JUNE 19
325: Promulgation of the Nicene Creed. Thecreed dealt with various splits among the various Christian groups and onlydealt in a tangential manner with matters pertaining to Jews. The creed alteredthe method for selecting the date of Easter.The change did not ban Easter from ever falling on the first day ofPassover. This change would be centuriesaway from being adopted. But by adopting even this change, the early Christianleaders showed the need to work very hard at separating their religion fromJudaism.
1269: Louis IX (Saint Louis) of France, needingno urging from the Church, ordered all Jews found in public without a badge(yellow or red) to be fined ten livres of silver. The badge in France wasusually a circle of red or yellow material and was known as a rouelle. Theoriginal badge was actually Moslem in origin (Caliph Omar II (717-20)) whodecreed that both Jews and Christians wear a distinguishing mark. The"badge" took on different shapes colors and even dress (i.e. a hat orcolor of a dress) depending on the country.
1269: “King Louis IX of France …decrees thatJews found in public without a special badge will be fined ten livres ofsilver. Normally worn on the breast, the Jewish badge is either yellow or redand is designed to warn Christians when they are dealing with or simply near aJew. Local officials around France repeat the requirement to better enforce thepublic segregation of Jews in this manner. The badges themselves are sold bythe crown, so the government benefits financially two ways: first by sellingthem, and second by the fines when they aren't worn. (As reported by AustinCline)
1286:Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg was imprisoned ina castle in Alsace, Lombardy. At thetime of his imprisonment, Reb Meir and his followers were trying to leaveGermany following a new wave of persecution brought by Rudolph I. “Tradition has it that a large ransom of23,000 marks (approximately 15,144,900 U.S dollars today) was raised for him(by the ROSH), but Rabbi Meir refused it, for fear of encouraging theimprisonment of other rabbis. He died in prison after seven years. 14 yearsafter his death a ransom was paid for his body by Alexander ben Shlomo(Susskind) Wimpen, who was subsequently laid to rest beside the Maharam.” Reb Meir was also known by the termMaharam. His erudition and piety earnedhim the appellation, ‘Light of the Exile.’ Meir was a leading commentator onRashi’s explanations of the Talmud. Suchwas his reputation that Ashkenazi communities in Italy, France and Germanylooked to him for guidance when questions of law and/or custom arose.
1320: John XXII issued “Cum sit absurdum” aPapal Bull that stated that “Converted Jews need not be despoiled.”
1338: “In recognition of the good-will shown bythe citizens of Vienna in time of distress, and in anticipation of itscontinuance, the Jews declared, in a document written in Hebrew and dated todayin Vienna that they would lend to the citizens of Vienna, rich as well as poor,a pound of Vienna heller at a weekly interest of three heller.”
1565: Fifty-year-old Viennese cartographerWolfgang Lazius who “suggested that after Babel the earliest Hebrews hadmigrated from Mesopotamia to German” and who found evidence of Hebrew inEuropean languages passed away today.
1566: Mary, Queen of Scots, and her secondhusband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley gave birth to James VI of Scotland, betterknown as King James I the first ruler of England, Scotland and Ireland, bestknown as the King James of King James Bible fame who insisted thatexperts in Hebrew be employed as part of the project.
1623: Birthdate of French mathematician andphilosopher Blaise Pascal. Of the Jewishpeople Pascal wrote, “It is certain that in certain parts of the world we cansee a peculiar people, separated from the other peoples of the world and thisis called the Jewish people…. This people is not only of remarkable antiquitybut has also lasted for a singularly long time… For where as the people ofGreece and Italy, of Sparta, Athens and Rome and others who came so much laterhave perished so long ago, these still exist, despite the efforts of so manypowerful kings who have tried a hundred times to wipe them out, as theirhistorians testify, and as can easily be judged by the natural order of thingsover such a long spell of years. They have always been preserved, however, andtheir preservation was foretold… My encounter with this people amazesme…."
1630: After having “issued the first letter ofsafe passage to a Jew whose name was Albert Dionis in 1619, he granted generalamnesty “to all Jews permanently in residence in Glückstadt” which was thenpart of Denmark as well as the “right to travel freely throughout the Kingdomof Denmark which at that time included what is now Norway.
1747: Nāder Shāh Afshār, the founder of theAfsharid dynasty, passed away. During his reign he reversed the anti-Jewishpolicies and practices that had been put in place by the Safawid’s dynastywhich had ruled during the previous century.
1750: Moses Mendes, the son of stockbrokerJames Mendes and the grandson of Fernando Mendes was created an M.A today atOxford.
1768: At Uman, the Haidamak Army under thecommand of Maksym Zalizniak slaughtered thousands of Jews in the GontaMassacres. The slaughter came at the endof the siege of Uman in which Ivan Gonta had betrayed the Polish garrison whichled to its defeat. The Polishcommandment had tried to “buy the lives” of the Poles by giving up the Jews; aploy that failed. Led by LeibShargorodoski and Moses Menaker, the Jews put up a valiant but futiledefense. The number of dead Jews whichtotaled more than 2,000 was inflated by the number of refugees who had soughtrefuge in the town.
1772: Birthdate of Salomon Oppehneim Jr. theGerman Jewish banker from Bonn who at the age of 17 founded a “commissions andexchange house” that became Sal. Oppenheim Company.
1778: R’ Asher Gunzburg and Gitlé Loëw gavebirth to Fogel Loew
1790: TheGazette of the United States, a newspaper published in New York Cityprovides an account of correspondence between the Hebrew Congregation ofSavannah, Georgia and the newly elected President of the United States, GeorgeWashington. Washington’s letter to theGeorgia Jews ends with the following sentiments. “May the same wonder-workingDeity, who long since delivered Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors, plantedthem in a promised land, whose providential agency has lately been conspicuous inestablishing these United States as an independent nation, still continue towater them with the dews of heaven and make the inhabitants of everydenomination participated in the temporal and spiritual blessings of thatpeople whose God is Jehovah.”
1790(7th of Tammuz, 5550): Saul Lowenstam “arenowned Dutch rabbi and Talmudist” passed away. Born at Rzeszów in 1717 he was the son ofRabbi Areyh Leib ben Saul, the son-in-law of Rabbi Abraham Kahana and the fatherof Rabbi Jacob Moses Lowenstam. His writings included Binyan Ariel and aTorah Commentary, HeChatzer HaChadasha.
1792(29th of Sivan, 5552): Eighteen-month-oldHeba bat Jacob Levi passed away today in the United Kingdom.
1796(13th of Sivan, 5556):Fifty-one-year-old Lazard Elie Levy, the Metz born son of Elias Elie NathanLevy and Minkle Minelet Oppenheim, the husband of Sara Mayence and the fatherof Aron and Pilte Levy passed away today in Metz, France.
1800: Abraham Michel married Leah Isaacs at theGreat Synagogue in the United Kingdom.
1805: Joseph Hart married Lee Clara at the NewSynagogue in the United Kingdom.
1810: Birthdate of Hamburg native FerdinandDavid, “the violin virtuoso and composer” who was born in the same house whereFelix Mendelssohn had been born a year earlier.
1811: In Philadelphia, John Moss and RebeccaLyons gave birth to Samuel Lyons the husband of Isabelle Moss with whom he hadseven children – Ernest, Edith, Ella, May, Alice, Walter and Harry.
1812: One day after Madison signed thecongressional resolution declaring war on Great Britain, the public learnedthat the War of 1812 which resulted in Isaac Minis the son of Philip and JudithMinis serving as a private in a company of artillery that was part of the 1stRegiment of the Georgia Militia had begun.
1816: A year and a day after Wellington’svictory at Waterloo, Abraham Henry married Emma Lyon at the Hambro Synagogue.
1822: Aaron Hart married Rosa Harris at theHambro Synagogue.
1826: Birthdate of Charles Loring Brace, authorof The Unknown God; Or Inspiration Among Pre-Christian Races in whichthe author is impressed by the fact that there that are “so few evidences ofEgyptian influence are found in the Hebrew faith.” The thinkers and teachers of the Jews werevisited by those higher and purer inspirations which have made them thegreatest benefactors of mankind in ancient history.
1829: Moses David Hyams, the Charleston bornson of Rebecca and David Hyams and his wife Susanna Hyams gave birth to
1832: Birthdate of Frédéric Emile Barond’Erlanger, the French banker whose family converted to Christianity. Despite the family’s conversion, the Baron isoften erroneously identified as being Jewish. Erlanger created one of theearliest “junk bonds” based on the cotton trade during the Civil War. This has led to other incorrect reports thatJews were responsible for financing the Confederacy’s war effort.
1829: Moses David Hyams, the Charleston, SCborn son of Rebecca and David Hyams and his wife Susanna Hyams gave birth toIsaac S. Hyams.
1833(2nd of Tammuz, 5593): HenrySolomon, the son Catherine Bush and Myer S. Solomon who had been married in1778, passed away today in his mother’s hometown of Philadelphia, PA.
1843(21st of Sivan, 5603): Sixty-year-oldAustrian author and philosopher Ignaz Jeiteles who was working on a history ofliterature when he passed away today in Vienna.
1844: “The Rabbinical Conference of Brunswick“convoked by Levi Herzfeld and Ludwig Philippson” whose attendees includedSolomon Formstecher, Samuel Hirsch, Mendel Hess, and Samuel Holdheim came to anend today.
1844: In Poland, Loebel and Henriette GrossmanSchottlander gave birth to Salo Schottlander, the brother of Julius and BrunoSchottlander.
1844: Moses Botibol married Jessie Myers at theBevis Marks Synagogue.
1846: Adam Spielman, the London born son ofMichell and Lewin (Judah) Spielman and his wife Marian Spielman, the Liverpoolborn daughter of Henrietta and Louis Samuel, gave birth to Lionel AdamSpielman.
1846: In London, Elias Benjamin and MaryLazarus gave birth to Benjamin Raphael educated at Jews’ Free School in Londonwho earned a doctorate of Jewish Law for Australia in 1874 and served as therabbi at the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, Mound Street Temple in Cincinnatiand the Fifteenth Street Temple in New York City before becoming the AssociateRabbi of Temple Beth Elohim at Brooklyn, NY in 1902.
1849: Bavarian born Louis Loew Leopold Affelderand Regine Rosalia Affelder gave birth to Jette Affelder
1854: In Terre Haute, IN, Bernard Kuppeheimerand his wife gave birth to Jonas Kuppenheimer whose family, including brothersLouis and Albert moved to Chicago in 1870 where they established a clothingstore that became one of the major men’s clothing brands in the UnitedStates.
1857: The correspondent for the New YorkTimes writes from London that the second reading of the Jew Bill has passedby an immense majority. Furthermore, the opposition seems to be waning andRothschild is on his way to becoming “a Parliamentary saint” as opposed to an“unparliamentarily martyr.”
1857: in Illingen, German Gottlied “LeopoldBarth and Pauline “Barbara’ Victor Barth gave birth to St. Louis residentGustav Barth who married Pauline Barth in 1889 and Hattie Barth in 1907.
1865: Birthdate of Hanover native AlfredHugenberg, the right-wing businessman and anti-Semite who thought he could useHitler but instead turned out to be a steppingstone to the Nazi rise tolegalized power.
https://www.goodreads.com/characters/986622-alfred-hugenberg
1867: In Mobile, AL, “Samuel and Fanny (Wolf)Lyons” gave birth to University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College graduateRabbi Alexander Lyons, the holder of advanced degrees from NYU and Columbia andhusband of Ida Eisendrath who served congregations in Terre Haute and Albanybefore coming to the Eighth Avenue Temple in Brooklyn which he served for 37years while founding “the Consumptives Jewish Aide Society of Brooklyn” andediting The Supplement, “a monthlymagazine.’
