JUNE 27
1096:Massacres of the Jews took place in Xanten and Eller (Germany). This was thesecond massacre at Xanten in a month. Fifty Jews died. At Eller, five Jewishcommunity leaders were assigned the task (by the community) of killing all themembers and then themselves rather than suffer at the hands of the Crusaders.Out of a community of three hundred, only four remained, badly wounded.
1240: In Paris, a commission that was making an inquiryinto the nature of the Talmud with a specific interest into alleged derogatorycomments about Jesusended its deliberation after three days. Thecommission condemnedthe Talmud to be burned. The sentence ofcondemnation was not executed. Apparently Archbishop Walter Cornutus ofSens, a prelate influential with the King, interceded on behalf of the Jews andsucceeded in having many of the confiscated volumes of the Talmud returned totheir rightful owners
1462: Birthdate of LouisXII who expelled the Jews from Provence in 1501.
1458: Ferdinand I beganhis reign as King of Naples during which he provided refuges for the Jewsexpelled from Spain.
1570(23rd ofTammuz): Cabbalist Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, known as Ramak, passed away inSafed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Cordovero
1651:William Prynne, the Puritan leader who was an outspoken opponent ofre-admitting Jews to England, and who “was sentenced to be imprisoned duringlife, to be fined £5,000, to be expelled from Lincoln's Inn, to be deprived ofhis degree by the university of Oxford, and to lose both his ears in thepillory” for his attacks on dramatic performances and King Charles I was movedto Taunton Castle today after spending a year in Dunster Castle.
1709:Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava. TheRussian victory marked the beginning of the end for Sweden as a major Europeanmilitary and political power. Charles XI, the father of Charles XII had bannedJews from living in Sweden. Charles XIIdid not adhere to his father’s wishes since he used Jewish merchants as courttreasurers and royal paymaster for his armies when they were in the field. The father’s religious concerns wereoverridden by the son’s financial needs.Peter the Great did not want Jews living in his ever expandingkingdom. During the war with Sweden,when the fighting reached Poland, Russian soldiers were given in a free hand inlooting and pillaging the Jewish property and taking whatever liberties theywished with the Jewish populace.
1723:Today, Isaac de Sequeira Samuda or Isaac de Sequeyra Samudaa British physicianand poet who was of Portuguese-Jewish descent and was the first member of theSamuda family to settle in Britain was elected afellow of the Royal Society
1741:Joseph and Leah Tobias gave birth to Rinah Tobia who became Rinah de Lyon whenshe married Isaac de Lyone with whom she had four children – Esther, Judith,Hannah and Abraham.
1758:David Franks wrote Colonel George Washington regarding a shipment of freight tohim from Philadelphia and wishing him “a Successful Campaign.” (Editor’s note:This was probably a reference tofighting during the French-Indian War.)
1770:In Amsterdam, Haim David Aron de Sola and Sara Moses Jesurun de Oliveira gavebirth to Rafael Aron (v. Haim David) de Sola, the “husband of Sara v. IsaacNamias Torres and Simha v. Abraham Barzilay and father of Rabbi David Aaron deSola and Milca/Sara (Rephael) Aron de Josheph Bassan
1787:After 25 years of work, Edward Gibbon completes the manuscript of the Historyof the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon had a very low opinion of the Jewishpeople describing them as the “disturbers of the religious harmony of theancient world” who had emerged from the deserved obscurity resulting from theenslavement by the Assyrians and Babylonians to observe their “peculiar rites and unsocial manners” with “sullenobstinacy.” [Ed. Note: It only gets worse after this.]
1804: In Berlin, jeweler David Jacob Riess and his wife gavebirth to Peter Gottlieb Riess, who as physicist and mathematician PeterTheophil Riess became the first Jewish member of the Berlin Academy
1805: Birthdate of Francis William Newman, the brother ofCardinal Newman whose works included A History of the Hebrew Monarchypublished in 1847.
1806: King of Frederick of Wurttemberg issued a decree that said“"in view of the various services that the Kaulla family has rendered tothe country in critical periods", he was conferring upon court bankerJacob Kaulla and a number of his immediate relatives and their descendants ofboth sexes all rights of citizenship in Württemberg.
1807: In Randegg, Germany, Rachel and Aron Schott gave birth toLeopold Schott, the husband of Sara Randegger with whom he had three children –Anna, Stella and Moses.
1809: Phineas Davis married Jane Isaacs at the Great Synagogue.
1819: Joseph Johlson “presented second edition of his book ofreligion instruction in the Mosaic religion to the German National Assembly.
1821: Alexander Jones married Jane Jones at the HambroSynagogue.
1827: Seventy-four-year-old Johann G. Eichhorn, the German OldTestament scholar who was a pioneer in "higher criticism," whichevaluated Scripture through literary analysis and historical evidence, ratherthan by the unquestioned authority of systematized religious tradition as canbe seen in his seminal work Introduction to the Old Testament passed awaytoday.
1828(15th of Tammuz, 5588): Fifty-year old AbrahamMontel, the husband of Naumy Vidal Naquet and one of the Rabbis who attendedNapoleon’s Grand Sanhedrin, passed away today.
1829(26th of Sivan, 5589): Parashat Sh’lach
1829(26th of Sivan 5589): Eleven month old HarmonHendricks Levy, the son of Hayman and Alemeria Levy passed away today inColumbia, SC.
1832: Morris Van Praagh married Sarah Boam at the HambroSynagogue.
1839: In Great St. Helens, Deborah and Israel Lindenthal gavebirth to Hannah Lindenthal.
1846(3rd of Tammuz, 5606): Parashat Korach
1846(3rd of Tammuz, 5606): Five week old PaulineEinhorn the daughter of Karoline and Sigmund Max Einhorn passed away today.
1846: In Magdeurg, Rabbi Ludwig Philippson and his wife gavebirth to historian Martin Philippson
1850(17th of Tammuz, 5610): Tzom Tammuz
1851: Today, in Washington, D.C. twenty-five year Adolphus SimeonSolomons, the New York City born son of Julia Levy and John Solomons married twenty-threeyear old Rachel Seixas Phillips, the daughter of Naphtali Phillips and EstherSeixas.
1854: “The British Ministry” published today reviewed thechanging fortunes of various English political leaders. The author expressedthe belief that Lord John Russell would not enjoy the continued support ofLondon’s Jews if here running for election today. The authors stated that “itwas solely due to his bad management” and lack of tact “that Jews were notdeclared eligible to sit in Parliament.” If Lord Russell had allowed Mr.Rothschild to follow the same oath pattern when he was elected in 1847 as theQuaker Mr. Pease had used in 1833, Jews would now be sitting in the House ofCommons. Lord Russell’s insistence onsolving the problem with an Act of Parliament was counter-productive since sucha solution was bound to fail.
1854(1st of Tammuz, 5614): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1854(1st of Tammuz, 5614): Eighty-seven-year-old“German philanthropist and communal worker” Amalie Beer, “wife of the bankerJacob Herz Beer, daugher of Liebmann Meyer Wolf (known as "the BerlinCrœsus"), and great-granddaughter of Lipmann Wolf Taussig” passed awaytoday. (Some sources show her death date as June 22 or June 24)
1854: Today, “plans for a synagogue” which would be the new homefor Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco” were approved and contract in the amount of$10,258 was let to move the project forward.
1855: Ninety-year-old Anton von Schmid, a Christian whopublished Hebrew books passed away today in Vienna. Toward the end of the 18thcentury extensive Hebrew printing in Vienna began with the court printer JosephEdler von Kurzbeck, who used the font of Joseph *Proops in Amsterdam. Heemployed Anton (later: von) Schmid (1775-1855), who chose printing instead ofthe priesthood. Their first production was the Mishnah (1793). In 1800 thegovernment placed an embargo on Hebrew books printed abroad and thus gave him anear monopoly. His correctors were Joseph della Torre and the poet SamuelRomanelli (to 1799), who with Schmid printed his Alot ha-Minah for CharlotteArnstein's fashionable marriage (1793).Among the works they printed were a Bible with Mendelssohn's Biur(1794-95) and David Franco-Mendes' Gemul Atalyah (1800). Schmid also issued the24th Talmud edition (1806-11) and the Turim (1810-13) with J.L. Ben-Zeev'snotes on Hoshen Mishpat.
http://www.hist-chron.com/eu/oe/EncJud_juden-in-Wien02-17jh-18jh-ENGL.html
1857:Asteroid 45 Eugenia was discovered by Hermann MayerSalomon Goldschmidt.
1860: “The tenth subordinate lodge” of the Independent Order ofFree Sons of Israel “known as Naphtali Lodge No. 10” was formed today.
1860: The New York Times published thefollowing:
To the Editor of the New-YorkTimes:
Several New-York Archaeologists have, within the pastweek, received various communications concerning the discovery of a verycurious stone relic, covered with Hebrew inscriptions, said to have been foundby Mr. WYRICK, of Newark, Ohio, in one of those artificial earthworks sonumerous in that vicinity. Some of these letters, which we had the pleasure tosee, are accompanied by full-sized drawings of the stone and inscriptions,together with many-columns of newspaper notices, showing the deep interest the discoveryhas created amongst Western antiquaries. One of these letters, we are informed,was read at the last meeting of the American Ethnological Society; but, withtheir usual caution, the members did not venture an opinion, preferring, wepresume, to defer an expression of it until after a more critical andscientific examination of the relic itself, and all the circ*mstances connectedwith its discovery shall have been entered into. For the purpose of giving yourreaders some account of the discovery, we have condensed the various noticesinto a reasonable length. First, as to Mr. WYRICK, the finder of the stone. Heseems to be an old and respected citizen of Licking County, by profession asurveyor, and of late years has become enamored of archaeological pursuits. Hehas recently been engaged in surveying, platting and constructing atopographical map of the ancient earthworks so extensive in Cherry Valley.During this process he has been prospecting in a quiet way by excavating themounds and embankments for the purpose of finding some implement or relic whichmight repay him for the trouble. So on Friday morning, the 29th of June, hestarted out with his digging implements, accompanied only by his son, a ladeight or nine years of age. He concluded to try his luck in a new place,influenced, he states, by a suggestion from Mr. SQUIER, that it might be wellto examine the "dug holes," conceiving they might be caches or hidingplaces -- cemeteries or bone-pits, as they are called in New-York. "Havingfound one in the woods more articulated than the others," he commenced atrench in the greatest depression of the circle, and did not proceed down morethan two feet (through black loam) before he found a stone bale, then thiswonderful emblematic stone embedded in a bale of composition clay, adobe, orsunburnt brick. On cleaning off the stone he discovered the inscriptions, butwas totally ignorant of their nature. Almost frantic with delight, he hastenedto his friends, who informed him that they were Hebrew characters.
DESCRIPTION OF THE STONE.
The material is novaculite, or hone-stone, not found inplaces within the limits of Ohio, yet may be seen in any carpenter's shop. Now,mark the description. It is very hard, with perfectly smooth surfaces, and hasapparently been polished; 5 3/4 inches long, with two flat sides, each 2 1/2inches wide at the top, tapering down to 1 1/4 inches at the end. The edges aresquare, and nearly the same width. On each of the four sides is an inscriptionin Hebrew, each complete in itself. The letters are about one inch in length,and cut as clear as a die -- a fair specimen of letter-carving in stone.
THE INSCRIPTION is as follows, which may easily berendered by any Hebrew scholar:
1. Kedosh Kedoskim -- The Holy of Holies.
2. Torath, J[???]hovah -- The Law of God.
3. Melec Erets -- The King of the Earth.
4. Devar Jehovah -- The Word of the Lord.
So much for the history of this stone and the characterof the inscription. Of course suck a discovery must give rise to numerous andvarious speculations. Some have suggested that it might be a Masonic emblem --the keystone which Master Masons anciently deposited in the corner-stone oftheir temples. (But, unfortunately for this hypothesis, the shape is not thesame.) Others have supposed it furnished evidence of the presence of the losttribes of Israel. Copies of the inscription have been submitted to some of ourlearned Rabbis, who generally agree that the above is a fair rendering of thetext. But a difference of opinion has been expressed with regard to theantiquity of the characters, some carrying them back to the rime of Ezra,whilst others think them more modern. But this discussion is neither here northere. The first and most important question to be solved by the cautiousarchaeologist is, whether or not this is a genuine relic of antiquity? Taking ageneral view of the subject, we might say, at the recent discovery of Americaby the Europeans, they found millions of inhabitants, but no well authenticatedinstance of an alphabet, or a single page of written history, other thansymbolic pictures. We hold that no people, whether savage or civilized, everoccupied the earth's surface without leaving in the soil some trace of theirexistence and arts. If the Lost Tribes came to this Continent, it was afterthey possessed a written language and knowledge of certain arts, evidences ofwhich might naturally be recorded upon imperishable materials, as stone,pottery and coins. And these evidences should be of frequent occurence to proveanything -- as no single isolated case, no matter how well authenticated,should-establish a theory. But no one will admit that enough has as yet beendiscovered to justify this hypothesis. We will next allude to the internalevidence of its antiquity, as derived from the published accounts. The stone issaid to be novoculite, or hone stone, with a high polish, with the charactersas sharply cut as if recently done by a lapidary. Now, everyone who claims anyknowledge on the subject must be aware that few varieties of stone can remainlong in the soil without losing a polished surface, and showing evidence ofdecomposition. And, even those substances, as quartz and obsidian, not liableto such change, are invariably (in the oldest mounds) found incrusted withlime. Indeed, from all that we can gather, both from private and publishedsources, we must classify it thus: Genus-bug-species-hum -- recalling thecelebrated Pickwickian stone -- belonging to the same category as the goldplates of the Mormon Bible -- the graphic mica -- the brass plates with Chinesecharacters, found in Illinois, perhaps akin to the Louisiana Hebrew inscription,the last so skillfully conceived as to deceive our most astute archeologist,(Mr. SQUIER,) who favored one of our Societies with a very learned paper onthis 1st of April hoax! The West, especially Ohio, seems fertile in false aswell as genuine antiquities, so that we would fain hope the Newark stone maynot prove "Lapis offensionis, et petia scandali, to the local antiquaries.D.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23883302
1861: In Cincinnati, OH, Aaron and Hannah Rice Stix gave birthto Charles A Stix, the husband of Sadie Fraley Stix.
