May 29
363: A goodday for the Romans and bad day for the Jews. Roman Emperor Julian defeats theSassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanidcapital, but is impossible to conquer it. But Julian is killed at the end ofthe battle, some claiming that he was assassinated by a Christian Arab. Julian was the nephew and successor ofConstantine. Julian repealed his Uncle’spro-Christian promulgations allowing the old pagan cults to reappear. This earned him the title Julian theApostate. Julian also repealed thespecial taxes that had been levied on the Jews.He announced that the Jews would be allowed to return to Jerusalem andrebuild the Temple. Jews actually builta synagogue near the Temple Mount in anticipation of the rebuilding of theTemple. Unfortunately, the favorabletreatment of the Jews died with Julian’s demise. Rome returned to path of Constantine and theJews returned to the road of exile and expulsion.
1096: The Jewsof Bacharach, Germany, were massacred by the Crusaders.
1108: Theforces of the Muslim Almoravids under Tamim ibn-Yusuf defeated the Christianforces of Castile and León under Alfonso VI at the Battle of Uclésv. The battle was a disaster for the Christianswho lost 30,000 men including seven high-ranking nobles and the heir-apparent,Sancho Alfónsez. The Muslims were not able to capitalize on the victory andconquer the city of Toledo. TheChristians of Toledo “celebrated” their deliverance by murderously attackingthe Jews and burning their homes and synagogues. Alfonso died before he could punish themurderers. Following his death, the people of Carrion followed the example oftheir co-religionists in Toledo and attacked the Jews in an orgy of murderouspillaging.
1167: A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III isdefeated at the Battle of Monte Porzio by the forces of the Holy Roman EmperorFrederick Barbarossa and the local princes of Tusculum and Albano. Jehiel Anavreportedly “supervised the finances of Pope Alexander.” Jeheil Anva wouldappear to be one in the same with Jehiel ben Jekutheil Anav who is believed tobe the author of Tanya Rabbati which discusses Shabbat and the JewishHolidays. He was related to the Italian born scholar and linguist Nathan ben Jehiel.Frederick Barbarossa would be one of the three kings to lead the ThirdCrusades. Unlike other Crusaders, theGerman Barbarossa was protective of his Jewish subjects causing “a Jewishchronicler, Ephraim be-Jacob of Bonna to write ‘Frederick defended us with allhis might and enabled us to live among our enemies, so that no harmed theJews.’”
1453: TheOttomans under Sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople marking the end ofByzantine (or the Eastern Roman) Empire.(The shift from Christian to Moslem control reverberates into the 21stcentury)(According to at least one source, the Jews were spared when theMoslems slaughtered the inhabitants – Jewish Virtual Library)
1453: SultanMohammed II, the conqueror of Constantinople, granted equal rights to Jews andother non-Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire. The oppressed Jews wererelieved to see him occupy the city. He allowed Jews from today's Greek Islandsand Crete to settle in Istanbul. The Sultan’s declaration contained thefollowing words: "Listen sons of the Hebrew who live in my country...Mayall of you who desire come to Constantinople and may the rest of your peoplefind here a shelter".
1507: Thethird of four fires broke out in Pilsen today burning down more of the housesbelonging to the Jews.
1554: PopePaul IV issued a bull ordering Jews to surrender all books containing allegedanti-Christian blasphemies. The sweepingterms of the bull covered all rabbinic work relating to the Talmud. In effect, Paul IV nullified a bull issued byPope X in 1518 which permitted the publication of codes of Jewish law upon theapproval of church censors.
1630: At St.James Palace, Charles I, king of England, Scotland and Ireland, and his wifeHenrietta Maria gave birth to Charles II the husband of Catherine of Braganza, the Portuguese who brought Portuguese nativeFernando Mendes to serve as her personal physician which made it possible forhim to begin living openly as a Jew.
1647(24thof Iyar, 5407): “Poet and translator” Moses Belmonte, the eighth child of JacobBelmont, who works included a Spanish translation of the “Song of Songs” passedaway today in Amsterdam.
1660: Charles IIwho “supported the Jews, legally accepting them in 1684” began his reign today asKing of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1686: Jews ofNew Amsterdam were allowed to openly practice their religion.
1724:Beginning of the Papacy Benedict XIII, a papal leader who issued a series ofanti-Semitic bulls and writings that reached a level of literary or theologicalcompulsion. In 1727, Benedict wrote Emanavit numer, which stated the conditionsunder which Jews could be forcibly baptized. In Alias emanarunt, “Benedictforbade selling of goods by Jews. In1749 he issued Singulari noblis consoldtioni which dealt with the issue ofChristians and Jews getting married. In1751, he issued Elapso proxime anno which dealt with Jewish heresy and Probe temeinisse which laid down the rules for baptizing Jewish children. Finally, in 1755, he issued Beatus Andreswhich beatified Andreas von Ronn who had alledgedly been by Jews in 1462 aspart of their religious ritual. “Thepope declared that such ritual murders were fact and were part of Jewishpractice, not exceptions.” (page 119)
1750: AbrahamLyon, a baker in New York City, “became a freeman” today.
1751: InChester County, PA, Abraham Lewis and Rebekah Davis gave birth to Abraham LewisII, the husband of Esther Todd.
1763: InBerline Jewish reformer daughter of Moses Mendelssohn and Fromet (Frumet)Mendelssohn gave birth to Sarah Mendelssohn who would only live to the age of10 months.
1773(7thof Sivan, 5533): Second Day of Shavuot
1776: EleazarLyons, a young Dutch Jew who had begun his own business in 1772 and HannahLevy, the parents of Baltimore native Uriah Lyons and the grandparents of Ellis and AlexanderLyons were married today at Harrisburg,PA.
1781(5thof Sivan, 5541): Erev Shavuot was observed 19 days after the King George IIIgave his royal assent to the Tea Act, which led to the Boston Tea Party, whichled to the British Closure of the port of Boston which led to the AmericanRevolution. (Editor’s note – Bet nobody eating their blintzes today knew what earth-shatteringevents were afoot.)
1781: As Jewson both sides of the American Revolution prepare to observe Shavuot, word wassent to Comte de Rochambeau, the commander of French forces that the Frenchfleet under Comte De Grasse had scored a rare victory over the British fleetoff the coast of Martinique.
1790: RhodeIsland becomes the last of the original United States colonies to ratify theConstitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state. According to Rufus Learsi,at the outbreak of the American Revolution Rhode Island was one of only fivethe original thirteen colonies to have had an organized Jewish community.Newport reportedly had 1,200 Jewish habits, half the Jews living in all of thethirteen colonies at that time. Congregation Jeshuat Israel (Salvation ofIsrael) had erected its own synagogue and Rabbi Isaac Touro was so well knownthat he was visited by rabbis from Europe and Eretz Israel including RaphaelCahim Isaac Corregal from Hebron who formed a lasting friendship with PastorEzra Stiles, President of Yale. Newportmay be best remembered for the famous letter that President Washington wrote tothe Jews of Newport in 1790 in which he endorsed the full participation of theJewish people in all aspects of American life.Unfortunately, the Newport Jewish community had already lost its dominantrole. The British occupation during theAmerican Revolution had marked the beginning of the end of the commercialprimacy of Newport and many of the Jews who had fled during the occupationsimply did not return. The loss ofprominence of the Jewish community is highlighted by the fact that the state ofRhode Island did not get around to removing religious tests for office until1842. For more about this see http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/rhode.html
1794(29thof Iyar, 5554): Samuel Yoal passed away today in London after which he wasburied at the Alderney Road Jewish Cemetery.
1800(5thof Sivan, 5560): Erev Shavuot observed for the last time during the Presidencyof John Adams.
1805(1stof Sivan, 5565): Rosh Chodesh Sivan observed on the same day that Lewis andClark were encountering herds of buffalo as they made their away across the“Louisiana Purchase” bound for the Pacific Ocean.
1810: InLondon, Hanna Barnet Cohen and Anthony de Rothschild gave birth to Sir Anthonyde Rothschild
1815(19thof Iyar, 5575): Menachem Mendel of Rimanov, the native of Neustadat who was“one of the five principal disciples of Elimelech of Lizhensk” who was a majorPolish Chasidic Rebbe passed away today.
https://books.google.com/books?id=qZTOaahj92IC&pg=PA7&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
1819: InParis, “Élie, duc Decazes and his second wife, Wilhelmine de Beaupoil deSaint-Aulaire” gave birth to Louis, duc Decazes who while serving as ForeignMinister in 1875 “informed Henri Blowitz, the Bohemian Jew who was the Pariscorrespondent of The Times of a confidential dispatch from the Frenchambassador to Berlin, discussing German plans to attack France” which he askedBlowitz to publish as part of an effective plan to prevent the Germans fromcarrying out their plans.
1820:Sixty-eight year “German historian and political” Christian Wilhelm von Dohm,the son of a Lutheran minister, “staunch advocate for Jewish emancipation” andpersonal friend of Moses Mendelssohn passed away at his estate “nearNordhausen.”
1825:Coronation of French King Charles X whose consul in Algiers was Jacob CohenBakri,
1826(22ndof Iyar): Rabbi Judah Leib, author of “Likkutei Maharil” passed away.
1831: InPhiladelphia, Juliet Moss, the New York born daughter of Solomon Hayman Levyand Rebecca Eve Levy and her husband Joseph Lyons Moss “a partner of Messrs. R.& I. Phillips, who first represented in this country the renowned bankinghouse of Rothschild, of London, England” gave birth to Estelle Moss
1836:Birthdate of Emil Breslaur or Breslauer, the native of Cottbus who studied atthe Julius Stern Conservatory which led him to a career as a musician andwriter.
1838(5thof Sivan, 5598): Erev Shavuot
1839: JoshuaHands and Hannah Mitchell were married today at the New Synagogue.
1842: LewisCollins and Julie Isaacs were married today in the United Kingdom.
1847:Birthdate of Isaac Weil, the husband of Hannah Weil with whom he had sixchildren.
1848: Wisconsin admitted to the Union. According to Rufus Learsi, “there was noJewish community in Wisconsin when it became a state, but not long afterwardsthe Forty-eighters began to arrive and a congregation was organized inMilwaukee.” The forty-eighters were Jewswho left Germany and Bohemia after losing faith in the possibility meaningfulemancipation and democratic reform following the unsuccessful revolutions of1848.
1850: In NewYork, Robert and Dinah Lyon gave birth to Edmund Robert Lyon, the husband ofCharity Lyon with whom he had three children – Elvira, Augusta and Walter.
1854:SolomonNunes Carvalho “wrote in his log that heand his party had ‘camped on a narrow stream of deliciously cool water, whichdistrubtes itself about half a mile further down in a verdant meadow bott,covered with good grass. This campground is called by the Mexicans, Las Vegas.’” This meant that Carvalho was thefirst Jews to visit what is now Las Vegas, Neveda. A native of Charleston, South Carolina,Carvalho was a Sephard who had had joined the expedition led by John C. Fremontas a photographer and artist. Reportedly, Carvalho refused to eat porcupinebecause “it looked like pork” even though this meant he went hungry. It would take a century for Las Vegas to openan establishment that sold kosher food.
1855: RabbiIsaac Mayer Wise of Cincinnati was reported today to have begun a tour of theUnited States to gain support for the creation of for the establishment of “aCollegiate Institute for the education of Jewish theologians and otherscholastic attainments.
1857(6thof Sivan, 5617): Shavuot observed as India is gripped by the Sepoy Rebellion
1861: Rabbi David Einhorn, a leading abolitionist,rejected the request of his former Congregation, Har Sinai, to return toBaltimore because he would have been required to remain silent on the subjectsof slavery and preserving the union.
