JUNE 4
1039Conrad II passed away. Born in 990, heserved Holy Roman Emperor from 1027 until his death. His reign was part ofpositive period for the Jews of the Rhineland. The first synagogue was built inWorms in 1034 and Rabbi Gershom ben Judah taught at his famous academy in Mainzuntil his death in 1028.
1391:A riotous mob led by the Queen Mother's confessor, killed many Jews in Seville,Spain.
Themassive riots were part of Ferran Martinez’s plan to eradicate the Jews.Historian Netanyahu stated the assault upon the Jewish community "resultedin a bloodbath of massive proportions that all but annihilated the SevillianJuderia."
1632:Jacob Bassewi (Bassevi) and Leon Bassewi, his cousin and business partner,“received a privilege from the Duke governing Prague that gave them “the rightto do business without any hindrance in all the town, markets and areas of thedukedoms of Friedland, Sagan and Glogau”
1632:Albrecht Wallenstein, the Count of Friedland, granted Jacob Bassewi and hiscousin Leon Bassewi in order to improve his possibilities for business andliving, the exceptional freedom to build a house in our town of Reichenberg atthe best location for him and in order to speed up the process we order, youour chief officer, to support him with material and payments to the citizenbuilders. In the event that he should find a house that is already built, wegive you the powers to allow him to buy it and allow him to have his friends orchildren, Jewish or gentile, to live there and to direct his business fromthere. We further order that, if the Bassewi people need protection anywhere inour Dukedom or in all of the Kingdom of Bohemia, they shall enjoy our highestofficial protection. Nobody shall dare to act against this our will withoutpunishment. We seal this letter with our great seal.”
1672(9thof Sivan): Rabbi Moses Rikves, author of Be’er ha-Golah passed away
1695:In Vienna, Joseph Juda Loeb Guggenheim, the Fankfurt am Main born son of MeirSchaul Guggenheim and Mrs Marem Meir Schaul Guggenheim and his wife and FrumetGuggenheim gave birth to Miriam Sara Sinhzeim, the wife of Löb Jehuda EfraimSinsheim
1697: Birthdate Rabbi Jacob Israel Emden, the Altona born Talmudic scholar mostfamous for his fight against those whom he considered to be Sabbateans. His most famous dispute was the one withRabbi Jonathan Eybeschutz.
1733:The Prattenburg, on which Jacob de Beer has been serving as ship gunner arrivedin Batavia today 211 days after its departure fomr the Netherlands.
1738:Birthdate of King George III, the British monarch best remembered as the rulerduring the American Revolution. During his reign conditions of his Jewishsubjects would improve on several fronts as can be seem from the establishmentof the London Board of Shechita, establishment of the Jews’ Free School andJewish Blind Society. Alexander Zuntz, a Hessian Jew, came to North America in1779 was a civilian commissary, army supplier, and adjutant of the Hessianmercenary forces, that were employed by England's King George III…
1767(7thof Sivan, 5527): Second Day of Shavuot
1767(7thof Sivan, 5527): Bezaleel, the son of Moses Brandeis ha-Levi, who like hisfather “was the district rabbi of Bunzlau (Bohemia) passed away today
1751(11thof Sivan): Rabbi Abraham Geron of Adrianople, author of Tikkun Soferimpassed away
1756(6thof Sivan, 5516): Shavuot celebrated as George Washington writes to hissubordinates during the French and Indian War expressing his approval of theadvance of the Prince William Militia
1775(6thof Sivan, 5535): Thirteen days before the Battle of Bunker Hill, while Americanforces are besieging the British at Boston, observance of Shavuot.
1779:In New York City, Abraham Isaac Abrahams and his wife gave birth to CharlotteAbrahams.
1783:Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga,the future Pope Leo XII who would put the Gate back on the Ghetto and pursueother policies inimical to the Jews, was ordained as a priest.
1789:“The Captivity of Judah” by William Crotch was played at Trinity Hall,Cambridge (UK). Crotch was not Jewishbut his pupil Charles Kensington Salaman, the British pianist and composer was. Crotch’s “most successful composition was theoratorio “Palestine”
1794(7thof Sivan, 5554): Second Day of Shavuot was observed on the same day that TadeuszKosciuszko made changes in the military command of the rebels in Poland andLithuania, home to large Jewish community that included the Vilna Gaon, thatwas fighting to end the Russian annexation of their country.
1800:In New York City, just five days before her 17th birthday FrancesIsaacs, the daughter of Joshua Isaacs and Harmon Hendricks, the premieremanufacture of copper “whose father was a founding member of CongregationShearith Israel were married today in New York City.
1805(7thof Sukkoth, 5565): Second Day of Sukkoth is observed on the same day that Lewisand Clark tried to find the true course of the Missouri River in what is nowMontana during the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase
1810:In Curacao, Rev. Solomon Cohen Peixotto and Rachel de David de Isaac Peixottogave birth to Joshua Cohen Peixotto.
1811:Jacob Reuben married Leah Lyons today in the United Kingdom
1813(6thof Sivan, 5573): As the War of 1812 goes into its second year, observance ofShavuot.
1821:Influential 19th century economist David Ricardo the son ofAnglo-Sephardic Jews who became a Unitarian when he married Priscilla AnneWilkinson voted for criminal law reform as an MP.
1828:Lawrence Hyam married Caroline Elias at the Great Synagogue in London.
1829(3rdof Sivan, 5589): Hannah de Pass, the native of Kingston, Jamaica who was thedaughter of Ralph de Pass and the wife of Benjamin Milhado whom she had marriedat Charleston in 1796 passed away today.
1832(6thof Sivan, 5592): As Andrew Jackson prepares to seek re-election, celebration ofShavuot.
1835(7thof Sivan, 5595): Second day of Shavuot
1835(7thof Sivan, 5595): Seventy year old Seckel Isaac Fränkel who in 1818 was therabbi for the new Reform Jewish Temple of Hamburg for which he wrote a newprayer book passed away today.
1837:Joseph Baum married Esther Harris today in the United Kingdom.
1840:During the Damascus Affair, Adolphe Cremieux, vice president of the CentralConsistoire of French Israelites, dispatched an appeal to Sir Moses Montefiore,President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, to join with him and adelegation from the French Jewish community in a visitation to Mehemet Ali inAlexandria, Egypt.
1841:At a time when Jews in Prague “had been prohibited from spending the summer inthe suburbs” an edict was issued that allowed the Jews to own rural real estateprovided that they “worked the land themselves.”
1843(6thof Sivan, 5603): Shavuot celebrated one day after the birth of King FrederickVIII of Denmark, under whose grandfather King Frederick the VII, theconstitution removing the last restrictions on the Jews of that Denmark wasadopted two days after the infant heir’s second birthday.
1848:French banker and opponent of Napoleon III’s imperial designs Michel Goudchauxwas elected to the Assembly today in a by-election “In the department of theSeine.”
1851:In Voyska, Bohemia Simon Steinbach and Rosalie Weisskopf gave birth to Lewis W.Steinbach the husband of Johanna Rosenbaum who earned his medical degree atJefferson Medical College who became a leading surgeon in Philadelphia, PA.
1852:Beth Hamedrash Hagadol “a congregation for Russian Jews was formed with thehelp of former German Jewish immigrants. This traditional congregation opened aschool and soon became the center of Orthodoxy in the U.S. Abraham Joseph Ash,an halachic authority, was elected as its rabbi in 1860 and held the positionuntil his death in 1888. So as not to be dependent on a community salary, healso tried his hand in business without much success.” While some like toemphasize the cleavages between the different elements of the New York Jewishcommunity, this synagogue formed for Russian Jews, with support from GermanJews, received financial assistance from a Sephardic Jew, a member of ShearithIsrael, who provided funds that helped with the congregation’s purchase of itsfirst building.
1852: TheDemocratic National Convention during which Philip Philips, the Charleston bornCaroline Lazarus and Aaron Phillips, “prominent members of the Jewishcommunity” gave a speech in support of future President Franklin Pierce,continued today in Baltimore.
1853(27thof Iyar, 5613): Parashat Bechukotai
1856(1stof Sivan, 5616): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1856:Harry Gluckstein married Rose Lazarus at the Great Synagogue in London.
1857:The Springfield Republican reportedthat Isaac Jackson a Jewish boy who was either 17 or 18 years old had beenrobbed and shot to death by Charles Jones while he was driving a wagon on theroad between Westfield and Russell, MA in a case of what the paper described as“a dreadful murder.” Jackson was one offour brothers who owned a store at Westfield and delivered merchandise to thesurrounding towns. The murder appearedto have taken place on the first of June.The missing wagon and the corpse were discovered on the second ofJune. Charles Jones, a violent man witha criminal record has been taken into custody.
1859(2ndof Sivan, 5619): Parashat Nasso
1862(6thof Sivan, 5622): First Day of Shavuot as forces under Robert E. Lee and GeorgeMcClellan square off in what was known as the Peninsular Campaign.
1864(29thof Iyar, 5624): Parashat Bamidbar
1866:In the Netherlands, Israel Nathan Gruenberg and Roosje Conrads Gruenberg gavebirth to Rosa Funk, the wife of Louis (Lazarus) Funk and mother of Ivan Funk;Conrad Funk and Leo Funk
1866:In Creglingen, Germany, Nannchen Sauer and Moses gave birth to attorney WilliamKahn, the husband of Karoline Ottenheimer and, starting in 1900, “general managerJewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society.
1871:Elizabeth and George Joseph Emanuel gave birth to Joseph Emanuel, the husbandof Ethel Emanuel
1873:According to a report published today, the followingNew York Cityinstitutions received these payments from the Excise Fund New York:
Hebrew Free Schools: 1871 - $3899.001872 - $1806.00
Polomes Talmud Torah School: 1871-$420.00
1874: Publication of the first edition of The Morecambe Visitor and General Advertiser,(later just called The Visitor) which starting 1898 came under the sway ofArthur Caunt who would be sued for libel when “he penned a diatribe againstBritish Jews for not doing more to prevent Zionist killing of British troops inPalestine, describing ‘Jews as a plague on Britain.’
1877: Birthdate of Charleston, West VA, native Leo Loeb,the University of West Virginia trained attorned who was a member of the CityCouncil.