1862(29th of Sivan, 5622): E.J. Sampson who servedwith the 4th Texas of the Confederate Army was killed today andsubsequently buried in Richmond, VA.
1863(10th of Tammuz, 5623): Parashat Chukat
1863: Samuel Gluckstein, the native of Rheinberg, Germany whocame to London in 1841 and was employed as a tobacconist in 1861 “was employedas a cigar manufacturer” today.
1865: Philadelphian Samuel A. Apple, a First Sergeant in CompanyB of the Fifty-First Regiment completed his three year term of service in theUnion Army.
1865: In West Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Louis Monash andhis wife Bertha, née Manasse, two German Jewish refugees gave birth to Sir JohnMonash, a civil engineer who would become his nation’s leading general duringWW I, serving with distinction and intellectual brilliance on the WesternFront.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/monash-sir-john-7618
https://johnmonash.com/john-monash
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Monash
1867:In New Orleans, Rabbi Max Del Banco and his wife gave birth Chicago schoolteacher Miriam Del Banco the graduate of State Normal School in Cape Giradeau,MO and “assistant principal at the Von Humboldt School who was a noted poet ascan be seen by “Moses Mendelson” a poem she wrote that was published on “onehundredth anniversary of his death.”
https://www.bartleby.com/98/592.html
1869:In Kovno, Taube Bienowitch and her second husband Abraham Goldman gave birth toEmma Goldman who gained fame as an anarchist and feminist whose views onrevolution and violence changed after she witnessed the aftermath of theRussian Revolution. She becamedisillusioned with Bolshevism and became a pacifist as a result of the horrorsshe saw firsthand.
https://jwa.org/womenofvalor/goldman
1870:“La Périchole an opéra bouffe inthree acts by Jacques Offenbach” premiered in London today.
1871:In Baltimore, MD, M.B Greensfelder and Carrie Levi gave birth to BernardGreensfelder the St. Louis, MO, attorney who served as secretary and directorof the United Jewish Charities, director of the Hebrew Free School and directorof Shaare Emeth Temple.
1872:Fanny Ottenheim and Elias Marx gave birth to Caroline Marx, the mother ofMilton, Semore and Rita Mayer.
1875:“Secret Societies” published today offered a novel explanation for theconversation of the Roman Emperor Constantine to Christianity. According to thearticle an unnamed “Jewish Rabbi” and Pope Sylvester were contending withanother in the presence of the Emperor.“The Rabbi whispered “Shemhamphorasch or the Tetragrammaton “into theear of an ox, which instantly fell dead.” Sylvester responded by saying, “’Arise, ox, in thename of the trinity!’” “This showed theEmperor the superiority of the Christian religion, and he accepted it at once.”[Editor’s note - “The Shemhamphorasch is a corruption of the Hebrew term Shemha-Mephorash (שם המפורש), which was used in tannaitic times torefer to the Tetragrammaton. In early Kabbalah the term was used to designatesometimes a seventy-two Letter name for God, and sometimes a forty two Lettername. Rashi said Shem ha-Mephorash was used for a forty two letter name, butMaimonides thought Shem ha-Mephorash was used only for the four letterTetragrammaton.” This is four Hebrew letters (Yod, He, Waw and He) called The"Tetragrammaton" is the unpronounceable name of God made up of fourHebrew letters – Yud, Hay, Vav, Hay. There was a Pope Sylvester but hisrelationship with Constantine was apparently more invention than fact; theinvention having been used to promote the concept of Papal authority overtemporal rulers.]
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E06E2DE1038EE3BBC4F51DFB066838E669FDE
1876: Moses Tannenholz obtained an affidavitfrom Rachel Blumenthal stating that she was 18 years old. This affidavit, which was of questionablevalidity, would figure prominently in a divorce case in which, among otherthings, it was contended that the bride below the age of consent at the time ofthe marriage rendering the nuptials null and void.
1876: In New York City “Isidor and Ida (Blun)Straus gave birth to the Harvard educated R.H. Macy and Co vice president PercySelden, the husband of Edith Abraham who was active in several civic andphilanthropic organizations as can be seen by his service as President of theJewish Agricultural Society and Chairman of the Business Men’s Council of theFederation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City.
http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=7815
1876: In New York Michael M. and MiriamPeixotto Davis, gave birth to builder G. Richard Davis the descendant of afamily that has lived in New York since the 18th century whose edificesincluded the Montana (site of John Lennon’s murder) and the General MotorsBuilding and the husband of the former Irma L. Bernstein whom he married after“first wife, the former Benveneda Bricker” had passed away.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/04/08/113422396.pdf
1877: Following the refusal of Judge Hilton toallow Jews to be guests at the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga, NY, Harry WardBeecher delivered “a long eulogy on the Hebrew race” today.
1878: InWhitechapel, London, John and Rebecca Lipkind gave birth to Goodman Lipkind theLondon rabbi who came to the United States where led several congregationsincluding Gates of Heaven in Schenectady, NY
1879: In London, Sir Julian Goldsmid, the 3rdand last Baronet, the London born son of Caroline and “Frederick DavidGoldsmid, MP” and his wife Virginia gave birth to Nora Octavia Goldsmid.
1880(18th of Tammuz, 5640): TzomTammuz observed
1880(18th of Tammuz, 5640): Sixty-three-year-oldBerlin native Karl Wilhelm Borchardt, the Konigsberg educated mathematician whostudied in Paris before becoming “private-docent at the University of Berlin”passed away today.
1880: Abraham Adolph Moses Lissauer, the LubeckGermany born “son of Moses Heinemann Heymann Lissauer and Betty Bertha Lissauerand his wife Friedchen / Frieda Lissauer gave birth to Betty Kantorowicz, thewife of Hugo Kantorowic and “””other of Ruth Margot Stein and Lilo (Liselotte)Glick” who was murdered at Sobibor in 1943.
1880: It was reported today that the throngsattending the fair in Hungary’s capital city included “Jews…by the hundreds,German Jews, Hungarian Jews” dressed as Magyars, “Polish Jews in black toga andlong corkscrew curls, Transylvanian Jews in greasy brown cloth dressing gownand sandaled feet, looking like dissipated Capuchin friars.” [This serves as areminder of the rich variety of Jewish cultures that flourished inpre-Holocaust Europe.]
1880: It was reported today that the partiesattending the conference on Morocco in Madrid have reached an impasse. The Moroccans are expected to tell theEuropean powers that they cannot protect the Jews from “popular fanaticism”unless the Europeans agree to “strengthen the authority of the Sultan” – or inplain English give up some of their colonial power. This is something that the French and Spanishwill never agree to. The issue ofprotecting the Jews is a smokescreen behind which the Europeans can hide theirimperial designs and the Ottomans can hide their attempts to protect theircrumbling empire.
1881: In Spain, Praxedes M Sagasta thePresident of the Council of Ministers wrote to a prominent European Jewishauthor H. Guedalla that “article 1 of the Constitution of Spain is the mostdecisive revocation of the edict of banishment against the Jews in the year1492. Thus all of your coreligionistswho wish can come to Spain without any obstacle whatever…”
1881: Birthdate of St. Louis native and HarvardUniversity graduate, Garfield Joseph Taussig, financier and businessman whoserved as “vice president of Sterling Aluminum Products” and President of theLafayetter Federal Savings and Loan Association who died in 1968.
1882: “Bad for Russian Refugees” publishedtoday described the financial crisis facing the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society intrying to care for the tidal wave of Jewish immigrants fleeing eastern Europe.The American Jewish community, much of which had only been in the United Statesfor only one or two generations, was small when compared to the millions inRussia, Romania, etc. and had only limited financial resources to deal with thecrisis.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9401E1DB1E3EE433A25754C2A9609C94639FD7CF
1882(10th of Tammuz, 5642): Sixty-eight-year-old“Dutch jurist and minister of justice Michael H. Godefroi who “deliveredexhaustive speeches insisting that the commercial treaty with Rumania shouldnot be ratified until guaranties should have been given that Netherland Jews inthat country should enjoy perfect equality before the law” passed away today.
1882: Referee Jerome Buck is scheduled to hearmore testimony in the hearing to determine the sanity of Samuel Obreight ayoung Jew who had been institutionalized by his family after his recentmarriage to a young Christian woman.
1882: Mr. Cohn chaired tonight’s meeting of theCap-finishers’ Union which was held on Eldridge Street. The major concern wasthe declining wages of the workers.Wages have fallen percipitiously since last November when members wereearning fifteen to twenty dollars a week.Now they can are earning between seven and eight dollars a week becausethe manufacturers have found sources of cheap labor including Russian Jewishimmigrants who will work for $2.50 to 3.00 per week.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9402E1DC163AEF33A2575BC2A9609C94639FD7CF
1883: The first cruise of the season for poorJewish children and their mothers today sponsored by the Sanitarium for HebrewChildren is scheduled to leave at nine o’clock this morning.
1883: Today twenty-six year old year JacobBrenner who had passed the bar exam in 1879 and eventually became a Brooklynmagistrate married Louise Blumenau, “the daughter of prominent Brooklyn realestate developer Levi Blumenau” with whom head six children -- Arthur andMortimer both of whom became lawyers and “Republican party leaders,” Rose whowas President of the National council of Jewish Women, Rica, Selma andCaroline.”
1883: “The Alleged Jewish Murder” publishedtoday reported that “all the Christian lawyers at Nyreghhaza, Hungary, wherethe trial of the Jews charged with a murdering a Christian girl” is takingplace “have adopted a resolution attacking the conduct of the PublicProsecutor. At the same time, theHungarian government claims that it could not prevent the trial from takingplace but that it does “not believe the accusation to be true.” [The allegation is that the Jews murdered aChristian girl in their synagogue – a case based on the coerced confession of aJew named Moritz Scharf.]
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9407E3D8153DE533A25754C2A9609C94629FD7CF
1884(4th of Tammuz, 5644): IgnatzKunreuther passed away. Born in Germanyin 1811, he came to Chicago from New York in 1847 and became the first rabbi toserve KAM. He also served as the Chazanand Shochet for six years before “retiring to private life.
1885: In Lithuania, Eva Gross Landy and RabbiJacob Landy gave birth to Rachel (Rae) Landy the Cleveland, Ohio trained nursewho “initiated the first public health and sanitation systems in Palestine andwhose 37 career in the U.S. Army included serving as “chief of nurses of theSecond Command at Governor’s Island, NY.(“Landy's father established Hebrew Books, the first Jewish bookstore inCleveland, and her mother was instrumental in the founding of Menorah ParkCenter for the Aging.”).
http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=LRD
1885: As the conflict between Orthodox andReform rabbis continued Rabbi Alexander Kohut took issue with remarks made byRabbi Kaufmann Kohler of Temple Beth-El today by declaring that “We cannot allbe authorities. No one is privileged tosay for himself ‘I am the authority, and I alone.’ Or ancient believers hadsome very great prominent men, and should we not in this nineteenth centuryfollow the doctrines which are laid down for us in the Talmud?” [The answer tothis question is still one that some Jews are asking in the 21stcentury.]
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20817FC355A1A738DDDA10A94DE405B8584F0D3
1888:Birthdate of Ludwik Niemirowski, the Polish born Jew who gained famed “BritishZionist historian Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier.”
1888: “A Hebrew Fresh-Air Fund” published todayprovided a summary of the annual report for Sanitarium for Hebrew Childrenissued by its President, Nathan Strauss.Last year the society provided 8 free excursions that served 4,732infants, 3,631 children and 2,789 mothers.
1888: In Birmingham, England, Reverend WilsonTrusted and his wife gave birth to Sir Harry Herbert Trust who served asAttorney General for the British Mandate for Palestine from 1932 to 1936following which he replaced Michael McDonnell as Chief Justice.
1888: It was reported today that that Jacob H.Schiff has offered to contribute $10,000 to help the Sanitarium for HebrewChildren build a new facility to meet the needs of underprivileged Jewishchildren and their mothers.
1888: Birthdate of Ludwik Niemirowski, whogained fame as the English historian, Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier.
1891: In Mlawa, Poland, Mordechai and Miriam Zloczowergave birth to Chawa Złoczower who gained fame as Eva Kotchever and Eve Adams,“the founder of the Lesbian Literary Salon known as Eve’s Hangout.”