1867: Ruthless beat out DeCourcey by a headover the old Jerome Park Racetrack to win the inaugural running of the BelmontStakes and financed by August Belmont, Sr. for whom the race was named financedthe building of the track. The BelmontStakes would move to its current home, Belmont Park, in 1905.
1871(30th of Sivan, 5631): RoshChodesh Tammuz
1871(30th of Sivan, 5631):Twenty-five-year-old Cambridge trained Mathematician Numa Edward Hartog, theson of Alfonse Hartog and Marion Moss whose denial to be admitted as a SeniorWrangler “led to the passage of the Universities Tests Act of 1871, whichremoved religious barriers to holding fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge”passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7292-hartog-numa-edward
1871: In Nebraska, Edward Rosewater, a Jewishimmigrant who supported abolition and served as a telegrapher in the Union Armypublished the first edition of the OmahaBee
1877(8th of Tammuz, 5637): RebbeMeir Horowitz of Dzhikov, the son of Rebbe Eliezer Horowitz of Dzhikov and thegrandson of Rebbe Nattaliz Tzvi passed away today.
1877: As word of Judge Hilton’s decision to barJoseph Seligman from the Grand Union Hotel because he was Jewish spread acrossthe United States, hotel proprietors in Philadelphia said that banning patronsbecause they were Jewish was wrong.Looking at it from strictly a financial point of view, they all agreethat the money of “an Israelite” is as good as that “of a full-fledgedAmerican.” Both Mr. Kingsley of theContinental and Mr. Ward of St. George, leading Philadelphia hotels, have hadSeligman as a guest and would gladly do so again. While Judge Hilton’s actionmight have been permissible in New York, in Pennsylvania it would have beenillegal. Under that state’s law, hotelowners have to obtain a license that allows them “keep a hotel, inn or tavernand under the provisions of that license he cannot turn away any person fromhis hotel, unless he knows that such persons will cause great loss to his houseand then he holds himself liable to a fine of $300 and three monthsimprisonment” as well as a suit for damages from the people who were deniedrooms.
1877: At the popular resort of Long Branch, NJ,several hotel owners expressed their surprise that Joseph Seligman had beenturned away from the Grand Union. Eventhough he is Jewish, the hotel owners, some of whom had had him as a guest,said that he was a desirable guest.However, many of them expressed the opinion that they did not want Jewsstaying at their hotels and were sympathetic with the stance taken by JudgeHilton.
1877: According to Edward Lauterbach, theattorney for Joseph Seligman, as of today hundreds of Jews have closed theiraccounts at the two stores owned by A.T. Stewart & Co which are controlledby Judge Hilton. This is but one example of Jewish support for Seligman whomLauterbach declared is the leading Jew in the United States and is proudlyacknowledged as such by his co-religionists.Lauterbach said that Seligman might also pursue a case under the CivilRights Law which would leave Hilton open to fines and imprisonment.
1877: The arrival of today’s New York Times atSaratoga Spring this afternoon has caused quite a stir with its report of thedispute between Judge Hilton and Joseph Seligman over the latter’s claim thathe was not allowed to rent rooms at the Grand Union because he was Jewish.
1878: Birthdate of Yakov Mikhaylovich Yurovsky,the Bolshevik leader that some credit with overseeing the execution of the Czarafter the Russian Revolution.
1879: The London News published anarticle describing the terms of the will of the late Baron Lionel deRothschild. The estate is valued to at2,700,000 pounds. Sir Nathaniel de Rothschild and Mr. Alfred de Rothschild, thelate Baron’s two sons, have been named as executors.
1880: It was reported today that SarahBernhardt has signed a contract to give 60 performances at Booth’s Theatre inNew York next winter. The contract calls for her to be paid 3,000 francs anight, one-third of the gross receipts, traveling expenses for herself andthree companions and 3,000 francs a month for her hotel bill. According to the great actress, she has hadmore lucrative offers but she accepted this because the 200,000 francs has beendeposited at the Banque de France as a security bond.
1881(22nd of Sivan, 5641):Eighty-eight-year-old Richea Gratz Etting, the Pennsylvania born daughter ofRachel Gratz and Solomon Etting who has been married in 1791, passed away today.
1882: It was reported today that the UnitedStates manager for Sarah Bernhardt has signed a contract with Henry Irving theactor/owner of London’s Lyceum Company to perform their full repertoire duringan American tour. Among other things,American audiences will be treated to The Merchant of Venice featuring EllenTerry in her famed portrayal of Portia and Irving’s unique portrayal ofShylock. His dignified portrayal of Shakespeare’smost famous Jewish character is a departure from the norm of his time.
1882: “The Polish Jewish Colony” publishedtoday provided a detailed sketch of life among the Jews living on New York’slower east side.
1883: In, “Smolian, Russia,” “Joseph and Anna(Leuchtiger) Slobin gave birth to Clark University educated mathematicianHerman Lester Slobin, the husband of Alice Levy and the Professor serving asthe “head of the Mathematics Department at the University of New Hampshire inDurham, NH.
1883: The Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Societywas among the private institutions devoted to the care of children thatreceived a grant of funds from the Board of Estimate and Apportionment in NewYork City. The society received $1,810 out of a total of $30,255 in grants.
1884: Dr. Henry W. Schneeberger a BaltimoreRabbi was one of four people who signed a letter today addressed “to Sir MosesMontefiore, thanking him for his aid to the Russian Jews who had found a refugein Baltimore. The letter continued to advise Montefiore that the Russian Jewishimmigrants had established a school in honor of their benefactor. Dr.Schneeberger was one of the teachers in this school - teaching the immigrantsin the daytime and also at night. Dr. Schneeberger also became their mentor inadvising the Russian Jewish immigrants to become good American citizens and hecautioned against the radicalism of some in their midst.”
1884: After a rumor circulated through certainparts of the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod that a Jew had kidnapped aChristian child and taken it to a synagogue, a mob attacked the synagogue.During the riot 9 Jews were killed, six houses were wrecked, and an untoldnumber were plundered.
1885: In Atkins, AR, Ephriam and Sallie LaskerEpstein gave birth to Clarence Randal Epstein, the older brother of S. LaskerEpstein and Harod Frederick Epstein.
1886: Birthdate of Michael (Mihály) Fekete theHungarian mathematician who made Aliyah in 1928 where he “was among the firstinstructors in the Institute of Mathematics at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1886: TheManchester Guardian reported that the Visiting Committee of the HebrewCongregations of Manchester and Liverpool has affected a "closer unionbetween the Sephardic and Ashkenazic sections of the Jewish community."
1866: In Paducah, KY, Benjamin Bernnheim, theGerman born son of Leopold Solomon and Fanny Weil Bernheim, who became awealthy Louisville distiller, and his wife Rosalie gave birth to Lynn BernardBernheim
1888: In New York, Rabbi Joseph Ziesler, theHungarian born son of Josefine, and Eduard Ziesler and his wife Irma Zieslergave birth to Flora Zeisler
1889: William E. Annin, the associate editor ofthe Omaha Bee wrote the followingdescription today of Edward Rosewater, the Czech born Jew who was “theeditor and publisher of the Omaha Bee.”
"Mr. Rosewater was par excellence the all-around manof the [Bee] establishment. He seemed to have obtained the secret of twoof the attributes of Deity, he was omnipresent and apparently omniscient. Hewrote heavy editorials and pungent editorial paragraphs; contributed localpolitical news to the city page, clipped selections for the news columns,selected items for those startling chestnuts dubbed 'Connubial Bliss,''Peppermint Drops' and 'Honey for the Ladies,' regulated the business office adozen times a day and took subscriptions on the streets and advertising contractsfrom the merchants. I used to think his only sorrow was that he had not inaddition been born a steam engine so that he could run the presses. . ."In addition to his ordinary duties above named, he constantly developedstrong interest in local politics, and always had a dozen fights and twice thatnumber of ward politicians on his hands. On city or county election days, TheBee office was usually depopulated and every man, from editor down, afterrushing in copy, early took a whirl at the polls. After a hard day's work onelection day, followed by an all-night session in collecting returns, theeditor would bob up serenely at 9 o'clock the next morning with his arm full ofexchanges and his mouth full of suggestions about the paper, . . ."Hisindomitable energy, his uncompromising persistency and his invincible pluckwere at once the wonder and admiration of the office. . . . Overworked himself,he took his own high tension as the norm of work, and found it difficult tounderstand why all of his employees could not endure cheerfully the sameracking. This made him often very unpleasant as an employer
1890: In Goniondz, Russia, “Isaac and Libby (Rahver)Roback” gave birth McGill University alum Abraham Aaron Roback, the Harvard PhDand psychologist, the contributor to Yiddish journals and faculty member atseveral schools including Clark University, MIT, Radcliffe and Harvard.
1890: Police officers Oram and English waited in vain for“a short, stout, red whiskered Polish Jew” named Marcus Goldstein to come tothe Gill Engraving printing where he was supposed to retrieve plates for makinglottery tickets that were thought to be part of counterfeiting scheme. (moretomorrow)
1891: It was reported today that applications for thesummer session of The Hebrew Technical Institute under the direction of HenryLeipziger may be made now at its building on Stuyvesant Street.
1891: Birthdate of Romania native and Sacramento, CA insurance man Simon Gartler, the husband ofAnna Gartler and father of Ruth Gartlerwho served as President of the Federation of Rumanian Jews.
1891: Birthdate of New York City Mortimer Krause, theattorney who when running for Congress as a Republican in 1930 came out insupport of anti-lynching legislation.
1891: The list of the graduates from Hebrew TechnicalInstitute published today included Coleman Borwn, Jacob Brown, Joseph Elias,Morris Farkas, Joseph L. Gensler, Louis Gevertz, Arthur Gross, Philip Levenhal,Michale L. Levy, Marks Lisk, Joseph Mayer, Max Mayer, Mortimer L Newman, HymanRosensohn, Abraham Saruya, Rduolph Shack, August Schweitzer and Jacob Szabo.
1892: “Austrian Jew Baiters Thrashed” published todaydescribed an episode at Vienna’s Prater Restaurant, witnessed by acorrespondent from the London Daily News during which three “Jew baiters” werethrashed by “a beardless youth” after enduring their taunts in silence. Itturned out the young man was not Jewish but was in fact an English jockey whohad several races at Vienna.
1892: It was reported today that Sarah “Bernhardtcontinues to play to big audiences in which is proving the most success of allher London seasons.
1892: Birthdate of Ironwood, MI native and NorthwesternUniversity attorney James Joseph Glassner who did post graduate work at Harvardand practiced law in Chicago.
1892: “Rejected at the Theatre Francais” published todayincludes a negative review of Le Prince d'Aurec, a satire on the nobility byHenri Lavedan that features a Jewish banker named de Horn as the villain.
1893: Henry Gottgetreu, the attorney for the late SamuelAdler, spoke of behalf of himself and the family when he denied any knowledgeof financial problems that Adler had been facing since they assumed that his“fortune” was “at least a quarter of a million dollars.” Mr. Adler had beenactive in a number of Jewish organizations including the Sons of Israel, theSons of Benjamin and B’nai B’rith.
