This Day, May 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

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May 27

1096 (3^rdof Sivan): Count Emicho and the Crusaders entered Mayence, Germany. The Jews took refuge in the Episcopal Palace and committed mass suicide rather than convert. One Jew by the name of Isaac, his two daughters and a friend called Uriah allowed themselves to be baptized. Within a few weeks Isaac, who was remorseful of his act killed his daughters burned his own house. He and Uriah went to the local synagogue locked themselves in and burned it down. A large part of the city was destroyed.

1199: Coronation of John as King of England. The conditions of the Jews worsened under the hapless rule of Richard’s younger brother.  He squeezed the Jewish community for funds, including the dowry for his daughter.  He also signed the Magna Carta which dealt specifically with the issue of borrowing from Jews and debts owed to Jews by the survivors of deceased Englishmen.

1234: Today religious zealot Margaret of Provence married King Louis IX whose own religious zealotry including a self-serving anti-Semitism  as can be seen by his using wealth stolen from Jews whom he then expelled  to finance his failed crusade and ingratiating himself with the Pope Gregory by burning 12,000 copies of Jewish texts.

1332: Birthdate of Ibn Khaldun, the Tunisian historian who was the first to contend that the Jrāwa, were a Berber Zenata tribal confederacy that had converted to Judaism and were led by Dihya whom Arab historians described as a “Jewish sorcerer.”

1679: The Pope suspended the Portuguese Inquisition due to its severe treatment of Marranos.

1328: Philip VI is crowned King of France.Phillip’s attempts to take back territory that England held in France in 1337 is marked as the start of the Hundred Years War. This period would mark the further impoverishment of the kingdom’s Jews who had only been recently re-admitted to the realm.  The Black Plague would also arrive in Europe in the middle of the 14^th century, so it is difficult to say how much of the suffering of the Jews of Europe was the result of the ravages of the war and how much was the result of the plague and the anti-Semitic behavior that rose with it. 

1462: Coronation of Louis XII who “ordered the final expulsion of the Jews from Provence in 1501” and who levied a special tax on all the Jews who converted to compensate for the loss of revenue.

1529: Thirty Jews of Posing, Hungary, charged with blood-ritual, were burned at the stake.

1564: John Calvin, the religious reformer whose doctrine came to be called Calvinism passed away today. Among his writings was “Response to Questions and Objections of a Certain Jew.”

http://www.reformedinstitute.org/documents/GSPak.pdf

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0004_0_03871.html

1647: Peter Stuyvesant was inaugurated as Director-General of New Netherland. It was while serving in this position, that Stuyvesant would greet the first group of Jews to settle in what would become New York City.  After failing to force them out, he did what he could to treat them like second class citizens.  While Stuyvesant had a somewhat distinguished career as soldier and political leader, the irony is that the group that has the strongest memory of him is the one whom he sought to harm – the Jewish people. 

1703:  Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg. Given Peter’s stated views in 1698 that no Jew should live in Russia, one would assume that no Jews would live in his new capital.  It is possible that two Jews named Meyer and Lups who “assisted the Tsar in his financial operations” may have at least visited Peter’s new city.  By 1714, at least one Jew was known to be living in St. Petersburg.  Jan da Costa “a versatile linguist descended from Portuguese Marranos” who had previously lived in Hamburg, arrived in St. Petersburg where he was appointed court Jester by Peter in 1714.  Of course, by then Peter’s realm was no longer free Jews since his annexation of the Baltic territories and conquests in the Ukraine had had the unintended consequence of bring him untold number of Jewish subjects.

1724: Beginning of the papacy of Benedict XIII, the pope who issued Emanavit nuper, a Papal Bull, dealing with “the necessary conditions for imposing Baptism on a Jew.”

1730: The leaders of the Berlin community paid 4,500 marks to replace Moses Aaron of Lemberg with another rabbi which resulted in Aron being “forced” to become the rabbi at Frankfort-on-the Oder

1754(6^th of Sivan, 5514): Shavuot observed as British forces under the command of George Washington prepared to fight a French Canadian force on the morrow in what would be the opening battle of the French and Indian War.

1759: Birthdate of Isaac Franks, the New York native who fought with the Continental Army from the 1776 until he was forced to resign due to ill health in 1782.

1773(5^th of Sivan, 5533): Erev Shavuot observed as Sejm dealt with matters that would lead to the first of the three partitions of Poland with all that that would mean for this large Jewish community.

1790: Joachim Edler von Popper, the “Court Jew” of the Habsburgs “was ennobled as the first ‘Elder von Popper’ making him the second Jew to be ennobled proving that you did not convert to attain this honor.

1792(6^th of Sivan, 5552): Shavuot observed during the French Revolution on the day when the French Assembly passed laws limiting the power of the King’s Guard which reputedly opposed to the revolution.

1799: In Paris, Cantor Élie Halfon Halévy and his wife gave birth to Fromental Halévy the French composer whose most famous work maybe the opera La Juive (The Jewess)

1804: In South Carolina, Rabbi Solomon Hart officiated at the marriage of Solomon Levy, a Charleston merchant and Mrs. Hannah Levy, the widow of the late Samuel Levy.

1808: The Polonies Talmud Torah of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York became the first Jewish day school in the United States when it modified its curriculum to include both religious and secular studies.1811: Birthdate of Abraham de Pinto, the native of the Hague who was awarded a gold medal when he earned his LL.D. in 1835, the same year in which he became editor in chief of the “Weekblad voor het Recht.”

1811: Mendel Samuel married Amelia Emanuel today at the Hambro Synagogue.

1811: Birthdate of Abraham de Pinto, the native of The Hague who became a leading Dutch jurist.

1814: Today the Emperor of Austria “wrote to one of his ministers” complaining about reports that “Viennese Jews” had circumvented the law by buying “homes in the name of Christians” and stating that this “would not be tolerated.

1822(7^thof Sivan, 5582): Second Day of Shavuot and Yizkor

1823: Birthdate of David Rosin, the German born theologian and teacher who became a professor at the Rabbinical Seminary in Breslau. He was a contemporary and friend of Rabbi Michael Sachs.

1834: Simeon and Reizecha Collins were married today at the Western Synagogue.

1835: “At Headley Rectory, Surry, the Reverend Ferdinand Faithful and Elizabeth Marry Harrison” gave birth to “women’s rights activist” Emily Faithful, the author of Three Visits to America published in 1884, wrote that twenty-seven year old Leonard Montefiore, who had “died at Newport, RI” in 1879 “was visiting the United States in order to see for himself what could be learned from the political and social condition of the people” and that “the world can ill afford to los men of such deep thought and energetic action.”

1838: Joseph David and Jeanetta Mallan were married today in the United Kingdom.

1839: John Solomons and Louisa Pass were married today at the Great Synagogue in London.

1841(7^thof Sivan, 5601) 2^nd day of Shavuot, Yizkor

1842: The Voice of Jacob in Sidney, Australia reported on the conflagration at Smyrna: There was an additional series of offerings to the fund in aid of the sufferers on the Day of Atonement in the Great Synagogue..."

1848: In Baltimore, MD, Aaron and Augusta Straus Bachrach gave birth to Henry Bachrach who worked in Washington, D.C., Wheeling, W.Va. and Chicago before opening Kaufman and Bachrach, a highly successful clothing store in Decatur, Illinois where he and his wife, the former Matilda Hamburger raised three sons – John, Louis and Charles who became a physician.

1849(6^thof Sivan, 5609): Shavuot

1849: Birthdate of Adolph Lewisohn, a German-Jewish immigrant born in Hamburg who became a New York City investment banker, mining magnate, and philanthropist.

1849: Birthdate of Moriz Benedikt, the native of Krasice, who was the editor of Neue Freie Presse.

1852: Lionel de Rothschild issued an address to the “independent electors of London” in which he thanked them for their support and for twice electing him to the House of Commons, even though he has been denied the right to assume his position.  He went to thank them for supporting the effort to make it possible him to serve in Parliament and asking for their support in his third bid to be elcted to the House of Commons.

1853: The author of an article entitled “The Word ‘Selah’” which was published today sought to provide a meaning for the Hebrew word “Selah”  which is used in its untranslated form throughout the Bible especially  in the Book of Psalms.  In searching for the meaning, he states that “the Targums and most of the Jewish commentators give the word, meaning eternally forever. Rabbi Kinchi regards it as a sign to elevate the voice.”  He concludes by saying that “selah” may be an abridged version of Higgaion Selah.  [Editor’s Note – what makes this amazing is that this learned article with all of these Jewish references appeared in the New York Times.]

1855: Reverend Joseph P. Thompson who has just returned from the Holy Land is scheduled to give a talk this afternoon based on his visit to Jerusalem.

1857: Hermann Goldschmidt discovered Asteroid 44 Nysa.

1860(6^thof Sivan, 5620): In the United States, Jews on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line celebrate Shavuot for the last time as “brethren.”

1868(6^thof Sivan, 5628): Shavuot observed for the last time during the Presidency of Andrew Johnson

1864: The 79^th Indiana under the command of Colonel Frederick Knefler took part in the Battle of Pickett’s Mill, one of the Union victories that marked General Sherman’s campaign that led to the capture of Atlanta, GA.  The campaign was a daring military action that was a key to Union victory over the Confederacy.  Knefler, who would rise to the rank of General before the end of the war, was one of the highest ranking Jews to serve in the Union Army.

1866: The New York Times reported that one of the ancient aqueducts which supplies Jerusalem with water is formed of blocks of stone so keyed together as to form a perfect syphon.

1870: In New York’s “old Seventh Ward,” “Gerson Hyman, a well-known Talmudist who emigrated to” the United States “from Wirballen, Poland” and his wife gave birth to Samuel I Hyman, the founder and head of S.I. Hyman & Brothers and leader of the Jewish community who “is a member of the Executive Committee of the Kahilla, a delegate to the Jewish Congress and a trustee of the Distribution Committee of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.

1870: It was reported today that Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum has been designated by a recent act of the state legislature as one of the recipients of a pro rata share of $150,000.

1871: Myer Asch, who had reached the rank of Colonel while serving with the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War was re-elected as Senior Vice Commander of the George G. Meade Post of the Grand Army of the Republic.

1874: Birthdate of Wetzlar, Germany native Max Rosenthal, a partner with Israel Cass in Cass and Rosenthal, a manufacturer of clothing for infants and children.

1876: Birthdate of Dusseldorf native Wilhelm Levison, the German medievalist who was forced to retire from his professorship at Bonn University because of the Nuremberg Laws” and “fled Nazi Germany in the spring of 1939, taking a position at Durham University” in the United Kingdom.

1877: The New York Times featured a review of "The Life, Work and Opinions of Henrich Heine" a two volume work written by William Stigand.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=990CE0D9123FE63BBC4F51DFB366838C669FDE

http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008884094

1878: It was reported today that John Bright, who ranks with Disraeli and Gladstone as a leading English statesman is reported to have Jewish ancestry. According to several publications including The Examiner, one of Bright’s Quaker forbearers married “a very pretty Jewess named Martha Jacobs…Mr. Bright’s brother, what has a seat in the House of Commons is called ‘Jacob’ after the ‘pretty Jewess.’” This report should not be construed as being informational or complimentary since it also includes the information that Jacob Bright “has a nose duly fitted to the Anglo-Jewish role.”  (The hooked nose Jew was a classic staple of 19^th century anti-Semitism.

1879(5^thof Sivan, 5639): Erev of Shavuot

1879: In New York, Judge Gildersleeve has ordered the sons of Fanny Solomon to pay $4.50 per week for her support. “Mrs. Fanny Solomon an aged and infirm Hebrew lady” had “instituted proceedings to compel her sons Leopold, Felix and Alfred to support her.”  The Solomon brothers own a factory that manufactures paper-boxes.  Mrs. Solomon contended that she destitute and that her sons had refused to provide with “the necessities of life” even though they were wealthy enough to have done so.  The sons claimed that she was not destitute since she had savings of her own.  They also said that she had refused their offers to come and live with them. Based on the decision, the Judge was not impressed by the brothers’ claims.

1879: In Montreal, Canada, Rabbis De Sola and Levy officiated at the weeding of Joseph H. Loryea of Charleston, SC and Rosabel L. Hyman, the “third daughter of William Hyman of Montreal.”

1880: Moses Bruhl set sail from New York aboard the steamship Gallia bound for Liverpool. Bruhl was a New York businessman and philanthropist who created The Betty Bruhl Prizes, awards for outstanding students at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum named in honor of his late wife.

1883:  Alexander III crowned Czar of Russia.  Alexander pursued some of the most anti-Semitic policies of all the Romanovs, which is saying something given their miserable track record.

1884: Birthdate of Prague native and novelist Max Brod, the husband Elsa Taussig, who is best known for his friendship with Franz Kafka.

https://www.geni.com/people/Myer-Cohn/6000000063026499959

1884: Josephine Sykes and Henry Morgenthau Sr. gave birth to their daughter Helen Fox.

1886: Birthdate of Galveston, TX native Max Geller, “the first native Texan to become an Orthodox  Rabbi who served Congregations Beth Jacob and Congregation Adath Israel.

1887: Birthdate of University of Michigan chemistry professor Dr. Kasimir Fajans the holder of a Ph.D. from Heidelberg University who raised two sons – Stefan and Edgar – with his wife Salome. https://lsa.umich.edu/chem/about/department-history/kasimir-j--fajans---1887-1975-.html

1888: In New York City, “English-born antiques dealer and auctioneer Henry B. Herts” and his wife gave birth to Columbia School of Architecture graduate Benjamin Russell Herts who along with his brother Isaac founded Herts Brothers, the firm of designers and architects whose clients included yachtsman William Astor, Jr and the Knickerbocker Hotel.

http://devenishgroup.blogspot.com/2010/09/forgotten-brothers-herts-brothers-and.html

1888 Birthdate of Morris J. Clurman, the husband of Lena Shimshak and the father of Bernice and Herman Clurman.

1889: In New York City, “Nathan and Lina (Gutherz) Straus gave birth to Princeton graduate and R.H. Macy partner Nathan Straus, Jr. the husband of Helen E. Sachs who served as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy during WW I and a New York State Senator while serving as a director of the Palestine Economic Corporation and the Palestine Development Council as being an active member of the Free Synagogue and the “Temple Beth-El Clubs.

1890: Mary Frohman, the widow of Herman Frohman, is scheduled to appear in court today to respond to a claim brought by her children that she is a “lunatic.”  Frohman died without a will and since most of his property was in his wife’s name she is now in control of it; a situation that her four children seem determine to change.

1890: In Clevedon, Somerset, UK, “grocer George Edward Gedye” and his wife gave birth to George Eric Rowe Gedye who served as a foreign correspondent for a dozen years in the 1920’s and 1930” and was the author the 1939 tome Betrayal in Central Europe which was highly critical of Prime Minister Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement and who provided an eyewitness of the “brutalities and persecutions” of Jews in Austria

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/02/18/94680223.pdf

1890: “The inquest by Coroner Joseph Rosesh and a jury into the murder of Samuel Hutch a Jewish peddler who is a member of the congregation at Roundout is still in progress tonight at Middletown, NY.

1890: It was reported today that Temple Beth-El will host the upcoming confirmation exercises for students enrolled by the Hebrew Free School Association.

1891: While being interviewed in Paris today Baron Hirsch said “The measures now enforced against the Hebrews in Russia are equivalent to a wholesale expulsion of the race from the Russian Empire.”

1892: “ ‘Cranks’ And The World’s Fair” an editorial published today takes issue with attempts in the U.S. House of Representatives to tie funding for the World’s Fair to a promise to close the exhibitions on Sunday so as not to violate the “Sabbath.”  “It is only a very small proportion of Christians who are so rigid Sabbatarians as the Jews.  The orthodox Jews in every country make considerable sacrifices, eager as for money as they are supposed to be, in order to observe the Sabbath.  Yet no Jewish exhibitor at a World’s Fair that we know of has refused to allow his exhibit to be shown along with the rest on Saturdays.”

1893: While on his way to the synagogue this morning thirteen year old Israel Schwartz ran away from the Ladies’ Deborah Nursery and went to the Gerry Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children where he was examined by Dr. Travis Gibb who found “the boy had been brutally beaten.”

1893: “The Second Mrs. Tanqueray,” a play by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, the grandson of Sephardic Jews.

1894: “Columbus and the Jews” published today provides a detailed review of Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries by Dr. Meyer Kayserling and translated by Charles Gross.

1894: “The Capital of Bosnia” published today described the “bewildering sights and sounds” of Sarajevo including the presence of “hoary Spanish Jews, any one of whom might sit as a model for a portrait of King Solomon.”

1894: It was reported today that Samuel Montagu, “the well-known banker and philanthropist” and almost the only important Jew who did not desert Prime Minister Gladstone “on the Irish Question”  has been made a Baronet by Queen Victoria.

1894: “Bequests of Jesse Seligman” published today included a lengthy list of those institutions benefiting from the largesse of the late millionaire some of which were the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum, $5,000; Mount Sinai Hospital, $2,500; United Hebrew Charities the City of New York, $1,000 and the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids, $1,000. (And that was only the tip of the iceberg of his generosity)

1897: In Rovno, which at the time was part of Ukraine, “Levia and Miriam (Shearer) Smolar gave birth to Ber (Boris) Smolar, the a staff member of the Warsaw Jewish Daily who in 1921 came to the United States where he studies journalism at Northwestern, the University of Chicago and Columbia while pursuing a career with several publications in the Jewish Forward in Chicago and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency where he served for as the editor.

1898(6th of Sivan, 5658): As the Spanish-American War enters into its second month, celebration of Shavuot

1898: “Montefiore Country Home” published today described plans for the upcoming “formal opening of the country sanitarium of the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids.”

1898: Simon Cook who had been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in the Navy in 1893 was assigned to the U.S.S. Princeton today.

1898: The members of the Hebrew Union Veterans’ Association assembled at Yorkville Court on the corner of 3^rd Avenue and 57^th Street and marched to Temple Emanu-El where the Civil War veterans held their annual memorial service.

1898: “Chicago’s Jewish Guardsman” published today described the formation of the “Guards of Zion” which is made up of approximately 190 of the younger members of the Zion Association of Chicago.  The unit will be designated as Companies I and M of an Illinois Volunteer Regiment under the command of Colonel McGrath. (Editor’s Note – this was part of the patriotic response that was sweeping the country during the Spanish-American War)

1899(18^thof Sivan, 5759): Ninety-five year old Jonas Hecht passed away in Norfolk. He moved there in 1863 after having served as a rabbi in New York for 22 years.  He was one of the original ten men who found B’nai B’rith.

1899: David Wolffsohn reports that the minimum funding for the Jewish Colonial Bank has been finally assured.

1899: “New Mount Sinai Hospital” published today descried plans for the new building for which the Jews of New York have provided all of the funding even though “the institution is non-sectarian…and the appointments on the house staff, medical staff and the admission of patients are made without regard to religious faith.”

1899: Birthdate of Bernard Joseph the Montreal, Canada native who became known as Dov Yosef, the Israeli political leader who served as military governor of Jerusalem during the War for Independence in 1948.

1899: “From Russia to America” published today described the decision of Israel Zangwill to write a foreword to From Plotzk to Boston by Mary Antin. Mr. Zangwill sees this collection of letters written in Yiddish by an eleven year old Russian immigrant provides a view of the little known “inner feelings of the people themselves” and helps us understand “what magic vision of free America lures them on to face the great journey to other side of the world.

1899: W.B. Clarke Company has announced that it will print “a second and much larger edition of Mary Antin’s From Plotzk to Boston which was first produced by a printer in New York.  An error was made in creating the title.  Antin was from Polotsk, but in the process of translation and printing it was changed to Plotzk.

1900: Pianist Leopold Godowsky and his wife gave birth to violinist Leopold Godowsky who helped to created Kodachrome.

1903: At Carnegie Hall, New York May Seth Low presided over a mass meeting protesting the Kishinev Pogrom which was addressed by former President Grover Cleveland.

1904(13^thof Sivan, 5664): Forty-four year old “Henry M. Hendricks, a junior member of the firm of Hendricks Brothers, the oldest metal house in the United States (dating back to 1764) dropped dead in the waiting room of the Christopher Street Ferry this morning” while on his way to Hoboken, NJ to meet his 19 year old daughter Aimia.

1905: “Thirty-three men met today at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association where they agreed to form “a congregation known as the Temple of Truth (Congregation Beth Emth) which “held its first services at 504 Market Place” and was the beneficiary of the generosity of D.L. Levy who purchased a Torah for the congregation’s use.

1906: “The Sabbath was rigidly observed today” in Louisville  with all saloons being closed “except one in a park kept by a Jew who had observed Saturday as the Sabbath” and who “was arrested but was allowed to continued selling throughout the day’ while doing “a lively business when the news spread.”

1908: Birthdate of Newark, NJ of Jefferson Medical College and University of Pennsylvania trained psychiatrist, a World War II veteran a leading forensic psychiatrist who served as superintendent of one of the nation’s largest mental health facilities, Overbrook Hospital while raising two children – Ellen and Laurence – with his wife, “the former Adelaide Heyman.”https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/24/archives/dr-henry-a-davidson-is-dead-a-psychiatrist-and-author-68.html

1908: Birthdate of Harold Rome the Hartford, CT native and Yale University graduate who turned his back on a career in architecture to become a composer and lyricist.

1908: Birthdate of Reform Rabbi Elmer Berger, the Cleveland, Ohio native who used the American Council for Judaism as a platform to promote his anti-Zionist beliefs.

1909(7^thof Sivan, 5669) 2^nd day of Shavuot, Yizkor

1911: Birthdate of Hubert Humphrey, reform mayor of Minneapolis, U.S. Senator from Minn. and Vice President of the United States.  Humphrey was a courageous supporter of civil rights including banning religious discrimination.  Humphrey supported the state of Israel in the difficult days of the 1950’s.  A visitor to his Washington, D.C. office would find a JNF Tree Certificate displayed proudly on the wall for all to see.

1911:  Birthdate of Teddy Kollek, mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 till 1993. Born Theodor Kollek to a Jewish family in Nagyvaszony near Budapest, Austria-Hungary, and named after Theodor Herzl, Kollek shared his father Alfred's enthusiasm for Zionist ideas. He grew up in Vienna. In 1935, three years before the Nazis seized power in Austria, the Kollek family immigrated to Palestine -- this was still the time of the British Mandate. Kollek was eager to help build a new society and, in 1937, was one of the co-founders of Kibbutz Ein Gev near Lake Galilee. In the same year he married Tamar Schwarz, who gave birth to two children, Amos (born 1947) and Osnat. During the Second World War, Kollek tried to represent Jewish interests in Europe on behalf of the Haganah At the outbreak of the war he succeeded in persuading Adolf Eichmann to release 3,000 young Jewish concentration camp inmates and transfer them to England. Kollek became a close ally of David Ben-Gurion; working for the latter's government from 1952 till 1965. In 1965 Teddy Kollek succeeded Mordechai Ish Shalom as Mayor of Jerusalem. He served six terms of office -- a total of 28 years, being re-elected in 1969, 1973, 1978, 1983, and 1989. It has generally been agreed that during his tenure Jerusalem was turned into a modern city, especially after its reunification in 1967. In 1993 Kollek, aged 82, again ran for Mayor but was defeated by Likud candidate Ehud Olmert who went on to become Prime Minister in 2006

http://www.jerusalemfoundation.org/teddy-kollek-digital-archives.aspx

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/teddy-kollek

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/world/middleeast/03kollek.html

1913(20^thof Iyar, 5673): Sixty-five year old May Maier, a rabbi from Portland, Oregon, passed away today at San Francisco.

1913: Elections are scheduled to be held today for the directors of Michael Reese Hospital – positions for which Edward Morris, Alfred Oppenheimer, Gustav Fruend and Eli M. Straus have been nominated.

1914(2^ndof Sivan 5674): Fifty-one year old coffee merchant Solomon A. Cohn passed away today in New York City.

1915: In the Bronx, “Esther (née Levine) and Abraham Isaac Wouk, Jewish emigrants from what is today Belarus” gave birth to Herman Wouk, the famous Pulitzer prize winning who has written several books using Jewish themes and is living proof that you can be a literary success and a mensch.

 1915: Birthdate of Arieh Handler who was one of the founders of the Religious Zionist movement in the United Kingdom

1915: “A number of women made speeches to a crowd on behalf of Leo M. Frank on the corner of 126^th Street and Seventh Avenue tonight” and “obtained many signatures on a petition” asking the Governor of Georgia to show clemency in the case.

1915: Today “additional Georgia jurists” including Spencer R. Atkinson, ex-Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court and Judge E.C. Konitz of Atlanta “joined in the plea to the Prison Commission to commute the sentence” of Leo M. Frank.

1915: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Louis Marshall are among the speakers scheduled to speak at a mass meeting sponsored by the League of Foreign Born Citizens at P.S. 91 where appeals for justice for Leo M. Frank who is sentenced to die next month will be made.

1915: It was reported today that Eugene N. Foss, the former Governor of Massachusetts, who had employed Leo Frank in 1906 “said it was very evident that the unfortunate man has not had a fair trial” and that “every gentile, as well as every Jew…was interested in this case, because it be his turn next to be the victim of ‘public sentiment.’”

1915: The partial text of a letter urging clemency for Leo Frank from Reverend Alfred K. Glover, the rector of St. James Episcopal Church and “a recognized authority on the laws and customs of the Jews” being sent to the Governor of Georgia published today said that “Neither man nor beast has ever been known to have been strangled by a Jews.”

1915: A copy of a letter from the Grand Rabbi of Turkey to the American Jewish Relief Committee in New York published today said that “nearly 5,000 individuals are without any support and this number is increasing daily.  My least resource is to implore you to intervene on behalf of our community with Jews in America.”  (Editor’s note:  While many Jews know about the suffering of the Shoah, they are unaware of the suffering of their co-religionist during WW I especially in the Ottoman Empire and on the Eastern Front including Russia and the Autro-Hungarian Empire.)

1915: Mrs. Nina Stevens who would tell a judge “that she had made an affidavit in Atlanta to show that Leo Frank was a degenerate” was arrested today in New York on a warrant “charging her with maintain a disorderly resort in a house on West Fifty-Second Street.

1915: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Anna Rhodes, Louis Marshall, L.W. Fehr and William J. Burns are among those scheduled to speak at a mass meeting sponsored by the League of Foreign Born Citizens in New York where “appeals for justice for Leo Frank” who is “sentenced to die next month for the murder of Mary Phagan” will be made.

1916: The Federation of Rumanian Jews of America opened its ninth annual convention at the Hebrew Technical School for Girls in New York tonight where in his opening address Chairman Solomon Suffrin “to exception to allegations that there was something lacking the Americanism of the Jew in America, saying “In regard to the address six days ago by an eminent co-religionist of us Jews, we will assure him that if this country should be called to arms we would respond.”

1917(6^thof Sivan, 5677): American Jews observe Shavuot for the first time as combatants in World War I.

1917: In New York, “at Temple Beth-El Dr. Samuel Schulman preached a sermon on the Russian Revolution.

1917: In New York, “at the Free Synagogue Dr. Stephen S. Wise spoke on ‘Israel’s Youth and the Youth of Israel.’”

1917: On Shavuot, in New York, “at Temple Emanu-El, Dr. Joseph Silverman delivered a patriotic” sermon.

1917: Florence Cohen and Pearl Decker were among those confirmed today at Temple Sholom at a service led by Rabbi Abram Hirschbirg.

1917: Harold Blitz and Gertrud Cohn were among those confirmed today at Beth El Temple at a serviced led by Rabbi Julius Rappaort.

1917: At Chicago’s Temple Sinai, Dr. Emil G. Hirsch officiated at Confirmation Services this morning.

1917: Rabbi Gerson B. Levin led Confirmation Services this morning at Congregation B’nai Sholom Temple Israel on Michigan Avenue.

1917: Rabbi Tobias Schanfarber led Confirmation Services this morning at Congregation K.A.M. Chicago’s oldest Jewish congregation.

1917: “Persecute Jews of Jaffa” published today described the plight of the 8,000 to 9,000 Jewish residents of the Mediterranean coastal city who “have been expelled by Turks” and facing economic ruin as they camp out of doors “without shelter” and food.

1917: It was reported today that the American Jewish Relief Committee for the Suffers from the War of which Louis Marshall is Chairman and Herbert H. Lehman is Treasurer has $10,000 from the Minneapolis Committee, $404 from the Lake Charles, LA Committee, $800 from the Oklahoma City Committee and $170 from the Las Vegas Committee.

1917: It was reported today that the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering through the War of which Harry Fischel is Treasurer has received $750 from The Day and $101 from I. Rokeach and Sons.

1918: Nathan Straus, Adolph Lewisohn and Major C. Brooman White of the British Recruiting Mission were among those who attended a dinner last night at Beethoven Hall given by the Jewish Actors’ Club for the “500 members of the Jewish Legion for Service in Palestine…on the eve of their departure” for the Holy Land where they will join the other 2,000 members of the Legion.

1919: Dorothy Engel and Herman Maltz were married in New York after which they lived at the Hotel Cumberland before moving to California in 1920 where Herman went into the wholesale shoe business which led to his opening West Coast Furniture in partnership with William Weiss.

http://home.earthlink.net/~nholdeneditor/by_julie_maltz_borman.htm

1919: Harold E. Foreman, Nelson Morris, Walter S. Bauer and Samuel Rosenthal are scheduled to be elected as directors of Michael Reese Hospital

1919: Birthdate of New York City businessman Joseph Puro the president of the Purofield Down Products Corporation, “a leading pillow and comforter producer” and philanthropist who served on the board of Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/24/archives/joseph-puro-51-president-of-down-products-corp.html?_r=0

1921: “Shattered,” a “silent kammerspielfilm” with a script by Carl Meyer and director/producer Lupu Pick was released today in Germany.

1920: Jewish veterans took part in a Memorial Festival “presented at Madison Square Garden under the auspices of the People’s Liberty Chorus.

1923: In “Furth, Bavaria, Germany” schoolteacher Louis Kissinger and homemaker Paula (Stern) Kissinger gave birth to Heinz Alfred Kissinger who gained fame Harvard Professor, national security advisor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

https://www.henryakissinger.com/

1923: In Boston Belle (née Ostrovsky) and Michael Rothstein, the owner of the “Northeast Theatre Corporation” and “the Boston branch of the Latin Quarter Nightclub gave birth to Harvard trained attorney Sumner Murray Redstone, the electronic media mogul who among other things was Chairman and CEO of Viacom, Inc.

1924: Jules Stein founds Music Corporation of America in Chicago, Illinois.  MCA began as a booking agency for bands.  Over time it grew and eventually morphed in Universal Studios in 1996.

1924(23^rdof Iyar, 5684): Forty-three year old St. Louis born vaudeville comedian and Broadway playwright passed away today.

http://archives.nypl.org/the/18893

1926: It was reported today that “Chaim Nachman Bialik was given the degree of Doctor of Hebrew Literature on the occasion of the first graduation exercises of the Jewish Institute of Religion, when ten rabbis were graduated” and “a similar degree was given to Claude G. Montefiore, nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore and England’s foremost Jewish scholar.” (JTA)

1927: Birthdate of Zvi Malchin, who gained famed Mossad Chief of Operations Peter Zvi Malkin, who played a key role in bringing Eichmann to justice.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/obituaries/peter-zvi-malkin-israeli-agent-who-captured-adolf-eichmann-dies.html?_r=0

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-z-malkin-527099.html

1927: Birthdate of Galicia native Solomon David “Sam” Kimelman, the Holocaust survivor who made a life for himself in Winnipeg, Canada.

https://passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-details/id-250778/KIMELMAN_SOLOMON

1927: “In the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City “the former Clara Gordon” and “Rabbi Bernard Birstein of the Actor's Temple” gave birth to Ann Judith Birstein the author and one-time wife of Alfred Kazin with whom she had a child, Cathrael Kazin. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/29/books/ann-birstein-dead-novelist-and-wife-of-alfred-kazin.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-wellhttps://web.archive.org/web/20160601153938/http://www.annbirstein.com/bio.htm

1927: National Jewish Book Week, which had the unanimous endorsement of the Chicago Rabbinical Association, is scheduled to come a close.

1928: In retaliation, for a vote of no confidence by Hadassah in its President, the Zionist National Executive Committee, threatened to discipline the women's organization

1928(8^thof Sivan, 5688): Seventy-five year old German mathematician Arthur Moritz Schoenflies “known for his contributions to the application of group theory to crystallography” passed away today. (I won’t even pretend to try and explain what he worked on)

1930: Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Otto Meyerhoff is one of the department chairmen at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Medicine, a facility modeled after the Rockefeller Institute, which is opening today in Heidelberg, Germany.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB0D15FD3E5C157A93C5AB178ED85F448385F9

1932: Birthdate of Linda Pastan who was Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1991 to 1995.

1932: Birthdate of Brooklynite actor Stephen Robert “Steve” Franken, the cousin comedian and U.S. Senator Al Franken.

http://abc7.com/archive/8792889/

1933(2nd of Sivan, 5693): Karl Lehburger, a Jewish businessman, was murdered in Dachau.

1933(2nd of Sivan, 5693): James Loeb, a Jewish-German-American banker and philanthropist, passed away.  Born in New York in 1867, he “was the second born son of Solomon Loeb and Betty Loeb.James Loeb joined his father at Kuhn, Loeb & Co. in 1888 and was made partner in 1894, but he retired from the bank in 1901 due to severe illnesses. In memory of his former lecturer and friend Charles Eliot Norton, in 1907 Loeb created The Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship. In 1911 he founded and endowed the Loeb Classical Library, and founded the Institute of Musical Art, which later became part of the Juilliard School of Music.”

1934: “A children’s review” is scheduled to be held this after at Union Temple on Eastern Parkway “in an effort to help the Brooklyn Federation in its cureen $500,000 twenty-fifth anniversary campaign.”

1934: Bernhard J. Stern and Isidore Begun were among those attending a conference of teachers in New York which had been called by “the Teachers’ Anti-War Committee” which is scheduled to end today.

1934: In Reisterstown, Mr. and Mrs. A. Ray Katz and Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Lansburgh, the daughters and sons-in-law of philanthropist Jacob Epstein will present a memorial bust of their father to the Mount Pleasant Jewish Tubercular Sanatorium at ceremony where Dr. Edward L. Israel, the rabbi of Temple Har Sinai will deliver the invocation “and lead in the recitation of the prayer for the dead at the close of services.” (JTA)

1935: New York City women led by activist Clara Shavelson, picketed Manhattan butcher shops to demand a reduction in the price of meat. http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/shavelson-clara-lemlich

1935: In a land mark case, The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in the case A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495). The challenge to the National Industrial Recovery Act came from the most unlikely source, a Jewish chicken producer. Joseph Schechter operated Schechter Poultry Company, and Martin, Alex and Alan Schechter operated A.L.A. Schechter Company, both of which were slaughterhouses selling chickens to kosher markets in New York City.  Brandies and Cardozo, the two Jewish justices joined the majority in this opinion proving that for these men of principle the law trumped political beliefs.

1936(6th of Sivan, 5696): First Day of Shavuot

1936: In New York, Congregation Emanu-El is scheduled to hold its confirmation exercises this morning at 10 o’clock.

1936: In New York, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun is scheduled to hold its confirmation exercises this morning at 10:30.

1936: In New York, Rabbis are scheduled to use their Shavuot sermons “to make appeals…for the aide of destitute Jews in Germany and Eastern Europe.

1936(6th of Sivan, 5696):  On Shavuot, the British would not allow Jews to hold services at the Western Wall because of the on-going attacks by Arabs.

1936: “In Jaffa, hooligans” broke “street lamps while approximately “400 orange trees were uprooted in the vicinity of Peach Tikva” and “Arab demonstrators…continued aimless shooting at Jewish” settlers.

1937: Birthdate of Chicago native Allan Solomon who gained famed as Northwestern University alum Allan Carr who went from running the talent agency Allan Carr Enterprises to a successful career as a screenwriter and a producer who “was named Producer of the Year by the National Association of Theatre Owners.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/01/arts/allan-carr-62-the-producer-of-grease-and-la-cage.html

1938(26^thof Iyar, 5698): Seventy-two year old Dr. Flora Pollack passed away today in her hometown, Baltimore, MD.

1938: The Palestine Post reported that a British constable was murdered near Ramat Hakovesh (formerly Juara) in the vicinity of the spot where two American pioneers, Ephraim Tiktin, 24, formerly of Detroit, Michigan, and Eliezer Korngold, formerly of Toronto (Ontario) were murdered on April 8, 1938. Supernumerary policemen successfully defended the Arab attack on Tel Adashim and wounded several attackers. Ze'ev Alianevsky, the driver of a Hamekasher bus in Jerusalem who was stoned and injured by Arabs in Romema, defended himself with his licensed revolver, hit and wounded an Arab woman. He was taken out of Hadassah hospital to the Central Jerusalem Prison for investigation.

1939: Two weeks after 19 year old George Jellinek and the family of Peter Gay arrived in Cuba aboard the SS Iberia the SS St. Louis arrived in Havana, Cuba and was denied use of the docking areas because the Cuban government “had retroactively invalidated the land permits” of most of the Jewish passengers – a fact of which they were not aware.

1939(9^thof Sivan, 5699): Forty-four year old Galician native Joseph Roth whose works included “his family saga Radetzky March about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life, Job and his seminal essay "Juden auf Wanderschaft” translated into English in “The Wandering Jews” died today in Paris where he had gone to escape the Nazis.

https://www.lbi.org/digibaeck/results/?qtype=pid&term=121485

1940: As the British fought off attacks by the Germans at Dunkirk, members of “the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf machine-gunned 97 British and French prisoners near the La Bassée Canal”

1940: In Brooklyn builder Lawrence Gallin and Florence Gallin gave birth to Albert Samuel Gallin, the Boston University graduate better known as “talent manger” Sandy Gallin who played a key role in the careers of such notables as Dolly Partin.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/arts/sandy-gallin-76-talent-manager-adored-by-stars-dies.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1941: In New York City, grocer Louis Berlin and “Sylvia (Lebwohl) Berlin, a homemaker turned business manager for Ralph Lauren gave birth to University of Wisconsin trained historian Dr. Ira Berlin. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/obituaries/ira-berlin-groundbreaking-historian-of-slavery-dies-at-77.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1942: As of today, “compulsory wearing of the yellow badge” was enforced in Belgium.

1942: Three Jewish families living in the remote Ukrainian village of Chaplinka are killed.

1942: General Reinhard Heydrich was fatally shot in Prague by two Czech patriots. The man responsible for the formal initiation of Hitler's Final Solution, a man synonymous with terror, would die within the next eight days. The Holocaust still had three more years of death ahead of it. SS General Globocnik begins preparation for ‘Operation Rienhard', in honor of the slain general. Operation Reienhard was the deportation of Jews to meet immediate death at Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor. Goebbels wanted to make the Jews pay for Heydrich's death. According to at least one account, the attack on Heydrich was orchestrated by the British and had nothing to do with his role in the Final Solution

1943: The Jews of Sokal, Ukraine, are deported to the Belzec death camp.

1943(22^ndof Iyar, 5703): While serving with the 42^nd Bomber Squadron of the 11^th Bomber Group, Staff Sergeant Frank Glassman, the son of Russian immigrants Peter and Sadie Glassman, died today when his B-24, nicknamed the Green Hornet was ditched and lost in the Pacific Ocean

1943:  Three thousand Jews are killed at Tolstoye, Ukraine.

1943:  Birthdate of actor Bruce Weitz who played Sgt. Mick Belker on the NBC television police drama Hillstreet Blues.

1944: Two Jews escaped from Birkenau. Arnost Rosin of Czechoslovakia and Czeslaw Mordowicz of Poland had witnessed the first ten days of the Hungarian arrivals. They were able to tell the West the truth about the tragedies they survived through.

1944: Joel Brand “sent his wife a telegram” telling her about interim agreement that had been reached to swap $4,000 for each Jewish emigrants to Palestine and one million Swiss francs for each 1,000 Jewish emigrants to Spain, “hoping she would tell Eichmann and that this might delay the deportations” of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz.

1944: Rudolf Kastner was taken into custody by the Hungarian Arrow Cross in Budapest.

1945: “A conference of 300 delegates from twenty nations called to devise a world-wide program for the rehabilitation of Jewish life in Poland and to press for action to safeguard Jewish security opened today at the Hotel Roosevelt under the sponsorship of the American Federation for Polish Jews.”

1946: Concentration Camp survivor Gerda Weissmann was reunited with her “liberator” Kurt Klein whom she married and gained fame as author Gerda Weissmann Klein

1947: Ben Gurion drew up his first summary of the Yishuv’s military position. He wrote in his diary, “There is not sufficient training even in the brigade (Palmach).  There is a shortage of commanders, and those we have are not adequate [in standard].  There is no attempt at action, the planning defective; the structure of the budget is not directed at the target.  The most serious fault is that the experience and human military material [those demobilized from the British army] have not been utilized.  The equipment has not been adapted. For many years, a central idea has been missing: What is the duty [of the Haganah organization]?

1948(18^thof Iyar, 5708): Lag B’Omer

1948: In Brooklyn, George Lerner, who worked “as a fisherman and antiques dealer and Blanche Lerner gave birth to actor Ken Lerner, the brother of Michael Lerner and son of Sam Lerner.

1948: The Israel Defense Army (Zahal) was established. Prior to the creation of the state there had been several armed groups including Haganah, Palmach, Irgun and the Stern Gang.  Ben Gurion understood that there could only be one army and that that army had to be under the control of the national government. He acted decisively and overcame considerable opposition to achieve this goal.

1948: In Jerusalem, the hospital in which the mortally wounded Esther Cailingold came under enemy fire forcing officials to move her and the other casualties to “a safer area.”

1948: In Jerusalem, troops of the Arab Legion “raised their flag on the roof of the Huvra Synagogue, the main synagogue of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City and then set it on fire.  The Hebrew word Huvra means ruin and the synagogue was so named because the Moslems had destroyed it twice since it was first built in 1705.  The dome of Huvra had been a major landmark for almost one hundred years.  The Huvra was in the same category for Jews as the Church of the Holy Sepulcher was for Christians.  Of course the Church remained unharmed and nobody in the international community then or since expressed any dismay over the destruction of a Jewish house of worship that was also a civic treasure.  

1948: Vitka Kempner and Abba Kovner gave birth to their first son Michael.  At the time of the boy’s birth, his father was fighting with the IDF during the War of Independence. Kempner had proven her martial mettle as a resistance fighter serving alongside her famous husband during WW II.

1949: “The American President liner General W.G. Gordon, the last large U.S. passenger ship to leave Shanghai before the city fell to the Communists” arrived in San Francisco carrying refugees included Jews “who had found wartime refuge” in the city among whom were “Dr. Michael Lowe-Levai, the former foreign editor of the Berliner Lokal Anzeiger whose son Eric A. Harris lives in Los Angeles.”

1949: The United Service for New Americans, “which aids displaced Jews” in the United States reported that there were still 1,500 Jewish refugees stranded in Shanghai.

1950(11^thof Sivan, 5710): Parashat Naso

1950(11^thof Sivan, 5710): Sixty-four year old investment banker and chess patron Maurice Wertheim whose greatest claim to fame may be that he was the father of Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian Barbara Tuchman.

1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that Jordanian marauders carried out three simultaneous attacks on three new immigrant villages of Beit Naballa, Beit Arif and Beit Arif Bet, all of them near Beit Shemen. At Beit Naballa they threw a grenade into the house of David Namdar, killed his wife, Tamar, 30, and wounded two of his seven children. They also looted whatever was possible. At Beit Arif they detonated three kg. of TNT under the house which was completely destroyed, and at Beit Arif Bet they did the same to three houses. Seven people were injured in both explosions.

1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that the General Zionists had resigned from the Cabinet coalition. They resigned because the Labor majority turned down their request for the exclusive use of a National Flag and anthem in schools, to the exclusion of red flags, traditional to the Labor movement.

1955(6^thof Sivan, 5715): Shavuot

1956: Birthdate of Brooklyn born, NYU trained attorney Lewis Fidler, the New York City Councilman who raised two children with his wife Robin.

https://council.nyc.gov/district-46/

https://nypost.com/2019/05/05/former-city-councilman-lew-fidler-dead-at-62/

1956: In Winnipeg, Canadian attorney and political leader Israel Harold “Izzy” Asper “married Ruth Miriam ‘Babs’ Asper at Shaarey Zedek” today.

1957: Thirty-seventh and final broadcast of “Producers’ Showcase” a television anthology series that featured the music of Sammy Cahn and Moose Charlap and included shows produced by Sol Hurok and Anatole Litvak.

1958: Birthdate of Margate native Dr. Robin Mundill the historian and author whose work included The King’s Jews: Money, Massacre and Exodus in Medieval England

http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-dr-robin-mundill-phd-ma-shoolmaster-and-historian-1-3836886

http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1077

1960: Henriette von Shirach, “Hitler’s private secretary” wrote ‘a letter to a senior Bavarian official” begging for art works” which in reality had been confiscated from Gottlieb and Mathilde Kraus by the Gestapo in 1941” be returned to her.

1961: “The Last Time I Saw Archie,” a comedy featuring Louis Nye, Robert Strauss and Harvey Lembeck was released in the United States today.

1963(4th of Sivan, 5723): Jacob Elie Safra, the Aleppo born of the Safra banking family who married his cousin Sarah with whom he had eight children passed away today in São Paulo, Brazil.

1964: Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office.  Nehru opposed the creation of the state of Israel.  Given India’s large Moslem population and the conflict with Pakistan at the time of India’s re-birth, this is not surprising.  What was disappointing was the lengths that Nehru went to isolate the Jewish state after its creation.  In recent years, India has turned its back on Nehru’s view of Israel.

1966: “The Wrong Box” a comedy written by Larry Gelbart was released in the United Kingdom today.

1967: “The Israeli Cabinet met to decide whether or not to take military action against Egypt” based on the continued blockade of the Straits of Tiran. The Cabinet appeared to be evenly divided between those who were ready to take action and those who were willing to wait and see if the international community would end the crisis. 

1967: The US production “Eh?” starring Dustin Hoffman as “Valentine Brose” which “was the first major critical success in his career, garnering him a Theatre World Award and Drama Desk Award for his performance” closed today after 233 performances.

1969: Terrorist fired a bazooka this morning at an Israeli patrol in the Beisan Valley near Kfar Ruppin.

1970: “The Grasshopper” written by Jerry Belson was released today in the United States.

1970(21^stIyar, 5730): Seventy-one year old Colonel Richard Gimbel, USAF (ret), the New York born son of Ellis and Minnie Gimbel and the grandson of the founder of Gimbels who left the family business in the 1930’s and pursued a military career in the 1940’s before becoming the “curator of aeronautical literature at his alma mater Yale while raising seven children with his wife “the former Julia de Fernex Millhiser, passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/28/archives/col-richard-gimbel-dies-at-71-flier-was-yale-library-curator-donor.html

1970: “Watermelon Man,” a comedy “inspired by Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis was released in the United States today.

1971: In Detroit, final performance of an “updated” version of La Périchole an opéra bouffe in three acts by Jacques Offenbach with a libretto co-authored by Ludovic Halévy

1973(25^thof Iyar, 5733): Seventy-three year old Federated Department Store president, Fred Straus, Jr, the Columbus, OH born son of Fred and Rose Lazarus and husband of Meta Marx Lazarus passed away today after which he was buried at Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus, OH.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fred-Lazarus-Jr

1973: The IDF announced a state of emergency and reserve troops were called up in response to a movement of Egyptian troops. The state of emergency was cancelled when it became clear that this was only an exercise

1974(6^thof Sivan, 5734): Shavuot

1974: Simon Veil began her first term as French Minister of Health.

1975: Anatoly Malkin, who had already lost his position “for filing for emigration to Israel,” was arrested today for “evasion of military service.”

1975:  Sender Levinson, of Bendery in Soviet Moldavia, went on trial today.

1981: The premiere performance of “Halil” took place today at the Sultan’s Pool in Jerusalem with Jean-Pierre Rampal as the soloist and Leonard Bernstein conducting the Israel Philharmonic. “Halil is a work for flute and chamber orchestra composed by Leonard Bernstein composed in 1981. The work is sixteen minutes in length. Bernstein composed Halil in honor of a young Israeli flutist Yadin Tanenbaum who was killed at the Suez Canal in during the 1973 Yom Kippur war.”

1984: Seth Mydans reviewed “The Revolt of Job,” a film that tells the story of “one Jewish couple's attempt to defeat their family's extinction in the Holocaust by adopting a non-Jewish boy, a child who would survive to carry on their line.”

1984(25^thof Iyar, 5744): Seventy-one year old Gallitzin, PA native and U of Michigan trained labor lawyer Walter J. Isaacson, “an officer in the lawyers’ divison of the UJA-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and husband of “the former Edith Lipsig Hebald” passed away today.

1985(7th of Sivan, 5745): Second Day of Shavuot

1987(28th of Iyar, 5747): Yom Yerushalayim

1987: Daniel Barenboim is scheduled to serve as conductor for the IPO at a concert which is part of its 50^th anniversary celebration.

1990: After three weeks, the curtain came down Playwrights Horizons Off-Broadway original production of Lynn Ahren’s “Once on This Island.”

1993(7th of Sivan, 5753): Second Day of Shavuot

1993: The official opening of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology and the Jill Sackler Sculpture Court and Garden at Peking University is scheduled to take place today.

1995: “A Walk in the Clouds” produced by David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, filmed by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and co-starring Debra Messing was released in Japan today.

1997(20th of Iyar, 5757): One hundred year old Ralph Hoween, the Harvard and Chicago Cardinals football player whose career had been interrupted when he volunteered to serve with U.S. Navy during World War I passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/29/sports/ralph-horween-100-the-oldest-ex-nfl-player.html

1999(12^thof Sivan, 5759): Eighty-two year old Big Band vocalist Leah Ray Werblin, the wife of Sonny Werblin passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/04/sports/leah-ray-werblin-singer-82.html

2000: At Brown University noted scholar and feminist Alice Shalvi speaks on the effects of feminism on Judaic life in Israel and the world beyond as part of the Stephen A. Ogden Jr. Memorial Lectureship.

2001:The New York Times featured books by Jewish writers and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Dying Animal by Philip Roth.

2001: The PFLP claimed responsibility for today’s Jerusalem Center bombing

2001: Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for today’s Jaffa Road bombing in which 30 people were injured.

2001: “Sister Mary Explains It All For You” a controversial film about Catholicism directed by Marshall Brickman was broadcast by Showtime for the first time.

2002: The Al-Aqsa Martyrs, Brigades claimed credit for today’s bombing in a mall at Petah Tivka

2002(16th of Sivan, 5762): Eighty-five year old weightlifter David Mayor who in 1937 “won the U.S. heavyweight champion with a total lift of 835 pounds and was named "America's Strongest Man” passed away today.

2003: The parents of Chandra Levy hold a private graveside for their daughter.

2004(7th of Sivan, 5764): Second Day of Shavuot

2004: On the day after the New York Times“mea culpa editorial” related to the reporting about he Iraq war by Judith Miller, an article in Salon quoted her as saying "You know what ... I was proved fucking right. That's what happened. People who disagreed with me were saying, 'There she goes again.' But I was proved fucking right.”

2005:  The Washington Post reported that meetings had been held over the weekend at Yifat, Israel in which Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres announced that he would seek the top spot in Israel’s government.  Despite the fact that he is now 81 and that he has failed to accomplish the goal in four previous attempts, Peres thinks that now is the time for him to finally reach his goal.

2005:  The Washington Post reported that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared from Jerusalem, “that her meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders convinced her that both sides share a commitment to ensuring Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza takes place smoothly and peacefully.”  At the end of the same article the Post reported that “Coinciding with Rice’s visit, Palestinians…attacked Israelis…in the southern Gaza Strip killing one Israeli and wounding two others…The attack was the second major assault on Israeli targets in recent days.”  Islamic Jihad and a group affiliated with Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement took credit for the attack.  As head of the PLA, Abbas is one of those Palestinian leaders whom Secretary Rice said was committed to a smooth and peaceful Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

2005(18th of Iyar, 5765):  Morris Cohen, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who helped to transform the field of metallurgy into the modern discipline of materials science and engineering, passed away at his home in Swampscott, Mass. He was 93.

2005(18th of Iyar, 5765):  Celebration of Lag B’Omer, Thirty-Third Day of the Omer. 

2005(18th of Iyar, 5765):  Observance of the Yahrzeit Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. Born in 100 C.E., Shimon studied with the great Rabbi Akiva and was one of only two scholars ordained by Akiva. Shimon is quoted in the Palestinian Talmud as saying “To honor one’s parents is more important than honoring God.”  This belief did keep him from openly disagreeing with his considering the Rebellion against Rome.  Shimon was an outspoken supporter of Akivah and Bar Kochba while his father believed in appeasing the Romans.  According to legend, Shimon hid from the Romans with his son in a cave for thirteen years livings on dates and carob. Shimon was a great scholar who is quoted in the Talmud frequently both on matters of Halakah and ethics.  Judah the Prince, the compiler of the Mishnah was one of his students.  His greatest claim to fame among some is based on the mythical belief that he wrote the Zohar (The Book of Splendor).  Although he was a mystic, there is no proof that he was the author of the text.  Regardless, starting in the 16^th the Chasidim who are his followers gather at his grave in Meron which is located near Safed on the 33^rdday of the Omer and commemorate his passing by lighting bonfires and dancing by torchlight as they express their joy in his teachings.

2006(29^thof Iyar, 5766): Ninety-five year old actress Thelma Bernstein and mother of comedy writer Albert Brooks passed away.  (As reported by Dennis McLellan)

http://articles.latimes.com/2006/may/31/local/me-bernstein31

2007: Tony Eprile, novelist and faculty member at the University of Iowa’s Writer's Workshop, discusses his prize winning novel, The Persistence of Memorythat describes apartheid in South Africa through the eyes of a shy, overweight Jewish boy from Johannesburg's wealthy northern suburbs. He also discusses his just completed trip to Syria with other writers.     

2007: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories by Primo Levi, translated by Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli, City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa, by Adam LeBor, My Holocaust by Tova Reich and The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. by William D. Cohan. 

2007 (10 Sivan 5767):Oshri Oz a 35-year-old, resident of Hod Hasharon, was killed when a Qassam rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit the car in which he was driving in the western Negev town of Sderot.

2008: In Chicago, as a prelude to the CSO's production of Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater, Spertus is proud to host Chicago music critic Andrew Patner in a discussion with Michael Tilson Thomas, who will vividly illustrate through projected images his grandparent's fascinating history, their starring roles in the American Yiddish Theater, and its enormous contribution to the American cultural life. Michael Tilson Thomas became the eleventh Music Director of the acclaimed San Francisco Symphony in September 1995. He is also Artistic Director of the New World Symphony and Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky immigrated to the U.S. in the 1880s. While still in their teens, they played major roles in the development of American Yiddish Theater. For many Jewish immigrants, Yiddish Theater replaced traditional touchstones of Eastern European life and provided a forum for new ideas shaping their new American lives. In July 1998, Michael Tilson Thomas founded The Thomashefsky Project to rescue their story and share Yiddish Theater’s contribution to American cultural life.

2008: Public sales of Chasing Harry, the third novel by Lauren Weisberger, author of The Devil Wears Prada began today.

2009:Center for Jewish History and Untitled Theater Company #61 present: Golem Stories, A staged reading retelling the legend of a clay man in 16th century Prague created by Rabbi Loew to defend the Jews.

2009: Fred Hochberg began serving as Chairman and President of the Export-Import Bank.

2009 (4 Sivan): On the Jewish calendar, 2^nd Yahrzeit for Shir-El Friedman the thirty five year old woman who was killed by a Hamas rocket fired into Sderot.

2009:William Lanouette, the author of Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb (written with Bela Silard) and Martin J. Sherwin, the author (with Kai Bird) of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimertake part in a discussion entitled, Building the Bomb, Fearing Its Use: Nuclear Scientists, Social Responsibility and Arms Control,1946-1996, at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

2009: As part of the Tel Aviv Centennial Celebration a statue of Meir Dizengoff, the first mayor of Tel Aviv, riding his horse will be placed in front of his home at 16 Rothschild Boulevard. The address has become one of the most important landmarks in Israeli history: in his will, Dizengoff designated his house to be the home of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (the museum later moved to its current address on Shaul Hamelech Boulevard). On May 14^th1948, it was the site in which David Ben Gurion and the Provisional National Council declared Israel's independence.

2009:Thousands of Israelis from far and wide flocked to Rothschild Boulevard in central Tel Aviv as the city held its annual "White Night" event, with parties, music and street theater lasting until the wee hours.

2010: In Paris, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended a ceremony marking Israel’s official joining the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

2010:Professor Menahem Milson a professor of Arabic Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a co-founder of The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “Arabic and Islamic Anti-Semitism Today” at the Historic 6^th& I Synagogue in Washington, D.C.

2010: The first-ever Jewish America Heritage Month celebration was held today at the White House. It underscored the Obama administration's determination not to be locked into Washington's conventional notions of Jewish leadership. President Obama did not exactly snub the usual suspects who have peopled similar events for decades. There was Lee Rosenberg, the president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and there was Alan Solow, the chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

2011: The National Museum of American Jewish Military History, the Jewish War Veterans, and the Sixth & I Synagogue are scheduled to host the first annual national service honoring the Jewish fallen heroes of Iraq and Afghanistan. The service, which is scheduled to be conducted by Cantor Larry Paul and musician Robyn Helzner, will open with remarks by NMAJH President David Magidson and will feature the reading of the names of the more than 40 Fallen Heroes in solemn remembrance and prayer.

2011: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Rockdale Temple is scheduled honor Jewish American Heritage Month with a Rock Shabbat service highlighting American-composed liturgical music.

2011: A week-end long celebration marking the 25^thanniversary of the ordinations of Rabbi Jonathan Rubenstein and Rabbi Linda Motzkin is scheduled to begin this evening in Saratoga Springs.

2011: The annual conference of the Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations (CSJO) is scheduled to open at Humber College in Toronto, Canada.

2011: Limmud Colorado’s Fourth Annual Conference is scheduled to begin at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, CO.

2011:Group of Eight leaders had to soften a statement urging Israel and the Palestinians to return to negotiations because Canada objected to a specific mention of 1967 borders, diplomats said today

2011:US President Barack Obama today travelled to Poland where he honored the memories of those killed in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during the Holocaust. He was heard telling a Holocaust survivor that the US would be there for Israel. During a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw Obama told one elderly man that the memorial was a "reminder of the nightmare" of the Holocaust in which millions of Jews were killed, The Associated Press reported.

2012(6^th of Sivan, 5772): First Day of Shavuot

2012(6^th of Sivan, 5772): Seventy-five year old Dr. David L. Rimoin, the medical geneticist who did research into Tay-Sachs disease passed away today. (As reported by Denise Grady)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/health/research/david-l-rimoin-expert-on-dwarfism-dies-at-75.html?_r=2&hpw

2012: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback editions of The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, From Cairo to Brooklyn by Lucette Lagnado and Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman.

2012:The Paul Feig Tikkun Leil Shavuot at The JCC in Manhattan which began last night is scheduled to end at 5 am.

2012: The Cedar Lake Ballet’s two week engagement at the Venue which has included the New York premiere of “Violet Kid,” by Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter is scheduled to come to a close

2013: During “The Patron Trip to Israel” the IPO is scheduled to perform a concert featuring conductor and violinist Pinchas Zuckerman.

2013: A conference opened in Riga to discuss “Holocaust commemoration in post-communist Eastern Europe.”

2013:Deputy Transportation Minister Tzipi Hotovely married Or Alon an Israeli attorney.

2013:Egyptian-French singer-songwriter Georges Moustaki was buried today according to Jewish rites in a family vault at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris a few meters from the grave of his former amour Édith Piaf.”

2013:US Secretary of State John Kerry held separate surprise meetings in Jordan today with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, as he intensified his efforts to revive the peace process.

2013: Amos Oz won the Franz Kafka Prize today in the Czech Republic.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-author-amos-oz-wins-czech-kafka-prize/

2013: Memorial Day observed in the United States.  Jews have fought in every war since the American Revolution and served in all branches of the military. They have served as generals and warriors who have earned the Congressional Medal of Honor.  Ironically, one of the Jews who had the most effect on America’s defense was one who did not see combat – Admiral Hyman Rickover.  As the “father of the nuclear navy” (and more specifically nuclear powered submarines) he provided the United States with its primary deterrent in dealing with the Soviets which kept the Cold War from turning into the hot war of World War III

http://magazine.discoverjcc.com/jews-history-in-u-s-military/

2014: Father Francis Wahle, the Kindertansportee, whose father had converted but whose mother had not is scheduled to tell his story at the Weiner Library in the UK.

2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled a lecture by Meki Tate entitled “Warriors in Blue: Soldiers, Seders and Solidarity” which “explores the experiences and contributions of the 7,000 Jewish servicemen who fought in the Union Army during the Civil War.”

2014: European Parliament Speaker Martin Schultz, French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi joined Belgium’s Elio Durpo in a “paying home to the vicitims of  last weekend’s attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels  when they met Jewish leaders outside the museum and bowed their heads in tribute to a rabbi’s prayer.

2014: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Rabbi Zvi (Herschel) Schachter, Rabbi Yehoshua Yeshaya Neuwirth (deceased) and Rabbi Zalman Nehemiah Goldberg – the receipients of the Katz Awared which is , bestowed upon individuals and enterprises engaged in the application of Halacha, or Jewish law, to modern life  -- were honored at a ceremony in Jersualem today. (Times of Israel

2014: “A rare monastic lead seal dating from the Crusader era has been positively identified, over a year after it was discovered at an archaeological site in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Bayit Vegan, the Israel Antiquities Authority said today. “ (As reported by Gavriel Fisk)

http://www.timesofisrael.com/crusader-era-monastic-seal-discovered-in-jerusalem/

2015: The First Division Museum at Cantigny is scheduled to host “Liberation: Looking Back 70 Years” that includes a conversation between Holocaust survivor and George Brent and Arthur Sheridan who was one of the first infantrymen to enter Dachau.

2015: “The militant group Hamas used last summer’s war with Israel in the Gaza Strip to carry out extrajudicial killings of at least 23 Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel and to torture dozens of others, including political rivals, Amnesty International charged in a report issued early today.” (As reported by Isabel Kershner and Jodi Rudoren)

2015: Following yesterday’s rocket attack from Gaza on southern Israel the Gan Yavne Council order bomb shelters to be opened and “unprotected schools in Ashdod are to remain closed today.”

2015: Pulitzer Prize winning author Herman Wouk who is living proof that you can be a success in America while still being an practicing Jew and a mensch of the first order turns one hundred today.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=herman+wouk+is+still+alive

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/apr/10/herman-wouk-lawgiver-simon-schuster

http://www.hermanwouk.com/

http://www.biography.com/people/herman-wouk-20631823#synopsis



2016: In Battle Creek, Michigan, the multi-dimensional Holocaust Remembrance exhibit that began in April is scheduled to come to an end today.

https://sites.google.com/a/lakeviewspartans.org/holocaust-remembrance/

2016: Barnes & Nobel is scheduled to host a presentation by Sarah Fader, “a reform Jew still searching for her Jewish identity” who is the author of Stigma Fighters Anthology.

2016: Today in Tel Aviv, “a Christian Arab-Israeli ballet dancer, 21 year old Ta’alin Abu Hanna, was named “Miss Trans Israel” at “Israel’s first-ever transgender beauty pageant.”

Read more: http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/341509/transgender-israeli-arab-wins-historic-tel-aviv-pageant/

2016: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a concert in “memory of Bracha Eden on the occasion of the 10^th anniversary of her death.”

2016: Today, Anthony Graziano of New Jersey “was convicted of terrorism for vandalizing and firebombing Jewish temples and a rabbi’s home, and is now facing a possible life sentence.”

2016: Herman Wouk whose latest work is Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author turns 101.

2017: In “Ruth Madoff” Living Quietly Inside the Glare” published today Robert Marchant described the life Ruth Madoff, the wife of Bernard Madoff has created for herself in the “high end community” of Greenwich, CT.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/msn/ruth-madoff-living-quietly-inside-the-glare/ar-BBBzBxV?ocid=spartandhp

2017(2^ndof Sivan, 5777): Parashat Bamidbar – begin the fourth book of the Torah.