1891: “Jews Barred From Palestine” publishedtoday reported that “there is little hope that the Sultan will consent to theJews settling in Palestine.”
1891: In Hungary, Bernard and Teresa(Schlesinger) Weiss gave birth to Cornell educated engineer Chrles Weiss, theCaptain of Engineers in the AEF during WW I, “assistant supervisor on thePennsylvania Railroad” and winner of the Carnegie Hero Fund Medal” who was hehusband of Sari Kohn
1892: In Poland, Sarah and Srul Elie Cohn gavebirth to Ida Gevirtz, the wife Abraham Gevirtzwith whom she had three children – Harriet, Ruth and Allen
1893: During the Panic of 1893, the crash ofthe New York Stock Exchange. The Panicof 1893-94 was the worst economic depression to hit the United States until theGreat Depression that began in 1929.During the panic, Nathan Strauss a prominent New York Jewish merchantand philanthropist “started a chain of grocery stores that distributedgroceries and coal to the needy.” In Greeley, Colorado, Adolph Z. Salomon, oneof Colorado’s three famous Salomonbrothers, found himself forced into the “farm and ranch business” due to thefact that so many defaulted on their loans.These defaults resulted in major financial setback for Salomon.
1893: A convention of New York Republicansadopted a resolution condemning the decision of the New York Union League Clubto blackball Mr. Seligman because he was Jewish.
1893:Rector Hermann Ahlwardt, the Jew baiting member of the Reichstag hasbeen sentenced to three months imprisonment for libeling Prussian officialsagain.
1893: In Yonkers, NY, founding of the YonkersHebrew Benevolent Association whose members included David Klein, JosephBerger, Jacob Fuchs and Louis Mittler
1893: Birthdate of Mendel Dyner, who wasdeported from to Ujazdow and then to Majdanek where he was murdered inSeptember of 1947.
1894: Wilhelm Diamant, the son of Herman andJohanna Diamant, was buried today in Vienna.
1894 This morning wearing “a long skirt, corsetand high collar and carried with her a change of clothes and a pearl-handledpistol” Annie Londonerry (Annie CohenKopchovsky) set off from the Massachusetts State House on the first leg of herround her attempt to be the first woman to ride a bicycle around theworld.
1896: Twenty-year old George H. Webb persuadedDora Henry, a 16 year old Jewess to leave her father’s house and then went thehome of Reverend C.A. Daniel where the Lutheran minister married them. The twothen separated and went back to their respective homes.
1896: “Lottery-Crazed Ghetto” published todaydescribed the congested district east of the Bowery as being the Ghetto becausethe preponderance of the population was Jewish.“The Russian and Polish Jews who” live “in such large numbers in thedistrict extending from Division to Houston Streets are the most eagerpurchasers of lottery tickets” which can make them the victims of the swarm ofa*gents selling these pieces of pasteboard.
1897:http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70F14F83D5414728DDDAE0A94DE405B8785F0D3
1897:The Hebrew Free School Association sponsored the entertainment for 1,000 needyNew York children which was held at the auditorium of the Educational Allianceat East Broadway and Jefferson Street.
1897:“Dr. Benjamin F. De Costa preached on the ‘Diamond Julibee’ at the Church ofSt. John the Evangelist” tonight “taking as his text Exodus XII:26 ‘What meanye by this service?’”
1897:In Chicago, Bernard Schwager, a successful cigar market, kissed his ten day oldgrandson for the first time today. Thechild’s mother, who will convert tomorrow, was a Christian when she marriedSchwager’s son over a year ago.
1897(27thof Sivan, 5657): Seventy-eight year old Sir John Simon. Born at Jamaica in 1818, his father IsaacSimon sent him study in England in 1833.He wanted to become a rabbi but ended up becoming a lawyer. He returned to Jamaica after his marriage butwent back to London “for his wife’s health.” He began serving as Liberal MP in1868. His career lasted for twenty yearsand was marked by his efforts on behalf of the Jews of Russia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_John_Simon_Vanity_Fair_25_September_1886.jpg
1897:The Young Folks’ League of the Hebrew Infant Asylum will leave for an excursiontoday from the pier at the foot of West 129th aboard the SS BayQueen.
1899:Albert Aschaffenburg, “a prominent New Orleans Capitalist and Real EstateDeveloper who had planned to build the Pontchartrain Hotel next door to theOrpheum Theater, and Elivine Schaefer Aschaffenburg gave birth Eugene AlbertAschaffenburg, the husband of Janet Jacobs Aschaffenburg.
1899:Rabbi Drachman delivered the opening prayer at the commencement exercises ofthe Jewish Theological Seminary which were held in Tuxedo Hall tonight. Joseph Blumenthal, President of the Board ofTrustees, delivered the introductory address.
1899:Ukrainian native Samuel Dreben, known as the “fighting Jew” enlisted in the 14thInfantry Regiment after which he was shipped to the Philippines.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sam-dreben
1899(19thof Tammuz, 5659): David Kraukauer, the benefactor of many Jewish charitiesincluding the Montefiore Home and Mount Sinai Hospital, passed away today.
1900(30thof Sivan, 5660): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1900:In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Lesser officiated at the marriage of Harry Deitchmanand Rosa Fechter.
1901:The funeral for the Honorable Samuel Edward Shrimski, the former Mayor ofOmarau currently serving as member of the New Zealand Parliament who wassurvived by his wife Deborah, is scheduled to take place at 2 p.m.in theWaikumete Cemetery.
1902(22ndof Sivan, 5662): On the Jewish calendar yahrzeit of Rabbi Jehiel Michel of whowas murdered by the Chmielnicki Cossacks.
1902:Seven years before Jewish immigrants began arriving as part of the GalvestonPlan, the Texas coastal city endured a record rainfall “as a result ofHurricane Two.”
1903:In Brownsville, NY, at a meeting of the Daughters of Zion,“Mr. Jacob Massel ofGlassgow” spoke “of the importance of ladies taking an active interest inZionistic work” after which attendees heard a concert that included “therendering of Jewish national songs.”
1903:In the wake of the exoneration of Colonel Dreyfus, the French governmentordered the closure of 120 religious (Catholic) schools as a sign of a loss ofclout of those on the political right.
1904(14thof Tammuz, 5664): On the Jewish calendar Yahrzeit of the 250 Jews murdered inRauthenburg, Germany.
1904:Today, twenty-nine-year-old author and social activist married Russian JewishMiriam Finn after meeting her while they were both working at the UniversitySettlement House.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/scott-miriam-finn
1905:During the 1905 Revolution which presaged the final fall of the Czar in 1917,the crew of the Russian Battleship Potemkin mutinied which appeared to be thefirst act in a planned mutiny of the Black Sea Fleet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtfsxK3zMeU
1906:On the Lower East Side, 50,000 immigrant Jewish mothers stormed the localpublic schools in response to a rumor that doctors were slitting the throats oftheir children in public schools.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/27/1906/jewish-mothers-storm-public-schools
1907:Birthdate of British jurist Sir Alan Abraham Mocatta.
1907(15thof Tammuz, 5667): Forty-year-old Yiddish poet Abraham Michael Scharkanskypassed away today in New York.
https://www.librarything.com/author/scharkanskyabrahammi
1908:Portrait of Louis Barnett Abrahams, “the head master of the Jews’ Free Schoolin London painted by British artist Solomon J. Solomon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_Barnett_Abrahams.jpg
1908:In Cordisburgo, Brazil, Florduardo Pinto Rosa (nicknamed "seu Fulô")and Francisca Guimarães Rosa ("Chiquitinha") gave birth to JoãoGuimarães Rosa who wrote a short story “La triosieme rive” which provided thetitle for the autobiography of Polish born French economist Ignacy Sachs andhis wife Viola.
1908:Gertrude Hoffman scheduled to begin a series of performances today atHammerstein’s Roof Garden that “will include an number of new imitations.”
1909:The performance being given in memory of Jewish playwright Jacob Gordin at theManhattan Opera House was cut short and did not continue past midnight becauseit would have violated New York’s Sunday-closing Laws.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/06/27/106720479.html?pageNumber=7
1910:Today, as the drumbeat of anti-Semitism continued, 95 more Jews were expelledfrom Kiev, 52 were expelled from Solomenka and 51 were expelled from Demieffka.
1911(1stof Tammuz, 5671): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1911:Louis-Lucien Klotz began serving as French Minister of Finance in Briand’sthird government
1912:The Jewish Territorial Organization holds its annual meeting over four days inVienna. It passes a resolution thanking the Portuguese Chamber of Deputies forthe offer of land in Angola for Jewish colonists, but regrets the impossibilityof recommending individual colonists to undertake a task, which could besuccessfully carried out only by an organization.
1912:University of Cincinnati graduate and HUC trained rabbi Henry Englander, theHungarian born son of Max and Regina Englander who joined the faculty of HUC in1910 as a Professor of Medieval Exegetical Literature married Esther Straus today.
1912:The funeral for Julia Richmond the New Yorker who was an educator and defenderof the underdog including those suffering from consumption and Russian Jewishimmigrants is schedule to be held today.
1913: Birthdate of“warehouse worker” Simon Levinson, who was arrested by the Nazis at Oslo in1942
1913:Birthdate of Wilkes-Barre, PA native Isadore “Izzy” Wienstock the All-Americanfullback with the University of Pittsburgh Panthers who then went on to play toplay for three years in the NFL from 1935 to 1938.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WeinIz20.htm
1914(3rdof Tammuz, 5674): Parashat Korach
1914:Dr Max Raisin of Brooklyn delivered the following address at Berith DodeshTemple, a Reform Jewish Congregation in which he declared that while someReform Jews do not proclaim their Zionism, at heart they hope for restorationas a people.
"Reform is what made Zionism what it is. Zionism hasfound amongst reformers some of its staunchest upholders. Reform is only aphase of religion, and religion makes for race consciousness. The integrity ofthe Jews as a race depends upon the existence and survival of Judaism as areligion. When a Gentile becomes a Jew by religion, he becomes ipso facto a Jewby race; but when a Jew joins a Gentile religion he remains a Jew by race."When reform Jews in Washington some time ago told Congressmen some timeago that the Jews were only a religious body, and not a race, opposition to thestatement arose from the very ranks of reform itself. Is the belief of thereformer dogmatically different to that of the orthodox? Does it deny the hopeof the Jews for national restoration? There is a higher court than therabbinical conference. Reform Judaism goes to the prophets, and there isnothing their opposed to national restoration. "You will say that allreference to Zion has been stricken from your Prayer Book. That is quite true,but that is a mere negative attitude for you to take. It is not true thatreform as a whole is opposed to Zionism. The Prayer book is one thing, andReform as a whole another thing. National restoration is a universal movement.Reform looks upon nationalism, even if potentially, as a means to realize allthe hopes of Judaism. I content that Reform does stand upon national ground.Zionism has again and again made itself felt in the camp of reform. Ifnationalism is not included in your prayer book, it is not opposed ordenied."
1914:In Rochester, NY, Dr Mordechai M. Kaplan of New York delivered a sermon at BethIsrael Synagogue in Leopold Street this morning.
1914:Fifty delegates to the convention of Zionists from Chicago and twenty-five morefrom Cleveland reached Rochester tonight. They were among delegates invited toattend an evening reception at the Jewish young Men's Association in FranklinSquare.
1915:Birthdate of philanthropist, Bernard Roth, “an entrepreneur who built a majorcompany from a single gas station in Los Angeles by promoting self-service gaspumps”
1915(15thof Tammuz, 5675): Eighty-three-year-old pioneer shoe manufacturer Isaac Blynpassed away in New York City.
1915:This afternoon, during his tour of the battlefields in France, Joseph Hertz,the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire led services for Jewish officers and menat general headquarters and delivered a sermon in which he compared this visitto his work fifteen years ago with British troops during the Boer War.
1915:While delivering his sermon tonight from a platform of the Grace MethodistEpiscopal Church Dr. Christian F. Reisner “referred to form Governor Slaton ofGeorgia who commuted the sentence of Leo Frank to life imprisonment” saying“Governor Slaton has proved himself one of the bravest men in America.
1915:“The convention of the Federation of Rumanian Jews held in the Manhattan Lyceumtoday adopted resolutions condemning as undemocratic the plan of the AmericanJewish Committee for a conference of 150 delegates in Washington in November toconsider Jewish affairs in connection with the war and its outcome” – favoringinstead “a Congress of many members...”
1915:Congressman Isaac Siegel of the 20th District spoke this afternoonat the dedication by the “Jewish charity workers of the Upper East Side andwest side and in Harlem” of “a home to be known as the Hebrew ShelteringSociety of Harlem.
1915:“Reports continue today of an oath-bound organization which formed at a meetingat Mary Phagan’s grave in Marietta have spread throughout Georgia whose purposeis to ‘get’ Slaton (the governor who pardoned Leo Frank) and “Frank, no matterhow long it takes.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E01E6DA1631E733A05754C2A9609C946496D6CF
1915:In Boston, Jacob de Haas will preside over the opening session of theconvention of the Zionists attended by representatives of the ZionistProvisional Committee, the Federation of American Zionists, Hadassah, Ordersons of Zion, the New England Zionists, the Intercollegiate Zionist Conference,Misrachi, Young Judaea and Hachoosa.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E00EFDA1631E733A05754C2A9609C946496D6CF
1916:Among those who have reportedly already signed an application blank to serve inthe First New York Volunteers a unit of the New York National Guard beingformed by Jews was Nathan Schwartz who had served with the Marines and waswounded while serving in Vera Cruz, Mexico.