1865: Philadelphian Corporal James E. Arnold who had enlistedin August of 1862 completed his service today as a member of Company E of the114th Regimet.
1867:Following the defeat of the Austrian Empire by the Prussians, Emperor FranzJosef authorizes an agreement called Ausgleich ("the Compromise"),which established the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The document extended the rightsof full citizenship to all those living in the Hapsburg Empire including theJews. With the stroke of a pen, 350,000Jews were freed to live wherever they please and follow whatever occupation ortrade they so desired. The Empire wouldbenefit from a burst of Jewish creativity from its Hungarian and AustrianJewish subjects as well as loyalty and devotion beyond compare.
1868: InAllegheny, PA, Pauline (Bernhard) Stein and Solomon Stein, “a prosperous woolenmerchant gave birth their eldest child Bird Stein, who “received her educationat Columbia, the New School for Social Research and NYU and became Bird SteinGans when she married her second husband Howard Gans with whom she had twochildren Marian and Robert and who worked to advance the cause of women as canbe seen by her leadership role in the National Council of Jewish Women.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/bird-stein-gans
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gans-bird-stein
1868: Threedays after he had passed away, Frank Lawrence Simeon, the one year and eleven-month-oldson of “Michael and Augusta Simeon” was buried today at the “Brompton (FulhamRoad) Jewish Cemetery.”
1869: In whatis now the Czech Republic , Daniel Low, the son of David Low and his wifeHelene Low gave birth to Adolf Low,
1870: In theTurkish province of Rumania, thousands of Jews were killed and injured whenthey were attacked by Christians in cities throughout this section of SouthernEurope.
1872: Theinauguration services of the new Mount Sinai Hospital building were held thisafternoon. The hospital is located on Lexington Avenue between 66thand 67th Avenues. Appropriate prayers were offered by the Jewishclergy and E.B. Hart delivered an address during which he traced the history ofMount Sinai which goes back to January, 1852.Governor Hoffman also addressed the throng.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9906E0DF1439EF34BC4850DFB3668389669FDE
1873: AdolphMarx Oppenheimer and Julie Oppenheimer gave birth to Henry Oppenheimer.
1876(6h ofSivan, 5636): Shavuot
1876: Acan-can dancer named Katie Forrest sued a Jew named Solomon Care in the MarineCourt over jewelry which she said he stole from her. Care claimed that he had given her thejewelry and had pawned some of it to pay for her hotel bills. Both sides restedtoday but no decision was rendered by the end of the day.
1876: TheNew York Times reported that “the Jewish feast of ‘Shevuoth,’ or thePentecost, the Spring-tide festival of the Hebraic calendar was inauguratedlast evening with the joyous ceremonies incident to the occasion. This festival also called the Feast of Weeksbecause it occurs seven weeks after the Passover, under the Mosaic dispensationwas one of the three imporantant festivals on which it was customary for theJews in Palestine to assemble at Jerusalem and bring up to the Temple asofferings the first fruits of the seasons.”
1876(6th ofSivan, 5636): Shavuot
1876: OnShavuot, Confirmation Services were held at Temple Emanu-El conducted by RabbiGottheil, at Temple Beth-El conducted by Rabbi Einhorn at Temple Ahavat Chesedby Rabbi Huebsch and at Bnai Jeshurun by Rabbi Jacobs.
1877: The New York Times published a report fromits London correspondent describing “the influence of the Jewish race inEuropean politics” especially as it pertains to the clash between the Turks andthe Russians. Regardless of his nationality,“the Jew is…pro-Turkish” “for perfectly intelligible reasons.” The Jews feelthat they are less oppressed in Moslem lands than they are in Christiancountries. Furthermore, the Serbian andRumanian “Christians have in very recent times, persecuted the Jew with afanatical fury worthy of the Middle Ages.”Finally, any advance of “Holy Russia” means an enlargement of the areawhere the Jews will suffer from the government’s “intolerance.”
1877: It was reported today that a Jew named Solomons whoowned the general store at Union Bridges, SC testified that he had listed thenames of the various armed people he had seen and that he had written theirnames phonetically in Hebrew because he did not know how to spell them inEnglish. The trial was racially charged as it involved gangs of whites andAfrican-Americans.
1877: At Temple Emanuel, in New York City Myer S.Isaacs presided over the annual meeting of the Board of Delegates of theAmerican Israelites which came to a close this evening.
1877:”The Jewsand the War in Europe,” a column published today described the contentions offamed historian Edward A. Freeman that the Jews are responsible for the Britishsupport being given to the Ottomans in their war with Russia. Freeman sees this as a failure to supportChristian values (Russia) in the war against Islam. “He is under the impressionthat the policy of England and the welfare of Europe may be sacrificed toHebrew sentiment. “If money is the key that opens all locks, the Jew is themaster of Europe for he is our principal banker.” “Mr. Freeman points out that the union of theJew and the Turk against the Christian” was strengthened “when Sultan Mahmoudgave the body of the martyred Patriarch to be by the Jews through the streetsof Constantinople.” Freeman blames the Jews for the outbreak of the war. He contends that throughout Europe, the partof the press that is pro-Turkish is controlled by Jews. He does differentiate between “the degradedJews of the East and the cultivated and honorable Jews of the East” but in thehand “blood is stronger than water” and “Hebrew rule is sure to lead to Hebrewpolicy.”
1878: Theannual meeting of the Board of Delegates of the American Israelites which wasbeing held in New York at Temple Emanuel with William B. Hockenberg ofPhiladelphia presiding came to a close today. The Executive Committeerecommended that “immediate action” be taken to alleviate the suffering of theJews living in Jerusalem and that steps should be taken to develop “a system ofhigher education among the Hebrews” living in the United States. The Committeeon Statistics reported that “there were 223 Hebrews congregations in thiscountry, with 12,030 members, having property valued at $4,607,110. A proposalwas put forward to hold a conference in Paris that would completed “the work ofthe International Jewish Conference of 1876.The officers elected to serve in the upcoming year included: Myer S.Isaacs, President; Simon Wolf of Washington, Vice President; William B.Hockenburg of Philadelphia
1879(7thof Sivan, 5639): Second Day of Shavuot
1879: BenjaminMayer, a member of the firm of Hirsch and Mayer, who had been found guilty ofswindling numerous New York merchants, was sentenced today to serve two yearsand six months of hard labor in the State Penitentiary. He was also fined $6,000, a sum which must bepaid before he can be released.
1880(19thof Sivan, 5640): Forty-year-old Maximilian Steiner the “Austrian actor andtheatre manager” who was the father of Franz and Gabor Steiner who also workedas theatre manager and the grandfather of composer Max Steiner passed awaytoday.
1880: InBlankenburg which was part of the German Empire Bernhard and Pauline Spenglergave birth to their second child Oswald Spengler, the historian and author of TheDecline of the West who on his mother’s side was a descendant of “a Jewishwoman named Bräunchen Moses, the daughter of Abraham and Riele Moses who wasbaptized shortly before her marriage.
1881(1st ofSivan, 5641): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1881: InBudapest, Hermine Breuer and Gabriel Neuwelt gave birth CCNY graduate andColumbia trained surgeon Louis Neuwelt the husband of Dorothy Lambert whom hemarried in 1921 and a member of the Free Synagouge who was “the attendinggenito-urinary surgeon at Jewish Memorial Hospital in New York” and the “Directorof the Urologic Clinic at the Jewish Memorial Hospital Dispensary.’
1882: In NewYork, Bernhard and Gertrude Ulamann gave birth to American photographer DorisUlmann
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/ulmann-doris-may
http://blog.nyhistory.org/doris-ullman/
1882: Thomas Timayenis a professor of languages at the University of Athenspassed away. He was the father of Telemachus Timayenis, the founder of MinervaPublishing Company in New York City, “the first company in America to publishedbooks critical of Jews.” These included The Original Mr. Jacobs: A StartlingExposé, The American Jew: An Expose of His Career, and JudasIscariot: An Old Type in a New Form. The works were intended to expose “the realJew.” There is no evidence to show thatthe father was responsible for the son’s anti-Semitism.
1883: Birthdate of Waldemar Holberg, the native ofCopenhagen, “who competed in the 1908 Olympics for Denmark as a lightweight”and who “was world welterweight champion for 23 days in 1914.”
1883: Based oncertification of two doctors 20-year-old Pauline (Moses) Holz, the wife ofDavid Holz was committed to an asylum“as a suffer from chronic mania.” Onlyafter his wife had been committed did Holz find out that her father, whom hehad been told had passed away, had been in an asylum since 1872.
1883: As anexample of his communal good works, Dr. Wolfgang Strassman joined the Societyof Friends, a Jewish organization founded in 1792 to help the less fortunatemembers of the community that would survived until the Nazis shut it down in1935.
1884(5thof Sivan, 5644): Erev Shavuto
1884: InBerlin, Albert Mosse, a Doctor of Jurisprudence and Caroline (Lina) Mosse gavebirth to Martha Mosse, who followed in her father’s footsteps and became alawyer.
1884: Two daysafter he had passed away, 61-year-old Adolph Blumenthal, the husband of MatildaAbraham and the father of Arthur and Walter Blumenthal, was buried today at the“Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1885: AhmedZiwar Pashah, Mutasarrif Acca wrote to Jacob Schumacher, the U.S. Vice-Counselin Haifa, in a correspondence that may have expressed concern about theexpulsion about one or more Romanian Jews.
1887(6thof Sivan, 5647): Shavuot observed three days after the birth ofHungarian-American Academy Award winning actor Paul Lukas
1888: In NewYork the General Term of the Supreme Court delivered a decision that meant theNorth American Relief Society for Indigent Jews In Jerusalem, Palestine, willreceive $50,000 and the interest thereon for 30 years as directed by the willof the last Samson Sampson.
1889:Birthdate of Wilkes-Barre, PA native and Zionist Harry Goldberg, the husband ofLee Goldberg and father of Richard Goldberg.
1890: Twenty-nine-year-oldJacob Epstein, a Russian Jew shot his wife Flora today and then turned the gunon himself.
1890: MayorGrant appointed Isidor Straus “a member of the firm of R.H. Macy & Co” whois a anti-Tammany Hall Democrat and the brother of Oscar Straus to serve as “anadditional commission to locate the proposed bridged across the North River,somewhere between Tenth and One Hundred and Eighty-first Street.”
1891(20thof Iyar, 5651): Fifty-eight-year-old Rosalie Esther Ann Spann, the daughter ofFranklin J. Moses, Sr. and Jane Dorcas Moses and the wife Samuel Robert Spannpassed away today.
1892: It wasreported today that the Honorary Staff of the Veteran Zouaves’ Association havemade plans to present a flag to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.
1892: EvaCohen and Theodore Keppler each delivered a prayer during this afternoon’sconfirmation exercises of the Hebrew Free Schools. Augusta Cohen and SarahRabinowitch sang “I Will Praise Thee, O Lord” and Miss Lilie Levy won the fifty-dollarSchiff Prize which went to the student who was most distinguished in “allstudies and deportment.”
1892: In LosAngeles, Samuel Ricket Chamlee and Clarissa Elizabeth Chamlee gave birth tolyric tenor Mario Chamlee the husband of Ruth Miller Chamless and the father ofArcher Mario Chamlee, who sang “the style of the Great Caruso”
https://library.stanford.edu/collections/ruth-and-mario-chamlee-collection
1893: “TheUnpopularity of Jews” published today described a speech given by ProfessorFelix Adler, the President of the Ethical Culture Society of New York beforethe Russian-American Hebrew Association in which he described the causes ofanti-Semitism in which he said that he did not deem “opposition to the Jews inUnited States” as being serious and that the “while a great majority of theJews may be modest, the failings of one” --- “a tendency to loudness in speech,to showiness in dress and to put themselves forward” – “the failings of the onewill counterbalance in publication estimation the modesty of the many.