1877: U.S. Secretary of State Seward received a letterfrom Meyer S. Isaacs, President of the Board of Delegates of AmericanIsraelites which requests that American diplomats help to protect Jews ofRussian birth living in and around Jerusalem.The ruling Ottomans were hostile to the Jews because they were Russianand because they were Jews.
1878: Three days after she had passed away, SarahHenriques, the wife of Moses Henriques and the mother of Elizabeth Henriqueswas buried today in the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1878: The Ottoman Empire ceded control of Cyprus to theBritish Empire. Ironically, Benjamin Disraeli was the Prime Minister when thishappened. After all for Jews, Britishcontrol of the island has a negative connotation. They turned the island into agiant prison for Jewish refugees trying to get into Eretz Israel during afterWorld War II.
1878: Sarah, “the beloved wife of M.J. Henriques” wasburied today at the Balls Pond Jewish Cemetery three days after her death.
1880: Sarah Bernhardt signed a contract today for aseries of 60 performances to be given this winter at Booth’s Theatre.
1881(7th of Sivan, 5641) Second Day of Shavuot
1882: Today, in Germany, Fanny Ottenheimer and Elias Marxgave birth to Rosa Mark, the wife of Heineman Neuman.
1882: A conference of delegates representing Jewishorganizations from across the United States and Europe opened this morning atthe Hebrew Orphan Asylum to discuss how to cope with the increasing stream ofJewish immigrants from Russia. TheExecutive Committee of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society had issued the call forthe meeting and H.S. Henry, the Society’s President, presided over the openingsession. Henry said that since its founding in December of 1881, HIAS hascollected over $75,000, all but $7,000 of which it has spent on helping over3,000 immigrants. The leaders discussedthe seemingly overwhelming task of helping their suffering co-religionists butaffirmed their commitment to do so. Oneof the practical programs discussed was the settling of refugees in the opentracts of land in Minnesota and the Dakotas. According to figures presented tothe conference it would take over a thousand dollars to provide a singleagricultural settler with everything from provisions, fuel, seed, livestock, 80acres of land, materials to build a house, furnishings and provisions until thefirst harvest is sold.
1882:“A general conference of delegates from the various Jewish societies in theUnited States” which had been convened to discuss the challenges related to thecontinuous arrival of refugees from Russia opened this morning in New York atthe Hebrew Orphan Asylum. “The meeting was called to order by H.S. Henry,President of the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society of the United States.
1882:It was reported today that appeal is being circulated in Paris to secure fundsto help Jews leave Russia. Famed authorVictor Hugo’s name is at the top of the list of those who signed the appeal.
1882: It wasreported today that President Chester A. Arthur and former President U.S. Grantare among the leaders who will be attending the upcoming fundraiser designed toprovide aid for Jewish refugees from Russia.
1882: It wasreported today that European Jews are debating the direction Russian immigrantsshould take – west to the United States or east to Palestine. An un-named Anglo Jewish citizen contendsthat the United States is the better of the two destinations. The movement tosettle Palestine “is a mere hobby of Protestant Christians.” The Ottoman government would not support thesettlement and the Jews would be moving to a country less civilized than theone they are leaving. Among theadvantages offered by the United States are a high state of civilization, large,unsettled areas and the 400,000 Jews already living there who would help thenewcomers.
1883: InLondon Benjamin Leopold Farjeon, the son of Orthodox Jews and Maggie(Jefferson) Farjeon gave birth to British author Joseph Jefferson Farjeon
1883: InAltona, Germany, Emilie (née Fischel) and Otto Ehrenberg gave birth to HansPhillip Ehrenberg a convert who co-founded the Confessing Church but who wasforced to flee to England because of Jewish ancestry when the Nazis came topower. Hans Ehrenberg was one of the few German Protestant theologians, evenwithin the Confessing Church, to publicly express his vehement opposition tothe anti-Semitism of the Nazis and publicly declare his support of the Jewishpeople. He strongly urged the Protestant church to take the same stand. Hecriticized Christian anti-Semitism and emphasized the similarities betweenJudaism and Christianity.”
1883: In NewYork, Eva N. de Frece and Louis J. Bernstein gave birth to Zion de Frece thehusband of Helen M. Stroock and a member of Temple B’nai Jeshurun whose businessactivities including first as the first vice president of the National Cloakand Suit Company and the vice president of the National Snow Removal Corporation.
1884: TheIndian Agent at the Acoma Reservation wrote to the Commissioner of IndianAffairs complaining the Solomon Bibo had violated “his Trader’s License” whenhe entered into a business arrangement with members of that tribe.
1886(1stof Sivan, 5645): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1886:Printer Jacob Warschawski wrote in the American Hebrew today describingconditions in Kansas saying, “We arescarce of rain, and if it will keep back a little longer it will be very hardfor us new starters. We have organized a Home Protection Association in ourcolony with our Christian neighbors, and we will soon have a post office by thename, "Touro." Among our colonists, and with our Christian neighborsthere is Sholem, peace.
1886: In NewYork City, Louis M. and Augusta L. Ernst gave birth the New York Law School graduateand WW I Field Artillery Officer, Walter Elmer Ernst, the “senior partner ofthe law firm of McManus and Ernst” and Republican Party leader who was thehusband of Gerturde E. Ernst and a trustee of the West End Temple.
1887: InSummit, NJ, Gustav Pollak, “an editor and writer for The Nation magazine” andCecilia Heilprin gave birth to Harvard trained attorney Walter Heilprin Pollakwho traded in career with white shoe law firm Sullivan and Cromwell to defendthe downtrodden and the underdog including “the Scottsboro Boys” whiledeveloping a life-long friendship with Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo.
1887: InPhiladelphia, Julie Weiler and Henry Fernberger gave birth to University ofPennsylvania educated psychology major and professor Dr. Samuel WeillerFernberger the husband of Eve Coons Wallerstein and member of Rodeph ShalomCongregation who began his teaching career as an instructor at the Universityof Pennsylvania where, in 1920 he had risen to the rank of assistant ofprofessor.
1888: InBerlin, Rosalie and Arthur Seegall gave birth to Fanny Friediger, the wife of Chief Rabbi Max Moses Friediger, theleader of the Danish Jewish community and Holocaust survivor and the mother ofLudwig David Friediger; Charlotte "Lotte" Jacoby and Arthur Friediger.
1889:Birthdate of Darmstadt, Germany and veteran of the WW I German army, BenoGutenberg, the award-winning seismologist who accepted as position at Cal Techafter his career was stymied in the 1920’s because he was Jewish.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Beno-Gutenberg
1890: In SouthCarolina, David L. Hart married Laura L. Levy today.
1892: Mrs.Davis, the longtime matron of the Ladies’ Deborah Nursery and Child’sProtectory offered an explanation for the discrepancy between their records andthose of the police magistrate’s clerks.According to Mrs. Davis, the Jewish agency does a more detailed checkand often finds that the children are younger than originally reported whichleads to a longer a stay at the facility which in turn results in additionalcharges to the government.
1892:Birthdate of Lithuania native Boris Deutsch, the “modernist who specialized inJewish genre and figures” and who settled in Los Angeles in 1919 where producedhis “single film, ‘Lullaby’ in 1929.”
1893: TheShirt Contractors’ Association posted a notice which the Jewish shirtmakers“regard as the beginning of a fight by the Contractors’ Association against theunion.” As if to reinforce their fears,4 of the contractors lock out their shirtmakers today.
1894:Birthdate of Rumanian native and NYU trained dentist Dr. Moses Diamond, aprofessor of dental anatomy at Columbia University’s College of Dental and OralSurgery who raised a son, Eli, with his wife Frances Goodman Diamond.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/10/07/84222951.pdf
1894: It wasreported today that Frederick Nathan was one of the members of the FinanceCommittee of the Mutual Employment Society which was founded last winter tohelp applicants find jobs at no cost to employers.
1894(29thof Iyar, 5654): Eighty-eight year old philologist and lexicographer WilhelmFreund, author of Wörterbuch derLateinischen Sprache passed away today at Breslau,
1894:”Reception at Montefiore Home” published today described the event which isusually held on Decoration Day but was postponed because of memorial servicesbeing held for the late Jesse Seligman.
1895: “SamuellCasten, alias ‘Jew Sam’ was indicted by the Grand Jury” in response to chargesof grand larceny brought by Mrs. Helen Maillard/
1895: HenryLipkie married Jessie Mayer today in the United Kingdom.
1896: InBellaire, Ohio, the “Ladies’ Auxiliary Society of the Congregation Sons ofIsrael” whose members included Mrs. Max Herzberg and Mrs. Harry Herzberg wasorganized today.
1896: JudgeMyer S. Isaacs was among the members of Council of the University sitting onthe dignitaries’ platform at the New York University commencement exercisesbeing held in Carnegie Hall.
1897: InPrague, Leopold and Valerie Pick gave birth to Holocaust victim Franziska Pickwho became Franziska Bondy when she married Pavel Bondy.1897: The first issueof "Die Welt" appears. The English Hovevei Zion officiallydissociates itself from the Zionist Congress.
1897(4thof Sivan, 5657): Sixty-eight year old Herford, Germany native Ferdinand Flak,the husband of Jeannette Levy Falk and the father of Arnold, Gustave, Myron andGertrude Falk, passed away today after which he was buried in New Orleans atHebrew Rest Cemetery.
1897: Sixty-four-year-oldLeah Michaels, “the widow of Nathan Michaels” was buried today at the PlashetJewish Cemetery in London.
1897: Sixty-five-year-oldLouis Blum was sentenced to ten days in prison for violating the bottling lawwhen broke off the heads of empty siphons and used as them as hooks for achuppah that was building at the synagogue where he was the sexton.
1898(14thof Sivan, 5658): Parashat Naso
1898:Thirty-two-year-old Violinist and Conduct, David Mannes, the New York City bornson of Henry and Natalie (Wittkowsky) Mannes married Clara Damrosch today inNew York City.
1898:Violinist and conductor David Mannes, the New York City born son of Henry andNatalie (Wittkowsky) married Clara Mannes
1898: TheHuman Rights League (Ligue des droits de l'homme or LDH) was founded today byLudovic Trarieux to defend Captain Alfred Dreyfus who was falsely convicted oncharges of treason.
1899: It wasreported today that The Hebrew Citizens League of Jersey, whose objectives“will be to induce Hebrews are not naturalized to become citizens at once” and“to protect their legal rights” has filed articles of incorporation with CountyClerk John G. Fisher.