1916:Today in Chicago, Armour Institute graduate Sidney Teller, the son of JosephineZuckerman and George J. Teller, the chemical engineer turned social worker whobegan his new career as the superintendent of the Deborah Boys’ Club marriedJulia Pines with whom he created the Sidney and Julia Lecture Fund at theUniversity of Chicago.
https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/5534
1916:Today Pratt Institute and Julien Academy trained painter Max Pratt, theBialystok born son of “Morris and Julia Weber married Frances Abrams.
1916:Twenty-seven-year-old Columbia trained physician and biochemist Samuel Gitlow,the son of Louis and Katherine Gitlow who among other things taughtbiochemistry at his alma mater, “worked on alum baking powders in bread” andwas the director of the laboratory at the Bronx Hospital starting in 1926,married Judith Leonora Rosenblum today.
1917(7thof Tammuz, 5677): Lt. Edmond Enos died today during WW I joining others who hadhad this month including Captain Fernand Halphen, Second Lt. Georges Levi,Second Lt. Paul Molina at Verdun, and Chief Adjutant Leonce Rosenbaum
1917:It was reported from The Hague that in an interview Djemal Pasha “in thepost-bellum period” “he would do his utmost” to opposed Jewish colonizationwhich he saw “as an indispensable step toward rooting out Entente influence.”
1917:In Baltimore, the delegates to the 20th Annual Convention of theFederation of American Zionists were scheduled to attend a general businesssession.
1918(17thof Tammuz, 5678): Tzom Tammuz
1918:Eighty-one-year-oldWilliam Hackenburg, the Philadelphia, PA, born son of Judah Lazarus Hackenburgand Maria Allen and the husband of Adeline Schoneman, who was a “manufacturerof sewing and machine silks” and Chairman of the Silk Association of Americawhose many leadership roles in the Jewish community including co-founding theUnited Hebrew Charities in 1869, the Hebrew Charity Ball Association in 1859and the committee “to aid Russian refugees” as well as serving as President ofthe Jewish Hospital and Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites, Treasurer ofCongregation Beth El Emeth and Vice President of the Board of Delegates of theAmerican Israelites passed away today.
1918:In Pittsburgh, the 21st Annual Convention of the Federation ofAmerican Zionists came to an end.
1918:In Pittsburgh, the fifth annual convention of Hadassah came to an end.
1918:The volunteers of the Jewish Battalion in World War I were sent to the front.In August 1917, thanks in part to the efforts of Jabotinsky; the formation of aJewish regiment was officially announced. Formation of such a unit had beenopposed by members of the British military and other members of the BritishEstablishment. By 1917, the Empire was desperate for soldiers. Itwas probably this sense of desperation more than anything else that led to theformation of the first Jewish combat unit since the Bar Kochba Revolt in 135.The unit was designated as the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. Itincluded British volunteers, members of the former Zion Mule Corps and a largenumber of Russian Jews. In April 1918, it was joined by the 39th Battalion ofthe Royal Fusiliers, more than 50 percent of whom were American volunteers. InJune 1918, The 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers was sent to Palestine,where the volunteers fought for the liberation of Eretz Yisrael from Turkishrule.
1919:In Switzerland, Walter Benjamin “passed his examination summa cum laude” todayfollowing which he and his wife Dora would return to Berlin.
1920Louis Marshall is scheduled to be one of the speakers at this afternoon duringthe cornerstone laying ceremonies for the Bronx Jewish Center of the TalmudTorah Shaarey Zion 1920: Birthdate of Itek Dommnici, the native of Rumania whogained fame as I. A. L. Diamond, the Hollywood screenwriter and the longtimecollaborator of the director Billy Wilder and won an Oscar for the “Apartment.”
1920:Mae Levy, the sister of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Levy married Henry M. Shapiro afterwhich they took a trip through the Adarondacks.
1920(11thof Tammuz, 5680): Sixty-nine year old Julius Newman who had served as Rabbi ofthe Moses Montefiore Congregation and had lived in Chicago for forty years,passed away in California.
1920:In Los Angeles, Elias Victor Rosenkranz and Mildred Rosenkranz, the daughter ofEmil and Benvenida Solis Firth, gave birth to Dorothy June Rubel
1921:Mrs. Edith R. Sulzberger, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, went toCrown Point, Indiana today and obtained a marriage license.
1922:It was reported today that “In an effort to bring about unity in Zionistcircles, a resolution providing for the appointments of two committees, eachcomposed of seven representatives from the Zionist organizations of America andthe Palestine Development Council, was adopted by the Zionist organization” atit* annual convention.
1922:Among the many questions that Italian Premiere Schanza is taking up with theBritish government during his meeting in London “is the status of Italians inPalestine” and the Vatican’s concern over the custody of “the holy places.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/06/28/109847775.html?pageNumber=5
1923:Birthdate of Evelyn “Eva” Ruth Gorelick (nee Brounstein) the Canadian bornmother of “Kenny G.”
1923:After having “signed his first big league contract for $5,000 with the BrooklynRobins (the Brooklyn Dodgers, he made his major league debut in the seventhinning of a game with the Philadelphia where he played shortstop without makingany errors and “got a one hit in two at bats.”
1924:“The legal wheel by which the prosecution hoes to convict” Jewish collegestudents “Nathan F. Leopold Jr and Richard A. Loeb, the self-confessedkidnappers and slayers of “ Jewish adolescent “Robert Franks to another turntoday when the Coroner’s jury rendered a verdict finding that the lad met hisdeath at the hands of the two students.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1924/06/28/119040184.html?pageNumber=15
1925(5thof Tammuz, 5685): Parashat Korach
1925(5thof Tammuz, 5685): Seventy-five-year-old Hungarian-born American rabbi SigmundHecht, the holder of a Doctorate of Divinity from the University of Alabamapassed away today after having served as the rabbi of Congregation B’nai B’rithin Los Angeles from 1899 to 1919.
https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/rabbi-sigmund-hecht/
https://www.amazon.com/History-Sigmund-Hecht-Books/s?rh=n%3A9%2Cp_27%3ASigmund+Hecht
1926:Twenty-eight-year-old Cornell trained engineer, the Toledo, OH born son ofJacob and Lean Halperin who had been an engineer with Commonwealth Edison since1921 married Edna Rosenberg today in Chicago.
1926:The twenty-ninth annual convention of the Zionist Organization of Americaopened here today with more than 1,000 delegates from all parts of the country,including 200 from New York. Louis Lipsky, Chairman of the ZOA, delivered alengthy keynote address in which, among other things, he criticized England forfailing to cooperate with the Zionists under the terms of the mandate. “Emanuel Neuman, national director of theUnited Palestine Appeal reported that over five million dollars had been raisedsince last October” for projects in Palestine.
1926:The Theatrical and Sports Field Day sports by the Amusem*nt of Division of theUnited Jewish Campaign which has the support of Sam Harris and Al Jolson isscheduled to take place at the Polo Grounds today in New York City.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1926/06/19/98849232.html?pageNumber=12
1927:Time magazine reported that “PilotClarence Duncan Chamberlin and passenger Charles A. Levine were last weekenjoying the hospitality of Germans, resting in the watering place known asBaden-Baden, inspecting huge multi-motored airships at the Dornier and Zeppelinplants. Some of their doings: Frau Thea Rasche, Germany's only licensed womanpilot, was taken for a ride over Berlin by Pilot Chamberlin. Skillful, she alsotook passenger Levine for a ride. Correspondents heralded the trips asstrengthening to U.S. - German relations. Flyers Chamberlin and Levine hustledto Bremen to meet their respective wives, who arrived from the U.S. Said Mrs.Chamberlin on seeing her husband: "Why, your knickers are awful. Didn'tyou even have them cleaned?" Then the two couples flew to Berlin in threehops. The two wives were reported to be feeling ill after the first hop."The Columbia is not on the market," said Mr. Levine when GroverCleveland Bergdoll, a rich American then living in Germany, offered to buy themonoplane. Mr. Bergdoll let it be known that he desires to fly to the U.S. toshow that he is no coward, that conscientious objection was his only reason forrefusing to fight in the World War.” [Levine was Jewish and laid claim to beingthe “first passenger” to cross the Atlantic.]
1928:The Democratic National Convention at which Herbert Lehman played a major roleas finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee continued for a secondday.
1929:Max Schmeling, the German heavyweight champion who defied the Nazis by having aJoe Jacobs as a manager and who saved two Jewish boys on Kristallnacht “beat Paulino Uzcudun by 15-round decision ina boxing card before a crowd of 40,000 in Yankee Stadium.”
http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/saviors/others/schmeling/max-schmeling-aryan-champ/
http://www.auschwitz.dk/schmeling.htm
1930:While meeting in Providence, RI, today, the Central Conference of Rabbisdiscussed the report on making revision to the Union Hymn Book and voted toincluded “Hatikvah,” the Zionist song in the book.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/06/28/98306722.html?pageNumber=32
1930:“Jewish education without religion is estranging Jews from Judaism declared speakersat the concluding session of the Fifth Annual Council for Jewish Education whichmet a the Jewish Club.”
1931:“A meteorite of unusual achondrite type and green color impacted at Tataouine” which“was once home to a Jewish community with multiple synagogues and a cemetery.”
1931:Labor economist Theresa Wolfson was the principal speaker at the opening of theBarnard College Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
1931:Birthdate of Philadelphia photographer David Martin “Dave” Heath.
http://www.daveheathphotography.com/
http://www.josephbellows.com/artists/dave-heath/bio/
1931:In Montreal, Samuel and Saidye Rosner Bronfman gave birth to businessman andphilanthropist Charles Bronfman, the co-founder of the Taglit Birthrightprogram.
1932:It was reported today that Sam Goldberg, President of the Louisville, KY HebrewSchool and J.D. Wlkow, who had assisted Rabbi Asher Lipman Zachary Z”L inorganizing the school are supervising a campaign to raise funds as a memorialRabbi Lipman, the city’s senior rabbi who had devoted so much of himself to theschool
1932:Today, in Washington, DC, “the American Jewish Congress, at its closing meetingapproved the measures taken to convene a world Jewish conference at Geneva onAug. 14, and elected thirty-five delegates to attend, all but three of whom arefrom New York City.”
1933In Brooklyn, “Sidney and Helen Katz, née Holland, gave birth to Robert Katz,“an author and screenwriter who incurred the wrath of the Vatican by accusingPope Pius XII of failing to act to stave off a Nazi massacre of Italians in1944” and who was the husband of Beverly Gerstel with whom he had two sons –Lee and Jonathan
1933(3rd of Tammuz, 5693): J. Harry Ulrich who had been Chief Surgeon ofNational Guard unit and who reached the rank of Colonel while serving with theU.S. Medical Corps during WW I passed away today in Baltimore.
1933: The Archbishop of Canterbury is scheduled tobe the “principal speaker” at a meeting at Queen’s Hall where attendeesincluding “thirty members of the British Parliament” “will protest against thepersecution of the Jews in Germany.
1933: At a rally in London, speakers protestanti-Semitism in Nazi Germany.
1934:Filming of “Imitation of Life” directed John Stahl (Jacob Morris Strelitsky)began today.
1934:In the Bronx, the Jacob H. Schiff Center is scheduled to host a children’soperetta.
1934:Abraham Reisin is scheduled to speak at his evening’s meeting of the YiddishCulture Society.
1935:The Committee on Social Justice is scheduled to deliver its report today at themeeting pf Central Conference of American Rabbis” which had “voiced its viewson war and peace” yesterday.
1936:At Cape May, NJ, Rabbi William F. Rosenblum of New York’s Temple Israelpreached the annual sermon before the Central Conference of American Rabbistoday in which he “called for a reorganization of reform Judaism as well as arestatement of its creed” saying that “The time has come to discard the policyof having each congregation autonomous and each rabbi his own authority” andproposing “the formation of a synod council made up of delegates from the Unionof American Hebrew Congregations” that will “reintegrate liberal Judaism in theUnited States and help to increase the numbers of adherents of reform.”
1936:As Arab violence continued in Palestine, “after a week of deliberation the ArabHigh Committee today completed a long reply to Colonial Secretary WilliamOrmsey-Gore’s speech in the House of Commons” which included the insistence“that nothing could restore permanent peace in Palestine except the stoppage ofJewish immigration and the prohibition of the sale of lands to the Jews.”
1936:The Democratic National Convention came to a close after re-nominating FranklinD. Roosevelt for a second term. FDR enjoys overwhelming support among Jewishvoters. Among the delegates is Samuel Untermyer who is attending his lastnational convention.
1936: In Asbury Park, NJ, Zelig Tygel the executivedirector of the Federation of Polish Jews in America and Gershin Bader, theorganization’s honorary vice president eulogized the late Dr. Nahem Sokolow atmemorial services marking the opening of the 28th annual conventionof the federation.
1937(18thof Tammuz, 5697):Tzom Tammuz observed because the 17th fell onShabbat
1937:Today “a 30-minute radio adaption of Babouk,” a novel by Guy Endore(born Samuel Goldstein), co-produced and co-directed by Irving Reis “withincidental music by Bernard Hermann” “was broadcast today as part of theColumbia Workshop series on WCBS (AM).