1894: At ameeting of the Temple Emanu-El’s council of women, Mrs. Esther Ruskay read apaper who is an “an Orthodox Jewess” read a paper that declared “that among theJews of America there was no family life because parents had allowed themselvesto drift away from the time-honored observances of their faith…Jewish youngpeople were become indifferent to teachings of the Hebrew faith and thatChristmas and Easter had practically taken the place of the HebrewFestivals.” She concluded her remarkswhich Rabbi Gottheil contested but which were greeted by applause with a stateddesire to see a reawakening of the old spirit of Judaism.
1894: InVienna Moses (Morris) Sternberg and his wife gave birth to Jonas Sternberg whogained fame as Austrian-American film writer and director Josef Von Sternbergwhose most famous work was actually two versions of the same movie, The Blue Angel. One was in German, theother in English. Von Sternberg made his way to the United States where helived and worked until his death at the age of 75.
1894: Attoday’s session of the New York State Constitutional Convention Mr. Jacobs fromBrooklyn submitted a proposal that would provide for a State Senate of 19 thatwould be elected at large by all New Yorkers.
1895(6thof Sivan, 5655): Shavuot
1895: Dr.Joseph Silverman, the junior rabbi at Temple Emuanu-El, purported to America’soldest reform congregation, gave today’s holiday sermon. Among those attendingtoday’s services were the members of the confirmation class.
1896: InMontgomery, MO, “Joseph and Rosa (Brown) Rosenberg gave birth to Leo HenryRosenberg, the Amour Institute of Technology graduate, one the first announcersbest known for his groundbreaking broadcast of the Harding-Cox election in 1920which was followed by a successful career in advertising.
1897(27thof Iyar, 5657): Sixty-four-year-old German botanist Julius von Sachs passedaway today.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC440044/
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Sachs,_Julius_von
1897: InBrunn, Moravia “eminent music critic (Leopold) Julius Korngold” and his wifegave birth Oscar winning composer Erich Wolfgang who “along with Max Steiner andAlfred Newman is considered one of the founders of film music.
http://www.korngold-society.org/index1.html
http://www.musicweb-international.com/film/2003/Nov03/korngold_piano_music.html
1898: At today’sopening session of the League of Zionist Societies of the United States, Dr.Michael Singer delivered an address on “What Zionism Means” and Davis Trietschdelivered an address on “The First Congress At Basle.”
1898: Mrs.M.D. Louis, President of the Hebrew Technical School for Girls presided overthe institutions graduation ceremonies that were held today at Temple Emanu-El
1898: Rabbi DeSola Mendes presided over the first annual confirmation ceremonies held at theHebrew Sheltering Guardian Orphan Asylum.
1898: As thepatriotic fervor the Spanish-American grips the United States, the BenjaminHarrison Lodge of the Order Birth Abraham will waive the membership dues forany of its members serving in the military.Families of members serving as soldiers will be given $5 a week and thebeneficiaries of any members who die in battle will be given an endowment of$500.
1898: It wasreported today that Oscar S. Straus has agreed to accept reappointment as theUnited States Minister to Turkey. Straushad been appointed to the position in 1887 by President Grover Cleveland, aDemocrat. Straus’s success and the highesteem in which he has held can be seen the fact this time he is beingappointed by President McKinley, a Republican.
1898: It wasreported today that the demands on the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children of theCity of New York have been so great that the institution has purchasedadditional land at Rockaway, Long Island.It is an ocean front piece of real estate which should help providemeaningful summer excursions for underprivileged children and their mothers.
1899: Seattle(Washington’s “liberal Jews” formed Temple de Hirsch, a Reform congregationfounded when Ohaveth Shaolum disbanded due to financial hardships.
1899: “TheSemitic Question of Algiers In The French Chamber” published today describedthe debate that has taken place on the treatment of Jews in the North Africancolony. The Algerian anti-Semites claimthey attack the Jews because they are wealthy, but their attacks strike at themany poor Jews living there. The “battlecry” of the anti-Semites is “La Franceaux Francais” (France for the French) which is odd since most of the Algeriananti-Semites are Spaniards.
1899: At thismorning’s session of the “13th convention of the United States GrandLodge, Independent Sons of Benjamin which was being held at the Murray HillLyceum D.J. Zinner was elected Deputy Grand Marshall following a contentiousrace between four candidates and Grand Marshal Ferdiand Levy delivered a speechon the Dreyfus affair.
1899: Nearly400 people attended this evening’s banquet sponsored by the Independent Sons ofBenjamin including Isaac Abrams, the former chief of Police in Quincy, Illinoisand Rabbis J.B. Solomon who listened to Rabbi S. S. Wise speaking on “TheFuture of Judaism.”
1900(1stof Sivan, 5660): Rosh Chodesh Sivan observed on the same that “the word‘escalator’ was introduced into the English language” when a patent was grantedfor “a moving stairway.”
1901: TheEnglish Zionist Federation congratulates Herzl and assures him loyalty.
1902: TheJudeans, an organization composed of representative Jews of New York, gave areception, followed by a dinner, this evening at the Tuxedo, Fifty-ninth Streetand Madison Avenue, in honor of Prof. Solomon Schechter, the eminent Hebrewscholar, who was induced to leave Cambridge University in England to become theDean of the new Jewish theological seminary which is to be established onMorningside Heights through the munificence of Jacob H. Schiff and others.
1902: InVienna, movie director Joe May and his wife Mia May gave birth to actress EvaMay.
1902: InTeplitz-Schönau, Austria-Hungary, “Julius "Kino" Kohner, who managedthe local movie theater and published a film industry newspaper and his wifewas Helene Kohner (née Beamt)” gave birth to Paul Kohner, “an Austrian-Americantalent agent and producer” who was the brother of novelist Frederick Kohner andfather of actress Susan Kohner and “who managed the careers of many stars”including Bill Wilder.
1902:It was reported today that newly elected officers of the National Conference ofJewish Charities are President – Max Herzberg; Vice Presidents – Mrs. S. Piskoand Nathan Bijur; Secretary – Hannah Marks; Treasurer – O.H. Rosenbaum.
1902: SamuelMarks, a Russian born Jew, used his relationships with Boer and English leaders- President Krüger, Generals Botha, De Wett, and Delarey; Earl Roberts, LordKitchener, and Lord Milner – to help set up the negotiations for the end ofAnglo-Boer War which took place today at Vereeniging.
1903: The S.S.Deutschalnd arrived in the United States carrying Rabbi Tobias Geffen, whowould gain fame as the Coca Cola Rabbi, Mrs. Gefen and their two oldestchildren.
1903: Adelegation from Camden, NJ visited Dr. Aaron Brav today in Philadelphia toassure him that the citizens from that New Jersey city, including non-Jewswould be attending the upcoming meeting being held “to protest against theRussian atrocities.”
1904: “DiamondUnder This House” published today described the measures to which Sol Emanuelhas gone to ensure “good luck when he moves into his new house” because he hasfollowed all of the steps which according to Portuguese-Jewish will bring himto that end.
1904: “NathanStraus, the bay pacing gelding with a record of 2:03 1/2 who will make anattempt to capture the world's pacing record in the Grand Circuit this season,scored a notable victory on the Harlem River Speedway this morning, when hedefeated the 1903 Speedway champion Don Derby, 2:04 1/2 two heats out of three.”
1905:Pogromsbegan in Brisk, Lithuania.At this time Lithuania was part of the Russian Empire. The pogrom was one of a series that wassweeping the land of the Tsars
1906: SidneySonnino, the son of Isacco Saul Sonnino who converted from Judaism toAnglicanism, completed his first term as Prime Minister of Italy.
1906: Venetianborn Jewish financier Luigi Luzzatti completed his second term as Minister ofthe Treasury in Italy..
1907: Riva(Rebecca) Hillesum-Bernstein’s brother, Jacob, a diamond cutter moved in withthe Montagnu family in Amsterdam. Likehis sister, he was fleeing his village in Russia where there had been pogrom. Jacob was the uncle of diarist Esther"Etty" Hillesum
1908: InSeattle, Washington Temple de Hirsch dedicated its new facility at the cornerof Union Street and 15th Avenue.
1908(28thof Iyar, 5668): Rosa Kaufman, the first wife of Russian born Judah AaronKaufaman, and mother of their daughters Tillie and Sophie passed awayunexpectedly in Dover, NJ and was buried at Mt. Sinai Cemetery
1909(9thof Sivan, 5669): Parasaht Nasso
1909(9thof Sivan, 5669): Duma Member and attorney “Ossip Y. Pergament of Odessa,” “oneof the most noted leaders of the Jewish and authority on the Hebrew question inRussia” who “was a leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party” “died todayfrom heart-failure.”
1910: It wasreported today that “one thousand and two Jewish families have not receivedofficial notification that they must leave Kiev” and that they are in effectbeing driving back “into the Pales” and that another 198 families faceexpulsion on June 18.
1911:Birthdate of Konigsberg native Leah Goldberg, who “settled in Tel Aviv whereshe worked as a literary adviser to Habimah, the national theater, and aneditor for the publishing company Sifriyat HaPoalim (Workers' Library).”This was the first step on road that would led to a career as a “prolific Hebrewpoet, author, playwright, literary translator, and researcher of Hebrewliterature.”
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/goldberg-lea
1911:Birthdate of South African chess champion Wolfgang Heidenfeld who was forced tomove from his native Germany because he was Jewish.
1912: In NewYork Arnold Levitas and author Anzia Yeziersk gave birth to her only childLouise.
1913:"Bijou Theatre Foreclosure" published today reported that proceedingshave been instituted in the Supreme Court by Felix M. Warburg, Isaac N.Seligman, Paul Warburg and Mortimer L. Schiff, as trustees of Alfred M.Heinsheimer, against the Bijou Real State company and other to foreclose amortgage of $420,000 on the old Bijou Theatre in New York City.
1913: JimConley was interviewed again today concerning the murder of Mary Phagan.Thefour hour interviews produced yet a different version of the facts. In thisversion Conley said that Frank had confessed to him that he had killed the girland that the two of them hid the corpse in the basem*nt of the pencil factory.
1913: TheIndependent Order Sons of Israel whose members included Henry H. Levenson,Hyman J. Danzig and Isadore Kronstein with offices in Boston, MA, was organizedtoday.
1913: InPhiladelphia, activities related to the dedication of the Philmont Country Clubwhich was founded by department store owner and philanthropist Ellis Gimbelcame to an end.
1914(4thof Sivan, 5674): Eighty-six-year-old Brooklyn born merchant Simon Biedermanpassed away today.
1914: Minister of the Interior Sviatopolk-Mirsky who had“received a deputation of Zionists” in 1904 andwhom “he informed that he sympathized with the movement they representedand would withdraw the Governmental opposition hitherto existing in Russia”passed away today.
1914: AliceBeddington and Sir Robert Waley gave birth to Sir Bernard NathanielWaley-Cohen, “the 633rd Lord Mayor London.
1914: MontagueMaurice Burton, the Lithuanian born son of “Hyman and Rachel Oskinsky” who wasthe founder of Burton, the large chain of UK clothing stores and his wifeSophia gave birth to Stanley Howard Burton.
1915: “Bearinga petition signed by 600,000 persons and resolutions passed by numeroussocieties protesting against the execution of Leo M. Frank, the ChicagoCommittee departed tonight for Atlanta, GA” where they plan to present theirprayer for commutation to life imprisonment to Governor John M. Slaton.