2017: Friends, family, fans and all who love a “well told yarn” are scheduled to celebrate the 102^nd birthday of Herman Wouk.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/05/08/arguable-wouk-and-remembrance/6ZWcDE2qsq9GbhciyF9vEM/story.html

2017: “In the East Hampton hamlet of Springs, New York, the Leiber Collection is scheduled to welcome the public with an Opening Celebration Garden Celebration Garden Tea Party” where they can see “Magnificent Obsession: Fashion Passion and Collection” which “display highlights five Leiber collectors at the namesake gallery” Judith Leiber “shares with her husband’s paintings and prints.

2017: In at testament to the vitality to a small town Jewish community, friends and family are scheduled to gather to celebrate the graduation of Jessica Herrin.

2018(13^thof Sivan, 5778): Eighty-one year old lesbian activist Connie Kurtz passed away today. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/obituaries/connie-kurtz-gay-rights-leader-dies-at-81.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

2018: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest Jewish readers including The Optimistic Decade by Heather Abel.

2018: Shiva begins for “twenty year old Sergeant Ronen Luvarski, a resident of Rehovot who died yesterday after having suffered a severe head injury when an Arab terrorist threw a marble block at his head.

2018: UK Jewish Film is scheduled to host a screening of “Scaffolding” directed by Matan Yair.

2018: At part of the “Home: Lens on Israel” series, the Temple Emanuel Streicker Center is scheduled to open the photographic exhibition “Bedouin and Arab Israeli Communities in the Negev.”

2018: In Des Moines, Rabbi Emily Barton and Harlan Jacobs are scheduled to lead a discussion following a screening of “Bal Ej: The Hidden Jews of Ethiopia.”

2018: In New Orleans the curtain is scheduled to come down on the final performance of “An Act of God.” (As reported by Crescent City Jewish News, the source for everything Jewish in Cajun Country)

2018: Herman Wouk turns 103 having outlived the number superlatives that can be applied to a man who proved you can be a great author and mensch!

https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/herman-wouk/201831/

https://www.biography.com/people/herman-wouk-20631823

2019: In Canada, the Edmonton Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Leona,” a story about young Jewish from Mexico City.

2019: In Atlanta, the Breman Museum is scheduled to “remember and honor those who died in active military servicing including Aaron Dreizin who died along with the rest of the crew of his B-17 during WW II.

2019: “The Comedy for Koby” tour is scheduled to open today in Haifa.

2019(22^ndof Iyar, 5779): Sixty year old Pulitzer Prize winning author the son of Dr. Norman Horwitz, a neurosurgeon, and Elinor (Lander) Horwitz, a writer and the husband of Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Geraldine Brooks passed away today.

https://tonyhorwitz.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/obituaries/tony-horwitz-dead.html

2019 (22^nd of Iyar, 5779): Ninety-three year old WW II Army veteran and Yale University graduate Roger Overholt Hirson a prominent writer for live television in the 1950s and ’60s who collaborated with the composer Stephen Schwartz on the hit Broadway musical “Pippin” passed away today.(As reported by Richard Sandomir)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/obituaries/roger-hirson-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

2019: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Outdoors,” named the “Best Screenplay of the Haifa International Film Festival”

2019: Memorial Day observed as Americans remember those who made the supreme sacrifice for the United States and her citizens.

https://kaplancenter.org/memorial-day-and-united-jewish-people

http://forward.com/news/135331/profiles-of-our-fallen/#ixzz1DeAMPaIh

http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/07/18/jews-in-the-military/

2019: The birth of Herman Wouk is celebrated for the first time in over a century with the author not present.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/obituaries/herman-wouk-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

2020: Rabbi Moshe Bryski and Cantor Aryeh Leib Hurwitz are scheduled to officiate at the Chabad

Pre-Shavuot Yizkor Program.

2020: Live on Zoom, YIVO is scheduled to present “Yiddish in Israel: A History” during which Rachel Rojanski in conversation with Rachel Brenner, Shachar Pinsker, and Sunny Yudkoff discuss Yiddish in Israel: A History.

2020: Rabbi Ariel Root Wolpe, founder of Ma’alot, a Jewish outreach organization in Atlanta, is scheduled to talk, virtually about the relationship between prophecy and singing and leads a niggun

2020: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a live pre-Shavuot reading of the Book of Ruth over Zoom which will largely be done by women.

2020: The Vilna Shul is scheduled to host “Milk and Honey: A Shavuot Cheese-Making Workshop” you can participate in “from your house.”

2020: In Cedar Rapids, IA, three days after she had passed a memorial service is scheduled to held this morning for ninety-one year old Bertie Schneider at the Temple Judah Silber Outdoor Sanctuary where social distancing will be observed.

2020: Thanks to an order signed by Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, restaurants and bars are scheduled to open today in Israel.

2020: One hundred and fifth anniversary of the birth of Herman Wouk whose names and works you should know and if you don’t, today would be a good day to begin.

https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/05/26/herman-wouk-and-the-jew-in-the-public-square/?utm_content=blog1&utm_medium=daily_email&utm_campaign=email&utm_source=internal/

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408: Emperor Theodosius issued a decree restricting Jewish activities related to Purim.  Specifically he banned the burning of Haman’s effigy because early Christians felt the Jews were mocking the Crucifixion of Jesus

1247: “Pope Innocent IV wrote to the archbishop of the French province of Vienne to protest Christian excesses in dealing with Jews accused of the blood libel.”  Innocent share the anti-Semitic views of his contemporaries but had reservations about the severity of the physical assaults on the Jews. (As reported by Abraham Bloch)

1291: Crusader control over the Holy Land appeared to come to an end when Henry II “the last ruling King of Jerusalem” fled to Cyprus after Acre fell to Al-Ashraf Khalil “the 8^th Mamluk sultan of Egypt.”

1349: Sixty Jews were murdered in Breslau, Silesia in riots which followed a disastrous fire which had destroyed part of the city.

1357: King Alfonso IV whose subjects included more than 200,000 Jews and whose reign was part of “Portugal’s Golden Age of Discovery” in which Jews paid a major role passed away today.

1501: In Pilsen, the councilors together with the aldermen decided on matters concerning those Jews living in the city. These matters included: interest rates, the loan of clothes, not loaning money on yarn and bed linen, not selling certain types of clothing, overdue pledges, stolen items, not to wash themselves in gentiles' baths, not to buy clerical items, not to house foreign Jews without the permission of the city mayor, that foreign Jews can stay in the city for a maximum of three days, and not to melt coins. The following interest rates were agreed: two deniers per schock per week, one denier per half schock, and 20 coppers or less for one heller (As reported by Rabbi Professor Dr. Max HOch

1524: Birthdate of Selim II, the Ottoman Sultan who named Joseph Nassi as Duke of Naxos. Nassi negotiated the treaty signed by Selim and Charles IX of France.  Selim settled several hundred of Jewish families on the Cyprus after the Ottomans took control of the island.  He saw the Jews as being loyal subjects who had the necessary business skills to develop this newly acquired possession.

1588: The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. The Armada has a two-fold purpose – the defeat of the Dutch and the conquest of England.  A Spanish victory would doom the Jews who had taken refuge in Holland.  The critical question for the English was when the Armada was leaving and when it was to reach the Channel.  Marranos or Conversos reportedly supplied this desperately needed information which helped secure the ultimate English victory.

1731: All Hebrew books in the Papal States were confiscated.

1754(7^thof Sivan, 5514): Second Day of Shavuot observed on the same day as George Washington led British forces against French Canadians at the Battle of Jumonville Glen which marked the opening of the French and Indian War.

1760: Solomon Barnet Gompertz and Martha Hyman were married today in the United Kingdom

1764: Jews of Frankfort on the Main, Germany, were permitted for the first time to appear in public at the coronation of Joseph II.

1765: Benjamin D’Israeli, married his second wife Sarah Siprut de Gabay Villareal, making them the parents of Issac Di’Israeli and the grandparents of the British Prime Minister Benjamin D’Israeli, the future Earl of Beaconsfield.

1769: Today’s consecration of Pope Clement XIV was viewed as positive moment by Jewish people since prior to his elevation to the Papacy he had decried the notion of the blood libel.

1773(6^thof Sivan, 5633): Shavuot

1773: The first Jewish sermon preached and published in America was delivered by Rabbi Hayyim Isaac Carigal in the Newport Synagogue.

1777: In Montreal, Ezekiel Solomon and Marie Elizabeth Louise Dubois gave birth to William Solomon.

1781(4^thof Sivan, 5541): Moses Mordecai, the German born American merchant who was one the signatories of the Non-Importation Resolutions of 1765 (one of the steps to the American Revolution) whose wife Esther, in a move unusual for its time, had converted to Judaism from Christianity, passed away today in Philadelphia, PA.

1783: Birthdate of Harriet Salomons, the native of Clapton, London who moved to Sydney where she passed away I 1862.

1788: Sarah Mendes da Costa married Jacob da Fonseca Brandon

1792(7^thof Sivan, 5552): Second Day of Shavuot and Yizkor

1797: Michael Oppenheim married Kitty Joseph at the Great Synagogue in London.

1815: William Levin married Franny Joseph at the Great Synagogue in London.

1818: Former president Thomas Jefferson set forth in a letter to a Jewish journalist his opinion of religious intolerance: 'Your sect by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every sect, disclaimed by all while feeble and practiced by all when in power. Our laws have applied the only antidote to this vice, protecting our religions, as they do our civil rights, by putting all on equal footing. But more remains to be done.'

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/loc/madison.html

1820: Sixty-eight year old Christian Wilhelm von Dohn, the Christian friend of Moses Mendelssohn, who was a supporter of Jewish emancipation and author of On the Civil Improvement of the Jews passed away today.

1823: John and Esther Nathan were married today at the New Synagogue in London.

1827: Birthdate of Gustav Gottheil, the Prussian born Rabbi, who come to New York City where he become one of the leaders of the Reform Movement.  Gottheil was a bit of a maverick since he attended the First Zionist Congress and supported Herzl. 

1831: Jesuit Priest and social reformer Henri Grégoire “who was considered a friend of the Jews” passed away today. “He argued that in his anti-Semitic society the supposed degeneracy of Jews was not inherent, but rather a result of their circumstances. He blamed the way the Jews had been treated, persecution by Christians, and the "ridiculous" teachings of their rabbis, for their condition, and believed they could be brought into mainstream society and made citizens.”

1844: Adam Bernard Mickiewicz, the Polish nationalist who would later try and form a Jewish military unit called the Hussars of Israel to fight against the Czar, gave his last lecture as a professor of Slavic languages and literature at the Collège de France.

1848: Birthdate of London native Morris, the graduate of Jews’ College who served as the rabbi at the North London Synagogue, the Old Hebrew Congregation of Liverpool and finally the West London Synagogue.

https://rabbisylviarothschild.com/tag/rabbi-morris-joseph/

https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/european-judaism/48/1/ej480104.xml

1850: Maurice Moses Beddington, the “son of Esther and Henry Moses” and his wife Hannah gave birth to Esther Hannah Beddington who became Esther Hannah Samuel after she married Henry Sylvester Samuel with whom she had four children – Marguerite, Edith, Hilda and Evelyn.

1855: Selig Cassel who was the brother of Rabbi David Cassel, was baptized as a member of Evangelical Church in Prussia today in the St. Peter's Church receiving the name "Paulus Stephanus" became known as Paulus Stephanus Cassel.

1857(5^thof Sivan, 5617): Erev Shavuot observed “as mutiny of sepoys of British East India Company’s army continued for an 18^th day.

1855: Twenty-three year old Marseilles born Aristide Felix Cohen, the brother of composer Jules Cohen, “was made auditor of the Conseil d’Etat today.”

1858: In Wisconsin Jewish immigrants “John and Mary (Perles) Black gave birth to Lizzie Black Kander, author of “The Settlement Cookbook.” “Like many middle-class Jewish women of her time, she was deeply involved in Progressive Era reform movements that sought to aid and Americanize immigrants. Kander first became involved in local reform efforts in 1878, when she joined Milwaukee's Ladies Relief Sewing Society. Under Kander's leadership, the Society evolved into the Milwaukee Jewish Mission. It was as president of "the Settlement," Milwaukee's first settlement house, a multi-purpose reform organization modeled on Jane Adams’s Hull House, that Kander made her most lasting contribution. Among the Settlement's programs was a series of cooking classes for immigrants. In 1901, Kander asked the Settlement's board for $18 to print a small booklet of recipes for her students. When the board refused, she raised money from the local business community and produced the first edition of The Settlement Cookbook, which combined her recipes with instructions on cleanliness and food storage and general housekeeping tips. The first edition of the Cookbook was published on April 30, 1901. By 2004, “The Settlement Cookbook,” still in print, had gone through 40 editions and sold over 1.5 million copies, making it the most successful American Jewish charity cookbook of all time. The royalties from the cookbook, which reached $50,000 by 1925, were used to support the activities of the Settlement, including hygiene classes, free baths, and sewing and English instruction. These activities reflected the dual aims of many progressive-era reform projects: to help immigrants integrate into American culture both through practical instruction in English and by introducing them to American norms of cleanliness and nutrition that were considered superior to immigrant culture. While sometimes patronizing and ethnocentric, these efforts helped many immigrant families to survive their first years in a new country when jobs and money were often in short supply. Cookbook sales paid for the construction of the Abraham Lincoln Settlement House in 1910 and the Jewish Community Center of Milwaukee in 1931. Kander's community involvement stretched beyond the Settlement. During World War I, she headed Milwaukee's Food Conservation Council, teaching immigrants how to conserve food. During the Great Depression, she established one of the first food exchanges in the country, employing women to cook large quantities of food that were then sold at a low price. She also wrote a regular cooking column for the Milwaukee Journal. From 1909 to 1919, she served on the Milwaukee school board, helping to establish the Girls Technical High School to provide vocational training to young women. In 1939, Wisconsin honored her as one of the state's outstanding women. Kander died on July 24, 1940

1860(7^thof Sivan, 5620): Second Day of Shavuot is observed 10 days after the Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln for President who unlike later iterations of his party supported binding up the nation’s wounds while opposing armed insurrection.

1861: The 11^thRegiment of the New York State Militia commanded by Colonel Joachim Maidhof left New York on its way to be mustered into the Union Army.

1861: Philadelphian Henry Jacques began serving as a Second Lieutenant with Company G of the 26^th Regiment.

1862: The Will of Commodore Uriah P. Levy was presented to the Surrogate today for probate. It includes the following provisions:

Mrs. Levy receives only her right of dower and all the household furniture, plate, &c., so long as she shall remain unmarried, excepting what is otherwise bequeathed to revert upon her death or marriage. Capt. Levy's nephew, Ashel S. Levy, receives the Washington farm, in Albemarle, Va., with all the negro slaves, &c., and $5,000 in cash; also, his gold box with the freedom of the City of New-York. He leaves to his brother, Joseph M. Levy, $1,000 in cash, and mortgage on his house in Baltimore; to his brother, Isaac Levy, $1,000, and all debts due him on notes; to Mitchell M. Levy, son of his brother, Joseph P. Levy, $1,000 in cash; to Eliza Hendricks, of Cincinnati, Ohio, the income of $1,000; to his nephew, Morton Phillips, of New-Orleans, his gold hunting-watch and $500; to Col. T. Moses, of South Carolina, a large silver urn, formerly belonging to Dr. Phillips, on which is to be engraved, "From Capt. Uriah P. Levy, United States Navy, to his kinsman, Col. Franklin Moses, State Senator of the State of South Carolina, as a testimony of my affection." There are also legacies of $100 each to Capt. John B. Montgomery, Capt. Lawrence Kearney and Capt. Francis Gregory, United States Navy, and Benjamin F. Butler, to purchase mourning rings. To Lieuts. Peter Turner and John Moffatt United States Navy, and Dr. J. Cohen and Jacob J. Cohen, Jr., Col. M. Cohen. United States Navy: Lieut. Lanier, Capt. William Mervine and Commodore Thomas Ap C. Jones, each $25, to purchase mourning rings. The will directs the executors to erect a monument at Cypress Hills, to consist of a full length statue of Capt. Levy, in iron or bronze, in the full uniform of a Captain of the United States Navy, and holding in his hand a scroll on which shall be inscribed: "Under this Monument," or, "In Memory of Uriah P. Levy, Captain in the United States Navy, Father of the Law for the Abolition of the Barbarous Practice of Corporeal Punishment in the Navy of the United States." The monument is to cost $6,000, and the body is to be buried under it. To the Historical Society are bequeathed three paintings -- "The Wreck of the Medusa Frigate," by Gericault; "The Descent of the Infant Jesus," and "Virgin Confessing the Bishop of Rouen," and a Rural Scene, by Carl Bonner. He then bequeaths his farm and estate at Monticello, Virginia, formerly belonging to President Thomas Jefferson, with all the residue of his estate, "to the people of the United States," or such persons as Congress shall appoint to receive it; and especially all his real estate in the City of New-York, in trust, for the sole and only purpose of establishing and maintaining at the farm in Monticello, Virginia, an agricultural school for the purpose of educating as practical farmers children of the Warrant-office of the United States navy whose fathers are dead. "The children to be supported by this fund from the ages of 12 to 16." For fuel and fencing said farm-school the will bequeaths two hundred acres of woodland of his Washington farm, Virginia. The will especially requires that no professorships be established in said school, and no professors employed, the school being intended for charity, and not for pomp. In case Congress refuses to carry out the intention of this bequest, the property is bequeathed to the people of Virginia for the same purpose; and in case the Legislature of Virginia declines to receive the trust, the property is to go to the Portuguese Hebrew congregation in this City, and the old Portuguese Hebrew congregation in Cherry-street, Philadelphia, and the Portuguese Hebrew congregation of Richmond, Va., for the establishment of the said school at Monticello, for the children of all denominations, Hebrew and Christian. Should this fund be more than sufficient for the support of children of warrant officers of the navy, the children of sergeant-majors of the United States army are to be included in the benefit -- the balance to be for the benefit of children of seamen. He further bequeaths $1,000 to the Portuguese Hebrew Hospital of this City.

1863: Birthdate of Leo Paul Oppenheim, the native of Berlin who became a leading German naturalist.

1864: Sir Saul Samuel and his wife Henrietta gave birth to their third child “Henri Saul, a major in the army pay department and the husband of the former Eva Fulton with whom they raised one child “Gerald Glen.

1866: In New York, Raphael Peixotto and his wife gave birth to Sidney Peixotto who has spent almost his entire life in San Francisco, where he has served as a major in the California National Guard and the founder and leader of The Columbia Park Boys' Club.

1866: In San Francisco, Lewis and Hannah Gerstle gave birth to Harvard trained lawyer and WW I veteran “Marcus ‘Mark’ Lewis Gerstle, the father of Mark Lewis Gertsle Jr.

https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb4j49n9wb&brand=oac4&doc.view=entire_text

1876(5th of Sivan, 5636): Erev Shavuot observed for the last time during the Presidency of U.S. Grant

1877: According to the Gossip From London Column published today "All London flocked to sit spellbound at the feet of the Russian Jew Rubenstein while he played his own works on the piano at the Crystal Palace."

1877: “The Gossip from London” column published today reported on the success of a twenty year old English Jewish composer named Solomon. Earlier in the month, he was greeted with a round of applause when he entered the Orchestra at the Folly Theatre based in part on his work "The Contempt of Court".  According to the critic, "if Solomon had been a German Jew instead of an English child of Israel the critics would have gushed over the promise exhibited by so young a man.” [Editor’s note – “Solomon” probably refers to Edward “Teddy” Solomon whose first work was “A Will With a Vengeance,” a musical comedy that appeared in 1876.  His highly successful career came to a sudden end when he died at the age of 39.]



1877: The Board of Delegates of the American Israelites met in New York City today. One of the topics was the upcoming meeting of the International Conference of Israelites which is going to be held in December at Paris where they will be seeking ways to improve the conditions the Jews living in the European provinces of the Ottoman Empire..



1877: A critique published today of the June edition of The Catholic World  reported that the magazine continues to demonstrate Catholicism’s fascination with Judaism, or more properly the passionate desire to convert Jews to the Church of Rome as can be seen from a feature article entitled “The Present State of Judaism in America.”  According to the article “The number of conversions from Protestantism to the holy Roman Catholic Church, here and in Great Britain is continually on the increase.  But nothing is more rare than the conversion of a Jew. They are rapidly parting with their own faith, but very seldom do they embrace any form of Christianity in its stead. In a few years the great majority of Jews in the United States will probably have ceased to be Jews save in name only.  But all how many of them will become Catholic?  All roads lead to Rome but very few Jews have made the journey.”  The article concludes that eventually all of the Jews will “come into the fold.”  In order to help those who want to convert Jews, the magazine provides an estimate of the number of Jews in the United States, their wealth and “relative distribution throughout” the country.





1878: The annual meeting of the United Hebrew Charities of the City of New-York was held this evening at their head-quarters, in St. Mark's-place. The various charitable institutions were fully represented by male and female delegates. During his report, Henry Rice, the President, laid special stress on the evils of slum life. 

1879:  A jury in the Union County Court at Elizabeth, NJ, had failed to reach a verdict in the case brought against Henry M. Levy.  Levy had been charged with selling cigars on Sunday.  Levy admitted that he sold the cigars on Sunday but said that since he was Jewish he did not feel bound to observe Sunday as the Sabbath.  Furthermore, as a Jew, he did not sell goods on Saturday and kept his store closed.  The Prosecution contended that Levy had to obey the Sunday closing law because he had sworn to obey all laws when he took the oath of citizenship.

1879(6^thof Sivan, 5639): Shavuot

1879: In Posen which at the time was part of Germany, Pauline and Isidor Sommerfeld gave birth to their “youngest son” Felix A. Sommerfeld, an engineer, “soldier of fortune” and agent of the Kaiser working for different sides during the turbulent times in Mexico prior to and during WW I.  (Editor’s note: If you did not know that Sommerfeld was a real purpose, you would be sure that he had been invented by some very creative fiction author.

1879: Philadelphia native Florence Liveright, the daughter of Abraham and Rebeccah Kan and Simon Liveright gave birth to Ben K. Liveright

1880:The Jewish Messenger reported that Congregation Orach Chaim "...is quietly extending its influence and securing the objective for which it was organized - not the formation of a large congregation and the building of a handsome synagogue, but the daily study and practice of the Law."  Officials of the Congregation include Lazarus Herzberg, first spiritual leader; Seligman Dannenberg, chazzan; Abraham Nussbaum, first president.

1880(18^thof Sivan, 5640): Seventy-two year old Mortiz Rappaport who earned his medical degree in 1832 and wrote “Moses” an epic poem that appeared in 1842 passed away today.

1881: In Amsterdam, Isaac Jacob Gans, “the son of Jacob and Rececca Mozes Gans” and his wife Gogeltje Dooseman gave birth to Bethe “Isaac” Gans

1884: In New York, “American investment banker Samuel Sachs” and Louisa Goldman gave birth to Walter Edward Sachs, a partner at Goldman-Sachs and the husband of Mary Williamson from 1939 to 1960.

http://www.worldcat.org/title/reminiscences-of-walter-edward-sachs-oral-history-1956/oclc/309726536

1886: One of two possible birthdates for Solomon Zeitlin, the Russian born American history who taught at Dropsie College and who works included The Rise and Fall of the Judean State.

1890: A representative of the Jewish congregation of Rondout is at Wurtsborough, NY is waiting to take possession of the body of Samuel Hutch the Jewish peddler whose cause of death is being determined at inquest being conducted by Coroner Joseph Rosesh.

1890: Birthdate of Isaac Pacht, the native of Millie, Austria who graduated from Brooklyn Law School and moved to California where he became a jurist and advocate for prison reform.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/pacht-isaac

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/24/obituaries/isaac-pacht-prison-reformer-and-former-california-judge.html

1891: Birthdate of New York native Dr. Morris Mortimer Bamowitch the internist who did his post graduate work at the University of Vienna and who began practicing medicine in 1914 and who by 1934 had his offices at 780 St. Marks Avenue.

1892: In Cincinnati, Lena Bardenstein  Levand gave birth to Max Levand, the husband of Lillian Eppstein Leavand with whom he had three sons – Elliot, Jack and Marvin – who went from being a newspaper boy in Denver to being president and general manager of The Beacon Newspaper Corporation which produced the Wichita (KS) Beacon.

















1892: It was reported today that the prohibition against the entry of Russian Jews into Germany has been withdrawn.

1893: Professor Felix Adler delivered a speech to the Russian American Hebrew Association in front of a packed house at the Hebrew Institute on East Broadway and Jefferson.

1893: “New Parties In German” published today described the rise of new political formations as the Centerists fracture. Among them is the German Reform Party, led Herr Simmerman the anti-Semite who used to sit in the Reichtsag. Zimmerman has been “wildly cheered”  “at mass meetings held in Dresden” and other population centers.

1895: Birthdate of Brooklynite Robert Kates, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants who served in Palestine during WW I with the Jewish Legion or the 38^thRoyal Fusiliers who lived in Montreal after the war.

1897: Birthdate of Romania native Edith Jacobs who became Edith Mandel when she married Abraham Mandel.

1897: In Auckland, NZ, “Henry and Ethelred Frances Bolitho” gave birth to Hector Bolitho, the author of Beside Galilee: A First-hand Survey of Zionism and Modern Palestine published in 1933.

1898(7^thof Sivan, 5658): Second day of Shavuot

1898: Volume one of A Dictionary of the Bible edited by James Hastings with the assistance of Professors of Hebrew at Oxford and Cambridge has just been issued by Scribners and Sons.

1898: Approximately 500 people attended the confirmation services at the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum this afternoon.

1898: Birthdate of Saul Lieberman the native of Motal, the Israeli Talmudist “known as Rabbi Shaul Lieberman or, among some of his students, The Gra"sh (Gaon Rabbeinu Shaul.”

1898: “Hebrew Union Veterans” published today

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9500E3DC1738E433A2575BC2A9639C94699ED7CF

1899:Anti-Semitic riots began in Jassy, Romania

1899(19^thof Sivan, 5659): Hungarian tailor and immigrant to America Herman Lichtner became despondent today while returning to Europe on the SS Cymric and jumped overboard leaving behind his little daughter to fend for herself.

1899: The exercises marking the closing of the religious school at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun took on a patriotic air when they were combined with a reception for the Hebrew Union Veteran’s Association which was part of the upcoming observance of Decoration Day.

1899: As American’s prepare to celebrate Decoration Day, Assistant District Attorney Maurice B. Blumenthal was the main speakers at the memorial services held tonight by the Independent Order of the Free Sons of Israel at Congregation Rodoph Sholom.

1899: “Harsh Treatment of Jews” published today described the renewed complaints made by Germany concerning the unreasonable treatment of German Jews who need to go to Russia for business or cultural reasons. For example, “the well-known Berlin impresario Wolff, who is a German-Jew” organized the current tour of the Berlin Philharmonic in Russia.  Wolff found the impediments place in his path by the Russian government to be so onerous that he did not accompany the orchestra, but sent one of his Christian assistants in his place.

1900: It was reported today that almost 3,000 people most of whom were Jews were recently witnessed “the impressive ceremonies attending the laying of the cornerstone of the new Beth Israel Hospital at Jefferson and Cherry Streets.”

1901: A provisional Executive Committee was named at meeting this evening chaired by Dr. Isadore Singer which will help to work for the established of “a Jewish University” in New York City which “which will be on a higher plane than either the Hebrew Union college or the Jewish Theological Seminary.

1902: In Detroit, “Cyrus Sulzberger of New York painted such a vivid word picture of the ghetto in New York before the National Conference of Jewish Charities today that when he finished his appeal for aid in removing the poor Jews from the Ghettos to the country districts there was scarcely a dry eye among those present in Temple Beth-El.”

1903: Birthdate of Bisbee, AZ native and booking agent turned movie producer Leonard Goldstein whose memorable movies included sever of the “Ma and Pa Kettle” series and the “Francis the Talking Mule” comedies.

1903: Birthdate of Berlin native Walter Goehr “the composer and conductor” who “studied with Arnold Schoenberg” and found refuge in Great Britain after the Nazis came to power.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/454981-Walter-Goehr

http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Goehr-Walter.htm

1904(14^thof Sivan, 5664): Parashat Nasso

1904: Funeral arrangements have not been made for 44 year old Henry Hendricks who dropped dead yesterday.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0614FC345E12738DDDA10A94DD405B848CF1D3

1904: This morning, at the conclusion of services at the Great Synagogue in Sydney, “a number of ladies and gentlemen assembled in the schoolroom to witness a presentation to Mr. Shefton Louis Cohen of an engraved “silver backed brush as measure of appreciation for his work with the Sydney Jewish Sabbath School’ prior to his sailing for England.

1905: Soldiers fired on a crowd in the neighborhood of a synagogue killing two Jews at Lodz.

1907: Birthdate of New York City native and NYU trained attorney Lilia H. Axinn.

1909: Hahambashi Haim Nahoum of Turkey meets with Prime Minister and Interior Minister of Turkey to discuss the practice of limiting the residence of foreign Jews to three months.

1910: In Chicago Rose Alice Alschuler, the daughter of Charles and Mary Haas and Alfred Samuel Alschuler, Sr. gave birth to Francis Gudeman

1912: Agudath Israel was formed as the world organization of Orthodox Jewry at Katowitz. Jacob Rosenheim was its first president.

1913: The Georgianreported that E.F. Holloway, the plant day watchman, believed Jim Conley had strangled Mary Phagan when he was drunk. This should have gone a long way towards exonerating Leo Frank.

1913: The Independent Order of B’rith Abraham which had been organized in 1887 ended its 26^th Annual Convention today in New York City

1913: “Rabbi Hyamson, the Dayan of the United Synagogue in London” is scheduled to “deliver a lecture on ‘A Comparison of Hebrew Law’” today at the Dropsie College in Philadelphia.

1913: In Pennsylvania, dedication ceremonies begin for the Philmont Country Club.

1915: Joseph “Joe, the Greaser” Rosenzweig, the first of the east side gang leaders known as “starkers’ “to furnish hired thugs to the unions” “appeared before Justice Shearn in the Criminal Term of the Supreme Court and pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the first degree.

1915: A “telegram directed to the State Prison Commission was received in the Governor’s office late this afternoon from United States Senator John W. Kearn of Indiana, which began “I have followed proceedings in the Leo Frank case step by step with great and increasing interest and as a lawyer with forty years of experience I beg you to spare this man’s life.”

1915: Joseph S. Schwab, the Chairman of a New York committee supporting the commutation of the sentence of Leo M. Franks sent a telegram to President Wilson today which read “Will you add another laurel wreath to your fame as a broad-mined man by requesting the authorities of Georgia in your individual capacity to commute the sentence of Leo Frank, who it universally conceded, has not had a fair trial.”

1915:  Birthdate of linguist Joseph Harold Greenberg.

1916: The ninth annual convention of the Federation of Rumanian Jews of America continued for a second day in New York where attendees have heard an array of speakers including Dr. Julius Weiss, Dr. Henry Moskowitz, Congressman William s. Bennet, Judge Jacob S. Strahl, Albert Lucas, D.J. Hermalin and Samuel Goldstien.

1916: “Bernard Turkel, President of the Har Moriah Hospital…announced” today “at the meeting of the 13^th annual convention of the Federation of Galician and Bukowinean Jews of America that the hospital directors have decided to build a new hospital costing about $400,000” which will be located “south of Fourteenth Street and east of the Bowery.”

1916: The list of contributions to the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War published today included $350 from the Jewish Alliance of Ontario, Canada, $80 from the Sisters of Peace and $23 from the Relief Association of Sioux City, Iowa.

1916: “Solomon Schechter Home Appeals” published today described the solicitation for contributions by the managers of the Solomon Schechter Memorial Jewish Home for Convalescents located “at Grand View on the Hudson which was established by the Federation of Rumanian Jews in America.

1917(7^thof Sivan, 5677): Second Day of Shavuot

1917: Rabbi Rosenstein conducted the “Memorial Service” this morning at B’nai Yehoshua Temple.

1917: Rabbi Julius Newman conducted services this morning at Congregation Moses Montefiore.

1917: At the Manhattan Casino in New York City Benny Leonard won the World Lightweight Title with a TKO in the 9^th round.

1917: In Brooklyn, Goldie Yarmolinsky and Isidore Commoner, Jewish immigrants from Russia, gave birth to Barry Commoner, one of the founders of the ecology movement. (As reported by Daniel Lewis)

1917: In Manhattan Mark and Mariam Villchur gave birth to “Edgar M. Villchur, whose invention of a small loudspeaker that could produce deep, rich bass tones opened the high-fidelity music market in the 1950s to millions of everyday listeners…”  (As reported to Dennis Hevesi)

1917: In London, The Times published the responses of Lord Rothschild, Rabbi Joseph Hertz and Chaim Weizmann to a letter that had appeared in the Times on May 24 signed by Claude Montefiore and David Lindo Alexander in which they express their opposition to Zionism and the concepts that will be embodied in the Balfour Declaration. 

1917: Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky addressed “a mass meeting of Jewish workingman” at Clinton Hall who are in the process of choosing delegates to the Jewish Congress which is scheduled to meet this September in Washington, DC.

1917: “Great Britain, France Italy and the Catholic Church are in full sympathy with the Zionist plan for the establishment in Palestine of a publicly recognized, legally assured homeland for the Jewish people and are prepared to give this project their support and co-operation according to a statement issued” today “by the Provisional Committee for General Zionist Affairs” which had been approved by “Dr. Chaim Weitzman, President of the English Zionist Federation and Nahum Sokolow, a member of the Zionist Actions Committee.”

1917: In London, the Palestine Wine and Trading Co. received from its representative in Switzerland a “telegram from the Rishon-le-Zion colony that that reports of persecution of Jews are completely false” and that the government “gives every protection to our vine growers and has not molested any of the laborers engaged in the industry.” (Editor’s note: During WW I there was great concern about the well-being of the Jewish community in Palestine but this telegram seems to run counter the general picture painted of ill treatment at the hands of the Ottoman)

1918: During the Battle of Cantigny, one of the first major offensives involving the U.S. Army, Abraham Kauffman “refused to leave his gun after he had lost a finger” and continued to perform his duty until so severely wounded as to be unable to assist in serving” his weapon.

1918: Birthdate of Toronto native Louis Weingarten, who gained fame as Johnny Wayne, the “Wayne” in the comedy duo of “Wayne and Shuster.

1918: More than 2,000 attended “the final session of the three-day convention of the United States Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of B’rtih Abraham” where they heard New York Governor Whitman say that “the Jews deserved great praise for standing behind President Wilson” and “that the loyalty of American Jewry could never be questioned.”

1918: A meeting of “prominent Jews” at the Metropolis Club heard “Ittamar Ben Aizi, a native Palestine and the editor of the first daily paper ever published in Jerusalem” pay “a glowing tribute to the British Army for the conquest of Palestine” before declaring that “We are living again in Palestine just as Joshua lived.”

1919: In Vienna, Austria, Israel and Leah Heller gave birth Max Moses Heller the refugee from Hitler’s Europe and husband for sixty-nine years of the former Trude Schonthal who founded the Maxon Shirt Company and Mayor of Greenville, SC from 1971 to 1979 during which he courageously “desegregated all municipal departments and commissions.”

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/greenvilleonline/obituary.aspx?n=max-heller&pid=151892699&fhid=5447

1919: “Jewish workers laid down their tools at 2 o’clock” this “afternoon and Jewish storekeepers closed theirs shops as a protest against the pogroms in Poland, Romania and other countries” while 25,000 people including Jewish students from the University of Chicago marched to the Auditorium Theatre
“where a mass meeting was held.”

1920: The Jewish community in Constantinople published a letter to the former Hahambashi, Haim Nahoum Effendi who had stepped down from his post a few weeks prior. They declared his departure a calamity. They expressed regret at his departure and their gratitude for his past services, attributing to him the prestige which the community has acquired in the eyes of the Turkish government.

1920: “A special Memorial Service” was held this evening Sinai Temple of the Bronx where Civil War veteran Edward Boyer spoke on “Sacrifice and Service,” Spanish War veteran Maurice Simmons spoke on “The Jewish Soldier” and Rabbi Max Reichler spoke on “After-War Optimism” after which a special Kadidish was recited for four members of the congregation who had made the ultimate sacrifice – Jerome Heine, Erwin Lowenstern, Joseph Shops and Melvin Spitz.

1921(20^thof Iyar, 5681): Parashat Behar

1921(20^thof Iyar, 5681): One Hundred and one year old New Orleanean Elizabeth D.A. Cohen, the New York born daughter of David and Phoebe Cohen and the mother of Dr. Aaron Cohen, who became the first woman to practice medicine in Louisiana passed away today after which she was buried in the Gates of Prayer Cemetery.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/cohen-elizabeth-da

1922(1st of Sivan, 5682): Rosh Chodesh Sivan

1922: The Bnei Akiva youth movement was founded. The youth branch of the Mizrachi was originally established to train its members in agriculture and crafts. Its goal was the synthesis of Torah and Avodah (Torah and labor). Soon, the movement formed its own kibbutzim within the structure of "Kibbutz Hadati," the religious kibbutz movement.

1923: In Brooklyn, whole produce worker Meyer Schneiderman and his wife Bess gave birth to Irwin Schneiderman, “a self-described ‘kid from the Jewish Ghetto’” who became a highly successful attorney and philanthropist whose passions included the New York City Opera. (As reported by Douglas Martin)

1924: The cornerstone laying ceremonies for the new building to house the Chachmel Lublin Yeshiva came to an end.

1925(5^thof Sivan, 5685): In Camden, NJ, Beth El Congregation is scheduled to hold a Shavuot “Service at Sunset.”

1925: Birthdate of Lydia Csato Gasman, the native of Foccsani Romania who gained fame as a painter and scholar.

1926: The Burnside Bridge, a bridge that “spans the Willamette River in Portland, OR,” which incorporated a bascule lift mechanism designed by Joseph Strauss opened today.

1928: U.S. premiere of the German Film “Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis” with a script by Carl Mayer and Karl Freund.

1928: Birthdate of Alfred Gilbert Aronowitz, an American rock journalist best known for introducing Bob Dylan and The Beatles in 1964.

1929(18^thof Iyar, 5689): Lag B’Omer

1929: In Hartford, Connecticut, Thomas Birmingham and Editha Gardner Birmingham gave birth to Stephen Birmingham author of  Our Crowd’: The Great Jewish Families of New York, The Grandees: America’s Sephardic Elite and The Rest of Us: The Rise of America’s Eastern European Jews.

1930: Premiere of “À propos de Nice” a silent documentary depicting daily in the French city of Nice filmed by cinematographer Boris Kaufman.

1931: In Cracow, Poland, Ignac and Felicia Karp gave birth to their “only child” Celina Karp,“the youngest of the roughly 1,200 Jews” rescued by Oscar Schindler who became Celina Biniaz after marrying  dentist Amir Biniaz in 1953.

1931: Birthdate of actress Carroll Baker who converted to Judaism when she married Holocaust survivor Jack Garfein with whom she had two children – Blanche Baker and Herschel Garfein

1932: Birthdate of Brooklyn native and College of William and Mary graduate “Timesman” and author Arnold Lubasch. (As reported by Daniel Slotnik)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/10/business/media/arnold-lubasch-who-covered-crime-for-the-times-dies-at-83.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1932: The Licensed Trade News, the Birmingham based publication that “gives news from all over England about the brewing trade” reported today that former British Olympic weightlifter Edward Lawrence Levy who later went to work the brewer’s trade association had passed away.

1935: The Italian newspaper Popolo di Romapublished a report describing the funeral held aboard Italian ship Domenico for a Jewish cadet who had drowned while training at the Betar Naval Academy. The academy had been established at Civitavecchia, Italy in 1934 in an agreement worked out between Benito Mussolini and Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the leader of the Revisionist Zionist Movement.

1935(25th of Iyar, 5695): Sixty-eight year old Bella Mehrbach passed away in White Plains, NY.

1936(7th of Sivan, 5696): Second Day of Shavuot

1936(7th of Sivan, 5696): Bertha Pappenheim “an Austrian-Jewish feminist, a social pioneer, and the founder of the Jüdischer Frauenbund (League of Jewish Women) passed away.  http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freuds-patients-serial/201201/bertha-pappenheim-1859-1936

1936: Striking Arabs said they would send “a protest to the British Administration demanding its withdrawal from the Levant Fair” now being held in Tel Aviv.  The Palcor (news) Agency) reported that at least 48 people had died to date since the Arab uprising began in April.

1936: As of today it was reported that 24 Jews have been killed since the outbreak of the Arab Riots and another 110 have been wounded.

1936: Twenty-three year old British Constable Robert Bird, who “shot from ambush by an Arab” in the Old City of Jerusalem was among the five people murdered today.

1936: “The mandates commission of the League of Nations received” a letter from the Jewish Agency for Palestine appealing to the British Government “to make the Jewish national home immune from further attack” at the opening of its 29^thsession today in Geneva.

1937(18th of Sivan, 5697):Alfred Adler an Austrian medical doctor, psychologist and founder of the school of individual psychology passed away (As reported by Kendra Cherry)

http://psychology.about.com/od/profilesal/p/alfred-adler.htm

1937:  Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister. Chamberlain is remembered for Munich Agreement which immediately imperiled those Czech Jews who now came under Hitler’s sway and helped lead to World War II and the Shoah.  In the best tradition of “realistic British leaders” he was pro-Arab as can be seen when told a meeting of the Cabinet’s Palestine Committee that it was “of immense importance to have the Muslim world with us. If we must offend one side, let us offend the Jews rather than the Arabs.  This led to the adoption of policy designed to “ensure a permanent Arab majority and a permanent Jewish minority in Palestine.”

1938: In Frankfurt, caricatures of Jews drawn with insulting inscriptions on Jewish shop windows. Gangs threatened Jews to move out of Frankfurt.

1938: Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor was `laid

1938: Jewish businesses in Frankfurt, Germany, are boycotted.

1939: In reaction to the White Paper the Jewish Agency declares: "The need of the Jewish People for a Home was never more acute and its denial at this time is particularly sharp." The White Paper is denounced as illegal as it contradicts the terms of the Mandate, which can only be changed with the agreement of the Council of the League of Nations.

1939(10^thof Sivan, 5699): Russian native David Hayyim Bachrach whom came to the United States in 1889 and served as a rabbi in Trenton, NJ and Providence, RI, passed away today.

1939: The "Atrato", a ship under the command of the Haganah, is captured by the British navy, after having completed seven voyages during six months and bringing more than 2,400 illegal immigrants to Palestine.

1940: Birthdate of Steven Riskin, who as Shlomo Riskin founded the Lincoln Square Synagogue in 1964 and became the first chief rabbi of Erfat. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan had her bat mitzvah at the Lincoln Square Synagogue.

1940: Irving Berlin's musical "Louisiana Purchase" premiered in New York City.

1940: After three days of debate, Churchill’s War Cabinet decides to continue the war against Germany.  Churchill prevailed over formidable forces led by Foreign Minister Lord Halifax that sought to reach an accommodation with the Nazi regime.  Eventually Halifax would see the logic of   Churchill’s position and become a strong advocate of the war against Hitler.  If the debate had gone otherwise, for the Jews, there would have been even more finality to the Final Solution than was suffered with the loss of the Six Million.

1940: Realizing that the Lord Lloyd will not end his opposition to arming the Jews of Palestine so they can defend themselves, Churchill writes his Colonial Secretary urging him to meet with Weizmann to see what can be done to end the impasse. Churchill wanted to bring most of the British troops in Palestine back to England to face the expected cross-Channel invasion by the Nazis.  He realized that these British troops were often all that stood between the Jews and the forces of the Grand Mufti and Arab marauders who had a history of attacking the Jewish settlers. Churchill ends the letter by reminding Lord Lloyd of his continued opposition to the White Paper.

1941(2^ndof Sivan, 5701): Thirty-seven year old Dudley Joel, a member of a prominent and wealthy Anglo-Jewish family and Member of Parliament who “joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve” at the start of WW ii was killed today off the Cape Cornwall today when his ship was bombed by Nazi aircraft after which he was buried at the Wilesden Jewish Cemetery.

1942(12^thof Sivan, 5702): Sixty-five year old New York born glass maker Charles H. Harris “who opened his home” in Norwalk, CT “as a vacation farm for undernourished girls sent by social service departments of hospitals and welfare associations in New York” passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/05/29/85558322.pdf

1942: Birthdate of Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner, native of Des Moines, Iowa, who won the Nobel Prize Physiology and Medicine in 1997.

1943: Today, “Aaron Copland's ballet Rodeo was performed for the first time, with symphonic accompaniment by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops.”

1943: Today, for the first time in modern history the city of Tluste is “Jew Free” following yesterday’s murder of the 3,000 Jews lving in the town.

1944(6^thof Sivan, 5704): Last Shavuot of WW II

1944: At Berkenau, some Jews tried to revolt as they were marched to the gas chambers. They were machine-gunned to death.

1945(16^thof Sivan, 5705): Fifty-eight year old Alexander Warshawsky, the Cleveland born son of Jewish immigrants Ida and Ezekiel Warshawsky, who along with his brother Abel “attended the Cleveland School of Art and New York’s National Academy of Design” and moved to Europe before WW II when he returned to the United States where he settled in Los Angeles and raised his son Ivan with his wife Berthe.

http://www.askart.com/artist/Alexander_Warshawsky/26765/Alexander_Warshawsky.aspx

1945: In Quebec, Harry Cohen, “an immigrant from Lithuania who owned an auto parts business” and his wife gave birth to Stephen Philip Cohen, the “professor who secretly brokered peace talks between Arab and Israeli officials.” (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/world/middleeast/stephen-cohen-dead-mideast-negotiator.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1945: In a letter made public today “by Charles Schwager, a member of the administrative committee of the National Council of Organizations for Palestine” Governor Tom Dewey, the 1944 Republican candidate for President who was planning another run in 1948 declared that “the problems of the unfortunate, homeless and persecuted Jews of eastern Europe should be on the agenda of our international deliberation and their representatives should be invited to plead their cause.”

1946(27^thof Iyar, 5706): Sixty-eight year old Benjamin Joseph Altheimer, Sr. who enjoyed successful legal career in his native Pine Bluff, AR and Chicago , Illinois and established “the Ben J. Altheimer Foundation, which has provided funding for civic, legal, and agricultural endeavors” in Arkansas passed away today.

1946: “At the royal estate at Inchass, about 25 miles from Cairo, 26-year old King Farouk” hosted a first ever meeting of the rulers of seven Arab states where the agenda included: Reconciliation of the Hashimites and Saudis, an Anglo-Egyptian treat, the attitude of the big powers toward the Arabs, adequate representation of Arabs in the peace conference and the inevitable Palestine question, which meant putting to any attempt to settle one hundred thousand Jews in the country immediately.

1946(27^thof Iyar, 5706): Eighty-one year old NYU and Columbia trained industrial chemist Dr. Maximilian Toch, the New York born son of Moses and Caroline Levy Toch, the “president and chief chemist of Toch Brothers, Inc. and chairman of Standard Varnish Works “called America’s first camofleur” for his work in camouflaging the Panama Canal and developing the gray paint used to “hide” U.S. Navy ships who raised four daughters – Elain, Constance, Alma and Maxine – with his wife “the former Hermine E. Levy” passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/05/31/88366766.pdf

1947: At the Hotel Sheraton in Manhattan, “Dr. Mordecai Soltes, executive director of Yeshiva University presented Rabbi S. Felix Mendlesohn” the rabbi at Temple Beth Israel in Chicago, with “a scroll and recalled how he had started National Jewish Book Week in 1927” which led Rabbi Mendelsohn to decry “the apathy of the Jewish people toward Jewish Liberation

1948: Israeli forces captured the Arab village of Zar'in on Mt. Gilboa.

1948: (19^th of Iyar, 5708) The commander of the Jewish defense of Jerusalem, “Yitzhak Rabin went up to Mount Zion in Jerusalem, where he later wrote, ‘I witnessed a shattering scene.  A delegation was emerging from the Jewish Quarter bearing white flags.  I was horrified to learn that consisted of rabbis and other residents on their way to hear the Legion’s terms for their capitulation.  That same night, the Jewish Quarter surrendered to the Arab Legion.’”  The loss of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City meant that the spiritual heart of Jerusalem with the Western Walls and its many synagogues was now under Jordanian control.  This was the Arab Legion’s first victory in Jerusalem.  It would prove to be its last as the Jewish forces were able to strengthen their defenses around the rest of the city.  Esther Cailingold, a 22 year old English woman was one of the defenders who lost her life in the fight for the Old City. In a letter to her parents she wrote, “’We had a difficult fight.  I have tasted hell, but it has been worthwhile because I am convinced that in the end we will have a Jewish state…I have lived my life fully, and very sweet it has been to be in our land.’”. Under the U.N. Partition Resolution, Jerusalem was supposed to be under international control.  Instead the Jordanians invaded the city and held the eastern section for 19 years.  During that time they defaced the Jewish quarter and denied the Jews access to the area under their control.  The world community did nothing to remedy the situation.  Only with the Six Day War in 1967 were Jews able to have access to the entire City of David.

1948: With Jewish Quarter completely cut off, Mordechai Weingarten led a delegation that met with Abdulla el Tell, the commander of the Arab Legion that had illegally attacked Jerusalem to discuss surrender terms.  Under the terms of the surrender which Weingarten had no choice but accept “all men capable of bearing arms were made prisoners of war. When El-Tell saw how few Jewish fighters he had been confronting he told Moshe Russnak, the Haganah commander that “If I had kown you were so few would have come after with sticks, not guns.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Weingarten_and_el_Tell.JPG

1948: The Jewish Quarter suffered a scourge of looting after the departure of its Jewish residence.

1948: After the surrender of the Jewish Quarter today, “Esther Calingold and the other wounded were moved to the nearby Armenian School, just outside of the Jewish Quarter.”

1948: Israeli forces captured Zar’in on Mt. Gilboa

1948: Iraqi troops captured Ge’ulim

1948: At the U.N. Security Council, following the third or fourth Arab rejection of a cease fire, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Arthur Austin rejected the Arab position in most undiplomatic language.  He accused the Arabs of having only one goal – overwhelming the government of Israel by armed power.  “An existing government cannot be blotted out this way…We know this is a violation of the Charter…This is equivalent in its absurdity to a legend that these five armies are there to maintain peace and at the same time are conducting a bloody war.”

1949: Birthdate of television performer Sandy Helberg, the father of actor Simon Helberg

1950: In an attempt to promote peace in the region, the government of Israel proposes that certain religious sites in Jerusalem be placed under international control.  Everybody from the Arabs to the Catholic Church rejects the proposal.

1950: The plan of the three major western powers to tie shipment of arms to Israel and surrounding Arab states to pledges of non-aggression has met with mixed, mostly negative reactions from various Arab nations.  While the Egyptians have gone along with this tripartite declaration, the Iraqis, Lebanese and Syrians have all condemned the western-backed policy.

1951: The BBC Home Service broadcast the first episode of “Crazy People” a radio comedy program starring Peter Sellers.

1953: The West End premiere of “Guys and Dolls” “a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows” opened today at the London Coliseum”

1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that one Israeli soldier was killed and another wounded when Israeli units clashed with, and inflicted considerable losses on an armed Jordanian unit near Hebron. The Jordanians had previously crossed the armistice lines, but were forced to flee in the ensuing exchange of fire.

1954: Ninety-eight year old Poultney Bigelow, the American journalist who in the 1890’a described the persecution of non-Orthodox Russians but who portrayed “the Czar as a kindly man overruled by fierce and venal bureaucrats.

1955(7^thof Sivan, 5715): Second Day of Shavuot

1955: “Egyptian and Israeli forces exchanged heavy mortar fire for twenty minutes today across the demarcation in the Egyptian-held strip of Palestine.”

1957(27^thof Iyar, 5717): Fifty-nine year old Minsk native and Yale trained attorney Samuel H. Markle, the Connecticut regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, the husband of Bertha Markle and father of Lois Markle “collapsed and died of heart attack while at tending a session of the 105^th annual convention of District 1 of B’nai B’rith at the Concord Hotel.

1958: “The Proud Rebel” a movie set in post- Civil War America directed by Michael Curtiz, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. with music by Jerome Moross and featuring Eli Mintz as “Mr. Gorman” was released in the United States today.

1959(28^thof Iyar, 5719): Sixty year old Des Moines, IA, native and Yale University graduate Elliot E. Cohen, the founding editor of Commentary magazine passed away today.

https://www.jta.org/1959/06/01/archive/elliot-e-cohen-editor-of-commentary-dead-funeral-services-held

1959: Birthdate of Meg Wolitzer, author of The Wife. She followed in the footsteps of her mother Hilma Wolitzer “whose novels include Ending,In the Flesh, The Doctor's Daughter and Hearts

1962: Israel Bar-Yehuda replaced Yitzhak Ben-Aharon as Minister of Transportation

1962: Arthur Julian Andrew began serving as the Canadian Ambassador to Israel.

1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that in Washington, the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, claimed that the Egyptian Prime Minister, Naguib, was ready to "make a deal with Israel." (Ed note: Not for the first time and certainly not for the last time, Secretary Dulles "got it wrong, big time.")

1955: Herut and Maki factions presented no-confidence motions, in which the General Zionists, a coalition member, abstained — leading to Prime Minister Sharett’s resignation.

1958: “The Proud Rebel” an off-beat Western film directed by Michael Curtiz, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, Jr and with music by Jerome Moross was released today in the United States.

1959: In Brooklyn novelist Hilma (Liebman) Wolitzer and psychologist Morton Wolitzer gave birth to author and college writing instructor Meg Wolitzer.

1960: Birthdate of Gail Sheryl Asper, OC, OM “a director and corporate secretary of CanWest Global Communications Corp, president of the CanWest Global Foundation, and managing director and secretary of The Asper Foundation, the private charitable foundation spearheading the establishment of the $310 million Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the daughter of entrepreneur and philanthropist Izzy Asper, she attended Kelvin High School before receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1981 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1984 from the University of Manitoba. She was called to the Nova Scotia bar in 1985 and is a member of the Law Society of Manitoba. She articled with Halifax, Nova Scotia law firm of Cox Downie & Goodfellow in 1984 and was an Associate Lawyer in Halifax with Goldberg McDonald from 1985 to 1989. In 1989, she joined her father's firm, CanWest, as a corporate secretary and director. She has long been associated with arts and culture as a volunteer, performer, and fund-raiser. She is associated with the Liberal Party of Canada and endorsed Scott Brison's bid to become leader in 2006. Ms. Asper has received numerous community service and humanitarian awards and was the 2005 recipient of the Governor-General Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts. In 2007, she was awarded the Order of Manitoba. In 2008, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.”

1962: Arthur Julian Andrew began serving as Canada’s ambassador to Israel.

1963(5^thof Sivan, 5723): Erev Shavuot

1963(5^thof Sivan, 5723): Sixty-four year old HUC trained Rabbi Ernest R. Trattner, the Denver born “son of Louis and Rosa (Levy) Trattner” who began his career leading Temple Beth Israel in San Diego and who had been leading West Temple in Los Angeles since 1948 while raising three children – Elinor, Louise and Rosa Jean – with his wife the former Johanna Gronsky passed away today after which he was buried at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, CA

1963: U.S. premiere of “Hud” co-starring Paul Newman and Melvyn Douglas, co-produced by Irving Ravetch who also wrote the screenplay with music by Elmer Bernstein.

1964: Birthdate of Israeli born “Action painter” Rotem Reshef who in 1987 “was awarded a promising young artist scholarship from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.

1964: Palestine National Congress formed the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) in the eastern section Jerusalem.  The PLO charter called for the destruction of the state of Israel.  At the time of its founding, Arab countries controlled the West Bank and Gaza.  Yet no attempt was made to create a Palestinian state in these two areas.

1965: “Funeral services” are scheduled to “be held” in Brussels today for “former Belgian Chief Rabbi and former Chief Jewish Chaplain of the Belgian army Dr. Solomon Ullman.” (As reported by JTA)

1965: Birthdate of actor Alon Moni Aboutboul, the native of Kiryat Ata who “in 2000 won the ‘Film actor of the decade’ award at the Haifa International Film Festival.”

1966: In New South Wales, Australia, Gwen Ford and “Desmond Ford, a noted Seventh-day Adventist theologian gave birth to author Luke Ford, who converted to Judaism while living in Los Angeles.

1968(1^stof Sivan, 5728): Rosh Chodesh Sivan

1969: Katyusha rockets fired from Jordan bombard Jericho twice.

1969: “April’s Fools,” a romantic comedy directed by Stuart Rosenberg with a score by Marvin Hamlisch and featuring Harvey Korman as “Matt Benson” was released today in the United States.

1972: An apparent terrorist attack was foiled today when a Lebanese women in possession of weapons was apprehended in Rome.

1973: At the Broadway Theatre, final performance of “Henry IV” with David Hurst in the role of  ”Dr. Dionysius Genoni”

1974(7^thof Sivan, 5734): Second Day of Shavuot

1974: More than 30 Moscow Jews launched a one day hunger strike in solidarity with Alexander Feldman.

1974: Yitzhak Rabin announced the formation of a three party coalition government that will replace the government led by fellow Laborite, Golda Meir.  The new government represents a bit of a generational change in the Israeli power structure.  The new leaders are all younger than those they are replacing.  Rabin is 52.  Yigal  Allon, the new Foreign Minister is 55 and the new Defense Minister, Shimon Peres is 52.  Among the marquee names missing from the new collation are Moshe Dayan and Abbe Eban.

1976(28^thof Iyar, 5736): Yom Yersushalayim

1976(28^thof Iyar, 5736): Two police officers were killed today while attempting to defuse a terrorist bomb.

1976: On Friday night, an historic event happened in Madrid, Spain. Her Majesty, Queen Sofia, attended Friday Night Services at Madrid's only synagogue. It was a highly emotional event for many of the congregation that night since it was another Spanish monarch who expelled their ancestors some 500 years ago.

1977: Five people were injured when a bomb went off while they were riding on a bus in Jerusalem.

1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Cabinet embarked on a major political debate on the future of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. There were indications that unless Israel addresses itself to the question of the sovereignty of these territories, the U.S. will step in with its own ideas to get the negotiations for a Middle Eastern settlement moving again. In New York, the HIAS (Hebrew Immigrants Aid Society) rejected the Israeli request to stop helping the Soviet drop-outs in Vienna from going to other countries, instead of going, as they stated in the Soviet Union, that they intended to leave for Israel.

1979: Sixty year old Herbert S. Landsman, the New York born son of Nathan and Sara Landsman the  WW II U.S. Navy Commander and Ivy League educated executive vice president of Federated Department Stores who married Madeline Rollman Stricker after his first wife Claire Zimmerman passed away and raised four children – John, Herbert, Jr, Margaret and Julie –  passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/29/archives/herbert-landsman-stores-official-dies-held-a-key-position-in.html

1979(2^ndof Sivan, 5739): Seventy-five year old German born Berthold “Bert” Adler, “the son of Salomon and Julie Adler” and the husband of Ruth Adler passed away today in New York City.

1980: Menachem Begin replaced Ezer Weizman as Minister of Defense

1982(6^thof Sivan, 5742): Shavuot

1983: In “La Mort de Louise Weiss: Européenne et féministe” published today the French newspaper Le Monde reported the death of “French journalist and lifelong champion of European union and women’s rights, Louise Weiss” who had passed away two days ago.

1984: “One Day at a Time,” a unique sit-com starring Bonnie Franklin aired for the last time in prime t.v.

1984: George “Soros signed a contract between the Soros Foundation (New York) and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the founding document of the Soros Foundation Budapest.”

1985(8^thof Sivan, 5745): Seventy-six year old “Georges Devereux, a Hungarian-French ethnologist and psychoanalyst, often considered the founder of ethnopsychiatry” who converted to Catholicism in 1933 passed away today.

1986: Today, the U.S Court of Appeals upheld “the conviction of writer R. Foster Winans  for securities fraud which had consisted of him giving advance information about his influential Wall Street Journal column to two brokers, one of whom was Peter Brant, the Buffalo, NY native who was born Peter Bornstein, the second son “of Martin Bornstein, “a middle-class Jewish insurance salesman.”

1987: Daniel Barenboim is scheduled to conduct the IPO during one of several concerts celebrating the orchestra’s 50^th anniversary.

1988: For the first time HBO broadcast “Blood Money” co-starring Ellen Barkin as “Nadine Powers.”

1991: ABC broadcast the final episode of the hit sitcom “Thirtysomething” created by Edward Zwick and Marshal Herskovitz

1995(28^thof Iyar, 5755): Yom Yershualayim

1997(21st of Iyar, 5757): Ninety-two year old Dr. Kurt Adler, the son of Alfred Adler, passed away today. (As reported by Ford Burkhart)

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/31/nyregion/dr-kurt-alfred-adler-92-directed-therapeutic-institute.html

1998: According to “Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship,” which won the George Polk Award, prepared by Amy Goodman, “that documented Chevron Corporation's role in a confrontation between the Nigerian Army and villagers who had seized oil rigs and other equipment belonging to oil corporations” “the company provided helicopter transport to the Nigerian Navy and Mobile Police (MOPOL) to their Parabe oil platform, which had been occupied by villagers who accused the company of contaminating their land.”

1999: Today the REMORA II, a remote operated vehicle, took the first picture of the INS Dakar after the wreck was found four days ago. The submarine “rests on her keel, bow to the northwest. Her conning tower was snapped off and fallen over the side. The stern of the submarine, with the propellers and dive planes, broke off aft of the engine room and rests beside the main hull. Some small artifacts were recovered, including the boat's gyrocompass.”  But the pictures did not reveal the cause of the sinking. 2000: The New York Timesfeatured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback editions of “Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris” by Ian Kershaw and Village of a “Million Spirits: A Novel of the Treblinka Uprising” by Ian MacMillan harrowing account of the daily operations of the infamous Treblinka concentration camp in Poland, and the 1943 revolt by hundreds of Jewish prisoners.

2001(6th of Sivan, 5761): First Day Shavuot, 5761

2001(6^thof Sivan, 5761): Ninety-one year old Hyman Lazarus passed away after which he was buried at the New Tifereth Israel Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio.

2002: Mariane Pearl gave birth to Adam Daniel Pearl almost four months after his father and her husband Daniel Pearl was murdered by terrorist in Pakistan.

2003: The 19^th Israel Film Festival opens at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills. 

2003: “Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz”  “a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz” was performed for the first time at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco “as the start of SHN pre-Broadway tryouts.”

2004: Jewish businessman and community leader, Earle I. Mack was sworn-in as Ambassador to Finland

2005(19^thof Iyar, 5765): Seventy-nine year old Avner-Hair Shaki, a native of Safed who became a governmental leader in Israel passed away today.

2005: HBO broadcast the first episode of “Empire Falls” a movie adaptation of the novel of the same name co-starring Paul Newman.

2006(1st of Sivan, 5766): Rosh Chodesh Sivan  

2006: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback editions of What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building by Noah Feldman and 1962: The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era by Gary M. Pomeranz

2006: Pope Benedict XVI visited Auschwitz-Birkenau where he delivered a speech in Italian to Holocaust survivors and members of the Jewish community in Poland.

2006: Haaretz reports haredim rioted outside the Ashdod cemetery and stole the body of a baby girl from the cemetery’s tahara room to prevent DNA testing that would most likely implicate the baby’s parents in the baby’s death. DNA testing on a corpse is generally held to be permissible according to Jewish law. The baby’s parents brought the baby to a medical clinic seeking treatment for an infectious disease. The doctor prescribed antibiotics, but the parents apparently opted for homeopathic treatment instead. The baby died as a direct result of the infection.

2007: The last Monday in May is celebrated as Memorial Day. The federal holiday began in 1868 as a way to honor the Union Soldiers who had died in the Civil War. According to at least one source, over 7,000 soldiers served on both sides during the Civil War, with the bulk of them fighting on the side of the United States. (Rabbi Fred Davidow, who has a great deal more expertise on the subject than I do, can vividly describe the role of Jews in the Confederacy.)

2007: At New Haven, Benjamin Levin, son of David Levin, graduates from Yale!

