- William, Jonathan and Elizabeth -- who had a distinguished law practice foralmost 50 years, and who was a jazz musician, teacher, handball champion and amember of the St. Louis Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
https://stljewishlight.org/obituaries/stanley-e-goldstein-attorney-jewish-sports-hall-of-famer/
2010: The Jewish Community Research Council is scheduledto hold its final session of the season by hosting a luncheon meeting withVirginia House Speaker William Howell and Virginia State Senate Chairman ofEducation & Health Committee Ed Houck.
2010: Publication of Feeling “Phil Spector’s Pain.”
http://www.thejewishweek.com/arts/film/feeling_phil_spector%27s_pain
2010: Judge Martin “Feldman issued a preliminaryinjunction blocking a six-month moratorium on deep-water offshore drilling inHornbeck Offshore Services LLC v. Salazar.”
2011: The Art Show that began on June 13 is scheduled tocome a close at the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning.
2011: The Sixth Street Community Synagogue and John Zorn's TzadikRecords are scheduled to present “Masada Guitars Revisited + Edom,” one of sixconcerts by some of the best and brightest musicians on New York's DowntownJewish Music scene.
2011:Today Israel’s Ambassador to the US Michael Oren defended the blockade of Gazaas a “matter of life and death” and said that it fully comports withinternational law, as a flotilla prepares to attempt to reach Gaza.
2011:The number of millionaires in Israel rose in 2010 by more than 20.6 percent to10,153, according to the latest annual Merrill Lynch-Capgemini World WealthReport released today. The report found that the gross amount of capital ofIsraeli millionaires in 2010 came to $ 52 billion, relative to $ 43 billionfrom the previous year. The climb was in line with the global trend, which roseby 8.3 percent, hitting an all-time high of 10.9 million people in the worldwho are considered to be millionaires by the report's standards. A millionaireaccording to Merrill Lynch-Capgemini is one who owns at least one milliondollars in liquid funds, excluding their primary residence. The firm considersa multi-millionaire one who owns capital of at least $ 30 million.
2011:Israel Defense Forces made history when a woman was officially promoted to therank of Major General for the first time. Major General Orna Barbivay, 49,replaced Major General Avi Zamir as commander of the IDF's Manpower Branch inan official ceremony today, which was attended by Defense Minister Ehud Barak,IDF chief Benny Gantz, and other senior army officials. During the ceremony,Barbivay said that her appointment is a "clear statement of equalopportunity" in the army. Gantz praised Barbivay, saying she"receives this position thanks to her successful work and professionalqualifications and the way she carried out her different positions over theyears." He pointed out that Barbivay was not given her ranking "outof charity." Barak called Barbivay's appointment "a very exitingmoment for all of Israeli society." "The appointment first of allcame from her record as an officer in the IDF," Barak said. He added thathe was "certain" of her ability to lead the Manpower Branch.Barbivay, who is married with three children, enlisted in the army in 1981,joining the Adjutant Corps. She served in a variety of posts in the Corps,eventually commanding it, and also served as chief manpower officer in theGround Corps Command. The rank of major general is the second-highest in theIDF, and is the highest a soldier can reach unless appointed chief-of-staff,who is always the only serving officer with the rank of lieutenant-general.
2011:Judy Shalom Nir-Mozes, an Israeli socialite, investor and talk show hosttwitted about a rumor regarding the departure of journalist Yair Lapid to theworld of politics
2011(20thof Sivan, 5771): Eighty-seven-year-old screenwriter David Rayfiel whose workincluded “Three Days of the Condor,” “Out of Africa” and “The Way We Were”passed away. (As reported by WilliamGrimes)
2012:Congregation Adat Reyim is scheduled to celebrate “Shabbat Under the Stars” inSpringfield, VA.
2012:As part of the attempts to undo some of the damage done through hisrelationship with Bernard Maddorff “J. Ezra Merkin agreed to pay back $405million to investors in his hedge funds”
2012:Cantor Larry Paul and musician Robyn Helzner are scheduled to lead aCarlebach-inspired service at the Historic 6th & I Syngagogue.
2012:The Go North & Northern Communities of Nefesh B’Nefesh are scheduled tooffer a guided tour at Tzippori Park so Olim can see “amazing mosaics, acrusader fortress, an ancient, reconstructed synagogue and the first centuryunderground water system.