1915:According to a report made public today Georgia Governor Frank M. Slaton andhandwriting expert Albert S. Osborn, Osborn has concluded “that the murdernotes which played an important part in the conviction of Leo M. Frank for theslaying of Mary Phagan were not dictated by Frank and written by Jim Conley, asConley testified, but were written by Conley on his own initiative for thepurpose of shielding himself.”
1915: Thedelegation headed by Eugene N. Foss, the former Governor of Massachusetts, thatwill appeal to the Governor of Georgia to commute Leo Frank’s sentence isscheduled to leave from Boston today.
1916: Tonight,Mrs. Mary Watkin of Borough Park who has spent most of the past year in theeastern war zone in Russian Poland told the members of the Kalvarian Synagogueabout “the suffering and desolation of the little town of Kalwarya” after whichalmost $1,000 was collected to aid the suffering Jews.
1916: At today’s session of the thirteenth annualconvention of the Federation of Galician and Bukovinian Jews of America beingheld at Tammany Hall “a resolution was passed providing for the sending of acommissioner to Europe to look after the interests of the Jewish was sufferersin Galicia and Bukovira.”
1916: As SimonWolf and leaders of the U.S. government exchanged letters concerning protectingthe Jews of Europe at any peace conference that will end the World War, WoodrowWilson wrote to him, “I hope that it is not necessary for me to state again my determinationto do the right and possible thing at the right and feasible time with regardto the great interests you so eloquently allude to in your letter.
1917: “SamuelDorf, for twenty-five years Grand Master of the Order of B’rith Abraham was theguest of honor at a reception and dinner given tonight in the celebration ofhis anniversary which was attended by more than 300 people.
1917: Sevendays after he had passed away, Harry J. Daniler, a “sapper” serving with theSouth African Engineers in World War I was buried today in London at the“Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”
1917:Birthdate of John F. Kennedy. “Kennedy named two Jews to his cabinet - AbrahamRibicoff as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Arthur Goldberg asSecretary of Labor. Kennedy was the only President for whom a national JewishAward was named. The annual peace award of the Synagogue Council of America wasre-named the John F. Kennedy Peace Award after his assassination in 1963.”
1917(8th ofSivan, 5677): Seventy-one-year-old banker and thoroughbred horse breederLeopold de Rothschild, “the third son and youngest of the five children ofLionel de Rothschild and Charlotte von Rothschild” whose married to MariePerugia at London’s Central Synagogue was attended by his friend the Prince ofWales, the son of Queen Victoria and the future King Edward VII.
1917:According to reports published today from Petrograd, “several hundred Jews whohad been converted to Christianity under the old regime have returned toJudaism.”
1918: It wasreported today that “the Hebrew Association for Blind” is raising a fund of$25,000 “to be used in opening new fields of usefulness for civilians andsoldiers blinded in the war” including Jews as well as non-Jews.
1918: It wasreported today that “in the opinion of Viscount Bryce, Palestine, which now hasa population of somewhat less than 650,000 can support by agriculture andadditional population of 300,000 under present conditions and a second additionof 300,000 after irrigation dams and other construction works have been built.”
1919: InAtlantic City, NJ, at the National Conference of Jewish Charities, Felix M.Warburg is scheduled to deliver a report on the work of the Joint DistributionCommittee and Dr. Alexander M. Dushkin is scheduled to deliver a report on the“Survey of Jewish Education in America.”
1919: ArthurEddington confirmed Einstein's light-bending prediction
1920(12thof Sivan, 5680): Parashat Naso
1920(12thof Sivan, 5680): Forty-four-year-old Solomon Lawrence “Sol” Cohn the Newellton,LA born son of Alexander and Lena Cohn, passed away today after which he wasburied in the “Dispersed of Judah Cemetery” in New Orleans.
1921: SamuelMarcus Gup who served as rabbi at Temple Beth El in Providence, RI and TempleIsrael in Columbus, OH and his wife Ruth Gup gave birth to Jean Gup who becameJean Monett when she married Harold Lee Monett
1921:Birthdate of Dancer and choreographer Pearl Lang.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/may/29/1921/pearl-lang
1922: “Judge LevyHonored” published today described the biennial meeting of the Directors of theHebrew Sheltering Guardian during “Judge Samuel D. Levy of the Children’s Courtand Vice President” of the society was presented with a silver tea service” and“a desk set” for his quarter of century service to the organization.
1922: In LosAngeles, Rabbi Edgar Magnin and his wife gave birth to Mae Magnin, thegreat-granddaughter of Isaac Magnin, the founder I. Magnin department store whogained fame as Mae Magnin Brussell, best known for her radio broadcast andinvolvement in conspiracy theories
http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles/Monterey%20Herald%20Obituary.html
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/01/22/mae-brussell-a-forgotten-superhero/
1923: At ameeting in Town Hall tonight, it was announced that the Jews of New York Cityhad raised $1,800,000 for Keren Hayesod of which $600,000 was in donations ofcash, the rest being pledges. BernardRosenblatt, who chaired the fund drive, also announced that thanks to thesuccessful activities in other cities, Dr. Chaim Weizmann would be returning toPalestine with $1,500,000 in actual cash payments in addition to pledges fromJews across America. The evening wasalso marked by a speech given by Samuel Untermeyer expressed Jewishappreciation to Great Britain for accepting the Palestine Mandate since theBritish had expressed sympathy for the goal of creating a Jewish homeland inPalestine.
1924:Birthdate Philadelphia native Irv Homer who gained fame as a local of radiotalk show host.
1924: Leopoldand Loeb “were summoned for questioning” today during the investigation intothe murder of Bobby Franks and “asserted that on the night of the murder, theyhad picked up two women, Edna and May, in Chicago, using Leopold's car, thendropped them off sometime later near a golf course without learning their lastnames.”
1924: AlbertLoeb who was bedridden due to a heart condition “saw his son” Richard “for thelast time” today “when detectives came to his home” to arrest him.
1925(6thof Sivan, 5685): Shavuot
1925: In St.Gallen, Switzerland, Richard Pollage and Irma Levy gave birth to WW II U.S.Navy veteran Fred Jules Pollag who gained fame as Fred Hayman the “fashionretailer and entrepreneur” who founded Giogor Beverly Hill and who was so tiedto that high end world of the super-rich that his nickname was “Mr. RodeoDrive.”
1926: “Newcontributions of $35,000 have increased to $6,690,000 the total raised by theUnited Jewish Campaign of New York toward the $25,000,000 national fund for therelief of Jewish sufferers in Central Europe, according to an announcement todayby David M. Bressler, Vice Chairman in charge of the campaign here”
1927: “Thefunction of the Jewish minority in world civilization should be to make othersthink, according to Rabbi Israel L. Mattuck of London, who delivered thebaccalaureate address today at the Hebrew Union College commencement.”
1929: Birthdateof Langhorne, PA native David BernardStern the resident of home for unwed mothers who became Johns Hopkins educated philosopherand Princeton University professor Harry Gordon
Frankfurt when he was adopted by piano teacherBertha Gordon and bookkeeper Nathan Frankfurt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/books/harry-g-frankfurt-dead.html
1928: InVienna, “Alexander and Edith (Knoll) Rohatyn gave birth to American financerand public servant Felix Rohatyn.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/books/chapters/0527-1st-coha.html
1929: InPaterson, NJ, Morris Taub, “a junk dealer” and “the former Sylvia Sievitz” gavebirth to Joseph Albert Taub, one of the driving forces behind payroll processorADP and a part owner of the NBA New Jersey Nets. (As reported by RichardSandomir)
1930(2ndof Sivan, 5690): Sixty year old Judge Hugo Pam the University of Michigan alumwho had been a member of the Superior Court in Chicago for than 18 years andwho had served as vice president of the Zionist Organization of America andheaded the Palestine Restoration Fund in Chicago passed away today whilevisiting New York City.
http://www.jta.org/1930/06/01/archive/judge-hugo-pam-of-chicago-dies-suddenly-at-sixty
1930: InManhattan, Luise and Arthur Schulte who was a partner at Lehman Brothers, gavebirth to Anthony Martin Schulte, “a publishing executive who was an earlyproponent of audiobooks and among the first to tap the ready-made audience forbooks written by trusted television personalities like Alistair Cooke, CarlSagan and Walter Cronkite.” (As reported by Paul Vitello)
1931: ManassehMiller, President of the Trustees of Congregation Beth Elohim, announced todaythat “Rabbi Isaac Landman, editor of The American Hebrew and editor-in-chief ofthe Standard Jewish Encyclopedia” will return to the position of rabbi of theCongregation in September.
1931: ManassehMiller, President of the Trustees of Congregation Beth Elohim, announced todaythat Dr. Alexander Lyons will begin serving as the congregation’s associaterabbi in September.
1932:“Everyday Chemistry” published today provided a review of The Story of CommonThings by Louis Ehrenfeld,, the curator of chemistry of the Museum of Scienceand Industry of Chicago which “may be recommended as a pleasant elementaryintroduction of a very difficult subject.”
1933:Birthdate of historian Norman Pollack the Harvard PhD and Michigan StateUniversity history professor who campaigned for Adlai Stevenson and was thehusband of Nancy Pollack with whom he had a son, Peter, the husband of SalliePollack.
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166339
1933 (4th ofSivan, 5693): Willi Aron a lawyer was murdered in Dachau.
1933: Louis T.McFadden, congressman from Pennsylvania, attacked the Jews in Congress.[Editor’s Note – McFadden was an outspoken foe the Federal Reserve Board. He blamed the board for the Great Depressionand saw it as part of a Jewish conspiracy to control the economy. McFadden also wanted to impeach PresidentHoover.] http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Louis_Thomas_McFadden
1933:Discussion of the petition of Franz Bernheim on the violation of Jewish rightsin Upper Silesia, which was to have been on the agenda of the League of NationsCouncil last week, is scheduled to take place today. Joseph Paul-Boncour,French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and representatives of some of the smallerpowers are expected to take a leading role in the discussion of Jewish rights.Sir John Simon, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs will also takepart in the debated if he can return here in time to do so.
1934: Today,“the Schwarze Korps, the officialorgan of the SS carried an article criticizing the fact that in Berlin awoman’s team representing an Aryan sport club had competed with a team ofJewish women.”
1935: A“testimonial dinner” is scheduled to be held this evening “at Broadway CentralHotel honoring historian Peter Wiernick, the “editor-in-chief of the Jewish Morning Journal.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-morning-journale
1936:Birthdate of Ephraim Isaac, the native of Ethiopia who became “a scholar ofancient Semitic Language & Civilization and African/Ethiopian Languages andReligion.”
1936: “Squadsof Syrian youths destroyed 5,400 eggs en route to Jews in Palestine” afterwhich Jewish produce dealers asked for police protection.
1936: InHamburg, “Julius Hollander, a 64-year old Jew, was sentenced tonight to twoyears’ penal servitude on charges of ‘race defilement’’ after having been“accused of intimacy with a German maid employed in his household.”
1936: “HansHirschfeld, a 42-year-old baptized Jew was sentenced today to one year’simprisonment on charges of ‘race defilement’ after the court rejected hisargument that he was a Christian and not subject to the Nuremberg “ghettolaws.”
1936: As Arabviolence continued today, a Jewish policeman as stabbed and Jewish crops wereburned.”
1937(19thof Sivan, 5697): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1937: “Describinga failure of courage as the chief threat to liberalism today, Rabbi MauriceEisendrath of Toronto, in a sermon to the annual meeting of the CentralConference of American Rabbis, today attacked a tendency to reaction which hedeclared to be present in modern Jewish religious life.”