2008: The Walter Reade Theatre in New York features a screening of “Late Marriage,” “ribald, dark and subversive comedy that pits tradition against modernity ribald, dark and subversive comedy that pits tradition against modernity ribald, dark and subversive comedy that pits tradition against modernity ribald, dark and subversive comedy that pits tradition against modernity ribald, dark and subversive comedy that pits tradition against modernity a ribald dark and subversive comedy that pits tradition against modernity” in a film featuring Zasa, a Tel Aviv bachelor and his Georgian born mother  and “Three Sisters,” a film that tells the tale of three Sephardic sisters born into an affluent Egyptian family in the 1940’s and who end their lives sharing a cramped apartment in Israel half a century later.

2008: Shachiv Shnaan, an Israeli-Druse political leader entered the Knesset today “following the resignation of Efraim Sneth.

2008: Laura Ellen Ziskin was among those who joined in today’s announcement of the creation of “Stand Up To Cancer.”

2008: Following further revelations about cash payments by a U.S. businessman to Ehud Olmert, coalition partner Ehud Barak called on the Prime Minister to resign or face the collapse of his government.

2008: In “Pressure Seen Mounting Against Kosher Meat Giant” published today, Debra Nussbaum Cohen described the hostile reaction of some observant Jews to the illegal activities of AgriProcessors.

http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/pressure-seen-mounting-against-kosher-meat-giant/

2008: During a goodwill visit to Israel that included a visit to the Western Wall, Dr J, Julius Erving, met with Shimon Peres at the presidential mansion.

2008:Associate Press writer Reem Khalifa reports Bahrain has named a Jewish woman as ambassador to US

Bahrain's king has appointed a woman believed to be the Arab world's first Jewish ambassador as the country's envoy to Washington. Lawmaker Houda Nonoo said she was proud to serve her country "first of all as a Bahraini," adding she was not chosen for the post because of her religion."It is a great honor to have been appointed as the first female ambassador to the United States of America and I am looking forward to meeting this new challenge," Nonoo told The Associated Press by telephone. The Wednesday decree issued by King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa and reported by the official Bahrain News Agency had not specified where Nonoo, a 43-year-old mother of two boys, would be posted. But her appointment to the U.S. ambassadorship was rumored for months. Bahrain — a pro-Western island nation with Sunni rulers and a Shiite majority — is a close U.S. ally and hosts the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet. It has about 50 Jewish citizens among a population of roughly half a million people. Nonoo has served as legislator in Bahrain's all-appointed 40-member Shura Council for three years. Nonoo replaced her cousin, who held the Shura Council seat for four years. A businesswoman who lives both in Bahrain and London, Nonoo also is the first Jewish woman to head a local rights organization, the Bahrain Human Rights Watch. Jews migrated to Bahrain in the 19th century, mostly from Iran and Iraq. Their numbers increased early in the 20th century but decreased after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, when many left for Israel, the U.S. and Europe. Jews keep a low profile in Bahrain, working mostly in banks, commercial and trade companies and retail. There is also a synagogue and a private Jewish cemetery here. At the height of the Arab-Israeli war, the synagogue was attacked and torched by angry Muslims. The structure was later refurbished. Bahrain has no diplomatic relations with Israel. In 1969, an official Israeli delegation visited Bahrain but protesters burned the Israeli flag in a large street demonstration at the time. In 2006, after Bahrain signed the Free Trade Agreement with the U.S., Manama closed down a government office that endorsed a boycott of Israeli goods.

2009(5th of Sivan, 5769): Erev Shavuot

2009:As part of the Tel Aviv Centennial Celebrations many of the “Tikun” (learning sessions) that are held as part of the observance of Shavuotwill explore the Jewish facets of Tel Aviv, and the spiritual heritage of the First Hebrew City.

2009:IDF gunfire wounded four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip  today, medics said, in an incident that ruptured the calm of a shaky truce achieve after a spasm of cross-border violence earlier this month.

The IDF spokesperson said that forces operating along the Gaza border fired on a terrorist unit that appeared to be attempting to place an explosive device along the fence. Apparently, the spokesperson said, uninvolved civilians were hit in the strike. The IDF statement added that it was forced to respond to terrorists operating near civilian population centers. Officials in the Strip said IDF soldiers had fired in the direction of a home in central Gaza after darkness fell. Medics said later four people including a woman and two minors had been taken to a hospital with slight injuries. The incident followed a surprise unity deal achieved this week between Hamas and the Fatah movement that dominates in the West Bank.

2010: In Cedar Rapids, IA, on Friday night, Dr. Bob Silber, a mensch in the truest sense of the word is scheduled to lead services as Temple Judah hosts it last Musical Shabbat for 5770. 

2010:Joshua Joel Siegel, son of Kris and Kenny Siegel and a fourth generation Temple Judah member, will be giving the Valedictorian speech at the Commencement Cermonies at Kennedy High School today. He is the brother of David Siegel; the grandson of the late Oscar and Lillian Siegel and the grandson of Jerolyn Selkirk. Josh will be attending Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA.

2010: The Israeli Air Force bombed weapons manufacturing site and a terror tunnel tonight following further Hamas rocket attacks on the Western Negev, despite announcements by the terrorist organization and its allies they would cease the rocket attacks

2011: The Amerigo Trio- Inbal Segev, cellist; Glenn Dicterow, violinist; Karen Dreyfus, violist -with Pianist Alon Goldstein    is schuedled to perform in New Lebanon, NY.

2011:For the first time in the Israel Festival, Yasmin Levy is scheduled to “offer a special performance including a selection of Ladino songs, well-loved classics, and original compositions, together with songs from the repertoire of Yiannis Kotsiras, one of the leading Greek singers. Yiannis, who is considered one of his country’s most outstanding performers, will join the special performance at the festival, and the two artists will offer joint renditions of each other’s songs. The two singers will be accompanied by Levy’s band, which includes some of the best ethnic instrumentalists in Israel, together with guest musicians. 

2011: Egypt opens the border with Gaza to Palestinians after four years of closure.

2011: In “The Secret Life of Cairo’s Jews,” Anthony Julius reviewed the marvelous new work by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole entitled Sacred Trash.

2011(24^th of Iyar, 5771): Parashat Bechukotai

2011(24^th of Iyar, 5771): Ninety-seven year old, Leo Rangell, a dominant force in the field of psychiatry during the second half of the 20^th century passed away today. (As reported by Paul Vitello)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/us/05rangell.html

2011(24^th of Iyar, 5771): Sixty four year old Milt Avruskin, “the voice of Superstars of Wrestling in the 1970s and International Wrestling in the 1980s, as well as the key player behind Pro Wrestling Canada, died suddenly” today. (As reported by Greg Olive

2011(24^th of Iyar, 5771): Seventy-year old award winning, controversial painter Uri Lifschitz, passed away.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-artist-uri-lifschitz-dies-at-age-75-1.364598?localLinksEnabled=fals

2012(7^thof Sivan, 5772): Second Day of Shavuot

2012: As part of the Israel Festival, Les Deux Mondes is scheduled to perform “Living Memory” at the Rebecca Crown Auditorium.

2012: Sports Illustrated reported that the International Olympic Committee has rejected requests for a moment of silence at the London Olympics “in recognition of the 40^th anniversary of the 1972  terrorist attacks that killed 11 Israeli coaches and athletes.  The IOC is “reluctant to alienate other members of the Olympic community with any specific references to the attacks.” 2012: The HBO biopic “Hemingway & Gellhorn” directed by Philip Kaufman with a script co-authored by Jerry Stahl aired for the first time tonight.

2012: “An uncertain and uncomfortable calm descended on Tel Aviv today, as Israel's paramilitary police unit Magav ("Border Guard") deployed throughout the city's southern neighbourhoods and tensions between residents and a large population of African migrants simmered just below boiling point. The deployment follows years of festering resentment by the poverty-stricken residents of the area, who believe they are unfairly being forced to shoulder the burden of the tens of thousands of Sudanese and Eritrean refugees and economic migrant who have arrived in Israel.”

2012: The Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, VA, celebrated Jewish American Heritage Month by unveiling a Jewish-American Hall of Fame plaque honouring Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine Dr. Gertrude Elion

http://jwa.org/thisweek/may/28/2012/gertrude-elion

2013:The 4th International Conference of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism is scheduled to open in Jerusalem.

2013: Today a top Israeli minister condemned Russia’s declared intention to deliver advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, and another senior minister said Israel would “know what to do” if the weapons were delivered. Minister of Intelligence, International Relations and Strategic Affairs Yuval Steinitz told reporters the Russian decision to press on with the deal was an “odd” and unjustifiable move, which he said was “totally wrong” on moral and strategic grounds. (As reported by Raphael Ahren)

2013(19^thof Sivan, 5773): Seventy-year old photographer Abigail Heyman passed away today. (As reported by Paul Vitello)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/arts/design/abigail-heyman-feminist-photojournalist-dies-at-70.html?hpw&_r=0

2013(19^thof Sivan, 5773): Ninety year old Holocaust survivor and physician Henry Morgentaler passed away today. (As reported by Robert D. McFadden)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/world/americas/henry-morgentaler-abortion-doctor-in-canada-dies-at-90.html

2013: Archaeologists expressed deep concern over construction and renovation works at the Western Wall enclosure in Jerusalem’s Old City, Maariv reported today. The work, they said, would greatly damage artefacts under the plaza floor, which would be lost forever. The Israel Antiquities Authority said in response that extensive preservation work was being conducted at the site. (As reported by Aaron Kalman)

http://www.timesofisrael.com/western-wall-project-threatens-history-archaeologists-warn/

2014: Professor Marat Grinberg is scheduled to discuss his biography of Wood Allen, Woody on Rye at the Oregon Jewish Museum.

2014: “Zemer Chai, DC’s Premier Jewish Choir” is scheduled to perform “In Every Age!” at Ohr Kodesh in Chevy Chase Maryland.

2014: The Kaufman Music Centre is scheduled to present The Israeli Chamber Project.

2014(28^thof Iyar, 5774): One hundred one year old published Oscar Dystel passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/business/media/oscar-dystel-who-saved-bantam-books-dies-at-101.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=1

2014(28^thof Iyar, 5774): Yom Yerushalayim

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/holidays/Jewish_Holidays/Modern_Holidays/Yom_Yerushalayim.shtml

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/yomyerushalayim.html

2014: In honor of Jerusalem Day, University of Iowa Professor Robert Cargill speaks on “The Water System of Ancient Jerusalem” this evening.

2014: In “Posin’s: Legen-dairy in DC” published today Zachary Paul Levine provided a brief history of this legendary Jewish institution which provided the offer of this blog with immeasurable amounts of corned beef, bakery fresh bagels, and mouth-watering smoked white fish.

http://jewishfoodexperience.com/posins-legen-dairy-dc/

2014: “The Foreign Ministry blamed the Jewish Agency today for endangering eastern Ukraine’s Jewish community and provoking accusations of dual loyalty. “

http://www.timesofisrael.com/foreign-ministry-accuses-jewish-agency-of-harming-ukraines-jews/

2014: “Over a thousand people on Wednesday attended a state ceremony honoring Ethiopian Jews who died en route to Israel during two major waves of immigration in 1984 and 1991.”

2014(28^th of Iyar, 5774): Eighty –five year old Malcolm Glazer the president and chief executive officer of First Allied Corporation, a holding company for his varied business interests, and owner of both Manchester United of the Premier League and Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL passed away today.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/manchester-united-owner-malcolm-glazer-dies-at-85/

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/29/malcolm-glazer



2015: “An Evening of Exploration” featuring a performance by Itamar Borochov, a member of Yemen Blues and the New Jerusalem Orchestra and a discussion by Rabbi Marc Angel and Rabbi Yamin Levy about The David Berg Rare Books Room's latest exhibit, “Sephardic Journeys” is scheduled to take place at the Center for Jewish History.

2015(10^thof Sivan, 5775): Ninety-year old Esther Ghan Firestone, “Canada’s first female cantor” passed away today.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/esther-ghan-firestone-canadas-first-female-cantor-delighted-audiences-with-her-voice/article24867420/

2015: “In a lengthy interview with Egypt's Mehwar TV today - segments of which were translated by MEMRI - historian Maged Farag insisted it was time for Egyptians to leave "the old ideology and cultural heritage on which we were raised" - namely, rabid anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism - in favor of a more rational focus on Egypt's own national interests.”

2015: “The right-wing American philanthropist Irving Moskowitz purchased an abandoned church near Hebron for future use as a Jewish West Bank settlement, employing a variety of shell corporations and charitable organizations to cover up the acquisition of the property, the Haaretz daily reported” today.

2015: “The Israel Festival” which “is subsidized by the government and Jerusalem municipality” is scheduled to open today.

2016(20^thof Iyar, 5776): Parasha Behar

2016: Ninety-four year old banker and pillar of the Jewish community Harold M. Becker passed away today.

http://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2016/May/Harold-Becker/

2016: “Meeting You” a work choreographed by and featuring Israeli Ori Flomin is scheduled to open at The Club in New York City this evening.

2017: “To Be or Not To Be” and “Fanny’s Journey” are scheduled to be shown on the last night of the Washington Jewish Film Festival.

2017: The New York Times Book Section features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation, The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East by Guy Laron, A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank by Nir Baram, The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine by Nathan Thrall, Salt Houses by Hala Alyan, Where the Line is Drawn: A Tale of Crossings, Friendships and Fifty Years of Occupation in Israel-Palestine by Raja Shehadeh, and A Stricken Fieldby Martha Gellhorn as well as an interview with Senator Al Franken

2018: Memorial Day observed as Americans remember those who made the supreme sacrifice for the United States and her citizens.

https://kaplancenter.org/memorial-day-and-united-jewish-people

http://forward.com/news/135331/profiles-of-our-fallen/#ixzz1DeAMPaIh

http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/07/18/jews-in-the-military/

2018: The Oxford University Jewish Society is not scheduled to provide a weekday meal today because students will be attending the Iftar dinner sponsored by the Islamic Society that will include Kosher meals for the Jewish attendees.

2018: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Entebbe” in London this evening.

2018: In Atlanta, GA, the Breman Museum is scheduled to be open on Memorial Day where visitors can the permanent exhibition “Absence of Humanity: The Holocaust Years 1933-1945” and “Eighteen Artifacts: A Story of Jewish Atlanta.”

2019: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening starring Noa Koler who has been nominated by the Israeli Film Academy for the Best Actress Award.

2019: The Comedy For Koby tour is scheduled to reach Tel Aviv this evening.

2019: In Canada, the Edmonton Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The Waldheim Waltz,” Ruth Beckermann’s documentary about “the process of uncovering former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim’s wartime past.”

2019: “Rabbi Dr. Raphael Zarum, the Dean of the London School of Jewish Studies” is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “The Invasion of Tilgath-Pileser III and Shalmaneser V” as part of a series on “The Ten Lost Tribes.

2019: The Veterans Games are scheduled to continue for a second day in “Tel Aviv and Jerusalem at rehabilitation centers run by Beit Halochem.”

2019: If all has gone well with the airlines Jacob Levin returning to his family after spending a gap-year in Israel on an intensive work/study program. – Go Bobcats!

2019: As a glimmer of hope appears in Arab-Israeli relations with the Egyptians providing assistance in putting the raging wildfire, a shadow also appears as Israelis look to the skies to see if the firing of an anti-aircraft missile by Syria was a “fluke” or a muscle-flexing move by the Assad regime.

2020: The Jewish Arts Collaborative and the Vilna Shul are scheduled to host “Simona Di Nepi, the Museum of Fine Arts Charles and Lynn Schusterman Curator of Judaica, as he virtually talks about the stories behind Jewish American objects in the collection as part of Jewish American Heritage Month.

2020: S.F. JFCS Holocaust Center scheduled to host a virtual talk by author Glenn Kurtz, who wrote the book Three Minutes in Poland after discovering a home movie of his grandparents’ 1938 trip to Poland.  

2020: Addison-Penzak JCC is scheduled to host a Shavuot panel featuring three local Jewish leaders discussing women in leadership roles, from the Bible to Silicon Valley, followed by cheesecake-baking class.

2020: The Switzerland Independent Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The Spy Behind Home Plate.”

2020: The Guy Mintus Show featuring the young Israeli piano virtuoso is scheduled to begin this afternoon.

2020: The inaugural Great Big Jewish Food Fest featuring Jewish culinary talents like Michael Solomonov, Joan Nathan and Michael Twitty is scheduled to come to an end today.

2020: Live on Zoom, the Leo Baeck Institute is scheduled to host “Refuge in the Heights” Migration Memory and Authoritarianism in the 20^th Century.”

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/refuge-in-the-heights-migration-memory-and-authoritarianism-tickets-105831490838

2020(5^thof Sivan, 5780): Erev Shavuot; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

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363: A good day for the Romans and bad day for the Jews. Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is impossible to conquer it. But Julian is killed at the end of the battle, some claiming that he was assassinated by a Christian Arab.  Julian was the nephew and successor of Constantine.  Julian repealed his Uncle’s pro-Christian promulgations allowing the old pagan cults to reappear.  This earned him the title Julian the Apostate.  Julian also repealed the special taxes that had been levied on the Jews.  He announced that the Jews would be allowed to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple.  Jews actually built a synagogue near the Temple Mount in anticipation of the rebuilding of the Temple.  Unfortunately, the favorable treatment of the Jews died with Julian’s demise.  Rome returned to path of Constantine and the Jews returned to the road of exile and expulsion.

1096: The Jews of Bacharach, Germany, were massacred by the Crusaders.

1108: The forces of the Muslim Almoravids under Tamim ibn-Yusuf defeated the Christian forces of Castile and León under Alfonso VI at the Battle of Uclésv.  The battle was a disaster for the Christians who lost 30,000 men including seven high-ranking nobles and the heir-apparent, Sancho Alfónsez. The Muslims were not able to capitalize on the victory and conquer the city of Toledo.  The Christians of Toledo “celebrated” their deliverance by murderously attacking the Jews and burning their homes and synagogues.  Alfonso died before he could punish the murderers. Following his death, the people of Carrion followed the example of their co-religionists in Toledo and attacked the Jews in an orgy of murderous pillaging.

1167:  A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated at the Battle of Monte Porzio by the forces of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and the local princes of Tusculum and Albano. Jehiel Anav reportedly “supervised the finances of Pope Alexander.” Jeheil Anva would appear to be one in the same with Jehiel ben Jekutheil Anav who is believed to be the author of Tanya Rabbati which discusses Shabbat and the Jewish Holidays. He was related to the Italian born scholar and linguist Nathan ben Jehiel. Frederick Barbarossa would be one of the three kings to lead the Third Crusades.  Unlike other Crusaders, the German Barbarossa was protective of his Jewish subjects causing “a Jewish chronicler, Ephraim be-Jacob of Bonna to write ‘Frederick defended us with all his might and enabled us to live among our enemies, so that no harmed the Jews.’”

1453: The Ottomans under Sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople marking the end of Byzantine (or the Eastern Roman) Empire.  (The shift from Christian to Moslem control reverberates into the 21^stcentury)(According to at least one source, the Jews were spared when the Moslems slaughtered the inhabitants – Jewish Virtual Library)

1453: Sultan Mohammed II, the conqueror of Constantinople, granted equal rights to Jews and other non-Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire. The oppressed Jews were relieved to see him occupy the city. He allowed Jews from today's Greek Islands and Crete to settle in Istanbul. The Sultan’s declaration contained the following words: "Listen sons of the Hebrew who live in my country...May all of you who desire come to Constantinople and may the rest of your people find here a shelter".

1507: The third of four fires broke out in Pilsen today burning down more of the houses belonging to the Jews.

1554: Pope Paul IV issued a bull ordering Jews to surrender all books containing alleged anti-Christian blasphemies.  The sweeping terms of the bull covered all rabbinic work relating to the Talmud.  In effect, Paul IV nullified a bull issued by Pope X in 1518 which permitted the publication of codes of Jewish law upon the approval of church censors.

1647(24^thof Iyar, 5407): “Poet and translator” Moses Belmonte, the eighth child of Jacob Belmont, who works included a Spanish translation of the “Song of Songs” passed away today in Amsterdam.

1686: Jews of New Amsterdam were allowed to openly practice their religion.

1724: Beginning of the Papacy Benedict XIII, a papal leader who issued a series of anti-Semitic bulls and writings that reached a level of literary or theological compulsion. In 1727, Benedict wrote Emanavit numer, which stated the conditions under which Jews could be forcibly baptized. In Alias emanarunt, “Benedict forbade selling of goods by Jews.  In 1749 he issued Singulari noblis consoldtioni which dealt with the issue of Christians and Jews getting married.  In 1751, he issued Elapso proxime anno which dealt with Jewish heresy and Probe te meinisse which laid down the rules for baptizing Jewish children.  Finally, in 1755, he issued Beatus Andres which beatified Andreas von Ronn who had alledgedly been by Jews in 1462 as part of their religious ritual.  “The pope declared that such ritual murders were fact and were part of Jewish practice, not exceptions.”

1751: In Chester County, PA, Abraham Lewis and Rebekah Davis gave birth to Abraham Lewis II, the husband of Esther Todd.

1773(7^thof Sivan, 5533): Second Day of Shavuot

1776: Eleazar Lyons, a young Dutch Jew who had begun his own business in 1772 and Hannah Levy, the parents of Baltimore native Uriah Lyons  and the grandparents of Ellis and Alexander Lyons were married  today at Harrisburg, PA.

1781(5^thof Sivan, 5541): Erev Shavuot was observed 19 days after the King George III gave his royal assent to the Tea Act, which led to the Boston Tea Party, which led to the British Closure of the port of Boston which led to the American Revolution. (Editor’s note – Bet nobody eating their blintzes today knew what earth shattering events were afoot.)

1781: As Jews on both sides of the American Revolution prepare to observe Shavuot, word was sent to Comte de Rochambeau, the commander of French forces that the French fleet under Comte De Grasse had scored a rare victory over the British fleet off the coast of Martinique.

1790: Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state. According to Rufus Learsi, at the outbreak of the American Revolution Rhode Island was one of only five the original thirteen colonies to have had an organized Jewish community. Newport reportedly had 1,200 Jewish habits, half the Jews living in all of the thirteen colonies at that time. Congregation Jeshuat Israel (Salvation of Israel) had erected its own synagogue and Rabbi Isaac Touro was so well known that he was visited by rabbis from Europe and Eretz Israel including Raphael Cahim Isaac Corregal from Hebron who formed a lasting friendship with Pastor Ezra Stiles, President of Yale.  Newport may be best remembered for the famous letter that President Washington wrote to the Jews of Newport in 1790 in which he endorsed the full participation of the Jewish people in all aspects of American life.  Unfortunately, the Newport Jewish community had already lost its dominant role.  The British occupation during the American Revolution had marked the beginning of the end of the commercial primacy of Newport and many of the Jews who had fled during the occupation simply did not return.  The loss of prominence of the Jewish community is highlighted by the fact that the state of Rhode Island did not get around to removing religious tests for office until 1842.  For more about this see http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/rhode.html

1794(29^thof Iyar, 5554): Samuel Yoal passed away today in London after which he was buried at the Alderney Road Jewish Cemetery.

1800(5^thof Sivan, 5560): Erev Shavuot observed for the last time during the Presidency of John Adams.

1805(1^stof Sivan, 5565): Rosh Chodesh Sivan observed on the same day that Lewis and Clark were encountering herds of buffalo as they made their away across the “Louisiana Purchase” bound for the Pacific Ocean.

1810: In London, Hanna Barnet Cohen and Anthony de Rothschild gave birth to Sir Anthony de Rothschild

1815(19^thof Iyar, 5575): Menachem Mendel of Rimanov, the native of Neustadat who was “one of the five principal disciples of Elimelech of Lizhensk” who was a major Polish Chasidic Rebbe passed away today.

1819: In Paris, “Élie, duc Decazes and his second wife, Wilhelmine de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire” gave birth to Louis, duc Decazes who while serving as Foreign Minister in 1875 “informed Henri Blowitz, the Bohemian Jew who was the Paris correspondent of The Times of a confidential dispatch from the French ambassador to Berlin, discussing German plans to attack France” which he asked Blowitz to publish as part of an effective plan to prevent the Germans from carrying out their plans.

1820: Sixty-eight year “German historian and political” Christian Wilhelm von Dohm, the son of a Lutheran minister, “staunch advocate for Jewish emancipation” and personal friend of Moses Mendelssohn passed away at his estate “near Nordhausen.”

1825: Coronation of French King Charles X whose consul in Algiers was Jacob Cohen Bakri,

1826(22^ndof Iyar): Rabbi Judah Leib, author of “Likkutei Maharil” passed away.

1836: Birthdate of Emil Breslaur or Breslauer, the native of Cottbus who studied at the Julius Stern Conservatory which led him to a career as a musician and writer.

1839: Joshua Hands and Hannah Mitchell were married today at the New Synagogue.

1842: Lewis Collins and Julie Isaacs were married today in the United Kingdom.

1847: Birthdate of Isaac Weil, the husband of Hannah Weil with whom he had six children.

1848:  Wisconsin admitted to the Union.  According to Rufus Learsi, “there was no Jewish community in Wisconsin when it became a state, but not long afterwards the Forty-eighters began to arrive and a congregation was organized in Milwaukee.”  The forty-eighters were Jews who left Germany and Bohemia after losing faith in the possibility meaningful emancipation and democratic reform following the unsuccessful revolutions of 1848.

1850: In New York, Robert and Dinah Lyon gave birth to Edmund Robert Lyon, the husband of Charity Lyon with whom he had three children – Elvira, Augusta and Walter.

1854:Solomon Nunes Carvalho  “wrote in his log that he and his party had ‘camped on a narrow stream of deliciously cool water, which distrubtes itself about half a mile further down in a verdant meadow bott, covered with good grass.  This camp ground is called by the Mexicans, Las Vegas.’” This meant that Carvalho was the first Jews to visit what is now Las Vegas, Neveda.  A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Carvalho was a Sephard who had had joined the expedition led by John C. Fremont as a photographer and artist. Reportedly, Carvalho refused to eat porcupine because “it looked like pork” even though this meant he went hungry.  It would take a century for Las Vegas to open an establishment that sold kosher food.

1855: Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise of Cincinnati was reported today to have begun a tour of the United States to gain support for the creation of for the establishment of “a Collegiate Institute for the education of Jewish theologians and other scholastic attainments.

1857(6^thof Sivan, 5617): Shavuot observed as India is gripped by the Sepoy Rebellion

1858:  In Paducah, KY, two “Jewish immigrants from Germany” gave birth to Marcus  “Marc” Alonzo Klaw, the 1879 graduate of Louisville Law School who moved to NYC and went from serving as the legal advisor for theatre executive Gustave Frohman to being a partner of A.L. “Abe” Erlanger in Klaw and Erlanger, the leading theatrical booking agency.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/06/15/93521692.pdf

1861:  Rabbi David Einhorn, a leading abolitionist, rejected the request of his former Congregation, Har Sinai, to return to Baltimore because he would have been required to remain silent on the subjects of slavery and preserving the union.

1867: Following the defeat of the Austrian Empire by the Prussians, Emperor Franz Josef authorizes an agreement called Ausgleich ("the Compromise"), which established the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The document extended the rights of full citizenship to all those living in the Hapsburg Empire including the Jews.  With the stroke of a pen, 350,000 Jews were freed to live wherever they please and follow whatever occupation or trade they so desired.  The Empire would benefit from a burst of Jewish creativity from its Hungarian and Austrian Jewish subjects as well as loyalty and devotion beyond compare.

1868: In Allegheny, PA, Pauline (Bernhard) Stein and Solomon Stein, “a prosperous woolen merchant gave birth their eldest child Bird Stein, who “received her education at Columbia, the New School for Social Research and NYU and became Bird Stein Gans when she married her second husband Howard Gans with whom she had two children Marian and Robert and who worked to advance the cause of women as can be seen by her leadership role in the National Council of Jewish Women.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/bird-stein-gans

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gans-bird-stein

1868: Three days after he had passed away, Frank Lawrence Simeon, the one year and eleven month old son of “Michael and Augusta Simeon” was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”

1870: In the Turkish province of Rumania, thousands of Jews were killed and injured when they were attacked by Christians in cities throughout this section of Southern Europe.

1872: The inauguration services of the new Mount Sinai Hospital building were held this afternoon. The hospital is located on Lexington Avenue between 66^thand 67^th Avenues. Appropriate prayers were offered by the Jewish clergy and E.B. Hart delivered an address during which he traced the history of Mount Sinai which goes back to January, 1852.  Governor Hoffman also addressed the throng.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9906E0DF1439EF34BC4850DFB3668389669FDE

1873: Adolph Marx Oppenheimer and Julie Oppenheimer gave birth to Henry Oppenheimer.

1876(6h of Sivan, 5636): Shavuot

1876: A can-can dancer named Katie Forrest sued a Jew named Solomon Care in the Marine Court over jewelry which she said he stole from her.  Care claimed that he had given her the jewelry and had pawned some of it to pay for her hotel bills. Both sides rested today but no decision was rendered by the end of the day.

1876: The New York Times reported that “the Jewish feast of ‘Shevuoth,’ or the Pentecost, the Spring-tide festival of the Hebraic calendar was inaugurated last evening with the joyous ceremonies incident to the occasion.  This festival also called the Feast of Weeks because it occurs seven weeks after the Passover, under the Mosaic dispensation was one of the three imporantant festivals on which it was customary for the Jews in Palestine to assemble at Jerusalem and bring up to the Temple as offerings the first fruits of the seasons.”

1876: On Shavuot, Confirmation Services were held at Temple Emanu-El conducted by Rabbi Gottheil, at Temple Beth-El conducted by Rabbi Einhorn at Temple Ahavat Chesed by Rabbi Huebsch and at Bnai Jeshurun by Rabbi Jacobs.

1877: The New York Times published a report from its London correspondent describing “the influence of the Jewish race in European politics” especially as it pertains to the clash between the Turks and the Russians.  Regardless of his nationality, “the Jew is…pro-Turkish” “for perfectly intelligible reasons.” The Jews feel that they are less oppressed in Moslem lands than they are in Christian countries.  Furthermore, the Serbian and Rumanian “Christians have in very recent times, persecuted the Jew with a fanatical fury worthy of the Middle Ages.”  Finally, any advance of “Holy Russia” means an enlargement of the area where the Jews will suffer from the government’s “intolerance.” 

1877: It was reported today that a Jew named Solomons who owned the general store at Union Bridges, SC testified that he had listed the names of the various armed people he had seen and that he had written their names phonetically in Hebrew because he did not know how to spell them in English. The trial was racially charged as it involved gangs of whites and African-Americans.

1877:  At Temple Emanuel, in New York City Myer S. Isaacs presided over the annual meeting of the Board of Delegates of the American Israelites which came to a close this evening.

1877:”The Jews and the War in Europe,” a column published today described the contentions of famed historian Edward A. Freeman that the Jews are responsible for the British support being given to the Ottomans in their war with Russia.  Freeman sees this as a failure to support Christian values (Russia) in the war against Islam. “He is under the impression that the policy of England and the welfare of Europe may be sacrificed to Hebrew sentiment. “If money is the key that opens all locks, the Jew is the master of Europe for he is our principal banker.”  “Mr. Freeman points out that the union of the Jew and the Turk against the Christian” was strengthened “when Sultan Mahmoud gave the body of the martyred Patriarch to be by the Jews through the streets of Constantinople.” Freeman blames the Jews for the outbreak of the war.  He contends that throughout Europe, the part of the press that is pro-Turkish is controlled by Jews.  He does differentiate between “the degraded Jews of the East and the cultivated and honorable Jews of the East” but in the hand “blood is stronger than water” and “Hebrew rule is sure to lead to Hebrew policy.”

1878: The annual meeting of the Board of Delegates of the American Israelites which was being held in New York at Temple Emanuel with William B. Hockenberg of Philadelphia presiding came to a close today. The Executive Committee recommended that “immediate action” be taken to alleviate the suffering of the Jews living in Jerusalem and that steps should be taken to develop “a system of higher education among the Hebrews” living in the United States. The Committee on Statistics reported that “there were 223 Hebrews congregations in this country, with 12,030 members, having property valued at $4,607,110. A proposal was put forward to hold a conference in Paris that would completed “the work of the International Jewish Conference of 1876.  The officers elected to serve in the upcoming year included: Myer S. Isaacs, President; Simon Wolf of Washington, Vice President; William B. Hockenburg of Philadelphia

1879(7^thof Sivan, 5639): Second Day of Shavuot

1879: Benjamin Mayer, a member of the firm of Hirsch and Mayer, who had been found guilty of swindling numerous New York merchants, was sentenced today to serve two years and six months of hard labor in the State Penitentiary.  He was also fined $6,000, a sum which must be paid before he can be released.

1880(19^thof Sivan, 5640): Forty-year old Maximilian Steiner the “Austrian actor and theatre manager” who was the father of Franz and Gabor Steiner who also worked as theatre manager and the grandfather of composer Max Steiner passed away today.

1880: In Blankenburg which was part of the German Empire Bernhard and Pauline Spengler gave birth to their second child Oswald Spengler, the historian and author of The Decline of the West who on his mother’s side was a descendant of “a Jewish woman named Bräunchen Moses, the daughter of Abraham and Riele Moses who was baptized shortly before her marriage.

1881(1st of Sivan, 5641): Rosh Chodesh Sivan

1882: In New York, Bernhard and Gertrude Ulamann gave birth to American photographer Doris Ulmann

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/ulmann-doris-may

http://blog.nyhistory.org/doris-ullman/

1882: Thomas Timayenis a professor of languages at the University of Athens passed away. He was the father of Telemachus Timayenis, the founder of Minerva Publishing Company in New York City, “the first company in America to published books critical of Jews.” These included The Original Mr. Jacobs: A Startling Exposé, ‎The American Jew: An Expose of His Career‎, and Judas Iscariot: An Old Type in a New Form.  The works were intended to expose “the real Jew.”  There is no evidence to show that the father was responsible for the son’s anti-Semitism.

1883: Birthdate of Waldemar Holberg, the native of Copenhagen, “who competed in the 1908 Olympics for Denmark as a lightweight” and who “was world welterweight champion for 23 days in 1914.”

1883: Based on certification of two doctors 20 year old Pauline (Moses) Holz, the wife of David Holz  was committed to an asylum “as a suffer from chronic mania.”  Only after his wife had been committed did Holz find out that her father, whom he had been told had passed away, had been in an asylum since 1872.

1883: As an example of his communal good works, Dr. Wolfgang Strassman joined the Society of Friends, a Jewish organization founded in 1792 to help the less fortunate members of the community that would survived until the Nazis shut it down in 1935.

1884: In Berlin, Albert Mosse, a Doctor of Jurisprudence and Caroline (Lina) Mosse gave birth to Martha Mosse, who followed in her father’s footsteps and became a lawyer.

1884: Two days after he had passed away, 61 year old Adolph Blumenthal, the husband of Matilda Abraham and the father of Arthur and Walter Blumenthal, was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”

1885: Ahmed Ziwar Pashah, Mutasarrif Acca wrote to Jacob Schumacher, the U.S. Vice-Counsel in Haifa, in a correspondence that may have expressed concern about the expulsion about one or more Romanian Jews.

1887(6^thof Sivan, 5647): Shavuot observed three days after the birth of Hungarian-American Academy Award winning actor Paul Lukas

1888: In New York the General Term of the Supreme Court delivered a decision that meant the North American Relief Society for Indigent Jews In Jerusalem, Palestine, will receive $50,000 and the interest thereon for 30 years as directed by the will of the last Samson Sampson.

1889: Birthdate of Wilkes-Barre, PA native and Zionist Harry Goldberg, the husband of Lee Goldberg and father of Richard Goldberg.

1890: Twenty-nine year old Jacob Epstein, a Russian Jew shot his wife Flora today and then turned the gun on himself.

1890: Mayor Grant appointed Isidor Straus “a member of the firm of R.H. Macy & Co” who is a anti-Tammany Hall Democrat and the brother of Oscar Straus to serve as “an additional commission to locate the proposed bridged across the North River, somewhere between Tenth and One Hundred and Eighty-first Street.”

1892: It was reported today that the Honorary Staff of the Veteran Zouaves’ Association have made plans to present a flag to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.

1892: Eva Cohen and Theodore Keppler each delivered a prayer during this afternoon’s confirmation exercises of the Hebrew Free Schools. Augusta Cohen and Sarah Rabinowitch sang “I Will Praise Thee, O Lord” and Miss Lilie Levy won the fifty dollar Schiff Prize which went to the student who was most distinguished in “all studies and deportment.”

1893: “The Unpopularity of Jews” published today described a speech given by Professor Felix Adler, the President of the Ethical Culture Society of New York before the Russian-American Hebrew Association in which he described the causes of anti-Semitism in which he said that he did not deem “opposition to the Jews in United States” as being serious and that the “while a great majority of the Jews may be modest, the failings of one” --- “a tendency to loudness in speech, to showiness in dress and to put themselves forward” – “the failings of the one will counterbalance in publication estimation the modesty of the many.

1894: At a meeting of the Temple Emanu-El’s council of women, Mrs. Esther Ruskay read a paper who is an “an Orthodox Jewess” read a paper that declared “that among the Jews of America there was no family life because parents had allowed themselves to drift away from the time-honored observances of their faith…Jewish young people were become indifferent to teachings of the Hebrew faith and that Christmas and Easter had practically taken the place of the Hebrew Festivals.”  She concluded her remarks which Rabbi Gottheil contested but which were greeted by applause with a stated desire to see a reawakening of the old spirit of Judaism.

1894: In Vienna Moses (Morris) Sternberg and his wife gave birth to Jonas Sternberg who gained fame as Austrian-American film writer and director Josef Von Sternberg whose most famous work was actually two versions of the same movie, The Blue Angel. One was in German, the other in English. Von Sternberg made his way to the United States where he lived and worked until his death at the age of 75.

1894: At today’s session of the New York State Constitutional Convention Mr. Jacobs from Brooklyn submitted a proposal that would provide for a State Senate of 19 that would be elected at large by all New Yorkers.

1895(6^thof Sivan, 5655): Shavuot

1895: Dr. Joseph Silverman, the junior rabbi at Temple Emuanu-El, purported to America’s oldest reform congregation, gave today’s holiday sermon. Among those attending today’s services were the members of the confirmation class.

1896: In Montgomery, MO, “Joseph and Rosa (Brown) Rosenberg gave birth to Leo Henry Rosenberg, the Amour Institute of Technology graduate, one the first announcers best known for his groundbreaking broadcast of the Harding-Cox election in 1920 which was followed by a successful career in advertising.

1897(27^thof Iyar, 5657): Sixty-four year old German botanist Julius von Sachs passed away today.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC440044/

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Sachs,_Julius_von

1897: Birthdate of Oscar winning composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold the native of Brunn, Moravia who “along with Max Steiner and Alfred Newman is considered one of the founders of film music.

http://www.korngold-society.org/index1.html

http://www.musicweb-international.com/film/2003/Nov03/korngold_piano_music.html

1898: At today’s opening session of the League of Zionist Societies of the United States, Dr. Michael Singer delivered an address on “What Zionism Means” and Davis Trietsch delivered an address on “The First Congress At Basle.”

1898: Mrs. M.D. Louis, President of the Hebrew Technical School for Girls presided over the institutions graduation ceremonies that were held today at Temple Emanu-El

1898: Rabbi De Sola Mendes presided over the first annual confirmation ceremonies held at the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Orphan Asylum.

1898: As the patriotic fervor the Spanish-American grips the United States, the Benjamin Harrison Lodge of the Order Birth Abraham will waive the membership dues for any of its members serving in the military.  Families of members serving as soldiers will be given $5 a week and the beneficiaries of any members who die in battle will be given an endowment of $500.

1898: It was reported today that Oscar S. Straus has agreed to accept reappointment as the United States Minister to Turkey.  Straus had been appointed to the position in 1887 by President Grover Cleveland, a Democrat.  Straus’s success and the high esteem in which he has held can be seen the fact this time he is being appointed by President McKinley, a Republican.

1898: It was reported today that the demands on the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children of the City of New York have been so great that the institution has purchased additional land at Rockaway, Long Island.  It is an ocean front piece of real estate which should help provide meaningful summer excursions for underprivileged children and their mothers.

1899: Seattle (Washington’s “liberal Jews” formed Temple de Hirsch, a Reform congregation founded when Ohaveth Shaolum disbanded due to financial hardships.

1899: “The Semitic Question of Algiers In The French Chamber” published today described the debate that has taken place on the treatment of Jews in the North African colony.  The Algerian anti-Semites claim they attack the Jews because they are wealthy, but their attacks strike at the many poor Jews living there.  The “battle cry” of the anti-Semites is “La France aux Francais” (France for the French) which is odd since most of the Algerian anti-Semites are Spaniards.

1899: At this morning’s session of the “13^th convention of the United States Grand Lodge, Independent Sons of Benjamin which was being held at the Murray Hill Lyceum D.J. Zinner was elected Deputy Grand Marshall following a contentious race between four candidates and Grand Marshal Ferdiand Levy delivered a speech on the Dreyfus affair.

1899: Nearly 400 people attended this evening’s banquet sponsored by the Independent Sons of Benjamin including Isaac Abrams, the former chief of Police in Quincy, Illinois and Rabbis J.B. Solomon who listened to Rabbi S. S. Wise speaking on “The Future of Judaism.”

1900(1^stof Sivan, 5660): Rosh Chodesh Sivan observed on the same that “the word ‘escalator’ was introduced into the English language” when a patent was granted for “a moving stairway.”    

1901: The English Zionist Federation congratulates Herzl and assures him loyalty.

1902: The Judeans, an organization composed of representative Jews of New York, gave a reception, followed by a dinner, this evening at the Tuxedo, Fifty-ninth Street and Madison Avenue, in honor of Prof. Solomon Schechter, the eminent Hebrew scholar, who was induced to leave Cambridge University in England to become the Dean of the new Jewish theological seminary which is to be established on Morningside Heights through the munificence of Jacob H. Schiff and others.

1902: In Vienna, movie director Joe May and his wife Mia May gave birth to actress Eva May.

1902: In Teplitz-Schönau, Austria-Hungary, “Julius "Kino" Kohner, who managed the local movie theater and published a film industry newspaper and his wife was Helene Kohner (née Beamt)” gave birth to Paul Kohner, “an Austrian-American talent agent and producer” who was the brother of novelist Frederick Kohner and father of actress Susan Kohner and “who managed the careers of many stars” including Bill Wilder.

1902:It was reported today that newly elected officers of the National Conference of Jewish Charities are President – Max Herzberg; Vice Presidents – Mrs. S. Pisko and Nathan Bijur; Secretary – Hannah Marks; Treasurer – O.H. Rosenbaum.

1902: Samuel Marks, a Russian born Jew, used his relationships with Boer and English leaders - President Krüger, Generals Botha, De Wett, and Delarey; Earl Roberts, Lord Kitchener, and Lord Milner – to help set up the negotiations for the end of Anglo-Boer War which took place today at Vereeniging.

1903: Thee S.S. Deutschalnd arrived in the United States carrying Rabbi Tobias Geffen, who would gain fame as the Coca Cola Rabbi, Mrs. Gefen and their two oldest children.

1903: A delegation from Camden, NJ visited Dr. Aaron Brav today in Philadelphia to assure him that the citizens from that New Jersey city, including non-Jews would be attending the upcoming meeting being held “to protest against the Russian atrocities.”

1905: Pogroms began in Brisk, Lithuania.  At this time Lithuania was part of the Russian Empire.  The pogrom was one of a series that was sweeping the land of the Tsars

1906: Sidney Sonnino, the son of Isacco Saul Sonnino who converted from Judaism to Anglicanism, completed his first term as Prime Minister of Italy.

1907: Riva (Rebecca) Hillesum-Bernstein’s brother, Jacob, a diamond cutter moved in with the Montagnu family in Amsterdam.  Like his sister, he was fleeing his village in Russia where there had been pogrom.  Jacob was the uncle of diarist Esther "Etty" Hillesum

1908: In Seattle, Washington Temple de Hirsch dedicated its new facility at the corner of Union Street and 15^th Avenue.

1908(28^thof Iyar, 5668): Rosa Kaufman, the first wife of Russian born Judah Aaron Kaufaman, and mother of their daughters Tillie and Sophie passed away unexpectedly in Dover, NJ and was buried at Mt. Sinai Cemetery

1909(9^thof Sivan, 5669): Parasaht Nasso

1909(9^thof Sivan, 5669): Duma Member and attorney “Ossip Y. Pergament of Odessa,” “one of the most noted leaders of the Jewish and authority on the Hebrew question in Russia” who “was a leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party” “died today from heart-failure.”

1910: It was reported today that “one thousand and two Jewish families have not received official notification that they must leave Kiev” and that they are in effect being driving back “into the Pales” and that another 198 families face expulsion on June 18.

1911: Birthdate of a Leah Goldberg, a “prolific Hebrew poet, author, playwright, literary translator and researcher of Literature”

1911: Birthdate of South African chess champion Wolfgang Heidenfeld who was forced to move from his native Germany because he was Jewish.

1912: In New York Arnold Levitas and author Anzia Yeziersk gave birth to her only child Louise.

1913: "Bijou Theatre Foreclosure" published today reported that proceedings have been instituted in the Supreme Court by Felix M. Warburg, Isaac N. Seligman, Paul Warburg and Mortimer L. Schiff, as trustees of Alfred M. Heinsheimer, against the Bijou Real State company and other to foreclose a mortgage of $420,000 on the old Bijou Theatre in New York City. 

1913: Jim Conley was interviewed again today concerning the murder of Mary Phagan. Thefour hour interviews produced yet a different version of the facts. In this version Conley said that Frank had confessed to him that he had killed the girl and that the two of them hid the corpse in the basement of the pencil factory.

1913: The Independent Order Sons of Israel whose members included Henry H. Levenson, Hyman J. Danzig and Isadore Kronstein with offices in Boston, MA, was organized today.

1913: In Philadelphia, activities related to the dedication of the Philmont Country Club which was founded by department store owner and philanthropist Ellis Gimbel came to an end.

1914(4^thof Sivan, 5674): Eighty-six year old Brooklyn born merchant Simon Biederman passed away today.

1914: Montague Maurice Burton, the Lithuanian born son of “Hyman and Rachel Oskinsky” who was the founder of Burton, the large chain of UK clothing stores and his wife Sophia gave birth to Stanley Howard Burton.

1915: “Bearing a petition signed by 600,000 persons and resolutions passed by numerous societies protesting against the execution of Leo M. Frank, the Chicago Committee departed tonight for Atlanta, GA” where they plan to present their prayer for commutation to life imprisonment to Governor John M. Slaton.

1915: According to a report made public today Georgia Governor Frank M. Slaton and handwriting expert Albert S. Osborn, Osborn has concluded “that the murder notes which played an important part in the conviction of Leo M. Frank for the slaying of Mary Phagan were not dictated by Frank and written by Jim Conley, as Conley testified, but were written by Conley on his own initiative for the purpose of shielding himself.”

1915: The delegation headed by Eugene N. Foss, the former Governor of Massachusetts, that will appeal to the Governor of Georgia to commute Leo Frank’s sentence is scheduled to leave from Boston today.

1916: Tonight, Mrs. Mary Watkin of Borough Park who has spent most of the past year in the eastern war zone in Russian Poland told the members of the Kalvarian Synagogue about “the suffering and desolation of the little town of Kalwarya” after which almost $1,000 was collected to aid the suffering Jews.

1916:  At today’s session of the thirteenth annual convention of the Federation of Galician and Bukovinian Jews of America being held at Tammany Hall “a resolution was passed providing for the sending of a commissioner to Europe to look after the interests of the Jewish was sufferers in Galicia and Bukovira.”

1916: As Simon Wolf and leaders of the U.S. government exchanged letters concerning protecting the Jews of Europe at any peace conference that will end the World War, Woodrow Wilson wrote to him, “I hope that it is not necessary for me to state again my determination to do the right and possible thing at the right and feasible time with regard to the great interests you so eloquently allude to in your letter.

1917: Seven days after he had passed away, Harry J. Daniler, a “sapper” serving with the South African Engineers in World War I was buried today in London at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”

1917: Birthdate of John F. Kennedy. “Kennedy named two Jews to his cabinet - Abraham Ribicoff as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Arthur Goldberg as Secretary of Labor. Kennedy was the only President for whom a national Jewish Award was named. The annual peace award of the Synagogue Council of America was re-named the John F. Kennedy Peace Award after his assassination in 1963.”

1917(8th of Sivan, 5677): Seventy-one year old banker and thoroughbred horse breeder Leopold de Rothschild, “the third son and youngest of the five children of Lionel de Rothschild and Charlotte von Rothschild” whose married to Marie Perugia at London’s Central Synagogue was attended by his friend the Prince of Wales, the son of Queen Victoria and the future King Edward VII.

1917: According to reports published today from Petrograd, “several hundred Jews who had been converted to Christianity under the old regime have returned to Judaism.”

1918: It was reported today that “the Hebrew Association for Blind” is raising a fund of $25,000 “to be used in opening new fields of usefulness for civilians and soldiers blinded in the war” including Jews as well as non-Jews.

1918: It was reported today that “in the opinion of Viscount Bryce, Palestine, which now has a population of somewhat less than 650,000 can support by agriculture and additional population of 300,000 under present conditions and a second addition of 300,000 after irrigation dams and other construction works have been built.”

1919: In Atlantic City, NJ, at the National Conference of Jewish Charities, Felix M. Warburg is scheduled to deliver a report on the work of the Joint Distribution Committee and Dr. Alexander M. Dushkin is scheduled to deliver a report on the “Survey of Jewish Education in America.”

1919: Arthur Eddington confirmed Einstein's light-bending prediction

1920(12^thof Sivan, 5680): Parashat Naso

1920(12^thof Sivan, 5680): Forty-four year old Solomon Lawrence “Sol” Cohn the Newellton, LA born son of Alexander and Lena Cohn, passed away today after which he was buried in the “Dispersed of Judah Cemetery” in New Orleans.

1921: Samuel Marcus Gup who served as rabbi at Temple Beth El in Providence, RI and Temple Israel in Columbus, OH and his wife Ruth Gup gave birth to Jean Gup who became Jean Monett when she married Harold Lee Monett

1921: Birthdate of Dancer and choreographer Pearl Lang.

http://jwa.org/thisweek/may/29/1921/pearl-lang

1922: In Los Angeles, Rabbi Edgar Magnin and his wife gave birth to Mae Magnin, the great-granddaughter of Isaac Magnin, the founder I. Magnin depart store who gained fame as Mae Magnin Brussell, best known for her radio broadcast and involvement in conspiracy theories http://www.maebrussell.com/

http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles/Monterey%20Herald%20Obituary.html

https://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/01/22/mae-brussell-a-forgotten-superhero/

1923: At a meeting in Town Hall tonight, it was announced that the Jews of New York City had raised $1,800,000 for Keren Hayesod of which $600,000 was in donations of cash, the rest being pledges.  Bernard Rosenblatt, who chaired the fund drive, also announced that thanks to the successful activities in other cities, Dr. Chaim Weizmann would be returning to Palestine with $1,500,000 in actual cash payments in addition to pledges from Jews across America.  The evening was also marked by a speech given by Samuel Untermeyer expressed Jewish appreciation to Great Britain for accepting the Palestine Mandate since the British had expressed sympathy for the goal of creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

1924: Birthdate Philadelphia native Irv Homer who gained fame as a local of radio talk show host.

1924: Leopold and Loeb “were summoned for questioning” today during the investigation into the murder of Bobby Franks and “asserted that on the night of the murder, they had picked up two women, Edna and May, in Chicago, using Leopold's car, then dropped them off sometime later near a golf course without learning their last names.”

1924: Albert Loeb who was bedridden due to a heart condition “saw his son” Richard “for the last time” today “when detectives came to his home” to arrest him.

1925(6^thof Sivan, 5685): Shavuot

1925: In St. Gallen, Switzerland, Richard Pollage and Irma Levy gave birth to WW II U.S. Navy veteran Fred Jules Pollag who gained fame as Fred Hayman the “fashion retailer and entrepreneur” who founded Giogor Beverly Hill and who was so tied to that high end world of the super-rich that his nickname was “Mr. Rodeo Drive.”

https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/04/fred-hayman-recaptures-some-of-the-giorgio-essence.html

1928: In Vienna, “Alexander and Edith (Knoll) Rohatyn gave birth to American financer and public servant Felix Rohatyn.

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/books/chapters/0527-1st-coha.html

1929: In Paterson, NJ, Morris Taub, “a junk dealer” and “the former Sylvia Sievitz” gave birth to Joseph Albert Taub, one of the driving forces behind payroll processor ADP and a part owner of the NBA New Jersey Nets. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/obituaries/joe-taub-basketball-fan-who-became-part-owner-of-the-nets-dies-at-88.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=region&region=region&WT.nav=region&_r=0

1930(2^ndof Sivan, 5690): Sixty year old Judge Hugo Pam the University of Michigan alum who had been a member of the Superior Court in Chicago for than 18 years and who had served as vice president of the Zionist Organization of America and headed the Palestine Restoration Fund in Chicago passed away today while visiting New York City.

http://www.jta.org/1930/06/01/archive/judge-hugo-pam-of-chicago-dies-suddenly-at-sixty

1930: In Manhattan, Luise and Arthur Schulte who was a partner at Lehman Brothers, gave birth to Anthony Martin Schulte, “a publishing executive who was an early proponent of audiobooks and among the first to tap the ready-made audience for books written by trusted television personalities like Alistair Cooke, Carl Sagan and Walter Cronkite.” (As reported by Paul Vitello)

1931: Manasseh Miller, President of the Trustees of Congregation Beth Elohim, announced today that “Rabbi Isaac Landman, editor of The American Hebrew and editor-in-chief of the Standard Jewish Encyclopedia” will return to the position of rabbi of the Congregation in September.

1931: Manasseh Miller, President of the Trustees of Congregation Beth Elohim, announced today that Dr. Alexander Lyons will begin serving as the congregation’s associate rabbi in September.

1932: “Everyday Chemistry” published today provided a review of The Story of Common Things by Louis Ehrenfeld, the curator of chemistry of the Museum of Science and Industry of Chicago which “may be recommended as a pleasant elementary introduction of a very difficult subject.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/05/29/100750099.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip

1933: Birthdate of historian Norman Pollack the Harvard PhD and Michigan State University history professor who campaigned for Adlai Stevenson and was the husband of Nancy Pollack with whom he had a son, Peter, the husband of Sallie Pollack.

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166339

1933 (4th of Sivan, 5693): Willi Aron a lawyer was murdered in Dachau.

1933: Louis T. McFadden, congressman from Pennsylvania, attacked the Jews in Congress. [Editor’s Note – McFadden was an outspoken foe the Federal Reserve Board.  He blamed the board for the Great Depression and saw it as part of a Jewish conspiracy to control the economy.  McFadden also wanted to impeach President Hoover.] http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Louis_Thomas_McFadden

1933: Discussion of the petition of Franz Bernheim on the violation of Jewish rights in Upper Silesia, which was to have been on the agenda of the League of Nations Council last week, is scheduled to take place today. Joseph Paul-Boncour, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and representatives of some of the smaller powers are expected to take a leading role in the discussion of Jewish rights. Sir John Simon, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs will also take part in the debated if he can return here in time to do so.

1934: Today, “the Schwarze Korps, the official organ of the SS carried an article criticizing the fact that in Berlin a woman’s team representing an Aryan sport club had competed with a team of Jewish women.”

1935: A “testimonial dinner” is scheduled to be held this evening “at Broadway Central Hotel honoring historian Peter Wiernick, the “editor-in-chief of the Jewish Morning Journal.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-morning-journale

1936: Birthdate of Ephraim Isaac, the native of Ethiopia who became “a scholar of ancient Semitic Language & Civilization and African/Ethiopian Languages and Religion.”

1936: “Squads of Syrian youths destroyed 5,400 eggs en route to Jews in Palestine” after which Jewish produce dealers asked for police protection.

1936: In Hamburg, “Julius Hollander, a 64-year old Jew, was sentenced tonight to two years’ penal servitude on charges of ‘race defilement’’ after having been “accused of intimacy with a German maid employed in his household.”

1936: “Hans Hirschfeld,  a 42 year old baptized Jew was sentenced today to one year’s imprisonment on charges of ‘race defilement’ after the court rejected his argument that he was a Christian and not subject to the Nuremberg “ghetto laws.”

1936: As Arab violence continued today, a Jewish policeman as stabbed and Jewish crops were burned.”

1938: As the Arab uprising continued, the British began construction of the Taggart Wall along the border with Syria and Lebanon. The wall was barbed wire fence interspersed with small forts.  The wall was an attempt to stop Arab terrorists from crossing into Palestine from Syria and Lebanon.  1938: As Arab violence continued to escalate, The Palestine Post reported that Arab terrorist gangs, searching for money and valuables, murdered eight Arab villagers, including three women, in the Tulkarm district. One woman who refused to pay was badly injured. Shots were fired at the Jewish quarters in Jerusalem, Haifa and Safed. "The Times" of London deplored the continued Arab terror in Palestine, "which led to some Jewish reprisals."

1938: The Palestine Postreported that the Tel Aviv Port celebrated its second anniversary by a swimming meet and a sailing review.

1938: Hungary restricted the proportion of Jews who could hold jobs in commerce, industry, the liberal professions, and the Hungarian government to 20 percent.

1939: “Five Arabs were killed by a mine detonated at the Rex Cinema in Jerusalem.

1939: “Twenty-five members of the Irgun led by Moshe Moldovsky attacked Biyar 'Adas.”

1940: Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau attended a meeting in the White House with FDR and three leaders of the U.S. Army.

1941: Birthdate of Bronx native Robert David Simon who gained fame as CBS correspondent Bob Simon. (As reported by Ashley Southall)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/nyregion/bob-simon-cbs-correspondent-is-killed-in-manhattan-car-crash.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

1941: In Princeton, NJ, “civilian mathematician Arthur Brown” and his wife Margaret gave birth to Rachel Ann Brown who gained fame as Rabbi Rachel Cowan. (As reported by Joseph Berger)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/obituaries/rabbi-rachel-cowan-dead.html

1941: Fearing capture by the British, Rashid Ali, leader of the pro-Nazi forces in Iraq and the Grand Mufti of Palestine, fled to Iran under the cover of darkness.

1942: In France, the family of Helene Berr began wearing yellow stars as the government implemented an edict ordering all Jews to wear this “Jew badge” on their clothing.

1942: Vichy France forbids Jews access to all restaurants and cafes, libraries, sports grounds, squares, and other public places.

1942: At Radziwillow, Ukraine, the Germans rounded up three thousand Jews with the intention of slaughtering them. Asher Czerkaski led the resistance against the Germans. While 1500 were killed another 1,500 found temporary safety in the forests.

1942 (13th of Sivan, 5702):  In Warsaw, a Jew named Wilner, too weak to move from his chair was thrown out of the window and shot at as he fell.

1942: Bing Crosby’s recording of Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” was released by Decca Records.  The biggest selling single of all times is still one of the most popular Christmas songs ever written.  Okay, so now we know of at least two Jews who responsible for Christmas as we know it.

1943(24^thof Iyar, 5703): Parashat Bechukotai

1943(24^thof Iyar, 5703): Seventy-six year old Morris Aaron passed away today after which he was buried at the Jewish Cemetery in Natchitoches, LA.

1944(7th of Sivan, 5704): Last Shavuot during the Shoah

1944(7^thof Sivan, 5704): Seventy-seven year old Hiram J. Halle, the Cleveland born son of Joseph and Regina Schwab Hall who was “president of the Universal Oil Products” and a “philanthropist” and “a patriot” who funded a program to bring “167 scholars and their families” to the United States during the rise of Hitler passed away tonight “at his country home” in Poundridge, NY.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/05/31/83981727.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/02/garden/washington-slept-here-when-he-was-very-old.html

1944: The weekly internal report of the War Refugee Board stated that Turkey had not refused admission to any Jews from Greece or any of the Greek Islands. "On the contrary, thus far Turkish authorities have promptly provided transportation from Izmir to Palestine for those refugees who have reached Turkish soil."

1944: Birthdate of Robert Herman Benmosche, the Brooklyn native and grandson of a Lithuanian rabbi, who chaired MetLife and saved AIG. (As reported by Jonathan Kandell)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/28/business/dealbook/robert-benmosche-ex-metlife-chief-who-rescued-aig-dies-at-70.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1944: After a three and a half day journey in cattle cars, the doors were opened for the first time for a train of thousands of packed Hungarian Jews. Fifty five of them were found dead.

1945:  Theodore Hardeen who “billed himself as the ‘brother of Houdini’” performed his final show in Ridgeway, Queens today.

1945: Today’s meeting of the World Conference of Polish Jewry “opened with a memorial ceremony for the Jews of Europe who had died under Nazism” that included the recitation of the Kaddish by “Grand Rabbi Dr. Isaac Alicalay, the chief rabbi of Yugoslavia.”1945: In a letter to the World Conference of Polish Jewry meeting at the Hotel Roosevelt “made public tonight at a special panel ‘Nazi War Crimes and Their Punishment’” “Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, United States chairman on the Allied Crimes Commission called for” the rounding up of “every scrap of documentary evidence against German war criminals for presentation to him.

1946: SS-Obersturmführer, Dr. Fritz Hintermayer was executed by the Allies for his work at Dachau.

1947: At a meeting of the Mapai Party secretariat, Ben Gurion declared “It has become clear to me that we had very important achievements: I do not know whether any nation other than ours could have had such achievements.  But if you think we have the power to defend the Yishuv, you are deceiving yourself.  We had a public that is devoted to the Haganah and that is prepared to give up its life to defend Zionism, but we do have a talented public that is trained and equipped for that.”

1947: “Dear Murder,” a British murder mystery with music by Benjamin Frankel was released today in the United Kingdom.

1948: The Israeli army crossed into Lebanon, and scattered the Arab forces on the border.

1948: As a result of Jewish forces capturing Acre, Nahariya was reunited with the rest of the Jewish State.  Under the terms of the partition, Nahariya had been excluded from what would become the nation of Israel. 

1948:  Israeli settlers established Shomrat, a new Kibbutz just north of Acre.  Shomrat is variation of the Hebrew word Shomer, meaning “to watch” or “one who watches.”  Given Shomrat's proximity to the Northern border and Mediterranean Sea, the name has more than a poetic significance.

1948:  During the War of Independence, the Israeli Air Force went into action as a combat force for the first time.  The force was made up of four Messerschmitts (ME-109’s).  The planes had been bought in Czechoslovakia and shipped to Israel by sea.  There was no time test the hastily assembled aircraft before sending them into combat.  The Israelis did allow themselves the luxury of painting the Star of David on the planes before they took flight.  The four planes were sent to attack the Egyptian armored column at Ashdod, which was only twenty miles from Tel Aviv.  One of the four planes was flown by Ezer Weizman, the father of the Israeli Air Force and later President of Israel.  Following a series of bombing and strafing runs, the Egyptian forces broke off their advance.  But as with all “successes” the Israelis paid a heavy price.  One of the four planes was shot down reducing the Air Force by 25%.  Eddie Cohen, a volunteer from South Africa was the first combat pilot to give his life defending the Jewish state.  In one of the minor ironies, the ME-109, the first combat aircraft of the Israeli Air Force, had been the pride of the German Air Force during World War II. The other two pilots were Lou Lenart and Mordechai “Modi” Alon.

1948(20^thof Iyar, 5708): Twenty-two year old British-born school teacher Esther Cailingold who had been one of the last defenders of the Old City during the War for Independence passed away today after having been shot in the spine three days ago.

http://www.zionism-israel.com/bio/Esther_Cailingold.htm

http://zionism-israel.com/ezine/Esther_Cailingold_encounter.htm

1948(20^thof Iyar, 5708): Eddie Cohen was killed in combat flying for the IAF today.

1948: The IAF had five pilots and only four combat aircraft which meant that Milton Rubenfield did not fly and fight today.

1948: The commander of the Egyptian armored column advancing toward Tel Aviv “was apparently so shaken by the IAF’s unexpected attack” that “he order his troops to hold their positions” which, although not known at the time, marked the end of the Egyptian advance on Tel Aviv.

1948: The British halted Jewish immigration from the DP camps on Cyprus to Israel.  Under the terms of the UN cease fire agreement then being negotiated, no person of military age was to be allowed to immigrate to Palestine.  This presented no problem for the Arabs, since their attacking armies were not immigrants.  Once again, the even-handedness of the international community turned out to be a fist punching the Jews.