1899: It wasreported today that “the Dreyfus affair has been instrumental in weakening thebonds of friendship between Russia and France and in destroying the faith withwhich Russian military men had in the discipline of the French Army” whichappears to be leading to a “rapprochement between Russia and Austria-Hungary.”
1899: A riotbroke out at the Auteuil racecourse where the mob expressed its hostility forPresident Loubet with a variety of verbal assaults including the call of “Downwith Traitors, Jews and Dreyfusites.!”
1899: Theofficers of the newly incorporated Hebrew Citizens’ League of Jersey City are:President – Louis Strang; Vice President – Samuel Lastage; Treasurer – HarrisSteirman; Financial Secretary – Henry Weisberg; Counsul – Peter James; Sergeantat Arms – William Steirman.
1899: “HarshTreatment of the Jews” published today described the “latest outrage againstthe Russian Jews” which took place at Nikolaev where an anti-Semitic movementstarted by religious fanatics who “pillaged” every shop owned by the Jews andleft over 200 of them wounded, “many of them fatally.”
1899: “TheLibrary of Princeton University” published today described the history of theinstitution and some of its prized tomes including “Jonathan Edward’s HebrewBible, a large folio with the celebrated theologian’s autograph.”
1899: “Scienceand Industry,” a compilation of activities in Europe published today describedthe opening of a Spinoza museum “in the house where the famous Hebrewphilosopher lived and polished lenses for his bread at Rhynsburg, near Leyden”which “has been restored to its 17th century style.”
1899:The Neue Freie Presse publishesHerzl's editorial about the return of Colonel Dreyfus.
1900(7thof Sivan, 5660): Second Day of Shavuot
1900:Birthdate of New Jersey native Helen Rovine, the husband of Benjamin Grossmanwith whom she had three children
1900:Birthdate of Nelson Glueck, American Jewish archaeologist. Director of theAmerican School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem between 1932 and 1947, heexplored and dated over 1,000 ancient sites in Palestine and the Near East. Oneof his popular works was Rivers in the Desert.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0160/ms0160.html
1901:“According to the Kreuz Zietung, therecently organized German Hebrew Aid Society will enter competition with theAlliance Israelite Univserselle in succoring Jews in distress in SoutheasternEurope.
1901:Birthdate of Dr. Gregory Razran, the professor of psychology at Queens Collegeand a leading authority on Russian psychological research
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/razran-gregory
1902: While in Paris,Herzl receives the invitation to appear before the Royal Commission for AlienImmigration in London. The meeting is scheduled to last two days.”
1903:Herzl renews his efforts to gain support from Great Britain and again submitsplans to Constantinople for a Charter for Mesopotamia.
1905: Today, Acting Secretary Loomis of the State Department hasbeen officially informed by Ambassador Meyer, at St. Petersburg, of theproposed new law in Russia under which all American passports, including thosefor citizens of the Hebrew faith, will be recognized there.
1906: It was reported today that Solomon Lowenstein was among thespeakers at the “annual distribution of the Betty Bruhl and other prizes to thechildren of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum” “which amounted to about one thousanddollars in cash and were awarded for general excellence, proficiency instudies, and good grades.
1906: Rabbi Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanu-El told a meeting ofmen who were looking at ways to distribute immigrants throughout the UnitedStates “about the Jewish ‘Removal Office’” which works to final Jewishimmigrants in the Western States.
1907:Max Margolis wrote to the Central Conference of American recommending theadoption of the report prepared by the Committee on the Uniform Pronunciationof Hebrew under the chairmanship of Dr. Henry Malter.
1907(22ndof Sivan, 5667): Young Barney Aaron, the English born American bare knuckleboxer who ws the U.S. Lightweight Champion and the son of English boxer BarneyAaron who was called “The Star of the East” passed away today on Long Island,NY.
1908(5thof Sivan, 5668): Erev Shavuot
1908:“The Festival of Shovous” published today reported that “this evening andtomorrow the festival of Shavuos. “the second of the three important festivalsof the Jewish ecclesiastical year, when it was incumbent upon all males to goupt to the Temple at Jerusalem and make their offerings” “will be celebrated bythe Jewish people throughout the world.” (The article is notable because it waspublished in a major daily Jewish newspaper and not some Jewish or Yiddishbroadsheet)
1908:“Several of the Jewish charities” are being “imposed upon” by people who usetheir visits to these institutions as a way of “leaving their children behind”as was the case when Mrs. Sadie Feinberg of 326 Stanton Street abandoned allfour of her children yesterday at the offices of the United Hebrew Charities.
1908:Alfred Dreyfus was wounded by a disgruntled journalist while “attending theceremony” during which the ashes of Emile Zola were interred in thePantheon. Zola was the French journalistand author who led the fight to free Dreyfus during which he exposed theanti-Semitic and corrupt nature of the French officer corps.
1909:The President of the Turkish Chamber of Deputies speaks in favor of Jewishimmigrants being admitted to the Ottoman Empire. He sees it a as a necessityfor the growth of the country.
1910:Birthdate of Mannheim, Germany native and Heidelberg trained attorney Frank L.Auerbach who in 1938 fled Nazi Germany and came to the United States where heearned a Masters in Social Work from Columbia and became an expert onimmigration law while raising two sons – Ernest and Steven – with his wifeGertrude.
1910:“The Girl in the Train”, the English language of Die geschiedene Frau (The Divorcée), an operetta in three acts byLeo Fall was performed for the first time today at the Vaudeville Theatre inLondon.
1911: The Hahambashi receives several telegrams from Arabia and Syriadescribing attacks on Jews. Details of the attacks were given to theauthorities who could then intervene.
1911:Ground was broken today for the new building to be occupied by the Marks NathanJewish Orphan Home.
1912:Massachusetts became the first state to pass a minimum wage law. Bostonattorney Louis Brandeis, the future Supreme Court Justice, was an ardentadvocate for minimum wage laws.
1913:Leo “Frank’s wife released a statement insisting upon her husband's innocenceand accusing Solicitor Dorsey of torturing witnesses in order to get falseevidence>”
1913:This evening, at the Columbia Club in Dallas, TX, David Eliassof, the son ofMr. and Mrs. Herman Eliassof of Chicago married “Marguerite C. Repp, thedaughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Repp of Dallas, TX.”
1913(28thof Iyar, 5673): Rabbi Abraham Samuel Neumark passed away today in New YorkCity.
1913(28thof Iyar, 5673): Journalist Lewis Godlove passed away today in St. Louis at theage of 55.
1914:Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Theresa Kresham, the motherof four daughters and one son, Edwin Kresham after which burial will take placeat Mount Israel.
1914:Two days after he had passed away, funeral services were held today at Furth’schapel for sixty-six year old “Chevalier N .B. Emanuel, assistant director ofthe Chicago Grand Opera Company and museum of international note” who had beennamed Chevalier by the King of Italy
1915:As of today, “Warsaw newspapers which have been smuggled through the lines saythat the number of homeless Jews on the Russian side is increasing steadily.”
1915:In Rochester, NY, Mayor Hiram H. Edgerton presided over a “mass meeting…inConvention Hall to protest against the scheduled execution of Leo Frank” whichwas condemned by the featured speaker by James. G. Cutler, the former Chairmanof the Executive Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
1915:According to the remarks of Ohio Judge Rufus R. Smith published today, “Theexecution of (Leo) Frank or even his imprisonment for any length of time wouldconstitute an indictment of the administration of criminal law in this countrywhich would be shameful and humiliating.”
1915:Irving Berlin and Jerome Siegel were chosen to serve as Governors at the annualelection of officers today at the Friar’s Club on West 45th Street.
1915:In New York, The Appellate Division reversed a judgment that had been renderedin favor Daniel Guggenhiem’s Guggenheim Exploration Company and decdied that amining engineer who had worked as assistant manager and consulting engineer forthe company was entitled to stock in the Yukon Gold Company valued at more than$100,000.”
1915:“Fearing that a mass meeting which to be held on the State Capitol grounds” inAtlanta “tomorrow night for the purpose of protesting again the commutation ofthe death sentence of Leo M. Frank, may result in a riot, Mayor James G.Woodward this afternoon wrote Governor John M. Slaton urging that the latterhave the military on hand at the meeting.”
1916:Herman Bernstein, editor of The American Hebrew received a cable fromLord Reading, Chief Justice of England, expressing his approval of LouisBrandeis taking his seat on the Supreme Court.“Membership in the Supreme Court of the United States,” the English juristwrote, “is one of the greatest distinctions known to the legal world and Iheartily congratulate the new Associate Justice.”
1916:“The Central Committee of the United Krakauer War Relief Fund held its firstmeeting tonight at the Temple Israel at 120th Street and LenoxAvenue” where it began efforts to raise $50,000 to provide “relief for thedestitute Jews of Cracow.”
1916:The National Farm School, “a Jewish institution in Bucks County” held its 19thannual Spring exercise marking the consecration of festive and memorial treesand the installation of the 52 students of the freshman class” was addressed byformer U.S. President William Howard Taft.
1916:“Jacob H. Schiff informed the Kehillah at it its seventh annual conventiontoday “that he had been hurt by recent attacks made upon him in connection withhis efforts to help to solve the problems of his co-religionists and thathereafter Zionism, national, the Congress movement and Jewish politics in whatform they may come up would be a sealed book to him.”
1917(13thof Sivan, 5677): While serving with His Majesty’s forces, 19-year-old SecondLieutenant Vivian Sylvester Moses was killed today.
1917:In Cleveland, Ohio, Anna (née Klafter) and Charles I. Metzenbaum gave birth toHoward Metzenbaumn, a Democrat and a liberal, whoserved in the U.S.Senate representing the state of Ohio.
https://case.edu/ech/articles/m/metzenbaum-howard-morton
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/13/local/me-metzenbaum13
1917:On the second day of anti-Jewish rioting at Leeds during which the Jewishquarter was looted, “Victor LIghtman…called upon the chief constable whoassured them that immediate states would be taken to restore order.”
1917:In Pittsburgh, PA, the National Association of Jewish Social Workers AnnualConvention went into its second day with presentations by Edwin Goldwasser,Morris D. Waldman and Solomon Lowensein.