1938: As theArab uprising continued, the British began construction of the Taggart Wallalong the border with Syria and Lebanon. The wall was barbed wire fenceinterspersed with small forts. The wallwas an attempt to stop Arab terrorists from crossing into Palestine from Syriaand Lebanon. 1938:As Arab violence continued to escalate, ThePalestine Post reported that Arab terrorist gangs, searching for money andvaluables, murdered eight Arab villagers, including three women, in the Tulkarmdistrict. One woman who refused to pay was badly injured. Shots were fired atthe Jewish quarters in Jerusalem, Haifa and Safed. "The Times" ofLondon deplored the continued Arab terror in Palestine, "which led to someJewish reprisals."
1938: The Palestine Post reported that theTel Aviv Port celebrated its second anniversary by a swimming meet and asailing review.
1938:Hungaryrestricted the proportion of Jews who could hold jobs in commerce, industry,the liberal professions, and the Hungarian government to 20 percent.
1939:“Five Arabs were killed by a mine detonated at the Rex Cinema in Jerusalem.
1939:“Twenty-five members of the Irgun led by Moshe Moldovsky attacked Biyar 'Adas.”
1940:Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau attended a meeting in the White House withFDR and three leaders of the U.S. Army.
1941:Birthdate of Bronx native Robert David Simon who gained fame as CBScorrespondent Bob Simon. (As reported by Ashley Southall)
1941: In Princeton, NJ, “civilian mathematician ArthurBrown” and his wife Margaret gave birth to Rachel Ann Brown who gained fame asRabbi Rachel Cowan. (As reported by Joseph Berger)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/obituaries/rabbi-rachel-cowan-dead.html
1941: Fearing capture by the British, Rashid Ali, leaderof the pro-Nazi forces in Iraq and the Grand Mufti of Palestine, fled to Iranunder the cover of darkness.
1941: Radio broadcasts were planned for today, “informingIraqi Nazis to murder Jews in their homes, and a red hamsa was placed on thehomes of Jews so that gangs could easily identify Jewish homes, killing theinhabitants.”
1942: InFrance, the family of Helene Berr began wearing yellow stars as the governmentimplemented an edict ordering all Jews to wear this “Jew badge” on theirclothing.
1942:VichyFrance forbids Jews access to all restaurants and cafes, libraries, sportsgrounds, squares, and other public places.
1942:AtRadziwillow, Ukraine, the Germans rounded up three thousand Jews with theintention of slaughtering them. Asher Czerkaski led the resistance against theGermans. While 1500 were killed another 1,500 found temporary safety in theforests.
1942 (13th ofSivan, 5702): In Warsaw, a Jew named Wilner, too weak to move from hischairwas thrown out of the window and shot at as he fell.
1942: BingCrosby’s recording of Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” was released by DeccaRecords. The biggest selling single ofall times is still one of the most popular Christmas songs ever written. Okay, so now we know of at least two Jews whor*sponsible for Christmas as we know it.
1943(24thof Iyar, 5703): Parashat Bechukotai
1943(24thof Iyar, 5703): Seventy-six-year-old Morris Aaron passed away today after whichhe was buried at the Jewish Cemetery in Natchitoches, LA.
1944(7th ofSivan, 5704): Last Shavuot during the Shoah
1944(7thof Sivan, 5704): Seventy-seven-year-old Hiram J. Halle, the Cleveland born sonof Joseph and Regina Schwab Hall who was “president of the Universal OilProducts” and a “philanthropist” and “a patriot” who funded a program to bring“167 scholars and their families” to the United States during the rise ofHitler passed away tonight “at his country home” in Poundridge, NY.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/05/31/83981727.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/02/garden/washington-slept-here-when-he-was-very-old.html
1944: Theweekly internal report of the War Refugee Board stated that Turkey had notrefused admission to any Jews from Greece or any of the Greek Islands. "Onthe contrary, thus far Turkish authorities have promptly providedtransportation from Izmir to Palestine for those refugees who have reachedTurkish soil."
1944:Birthdate of David B. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of ModernJewish History and the Ella Darivoff Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center forAdvanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
https://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jwst/people/david-b-ruderman
1944:Birthdate of Robert Herman Benmosche, the Brooklyn native and grandson of aLithuanian rabbi, who chaired MetLife and saved AIG. (As reported by JonathanKandell)
1944: After a three-and-a-half-dayjourney in cattle cars, the doorswere opened for the first time for atrain of thousands of packed Hungarian Jews. Fifty five of them were founddead.
1945: Theodore Hardeen who “billed himself as the‘brother of Houdini’” performed his final show in Ridgeway, Queens today.
1945: Mobsterand casino owner Moe Dalitz who had enlisted in the Army in 1942 was dischargedtoday having risen from the rank of private to first lieutenant.
1945: Today’smeeting of the World Conference of Polish Jewry “opened with a memorialceremony for the Jews of Europe who had died under Nazism” that included therecitation of the Kaddish by “Grand Rabbi Dr. Isaac Alicalay, the chief rabbiof Yugoslavia.”
1945: In aletter to the World Conference of Polish Jewry meeting at the Hotel Roosevelt“made public tonight at a special panel ‘Nazi War Crimes and Their Punishment’”“Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, United States chairman on the AlliedCrimes Commission called for” the rounding up of “every scrap of documentaryevidence against German war criminals for presentation to him.
1946:SS-Obersturmführer, Dr. Fritz Hintermayer was executed by the Allies for hiswork at Dachau.
1947: It wasannounced today that “Joseph Pulvermach, president of the Sterling NationalBank Trust company was re-elected president of Congregation Rodeph Sholom inManhattan.
1947: At ameeting of the Mapai Party secretariat, Ben Gurion declared “It has becomeclear to me that we had very important achievements: I do not know whether anynation other than ours could have had such achievements. But if you think we have the power to defendthe Yishuv, you are deceiving yourself.We had a public that is devoted to the Haganah and that is prepared togive up its life to defend Zionism, but we do have a talented public that istrained and equipped for that.”
1947: “DearMurder,” a British murder mystery with music by Benjamin Frankel was releasedtoday in the United Kingdom.
1948: TheIsraeli army crossed into Lebanon and scattered the Arab forces on the border.
1948: As aresult of Jewish forces capturing Acre, Nahariya was reunited with the rest ofthe Jewish State. Under the terms of thepartition, Nahariya had been excluded from what would become the nation ofIsrael.
1948: Israeli settlers established Shomrat, a newKibbutz just north of Acre. Shomrat isvariation of the Hebrew word Shomer,meaning “to watch” or “one who watches.”Given Shomrat's proximity to the Northern border and Mediterranean Sea,the name has more than a poetic significance.
1948: During the War of Independence, the IsraeliAir Force went into action as a combat force for the first time. The force was made up of four Messerschmitts(ME-109’s). The planes had been boughtin Czechoslovakia and shipped to Israel by sea.There was no time test the hastily assembled aircraft before sendingthem into combat. The Israelis did allowthemselves the luxury of painting the Star of David on the planes before theytook flight. The four planes were sentto attack the Egyptian armored column at Ashdod, which was only twenty milesfrom Tel Aviv. One of the four planeswas flown by Ezer Weizman, the father of the Israeli Air Force and laterPresident of Israel. Following a seriesof bombing and strafing runs, the Egyptian forces broke off their advance. But as with all “successes” the Israelis paida heavy price. One of the four planeswas shot down reducing the Air Force by 25%.Eddie Cohen, a volunteer from South Africa was the first combat pilot togive his life defending the Jewish state.In one of the minor ironies, the ME-109, the first combat aircraft ofthe Israeli Air Force, had been the pride of the German Air Force during WorldWar II. The other two pilots were Lou Lenart and Mordechai “Modi” Alon.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-lou-lenart-20150722-story.html
1948(20thof Iyar, 5708): Twenty-two year old British-born school teacher EstherCailingold who had been one of the last defenders of the Old City during theWar for Independence passed away today after having been shot in the spinethree days ago.
http://www.zionism-israel.com/bio/Esther_Cailingold.htm
http://zionism-israel.com/ezine/Esther_Cailingold_encounter.htm
1948(20thof Iyar, 5708): Eddie Cohen was killed in combat flying for the IAF today.
http://101squadron.com/101real/people/ecohen.html
1948: The IAFhad five pilots and only four combat aircraft which meant that MiltonRubenfield did not fly and fight today.
1948: Thecommander of the Egyptian armored column advancing toward Tel Aviv “wasapparently so shaken by the IAF’s unexpected attack” that “he order his troopsto hold their positions” which, although not known at the time, marked the endof the Egyptian advance on Tel Aviv.
1948: TheBritish halted Jewish immigration from the DP camps on Cyprus to Israel. Under the terms of the UN cease fireagreement then being negotiated, no person of military age was to be allowed toimmigrate to Palestine. This presentedno problem for the Arabs, since their attacking armies were notimmigrants. Once again, theeven-handedness of the international community turned out to be a fist punchingthe Jews.
1948: In anarticle published in the British MedicalJournal Aaron Valero was the first to recognize and describe the outbreakof Bubonic Plague in Palestine
1948: AndreiGromyko, the Soviet representative to the U.N. attacks the five Arab nationsthat have invaded Israel expressing his dismay that the invading Arab armiesare “carrying out military operations aimed at the suppression of the NationalLiberation Movement in Palestine.”
1948: Lehi,the Irgun and the Palmach were dissolved with most of these groups membersjoining the IDF.
1948: TheChoir Hazamir under the direction of Hymen Riegelhaupt is scheduled to presenta program of Yiddish, Hebrew and English music at the Royal Ontario MuseumTheatre.
1949(1stof Sivan, 5709): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1949(1stof Sivan, 5706): Sixty-one year old Dutch pianist Rosy Wertheim who ‘gavesecret concerts in Amsterdam cellars” during the German occupation passed awaytoday in Laren, the Netherlands.
1949: Today,upon his arrival in New York aboard the liner General Henry Taylor, “Dr. HansErich Fabian, a member of the Supreme Court of Western Berlin and concentrationcamp survivor” who was accompanied by 180 Jews including his wife and threechildren Joel 9, Judith 7 and Reha 5” said that “the Germans are still Nazis atheart and they have not learned anything nor have they forgotten the Hitlerideology.”
1949: In“Histories of the Jews” published today, Alfred Weiner, an “associate editor ofThe Chicago Jewish Forum” reviewed Israel: A History of the Jewish Peopleby Rufus Learsi and Story Without End: An Informal History of the JewishPeople by Solomon Landman and Benjamin Efron.
1950: HisWife's Lover which was billed as the "first Jewish musical comedy talkingpicture" was re-released today.
1950: JacobRosenheim, president and founder of Agudath Israel World Organization arrivedin Israel today so that he can take up residence in Tel Aviv. Many of the activities of the organizationwhich has 200,000 followers are now being directed from Israel.
1950: It wasannounced today that Israeli actress Nechama Davidit will come to New Yorkduring June to study at the summer school of the Neighborhood Playhouse.
1951(13thof Sivan, 5710): Sixty-sixty-year-old Comintern agent Mikhail Borodin who hadbeen arrested in 1949 during a post-war Russian wave of anti-Semitism died in Lefortovo Prison today after anotherround of torture.
http://spartacus-educational.com/Mikhail_Borodin.htm
1951(13th ofSivan, 5710): Fifty-nine-year-old Fanny Brice, American singer, comedienne, andactress passed away. Born Fania Borach, in New York in 1891,Brice gained fame playing in the Ziegfeld Follies and later as the radiocharacter Baby Snooks.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1029.html
1952(5thof Sivan,5712): Erev Shavuot observed for the last time during the Presidencyof Harry Truman.