1948: In an article published in the British Medical Journal Aaron Valero was the first to recognize and describe the outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Palestine

1948: Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet representative to the U.N. attacks the five Arab nations that have invaded Israel expressing his dismay that the invading Arab armies are “carrying out military operations aimed at the suppression of the National Liberation Movement in Palestine.”

1948: Lehi, the Irgun and the Palmach were dissolved with most of these groups members joining the IDF. 

1948: The Choir Hazamir under the direction of Hymen Riegelhaupt is scheduled to present a program of Yiddish, Hebrew and English music at the Royal Ontario Museum Theatre.

1949(1^stof Sivan, 5709): Rosh Chodesh Sivan

1949(1^stof Sivan, 5706): Sixty-one year old Dutch pianist Rosy Wertheim who ‘gave secret concerts in Amsterdam cellars” during the German occupation passed away today in Laren, the Netherlands.

1949: Today, upon his arrival in New York aboard the liner General Henry Taylor, “Dr. Hans Erich Fabian, a member of the Supreme Court of Western Berlin and concentration camp survivor” who was accompanied by 180 Jews including his wife and three children Joel 9, Judith 7 and Reha 5” said that “the Germans are still Nazis at heart and they have not learned anything nor have they forgotten the Hitler ideology.”

1949: In “Histories of the Jews” published today, Alfred Weiner, an “associate editor of The Chicago Jewish Forum” reviewed Israel: A History of the Jewish Peopleby Rufus Learsi and Story Without End: An Informal History of the Jewish People by Solomon Landman and Benjamin Efron.

1950: Jacob Rosenheim, president and founder of Agudath Israel World Organization arrived in Israel today so that he can take up residence in Tel Aviv.  Many of the activities of the organization which has 200,000 followers are now being directed from Israel.

1950: It was announced today that Israeli actress Nechama Davidit will come to New York during June to study at the summer school of the Neighborhood Playhouse. 

1951(13^thof Sivan, 5710): Sixty-sixty year old Comintern agent Mikhail Borodin who had been arrested in 1949 during a post-war Russian wave of anti-Semitism  died in Lefortovo Prison today after another round of torture.

http://spartacus-educational.com/Mikhail_Borodin.htm

1951(13th of Sivan, 5710): Fifty-nine year old Fanny Brice, American singer, comedienne, and actress passed away.  Born Fania Borach, in New York in 1891, Brice gained fame playing in the Ziegfeld Follies and later as the radio character Baby Snooks.  http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1029.html

1953: The Jerusalem Postreported that two Israeli soldiers were wounded in another confrontation with Jordanians in the Hebron area. A large number of month-old locusts were destroyed in the Negev. The hoppers came from the Sinai Desert where they laid their eggs.

1953: U.K. premiere of “Stalag 17” one of the best movies ever made directed and produced by Billy Wilder who co-authored the screenplay, co-starring Otto Preminger with music by Franz Waxman.

1953:  Birthdate of composer Danny Elfman, best known for his collaboration with director Tim Burton for whom he has composed most of the scores for Burton’s many hits including Bettlejuice.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/05/29/100750099.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1955: “Israel Gets U.S. Art” published today reported that the twelve American paintings present to the “Bazalel, Israel’s national museum” by Mrs. Rebecca Shulman “would be the basis of a hall of American art dedicated to Herman Shulman, her late husband.

1956: In New York, Joshua J. Nasaw and Beatrice “Bea” Kaplan Nasaw gave birth to Elizabeth Perl Nasaw  “who as "Elizabeth Was" (later "Lys Was" and finally "Lyx Ish") was a poet and publisher of avant-garde magazines, and the cofounder of Xexoxial Editions and Dreamtime Village in West Lima, Wisconsin.”

1957(28^thof Iyar, 5717): “A tractor driver was killed and two others wounded, when the vehicle struck a landmine, next to kibbutz Kissufim”

1957(28^thof Iyar, 5717): Seventy year old U. of Pennsylvania alum and State Supreme Court Judge Joseph Bruce Perskie who was active in the B’nai B’rith, Joint Distribution Committee and the Federation of Jewish Charities passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/05/30/90813220.pdf

1957: “Joe Butterfly” a comedy produced by Aaron Rosenberg, with a screenplay co-authored by Sy Gomberg and filmed by cinematographer Irving Glassberg premiered today in New York City.

1957: In Japan, premiere of “Godzilla, King of Monsters!” produced by Joseph E. Levine.

1958: Winston Churchill’s daughter, Sarah, represented the former Prime Minister at the opening ceremony unveiling the Churchill Auditorium of the Technion in Haifa.

1958: Birthdate of Juliano Mer-Khamis “an Israeli actor, director, filmmaker and political activist of Jewish and Christian Arab parentage.”

1959: “I Married A Woman” directed by Hal Kanter and written Goodman Ace premiered in Finland.

1959: U.S premiere of “Pork Chop Hill” a Korean War moved directed by Lewis Milestone, produced by Sy Barlett with music by Leonard Rosenman and featuring Martin Landau as “Lt. Marshall and Norman Fell as “Sergeant Coleman.”

1961: “Raisin in the Sun” a groundbreaking film produced by Philip Rose with a score by Laurence Rosenthal was released in the United States today.

1963(6th of Sivan, 5723): Shavuot

1963: “The List of Adrian Messenger” a slick mystery co-starring Kirk Douglas and with music by Jerry Goldsmith was released in the United States today.

1963: In Munich, Buddy Bregman, the American born Jewish “musical arranger, record producer and composer” and Canadian actress Suzanne Lloyd gave birth to actress Tracy Elizabeth Bregman

1964: A meeting of The Arab League in east Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian situation leads to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. The eastern portion of Jerusalem had been annexed by the conquering Jordanian army and there was no talk of turning that over to the Palestinians.  Also, since the meeting took place in 1964 (three years before the June War) it is obvious that the Palestine that was to be liberated is what is called the state of Israel.

1966: Today, “at their annual fundraising banquet, members of the Twin City Merkos L’Inoyonei Chincuch, an Orthodox Jewish organization honored William and Jennie Guttman for their dedication and hard work in the community.”

1967: Israel began the period known as the “Hamtana” or “Waiting.”  At the time, this period of waiting increased the anxieties and fears of many Israelis as they saw the Arabs forging an ever more threatening military vice around their country.  But as Rabin wrote later, it was this Waiting that gave Israel the political leverage it needed with the international community during and after the war that would come in June of 1967.

1967: CBS broadcast the first episode of “Coronet Blue” created by Larry Cohen.

1967:  In a speech to the Egyptian National Assembly, President Nasser exacerbated the crisis by declaring, “’The issue is not the question of Akaba, the Straits of Tiran or the United Nations Emergency Force.’”  He continued that the issue was the existence of Israel and that the he was not afraid of the United States, Great Britain or “’the entire Western World.’”

1968: “Wild in the Streets,” a counter-culture “cult classic, co-produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff, starring Shelly Winters and featuring a “cameo appearance” by Walter Winchell was released today in the United States.

1971(5^thof Sivan, 5731): Parashat Bamidbar; erev Shavuot

1971(5^thof Sivan, 5731): Seventy one year old director, producer and screenwriter Herbert Joseph Biberman, one those blacklisted as a member of the “Hollywood Ten” passed away today.

http://spartacus-educational.com/USAbiberman.htm

1972: “Morag, the southernmost settlement in Gush Katif was established” today “as a non-religious pioneer Nahal military outpost, and demilitarized when turned over to residential purposes in 1982.”

1972(16^thof Sivan, 5732): Seventy-year old Princeton grad and Columbia trained attorney Morris “Moe” Berg, the major league catcher who doubled as an American spy passed away. For more see The Catcher Was A Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff

https://www.espn.com/classic/biography/s/Berg_Moe.html

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/moe-berg

1973: The West End production of “Gypsy” with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Arthur Laurents opened at the Piccadilly Theatre today.

1974: A disengagement agreement was reached between Israel and Syria.

1974: Michael Stern, a doctor from Vinnista was arrested today on “official charges of bribery” but in reality “because he did not condemn the desire of his children to leave for Israel.”

1974: In an attempt to break the stalemate following the Yom Kippur War, Syrian and Israeli officers meet in Geneva under the chairmanship of the UN Chief of Staff, Ensio Siilasvuo

1975: In Manhattan, Zach Lonstein, chief executive officer of Infocrossing and his wife gave birth to Shoshanna Lonstein who gained fame as Shoshanna Lostein Gruss the “first-ever Style Director of Elizabeth Arden, Inc” and the wife, “Joshua Gruss, son of financier Martin D. Gruss and grandson of financier and philanthropist Joseph S. Gruss

1978:Yitzhak Navon assumed office today as the fifth President of Israel and “the first president with small children to move into Beit HaNassi” where he will lived with his wife Ofira.

1978: The Jerusalem Postreported that Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat, warned Israel that the Sinai disengagement agreement with Israel will expire next October, and "only God knows what will happen then." But he added that he still stood by his promise that the 1973 war should be the last.

1978: The Jerusalem Postreported that the Palestine Liberation Organization warned from Lebanon that it will soon operate from the Golan Heights, Jordan, as well as from Sinai.

1978(22^nd of Iyar, 5738): Seventy-seven year old screenwriter and producer Sy Bartlett who co-authored the novel Twelve O’Clock High which was turned into one of the most famous movies about WW II.

1979(3rd of Sivan, 5739):  Habib Elghanian, President of the Council of federations of Iranian Jewish communities, who he had been arrested and convicted for Zionist spying was summarily executed by the new Iranian government.

1979: In New York, “Stephen A. Schwarzman, the founder, chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group, and Ellen Katz (née Philips), a trustee of Northwestern University and the Mount Sinai Medical Center” gave birth to Edward Frank “Teddy Schwarzman, the graduate of Penn and Duke Law School and “the founder, president and chief executive of Black Bear Pictures” who married fellow Blue Devil Ellen Marie Zajac, the New York lawyer and mother of his three children.

1981: Israeli jets attacked “Libyan antiaircraft missile batteries guarding Palestinian guerrilla positions south of Beirut” after an IAF reconnaissance plane had been attacked by enemy missiles.

1981: U.S. premiere of “Polyester” a comedy co-starring Tab Hunter (Andrew Arthur Klem) with music by Michael Kamen and Christ Stein.

1982(7^th of Sivan, 5742): Second Day of Shavuot

1982: Leonard Maltin began working as “the movie reviewer on the syndicated television series Entertainment Tonight.”

1983: The audience stood and joined more than 200 singers from 7 Jewish choruses from Washington, Philadelphia, Connecticut, New York, Long Island and Boston in singing ''Hatikva'' at the end of the American Jewish Choral Festival concert in Merkin Hall

1984(27^th of Iyar, 5744): Eighty-one year old Philip David Adler, the Davenport born son of Lena Rothschild and newspaper published Emanuel Phillip Adler and the husband of “the former Henrietta Carol Bondi” who was “an undergraduate editor of the Daily Iowan” which was the first steep along following in his father’s footsteps passed away today after which he was buried iin the Mount Nebo Hebrew Cemetery in Davenport, IA.

1987: Daniel Barenboim is scheduled to conduct the IPO in an anniversary program that will include concertos by Mozart.

1987(1st of Sivan, 5747): Rosh Chodesh Sivan

1987(1^st of Sivan, 5747): Eighty-five year old Irene Jonas, the Bronx born “daughter of Mortiz and Fannie Kahn” and wife of Dr. Joseph Quincy Joanas passed away today in New York.

1989: In “Unmeeting Minds In Zion,” published today Karl Meyer defended Secretary of State James Baker’s call for “Israelis to abandon grandiose claims to a greater Israel” because it balances previous American demands that Yasser Arafat give up his claims to all of Israel which is part of the PLO’s charter document.

1990(5th of Sivan, 5750): Erev of Shavuot

1991(16^thof Sivan, 5751): Seventy-eight year old Eton College and King's College, Cambridge graduate Henry David Leonard George Walston, Baron Walston the son of Sir Charles Waldstein and the former Florence Einstein who was “a British farmer, agricultural researcher and politician, firstly for the Liberal Party, then for Labour and then for the Social Democratic Party” who married Elizabeth Scott after the death of his first wife passed away today.

1992: “The Finest Hour,” a movie about U.S. Navy Seals directed by Shimon Dotan whose five years as Seal in the Israeli Navy may have helped him write the script for this film and produced by Menahem Golan was released today in Portugal after premiering in the United States.

1992(15^thof Sivan, 5751): Just weeks before his 79^th birthday Henry David Leonard George Walston, Baron Walston the only son of Florence (nee Einstein) and Anglo-American archaeologist Sir Charles Waldstein who was agricultural researcher and failed candidate for the House of Commons passed away today.  His mother was the widow of Theodore Seligman and his father was the one who changed the family from Waldstein to Walston.

1994(19th of Sivan, 5754): Literary scholar Harry Levin passes away at the age of 81. Levin (pronounced luh-VINN), was considered to be the first Jew to receive tenure in Harvard's English Department. Harry Levin's father had been Jewish, but his mother was not and he married a Russian Orthodox writer named Elena, who translated Trotsky.

1994(19^thof Sivan, 5754): Seventy-eight year old Joseph Janni, the Italian born Jewish movie producer who moved to England in 1939 where he spent the rest of his life passed away today.

1996:Israeli voters confirmed their country's yawning divisions in elections today by splitting their ballots almost evenly between the candidates for Prime Minister and, in the separate balloting for Parliament, abandoning the two major parties in droves for small religious, ethnic and other groupings.

1997(22nd of Iyar, 5757): Seventy-four year old Russian born American expert on the Byzantine Empire Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan passed away today in Washington, DC having on completed the first volume of his History of Byzantine Literature.

1999: In Jerusalem, Israel, Charlotte Nilsson won the forty-fourth Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden singing "Take Me To Your Heaven".

1998: A group of American rabbis and educators belonging to the three main streams of Judaism issued a call for there to be no violent opposition if mixed prayer groups appear at the Western Wall during the Shavuot holiday. Last year, there were violent confrontations between fervently Orthodox Jews and liberal Jews seeking to pray at the Western Wall on Shavuot and Tisha B'Av.

1998: Barry M. Goldwater passes away. Born in 1909, Goldwater was a U.S. Senator from Arizona and unsuccessful Republican Presidential candidate in 1964.  Goldwater's father was Jewish.  Goldwater was raised as an Episcopalian.  This did not keep bigots from disparaging the Republican ticket as "The Arizona Israelite and his fellow traveler from the Vatican."  His running mate Congressman William Miller of New York really was a Roman Catholic.

2000: An Israeli court postpones a decision on whether to release two Lebanese guerrillas held without trial for years.

2000: Settlers warn Prime Minister Ehud Barak he could be killed if he uproots settlements.

2001(7th of Sivan, 5761: Second Day Shavuot

2001: The BBC broadcast “The Wrong Empire” the 11^th episode of “A History of Britain a documentary series written and presented by Simon Schama” which began its second season tonight.

2001(7^thof Sivan, 5761): Fifty-three year old Sara Blaustein and 20 year old Esther Alvan were murdered by a Tanzim terrorist.

2001: Forty-one year old Gilad Zar was shot by a Tanzim terrorist as he traveled between Kedumim and Yitzhar.

2002(18^thof Sivan, 5762): Seventy-year old novelist Lois Gould, author of Such Good Friends lost her battle with cancer today and passed away at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/31/arts/lois-gould-a-writer-on-women-s-inner-lives-dies-at-70.html

2002: A program is launched to integrate Ethiopian immigrants into Israeli society. The National Ethiopian Absorption Project is initiated by the Jewish Agency for Israel and is planned to last nine years.

2003: Today marks the 100th anniversary of the day Rabbi Tobias and Mrs. Geffen, along with their two eldest children arrived in America. The family arrived on board the Deutschland which departed from Cuxhaven, Hamburg, Germany.  Geffen is the Coca Cola Rabbi, having been responsible for seeing to it that formula was both kosher and kosher for Passover.

2004(9^thof Sivan, 5764): Twenty-five year old Major Shachar Ben-Yishai, 25, of Menahemia was killed by Palestinian gunfire near Nablus today

2004 (9th of Sivan, 5764): Seventy-two year old Jack Morris Rosenthal passed away. Born in 1931, he was an English playwright, who wrote 129 early episodes of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and over 150 screenplays, including original TV plays, feature films, and adaptations

2004 (9th of Sivan, 5764): Sam Dash passed away. Born in 1925, Dash was a long time Professor at the Georgetown University Law School.  He gained fame as the Chi

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/30/us/samuel-dash-chief-counsel-for-senate-watergate-committee-dies-at-79.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

2005: The Cedar Rapids Jewish Community remembers Dr. Robert Handler, husband of Diane Handler and father of Nathan, Daniel and Benjamin Handler Memorial Stone and Unveiling Ceremony.  A righteous man will always be missed and will always be remembered.

2005(20th of Iyar, 5765): Composer George Rochberg passed away at the age of 86.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E5DF1638F932A35755C0A9639C8B63

2005(20th of Iyar, 5765): Gershon Jacobson passed away. Born in 1934, Jacobson was a veteran journalist and commentator for some of the most eminent newspapers, including the New York Herald Tribune, the Yiddish Day Jewish Journaland Israel's largest daily Yediot Acharonot, “Gershon used his powerful writing and analytical skills to faithfully document the destruction, rebirth and renaissance of Jews and Judaism.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/02/nyregion/02jacobson.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print

2005: The New York Times included reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including A Matter of Opinionby Victor S. Navasky and the recently released paperback editions of Birth of the Chess Queen: A History by Marilyn Yalom and Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America in which Laura Shapiro “revisits a dark decade in culinary history, when the food industry elbowed its way into the kitchen promoting Nescafé, Bisquick and Jell-O.”

2006(2^nd of Sivan, 5766): Ninety-two year old men’s clothing merchant and co-owner of Witty Brothers passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/business/05witty.html

2006: In Jerusalem, Opening session of “Biomed Israel – 2006” a conference focusing onRespiratory disorders, Central Nervous System disorders, metabolic disorders and Cancer

2007: As reported in Haaretz, Ami Ayalon surged ahead of his main rival for the leadership of the Labor Party with 46 percent of the votes counted early today, winning 37.3 percent to Ehud Barak's 30.3 percent.

2007:  In Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took the unusual stance of reading a dissent from the bench, a usually rare practice that she has now employed twice in the past six weeks to criticize the majority for opinions that she said undermine women's rights. Justice Ginsburg’s dissent which was supported by Justice Souter, showed them to stand in the best tradition of the first Jewish Supreme Court jurist, Louis D. Brandeis.

2008: Klara Silverstein (Mrs. Larry Silverstein) and her daughter Lisa, received the Philanthropy Award at today’s UJA-Federation of New York’s Women’s Philanthropy inaugural luncheon.

2008: In Chicago, Spertus Museum and Lawndale Community Academy (LCA) celebrate the launch of Poetic Integrity and Truth: Youth Culture and Leadership in North Lawndale. Marking the third year of a Spertus/Lawndale partnership highlighting the Jewish and African American impact on the North Lawndale community, the book was written and illustrated by LCA students and explores their lives, interests, and aspirations.

2008: Klara Silverstein, the wife of real estate mogul Larry Silverstein and his daughter Lisa received the Philanthropy Award at the UJA-Federation of New York’s Women’s Philanthropy inaugural luncheon.

2008(24th of Iyar, 5768): Comedian Harvey Korman, comedic sidekick to Carol Burnett and winner of four Emmys, passed away.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/arts/television/30korman.html?pagewanted=print

2008: The Chicago Tribune reports on status of the Jews of Cuba in an article entitled “Cuba’s Jewish community enjoys remarkable rebirth.”

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/religion/chi-cubanjews-fill-0529may29,0,648731.story

2009(6th of Sivan, 5769): First Day Shavuot

2010: Paula Valstein, singer/songwriter/pianist, an Israeli army veteran and a graduate of the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music near Tel Aviv is scheduled to perform tonight at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City.

2010: Gaza-based terrorists continued to attack Israel firing two rockets to night one of which exploded in an open area south of Ashkelon. “More than 50 rockets have exploded in the Negev since the beginning of 2010, and more than 350 rockets were fired from Hamas-controlled Gaza into Israel since the end of Operation Cast Lead last year,.”’

2011: In the borough of Queens several Jewish Bukharin an Uzbek artist performed at concert honoring the late Ilyas Malayev who would have been 75 years old this year.

2011: Two days after his death, in Bozman, MD, a private service was held at the home of philanthropist Louis S. Sachs.

http://www.stltoday.com/suburban-journals/metro/news/louis-s-sachs-philanthropist-father-of-chesterfield-dies-at/article_e680bb4d-6725-54e1-aa36-17a91ccb8af3.html

2011: The leadership of the Maccabi World Union is scheduled to hold the opening session of its annual three day conference today.

2011: “A Motorcycle Ride for Gilad Shalit” designed to advance the freeing of this Israeli soldier by his Arab captors is scheduled to begin today at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC.

2011: Playwright and actor David Greenspan is scheduled to present his one-man show Plays, a word-for-word performance of the Gertrude Stein essay of the same name at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco

2011: The New York Times features reviews books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including ‘Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza’ by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole, “Reckless Endagerment” by Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner and “Alfred Kazin’s Journals,” selected and edited by Richard M. Cook.

2011(25^thof Iyar, 5771): Ninety-six year old Albert M. Sack, the Massachusetts born son of Ann Sack and Israel Sack, a Lithuanian born cabinetmaker, who went from being a university dropout to a career in antiques passed away today. (As reported by Paul Vitello)

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/arts/design/albert-m-sack-antiques-dealer-and-author-dies-at-96.html

http://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/albertsack/

https://web.library.yale.edu/collection/israel-sack-inc-archive

2011: The Los Angeles Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including 'On China' by Henry Kissinger.



2011: Giora Eiland “said on Kol Yisrael Radio that in his view it would be better for Israel to let the next flotilla - expected to set out in late June 2011 - get through to Gaza, provided that the Government of Turkey would be willing to take responsibility for the flotilla, inspect all ships and make sure they were not carrying arms.” Born in 1952 at moshav Kfar Hess, Eiland is a former national security advisor who reited from the IDF with the rank of Major General.

2011: Israel’s efforts to alleviate poverty and develop local economies in Africa is noble yet it needs to do more, Irish singer-activist Bob Geldof said at a conference on Israel and Africa held in Herzliya today.

2011: Opening day of Field of Dreams, “JNF’s hardball mission to the holy land.”

2011(25^thof Iyar, 5771): Ninety-six year old antique maven Albert M. Sack passed away today in Durham, NC. (As reported by Paul Vitello)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/arts/design/albert-m-sack-antiques-dealer-and-author-dies-at-96.html?_r=1

2012: “What We Saw From the Cheap Seats, Regina Spektor’s” latest album is due out today.

2012: Dennis Ross and David Makovsky are scheduled to “offer their perspective on recent events in the Middle East, the peace process and the future of Israel” at the 92^nd Street Y.

2012: Among those President Obama presented the Medal of Freedom to were  Shimon Peres – President of Israel; Madeleine Albright – the first woman to serve as Secretary of State; Bob Dylan – the American musical icon who began life as Robert Allen Zimmerman ; and Jan Karski - a resistance fighter against the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II. He carried the first eye-witness accounts of the Holocaust to the world. As a courier to the Warsaw ghetto and the Izbica transit camp, he saw the atrocities first-hand. He became a U.S. citizen in 1954 and died in 2000.

2012: The Attorney-General’s Office announced today that in accordance with a recommendation from the High Court of Justice, the state has agreed to pay the wages of non-Orthodox rabbis serving in regional councils, just as it does for Orthodox rabbis.

2013: In Milwaukee, WI, Tikkun Ha-Air’s Glean Machine which collects spring and summer clothing, household items, toiletries, books, toys, art supplies, and nonperishable food, is scheduled to begin today.

2013: The Peri Committee’s approval of the draft version of a new military conscription law was a “historic moment,” Finance Minister Yair Lapid said hours after ministers cast their final vote today. The Israeli public needs the ultra-Orthodox, “with gun in hand, alongside us,” he said.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/lapid-hails-new-conscription-bill-as-historic-change/

2013: Swastikas were painted onto the walls of a synagogue in the coastal city of Bat Yam in the latest in a series of attacks on synagogues across the country. The warden of the Ha’Ohel synagogue, Miki Moshkovitz, found the offensive symbols today morning and immediately called the police. (As reported by Stuart Winer)

2013(20^thof Sivan, 5773): Ninety year old Auschwitz survivor and controversial Canadian physician Henry Morgentaler passed away today.  (As reported by Robert D. McFadden)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/world/americas/henry-morgentaler-abortion-doctor-in-canada-dies-at-90.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

2013: Today, “at their 46^th annual meeting, the Victorian Society of New York presented a Preservation and Rehabilitation for the exterior” of Congregation Tifereth Israel which was constructed in 1911 making it “the oldest synagogue in Queens.

2013:  The Argentinian prosecutor in charge of investigating the bombing at the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994, has accused Iran of infiltrating several South American countries and building intelligence stations from which terrorist attacks could be planned and carried out. Alberto Nisman issued a 502-page indictment today placing responsibility for the bombing, which killed 85 people, on the highest authorities in the Islamic Republic.

2014: Magen David Sephardic Congregation is scheduled the Maryland premiere of “The J Street Challenge: The Seductive Allure of Peace in our Time.”

2014: Marv “Albert stepped down from calling The NFL on CBS and focus on basketball duties for TNT and CBS.”

2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host Norway’s  Ullern Kammerkor presenting  music dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust—“Bøner for medfangar” (“Prayers for Fellow Prisoners”) by Kristian Hernes with a text by Dietrich Bonhoeffer—and music by Gideon Klein and Viktor Ullmann, composers active during imprisonment in Theresienstadt

2014: “Donald Sterling is prepared to sue the NBA if it goes ahead with action to strip him of his ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, his attorney said today.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/clippers-sterling-ready-to-sue-nba-for-team-lawyer/

2014: In a case of Jew versus Jew, today Steve  “Ballmer placed a bid of $2 billion to purchase the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers after NBA commissioner Adam Silver forced Donald Sterling to sell the team.”

2014(29^thof Iyar, 5774): In the evening, erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan. According to the 17^thcentury sage Isaiah Horovitz “the eve of the first day of the Hebrew month of Sivan is the most auspicious time to pray for the physical and spiritual welfare of one's children and grandchildren, since Sivan was the month that the Torah was given to the Jewish people” and this belief insipired him to compose a special prayer for the occasion “known as the Tefillat HaShlah.”

2014: “Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi confirmed” today that “Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will join Pope Francis in a prayer for peace at the Vatican” on June 8.

2014: Katie Holmes joined the cast of “Woman in Gold” where she will play the role of “Pam Schoenberg.”

2014: “Thousands of Jewish Red Sox fans packed America’s oldest ballpark tonight for the legendary franchise’s first Jewish Heritage Night.”

2014: The cornerstone for a new Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue, which would replace the centuries old structure that had been deliberately destroyed by Arab armies in 1948, was laid today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiferet_Yisrael_Synagogue#/media/File:Ruzhiner_yeshiva,_Jerusalem.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiferet_Yisrael_Synagogue#/media/File:Tiferesyisrael48b.jpg

2015(11^thof Sivan, 5775): Sixty-five year old Moses Samuel, the “long-time leader” of Myanmar’s Jewish community passed away today in Yangon.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/leader-of-myanmars-jewish-community-dies/

2015: Palestine is scheduled to “seek Israel’s expulsion from world soccer’s governing body at today’s meeting of the FIFA Congress.

2015: Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the Riverside Casino & Golf Resort at Riverside, IA.

2015: Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor are scheduled to “return to Abrons” with a performance “Ship of Fools.”

2015: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a concert as part of the Israel Festival.

2016(21^stof  Iyar, 5776): Ninety-three year old Mordechai Gazit, the native of Istanbul, older brother of Shlomo Gait, Haganah veteran and “an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir., ambassador to France, and as Director-General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry” passed away today.

2016: UK Jewish Film is scheduled to host a screening of “Remember”

2016: Today, “The Israel Police concluded its investigation into financial impropriety at the Prime Minister’s Residence and recommended that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara Netanyahu stand trial on graft allegations.”

2016: “Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett today threatened to quit the coalition over his demands for greater intelligence-sharing in the high-level security cabinet, as Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein urged the Likud and Jewish Home parties to cut a deal quickly to avoid new elections.”

2016: “Israeli security forces arrested six alleged members of a Hamas terror cell accused of planning and carrying out a suicide bombing in Jerusalem last month, the Shin Bet security service announced today.”

2016: The “Roman Vishniac Rediscovered” exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, California is scheduled to come to an end today.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/exhibit-shows-new-works-by-iconic-photographer-who-immortalized-pre-wwii-jewry/

2016: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering by David A. Kessler East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity by Philippe Sands and Anatomy of Malice: The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminalsby Joel E. Dimsdale.

2017: In the United States Memorial Day, which really is May 30 is observed today.

https://kaplancenter.org/memorial-day-and-united-jewish-people

http://forward.com/news/135331/profiles-of-our-fallen/#ixzz1DeAMPaIh

http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/07/18/jews-in-the-military/



2017: The Manhattan Jewish Experience is scheduled to host a dinner and discussion of the weekly Torah portion followed by a presented by Rabbi Mark Wildes, founder and director of MJE

2017: In honor of Memorial Day, the Illinois Holocaust Museum is schooled offer free admission to all military personnel and their families

2018: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “Travels in Jewish History” during which Irene Shaland, an internationally-published art and travel writer, educator, and lecturer, talks about her travels through Jewish history in Burma, India, China, Cuba, and Cambodia.”

2018: Following tonight’s weekday dinner, the Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a discussion led by Rabbi Mark Goldsmith in which “tough questions” will be raised about how Jews, based on their laws and tradition “should behave as buyers and sellers, employers and employees and owners and customers.” (Editor’s note – Could there be a more timely topic to discuss?  Makes you wish you were in Oxford tonight)

2018: “Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens,” a Jewish and “ sometimes brash political outsider whose unconventional resume as a Rhodes Scholar and Navy SEAL officer made him a rising star in the Republican Party, abruptly resigned today amid a widening investigation that arose from an affair with his former hairdresser.”

2018: “Israel’s armed forces struck more than 60 Palestinian targets after more than 100 rockets rained down on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip today, in the heaviest fighting seen since 2014.”

2019: The Veterans Games are scheduled to continue for a fourth day in “Tel Aviv and Jerusalem at rehabilitation centers run by Beit Halochem.”

2019: In Canada, the Edmonton Jewish Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Between Worlds,” directed by Miya Hatav.

2019: In Cedar Rapids, IA, the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to discuss Heather Morris’ novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

2019: At the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, The JDC Archives, the American Jewish Historical Society and the Jewish Historical Society are scheduled to host a reception marking the launch of The JDC at 100: A Century of Humanitarianism“a pathbreaking collection of scholarly essays that focus on the history of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) — the organization founded in 1914 to help victims of World War I, which has played a key role in preserving and sustaining Jewish life across the globe.”

2019: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host a lecture by bible scholar Avivah Zornberg followed by a screening of “In the Beginning Was Desire.”

2020: The Reboot and the Jewish Emergent Network all-night Shavuot cultural arts festival featuring comedy, music, food, learning and conversation is scheduled to come to an end this morning at five in the morning.

2020: OneTable along with Julia Weiss, head writer of Cards Against Humanity, Caleb Heron, Shelby Wolstein, Gianmarco Soresi are scheduled to host a comedy Shabbat!

2020:JIMENA and JDC Entwine are scheduled to host a gathering to celebrate Shavuot and Shabbat, led by Rabbi Tsipi Gabai, with percussionist Katja Cooper where worshippers can learn Sephardic songs and Moroccan Jewish traditions

2020(6^thof Sivan, 5780): Shavuot; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

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70: During the Siege of Jerusalem, Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. The Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometers.

1096: In one of the few instances of individual courage, the local Bishop of Cologne and some of the local Burghers offered the Jews protection in their own houses. The Bishop later escorted them to towns under his protection. Crusaders reached Cologne and found the gate to the city closed by order of the bishop. Of all the Jewish communities in the path of the Crusaders, Cologne's Jews were the only ones to escape total destruction.

1096(6^thof Sivan): In Cologne, Mar Isaac and Rebecca perish in an act of Kiddush Ha-Shem

1096(6^thof Sivan: Isaac of Mayence committed suicide on Shavuot two days after he had he submitted to forced baptism to save the lives of his mother and children.  According to legend, he set the synagogue on fire to keep it from being turned into a church.  (As reported by Abraham Bloch)

1201: Birthdate of Theobold IV, Count of Champagne. When Louis VIII issued an ordinance that prohibited his officials from recording debts owed to Jews, Theobold was the only French baron who refused to accept the royal decree since this would interfere with extra income he gained by being able to tax Jewish financial transactions.  The issue here really had nothing to do with either party caring about the Jews.  The issue was money and who would have the real power; the monarch or his barons.

1252: Saint Ferdinand III, the King of Castile and King of Galicia and Leon passed away. The King must have been both courageous and practical.  He stood up to the powerful Catholic Church when refused the Pope’s demand that Jews be forced to wear special badge and clothing. He was afraid that the requirement would force the Jews to leave for Muslim Granada which would had a disastrous effect on revenue collections for his kingdom.

1497: King Ferdinand of Spain “proclaimed in a royal decree that Luis de Santangel and his family, present and future, were to be protected from the inquisition.” Born at Valencia Santangel, a baptized Jew, was the finance minister to the Spanish monarchs who convinced them to sponsor Columbus’ voyage to the new world. He raised the funds himself.

1574:  Henry III becomes King of France on the death of his brother, Charles IX.  Henry had been serving as the King of Poland at the time of his brother’s death.  He owed his selection as ruler Poland to a Jew named Solomon Ashkenazi who was an advisor to the Turkish Sultan. 

1593: Twenty-nine year old Christopher Marlowe the English playwright whose work included “The Jew of Malta” which like Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” portrays the Jews in such a way that it is assumed to be anti-Semitic passed away today.

1599: Birthdate of Samuel Bochart, the French Protestant biblical scholar who was an expert on Oriental languages including Hebrew and who delivered a series of unique lectures on Genesis including “the names contained in the Table of Nations.”

1635: During what will be known as the Thirty Years War (it started in 1618 and ended in 1648) the Peace of Prague is signed marking the start of the end of hostilities. The war will finally end with the Peace of Westphalia^. The war was  between pitted Protestants against Catholics with Jews caught in the middle For example the Jews of Vienna suffered as a result of the occupation of the city by Imperial soldiers in 1624 when Emperor Ferdinand II confined the Jews to a ghetto. The fighting centered around Germany, Austria, France and the Netherlands and throughout many towns in Germany and Moravia, the Jewish population was expelled, which resulted in thousands of refugees fleeing to Cracow and other Polish cities. These Jews would get caught up in the uprisings that took place in Polish dominated Ukraine. The good news is that the end of the Thirty Years War would mark the rise of a flourishing Protestant Netherlands that would prove a home to European Jews.

1762: Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Emden, Prussia.

1775: In Charleston, Miss Rachel De Costa married Jacob Tobias.

1778: Voltaire French philosopher and author passed away.  Voltaire is generally regarded as a great thinker.  However, as can be seen from his own words, he was a rabid anti-Semite. He described Jews as being “small, ignorant and crude people.”  Voltaire did not base his anti-Semitism on the Jews adherence to their religion.  Cure them of their religion, he wrote and there is still the problem of their in-born character.

1781(6^thof Sivan, 5541): On the same day that Jews on both sides of the Atlantic celebrate Shavuot, George Washington dealt with reports of British movement along Lake Champlain and the presence of their army in South Carolina and Virginia.

1791: In Norfolk, Philip Moses Russell and his wife gave birth to Moses Russell.

1797(5^thof Sivan, 5557): Erev Shavuot observed at the same time that French Forces bask in the glory of four straight months of victories that will signal an end to what later became known as the War of the First Coaltion.

1796: In the United Kingdom, London financier and leader of the Jewish community, Levi Salomons and Matilda de Metz gave birth to their eldest son, Philip Salomons.

1798: Isaac Harris and Esther Abrahams were married today at the Great Synagogue in London

1800(6th of Sivan, 5560): Shavuot celebrated for the first time in the 19^thcentury.

1806: “A decree was issued today requesting that a special assembly of Jewish leaders and Rabbis from all of the different French departments, would meet in Paris and discuss all outstanding matters including answering questions dealing with accusations against the Jews made by the anti-Semites.”

1806: Joseph David Sinzheim was among those attending the Jewish Assembly of Notables convened by Napoleon I.

1807: Today, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall officiated at the ceremony during which Marcus Levi and Simon Z. Block, both born in Germany, became U.S. citizens.

1814: Signing of the First Treaty of Paris.  The treaty officially returned the Bourbons to the French throne which marked the official beginning of a period of reaction which was not good for the Jews who had gained many rights during the Napoleonic Wars. 

1814: Birthdate of Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin whose anti-Semitic views would seem to prove that anti-Semitism is the common denominator for Russians be they Romanovs or Revolutionaries.

1822: In Berlin, Robert L. Bienenstock and his wife gave birth to Simon (Isadore) Bienenstock who settled in St Louis and raised a family of eight children with his wife Helena.

1826: One day after she had passed away Elizabeth (Harris) Davis, the wife of Charles Davis was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”

1828: William Huskisson, who took “the first step toward” freeing the Jews from their disabilities by presenting “a petition” to Parliament “singed by 2,000 merchants and others from Liverpool” completed his service as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies

1829: Birthdate of Lewin Goldschmidt, the native of Gdansk who became a leading German jurist and an ardent supporter of Chancellor Bismarck’s idea of a united German Empire that exclude Austria and its polyglot empire.

1838(6^thof Sivan, 5598): Shavuot

1839: Birthdate of. Hermann Adler, the Hanover born Rabbi who succeeded his father as Chief Rabbi of the British Empire a position he held from 1891 until his death in 1911.

1844(12^thof Sivan, 5604): Italian physician and author Benedetto Frizz (AKA Benzion Raphael Kohen) passed away today.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0007_0_06900.html

1845: In Colmar, France, the chief rabbi and his wife give birth to French physician Theodore Klein who “was also a member of the Jewish Consistory of Paris, and for eighteen years president of the Société de l'Etude Talmudique”

1849: In Raudnitz, Bohemia, “a petty merchant” and his wife gave birth to law student turned journalist Emil Schiff who wrote for the "Deutsche Zeitung,Spener'schen Zeitung and Neue Freie Presse.”

1852(12^thof Sivan, 5612): Sixty-seven year old Isaac Mendez Seixas Nathan, the husband of Sarah Nathan and the father of Grace Nathan passed away today in New York City.

1853: Elias Landauer, the German born son of Raphael Löb Landauer and Lucia Pessel Landaue and his wife Karoline Kehle Landauer gave birth to Samuel Löb Landauer.

1857(7^thof Sivan 5617): Second Day of Shavuot and Shabbat were observed on the same day that mutinies at Muttra and Lucknow began during the Sepoy Mutiny.

1860: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs officiated at the wedding Daniel Ottolengui and Helene R. Rodrigues, the daughter of Dr. B.A. Rodrigues.

1861: Edward Storm a German Jewish immigrant living in Greenville, MS enlisted in the Confederate Army.

1865: In “Wollstein, Germany, Rabbi Nathan and Johana (Braun) Rosenau” gave birth University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College educated Rabbi William Rosenau, the faculty member of Johns Hopkins where he had earned his Ph.D. who served several congregations including Temple Israel in Omaha, and the Eutaw Place Temple in Baltimore who married Myra Kraus after his first wife, Mabel Hellman, passed away.

1865: Today, Springfield resident  Julius Hammerslough, of the firm of Hammerslough Brothers, who had enjoyed very friendly relations with Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln today wrote an appeal for funds for a monument to be erected in Lincoln’s honor which began, “It is above all, fitting in this land where the Hebrews have won so proud a name and are so greatly respected and honored that they should thus show their love and veneration for the fallen chief of the nation, whose wisdom, honesty and purity of purpose were so highly appreciated by foreign nations and who was so beloved at home.”

1866: In Kiev, Philip Thomashefsky and Bertha Wishnefsky gave birth to Boris Thomashefsky, “leading actor, manager and lessee of the People’s Theatre in New York City.”

http://www.thomashefsky.org/

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/boris-thomashefsky

1868: In London, famed actress, Adah Isaacs Menken, gave in her last theatrical performance.

https://jwa.org/thisweek/may/30/1868/adah-isaacs-menken

1869: In Portland, Oregon, founding of Ahavai Sholom a congregation with a religious school that meets on Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday and is supported by the Ladies’ Auxiliary and a cemetery “about two miles south of Portland.”

1870: Jim Levy, an Irish Jew, survived his first gunfight in Pioche, Nevada.  Levy shot it out with a local thug named Michael Casey.  After an earlier gunfight, Levy contradicted Casey’s claim that he acted in self-defense. An angry Casey challenged the unarmed Levy to a gunfight.  Levy had to borrow a gun before he could answer the challenge.  Levy fired a single shot which mortally wounded Casey.  Contrary to the popular image in Western Movies, the gunfight was not a one-on-one combat. Dave Neagle, a friend of Casey, fired a shot at Levy while he was facing Casey.  The shot hit Levy in the jaw but did not prove to be life threatening.  The episode changed Levy’s lifestyle as he went from peaceful miner to leading the life of a gambler and “professional regulator” – a polite term for a fast gun for hire.

1873 One day after he had passed away, James Dunn Simon, the son of John Simon and Rachel Salaman, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1873: The Jewish Messenger published an appeal for funds to support a program of summer excursions for Jewish children in New York including those at the Orphan Asylum and those attending “Free Schools.”

1873: Montague Hyatt Eskell, the son of Louis Ezekiel Eskell and Emily Francis Woolf, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1875: Birthdate of Michael Fried, the native of Hungary and graduate Jewish Theological Seminary of America who served as the rabbi of Ahavath Sholom Beth Aron in Brooklyn and Congregation Tree of Life in Pittsburg, PA as well as Chaplain of the J.M. Gusky Orphanage of Western Pennsylvania

1875: Ten days after he had passed away, 27 year old Ephraim Nathan was buried today at the “Balls Pond Jewish Cemetery.”

1876: A week before his death, Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is replaced by his nephew Murat V. As can be seen from the items below, Abd-ul-Aziz’s reign was a net plus for the Jewish people. Several Jews served in prominent governmental positions. Sultan Abdul Aziz allocated the "Alliance Israelite Universelle" 2600 dunams of land east of Jaffa for the establishment of a school of agriculture and also granted permission for importing all kinds of tools and machinery free of taxes and customs. As Ben Gurion, said: "I doubt that the Israeli dream would have been realized if the farm school of Mikveh Israel had not existed." Upon recurrence of blood libel accusations, Sultan Aziz issued a firman taking the Jews under his protection. Thanks to this firman the Greek Orthodox patriarchate had to issue encyclicals to all churches, forbidding such practices. Murat passed away three months after reaching the throne, leaving no legacy for the Jews or any of his other subjects.

1876: Judge McAdam is scheduled to render a decision today in a case involving a can-can dance named Katie Forest and her Jewish partner, a jewelry salesman named Solomon Care.

1876(7th of Sivan, 5636): Second Day of Shavuot

1877: Based on responses from 174 congregations and 125 charitable institutions to a questionnaire sent by the Board of Delegates of American Israelites it was reported these congregations have a total of 11,507 members, 11,341 in their religious schools and 597 teachers providing instruction.  The total property value comes to an estimated six million dollars.  There are five Jewish hospitals, six orphan asylums, 3 homes for the aged and infirmed, 15 newspapers and magazines and four Jewish fraternal orders, the large of which is the Order of the B’Nai Brith.

1878: It was reported today that over seven million dollars had been collected in New York City to provide relief for the Jews who suffering as a result of the war between Russia and Turkey.

1879: It was reported today that Benjamin Mayer has been sentenced to two and half years in the state penitentiary and ordered to pay a fine of six thousand dollars for his role in in defrauding thirty financial firms.  During the sentencing statement, the Judge stated that Mayer had received a fair trial and that his

1880: H.S. Allen presided over the sixth annual meeting of the United Hebrew Charities which was held at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in Manhattan.  The members re-elected Henry Rice to serve as President and Mr. Allen will continue serving as First Vice President.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9903EFDD1630EE3ABC4950DFB366838B699FDE

1882: Birthdate of Ludwig Lewisohn the native of Berlin who settled with his family in South Carolina in the 1890’s.

1884(6th of Sivan, 5644): First Day of Shavuot as three bombs exploded in London as part of ‘the Fenian dynamite campaign,” another chapter in the Irish attempt to gain independence from Great Britaino.

1885: Bishara Cardahi, the “U.S Dragoman” at Acre wrote to Jacob Schumacher, the U.S. Vice-Consul in Haifa.

1886: During today’s exercises celebrating the accomplishments of the 500 youngsters at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Mrs. Jacob Bookman is scheduled to present the Betty Bruhl prize which includes a one dollar award and Jesse Seligman, the President of the Asylum Society will present the Malcolm Atherton Strauss Prize.

1887(7^thof Sivan, 5647): Second Day of Shavuot observed as Germany and Russia negotiated the Reinsurance which replaced the “League of Three Emperors” part of a network treaties designed to prevent a general European War which ironically had just the opposite effect.

1888: It was reported today that dispute brought on by the death of Moses A. Isaacs last year has been settled with the North American Relief Society for Indigent Jews in Jerusalem, Palestine receiving $50,000 plus interest earned over the last thirty years as provided by the will of Samson Simpson, the uncle of Moses A. Isaacs.

1890: The Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum will host its annual reception today.

1890: Several Polish Jews came to Essex Market Place Court today to file a complaint against William S Wolf whom the claimed “had defrauded them out of money they had given him” which he was supposed to have sent back to Poland.

1890: It was reported today that New York City Mayor Grant has exercised his prerogative under the law and appointed Isidor Strauss to serve as a bridge commissioner – an appointment that will be matched by the governor.

1890: Birthdate Paul Czinner the native of Budapest who was active in the Hungarian world of cinema who spent WW II in the United States before moving to England where he pursued his career as “a writer,  director, and producer.”

1890: Jacob Epstein, a twenty-nine year old Russian Jewish immigrant and his wife Flora who are in Gouverneur Hospital are not expected to survive their gunshot wounds which were inflicted by Epstein during a fit of jealousy.  The children are being cared for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

1891: Birthdate of Bernard Anzelevitz, the native of Bayonne, NJ, who gained fame as Ben Bernie the jazz violinist and bandleader whose career included vaudeville and radio in its golden age of pre-World War II variety shows.

1891: Birthdate of Jerusalem native Rabbi Aaron Ben Elias who came to U.S. in 1914 and who became a naturalized U.S. Citizen in 1943.

1892: As part of today’s Memorial Day ceremonies the Honorary Staff of the Veteran Zouaves’ Association will present “a handsome silk flag” to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum followed by a speech from General J.R. O’Beirne.

1892: Myer S. Isaacs, A. S. Solomons of the Baron de Hirsch Fund, Judge Henry M. Goldfogle, General Robert Avery, Joseph Blumenthal of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association and Rabbi H.S. Jacobs addressed the children of the Baron de Hirsch Fun Schools at today’s Memorial Day celebration.

1892: The Free School at Jefferson Street and East Broadway, which was funded by Baron de Hirsch, was the scene of a unique Memorial Day celebration. The school was awash with patriotic paraphernalia including little American flags and red, white and blue bunting. Visitors to the school were treated to four hundred recently arrived Jewish children from Russia singing “My Country Tis of Thee” in faultless English followed by a recitation of “Our Flag Shall Float” and climaxed by these same youngsters singing The Star Spangled Banner.  This program is an example of the Americanization activities that are an integral part of the immigrant children’s education.

1894: Memorial services for the late Jesse Seligman were held at the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum on Amsterdam Avenue starting at three o’clock this afternoon.

1894: The original Nathan Lattauer Hospital, which had been built thanks to the generous support of his son Lucius Nathan Littauer was opened today.

1894: Two days after he had passed away, 86 year old Danzig native Woolf Moss, the husband of Abby Moss and the father of Sarah Moss was buried today in th UK.

1894: Charles Dupuy, formed a new government and began serving as Prime Minister of France – a post from which he would preside over the arrested and condemnation of Alfred Dreyfus.

1894: During an interview today, Mrs. Esther J. Ruskay, defended a paper she presented at to a cross section of Jewish women at Temple Emanu-El in which she “declared that among the Jews of America there was no family life because parents had allowed themselves to drift away from the time honored observances of their faith.” She attributed this to parent paying “too much attention…to their worldly advancement…and a consequent drifting away from the synagogue” as cam be seem by their “giving up” the observance of the Sabbath.

1895(7^thof Sivan, 5655): Second Day of Shavuot

1895: Cadets from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum will march with the Fourth Division in today’s Brooklyn (NY) Memorial Day Parade.

1895: J. Ernest G. Yalden married Margaret Lyon, the sister of Cornell Agronomy Professor T. Littleton Lyon.  In 1894, The Trustees of the Baron de Hirsch Fund hired him to be superintendent of their school, a position he held for 25 years.

1896: In Kensington, London, Abraham Moss, who was Jewish and his wife Sara Jane gave birth British race car driver and dentist Alfred Ethelbert Moss who invented the Morrison Shelter during WW II and the father of world famous race car driver Stirling Moss.

1896: In Philadelphia, founding of “Gmilus Chasodim” a society that “loans money to the poor without interest” and whose member include S.L. Halperin and Rabbi David G. Kratzok.

1898: The newly elected officers of the League of Zionist Societies of the United States are Dr. Phil Klein – President; Dr. Michael Singer – General Secretary; Morris Neuman – Treasurer; Dr. Henry Wald – Chairman of the Executive Board.

1898: One day after she had passed away, Sophia Moss, the daughter of Joel and Sarah Levy, the wife of Moses Moss and the mother of Louley Moss was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemtery.”

1898: The excursion for the grand opening of the country sanitarium of the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids at Bedford Station, NY will leave New York City at 11:30 this morning.

1898: As part of today’s Memorial Day observance, The Hebrew Union Veterans’ Association is scheduled to hold memorial services at Temple Emanu-El this evening.

1898: Birthdate of Parisian Cyril Gottlieb who came to the United States where as Cyril Gottlieb he went from child actor to movie director.

1898: “Albert Lasker arrived in Chicago” today “with $75 in his pocket – the money had given him to launch his new life” which was temporarily thwarted when he arrived at the offices of Lord and Thomas but found the doors locked because the business was closed because of Memorial Day.

1898: It was reported today that the Directors of the Maurice Grau Opera Company designated Edward Lauterbach to prepare a set of resolutions expressing their regret over the death of Hungarian born conductor Anton Seidel which are to be given to his widow. Lauterbach was a prominent lawyer who served as a trustee of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum for almost 4 decades.

1899: It was reported today that the United States Grand Lodge of the Independent Order Sons of Benjamin sent a telegram to the wife of the imprisoned Captain Dreyfus expressing their support and commending her for her behavior at the “approach of vindication.”

1899: In Brooklyn, William and Henrietta (Haymann) Thalberg gave birth to American movie producer Irving Thalberg,

http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/about/awards/thalberg.html

1899: Judge Ballot-Beaupre read his report on the Dreyfus case before the Court of Cassation.

1900: Captain Antoine Louis Targe began serve as aid-de Camp under General Andre, the French Minister of War.  Three years later, under the Minister’s direction he began an investigation of evidence brought against Dreyfus.  Targe would produce information that would help to free Dreyfus.

1900: The new home of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association was dedicated today. The facility includes a gymnasium, classrooms and a library with 9,000 volumes.

1901: Three days after she had passed away, Matilda Isaac, the daughter of Alexander Isaac and Sophie Levy, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1901: Herzl meets Grossherzog Friedrich of Baden, who tries to get him an audience with the Czar.

1901: In Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary, Hillel Manger, “a skilled tailor in love with literature” and his wife gave birth to Yiddish playwright and poet Itzik Manger.

1902: It was reported today that the Judeans had hosted a dinner in honor of Professor Solomon Schechter “who was induced to leave Cambridge University to become the Dean of the new Jewish Theological Seminary during which Dr. Gottheil, the Professor of Semitic Languages at Columbia “who claimed the distinction of being one of Dr. Schechter’s first pupils” said that he was sure his department and the new JTS would “work together in perfect harmony.”

1902: Lt. Louis C. Wolf retired from the military today at Sheboygan, Wisconsin

1903: Herzl informs Zadoc Kahn and Lord Rothschild about the failure of the El-Arish Project.

1903: “Camden At Hebrew Meeting” published today described plans for the upcoming meeting in Philadelphia sponsored by the Kishineff Relief Committee which will be attended by Mayor Nowry and to which Archbishop Ryan has already contributed $20.

1904: Birthdate of Baltimore native Bernard J. Bamberger, the great-grandson Bavarian born Abraham Bamberger, the Johns Hopkins graduate and husband of Ethel “Pat” Kraus who served as the rabbi of New York’s Reform Congregation Shaaray Tefila whose many literary works included a Commentary on the Book of Leviticus that was part of the Reform movement’s modern translation of the Torah.

http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6qv67zp

1904: In Kiev, “Harry and Rose (Morsoff) Young gave birth to University of Pennsylvania trained attorney H. Albert Young, a leader of the Republican Party Illinois who was the husband of the former Ann Blank and the father of Ronell, Stuart and H. Alan Young.

1904: Birthdate of Meyer Parodneck, the Polish born American lawyer who developed programs to get milk to poor children during the Great Depression. (As reported by Richard D. Lyons)

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/22/obituaries/meyer-parodneck-89-advocate-for-the-poor-of-new-york-dies.html

1906(6th of Sivan, 5666): First Day of Shavuot

1907: “A rate collector appointed by the council of the metropolitan borough of Islington made a complaint to Joseph H. Polak Esquire, one of the justices of the peace for the county of London.

1908: Birthdate of Mel Blanc.  The San Francisco native was the voice for a several cartoon characters including Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig.

1908: Birthdate of Dr. Abraham Stone Freedberg, a Harvard cardiologist who developed an early treatment for angina and whose pioneering work in identifying the bacteria that cause stomach ulcers was initially all but ignored.  However, he was vindicated when two Australian physicians won a Nobel Prize for work based on his discovery.

1909: Reuben Siegel laid the cornerstone for the first home in Tel-Aviv

1909: In Chicago, Eastern European Jewish immigrants and Dora and David Goodman gave birth to Benjamin David Goodman, better known as clarinetist Benny Goodman, the King of Swing!

https://www.notablebiographies.com/Gi-He/Goodman-Benny.html

1910:  Birthdate of German actress Inge Meysel.  Meysel’s mother was Danish and her father was Jewish.  According to one source, she was banned from acting during the Nazi period.  She resumed her career in the German city of Hamburg and continued working until her death in 2004.

1910: Birthdate of Harry Louis Bernstein, author of The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers, his “painfully eloquent memoir about growing up Jewish and poor in a northern English mill town earned him belated literary fame on its publication in 2007, when he was 96…” (As reported by William Grimes)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/books/harry-bernstein-writer-who-gained-fame-at-96-dies-at-101.html

1910: Julius Meysel, and his Danish wife Anna Hansen gave birth to actress Inge Meysel who was banned from performing during the Nazi era because her father was Jewish.

http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jul/14/local/me-passings14

1911: New Yorker Joseph Mandelkern who recently returned from Russia said tonight, “I wish to warn American naturalized Russian Jews against venturing back to Russia under the terms of the recent assurances issued by the Russian Government under representation from American State Department” since that he has learned that “as Russian subjects they are likely to be arrested and sentenced to Siberia or prison terms for treason.”

1912: Birthdate of St. Louis, MO native and Washington University undergrad Alexander Langsdorf, the holder of a doctorate in physics from MIT who played a key role in the Manhattan Project and who along with his wife Martyl Langsdorft became an advocate for the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.

1912: In New York, Polish-Jewish immigrants Charles and Emma (Rosenblum) Stein gave birth to CCNY and Columbia University alum and playwright Joseph Stein whose most famous effort was Fiddler on the Roof

1912:  Birthdate of American biochemist Julius Axelrod who won the Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine in 1970.

1913: In New Jersey, official dedication of the Mountain Ridge Country Club.

1913: Birthdate of Moe Goldman, who played center for CCNY before going on to play pro ball in the American Basketball League.

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/09/obituaries/moe-goldman-ex-basketball-player-75.html

1913: The Balkan war, which had started in October, 1912 officially came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of London. As a result of this Albania became an independent state. Jews had lived in Albania since Roman times.  The false messiah, Shabbetai Zevi spent his final years in Albania and died there.  At the time that Albania gained its independence from Turkey, there were probably only a couple of hundred Jews living in the country.

1914(5^thof Sivan, 5674): Parashat Bamidbar; erev Shavuot

1914(5^thof Sivan, 5674): Forty-seven year old Baltimore native Lewis Putzel, an 1888 graduate of the University of Maryland Law School and partner in the firm of Steiner and Putzel and husband of Birdie Putzel who served as Baltimore City Attorney and a member of both houses of the Maryland State Legislature passed away today in his home town.

http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/014700/014777/html/14777images.html

1915: Because of a question raised by Albert Lucas, the question of “whether the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America should declare in favor of a Hebrew national congress for the purpose of looking after the interests of persons of the Jewish faith in the European war zone was discussed at the eighth convention of the union which opened” today at the Harlem Hebrew Institute Building.

1915: In Ottawa, Canada, Leon and Beckie Petegorsky gave birth to their only son David W. Petegorsky, the ordained rabbi who received a Ph.D. from London School of Economics and was the Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress.

1915: It was reported today that “the total of Illinois petitioners” calling on the Governor of Georgia to commute the sentence of Leo Frank “will exceed 1,000,000” by the time the case is heard tomorrow and this does not count those received “from the big towns in Indiana.”

1915: “In an editorial addressed to the Prison Commission, the Atlanta Journal” made a final please for Leo Frank which began “Frank’s sentence ought to be commuted to life imprisonment because of the deep-seated and overshadowing doubt of his guilt.  The state cannot afford to sacrifice human life on uncertainties.”

1915: The three commissioners – Chairman R. E. Davison, Judge T.E. Patterson and E.L. Rainey – who make up the State Prison Commission which will hear the plea for commuting Leo Frank’s sentence arrived in Atlanta, GA tonight.

1915: “An Atlanta Appeal For Frank” published today provided a complete reprint of the text of James Gray’s editorial originally printed a week ago.

1915: In Park Slope, Brooklyn drug store owner Abraham “Gus” Manulis and his wife Anna gave birth to producer Martin Ellyot Manulis whose work included everything from the sitcom “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” to the very dramatic “Days of Wine and Roses.”

https://www.revolvy.com/page/Martin-Manulis



1916(27^thof Iyar, 5676): Eighty-two year old Adolph Frank, a German chemist and businessman best known for his work in potash and the winner of the John Scott Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1893 passed away today.

1917: During the “First Conference on Democracy and Terms of Peace” which was “being held in New York’s Garden Theatre, delegates adopted a resolution presented by Morris Hilliquist, the Jewish Socialist, demanding “that the Government agree to a peace in which neither territory nor indemnities for any of the belligerents shall figure.”

1917: According to information received in London, “an order of expulsion is hanging over the heads of the Jewish residents of Jerusalem” despite the fact that the order of eviction from the Turks has been suspended twice due to intervention by the German government which is concerned about the effect such a move would have on “the world’s public opinion.”

1918: Birthdate of Bernard Wessler, the graduate of Baruch College who gained fame as television writer Bernie West whose credits include “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons” and “Three’s Company.”

1918 During the Battle of Cantigny, Frederick Hahn, a second lieutenant serving with United States Army Field Artillery, “went into heavy shell fire to supervise the repairs of telephone lines and to act as a runner when the further maintenance of the wires became impossible.

1918: In accordance with a proclamation sent out by President Wilson on May 13, “Orthodox Congregations in the United States” are scheduled to “open all the synagogues for prayer and that members” would fast “as if it were a holy day” while uttering special prayers calling “for the speedy success of American arms” which would lead to “a just peace.”

1919: Today, just four days his 19^th birthday, veteran journalist Abel Green’s “byline appeared for the first time.

1919: A national Jewish association is founded in Constantinople under the auspices of the Jewish association Amicale, and with cooperation of the B'nai Brith Lodge. Among its many goals, are the establishment of an autonomous Jewish homeland in Palestine, and support for the communal administration of Jewish philanthropic groups in Turkey.

1919: As the National Conference of Jewish Charities continued its week-long meeting in Atlantic City, NJ, Maurice B. Hexter is scheduled to lead a discussion on Convalescent Care and Lt. Maxwell Heller is scheduled to deliver a talk on “Care of Wounded Soldiers” after Friday evening services at Beth Israel Synagouge.

1919: Bernard and Mildred Asch gave birth to Sidney Howard Asch, “a New York judge with a Ph.D. in sociology who wrote scholarly works about civil liberties and made notable decisions about landlord-tenant law, employment of gay people and a man’s right to get his hair cut in a women’s beauty salon…” (As reported by Paul Vitello)

1920: Memorial Day in the United States

1920: “Major General Clarence R. Edwards, commander of the Yankee Division in France” delivered the main address during Memorial Services at the Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall where the attendees included “the Jewish Veterans of the Wars of the Republic and their commander Maurice Simmons.”

1920: The East Boston Y.M.H.A. held Memorial Day exercise this afternoon at Ohel Jacob Synagogue where “a memorial tablet was unveiled and dedicated to the Jewish men of East Boston who served in the World War.”

1920: Rabbi Israel Goldstein and Rabbi Jacob Schwartz officiated at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun’s Memorial Day service which included a special memorial “to the late Herman Levy” who had served as the president from 1912 until 1920.

1920: Birthdate of Carmen G. De Sapio’s press agent Sydney Stuart Baron, the “son of a Brooklyn shoemaker,” “an ‘A’ English student at New Utrecht High School” and husband of high school sweetheart Sylvia Schreibman whose public relations clients included Anheuser-Busch, Iona College and Beth Jacob Schools.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/02/13/97657964.pdf

1920: “The 21^stconference of the English Zionist Federation of London passed a resolution ‘expressing gratitude to the Supreme Council for incorporating the Balfour declaration in the treaty with Turkey and for granting the mandate for Palestine to Great Britain.’”

1920: Ninety-one year Joseph Eduard Konrad Bischoff whose 19^th century novella Judas Makkabaeusdemonstrated a renewed interest in the non-Jewish world in the Jewish warrior passed away today.

1921: In Washington, D.C.Myer Solomon Cohn, the Russian born son of Leo and Sarah Cohn, and his wife Bertha Cohn gave birth to Claude Cohn.

1922 Birthdate of Rosel Lerner, the native of Worms and one of the children sent to Britain on the Kinderstransport trains, who gained fame as Rose Evanksky, the inventor of “blow-dry hair styling.” (As reported by William Grimes)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/world/europe/rose-evansky-blow-drying-dies.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1

1924: “Tragedy in the House of Habsburg,” a historical drama about the suicide at Mayerling directed and produced by Alexander Korda and starring Maria Corda was released in Germany today.

1925(7^thof Sivan, 5685): Second Day of Shavuot

1925(7^thof Sivan, 5685): Seventy-five year old Dr. of Jurisprudence Albert Mosse, the husband of Caroline Mosse and the son of Ulrike Mosse and Marcus Mosse, M.D. passed away today.

1925: Birthdate of John Henry Marks, the London born physician who served as Chariman of the British Medical Associate from 1984 to 1990.

1925: In Memphis, TN, Edward Bihari a Jewish immigrant from Hungary who worked in sales and later ran a grain and seed business in Tulsa, OK and his wife gave birth to Joseph Bihari, the youngest of 8 siblings who had a major impact on the popularization of “R&B” as can be seen by his being the first to record the music of B.B. King. (As reported by William Yardley)

1926: In Philadelphia, The Hakoah Soccer Team is scheduled to play its final game against the Philadelphia Soccer Club today at Franklin Field before leaving the United States.

1926: A rodeo featuring a troop of 120 Don Cossacks who recently arrived in the United States from Russia is scheduled to take place tonight at Madison Garden.  The proceeds of the event will go the United Jewish Campaign of New York.

1927: Rabbi Arthur S. Montaz is scheduled to deliver the invocation and Mrs. Leo Freidenrich is scheduled to deliver “the address of welcome” at the opening session of the Fourth Western Interstate Conference at Temple Emanuel in Spokane, Washington.