1893: “Hebrew Printers at Odds” published today describedconflict between Jewish workers including a declaration by the Central LaborFederation that “the Hebrew Typographical Union was the only true Hebrewprinting union in New York” and a denunciation of the “Hebrew TypographicalUnion No. 317 as shoemakers, tailors and cloakmakers organized to fightSocialism.” (This small item gives a window into the internecine conflict ofthe Jewish working class; a conflict that was even more intense than the onewith the businesses many of which were owned by Jews)
1893(5th of Tammuz, 5653): Fifty-year-oldAdolph S. Jaeger, a prosperous cigar manufacturer who was, with his brotherMorris S., co-owner of Jaeger Brothers, died today, apparently of aself-inflicted gunshot wound.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70717FF3D5A1A738DDDA90A94DE405B8385F0D3
1893: It was reported today that the brass band from theHebrew Orphan Asylum played at the reception marking the opening of the LebanonHospital.
1894: In New York City, Bertha and Max Kleinfeld gavebirth to NYU trained attorney and New York State legislator Philip M.Kleinfeld, a member of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities andCongregation “Shomre Emuneh” in Boro Park.
https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/philip-m-kleinfeld/
1895: “Literary Notes” published today described theupcoming publication by G.P. Putnam of Israel Among the Nations, “asstudy of the Jews and anti-Semitism by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu which has beentranslated into English by Frances Hellman
1895: In Vienna, Austria, Reuben Ben Mordechai Braininand Marie (Masha, Mussa) Brainin gave birth to Joseph Brainin, a Corporal inthe Jewish Legion who had enlisted while living in Montreal and after havingserved in Palestine was mustered out after which he married Salomea Newark andeventually served as executive Vice President of the American Committee for theWeizmann Institute.
1896: “The Jews of Russia” published today describes therestrictive laws under which the Israelites have lived in the land of the Czarsincluding the Ukase of 1727 that expelled the Jews from Russia, the Ukase of1742 which did the same and the creation by Catherine II and Alexander I ofspecial zone to which the Jews were to confine themselves.
1897: “The Talmud Again” published today provides anin-depth review of the two-volume New Edition of the Babylonian Talmudformulated and punctuated by Michael L Rodkinson which includes the originaltext and an English translation reviewed by Dr. Isaac W. Wise. Born in 1845,Rodkinson was the grandson of Aaron ha-Levi ben Moses, the son of AlexanderSender Frumkin and the half-brother of Israel Dov Bar Frumkin
1897: Among the gifts and contributions listed at themeeting of the Board of Directors of the Hebrew Technical Institute were $250from Julius Goldschmidt for tools and physical instruments; a band saw fromJames Loeb; $500 from the late Bernard Cohen for lathes; $1,000 from the lateLeopold Boscowitz for general supplies. (The nature of the contributions isconsistent with vocational mission of the institute)
1897: “Articles of incorporation were filed” today “inthe County Clerk’s office by the Sons of Abraham, a Hebrew benevolent society.”
1897: Mrs. Jennie Cohen who had been recently widowed andher four young children ranging in age from six years to four months arrived inNew York from New Haven, CT and since they were destitute spent the night atthe Hebrew Sheltering House Association at 210 Madison.
1897: Birthdate of comedian Moe Howard who gainedfame as one of the Three Stooges
1898: Two days after he had passedaway, 37-year-old Mordecai Park was buried today in London at the PlashetJewish Cemetery.
1899: In Baltimore, MD, Dr. Richard Gottheilchaired the opening session of the second annual conference of the Federationof American Zionists.
1899: Thirty-year-old Harvard trained attorneyMarcus Cauffman Sloss, the New York City born son of Louis and Saran(Greenbaum) Sloss married Hattie L. Hecht today in Boston after which he wentto practice law in San Francisco where he also served a Judge of the SuperiorCourt.
1899: As of today, the Federationof American Zionists has 10,000 members divided into “125 societies” with atotal of $415.92 in its treasurer.
1899: This evening Rabbi GustaveGottheil of New York’s Temple Emanu-El addressed a mass meeting in Baltimore inwhich “he delivered a bitter” indictment “against the injustice done Dreyfus.
1899: In his recent announcement ofhis resignation as pastor of the Calvary Presbyterian Church on West 116thStreet in Manhattan, Reverend James Chambers predicted that the congregationwould soon disband because of the changing nature of the neighborhood where“well-to-do residents of the Jewish faith…have crowded out their Christianneighbors.”
1900: “Russian Jewish immigrantsMikhail (Michael) Zametkin and Adella Kean Zametki” Cornell University graduateLaura Zametkin who gained fame novelist Laura Hobson, the author of Gentlemen’sAgreement and wife of Thayer Hobson with whom she had two children Michael andChristopher Hobson.
1900: Herzl and Wolffsohn settletheir differences about the Trust's affairs. And Herzl asks his good dear"Daade" to address him by the familiar "Du" instead of theformal "Sie".
1901: 1903: InHalle, Germany, Irmgard (née Wüst) and Friedrich Litten who had converted toLutheranism gave birth to Hans Achim Litten, the attorney who defendedanti-Nazis during trials held in the last years of the Weimar Republic andactually cross-examined Adolf Hitler – a cross-examination that led to hisimprisonment, torture and death at Dachau
1902: Henry Freeman, the Russianborn son of Rhoda and Abraham Simon Freeman was buried today at the BelfastJewish Cemetery in Northern Island.
1903: The British Foreign Officesends the first of two letters to Herzl rejecting his proposal to establish aJewish colony in the Sinai.
1903: In Halle Irmgard (nee Wust)and Fritz Litten, “a Jews who converted to Lutheranism in order to further hiscareer as a law professor” gave birth to Hans Litten, a lawyer who representedopponents of the Nazis – a role that ended him in Dachau where he died.
1904: Birthdate of New YorkerLester Cole, the son of a union organizer in the garment district who was aco-founder of the Writers Guild of America and whose membership in theCommunist Party led to his being blacklisted as a member of the “HollywoodTen.”
1905: “Stick to Palestine Plan”published described the opening session of the 8th annual conventionof the Federation of American Zionists in Philadelphia during which the 230delegates “adopted a resolution to the effect that that the InternationalZionist Congress, to be held at Basel this Summer be asked to reaffirm theBasel program of 1897.”
1906: In Berlin, Margarete (née Eisner) and Michael Chain gave birth toGerman born and educated British chemist, Sir Ernst Boris Chain. Chain left Germany when the Nazis came topower. As an English citizen thisleading biochemist won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1945 forhis work on the effects of penicillin.
1907: Captain Johann Kock, theformer Finnish army officer turned revolutionary who has found refuge in theUnited States was quoted today as saying the Czar “is an ordinary man” who“cannot comprehend the situation and believes that at the bottom of all thetroubles as the Jews and nobody else.”
1908: After selecting WilliamHoward Taft, who would become the first sitting President to attend a Seder,the Republican National Convention adjourned today in Chicago, Illinois.
1909: Birthdate of Maurice Zimring,the native of Waterloo, Iowa who gained fame as “Maurice Zimm, an American radio, television and film writer, whose mostfamous creation was the Creature from the Black Lagoon.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/24/local/me-passings24.3
1910: Birthdate of Abe Fortas, AssociateJustice of the Supreme Court. Fortas was a close friend and advisor to LyndonJohnson. There are several stories about Fortas providing Johnson with what wewould call a "reality check." Fortas was reluctant to give up hislucrative law practice and accept the position on the high court. He did tellJohnson that the Jewish community would not consider him as the "JewishJustice" in the sense of a Brandies or Goldberg since he was not a part ofthat community. In the end Fortas gave into Lyndon’s famed arm-twisting and therest is history. Fortas ended up resigning from the court in 1969 afterquestions were raised about some of his business dealings. Fortas passed awayin 1982 at the age of 71.
1910:New York Law School trained attorney Hyan J. Reit, the Koenigsberg,Germany born son of Jenny Epstein and Jacob Reit married Rae Klausner todayafter which he served as president of both Temple B’nai Israel and SheerithJudah and chairman of bot the Washington Heights Division of Keren Hayesod andthe United Palestine Appeal’s Washington Heights Division.
1911: Today, the police have informed anotherone thousand Jews that they have eight days to leave by Kiev.
1911(23rd ofSivan, 5671): Jacob Stanley Isaacs, the New York born son of Jane Symmons andRabbi Samuel Myer Isaacs and the “brother of Judge Myer Samuel Isaacs; IsaacSamuel Isaacs; Marian Isaacs; Abram Samuel Isaacs; Rebecca Isaacs; RachelIsaacs and Sarah Isaacs” passed away today in Manhattan.
1912: The Republican National Convention towhich Samuel S. Koenig was a delegate opened today in Chicago.
1912: In Philadelphia, PA, Jewish immigrantsRuth (née Herzog) and Israel Gabel, a jeweler, gave birth to actor, directorand producer Martin Gabel
1913: In Chicago, The Temple Emanuel Woman’sAuxiliary is scheduled to hold its annual luncheon at the Bismarck Gardens thisafternoon.
1913: When the Austrian Parliament met todayIgnaz Kuranda, “a leader of the assimilations section of Austrian Jewry” spokeout against the riots at Vienna University which “embitter not only the Jewsbut every educated man” and through which “Austrian Nationalism will not gainin power” but which “the Jews will learn to appreciate the fact thatanti-Semitism is growing in this country.”
1913: Abram I. Elkus addressed the graduates atthe City College commencement ceremony.
1914: Louis D. Brandeis, special counsel to theInterstate Commerce Commission in the 5 per cent. advance rate case, to-dayappeared before the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce in opposition tothe Rayburn Stock and Bond bill, which proposes to confer authority upon thecommission to control and approve issues of securities by common carriers.
1914: In Palo Alto, CA, Carol (née Dixon) andWilliam MacGregor Cranston gave birth to Senator Alan Cranston who as “acorrespondent for INS before WW II thought a recently released “abridgedEnglish-language translation of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, was sanitizedto exclude some of Hitler's anti-Semitism and militancy” published a differenttranslation (with annotations) which he believed more accurately reflected thecontents of the book and for which Hitler successfully sued him for “copyrightviolation.”
1915: Inthe Bronx, Romanian-Jewish immigrants “Joseph and Bertha Schwartz to cartoonistJulius Schwartz who as an editor at DC Comics worked on Superman and Batman.
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Julius_Schwartz
1915: Friends and family of Leo Frank,including his wife, father and mother visited him “in his cell in the Towertoday” as they awaited word as to whether or not Governor Slaton would commuteis sentence to life in prison.
1915: The Jews of Morocco suffered indignitiesunder the French regime that were unknown while under the rule of the oldsultans.
1916: The Adjutant General of the New YorkNational guard “ended the public hearings…in the investigation to determinewhether discrimination had shown against Jews in the National Guard” despiteobjections by Maurice Simmons “who has been presenting the case for the Jews.”
1916: It was reported today that “a gift of$165,000 to Mount Sinai Hospital has just been announced by the Guggenheimbrothers of the American Smelting and Refining Company” which “supplementsprevious gifts of more than $500,000 already given by the Guggenheim brothers.”
1916: The delegates to the eighth annualconvention of the Federation of Russian-Polish Jews of America are scheduled tomeet for a second session tonight at seven o’clock at the Harlem HebrewEducational Institute.