2012:Two Kassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip landed in open areas in the EshkolRegional Council in southern Israel today. No injuries or damage were reported.The remnants of a Grad missile were also discovered in the Be’er Tuvia RegionalCouncil, near Ashdod. As security forces arrived at the scene this morning, itremained unclear when the missile had landed. (As reported by Yoel Goodman)
2012:Israeli Air Force strikes carried out today against terrorists operating in theGaza Strip killed two and injured at least four others.
2012:In “The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past” published today Argentine-Israeliconductor Daniel Barenboim “explains why the Israeli antipathy toward Wagner isgrotesque and argues that Israel shouldn't depend too.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/spiegel-interview-with-daniel-barenboim-a-840129.html
2012:The findings of the 2011 census, released today by the Australian Bureau ofStatistics, revealed the Jewish population to be 97,335. This means thatAustralia’s official Jewish population has risen by about 10 percent in thelast five years (As reported by JTA)
2012:Daphni Leef, one of the leaders of last summer’s mass social protest movement,was arrested, along with seven other activists, in Tel Aviv today afterattempting to pitch tents on Rothschild Boulevard.
2013: The Edin-Tamar Music is scheduled to host“Romantic Violin” program II featuring violinist Saida Bar Lev and pianistYonatan Zak.
2013(14th of Tammuz, 5773): Sixty-eight-year-oldwriter producer Gary David Goldberg, creator of “Family Ties” passed awaytoday. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
2013: Barbara Streisand is scheduled to performat Bloomfield Stadium as part of the Israeli Presidential Conference.
2013: Traffic Police over the weekend caughtabout 140 drunk drivers, the majority of which were subject to suspendedlicenses, Israel Radio today. Policesuspended more than 130 driver's licenses for 30 days citing trafficviolations. Earlier today, anapproximately 50-year-old man was struck by a vehicle and seriously hurt onRoute 5 east of Tel Aviv after he got out of his own car to help several peoplewho had been involved in an earlier accident on the highway. (As reported byJerusalem Post staff)
2013: Today, Internal Security Minister YitzhakAharonovich (Yisrael Beytenu) called this week’s “price tag” incident in AbuGhosh a terror attack, and vowed the police would continue to combat raciallymotivated violence
http://www.timesofisrael.com/abu-ghosh-price-tag-attack-was-terrorism-minister-says/
2014: Masses are scheduled to take place atchurches in Newark, NJ, Mineola, NY and Yonkers, NY honoring the memory ofAristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese diplomat who defied his governmentand issued thousands of life saving visas to Jews trying to escape Hitler’sEurope.
2014: The Center for Jewish History isscheduled to host a presentation by genealogist Miriam Weinter and Avrum whowill ”reveal important—but relatively unknown—resources for family-historyresearch.”
2014: TheNew York Times reviewed books by Jewish authors and/or of special interestto Jewish readers inducing The Train to Warsaw by Gwen Edelman, Suddenly,Love by Aharon Appelfeld and Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death inthe Spanish Civil War by Amanda Vaill.
2014: The funeral for ‘the former director ofthe Shin Bet internal security organization Avraham Shalom” is scheduled to beheld today.
2014(24th of Sivan, 5774): Fifteenyear old Mohammed Karkara, from the town of Arraba in the lower Galilee, whohad accompanied his father to work on what was the first day of the summervacation was killed in the Golan Heights this morning when an anti-tank misslewas fired from Syria at an a vehicle delivering water to Israeli contractorsworking on a fence
2014: “A Palestinian man armed with a handgrenade broke through the Gaza fence and tried to infiltrate an Israelicommunity before he was stopped early this morning, the military said.”
2014: “May the force be with Jew” publishedtoday described the decision to have Israeli Ram Bergman produce “the next twoStar War films, Star Wars Episodes VIII and IX.” (Debra Kamin)
2014: Today Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahucriticized the “disgraceful decision by the US Presbyterian Church to divestfrom three companies that provide supplies to Israeli forces and settlers inthe West Bank.”
2015:Professor Ellen Eisenberg, “the author of two forthcoming books on JewishOregonians,” is scheduled to be the guest speaker at the Annual Meeting of theOregon Jewish Museum Center for Holocaust Education in Portland.