1937(18thof Tammuz, 5697): Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein is scheduled to deliver a sermon on“How to Face a Crisis” at the Jewish Science Society today.
1938:“The Jews of Palestine observed a day of semi-mourning today in sympathy forthe Revisionist youth, Ben Yosef, who is under a death sentence for havingfired on an Arab-owned bus. There werespecial prayers and sermons in synagogues throughout the country. Shops were closed in the evening and placesof amusem*nt were shut all day.”
1938:Birthdate of Alan Coren, “the son of a plumber and a hairdresser fromSouthgate, North London, England’ and humorist who appeared on BBC and waseditor for the famous “Punch” humor magazine.
1938:Twenty-one-year-old publisher Roger Williams Straus, Jr. married “DorotheaLeibmann, granddaughter of the founder of Rheingold Brewing,
1939(10thof Tammuz, 5669): Sixty-nine year old “Dr. Israel Davidson of 92 MorningsideAvenue, New York, Professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature at the JewishTheological Seminary of America, Broadway and 122d Street, New York, and aworld recognized authority in his field, died today in his country home after abrief illness
1939(10thof Tammuz, 5699): Seventy three year old University of Pennsylvania Law Schoolgraduate and faculty member David Werner Amram, a Zionist who was joined on thefaculty by his son Philip Werner Amram whose “most famous book was The Makersof Hebrew Books which “details the earliest history of Hebrew book printing,including the first complete edition of the Talmud published by Daniel Bombergin the early sixteenth century” passed away today
https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/davi/David%20Werner%20Amram.pdf
1939:NBC Radio took over the Camel Caravan, a musical variety program that featuredregular appearances by comedian Lew Lehr.
1939:The Irgun placed a letter bomb in the mailbox attached to the outside wall ofthe Schneller Orphanage which was now a British military facility known as theSchneller Barracks, which, when it exploded “collapsed part of the wall andinjured five Arabs in the vicinity.”
1940:During a meeting of the Cabinet, Churchill again called for the arming of theJews of Palestine so that British troops could come back to defend the homeislands. Lord Lloyd spoke against themove; anti-Semitism trumped strategic thinking as Lord Lloyd prevailed.
1940:NBC broadcast the final episode of “I Love a Mystery” sponsored by Fleischmann’sYeast and featuring Tony Randall (Aryeh Leonard Rosenberg)
1941(2ndof Tammuz, 5701): Fifty-nine-year-old Walter Wile Hamburger, the Chicago born“son of Anette and Max Mayer Hamburger” and husband of Edna Hamburger who wasthe Rush Medical College trained physician and WW I veteran and member of theUniversity of Chicago faculty passed away today.
1941(2ndof Tammuz, 5701): On a day known as Red Friday: German units in Bialystok beganto randomly shoot Jews. Eight hundred were locked in the Great Synagogue, whichthe Nazis then it set on fire. More were forced in during the blaze. Resisterswere shot. The Germans threw hand grenades into Jewish homes. By the end of theday, 2,000 Jews were murdered. Similar horrors took place in Minsk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Synagogue,_Białystok#/media/File:Synagoga_Nomer_Tamid_02.jpg
1941:German troops gathered in a synagoguecourtyard in Niéswiez, Poland, beat and shoot exhausted Russian POWs.
1941(2ndof Tammuz, 5701): Eighty-two-year-old San Francisco native Louis S. Hass, a“retired member of the stockbrokerage firm of Sutro and Company,” an “honorarypresident of the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and a member of the JewishChildren’s Welfare Bureau” passed away today in his hometown with no relativesto mourn his passing.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/06/30/104294319.pdf
1941:Romanian Iron Guard Legionnaires,encouraged by the anti-Semitic policies of dictator Ion Antonescu, undertookthe extermination of the Jews in Falesti. Thousands are killed.
1941:“Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu telephoned Col. Constantin Lupu, commander ofthe Iaşi garrison, telling him formally to "cleanse Iaşi of its Jewishpopulation"
1942:In Manhattan, Jerry Schechter, “a garment center pattern maker who became asculptor” and the former Ruth Lisa Lubin gave birth to Daniel Isaac Schechter“whose media criticism became a staple of Boston radio and who went on tochampion human rights as an author, filmmaker and television producer.”
1943: “An enlarged and intensified program forJewish religious education "to meet the needs of Jewish children inAmerica in wartime and during the post-war period" was adopted today at ameeting of the board of governors of the American Association for JewishEducation in the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria.”
1943: The three day long convention of theIndependent Order of B’rith Abraham began today with speech by Grand Master Herman Hoffman inwhich he “outlined a broad program for rehabilitation of European Jews and otherminorities as a post-war reconstruction project,”
1944(6th of Tammuz, 5704):Jewish Resistanceleader David "Dodo" Donoff, 24, is executed near Lyons, France.
1944:Almost one half million Jews have been sent to Auschwitz since May 15, 1944.
1944:After 475,000 Hungarian Jews had been deported, the Pope and the King of Swedenintervened with Horthy as did President Roosevelt who issued the ultimatum-likeappeal to stop the brutal anti-Jewish persecutions.
1944:Following his meeting with Joel Brand, Moshe Sharett wrote in his report,"I must have looked a little incredulous, for he said: 'Please believe me:they have killed six million Jews; there are only two million leftalive'."
1944:A report was given to officials in London that Captain Isidor Newman who wasserving with SOE had been taken to a private house at Rue des Etats Unis inParis that had been turned into a Gestapo prison.
1945:Birthdate of Amihai "Ami" Ayalon the native of Tiberias who grew upat Ma’agan co-founded by his father Yitzhak who “emigrated illegally fromRomania and who served as a commander in the Israeli Navy before moving to acareer in politics.
1945:Seventy two year old Emil Hacha, who as the last President of an “independent”Czechoslovakia bowed to personal pressure from Hitler and became the “StatePresident of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia” where, regardless of whatelse he did to help or combat the Nazis, signed “into law legislation modeledafter the Nuremberg Laws that meant the Jews were no longer Czech citizens inany sense of that term” passed away today.
1945:Having heard no further reply from Churchill over his request to suspend theWhite Paper of 1939, a bitter Chaim Weizmann told his colleagues that the“leaders of the Western world” had done what they had done to the Jews but didnot have “to swallow it.” He continued saying that Churchill and Roosevelt hadlet the Jewish people down, “maybe not intentionally, but inadvertently. They made promises which did not carry out ormean to carry out.” He had no faith inthe upcoming meeting of the Big Three – Stalin, Churchill and Truman because“nobody cared about what happened to the Jews.Nobody had raised a finger to stop them from being slaughtered.” And now they did not care about “the remnantwhich had survived.” Weizmann, feelingbroken and betrayed expressed his willingness to resign his leadership positionregardless of the consequences.
1946:U.S. premiere of “A Letter for Evie” directed by Jules Dassin and filmed bycinematographer Karl Fruend.
1946:The Josiah Wood which arrived at Haifa today with “1,257 passengers who wereinterned at Athlit was later made a part of the Israel Navy under the name of“Hasomer,” K-18.
1947:In Manhattan, Morris Helprin the President of London Films and Broadway actressEleanor Lynn Helprin gave birth to American novelist, journalist, conservativecommentator, Mark Helprin.
1948:As Count Bernadotte finishes preparing the Peace Plan for Palestine that hewill present tomorrow, General Lucius Clay cabled William Draper, theundersecretary of the Army, with a summary of the situation surrounding theSoviet blockade of Berlin which ends with a call for additional aircraft sincethe planes available can only supply 600 of the 2,000 tons need for the city.(Editor’s Note – two major international crises when the Presidential electionis heating up and the American people are looking for post-war peace andprosperity.)
1948:Today, “The general officers of the nascent Israel Defense Forces were sworn-inin a ceremony.” (Jewish Virtual Library.
1949(30thof Sivan, 5709): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1949:"Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" a song by songwriter John “Johnny”David Marks, the Mount Vernon, NY, Jewish son lighting engineer Louis B.Marks and Margaret May Marks, the sister Robert L. May, the Jewish retailer “bestknown for creating the fictional character Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” wasrecorded today.
1949(30thof Sivan, 5709): Sixty-five-year-old Milton S. Yondorf, the “retired presidentof the S. Yondorf and Company, real estate and mortgage bankers” passed awaytoday in Chicago.
1949:“Dr. Philipson Collapses” published today described the physical condition ofDr. David Philipson, “the dean of the American Reform Rabbinate” who is restingat Beth Israel Hospital in Boston where he was taken after he lostconsciousness at the sixtieth annual convention of the Central Conference ofAmerican Rabbis. The 87 year old clericis the “oldest living graduate of the Hebrew Union College” and boasts that hehas never missed one of these conferences.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9D02E5DE113CE23BBC4F51DFB0668382659EDE
1949:“Laboring Voice” published today described the birth of WFDR, a new non-profitFM station “back by the 400,000 members of the ILGWU headed by David Dubinsky.
http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,800475,00.html
1949:“Solomon Bennett, 1761-1838” by the Rev. Arthur Barnett was read today “beforethe Jewish Historical Society of England.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/29777897?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
1950:As proof that the Western democracies had learned the lessons from the1930’s -- totalitarian dictatorshipsshould not be allowed to engage in aggression – President Harry Trumanannounced that he was ordering U.S. forces to assist South Korea in repellingthe attack from North Korea.
1950:Admiral Sir John Edelsten, Commander in Chief of the British MediterraneanFleet completed a two-day courtesy visit to the Jewish state. The Admiral’svisit included stops at Haifa and Tel Aviv.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that 283,000 votes werecast for the Zionist Congress elections. According to the rough estimates Mapaiwas expected to send 103, Mapam 46, Hapoel Hamizrahi 26, Herut 21, Progressives12 and Revisionists one delegate to the Congress. More than one million dollarsworth of food parcels sent by relatives abroad arrived in Israel every month.About 70,000 such food packages were sent through commercial firms, and 40,000were mailed directly by relatives.
1951: “Sirocco” a film based on Coup de Grace written by JosephKessel, directed by Curtis Bernhardt and co-starring Lee J. Cobb was releasedin the United Kingdom today.
1951: General Darius Paul Dassault, a hero of the FrenchResistance in WW II, was awarded the Médaillemilitaire.
1952(4th of Tammuz, 5712): Seventy-three year oldGerman born American mathematician Max Dehn passed away in North Carolina.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Dehn.html
1952: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 also known asthe McCarran-Walter Act was enacted today.
1953(14th of Tammuz, 5713): Parashat Balak
1953: After 248 performances the curtain came down at the LyceumTheatre on the original Broadway production of “Time Out For Ginger” starringMelvyn Doughals and Philip Loeb.
1954: Meir Har-Zion “in a seven man squad led by Major AharonDavidi that launched a surprise attack on an Arab Legion camp at Azzun, 13 kmeast of Qalqilya” tonight.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/06/28/issue.html
1957: “Sweet Smell of Success” a film based on novelette by ErnestLehman with a script co-authored by Clifford Odets and co-starring Tony Curtiswas released in the United States today.
1957: In New York City, Episcopalian remedial reading teachingMarnie Fahr and Roy Henry Steyer, a Jewish partner in the staid law firm ofSullivan and Cromwell gave birth to hedge fund manager who along with his wifeKate Taylor have used his fortune to support Democratic Party candidates and avariety of social justice initiatives including, ironically, “the Fair ShakeCommission on Income Inequality and Middle Class Opportunity, which wasintended to advocate policies for promoting income equality.”
1959(21st of Sivan, 5719): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1959: This evening at the St. Moritz, Rabbi Charles E. Schulmanofficiated at the marriage of Linda Mazer and Leonard Berkowitz/
1959: It was reported today that “the state of Hesse has decreedthat history lessons in the last grade of all state must in the futureconcentrate on the period after 1918” which came about because of the “recentdisclosure that the great majority of school children were almost totallyignorant of the Nazi period.”
1960: In Bethesda, MD, a suburb of Washington, DC Jerry and LouiseMayer gave birth to Michael Mayer “who won his first Tony Award for hisdirection of the musical adaptation of Spring Awakening in 2006.
1960(2nd of Tammuz, 5720): Sixty-seven-year-old HeleneBaruch, the Gudensberg, Germany born daughter of Markus Levi-Elias and VeilchenLevi-Elias, the wife of Siegmund Salomon Baruch and the mother of Inge Baruchand Ellen Orenstein passed away today in Manhattan.
1960(2nd of Tammuz, 5720): Seventy-seven year oldGerman and University of Leipzig Dr. George Urdang, the “Professor Emeritus ofthe History of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin, founder of “theAmerican Institute of the History of Pharmacy and husband of Gertrude Urdangwith whom he had two daughters – Eva and Ursula – passed away today in Madison.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/06/28/99748175.pdf
https://academic.oup.com/jhmas/article-abstract/XV/4/427/781625?redirectedFrom=fulltext
1961(13th of Tammuz, 5721): Seventy-one year old RearAdmiral Ellis Mark Zacharias, the Jacksonville, FL born son of Aaron andTheresa Budwig Zacharias and husband of “the former Clara Miller” with whom heraised two sons –Gerald and Ellis M Jr. – who graduated from the U.S. NavalAcademy in 1912, skippered the cruiser Salt Lake City at the start of WW IIwhen “participated in the first United States counter-strikes against Wake andthe Marshall Island and came to public attention “as a practitioner of psychologicalwarfare” in the fight against Japan” passed away today. (Editor’s note – Thereis no way that this blog can do justice to his long, distinguished and excitingcareer.)