1928: Today, on Memorial Day, in North Carolina the Wilmington airport was named Bluethenthal Field, in honor of Arthur Bluethenthal, who transferred from the Lafayette Escadrille to the air arm of the United States Navy and was “the first North Carolinian killed in action during World War I.”

1929: On the West Side of Chicago, “Monroe Harriman Loeb,” the owner of a wrecking and salvage company” and “the former Henrietta Benjamin, a milliner and teacher” gave birth to Marshall Robert Loeb, the “business journalist” who made Money magazine and Fortune magazine into major publications. (As reported by Robert D. Hershey, Jr.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/obituaries/marshall-loeb-editor-who-shaped-money-and-fortune-magazines-dies-at-88.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1929: Leonard Jacques Stein stood as the Liberal candidate for Bermondsey West in today’s General election where he finished second in a three way race.

1930: At a meeting in Tel Aviv, the Vaad Leumi, the Jewish National Council called for a national strike to begin next week to protest the British government’s order suspending Jewish immigration pending an inquiry into land and immigration problems by Sir John Simpson.

1930: In Manhattan, Harold and Judith Heyman gave birth to their only child Ira Michael Heyman the Chancellor of the University of California, Berkley and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/us/michael-heyman-smithsonian-leader-dies-at-81.html

 1931: It was reported today that Isaac Landman who has agreed to return as the rabbi of Congregation Beth Elhoim in Brooklyn will still serve as the editor of The American Hebrew and editor-in-chief of The Standard Jewish Encyclopedia,

1932: As the Weimar Republic descended into the chaos that would bring Hitler to power Chancellor Brüning announced his cabinet's resignation after President Hindenburg and his fellow Junkers “opposed his policies of distributing land to unemployed workers.”

1932: Birthdate of Baltimore native Solomon Wolf Golomb, the son of a rabbi and linguist who gained fame as an electrical engineer and mathematician.

http://coding.yonsei.ac.kr/kart-berlekamp.pdf

https://news.usc.edu/100264/in-memoriam-solomon-golomb-communications-technology-pioneer-83/

1933(5th of Sivan, 5693): Erev Shavuot

1933: The Bishops saw a draft of the Concordat as they assembled for a meeting of the Fulda bishops conference led by Breslau’s Cardinal Bertram

1933: The League of Nations held the first of two days of debate about the persecution of the Jews in Germany.

1934(16^thof Sivan, 5694): Mrs. Jacob Meyer, a probation officer passed away today in New York.

1934: Storm troopers “severely mistreated” the sixty year old Jewish man who was the proprietor of a business in Munich.

1935: “The memory of fifteen Jews who served in the Revolution and the War of 1812, whose bodies lie in the old Bowery Cemetery east of Chatham Square was honored at the memorial service in the cemetery today under the auspices of Manhattan Post 1 of the Jewish War Veterans.”

1936: “It was learned today that the Palestine Government was considering the mobilization of 1,000 Jews into a special until to help government forces cope with the Arab revolt.”

1936: William Cohen, the president of the National Association of Jewish Center Executives addressed the organization’s annual meeting at the Hotel Chelsea in Atlantic City where George L. Hyman, executive director of the Central Jewish Institute of New York “praised the Maccabiah games as a means of bringing all elements of the Jewish community as spectators and participants.”

1936: The Palestine (British) Government today warned all mukhtars (chieftains) that their villages would be subject to collective punitive measures unless the cutting of telephone wires, bomb explosions, attempts to demolish railway lines and other acts of brigandage ceased.

1936: “It was learned today that the Palestine Government was considering the mobilization of 1,000 Jews into a special unit to help government forces cope with the Arab revolt.”

1937: Police investigated charges by the Grand Mufti Haj Amin el Husseini, that he had been ambushed by a “party Jews attempting to take his life.

1938: The Palestine Post published the full text of the letter, written by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, addressed to the High Commissioner for Palestine. The letter was accompanied by the Annual Jewish Agency's memorandum prepared for the League of Nations Mandates Commission. The Agency accused the Palestine Government that 1937 was a year of an artificially limited immigration and a "chequered development". The Jewish economic structure had shown strength and resilience in the face of the Arab terror. Exports increased, but there was insufficient Government aid for industry and control of imports.

1939: Dr. David De Sola Pool, the rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue officiated this afternoon at memorial exercise in the small triangular remnant of the once extensive cemetery of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue which was meant to honor “the Jewish soldiers who died for this country in the Revolutionary War.

1940: French driver Rene Dreyfus finished 10^th today in the Indianapolis 500.

1941:  Germany seizes the Greek island of Crete.  The Germans would leave the Jews of Crete alone until 1944.  In 1944, the Germans loaded the Jews of Crete on to a ship called the Tanais along with a mixed bag of Greek and Italian prisoners.  The ship was sunk as it headed for the mainland.  It is unclear whether a German U-boat or a British submarine sank the Tanais.

1941:  At ten o'clock in morning, Yunis al-Sabawi, the newly self-appointed pro-Nazi Military Governor of Baghdad "summoned the Chief Rabbi, Sasson Hedouri to his office and ordered him to instruct the Jews to go to their homes and stay there until noon.  He was also supposed to tell them to pack a suitcase for each family member because they were being taken to detention camps 'for their own safety."  In the meantime, Sabwai  "instructed the broadcasting station to issue a call to the Baghdad public to massacre the Jews."  The broadcast was to be made at noon. (In Ishmael's House by Martin Gilbert.

1941: At meeting with the Mayor of Baghdad, Arshad al-Umari, The Chief Rabbi, Sasson Khedouri asked him to thwart the plans of Yunis Al-Sabawi for the destruction of the city's Jewish population.

1941: Yunis Al-Sabawi, the pro-Nazi governor of Baghdad, took refuge in Persia when the Mayor of Baghdad, Arshad al-Umari, took control of the city and ended the threatened massacre of the Jewish population. 

1942: After 467, “Lady in the Dark” closed at the Alvin Theatre in New York City. It could be called “a Jewish musical” since Kurt Weill wrote the music, Ira Gershwin did the lyrics and Moss Hart supplied the book and the direction.

1942: Members of the Wehrmacht deported the remaining 75 Jews from Hanau, Germany.

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/may/09.asp

1943: U.S. premiere of “DuBarry Was a Lady” a musical comedy produced by Arthur Freed photographed by cinematographer Karl Freund and featuring Zero Mostel as “Rami the Swami.”

1943: During WW II, the Battle of Attu in which American forces that included Dr. Abraham Koransky confronted Japanese forces in the only WW II battle fought on the American mainland came to an end today.

1944: Bernhard Bästlein, a genuine leader of the anti-Nazi resistance was rearrested by after having escaped from Plötzensee Prison during an Allied bombing raid and taken to the Reichssicherheitshauptamt for the first of several days of torture.

1944: Rudolf Breslauer “a German-Jewish inmate of Westerbork camp in Holland” filmed one of only two cinematic works known to have been produced inside a functioning concentration camp for Jews.” (As reported by Cnaan Liphshiz)

1945: In Paris, “several thousand repatriated prisoners” marched down the Avenue de l’Opera “demanding clothes” and then “marched down the Boulevard Sebastopol crying ‘Down with the Jews.’”

 1946: In a play that anticipates a scene in The Natural by Brooklyn-native Bernard Malamud, the Braves' Bama Rowell smashes a double in the 7-run 2nd inning of the second game of a doubleheader at Ebbets Field. The ball shatters the Bulova clock high atop the right-field scoreboard at 4:25 P.M., showering glass down on the Dodgers' Right Fielder Dixie Walker. An hour later the clock stops

1947(10^thof Sivan, 5707): Seventy-three year old journalist Meir (Myer Jack) Landa who had worked for the Daily Gazette in Birmingham, passed away today in London.

1948: At dawn this morning forces of the Irgun captures Ras el Ein near Petah Tikva the source of Jerusalem’s water supply.  By nightfall, the Jewish troops had to give up their hard won victory because of counterattacks from a larger force of Iraqi soldiers. 

1948: Milton “Milt” Rubenfeld, that native of Peekskill, NY who had flown for the RAF and the U.S.A.A.F. flew his first mission for the infant Israeli Air Force taking off at 0530 as the wingman for Ezer Weizman with whom he was supposed to attack positions around Tulkarm.

1948: In the skies above Israel, Arab aircraft were on the attack striking at Jewish forces in several locations including Zirin, a village near Jenin, Kinereth near Timeria, Rebovoth, near Ramleh, Merchavia and Afula which was the target for incendiary bombs.  The newly-minted Israeli air force struck at Tel el Kasser on the Trans Jordan border and at an area near Isdud where Egyptian forces were assembling to move on Jaffa.  The Israelis lost one plane in the attack.

1948: “Israel’s last remaining dissident organization, the Stern Group, announced tonight that it had been incorporated into the regular Israeli army.”  (Ed. Note: This was part of Ben Gurion’s determined effort to create a modern state with only military.  This was not a popular effort and it meant with resistance from a wide spectrum of political opinion.  If Ben Gurion had not pushed forward with his plan the Jewish community of the day would have looked Gaza in the 21^stcentury.)

1949: Birthdate of Charles Samuel Shapiro “an American diplomat and a former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela. He went on to become Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the State Department from 2007 to 2009, and now heads its free trade agreement task force. Some supporters of President Hugo Chavez accuse Shapiro of having supported the 2002 coup d'état, including a meeting with interim president Pedro Carmona Estanga one day after the coup.  Shapiro and other US sources have denied this and claim that he urged Carmona to reinstitute the dissolved national assembly.  Shapiro has degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Georgia State University, and served in the United States Coast Guard.

1949: In “Fine Singing Heard At Jewish Festival” published today Hugh Thomson provided a review the annual Jewish music festival held in celebration of the Sabbath of Song which opened Jewish Music Month in Toronto.

1951: “Goodbye, My Fancy” a romantic-comedy directed by Vincent Sherman based on a play by Fay Kanin was released in the United States today.

1951:  Birthdate of Dallas native Stephen Tobolowsky, character actor whose most famous role might be that of Ned Reyerson, the obnoxious insurance salesman in Groundhog Day.

1951: Austrian born author Hermann Broch passed away. Broch was imprisoned in a concentration camp after the Anschluss.  During his imprisonment he began writing the most important of his three major works, The Death of Virgil. Broch’s influential friends including James Joyce obtained his release and got him into the United States.  He converted to Roman Catholicism prior to his death in 1951.

1952(6^thof Sivan, 5712): Shavuot

1952: In Charleston, West Virginia, “Harold Marks, who operated a linen supply business, and the former Beverly Rosenthal, a painter on Judaic themes” gave birth to Gilbert Stanley Marks “a culinary historian who wrote widely on the relationship between Jewish food and Jewish culture in a manner that was both scholarly and friendly.” (As reported by Bruce Weber)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/11/books/gil-marks-historian-of-jewish-food-and-culture-dies-at-62.html?hpw&rref&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1952: Birthdate of Giles Uriel Bernheim, the native of Aix-les-Bains, Savoie who was elected chief rabbi of France in 2008.

1952(6^thof Sivan, 5712): Seventy-two year old Albert Lasker, the Lord and Thomas Advertising Agency executive who introduced the campaigns for such products as Kleenex Tissues and Lucky Strike cigarettes passed away. He used his millions to establish the Lasker Foundation and to endow the Albert Lasker Awards, given annually “for outstanding contributions to clinical and basic medical research.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albert-Davis-Lasker

1953: After 263 performances, the curtain comes down at the Empire Theatre on “The Time of the Cukoo” a play by Arthur Laurents directed Harold Cluman

1954: In New York City, Hermann Merkin, who owned 37 percent of Overseas Shipping Group and helped to found the Fifth Avenue Synagogue and his wife Ulla gave birth author and journalist Daphne Miriam Merkin.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Q90NYXytQaUC&pg=PA218#v=onepage&q&f=false

1955(9^thof Sivan, 5715): Sixty-four year old Alexander N. Sack. the Moscow born, Russian lawyer and faculty member of the Saint Petersburg University who in 1930 came to the United States where taught at NYU and Northwestern while developing a reputation on international finance especially as it dealt with the problems of governmental debt,

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2662

1958(11^thof Sivan, 5718): In front of a live audience of several thousand people and an untold number of radio listeners sixty-eight year old “Maximillian Pilzer struck his head on a strip of concrete” and suffered “fatal concussion to the brain when he “ collapsed while conducting the Naumburg Symphony on the Mall in Central Park”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/05/31/81884973.pdf

https://www.operamusica.com/artist/maximilian-pilzer/#biography

1958: Sarah Churchill wrote to her father describing the ceremony opening the Churchill Auditoriums at the Technion. “They love you very much and the auditorium was designed to honor your achievements…”

1959: U.S. premiere of “The Young Philadelphians” starring Paul Newman with music by Ernest Gold who came to the United States after the Anschluss because his paternal grandfather was Jewish.”

1959: “Sunrise at Campobello” the gripping drama about FDR’s fight with Polio written Dore Schary closed today after running for 556 performances at the Cort Theatre.

1960(4th of Sivan, 5720): Boris Pasternak, author of Dr. Zhivago passed away

1961: Birthdate of Tehran native Bob Yari, the graduate of U.C., Santa Barbara and American movie producer.

1961: Today “Rabbi Martin Reisenbruger, the spiritual of leader of East Berlin’s 960 Jews was award the gold medal of the Patriotic Order of Merit, one East Germany’s top decorations” which was part of the celebration of his 65^thbirthday which was celebrated earlier this month, (JTA)

1961: Prime Minister David Ben Gurion met with President John F. Kennedy in the Presidential suite at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. The meeting lasted for an hour and a half.  The two leaders discussed the sale of HAWK missiles to Israel, the reactor at Dimona and need to make some sort of conciliatory gesture concerning the Palestinian refugees.

http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/5/19/main-feature/1/what-would-ben-gurion-do/r

1961(15th of Sivan, 5721): Binyamin Mintz an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Postal Services from July 1960 until his death today. Born in Łódź in the Russian Empire (today in Poland), Mintz studied in a Hasidic Ger school and was a member of Young Agudat Israel. He made aliyah to Mandate Palestine in 1925, and worked in construction and as a printer. In 1933 he joined Agudat Israel Workers, and was later a member of the Provisional State Council. In 1949 he was elected to the first Knesset on the list of the United Religious Front (an alliance of the four main religious parties). Re-elected in 1951, 1955 and 1959, he was appointed Minister of Postal Services by David Ben-Gurion in 1960. The village of Yad Binyamin, established in 1962, was named in his honor.

1962(26^thof Iyar, 5722): Seventy-eight year old Abel “Buck Warshawsky, the Cleveland born son of Ezekiel and Ida Warshawsky who with his brother Alexander “attended the Cleveland School of Art and the New York National Academy of Design” before moving to Europe “where he divided his time between Paris and Brittany” while painting “Breton peasants and landscapes” before moving to Monterey, CA just before WW II where he continued to work while living with his third wife Ruth Tate, passed away today.

1963(7^thof Sivan, 5723): Second Day of Shavuot

1963: Rabbis Ira Einstein and Joachim are scheduled to office at funeral services for 86 year old Louis Lipsky, the “dean of American Zionists and a friend and colleague of the late Dr. Chaim Weizmann in the building of the State of Israel” who will be eulogized by Moshe Sharett.

https://www.jta.org/1963/05/28/archive/louis-lipsky-dean-of-american-zionist-movement-dead-funeral-friday

1964(19th of Sivan, 5724): Famed nuclear physicist Leo Szilard passed away.  Born in Hungry, Szilard sounded the early warning about Nazi plans to build an atomic bomb and the need for the Western Powers to do it first.  His efforts led to the famous letter from Einstein, the Manhattan Project and the successful building of the Atomic Bomb Hungarians/US nuclear physicist

http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v46/i9/p63_s1?isAuthorized=no

1965: Moshe Carmel began serving as Minister of of Transport, National Infrastructure and Road Safety

1966: Birthdate of Stephen Malkmus indie-rock musician who played with a band called Silver Jews.

1967: King Hussein of Jordan visited Cairo. “At the meeting Nasser produced a file containing the Syrian-Egyptian defense pact” King Hussein was, in his own words “so anxious to reach agreement” that told Nasser to give him another copy of the agreement, “replace the word Syrian with the word Jordan” so that he could join the alliance without delay. Apparently, Hussein was not the reluctant participant he would later claim to have been. This was part of Arab efforts to create a united military front in what would become the Six Day War which would begin a week later.  When the war broke out, the Israelis sent word to the Jordanians asking them to stay out of the fight.  The Israelis assured the Jordanians that they had no intention of attacking them.  The Jordanian response was to starting shelling Israel.  It was this action by the Jordanians which led the Israelis to the Green Line and drive the Jordanians out of east Jerusalem.

1967: As “the Arab noose” seems to be tightening around the Israeli neck, Meir Amit was sent to Washington to check the American response if Israel launched pre-emptive strikes at Egypt. He told the defense secretary Robert MacNamara: "All we want is three things: One, that you refill our arsenal after the war. Two, that you will help us in the UN. Three, that you will isolate the Russians from the arena." MacNamara said to Amit: "I read you loud and clear."

1968: Martin Noth, German Old Testament scholar, passed away. Noth was the first authority to note that “First and Second Kings” contained virtually no mention of the classic prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos and Hosea.

1969: Palestinian terrorists blew up the oil pipeline which passes through the Golan Heights. Thousands of tons of crude oil polluted the river-beds, but were blocked before they could reach Lake Kinneret.

1970 "Minnie's Boys" a play about the Marx Brothers closed at Imperial Theater in New York City closed after 80 performances.

1970: “The Ballad of Cable Hogue,” an off-beat Western with music by Jerry Goldsmith and co-starring David Warner who “was raised by his Russian Jewish father and his stepmother.”

1971(6^thof Sivan, 5731): Shavuot

1971: In the borough of Queens Helene and Stuart Mentzel gave birth to singer/songwriter Idina Menzel who “originated the role ‘Maureen Johnson’ in the Broadway hit ‘Rent’ and its cinematic adaption.

1972: Final exams are scheduled to be held today at The Bernard M. Baruch College of the City University of New York. The exams had originally been scheduled to given on May 19 which coincided with the celebration of Shavuot.  The date of the exams was changed following protests led by Hillel, the Anti-Defamation League and individual students.

1972: In Tel Aviv, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others. 

1973(28th of Iyar, 5733): Yom Yerushalayim

1975: Eighty-year old Swiss born, non-Jewish actor Michel Simon who won the Best Actor at the Berlin Film Festival in 1967 for portraying “a gruff anti-Semitic peasant who come to love a young Jewish boy in in Occupied France during WW II” in the film “The Two of Us” passed away today.

1975: Larry Blyden began what would be his last vacation in Morocco.

1976: Birthdate of child star Omri Katz

1977: In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 27 year old Nina Bushkin daughter of jazz pianist Joey Bushkin married 58 year old Alan Jay Lerner, the man who wrote the lyrics for such Broadway hits as “My Fair Lady” and “Camelot.”

1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that in his inaugural Knesset address the new, fifth President of Israel, Yitzhak Navon, called upon Egypt to renew peace negotiations and urged other Arab leaders to follow suit. Knesset members were so pleased with Navon's appearance that they broke a cardinal rule and spontaneously burst into applause. The Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, looking pale after several days of fever, turned up despite reports that his health might preclude his appearance.

1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that Tadiran gave a sneak preview of its miniature, remotely-controlled pilotless reconnaissance aircraft, the Mastiff.

1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that according to Yigal Hurwitz, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, only huge budget cuts of some four to five billion pounds, accompanied by a drastic reduction of manpower in the service sector, could save Israel from the fast growing inflation.

1983: As part of the American Jewish Choral Festival workshops were scheduled to take place today “on the tradition of Jewish choral music, on the choral music of Israel and on the significance of texts in Jewish choral music, led by Hugo Weisgall, Joshua Jacobson and the director of the festival, Matthew Lazar.”

1983: “International release date” of "It Might Be You” a song with music written by Dave Grusin, and lyrics written by Alan & Marilyn Bergman.

1984(28^thof Iyar, 5744): Yom Yerushalayim

1984: A revival of “Little Me” a musical written by Neil Simon, with music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh opened on the West End at the Prince of Wales Theatre.

1990(6^th of Sivan, 5750): Shavuot

1990: Good luck as much as any other factor helped foil a potentially disastrous attack by heavily armed seaborne terrorists on Israeli civilians today. Air, ground and naval forces engaged the intruders, killing four and capturing 12 before they could cause casualties or damage. Meanwhile, a full-scale inquiry has been opened at Israel Defense Force General Headquarters, in order to seek answers to many questions being asked by officers, politicians and the public at large over the defensive operation conducted by the IDF. Chief of Staff Gen. Dan Shomron and his senior officers admitted they took a calculated risk by not clearing the beaches as soon as the attackers were detected. An important consideration was not to create panic, they said. They also withheld fire until it was certain the approaching boatloads of men were enemies. Two apparently well-planned and coordinated assaults were attempted by Palestinian terrorists traveling in fast fiberglass motorboats from a "mother ship" cruising more than 100 miles off the Israeli coast. In addition, more numerous landing attempts were aborted by mechanical difficulties. Responsibility for the operation, believed to have been launched from Libya, is being claimed by the Palestine Liberation Front. The PLF, headed by Mohammed (Abul) Abbas, is the group responsible for the 1985 attack on the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and the subsequent killing of Leon Klinghoffer. Initial targets were beaches north and south of Tel Aviv, where the assailants knew thousands of Israelis would be spending the Shavuot holiday sunbathing and swimming. Maps and documents found on the terrorists made clear their targets also included hotels and the center of Tel Aviv, which could be expected to be crowded with civilians. The armaments carried by the terrorists included cannons, heavy machine guns, assault rifles, side arms, grenades and explosives. The attempted landings were at Ga'ash, a beach north of Tel Aviv, and Nitzanim, a beach between Ashkelon and Ashdod to the south. More than three hours separated the two assaults. Military and civilian leaders agreed that the timing of the Shavuot attack had nothing to do with the slaying of seven Palestinians by a reputedly deranged Israeli gunman near Rishon le-Zion on May 20, though the PLF claimed it was in revenge. Experts pointed out that the attack, which included a mother ship and 16 armed men riding six speedboats, must have been planned weeks or months in advance. Israelis also admit the element of chance did much to prevent a massacre. The engine of one boat would not start when it was put into the water. Three others, including one used as a refueling tanker, broke down shortly afterwards. If all six assault boats had reached beaches or deserted areas on the coast, the outcome might have been different. In addition to the Ga'ash and Nitzanim beaches, targets circles on the terrorists' maps included Tel Aviv's beachfront hotels, the Migdal Shalom Tower, Israel's tallest office building; and Malchei Yisrael Square outside Tel Aviv City Hall. A mystery surrounds the mother ship, which was 124 miles off the Israeli coast when it dropped the speedboats. According to the IDF, it sailed from Benghazi, Libya, on Sunday and headed for Port Said, Egypt, after the attack. The Egyptian authorities were alerted but the vessel has not been found. The police anti-terrorist unit, under IDF command, took an active part in the operation, but despite official praise for IDF-police cooperation, Police Commissioner Ya'acov Terner stated publicly that he learned of the Nitzanim landing from a private citizen who telephoned him. According to news reports, the first warning of trouble was received at 6:45 a.m. local time when navy radar picked up the blips of speedboats about 26 miles off shore heading toward Ga'ash. A Dabour-class gunboat on routine patrol off Tel Aviv was sent to investigate. It intercepted the speedboat and ordered its five occupants to jump into the sea without their weapons. They were promptly captured and taken ashore. Air force spotter planes, attack helicopters and other naval vessels were immediately put on alert. But it was not until 10 a.m. local time that a second suspicious-looking speedboat was seen making for shore near Nitzanim. A Dabour gunboat gave chase but was outrun. Seven gunmen were put ashore and took cover under bushes on the sand dunes. Cobra attack helicopters rushed to the scene but had to make sure the invaders were indeed terrorists and not IDF soldiers or civilians before they opened fire. In the event, four terrorists were fatally shot by helicopter gunners or soldiers of the Givati Brigade sent to the scene Former Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin told Israel Radio that intelligence reports received about five months ago indicated that Abbas was in Libya planning a seaborne assault on Israel.

1991: Christopher Lehmann-Haupt reviewed On the Third Day by Piers Paul Read that begins with a discovery by an Israeli counterintelligence unit that leads to the conclusion that Jesus did not survive the crucifixion and that he did not rise on the third day

1992: CBS broadcast the final episode of “The Trials of Rosie O’Neill” produced by Barney Rosenzweig and featuring Ron Rifkin and Ed Asner.

1997: Richard Danizg, a Clinton appointee, completed his term as Under Secretary of the Navy.  He was the 26^th person to fill this position since it was resurrected by Franklin Roosevelt in 1940.  In another era, both Teddy Roosevelt and FDR had held this same postion.

1997(23^rd of Iyar, 5757): Thirty-one year old Jonathan M. Levin, a son of the Chairman of Time Warner was killed by a former student Corey Arthur. “Five years later, the New York City Education Department opened Jonathan Levin High School for Media and Communications in the same South Bronx building where he had taught, declaring it “a living tribute” to the English teacher’s “spirit, values, commitment and impassioned belief” that every child has a right to a quality education.” (As reported by Al Baker)

1998(5th of Sivan, 5758): Sam Aaronvitch, British economist, academic, working class intellectual and senior member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, passed away

1998: Tonight, Erev of Shavuot, Jonathan Eisenthal and as many as 150 other members of Mt. Zion Hebrew Congregation will be studying Exodus 19, the biblical passage in which God first approaches the Israelites to become partners in a divine covenant, and, through Moses, gives them the Torah. Traditionally observant Jews stay up the whole first night of Shavuot studying texts related to revelation, the giving of the Torah and the Book of Ruth. But among Reform Jews like Eisenthal, staying up the whole night, or even part of it, to study is a relatively new practice. Eisenthal is doing just what the head of the Reform movement, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, hopes to inspire among more of his constituents. Last November, in his first speech as president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the umbrella organization for Reform synagogues, Yoffie declared that "Torah is at the center" of his movement. Hebrew literacy, and a knowledge of core Jewish texts, was, he said, to be the focus of a new campaign.

1999: “Goodnight Mister Tom” director Jack Golds’ final film was released today in the United States.

2000: Yitzhak Mordechai completed his term as Minister of Transport, National Infrastructure and Road Safety

2001: President Bush welcomes Israeli President Moshe Katsav to the White House for a working dinner with Jewish leaders and senior Administration officials.

2001: A car bomb explodes outside a school in Netanya injuring 8 people for which Palestinian Islamic Jihad took credit.

2001: CTV broadcast the last episode of the mystery drama series “Twice in a Lifetime” starring Al Waxman and featuring Polly Bergen.

2002: A Jerusalem District Court indicted three Jewish settlers -  Yarden Morag, Shlomo Dvir and Ofer Gamliel – “accused of plotting to bomb a Palestinian girls’ school in East Jerusalem.”

2003: (28th of Iyar, 5763) Yom Yerushalayim – Jerusalem Reunification Day

2003: “Finding Nemo,” an Academy Award winnin animated comedy starring the voices of Albert Brooks and Alexander Gould was released in the United States today.

2004 In “The Perils of Pauline and Susan” published today, Michael Wood provides a complete review of Sontag and Kael: Opposites Attract Me by Craig Seligman.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/30/books/the-perils-of-pauline-and-susan.html?searchResultPosition=6

2005: Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar decides to recognize the members of India's Bnei Menashe community as descendants of the ancient Israelites. Amar also decides to dispatch a team of rabbinical judges to India to convert the community members to Orthodox Jews. Such a conversion will enable their immigration to Israel under the Law of Return, without requiring the Interior Ministry's authorization.

2005: President Moshe Katsav arrives in Germany to mark 40 years of diplomatic relations during a three-day visit in which he is to address the German parliament.

2005(21st of Iyar, 5765): Thirty-eight year old Yona Peter Malina who had been “severely injured” during a Hamas bombing on a city bus in Ramat Eshkol, Jerusalem, and had been on a respirator finally passed away today.

2006: “A commemorative stamp portraying Hiram Bingham IV” who served as U.S. Vice Counsel in Marseille and helped over 2,500 escape the Nazis

2007: Elias Chacour - Archbishop of Galilee, “an Arab Christian” who advocates for the Palestinian cause” was a interviews by Jerome McDonnell on Worldview on Chicago Public Radio station WBEZ.

2007: An exhibition, ''Sisters by Color'' comes to a close at the Hebrew University. The exhibition, featuring works of art by sisters Rachel Ziv and Gila Elyashar Stolisky, opened on April, 12, 2007, in the presence of the Lithuanian Ambassador to Israel Asta Skaisgiryte Liauskiene.

2007: As the missile attacks continue, a Qassam rocket hit a high-voltage electricity pole and landed on a building in the western Negev city of Sderot this evening. The house sustained some damage, but the residents of the home had been secured inside a protected room and remained unharmed.

2008: On Friday night, Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa celebrates the third and final Special Musical Sabbaths for this year.

2008: In Patterson, NJ, the Barnet Hospital named for Jewish philanthropist and political leader Nathan Barnet officially closed its doors today after 99 years of service.

2008(25^th of Iyar, 5768): Lee Henkel, the former general counsel to the IRS who ran Neiderhoffer Henkel the investment bank founded by hedge fund manager Victor Niederhoffer passed away today.

2008: Outfielder Brian Horwitz appeared in his first major league baseball game as a member of the San Francisco Giants.

2008: In “A Class For All Traditions,” published today the Chicago Tribune reports on The Chicago Jewish Day School on its fifth anniversary.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/content/education/chi-relig_jewishschoolmay30,0,6624247,print.story

2009(7th of Sivan, 5769: Second Day Shavuot – Yizkor

2009:Stephan M. Silverman, a clinical and school psychologist and Jacqueline S. Iseman, a clinical psychologist specializing in children and adolescents lead a discussion of “School Success for Kids With ADHD” at Borders Books in Rockville, MD.

2010: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish of authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer and Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law by Gabriel Schoenfeld.

2010(17^thof Sivan, 5770): Eighty-eight year old Israeli political leader and Knesset Member Aryeh “Lova” Eliav passed away.

2011: Limmud Colorado’s Fourth Annual Conference is scheduled to come to an end.

2011: Israeli Homeland Security Minister Matan Vilna'i and his Russian counterpart Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu are scheduled to sign an agreement to increase Israeli-Russian cooperation in emergency situations during a ceremony at the Knesset today.

2011(26^thof Iyar, 5771): Yahrzeit Moshe Chaim Luzzatto. Born in 1707 he “was a prominent Italian Jewish rabbi, kabbalist, and philosopher.” Known by the Hebrew acronym RaMCHaL (or RaMHaL, רמח"ל), he passed in 1746

2011: A group of squatters forcefully entered a building that houses a synagogue, in a move that anti-government observers say was religiously motivated.  The squatters were peacefully dislodged this morning after negotiations with the police and community leaders. A group of 20 homeless people, including children, broke into the three-story building before sunrise today and occupied some of the vacant apartments on the second and third floors, saying they considered the building unused and would press for the building’s expropriation by the government so that it could be turned into apartments for the homeless. Representatives of the Jewish community said that there was no damage to Bet Abraham, a synagogue that was established over 10 years ago on the building’s first floor. The building has been undergoing renovations for the last two years, according to reports. “The action’s objective was not to disturb the normal activities of the synagogue and the protesters did not enter the religious grounds, nor did they act in a disrespectful manner,” said the Venezuelan Confederation of Israelite Associations in a statement. The confederation said the squatters left the building peacefully after the intervention of the district’s mayor Jorge Rodriguez, who is a member of President Hugo Chavez’s party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. While the confederation it does not believe the action was religiously motivated, anti-government observers pointed out that the squatter’s invasion attempt came a week after Catholic imagery was shot at in another provincial city. “These people know exactly what they are doing even if they might not know what a synagogue really is,” wrote one anti-government blogger. “But they have heard the anti-Jewish talk of the regime, the anti-Catholic [rhetoric] of Chavez, [and] the unacceptable recommendation [sic] of the 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' on the Venezuelan national state radio no less.” President Chavez has verbally sparred in the past with the Catholic hierarchy in Venezuela, which has been outspoken in denouncing what it describes as the erosion of democracy under Chavez.

2011: The head of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Bernie Farber, announced he is running for public office. Farber, who worked for the CJC for 27 years and has been its CEO since 2005, announced he is taking a leave of absence to run as a Liberal candidate in October's provincial elections in Ontario. Farber is running in the heavily Jewish district of Thornhill, north of Toronto, where he will face the Progressive Conservative party's incumbent, Peter Shurman, a Jewish one-time broadcast executive. Farber already has been criticized for allying himself with the ruling Liberals, who are steadfastly against any public funding of private and religious schools in Ontario. Over the years, Farber and CJC have become synonymous with vigorous calls for funding of Jewish schools. The previous Conservative government provided a historic tax credit for parents of children in faith-based schools, which Ontario's current Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty cancelled upon coming to office. Funding is "probably something the premier and I don't agree on, but on virtually everything else we are in agreement," Farber said. "I will try to march on those issues where we are in full agreement and continue to advocate on those issues I still feel strongly about." Shurman told the Canadian Jewish News he thought Farber is "a good guy" and wished him luck, but said he wasn't concerned "in the slightest" by his rival's entry into politics.

2011: According to some of the findings in Identity a la Carte, a landmark study of post-Communist Jewish identity, affiliation and participation released today, “a generation after the fall of communism, Jews in Central Europe feel comfortable where they live but are concerned about anti-Semitism. They like to visit Israel but don't want to move there. And they feel that they don't have to be religious to be a "good Jew."

2011: Funeral services will be held today in Toronto for Milton Avruskin with internment at Interment at Pardes Shalom Cemetery, Temple Har Zion section.

2011(26^thof Iyar, 5771): Eighty-nine year old Rosalyn S. Yalow, the first woman to earn a Nobel Prize in Medicine, passed away today. (‘As reported by Denise Gellene)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/us/02yalow.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

2012: Judaism and the American Legal Tradition taught by Dr. Daniel Rynhold is scheduled to hold its final course of the semester.

2012: Funeral services were held today for “Award-winning author, teacher, mentor and fierce fighter for social justice, Ellen Levine” who had passed away on May 26.

http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/press-release/award-winning-author-ellen-levine-1939-2012-dies-age-73

2012: Center for Jewish History and Leo Baeck Institute are scheduled to present a concert featuring Vassa Shevel and Inessa Zaretsky of the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble and guest pianist, Ellen Braslavsky

2012: Defense Minister Ehud Barak said today that Israel should consider imposing the borders of a future Palestinian state, becoming the most senior government official to suggest bypassing a stagnant peace process.

2012: For the second time in three years, Howard Michael Epstein “was shut out from joining the Cabinet” when a new government was formed in Canada.

2012: The European Jewish Community Center (EJCC), holds an event at the European parliament commemorating Israel’s establishment of control over the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1967, a week after the national holiday was held in Israel. (As reported by Gil Shefler)

2012: Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) chief Yoram Cohen told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee today that terrorists funded by Iran have increased attempts to attack Jewish targets around the world in the past year.

2013: The award ceremony at which Francesca Segal will receive the 2013 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature in recognition of her debut novel, The Innocents

2013: The 4th International Conference of the Global Forum for CombatingAntisemitism is scheduled to come to a close.

2013(21^stof Sivan, 5773): Seventy-nine year old actress Helen Haft passed away today.  (As reported by Paul Vitello)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/theater/helen-hanft-master-of-camp-way-off-broadway-dies-at-79.html?hpw

2013: The Wiener Library is scheduled to host a book signing for Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg whose latest work is Walking with the Light.

2013: Leonard Saxe, Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Director of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies as well as Director at the Steinhardt Social Research Institute at Brandeis University, is scheduled to speak at Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation on The Future of Liberal Judaism in America: What We Can Learn from the Birthright Israel Generation.

2013: The Religious Services Ministry has said that it is moving toward a system in which the serving rabbi of any congregation, whether Orthodox or non-Orthodox, will be financially supported by the ministry. The statement was made today in response to a High Court petition filed in January against the ministry by the Reform Movement in Israel and the Conservative Movement, arguing that it is illegal discrimination that the 157 state-employed neighborhood rabbis are all Orthodox.(As reported by Jeremy Sharon)

2013: Nigerian authorities said today they had arrested three Lebanese in northern Nigeria on suspicion of being members of Hezbollah and that a raid on one of their residences had revealed a stash of heavy weapons. "The arms and ammunition were targeted at facilities of Israel and Western interest in Nigeria," according to Captain Ikedichic Iweha, the military’s spokesman.

2013: Chaim Weizman “was posthumously honored by Governor Mike Pence as a Sagamore of the Wabash today at CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center, in Terre Haute, Indiana.”





2013: President Bashar al-Assad of Syria displayed a new defiance in a television interview broadcast today, warning Israel and suggesting that he had secured plenty of weapons from Russia as his opponents falter politically and Hezbollah fighters infuse force into his military campaign. 



















2014(1^stof Sivan, 5774): Rosh Chodesh Sivan

According to the 17^th century sage Isaiah Horovitz “the eve of the first day of the Hebrew month of Sivan is the most auspicious time to pray for the physical and spiritual welfare of one's children and grandchildren, since Sivan was the month that the Torah was given to the Jewish people.



2014: “Monologues from the Kishke,” “a Yiddishpiel Theater musical celebrating Eastern European food and culture” is scheduled to be performed at the Janco-Dada Museum in Ein Hod.” (As reported by Natan Skop)

2014: Professor Manfred Gailus, Technische Universität Berlin; Dr François Guesnet, University College London; Dr Hugo Service, University of Oxford are scheduled to speak about “Pogroms: Contemporary Reactions to Antisemitic Violence in Europe c. 1815-1950” at the Weiner Library in Russell Square in London, UK

2014: “Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, whose ministry oversees the Border Police, praised Border Policemen who prevented a suicide bombing attack when they stopped a man from Nablus who had a 12 pipe bombs and a electric detonator under the overcoat he was wearing in the 95 degree farenheit heat. (Times of Israel)

2014: David Saltiel, the head of the Jewish community in Thessaloniki said today that vandals broke into the Jewish cemetery and “desecrated several headstones.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-cemetery-desecrated-in-thessaloniki-greece/

2014: In Silver Spring, MD, Congregation Har Tzeon-Agudath Achim is scheduled to host a “Friday Night Tish” – “a modern taken on an old Chassidic tradition.”

2014(1^stof Sivan, 5774): Ninety year old Israeli actress Hanah Maron passed away.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-actress-hanna-maron-dies-at-90/







2015: For the second and final time Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor are scheduled to perform “Ship of Fools” at Abrons Arts Theatre.

2015: Cellist Inbal Segev is scheduled to perform at Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation in Brooklyn.

2015: Lewis Black is scheduled to perform for the second and last time at the Event Center in Riverside, Iowa.

2015: The Israel Wind Soloists are scheduled to perform at the Eden-Tamir Music Center.

2016: In Jerusalem, Migdalei haYam haTichon is scheduled to host the Claude Bolling Quartet Concert "AT THE BORDER OF JAZZ & CLASSICAL"

2016: At Temple Beth Zion in Buffalo, NY, “Saving a Legacy: Jewish Cultural Reconstruction,”  “an exhibit about Holocaust Ceremonial Objects that came to Buffalo in the 1950s is scheduled to come to a close.

2016: In honor of Memorial Day, the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center offers free admission for military personnel on the same day when Holocaust survivor Agnes Schwartz is scheduled to talk about how she survived the Nazi occupation of Budapest thanks to “the family maid.”

2016: On a day when Memorial Day is observed on Memorial Days, Americans remember those who made the supreme sacrifice for the United States and her citizens.

http://forward.com/news/135331/profiles-of-our-fallen/?utm_content=daily_Newsletter_MainList_Title_Position-1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Daily%202016-05-29&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20Monday-Friday

https://kaplancenter.org/memorial-day-and-united-jewish-people

http://forward.com/news/135331/profiles-of-our-fallen/#ixzz1DeAMPaIh

http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/07/18/jews-in-the-military/







2017(5^thof Sivan, 5777): Erev Shavuot

2017: “With one day before the deadline, US President Donald Trump has not yet decided whether he will sign a waiver that would delay moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem for six months, the White House announced today.” (As reported by Eric Cortellessa)

2017: “According to a press release issued” today “UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told officials from the Simon Wiesenthal Center that “denial of Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitism.”

2017: MJE East and the Fifth Avenue Synagogue are scheduled to co-host a “festive dairy dinner” followed by a study session all through the night complete with cheesecake and ice cream and Rabbi Jonathan Feldman speaking about “Kabbalah & Relationships: A Mystical Take on Shavuot.”

2017: MJE West is scheduled to host “a beginners service and catered dairy dinner followed by Rabbi Mark Wildes speaking on “1967: Six Days that Changed Jewish Spiritual Life Forever” and midnight mimosas and a lecture “with Betty Ehrenberg, Executive Director of the World Jewish Congress.”

2017: In Pepper Pike, Ohio, Park Synagogue is scheduled to host its “annual erev Shavuot study session “Musing, 50 Years of Thoughts” led by Rabbi Joshua Hoffer.

2017: In the UK, the Oxford Jewish Chaplaincy is scheduled to host “Tikkun Leil Shavuot.”

2018: In Cedar Rapids, funeral services are scheduled to take place for Deborah Ekeland, the mother of Rachel Levine followed by burial at Eben Israel Cemetery.

2018: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Entebbe” this evening in London.

2018(16^thof Sivan, 5778): Ninety-three year old con-artist Mel Weinberg, the hustler who played a key role in the Abscam corruption case passed away today. (As reported by Robert D. McFadden)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/obituaries/mel-weinberg-dead-abscam-informant.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

2018: At Beit Avi Chai, Daniel Zamir is scheduled to “host Shlomo Gronich and Ravid Kachlani in a unique, one-of-a-kind, and moving rendition of Israeli music through the years.”

2018: “The Hollywood Reporter TV Talks and the 92^nd St Y” are scheduled to host “Fauda Screening and Conversation” with Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz

2018: In Cedar Rapids, the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to discuss A Life A La Carte by Ina Loewenberg

2018: As part of the “First Person 2018 Series,” the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to present a talk by Holocaust survivor Bob Behr.

2019: The Lebo Baeck Institute is schedule to present a lecture by Dr. Frank Stern on the impact of “Power/Jew Süss the 1934 British made film directed by Lothar Mendes with Conrad Veidt in the leading role which was the first important film of the German-Jewish exiles “ and “Jew Süss, the anti-Semitic movie directed by Nazi filmmaker Veit Harlan.”

2019: In Alberta, Canada, the 23^rd annual Edmonton Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to a close with a screening of “Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds: The Conductor Zubin Mehta.”

2019: The Veterans Games which have been taking place in “Tel Aviv and Jerusalem at rehab centers run by Beit Halochem” are scheduled to come to an end today.

2019: A U.S. delegation led by “Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner:” which is “seeking support for a late June workshop aimed at helping the Palestinians” is scheduled to arrive in Jerusalem today

2019: Israelis are confronted with the reality that Prime Minister Netanyahu has been unable to form a coalition government and that for the first time since the state was formed there will be “a second national election in less than one year.”

2019: The Comedy for Koby tour is scheduled is scheduled to play in Beit Shemesh this evening.

2019: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the last two screening of “Outdoors” starring Noa Koler.

2019: “The Guiding Hand,” “an exhibition of Torah from Past and Present is scheduled to come to an end today.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23600123?seq=21#metadata_info_tab_contents

2020(7^thof Sivan, 5780): Second Day of Shavuot, Yizkor; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

2020: In the United States, traditional Memoria Day, before it was decided what the United States needed were more three day weekends!

2020: The 2020 Jerusalem Film Festival, in partnership with the We Are One – A Global Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Love Chapter 2” the award winning film by Sharon Eyal and co-creator Gai Behar.

2020: The Asiyah Jewish Community is scheduled to host “A Yizkor for Our Time” where “we renew that tradition this Shavuot to include not only our grief for people, but also the generalized sense of loss we have been feeling during the onset of the COVID-19 era.”

2020: For Shavuot, Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to present online workshops in English and Hebrew, speakers and musical performances included a keynote address by Ruby Namdar, author of Sapir Award-winning novel The Ruined House.

2020: In suburban Cleveland, OH, Confirmation Services are scheduled to be held via Zoom at B’nai.  Jeshurun Congregation

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1279 BCE: Ramses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. If you accept the contention that Moses lived from 1391–1271 BCE, Ramses would be the Pharaoh who came to power after the Exodus. During his reign he reasserted Egyptian power over the area that would have included Canaan during the period of the Judges. However, the Bible talks about the Canaanite tribes and Philistines as being the Israelites’ enemies and not the Egyptians.

70 C.E.: The Jewish defenders of Jerusalem surrendered the first wall of the city to the Romans.

942 (26 Iyar 4702): Sa'adia ben Joseph (Rav Saadia Gaon) passed away. Born in Egypt in 882, he moved to Babylon in 928 to head the Academy at Sura. He revived the waning influence of the Academy and wrote on many subjects including grammar, Halachah and philosophy. As one of the foremost opponents of Karaism, he wrote the exposition "Emunot Vedeot", which became very popular. A grave conflict arose between Sa'adia and the Exilarch, David ben Zaccai when he refused to endorse a judgment of the Exilarch's court in which Ben Zaccai was an interested party. The issue was not settled for many years and demonstrated S'aadia's unyielding defense of his principles. He was subsequently expelled and moved to Baghdad. On Purim 937, the opponents were reconciled, and a few years later Sa'adia adopted Ben Zaccai's orphan grandchildren.

1422: Sigismund of Luxemburg, who “drained the Jews of their wealth whenever he could, he protected them from some of the worst excesses,” was crowned Holy Emperor today. (History of the Jewish People)

1469: Birthdate of Manuel I of Portugal who gave up his positive relationship with his Jewish subjects when agreed to expel them as the price of Infanta Isabella of Aragon, the daughter those implacable anti-Semites Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain.

1492: “Isaac Abrabanel…left Spain for Naples after his unsuccessful intervention with King Ferdinand to revoke the decree of expulsion of the Jews.

”http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Abravanel.html

1548: Francesco Panigarola, the Bishop of Atsi whose sermons were studied by Rabbi Leone Modena “who tried to graft some the Bishop’s style on the Jeiwsh tradition of the  derush, a commentary on Bible text and Talmud” passed away today. (Schama II, 118

1593: The Jews were barred from living in Riga and Livonia.

1611: Today, Albertus Denis, “one of the first members of the Portuguese Jewish Community in Hamburg” and the “banker to Count Ernest of Schauenburg, the reigning prince of the county of Pinneberg in southern Holstein, whom he supplied with silver bullion for his mint” was one of three people who “signed the agreement which assured the community the use of its cemetery in Altona.

1630: The Puritan leader William Prynne, who would oppose the return of Jews to the British Isles obtained a license to print a book expressing opposition to stage plays, one of the many “pleasures opposed” by his sect.

1665: Sabbeti Zevi proclaimed himself Messiah. The most famous of all the False Messiahs, Sabbeti Zevi enthralled tens of thousands of Jews. His message was accepted across all social and economic classes. His followers were to be found throughout Jewish communities in Europe and the Orient. Turkish authorities became alarmed at his growing popularity and had him arrested. The Sultan gave him the choice of proving his claims or suffering the death penalty. The would-be Messiah gave up the game, accepted a minor governmental position in Turkey and converted to Islam. The whole episode might be written off as a farce if it were not for the fact that so many had believed in him and were disillusioned by the outcome. In addition, charges of being a secret supporter of his beliefs would tear at the fabric of Jewish society for decades to come.

1666: One of the dates given for the death of Jacob Lumbrozo, the Portuguese born physician who became the first Jewish resident of Maryland when he moved there in 1656.

1689: Following today’s invasion of the city of Worms by French forces under Comte de Melac, the synagogue was burned including “the so-called Rashi Chapel” and the ruins were used for a stable and a storehouse.

1740: Frederick William I who was served by Veitel-Heine Ephraim as Jeweler and Mint Master passed away today. As a result of his death, recently passed legislation that would have led to the end of the Jewish community in Berlin were not enforced.

1747 (26 Iyar 5507): Moses Hayyim Luzzatto passed away. Born in 1707 at Paua, Italy, this great poet and mystic became an unfortunate victim of the reaction to Shabbetaianism. His writings were burned and he tragically died soon after his arrival to Eretz-Israel. His most lasting achievements were his use of Hebrew in secular poetry and his ethical work, Mesilat Yesharim (Path of Righteous). Luzzatto also wrote two Hebrew dramas, Migdal Oz (tower of Strength) and La-Yisharim (Praise to the Righteous).

1750: Birthdate of Karl August von Hardenberg the Prussian statesman and reformer who supported full emancipation for the Jews of Germany.

1776(13th of Sivan, 5536): At a wedding celebration on an upper floor of a building in the Jewish Ghetto of Venice, 65 people, including the bride, were killed when the building collapsed under the strain of the celebration.

1776(13th of Sivan, 5536): Two weddings were held today in the same building in Mantua, Italy. During the celebration, the building collapsed killing 28 women, including one of the brides, and 3 men. The Jews of Mantua were not allowed to expand their housing beyond the ghetto walls. This forced them to build vertically, resulting in unstable buildings which led to deaths like these.

1778(5^thof Sivan 5538): Erev Shavuot observed as the Americans look forward to French military aid thanks to the recently signed Treaty of Alliance which was a major turning point in the fight for independence.

1781(7^thof Sivan, 5541): As Jews observe the Second Day of Shavuot during the climactic months of the American Revolution, a Council of War was held on a French man-of-war where the question of having the French Fleet remain at Rhode Island was debated among General Washing, Comte de Rochambeau and Comte Barras

1789(6^thof Sivan, 5549): Shavuot is observed for the first time during the Presidency of George Washington.

1791(27^thof Iyar, 5551): Less than a week before his 74^th birthday Emanuel Mendez da Costa, the son of Sephardic Jews Abraham and Esther da Costa and husband of Leah del Prado who went from being a notary to a scientist of such repute that he was one of the fist Jewish Fellows of the Royal Society of London before gaining infamy for his embezzlement, passed away today.

https://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/2018/10/16/face-from-archives/

https://www.lindahall.org/emanuel-mendes-da-costa/

1797(6^thof Sivan, 5557): Shavuot observed for the first time during the Presidency of John Adams.

1800(7th of Sivan, 5560): Second Day of Shavuot and Yizkor are observed for the last time during the Presidency of John Adams.

1804(2st of Sivan, 5564): Dutch born American merchant and postmaster Isaac Bendix passed away today in Savannah, GA.

1822: Baron Rothschild conferred with Prussian diplomat Friedrich von Gentz “at breakfast regarding the Frankfort Jewish matter.”

1808(5^thof Sivan, 5568): Erev Shavuot observed on the same day that President Thomas Jefferson wrote to his Secretary of State and future President James Madison from Monticello on a variety of matters including a complaint by the French that U.S. was allowing deserters from the French Army to enlist in the U.S. Army.

1827(5^thof Sivan, 5587): Erev Shavuot observed on the birthdate of Frederic Augustus Thesiger, the Lord Chelmsford, the British general who spoke against the Jewish Disabilities Bill during the Parliamentary Debates 1n 1853.

https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1853/mar/11/jewish-disabilities-bill



1836(15^thof Sivan, 5596): Joel Myers, the husband of Frances Lazarus with whom he had eight children, passed away today in the United Kingdom.

1838(7^thof Sivan, 5598): Second Day of Shavuot

1839: In Cincinnati, Abraham and Henrietta Wolf gave birth to Eleanor Wolfe who became Eleanor Mack when she married Max J.Mack with who she had three sons – Harry, Walter and Alfred Mack.

1845: Birthdate of German native, Rabbi Joseph Kahn, the husband of Rosalie Kahn and father of University of Michigan trained civil engineer Moritz Kahn who is credited with the creation of “pre-case reinforced concrete ships where were used by the English Admiralty in W.W I”

1846(6^thof Sivan, 5606): Shavuot

1846: In Greenwich, Kent, Samuel Levy Bensusan and the former Esther Bernal gave birth to Jacob Bensusan.

1847: Birthdate of Leopoldo Franchetti the native of Livonro, Italy whose family had come from Tunisia in the 18^th century and who became an Italian reformer and political leader who served in the Chamber of Deputies before becoming a Senator.

http://www.comunecittadicastello.it/en/art/leopoldo_franchetti.asp

1855: Sixty-three year old Austrian ophthalmologist Anton Von Rosas who was also the author of Anti-Semitic literature that decried Jews “taking over and “jewifying” Austrian culture. (As described by David Aberbach

1861: Philadelphian Henry Rosengarten began serving as a Corporal in Company of the 27^th Regiment.

1861: Philadelphians Sampson Goldberg and Jacob Luescher began serving as Sergeants in Company A of the 27^th Regiment.

1861: Julius Heimberg began a three year enlistment with the 27^th Regiment during which he rose from the rank of Corporal to the rank of First Lieutenant.

1861: Max Heller began service as an Assistant Surgeon with the 27^th Regiment.

1861: Henry Heller began serving a “90 day enlistment” was a Surgeon with the 27^thRegiment

1861: Sergeant-Major Washington Cromelien, who would later “accept a commission as a Lieutenant in the 65^th Regiment” began serving in the 27^thRegiment today.

1861: Today, the 27^th Regiment, originally a part of the ‘Washington Brigade,’” which was commanded by 39 year old Colonel Max Einstein “were formally mustered in the service in the United States for a term of three years.

1861: Philadelphia Solomon Roedelsheimer, who would serve only three months due to ill health, began serving today as Captain in Company A of the 27^thof Regiment.

1862: In today's issue of The Israelite, Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise responded to criticism by Reverend Moncure D. Conway that the Israelite had not spoken out on the importance of preserving the Union. Wise said that "he never preached on politics." He said that this would be "a misapplication of the Sabbath and the pulpit" and that there were plenty of other opportunities for patriotic speeches.

1865(6th of Sivan, 5625): Jews celebrate the first Shavuot since the end of the Civil War.

1865: Philadelphia Nathaniel Bloom, a Corporal in Company F of the 45^thRegiment who had been serving since September 3, 1861 was discharged today still suffering from the effects of the wounds he had received during the siege of Petersburg, VA.

1870: John Motley, the U.S. Minister to the Court of St. James had dinner with former Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

1870: Lawrence Spyer, the husband of Miriam Spyer and the father of Rachel, Frederick and Nathaniel Spyer, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1872: “Turkey” published today described the bloody anti-Jewish riots that have been taking place in Smyrna. The riots began after reports that a Greek child was lying in the morgue, having been killed by Jews who need its blood for their annual Passover sacrifice.

1873: An article published today included an appeal for money to be sent to the “Children’s Fund” which would be used to provide summer time excursions for poor Jewish youngsters living in New York City.

1874: According to reports published today a Jew from Chicago named Henry Greenbaum donated five hundred dollars to a Chicago church whose pastor is Professor Swing, the controversial Presbyterian minister who has been labeled as a heretic by his co-religionists

1875: Two days afer he had passed away, Samuel Bergel, the husband of Frances Solomons and father of Charles, William and Herbert Bergel was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1877: Three days after he had pass away, Lewis Leon, the father of “Annia and Charlotte Leon: was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1877: On the Lower East Side, Isaac and Pearl Gainsburg gave birth to NYU trained attorney Isidore Gainsburg who went from owning his on newsstands while in college to becoming “one of the leading trial lawyers of the New York bar and who was the husband “of the former Rebecca Arenwald.

1879(9^thof Sivan, 5639): J.I. De Lissa Cohen the founder “of the Mercantile Record and Commercial Gazette of Mauritius” passed away today at Curepipe.

1880: It was reported today that in the last six months, the Board of Relief of the United Hebrew Charities has provided 1,235 pairs of shoes, 407 dresses, 425 pairs of stockings, 252 skirts, 123 coats and almost one thousand, five hundred tons of goals to those in need. In the past year, assistance has been provided to 1,481 families which is a decrease of 162 for the year ending with May, 1879. However, there was increase in the number needing assistance in April which may indicate that there will be an increase in demand.

1881: Birthdate of Smolensk native and NYU trained lawyer Alexander Kahn, the general manager and publisher of The Jewish Daily Forward.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/03/12/90149510.pdf



1882: In Paris, Victor Hugo presided over a rally held to protest Russian persecution of the Jews.

1884(7th of Sivan, 5644): Second Day of Shavuot

1884: In San Francisco. Emanuel and “Caroline Carrie Mandel gave birth to playwright and movie producer Frank Mandel

https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6q2nb3j9/



1884(7^thof Sivan, 5644): Sixty year old “Jewish industrialist and German railway entrepreneur” passed away today.

http://www.docutren.com/archivos/semmering/pdf/05.pdf

1885: The 20^thanniversary of the Hebrew Free School Association was celebrated this morning at the Lexington Avenue Opera House in New York City. The event was attended by 2,000 students and 500 adults including the association’s president, M.S. Isaacs and secretary, Henry S. May, and Rabbis, Jacobs, Kohut and Wise.

1886: Birthdate of Grete Seligmann who as Grete Adelsheimer was shipped from Stuttgart, to Terezin to Auschwitz where she was murdered.

1889(1^stof Sivan, 5649): Rosh Chodesh Sivan

1890: A group of Polish Jews are scheduled to present their claim that a banker William S. Wolf defrauded them out of money that they had given him with a promise that it would be sent back to Europe to the New York District Attorney.  Wolf has disappeared.

1891: Birthdate of Erich Walter Sternberg the Berlin-born Israeli composer who was one of the founders of Israeli art music, Sternberg had a profound impact on the musical life of Palestine and Israel during the 1930s and 1940s. He passed away in 1974.

1891: Breaking with tradition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened today despite opposition from those who viewed Sunday as the Sabbath.

1892: Civil War hero, journalist and Republican political leader Franz Sigel wrote to Simon Wolf telling him “there are no less than 300 Jewish officers serving in the French army, probably the highest number in any of the great European armies, which speaks well for France and her republican government.”

1892: In response to misleading claims by German anti-Semites, “the Prussian Minister of War says that the rifles furnished to the army by Ludwig Loewe & Co are perfectly satisfactory.”  Ludwig Loewe the late founder of the company was Jewish as was his brother Isidor who followed him as President.

1892: “Baron Hirsch Very Ill” published today described the deteriorating health of the Jewish philanthropist who “is suffering from an attack of influenza and congestion of the lungs.”

1892: At today’s meeting of the Yale Corporation F.K. Saunders, the instructor in Hebrew at Yale Theological Seminary was named Assistant Professor of Biblical Literature.

1892: “Mercy For Russian Jews” published today immunities that the Czar’s government has decided to grant to Jews who wish to emigrate including not having to serve in the army.

1892: It was reported today that of the 390 children enrolled in the Baron de Hirsch Fund School, 107 had been admitted since May 1^st.  The first of the students had arrived in February. All of the children were fluent enough in English to take part in the recent Memorial Day celebrations.

1892(5^thof Sivan, 5652) Erev Shavuot

1892: One of two possible birthdates given for Solomon Zeitlin, the native of Byelorussia who became professor of rabbinical studies at Dropsie College in Philadelphia where he taught in the same classroom for over five decades and who is known both as the author of the three volume The Rise and Fall of the Judean State as well as challenger of the authenticity of the Dead Sea Scroll passed away today.

http://www.jta.org/1976/12/30/archive/solomon-zeitlin-dead-at-84

1892: “The Festival of Shebnoth” published today described the importance of the Jewish holiday of Pentecost or Feast of Weeks which begins this evening.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30E15FC3E5C17738DDDA80894DE405B8285F0D3

1893: This morning, “agent Louis Steen of the Gerry Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children arrested Herman Engel of the Ladies’ Deborah Nursery” following what he was charged at the Essex Street Police Court of “having brutally assaulted” thirteen year old Israel Schwartz who has been living at the institution for nine years.

1893: “Darkest Russia, a monthly publication, confirms the exclusive announcement of The New York Times that Russian persecution of the Jews is extending to Poland reporting that 480 families have been expelled from the Ronda-Gonzowski district alone.

1894: “At 23 Clanricarde Gardens, in the Notting Hill district of the Borough of Kensington, London,”
George Solomon Joseph, a solicitor in the family firm” and his wife, Henrietta Franklin, gave birth to their fourth child to pianist and composer Jane Marian Joseph

1894: “In Memory of Jesse Seligman” published today described the memorial services that were held for the late Jesse Seligman which were held at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and addressed by several prominent officials including Oscar S. Straus, General Carl Schurz and Charles Fleischer, “ a graduate of the asylum and rabbi-elect of a prominent congregation in Boston.”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F60F17F93B5515738DDDA80B94DD405B8485F0D3

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1896: In New York, the highlight of the annual reception of B’nai Jeshurun was “the presentation of a handsome silk flag” by Miss Sophie Arnheim “and a “facsimile of the Liberty Bell to the pupils of the religious school attached to the congregation.”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10615FC385C107389DDA80894DE405B8685F0D3

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1896: Today, The New York Times published an excerpt from an article in a British publication, The Quarterly Review, which compared the accomplishments of Disraeli and Gladstone in the field of foreign affairs. The author is cautiously optimistic when describing Disraeli’s policy designed to thwart Russian attempts to expand at the expense of the Ottoman Empire. He gives Disraeli high marks for his performance during the conference held at Berlin and for his purchase of the shares in the Suez Canal. In the end, regardless of how things play out, “this much is certain…Disraeli upheld the traditions of his …country at a time when a foreign critic of our policy uttered the well-known sneer that the only persons left who cared for the honor of England were an old woman and a Jew.” The old woman is Queen Victoria. The Jew is Disraeli proving that the nature of his birth out-weighed the impact of his forced youthful trip to the baptismal font.

1897: Arthur Strauss, an MP for Camborne is among the members of the British team playing a trans-Atlantic chess match with their American counterparts, using the telegraph which was “the real-time of that era.

1898: The Brooklyn Eagle reported that Oscar S. Straus has been named to succeed James B. Angell as United States Minister to Turkey. Among his most ardent supporters are “the boards of all the denominations that have missionaries in Turkey” because when he served in this position under President Cleveland, he “did more to get just treatment for missionaries and all other American citizens than any other man had done before him.”

1898: Albert Lasker arrived for his first day of work at Lord and Thomas today having been locked out yesterday due to the Memorial Day Holiday.

1899: It was reported today that “M. Ballot—Beapure’s summing before the Court of Cassation in favor of Dreyfus has not” caused a disturbance in Paris since “it was a foregone conclusion but as the judgment is to be revised and not quashed there will be a new trial before a court martial with every probability of a fair trial and it is hard to doubt that the result will be acquittal” sincere there is “no proof against Dreyfus.

1901: Herzl travels to Paris to begin the raising of the money, which is to be the first step toward the obtaining of the Charter. The negotiations in Paris are fruitless.

1901: Bella Weretnikow, who became the first Jewish woman lawyer in Washington State, graduated from the University of Washington Law School.

1902(24^thof Iyar, 5662): Parashat Behcukotai

1902: “All the meat markets conducted by Jews where Kosher meat is sold” are “closed down tonight” because of the teamsters strike leaving “85,000 Jews in Chicago without their regular meat supply.

1903(5^thof Sivan, 5663): Erev Shavuot

1903: As Jews mark the 49^th day of the Omer, the Pittsburg Pirates, owned by Barney Dreyfuss beat the Cincinnati Reds today.

1904: It is reported today that the recent campaign in Europe to divide up Morocco” has been supported “ by the Alliance Israelitewhose special aim is…to secure better treatment for the Jews in Morocco where today they have no civil rights.”

1905: Birthdate of Hungarian native Fellner Vilmos who gained fames as William J. Fellner, the Sterling Professor at Yale and the husband of “the former Valerie Korek.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/16/obituaries/wiliam-j-fellner-dies-at-77-economics-professor-at-yale.html?searchResultPosition=1



1906(7th of Sivan, 5666): Second Day of Shavuot

1907: Sixty-one year old Moritz Litten the Berlin born physician who was the son-in-law of pathologist Ludwig Traube, the son of a Jewish wine merchant.

1908: “A grand fair is being held at the Home of the Daughters of Jacob, 302 East Broadway, in commemoration of an addition to this home for aged Jewish poor.”