1917:According to a dispatch from Paris, the “Spanish government has instructed itsrepresentatives in Berlin, Vienna and Constantinople to present an urgent notedemanding the cessation of the persecution, deportations, and looting practicedagainst the Jews in Palestine.”
1917: The Pulitzer Prizes for journalism,literature and music are awarded for the first time. America’s premier honor for arts andliterature was created under the terms of the will of publisher JosephPulitzer, an immigrant from Hungary whose father was Jewish and whose motherwas Roman Catholic.
1917:In Argentina, President Iriogyen replied “favorably to a Jewish delegationwhich appealed for the intervention of the Government to bring about thecessation of massacres in Palestine.”
1917:During World War I Jules Cambon, Director-General of the French ForeignMinistry wrote to Nahum Sokolow offering vague words of support for Zionistefforts in Palestine. Much to the chagrin of the French, these vague assuranceshelped pave the way for the issuance of the Balfour Declaration.
1917:In Argentina, “President Irigoyen replied favorably to a Jewish delegationwhich appealed for the intervention of the government to bring about thecessation of the massacres in Palestine.
1917:The Ladies’ Auxiliary of Temple Shalom are scheduled to host the first meetingof a Red Cross unit being formed by Jewish women “on the North Side and NorthShore suburban towns” this afternoon at 1 p.m.
1917:In the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn Abraham Miller, a tailor whose originallast name was Milstein and his wife Lillian Blaban gave birth to Moishe(Morris) Miller who the world would know as Robert Merrill, the Baritone whogained fame singing for NBC and the Metropolitan Opera.
1918:Birthdate of Brooklyn native Herbert M. Mandell, a CPA and partner in thepublic accounting firm of Clarence Rainess and Company who was the deputy mayof the Village of Hewlett Harbor, NY and the husband of Lenore Mandell withwhom he had three children --- Marjory, Richard and James.
1918:Catcher Bob Berman made his major league debut with the Washington Senators.
1918:Birthdate of Pennsylvanian Paul Friedlander, the Carnegie Tech quarterback wholed his 6th ranked team to play No. 1 Texas Christian University inthe fifth annual Sugar Bowl.
1918:Encouraged by the British, “Dr. Chaim Weizmann met the Emir Feisal, the leaderof the Arab Revolt, near the port of Akaba, and worked out with him what seemedto be a satisfactory Arab support for a Jewish National Home in Palestine.”
1918:It was reported today that an epidemic of typhus is “raging at Safed wherethere at present over 500 Jewish orphans.”
1919(6thof Sivan, 5679): Shavuot
1919: Birthdate of Robert Merrill. Born Morris (Moishe) Miller in Brooklyn,New York, Merrill was the son of two Jewish immigrants from Warsaw namedMilstein who Americanized their name to Miller.Robert Merrill became one of the greatest operatic baritones of the 20thcentury. Lest anyone question hisJewishness please note that when Merrill died in 2004, he was buried in theSharon Gardens Cemetery, the Jewish section of the Kenisco Cemetery.
1919:By a vote of 56 to 25 the United States passed the 19th Amendmentwhich had the support of many Jews including the National Council of JewishWomen.
1920:It was reported today that Rabbi William Fineshriber will lecture at TulaneUniversity on “The Hebrew Prophet as Mystic,” “Jewish Devotional Literature”and “Hebraic and Jewish Genius” as part of The Jewish Chautauqua SummerCourses.
1920:Alfred N. Bergman and Henry J.D. Meyer were promoted to the rank of Lieutenantwhile serving with the Field Artillery of the United States Army.
1920:Willard S. Isaacs was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant while serving with theInfantry of the United States Army.
1920:Herman H. Meyer, an officer serving in the Infantry was promoted to the rank ofCaptain in the U.S. Army.
1920:Albert Nunez of New Arabi, LA and Harry E. Rice of Xenia, OH were appointedpostmasters today.
1920:Cavalry trooper Sol M. Lipman was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in theUnited States Army.
1921(27thof Iyar,5681) Parashat Bechukotai
1921:It was learned today that leaders of the American Zionist organization headedby Judge Julian W. Mack plan to introduce a number of proposals aimed atsettling between the organization of Dr. Chaim Weizman at the 24thannual Zionist convention which is scheduled to begin tomorrow.
1922:Twenty days before they assassinated Walther Rathenau, the same two assassinsattempted to murder former Phillip Scheidemann, a non-Jewish leader of theWeimar Republic who was forced to flee Germany when the Nazis came to power.
1923:The convention of The Independent Order of Brith Abraham which was organized in1887continued for a second day in Saratoga Springs, NY.
1923(20thof Sivan, 5683): Eight-six-year-old Bavarian native and Ohio Law Collegetrained attorney Simon Wolf, the husband of Caroline Hahn and the father ofFlorence Wolf Gotthold, who enjoyed friendships with Presidents Lincoln, Grant,McKinley and Wilson and who served in several governmental positions includingcounsul general Egypt while serving as an unofficial spokesman for the Jewishcommunity passed away today.
https://www.jhsgw.org/exhibitions/online/lincolns-city/exhibits/show/mr-lincolns-city/president-ear
1924:Birthdate of British immunologist Maurice Hart Lessof, the husband of LeilaLiebster and President of the British Society for Allergy who said foodallergies are common illness “that should be taken seriously” and that “manypeople have been forced to lead miserable lives because narrow-mined doctorsare unwell to accept food allergy as a major cause of illness!”
1924:“The American-Palestine which recently inaugurated the first direct steamshipservice between New York City and Holy land is negotiating for the purchase oftwo more steamers according to an announcement made today by Judge JacobStrahl, President of the line.”
1925:It was reported today that The Rev. Dr. Nathan Krass, rabbi of Temple Emanuel,told the members of the Keren Hayeson Women's League, at its annual meeting atthe Hotel Pennsylvania, that Judaism would have perished during the Middle Agesif it had not been for the women of the race who preserved its sentiment andideals.”
1926:Dr. Nathan Ratnoff, Chairman of a Joint Hospital Committee representingHadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America and the AmericanPhysicians’ Committee, announced plans to establish a college of medicine atHebrew University and to upgrade hospital facilities at the Mt. Scopusinstitution as part of a program to improve health conditions for those livingin Palestine. The committee plans onraising at least one million dollars to make the plans a reality.
1926Ignacy Mościcki who would appoint Biblical scholar, historian and Jewishcommunity leader Moses Schorr to serve in the Senate despite growinganti-Semitism, began serving as President of the Republic of Poland today whoin 1935 as President of Poland and despite the growing anti-Semitism in thecountry appointed Biblical scholar, historian and Jewish community leader MosesSchorr to serve in the Senate.
1926:In Kiel, Germany, Rosel (née Zamora) and Rabbi Max Malina gave birth to JudithMalina “an American theater and film actress, writer, and director, who was oneof the founders of The Living Theatre.” (As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://forward.com/the-assimilator/218426/judith-malina-theater-rebel-dies-at-88/
1927:Today, Chief Justice William H. Taft appointed Judge Jacob Trieber, the firstJew to sit on the Federal Bench, to hear an Antitrust Case.
1927:Two weeks after Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris, Charles Levine’s planeColumbia took off from New York for what was supposed to be the first flight toBerlin. Clarence Chamberlin was thepilot, but Levine was planning to lay claim to being the first trans-Atlanticpassenger. The flight ended at Eisleben,100 miles short of Berlin but was longer than the Lone Eagle’s flight.
1927:Birthdate of Richard Allen Silberman, the native of Kansas City, MO who gainedgamed as movie producer Richard “Dick” Shepard.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-richard-shepherd-20140116-story.html#axzz2qhGPobF0
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/entry/view/id/25048
1928:“The Kellogg proposal for a multilateral treaty against war was characterizedas a ‘new spirity coming over the life of the American people and the world’ byRabbi Stephen S Wise in an address today at the 23rd annualconvention of the Independent Order Brith Sholom.”
1929:In accordance with the terms of his seventy-one year old Nathan Lamport, whohad passed away at Dobbs Ferry, in 1928 was buried in Jerusalem along with hislate wife Sarah next to the grave of his father on the Mouth Olives in aservice attended by his eldest son Samuel, his daughter-in-law Miriam, hisbrother Solomon and Samuel L. Sar, the “registrar of Yeshiva College of whichMr. Lamport was President.
1930:A sequel to the original Garrick Gaieties directed by Philip Loeb opened onBroadway today.
1931(19thof Sivan, 5691): Seventy-one-year-old Northwestern University trained attorney Sigmund Zeisler, the Austrian bornson of Ignatz Zeisler and Anna Kanner and husband of concert pianist and hissecond cousin Fannie Bloomfield Ziesler passed away today after which he wasburied at Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago.
1931:It was reported today that Miss Dorothy Duveen, the only daughter of Jewish artdealer Sir Joseph Duveen is engaged to marry the son and heir of Sir WilliamGarthwaite, William F.C. Garthwaite.
1931(19thof Sivan, 5691): Mortimer L. Schiff “an American banker and notableearly Boy Scouts of America (BSA) leader” passed away. “Mortimer Leo Schiff was the only son of theGerman-Jewish American banker and philanthropist Jacob Schiff and his wifeTherese. While he worked as a partner in the financial firm of Kuhn, Loeb &Co. from 1900 until his death in 1931, he also devoted much of his time to thedevelopment of scouting in America. He was a member of the World ScoutCommittee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the TheodoreRoosevelt Council Executive Board. After a long tenure as vice-president of theBSA beginning in 1910, during which he also appeared on the cover of Timemagazine on February 14, 1927, he was elected president of the organization in1931. However, his untimely death came only one month later. He had also beenserving as the BSA's International Commissioner for several years. The propertyfor the Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation was subsequently purchased by hismother, named in his honor, and donated to the BSA for their national trainingcenter. His son John Mortimer Schiff was also involved with the BSA.” Schiffwas awarded the Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization ofthe Scout Movement, granted by the World Scout Committee for exceptionalservices to world Scouting. Both Mortimer and his son, John M. Schiff, receivedSilver Buffalo Awards from the BSA.”
1931:Birthdate of Sir Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal, AC, CBE, FRS, FAA, an Australianresearch biologist.
1932:As Germany spirals into political chaos In Germany, President Paul vonHindenburg dissolves the Reichstag and sets new elections for next month whichare likely to be won by Hitler and his Nazis.