2015(5thof Tammuz, 5775): Sixty-one-year-old Oscar winning composer James Horner passedaway today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2015:After a vote taken yesterday, the Berlin Philharmonic Symphony announced theappointment of Kirill Petrenko, 43, aRussian-born Jew, to replace Sir Simon Rattle
2015:French-Moroccan baritone David Serero is scheduled to appear as Shylock in his“Sephardi adaptation of” Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” which willfeature Sephardi music.
2015:Ruth Behar is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Reflecting On Adio Kerida,”the awarding winning film that chronicles “the lives of Jews in Cuba and JewishCubans in Miami and New York.”
2016: In Oregon, “P.S. Jerusalem” is scheduledto be shown today at the 24th annual Portland Jewish Film Festival.
2017(28th of Sivan, 5777): Seventy-eight-year-oldSt. Louis born “feminist” Sheila Babs Michaels, thedaughter of “Alma Weil Michaels (née Weil), a playwright and theatricalproducer and Ephraim London, a civil rights attorney” passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/us/sheila-michaels-ms-title-dies-at-78.html
2017: The Jewish Federation of Greater did nothold its annual meeting today where it planned to present the Tikkun Olam Awardto Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole on behalf of her department forincorporating Holocaust education into police training and collaborating withJewish groups on a real-time communications tool developed after a shooting atthe Federation’s headquarters in 2006 in the wake of “the death of CharleenaLyles, a 30-year old black woman, at the hands of police.”
2017: “Some of Israel’s top chefs were on handat today’s Tel Aviv launch of Joan Nathan’s latest cookbook, King Solomon’sTable: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World.” (Asreported by Jessica Steinberg)
2017: In Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim isscheduled to hold its Congregational Meeting.
2017: The Jewish Historical Society of GreaterWashington is scheduled to host a “Twilight Tour” of downtown Washington thatwill included visits to “four historic synagogues.”
2017:“Letters from Baghdad,” a documentary about the role of Gertrude Bell inthe history of Iraq is scheduled to be shown for the last time in Montclair,NJ.
2017: In Brooklyn the Batsheva Learning Centeris scheduled to host an evening of “Sushi and Study.”
2018: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center isscheduled to host a screening of a clip from “Spiral” followed by director andveteran journalist Laura Fairrie talking about” the rise of anti-Semitism inFrance and the quandary facing French Jews: “Pack up for Israel or remain tobattle the rising hostility.”
2018: “On the Edge,” an “exhibition on loanfrom the Universcience Museum in Paris Is scheduled to open at the BloomfieldScience Museum in Jerusalem.
2018: After have premiered at Sundance inJanuary, “The Catch Was a Spy” the movie version of the book by the same nameddirected by Ben Lewin and starring Paul Rudd as Moe Berg was released today inthe United States.
2018: Sitting in his home at Jaffa, erevShabbat, Moshe Sakal, a product of the writing program at the University ofIowa describes his journey of self-discovery and discusses his first novel, TheDiamond Setter.
2019:The Joyce Theatre is scheduled to host a performance of “Rushes pairsPilobolus creativity with global dance mavericks Israeli choreographers InbalPinto and Avshalom Pollak”
2019: The Illinois Holocaust Museum isscheduled to host a docent tour “of the inspirational Museum which seamlesslyweaves history with local Survivor narratives.”
2019: Following President Trump’s explanationfor cancelling the attack on Iranian missile batteries because it would cause a“disproportionate number of causalities” Prime Minister Netanyahu, who workedto elect the Republican might be wondering what kind of support he wouldreceive if Israel is attacked by Iran or its proxies such as Hezbollah.
2019(19th of Sivan, 5779): ParashatBeha’alotcha;
2020: Temple Sinai of Marblehead is scheduledto host online “Weekly Torah Study with Rabbi David Cohen-Henriquez
2020: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center isscheduled to host Dr. Karen Brodkin, author of How Jews Became White Folksand What That Says About Race in America as she lectures on “JewishImmigrants and America’s Racial Politics”
2020: In the wake of the Pandemic, the Jewishcommitment to education continues as the JCC of Greater Boston is scheduled topresent on-line Summer Enrichment for Children 0-5 which provides theopportunity to “Explore interactive virtual classesled by expert instructors for children and families, including baby signlanguage, music, STEM, dance, chess, art and more!”
2020: Following his warningyesterday that Israel “may have to renew lockdowns following a surge incoronavirus cases, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to “hold ameeting of ministers today to decide what steps should be taken.”