1952(5thof Sivan, 5712): Seventy-seven-year-old Louis B. Boudin, the Ukrainian born sonof Peter Boudinoff, a merchant, and Frome Feld Boudinoff. who married AnnaPavit after the death of Leah Kanefsky and who was an “American Marxisttheoretician, writer, politician, and lawyer best remembered as the author of atwo volume history of the Supreme Court's influence on American government,first published in 1932” passed away today.
https://jwa.org/media/louis-b-boudin
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2014/11/louis-b-boudin.html
1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that twoIsraeli soldiers were wounded in another confrontation with Jordanians in theHebron area. A large number of month-old locusts were destroyed in the Negev.The hoppers came from the Sinai Desert where they laid their eggs.
1953: U.K.premiere of “Stalag 17” one of the best movies ever made directed and producedby Billy Wilder who co-authored the screenplay, co-starring Otto Preminger withmusic by Franz Waxman.
1953: Birthdate of composer Danny Elfman, bestknown for his collaboration with director Tim Burton for whom he has composedmost of the scores for Burton’s many hits including Bettlejuice.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/05/29/100750099.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1955: “IsraelGets U.S. Art” published today reported that the twelve American paintingspresent to the “Bazalel, Israel’s national museum” by Mrs. Rebecca Shulman“would be the basis of a hall of American art dedicated to Herman Shulman, herlate husband.
1955: Mrs.Jascha Heifitz and William L. Spiegelberg announced the engagement of their daughterJanet Carol Spiegelberg, the stepdaughter of the famous violinist JaschaHeifetz to Florida Southern UniversitySteven Hyman
1956: In NewYork, Joshua J. Nasaw and Beatrice “Bea” Kaplan Nasaw gave birth to ElizabethPerl Nasaw “who as "ElizabethWas" (later "Lys Was" and finally "Lyx Ish") was apoet and publisher of avant-garde magazines, and the cofounder of XexoxialEditions and Dreamtime Village in West Lima, Wisconsin.”
1957(28thof Iyar, 5717): “A tractor driver was killed, and two others wounded, when thevehicle struck a landmine, next to kibbutz Kissufim”
1957(28thof Iyar, 5717): Seventy-year-old U. of Pennsylvania alum and State SupremeCourt Judge Joseph Bruce Perskie who was active in the B’nai B’rith, JointDistribution Committee and the Federation of Jewish Charities passed awaytoday.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/05/30/90813220.pdf
1957: “JoeButterfly” a comedy produced by Aaron Rosenberg, with a screenplay co-authoredby Sy Gomberg and filmed by cinematographer Irving Glassberg premiered today inNew York City.
1957: InJapan, premiere of “Godzilla, King of Monsters!” produced by Joseph E. Levine.
1958: WinstonChurchill’s daughter, Sarah, represented the former Prime Minister at theopening ceremony unveiling the Churchill Auditorium of the Technion in Haifa.
1958:Birthdate of Juliano Mer-Khamis “an Israeli actor, director, filmmaker andpolitical activist of Jewish and Christian Arab parentage.”
1959: “IMarried A Woman” directed by Hal Kanter and written Goodman Ace premiered inFinland.
1959: U.Spremiere of “Pork Chop Hill” a Korean War moved directed by Lewis Milestone,produced by Sy Barlett with music by Leonard Rosenman and featuring MartinLandau as “Lt. Marshall and Norman Fell as “Sergeant Coleman.”
1960: ABCbroadcast “Night on a Rainbow” an episode of “The Rebel” directed by IrvinKershner.
1961: “Raisinin the Sun” a groundbreaking film produced by Philip Rose with a score byLaurence Rosenthal was released in the United States today.
1963(6th ofSivan, 5723): Shavuot
1963: “TheList of Adrian Messenger” a slick mystery co-starring Kirk Douglas and withmusic by Jerry Goldsmith was released in the United States today.
1963: InMunich, Buddy Bregman, the American born Jewish “musical arranger, recordproducer and composer” and Canadian actress Suzanne Lloyd gave birth to actressTracy Elizabeth Bregman
1964: Ameeting of The Arab League in east Jerusalem to discuss the Palestiniansituation leads to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.The eastern portion of Jerusalem had been annexed by the conquering Jordanianarmy and there was no talk of turning that over to the Palestinians. Also, since the meeting took place in 1964(three years before the June War) it is obvious that the Palestine that was tobe liberated is what is called the state of Israel.
1966: Today,“at their annual fundraising banquet, members of the Twin City MerkosL’Inoyonei Chincuch, an Orthodox Jewish organization honored William and JennieGuttman for their dedication and hard work in the community.”
1967: Israelbegan the period known as the “Hamtana” or “Waiting.” At the time, this period of waiting increasedthe anxieties and fears of many Israelis as they saw the Arabs forging an evermore threatening military vice around their country. But as Rabin wrote later, it was this Waitingthat gave Israel the political leverage it needed with the internationalcommunity during and after the war that would come in June of 1967.
1967: CBSbroadcast the first episode of “Coronet Blue” created by Larry Cohen.
1967: In a speech to the Egyptian NationalAssembly, President Nasser exacerbated the crisis by declaring, “’The issue isnot the question of Akaba, the Straits of Tiran or the United Nations EmergencyForce.’” He continued that the issue wasthe existence of Israel and that the he was not afraid of the United States,Great Britain or “’the entire Western World.’”
1968: “Wild inthe Streets,” a counter-culture “cult classic, co-produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff,starring Shelly Winters and featuring a “cameo appearance” by Walter Winchellwas released today in the United States.
1971(5thof Sivan, 5731): Parashat Bamidbar; erev Shavuot
1971(5thof Sivan, 5731): Seventy-one-year-old director, producer and screenwriterHerbert Joseph Biberman, one those blacklisted as a member of the “HollywoodTen” passed away today.
http://spartacus-educational.com/USAbiberman.htm
1972:“Morag, the southernmost settlement in Gush Katif was established” today “as anon-religious pioneer Nahal military outpost, and demilitarized when turnedover to residential purposes in 1982.”
1972(16thof Sivan, 5732): Seventy-year-old Princeton grad and Columbia trained attorneyMorris “Moe” Berg, the major league catcher who doubled as an American spypassed away. For more see The Catcher Was A Spy: The Mysterious Life of MoeBerg by Nicholas Dawidoff
https://www.espn.com/classic/biography/s/Berg_Moe.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/moe-berg
1973: The WestEnd production of “Gypsy” with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheimand a book by Arthur Laurents opened at the Piccadilly Theatre today.
1974: Adisengagement agreement was reached between Israel and Syria.
1974: MichaelStern, a doctor from Vinnista was arrested today on “official charges ofbribery” but in reality “because he did not condemn the desire of his childrento leave for Israel.”
1974: In anattempt to break the stalemate following the Yom Kippur War, Syrian and Israeliofficers meet in Geneva under the chairmanship of the UN Chief of Staff, EnsioSiilasvuo
1975: InManhattan, Zach Lonstein, chief executive officer of Infocrossing and his wifegave birth to Shoshanna Lonstein who gained fame as Shoshanna Lostein Gruss the“first-ever Style Director of Elizabeth Arden, Inc” and the wife, “JoshuaGruss, son of financier Martin D. Gruss and grandson of financier andphilanthropist Joseph S. Gruss
1978: Yitzhak Navon assumed office today asthe fifth President of Israel and “the first president with small children tomove into Beit HaNassi” where he will lived with his wife Ofira.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported thatEgyptian President, Anwar Sadat, warned Israel that the Sinai disengagementagreement with Israel will expire next October, and "only God knows whatwill happen then." But he added that he still stood by his promise thatthe 1973 war should be the last.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that thePalestine Liberation Organization warned from Lebanon that it will soon operatefrom the Golan Heights, Jordan, as well as from Sinai.
1978(22ndof Iyar, 5738): Seventy-seven-year-old screenwriter and producer Sy Bartlettwho co-authored the novel Twelve O’Clock High which was turned into oneof the most famous movies about WW II.
1979(3rd ofSivan, 5739): Habib Elghanian,President of the Council of federations of Iranian Jewish communities, who hehad been arrested and convicted for Zionist spying was summarily executed bythe new Iranian government.
1979: InNew York, “Stephen A. Schwarzman, the founder, chairman and CEO of TheBlackstone Group, and Ellen Katz (née Philips), a trustee of NorthwesternUniversity and the Mount Sinai Medical Center” gave birth to Edward Frank“Teddy Schwarzman, the graduate of Penn and Duke Law School and “thefounder, president and chief executive of Black Bear Pictures” who marriedfellow Blue Devil Ellen Marie Zajac, the New York lawyer and mother of histhree children.
1981:Israeli jets attacked “Libyan antiaircraft missile batteries guardingPalestinian guerrilla positions south of Beirut” after an IAF reconnaissanceplane had been attacked by enemy missiles.
1981: U.S.premiere of “Polyester” a comedy co-starring Tab Hunter (Andrew Arthur Klem)with music by Michael Kamen and Christ Stein.
1982(7thof Sivan, 5742): Second Day of Shavuot
1982:Leonard Maltin began working as “the movie reviewer on the syndicatedtelevision series Entertainment Tonight.”
http://www.filmreference.com/film/95/Leonard-Maltin.html
1983: Itwas reported today that the Board of Elections has announced that Brooklyn DistrictAttorney Elizabeth Holtzman the daughter of Russian immigrants attorney SidneyHotlzman and “Fila Ravitz the head of the Russian department at Hunter College”was investigating possible ‘ballot stuffing’ in six Brooklyn districts.”
1983: Theaudience stood and joined more than 200 singers from 7 Jewish choruses fromWashington, Philadelphia, Connecticut, New York, Long Island and Boston insinging ''Hatikva'' at the end of the American Jewish Choral Festival concertin Merkin Hall
1984(27thof Iyar, 5744): Eighty-one year old Philip David Adler, the Davenport born sonof Lena Rothschild and newspaper published Emanuel Phillip Adler and thehusband of “the former Henrietta Carol Bondi” who was “an undergraduate editorof the Daily Iowan” which was the first steep along following in his father’sfootsteps passed away today after which he was buried iin the Mount Nebo HebrewCemetery in Davenport, IA.
1987:Daniel Barenboim is scheduled to conduct the IPO in an anniversary program thatwill include concertos by Mozart.
1987(1st ofSivan, 5747): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1987(1stof Sivan, 5747): Eighty-five year old Irene Jonas, the Bronx born “daughter ofMortiz and Fannie Kahn” and wife of Dr. Joseph Quincy Joanas passed away todayin New York.
1989: In“Unmeeting Minds In Zion,” published today Karl Meyer defended Secretary ofState James Baker’s call for “Israelis to abandon grandiose claims to a greaterIsrael” because it balances previous American demands that Yasser Arafat giveup his claims to all of Israel which is part of the PLO’s charter document.
1990(5th of Sivan,5750): Erev of Shavuot
1991(16th ofSivan, 5751): Seventy-eight-year-old Eton College and King's College, Cambridgegraduate Henry David Leonard George Walston, Baron Walston the son of SirCharles Waldstein and the former Florence Einstein who was “a British farmer,agricultural researcher and politician, firstly for the Liberal Party, then forLabour and then for the Social Democratic Party” who married Elizabeth Scottafter the death of his first wife passed away today.
1992: “The FinestHour,” a movie about U.S. Navy Seals directed by Shimon Dotan whose five yearsas Seal in the Israeli Navy may have helped him write the script for this filmand produced by Menahem Golan was released today in Portugal after premiering inthe United States.
1992(15th ofSivan, 5751): Just weeks before his 79th birthday Henry DavidLeonard George Walston, Baron Walston the only son of Florence (nee Einstein)and Anglo-American archaeologist Sir Charles Waldstein who was agriculturalresearcher and failed candidate for the House of Commons passed away today. His mother was the widow of Theodore Seligman,and his father was the one who changed the family from Waldstein to Walston.