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/06/29/118043378.pdf
1961(13th of Tammuz, 5721): Seventy-five-year-oldLester Lazarus, the husband of Esther Lazarus and father of Robert Lazarus,“who retried eight years ago as vice president, J. Lazarus and Company, theumbrella manufacturers” passed away today in Jamaica, Queens
1963: After 257 performances the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, thecurtain came down on the final performance of the original Broadway productionof “Little Me” the Neil Simon musical that featured “Sid Caesar in multiplestage accents playing all of the heroine’s husbands and lovers.”
1964(17th of Tammuz, 5724): Parashat Balak
1964: NBC broadcast the final episode of “The Bullwinkle Show” acartoon satire featuring a flying squirrel and talking moose featuring thememusic by Frederick “Fred” Steiner
1965: In London “Stephen Eric Sebag Montefiore,” the descendant ofSephardi Jews and “Phyllis April Jaffé, the descendant of Lithuanian Jewish family of scholars (talkabout your mixed marriages) gave birth to author and historian SimonSebag-Montefiore, a member of one of Britain’s oldest and most distinguishedAnglo-Jewish families whose Jerusalem: The Biography is a must read foranybody with an interest in Jerusalem, the Middle East or the three so-calledAbrahamic Faiths should read, while Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man and Enigma:The Battle for the Code by his brother Hugh are two World War II historiesthat show an amazing depth and breadth of scholarship. (Can you imagine eatingdinner with this family?)
1965: In New York, at the Sherry-Netherland, Rabbi Charles E.Shulman officiated at the marriage of Susan Ellen Kislak and Dr. Paul L.Schulman.
1966: In New York City television producer Gerald W. Abrams andexecutive producer Carol Ann Abrams (née Kelvin) gave birth to Jeffrey Jacob"J. J." Abrams
1967: An episode of Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple,” a televisionprogram starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman that had a baseball theme wasfilmed tonight at Shea Stadium, the day before the Mets played the Pirates.
1968(1st of Tammuz, 5728): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1968: “Painter, textile artis and graphic designer MargueriteZorach” the wife and artistic colleague of William Zorach a Jewish Lithuanian-bornAmerican sculptor, painter, printmaker, and writer who won the Logan Medal ofthe arts passed away today.
1969(11th of Tammuz, 5729): Fifty-five-year-old BlancheLoeb Sundheim, the Philadelphia born daughter of Louise Silberman Langsdorf andJacob Loeb Langsdorf and the wife of Harry G. Sundheim, Jr. passed away todayin Chicago.
1969: Two days after she had passed away funeral services werescheduled to be held at noon today at the Universal Chapel for seventy-fiveyear old Alene Stern Erlanger, the wife of Erlanger Mills and Barnard Collegegraduate “who was responsible for the formation of the U.S.A.’s canine corpsduring WW II passed away today.
https://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss243.html
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/06/26/78353833.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Pet-Poodle-Alene-Erlanger/dp/B008BLYWBI
1971: The New York Times featured a review of St.Urbain's Horseman by Mordecai Richler
1972: It was reported today that “two-time world welterweightchampion Jackie Fields,” “one of the few welterweight title holders ever toregain the title” after losing and a Gold Medal Winner at the 1924 Olympics“has been officially inducted into the United Saveings-Helms Hall of BoxingFame in ceremonies at the Tropicana Hotel and Country Club.“
1973: “Scream Blacula Scream” filmed by cinematographer IsidoreMankofsky was released in the United States today.
1973: “Live and Let Die,” the eighth spy film in the James Bondseries co-produced by Harry Saltzman, with a screenplay by Tom Mankiewicz andco-starring Yaphet Kotto was released today in the United States.
1974: Birthdate of Mariano Idelman the Argentine native who becamea popular Israeli television personality.
1974: “Thirty-seven Vilnius Jews protested to the Communist PartyCentral Committee against the arbitrary arrests of Jewish activists on the eveof President Nixon’s visit.”
1974: “Forty American and 6 British scientists were denied entryvisas to participate in a refusenik scientists’ seminar.”
1974: “Professor Benjamin Levich’s sons Evgeny who had beenreleased from the army on May 24th was informed that he would beallowed to leave for Israel within six weeks.”
1974: The KGB placed Vitali Rubin under house arrest.
1974: “Nine Minsk Jews including 4 former Red Army officers and 4Jews in Odessa began a hunger strike in support of emigration.”
1974: “Fifteen Kishinev Jewish activists who demonstrated againstdelays in granting of exit visas were arrested and sentenced to 10-15 days inprison.”
1974: On the same day that the third Nixon-Brezhnev Summit openedin Moscow, Andrei Sakharov began a hunger strike to “draw world attention tothe plight of political prisoners in the USSR” including the Jews who want toleave for Israel.
1976: “An archaeological dig uncovered the Golan site of theancient Jewish fortress of Bamla, which was destroyed by Vespasian in the earlystages of the rebellion against Rome in the year 67.” (As reported by AbrahamBloch)
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that US President GeraldFord finally upped the transitional aid to Israel to $275,000,000 and presentedthis as his final offer to the Congress for approval. A new, $15,000,000 centerfor cancer and allied diseases was opened at the Sharett Institute of Oncologyat the Ein Karem Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem.
1976:News broke that four hijackers from the Popular Frontfor the Liberation of Palestine and the German Revolutionary Cells had capturedan Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris. The plane was diverted to Entebbein Uganda, where it was held pending terrorist demands for the release of 53Palestinian prisoners from Israeli and various European jails. The separationof Jewish passengers from among the hostages particularly alarmed theauthorities in Jerusalem.
1976: A revival of Rodgers and Hart’s “Pal Joey” opened at theCircle in the Square Theatre.
1976: After 193 performances the curtain came down on StephenSondheim’s “Pacific Overtures” a musical directed by Harold Prince with scenicdesigns by Boris Aronson.
1977(11th of Tammuz, 5737): Seventy-nine year oldBudapest born and University of Chicago trained organic chemist Dr. LouisSattler, “a retired Brooklyn College professor of Chemistry” and the husband of“the former Julia Kaufmann” with whom he had one son, James, passed away today.
1978: Refusnik Simon Shnirman went on trial at Zaporozhye
1978: Morton I. Abramowitz began serving as U.S. Ambassador toThailand.
1979(2nd of Tammuz, 5739): Seventy-eight-year-oldColumbia trained journalist Theodore Menline Bernstein, the New York born sonof Saul and Sarah Bernstein who was “an assistant managing editor of The NewYork Times, a journalism education and an authority on the use of the Englishlanguage” passed away today.
1982: In Rio de Janeiro, “Bernard Rajzman, a former professionalvolleyball player and Michelle Wollens, a former professional figure skater”gave birth to surfer Philp Wollens Rajzman
1984: After more than 59 years of use, the closing of “theGreenville Hall synagogue at Dublin’s South Central Circular Road” which hadbeen led by Jack Segal who had followed in his father’s footsteps as President,marked “the end of an epoch when the close-knit Jewish community wasconcentrated almost entirely in the one small area and Greenville Hall was thecenter of that compact universe.” (As reported by The Irish Times)
http://archiseek.com/2017/1925-greenville-hall-south-circular-road-dublin/
1985(8th of Tammuz, 5745): Sixty-six-year-old SiouxCity, IA born WW II veteran Morris Mirkin, the founder of Budget Rent-a-CarCorporation and the founder of the Morris Mirkin Foundation which was dedicatedto helping children with learning disabilities passed away today in BeverlyHillls.
1986: “Ruthless People” a dark version of the concept from theshort story “Ransom of Red Chief” directed by “David Zucker, Jim Abrahams andJerry Zucker” and co-starring Bette Midler was released today in the UnitedStates.
1986: Jewish television Judge Joseph “Wapner appeared on theTonight Show to hear a case of David Letterman vs. Johnny Carson over allegeddamage to the headlight of Letterman's pickup truck when Carson had the trucktowed to the studio. Wapner ruled in favor of Letterman, granting him $24.95”
1987: Daniel Barenhboim is scheduled to conduct his final in aseries of concerts with the IPO that include performances by members of theParis Opera all of which are part of the celebrations marking the 50thanniversary of the founding the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra.
1989(24th of Sivan, 5749): Seventy-eight-year-oldphilosopher and author “Sir Alfred Jules ‘Freddie’ Ayer also known as A.J.Ayer” the London born son of Reine Citroën, a member of a Dutch-Jewish familywho founded the Citroën car company in France” and “Jules Ayer, a SwissCalvinist financier who worked for the Rothschild family passed away today.
1991(15th of Tammuz, 5751): Sixty-nine year old NewYork born WW II veteran Milton Subotsky best known for co-founding with Max J.Rosenberg, Amicus Productions which churned out “low budget science fiction andhorror films” passed away in his adopted homeland of Great Britain which wasthe home of his wife “Dr. Fiona Subotsky, is a prominent London psychiatrist,and an historian of psychiatry.”
http://www.classic-monsters.com/milton-subotsky/
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/186526%7C113495/Milton-Subotsky/
1993: “After 487 performances and 23 previews” the curtain camedown on the original Broadway production of “Falsettos,” a musical with a bookco-authored by William Finn who also wrote the music and lyrics
1994: Alan Blinder began serving as Vice Chairperson of theFederal Reserve System.
1997: “Face/Off” a dark, bizarre crime film co-starring GinaGershon was released in the United States today.
1997: Two weeks after premiering at the New Amsterdam Theatre,“Hercules” an animated musical with a score by Alan Menken was released in theUnited States.
1998(3rd of Tammuz, 5758): Parashat Korach
1998(3rd of Tammuz, 5758): Seventy-four-year-old journalistand author Peter H. Wyden, the Berlin born son of businessman Erich Weidenreichand concert singer Helen Silberstein who named him Peter Weidenreich, a refugeefrom Nazi German and one of “the Ritchie Boys” passed away today.
1999(13th of Tammuz, 5759): Ninety-three-year-olddermatologist Abraham “Dutch” Koransky, the Purdue University fullback,graduate of the University of Chicago’s Rush Medical School and decorated WW IIArmy Veteran who practiced medicine until 1985, passed away today.
1999: The New York Times featured reviews of books byJewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including TheHolocaust in American Life by Peter Novick.
2000: U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrives inIsrael. She met with Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader YasserArafat.
2000: NBC airs the final episode of Veronica’s Closet, a sitcomcreated by David Crane and Marta Kaufman.
2001:One feature “of a broad set of guidelines on conversion toJudaism that will embrace traditional practices once rejected by Reformleaders, urge that converts make certain commitments to Jewish life and alsoformally extend a strong welcome to men and women considering converting” whichare expected to be adopted today “by the Central Conference of American Rabbisat its annual meeting here, would overturn an 1893 resolution holding thattraditional practices like immersing a prospective convert in a ritual bath, ormikveh, are no longer necessary.”
2002: Rabbi Baruch Lanner “was convicted of sexually abusing twoteenage girls.” An appeals court later dismissed one of the child endangermentchanges in 2005. The case against RabbiLanner had begun with investigative reporting done by Gary Rosenblatt of TheJewish Week.
2002: In recognition of hissuccessful efforts to save thousands of Jews from the Nazis in France, Secretaryof State Colin Powell presented a posthumous "Constructive Dissent"award to the children of Hiram Bingham IV at an American Foreign ServiceOfficers Association awards ceremony in Washington, DC.
2003(27th of Sivan, 5763): “Sgt. Maj. Erez Ashkenazi, 21, ofKibbutz Reshafim, an Israeli navy commando, was killed in an operation in Gazato capture a Hamas cell, believed responsible for several bombings and thefiring of anti-tank missiles in the Netzarim area.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
2003(27th of Sivan, 5763): Eighty-nine year old Dr.Arthur “Archie” Kameros, the “four year starting center for LIU-Brooklyn in themid-1930’s and graduate of the Columbia University School of Dentistry andBronze Star winning U.S. Army WW II veteran passed away today in Lake Worth,FL.
2003: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services arescheduled today “The Riverside” for Hyman Aaron, the husband of Betty Aaron andthe brother of Samuel, Helen, Abraham and Solomon Hyman.
2004(8th of Tammuz, 5764): St.-Sgt.Roi Nissim, 20, of Rishon Lezion, was killed and five other soldiers werewounded when their outpost in the Gaza Strip was blown up by Hamas terroristswho tunneled under the position and detonated a massive explosive charge
2004: Three days after she passed away, funeral services were heldfor Olga Rubinow, “the child psychologist and specialist in the emotionalhealth of children who was the wife Walter A. Lurie and the daughter of SophieHimwich Rubinow and “Dr. I.M. Rubinow, a noted authority on and advocate forSocial Security.”