1933: CBS radio broadcast the last episode of the firstseason of “Lazy Dan, the Minstrel Man” starring Irving Kaufman today.
1933: Today, HUC ordained rabbi Morris Newfield, theHungarian born son of Seymon SabbuttsiNewfield and Lena Klein and University of Cincinnati graduate who was theleader of Birmingham’s Temple Emanu-El officiated Beth El’s Confirmationexercise today.
1933: Today, during “the eighth annual commencementexercise of the Jewish Institute of Religion, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of the FreeSynagogue declared that “one of the major tragedies of civilization is beingenact in Germany where Jews are being oppressed and discriminated against byChancellor Hitler.”
1934: In Poland, “The ORT Technical Training School forGirls, which carried on instruction in Yiddish received full state rights and privilegeswhich are granted other public educational institutions.”
1935: Today, ”Max Silverstein of New York was reelectedfor a fifth term as Grand Master of the Independent Order of B'rith Abraham atthe closing session of its annual convention” in Atlantic City.
1936: In Poland, the Prime Minister, F.Slawoj-Skladkowski, declared his support for the "economic war"against the Jews.
1936: Professor Georg Bernhard the “German journalist,statesman and economist who had given up his position as Chair of Economics atthe University of Commercial Studies in Berlin as part of his protest againstHitler and is in the United States to raise fund for the German Jewish refugeesin France is scheduled to “be the guest this afternoon of the AdministrativeCommittee of the American Jewish Congress at a luncheon at the Hotel Biltmore.”
1936:Leon Blum became the first Jew to be elected premier of France. Blum, asocialist, instituted the 40-hour work week and many important social reforms.His government fell over lack of parliamentary support for his financialprogram, lasting only one year.
1936:In France, Georges Mandel completed his term as Minister of Post during whichhe “oversaw the first official television transmission in French.”
1936:“In Gaza, where eight of the twelve municipal councilors had refused to jointhe Arab strike, a bomb was thrown in the yard of the municipal offices” in anapparent attempt to intimidate them.
1937(25thof Sivan, 5697): Helmut Hirsch, a German Jew who was executed by decapitation,for his part in a bombing plot intended to destabilize the German Reich. Therehad been several efforts to intervene to save his life including a 11thhour appeal to Hitler who turned down the request. While details about theactual plan may be sketchy, there is no reason to doubt his courage.
1937: The Palestine Post reported from Londonthat the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Ormsby-Gore, told the House of Commons that inview of the changed financial and security situation in Palestine, and theuncertainty regarding the country's future, pending the awaited recommendationsof the Royal (Peel) Commission, he could not encourage the initiation of anyschemes for immediate development in Palestine. He was leaving, however, openoptions for urgent development projects approved by the Palestine High Commissioner,Sir Arthur Wauchope.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that KemalBey, the well-known Arab terrorist who led the attack against Tel Yosef in1921, was killed in his village in the Huleh area, as a result of a familydispute.
1937:In London, Henri Armand Hugh Selbourne, and Sulamith (Amiel) Selbourne – “adescendant of generations of Jewish thinkers and rabbinical scholars and, in acognate line, sharing an ancestry with Karl Marx” gave birth to David Selbourne“a British political philosopher, social commentator and historian of ideas.”
1937:The New York Produced Exchange announced today that Paul Linz has been electedas an associate member.
1938(5thof Sivan, 5698): Parashat Bamidbar; erev Shavuot
1938(5thof Sivan, 5698): Sixty-nine year old Mary Goldfarb, the mother of threechildren – Jacob, Samuel and Lillian – and an active participant in “BrooklynJewish Charities” passed away today.
1938:Sigmund Freud, his wife Martha, his daughter Anna, left Vienna on the OrientExpress bound for Paris, the way station on their final destination – London.
1939:The SS St. Louis, a German passengerliner carrying 900 Jewish refugees was denied permission to dock at any portsin Florida. The ship steamed off thecoast of the United States where the passengers could see the lights of Miami. The Coast Guard had orders to keep the St.Louis and its Jewish passengers from reaching the United States. The ship and its wretched cargo returned tothe Europe where many perished in the Holocaust. This episode became the basis for the film“Voyage of the Damned.”
1940:“Richard M. Lederer, chairman of the Woodside National Bank of New York announced”today “a chance in the name of the bank to the Standard Bank of New York” whichwill remain at its current location in Queens.
1940:Under orders from Benito Mussolini, the Italians began building Ferramonti, thelargest of 15 concentration camps constructed just before Italy entered WorldWar II.
1940(27thof Iyar, 5700): Forty-nine-year-old Zevi Hirsch Wolf Diesendruck, the Austrianborn scholar who translated Plato from Greek to Hebrew and “wrote severalvolumes on Maimonides passed away today in Cincinnati, OH where he was thechair of the Jewish Philosophy Department at Hebrew Union College.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0462/ms0462.html
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/06/05/113087822.pdf
1941(9thof Sivan, 5701): Fifty-three-year-old Polish born, Brooklyn Law Schooltrained attorney Morris Michael Edeslstein, the two term New York Congressmandied today in “the cloakroom of the House of Reprsentatives.”
1941:Eighty-two-year-old Wilhelm II, the last Kaiser died in exile in theNetherlands. While thousands of German Jews fought and died for the Kaiser, hewas an anti-Semite who blamed his defeat and abdication on “the tribe ofJudah.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/morris-michael-edelstein
1941:The republic of Croatia issued an order depriving all Jews of their propertyand compelling them to wear a yellow badge with the letter Z.
1942(19thof Sivan, 5702): Mordechai Gebirtig, Yiddish poet and songwriter was murderedby the Nazis in the Krakow Ghetto on what was known as “Bloody Thursday.”
http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/ghettos/krakow/gebirtigmordechai/
1942:Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the ReichSecurity Police and SD, dies of blood poisoning caused by injuries suffered inthe May 27 attack by Czech partisans.Heydrich chaired the conference in January of 1942 when the plans forthe last phase of the final solution were set in motion. The Czechs who killed him were working forthe British and his killing really had nothing to do with his virulentanti-Semitic attitudes or plans.
1942:“Mrs. Miniver” the Academy Award film that provided an idealized view ofBritain in the days of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain directed by WilliamWyler, with a screenplay by George Froeschel and filmed by cinematographerJoseph Ruttenberg was released today in the United States. (Editor’s note – Ilove this film, corny as it may be)
1942: The Battle of Midway begins and will lastuntil June 6, 1942. The American victoryover Japan marked a major turning point on the road to victory for the Allies. The victory was an audacious gamble pulledoff by a comparatively small number of U.S. naval vessels against a majorJapanese armada. If the U.S. had lost,the Pacific coast would have been open to invasion. The American victory was made possible, inpart, by the ability of the Americans to read the Japanese code. The team that cracked the code was led byColonel William Friedman. Friedman wasthe son of Russian immigrant Jews. Heand his wife were two of the top cryptologists of the 20thcentury. This was no mean fete in thedays before computers were available.
1943(1stof Sivan, 5703): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1943(1stof Sivan, 5703): Fifteen-year-old Louis Gans, the Amsterdam born son Isaac Gansand Rachel Goet and the grandson of Mozes and Sientje Gans, was murdered todayat Sobibor.
1943(1stof Sivan, 5703): Seventy-nine-year-old Burnet Wadel, the Summit, Mississippiborn son of Abraham and Ernestine Wadel, and pioneer settler in Tyler, TX wherehe was a member of the Board of Education and President of the Salvation Armypassed away today.
1943(1stof Sivan, 5703): Fifty-two year oldDutch native Sabiena Cohen, the wife of Levie Van Praage and mother of JacquesVan Praage was murdered today at Sobibor.
1943(1stof Sivan, 5703): Fifty-five year oldDutch native Levie Van Praage, the husband of Sabiena Cohen and father ofJacques Van Praage was murdered today at Sobibor.
1943(1stof Sivan, 5703: Hannah Karminski, who assumed more of a leadership role of theJüdischer Frauenbund, JFB (League of Jewish Women) after Bertha Pappenheimpassed away in 1936, was murdered today at Aushwitz-Birkenau.
1944:Thirty-five-year-old Polish Olympic skier and artist Bronislaw Czech wasmurdered by the Germans today at Auschwitz. (Editor’s note – He was not Jewish,but we have an obligation to remember all who were the victims of evil; Zachor:Remember lest you forget)
1945:Lyndon Johnson visited Dachau. According to Lady Bird, when her husbandreturned home, "he was still shaken, stunned, terrorized and bursting withan overpowering revulsion and incredulous horror at what he had seen."
1945: Soldiers of the Jewish Brigade had theirfirst contact with Jews from central or Eastern Europe when four young men whohad traveled from Poland, Rumania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia arrived at theircamp at Tarvisio, Italy.
1946(5th of Sivan, 5706): Erev Shavuot
1946: By a 6-1 vote, with Justice Felix Frankfurterwriting a concurring opinion, “the United States Supreme Court ruled in Morganv. Virginia that a Virginia law, requiring segregation of white andAfrican-American bus passengers, was illegal for interstate travel.”
1947: “The Jewish Agency for Palestine appealed today tothe United Nations committee of inquiry into Palestine to recommend theestablishment of a Zionist state” while also asking that General Assemblyremove “British restrictions on Jewish immigration and land settlementimmediately.”
1948: The IDF counter-attacked around 2:15 a.m. today,aiming at outflanking the Iraqis by conquering the routes from Jenin to Afulaand Lajjun and “although bolstered withreinforcements, the Israeli attack was repulsed amid numerous losses.”
1948: “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,” a mostcharming comedy produced by Dore Schary and Melvin Frank, who co-wrote thescript and co-starring Melvyn Douglas was released today in the United Statesafter premiering in New York three months earlier.
1948(26th of Iyar, 5708); Samuel Krauss passedaway today in Cambridge. Born in 1866,he served as professor at the Jewish Teacher’s Seminary in Budapest from 1894to 1906 and then moved on to the Jewish Theological Seminary in Vienna where hestayed until the Anschluss forced to take refuge in England in 1938. He was the author of the pioneering work onarchaeology, Talmudische Archäologie
1948:The infant IAF began moving its units away from the front line toward a moresecure base at Herzliya.