1993(9th ofSivan, 5753): Pararshat Nasso
1993(9th ofSivan, 5753): Eight-sixty-year-old Chicago and University of Illinois andUniversity of Chicago alum “Sidney Ralph Bernstein, chairman of the executivecommittee of Crain Communications Inc. and the former editor and publisher ofAdvertising Age magazine” who decried the growth of television commercialsfeaturing rock stars instead of information of help to consumers and who wasthe husband of Adele Bernstein with whom he had one son, Henry, passed awaytoday.
1994(19th ofSivan, 5754): Literary scholar Harry Levin passes away at the age of 81. Levin (pronouncedluh-VINN) was considered to be the first Jew to receive tenure in Harvard'sEnglish Department. Harry Levin's father had been Jewish, but his mother was not,and he married a Russian Orthodox writer named Elena, who translated Trotsky.
1994(19thof Sivan, 5754): Seventy-eight-year-old Joseph Janni, the Italian born Jewishmovie producer who moved to England in 1939 where he spent the rest of his lifepassed away today.
1996: Israeli votersconfirmed their country's yawning divisions in elections today by splittingtheir ballots almost evenly between the candidates for Prime Minister and, inthe separate balloting for Parliament, abandoning the two major parties indroves for small religious, ethnic and other groupings.
1997(22nd ofIyar, 5757): Seventy-four-year-old Russian born American expert on theByzantine Empire Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan passed away today in Washington,DC having on completed the first volume of his History of ByzantineLiterature.
1998: A groupof American rabbis and educators belonging to the three main streams of Judaismissued a call for there to be no violent opposition if mixed prayer groupsappear at the Western Wall during the Shavuot holiday. Last year, there wereviolent confrontations between fervently Orthodox Jews and liberal Jews seekingto pray at the Western Wall on Shavuot and Tisha B'Av.
1998: Barry M.Goldwater passes away. Born in 1909, Goldwater was a U.S. Senator from Arizonaand unsuccessful Republican Presidential candidate in 1964. Goldwater's father was Jewish. Goldwater was raised as an Episcopalian. This did not keep bigots from disparaging theRepublican ticket as "The Arizona Israelite and his fellow traveler fromthe Vatican." His running mateCongressman William Miller of New York really was a Roman Catholic.
1999: InJerusalem, Israel, Charlotte Nilsson won the forty-fourth Eurovision SongContest for Sweden singing "Take Me To Your Heaven".
1999:KerstinEmhoff and Doug Emhoff gave birth to Ella Emhoff, the stepdaughter of KamalaHarris for whom she designed her inauguration day dress with Batsheva Hay.
2000: AnIsraeli court postpones a decision on whether to release two Lebaneseguerrillas held without trial for years.
2000: Settlerswarn Prime Minister Ehud Barak he could be killed if he uproots settlements.
2001(7th ofSivan, 5761: Second Day Shavuot
2001: The BBCbroadcast “The Wrong Empire” the 11th episode of “A History ofBritain a documentary series written and presented by Simon Schama” which beganits second season tonight.
2001(7thof Sivan, 5761): Fifty-three year old Sara Blaustein and 20 year old EstherAlvan were murdered by a Tanzim terrorist.
2001: Forty-one-year-oldGilad Zar was shot by a Tanzim terrorist as he traveled between Kedumim andYitzhar.
2002(18thof Sivan, 5762): Seventy-year-old novelist Lois Gould, author of Such GoodFriends lost her battle with cancer today and passed away at Sloan-KetteringCancer Center today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/31/arts/lois-gould-a-writer-on-women-s-inner-lives-dies-at-70.html
2002: Funeralservices are scheduled to be held today at the Riverside Chapel for 93 year-oldPearl Oppenheim the wife of the late William Oppenheim who was “the matriarchof her family for over 60 years.
2002: Aprogram is launched to integrate Ethiopian immigrants into Israeli society. TheNational Ethiopian Absorption Project is initiated by the Jewish Agency forIsrael and is planned to last nine years.
2003: Todaymarks the 100th anniversary of the day Rabbi Tobias and Mrs. Geffen, along withtheir two eldest children arrived in America. The family arrived on board theDeutschland which departed from Cuxhaven, Hamburg, Germany. Geffen is the Coca Cola Rabbi, having beenresponsible for seeing to it that formula was both kosher and kosher forPassover.
2004(9thof Sivan, 5764): Twenty-five-year-old Major Shachar Ben-Yishai, 25, ofMenahemia was killed by Palestinian gunfire near Nablus today
2004 (9th ofSivan, 5764): Seventy-two-year-old Jack Morris Rosenthal passed away. Born in1931, he was an English playwright, who wrote 129 early episodes of the ITVsoap opera Coronation Street and over 150 screenplays, including original TVplays, feature films, and adaptations
2004 (9th ofSivan, 5764): Sam Dash passed away. Born in 1925, Dash was a long timeProfessor at the Georgetown University Law School. He gained fame as the Chi
2005: TheCedar Rapids Jewish Community remembers Dr. Robert Handler, husband of DianeHandler and father of Nathan, Daniel and Benjamin Handler Memorial Stone andUnveiling Ceremony. A righteous man willalways be missed and will always be remembered.
2005(20th ofIyar, 5765): Composer George Rochberg passed away at the age of 86.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E5DF1638F932A35755C0A9639C8B63
2005(20th ofIyar, 5765): Gershon Jacobson passed away. Born in 1934, Jacobson was a veteranjournalist and commentator for some of the most eminent newspapers, includingthe New York Herald Tribune, the Yiddish Day Jewish Journal andIsrael's largest daily Yediot Acharonot, “Gershon used his powerfulwriting and analytical skills to faithfully document the destruction, rebirthand renaissance of Jews and Judaism.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/02/nyregion/02jacobson.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print
2005:The New York Times included reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding A Matter of Opinion by Victor S. Navasky and the recently released paperback editions of Birth of theChess Queen: A History by Marilyn Yalom and Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950sAmerica in which Laura Shapiro “revisits adark decade in culinary history, when the food industry elbowed its way intothe kitchen promoting Nescafé, Bisquick and Jell-O.”
2006(2ndof Sivan, 5766): Ninety-two-year-old men’s clothing merchant and co-owner ofWitty Brothers passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/business/05witty.html
2006: In Jerusalem, Opening session of “Biomed Israel –2006” a conference focusing on Respiratory disorders, Central NervousSystem disorders, metabolic disorders and Cancer
2007: Asreported in Haaretz, Ami Ayalonsurged ahead of his main rival for the leadership of the Labor Party with 46percent of the votes counted early today, winning 37.3 percent to Ehud Barak's30.3 percent.
2007: In Ledbetterv. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg tookthe unusual stance of reading a dissent from the bench, a usually rare practicethat she has now employed twice in the past six weeks to criticize the majorityfor opinions that she said undermine women's rights. Justice Ginsburg’s dissentwhich was supported by Justice Souter, showed them to stand in the besttradition of the first Jewish Supreme Court jurist, Louis D. Brandeis.
2008: KlaraSilverstein (Mrs. Larry Silverstein) and her daughter Lisa received thePhilanthropy Award at today’s UJA-Federation of New York’s Women’s Philanthropyinaugural luncheon.
2008: InChicago, Spertus Museum and Lawndale Community Academy (LCA) celebrate thelaunch of Poetic Integrity and Truth: Youth Culture and Leadership in NorthLawndale. Marking the third year of a Spertus/Lawndale partnershiphighlighting the Jewish and African American impact on the North Lawndalecommunity, the book was written and illustrated by LCA students and explorestheir lives, interests, and aspirations.
2008: KlaraSilverstein, the wife of real estate mogul Larry Silverstein and his daughterLisa received the Philanthropy Award at the UJA-Federation of New York’sWomen’s Philanthropy inaugural luncheon.
2008(24th ofIyar, 5768): Comedian Harvey Korman, comedic sidekick to Carol Burnett andwinner of four Emmys, passed away.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/arts/television/30korman.html?pagewanted=print
2008: TheChicago Tribune reports on status of the Jews of Cuba in an articleentitled “Cuba’s Jewish community enjoys remarkable rebirth.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/religion/chi-cubanjews-fill-0529may29,0,648731.story
2009(6th ofSivan, 5769): First Day Shavuot
2010: PaulaValstein, singer/songwriter/pianist, an Israeli army veteran and a graduate ofthe Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music near Tel Aviv is scheduled toperform tonight at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City.
2010:Gaza-based terrorists continued to attack Israel firing two rockets to nightone of which exploded in an open area south of Ashkelon. “More than 50 rocketshave exploded in the Negev since the beginning of 2010, and more than 350rockets were fired from Hamas-controlled Gaza into Israel since the end ofOperation Cast Lead last year.”’
2011: In theborough of Queens several Jewish Bukharin an Uzbek artist performed at concerthonoring the late Ilyas Malayev who would have been 75 years old this year.
2011: Two daysafter his death, in Bozman, MD, a private service was held at the home ofphilanthropist Louis S. Sachs.
2011: Theleadership of the Maccabi World Union is scheduled to hold the opening sessionof its annual three day conference today.
2011: “AMotorcycle Ride for Gilad Shalit” designed to advance the freeing of thisIsraeli soldier by his Arab captors is scheduled to begin today at the IsraeliEmbassy in Washington, DC.
2011:Playwright and actor David Greenspan is scheduled to present his one-man showPlays, a word-for-word performance of the Gertrude Stein essay of the same nameat the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco
2011:The New York Times features reviews books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including ‘Sacred Trash: The Lost andFound World of the Cairo Geniza’ by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole, “RecklessEndagerment” by Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner and “Alfred Kazin’sJournals,” selected and edited by Richard M. Cook.
2011(25thof Iyar, 5771): Ninety-six year old Albert M. Sack, the Massachusetts born sonof Ann Sack and Israel Sack, a Lithuanian born cabinetmaker, who went frombeing a university dropout to a career in antiques passed away today. (Asreported by Paul Vitello)
http://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/albertsack/
https://web.library.yale.edu/collection/israel-sack-inc-archive
2011:The Los Angeles Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/orof special interest to Jewish readers including 'On China' by Henry Kissinger.
2011:Giora Eiland “said on Kol Yisrael Radio that in his view it would be better forIsrael to let the next flotilla - expected to set out in late June 2011 - getthrough to Gaza, provided that the Government of Turkey would be willing totake responsibility for the flotilla, inspect all ships and make sure they werenot carrying arms.” Born in 1952 at moshav Kfar Hess, Eiland is a formernational security advisor who reited from the IDF with the rank of MajorGeneral.
2011:Israel’s efforts to alleviate poverty and develop local economies in Africa isnoble yet it needs to do more, Irish singer-activist Bob Geldof said at aconference on Israel and Africa held in Herzliya today.
2011: Openingday of Field of Dreams, “JNF’s hardball mission to the holy land.”
2011(25thof Iyar, 5771): Ninety-six-year-old antique maven Albert M. Sack passed awaytoday in Durham, NC. (As reported by Paul Vitello)
2012: “What WeSaw From the Cheap Seats, Regina Spektor’s” latest album is due out today.
2012: DennisRoss and David Makovsky are scheduled to “offer their perspective on recentevents in the Middle East, the peace process and the future of Israel” at the92nd Street Y.
2012:Among those President Obama presented the Medal of Freedom to were Shimon Peres – President of Israel; MadeleineAlbright – the first woman to serve as Secretary of State; Bob Dylan – theAmerican musical icon who began life as Robert Allen Zimmerman ; and Jan Karski- a resistance fighter against the Nazi occupation of Poland during World WarII. He carried the first eye-witness accounts of the Holocaust to the world. Asa courier to the Warsaw ghetto and the Izbica transit camp, he saw the atrocitiesfirst-hand. He became a U.S. citizen in 1954 and died in 2000.