1916: It was reported today that Louis D.Brandies, Louis Edward Levy of Philadelphia and Dr. Harry Friedenwald arescheduled to be among the speakers at next week’s annual convention of theFederation of American Zionists which will be held at the Metropolitan OperaHouse in Philadelphia.
1917: In Alexandria, Egypt, Nelly Grün andLeopold Percy Hobsbaum gave birth to “Eric J. Hobsbawm, whose three-volumeeconomic history of the rise of industrial capitalism established him asBritain’s pre-eminent Marxist historian.” (As reported by William Grimes)
1917: In Chicago, The Baron Hirsch Workers arescheduled “to hold a directors’ meeting this after at the Lincoln Park.
1917: Dr. Bernard Revel, President of theFaculty of the Rabbinical College of America opened “the first annual meetingof the Society of Jewish Academicians” in New York by delivering “an address on‘The Place of Jewish Scholarship in America.’”
1917: Based on information from the Americanminister to Sweden, Abram I. Ilkus, the American Ambassador to Turkey has leftConstantinople and is scheduled to arrive in Berne today.
1917: “The cornerstone of the new synagogue tobe erected at 257-265 West Eighty-Eighth Street for the Congregation B’naiJeshurun” one of the oldest congregations in New York “was set in place”
1917: Twenty-six-year-old Richmond, VA borndentist Harry Bear married Betty Gellman
1918: In Fitzgerald, GA, gave birth to “SamAbram, a harness maker and storekeeper born in Romania, and the former IreneCohen, the daughter of a doctor and a granddaughter of Rabbi Elias Eppstein,one of the first Reform rabbis in the United States gave birth to MorrisBerthold Abram, the advocate for Civil Rights and President of BrandeisUniversity. (As reported by William Honan)
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/17/us/morris-abram-is-dead-at-81-rights-advocate-led-brandeis.html
https://atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com/honoring-the-legacy-of-a-small-town-jewish-boy1/
1918: TodayLeopold and Johanna Bluethenthal received the kind of wartime telegramconfirming the news that their son, Arthur, had died fighting for the Alliedcause in Europe making him the first resident of Wilmington, NC, to die incombat during the First World War.
1919: Birthdate of movie critic Pauline Kael. As movie critic for the New York Times, Kael was one of the most influential influences inthe world of cinema criticism. With herhigh quality of writing and edgy style, she was a trend setter in an era whenwomen were too often consigned to the style section and gossip columns.
1920: The first anti-Semiticarticle appeared in the Dearborn Independent, owned by Henry Ford who was a Jewhater part excellence.
1920: M.I.T. educated architectAlbert Samuel Gottlieb, the Portchester, NY born son of Julia Rothschild andSamuel Gottlieb who specialized in designing in synagogues and temples includedTemple B’nai Jeshurun in Newark, NJ married Catherine M. Welch today.
1921: “The Eighth Annual Flower Dayof the Jewish National Fund” is scheduled to be observed today in Jewishcommunities throughout the United States.
1922: The National Association ofJewish Community Center Secretaries, whose goal “is to develop a scientificbody of information for Jewish Community workers” is scheduled to continue itsfourth annual conference today in Providence, RI.
1923: The 18th annualconvention of the Independent Order of Brith Sholom which was founded in 1905and has over 35,000 members came to an end today in Atlantic City, NJ.
1923: Today, “at a luncheon of theBusiness Men’s Council held at the Hostel Pennsylvania,” the organization’spresident, Arthur Lehman announced plans to half a million dollars during theremainder of “1923 to wipe out the deficit in the current budget of theFederation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies.
1924: Dr. Joseph Silverman, RabbiEmeritus of Temple Emanuel, “has returned from a tour of the holy land.”
1925: In Detroit, Michigan, MorrisBurros, “an unsuccessful furrier and inventor” and the former Clara Krellmangave birth to Marion Ann Burrow who gained fame as Marian Javits, the wife ofJacob Javits, the U.S. Senator from New York and a leader of the RepublicanParty’s liberal wing.
1925: In a cave at Tabgha, near Jerusalem,archaeologists discover a primitive human skull that bears a close resemblanceto the Neanderthal man previously discovered in Europe.
1926: Birthdate of New Jersey native Dr. ErnaSchneider Hoover “an American mathematician notable for inventing acomputerized telephone switching method which "revolutionized moderncommunication" according to several reports.”
1926: “Footloose Widows” a comedy filmed bycinematographer David Abel was released in the United States today.
1926: Birthdate of Luxembourg native ArnoJoseph Mayer whose family fled to the United States after the Nazi invasionwhich led to his successful career that culminated in being named“Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University.”
https://history.princeton.edu/people/arno-mayer
1927(19th of Sivan, 5687):Sixty-eight-year-old Zippporah Alice DeCastro Lazaron, the New Orleans borndaughter of Jacob Osoro DeCastro and Hannah Haim DeSola DeCastro , the husbandof Atlanta, GA native Samuel Louis Lazaron and the mother of Savannah, GAnative Rabbi Samuel Lazaron passed away today in Baltimore.
1928(1st of Tammuz, 5688): RoshChodesh Tammuz
1928: “A cross-fire of conflicting court ordersobtain by Louis Lowenstein, President of the Nassau Smelting Company…and by hiswife Ralphina…complicated the hearing on the husband’s merit directing his wifeto show cause why she should not return their three children which wasscheduled for this afternoon before Supreme Court Justice Valente.”
1928(1st of Tammuz, 5688): Justweeks short of his 61st birthday labor leader Joseph Baroness knownas “the King of the Cloakmakers” passed away today.
http://www.jta.org/1928/06/22/archive/15000-pay-last-tribute-to-joseph-barondess-at-funeral-services
1929: Funeral services are scheduled to be heldthis morning for sixty-nine year old Columbia Unversity trained attorney EdgarJ. Nathan, the New York City born son of Gershom and Rosalie Gomez, the scionof several the city’s oldest Sephardic families, and partner of JusticeBenjamin N. Cardoza who was the husband of Sara N. Solis and the father ofEdgar J. Nathan, Jr the Manhattan Borough President.
1929: “At a joint meeting of the Prague ChevraKadisha…and the Kehillah board” “went on record as opposing the burial of theashes of cremated bodies in the Jewish cemeteries” because that was a violationof “Jewish religious traditions.”
1930: Mrs. Samuel Halprin wrote to “Americanattorney, social worker, and philanthropist” Joseph C. Hyman.
1931: “A rabbi may legally issue a permit toconsumers of sacramental wine if the latter are Orthodox Jews, even if theconsumers are not members of the rabbi's congregation, Federal Judge Frank J.Coleman ruled today, ordering the government to return 500 gallons ofsacramental wine seized on April 13during a raid on a branch store of the Fruit Industries, Ltd.”
1932(15th of Sivan, 5692):Ninety-one Myrtilla Eduora Mitchell, the Philadelphia born daughter AbrahamHart and Rebecca Cohen Hart and husband of Lewis Allen Mitchell with whom shehad four children – Estelle, Irving, Percival and Clarence Mitchell passed awaytoday Philadelphia.
1933(25th of Sivan, 5693):Fifty-one-year-old Ukrainian born chazzan Jose “Yossele” Rosenblatt passed awaytoday in Jerusalem.
1933: On a day when he received an honorarydegree from Brown University Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo of the United StatesSupreme Court delivered an address to the alumni of that Rhode Islandinstitution of higher education in which he declared, “The day is past whenproblems of public law can be solved by pulling down the law books and markingwithout other aids the "signposts on the road,"
1933: Cardinal Pacelli issued a concordantknown as the Hitler Concordant. Hitler described it as "unrestrictedacceptance of National Socialism by the Vatican." Cardinal Pacelli laterbecame Pope Pious XII.
1933:“The annual convention of the Council of Young Israel Organizations”which was attended by “delegates from the United States, Canada, Great Britain,France and Poland” and is being held at “the Hotel Clarendon-Brunswick” inAsbury, NJ.is scheduled to come to an end today.
1934: American author Nathaniel West, the sonof Litvak immigrants to the United States, published A Cool Million, thesecond of the three novels he created during his career which was cut short byan untimely death in an automobile accident.
1934(6th of Tammuz, 5694): Seventy-six Germanbusinessman Max Pinkus passed away at Neustadt, Germany.
1934:Tonight, in the ballroom of the PlazaHotel, Dr. Bernard Revel, dean of Yeshivah College, Dr. Moses Hyamson of thefaculty of JTS, Rabbi Mitchell S. Eskolsky and Cantor Aaron J. Caplowofficiated at the wedding of Leah Friedman and Jacob Neustadter.
1934: It was reported today that the newlyelected officers of the Central Conference of American Rabbis are Rabbi SamuelGoldenson of Temple Emanu-El in New York, President; Rabbi Felix A. Levy ofChicago, Vice President; Rabbi Samuel Gup of Columbus, OH and Rabbi Isaac E.Marcuson of Macon, GA, Secretaries; Rabbi Harry S. Margolis of St. Paul, MN,Treasurer.
1934: Hundreds of kosher butcher shops ownersare scheduled to attend a meeting at Webster Hall sponsored by The Federationof Kosher Shop Owners in Greater New York, led by President Charles Cohen wherethey will decide whether or not to close their shops as a protest “against thehigh prices packers are forcing them to pay for their meats.”
1935: In Palestine, the German consulateadvised Jews not to travel to Germany, not even if they are citizens and noteven for short trips. According to the consul, Jews entering Germany are likelyto be apprehended by the Gestapo and placed in a concentration camp.
1936: “Great Britain is determined to restoreorder in Palestine, ‘even if it means using inevitably harsh measures,’Colonial Secretary William G.A. Ormsby-Gore told the House of Commons today atthe end of a full-length debate on recent disturbances in the Holy Land.”
1936: Rabbi B.A. Tinner delivered the Fridaynight sermon at the Temple of the Covenant on West 180th Street inNew York.
1936: “We Went to College” a comedy produced byHarry Rapf who co-authored the script along with Richard Maibaum was releasedin the United States today.
1936: Leopold S. Amery, the former ColonialSecretary told the House of Commons, “nothing could be more cruel than theposition in which the German Jews are placed today.”
1936: This evening in New York Georg Bernhard,the German editor-in-chief of the Pariser Tageseitung who has been living inexile in Paris since Hitler came to power “gave a farewell address on “A WorldJewish Question” in which he said that world was no longer interested in thepersecution of the Jews by the Nazis” and that “consequently, the entire GermanJewry is now exposed to torture and slavery.”
1936: Earl Winterton, former Under-Secretaryfor India told the House of Commons that he “thought the Jews had ‘behavedadmirably on the whole’ and complimented them for what they had done inPalestine” adding that he loathed “the manner in which they have been treatedin a certain country of Europe.”
1936: As Arab violence continues tosweep across Palestine, ThePalestine Post reported that one Jew was killed and several deafened and injuredby a primitive bomb which was thrown into a bus in Tel Aviv. AvrahamBen-Yehuda, one of the original founders of Atarot, died of injuries sustainedwhen Arab snipers opened fire on a bus in Jerusalem. Trees were cut down andthe aerodrome damaged at Lydda. The Jerusalem water pipe was damaged by adynamite charge. Two Arabs injured themselves seriously while trying to blow upa road culvert near Nablus.
1937(10th of Tammuz, 5697): Parashat Chukat
1937: David Robert Altman, the twenty-four-year-old Milwaukee bornson of Jeanette and Robert D. Atlman arrived in Spain where he would fight withthe International Brigade.