1949:Golda Myerson, the Israeli Minister of Labor, Social Insurance and Housingarrived in New York today “where she emphasized the critical housing shortagein Israel” and “asserted that 160,000 housing units were needed immediately totake care of the heavy influx of immigrants.”
1949:In New York, Florence and David Cohen, a Philadelphia City Councilman, gavebirth to their first child Mark B. Cohen who served in the Pennsylvania Houseof Representatives for over forty years.
1950:In “Trouble-Shooter Diplomat,” published today Gertrude Samuels provides adetailed portrait of Israeli Diplomat Eliahu Elath who represented Israel atthe San Francisco Conference in 1945, served as Israel’s first Ambassador tothe United States and was about to assume a similar position at the Court ofSt. James.
1950(19thof Sivan, 5710): Sixty-five-year Pinchus Kahanovich who wrote under thepseudonym “Der Nister” died today in the Gulag after having been arrestedduring Stalin’s purge that was designed to wipe out Jewish authors and theculture that had produced them.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Der_Nister
1951(29thof Iyar, 5711): Russian born American symphony conductor Dr. Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky passedaway. Born in 1874, Serge, as he wasknown, was music director of the Boston Symphony for a quarter of a century.
1952: The Jerusalem Postreported from London that West Germany had tentatively offered to negotiatewith Israel a reparations offer, totaling approximately $585 million, on thebasis of 10 annual payments. The Times warned Germany not to make thisrestitution offer entirely at the expense of its other contractual creditors,and thus shirk its responsibility for the wrongs done to Jews by Hitler'sGermany.
1952: The Jerusalem Postreported that The Knesset approved amendments to the Patents and DesignsOrdinances, aimed at fulfilling the requirements of the International Charterof 1934.
1952: The Jerusalem Postreported that restrictions were announced on a gradual reduction of interurbanand urban bus services, ordered by the government in order to save fuel andforeign currency. Plans were made, however, for a complete end to the rationingof all textiles.
1953:In the United States, release date for MGM’s “Julius Caesar” directed by JosephL. Mankiewicz and filmed by Joseph Ruttenberg.
1954:Two days after he passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held todayat Temple Rodeph Shalom for Jon Miles Davidson, the son of Judge and Mrs. IrwinD. Davidson and the brother of James and Mark Davidson.
1956:New York Mayor Robert Wagner and Israeli Air Force General Shlomo Shamiraddressed the annual donor luncheon of the Mizrachi Women’s Organization ofAmerica at the Waldorf-Astoria. Mayor Wagner told the 1,200 attendees that “thechildren in the State of Israel must receive every opportunity to grow up tobecome leaders and defenders of their country.”
1957(5thof Sivan, 5717): Erev Shavuot
1958(16thof Sivan, 5718): Eighty-two-year-old Florence Eiseman Swarts, the Memphis, TNborn daughter of Benjamin and Matie Butzel Eiseman, the wife Solomon LouisSwarts whom she married in 1898 and the mother of John and Frederick Swarts passedaway today in St. Louis, MO.
1958:Richard Gilder, Jr. the Yale educatedson of property manager Richard Gilder, Sr and “co-founder the Gilder Lehrmaninstitute of American History and his wife gave birth to Yale graduate and Olympic Medal winning rower Viriginia Anne “Ginny” Gilder, the co-ownerof the Seattle Storm woman’s professional basketball team.
1959:At the Waldorf-Astoria, Rabbi Charles Schulman officiated at the marriage of JoAnn Cohen and Charles Gaynor.
1959(27th of Iyar, 5719) Seventy-one one old Polish born, Columbia andJTS trained Rabbi Max Drob the long-time chaplain at Manhattan State Hospitaland leader of the Concourse Center of Israel in the Bronx who raised fourchildren – Judah, Harold, Frank and Ruth – with his wife Dorothy passed awaytoday.
http://www.newkabbalah.com/max.html
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/06/05/82715648.pdf
1959(27thof Iyar, 5719): Fifty-eight-year-old Hungarian born American movie directorCharles Vidor who passed away while filming his last movie “Song Without End”passed away today.
http://www.hollywoodsgoldenage.com/moguls/charles_vidor.html
1961: Twenty-six-year-old Robert Bernard Alter, the NewYork born son of Harry and Tillie Alter who became a professor of Hebrew atCal-Berkley and created his own translation of the bible, today married hisfirst wife, Judith Berkenbilt.
1961(20th of Sivan, 5721): Seventy-year-oldBarnard College graduate “Mrs. Rebecca Fischel Goldstein, the wife of RabbiHerbert S. Goldstein of the Institutional Synagogue,” the daughter of Harry andJane Fischel and the mother of Josephine Reichel, Naomi Cohen, Simeon GoldsteinGabriel Goldstein, who founded the women’s Branch of the Union OrthodoxCongregations of America, the Hebrew Teachers Training School for Girls, andthe Yeshiva University Women’s Organization passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/06/05/118040768.html?pageNumber=31
1963(12th of Sivan, 5723): Seventy-seven-year-oldRiga native and Cornell undergraduate Samuel Berkowitz the holder of a master’sfrom Columbia and the husband Frances Berkowitz with whom he raised threechildren, Henry, Arthur and Evelyn, who was a retired public school principalpassed away today
1964:Dodger pitcher Sandy Koufax threw histhird no-hitter beating thePhillies, 3-0.
1966:The slowdown strike by 1,600 dock workers at the Port of Haifa continued today.
1967:Meir Amit reported to the cabinet meeting that U.S. Secretary Robert McNamarahad said "I read you loud and clear." in response to Amit’s request“All we want is three things: One, that you refill our arsenal after the war.Two, that you will help us in the UN. Three, that you will isolate the Russiansfrom the arena." Amit told the cabinet this was a green light from theUnited States if Israel launched a pre-emptive strike against its Arab enemies.
1967:As war clouds gathered over Israel, General Mordechai “Mottie” Hod “briefed hiswing commanders.
1967: For seven hours Israel’s National UnityCabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol met to hear a review of themilitary options presented by Moshe Dayan as well as an update by intelligencesources on the situation in the Egyptian military command. Egyptian generals were pressuring Nasser tolet them strike the first blow. The“Arab streets” were demanding action.Delay was Israel’s enemy. Eachday the Arab forces grew stronger, while Israel’s forces were at their “optimumlevel.” The Cabinet agreed that themilitary option was all that was left.The Cabinet voted unanimously to let Eshkol and Dayan choose the timeand place of attack. After the Cabinetadjourned, the two Israeli leaders agreed that H-hour was 7:45, Monday, June 5.The report delivered by General Meir Amit was considered critical to thedecision. Amit had just returned from Washington where he met with DefenseSecretary MacNamara who assured the Israeli General of America’s willingness tore-supply Israel after the war, help the Jewish state at the UN and to keep theSoviets out of the area.
1969: Rabbi Balfour Brickner said today that “elevenReform student rabbis will live and work in the slums of major cities thissummer in the third year of third year of the Rabbinic Internship in UrbanAffairs program.”
1969(18thof Sivan, 5729): Eighty-two year old Lillian Schifrin, the Cincinnati borndaughter of “Adolph Aira Berman and Mary Agnes Jacobs and the “ex-wife ofIsidor Schifrin” passed away today in her hometown.
1970(29thof Iyar, 5730): Seventy eight year old comedian Menasha Skulnik, known asMenasha the Magnificent, passedaway today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C00EFDA103EE034BC4D53DFB066838B669EDE
1971(29th of Iyar, 5730): Sixty-nine-year-oldcomedian Joe E. Lewis best known for having been mutilated and left for deadafter turning down a contract with Al Capone passed away today.
http://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/id39.htm
http://www.lvstriphistory.com/ie/joelewis.htm
1971(11thof Sivan, 5731): Eighty-six-year-old Marxist philosopher György Lukács passedaway in Budapest.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lukacs.htm
1972:After being released in the UK in May, “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg” directedby Peter Medak and co-starring Janet Suzman was released today in the UnitedStates.
1972:Joseph Brodsky, Russian born Jewish poet and essayist who would go on to winthe Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and would serve as Poet Laureate of theUnited States in 1991 and 1992, was expelled from the Soviet Union.
1976(6thof Sivan): First day of Shavuot is celebrated for the last time during thePresidency of Gerald Ford.
1981:The New York Times reported thatGeorge Balanchine, choreographer and artistic director of the New York CityBallet, has received the Jewish National Fund's first Tarbut Award, given tothe choreographer in honor of his ''great achievements in expanding the scopeand dimension of dance in America and throughout the world.''
1981:Begin and Sadat held a summit meeting at Sharm El Sheikh two days before thescheduled of the Iraqi nuclear reactor – a fact known to Begin but not Sadat.
1982:In attempt todislodge the PLO from its bases, Israel attacked targets insouth Lebanon.
1982:“Hank Panky” a comedy starring Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner was released todayin the United States.
1983(23rdof Sivan, 5743): Parashat Sh’lach
1983(23rdof Sivan, 5743): Seventy-year-old Yaakov L. Fishman who had been chief rabbi ofMoscow’s Choral Synagogue for twelve years passed away today.
1985: In the seemingly endless attempt by someto breach the wall between church and state the U.S. Supreme Court rules inWallace v Jaffree that an Alabama law mandating a minute of silent mediation orvoluntary prayer at the start of the school day is unconstitutional.
1985:At Hod HaSharon, Rafi Fefaeli and former fashion model Tzipi Levine gave birthto actress and model Bar Refaeli.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bar_Refaeli_2011.jpg
1986:Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pled guilty in US court
1987:The IPO music director, Zubin Mehta, conducts with soloists Itzhak Perlman andGerry Mulligan in a classical-jazz concert.
1989:Wendy Wasserstein became the first woman to win a Tony Award for Best Play, forThe Heidi Chronicles.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/04/1989/wendy-wasserstein
1990(11thof Sivan, 5750): Jack Gilford passed away at the age of 82, a victim ofstomach cancer. He gained fame as comedic actor whose "rubberface"was an acting trademark gained additional fameplaying apiece of fruit in the Fruit of the Loom commercials.
1993:“Life with Mikey” produced by Scott Rudin, co-starring David Krumholtz andfeaturing music by Alan Menken was released today in the United States.
1993:"Reemergence: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe," a film series featuring“five recent movies and one short about the Jewish experience in Europe” isscheduled to open in Washington, D.C.