2004:Israel's renowned composer and songwriter Naomi Shemer was laid to rest todayat 6 p.m. in Kvutzat Kinneret cemetery in the Galilee, where many of Israel'spioneers are buried. Shemer is known to many as the composer of the famous song”Y'rushalayim Shel Zahav" or in English, "Jerusalem ofGold." For those of you who saw "Shindler's List" this wasthe song played at the end of the movie when the film turned from black andwhite to color as the survivors were shown visiting the Shindler's grave.The song was written at therequest of Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kolek in1967several weeks before the outbreak of the Six Day War. The songexpresses the longing ofa person for Jerusalem who has to viewtheOldCity from the opposite side of the Green Line.Inone of those ironic twists of history, "the song became the war'santhem. She was 74 when she passed away on Saturday, June 26, in TelAviv's Ichilov Hospital. The famous chorus of the song is follows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhvX0ipYLSQ
"Y'rushalayimshel zahav, v'shel n'choshet v'shel or; Halo l'chold shi-rayich ani kinor
Jerusalemof gold, of copper andof light, Behold I am harp for all yoursongs."
JERUSALEM OF GOLD
Themountain air is clear as water
Thescent of pines around
Iscarried on the breeze of twilight,
Andtinkling bells resound.
Thetrees and stones there softly slumber,
Adream enfolds them all.
Sosolitary lies the city,
Andat its heart -- a wall.
Oh,Jerusalem of gold, and of light and of
bronze,
I am the lute for all your songs.
Thewells ran dry of all their water,
Forlornthe market square,
TheTemple Mount dark and deserted,
Inthe Old City there.
Andin the caverns in the mountain,
Thewinds howl to and fro,
Andno-one takes the Dead Sea highway,
Thatleads through Jericho.
Oh,Jerusalem of gold, and of light and of
bronze,
I am the lute for all your songs.
Butas I sing to you, my city,
Andyou with crowns adorn,
Iam the least of all your children,
Ofall the poets born.
Yourname will scorch my lips for ever,
Likea seraph's kiss, I'm told,
IfI forget thee, golden city,
Jerusalemof gold.
Oh,Jerusalem of gold, and of light and of
bronze,
I am the lute for all your songs.
Thewells are filled again with water,
Thesquare with joyous crowd,
Onthe Temple Mount within the City,
Theshofar rings out loud.
Withinthe caverns in the mountains
Athousand suns will glow,
We'lltake the Dead Sea road together,
Thatruns through Jericho.
Oh,Jerusalem of gold, and of light and of
bronze,
Iam the lute for all your songs.
2004(8thof Tammuz, 5764): Mordechai Yosefov, 49, and three-year-old, Afik Zahavi, werekilled outside a kindergarten when Palestinian terrorists in Gaza launchedKassam rockets into the southern Israeli city of Sderot. Zahavi's mother,Miriam, was seriously injured in the attack, and is struggling to recover in alocal hospital.
2004: The New York Times featuredreviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding 'Letters, 1928-1946': The Book of Isaiah (Berlin) by SirIsaiah Berlin and 'Sweet Land Stories': The Call of the Wild Ones byE.L. Doctorow
2005: Author and Civil War Historian Shelby Footepasses away at the age of 88. A nativeof Greenville, Mississippi, Foote’s father was not Jewish. However, his mother’s family was. As a youngster, Foote regularly attendedservices. He “stopped being Jewish”because he found himself having to play the role of an outsider twiceover. He was a Southerner and he wasJewish. He could only devote himself toone of these and he chose his Southern heritage. It is ironic that the man who came topersonify Civil War for a whole a generation of television viewers and whosedrawl was the best that the Southern tongue could offer was a Jew.
2005:The United States Air Force appointed Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, who had served asa chaplain for 25 years in the United States Navy, to the newly-createdposition of Special Assistant (for Values and Vision) to the Secretary andChief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force. Resnicoff served in this position fromfor a year “at the equivalent military rank of Brigadier General, responsiblefor making recommendations regarding policy and guidance in support of the AirForce initiative to integrate core values into all Air Force operating conceptsand policies. His assignment took him around the world, beginning in the MiddleEast, with Iraq, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, and continuing tomilitary bases throughout Europe and the Pacific, as well as installationswithin the United States, including the United States Air Force Academy inColorado Springs, CO, and the Air War College, in Montgomery, Alabama, where hemet with Air Force leaders at every level of command. During this appointment,Resnicoff was instrumental in terms of beginning service-wide discussions onpolicies for religious free exercise within the Air Force.”
2005:Today, McLaughlin and Associates concluded a poll commissioned by the ZionistOrganization of America.
2005:Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff who had served 25 years as a Chaplain in the UnitedStates Navy began serving “as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the AirForce and Chief of Staff of the Air Force
2006(1stof Tammuz, 5766): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz 2006: Rabbi, Arnold E. Resnicoffcompleted his one year assignment as Special Assistant to the Secretary of theAir Force and Chief of Staff of the Air Force. He was awarded the Air ForceDecoration of Exceptional Civilian Service for his years’ worth of work.
2006: Chaim Saban’s “Saban Capital Group led agroup of investors bidding for Univision Communications, the largestSpanish-language media company in the United States.”
2006:Yitro Asheri submitted a report to police say that his son Eliyahu was missing(Unbeknownst to the father, the son had been kidnapped by terrorists two daysearlier and was dead by now.)
2007:David Milliband’s last day as Secretary of State for Environment, Food andRural Affairs
2007: In Jerusalem, legendaryIsraeli composer/singer Shlomo Gronich presents his newest compositions ofbiblical sources on a wide spectrum of themes: justice, righteousness,integrity, man and his identity, love songs & prayers. Performance includesGronich on piano & shofar, the Jerusalem String Quartet and percussion.
2007: Dr. Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian businessmanidentified as the Mossad agent who tipped Israel off on the eve of the YomKippur War about the coming surprise attack was founddead outside his home in London's Mayfair neighborhood. Dr. AshrafMarwan was the son-in-law of the Egyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasser. There is a dispute as to whether Marwan wasreally a spy for Israel or whether he was in a double agent who was feedingdisinformation to his Israeli handlers.
2007:Social justice was the theme of the first Jurisprudence Awards dinner sponsoredby the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs at the Hilton Chicago. The event raised $50,000 for the work of theJewish Council on Urban Affairs which began during the civil rights strugglesof the 1960s and how promotes social justice through working with communityorganizations in Chicago.
2007(11thof Tammuz, 5767): Ninety-year old Albert Wattenberg “one of the scientists whoworked with Enrico Fermi on the first controlled release of nuclear energy”passed away today.
http://vineyardgazette.com/obituaries/2007/07/06/albert-wattenberg-90-pioneered-nuclear-energy
2009:The final performance of “Dov and Ali” by Anna Ziegler, at the Cherry LaneStudio Theater, in the West Village. The drama revolves around the relationshipbetween Dov, a high school teacher and Orthodox Jew, and Ali, a 17-year-oldstudent and strict Muslim.
2009:David Anthony Freud “was created a life peer as Baron Freud, of Eastry in thecounty of Kent,and became a shadow minister for welfare in the House of Lords.”
2009: At the DurhamPerforming Arts Center, the Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet presents the finalperformance Israeli modern choreographer Ohad Naharin's “Decadance” which wasacclaimed by The New York Times as "dancing that pulls viewers right outof their seats.”
2009: Today, the London-based A-sharq Al-awast reported that a deal tradingShalit for over 1,000 Hamas prisoners was imminent. Hamas leader Haniyeh,however, said that reports of a breakthrough on Shalit negotiations wereexaggerated. Israeli sources also continued to deny any impending deal.
2010: The Jewish Feast-ival is scheduled to take place at The Jewish Centerin Rock Island, Illinois.
2010: "The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer," a new musicaladaptation of the classic Yiddish play by Moyshe Gershenson, is scheduled tohave its final performance at The Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 LexingtonAvenue.
2010: The New York Times featured books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including Faith and Power: Religion andPolitics in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis and Crisis Economics: ACrash Course in the Future of Finance by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm.
2010: Jews from more than 15 countries are scheduled to compete in a “JewishWorld Cup" in New York today. “The soccer tournament, hosted by the JewishCommunity Relations Council of New York, will take place Sunday on Randall'sIsland, between Manhattan and the Bronx. The tournament is for adults; soccerclinics are planned for children. The tournament is part of JCRC’s effort toreach out to overseas Jews living in New York and integrate them into theAmerican Jewish community. “There are many different groups of internationalJews in New York who are not connected to each other as a community, nor arethey connected to the broader community of New York Jews,” said Hindy Poupko,director of Israel and international affairs at the JCRC. “Our goal is to bringthese groups together as international Jews and as a part of the broader Jewishcommunity.”
2010(15thof Tammuz, 5770): Martin David Ginsburg “an internationally renowned taxationlaw expert” who “was Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center inWashington, D.C. and of counsel to the law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver& Jacobson” passed away today. Hewas the husband of Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (Asreported by Gardiner Harris)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/us/28ginsburg.html?_r=1
2011: Israeli violinist Misha Vitenson and the Jupiter musicians are scheduled toperform Beethoven’s brilliant Sextet for 2 virtuoso horns and string quartet,the Flute Quartet in E Minor by his pupil Ferdinand Ries, Webern’s RomanticLangsamer Satz, and the Brahms String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major at theChurch for All Nations in New York City.
2011: Kiryat Arba Chief Rabbi Dov Lior, one of the senior figures of religiousZionism, was arrested today after he refused to appear for questioning for hisendorsem*nt of the controversial book, “Torat Hamelech,” which justifieskilling non-Jews. Following the publication of the book, police opened aninvestigation on grounds of incitement. The author of the book, Rabbi YitzhakShapira, was detained, questioned and released. An endorsem*nt written by threerabbis was added to the book, following a standard practice in books pertainingto the Torah when a junior rabbi ask for approval from a rabbi senior to him.Rabbi Yosef Ginsburg, one of the approvers, was investigated a year ago. Twoother rabbis, Dov Lior and Ya’akov Yosef, were summoned for questioning butrefused to attend. The police arrested Rabbi Lior this afternoon, who has saidin the past that the Torah is above the law, and that it is unacceptable for arabbi to be investigated for publishing Torah-related work. National Union MKMichael Ben-Ari said in response that the “Public Security Minister should befired,” claiming that the police always treat Arab leaders carefully and herethey are disparaging a great figure in Israel. In February , Knesset members ofthe National Union party, Shas and Agudath Israel proposed a “Dov Lior Law”that would grant immunity for rabbis regarding halachic material they publish,or concerning opinions they have given in relation to “The Torah of Israel.”
2011: Today Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu's inner cabinet instructed the Israel Defense Forces to befirm in preventing the flotilla from reaching the Gaza Strip while operatingwith maximal restraint to avoid causing injuries. The senior governmentministers also instructed the Foreign Ministry to continue its diplomaticefforts to prevent the flotilla from setting sail to Gaza.
2011: Israeli director Guilhad Emilio Schenker won an award atthe Detroit Windsor International Film Festival 2011 today for his short filmLavan. He picked up the award for BestShort Film, a week after he received the Best Director Prize at a Washingtonfilm festival.
2011: Kiryat Arba Chief Rabbi Dov Lior, one of the seniorfigures of religious Zionism, was arrested today after he refused to appear forquestioning for his endorsem*nt of the controversial book, “Torat Hamelech,”which justifies killing non-Jews.
2011(25th of Sivan, 5771): Ninety-seven yearold Rabbi Michel Yehuda Lefokowitz passed away today.
2012: The Jewish Community Relations Council of GreaterWashington, The American Jewish Committee, and The American Association ofJewish Lawyers and Jurists are scheduled to present the next session in itsbrown bag lunch speakers’ series: “Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the AmericanPresidency from Ford to Obama” with Marvin and Deborah Kalb.
2012: Six months after its first screening at theSundance film festival, the rest of the United States has its first opportunityto view “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” an “American fantasy drama film directedby Benh Zeitlin.”
2012: "Going Up: Jerusalem" - a pilgrimage byartists, social activists and intellectuals that is inspired by social protestsin Israel and abroad is scheduled to come to an end.
2012: Funeral services are scheduled to be held at B'naiIsrael Synagogue, 2601 Chestnut St. in Wilmington, NC for of Wendy Block, z”l,of Wrightsville Beach, NC. She was the former chair of the Network ofIndependent Communities of The Jewish Federations of North America, formerboard member of National Women’s Philanthropy and campaign vice chair forNational Women’s Philanthropy. Mrs. Block passed away on June 25 at the age of72.
2012: The Library of Congress obtained the papers ofastronomer Carl Sagan, the son of Ukrainaian-Jewish immigrants.
2012(7th of Tammuz, 5772): TwoIsrael Navy officers were killed in a car crash on Highway 4 near Rishon Lezionearly this morning. An initialinvestigation into the accident revealed that the officers, Captain OmriShahar, 25, of Kfar Saba and First Lieutenant Rafael Bublil, 22, of Ramat Gan,were killed when their car collided with a truck and overturned at HolotJunction. Two other officers were injured in the crash. One is in moderatecondition, while the other suffered serious injuries
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4247988,00.html
2012: Deep divides were exposed between coalitionfactions today over the terms of legislation being formulated to raise thenumber of ultra-Orthodox men in national-service programs.
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=275516
2012: In “How Iran Killed Its Future” published todayShahrzad Elghanayan described how the execution of Habib Elghanian, Iran’s mostprominent Jewish industrialist and philanthropist, was a turning point for thecountry.