2012:The Attorney-General’s Office announced today that in accordance with arecommendation from the High Court of Justice, the state has agreed to pay thewages of non-Orthodox rabbis serving in regional councils, just as it does forOrthodox rabbis.
2013:In Milwaukee, WI, Tikkun Ha-Air’s Glean Machine which collects spring andsummer clothing, household items, toiletries, books, toys, art supplies, andnonperishable food, is scheduled to begin today.
2013:The Peri Committee’s approval of the draft version of a new militaryconscription law was a “historic moment,” Finance Minister Yair Lapid saidhours after ministers cast their final vote today. The Israeli public needs theultra-Orthodox, “with gun in hand, alongside us,” he said.
2013:Swastikas were painted onto the walls of a synagogue in the coastal city of BatYam in the latest in a series of attacks on synagogues across the country. Thewarden of the Ha’Ohel synagogue, Miki Moshkovitz, found the offensive symbolstoday morning and immediately called the police. (As reported by Stuart Winer)
2013(20thof Sivan, 5773): Ninety-year-old Auschwitz survivor and controversial Canadianphysician Henry Morgentaler passed away today.(As reported by Robert D. McFadden)
2013:Today, “at their 46th annual meeting, the Victorian Society of NewYork presented a Preservation and Rehabilitation for the exterior” ofCongregation Tifereth Israel which was constructed in 1911 making it “theoldest synagogue in Queens.”
2013: The Argentinian prosecutor in charge ofinvestigating the bombing at the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA)in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994, has accused Iran of infiltrating severalSouth American countries and building intelligence stations from whichterrorist attacks could be planned and carried out. Alberto Nisman issued a502-page indictment today placing responsibility for the bombing, which killed85 people, on the highest authorities in the Islamic Republic.
2014:Magen David Sephardic Congregation is scheduled the Maryland premiere of “The JStreet Challenge: The Seductive Allure of Peace in our Time.”
2014:Marv “Albert stepped down from calling The NFL on CBS and focus on basketballduties for TNT and CBS.”
2014:The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host Norway’s Ullern Kammerkor presenting music dedicated to the victims of theHolocaust—“Bøner for medfangar” (“Prayers for Fellow Prisoners”) by KristianHernes with a text by Dietrich Bonhoeffer—and music by Gideon Klein and ViktorUllmann, composers active during imprisonment in Theresienstadt
2014:“Donald Sterling is prepared to sue the NBA if it goes ahead with action tostrip him of his ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, his attorney saidtoday.”
2014:In a case of Jew versus Jew, today Steve“Ballmer placed a bid of $2 billion to purchase the NBA's Los AngelesClippers after NBA commissioner Adam Silver forced Donald Sterling to sell theteam.”
2014(29thof Iyar, 5774): In the evening, erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan. According to the 17thcentury sage Isaiah Horovitz “the eve of the first day of the Hebrew month ofSivan is the most auspicious time to pray for the physical and spiritualwelfare of one's children and grandchildren, since Sivan was the month that theTorah was given to the Jewish people” and this belief insipired him to composea special prayer for the occasion “known as the Tefillat HaShlah.”
2014:“Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi confirmed” today that “IsraeliPresident Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas willjoin Pope Francis in a prayer for peace at the Vatican” on June 8.
2014:Katie Holmes joined the cast of “Woman in Gold” where she will play the role of“Pam Schoenberg.”
2014:“Thousands of Jewish Red Sox fans packed America’s oldest ballpark tonight forthe legendary franchise’s first Jewish Heritage Night.”
2014:The cornerstone for a new Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue, which would replace thecenturies old structure that had been deliberately destroyed by Arab armies in1948, was laid today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiferet_Yisrael_Synagogue#/media/File:Ruzhiner_yeshiva,_Jerusalem.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiferet_Yisrael_Synagogue#/media/File:Tiferesyisrael48b.jpg
2015(11thof Sivan, 5775): Sixty-five-year-old Moses Samuel, the “long-time leader” ofMyanmar’s Jewish community passed away today in Yangon.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/leader-of-myanmars-jewish-community-dies/
2015:Palestine is scheduled to “seek Israel’s expulsion from world soccer’sgoverning body at today’s meeting of the FIFA Congress.
2015:Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the Riverside Casino & Golf Resortat Riverside, IA.
205:Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor are scheduled to “return to Abrons” with aperformance “Ship of Fools.”
2015:The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a concert as part of theIsrael Festival.
2016(21stof Iyar, 5776): Ninety-three year oldMordechai Gazit, the native of Istanbul, older brother of Shlomo Gait, Haganahveteran and “an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir., ambassador toFrance, and as Director-General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry” passed awaytoday.
2016:UK Jewish Film is scheduled to host a screening of “Remember”
2016:Today, “The Israel Police concluded its investigation into financialimpropriety at the Prime Minister’s Residence and recommended that PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara Netanyahu stand trial on graftallegations.”
2016:“Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett today threatened to quit the coalition overhis demands for greater intelligence-sharing in the high-level securitycabinet, as Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein urged the Likud and Jewish Homeparties to cut a deal quickly to avoid new elections.”
2016:“Israeli security forces arrested six alleged members of a Hamas terror cellaccused of planning and carrying out a suicide bombing in Jerusalem last month,the Shin Bet security service announced today.”
2016:The “Roman Vishniac Rediscovered” exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museumin San Francisco, California is scheduled to come to an end today.
2016: The New York Times featured reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Capture:Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering by David A. Kessler East WestStreet: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity byPhilippe Sands and Anatomy of Malice: The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminalsby Joel E. Dimsdale.
2017:In the United States Memorial Day, which really is May 30 is observed today.
https://kaplancenter.org/memorial-day-and-united-jewish-people
http://forward.com/news/135331/profiles-of-our-fallen/#ixzz1DeAMPaIh
http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/07/18/jews-in-the-military/
2017:The Manhattan Jewish Experience is scheduled to host a dinner and discussion ofthe weekly Torah portion followed by a presented by Rabbi Mark Wildes, founderand director of MJE
2017:In honor of Memorial Day, the Illinois Holocaust Museum is schooled offer freeadmission to all military personnel and their families
2018:The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “Travels in JewishHistory” during which Irene Shaland, an internationally-published art andtravel writer, educator, and lecturer, talks about her travels through Jewishhistory in Burma, India, China, Cuba, and Cambodia.”
2018:Following tonight’s weekday dinner, the Oxford University Jewish Society isscheduled to host a discussion led by Rabbi Mark Goldsmith in which “toughquestions” will be raised about how Jews, based on their laws and tradition“should behave as buyers and sellers, employers and employees and owners andcustomers.” (Editor’s note – Could there be a more timely topic to discuss? Makes you wish you were in Oxford tonight)
2018:“Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens,” a Jewish and “ sometimes brash politicaloutsider whose unconventional resume as a Rhodes Scholar and Navy SEAL officermade him a rising star in the Republican Party, abruptly resigned today amid awidening investigation that arose from an affair with his former hairdresser.”
2018:“Israel’s armed forces struck more than 60 Palestinian targets after more than100 rockets rained down on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip today, in theheaviest fighting seen since 2014.”
2019:The Veterans Games are scheduled to continue for a fourth day in “Tel Aviv andJerusalem at rehabilitation centers run by Beit Halochem.”
2019:In Canada, the Edmonton Jewish Festival is scheduled to host a screening of“Between Worlds,” directed by Miya Hatav.
2019:In Cedar Rapids, IA, the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to discuss HeatherMorris’ novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz
2019:At the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, The JDCArchives, the American Jewish Historical Society and the Jewish HistoricalSociety are scheduled to host a reception marking the launch of The JDC at100: A Century of Humanitarianism “a pathbreaking collection of scholarlyessays that focus on the history of the American Jewish Joint DistributionCommittee (JDC) — the organization founded in 1914 to help victims of World WarI, which has played a key role in preserving and sustaining Jewish life acrossthe globe.”
2019:The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host a lecture by biblescholar Avivah Zornberg followed by a screening of “In the Beginning WasDesire.”
2020:The Reboot and the Jewish Emergent Network all-night Shavuot cultural artsfestival featuring comedy, music, food, learning and conversation is scheduledto come to an end this morning at five in the morning.
2020:OneTable along with Julia Weiss, head writer of Cards Against Humanity, CalebHeron, Shelby Wolstein, Gianmarco Soresi are scheduled to host a comedyShabbat!
2020:JIMENA and JDC Entwine are scheduled to host a gathering to celebrate Shavuotand Shabbat, led by Rabbi Tsipi Gabai, with percussionist Katja Cooper whereworshippers can learn Sephardic songs and Moroccan Jewish traditions
2020(6thof Sivan, 5780): Shavuot.
2021(18thof Sivan, 5781) Parashat Beha’alotcha (“When you light” or “When you kindle”)
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2021:In Columbus, OH, Benjamin Pesetsky is scheduled to be called to the Torah as aBar Mitzvah at Congregation Tifereth Israel.
2021:In New York, The Village East is scheduled to host a screening of “Shepherd:The Story of a Jewish Dog” “based on the award-winning and bestselling Israelinovel, The Jewish Dog by Asher Kravitz.
2021:In Cedar Rapids, IA, at Temple Judah Rory DeSotel is scheduled to be called tothe Torah as a Bar Mitzvah in a ceremony which will be shared via Zoom.
2021:Based on previously published Israelis may be celebrating the first Shabbat inyears where Benjamin Netanyahu will not be serving as Prime Minister.
2022(28thof Iyar, 5782) Yom Yerushalayim
2022:The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a walking tour that willinclude visits to “the oldest Jewish Cemetery in the United States and“Historic Chatham Square.
2022:The ten day long Israel Culinary trip sponsored by the Streicker Center isscheduled to come to an end today.
2022:The Baltimore Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end today withscreenings of “The Conductor” and “A Radiant Girl.”
2022:The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperbackedition of The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-SexMarriage by Sasha Issenberg.
2023:Chabad of the East Bay is scheduled topresent an event with kosher catering, hamburgers, hot dogs, relay races, drumcircle and performance by the Ferris Wheels band.
2023:The Jerusalem Pride Day March is scheduled to take place today.
2023:Lockdown University is scheduled to host a webinar with Dr. Helen Fry lecturingon “Marilyn Monroe: Icon and Mystery.”
2023:Memorial Day observed as Americans remember those who made the supremesacrifice for the United States and her citizens as American veterans includingapproximately 40,000 Jewish veterans wait to see if Congress will honor itscommitment to pay them their benefits.
https://kaplancenter.org/memorial-day-and-united-jewish-people
http://forward.com/news/135331/profiles-of-our-fallen/#ixzz1DeAMPaIh
http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/07/18/jews-in-the-military/
2024:Chabad North Peninsula is scheduled to host “A Hostage Mother’s Odyssey” duringwhich “Iris Haim will speak about her experiences losing her son, Yotam Haimz”l, who was taken hostage on Oct. 7 and accidentally killed by the IDF inDecember.”
2024;At Zinman Community Theater, The Koby Mandell Foundation is scheduled to hostfundraiser featuring Jann Karam, Buddy Lewis and John Roy - hosted by AviLiberman.
2024:Museum at Eldridge Street's scheduled celebrate executive director, Holocausteducator, media scholar, and author Dr. Maria Zalewska's newest book, HoneyCake & Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-BirkenauSurvivors (Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation 2022) with photographs byacclaimed photographer, Ellen Silverman.
2024:Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on “What isZionism?”
2024:As May 29th begins in Israel,an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 236 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluidfor this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting atmidnight Israeli time.)