1994(25thof Sivan, 5754): Eighty-four-year-old Roberto Burle Marx “one of the mostinfluential landscape architects of the twentieth century” whose works are ondisplay at the Jewish Museum until September, passed away today
http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/roberto-burle-marx-brazilian-modernist
1995(6thof Sivan, 5755): Shavuot
1995(6thof Sivan, 5755): Seventy-six-year-old Leo Cantor who played fullback in thesame UCLA backfield as Jackie Robinson and went on to a career in pro-footballpassed away today.
http://www.nfl.com/player/leocantor/2511023/profile
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CantLe20.htm
1995:Outfielder Brian Kowitz made his major league debut with the Atlanta Braves.
1997(28thof Iyar, 5757): Thirty years after the Six Day, Jews observe Yom Yerushalayim
1998:The Republican controlled U.S. House of Representatives passes “a School PrayerAmendment that would overturn the Supreme Court decision banning state-writtenand state-mandated Christians in public schools.: While the Bill passed by a simple majority itfailed to gain the two-thirds majority necessary to move forward the amendingprocess.
2000: TheNew York Times featured reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers includingthe recently released paperback edition of The Lexus and the Olive Treeby Thomas L. Friedman.
2001: Today, “in a day-long procession of grief” 19young people, including Yelena and Yulia Nelimov, teenage sisters who came fromRussia to live in Israel, who were a victim of a Tel Aviv suicide bombing onJune 1, “were buried side by side here today in a row of eight fresh graves.(As reported by Joel Greenberg)
2002: The BBC broadcast “Victoria and Her Sisters”the 13th episode of “A History of Britain a documentary serieswritten and presented by Simon Schama” which began its second season tonight.
2003: Based on the unofficial election resultsreleased today it was reported that “Jerusalem has elected its firstultra-Orthodox Jewish mayor, Uri Lupolianski, a rabbi and father of 12 who haspledged to improve city services and has refrained from confronting volatilepolitical issues
2004: In “Shul Life, Circa 1850” published today,Adam Dickter provides a portrait of the “early days of Brooklyn’s Kane Streetsynagogue.
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-95988109.html
2005(26th of Iyar, 5765): ParashatBamidbar
2005: Syria's informationminister today denied Israeli claims that his country test-fired Scud missileson May 27, calling the accusations an "expression of Israel's hostileintentions." (As reported by Steve Erlanger.)
2006: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interestto Jewish readers including the recently released paperback editions of PerfectlyReasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman,Edited by Michelle Feynman, What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of NationBuilding by Noah Feldman and Wilt, 1962: The Night of 100 Points and theDawn of a New Era by Gary Pomerantz.
2006: In a show of the changing face of Jewishinvolvement in all facets of life Haaretz reported that Israeli tennisplayer Shahar Peer advanced to the last sixteen of the French Open, after aresounding 6-4, 7-5 defeat of sixth-seeded Russian Elena Dementieva.
2007: In the “Verbatim” section Time magazinefeatured the following quote by Rutka Laskier, “'If only I could say, It'sover, you only die once ... but I can't, because despite all these atrocities,I want to live, and wait for the following day.'” Rutka Laskier has beendescribed as the Polish Anne Frank. Like Frank, she wrote a Holocaust-eradiary, at the age of 14. Like Frank, Laskier perished during the Holocaust.Apparently, the Nazis killed her at Auschwitz.
2007:An article about Scholar and Rabbi Jacob Neusner entitled “The Pope’s FavoriteRabbi” appears in Time Magazine. Thebrief article briefly describes Neusner’s view of Christianity and their impacton Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope devotes20 pages of his new book to A Rabbi Talks with Jesus, a 161-page tomepublished in 1993. In that volume, the professor (now at Bard College inAnnandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.) and non-congregational rabbi projected himself backinto the Gospel of Matthew to quiz Jesus on the Jewish law. He found theNazarene's interpretation irredeemably faulty. In his 14-years-delayedresponse, Benedict not only compliments Neusner as a "great Jewishscholar" but also recapitulates the thesis of A Rabbi Talks andspends a third of one of his 10 chapters answering it.
2008:In Washington, D.C., the AIPAC Policy Conference comes to an end.
2008(1stof Sivan, 5768): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
2008:Today, the Great Synagogue of Brussels which had been designed in 1875 andbuilt in 1875 was dedicated as the "Great Synagogue of Europe" todayby President José Manuel Barroso and two of Europe's leading rabbis who signeda document of dedication.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7435232.stm
2008:A judge declared a mistrial in the case of Navee Haq, the man who stormed intoa Jewish center two years ago and shot six women, killing one, as he rantedagainst Israel and the Iraq war. Thejurors appeared to be hopelessly deadlocked over whether or not he was guiltyby reason of insanity.
2008: The Historical Society of Jews from Egypt asked theUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) tointervene on its behalf with government in Cairo sincethe Egyptians have refused to release archives connected to the Jewishcommunity.
2009:Elinor Lipman, author of the bestselling novels The Inn at Lake Devineand Isabel's Bed, reads from her new novel, The Family Man, atSixth and I Historic Synagogue (formerly Adas Israel) in Washington, D.C.
2009:Stanley “Drucker was awarded a Guinness World Record for longest career as aclarinetist after his performance of Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto with theorchestra. Guinness thus logged his Philharmonic career at "62 years, 7months and 1 day as of June 4, 2009".
2009:The Israeli government praised U.S. President Barack Obama's speech to theMuslim world today, saying it shared his hopes for Middle East peace, butstressed that Israel's security interests remained paramount..
2010:The “Waiting Room,” the first New York solo exhibition of Be’er Sheva nativeMaya Bloch is scheduled to open at Thierry Goldberg Projects.
2010:At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA, Friday night services feature thebaby-naming ceremony for Nicole Charley Hurwitz, the second granddaughter ofIvy and Bill Hurwitz.
2010:The Baltimore Zionist District is scheduled to sponsor “A Rally to Stand inSolidarity with Israel” at the corner of Pratt and Light Street in Baltimore,MD.
2010(22ndof Sivan, 5770): Ninety-nine-year-old Himan Brown who created a series ofclassic radio dramas including “The Adventures of the Thin Man”, “Dick Tracy,”and “Inner Sanctum” passed away today. (As reported by Joseph Berger)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/arts/07brown.html
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=himan-brown&pid=143346493
2011(2ndof Sivan, 5771): Eighty-three-year-old Felix Zandman, the Holocaust survivorwho “founded Vishay Intertechnology Inc., a $2 billion electronics firm tradedon Wall Street that supplies the computer, aerospace and other industries”passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E1DA153AF931A25755C0A9679D8B63
2011(2ndof Sivan, 5771): Ninety-one-year-old Leo Greenland, advertising man parexcellence, passed away. (As reported by Maraglit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/business/13greenland.html
2011:The great New Zealand soprano Kiri Te Kanawa is scheduled to give a rarerecital tonight at the Jerusalem International Convention Center (BinyaneiHauma)
2011(2ndof Sivan, 5771): Thirty-six-year-old Buffalo Grove High and University ofIllinois alum Lindsey Durlacher, the Greco-Roman wrestler who won Gold Medalsin four Maccabiah Games passed away today as a result of the injuries hesuffered in a snowmobile accident.
http://www.legacy.com/ns/lindsey-durlacher-obituary/151604327
2011:“Sundaes on Saturday” will be the theme of this month’s traditional ShabbatMinyan at Temple Judah featuring a Kiddush where attendees will make their ownice cream concoctions as everybody gets in the Shavuot Mood.
2011:Thousands visited Krakow's seven historic synagogues in an unprecedented eventaimed to foster Jewish identity among Krakow's small Jewish community.
2011:Around 5,000 people took part in a march in central Tel Aviv this eveningsupporting the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.
2012: Melting away “the first feature film inthe history of Israeli cinema dealing with the parents' perspective on having atransgender child” is scheduled to be shown in Washington, DC.
2012:The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to offer “It’s Magic: Nine Decades ofSongs from Warner Brothers” which celebrates the role of music at the studioowned by four Jewish brother starting with “The Jazz Singer.”
2012:In Jerusalem, the Israel Festival is scheduled to host “Theatre ad Infinitum”at the Khan Theatre
2012(14thof Sivan, 5772): Seventy-four-year-old Steve Ben Israel passed away.
http://thevillager.com/2012/06/07/steve-ben-israel-countercultural-performer-dead-at-74/
2013:The Alexandria Kleztet is scheduled to perform at Bethesda Blues and JazzSupper Club in Bethesda, MD.
2013:Finerman's Rules: Secrets I'd Only Tell My Daughters About Business and Lifeby Karen Lisa Finerman was published today by Hachette Book Group's BusinessPlus
2013:Revenge Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger, a sequel to The Devil WarsPrada was released today and “debuted at No. 3 on the New York Timesbestseller list.
2013:At Tel Aviv University the conference entitled “Holy War and Sacred Struggle inJudaism, Christianity and Islam” is scheduled to come to an end.
2013:Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns by Lauren Weisberger waspublished today.
2013:The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and The Center for Jewish History arescheduled to present a panel discussion entitled “Hungary and the Holocaust:Assessing the Past; Preparing for the Future.”
2013:Relations between coalition parties Hatnua and the Bayit Yehudi continued todeteriorate today, with Religious Services Minister Naftali Bennett effectivelyblocking a bill by MK Elazar Stern (Hatnua) to change the panel that choosesthe chief rabbis.(As reportedy Lahav Harkov & Jeremy Sharon)
2013:IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz has ordered a major reduction in theemployment of external advisers and cancelled all non-operational trips of IDFdelegations to militaries abroad today. Speaking at the site of an InfantryCorps drill, Gantz said he believes the IDF is up to the "difficulttask" of making defense budget cuts. (As reported Yakkov Lapin)
2014(6th of Sivan, 5774): Shavuot
2014:Starting at 12:30 A.M. the JCC in Manhattan is scheduled to show “Tikkun LeilShavuot: Supermensch” a film at about Shep Gordon.
2014:As part of the Shavuot celebration Jews in Little Rock are scheduled to gatherat the Chabad House under the leadership of Rabbi Pinchas Ciment for a readingof the Ten Commandments followed by a delicious dairy Kiddush complete withcheesecake and ice cream.