2012: “A small group of men gathered at the smallcemetery of Rehovot to pay respects to 53 year old Aharon Zandani of blessedmemory a pillar of Yemen’s Jewish community who was murdered in Sanaa. (Asreported by Elhanan Miller)
2012: Barry Landau, a “collector of presidentialmemorabilia” who was convicted of stealing thousands of historic documents “wassentenced to seven years in prison” and ordered to pay $45,525 to dealers towhom he had sold stolen items.
2013: In the UK, The Wiener Library is scheduled to hosta book launch of Ruta’s Closet , “the harrowing and astonishing true story of how aLithuanian Jewish family fought to escape the deadly clutches of Hitler’s FinalSolution.”
2013: JoanSilber, the novelist and short story writer who won PEN/Hemingway Award for HouseholdWords took part in a book signing at Barnes and Noble.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Silber#/media/File:JoanSilberLaughing.JPG
2013: Today, Nicholas “Winton received the WallenbergMedal in London.”
2013: JCCNV andthe Jewish Community Relations Council are scheduled to present an evening withElliot Abrams who will discussion the Israeli-Palestinian relationship underPresident George W. Bush.
2013: Adas Israel Congregation, EntryPoint DC, and TheFoundation for Jewish Studies are scheduled to present a talk by Dr. AllanLichtman author of FDR and the Jews at the Lillian & Albert SmallJewish Museum
2013: Israel is the center of the world “in so manyways,” the archbishop of Canterbury said today in Jerusalem. He stressedIsrael’s legitimacy and right to security, and also spoke, in the context ofpersecution of Christians by Islamists in the Middle East, about the Christianimperative to “love our enemies.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/archbishop-of-canterbury-israel-the-center-of-the-world/
2013: Tel Avis White Night begins
http://www.timesofisrael.com/pull-an-all-nighter-in-tel-aviv/
2014: “G-D’sHonest Truth” featuring Marcia Jean Kurtz and David Deblinger is scheduled tobe performed at the 14th Street Y.
2014: Eighty-two-year-oldpoet Allen Grossman passed away today.
2014: “FridayLIVE” is scheduled to start this morning at Tel Aviv.
2014: The firstround the Temple Menorah annual rummage sale in Milwaukee, WI is scheduled tocome to an end.
2014: The IAFscored a direct hit on a car carrying two Palestinian terrorists who “wereinvolved in a cell responsible for the repeated rocket fire on Israel’ssouthern cities over the past several weeks and were planning several terrorattacks on Israeli civilians. (As reported by Lazar Berman)
2014: Sixrockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel today, two of which wereintercepted by Iron Dome and four of which landed in “open territory.” (Timesof Israel Staff)
2014: “New York Mayor Bill De Blasio delivered thekeynote address tonight at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the world’s largestLGBT synagogue and a pioneering Jewish presence in the New York Pride Parade.”(As reported by Brian Schaefer)
2014: “Stations of the Elevated” a “1981 documentary filmby Manfred Kirchheimer about graffiti in New York City’ was re-released today.
2014: An exhibition that brings together more than 175 ofGary Winogrand’s most iconic images, atrove of unseen prints, and even Winogrand's famed series of photos made at theMetropolitan Museum in 1969 when the Museum celebrated its centennial openstoday.
GarryWinogrand | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)
2015: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host“The Best Miniatures for Two and Three Clarinets Solo.”
2015: In Coralville, Iowa Congregation Agudas Achim isscheduled to a special luncheon following “Rabbi Jeff’s Last Shabbat.”
2015(10th of Tammuz, 5775): Sixty-seven yearold animator Jane Aaron who specialized in works for children passed awaytoday. (As reported by Sam Roberts).
2015: An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter Scale“was felt in several Israeli cities” this morning.
2015: In Herzliya Pituach, Trioche is scheduled to hostan auction of Israeli and International Art.
http://tiroche.lndit.com/158new.htm
2016(21st of Sivan, 5776): One hundred three-year-oldSimon Ramo, the son of Jewish immigrants, the technology guru who co-foundedTRW passed away today.
2016(21st of Sivan, 5776): Eighty-seven-year-oldAlvin Toffler, the author of Future Shock, passed away today.
2016(21st of Sivan, 5776: Photographer DaveHeath passed away today in Toronto on his 85th birthday.”
2016: While attending a meeting of the Jewish AgencyBoard of Governors in Paris, Natan Sharansky, “the head of the Jewish Agencyfor Israel said” today that “French Jewish have no future” in that countrybecause of “Arab immigration to France and deep-seated anti-Semitism.”
2016: “The Legacy of Absence Gallery” which features ”thework of influential international artists expressing the impact of genocide andother atrocities” is scheduled to close today at the Illinois Holocaust Museumand Education Center and will not reopen until the Fall of 2017.
2016: “Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You” isscheduled to be shown at the 24th Portland Oregon Jewish FilmFestival.
2016: Liverpool MP Luciana Berger who became LucianaClare Goldsmith when she “married Liverpool music manager Alistair Goldsmith atthe city's Princes Road Synagogue in June 2015” resigned her position as ShadowMinister for Mental Health today.
2017: The Sacramento Historical Society is scheduled tohost a lecture by Lynn Downey, the author of Levi Straus: The Man Who GaveBlue Jeans to the World.
2017: In Jackson, Mississippi, The Institute ofSouthern Jewish Life’s annual Education Conference is scheduled to come to anend today.
2017:The British National Theater Live Productions are scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Cinematheque
2017(3rdof Tammuz, 5777): Third of Tammuz marks the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Menachem M.Schneerson, of Righteous Memory, known simple as “the Rebbe.”
http://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/142232/jewish/3-Tammuz.htm
2018:After having visited Yad Vasham yesterday where is great-grandmother, PrincessAlice is honored for rescue of Jews, today, Prince William who is making thefirst official by a member of the Royal Family to Israel, is scheduled to visitTel Aviv this morning to take part in what is being described as a “culturalevent.”
2018:As “Firefighters battled to fight five blazes sparked by incendiary devicesflown toward Israeli communities from Gaza” today, Economy and IndustryMinister Eli Cohen said that those who launch the kites from Gaza should betargeted, as the safety of Israelis living in the vicinity of the coastalenclave must be the first priority.”
2018:The Si-Yo Music Society Foundation and the International Institute of China arescheduled to “present “Symphonic Reflections”, a rich cross-cultural concertperformed by China-based Israeli pianist Shai Rosenboimz” at the LincolnCenter’s Bruno Walter Auditorium.
2018: At part of the “Home: Lens on Israel” series, theTemple Emanuel Streicker Center is scheduled to open the photographicexhibition “Children in the Southern Development Town of Kiryat Gat.”
2018: Paul Shapiro is scheduled to perform at Russ andDaughters Kosher Herring Pairing Party this evening at The Jewish Museum.
2019: “Working Woman” is scheduled to be shown at the “16thAnnual Israeli Film Festival” in Ottawa, Canada.
2019: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduledto present a lecture in Yiddish by Eugene Orenstein on “A Birdseye View of theDevelopment of Yiddish Literature and Culture.”
2019: JW3 is scheduled to host two screenings of “InsideThe Mossad.”
2019: This evening in London, Israeli Asher Tlalim, “theHead of FilmLab” is scheduled to deliver the lecture in the series “A BriefHistory of Cinema.”
http://ukjewishfilm.org/event/filmlab-brief-history-cinema-part-1/
2019: It was reported today that yesterday Palestinianshad “poured scorn on the Trump administration’s $50 billion investment plan tohelp achieve Middle East peace, but that U.S. Gulf Arab allies had said theeconomic initiative had promise if a political settlement is reached.” (Asreported by YNET and Reuters)
2020(5th of Tammuz, 5780): Parashat Korach;
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2020(5th of Tammuz, 5780): On Hebrew calendar,day “set aside as a memorial fast day for the estimated 50,000 Ukrainian Jewswho had last their lives in Uman and other cities during the Haidmamackuprising under Gonta and Zhelenyak
2020: After dropping off the ingredients and instructionsfor Hummus, the Fairmont Young Professions are scheduled to host via Facebook a“short Havdalah service led by Rabbi Joshua Caruso.
2020: Via Zoom jHub is scheduled to host “a familyfriendly event” where attendees learn how to make no-rise bagels.
2020: The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to “The Best ofChamber Music” featuring Dima Pocitari– violin; Kiril Michanovsky – cello; andJulia Gurvich – piano
2020: As Shabbat is observed, residents of Bat Yam, whichwas designated a restricted zone after 40 new coronavirus cases were found inthe central coastal city in just three days are learning to live with “a newnormal” because educational institutions have been closed, gatherings of morethan 10 people have been banned and authorities have increased enforcement atweddings and other venue.
2021(17th ofTammuz, 5781): ShivaAsar Be-Tammuz (Seventeenth of Tammuz), a minor fast day that commemorates thebreaching of the walls of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. by the Babylonians and againin 70 C.E. by the Romans. According to some sages, the Second Temple fellbecause of the lack of love and community spirit. In America, whether it isbullying or the coarsening of our public discourse, we are painfully aware ofthe harm that speech can do. Since most American Jews do not refrain fromfood and drink on the 17th of Tammuz maybe it has been proposed that we refrainfrom Lashon Hara (i.e. Speaking Evil) on this minor fast day. Toparaphrase the old Chasidic tale, we will show as much concern for what comesout of our mouths as we show for what we put in our mouths for one day, itmight become a habit. In 1776, the 4th of July fell on the 17thof Tammuz. So, for those of you who want to get a head start on celebratingAmerican Independence, here is your chance
2021: Wilderness Torah is scheduled to present anin-person day of nature, connection and reflection in honor of the ancient fastcommemorating the breach of the walls of Jerusalem before the destruction ofthe Temple.
2021: The National Library of Israel is scheduled topresent online “The Diary of an Exile” a “talk that will examine the experienceof Jewish migration to Ireland during the so-called mass emigration period(1881-1914), using a little-known resource acquired by the National Library ofIsrael in 2016: the journal of Myer Joel Wigoder, who left Lithuania in 1889and ended up in Dublin around a year later, by way of Antwerp, Amsterdam andLeeds.”
2021: The Israeli American Council of Boston is scheduleto present “Israel’s May 2021 War” during “which Itamar Marcus, founder anddirector of Palestinian Media Watch, analyzes the underlying cause of therecent Hamas rocket attack on Israel and Jerusalem Day, which triggered a shortwar and Israeli-Arab attacks on Jews across Israel.”
2021: Congregation Beth David is scheduled to presentgenealogy expert Ellen Kowitt who will introduce “websites such as Ancestry,FamilySearch and MyHeritage, with a focus on how to find Jewish data.”
2021: Shir Joy Chorus is scheduledto present its last fully virtual concert with a combination of virtual choirs,courtyard chorus and live commentary
2021: Yiddish singer-accordionist Jeanette Lewicki,clarinetist Sheldon Brown and bassist Richard Saunders are scheduled to playsongs “from Bessarabia to Brooklyn” “at Congregation Shir Hadash parking lot.
2021: The Friends of the Arava Institute are scheuduledto celebrate the Arava Institute’s 25th anniversary at an evening hosted byaward-winning performer Mandy Patinkin.
2021: JWA is scheduled to host a panel discussion on “TheRevolution and Impact of the Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, 1995–2021, withDeborah Dash Moore, David Ellenson, Rachel Harris, Alma Heckman, and JenniferSartori, moderated by Judith Rosenbaum
2021: In Atlanta, at the Breman Museum Tony Casadonte isscheduled to lead the final the final tour of “a Jazz Memoir: Photography byHerb Snitzer.”
2021: The New York Times features reviews of booksby Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including MorningsideHeights by Joshua Henkin, The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and theStruggle to Save an American Neighborhood by Julian Rubinstein and therecently released paperback edition of Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise andSpectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork, by Reeves Wiedeman.
https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/american-jewry/11083/weshtick/
2022: The American Jewish Association Annual Conferenceis scheduled to continue for a second day.
2022: After talks with between the Israel’s TeachersUnion and the Finance Minister yesterday “advanced significantly” schools inIsrael are scheduled to open normally today. (As reported by Tobias Siegal)
2022: The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled topresent, online, Dr Shaina Trapedo, an expert on early modern literature for “Shakespeareand the Talmud” during which she willaddress timeless Talmudic questions in Shakespeare’s seminal works.
2022: The 2022 Arthur and Rochelle Belfer NationalConference for Educators, a virtual event sponsored by the United StatesHolocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled begin today.
2023: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lectureby Jeremy Rosen on “Magic, Superstition and theJews.”
2023: TheMuseum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to “ Musical Connections to the LowerEast Side” an in-person program whereattendees will “enjoy a selection of favorite songs from stage and screen- likeWhite Christmas, Beauty and the Beast, and Rhapsody in Blue - and theirconnection to the musical traditions of the Lower East Side's Jewish Community.”
2023: The Virtual Belfer National Conference for Educators,sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled tocontinue for a second day.
2024: The Gan Shalom Fundraiser is scheduled to take placetoday in Des Moines, IA
2024: JWA Book Talks are scheduled to continuetoday with Yaëlle Azagury and Frances Malino, editors and translators, Mazaltob:A Novel, by Blanche Bendahan.
2024: AsJune 27th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that hasincluded Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York subwayto raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostagesbegin day 265 in captivity. (Editor’snote: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are justproviding a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