1909: It was reported today that those attending the annual meeting of the Jewish Sabbath association spoke approvingly of Commissioner Bingham allowing those who kept the Sabbath on Saturday to keep the stores open Sunday, they were critical of “the Jewish woman who make a practice of going shopping on Sabbath afternoons.”

1910: It was reported today that Jews “arriving at the health resorts in the Caucasus to take the bath and receive medical were immediately expelled by the local authorities” which runs contrary to the law the forbid the residence of Jews in the Caucasus” but which did not prevent the government from authorizing visits by the Jews to the baths in 1909.













1911:Birthdate of multi-talented Ruth Hagy Brod.Born in New York and raised in Chicago, Ruth Hagy Brod had a varied career that took her from the newsroom to Latin America and from the mainstream press to offbeat publishing. As a child, Brod excelled in music, giving public recitals at age six and earning a bachelor's degree in music at age 18. She soon left music behind, however, and turned to journalism, going first to Hollywood, where she worked as an editor for movie and radio magazines. Moving to Philadelphiain 1938, she wrote features for the Philadelphia Ledger. Later, she would write for newspapers in Chicagoand New York City as well. During the 1930s, she also worked as a radio reporter and documentary filmmaker. A decade later, she became women's editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin; while at the Bulletinshe developed a program that became the "College News Conference," a weekly show where college students questioned prominent political figures. In the 1960s, she began to travel widely, producing a Peace Corps documentary on Colombia and a television series on Asian women. She worked as a newspaper correspondent in Southeast Asia and a Far East correspondent for NBC Radio, at a time when it was unusual for women to hold such roles. While making the Peace Corps documentary, she also served as an educational television advisor to the Colombian government. Brod first entered public service during World War II, when she served as publicity director for the United War Chest campaigns and as a member of the women's advisory board executive committee for the U.S. Savings Bond division of the U.S. Treasury. Upon returning to New Yorkfrom her overseas travels, she became involved in New York City politics. In the mid-1960s, she was appointed as director of public information for JOIN (Job Orientation in Neighborhoods), which worked with the U.S. Department of Labor to provide job training and placement services to young high school drop-outs. Later that decade, Brod served as a special assistant to Mayor Robert Wagner, and in 1967 she was the founder-director of the Mayor's Coordinating Council under Mayor John Lindsay. The Council functioned as a central volunteer coordinator for the city, recruiting some 6,000 volunteers in its first year. In the 1970s, Brod embarked on yet another career, turning to publishing. She published two books of her own (both co-authored), Ena Twigg, Medium (1972) and The Edgar Cayce Handbook of Health Through Drugless Therapy (1975). She also worked as a literary agent, with clients that included Allard Lowenstein, a civil rights activist who was later assassinated, and James Hoffa, the Teamsters Union leader. Brod died of cancer in 1980.

1912: Birthdate of Senator Henry M "Scoop" Jackson. Jacksonwas not Jewish, but he was a man of character of principle, a liberal in the best sense of the term. A Democrat from the state of Washington, Jackson supported legislation intended to force the Soviets to improve the treatment of their Jewish citizens and to allow them to leave the country if they so desired.

1912: “Thirty-six Jews were arrested at the Kiev Science and Art Club” and then “expelled from the city.

1912: With the aid of the police, “anti-Jewish agitators in the provinces of Podolia and Volhynia” incited the “peasants to demand the expulsion of the Jews.

1912: In Russia, “300 Jewish families” were expelled in the province of Taurida, joining the hundreds of other families who were ordered to “leave villages in the provinces of Volhynia and Kherson.

1913(24^thof Iyar, 5673): Eighty-two year old Samuel A. Lewis, the New York School Commissioner who abolished corporal punishment and Chairman of the Board of Alderman who was a founder of the Mount Sinai Hospital passed away today in Greenwich, CT.

1913(24^thof Iyar, 5673): Eighty three year old Mrs. Bashe Sarasohn passed away today in New YorkCity.

1913: It was reported today that the presiding officers of the Bar Association, the Medical faculty and City Club of Baltimore – Moses R. Walter, Esq., Dr. Harry Friedenwald and Eli Frank, Esq. -- are all Jews.

1913: It was reported today that “Rabbi Louis Jacob Hass, formerly of Utica, NY, has been appointed as Resident Rabbi at the Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School at Woodbine, NJ.

1914(6^thof Sivan, 5674): Shavuot

1914(6^thof Sivan, 5674): Sixty year old Louis L. Greene passed away in Providence, RI.

1914(6^thof Sivan, 5674): Forty-six year old attorney and Maryland State Senator Lewis J. Putzel, the son of Sophia and Selig Gerson Putzel and the husband of Bertha “Birdie” Putzel with whom he had two children – Edward and Margaret – passed away today in his home town of Baltimore, MD.

1915: In Ottawa, Canada, Leon and Beckie Petegorsky gave birth to their only son Orthodox Rabbi David W. Petegorsky, the LSE Ph.D. “the Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress and World Jewish Congress” and husband of Carol Coan with whom he had “twin sons- Stephen and Dan” who was also a noted author.

https://www.archeion.ca/david-w-petegorsky-fonds;rad



1915: Rabbi J. Leonard Levy, Victor Rosewater, the editor of the Omaha Bee, Jacob Schiff, Isaac N. Seligman, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch were among those who received invitations today “urging their attendance at the conference to held in Independence Hall to consider the adoption of proposals for a League of Peace and to decide upon steps to be taken for obtaining the support of public opinion…”

1915: It was reported today that the eighth convention of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America has adopted “a message of loyalty” which will be sent to President Wilson “warmly commending him” for being an “advocate for peace.”

1915: Former Governor Eugene N. Foss will lead the Massachusetts delegation that is scheduled to appear before the Georgia Prison Commission in Atlanta “to argue for the commutation for Leo M. Frank and present clemency petitions bearing the signatures of 20,000 persons.”

1915: “A strong delegation from Savannah” which “will be headed by Samuel B. Adams, ex-Justice of the State Supreme Court, A.A. Lawrence, State Senator-elect and T. Mayhew Cunningham, a prominent jurist” is scheduled to appeal to the Prison Board today on behalf of clemency for Leo Frank.

1915: Leo Frank, who had been sentenced to hang, appealed to the Georgia State Prison Commission that his sentence be commuted to life imprisonment.

1915: “The seventh annual convention of the Federation of Russian Polish Hebrews of America” “which represent 30,000 Russian Polish Jews in the United States, passed a resolution favoring the sending of a petition to the State Prison Commission at Atlanta, GA asking that the sentence of Leo M. Frank be commuted.”

1915: “President Wilson received a telegram today from the Independent Order of Sons of Israel telling him that ex-Governor Foss of Massachusetts and a delegation had left for Atlanta, GA to ask the Governor to commute the sentence of Leo M. Frank” and asking him “to intercede in the case.”

1915: The American Jewish, Central and Peoples' Relief Committees gave $190,282 to Jews living in Palestine, $4,000 to Jews living in Alexandria and $59,500 to Jews living in Greece and Turkey.

1915: “The hearing on the petition of Leo M. Franks for a commutation of sentence from death to life imprisonment was begun before the State Prison Commission this morning at 10 o’clock and was concluded this afternoon shortly before 5.  The Commission took the case under advisement.  Frank, who was represent by former Congressman W. M Howard did not appear at the hearing.

1916: Hearings being conducting by the State Adjutant General into charges of anti-Semitism in the selection process for members of certain units including Battery D of the Second Field Artillery are scheduled to begin again today.

1916: In Stoke Newington, London, “Harry Lewis and the former Levy gave birth to Bernard Lewis, the Jew who specialized in “the history of Islam” when such a study was not in vogue and pursued a career at Princeton and the Institute for Advanced Study to which this blog can do not begin to do justice. (Editor’s Note:  I have read his works and all that I can say is that I need to read them again and American history would have been far different if those in the Bush administration had read them after 9/11.)



http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703712504576234601480205330.html

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/15/152764539/at-96-historian-lewis-reflects-on-a-century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Went_Wrong%3F

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bernard-lewis-eminent-historian-of-the-middle-east-dies-at-101/2018/05/19/4f0db6b8-5bad-11e8-8836-a4a123c359ab_story.html?utm_term=.d6afaa6f030b



1917: Birthdate of Morris Albert Adelman, “an energy economist who marshaled free-market principles and hard data in arguing that the world’s oil supply was not running out.” (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/business/morris-a-adelman-dies-at-96-saw-oil-as-inexhaustible.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=0

1917: Abram I. Elkus, the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey who was suffering from Typhus when the U.S. declared war on Germany and therefore unable to leave the country as ordered by the government at Constantinople was finally able to leave for Switzerland, a way station on his eventual destination – the United States.

1917: Two days after he had passed away, 37 year old David Freeman, a mechanic served with the Royal Air Corps, as buried today in London at the “Plashest Jewish Cemetery.”

1918: Commander Jacob H. Klein, Jr., the skipper of the U.S.S. Smith which during World War protected the “vitally important convoys of troop and cargo ships’ as they made their way through submarine infested waters was responsible for “rescuing the crew of the U.S.S. President Lincoln” today “after that ship had been torpedoed.”

1918: The meeting of the Chicago Branch of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America is scheduled to be held this evening at the Hotel La Salle.

1918: As violent attacks continue against Jews in Poland, in Cracow the authorities permitted “distribution of proclamations accusing Jews if murdering a Christian girl who had, in fact, been killed by the police during a pogrom.”

1918: In Cracow, the Premier and Minister of Interior met with a group of Jewish leaders and “promised to takes measures against future outbreaks of violence.”

1918: After two days of debate a proposal of Herr Heins to “disenfranchise the Jews in Prussia” was withdrawn today.

1919(2^ndof Sivan, 5679): Parashat Bamibar

1919: Services were held today at Beth Israel Synagogue during the National Conference of Jewish Charities at Atlantic City.

1919: It was reported today that Michael Aaaronsoh, and Jacob Marcus who was appointed sergeant-major were among the first students at Hebrew Union College to have enlisted in the Army and that Marcus, who was promoted to the rank of 2^ndLieutenant when her arrived in France is expected to return home soon while Aaronsohn who was promoted to the rank of Sergeant-Major was blinded while “trying to rescue a wounded comrade during fighting in the Argonne Forest.”

1919: The partly decomposed corpse of Rosa Luxemburg was found in one of the locks of Berlin’s Landwehr Canal.

1919: After two day of debate, the proposal of Herr Heins to disenfranchise the Jews in Prussia which he called for as a requirement for his support of an “Equality of Suffrage Bill” was withdrawn today.

1921: Churchill explains to the members of the Cabinet that he “had decided to suspend the development of representative institutions in Palestine ‘owing to the fact that any elected body would undoubtedly prohibit further immigration of the Jews.’”

1922: Forty-five year old Boston University trained attorney, Abraham C. Weber, the Boston born son of Max and Rebecca Weber married Sylvia Fish today.

1925(8^thof Sivan, 5685): Seventy-eight year old Albert Mosse, the German jurist who advised the Japanese during the creation of the Meiji Constitution passed away today in Berlin.

1925: In Washington Heights, Mabel Lucille (née Blum), a teacher, and Irving Beck, a businessman gave birth to “American actor, director, poet, and painter” Julian Beck

1926: The Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition which Victor Rosewater helped to plan and for which Louis Kahn, who would became a world famous architect, served “as the senior draftsman for the design of the exposition buildings,” opened today in Philadelphia, PA

1926: In Kittery, Maine, a war memorial sculpted by Bashka Peff was dedicated today.

http://jwa.org/thisweek/may/31/1926/bashka-paeff

1926(18^thof Sivan, 5686): “Mrs. Regina Ember, the wife of Dr. Aaron Ember and their six year old son died today at their home in the Baltimore suburb of Windsor Hills, while Dr. Ember, a Professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins was severely burned in his futile attempts to save his family

1926: In Brooklyn Eliah and Sarah Schulman gave birth to Seymour Jerome Schulman a civil engineer who pursued a career in public planning for which he was known as “a straight guy who did things based on their merits” and who served four years as Mayor of White Plains. (As reported by Leslie Kaufman)

1926: The entire Jewish Sejm delegation voted for Josef Pilsudski for President of Poland.

1927: At today’s session of the Fourth Western Interstate Conference in Spokane, Washington, Senator C.C. Dill is scheduled to deliver a speech on Peace at Temple Emanuel.

1928: Official birthdate of Jacob Lateiner, “a Cuban/US pianist. He was actually born on March 31, 1928, but his father did not get around to registering his birth until May 31 the same year. He is the brother of violinist Isidor Lateiner.”

1929: Birthdate of Menham Globus, the native of Tiberias and veteran of the Israeli War of Independence who gained fame as filmmaker Menahem Golan. (As reported by Anita Gates)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/11/arts/menahem-golan-passionate-auteur-of-the-b-movie-is-dead-at-85.html?hpw&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4556652,00.html

1930: In Mishnietz, Poland, Zvi Dov Laska and Levia Zehava Laska gave birth to Haim Yehuda Giladi.

1930: The body of Judge Hugo Pam who succumbed to the effects of heart disease while visiting New York will be leaving today on train bound for Chicago where the funeral will be taking place.

1932: Banker Jacques Stern who had run “on the Left Republic List” completed his service as a deputy for the Dinge “district of Bassess-Alpes” today.

1932: In Manhattan, property manager Richard Gilder, Jr. and homemaker Jane (Moyse) Gilder gave birth to Richard Gilder Jr, “a fifth generation New Yorker” and “great-great grandson of a Jewish immigrant from Bohemia who was “a billionaire investor and benefactor who was instrumental in revitalizing two neglected exemplars of American democracy — the study of American history and Central Park —“(As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/nyregion/richard-gilder-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries



1933(6th of Sivan, 5693): First Day of Shavuot

1933: Golo Mann, the son of Thomas Mann and the former Katia Pringsheim, the only daughter of German Jewish mathematician and artist Alfred Pringsheim left Germany for “the French town of Bandol” where after a summer of pleasure he began lecturing at the École Normale Supérieure at Saint-Cloud near Paris for two years.

1934: Today marks the 10^th and last day of the “office visits” being made by the Young Women’s Group of the Women’s Division of Brooklyn Jewish Charities made under the leadership of Mrs. Allan D. Emile and Mrs. Nathan L. Goldstein.

1935 Jews are banned from the German Armed Forces.

1935: “Chinatown Squad” an action film with a script written by Dore Schary was released in the United States today.

1935: In Eishyshok, Lithuania, “Moshe Sonenson, a leather tannery owner” and “his wife Zipporah” gave birth to Yaffa Sonenson who gained fame as Yaffa Eliach, the Holocaust survivor who created a massive photographic record of the Shoah. (As reported by Joseph Berger)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/nyregion/yaffa-eliach-died-holocaust-memorial-museum.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0



1936: “A revival of historical studies bring with it a new understanding between peoples was forecast” today “by Dr. William Foxwell Albright, Professor of Semitic Languages at Johns Hopkins Unversity in  an address at the eleventh annual commencement exercises of the Jewish Institute of Religion” which was founded by its current president Dr. Stephen S. Wise.

1936: Banker Jacques Stern who had run “on the Left Republic List” completed his second term in office as a deputy for the Dinge “district of Bassess-Alpes” today.

1936: On the same day when French guards on the Syrian border captured 1,000 rifles that we being smuggled into Palestine, in Jerusalem, “the police said they had unearthed a collection of posters in hand-printed Italian declaring all Jews were ‘Communists and enemies of Europe and Christianity.’”

1936: “Leaders of the British forces in Palestine including Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, commander of the British Mediterranean fleet “met today to discuss steps to halt the continuing disorders” in Palestine.

1936: It was reported today that the proceeds of the upcoming annual “Give or Get Luncheon” sponsored by the Mizrachi Women’s Organization will be used to provide for the needs of young girls in Palestine, including both the native-born and refugees from Europe.

1936(10^thof Sivan, 5696): “Today marks the end of the sixth week of rioting, murder and acts of brigandage by Arabs in Palestine.”

1936(10^thof Sivan, 5696): Fifty year old Franz Borschard, a German Jewish refugee “was fatally shot near Givat Shaoul, a suburb of Jerusalem” “by an Arab who jumped from concealment behind a wall.”

1937: “Unskilled labor's right to strike and the right of a woman to sue for divorce on the grounds of incompatibility were part of "New Deal" legislation by the Talmudic interpreters of the Mosaic Laws between the third and fifth centuries of the Christian Era, Dr. Louis Ginzberg, Professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America,” said tonight.

1938: Michael Strauss “Mike” Jacobs, the manager of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis was photographed today the Madison Square Garden Bowl with his fighter and trainer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Jacobs_(boxing)#/media/File:Louis-chappie-jacobs-1938.jpg



1938: German legislation outlaws "decadent art." All decadent artists weren’t Jewish but all Jewish artists were decadent.

1938: Birthdate of Peter Yarrow, “The Peter” in Peter, Paul and Mary

1939: As violence aimed at Arabs in response to the White Paper, increased, British authorities in Palestine began arresting Revisionists including Dr. Bukshpan, chairman of the Revisionist Palestine Executive Committee. At the same, at least one Jewish newspaper in Palestine published a report from Warsaw, Poland “that Dr. Vladimir Jabotinsky, head of the Revisionist party was openly opposed to any Jewish rebellion on the ground that in the present state of international affairs the Jews must and cannot fight against Britain when all democracies are grouping themselves” for a fight with Nazi Germany.

1939: Even though it placed strict limitations on Jewish immigration, Arab leaders rejected the White Paper today because it allowed for Jewish immigration and for the possibility of a Jewish home in Palestine. The Arab High Committee rejected any role for Jews in Palestine and asserted that the creation of an Arab state is the solution to the problem.

1940: On the same day that he asked Congress “for additional appropriations for National Defense, President Roosevelt had one hour long luncheon meeting Lawrence A. Steinhardt, the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviety Union.

1940: Today, Victor Records “Blueberry Hill” a song that would later become identified with Fats Domino which had lyrics co-authored by New York native Al Lewis.

1940(23^rdof Iyar, 5700): Fifty-six year old Kansas City, MO attorney Benjamin Morris Achtenberg, the son of David and Hannah Achtenberg and husband of Minnie Achtenberg passed away today after which he was buried in Raytown, MO.

1941(5^thof Sivan, 5701): Parashat Bamidbar; erev Shavuot

1941: Today the Nazis began expropriating “Jewish property in Belgium”

1942: AuschwitzIII opened up. It was a massive labor camp for the construction of synthetic oil and rubber.

1942: In the Warsaw Ghetto, 3,650 Jews had died of starvation since the first of May. The Germans opened a new death camp on the outskirts of Minsk, in the village of Maly Trostenets. Spring brought on soft ground which meant it was easy to dig massive graves again.

1943: Infielder Eddie Turchin played his 11^th and final major league game with the Cleveland Indians today.

1943: At a Meeting of the General Government ministers in Cracow, Lieutenant General Kruger noted that "on the Fuhrer's orders it is necessary for the (slaughter of the Jews) from the standpoint of European interests."

1943: Lydia Litvyak succeeded in the difficult task of shooting down a German artillery observation balloon which was protected by a ring of anti-aircraft guns.

1943 A Nazi prison administrator in Minsk, Byelorussia, reports that 516 German and Russian Jews have been killed in late May, their gold crowns and fillings taken from their mouths before their deaths.

1943(26th of Iyar, 5703): Today, the Nazis murdered Berta and Munio Kremnitzer, the parents of Rama Reis-Kremnitzer and the grandparents of Brig. Gen. Itai Reis, the commander of Palmahim air force.

1943(26^thof Iyar, 5703): Michael Henry Cornell, a Sgt. Navigator serving with the Royal Canadian Air Forced was killed today while “on active service.”

1944: In Budapest, German representative, SS General Edmund Veesnmayer reported that 60,000 more Hungarian Jews had been deported in the last six days. The total for the past 16 days stood at 204,312. This day 42 dead bodies were removed from the Berkenau bound trains.

1944 (9th of Sivan, 5704): The Jewish community of Khonia, Crete,which traced its history back toRoman times, came to an end when the ship Danai, into which all the Jews had been herded, was towed out to sea and sunk

1944: A Hungarian deportation train stops near the German border so 42 corpses could be removed.

1944: At the Auschwitz rail junction, German soldiers who encounter a sealed deportation train carrying Hungarian Jews to the Birkenau death camp defy threats of SS guards and give water and food to pleading prisoners. (Could this be a reference to scene in the film “Schinlder’s List” where Schindler provides water for a group of Jews trapped in box cars?)

1944: An SS man and a Jewish girl with whom he has fallen in love are executed. The German has hidden the girl for months, keeping her from the gas chambers.

1944: Having not heard a response from the telegram he had sent on May 27, Joel Brand sent another telegram to his wife telling her the he intended to leave for Budapest on June 4.  Unbeknownst to him, his wife was being held by the Arrow Cross.

1944: The Bielski brothers continued their fight against the Nazis while providing safe haven to over a thousand Jews.

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/may/11.asp

1945(19^thof Sivan, 5705): Russian born impressionist painter Leonid Pasternak passed away today at Oxford where he had gone to live to escape the Nazis and the Soviets.  He was the father of Boris Pasternak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pasternakuoknaosen.jpg

1945: Today, on the closing day of a conference “sponsored by the American Federation for Polish Jews at the Hotel Roosevelt” plans were announced for the formation of “a new World Federation of Polish Jewry” led by Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum.

1945: In London, Lord Wright told those attending the opening session of the United Nations War Commission, the organization “is seeking special methods of dealing with the mass criminality emanating from a master criminal and his entourage characteristic of Nazi atrocities” but that “how to handle the question of crimes against Jews generally and particularly against German Jews was still being examined.

1946(1^stof Sivan, 5706): Rosh Chodesh Sivan

1946: During an English language broadcast on Radio Moscow, “commentator Mikhail Mikahilov said that United Nations participation would be need to settle the…problem of Palestine” and that “negotiations between Britain and America cannot settle this serious problem.”

1947: “Speaking in the name of Christian representative leaders from seventy-six communities in twenty-seven states, the American Christian Palestine Committee ended a three-day national seminar in near-by Highland Park tonight with a plea to President Truman to implement the established American policy with regard to Palestine.”

1948: Birthdate of Rhea Perlman. The Brooklyn born actress, created the character of Carla on Cheers and Zena in the television comedy “Taxi. “

1948: Representatives of the Protestant and Catholic faiths joined more than 500 Reform Jewish leaders from a score of States at a testimonial dinner at the Netherlands Plaza Hotel in honor or Dr. Julian Morgenstern, who is retiring as president of Hebrew Union College.

1948: “In further moves to relieve pressures on the coastal strip and to ward off disaster two columns of Israeli armored cars were advancing to on Jenin.” One column was advancing from Afula while the other was coming from Megiddo which was the scene of a counter-attack by Trans-Jordan’s Arab Legion. In the south, the Arab Legion was reported to have massed two hundred armored vehicles at Rameleh which will be used in the fight to keep the road from Jerusalem to the Coast Plain from being opened to Jewish convoys. At the same time the Egyptians have amassed 500 armored vehicles twenty miles south of Jaffa as part of what appears to be another move against Tel Aviv.

1948: Moti Alon took off in the only undamaged S-199 this “morning to escort a Tel Aviv Squadron Dragon Rapide to support the Seventh Brigade at Latrun. He flew several sorties and by the time he called it a day, one mechanic said, "his machine was so full of holes, we didn't know how he kept it flying."

1948: An Order of the Day, signed by David Ben Gurion, which included the following statement, was issued.“On the establishment of the State of Israel, the Haganah has emerged from the underground and has become a regular army…Without the Haganah’s experience, plan, skill in operation and command, its devotion and valor, the Yishuv could not have held it ground on the dreadful trial of arms it had to face during these six months and we would not have attained the State of Israel.”

1949: Birthdate of Methodist minister Wallace S. Wade who became Asher Wade when he converted to Judaism and pursued a career as an Orthodox Rabbi and psychotherapist.

http://www.gazette.net/gazette_archive/2003/200345/frederickcty/county/186594-1.html

1949: Today, the Mayor of New York “proclaimed June as ‘UJA Month’ on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater of New York” and called upon all New Yorkers “to support the lifesaving humanitarian work” of the organization.

1951: The address of “The Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary” was renamed and renumbered as Tucholskystraße 40” today.

1951(25^thof Iyar, 5711): Forty-eight year old Ottawa native Louis J. Ellenberg, the President of Robert Hall Clothes, Inc. a leading member of the Jewish community who raised to children, James and Judith, with his wife Claire Roth Ellenberg passed away today. (Editor’s note: Six years later the author of this blog got his bar mitzvah at Robert Halls, a pioneer in discount clothing)

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/06/01/305773092.pdf



1952(7^thof Sivan, 5712): Second Day of Shavuot is observed for the last time during the Presidency of Harry Truman, “the godfather of Israeli independence.

1952: Birthdate of Marina Gershman who made Aliyah in 1991 where as Marina Solodkin she fashioned a successful political career including serving in the Knesset.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/former-mk-marina-solodkin-dies-of-stroke-in-latvia/

1955: The final episode of Danger an American anthology series on CBS which included performances by Walter Matthau and shows produced by Sidney Lumet was broadcast today by CBS

1955: A revival of Frank Loesser’s “Guys Dolls” opened today at the New York City Center starring Walter Matthau as Nathan Detroit.

1955: In New York City, Dr. Leonard Essman and his wife Zora who “taught Russian at Sarah Lawrence” gave birth to comedian, actress and producer Susan “Susie” Essman

1956: Seventy-fifth birthday of Alexander Kahn, “the general manager of the Jewish Daily Forward.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/05/31/86596464.pdf



1957: Playwright Arthur Miller is convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to denounce writers with alleged Communist views to the House Un-American Activities Committee

1957: Anshe Chesed’s new facility known as Fairmount Temple was dedicated today in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. The building was designed by Percival Goodman and cemented the reform congregation’s move to suburbia.

1959: Funeral services were held today for Des Moines, Iowa native Elliot E. Cohen, the founding editor of Commentarymagazine.

1961: It was reported today that 83 year old Chicago born Benjamin Samuels, the University of Chicago graduate and Harvard trained attorney who became president of the Yellow Cab Company and “international president of B’nai B’rith” while raising his son Robert with his wife Martha passed away while at patient in Chicago’s Michael Reese Hospital.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/05/31/101465856.pdf

1961: At a diplomatic luncheon given in his honor and “attended by the permanent representatives of 50 member states of the United Nations, Prime Minister David Ben Gurion said “In an armed and troubled world, the United Nations must serve as a great moral force, focusing the collective desire for peace and reducing the tensions which undermine peace.”

1961: In Edmonton, Alberta, pharmacist Barry Katz, the founder of Value Drug Mart and his wife gave birth to University of Alberta trained billionaire and philanthropist Daryl Allan Katz founder of the Katz Group of Companies and owner of the Edmonton Oilers.

1962: Adolf Eichmann, head of the Jewish department of the Gestapo, the first Nazi to be condemned by the Jewish state, was hanged.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/adolf-eichmann

1963: Birthdate of Canadian comedian Jeremy Hotz.

1964: Birthdate of Jerusalem native Ruby Namdar, the award winning author whose works include the novel The Ruined House.

https://www.rubynamdar.com/about

https://www.rubynamdar.com/

1964: Birthdate of Canadian lawyer and media magnate, Leonard Asper, Brandeis U. alum and son of the late Isadore Asper.

1965: Jordanian Legionnaires fired on the neighborhood of Musrara in Jerusalem, killing two civilians and wounding four.

1967: With the announcement of the alliance between Egyptand Jordan,Israelwas faced with the possibility of having to fight a war on three fronts – the Sinai, the Golan and the West Bank – Egypt, Syria and Jordan

1967: Contingents of the Iraqi Army arrived in Egypt with plans to join in the upcoming war with Israel.

1967: The government of Egypt declared that Eilat, Israel’s southern port, had been illegally occupied by Israel. With Egyptian troops stationed a few miles away at Taba, the Israel felt even more threatened.

1967: At Nasser’s insistence, Ahmed Shukeiry, head of the PLO, flew back to Jordan with King Hussein. He then went to Jordanian occupied portion of Jerusalem where he promises the Jews of Israel that after the war they will either have not survived or will be ‘repatriated.’

1969: After 45 previews and 132 performances at the Mark Hellinger Theatre the curtain comes down “Dear World,” a Broadway musical with a “book” co-authored by Jerome Lawrence with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman.

1969: "Suzanne,"  “a song written by Canadian poet and musician Leonard Cohen” reached 4^th place today on the Dutch Top 40 List.

1970: Kermit the Frog (who was not Jewish) performed Anthony Newly’s “What Kind of Fool Am I?” on the Ed Sullivan Show today.

1970: Mrs. Sigmund Politzer, “the only living member of the first graduating class of Barnard College, the widow of dermatologist Sigmund Pollitzer and the sister of fellow college graduate 87 year old Dr. Lucile Kohn, is scheduled to celebrate her 100^th birthday today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1970/05/18/80024973.pdf

1971(7^thof Sivan, 5731): Second Day of Shavuot

1971(7^thof Sivan, 5731): Seventy-five year old Jim Novy, the Austin, TX businessman and leader of the Jewish community who worked to save Jews from the Holocaust and was close friend of Lyndon Johnson passed away today.

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/153013/lyndon-johnson-november-1963

1974: Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery the son of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery and Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery the only child of Baron Mayer de Rothschild who served as General Allenby’s Military Secretary in Palestine, passed away today.

1974: The involvement of the Golani forces in the war of attrition against Syria came to an end with the signing of the disengagement agreement.

1974: After Henry Kissinger conducted a feverish round of shuttle diplomacy between Damascus and Jerusalem, the separation of forces agreement between Israel and Syria was signed in Geneva. This marked the formal end the hostilities known as the Yom Kippur War.

1975: While driving to Tan-Tan, Morocco, Larry Blyden’s was knocked unconscious and hospitalized after his car went off the road and overturned.

1976(2^ndof Sivan, 5736): Seventy-two year old Rokhl Auerbach who “was one of the three surviving members of the covert Oyneg Shabes group led by Emanuel Ringelblum that chronicled daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto, and who initiated the excavation of the group's buried manuscripts after the war” passed away.  (Editor’s Note: For more on this see Who Will Write Our History)

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/auerbakh-rokhl

1976: “1600: Anatomy of a Turkey” published today probed the question of a how a musical created by Leonard Bernstein and Alan Jay Lerner could turn out to be such a flop.

http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/printout/0,8816,947691,00.html#

1979(5^thof Sivan, 5739): Erev Shavuot

1979: In the UK, premier of “The Muppet Movie” co-produced by Lew Grade with Frank Oz as the voices of Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam Eagle, Marvin Suggs.

1980: After 170 performances, the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal.

1983: In “200 Singers in Jewish Festival” Edward Rothstein provides a summary of the recently completed American Jewish Choral Festival.

1984: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for seventy-one year old Gallitzin, PA native and University of Michigan trained New York attorney and former regional commissioner of the NLRB William J. Isaacson, an officer of the lawyer’s division of the UJA-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies who was the husband of “the former Edith Lipsig Hebald.”

1985: Samuel Lewis completed his service as U.S. Ambassador to Israel

1990(7th of Sivan, 5750): Second Day of Shavuot

1991(18^thof Sivan, 5751): Sixty-two year old Bernard Chaus, founder and CEO of his own women’s fashion company passed away today. (As reported by Isadore Barmash)

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/01/obituaries/bernard-chaus-62-innovator-in-selling-women-s-sportwear.html

1992: In the opening months of the Croatian War of Independence,” the siege of Dubrovnik during which two thirds of the old city was in some way damaged, including the” including the Sephardic synagogue which is the second oldest such edifice in Europe, “where shells and grenades hit the adjacent buildings shattering the windows of the sanctuary and Jewish Community Headquarters” came to an end.

 1993: Marshall Brickman's "Who's Who in the Cast," a parody of a Playbill cast list, which was published in the July 26, 1976, issue of The New Yorker, drew so much attention that it was republished in today’s special theatre issue.

1994(21st of Sivan, 5754): Eighty-year Trumpeter Emmanuel "Manny" Klein who played with Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman and Arte Shaw passed away today.

1998: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Commissioners: Baseball's Midlife Crisisby Jerome Holtzman and Two Lucky People: Memoirsby Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman

1998(6th of Sivan, 5758): First Day of Shavuot

2000: U.S. President Bill Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak met at Clinton's Lisbon hotel in the latest effort to jump-start the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

2001: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon comes under increasing pressure to end a unilateral cease-fire with the Palestinians, as violence continues in the Middle East.

2002: Israeli troops enter the West Bank city of Nablus, while the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is reported to have signed a law reform package which is a framework for a Palestinian constitution.

2003: While visiting Auschwitz today, President Bush said, ““This site is a sobering reminder that when we find anti-Semitism, whether it be in Europe or anywhere else, mankind must come together to fight such dark impulses. And this site is also a strong reminder that the civilized world must never forget what took place on this site. May God bless the victims and the families of the victims, and may we always remember.”

2004: In “Laugh Fist, Think Later,” published today Marc Abrahams described his improbably successful career.

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2004/jun/01/highereducation.research

2004: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Sontag& amp; Kael by Craig Seligman,Teammates by David Halberstam and Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared), by Franz Kafka; translated by Michael Hofmann, a new translation of Kafka's novel about a young man's humiliations after being banished for his part in a scandal strives to stay close to the author's rough drafts.

2005: Jean-François Copé began serving as the Minister of the Budget in France.

2005: Israeli TV Channel 2 starts broadcasting "Yoman Masa" - "Diary of a Journey" ("Land of the Settlers") filmed by Channel 1 news anchorman Chaim Yavin.

2005: Mikhail Khodorkovsky was found guilty of fraud and sentenced to nine years in prison. The sentence was later reduced to 8 years.

2005: Six days after her death, the funeral was held for Ruth Laredo who was buried in the Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, NY, near the grave of Sergei Rachmaninoff.

2006: In Jerusalem, closing session of Biomed 2006.

2006: Avi Arad “resigned his various Marvel positions, including his leadership of Marvel Studios to form his own production company, Arad Productions, a company that primarily produces Marvel-licensed films separate from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.”

2007: The JCC of Manhattan presents “Tizmoret’s Spring Sing.”Tizmoret is the Queens College Hillel chapter’s Professional A Cappella Choir.

2007: Andrew Speaker, an individual suspected to have XDR-TB under federal quarantine, was moved to the National Jewish Health for treatment today where the Mycobacteriology Laboratory determined that Speaker did not have the Extensive Drug resistant form of TB (XDR-TB), but rather the Multi-Drug Resistant form of TB (MDR-TB).

2007: David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and co-chief executive officer of The Carlyle Group, was elected to the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/us/a-billionaire-philanthropist-in-washington-whos-big-on-patriotic-giving.html?hp&_r=1

2008 (26^thof Iyar, 5768): Begin Book of Numbers.

2008: There an estimated 400,000 Israelis living the New York Metropolitan Area” out an estimated Jewish population of 1.5 million.

2008: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she was surprised the State Department had withdrawn Fulbright fellowships to study in the United States from seven Palestinians living in Gaza,

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2009: In New York City, the annual Salute to Israel Parade swings down famed 5^thAvenue. The main theme of this year's parade is "Past, Present, Future – Tel Aviv Celebrates 100 Years."http://salutetoisrael.com/parade/

2009: Ben Stiller received the MTV Generation Award, at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards

2009: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball From Itselfby Michael Shapiro and the recently released paperback edition of Dictation by Cynthia Ozick.

2009: The Washington Post featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Alger Hiss and the Battle For History by Susan Jacoby

2009: A five-day civil defense exercise, simulating an attack on the country, started today. Named Turning Point 3, the drills will be the most extensive ever held and practice new measures to safeguard civilians.

2009(8^thof Sivan, 5769): Eighty-three year old Samuel M. Ehrenhalt, the “grand old man”of labor statistics passed away. (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/nyregion/03ehrenhalt.html?_r=1

2010: Israeli Shayetet 13 naval commandos boarded six ships trying to end the blockade of Gaza from speedboats and helicopters in order to force the ships to the Israeli port of Ashdod

2010: An exhibition entitled “One Foot in America: The Jewish Emigrants of the Red Star Line and Eugeen Van Mieghem” at the YIVO Institute is scheduled to come to a close. This exhibit tells the story of the Red Star shipping line, focusing on the lives of emigrants--the reasons they fled, their arrival in Antwerp and their experience with the city's Jewish community, their living conditions onboard the ships, and their hopes and dreams. The exhibit also features the Flemish artist and Antwerp native Eugeen Van Mieghem (1875-1930), whose work depicts the emigrants and the life of the port.

2011: Final day of Jewish American heritage Month

2011: At a time when some are calling for an artistic boycott of Israel, Marty Friedman, who played guitar with Megadeth is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv today

2011: The 2011 award ceremony for the Sami Rohr Prize in fiction for Jewish Literature is scheduled to be held in New York City today.

2011: World Policy Journal Editor David A. Andelman is scheduled to moderate a town-meeting style conversation entitled “Beyond the Stage: On Henry Kissinger” at the 92^ndStreet Y in New York City.

2011: The Israel Defense Forces will ask the state to increase its defense budget significantly to contend with the growing terror threats in the region, Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said today. "The spectrum of threats in light of the changes in the Middle East is growing," Gantz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. "These threats range from knife to nuclear – from the knife used in a single terror attack to a nuclear Iran.""The threats of the past are still in force, but new threats are developing that require the ability to operate in a number of different theaters with strength and determination," Gantz said, adding that this "new spectrum of threats requires a new and broader budget framework for the defense establishment."

2011: The Finance and Health ministries petitioned the Tel Aviv Labor Court today asking for injunctions to be issued against the Israel Medical Association, demanding the end to the doctors' strike which has been ongoing for over two months. The petition, handed to the court by the State Prosecution and attorney Doron Yeffet, from the Tel Aviv district prosecution, asked the court to order the Israel Medical Association to put an immediate stop to the ongoing strike, and to halt any future obstructions planned. The Association, whose 17,000 doctors began launching sanctions over two months ago, is demanding a 50 percent raise per hour. Yeffet is handling the petition which offers the doctors two alternatives to the current situation: entering intensive daily negotiations, or turning to an arbitration process acceptable on both sides or as instructed by the court. The appeal stated that "thousands of patients are being held hostage by the association," adding that "as it is a force that harms both the population at large and the population of patients who need medical care that is not of a life-saving nature." The Israel Medical Association was surprised to hear about the appeal, despite the Finance Ministry's announcement yesterday that it intended to appeal to court to put an end to the strike. Negotiations between the doctors and the treasury remain deadlocked since the strikes began.

2011: The Jewish Book Council is scheduled to host its annual award ceremony today in NYC.

2011: Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert began testifying today at the Jerusalem District Court, opening the defense phase of the ongoing corruption trial against him.

2011(27^thof Iyar, 5771): Eighty-nine year old Broadway producer Philip Rose whose works included “A Raisin in the Sun” passed away today. (As produced by Bruce Weber)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/theater/philip-rose-broadway-producer-dies-at-89.html

2011(27^thof Iyar, 5771): Dutch holocaust survivor, author and psychoanalyst Hans Keilson passed away today at the age of 101. (As reported by the Eulogizer/JTA and William Grimes)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/books/hans-keilson-novelist-of-life-in-nazi-run-europe-dies-at-101.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/8723373/Hans-Keilson.html

2012:“City Sounds,” an exhibit of Jewish musicians and Jewish venues in Columbus Ohio, is scheduled to come to an end at the Bexley Public Library in Bexley, Ohio.

2012: Dr. Nir Cohen is scheduled to lecture on “Love and Surveillance: Politicised Romance in Peter Kosminsky’s The Promise” at the Weiner Library in London.

2012:“The Jewish Woman In America: 1654-2012” a course covering the vital contributions that Jewish women have made to American Jewish life, from the time of the first Sephardic arrivals to New Amsterdam in 1654, down to the present sponsored by the Board of Jewish Education of Atlantic and Cape May (NJ) Counties is scheduled to come to an end.

2012: Entertainment Weekly announced todt that Lauren Weisberger is working on a sequel to The Devil Wears Pradaentitled Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns

2012: International Ladino singer Sarah Aroeste and music collaborator and producer Shai Bachar are scheduled to come to Joe’s Pub to celebrate the release of Aroeste’s third album, Gracia.

2013: “Hyam Plutzik: American Poet,” an exhibit of letters, manuscripts, images and objects about the life and career of this three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist at Trinity College Watkinson Library in Hartford, CT is scheduled to come to an end.



2013: The South Cobb Regional Library in Mableton, GA, is scheduled to a special program in celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month.



2013: Deadline for apply for College Aid through the Jewish Children’s Regional Service, an outstanding organization located in New Orleans, LA.

http://www.jcrs.org/



2013: Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids is scheduled to host the final musical Shabbat Friday Evening Services of this season



2013: Tomer Lev, Berenika Glixman, Daniel Borovitzky, Raviv Leibzirer – Two Pianos, Four Pianists, Twenty to Forty Fingers – are scheduled to perform at two boutique concerts in Jerusalem.



2013: “No Place On Earth” is scheduled to open in Santa Rosa, CA and Wilmington, DE.



2013: Marty Goldberg is scheduled to determine whether or not there will be a new print version of the Canadian Jewish News.



2013: R&B singer Alicia Keys said today that she will go ahead with her planned July performance in Israel, despite calls from other artists and the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) movement for her to cancel the event.

http://www.jpost.com/International/Alicia-Keys-to-perform-in-TA-despite-boycott-calls-315047



2013: Staff at the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem reported the spraying of offensive graffiti in Hebrew and the destruction of the church property in a suspected attack by radical Jewish settler sympathizers today

Perpetrators spray-painted “the Christians are apes” and “the Christians are slaves” on two cars parked outside the abbey



2014(2^ndof Sivan, 5774): Eighty-eight year old television critic Steven H. Scheuer, the brother of Congressman James H. Scheuer and the husband of social critic Alida Brill, passed away today. (As reported by William Yardley)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/06/arts/television/steven-h-scheuer-is-dead-at-88-he-put-the-tv-review-before-the-show.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=0





2014(2^ndof Sivan, 5774): Seventy year old “Lewis Katz, co-owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer and a philanthropist, died in a plane crash in Massachusetts.” (As reported by JTA and Rachel Abrams)

http://www.jta.org/2014/06/01/news-opinion/united-states/lewis-katz-philly-inquirer-co-owner-dies-in-plane-crash

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/02/business/media/lewis-katz-co-owner-of-philadelphia-inquirer-dies-at-72.html?_r=0



2014(2^ndof Sivan, 5774): Eighty-nine year old Edward S. Finkelstein who led Macy’s in good times and bad passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/business/edward-s-finkelstein-89-is-dead-took-macys-to-its-highs-and-lows.html?hpw&rref=obituaries





2014: The Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival is scheduled to begin today.(As reported by Debra Kamin)



2014: Considering the role of Jews in the world of the Broadway musical, the 92^ndStreet Y is scheduled to present “Panning for Gold: Great Songs from Flop Shows.



2014: American Jewish Heritage Month comes to an end.



2014: “Senior Gaza official and deputy Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouk said” “Hamas will not agree to the continuation of Palestinian security cooperation with Israel once it teams up with the Fatah movement led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to form a unity government.”



2014: “Today, top Hamas official Muhammad Nazal was quoted by the organization’s official organ as saying that Hamas would not abandon the path of “resistance,” or violence against Israel — a path the Islamist group shares with the Lebanese Shi’ite terrorist organization Hezbollah.” (As reported by Yifa Yaakov)



2014: Today Strategic Affairs and Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) harshly berated the defense establishment for using “undemocratic” means and “manipulating” the public to try to pressure the government into allotting it a larger budget. (As reported by Yifa Yaakov)



2015: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including They Told Me Not To Take That Job: Tumult, Betrayal, Heroics, and the Transformation of Lincoln Center by Reynold Levy, Keepers by Richard Schickel and Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of “The Other Side of the Wind” by Josh Karp.



2015: After two months, “Joy of Life: Paintings by Dolorosa Margulis” whose family survived the war “by hiding in a village near Eindhoven is scheduled to come to an end at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.



2015: Final performance of The Call is scheduled to take place as part of Theater J sponsored by the Washington DC JCC.



2015: “For Richer For Poorer: Weddings Unveiled” which showcase “a rich and evocativecollection of material related to weddings within the immigrant Jewish community from the 1880’s to the mid-20^th century” is scheduled to come to an at the Jewish Museum in London.



2015: In Chicago, Congregation Emmanuel is scheduled to host the “The Schaalman Centenary Celebration” marking the 100^th birthday of Herman Schaalman who was the rabbi at Temple Judah from 1941 to 1949.

http://templejudah.org/resources/SchaalmanCelebration.jpg





2015: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “Music in Our Time: 2015.”

http://cjh.org/event/2621



2015: The IAC is scheduled to host Israel Festival ’15” in New York City.

2015: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said today that his country faced “an international campaign to blacken its name” based not on his policies toward the Palestinians but “connected to our very existence,” likening the mounting boycott movement to anti-Semitic “libels” of previous eras.”



2015: In Boston, Julian Edelman is scheduled to appear at “Celebrate Israel”

2015: The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host “Israel Fest: Israel@67.”

2015: “Mak’hela,” a Jewish choral group founded in 2003 is scheduled to perform at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA.

2015: Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum is scheduled to present the First Greek Jewish Festival on the Lower East Side.

2015(13^thof Sivan, 5775): Forty-two year old “Rochelle Shoretz, whose own breast cancer diagnosis at age 28 led her to found the national cancer organization Sharsheret” passed away today.

2016: Jewish American Heritage Month is scheduled to come to an end today.

2016: The Israel National Football Team is scheduled to play a “friendly” match against Serbia in Novi Sad, Serbia.

2016: Mexican diplomat Andrés Roemer Slomianski completed his service as General Consul of Mexico in San Francisco, CA.

2016: Dr. Gary P. Zola, “a distinguished scholar of the American Jewish experience and an ordained rabbi,” is scheduled to deliver a “lecture on his latest book, We Called Him Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry” at the National Archives’ William G. McGowan Theatre.

2016: Dr. Bernard Lewis reaches the century mark. (Editor’s note: If you have not read Lewis then you have no business making policy in the lands of what were once the Ottoman Empire and a little more!)

http://www.theatlantic.com/author/bernard-lewis/

http://www.princeton.edu/nes/people/display_person.xml?netid=blewis

2017(6^thof Sivan, 5777): Shavuot; For more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a “Shavuot Lunch and Story Telling” facilitated by professional storyteller who “will tell the story of the Book of Ruth from her perspective, weaving in rabbinic midrash to create fuller characters and a deeper understanding of the narrative.”

2017: At “4:45 AM” MJE West is scheduled to hold “Sunrise Services…with Soulful Singing followed by Hot Buffet Breakfast.”

2018: “Our History is Your History” Treasures from the American Jewish Historical Society,” “a rotating exhibit of the AJHS Permanent Collection” is scheduled to come to an end today.

2018: the Jewish Women’s Archive and the Center for Jewish History are scheduled to host a book launch of Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement with a panel featuring author Joyce Antler, Judith Rosenbaum (Executive Director of the Jewish Women's Archive), Nona Willis Aronowitz (Splinter), and Dahlia Lithwick (Newsweek, Slate)

2018: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Inside/Outside: Alternate Perspectives on Israel with Gillian Laub and Yael Reinharz” and moderated by Andrea Meislin

2018: Roey Victoria Heifetz is scheduled to present “her ongoing project The Third Body which is a video and drawing installation of confessions / conversations/ with women, friends and acquaintances from the transgender communities in Berlin and Israel interviewed by the artist, as well as her own.”

2018: Israelis begin the day waiting to see if the so-called cease fire proclaimed by the terrorists in Gaza which means they will end their rocket barrage begun this week will hold.

2019: An exhibition featuring the works of the late Uri Katzenstein is scheduled to come an end at “10 Times Square” in New York City.

2019: “Hillel Jews, Schmooze and Canoes at Camp BB is scheduled to begin today in Edmonton, Alberta.

2019: “The Spy Behind Home Plate,” Aviv Kempner’s biopic about Moe Berg is scheduled to open today at the Quad Cinema in New York City.

2019: Jewish American Heritage, the theme of which has been “American Jewish Illustrators” is scheduled to an end today.

https://www.jahm.us/

2020: The Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health is scheduled to host “Clinical Ethics – Challenges during the COVID-19 Panedmic.

2020: In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to hold its Annual Congregation Meeting via Zoom.

2020: Today the Brit Millah of the son of Judy and Josh Rosensbloom and the grandson of Debbie Rosenbloom, the wife of David Levin and the brother of Neysa, Akiva and Nili, is scheduled to take place in Tzur Hadassah providing a beacon of light in a world that can some time seem all to dark.  Mazel to the family.

2020: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host a “Virtual Visit: Meet Lazarus,”  a live interactive program where children have the opportunity to engage with the famous poetess about her life and the issues of her time.

2020: KlexCalifornia is scheduled to present “Virtual: Hasidic Dance with Bruce Bierman” during which the Jewish dance leader teaches mystic dance moves, wordless melodies and the influence of Hasidic dance on other folk dancing.

2020: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present live on Zoom “Musical Sourt of the Yemenite Tefillah and Its Distinction From Other Groups.”

2020: Gary Palgon, past president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia and a popular presenter, is scheduled to hold a workshop via Zoom to help us all break through our 'Brick Wall.’

2020: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers included Bubblegum by Adam Levin and Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best by Neal Bascomb

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987: Hugh Capet was elected King of France making him the first of the Capetians.  During this period, power lay with the nobles and the leaders of the Church.  Among other things this meant that the kings were unable to do anything to protect the Jews against the anti-Semitic teachings of the clergy and the resulting hostile actions of the ordinary people against the Jews.  To make matters worse, when Hugh Capet was stricken with a mystery malady a Jewish physician was summoned to treat him.  Unfortunately, the King died and the Jews were accused of killing him.

1204: King Philip Augustus of France conquered Rouen, the historic capital of Normandy which had been operating under a charter that allowed for self-government.  Considering how poorly the French king treated his Jewish subjects, his seizure of Rouen could not have been good news for the city’s Jewish population which numbered 6,000 and was strong enough to support its own Yeshiva.During the second half of the twelfth century, when Rouen was governed under the terms of a charter that allowed for self-government, the town was home to 6,000 Jews (approximately 20% of the population) and was the site of yeshiva.  The site of a yeshiva. At that time, about 6,000 Jews lived in the town, comprising about 20% of the population. In addition, there were a large number of Jews scattered about another 100 communities in Normandy. The well-preserved remains of the yeshiva were discovered in the 1970s under the Rouen Law Courts and the community has begun a project to restore them. In 1215, Rouen would be the site of the Fourth Lateran Council which adopted a panoply of ant-Semitic measures.

1252: Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and León. Known as El Sabio (The Learned One) the well-educated Christian monarch  set out to “to create a Christian culture in the north of Spain that as equal in glory to Moorish culture in the South…He ordered both the Koran and the Talmud to be translated into Latin.”  One of the most prominent scientists in his realm was the Jewish astronomer, Yehuda ben Moses Cohen.

1424: Benedict XIII the “antipope” who was zealous in his drive to force Jews to convert in an effort to gain legitimacy passed away today.

1434: King Wladislaus II of Poland passed away. During his reign, persecution of the Jews intensified and Wladislaus did nothing to protect them or reinforce the rights that had been granted to them by his predecessors Instead he actually took steps to limit their business activities by issuing an edict limiting their right to lend money. 

1571: As a result of a command by the Duke of Alba, the Spanish governor, “a commission at Antwerp compiled the first Index Expurgatorius, a list of passages in Hebrew books which were to be expurgated because they were considered heretical by the church.”

1581 Gregory XII issued Antiqua Judaeorum Improbitas, the Papal Bull that gave the Inquisition full jurisdiction over the Jews of Rome in all matters including heresy, possession of forbidden books and the employment of Christian servants or nurses.

1582: The Municipal Council of Pressburg “decreed that no one should harbor Jews, or even transact business with them.”

1635: Today the widow of William Leake, the publisher who reissued the “Merchant of Venice” – an act that “did no Jews no good turn” “transferred her late husband’s copyrights to William Leake II also known as “William Leake, the younger.”

1656: The Jews of New Amsterdam are allowed to practice their religion, after reminding the Dutch West India Company that Jews "in quietness" were allowed to practice in Holland and other Dutch colonies.

1764:  The Sejm abolished the Council of the Four Lands.  Supposedly this was not an act aimed to harm the Jews.  Rather it was part of a plan to re-organize the tax system.

1778(6^thof Sivan, 5538): Shavuot

1775: Abraham Solomon “enlisted in Col. John Glover’s Regiment, known as the Marbleheaders, to take part in the glorious Battle of Bunker Hill. Later he was shifted with his company to Cambridge. When the soldiers received their pay, they had to sign for it on the company’s muster roll. Solomon’s fellow soldiers, many of whom could not write, were allowed to make their Xs. But Solomon could write — just not in English — so he was allowed to sign his name in Hebrew. It is believed that this is the only Revolutionary War muster roll to be signed in Hebrew.”

1778(6^thof Sivan, 5538): Shavuot observed as Washington’s Army prepares to leave Valley Forge after spending the infamous winter encampment there where almost 2,000 men died.

1785: In Savannah, GA, Sarah Sheftall and Abraham de Lyon, the parents of Abraham de Lyon, Jr. were married today.

1786(5^thof Sivan, 5546): Erev Shavuot

1786: In Lemberg, Aharon Chaim Rapoport and his wife gave birth to “Galician rabbi and Jewish scholar” Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport, the husband of Franziska Freide Heller and son-in-law of Areyh Leib Heller, who switched from a career in business to serving as a rabbi in Tarnopol and Prague.

1789(7^thof Sivan, 5549): As the fledgling government of the United States created by the Constitution took form, the  2^ndday of Shavuot was observed  on the same day “An Act to Regulate the Time and Manner of Administering Certain Oaths” which prescribed the text of and procedure for the administration of the oath of office  was signed into

1790: Birthdate of Rabbi Solomon Judah Löb Rapoport, the native of Lemberg who was one of the founders of the  Wissenschaft des Judentums movement and author of several biographies including one Saadia Gaon.

1792:  Kentucky admitted as the 15th state of the United States. Benjamin Gratz, one of the son’s of the famous Michael Gratz family of Philadelphia, who was a lawyer and veteran of the American Revolution was one of the earliest Jewish settlers of Kentucky,  Louisville, Kentucky would become home to the state’s first congregation, Adath Israel which was incorporated in 1842.  While serving as a delegate from Kentucky at the Republican Convention, Louis Naphtali Dembitz was one three who placed Lincoln’s name in nomination.  He was the uncle of Kentucky’s most famous Jew, Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis.

1796: Moses de Mattos Mocatta, the London born son of Abraham Lumbroso de Mattos and Esther Isaac Lumbroso de Mattos Mocatta and his wife Abigail Mocatta gave birth to Abraham Lindo Mocatta.

1796: Tennessee admitted as the 16th state of the United States. The first Jews settled in upper East Tennessee in the 1770s and to Middle Tennessee by the 1820s. The Nashville Jewish community dates from the 1790’s with enough Jews living there to hold services in the 1840’s and establish a burial society in the decade before the Civil War.

1797(7^thof Sivan, 5557): Second Day of Shavuot observed as future president Thomas Jefferson wrote to future President James Madison from Philadelphia about the meeting of the House of Representatives and the general condition of the U.S. economy which is “stagnant” in part because “in England the merchants seem disposed to on their oars”

1798(6^thof Sivan): Fourteen month old Joseph Defflis, the son of Solomon Defflis passed away today in the United Kingdom.

1803: Nathan Hyams married Rebecca Barnet at the Great Synagogue in London.

1808(6^thof Sivan, 5568): Shavuot observed for the first time after The Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves” had gone into effect.

1816(5^thof Sivan, 5576): Parashat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot observed on the same day that “a treaty of peace and friendship made and concluded at St. Louis, between William Clark, Ninian Edwards, and Auguste Chouteau, commissioners plenipotentiary of the United States of America, on the part and behalf of the said states, of the one part, and the undersigned chiefs and warriors, representing eight bands of the Sioux, composing the three tribes called the Sioux of the Leaf, the Sioux of the Broad Leaf, and the Sioux who shoot in the Pine Tops, on the part and behalf of their said tribes, of the other part

1817: In Denmark Hartvig Philip Rée and Thamar (Terese) Rée gave birth to Julius Rée>

1817: In Safed, Rabbi Eliezer Yeruham Elyashar, who was also a shochet and his wife gave birth to Yaakov Shaul Elyashar who backed the Chief Sephardi Rabbi in Palestine in 1893.

1819:ViolinistJoseph Böhm was appointed to serve as a professor at the Vienna Conservatory.

1824(5^thof Sivan, 5584): Erev Shavuot observed for the last time during the Presidency of James Monroe.

1827(6^thof Sivan, 5587): Shavuot

1828(19th of Sivan, 5588): Raphael Meldola passed away. Born in Leghorn in 1754, he was one of the most prominent members of the Meldola family. He received a thorough university training, both in theological and in secular branches, and displayed such remarkable talents that when only fifteen years old he was permitted to take his seat in the rabbinical college. He was preacher in Leghorn for some years, and in 1803 he obtained the title of rabbi. In 1805 Meldola was elected haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain, and proved a worthy successor of Sasportas and Nieto. His name will ever be indissolubly associated with that of Bevis Marks Synagogue. Possessed of a remarkably virile mind, he was a dominant factor in the British Jewry of his generation. He was the author of Korban Minhah, Kuppat Hatanim (1796), and Derekh Emunah, published by his son after his death. He left several other works in manuscript. His scholarship attracted around him a circle in which were many of the most distinguished men of his day, including Benjamin Disraeli and Isaac Disraeli and it is noteworthy that he opposed the policy which produced the famous rupture between the latter and the mahamad. He maintained a literary correspondence with many of the most prominent Christian clergymen and scholars of his time; and his acquaintance with the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Canon of Windsor led to his being received by King George III. Meldola married Stella Bolaffi (Abulafia), by whom he had four sons and four daughters.

1833: The “Jews’ Law” enacted today “conferred citizenship on the wealthy and educated classes” Jews of Posen.

1835: Nineteen year old Giuseppe / Joseph Baron von Morpurgo married Elisa Parente.

1836:  Henry Lyons married Rachel Hart at the Hambro Synagogue in London.

1843: In Amsterdam, Johannes Jonas Wertheim and Maria Rosenik gave birth to Karel Abraham Wertheim

1845: Birthdate of Caroline von Gomperz-Bettelheim “a Hungarian-Austrian court singer and member of the Royal Opera, Vienna” who was the older sister of Anton Bettelheim.

1846(7^thof Sivan, 5606): Second Day of Shavuot, Yizkor

1847: At St. Helier, Maurice S. Mawson of Pernambuco married Rose Phillips, the second daughter of Michael Phillips of Jersey (As reported by the Jewish Chronicle.

1853: A description of an attack by Greeks on the Jews of Smyrna during Easter which may have been started by Russian agents and which was put down by the Turks was published today.

1853: It was reported today that the issue of Jewish Disabilities continues to be a problem in Parliament. In response to a question from Mr. Milner Gibson on this topic, Lord Russell responded that he did not think a measure that dealt only with this and that he would be submitting a measure that would dealt with the general question of Oaths to be taken by Members of Parliament.

1854: Fourteen year old Louis Barnett, a “Welsh-born English Jew” “became a student-teacher at the Jews’ Free School” after which he “entered the University of London” where he earned a bachelor’s of arts degree nine years later.

1857: Isaac Jackson who was either 17 or 18 years old was shot and killed today by Charles Jones.  Jackson is one of four Jewish brothers who own a stored in Westfield, MA.  Young Jackson was driving a wagon of merchandize on the road between Westfield and Russell when he was attacked.

1861: Philadelphian Nathan Rosenfelt who would die of wounds suffered at Gettysburg, began serving as a Sergeant in Company D of the 26^th Regiment.

1861: Philadelphian Maurice Rosenberg who would be wounded at Lookout Mountain and Leon Moser each began serving as Sergeants in Company C of the 27^th Regiment today.

1861: Philadelphian Daniel Epstein began serving as a Second Lieutenant in Company D of the 27^th Regiment on the same day that John Ulman began serving as a Sergeant in the same unit

1865(7^th of Sivan, 5625): President Andrew Johnson designated today, the second day of Shavuot when Jews recite Yizkor, as a national day for memorial services to be held in honor of Abraham Lincoln.

1865: In Kalvaria, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire), Phillip and Sarah Rachel Phillipson gave birth to Bryant and Stratton Business College graduate and husband of Rachel Burton Samuel Phillipson, the father of Emmanuel, Sidney, Libbie and Silvian Phillipson and the owner of Samuel Phillipson and Company, the Chicago wholesale and general merchandise company who was also the director of the Chicago Hebrew Institute and the Jewish Home for the Aged.

https://www.amazon.com/Engraving-Samuel-Phillipson-Jewish-Relief/dp/B005DGQFCI

1865: Rabbi Sabato Morais delivered a special sermon at Mikve Israel in Philadelphia on “the day appoint appointed for fasting, humiliation and prayer for the untimely death of the late lamented President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln” in which he said :

If the essence of religion is what the great Hillel taught us, then I unhesitatingly say that the breast of our lamented President was ever kindled with that divine spark. "To forbear doing unto others what would displease us" . . . is the maxim he illustrated in the immortal document of emancipation that bears his honorable signature. It is that which he exemplified by his numerous acts of clemency ...We must bear his name with a blessing upon our lips. (As reported by the Jewish Virtual Library)

1869:Isidore Loeb“was appointed secretary of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, a position he held until his death.”

1870: As a sign of his improving health, Prime Minister Disraeli was able to visit the Foreign Ministry today.

1871: Lord Desart married his first wife whom he later divorced which led to his second and final marriage to Ellen Cuffe, Countess of Desart, the daughter of Henri Louis Bischoffsheim

1873(6^th of Sivan, 5633): Shavuot

1873: Dr. Aaron J. Messing, who had been serving as Rabbi of Sherith Israel since 1870 retired today and “was succeeded by Dr. Henry Vdaver.

1873: In “Whitsuntide: A Hebrew and a Christian Festival - Curious Customs and Interesting Ceremonies” published today the author compares the Jewish festival of Pentecost with the Christian Whitsuntide. Pentecost, signifying the fiftieth, is the second of the great festivals of the Hebrews, held fifty days after the Passover, or feast of the unleavened bread. The time of the festival is calculated from the second day of the Passover, the 16th of Nisan.

1875: Four days after she passed away, Emma Jacobs was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.

1876:Francis Mary Paul Libermann, who was known as Jacob Liberman before he converted to Catholicism “was declared venerable in the Roman Catholic Church” today “by Pope Pious IX.”

1879: “Pianist Michael Hambourg” and his wife gave birth to their eldest son Mark Hambourg, the musical child prodigy whose career really flourished after the family move to Great Britain at the end of the 19^thcentury.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/08/28/99951894.pdf

http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Hambourg-Mark.htm

http://www.hambourgconservatory.ca/bios/mark.html

1879: “Can’t You Wait?” published today reminds the reader of two famous examples of” hasty identification” that turned out be erroneous. First was the case of a papyrus that surfaced at Leyden which contained a “report of a scribe” sent to his superior serving King Ramses II that said “he had ‘distributed the rations among the soldiers and likewise among the Apuirui, or Aperiu, who carry the stones to the great city of King Ramses.’” While most Egyptologists thought this referred to “the Hebrews who built…the City of Ramses” Dr. Heinrich Brugsh, showed “clearly that these Aperiu were not Hebrews but an “Erythraean people…mentioned long before in an inscription of Thutmes III as cavalry in the Kings Service.” The second example took place when a picture found in one of the tombs at Beni-Hassan (an ancient Egyptian cemetery) was first identified as being representational “of the arrival of the children of Israel” until the same Dr. Brugsh set the record straight. [Were these really errors or was this an example of a German Egyptologist who had difficulty acknowledging the antiquity of the Jewish people?]

1881: It was reported today that according to a recent study conducted by the Ophthalmological Society in Great Britain, “Jew are more color-blind than any other nationality, and their defects are usually of the most pronounced kind.”  Oddly, the Quakers also show the same propensity for this malady.

1881: In “Birthday of Old Rome” published today it was reported that  no Jewish will pass under the Arch of Titus with its depiction of the seven-branched candle labrum being carried in triumph by those who have sacked the Temple because it is a monument of shame.