2014:At least 46,000 tickets have been sold for the Rolling Stones first everconcert in Israel which is scheduled to take place tonight at Tel Aviv’s YarkonPark. (Time of Israel)
2014:The Shalom Hartman Institute is scheduled to hold English language studysessions as part of the Shavuot observances led by Suzanne Last Stone, GilTory, Menachem Fisch and Menachem Loberbaum.
2014:The Iron Dome system fired intereptors as at least two mortars were fired fromSyria into the Golan Heights.
2014:As Israelis celebrate Shavuot, they are experience a heat wave resulting inrecord or near record temperatures at Beersheba, Kfar Saba, Haifa and Tel Aviv.(As reported by Noam (Dabul) Dvir)
2015:In Washington, DC, Theatre J is scheduled to celebrate “30 years of CharlesBusch” with a performance of “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife.”
2015:The Israel Film Center Festival is scheduled to open the JCC Manhattan.
2015:“The US Senate unanimously approved a resolution condemning anti-Semitism inEurope” today.
2015:The International Consortium for Research on Antisemitism and Racism; Centerfor Research on Antisemitism, Berlin and the Pears Institute for the study ofAntisemitism are among the co-sponsors of “Gender, Memory and Genocide: AnInternational Conference Marking 100 Years Since the Armenian Genocide” isscheduled to open today
2015:The Cleveland Cavaliers, led by Coach David Blatt are scheduled to play theGolden State Warriors in the first game of the NBA Championship series.
2016(27thof Iyar, 5776): Completion of Vayikra(Leviticus)
Bechukotai(In my statutes);
2016:“Tatram,” “an eclectic instrumental power trio for in Israel in 2011 isscheduled to perform this evening at Iridium.
2016:“Facts on the Ground,” a solo exhibition of the works Shimon Attie at the JackSahinman Gallery is scheduled to end today.
2016:The 17th annual Washington Music Festival is scheduled to opentonight with a performance by “Yemen Blues.”
2016:A solo exhibition featuring the works of Tal Eshed is scheduled to end at TanjaGrunert Gallery.
2016:The Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation is scheduled to host its CasinoRoyale fundraising event.
2017:The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including Testimony by Scott Turow, Grown-UpAnger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the CalumetMassacre of 1913 by Daniel Wolff, Light Come Shining: TheTransformations of Bob Dylan by Andrew McCarron and Bob Dylan: TheLyrics by Bob Dylan.
2017:As part of the Israel Festival “The Incubator Theater is scheduled to bring itstreatment of “Job,” starring veteran actor Sasson Gabbay in the role of thetormented emissary, supported by Keren Hadar as Job’s wife to the Henry CrownHall, Jerusalem Theater.”
2017:“Shavuot Park Day” is scheduled to take place this afternoon at Hudson SpringsPark in Cleveland, Ohio.
2017:Author Marty Brounstein is scheduled to “share a remarkable true story ofcourage during the Holocaust, when Frans and Mien Wijnakker, a Catholic couplein a small town, saved the lives of over two dozen Jews in southern Hollandduring World War II at The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center isscheduled to host
2017:“Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner who “has spent the past decade filinglawsuits for the victims of terror attacks against the governments, banks andcorporations that enabled or financed the violence” is scheduled to “speakabout her work in a live interview in Jerusalem” today.
2017:The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host the “HStreet, NE Stroller Tour” where attendees will visit a neighborhood once hometo “75 Jewish-owned businesses.”
2017:The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host an afternoon of“Punting and Picnics.”
2017:In Stony Brook, New York, an exhibit entitled, “Brilliant Partners: JudithLeiber’s Handbags & The Art of Gerson Leiber” that “features nearly 200examples of “his and her” art: 130 of her handbags and 50 of his pieces” isscheduled to come to an end today.
2018:Marc Jacobs, who won the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s LifetimeAchievement Award in 2011 is scheduled to attend the organization’s awardceremony tonight at the Brooklyn Museum where he is one of the nominees for“the group’s top award, women’s wear designer of the year.”
2018:The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host an evening withformer Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary State of CollinPowell, the only Yiddish speaker to hold both of these positions.
2018:Tonight, “when some of fashion’s biggest names gather at the Brooklyn Museumfor the annual Council of Fashion Designers of America awards — often calledthe Oscars of the fashion world — a familiar figure will again be celebrated: MarcJacobs.”
2018:The Straus Historical Society is scheduled to host its Silent Auction thisevening.
2018:The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host an evening with RabbiRam Winograd, the graduate of Hebrew University and Oxford who “resides asJudge at the Jerusalem District Court.”
2018:In Los Angeles, Rabbi Mendel is scheduled to present the final session “Kabalaof Communication – It’s Art and Soul.”
2019(1stof Sivan, 5779) Rosh Chodesh Sivan
2019(1stof Sivan, 5779): Seventy-three-year-old Nacham Rivlin, the wife of PresidentReuven Rivlin passed away today.
2019:In Metairie, LA, meeting of the Rosh Choesh Society, a monthly night out where“women of all walks of life” share and enjoy an evening of camaraderie” whilediscussing “how to bring meaning to everyday life.”
2019:In Atlanta, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host the second day of the SummerInstitute on Teaching the Holocaust.”
2019:The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to host “Hebrew Liederaband– An Evening of Hebrew Music” which “was devised by YIVO’s Anne E. LeibowitzVisiting Professor-in-Residence in Music, Neil W. Levin, who will deliver thepre-concert lecture on the development of the Modern Hebrew song tradition, itsliterary basis, and the spirit of rejuvenation that drove it.”
2019:The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host its annual SummerParty including “a kosher barbecue, dancing, singing and beatboxing.”
2019:As part of his series on “The Ten Lost Tribes” Rabbi Dr.Raphael Zarum, the Dean of the London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled tolecture on the “Deportations: Where did the Ten Tribes go?”
2019: Avivah Zornberg, the author of Moses: AHuman Life is scheduled to end her latest American lecture tour today.
2020: Peninsula JCC’s Michele Solomon isscheduled to host a virtual demonstration of how to make a rainbow challah inhonor of Pride month.
2020: The S.F.-based Jewish Film Institute isscheduled to present the 26-minute pilot episode of “Lady Liberty” a comedyabout an aspiring Jewish comedian learning to claim her queerness followed byconversation with creator-writer-star Julia Lindon and director Lee Nagel.
2020: Live on Zoom the American Jewish HistoricalSociety is scheduled to present “The Art of the Jewish Family.”
2020: The JCC of Greater Boston is schooled topresent PJ Library sisters Hannah and Lyla from their home as they guide youthrough a step-by-step crafting tutorial.
2020:Live via Zoom, JWA is scheduled to present “Leading through Crisis and Change:
JewishWomen at the Turn of the 20th Century.”
2020:The Temple Emanu-El Streicker is scheduled to host Harvey Fierstein “for aschmooze with Academy Award Winner Elinor Burkett.
2021:YJP Boston is scheduled to present First Friday Shabbat Dinner Under the Stars,with an open bar and plenty of room to mix, mingle, dine and network with youngJewish professionals from the Greater Boston area.
2021:Temple Emanu El is scheduled to host, via zoom a wine and cheese receptionbefore the Shabbat service.
2021:The Hamas terror group urged Palestinians to hold a “Day of Rage” today inorder to confront what it called “settlers’ aggression” and the “storming ofthe Al-Aqsa Mosque” in Jerusalem.” (As reported by Emanuel Fabian)
2021:Tabard Theater and Silicon Valley Shakespeare are scheduled to “present DougBrook in a one-man play about a Jewish actor’s portrayal of Shakespeare’sinfamous character Shylock.”
2022:The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host “The Best of Chamber Music withDanny Erdman, clarinet; Raz Kohn, cello and Ron Regev, piano.
2022(5thof Sivan, 5782) Parasha Bamidbar and Chapter 6 Pirke Avot
2022(5thof Sivan, 5782): In the evening erev Shavuot.
2023:Scholar Michael Goldberg is scheduled to discuss his debut novel, Zieglitz’sBlessing which tells the story of a multigenerational search for identityand the meaning of a man's life. With coffee and bagels
2023:Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Boston is scheduled to present “YomSport 2023” which “provides athletes with disabilities throughout the GreaterBoston community an opportunity to come together and participate in a varietyof sporting events.”
2023:Historian Ari Joskowicz is scheduled to discuss his new book, Rain of Ash:Roma, Jews and the Holocaust which tells the story of how Roma turned toJewish institutions and funding sources as they sought to gain recognition andcompensation for Holocaust suffering.
2023:Hebrew College is scheduled to present online and in-person the commencementand ordinations for 2023/5783.
2023:For the 58th year, New York City is scheduled to host the Celebrate Israelparade today which is organized by the Jewish Community Relations Council ofNew York (JCRC-NY) and other supporting partners such as the UJA Federation andthe Israeli Consulate in New York.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/skgwxvrih
2024:In the evening Yom Jerusalem “an Israeli national holiday commemorating thereunification of Jerusalem” is scheduled to begin.
2024:In Metairie, LA, Congregation Beth Israel is scheduled to host a “BlintzWorkshop.”
2024:In Princeton, NJ, the “Lobel Teachers Colloquia is scheduled to come to an end.
2024:In Marblehead, MA, Temple Sinia is scheduled to host a Yom YerushalayimBonfire.
The12th Annual Israel Film Center Festival is scheduled to begin at the |MarleneMeyerson JCC in Manhattan
2024:The Streicker Center is scheduled to host a pop-up class on “Is It A Mitzvah ToLove Your Enemy?’
2024:The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present a lecture byTulane University Jewish Studies professor Golan Moskowitz on “WILD OUTSIDE INTHE NIGHT: QUEER JEWISHNESS AND CHILDHOOD LIMINALITY IN THE PICTURE-BOOKS OFMAURICE SENDAK.”
2024:The National Library of Israel is scheduled to present on-line “Bruno Schulzand the Hijacking of History: A Conversation With Benjamin Balint and JoshuaCohen.”
2024: As Jews gather to begin to celebration JerusalemRe-Unification Day, they are filled with joy over the election of Claudia Scheinbaumto serve President of Mexico and filled with deep sorrow that four morehostages -- Haim Peri, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Popplewell and Amiram Cooper – haveturned out to be corpses who died while in the hands of their captors.
2024:As June 4th begins in Israel, anunprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 242 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.)