1937: “Member of the National Democratic Party asked the PolishGovernment today to prevent Jews of Brzesc from receiving financial aid fromAmerican Jewry for reopening shops destroyed in anti-Semitic riots” because“Brzesc was an important military center should not be inhabited by Jews.”
1938: On the 22nd anniversary of the Battle of Verdun,“1,000 Jewish and non-Jewish veterans including General Andre Weller,”attending the “unveiling of a monument at Doumont”, honoring “6,500 French Jewsand 2,000 Americans and British Jews of the Foreign Legion who fell in the war”heard “Deputy Caesar Campinchi, speaking on behalf of the French Government”condemning persecution and advising “Jews to remember history, to be patientand not to despair.
1939: The Mizrachi Women's Organization opened its firstindependent meeting in Atlantic City. Although it was the group's fourteenthannual meeting, it was the first conducted separately from a men'sorganization. Now the largest religious Zionist organization in the UnitedStates (under the name AMIT), the organization owes its creation to FredaResnikoff.
1939: Governor Lehman addressed the delegates attending theconvention of the Independent Order of B’rith Abraham in Convention Hall atSaratoga Springs, NY.
1939:In Palestine, eighteen Arabs--nine men, six women andthree children-- were killed and twenty-four wounded by the explosion of a timebomb. In replying to accusations by the British that Jews were responsible forthe violence, “Jewish communal leaders condemned the ‘dastardly murder ofinnocent Arabs, women and children.’”
1940(13th of Sivan, 5700): Zalman DavidLevontin passed away. Born in 1856, he was one of the first of the Hovevei Ziongroup and one of the founders of Rishon LeZion and Yesod Hamaaleh. In 1903,Levontin founded the Anglo Palestine Bank in Jaffa and acted as its manageruntil 1924.
1940: Leonard Canter, Edwin Newman and Nathan Segal are three ofthe “four members of the City College that is graduated tonight who willreceive their degrees summa cum laude.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/06/19/113093224.html?pageNumber=18
1941: Today, the residents of Metulla, “a Jewish agriculturalcommunity” were recovering from the destruction from the French artilleryattacks launched from Merdjayoun.” (It is assumed that these French forces wereunder the control of Vichy which shows to what extent the Petain, et al wouldgo to serve their fellow fascists.”
1941: Rabbi Leo Jung, a Professor of Ethics, presided over“special services” marking the “150th anniversary of theratification of the Bill Rights” which were held today prior to the 10thannual Commencement Exercises at Yeshiva University.
1942: Today, after being held in three different prisons, TitusBrandsma, a Carmelite priest who been arrested by German occupiers in Hollandfor speaking out against Nazism as a "lie" and "pagan” “arrived”at Dachau today where he was later murdered by lethal injection.
1942; The US Army activated the Military Intelligence TrainingCenter (MITC) today, and trained 19,600 intelligence troops, including theRitchie Boys, approximately 15,200 servicemen, most with high fluency inmultiple European languages, for frontlines interrogation, battle-fieldintelligence, investigation, counter-intelligence, and related work. Approximately14%, or 2,200, of them were Jewish refugees born in Germany and Austria,alongside American Jewish servicemen, among others. The 'Ritchie Boys' werelater involved in the Nuremberg trials as prosecutors and translators.
1942(4th of Tammuz,5702):Jewsrevolt at Glebokie, Belorussia; 2500 are murdered in the Borek Forest.
1942: The family of famed historian MosesSchorr including his wife, his daughter Felicia and his grandchildren were“interned at Warsaw’s Pawiak Prison as citizens of a neutral state.”
1942: Birthdate of Jack Edward Oliver author ofthe “Swan Esther,” a 1982 musical based on the Megalith Esther.
1943: Today, while stationed at Camp Croft inSpartanburg, SC, twenty year old Private Henry Kissinger “became a naturalizedcitizen.”
1943: Joseph Goebbels announces that Berlin isfree of Jews.
1944(28th of Sivan, 5704):Forty-four-year-old Lilli Jahn “a German-Jewish doctor and victim of the Nazismin Germany who gained international fame posthumously following the publicationof her letters to her five children which she wrote during her imprisonment inthe labor camp Breitenau after which she was deported to the concentration campAuschwitz where she was murdered today.
https://www.amazon.com/My-Wounded-Heart-Lilli-1900-1944/dp/B008SMX8W4
1944: Five hundred Jews were transferred fromthe death camp of Birkenau to the work camp at Dachau.
1945: Judge Irving Lehman, the brother offormer Governor Herman Lehman, delivered the address of welcome at New YorkCity's reception honoring General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who has returned fromleading the Allies to victory over the Nazis.
1945: In Birmingham, Alabama, Rosemary (Loftus)and Arthur Samuels Wolff, an aeronautical engineer “from a Jewish background”gave birth to author Tobias Wolff who did not find out his “Jewish connection”until he was an adult.
1946: Today, in a memorandum to the StateDepartment, the American Jewish Committee urged the “United States to recommendto the British government the immediate admission of 100,000 Jews to Palestineand indicated willing to assist in transferring these refugees.
1947: It was reported today that “The memory of6,000,000 European Jews, including those who fell in the Battle of the WarsawGhetto and those who died by Nazi gas and guns in concentration camps, will bekept alive by a monument being designed by Jo Davidson, the sculptor, forRiverside Park at Eighty-fourth Street…”
1948: Panama and Costa Rica (recognized Israel.
1949: “Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, Acting UnitedNations Mediator on Palestine said tonight that he did not know of any recentsniping by Israeli soldiers of any Israeli preparations for an armed attackagainst the Laturun area.
1949: In Queens, NY, “Shirley and ArthurCanton, who worked in the film industry on marketing and publicity, e.g., forLawrence of Arabia” gave birth to movie producer and Hollywood executive MarkCanton
1950: In Toronto, Ruth (née Burstyn), aninterior designer, and comedian Frank Shuster gave birth to comedy writer, whoduring the 1970’s was the wife of Saturday Night Live’s creator Lorne MIchaels
1950: Israel apologized to the SwedishGovernment today for the assassination of Count Bernadotte, United NationsMediator for Palestine, by terrorists on Sept. 17, 1948.
1951: For the first time, a Soviet citizen(Jewish) was issued an immigrant visa to Israel. The hoped-for easing of theRussian policy of not letting its citizens out would not materialize fordecades to come.
1951(15th of Sivan, 5711):Fifty-nine-year-old Polish born “painter and printmaker” Joseph Hecht passed aaway today.
https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/984/Hecht/Joseph
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Knesset passedthe first reading of a bill empowering the government to sign an agreement withBank Leumi Le'Israel, nominating the bank as the currency issue bank of Israel.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that the secretary of theIraqi Jewish Community Council, Dr. Habasi, was detained by police in Baghdadtogether with seven other Jews, on charges of hiding "huge quantities ofarms." All of the detained previously renounced their Iraqi citizenshipand were waiting for emigration to Israel.
1952: CBS broadcast the first episode of the original version of“I've Got a Secret” created by Allan Sherman and produced by Mark Goodson andBill Todman
1952:Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion expressedsatisfaction today that the Zionist Organization of America at its conventionin New York this week had cleared up the misunderstanding about the right offoreign Zionists to participate in the shaping of Israel's policies.
1952: Birthdate of actress Carol Kane whoplayed Simka on the television show Taxi.
1953(6th of Tammuz, 5713): Executionof Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who had been convicted of conspiracy to commitespionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the SovietUnion.
1954: In Flushing, NY, “Hy Pearlman, who ran adry cleaning business, and Reenie Pearlman, a school lunchroom aide” gave birthto “music executive” Louis Jay "Lou" Pearlman, “the first cousin ofArt Garfunkel. (As reported by Liam Stack)
1954: François Mitterrand, the future Presidentof France, was named to serve as Minister of the Interior in the firstgovernment head by prime Minister Pierre Mendes France who served as his ownMinister of Foreign Affairs.
1954: “Them!” a highly forgettable sci-fic flicwhose only claim to fame was that it featured one of the first screenappearances by Leonard Nimoy was released in the United States today.
1957: Saul Rogovin pitched his last majorleague baseball game.
1959: TheU.S. Senate rejected Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Secretaryof Commerce. At a time when most Jewswere Democrats, Strauss was a Republican. He was part of the liberal,internationalist wing of the party. Hehad worked with Herbert Hoover on war relief during World War I. Strauss made special efforts to see to thataid from the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee got to the Jews of Europe whowere in dire straits. He served in theNavy during World War II and became involved in atomic energy. He was rejected because of his role indealing with Robert J. Oppenheimer.
1962: InSan Fernando, CA, Harry Abdul, a Syrian Jew raised in Brazil and the concertpianist Lorraine M. (née Rykiss), who grew up in one of the two Jewish familiesin Minnedosa, Manitoba in Canada gave birth to pop star Paula Abdul.
1962(17th of Sivan, 5722):Seventy-nine-year-old Arnold K. Israeeli the St. Petersburg born and educatedlawyer who pursued a career in journalism and business that included serving as“advertising manager for General Motors in South American for five Years andthe “director of information for the American Zionist Council” passed awaytoday in Brooklyn.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/06/20/82046859.pdf
1963: After 304 performances at the SheridanSquare Playhouse, the curtain came down “The Days and Nights of BeeBeeFenstermaker” directed by Ulu Grosbard.
1963: “PT 109” a war movie about JFK’s days inthe South Pacific featuring Norman Fell was released in the United Statestoday.
1963: Today, at Kiamesha Lake, NY, on the finalday of its four-day convention, Brith Abraham, the national Jewish fraternalorder elected Irving L. Hodes, a layer from Newark one time candidate forCongress as grand master succeeding “Samuel Goldstein, the former AssistantDistrict Attorney of Brooklyn.”
1964: The United States Senate passed The CivilRights Bill that would eventually become the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Thislandmark legislation outlawed a variety of forms of discrimination includingthat based on religion. The bill, which was primarily aimed at ending racialsegregation, had support from Jewish groups and Jewish legislators. In theHouse, the bill was managed by Congressman Cellar who helped bring it tovictory in that body.
1965: A novella entitled "Hapworth 16,1924", the last published work of J.D. Salinger appeared today in The New Yorker magazine
1966(1st of Tammuz, 5726): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1966(1st of Tammuz, 5726): Comedian Ed Wynnpassed away. Born Isaiah Edwin Leopold in 1886 in Philadelphia, Wynn’s fatherwas a successful milliner. He did not want his son to go into show business.When the son would not yield, his father asked him to at least change his nameso as not to disgrace the family. He decided to split his first name"Edwin" into Ed Wynn. Wynn was a successful comic in vaudeville andthe early days of show business. He had his own show, which won an Emmy. Hewould appear in baggy pants suits pedaling a tricycle fitted with a piano. Whenhis brand of clown-like comedy lost its popular appeal, Wynn followed theadvice of his son and turned to acting. He appeared in a wide variety of hitsincluding Marjorie Morningstar, The Diary of Anne Frank and Mary Poppinsattesting to his real skill as an actor.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0021_0_21135.html
1967: Prime Minister Levi Eshkol announced that"as an interim stage, a military situation will remain in the WestBank."