1882: Birthdate of Jacob Billikopf the native of Vilna who gained fame in the United States for his career in social work, “Jewish philanthropy and labor arbitration.”

1883: It was reported today that an anti-Semitic riot that had begun in Rostov has been quelled. Violence broke out when Jew was accused of killing a Russian.  Fifteen rioters were arrested after they had destroyed 130 homes belonging to the Jews of the town.

1884(8^th of Sivan, 5644): Aaron Moses (A.M.) Pollak, the Austrian philanthropist who made his fortune manufacturing matches in Prague London, New York and Sydney who was ennobled by the emperor in 1869 which allowed him to be called Ritter Von Rudin passed away today.

1885: It was reported to today that a Hebrew manuscript that appears to be quite old has been found in the Sutro Library in San Francisco CA.  Copies are being sent to scholars in the United States and Europe to ascertain its importance.

1885: Anti-Semitic riots have broken out again in Vienna.  At least forty Jews have been injured in the attacks which have led to the destruction of several Jewish businesses.  The riots appear to have been brought on by the current elections which have seen the defeat of Leopoldstadt Schnieder the anti-Semitic candidate who lost by six thousand votes.

1885: It was reported that Benjamin Hirschberg delivered the opening address at yesterday’s celebration of the 20^thanniversary of the Hebrew Free School Association.  Other youthful speakers included Michael Schaap, Annie Nathelson and “ten year old Simon Noot” who “referred to General Grant as the ‘Winner off battles and the savior of civilization.’”

1886: Deadline for Jewish troops who had served in Finland to leave the Grand Duchy, by order of the Czar.

1886: Birthdate of Coschocton, OH native and Ohio State University trained attorney Edwin J Schanfarber, the vice president and director of the National Hospital for Consumptives at Denver and the president of the United Jewish Fund and the Jewish Welfare Federation.



1889: Birthdate of Russian native and Cornell trained physician Morris Hirsch Kahn who practiced at Mount Sinai Hospital where he worked with Dr. Max Kahn with whom he co-authored Functional Diagnosisoriginally published in 1920.

https://www.amazon.ae/s?k=functional-diagnosis-1920-by-max-kahn-morris-hirsch-kahn-jacob-rosenbloom-hardcover&ref=SQAE-WEB-SR301

1889: It was reported today that the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children has just issued its 11^th annual report.  The primary mission of the organization has been to provide summer-time excursions for Jewish children and their parents.  Last year the organization hosted ten outings that served a total of almost seven thousand babies and children as well as over 3,600 mothers.  The society is seeking contributions for the purchase of a barge that will allow it to provide daily trips.

1890: In “Meytshet (Molchad), Slonim district, Byelorussia” Noyekh Meytsheter, a cantor known as “Reb Noyekh Lider and his wife gave birth to Elias Zaludkowski held posts as Hazzan in Warsaw, Vilna, and Liverpool, England, and in 1926 went to the U.S. where he officiated as Hazzan in New York and Detroit.”

http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2016/07/elyohu-zaludkovski-elias-zaludkowski.html

http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=32592&

 1890: Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler will officiate at the confirmation exercises for the students of the Hebrew Free Schools which will be held this afternoon at Temple Beth El.

1890: The Ladies of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society host their second “annual reception” the first one having been held on Decoration Day.

1890: Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs, Morris S. Wise, Joseph Jacobs, and Julius Lipman were among the dignitaries who attended today’s annual reception for the Religious School of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun.

1890: Rabbi Gustav Gottheil presided over today’s closing exercises of the Temple Emanu-El Sabbath School for Religious Instruction

1890: The two Jewish congregations at Rondout, NY, will hold meetings today for the purpose of rasing money to bring to justice the murders of Samuel Hotz, a Jewish peddler whose body was found on the first day of Shavuot in an old mining shaft at Wurtsborough, NY

1891: It was reported today that the in Russia, “the government is about to subject Hebrew elementary and religious schools to more stringent control.”

1891: “Jewish Exodus From Russia” published today described the movement of Jewish immigrants from Russia through Germany to Paris, London and/or the United States.  According to the Jewish Relief Committee in Berlin, about 600 Jews pass through Charlottenburg Station every day.  The Russian Jews are not permitted to enter Berlin and must spend the night in the station before taking the trains to the West.

1891: The Viedmosti reported today that the Jewish Emigration Society has hired four Baltic steamers for the sole purposed of providing transportation for Russian Jews who have been forced to leave the country.  The 60,000 immigrants are primarily Lithuanian and Polish Jews.

1892: “The Festival of ‘Shebnoth’” published today described the celebration of the “festival…also known as Pentecost and the Feast of Weeks, the latter designation having its origin in the fact that the festival is celebrated just seven weeks after the first of the Passover feast.”

1892(6^th of Sivan, 5652): Shavuot, “which is also the season chosen for the confirmation of the pupils attending the religious schools attach to the” synagogues and temples of the Jews.

1892: In Clinton, NY, students at Hamilton College will compete for the Clark Prize for original oratory including Gregory Rosenblum from Novgorod, Russia whose topic is “The Jews of Russia.”

1892: A duel was fought today between Monsieur Drumont, the editor of La Libre Parol and Captain Cremieuz Foa, a Jewish officer in the French Army.

1893: Birthdate of Czech architect Otto Eisler who survived both Auschwitz and the “death march to Buchenwald” in 1945.

1893: The U.S. Senate Committee which is investigating the immigrant station on Ellis Island, which seems to be showing a special interest in the arrival of Jewish immigrants from Russia is scheduled to resume its meetings today.

1893: In Superior Court Judge McAdam heard the case of Schwab v Schwab in which the wife of Moritz Schwab, “a prosperous butcher” sought to force her husband who may have been a bigamist but who apparently had wanted to keep his marriage a secret from his family since he was Jewish and she was not, to provide financial for her and their two sons – William and Joseph.





1893: “Mr. Engel Must Explain” published today described charges of excessive force being used to discipline children at the Ladies’ Deborah Nursery.”

1893: In Petach Tikvah, Taube Margalit, the Bialystok born daughter of Elijah and Sarah Golda Bloch and her husband Mose Dov Ber Margalit gave birth to their daughter Hemda Margalit who became Hemda Diskin when she married Isaac Diskin.

1893: “Jews Driven From Poland” published today provides confirmation of reports that the Russian persecution of the Jews has been extended to Poland.  In the Ronda-Gonzowski district 480 families have been expelled in a manner where they were forced to abandon all of their real estate and businesses.

1894: In Rochester, NY, Congregation Berith Kodesh dedicated its new house of worship. The building which cost $130,000 “was designed by Leon Stern, a member of the congregation and was built on the corner of Gibbs and Grove streets

1894: Starting today, Moritz Schwab is scheduled to begin paying the mother of his children $25 a month – payments that will last for four years.

1895: In Vienna “Reuben and Miriam (Amsterdam) Branin gave birth to Laval University (Montreal) educated journalist Joeph Branin who for two New York newspapers, used the pen-name Phineas Piron, served in Palestine as part of the Jewish Battalion under General Allenby and served “as executive Vice President of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot while rasing a son and a daughter with his wife “the former Salomea Neumark.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/09/archives/joseph-brainin-is-dead-at-74-aide-of-weizmann-institute.html

1896: A number of Hebrew manuscripts were presented to Columbia at today’s meeting of the college trustees “which, with those already in its possession makes Columbia’s collection the largest in the country.”

1897(1st of Sivan, 5657): Rosh Chodesh Sivan

1897: Between now and October 1 the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children of the City of New York will provide 35 excursions for underprivileged Jewish children and their mothers at no charge.

1898(11^th of Sivan, 5658): On the same day that she had passed away, 52 year old Rebecca Bloom the wife Jacob Bloom was buried in London at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”1898: In New York City, Polish born Louis Picon and his wife gave birth to Molly Picon, two of whose more famous roles were in “Milk & Honey” and “Fiddler on the Roof.”

http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Mi-So/Picon-Molly.html

1898: In Kiev, “an important cantor with a Chasidic background” and his wife gave birth to Cantor, composer and ardent Zionist Leib Glantz who, in 1926, moved to the United States where he perused a recording career, served as cantor at “Ohev Shalom in New York,” “Sinai Temple” in Los Angeles and “Sha’arei Te’filah synagogue” in Los Angeles while also serving as a professor of Jewish Music at the University of Judaism and raising two sons – Kalman and Ezra – with his wife Miriam Lipton before moving to Israel in 1954

https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/leib-glantz/

1899: Birthdate of Mary Phagan whose murder in 1913 would lead to the lynching of Leo Frank.

1899: It was reported today that in France, “the anti-Dreyfusites are not are not convinced by the declaration of M. Ballot de Beaupre that Esterhazy is the traitor” and while “they are all the more obstinate in refuse that Dreyfus is innocent…the people are so tired of the affair that by the time Dreyfus has returned to France angry passions will probably have subsided.”

1899: Mr. Karl Blind wrote from Hempstead, UK, today that “In the appreciative biographical notice concerning Eduard Simson, the fact of his Jewish origin has not been mentioned.  The days of his political activity were, fortunately, days when no man of any intellectual value would have disgrace himself by taking part in an ‘anti-Semitic’ movement.”

1899: Today marks the end of the 23 year tenure of Dr. Herman Baar as superintendent of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.  Dr. Baar had tendered his resignation which was due to “old age” at the May meeting of the officers but had stayed on until the first of June so that a suitable replacement might be found.

1899: Today is scheduled to Dr. Hermann Barr’s last day as Superintendent of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, a position he has held for 23 years and is vacating due to his concerns about his health.

1899: Just weeks before his 78^th birthday, French poet and political leader who was a founder of Alliance Israelite Universelle passed away today.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50D16FA395913738DDDA80894DE405B8985F0D3

1900: “More Rioting in Konitz” published today reported that a contingent of troops has been dispatched to Konitz, formerly a city in Poland which became “German” after the partition, where there have been fresh outbreaks of violent “in connection with the death of the lad Winter, which the townsfolk attributed to the Jews.”

1901(14^thof Sivan, 5661): Parashat Nasso

1901: It was reported today that Dr. Joseph Silverman, the Rabbi at Temple Emanu-El of New York had delivered a paper on “The Jewish Conception of Jesus” at the meeting of the Free Religious Association of America who also said that he could say “Amen” to all that Professor Nathaniel Schmidt of Cornell had said about Jesus because that was consistent with the “historical conception of the Jews.

1902: “The second public meeting under the auspices of the Israelite Alliance of America, in furtherance of the agitation to safeguard the rights of American citizens in Russia, was held this afternoon, in the large hall of the Educational Alliance, on East Broadway.”

1903(6th of Sivan, 5663): First Day of Shavuot

1903(6th of Sivan, 5663): Montifore Isaacs, “one of the best known and most popular bachelors in New York Society” and the nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore passed away.

1004: A meeting of the committee of the New South Wales Zionist League was held today ath Synagouge Chambers in Sydney, Australia.

1904: Three French Army Officers are arrested in connection with the Dreyfus Affair.  However, the verdict would not be overturned for two more years when Dreyfus would finally be released from prison.

1905: Carl Jung discharged Sabina Spielrein, who had been his first patient, today.

1905(27th of Iyar): Isaac Hirsch Weiss, author of Dor Dor Ve-Dorshav passed away 

1906: In Trier, Italy, after the Jews were attacked by a mob and threatened with death, Bishop Egelbert offered to save those who were willing to be baptized. Most chose to drown themselves instead.

1906: A pogrom broke out in Bialystok, Russia.

1906: The Jewish Herald reported today that “in Sydney, Australia, rabbis are not permitted to receive proselytes on the board of congregation passes on them.”

1907(19^thof Sivan, 5667): Sixty-seven year old Jacob Freudenthal, the Professor of Philosophy at the University of Breslau who was sent to England in 1888 where he developed an expertise on the philosophy of Spinoza passed away today.

1907: IN the Yorkville section of NYC, building contractor “Joseph Hecht and Rose (née Loewy) Hecht” gave birth to Oscar award winning producer Harold Hecht.

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/28/movies/harold-hecht-film-producer-and-a-burt-lancaster-partner.html

1908(2^ndof Sivan, 5668): Sixty-year old Auguste Seligman, the wife of Theobald Epstein and the mother of German mathematician Paul Epstein passed away today.

1908: The Cantors’ Association of America, the “successor to the Society of American Cantors” was organized today.

1909: Birthdate of Polish-American violinist and conductor Szymon Goldberg.

1909:Dorothy Montefiore (Micholls) and Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted gave birth to Army Major Marcus Richard Samuel, 3^rd Viscount Bearsted, the Oxford graduate and wounded veteran of WW II who served as a director of several companies and corporations including Lloyds Bank.

1909: Birthdate of Yechezkel Kutscher, the native of Slovaki who made Aliyah in 1931 where he became a philologist and linguist.

1910: During a debate Turkish Minister of Interior Talaat Bey stated, "Some deputies have spoken on behalf of Muslim, Greek and Armenian hospitals, but I note with regret no one has a word for the Jewish hospital, which renders great services. It admits all persons sent to it by the police without distinction of race and religion."

1911: Forty-four year German movie producer and theatre chain owner Paul Davidson founded “the Internationale Film-Vertriebs-Gesellschaft” today.

1911: Birthdate of Bernard Rothman better known as Benny Rothman a UK political activist, most famous for his leading role in the Mass trespass of Kinder Scout in 1932 who passed away in 2002.

1912: The “Fifth Annual Convention” of the Federation of Romanian Jews of America which has 40,000 members is scheduled to begin today in New York City.

1912: Josephine Sophia and Isidore Vehon, the son of Anna and Silas Abraham Vehon were marred today in Kansas City, MO after which they lived in Salina, KS.

1913: Sylvia Annenberg, Beatrice Brown and Ruth Cohen are among those scheduled to be confirmed this morning at Temple Sholom in Chicago.

1913: Leopold Kessler opened the English Zionist Federation’s conference today.

1914(7^thof Sivan, 5674): 2^nd day of Shavuot

1914: “B’rith Abraham’s Growth” published today described plans for the upcoming 28^thannual convention of the Independent Order of B’rith Abraham to be held in Atlantic City which will be attended by 1,400 delegates from all over the United States representing 200,000 members in 720 lodges.

1915: As of today, President Wilson has not responded to a telegram from the Independent Order of Sons of Israel asking him to intercede on behalf of Leo Frank and his appeal for clemency.

1915: Today, “at the final session of the meeting of the United States Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of B’rith Sholom…a resolution was unanimously adopted advising Governor John M. Slaton of George that 50,000 members of the society join with other bodies in asking him to commute the sentence of Leo M. Frank to imprisonment, so that if his innocence is later established the fair name of Georgia may remain unstained.”

1915: Today, the United States Grand Lodge of the Order of B’rith Sholom adopted a resolution presented by Judge Aaron J. Levy of New York” that “provides for the establishment of a Jewish National Congress to which all Jewish societies shall send delegates for the discussion and improvement of conditions affect the Jews in this country?

1915: Although the George Prison Commission had announced yesterday afternoon that the hearing concerning the sentencing of Leo M. Frank was closed, it “decided today to reopen” the case “to hear opponents of commutation.”

1915: Today, Herbert Clay of Marietta, GA, Solicitor General of Blue Ridge Circuit head a party of fifty of his fellow-townsmen” that included ex-Governor Joseph M. Brown and Elmer Phagan the uncle of Mary Phagan “who filed into the audience chamber of the Georgia Prison and asked that the death sentence again Leo M. Frank be carried out.

1915:  It was reported today  that Jim “Conley, who was sentenced to twelve months as accessory to the murder of Mary Phagan” is scheduled to “go free tomorrow getting two months off for good conduct.”

1915: Leo Frank and Jim Conley are scheduled to meet tomorrow afternoon at a hearing “to be held in the jail in the case of Mrs. Coleman, mother of Mary Phagan against the National Pencil Factory” which she is suing for $10,000 in damages for the death of her daughter.”

1915: As of today the new officers of the Federation of Polish Hebrews of American published today including President Jacob Carlinger, Secretary David Troutman and Treasurer Morris Kaufman.

1915: The resolutions adopted by the Federation of Polish Hebrews of America published today included an expression of opposition “to laws further restricting immigration” and a call for “the holding of an American Jewish congress as soon as possible to help the Jews in war-ridden Europe and protesting against mistreatment of such Jews.”

1916:The nomination of Louis D. Brandeis of Boston to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States was confirmed by the Senate in executive session this afternoon by a vote of 47 to 22 with only one Democrat voting against confirmation.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/louis-d-brandeis

1917: Henri Bergson who would later become a member of the Clemenceau Cabinet was “elected vice president of the France-Norway Committee” today.

1917: Herbert Merton Jessel, who would receive the Order of St. Michael and St. George in January of 1918, was created a baronet today in the United Kingdom.

1917: Eighty-nine year old Henry Lewis, whose family name had originally been “Solomons,” the son of Ann Levy was buried today in :Makaraka, Gisborne, New Zealand.”

1917: Sir Philip Magnus was created a baronet today in the United Kingdom.

1917: Princeton University All-American football player, Arthur “Bluey” Bluenthal who had joined the French Foreign Legion in 1916 and “served at the Battle of Verdun with the French 129^th Infantry Division” with such distinction that he was award the Croix de Guerre with Star joined “the Escadrille Breguet 227 of the Lafayette Flying Corps” today.

1917: Charles Rosenthal and Philp Sassoon received the Order of St. Michael and St. George today.

1917: Premiere of “The Princess of Neutralia” a German silent comedy filmed by cinematographer Karl Freund featuring Julius Falkenstein.

1917: According to Henry Morgenthau of the American Jewish Relief Committee “$10,000,000 must be raised in the United States” by today “if the millions of Jews in the eastern war zone” are “to be saved from starvation.”

1917: It was reported today that reform Jews had agreed “that Orthodox dietary laws” would be observed “in all Jewish charitable institutions and hospitals” as part of the agreement that has led to “the unifications of all Jewish charities” in Brooklyn.

1917: The campaign by the American Jewish Relief Committee to raise $10,000,000 “for the benefits of Jews suffering from the war” to which Julius Rosenwald, President of Sears, Roebuck & Co. has promised to contribute $100,000 for each $1,000,000 collected, is scheduled to come to an end today.

1917: A memorandum is published describing the distress of the Jews in Belgrade. According to the document, “communities are destroyed, thousands are ruined and compelled to leave their homes.”

1918(21^stof Sivan, 5678): Parashat Beha’aloctcha

1918(21^stof Sivan, 5678): Teacher and author Arye-Kahyim Godldin the son of a Latvian shochet and mohel passed away today in Lodz.

http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/05/arye-khayim-goldin.html

1918: The Ninth annual convention of the Kehillah opens at Carnegie Hall in Manhattan.

1919: The National Conference of Jewish Charities ended today with a business meeting at the Hotel Breakers in Atlantic City, NJ.

1919: In Queens, NY, “Nellie (Baron) Graham, a schoolteacher, and Leon Graham, a stockbroker” gave birth to “Judith Graham Pool, a physiologist whose scientific discoveries revolutionized the treatment of hemophilia.”

http://biography.yourdictionary.com/judith-graham-pool

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/pool-judith-graham

1920: Birthdate of David Samuilovich Kaufman, “one of the most important Russian poets of the post-World War II era.”

1920: Today, in Pittsburgh, members of “the Beechview Hebrew Congregation Beth El” unanimously approved “a constitution and by-laws.”

1922: The Isaacson Company which was formed by M.E. Speilman, Mrs. Hyman B. Isaacson and Harry D. Bornstein following the death of Hyman B. Isaacson and the dissolution of the firm in which they all had a stake, today, at their Fifth Avenue location, present “their Fall Line…of high grade Juvenile Novelty suits in a variety of weaves and patterns at popular prices.”

1926: A farewell banquet is scheduled to held his evening for the Hakoah Team which played its last game of the tour on Decoration Day at the Polo Grounds.

1926:Benny Leonard is the chairman of a committee sponsoring tonight’s scheduled testimonial dinner being given in honor of the Hakoah Soccer team at the Pennsylvania Hotel, on the eve of the team's departure from the United States. (As reported by JTA)

1926:Bernard Flexner, President of the Palestine Economic Corporation, announced that the organization’s primary activity will be to help provide financing for the hydroelectric station on the Jordan River and the necessary transmission lines to connect the existing Diesel engine power stations at Tel-Aviv, Haifa and Tiberias. The Palestine Economic Corporation was organized in February, 1925.

1926: Bertha Solomon “was admitted to the Johannesburg Bar, becoming one of the first practicing women advocates in South Africa and the first woman to plead a case before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in Bloemfontein.”

1926: In Portsmouth, UK, Morry and Becky Morris gave birth to Aubrey Jack Steinberg who gained fame as actor Aubrey Morris.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/16/aubrey-morris?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it

1926: Birthdate of Norma Jean Baker, who gained fame as Marilyn Monroe, the actress who converted to Judaism before she married playwright Arthur Miller.

1926(19^thof Sivan, 5686):Hungarian political leader and government official Vilmos Vázsonyi died today after being assaulted “notorious anti-Semite Laszlo Vannay.”

1927: Hugo and Mathilde Gutmann gave birth to Helen Eakley

1927: Winifred “Winnie” Mark and Victory Aubrey Lownes, Jr, the “parents of Playboy executive Victor Lownes III” were married today.

1927: Rabbi Arthur S. Montaz gave the invocation this evening before dinner at this evening’s session of the Fourth Western Interstate Conference in Spokane, Washington.

1928: Birthdate of Lazarus “Larry” Ziedel the Montreal native who played hockey for the 1952 Stanley Cup winning Detroit Red Wings, the Chicago Black Hawks and the Philadelphia Flyers.1928: Attorney General Albert Ottinger’s investigation of complaints by the Hebrew Religious Protective Association against certain cemeteries was resumed today when Assistant Attorney General Robert S. Conklin questioned Philip Gresner, Superintendent of the Baron Hirsch Cemetery at Port Richmond, Staten Island, about complaints by plot owners that charges were increased without warning and that even “funeral processions had been halted to demand payment in arrears.

1929: Twenty-five year old Baltimore native Bernard Jacob Bamberger received his Doctor of Divinity degree from Hebrew Union College today.

1920(22^ndof Iyar, 5689): Parashat Bamidbar

1929(22^ndof Iyar, 5689): Seventy-three year old New York political leader and former U.S. Congressman Henry Mayer Goldfogle passed away.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/06/02/91801691.html?pageNumber=26

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/henry-mayer-goldfogle

1930(5^thof Sivan, 5690): Erev Shavuot

1930: The funeral Judge Hugo Pam of the Superior Court in Chicago who is survived by his sisters Miss Carrie Pam and Mrs. Walter Blumenthal is scheduled to take place today followed by burial in Rose Hill Cemetery

1930: Birthdate of Jo Amar.Jo Amar, a Moroccan-born Jewish singer whose melding of Andalusian and Israeli musical influences would make him a star in Israel and a popular performer in Jewish communities around the world.  He passed away in 2009 at the age of 79.

1931(16^thof Sivan, 5691): In the North Hills section of Pensacola, FL the cornerstone was laid today for a building that would be home to Temple Beth-El, a reform congregation which is reportedly “he oldest Jewish house of worship” in the Sunshine State.

1931: Birthdate of Ira Pastan, the husband of poet Linda Pastan who “was awarded the International Antonio Feltrinelli Prize for Medicine.”

1933(7th of Sivan, 5693): Second Day of Shavuot

1933: The League of Nations approves The Bernheim petition which is a protest aimed at Nazi anti-Jewish legislation in German Upper Silesia.

1933: Martin Riesenburger began serving ‘the Jewish Community in Berlin” where he served as the rabbi “in the Jewish old people's home in Grosse Hamburger Strasse and in the Jewish Hospital.”

1933:Germany introduces the Law for Reduction of Unemployment, which provides for marriage loans and other incentives to genetically “fit” Germans. (Jewish Virtual Library)

1933:American modernist writer Gertrude Stein published her autobiography, ironically titled The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas,

https://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/01/1933/gertrude-stein

1936(11th of Sivan, 5696): As Arab attacks continue, snipers fired on two buses near Jerusalem, killing one Jewish rider and wounding two others.  In the evening, a Jewish constable in Givat Shaoul was shot at by unknown assailants.  This is the same district of Jerusalem where another Jews was killed yesterday.

1936: Leaders of the current Arab uprising reportedly have sent letters to wealthy Arabs “threatening their lives and homes unless they” provide economic support for the uprising.  In response, the targets of the demands are “fleeing to Egypt, Lebanon and Europe.

1936: “A 50 year old Jewish merchant Moszek Laufer, his wife and three other customers were wounded this morning when a bomb exploded in a baker at Milsona” which is near Warsaw and “has long be a center of the anti-Semitic National Radicals.”

1936: “H.H. Trusted, speaking for the mandatory power assured the League of Nations permanent mandates commission this afternoon” that “the British Government regards the establishment of order in Palestine as of first importance and will not be deflected from its policy by riots or threats.”

1936: Alexander Kowalskis was sentenced to “two months in prison for singing anti-Semitic songs in Warsaw’s streets and courtyards” which were intended to stir up racial hatreds.

1936: Arab snipers fired on Jewish motor vehicles in Palestine including two buses outside of Jerusalem which one Jew dead and two more wounded.

1936: At the conclusion of its conference today, “the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland…expressed the opinion that no useful purpose would be “served by the appointment of a royal commission to investigate the grievance of Arabs and Jews in Palestine” and that the cause of peace would be better served by the government taking “steps to make possible greatly accelerated immigration of Jews in Palestine and Trans-Jordan.

1937: Birthdate of Muhammed Wattad, “an Israeli Arab politician who served as an MK between 1981 and 1988.

1937: Birthdate of Yisrael Meir Lau, the Polish born rabbi whose father died at Treblinka, who became the Chairman of Yad Vashem and Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv.

1938: The Isaac Adler Prize which was founded in 1934 by Mrs. Frida Adler in memory of her husband, for 1938 was awarded to Dr. Wendell M. Stanley for his work on the isolation of crystallizable factor which has developed a new approach in the study of viruses…”

1938: Superman created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster made his first appearance in D.C. Comics’ Action Comics Series issue #1 which sold for 10 cents.

1939: It was reported today that “The Palestine authorities have started wholesale arrests of Jews suspected of the shooting and bombing of the last few days in which a half dozen Arabs have been killed and a score wounded.”

1939: Captain Gustav Shroeder of the Hamburg American liner Saint Louis informed the Cuban authorities yesterday that he feared a "collective suicide pact" among his 917 German Jewish refugee passengers, who are scheduled to sail back to Hamburg with today, Cuba having refused to admit them.

1940(24^th of Iyar, 5700): Parashat Bamidbar

1940(24^th of Iyar, 5700): Eighty-three year old Henry Belais, the brother and business partner of David Belais who had been a business partner with metallurgical chemist Sigmund Cohn passed away in New York.

1940: It was reported today that the Jewish Institute of Religion plans on conferring an honorary degree of Doctor Hebrew Letters on Rabbi Moses Schorr who is currently being held in a Soviet prison

1941(6^th of Sivan, 5701): Shavuot

1941: German mathematician Kurt Hensel, the grandson of Fanny Mendelssohn and therefore a descendant of Moses Mendelssohn passed away.

1941: In Baghdad, Pro Axis Rashid Ali, began his revolution against the British by attacking the Jewish community. Approximately 150 Jews were murdered and 800 injured during two day of rioting. British troops stationed outside the city did not intervene. The pogrom is known as the Farhood.

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=16275

1941: The Battle of Crete comes to an end with German victory.  There were fewer than four hundred Jews living in Crete at this time. “It was not until June of 1944, and almost as an afterthought, that the Jews of Crete were arrested and sent to Herakleion, where they were put on the ship Tanais, together with some 600 Greek and Italian prisoners. For some years the details of the last hours of the Tanais and the fate of its crew and human cargo was not clear. What was known is that the ship had been sunk and that all had perished. Evidence has now appeared through the Foreign Office in London that in fact the Tanais had been sighted by a British U-Boat and was given two torpedo broadsides and sank within 15 minutes.”

1941: The deportation of Bosnian Jews to regional concentration camps begins.  By November, 14,000 Jews will have been deported to these camps.

1941: Birthdate of Dr. Stanley I. Greenspan, a psychiatrist who invented an influential approach to teaching children with autism and other developmental problems. (As reported by David Corcoran)

1942: The story of a young Jew, Emanuel Ringelblum, (who escaped from the Chelmno death camp after being forced to bury bodies as they were thrown out of the gas vans), was published in the underground Polish Socialist newspaper Liberty Brigade. The West now knew the "bloodcurdling news ... about the slaughter of Jews," and it had a name-Chelmno.

1942: The World Jewish Congress, based in New York, announces at a press conference that Eastern Europe is being turned into "a vast slaughterhouse for Jews."  As with the Sudan and Dafur sixty years later, the world “does not hear.”

1942: Justice Frankfurter voted with the majority in Betts v. Brady, a landmark case involving the right to counsel which was decided today. (Ironically, Getts would be overturned by Gideon v. Wainwright whih would find Justice Goldberg, the “Jewish Judge” voting in the majority.)

1942: Between June 1 and June 30 more than 23,000 Jews are gassed at the Belzec and Sobibór death camps

1942: During June, Auschwitz is ravaged by an epidemic of typhus.

1942(16th of Sivan, 5702): Germans invade Jewish hospitals in Sosnowiec, Poland, murdering newborns and tearing patients from operating tables. Ambulatory patients are sent to Auschwitz and gassed.

1942: A young Sosnowiec Jew named Harry Blumenfrucht is captured and endures two weeks of Nazi torture.  He refuses to name his co-conspirators in a scheme to steal weapons. His suffering ends when he is hanged.

1942 (16th of Sivan, 5702 Jews from Dabrowa Tarnowska, Poland, led by Rabbi Isaac and gathered in a Jewish cemetery, defy their Nazi captors when they hold hands, dance, and drink "to life." The enraged Germans shoot and disembowel the entire group.

1942: At Lutsk, Ukraine, Jewish resistance is led by Joel Szczerbat

1942: Starting in the first week of June, three thousand Jews at Pilica, Poland, are deported to Belzec, but several hundred manage to escape before the journey is complete

1942: In Norway, Jews are given identity cards stamped with the letter "J."

1942(16th of Sivan, 5702): Mordecai Gebirtig, a Kraków carpenter whose songs of freedom are sung throughout Poland, is executed at Belzec.

1942: During the first week in June, Polish Jews are deported from Hrubieszów to the Sobibór death camp. Another 500 will be deported the following week

1942: Starting in June, Warsaw's underground newspaper, Liberty Barricade, published by the Polish Socialist Party, reveals Nazi gassing activity at the Chelmno death camp

.1942: I.G. Farben's Buna-Monowitz synthetic-rubber and oil works opens near Auschwitz

1942(16th of Sivan, 5702): Between today and the 7^thof June seven thousand Jews from Kraków, Poland, are murdered at the Belzec extermination camp.1942: First mention ever in the press, in this case the underground Warsaw newspaper "Liberty", of the ‘bloodcurdling news coming out of Chelmno.' Seven Thousand Jews were sent from Cracow to Belzec. On this day tracks began to be built connecting to a new death camp, Treblinka. Treblinka had been prepared for the Jews of central Poland.

1943(27th of Iyyar, 5703):  Jews of Dalmatia, Serbia, are transferred to the island of Rab, which is off the coast of Croatia.

1943(27th of Iyar, 5703):  Starting today and lasting throughout the first two weeks in June 10,000 Jews from Lvov lose their lives in a combination of street assaults and killings at Janówska, Ukraine,

1943(27th of Iyar, 5703):  During liquidation of the ghetto at Sosnowiec, Poland, which began on June 1 and ended on June 6, a spirited resistance is led by Zvi Dunski. Ill-armed Jews fight back as deportations proceed

1943(27th of Iyar, 5703):  The liquidation of the Jewish ghetto at Buczacz, Ukraine begins. It will end on June 6.  Some Jews resist and escape.

1943(27th of Iyar, 5703):  Actor Leslie Howard dies when the civilian plane he is flying on from Lisbon to England is shot down by German fighters.  The reason for the attack remains shrouded in the cloak and dagger world of W.W.II.  Born Leslie Howard Stainer in 1893, Howard’s parents were Hungarian Jews.  He served in WW I and gained fame in both English and American films.  He is best remembered for his portrayal of Ashley Wilkes, the classic cavalier in “Gone With the Wind.”

1943(27^th of Iyar: Just five weeks short of his 44^th birthday, Wilfrid B. Israel, a Berlin born businessman who worked to rescue children from the Nazis, died aboard BOAC Flight 777, the same plane that was carrying Leslie Howard.

1944: An American public opinion poll indicates that 57 percent of Americans anticipate "a widespread campaign in this country" against Jews.

1944: From today through June 30, 13,500 Jews are deported from Miskolc, Hungary, to Auschwitz.

1944:  With 55,000 unused United States quota slots from Occupied Europe, President Franklin Roosevelt agrees to allow only 1000 Jewish refugees into the United States. They will be housed at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York

1944: After having been arrested on May 27, Mrs. Joel Brand and Rudolf Kastner are released by the Arrow Cross.

1945: Birthdate of Rabbi Menachem Froman, the sabra who as paratrooper helped reunify Jerusalem in 1967 and then went on to help found Gush Emunim after which he worked to develop a peace accord with Hamas “known as the Froman-Amayreh Agreement.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/world/middleeast/menachem-froman-rabbi-who-sought-mideast-peace-dies-at-68.html

1945: In Switzerland David Frankfurter was granted a pardon for having assassinated the “Swiss branch leader of the German NSDAP Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936 in Davos, Switzerland.

1945: Displaced Jews at Buchenwald, Germany establish Kibbutz Buchenwald, an agricultural training center designed to help young Jews succeed at kibbutz (communal) life

1945: Public-opinion polls taken during June indicate that Americans consider Jews a far greater threat to America than they consider German or Japanese Americans.

1945(20^thof Sivan, 5705): Seventy-three year old Eduard Bloch who treated Adolf Hitler and hismother Klara before WW I passed away today.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3816350,00.html

1945: Kibbutz Nili is established on the former estate of Nazi big-wig Julius Streicher, near Pleikershof, Germany, to train Jewish displaced persons in agriculture and provide schooling for Jewish boys and girls.

1946: “Somewhere in the Night” directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz who also co-authored the script was released in the United States today.

1946: Following the murder of two Jews in Biala Podlaska, Poland, the town's remaining Jews began leaving the country during June.

1946: Ion Antonescu, the anti-Semitic former dictator of Romania, is executed after being convicted of war crimes.

1947: “James G. McDonald, former member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry for Palestine who returned last week from a visit to that country, said tonight that its arid southern area the Negeve could be restored to cultivation by irrigation and take care of tens of thousands of Jewish families now in camps in Europe.

1948: An Egyptian Ministerial Order carrying today’s date “declared that all laws n force during the Mandate would continue to be in force in the Gaza Strip, the piece of Palestinian territory conquered by the Egyptian Army which they held on to for 19 years without any demands by the people of Gaza that it be given to them as part of an independent Arab state.

1948: The Arab states and Israel agreed to a cease-fire. After two weeks of fighting, the Arabs realized that pushing the Jews into the sea would not be such an easy matter after all. 

1948: According to today’s Scotsman, 'After the Jewish surrender over 1000 non-combatant residents were evacuated to Katamon, south-west of Jerusalem.”

1949: Today marks the start of “UJA Month” a major fundraising event for the United Jewish Appeal.

1951: “Sirocco” a film based on Coup de Grace written by Joseph Kessel, directed by Curtis Bernhardt and co-starring Lee J. Cobb was released in the United Kingdom today.

1951: In Washington, DC, Milton S. and Berte (Luber) Garfinkle gave birth University of Pennsylvania graduate Adam Garfinkle, a speechwriter for Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice who has taught at several university in Tel Aviv University while raise three children – Gabriel, Hanna and Nathaniel – with his wife Priscilla Elizabeth Taylor.

1951: In Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, Nicole (née Raffel) and Serge Dassault gave birth to French political leader Olivier Dassault, the grandson on Marcel Dassault.

1953(18th of Sivan, 5713):Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman, a native of Kovno who served as Dayan of the London Beth Din for 20 years, passed away today in Jerusalem.

1954: Twenty-seven year old Robert L. Lehman, the teenage escapee from Nazi Germany, U.S. Army Veteran and Long Island University honor student was ordained as a rabbi today after completing his studies at Hebrew Union College and began his career at Baltimore’s Temple Oheb Shalom as an assistant rabbis working under Rabbi Abraham Shaw.

1958: “The Lineup” a police movie directed by Don Siegel and starring Eli Wallach was released today in the United States.

1959: It was reported today that Professor David Rudavsky of NYU and Samuel H. Dinsky of the Jewish Education Committee of New York had compiled figures showing that “of the 335,000 Jewish boys and girls of high school age in the United States, only 42,000 get some kind of Jewish education and of those half go to school one day a week, (Editor’s note – And from the view of sixty years ago, one can see where the seeds for many of the problems of the American Jewish community were planted)

1960(6^thof Sivan, 5720): As JFK tries to nail down enough delegates to win the Democratic Party nomination for President, Jews observe Shavuot.

1961: In San Francisco, Doris Feigenbaum Fisher and Don Fisher, the co-founders of Gap, Inc. gave birth to John J. Fisher who owns several athletic teams including the Oakland Athletics baseball team.

1962: Leo Frederick Rayfiel, who has served on the federal bench for the last 15 years, appeared as witness today in the trial of State Supreme court Justice J. Vincent Keogh and former assistant U.S. attorney Elliot Kahaner who are charged with having attempted to fix a case being heard by Judge Rayfiel.

1963: Birthdate of Belarus native Arkadi Duchin who made Aliyah at the age of 15 where he a popular “singer-song writer, musical producer and the husband of Sima Duchin.

1964: U.S. release date of “Kapò” an award winning Italian moved about the Holocuast co-starring Susan Strasberg, the American Jewish actress who created the role of Anne Frank on Broadwa.

1964: Estelle Sommers got her start in the dance world when she transformed her first husband's Cincinnati piece-goods retail store into a dancewear specialty shop.

1965: Militants attack a house in Kibbutz Yiftah.

1967: Having seen its plans to organize an international flotilla to break the blockade of the Straits of Tiran come to naught, the United States government shifts its policy.  Previously, President Johnson cautioned Israel not to fire the first shot in even of war.  On this day, when Secretary of State Rusk was asked if the U.S. would restrain Israel from taking precipitate actions, he replied, “ I do not think it is our business to restrain anybody.”  On this same date, Abba Eban realized that diplomacy would not work and that war looked like the only viable option.  However, the months of diplomatic negotiation had earned Israel the support of the U.S. government, support it would need in the coming weeks when the Soviet Union sought to reverse Israel’s military successes.

1967:  In response to the mounting tensions and popular demand, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol forms a government of national unity with membership from the total spectrum of Israeli political.  Moshe Dyan is named Defense Minister and meets with Chief of Staff Rabin who outlines the military’s plans.  Dyan approves that which had already been prepared.

1968(5^thof Sivan, 5728): Parashat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot

1968(5^thof Sivan, 5728): Ninety-four year old Albert Bachrach, who worked in Bachrach’s clothing store which had been started by his father Henry, passed away today after which he was buried at Fairlawn Cemetery in Decatur, Illinois.

1968:  Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson", theme for the hit movie “The Graduate,” was number one on the charts.

1969: Seventy-six year old Austrian born, Columbia University graduate and veteran of the U.S Cavalary, Dr. Frank Tannenbaum, “the professor emeritus of Latin American history, founder of and director of University Seminars at his alma mater who also had time to become a criminology teacher passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/06/02/90108763.pdf

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0032885511404382

1971: Birthdate of Tel Aviv native and accomplished linguist Ghil’ad Zuckermann the “Professor of Linguistics and Chair of Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide, Australia

1971(8^thof Sivan, 5731): Sixty-three year of old New York City native and textile manufacturer Jack H. Fields, the ‘president of Garden State Prints’ and “the grand secretary of he Free Sons of Israel” passed away today at the Beacon Hotel on Broadway.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/06/03/79704307.pdf

1971: The Broadway production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” a musical based on the popular cartoon co-starring Bob Balaban as the blanket-hold Linus opened today at the John Golden Theatre.

1972: U.S. premiere of “The War Between Men and Women” directed by Melville Shavelson, produced by Danny Arnold with music by Marvin Hamlisch and featuring Herb Edelman as “Howard Mann.”

1973(1^stof Sivan, 5733): Rosh Chodesh Sivan

1973(1^stof Sivan, 5733): Sixty-four year old Lillian Rosenthal Elmark, the wife of U.VA. graduate Harry Eugene Elmark the president and editor of the Washington Star Syndicate which publishes Washington, DC’s evening paper, passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/02/archives/mrs-harry-e-elmlark.html

1974(11^thof Nisan, 5734): Parashat Nasso

1974(11^thof Nisan (: Eighty-one year old economist Dr. Abraham D. H. Kaplan, “a former senior staff member of the Brookings Institute,” “former chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Denver and the author of several works including Big Business in a Competitive System and Small Business: Its Places and Problems who raised two children – Stephen and Nancy – with his wife Bella, passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/02/archives/dr-abraham-h-d-kaplan-dies-brookings-senior-staff-member.html?searchResultPosition=1

1974: Soviet authorities thwarted plans for an international symposium “on the basis of scientific seminar of physics of scientist-refusenik Professor Alexander Voronel.

1974: Seventeen Jewish activists, including Joseph Beilin, Anatoly Novikov and Lev Gendin staged a demonstration outside of the Moscow “Intourist Hotel” today.

1975: Refusenik Sender Levinson of Bendery, Moldavis was sentenced to six years in a labor camp for ‘speculation.’”

1978: Broadway premier of “Tribute” directed by Arthur Storch and produced by Morton Gottleb.

1979(6th of Sivan, 5739): First Day of Shavuot

1979: A week after being released in the United States, “The Brood” a sci-fi thriller directed and written by David Cronenberg and music by Howard Shore was released today in Canada.

1980: Actress and singer Barbra Streisand appeared at an ACLU Benefit in California

1980: Today, “a new sports hall of fame built in Eger” was named for Ferenc Kemény the Hungarian born Jew who was a founding member of the International Olympic Committee and who avoided beings sent to the death camps in 1944 by committing suicide.

1981(28^thof Iyar, 5741): As Israelis celebrate Yom Yerushalayim they contemplate what kind of friend the newly inaugurated Ronal Regan will make for Israel.

1981(28^thof Iyar, 5741): Ninety year old “Tamar de Sola Pool, an author and educator and a former president of Hadassah, the women's Zionist organization, died today at Lenox Hill Hospital.” (As reported by Walter H. Waggoner)

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/02/obituaries/tamar-de-solo-pool-90-author-and-former-head-of-hadassah.html

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/pool-tamar-de-sola

1981: Filming of “The King of Comedy” co-starring Jerry Lewis, Tony Randall and Sandra Bernhard began today.

1981: Naim Khader, the PLO representative in Belgium, was assassinated in Brussels.

1983(20^thof Sivan, 5743): Eighty-two year old novelist Anna Seghers who told the tales of the victims of Nazi Germany in such novels as The Seventh Cross and Transit passed away today in Berlin.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130704063048/http:/www.kirjasto.sci.fi/seghers.htm

1983: After six years, Wilem Polak completed his service as mayor of Amsterdam.

1984: A week after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, “Once Upon a Time America” a film that “chronicles the lives of Jewish ghetto youths who rise to prominence in New York City's world of organized crime” based on The Hoods by Harry Grey was released today in the United States.

1984: “Streets of Fire” co-produced by Joel Silver and co-starring Rick Moranis was released in the United States today.

1984: Susan Weidman Schneider published Jewish and Female: Choices and Changes in Our Lives Today

1986(23^rd of Iyar, 5746): Eighty-seven year old Rudolf Sonneborn  an American businessman whose support of the Zionist cause dates back to 1919 when as a 20 year old he visited Palestine for the first time.(As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/04/obituaries/rudolf-sonneborn-dies-at-87-a-zionist-leader-in-the-us.html

1987: Meir Rosenne ends his term as Israeli Ambassador to Washington.

1990(8^th of Sivan, 5750): Eighty-one year old Estelle Strossman , the wife of Samuel Multer and mother of Rhode Island basketball star Barry Multer passed away today.

1991(19^th of Sivan, 5751): Parashat Beha’alotcha

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/04/obituaries/anthony-papp-jewelry-designer-29.html

1991(19^th of Sivan 5751): Twenty-nine year old jewelry designer Anthony Papp, the son of Shakespeare Festival director Joseph Papp, passed away today.

1994: Premiere of “The Patriots’ a French film that provides a fictionalized account of Mossad operations starring Yvan Attal as “Ariel Brenner.”

1994: Today marked the final performance of the first West End rival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”

1996(14^th of Sivan, 5756): Parashat Nasso

1996: This evening at the Pierre hotel in New York, Rabbi Amy Ehrlich officiated at the wedding of Caryn Stephanie Nathanson, “the supervisor of rights and clearance for NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live’” and “Jeffrey Adam Zucker the executive producer of NBC’s ‘Today’ show.” (Editor’s note- when NBC says that they are one big happy family they sure aren’t kidding

1997: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Rothschild Gardens by Miriam Rothschild, Kate Garton and Lionel de Rothschild, and the recently released paperback edition of Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.

1997: For the second time Jack Lang began representing Loir-et-Cher in the French National Assembly.

1998(7^thof Sivan, 5758): Second Day of Shavuot

1999:  Brooksly E. Born, the wife of Jack Landau resigned as chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

1999:Paper Bridges: Selected Poemsof Kadya Molodowsky the Yiddish poet who had passed away in 1975 was published today.

https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Bridges-Selected-Poems-Molodowsky/dp/0814328466

2000: “Syria is ready to accept Israel's retreat last week from southern Lebanon as a complete withdrawal, a United Nations envoy said today, a move that could lessen the possibility of renewed violence along the Israeli-Lebanese border.”

2001: Rapper Shyne, whose legal name is Moses Michael Levi, was sentenced to ten years in prison after having been “convicted of, attempted murder, assault, and reckless endangerment.”

2001(10^thof Sivan, 5761): Twenty-one Israelis were killed and another 132 were injured, most of whom were high school students when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Tel Aviv at the Dolphinarium.

Maria Tagiltsiva (14), Raisa Nimrovsky (15), Ana Kazachkova (15), Katherine Kastaniyada-Talkir (15), Irena Nepomnyashchi (16), Mariana Medvedenko (16), Yulia Nelimov (16), Liana Saakyan (16), Marina Berkovizki (17), Simona Rodin (18), Aleksei Lupalu (16), Yelena Nelimov (18), Irena Usdachi (18), Ilya Gutman (19), Roman Dezanshvili (21), Diez Normanov (21), Ori Shahar (32), Yael-Yulia Sklianik (15), Sergei Panchenko (20), Jan Bloom (25), Yevgeniya Dorfman (15

2001: Authors Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon to their third child Ida-Rose or “Rosie.”

2002: “The Israeli Army imposed a curfew on Nablus, took over houses for sniper posts, surrounded the Balata camp -- birthplace and stronghold of the terrorist group known as the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades

2003: “Walking a little faster and wearing more layers than usual, marchers in the Salute to Israel Parade stepped and drove up a chilly, wet Fifth Avenue today beneath thousands of Israeli flags, their heads, caps and skullcaps tucked against the blowing drizzle.”

2004(12th of Sivan, 5764): Seventy-four year old ophthalmologist Charles Kelman passed away today. (As reported by Eric Nagourney)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/05/business/dr-charles-kelman-74-made-cataract-removal-easier.html?_r=0

2005: "Celebrated Piano Instructor Kaplinsky Counts Student as Cliburn Finalist".

http://keranews.org/post/celebrated-piano-instructor-kaplinsky-counts-student-cliburn-finalist

http://www.juilliard.edu/about/newsroom/china-kit/yoheved-kaplinsky-artistic-director-juilliards-pre-college-division-and?destination=node/14791

2005: United States premier of the Israeli film “Or” (my treasure starring Dana Igvy.

2005: U.S. premiere of “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” with a script by Delia Ephron.

2005: Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon completed his term as Chief of Staff of the IDF.

2005:Dan Halutz “was officially appointed the eighteenth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and was awarded the rank of Rav-Aluf (Lieutenant General). It is the second time in the history of the Israel Defense Forces that a former IAF commander became the head of the entire military.”

2005:The Jewish Family Service (JFS) of Los Angeles holds its annual gala. The honorees are CAA agent Rick Kurtzman; his brother, Fox business affairs executive Howard Kurtzman; and their brother-in-law, William Morris Agent David Lonner (married to their sister Janet).

2005: In “Sarah Aaronsohn's Heroic Silence” published today, Seth Lipsky provides a review of A Strange Death by Hillel Halkin which provides a look at this little known piece of Jewish history from WW I.

http://www.nysun.com/arts/sarah-aaronsohns-heroic-silence/14688/

2005: “After 39 previews, the Manhattan Theatre Club production” of “After the Night and the Music” a one-act play in three parts, written by Elaine May opened today at the Biltmore Theatre where it “ran for only 38 performances.

2006: The Minnesota Twins drafted Danny Valencia.

2006: The Kennedy Center production “Mame,” a musical with a book by Jerome Lawrence and lyrics and music by Jerry Herman opened today.

2006:At a commencement address he delivered at Queens College today, Alan “Hevesi told his audience that Senator Charles Schumer was so tough he would "put a bullet between the President's eyes if he could get away with it." Several hours after his remarks, Hevesi apologized for his comments, calling them "beyond dumb,""remarkably stupid," and "incredibly moronic\.”

2006: Archaeologists Ofer Bar-Yosef of Harvard University and Mordechai E. Kislev and Anat Hartmann of Bar-Ilan University report that they have found evidence that ancient people grew fig trees some 11,400 years ago, making the fruit the earliest domesticated crop.Remains of the ancient fruits were found at Gilgal I, a village site in the Jordan Valley north of ancient Jericho,. Gilgal was abandoned more than 11,000 years ago. Figs that are edible do not produce seeds and are propagated by planting shoots.Bar-Yosef said that ''In this intentional act of planting a specific variant of fig tree, we can see the beginnings of agriculture. This edible fig would not have survived if not for human intervention.''

2006: The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, in conjunction with the Instituto Cervantes and the Spanish Consulate in New York paid tribute to Diplomat and Savior of the Holocaust, Eduardo Propper de Callejón at the Instituto Cervantes in New York City. The event had a tremendous turnout with approximately 180 people in attendance. Propper's son, Felipe Propper de Callejón, spoke about how his father used his diplomatic office to administer special visas that would enable Jews and other persecuted people to escape the Nazi regime under the protection of the Spanish flag. Despite his father's heroism, he was stripped of his title and transferred to Consulate of Larache in the Spanish protectorate in Morocco and was never able to regain his title or attain recognition for his heroic acts before his death. Ana Salomon, the Special Ambassador for Relations with Jewish Organizations of the Foreign Ministry of Spain, and Abigail Tenembaum, the Vice President of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation also spoke at the event. The tribute featured an exhibition of photos, legal documents, and Propper's own notes and correspondences written while serving as First Secretary.  This was the IRWF's second tribute to Spanish diplomat saviors. The first honored eight saviors in Argentina in 2004. The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation is a non-profit organization that seeks to promote solidarity and civic courage, which are ethical cornerstones of the saviors of the Holocaust

2007: The Metropoline Company joined the Egged Bus Cooperative in providing bus service to Arad.

2007:Hadassah national president June Walker’s appointment to head the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations goes into effect. The Presidents' Conference is the umbrella group that represents 50 American Jewish organizations on issues of national and international concern.

2007:Michel Graber, the magistrate who has been overseeing the investigation into the fire that damaged Geneva’s largest synagogue on May 24 said that it was a criminal act which he described as arson. But he said there had been no indication that it was set by extremists. The May 24 blaze raised fears among Geneva's Jewish community that the fire might have been an anti-Semitic attack.

2007: On the same day when three more Kassam rockets struck Israel, the IAF killed a member of an Islamic Jihad Kassam cell in an air strike.

2007: “Knocked Up” a comedy directed, produced and written by Judd Aptow, starring Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd and featuring Jason Segal, Iris Apatow, Maude Apatow, Harold Ramis and James Franco was released in the United States today.

2007: British historian Geoffrey Alderman “joined the University of Buckingham” today.

http://www.geoffreyalderman.com/

2007: “Flyboys” a film about WW I allied pilots starring James Franco and David Ellison, the son of Oracle CTO Larry Ellison, and with music by Trevor Rabin was released in the United Kingdom today.

2008: Washington, D.C, Manhattan, NYC and Boston all host celebrations honoring Israel at Sixty.

2008: Mrs. Jacob (Betty) Levin gathers with her family and friends for the unveiling of the Matzevah of Dr. Jacob Levin (of blessed memory).  Of course, his real Matzevah is impact he made on the lives of his loving family and devoted friends.

2008: “Israeli President Shimon Peres honored David Littman for his role in Operation Mural which was designed to save the Jewish children of Morocco, at a Presidential residence special commemorative event with his wife and family and former key Mossad agents in attendance.”

2008: In Chicago, the Spertus sponsors a book signing for “Louis Zukofsky The Modernist Poet as Jew” by Dr. Mark Scroggins.  

2008: The Chicago Sun Timesfeatures a review of “The Dream” by ninety-eight year old Harry Bernstein.  “The Dream” follows “The Invisible Wall” as the second in a trilogy that traces the life of the immigrant son of Yankel and Ada Bernstein.

2008: The Washington Postfeatures a review of “1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War” by Benny Morris as well as listings for “Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy”, by Natan Sharansky, “Golda” by Elinor Burkett,” A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel” by Gudrun Krämer,  “Jerusalem: City of Longing” by Simon Goldhill and The Story of Israel: From Theodor Herzl to the Roadmap for Peace” by Martin Gilbert.

2008(27th of Iyar, 5768):Yosef (Tommy) Lapid passed away at the age of 76.  Born in Yugoslavia in 1931, Lapid and his mother (his father died in the Holocaust) made Aliyah in 1948 where he became a successful journalist and political leader.

2008(27th of Iyar, 5768):In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Penny Binger a student of Chasidic Judaism and devote of Shlomo Carlbach passed away.

2008: In front page article entitled “Baghdad Jews Have Become a Fearful Few” The New York Times describes the plight of one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/world/middleeast/01babylon.html.

2009: Final showing of Sol LeWitt’s “Wall Drawing #260(1975)” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

2009: Sports Illustrated magazine features a review of Bill Russell’s “Red and Me” which focuses on the close, unique relationship between the all-star center and coach and Red Auerbach, Russell’s coach and mentor. Between the two of them, they changed the game and made a unique social statement. “Russell writes that they were drawn together by a mutual hardheadedness, united y the ‘tribulation of our tribes’: Russell was an African American who grew up in the Jim Crow South and the Oakland projects, Auerbach a street-savvy urban Jews.” While everybody knows about the alliance between African-Americans and Jews that helped to make the Civil Rights Revolution, fewer people are aware of this unique Black-Jewish Alliance which created its own revolution.

2009: The Washington Nationals drafted Danny Rosenbaum.

2009: During “Turning Point 3” the government’s emergency headquarters will discuss coordination measures

2009:Security forces uprooted the outpost of Nahalat Yosef today and arrested several activists who protested the destruction. Among those arrested was MK Michael Ben-Ari. Following those events, security forces converged on Ramat Gilad, where residents are concerned at the prospect of a confrontation but say they will resist any attempts to evict them from the area.

2009:Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak began a round of meetings with top U.S. officials today in a bid to head off an increasingly sharp dispute between the United States and Israel over the expansion of Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory.

2009: The Saul Steinberg: Illuminations travelling exhibition, which displays original Steinberg works comes to a close in Hamburg, Germany.  

2010: Mothers Circle, an education and support group for non-Jewish women raising Jewish children is scheduled to have its first meeting for the summer at the Historic Sixth & I Street Synagogue.

2010: Peter Stansky review of The Spanish Right and the Jews, 1898-1945: Anti-Semitism and Opportunism by Isabelle Rohr was published today.

http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/book-review-the-spanish-right-and-the-jews/

2010: In the wake of naval action off the coast of Gaza, Prime Minister Netanyahu does not meet with President Obama as originally scheduled.

2010:An Islamic militant group in the Gaza Strip said three of its members had been killed in an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza.

2011: The Masada, Dead Sea and Jerusalem Opera Festival is scheduled to begin.

2011: Final session of Hebrew Literacy: Aleph, Bet, and Beyond is scheduled to take place today at the Historic Sixth & Synagogue in Washington, DC

2011: In Washington, DC, Adas Israel is scheduled to hold its Annual Meeting and honor the 2011 Yad Kakavod recipient, David Bickart

2011(28^th of Iyar, 5771):  Yom Yerushalayim – Jerusalem Reunification Day

2011:President Shimon Peres said today that peace could be achieved in Jerusalem in "our time", declaring that Israel has replaced the divisions that once wracked the holy city by offering freedom to all faiths and creeds. In his address to the annual Jerusalem Day state ceremony marking 44 years since the reunification of the capital, Peres said he believed in the "eternity of Jerusalem

2011: Susan Herbst is an American political scientist and academic administrator began serving the 15th president of the University of Connecticut, making her the first woman to hold that position since the school’s founding in 1881.

2011: In Helsinki, Ben Zyskowicz, a member of the National Coalition Party who was recently appointed speaker of the Finnish parliament, was attacked by a middle-aged man shouting a racial epithet against Jews.

2011:Attorneys for Howard Ackerman, an Orthodox Jewish prisoner in Carson City, Nev., filed a lawsuit against the state. The suit claimed that the state's corrections department intended to stop serving kosher meals to inmates within a week, thus violating their client’s freedom to practice his religion. Attorneys representing the state prison system filed court papers saying new menus are being considered, but that there are no plans to discontinue the kosher meal program.

2012: Cellist Yoed Nir is scheduled to perform tonight at Town Hall in New York

2012: Larry and Mindy Fogel are scheduled to perform a musical salute to the Carpenters in Kfar Vradim. 2012: The Kühn Choir of Prague is scheduled to give an a-capella concert at the Henry Crown Concert Hall as part of the Israel Festival being held in Jerusalem.

2012: Jennifer Herren is scheduled to begin her Bat Mitzvah weekend in Cedar Rapids, Iowa by helping to lead Shabbat Eve services which will include a special appearance by singers and musicians of Shir Yehuda.

2012: Early this morning members of the 12^thBattalion of the famed Golani Brigade thwarted a border crossing which appears to have been the prelude to a major terrorist infiltration.  Planes from the IAF followed up with targeted attacks on Gaza.

2012(11^th of Sivan, 5772): Eighty-one year Marion Sandler, the wife of Herbert Sandler, passed away today. (As reported by Michael J. De La Merced

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/marion-o-sandler-former-golden-west-co-chief-is-dead-at-81/?hpw

2012: Andy Samberg’s spokesperson announced that he had left SNL

2012(11^th of Sivan, 5772): Twenty-one year old Golani Staff-Sergeant Netanel Moshiashvil, from Ashkelon, was killed today while stopping a terrorist infiltrator attempting to cross into Israel from Gaza.

2013: A children’s adaption of “As You Like It “ is scheduled to be performed as part of the Israel Festival in Jerusalem.

2013: Professor Krzysztof Jasiewicz , a Polish Historian, is scheduled to lose his position as head of the Department of Analysis of Eastern Issues following an interview in which he partly blamed the Jews for the Holocaust. (As reported by JTA and Times of Israel)

2013:“For its first pavilion at the prestigious Venice Biennale international art festival which is scheduled to open today, the Vatican is presenting an exhibit inspired by the first book of the Torah, rather than by a New Testament theme. Called “Creation, Un-Creation, Re-Creation,” the three-part show in the Vatican’s pavilion will draw on the first 11 chapters of Genesis, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, told reporters Tuesday at a news conference presenting the concept.”

 (As reported by JTA)

2013: Eilat residents were slightly unsettled this afternoon as a mild earthquake shook the southern city’s streets and buildings. There were no reports of injury or serious damage (As reported by Adiv Sterman)

2013: Today a French judge put under formal investigation a 31-year-old man suspected of helping an al-Qaida-inspired gunman prepare a shooting spree in the southern France city of Toulouse last year, a judicial source said

2014: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Delicious by Ruth Reichl and Here Comes the Night The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm & Blues by Joel Selvin.

2014:”The Sturgeon Queens” is scheduled to be shown at the Allentown Jewish Film Festival

2014: A revival of “Driving Miss Daisy” is scheduled to be performed at The Bayou Playhouse in Lockport, LA.

2014: “The 10th Annual Matzohball 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run!” sponsored by Temple Isaiah in Fulton, MD, is scheduled to take place at Centennial Park in Howard County.

2014: “Palestinians in Gaza fired a rocket early this morning at the Eshkol region in southern Israel.” (Times of Israel)

2014:“Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, head of COGAT, the IDF’s civil administration in the West Bank, personally denied travel permission to Ramallah for three Palestinian leaders from Gaza slated to be appointed ministers in the expected Fatah-Hamas unity government.” (Times of Israel)

2014: Today, “European Jewish leaders on Sunday praised the arrest of a suspect in the Brussels Jewish Museum attack and called for preemptive measures to protect Europe’s Jewish communities from additional attacks.” (As reported by Marissa Newman)

2014: Samuel L. Jackson, who has appeared in over 100 films, was a joyful participant in today’s annual Celebrate Israel parade in New York City. (As reported by Lazar Berman)

2014: The cabinet approved the “Joint Initiative of the Government of Israel and World Jewry” which “aims to enhance the connection between the Jewish people and the State of Israel” today. (As reported by Sigal Samuel)

2014: With Lewis Katz's sudden death yesterday, his son, Drew, is expected to assume a large role in the ownership and management of the Philadelphia Inquirer and other organizations owned or influenced by his father.

2014: “Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber is scheduled to come to an end at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.

2015: Today “Israel accused the United Nations of granting "UN non-governmental organization status" to an association linked to militant Palestinian group Hamas that it said promotes "anti-Israel propaganda in Europe."

2015: Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. will preside over the bench trial scheduled to begin today which will decide the ownership of “a set of silver Torah bells known as rimonim, thought to be worth more than $7 million.” (As reported by Paul Berger)

http://forward.com/news/national/308699/synagogues-fight-over-for-whom-the-bells-toll/?utm_content=daily_Newsletter_TopSpot_Title_Position-1&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Daily%202015-05-28&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20%28Monday-Friday%29

2015: The funeral and interment of Rochelle Shoretz whose own breast cancer diagnosis “led to her founding of Sharsheret” was scheduled to take place today.

2015: Daniel Kahneman “was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Arts at McGill University in Montreal”

2016: Dr. Gary Zola is scheduled to “share insights about his work as Executive Director of the Jacob Radar Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives” which houses “over ten million pages of documentation and 8,000 linear feet of archives, manuscripts, nearprint materials, photographs, audio and video tape, microfilm, and genealogical materials” at luncheon at the Lillian & Albert Small Jewish Museum in Washington, DC.

2016(24^th of Iyar, 5776): Ninety-seven year old cartoonist Anatol Kovarsky passed away today, (As reported by William Grimes)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/arts/design/anatol-kovarsky-new-yorker-cartoonist-for-decades-dies-at-97.html?hpw=undefined&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2016: In Portland, Oregon, Barnes & Noble is scheduled to host barbeque maven Steven Raichlen who will discuss his new book Project Smoke.

2016: Lets All Become Jews

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/opinion/lets-all-become-jews-france-yvan-attal.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0

2016: “The landmark compromise over the future of the Western Wall remains unresolved following a tense meeting today between Reform and Conservative leaders and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”

2017(7^th of Sivan, 5777): Second Day of Shavuot;

2017:  Today, “the State Prosecutor’s Office won the postponement of hearing scheduled for the following week into shortening the sentence of Ehud Olmert.” (As reported by Raoul Wootliff)

2017: “The Israel Festival, an annual three-week Jerusalem-based celebration of local and international music, dance, theater and performance art” is scheduled to begin today.

2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host Shavuot services, followed by lunch and dinner.

2017: “Two men tied to Hezbollah” – Samuel El Debek and Ali Kourani – “who had been plotting attacks against Americans and Israelis in the US and Panama were arrested today.”