2021: The JDC Archives is scheduleto present a webinar on “Mela Iancu: A Holocaust Heroine in Romania.”
2021: In London, LSJS is scheduledto host Simi Peters who “will be delving in the book of Devarim.
2021: CJE SeniorLife - HolocaustCommunity Services; Holocaust Educational Foundation of NorthwesternUniversity; Nathan & Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center arescheduled to ho co-host a discussion of Wendy Lower’s latest book, TheRavine: A Family, a Photograph, A Holocaust Massacre Revealed.
2021: The Oshman Family JewishCommunity Center is scheduled to present Mezzo-soprano Deborah Rosengaustalking “about iconic Jewish Broadway performers such as Barbra Streisand andMandy Patinkin.”
2021: Scheduled screening of “theacclaimed German-Danish film, ‘Winter Journey,’ based on Martin Goldsmith’sbook, Inextinguishable Symphony which chronicles his musician parents’journey from Nazi Germany to the US.”
2021: The first annualInternational Agnon Festival, featuring a talk with authors Nicole Krauss andDorit Rabinyan is scheduled to continue for a second day.
2021: The Streicker Center isscheduled to a conversation with Franke Bruni and Brian Stelter as he hypes thesale of the paperback edition Hoax during a presentation styled “The President,A Network and the Trumping of America.”
2021: The Center For Adult JewishLearning At Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to present, online, “Bakingand Bread Across the Diaspora” with culinary historian and bread lover Sara Gardner.
2022: In New Orleans Board ofDirectors of the Jewish Endowment Fund are scheduled to meet today.
2022: As part of the People of theBook Club, The Center for Jewish History and LBI are scheduled to present adiscussion Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey.
https://www.europaeditions.com/book/9781609456276/remote-sympathy
2022: The ASF Institute of JewishExperience is scheduled to present New Works Wednesday with Haim Jachter as he discusses his new book BridgingTraditions: Demystifying Differences Between Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews.
2022: In Columbus, OH, CongregationTifereth Israel is scheduled to host a Lunch and Learn where participants willdiscuss “Acquire for Yourself a Companion: Sexuality in the Talmud.”
2022: Based on previously publishedpolling information as of today “neither of the rivaling blocs in Israel'sparliament, the Knesset, will get a majority of 61 seats to form a stablegovernment.”
2022: As part of a pan to push upits timeline for the Knesset’s disbandment and new elections, “the rulingcoalition is scheduled to add “its dispersal bill to today’s legislativeagenda.” (As reported by Carrie Keller-Lynn)
2023: The Strauss family- Rabbi Feivel andCantor Abbie are scheduled to lead services at Temple Judea.
2023: YIVO is scheduled to presenta lecture by Kenneth B. Moss, the Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor ofJewish History at the University of Chicago, on “Freedom, Wholeness and SocialResponsibility in Modern Yiddish Culture.”
2023: JCC Columbus, OH, isscheduled to host its gala “Tropical Escape.”
2023: UK Jewish Film is scheduledto host an online screening of “Babi Yar” and “The Kiev Trial” as well as ascreening of “Wondrous Oblivion” with a post screening discussion with PaulMorrison.
2023: The Lappin Foundation isscheduled to present online “A Preview of Introduction to Judaism” a four partcourse that explores “the heart of Judaism.”
2023: Lockdown University isscheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on “George Eliot and Daniel Deronda: Disraeli, Connings by,Alroy.”
2024(16th of Sivan, 5784): ParashatBeha’alotekhafor more see
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2024: The Eden Tamir Center isscheduled to host a Chamber Music recital with Eliahu Shulman, Edith Shulman,violins; Tali Kravitz Parag, viola; Shmuel Magen, cello; Shlomi Shem Tov, piano.
2024: The first day of acelebration of advancements of the Hadassah Medical Organization (HMO) isscheduled to begin at the Renaissance in Northbrook, IL.
2024: In New York City, an “exhibiton the Nova festival massacre” is scheduled to come to an end.
2024: Agnon House is scheduled to hosta reading of “The Sin” followed by a discussion led by Uri Greenspun in whichattendees “will become acquainted with Agnon's mysterious encounter with IbnGvirol, discuss his decision to expand the story, and compare the first versionof the revelation with the later version.”
2024: As June 22nd 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 260 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.)