1967(11th of Sivan, 5727): Sixty-nine-year-oldCharles Gilman, Sr. the Chairman of the board of the Gilman Paper Company, theNew York born son of Isaac Gilman, the founder of the company and the husband of “the former SylviaPhillips” with whom he had two sons – Howard and Charles, Jr. – passed awaytoday “aboard the Michelangelo on his way home from Rome.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/06/21/83611833.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1967: “In a secret decision, the government ofLevi Eshkol offered Syria ‘full peace on the basis of the internationalborder,’ with adjustments for Israeli security needs.”
1967: “The Thomas Crown Affair” an elegantcrime movie featuring Jack Weston and Yaphet Kotto and filmed bycinematographer Haskell Wexler was released today in the United States.
1970(15th of Sivan, 5730):Fifty-three-year-old Cornell grad, Yale trained attorney and WWII Navy veteranHenry Hofheimer, Jr. a member of the Jewish Guild for the Blind, passed awaytoday in a bicycle accident.
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/21/archives/henry-hofheimer-scarsdale-lawyer.html
1970: Two days after he had passed away funeralservices were scheduled to held for seventy-eight-year-old Herbert BrutusEhrmann, the Louisville, KY born son of “Hilmar ‘Hillel’ Ehrmann and ErnaEhrmann” and Harvard trained attorney best known for his role in the defense ofSacco and Vanzettia who raised two sons Rabbi H. Bruce Ehrmann and Dr. RobertL. Ehrmann with “his wife, the former Sara Rosenfeld”
1972(7th of Tammuz, 5732):Sixty-nine-year-old Long Island College Hospital trained pathologist Dr.William Antopol, the husband of “the former Bella Scholer” and father ofMichael and Stephen Antopol who was serving as “director of laboratories andresearch at Beth Israel Medical Center” when he passed away today in SanFrancisco.
1972 New York City native Susan Stambergco-hosted National Public Radio’s (NPR) All Things Considered for the firsttime.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/19/1972/susan-stamberg-breaks-sound-barrier
1972: “One Is a Lonely Number” directed by MelStuart, produced by Stan Margulies, with a script by David Seltzer andco-starring Melvyn Douglas and Jonathan Lippe was released today in the UnitedStates.
1973: An attack on the El Al office in Athenswas thwarted and the Palestinian terrorist was able to gain his freedom as partof a hostage negotiation conducted by local police.
1974: Seventy-three-year-old American molecularbiologist Alfred Mirsky passed away.
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/mirsky-alfred.pdf
1974: Vladimir Slepak, Anatoly Sharansky, LevKogan, Alexander Lunts, Yuli Kosharovsky and Zahar Tesker were among thosearrested today in an attempt to silence an Jewish protest that might be plannedfor the upcoming visit to the Soviet Union by President Nixon.
1975(10th of Tammuz, 5735):Eighty-nine-year-old Russian born and trained artist Abbo Ostrowsky who was a founder of the Educational AllianceArt School in 1917 and was its director from then until he retired in 1955, whopaintings and etchings are found hanging at the Metropolitan Museum of Artpassed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/22/archives/abbo-ostrowsky.html?searchResultPosition=7
https://www.invaluable.com/artist/ostrowsky-abbo-q70j76fc7u/sold-at-auction-prices/
1977: Funeral services are scheduled to be heldtoday in New York for David Kulock, “the Past President of the Insurance Fundof the Free Sons of Israel.
1977: “A monument to the memory of the lateBella Hoffman” is scheduled to be unveiled today.
1979: Today, Robert M. Morgenthau, theManhattan District Attorney announced that fifteen Manhattan residentsincluding Julius Berkowitz and Albert H. Berntstein, had been “indicted oncharges that they had paid bribes…to avoid jury duty.”
1979: Birthdate of Daniel Jonathan Sieradski “aJewish American writer and activist” who was “the founding publisher andeditor-in-chief of Jewschool, a popular left-wing Jewish weblog, as well as theweblogs Radical Torah and Orthodox Anarchist. He is also the creator of thesynagogue listings and reviews website ShulShopper.”
1980: In Charleston, SC, the Greek Revivalbuilding housing Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Synagogue was designated as aNational Historic Landmark. For those who think of American Jewry as being aNew York or eastern creation, it comes as a surprise that this is the secondoldest synagogue building in continuous operation in the United States. Also, when this congregation adopted theReform minhag in 1824 it became one of the founding forces of the ReformMovement in the United States – something most people connect with Cincinnati,Ohio.
1980: “Rough Cut” directed by Don Siegel,produced by David Merrick and with a screenplay by Larry Gelbart was releasedin the United States today.
1981: The United States Security Counciladopted a resolution condemning Israel’s attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactorbeing built near Baghdad.
1983(8th of Tammuz, 5743): Simcha Erlich, thenative of Poland who made Aliyah in 1938 where he became a political ally ofMenachem Begin under whom he served as Deputy Prime Minister passed away today.
1984(19th of Sivan, 5744):Seventy-five-year-old Lena Krasner, the Brooklyn born daughter of “Russian Jewish immigrants “Chane (nee Weiss)and Joseph Krasner,who gained fame as abstract expression painter Lenore “Lee”Krasner, the wife and helpmate in the truest sense of that word, of JacksonPollock passed away today.
1984(19th of Sivan, 5744)Sixty-three-year-old, Egyptian anesthesiologist Jack Chalon, the son of Williamand Helen (Hirsch) Chalon and the husband of Barbara Elizabeth Coombs with whomhe had two children – Mary and Jonathan – passed away today.
1987: Ben &Jerry Ice Cream founded by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield announce a new icecream flavor, “Cherry Garcia.”
1988(4th of Tammuz,5748): Seventy-four-year-old Ralph Lazarus, the Columbus, OH born son of Metaand Fred Lazarus, husband of Gladys Lazarus and “Chairman of FederatedDepartment Stores, whose many divisions included such prominent chains asAbraham & Straus, Bloomingdale's, Bullock's, Filene's and Foley' passedaway today in Cincinnati after which he was buried in his hometown.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-06-23-mn-7004-story.html
1989(16thof Sivan, 5749): Writer and social critic I(sidor) F(einstein) Stone passesaway at the age of 81.
1992: In Palermo, the FifthInternational Convention of Studies of "Italia Judaica" came to aclose.
1993: Philosopher and movie starBernard-Henri Levy married actress Arielle Bombasle.
1993(30th of Tammuz,5753): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1993(30th of Tammuz,5753): Seventy-five-year-old philosopher Abraham Kaplan passed away in Haifawhere he had been living since 1972.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/24/us/abraham-kaplan-75-author-and-teacher.html
1994(10th of Tammuz, 5754): Sheina Chaya, the wife Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv and thedaughter of Rabbi Aryeh Levin passed away.
1994: The BBC broadcast the finalepisode of “That’s Life!” a mixture of news and satire featuring Esther Rantzenas Presenter.
1994: The New York Times published a review of History of Resistance:The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Israel Gutman. "They refused tosurrender, preferring instead to fight to the death and thus preserve theirhonor," Israel Gutman writes in Resistance, his account of the bandof starving Jews who fought the Nazis in Poland in April 1943. Mr. Gutman, aHolocaust survivor who teaches modern Jewish history at Hebrew University inJerusalem and is the director of the research center at Israel's national Holocaustmemorial, Yad Vashem, intelligently outlines the elements that weakened theJewish resistance movement in Warsaw. These included not only Nazi air attacksand arson, food and water shortages and the neglect of the Polish undergroundresistance movement, but also the abandonment of the ghetto by its most prominentpolitical leaders and arguments among the many rival Jewish organizations overa course of action. One wishes that Mr. Gutman had recorded eventschronologically rather than switching back and forth in time. One longs formore information about heroes like Mordecai Anielewicz, the brave undergroundleader who escaped Warsaw but returned to command the uprising, and YitzhakZuckerman, the uprising's deputy commander, who survived to write about it.Still, Resistance, which is published in association with the UnitedStates Holocaust Memorial Museum, lucidly illustrates how a few hundred Jewishfighters with Molotov co*cktails, homemade grenades and no military trainingtwice forced the Germans to retreat from the ghetto and refused to go likelambs to the slaughter.
1995: The cartoonstrip Rhymes With Orange appeared insyndication for the first time. With its debut, twenty-five-year-old cartoonistHilary Price became the youngest woman ever to have a nationally syndicatedcartoon strip. (JWA)
1995: David Libaibegins his term as Minister of Internal Affairs.
1995: Jean-François Copé began hisfirst term as Mayor Meaux.
1996(2nd of Tammuz, 5756): G. David Shinepassed away. Roy Cohn, the Chief Counsel, named Shine as investigator for theMcCarthy Committee, which was supposedly exposing the Communist Conspiracyduring the 1950’s. Shine was drafted and McCarthy claimed the drafting of hisinvestigator was part of the Communist Conspiracy to thwart his efforts. Heattacked the U.S. Army for being involved in the Communist Conspiracy. Thesecharges led to the famous Army-McCarthy Hearings, which led to his downfall.
1996(2nd of Tammuz, 5756): Bessie Margolin theRussian born labor attorney who grew up at the Jewish Children’s Home in NewOrleans before graduating from Sophie Newcomb College and Tulane Law Schoolpassed away today.
http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/bessie-margolin-1909-1996.html
http://www.marlenetrestman.com/Home_Page.html
1996: The Eldridge Street Synagogue wasdesignated as a National Historic Landmark. Located at 12 Eldridge Street onNew York’s lower east side, it was built in 1887 to meet the needs of thegrowing population of eastern European Jews. As demographics changed, thesynagogue fell on hard times in the 1950’s.In the 1980’s restoration projects began which reinvigorate andphysically restore the synagogue.
1997: Funeral services are scheduled to be heldat the Bernheim-Apter-Goldsticker Suburban Funeral Chapel in Maplewood, N.J.for Julius Szepsei, the husband of Etelka Stankowitz Z”L followed by internmentin the Mt. Moriah Cemetery
1998(25th of Sivan, 5768): RabbiJoseph Levi Braver, a member of the Baltimore Board of Jewish Education passedaway today.
1998(25th of Sivan, 5758): Eighty-nine-year-oldNew York native Dora Goldwater, the daughter of Pauline Meltsner and JosephGoldwater passed away today in Florida.
1999(5th of Tammuz, 5759): ParashatKorach is chanted for the last time in twentieth century.
2000: Debut of “The Passenger,” a fictionaloffering by Marisa Silver.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/06/19/debut-fiction-the-passenger
2001(28th of Sivan, 5761): Fifteen year oldYevgeniya Dorfman from Bat Yam died today from the injuries she suffered duringthe Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
2001(28th of Sivan, 5761):Seventy-nine-year-old Rabbi Bernard Mandelbaum, president from 1966 to 1971 ofthe Jewish Theological Seminary, the academic and spiritual center ofConservative Judaism, passed away today (As reported by Ari L. Goldman)
2002(9th of Tammuz, 5762): Seven people werekilled and 50 injured, three of them critically, when a suicide bomber blewhimself up at a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post at the French Hillintersection in northern Jerusalem shortly after 7:00 P.M., as people werereturning home from work. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimedresponsibility for the attack. The victims: Noa Alon, 60, of Ofra; GalEisenman, 5, of Ma’ale Adumim; Michal Franklin, 22, of Jerusalem; TatianaIgelski, 43, of Moldova; Hadassah Jungreis, 20, of Migdal Haemek; Gila SaraKessler, 19, of Eli; and Shmuel Yerushalmi, 17, of Shilo
2003: In New York, The Israel Fest Foundationproudly presented Academy Award winning director Milos Forman with the 19thIsrael Film Festival 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award and Israelidirector Dina Zvi Riklis withthe 2003 IFF Cinematic Award.The Award Ceremony is followed by the premiere of the hit romantic comedy Wisdomof the Pretzel directed by IlanHeitner, starring Guy Loel,Osnat Hakim & Yoram Sachs.
2003: Rudy Giuliani led the U.S. delegation tothe first Organization for Security and Cooperation conference on anti-Semitismbeing held in Vienna. The conferencecame about, in part, because of the strong support from the BushAdministration.
2003(19th of Sivan, 5763): Avner Mordechai, 58,of Moshav Sde Trumot, was killed when a suicide bomber blew up in his groceryon Sde Trumot, south of Beit Shean. The suicide bomber was killed. The IslamicJihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
2004(30th of Sivan, 5764): ParashatKorach; Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2004: Thousands of additional Jews, includingLubavitchers and non-Lubavitchers are observing Shabbat in Crown Heights todayin anticipation of the 10 anniversary of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, theseventh grand rebbe of the Lubavitch Hasidic movement which will begin onMonday evening according to Jewish law.
2005: Seventy-five year old foreigncorrespondent James Feron, who covered the Six Days War for the New York Timespassed away today.
2005: Eric Edelman completes his service asUnited States Ambassador to Trukey.
2005: TheWashington Post reported that meetings had been held over the weekend atYifat, Israel in which Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres announced that hewould seek the top spot in Israel’s government.Despite the fact that he is now 81 and that he has failed to accomplishthe goal in four previous attempts. Peres thinks that now is the time for himto finally reach his goal.
2005: TheWashington Post reported that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declaredfrom Jerusalem, “that her meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leadersconvinced her that both sides share a commitment to ensuring Israel’swithdrawal from Gaza takes place smoothly and peacefully.” At the end of the same article the Postreported that “Coinciding with Rice’s visit Sunday, Palestinians…attackedIsraelis…in the southern Gaza Strip killing one Israeli and wounding twoothers…The attack was the second major assault on Israeli targets in recentdays.” Islamic Jihad and a groupaffiliated with Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement took credit for the attack. As head of the PLA, Abbas is one of thosePalestinian leaders whom Secretary Rice said was committed to a smooth andpeaceful Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
2005: The New York Times featured reviews of books byJewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including therecently release paperback editions of Letters to a Young Lawyer by AlanDershowitz and Sweet Land Stories by E.L. Doctorow.
2006: Haaretzreported on the Sderot's municipal council decision to seal off the city'sentrance for a 24-hour period in protest of continuing Qassam rocket attacks byPalestinians against the western Negev city. “Sderot is going on strike and noone will enter or leave it," Sderot mayor Eli Moyal said. Kassam attackshave left five dead and dozens wounded over the past months.
2006: In Romania and France, premiere of “Them”a Franco-Romanian horror film starring Michaël Cohen as “Lucas.”
2006: JerusalemFinding 'Oxygen' In Revival of Creative Arts, published todaydescribes the renaissance of the arts takingplace in Jerusalem. The artisticrenaissance covers a full spectrum of endeavors and is having a positiveinfluence on the spiritual rejuvenation of the City of David. [Editor’s Note - What is even more amazing,this is article is devoid of the usual “stuff” that permeates almost allreporting on Israel and Jewish culture in the Middle East.]
2006: Israel's ambassador to Germany presentedmedals of honor on to relatives of five members of the first "EuropeanUnion" - an anti-Nazi resistance group whose members hid and fed Jewsduring World War Two. This European Union, which had the same name but nothingto do with the modern 25-nation bloc of European countries, was an underground,Marxist-oriented group with around 50 to 60 German members, according to aprotocol prepared by Yad Vashem Holocaust museum.
2006: Carol Vogel described the history of Gustav Klimt’s AdeleBloch-Bauer I in “Lauder Pays $135 Million, a Record, for a Klimt Portrait.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/arts/design/19klim.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=Maria%20Altmann&st=cse
2007(3rd of Tammuz, 5767): Seventy-four-year-old Zeev Schiff, the dean of Israeli military correspondents, defense editorof the newspaper Haaretz and author of numerous books, died today in Tel Aviv.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/world/middleeast/21schiff.html?_r=0
2007: The second annual Jerusalem Jazz Festival opens in Israel’s capitalcity.
2007(3rd of Tammuz, 5767): Yahrzeit for the Rebbe, RabbiMenachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory.
2007: Rachel Elizabeth Levin, daughter of Michelle Levin and sister ofJacob Levin, arrives in Lubbock, Texas.
2008: Hazak Week of Study comes to an end.
2008: At Temple Chai in Long Grove, Illinois, Israeli author Eva Etzioni-Halevyspeaks about her latest biblical novel, “The Triumph of Deborah.”
2008: More than 100 Israeli political and cultural leadersfrom across the political spectrum have signed a petition to Yad Vashem thatthey present to Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev urging the Holocaust Museum toadd material about the Holocaust rescue activists known as the Bergson Group toits exhibits..”
2008:The agreement for a cease-fire betweenIsrael and Hamas in the Gaza Strip is to go into effect at 6A.M.
2008: The United Nations’ Children Fund (UNICEF) swore off anyrelationship with Israeli diamond mogul,Lev Leviev because of his constructionof settlements on the West Bank.
2009:Police officers, Holocaust survivorsand employees of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum gathered at the EbenezerAME Church on Allentown Road in Fort Washington today for the funeral servicesfor security officer Stephen T. Johns who was slain last week in an attack atthe popular Washington museum. 20024. Contributions can also be made by calling877-918-7466.
2009: The funeral for Seymour “Sy” Brody author of Jewish Heroes ofAmerica and Jewish Heroes andHeroines in America is scheduled to take placetoday at Morris Plains, NJ.
2009: As her Bat Mitzvah weekend begins, Rachel Maikon helps to leadFriday evening services at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2010: The Jewish National Fund is scheduled to hostShabbat in the Park at New York’s Central Park Zoo.
2010: In a unique way to say farewell to Shabbat, a pre-campHavdallah and swim party for campers and their families is scheduled to be heldat the 14th Street Y in New York City.
2011: “The People in the Picture” by Iris Rainer Dart hasits final showing at the Round About Theatre.
2011: In San Diego, CA, The Used Book Sale to benefit theSamuel & Rebecca Astor Judaica Library is scheduled to come to a close.
2011: The New YorkTimes featured reviews of books by Jewish author and/or of special interestto Jewish readers including “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling ofAmerican Culture” by David Mamet and “House of Exile: The Lives and Times ofHeinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann” by Evelyn Juers
2011: Elbit, withheadquarters in Haifa, announced that its subsidiary Elisra Electronic SystemsLtd. was awarded a contract valued at approximately €5 million to supplyhundreds of units of its AN/PRC-684 Personal Locator Beacon to the FrenchMinistry of Defense, equipping the French Air Force, Army, Navy and DGA(Direction Générale de l'Armement).
2011(17th ofSivan, 5771): Centenarian plus 2, Charlotte Bloomberg, the mother of New YorkMayor Michael Bloomberg passed away.
2011(17th ofSivan, 5771): Ninety-year-old Don Diamond passed away. For those who watched television in the1950’s and 1960’s, they saw him in many episodes of F-Troop and Zorro as wellas later series as “Newhart,” “L.A.Law,” “MacGyver,” “Dallas” and “Dynasty,” “Lou Grant,” “Chico and the Man” and“The Streets of San Francisco”
2011(17th ofSivan, 5771): Ninety-year-old Holocaust survivor Samuil Manski passed away.Manski credited his survival to a transit visa issued to him by a Japanesediplomat name Chiune Sughira who risked his career by acting against the ordersof his country. At the time of hisdeath, Manski was working to Sughira recognized as a Righteous Gentile.
2012: “When Israel WentOut,” a film that retraces the danger-filled route traveled by the Falashaduring the 1980’s is scheduled to be shown at the JCC in Manhattan.
2012: Dr. AnthonyGrenville, author of ‘Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain’ andfilm director Dr. Bea Lewkowicz are scheduled to take part in a Q&Afollowing a screening of “Double Exposure” at the Wiener Library in London.
2012: The NationalEndowment for the Arts announced that Andy Statman would be awarded a NationalHeritage Fellowship, the nation's highest honor in the folk and traditionalarts
2012: Hamashas launched a barrage of rockets toward southern Israel this afternoon, aftermonths of restraint on behalf of the Gaza rulers. Seven rockets exploded inopen areas in Eshkol Regional Council this afternoon, after four rockets werefired at Hof Ashkelon and Sha'ar Hanegev regional councils overnight Monday.More rockets were subsequently fired, but caused no casualties or damage.
2012: “As part of hisplans to expand on hardware, today, Steve Ballmer revealed Microsoft's firstever computer device, a tablet called Microsoft Surface at an event held inHollywood.”
2012: Ta'alMK Ahmed Tibi condemned plans to name a new space center in his north-centralArab village Taybeh after Israel's first and only astronaut, the late IlanRamon. In a letter to the Science and Technology Ministy, Tibi said Ramonserved in the IAF as a fighter pilot, which could offend the Arab community.Calling the decision "distasteful" and "unjustified," Tibinoted that during Ramon's military service, he attacked civilian targets inLebanon and participated in the attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor.
2012(29th ofSivan, 5772): Eight-one year old futurist Anthony Weiner passed away today. (Asreported by Douglas Martin)
2013: In London, the PearsInstitute for the study of Antisemitism scheduled to host the InternationalConsortium for Research on Antisemitism and Racism.
2013: Leo Baeck Instituteand Chelsea Music Festival are scheduled to present “From Pompeii to Fingal'sCave - A Mendelssohn Perspective”
2013: “The New CatchHerring Season” is scheduled to begin Russ & Daughters.
2013: Ian Paul Livingston,Baron Livingston of Parkhead, “the fourth generation son of Polish-LithuanianJews who arrived in Scotland 120 years ago” “announced that he is leaving BTGroup to become the Minister for Trade and Investment in the UK Government.
2013: Friends and familyof Rachel Levin celebrate the birthday of the world’s greatest granddaughter.
2013: Four Jewish Israeliswere arrested at the Temple Mount today after praying in the Jerusalemcompound, considered Judaism’s holiest site.
2013: This morningPalestinians fired a rocket from the Gaza strip toward southern Israel, settingoff alarms in the coastal city of Ashkelon and its environs.
2014: The Wiener Library for the Study of theHolocaust & Genocide is scheduled to host “a special creative writingworkshop exploring the lives and contributions of refugees in their new countryof residence led by facilitator Lynette Craig
2014: “Luis Moses Gomez: Pioneer Merchant inColonial America” is scheduled to open at the Center for Jewish History
2014: “Magic Men” is scheduled to be shown atthe JCC in Manhattan on the last night of the Israel Film Center Festival.
2014: “Charlotte Salomon: Life? Or Theatre?” anexhibition of the works of the 23 year old Jewish from Berlin who ended up inAuschwitz is scheduled to open today at the Illinois Holocaust Museum andEducation Center.
2014: All eyes are on Columbus Ohio for thecelebration of the birthday of the amazing Rachel Levin.
2014: “The IDF arrested 30 Hamas men across theWest Bank early today, as part of its ongoing large-scale operation to find thethree Israeli teenagers – Naftali Frankel, Gil-ad Shaar, and Eyal Yifrach — whowere kidnapped last week.
2014: U.S. Ambassador to Israel today visitedthe family of Naftali Frankel, one of three Yeshiva students kidnapped lastweek to offer the support of the U.S government as well as his own strongpersonal support.
2014: John Rubinstein, the original Pippin in1972, replaced Terrence Mann in the role of Charles in Stephen Schwartz’s TonyAward-winning musical “Pippin.”
2014: “Former Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianskiwas sentenced to six years’ imprisonment today and fined half a million shekels($145,000) for accepting bribes in the Holyland affair.”
2014(21st of Sivan, 5774):Seventy-five-year-old songwriter Gerry Goffin passed away today. (As reportedby William Yardley and Peter Keepnews)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/20/gerry-goffin
2014(21st of Sivan, 5774):Eighty-six-year-old Avraham Shalom, the former director of Shin Bet, passedaway today
http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Former-Shin-Bet-chief-Avraham-Shalom-dies-at-86-359903
2015: The Oxford University Jewish Society isscheduled to host “Leavers’ Friday Night Dinner.”
2015(2nd of Tammuz, 5775): “A Palestinian groupclaiming affiliation with Hamas took responsibility for a cold-bloodedterrorist attack” today in which a 25 year old electrical engineering studentfrom Lod Israeli man was killed and a second Israeli was injured.
2015:” WJC President Ronald S. Lauder presentedthe Helen Mirren with the WJC Recognition Award for her work in the film “Womanin Gold” in which she portrayed Maria Altmann, who fought the Austriangovernment for years to secure the return of five Gustav Klimt paintings stolenfrom her Jewish family during World War II.”
2015(2nd of Tammuz, 5775):Ninety-year-old author James Salter passed away today. (As reported by Helen T.Verongos)
2015: In Columbia, MD, Beth Shalom Congregationis scheduled to host “From Dust to Dust? Shiva and Cremations” in which RabbiSusan Grossman and Ira Levinson, of Sol Levinson and Brothers Funeral Hometackle such questions as “Why does Judaism prohibit cremation and what do we dowhen a loved one requests cremation? Can their ashes be buried in a Jewishcemetery? Can we sit shiva?”
2015: In Coralville, Iowa, Agudas Achim isscheduled to host its annual Father’s Day Shabbat “that will include participationof fathers and their sons/daughters in the service, readings about fathers, andan Oneg Shabbat that will have a slide show of fathers…”
2015: “The Jewish Theological Seminary plans tosell a 1455 edition of the Book of Esther from a rare Gutenberg Bible atauction today, the latest sign that the school is grappling with a long-runningfinancial crisis.” (As reported by Josh Nathan-Kazis)
2016(13th of Sivan, 5776):Twenty-seven-year-old Anton Viktorovich Yelchin, the Russian born Americanactor best for his playing “Pavel Chekov” in “three Star Trek films” died todayin a freak automobile accident.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/19/entertainment/actor-anton-yelchin-killed/index.html
2016: “The Kind Words” and “Time to SayGoodbye” are scheduled to be shown at the Portland Jewish Film Festival.
2016: Final performance of “Camp David” at theOld Globe in San Diego, CA.
2016: “Wounded Land” is scheduled to be shownat the 13th annual Israeli Film Festival in Ottawa, Canada.
2016: “Inheritance is a 2006 documentary filmabout Monika Hertwig a.k.a. Monika Christiane Knauss, the daughter of RuthIrene Kalder and Amon Goeth, Commandant of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp”is scheduled to be shown at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Centertoday.
2016: “Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist” anexhibition at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education isscheduled to come to an end today.
http://www.ojmche.org/experience/exhibit-2016-03-10-ruth-gruber-photojournalist
2016: Final performance of “Suddenly, A Knockat the Door” based on stories by Israeli author and filmmaker Etgar Keret atthe Theatre for the New City is scheduled to take place this evening.
2016: TheNew York Times featured books by Jewish authors and or of special interestto Jewish readers including The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity and theUnmaking of the American Dream by Chris Lehmann and an interview with A.B.Yehosua.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/books/review/a-b-yehoshua-by-the-book.html?ref=headline&nl=bookreview&emc=edit_bk_201606172017: In London, JW3 isscheduled to host a screening of “Dough.”
2017(25th of Sivan, 5777):Twenty-two-year-old Otto F. Warmbier, “the University of Virginia honorsstudent” who was released in a coma after spending 17 months in a North Koreanprison passed away today.
2017(25th of Sivan, 5777):Ninety-four-year-old Robert (Bob) Sonné Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Philosophyand Physics at Boston University and cofounder of the BU Center for Philosophy& History of Science passed away at his home in Watertown, MA today.
https://www.bu.edu/cphs/about/robert-cohen/
2017: Steve Eisenberg is scheduled to discussthe weekly Torah Portion followed by an informal “conversation” with Rabbi MarkWildes in Manhattan.
2018: The Jerusalem Municipality sportsdepartment is scheduled to host a class in Kickboxing at the First Stationcomplex
2018(6th of Tammuz, 5778):Ninety-one-year-old Harvard PhD Stanley Cavell, a descendant of a prominentJewish and long-time professor at his alma mater passed away today. (Asreported by Neil Genzlinger)
2018: “Numerous incendiary kites and balloonswere flown by Palestinians” in Gaza “into Israel throughout the day” today.
2018: Dr. Dovid Gottlieb, the rabbi who was aProfessor of Philosophy at John Hopkins University is scheduled to lecture on“Reason to Believe” this evening at the OU Israel Center in Jerusalem.
2018: In Manchester, UK, JW3 is scheduled tohost a screening of “Zuzana: Music is Life” that tells the story of “90-year-old Zuzana Ruzickova survived three concentrationcamps, including Auschwitz, and decades-long oppression and harassment underthe totalitarian regime in her native Czech Republic to become a world-famousharpsichordist and the only musician to ever record all the keyboard works ofBach.”
2018: Steve “Levitan, along with SethMacFarlane and Judd Apatow, announced he was considering leaving 20th CenturyFox as protest of Fox News's reporting of Donald Trump's family separationpolicy which is at odds with Modern Family's programming.”
2018: “Israeli poet Amir Or” isscheduled to visit Bryant Park Reading Room for a celebration of “thepublication of his latest collection, Wings, in an English translation by SethMichelson.”
2018: From Ohio, to Oklahoma, toIowa friends and family prepare to celebrate Rachel Levin’s natal day.
2019: In London. JW3 is scheduledto host a screening of “The Samuel Project” co-starring Hal Linden.
2019: Uncommon Commonalities:Jews and Muslims” “a three-day scholarly cultural conference dedicated toexploring the uncommon commonalities shared by Moroccan Jews and Muslims”co-sponsored by the American Sephardi Federation’s Institute of JewishExperience is scheduled to come to an end this evening.
2019: Three presentations – “TaxIssues and Solution for All Olim”; “The Alef, Bet of Making Aliyah”;“Intelligent Investing for Olim” -- designed to for those making Aliyah in thenext twenty-four months are scheduled to be held this evening in Hendon, London.
2020, Rabbis Sandra Lawson andIsaama Goldstein-Stoll celebrated Juneteenth with a Kabbalat Shabbat serviceattended virtually by over 7,000 people around the world.
2020: In a pre-pandemic world,The Israel Culinary Trip sponsored by The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center wasscheduled to begin today.
2020: In Cedar Rapids, TempleJudah is scheduled to live-stream Kabbalah Shabbat Service on Zoom while takingspecial note of the tragic passing of Andrew Nelson, the husband of MelissaGasway Nelson
2020: Havurah on the Hill isscheduled to present “Kabbalat Shabbat With Author Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg.”
2020: The Eden Tamir Music Centeris scheduled to host on Facebook, the next in its Pianists, Pedagogues andYoung Artists Concerts series.
2020: Online Kehilla CommunitySynagogue is scheduled to host a 30-minute Shabbat ritual and sharing time,followed by movement, music, exploring themes of embodiment, Juneteenth andliberation.”
2020: A double Simcha as Jewprepare to celebrate Shabbat this evening friends and family celebrate the 13thbirthday of Rachel Levin, the Bexley, OH daughter of Michelle Levin and brotherof Jacob Levin who is a poised, talented young woman who would not be dissuadedby the pandemic from chanting her haftarah.
2021(9th of Tammuz,5781): Parashat Chukat
2021: A Triple Simcha – thefourteenth birthday of Rachel Levin the poised and talented young lady who isthe delight of her mother Michelle Levin and all the rest of her clan, Shabbatand the anniversary of the natal day of Stephen Levin.
2021 Temple Emanuel of Newton isscheduled to present, in person, “Tot Shabbat on the Lawn.”
2021: Emmy Blotnick is scheduledto perform for the last time at the DC Improve in Washington, D.C.
2022: UK Jewish Film is scheduledto host a premiere screening of “Where is Anne Frank” at the Phoenix Theatre inLondon.
2022: The ASF Institute of JewishExperience is scheduled to present “Bringing Jewish Law to the People: TheMoroccan Approach.”
2022: The National Library ofIsrael is scheduled to host a conversation with Noa Yedlin an Israeli author, arecipient of the Sapir Prize and the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew LiteraryWorks and author of the bestselling House Arrest, Stockholm, PeopleLike Us and The Wrong Book.
2022: The New York Timesfeatured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest toJewish readers including the recently released paperback edition of Shape:The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy and EverythingElse by Jordan Ellenberg.
2022: Most important event of theday – celebration of Rachel Levin’s birthday.Go get ‘em gal (Editor’s note – excuse the grandfatherly exuberance)
2022: As Israelis begin the workweek, they may be wondering if they will be dealing with more security problemsfollowing Friday’s attack on soldiers in Jenin and Saturday’s rocket attackfrom Gaza.
2023: UK Jewish Film isscheduled to host a final screening of “A Sense of Belonging, “ “plus arecorded discussion with director Paul Morrison, writer Howard Cooper,screenwriter David Schneider, and Professor Nathan Abrams.”
2023: Agnon House is scheduledto host a Joint reading of the story "Tzipori", an “online lecturewith Bilha Ben-Eliyahu and Assaf Ofek.”
2023: The NationalLibrary of Israel is scheduled to present a lecture by Dr. ZviLeshem & Baruch Weiss on “Lessons and Lineage: A Life of Learning.”
2023: A Triple Simcha – thebirthday of Quinn Levin the poised and talented young lady who is the delightof her mother Michelle Levin and all the rest of her clan, Rosh Chodesh Tammuzand the anniversary of the natal day of Stephen Levin.
2023(30th ofSivan, 5783): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2024: The Sir Martin GilbertLearning Center is scheduled to host “Black and Jewish Lives in a NaziInternment Camp: The Art of Josef Nassy and Max Brandel” and the awarding ofthe Sir Martin Gilbert History Prizes.
2024; JW3 is scheduled to host “aslickly funny stand-up show with BBC star Ashley Blaker.’’
2024: In Cedar Rapids, theHadassah Book Club is scheduled to discuss Florence Adler Swims Forever byRachel Beanland.
2024: Lockdown Universityis scheduled to host a lecture by Jeremy Rosen on “Making Sense of the Bible:Can its Ancient Text be Relevant Today? Deuteronomy 1, Recapitulation!”
2024: Going forward, June19th, the birthday of Quinn Levin, is a federal holiday.
2024: As June 19th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave ofanti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengerson a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and theHamas held hostages begin day 257 in captivity.(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so weare just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