2018(18^th of Sivan, 5778): Eighty-four year old cookbook editor and food columnnist Barbara Kafka, the daughter of Lillian(Shapiro) Poses, one of the first women to graduate from NYU law school and the wife of Dr.Ernest Kafka, passed away today.(As reported by Sam Roberts and Matt Schudel)

http://www.bkafka.com/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/barbara-kafka-cookbook-author-who-turned-up-the-heat-dies-at-84/2018/06/02/4bc691f8-65c3-11e8-a69c-b944de66d9e7_story.html?utm_term=.1f9802098f71

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/obituaries/barbara-kafka-cookbook-author-and-food-writer-dies-at-84.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

2018: In Jerusalem those craving the “real thing” can find it at Joseph Burger and Diner Bar from 11 a.m. until the start of Shabbat.

2018: After premiering at Sundance six months ago, “A Kid Like Jake” co-starring Landecker was released today in the United States.

2018: At 12 noon, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of Entebbe in London.

2018: As Israelis prepare for Shabbat, they “digest” the statement by Tamir Pardo, who served as head of Mossad from 2011 to 2016 that Prime Minister Netanyahu had given “the order in 2011 for the military to prepare to attack Iran within 15 days.”

2019: The 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention, where “a platform resolution authored by David Mandel” that is “fiercely critical of Israel” and includes a suggestion “that the Israeli government is partly responsible for the atmosphere for inspring last October’s massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue” is scheduled to be introduced” continues to meet for a second day” (As reported by JTA)

https://www.jta.org/2019/05/31/politics/california-progressives-want-the-state-democratic-party-to-link-israeli-government-to-pittsburgh-massacre

2019 (27^th of Iyar, 5779): Parashat Bechukotai: Chapter V Pirke Avot;

2019: At sundown, beginning of the observance of Yom Yersushalayim.

2019: “Jews and tourists” are scheduled to be barred from the visiting the Temple Mount today because it will be closed, as it is every, on “the last days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan” which ironically coincides with the start of Jerusalem Day.

2019: Today marks the scheduled beginning of Anne Frank Month at the Illinois Holocaust Museum which coincides with the birth month of the famous diarist and Holocaust victim.

2020: Natalie Farahan, a Jewish communal professional of Iraqi Jewish-descent, and founding member of JIMENA’s Los Angeles Chapter is scheduled to serve as moderator for a Virtual  “Remembering the Farhud, “ a look back at the pro-Nazi 1931 pogrom in Baghdad, featuring a man who lived through it, Joe Samuels, author of Beyond the Rivers of Babylon.

2020:The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheulded to present “Values and Consequences in the Halakhic Process: A Sephardi Perspective” by Bar-Ilan University Professor Zvi Zohar

2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host: The Women of Shtisel: Dikla Barkai, Shira Haas, Neta Riskin, Hadas Yaron, and Ayelet Zurer

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876 BCE (28 Iyar 2884): This is the traditional date of death of Samuel, prophet and priest (born 2832).

455:  The Vandals entered Rome and plundered the city.  Among the treasures they took with them were the spoils of the Second Temple that had been brought to Rome by Titus.

1098: During the First Crusade, the first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city marking one more step on their rode to Jerusalem that would mean more death and destruction for the Jewish people

1128:Pier Leoni, “the son of the Jewish convert Leo de Benedicto and founder of the great and important medieval Roman family of the Pierleoni” who was said to be “the greatest man in Rome in his time” passed away today.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/pierleoni

1430: “Moses Arragel, a Hebrew Scholar in Castile, presented his translation of the “Old Testament” into the Castilian language to Don Luis de Guzman, grand master of the Order of Catalrava”

1446: William III of Luxembourg, “who mined a silver groschen known as the Judenkopf Groschen” – a coin that “shows a man with a pointed beard waring a Jewish hat” married Anne of Luxembourg today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_hat#/media/File:JudenhutGroschenObvEnlarged.jpg

1453: In Breslau, John of Capistrano led a mock trial of alleged desecrations of the host. The Rabbi of the community hanged himself and urged other Jews to commit suicide. Forty-one Jews were burned, their property confiscated, and all children under seven were forcibly baptized.

1476: Printing of the first edition of Tur Orah Cahim in Mantua, Italy

 1485: The Jews of Toledo plan an attack designed to kill the Inquisitors and then lock the city gates. The plan did not come to fruition after it was betrayed. The Jews of the city suffered later the following winter at the hands of the Inquisitors.

1495: In Leiria, Abraham d’Ortas completed the printing of Jacob ben Asher’s Tur Or Hayyim.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_incunabula

1727: Elias Levy and Judith Hart were married today in the United Kingdom

1778(7^thof Sivan, 5538): Second Day of Shavuot as George Washington prepares to lead his troops out of Valley Forge where they spent a horrific winter that in the end re-shaped the military unit facing the British and their Hessian mercenaries.

1780: Rachel Pinto who, like most members of the Jewish community had left New York when the British occupied the city returned to the city today.

1780: Seven years before his conversion to Judaism, Lord George Gordon “headed a crowd of around 50,000 people that marches on Parliament marking the start of the “Gordon Riots.”

1786(6^th of Sivan, 5546): Shavuot

1790: Raphael Raphael married Julia Asher at the New Synagogue in the United Kingdom.

1805(5^th of Sivan, 5565): Erev of Shavuot observed as Lewis and Clark continue their expedition of exploration.

1807: In what is now the Czech Republic Leopold Lobl and his wife gave birth to Marcus Lobl.

1807: Zalma Rehine, a native of Germany became a citizen of the United States today.

1808(7^th of Sivan, 5568): Second Day of Shavuot

1812: Birthdate of Wilhelm Stahl, the native of Munich who became an economist and who converted to Christianity after living with his older brother Friedrich Julius Stahl.

1813: In Great Yarmouth, Edward Emanuel Micholls and Rosetta Micholls gave birth to Samson Micholls.            

1816(6^th of Sivan, 5576): Shavuot

1816: Birthdate of Grace Aguilar, the British author whose Portuguese Marrano forbearers found a safe home in 18^thcentury England.

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/His-StoryHer-Story-Grace-Aguilar

1821: Birthdate of Frederick A. Johnson the first Jewish child born in Cincinnati. He was the son of David Israel and Eliza Johnson.

1824(6^thof Sivan, 5584): Shavuot observed for the last time during the Presidency of James Monroe.

1827(7^thof Sivan, 5587) Second Day of Shavuot and Shabbat observed on the same day that in that part of Mexico known as Texas, Francisco Ruiz wrote to Stephen Austin, the leader of the American colony that the “Chiefs of Tahusacano and Waco Indians wish to make peace” and are going to San Antonio for that purpose.

1830: Rabbi Isaac Lesser delivered his first sermon in English at Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia.

1835: Max and Sarah Oppenheimer gave birth to Nathan Hirsch Oppenheimer.

1835: Birthdate Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto who as Pope Pius X granted an audience to Theodore Herzl who failed in his attempt to enlist the Pope’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The Pope was polite but firm in his rejection.

1837: In Philadelphia, PA, Judah Lazarus Hackenburg and Maria Allen gave birth to William Hackenburg, the husband of Adeline Schoneman,  “manufacturer of sewing and machine silks” and Chairman of the Silk Association of America whose many leadership roles in the Jewish community including co-founding the United Hebrew Charities in 1869, the Hebrew Charity Ball Association in 1859 and the committee “to aid Russian refugees” as well as serving as President of the Jewish Hospital and Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites, Treasurer of Congregation Beth El Emeth and Vice President of the Board of Delegates of the American Israelites.

1840: Three days after he passed away, Abraham Quixano Henriques was buried today at the Nuevo Jewish Cemetery in London.

1840: As the furor over the Damascus Affair increases, French Prime Minister Adolphe Thiers defended the behavior of Benoit Laurent-Francois, Count de Ratti-Merion, the French Consul in Damascus during a debate in the Chamber of Deputies.  Thiers attributed the uproar to the Jews whom he described as being “more powerful in the world than they have pretensions to be.”

1840: Birthdate of Thomas Hardy. The rest of the world the world may remember him as a British author, but for Jews he was a supporter of a homeland in Palestine as can be seen by the fact that in February of 1919, “he signed a declaration of sympathy with the Jews in support of a movement for ‘the reconstitution of Palestine as a National Home for the Jewish People.’”

http://books.google.com/books?id=_FXLz5x2r18C&pg=PA398&lpg=PA398&dq=Thomas+Hardy+and+the+Jewish+people&source=bl&ots=zweU0vJUlB&sig=2MjXxlf0dOAq5oC_8lzPPa5PFGU&hl=en&ei=cD3kTcrlDsGatwf09JCsBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

1841: Abraham Emanuel and Clara Joseph were married today at the Great Synagogue in London.

1841: Henry Lazarus and Frances Barnett were married today at the Great Synagogue in London.

1846: Birthdate of Hubert-Joseph Henry, the French officer who killed himself after being arrested for forging the evidence that helped to convict Alfred Dreyfus.

1846: Birthdate of Dr. Emil Bessels, the native of Heidelberg, Germany, who was both a physician and Arctic explorer who worked for the Smithsonian Institution.

1854(6^th of Sivan, 5614): Shavuot

1857: Joseph Hyams and Julie Joel were married at the Great Synagogue in London.

1857: The body of Isaac Jackson was discovered on a farm near Westfield, MA and Charles Jones was arrested on charges of having murdered him. Jackson was Jewish.  Jones wasn’t.

1860: Birthdate of Sarah Beck, the native of Brandenburg, Germany, who became Sarah Hexter when she married Max Hexter with whom she raised a family in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1863: During the Civil War, Jacob C. Cohen who was serving with the 27^th Ohio wrote home describing military life in and around Memphis, TN. The 27^th arrived at there after having served at Corinth, MS and fought several skirmishes in northern Alabama.  By being at Memphis, Cohen and his comrades were being spared the hardship of that part of Grant’s army trying to take Vicksburg.  But they would see plenty of action when Sherman began his campaign to take Atlanta.

1863: Establishment of Congregation Emanu-El a synagogue in Victoria, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island

1864: Moroccan Jews and Jews from Gibraltar residing in Haifa requested a written ruling from the British Consul for permission to pray. "The Turkish authorities here made no objection to our thus assembling for prayer till quite lately; when they declared that we cannot meet together without being possessed of a firman from Constantinople."

1867: Simon Bennett was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.

1870: “Religious Bigotry in Turkey – Massacre of Jews by Christians” published today described “a horrible massacre of Jews by Christians in the Turkish province of Romania.” On Sunday, May 29, the Christians attacked the Jews living in all of the “principle towns” butchering “without mercy” thousands of Jews without regard to age or sex.



1870: “Mr. Disraeli’s Health”, published today, reported that the British Prime Minister’s health had improved the extent that he could visit the Foreign Ministry and dine with two American diplomats.

1870: Based on dispatches received today in Washington, the Jews of Louisville, KY have sent telegrams to their co-religionists in cities throughout the West urging them to contact their Congressmen with a request that they do all they can to prevent further attacks on the Jews of Romania which have been described as a massacre.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9803E2DF1F3CE13BBC4B53DFB066838B669FDE

1870: As American Jews respond to the worsening conditions of their co-religionists in Romania, in Washington, D.C., Simon Wolf receives the following telegram from M.S. Isaacs, Secretary of the Jewish Board of Delegates of the United States “Ask the President to instruct the Minister at Constantinople to help the Jews of Roumania.”

 1870: As American Jews respond to the worsening conditions of their co-religionists in Romania, in Washington, D.C., Simon Wolf receives the following telegram from  Henry Greenbaum, a leading Chicago banker “Please ask my personal friends in Congress to cooperate with you in representations to the President or otherwise, that the persecution and butchery of our brethren in Roumania be stopped.”

1870: A New York Times writer marvels at the fact that those who have most recently escaped from the effects of religious persecution are the most likely to persecute others for their religious beliefs.  The case in point is the persecution of the Jews by the Christians of Roumania, who have so recently been “released from the fear of oppression” by the Moslems. The atrocities are reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition and are a reminder that the “problems of the darkest ages” are still found in the 19^th century.

1873(7^thof Sivan, 5633): Second Day of Shavuot

1876: Today, The Evening Post praised the new house’ of Wellington, NZ “entrepreneur and philanthropist” Lipman Levy saying that “it is fitted with a number of unusual appliances including a high pressure steam boiler in the kitchen” that supplies water to “all parts of the house” and “handsome gaslights.”

1877: Samuel Morais Hyneman was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia, PA.  Hyneman played an active role in Jewish communal affairs serving as the President of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Philadelphia and serving on the board of trustees of both the Jewish Theological Seminary and Gratz College.

1878: Eliza Miller and Ralph Cohen were the receptients of this year’s “Betty Bruhl Prizes” which were presented during “a gala event” that was held this evening at Hebrew Orphan Asylum. The event also marked the third anniversary of the distribution of the “Betty Bruhl Prizes.”  Four years ago, Moses Bruhl presented the asylum with $2,500.00 with the stipulation that the interest on the amount was to be presented annually to tow orphans – one boy and one girl – not older than 15 years of age.  The money (which now totals $50 per award) is to be invested with the principle and interest being given to the winner when the leave the asylum. The award is named after Mr. Bruhl’s late wife who “was a parton of the…asylum.” 

1879: The New York Times published a review of "The Historical Poetry of the Ancient Hebrews" translated and critically acclaimed by Michael Heilprin.  The reviewer attributed the content and style of the book to the possibility that Heilprin might be Jewish.  In fact Michael Heilprin was a Jewish supporter of Kossuth who came to the United States after the revolt failed. His father Phineas Mendel Heilprin was a noted Jewish scholar who had also supported Kossuth and had moved to the United States.  The younger Heilprin supported the Union and was opposed to slavery.  He was a Jewish scholar and supporter of Jewish causes.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9504E5D9133EE63BBC4A53DFB0668382669FDE

1879: As a result of Russian mistreatment of Jewish American businessmen, the U.S. House of Representatives requested the President to have all international treaties which impair the rights of American citizens because of religion amended to secure equal rights.

1882: The Hebrew Children’s Sanitarium is appealing to the public to send funds which will be used to finance its annual summer excursions which are scheduled to start later this month.  Donations can be sent to the office of the Jewish Messenger on Grand Street.

1883: Bernard Abraham, who had been commanding the Seventeenth Infantry was promoted from Colonel to the rank of Brigadier General in the French Army

1884: Birthdate of Viennese native Hermine Pfleger who gained fame as actress Mia May, the wife of director Joe May and actress Eva May.

1886: Rabbis in Philadelphia met today to discuss the refusal of the principal at Central High School to excuse the Jewish students from having to take final exams scheduled for Shavuot.  Principal Taylor was aware of the conflict when preparing the exam schedule and refused to make an allowance for alternative test dates. The Rabbis agreed to deliver a letter to Taylor requesting that he re-consider his decision. 

1888(23^rdof Sivan, 5648): Arnold Blum, Jr. the son of Jeanette and Abraham Levi Blum and husband of Rosina (Rosa) Blum with whom he had six children passed away today in New York

1888: “Endowed In Heilprin’s Honor” published today described the plans to create a fund in memory of the late biblical scholar Michael Heilprin. These include a challenge by Jacob Schiff in which he said he will contribute $5,000 to the fund if an additional $50,000 can be raised by others during the year.

1888: It was reported today that Empress of Victoria has spoken out against anti-Semitic agitation and told listeners that she is expressing the views held by Emperor Frederick.  The Emperor’s defense of his Jewish subjects has met with strong outburst by some including the posting of placards in English reading “The Jew Emperor, Frederick Cohen.”

1889: As the Jewish population in Florence, SC continued to grow, “the foundation of a Sunday was laid” today to which A.A. Cohen invited “all children of Israelite parents” to attend.

1889: It was reported today that the Semitic Department at Harvard will be offering three new courses for the upcoming academic year including on covering the history of Israel and one covering the history of the Hebrew religion.  The professors teaching the new classes were not Jewish.

1889: It was reported today that Isaac Benseken has hosted a tea party arranged by the American Consul at Tangiers. Two of the ladies at the party were dressed “in the traditional gala dress of the Hebrew women of Morocco…” Refreshments included green tea garnished with sprigs of mint in the Moroccan manner and “Moorish sweetmeats consisting of a thin shell of sugar filled with sweet almost paste…”

1890: As census takers fanned out across New York City, Jewish women responded with fear when they were asked questions about “whether their husbands and sons had done military service” because of their experience with destructive nature of Jewish service in the Czar’s Army.

1890: Based on information that first appeared in Pall Mall Gazette, it was reported today that “a syndicate of Jews has offered $200,000 for the Vatican’s copy of the Hebrew Bible.” The Vatican has possessed the Bible at least since 1512 when Pope Julius II who needed funding to continue his fight with Louis XII negotiated with a group of Italian Jews to sell them the Bible.  For reasons that are still unknown, the Pope changed his mind and kept the book. (Editor’s Note – This is the Pope who “paid for the paint” that covered the Sistine Chapel.

1891: In Vienna, Phillip and Esther Neuman Gilbert gave birth NYU trained ENT specialist Dr. Charles N. Gelber, who was appointed medical examiner for children by the Board of Health in 1916, who served as president of the New York Physicians Society and who ran for Councilman in Manhattan in 1937.

1892(7^thof Sivan, 5652) Second Day of Shavuot

1892: This morning, at Hamilton College, the Clark Prize for speaking was awarded to Gregory Rosenblum, a young Russian immigrant who spoke on “The Jews in Russia.”

1892: “A Woman’s Revenge” published today described a beating that former prize fighter inflicted on Chicago merchant Joseph Fish.  According to Fish, the beating “was prompted by a young attractive-looking widow” whom he was no longer seeing since his engagement to the daughter of a prominent Jewish Chicago citizen.

1893: Three days after he passed away, Frederick Barnet Mozley was buried today in the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1893: An out of court settlement was reached in Schwab v Schwab which kept the Judge from having to make a decision that would either render the defendant as a bigamist or the plaintiff’s children as being “illegitimate.”

1893: Myer S. Isaacs, President of the Baron Hirsch Fund testified before the Senate Committee on Immigration at the New Netherland Hotel.  In response to questions, he said that the fund did not provide financing to bring immigrants to the United States.  Rather it worked with immigrants who were already in the United States to help them gaining an education and developing the skills that would allow them to get a job.

1895: Birthdate of Saul Edward “Sol” Weinberg, the Case Western Reserve College alum who played “two games at tackle” in 1923 for the NFL Cleveland Indians (not to be confused with the American League baseball team with the same name)

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WeinSo20.htm

1895: Sarah and Isaac Hecker gave birth to Jacob Hecker, a Tommy who was killed in Belgium in August, 1917.

1895: French railroad tycoon and philanthropist Baron Moritz de Hirsch meets Theodore Herzl in Paris.  Herzl hopes to convince Hirsch to take the money he had been spending to settle Jews in agricultural communities in places like Argentina and spend it instead on the creation of a Jewish homeland in Eretz Israel.

1895: Eighty-two year old German jurist Heinrich von Friedberg who became a Protestant early in his career passed away today.

1895: The list of the trustees of the newly incorporated Independent Young Pleasure Club, a “landsmanshaftn” published today included Abraham Cohen, Kate Jacobs, Jacob Levine, Meyer Libsohn, Samuel Gussoff, Davis Schroeder and Max Scharlin.

1895: “Hands and Mind Drilled” published today traced the history of the Hebrew Technical Institute, a vocational educational school begun over ten years ago to meet the needs of newly arriving Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe who lacked suitable job skills.

1896: The Neue Freie Presse mentions Herzl's Der Judenstaat for the first time.

1897(2nd of Sivan, 5657): Abraham Cohn, “an American Civil War Union Army Sergeant Major and recipient to the highest military decoration for valor in combat — the Medal of Honor — for having distinguished himself at the Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia passed away in New York.

1897: In Vienna, with the German parties obstructing the formation of a new government, the Count Badeni , today, by order of the Emperor who had refused to ratify the election of Dr. Karl Lueger, the anti-Semitic mayor of Vienna,   prorogued (dismissed without dissolving) the Parliament.”

1899: In Hong Kong, Sir Elly Kadoorie and his wife gave birth to Baron Lawrence Kadoorie, the noted businessman and philanthropist who was part of a clan of Misrahi Jews who had made their way from Baghdad, to Bombay to China.

1899: “A Noble German Jew” published today recounted an 1850 encounter between Bismarck and Dr. Eduard Simson when the latter was serving as President of the Parliament and called the Chancellor to order.  When Bismarck said that members of the “old nobility knew how to conduct themselves” countered the Chancellor invocation of his bloodline with the retort “you say that to me a descendant in the direct line from the high-priest Aaron.  To which Bismarck replied, “Pardon me Mr. Speaker, but I had never looked upon the matter from that point of view.”

1899: “The Situation in France” published today described the view of the anti-Dreyfusites who “are not convinced by the declaration of Monsieur Ballot de Beaupre that Esterhazy is the traitor” and the belief that “the people are so tired of the affair that by the time Dreyfus has returned to France angry passions will probably have subsided.” (Those opposed to Dreyfus never accepted the confession and the passions really never cooled until all involved had died.)

1899: A case of diphtheria was discovered today “in the grammar depart of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society at 151^st Street and Broadway just two hours after a quarantine had been lifted on the infant department of the same institution.

1900(5^th of Sivan, 5660): Parashat Bamidbard and Erev Shavuot

1900: Birthdate of Russian native and Washington University trained attorney Israel Trieman who taught law at his alma mater, practiced law in his adopted home town of St Louis and earned a doctorate at Oxford while being honored as one of the U.S.A.’s first Rhodes schnolars.

http://archon.wulib.wustl.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=495&q=&rootcontentid=64876

1901: Commencement exercises were held today at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum on Amsterdam Avenue.  Prizes consisting of engraved certificates and $50 in cash were awarded to the outstanding boy and girl at the institution.  The prizes were created by the late Moses Bruhl as a way to honor the memory of his wife, Bettie Bruhl.

1901: Sixty-two year old James A. Hearne who staged Israel Zangwill’s “The Children of the Ghetto” in 1899 passed away today.

1902: Birthdate of Jerusalem native and John Hopkins Ph.D. Aaron Morris Margalith the author and professor at Yeshiva University, who was the husband of Helen Margaret Margalith, the hold of a B.A. from Hunter and Masters of Library Science of Columbia and the father of Joan and Carol Margalith.

1903(7th of Sivan, 5663): Second Day of Shavuot1903: Birthdate of Max Aub, the Parisian born author whose shifting citizenship from French, to Spanish to Mexican mirrored his changing literary and political fortunes.

http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/03/max-aub%E2%80%99s-civil-war-in-english/

1904: “Camden Hebrews’ New Synagogue” published today described the decision of the Board of Trustees of Adas Israel “to erect a $25,000 synagogue at the southeast corner of Fifth and Spruces Streets in Camden, NJ.

1906(9^thof Sivan, 5666): Parashat Nasso

1906: It was reported today that Commissioner Stephen Smith has heard an applications in the office of the State Board for Charities for a license for a dispensary the Hebrew Memorial Dispensary.

1907: It was reported today that a Polish Jew named Abraham Kahn is being in the Jefferson Market Court prison “under $1,000 bail” while police look into charges that he swindled Miss Rosa Gostyuska out of $500.

1908: In Vienna, actors Fritz Spira and Lotte Spira gave birth to actress Steffie Spira who survived the Holocaust and settled in East (Communist) Germany after the war.

1909: Alfred Deakin became Prime Minister of Australia for the third time. At one time, Deakin had been a political ally of the Jewish Australian politician Isaac Isaacs who he appointed to the position of Attorney General in 1906.

1909: Birthdate ofBenzion Netanyahu an Israeli historian and Zionist activist who is also known for being secretary to the father of the Revisionist Zionism movement Ze'ev Jabotinsky as well as the father of Yonatan Netanyahu, former commander of Sayeret Matkal, who was killed in Operation Entebbe and Israeli politician Benjamin Netanyahu

1910(24^thof Iyar, 5670): Sixty year old Emma Loewen, the Krotschin, Germany born daughter Helena and Simon Bienstock and the wife of David Lowen passed away today in St. Louis after which she was buried in University City, a suburb of St. Louis

1911(6^thof Sivan, 5671): Shavuot

1911: The Sultan of Turkey conferred the Order of Medjidie, Fourth Class, on Isaac Jessua Bey of Salonica. He was the secretary to the Inspector General of the Gendarmerie of the vilayet.

1912: The Jews of Bialystok were alarmed “because of ritual murder accusations.”1912: The “Fifth Annual Convention” of the Federation of Romanian Jews of America which has 40,000 members including Solomon Schechter, P.A. Seigelstein, Emil Koffler, Charles I. Fleck and Herman Speier is scheduled to come to an end today in New York City.

1913: “The Federation of Galician Jews is holding its convention today” in New York City.

1913: It was reported today that Caroline Nesustadter, “the widow of Henry Neustadter, a member of Neustadter Brothers of San Francisco” “who gave no less than $1,500,000 to various Jewish and public charities” in New York and San Francisco “left an estate which has been appraised at $3,320,000.”

1914(8^thof Sivan, 5674): Sixty-six year old “Chevalier N .B. Emanuel, assistant director of the Chicago Grand Opera Company and museum of international note” who had been named Chevalier by the King of Italy and  who had been in “declining health for the last year” passed away today “at the Winnetka sanitarium.”

1915: “Jim Conley, on whose testimony Leo M. Frank was convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan and sentenced to death and who himself was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment as an accessory reached Atlanta today having be released from the convict camp” because he got “two months off for good conduct.

1915: “The meeting between Leo Frank and Jim Conley to give evidence in the suit of Mary Phagan’s mother against the National Pencil Company to recover $10,000 for the death of her daughter” scheduled for today “did not occur” because it “was rendered unnecessary when attorneys agreed to accept evidence give at Frank’s trial in regard to the girl’s death.”

1915: Brooklyn attorney Joseph Goldstein sent “a petition signed by 6,000 Brooklyn residents urging executive clemency in the case of Leo M. Frank, to Governor Slaton of Georgia.”

1915: The American Jewish Relief Committee issued a special appeal on behalf of the Jews of Poland where “three million are starving” even though $800,000 has already been sent to meet their needs.

1915: The members of the American Jewish Relief Committee whose names were published today included Felix Warburg, Cyrus Adler, Louis D. Brandies, Julian W. Mack, Dr. J.L. Magnes, Louis Marshall, Jacob Schiff, Nathan Straus, Oscar S. Straus, August Sulzberger and Mayer Sulzberger.

1916: “The Austrian Supreme Court has decided that the law prohibiting marriages between Christians and non-Christians applies to marriages contracted outside of Austria” but did nothing to change the Austrian law that allows “non-Christians to marry Jews” while prohibiting them from marrying Catholics or Protestants.

1916: “District Attorney Harry E. Lewis of Kings county, State Senator Charles C. Lockwood, Joseph Barondess of the Board of Education, Rabbi Max Raisin of Brooklyn” were among the prominent persons who “appeared before a special committee of the State Board of Charities” today “to urge the grant of a charter to the Beth Moses Hospital, a ‘kosher’ institution proposed for the Williamsburg district.”

1917(12^thof Sivan, 5677): Parashat Nasso

1917(12^thof Sivan, 5677): Sixty-five year old Polish born American Rabbi, “Hebrew Scholar and teacher” Simon Harris passed away today in Portland, OR where he has lived for the past four years in the same town which is home to his daughter Mrs. Ida Weinstein before which he lived in New York which is the home to his son Louis Harris.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1917/06/03/98250https://www.wembleysynagogue.com/our-history938.html?pageNumber=19

1917: “The story of how the Jews of Jaffa were deported by the Turkish Government ostensibly as a measure of ‘military precaution’ was received” today “from the State Department by the American Jewish Relief Committee.”

1917: “The first band concert and dance to be given by the Chicago Hebrew Institute Band” is scheduled to “take place” this evening in the Assembly Hall of the Administration Building at 8 o’clock.

1917: This evening, the Jewish Educational Alliance Dramatic Club which has been “making a study of what is best in Jewish Drama” hosted an evening devoted Sholom Aleichem “in memory of the first anniversary of the great master of Jewish literature.”

1917: “Dr. Jacob S. Minkin of Hamilton, Ontario preached the baccalaureate sermon” this “morning at the Jewish Theological Seminary” during which “he paid a tribute to the late Dr. Solomon Schechter and touched on the present day needs of Judaism.

1918: It was reported today that 83 members of the Independent Order of Brith Sholom and 3,924 sons of the members are serving with the armed forces of the United States and that its members “have subscribed” to over a million dollars “to the Liberty Loans” and purchased $34, 842.75 worth of War Savings Stamps.

1919: Birthdate of American painter Nat Mayer Shapiro

1919: “The newly established Bureau of Jewish Social Research will welcome visitors” today.

1920: Russian-American composer and violinist, Joseph Achron, the son of Julius and Bertha Achron married his wife Marie today at Petrograd, Russia.

1920: Birthdate of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born German critic.

1920: “According to word received” in New York today, Julius J. Lyons a Director and legal counsel to State Bank who was he son Rabbi Jacques J. Lyons and the father of San Diego, CA, rancher Edwin Lyons had passed away on May 26 in San Diego.

1921: Birthdate of Sir Sigmund Sternberg, the Hungarian native who came to the UK in 1939 where he went on to become a “philanthropist, businessman and Labour Party donor.”

1922(6^thof Sivan, 5682): Shavuot

1922: New Yorker Bernard A. Rosenblatt who is a member of the Zionists Executive left New York to arrange for the underwriting of the first Jewish municipal bond issue in history.

1922: Today, at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, Hyman “graduated 107^thout of 540 midshipmen and was commissioned as an ensign.”

1922:  In Camden, NJ, Congregation Beth-El held Confirmation Services which were led by Cantor Jacob Mickelman.

1923 Birthdate of mathematician and economist Lloyd Shapely who joined his “Jewish-American colleague Alvin Roth in winning the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for their work on market design and matching theory.”

http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/10/15/jewish-american-economist-is-one-of-two-americans-to-win-nobel-prize/

1924: Grigori Yakovlevich Sokolnikov began serving as a “candidate member of the 13^thPolitburo.”

1926: The Hokoah teams which has been playing exhibition games in the United States is scheduled to set sail today for its ultimate destination of Vienna.

1926: In Vienna, Michael Hilberg and his wife gave birth to Dr. “ Raul Hilberg, a Jewish émigré from Nazi-occupied Europe who helped begin the field of Holocaust studies with his long and minutely detailed 1961 study of the massacre of European Jews: (As reported by Douglas Martin)

1926: Birthdate of physicists Arthur Rosenfeld, the Birmingham native who “received the Energy Department’s Enrico Fermi Award in 2006 and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation…” (As reported by Harrison Smith)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/arthur-rosenfeld-physicist-at-forefront-of-energy-efficiency-movement-dies-at-90/2017/01/31/162705ec-e7c9-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_obit-rosenfeld-11pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.ed1af960e277

1927: In New York City, Ben and Madeline Simon Katz gave birth to WWII Navy veteran and secondary school teacher William Loren Katz, the graduate of Syracuse and holder of an M.A. from NYU who gained fame as an historian and author of 40 books including Breaking the Chains: African American Slave Resistance, The Black West, and Black Women of the Old West.

1928: After 280 performances the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of the Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar music “The Five O’clock Girl

1930(6^thof Sivan, 5690): Jews celebrate Shavuot for the first time during what will become known as The Great Depression.

1930: In Camden, NJ, Ruth Barroway delivered the “opening prayer” during Confirmation Services at Congregation Beth-El which is led by Rabbi Nachman S. Arnoff and President Jacob Leventon.

1932: Ruth Barroway, Miriam Morris, Sidney Kantor, Leona Pinksy, Robert Kaplan and Edward Gallob were confirmed today at Congregation Beth-El in Camden, NJ.

1932: U.S. premiere of “What Price Hollywood?” directed by George Cukor, produced by Pandro S. Berman and David O. Selznick with music by Max Steiner.

1932(27th of Iyar, 5692): Simcha Gutman a Hebrew poet and novelist who wrote under the pen name Ben Zion passed away at the age of 62/

1934: In San Francisco, Robert Tandler Mack, the Cincinnati born son of Rebecca and William Jacob Mack and his wife Jeanette Mack gave birth to Susan Jean Mack, who became Susan Jean Thorstad when she married William Lawrence Thorstad.

1936: The Tarbut School in Moletai, Lithuania, held its eleventh graduation.

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/june/01.asp

1936: During the Arab Riots, the Irgun defied the Jewish Agency’s call for restraint by killing nine Arabs with an explosion at the Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate.

1936: As “the Jews of Przytyk prayed all day in the synagogue for the acquittal of fourteen Jews who were brought to trial today with forty-two Christians” another day of anti-Semitic rioting took place in the town with “nationalist parading in the streets and smashing windows in the homes of the Jews.”

1936: “Continued sniping by Arab terrorists and burning of Jewish-owned crops were reported to be continuing tonight” at the same time that rail service between Jerusalem and Jaffa was suspended due to the derailing of the train running between the two cities.

1936: Forty-three Polish and fourteen Jewish defendants went on trial today in the aftermath of the Przytyk Pogrom during which “hundreds of Jews were beaten and their homes and shops were demolished.”

1937: The Palestine Postreported that the Arab Higher Committee denounced the anticipated Royal (Peel) Commission's proposal for the partition of Palestine.

1937: The Palestine Postreported that the new Central Railway Station opened in Haifa.

1937: The Palestine Postreported that the an Arab who for £10 attempted to smuggle a Baghdadi Jew, Maji Shlomo Jarjana, from Syria to Palestine was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment. Jarjana got a two weeks jail sentence and deportation.

1937: The Palestine Postreported that the in the Polish town of Bransk Jews were beaten and injured, their stalls demolished, windows were smashed in their homes and at the synagogue.

1937: Information published from Venezuela indicated there is an Ashkenazi community of 100 members, most from Romania, and an indigenous Sephardic community between 700 and 800 members, who have "no relations" whatsoever with the Ashkenazim.

1938: “The recent series of mass arrests” that had included shipping Jewish comedian and composer Hermann Leopoldi and 750 other people to Dachau” ended today after a group of 400 Jews, among whom were several doctors and lawyers who were sent to Styria.

1939: The Christian Science Church attacks Jewish refugees as causing their own troubles, a position reportedly taken by many important Protestant journals of the time.

1940: The concentration camp at Neuengamme, Germany, is upgraded to primary-camp status

1940: Two days after he had passed away, fifty-six year old Kansas City, MO attorney Benjamin Morris Achtenberg, the son of David and Hannah Achtenberg and husband of Minnie Achtenberg was buried today in Raytown, MO.

1940: The Jewish Institute of Religion held its 15^th annual commencement this afternoon. Rabbi Stephen S Wise ordained 8 candidates for the rabbinate. Two men were honored with honorary degrees as Doctors of Hebrew Letters. One went to Salmann Schocken, the publisher and businessman who had fled from Germany to Palestine when the Nazis came to power.  The other was awarded in absentia to Rabbi Moses Schorr, “the former chief rabbi of Warsaw, who is now languishing in one of Stalin’s prisons. (Editor’s note – This is at a time when the non-aggression pact between the two dictators is in effect and the Soviets have conquered their half of Poland)

1941(7^thof Sivan, 5701): Second Day of Shavuot

1941: Second and final day of the Farhud Pogrom during which approximately 200 Jews were murdered in Baghdad and more than 2,000 were injured.  Property damage exceeded 3 million dollars.

1941: French law called for ‘administrative arrest' for all Jews.

1942: Four hundred volunteers from the Jewish Brigade under the command of Major Liiebmann fought at the Battle of Bir-el Harmat in Libya which began today and lasted until June 11.

1942: Three thousand, four hundred Jews from Hurbieszow were sent to Sobibor, where eventually all but 12 were gassed.

1942: Fred Traum’s parents, Elias Israel Traum and Gitel Sara Traum left Vienna by train and reportedly were murdered by the Nazis three to five days later when the train reached Minsk.

 1942: When Viennese Jews were deported to the Minsk (Byelorussia) Ghetto today Elsa Speigel, decided to leave her 5 and 1/2-month-old son, Jona, behind. The baby will eventually be sent to the camp/ghetto at Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, where he will survive the war.

1942: The BBC reports that 700,000 Jews have been exterminated. Its information comes from a report smuggled out of Poland by the Jewish Bund in Warsaw.

1942:  Birthdate of producer Berry Levinson.

1942(17^th of Sivan, 5702): Leo Katzenberger was guillotined at Stadelheim Prison in Munich after having been convicted, in a totally bogus trial, of “race pollution” because he allegedly had sexual relations with his non-Jewish girlfriend.

1943: “Liquidation of the Lwów Ghetto, located in German-occupied Poland, was completed, with the last surviving Jewish residents deported to the nearby Janowska concentration camp. At one time, there had been 160,000 Jews in Lwów which the Germans had renamed Lemberg. Nearly all of the former dwellers would be killed by November. After the Soviet victory in World War II, the city would become part of the Ukrainian SSR and renamed Lvov.”

1944: Itzhak Gruenbaum, the chairman of the Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency, requests the bombing of rail lines that lead to Auschwitz.

1944: The Allies begin a bombing operation (Operation Frantic) in the Balkans, the goal of which is to distract the Germans from upcoming Allied landings in France. Bombing routes overfly the railway lines leading from Hungary to Auschwitz. The operation lasts for four months, during the deportation of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz. The railway lines carrying the Jews are never targeted

1944: In the Bronx, Max Hamlisch and his wife gave birth to Marvin Frederick Hamlish “the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who imbued his movie and Broadway scores with pizazz and panache and often found his songs in the upper reaches of the pop charts.” (As reported by Rob Hoerburger)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/arts/music/marvin-hamlisch-composer-dies-at-68.html

http://marvinhamlisch.us/

http://www.filmreference.com/film/14/Marvin-Hamlisch.html

1945(21^st of Sivan, 5705): Parashat Beha’alotcha

1945: As delegates are meeting to establish the United Nations, the Soviet Union demanded a right of veto for the permanent members of the Security Council.

1945: Forty-seven year old August Hirt, the doctor who performed experiments on concentration camp inmates and developed a program based on collecting Jewish skeletons for Himmler, committed suicide today.

1945: Less than a month after VE, when a remnant of Jews were DP’s (displace people)Pope Pious XII, who had found a way to co-exist with the Fascist warned the College of Cardinal of the dangers of “those mobs of dispossessed, disillusioned disappointed, hopeless men” wandering Europe.

1946(3^rd of Sivan, 5706): Sixty-one year old Yiddish author and journalist Joseph Chaikin, “the former managing editor of The Day passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/06/03/93116400.pdf

1946: Birthdate of Tel Aviv native Gidon Remez the prize winning Israeli author who along with Isabella Ginor is responsible for the innovative history Foxbats Over Dimona and The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973

https://truman.huji.ac.il/people/gideon-remez

http://jcpa.org/article/isabella-ginor-and-gideon-remez-respond-to-rolf-behrens-review-of-foxbats-over-dimona-the-soviets-nuclear-gamble-in-the-six-day-war/

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-soviet-israeli-war-1967-1973-9780190693480?cc=us&lang=en&

1947:Bernard M. Baruch, former United States member of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, said today that it would be "sheer suicide and sheer madness if we didn't adopt the compulsory military training plan just recommended by the Advisory Commission on Universal Training."

1947: Meir (Myer Jack) Landa who passed away on May 30 was buried today at Willesden Cemetery in London.

1947: In Germany, Rachel and Moshe gave birth to Hairm Bar-Zeev(Reichberger) who immigrated to Israel a year later and was lost when the Submarine Dakar went down with all hands in 1968

1947: The United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) elected its Chairman, Emil Sandstrom, a Swedish Supreme Court Judge and set sail for Palestine.1948: Viktor Brack, who was Hitler's supervisor of the installation of gas chambers in Poland, was executed.

1948: An Israeli attack on Egyptian positions at Ashdod marked the turning point in the war between Israel and Egypt.

1948: The Golani and Carmeli brigades attacked Jenin today

1948: Birthdate of Roni Bar-On, the Tel Aviv native who served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the IDF before pursuing a political career that included service as an MK and cabinet minister.

1949: The Kingdom of Transjordan was renamed The Kingdome of Jordan.  The kingdom had been named Transjordan because it was across (trans) the Jordan river.  In 1948, Jordan's army crossed the Jordan River and seized the eastern portion of Jerusalem and the territory now called the West Bank.  Since the country was now on both sides of the Jordan River, it was no called Jordan.  This name change proved that the government of Jordan planned to remain permanently on the west bank of the Jordan River and there was no intention to create a Palestinian State.

1949(5^th of Sivan, 5709): Erev Shavuot

1949(5^th of Sivan, 5709): Fifty-three year old Hungarian author Béla Zsolt author of Nine Suitcases, “one of the earliest Holocaust memoirs” passed away today

1949: “Studio One,” a CBS television anthology series broadcast an adaptation of “June Moon,” the 1920’s drama co-authored by George S. Kaufman.

1949: In Washington, DC, Helen and Frank Hart Rich gave birth to Frank Hart Rich, Jr. who would gain fame and fortune as Frank Rich, one of the finest and wittiest writers to write for the New York Times

1950: Plans to build a village in Israel bearing the name of President Truman to be called Kfar Truman were announced at the White House.

1950: Violinist Jascha Heifetz, who is on a concert tour in Israel, said today that he founded Israeli audiences to be “a little too sophisticated but quite wonderful.” In the 12 performances to date, he has enjoyed enthusiastic audience response.

1951: After 30 weeks and 235 performances the curtain came down on the “Country Girl” written and directed by Clifford Odets, starring Steven Hill as “Bernie Dodd” with sets designed by Boris Aronson who won a Tony for his work.

1952: Birthdate of Elan Steinberg, the native of Rishon LeZion, “who brought what he called a new, “American style” assertiveness to the World Jewish Congress as its top executive, winning more than $1 billion from Swiss banks for Holocaust victims and challenging Kurt Waldheim, the former United Nations secretary general, over his Nazi past…” (As reported by Douglas Martin)

1952: Birthdate of Gary Bruce Bettman, the commissioner of the National Hockey League.1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that according to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, and contrary to persistent rumors, no definite reparation offer had yet been received from Western Germany.

1952: The Jerusalem Postreported that an Israeli mother, who drowned her sick and handicapped five-year-old child in the sea, received a one year prison sentence. The judge pointed out that there was a waiting list of more than 300 handicapped children waiting for proper treatment.

1952: The Jerusalem Postreported that prospective emigrants were ordered to give up their ration books before leaving Israel.

1955: Twenty-four year old Brooklyn born right-handed pitcher Hyman Cohen played in his final major league game as a member of the Chicago Cubs.

1956: In Paterson, NJ, Irving Polansky and his wife Edith gave birth Purdue graduate, Air Force officer and NASA Astronaut Mark Lewis “Roman” Polansky who “took a teddy bear from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum” on STS-116.

1956: Birthdate of Efi Oshaya, the Israeli political leader who served as an MK for Labor and One Israel.

1959: Allen Ginsberg wrote his poem "Lysergic Acid," in San Francisco.

1960: “In Friendly Theatre Foes” published today provides a sketch of Burton Abraham Zorn and his role as the attorney representing Broadway producers.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1897/09/26/102085182.pdf

1960(7^th of Sivan, 5720): For the last time during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jews observe the second day of Shavuot

1961(18th of Sivan, 5721):  Famed playwright George S. Kaufman passed away.

http://www.georgeskaufman.com/

1961: Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, “accompanied by his Private Secretary, Yitzhak Navon (later President of Israel) and the Israeli Ambassador to London, Aruthur Lourie” meet with Winston Churchill in London.  During their conversation, Ben-Gurion outlines his views on the situation in Iraq, the stability of the Jordanian monarchy and the threat posed by Egypt which now possessed twenty or more MIG-19 air craft which were better than anything the Israelis possessed.

1961: The World Wrestling Championship in which Boris Gurevich would win a Silver Medal opened today in Japan.

1962: On Shabbat, during his sermon today, Rabbi Bernard J. Bamberger told congregants at Shaaray Tefila in New York, “that the current discussion of medical care for the aged had been confused by warnings of ‘the danger of socialized medicine.’”

1962: Dr. Kurt Klappholz, the Rabbi at Congregation and Talmud Torah Tifereth Israel, an Orthodox synagogue in Brooklyn delivered a sermon today in which he was highly critical of the Central Conference of American Rabbis for urging the government of Israel to spare Eichmann’s life four hours before he was to be hung.  The Klappholz family was wiped out by the Nazis.

1963: AT ‘the age of 18, Rabbi Yisroel Hager married Rebbetzin Sarah Chaya Chana Twersky, the daughter of Rabbi Meshulom Zishe Twersky, previous Grand Rabbi of Chernobyl in Bnei Brak.”

1965: London property developer and philanthropist Baron Max Rayne married his second wife Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart.

1965:The United Synagogue which was established for charitable purposes by the Jewish United Synagogues Act of 1870 was formally registered as a charity today in the United Kingdom.

1967(23^rd of Iyar, 5727): Chase F. Isaacs, the widow of University of Cincinnati and Harvard University trained hematologist and “the mother of Dr. Benjamin H., Lucian B. and Dr. Mark L. Isaacs” passed away today in Maryland.

1968(6^th of Sivan, 5728): Shavuot

1968: In St. Louis, Evelyn and Lou Cohen gave birth to Boston University grad Andrew Joseph Cohen an American radio and television talk show host, producer, and writer who is the brother of jewelry designer Emily Rosenfeld

1969(14^th of Iyar, 5729): Pesach Sheni

1969(14^th of Iyar, 5729): Fifty-one year old actor Leo BernardGorcy best known for being the loud-mouth leader of “The Bowery Boys” passed away today.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.obituaries/JsoWI9sPqoQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Gorcey#/media/File:Leo_Gorcey_1945.JPG

1971(9^th of Sivan, 5731): Sixty-three year old Ephraim Epstein, who served as the rabbi for Congregation Shaare Zedek in St. Louis, MO from 1934 to 1969 passed away today.

1971(9^th of Sivan, 5731): Eighty-two year old Brooklyn restaurant owner Minnie Epstein, the wife of Hyman Epstein and the mother of Mollie Shlesinger and Dr. Samuel Epsteinpassed away today in “Parsons Hospital, Flusing, Queens.



1973: Birthdate of David Bezmozgis, Latvian born Canadian author

1974: It was reported today that “Red Cross aircraft took off simultaneously from Tel Aviv and Damascus carrying 12 Israelis home from Syria” and carrying 25 Syrians and one Moroccan “who had fought with the Syrians” to Damascus as “Israeli and Syria carried out the second stage of their troop-separation agreement.

1974: It was reported today that “President Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger had conferred with Secretary General Kurt Waldheim at the White House on the role of the United Nations peace-keeping force on the Golan Heights…”

1974: It was reported today that Binyamin Kiryati, “an Israeli P.O.W. released by the Syrians” had declared “It’s like being born again.”

1974: Abba Eban completes his service Foreign Minister.

1976(4^th of Sivan, 5736): Eighty-five year old “Dr. Alexander M. Dushkin, professor emeritus at the John Dewey School of Education that he helped organize in 1950 at Hebrew University in Jerusalem” passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1976/06/04/archives/dr-alexander-m-dushkin-educator-in-israel-and-us.html?_r=1

 1977: The Jerusalem Post reported from Washington that the US and Israel fundamentally disagreed over the Arab willingness to live in peace with a secure Israel. US officials believed that Arabs were ready to accept Israel within the pre-1967 borders, but Israeli leaders doubted Arab moderation.

1977: The Jerusalem Postreported that Kennan Moss, a new immigrant from South Africa, was held for allegedly crossing into Jordan where he betrayed important Israeli security secrets.

1977: The Jerusalem Postreported that the Shippers’ Council sued the Marine Officers Union for losses caused by the recent, prolonged marine strike.

1978: Release of “Darkness on the Edge of Town, the studio album that featured Max Weinberg on the drums.

1978: Six months after being released in Japan, “Capricorn One” a space conspiracy movie directed by Peter Hyams who wrote the script, starring Elliott Gould and with music by Jerry Goldsmith was released in the United States today.

1978: The R.H. Macy building at Herald Square on 34^thStreet which had been built by Isidor and Nathan Straus in 1902 was added to the National Register of Historic Places and designated as a National Historic Landmark.

1979(7th of Sivan, 5739): Second Day of Shavuot

1982: Yad Vashem recognized Jan Karski as Righteous Among the Nations. A tree bearing a memorial plaque in his name was planted at Yad Vashem's Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations in Jerusalem

1987: President Ronald Reagan nominated Alan Greenspan to serve as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.

1988: The New York Review of Books publishes the letter signed from Natan Zach and Nissim Calderon in which they resign as members of the advisory committee of the International Poetry Festival due to take place in Israel as part of the country’s 40^th anniversary celebration.

1989(28^th of Iyar, 5749: Yom Yerushalayim

1989: Israeli journalist Eric Silver wrote an article in the London Jewish Chronicle describing life in Jerusalem for Arabs and Jews; a life marred by violence and suspicion.  Responding to Arab claims that “Jews are afraid’ Silver writes, “The Jews say it is not so much fear as prudence. Why risk a knife in the back, a rock through the windscreen? Who needs it?”

1991: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Chutzpah by Alan Dershowitz.

1993: A revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” opened in the Wes End at the Royal National Theatre.

1995: “Fluke” a movie based on the novel of the same name co-starring Max Pomeranc and Ron Perlman was released in the United States today.

1996(15th of Sivan, 5756): Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist passed away.

1998(8^th of Sivan, 5758): Seventy-six year old Beverly Levin, the wife of Dr. Jules Levin and sister of actress of Charlotte Rae best known for her roles in “The Facts of Life” and “Diff’rent Strokes.”

1998: Jacob A. Stein and Plato Cacheris replaced William H. Ginsburg, the attorney who had been representing Monica Lewinsky from the time the scandal first broke.

2000(28^th of Iyar, 5760): A month before President Clinton issued the formal invitation to Ehud Barak and Yasar Arafat to come to peace talks at Camp David, Jews observe Yom Yerushalyim

2001(11 of Sivan, 5761): Fifteen year old Yael-Yulia Sklianik of Holon and 20 year old Sergei Panchenko from the Ukraine died today of the wounds sustained when a suicide bomber attacked the Dolphinarium.

2001: “Talmud Display Honors Holocaust Survivors” published today described plans for a volume of this special edition of the Jewish which is currently “on display at the Chrysler Museum of Art” to “go on a national tour.”

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jun/02/local/me-5536

2002: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Sunday Jews': Proudly Half and Half by Emily Barton and Firehouse by David Halberstam.

2002: HBO broadcast the first episode of “The Wire” a creation of David Simon which painted a gritty, dark picture of Baltimore, MD.

2002(22nd of Sivan, 5762): Seventy-nine year old journalist Flora Lewis, best known for her role as foreign affairs columnist at the New York Times passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/03/world/flora-lewis-79-dies-keen-observer-of-world-affairs.html?pagewanted=all

2002(22^nd of Sivan, 5762): Seventy-six year old Detroit born producer Herman Cohen, the who  gave us the “ I Was A Teenage Werewolf” series passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/12/arts/herman-cohen-76-producer-of-werewolf.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jun-09-me-cohen9-story.html

2003:The National Foundation for Jewish Culture, the leading advocate for Jewish cultural creativity and preservation in America, hosts a gala ceremony at the Plaza Hotel in New York where it presents today the honorees for the fourteenth annual Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards. The event is chaired by Morris W. Offit and Merryl H. Tisch, and hosted by Tony Award-winning actor Ron Leibman. The awards seek to recognize artists or cultural institutions who demonstrate a significant body of work or consistent achievement, excellence on the highest standards of the discipline as well as significant contributions to Jewish life and culture in America. This year, the awards are distributed in five categories: Patron of the Arts, Media Arts, Performing Arts, Literary Arts and Visual Arts.  The honorees include:- Lynn Korda Kroll, philanthropist and chairman of the board of the NFJC (Patron of the Arts); David Isay, radio producer (Media Arts); Leonard Nimoy, actor, author and photographer (Performing Arts); Adrienne Rich, author, poet and educator (Literary Arts) and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, conceptual and installation artist (Visual Arts).

2004: Limrick Nelson, Jr. who in 1991 had fatally stabbed “Yankel Rosenbaum, a 29 year old Chasidic Jew” during a race riot in Crown Heights but who was only “convicted in federal court of having violated the Jew’s civil rights” is scheduled to be related from the Federal Penitentiary today thanks to “time off for good behavior.”

2005: Award winning Israeli singer and actress Miri Mesika married the musically record producer Ori Zakh today.

2005:  The San Diego Jewish Times, published the following article by Donald H. Harrison entitled “Yossi Harel tells Exodus Story From the Commander's Perspective.”

http://www.jewishsightseeing.com/dhh_weblog/2005-blog/2005-06_blog/2005-06-02-yossi_harel.htm

I was surprised after Yossi Harel finished speaking that the 40-50 people invited by the Tel Aviv Foundation to hear him May 15 at Reina and David Shteremberg’s home in La Jolla didn’t jump to their feet as one to give him a standing ovation. Harel’s stirring story is the kind that makes your heart swell with gratitude that God made you a Jew. Perhaps the more restrained response was because Harel, today an octogenarian, seems so shy, and so modest about himself that people didn’t want to embarrass him by their effusions. The simplicity of the man—measured against his deeds—reminded me of the time I toured the historic home of Paula and David Ben-Gurion in Tel Aviv. To pass between their kitchen table and the cabinets, one practically had to turn sideways.  Such an unassuming home for someone as important to the Jewish people as Ben Gurion!  But he was not a man of large possessions, rather he was a man of big deeds.  So too might it be said about Harel. Harel was a youngster in the pre-Israel Independence Haganah underground forces when he was directed to study coastal navigation—study that led to him being named the post World War II commander of the effort to smuggle immigrants past the British blockade and into Palestine. Most people of my generation know his story very well; as it was fictionalized in the movie Exodus starring Paul Newman. The real Exodus was among the ships under Harel’s command. The captain of that ship, Ike Arianne, coincidentally is coming to San Diego to speak June 5 to the Alpine Jewish Connection and June 8 to Congregation Beth Israel about his experiences.  In describing the journey of the Exodus and other immigrant ships, Harel emphasized three major points: the awesome sense of responsibility he felt trying to ferry people from the camps of Europe, especially for the youth who had survived the Holocaust, and the dangers that the clandestine ships faced along the way. Harel remembers the children the most vividly.  On one ship, he remembers a boy who used to dig tunnels from a nazi-guarded ghetto to the city outside.  His father wanted him to sneak his sister out, but the sister wouldn’t leave the parents.  So the boy’s father told the boy to leave the ghetto on his own, and not to come back.  The father knew the nazis eventually would take them all away.  The boy did as he was told, later telling Harel “I never again saw my father, my mother, my sister; they went to heaven through the chimneys of Auschwitz.” To his La Jolla listeners, Harel reflected; “You listen to this story and you begin to understand what is the command you got.” On that particular ship, there were 4,000 passengers, and “everyone had an equivalent story.”  It gave rise to the determination that while the British might be successful in stopping some ships from disembarking its passengers in Palestine, it couldn’t stop all of them. At one of the Displaced Persons camp from which Exodus passengers were chosen, he remembered a girl who held a little boy’s hand tight.  Was she the older sister, he wondered?  No, he learned from the camp’s Haganah commander. She had been sent by her Jewish parents to a monastery where she posed as a Catholic.  The little boy came later, but was too young to understand what was required of him.  At night, he cried in Yiddish for his mother—dangerous because the Gestapo would yank such children from the monastery and execute them.  The girl hushed him, taught him how to make the sign of the cross and other prayers, and remained his protector to that very day. The immigrant ships navigated waters that under normal circumstances were treacherous; let alone when the ships sat deep in the water because they were overloaded with passengers. They were short on food, fuel and water, often having to cut rations as they neared their destination. On one ship, a Greek captain and senior crew member began making the sign of the cross on their chests as they looked at the rocks of Peloponese.  “When you see the captain and the chief do that, you know something is wrong,” Harel recalled, his understatement prompting laughter from his La Jolla listeners. The strong waves were driving the 50-year-old ship toward the rocks, and the heavy-in-the-water vessel had insufficient power to counteract their force.  Six miles from the rocks, than five miles, then four miles… “I could see that the ship was going to wreck,” he said.  “We didn’t have a single lifeboat, what can we do?  So you sit on the bridge, and you watch, and all of a sudden you see the waves parallel to the coast beginning to change direction.  The winds changed!  Slowly we passed by maybe 200-300 yards offshore.  We had 4,000 people aboard.  Maybe the supplication of the captain helped!” On another occasion, a ship had to be navigated through the Bosporus—but to get to the straits, it needed to first sail through waters that the Russians had mined during World War II.  A Russian pilot refused to sail at night, so a Haganah member was assigned to read the charts and get the ship through.  “It was the longest night of my life,” said Harel.

“Overall,” Harel said, “we brought 100,000 people but this was the bloodiest war we ever had.  In the War for Independence, we had 600,000 Jews, and we lost 6,000 – one percent.”  Running the blockade, he said, “we lost over 3,000 people drowned in the Black Sea—three percent…

“With all these casualties, they kept coming, they didn’t stop,” he marveled. “A nation destroyed was coming back to life.”

2006(6th of Sivan, 5766): First day of Shavuot

2006(6th of Sivan, 5766): Sol W. Cantor, an early proponent of discount retailing featuring warehouse style stores passed away at the age of 95.  He was a major philanthropist who supported the UJA, ADL and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.

2006: Pittsburgh's Malacandra Productions staged a nine-character play adapted by John Regis from the classic William Tenn (Philip Klass) science fiction short story, "Winthrop Was Stubborn".

2007: In Cedar Rapids, Melanie Abzug becomes a Bat Mitzvah at Temple Judah.

2007: The Cedar Rapids Gazette features an article entitled “Mitzvahs Swell in Summer” by Molly Rossiter describing the Bar and Bat Mitzvah Ceremonies and the way they are practiced at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids and Agudas Achim in Iowa City.

2007(16th of Sivan, 5767): Martin Meyerson, former president of the University of Pennsylvania who briefly led the University of California at Berkley during the tumultuous 1960’s passed away at the age of 84. “He was the first Jewish head of a major research university, and he and John Kemeny of Dartmouth College were the first Jewish presidents in the Ivy League. A reporter once called Mr. Meyerson ‘the Jackie Robinson of Jewish academia.’”

2008: AIPAC Policy Conference opens in Washington, D.C.

2008 (28th of Iyar, 5768): Yom Yerushalayim – Jerusalem Reunification Day.  This marks the celebration of the 41^stanniversary of the re-establishment of Jewish control over the entire “City of David.”

2008(28^thof Iyar, 5768): Eighty year old Paul Sills, “the original director of Chicago’s The Second City” passed away today. (As reported by Campbell Roberston)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/theater/04sills.html

2008: Punter Adam Podlesh “was elected to the Rochester Jewish Sports Hall of Fame” today.

2018: The paperback edition of the award winning novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, a distant relation of David O. Selznick was released today.

https://www.theinventionofhugocabret.com/about_hugo_intro.htm

2008: At the Spertus in Chicago, the fourth and final session of “A Short History of Anti-Semitism.” Taught by historian Dr. Dean Bell, the course covers anti-Judaism in the classical world, the Crusades and expulsions in the Middle Ages, tolerance and restrictions in the early modern period, and racial anti-Semitism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dean Bell is Dean and Chief Academic Officer at Spertus. He earned his BA at the University of Chicago and MA and PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at Berkeley, DePaul University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Hebrew Theological College.

2008: Brian “Horwitz hit his first major league home run today, off New York Mets starting pitcher Óliver Pérez.”

2008: In “Holocaust survivors passing memories to young people,” published today, The Chicago Tribune describes the “Generation to Generation” program sponsored by the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie which is designed to enable Holocaust survivors to tell their story with a young recipient to ensure that the personal memories are not lost.

 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-holocaust-survivorsjun02,0,11987.story

2009:The National Capital Mikvah offered a class on "The Fourth Trimester: Childbirth and Beyond." During an interactive lecture Rebbetzin Sharon Freundel led a discussion on childbirth and post-childbirth issues for Orthodox women including niddah after childbirth and when to return to the mikvah, how to schedule a brit for both term and pre-term boys, and other laws and customs.

2009(10th of Sivan, 5769):A gunman killed one person, seriously wounded a second and said he tried to hit a third in an apparent shooting spree in central Jerusalem early this morning, police said. Yoel Almog Dazhinishvilli shot and killed Amjad Abu Hadar, 33, and seriously wounded a Jewish yeshiva student who passed by moments later. Police say Danishvilli also tried to wound a third man, but failed. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said investigators thought Dazhinishvilli had psychological problems and did not think his attacks had a political motivation. Rosenfeld said he did not know if Dazhinishvilli had a history of psychological problems. Both men were shot at close range. Danishvilli, 48, had a permit to carry the weapon for his job as a security guard. He was arrested shortly after a man was found with bullet wounds to the chest on Hanevi'im Street in central Jerusalem at around 3 A.M. Rosenfeld said the gunman told police he had been meditating in the square at around 3:30 A.M. when the Arab man approached him. The gunman told police that he had opened fire when he felt threatened, and had shot the second man he asked him for a cigarette.

2009:A rising and falling siren sounded this morning at 11 A.M. for a minute and a half as part of this year's Home Front Command national exercise, with all citizens encouraged to practice entering their protected rooms.

2010: The YIVO is scheduled to present a lecture entitled “Empire of Charity: American Jews and the Rebuilding of Polish Lithuania, 1919-1939” which “focuses on the role Jewish émigrés and their philanthropy played in reshaping political, social, and economic life in Brisk and Vilna, the two historic intellectual centers of Lithuanian Jewry.”

2010: Funeral services were held today in Los Angeles for 88 year old Holocaust survivor Sophi Lazar, the widow of Max Lazar with whom she had two children Mordechai and Chana.

2010: In “An Assault, Cloaked in Peace” published today Michael B. Oren explains why those on Turkish ship Mavi Marmara were not promoters of peace, in the usually understood meaning of that term.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/opinion/03oren.html?_r=0

2010: Today, “the New York Post reported that Jeff Zucker would be paid between $30 million and $40 million to leave NBC Universal shortly after Comcast completes its 51% acquisition in the company.”

2010: In “A Viennese District Is Reborn” published today Kimberly Bradley described the rebirth of the Karmeliterviertel, or Carmelite Quarter as a center for Jewish culture. “Over the last decade or so the area has become one of the few places in the world outside of Brooklyn and Tel Aviv where bohemians stroll alongside groups of Orthodox Jews — the former buying chutney from Slow Food Vienna’s booth at the market, the latter munching on matzo and hummus from Kosherland.”

2011: The Masada Opera Festival is scheduled to “kick off with a celebratory opera evening featuring works by Verdi, Puccini and Rossini performed by Svetla Vasileva and the orchestra of Arena di Verona”.

2011: The 92^nd Street Y is scheduled to present “Israeli Wines: Talk and Tasting”  a program offering a virtual tour of several vineyards as well as a look at the unique Israeli wine-making process facilitated by Udi Kadim, CEO of Yarden, one of the nation's leading importers of quality wines.

2011:  Israel has deployed an Iron Dome rocket interceptor outside Sderot, a Gaza border town that has borne the brunt of Palestinian shelling attacks, posing a new test for the fledgling system underwritten by Washington.

2011:Five people were arrested this afternoon in connection with an incident earlier in the day, in which a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the Binyamin Police commander's car, setting it ablaze. Also, this afternoon, Border Police and Civil Administration authorities demolished the Ga'on Yarden settlement outpost in the Binyamin region of the West Bank, in which several buildings were illegally built. It was the second demolition carried out in one day.

2011: After premiering at the Cannes Film Festival last month “Footnote” was released in Israel today.

2011: It was announced today that Jill “that Abramson would become the executive editor of the Times in September 2011…”

2012: In Atlanta, The Temple is scheduled to sponsor a concert featuring The Return which will be both a fundraiser and celebration of the birthday of Rabbi Alvin Sugarman

2012: In Cedar Rapids, IA, Jessica Heeren is scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah

2012:Seven historic synagogues in Krakow that are closed for most of the year are scheduled to be open tonight as part of the second annual 7@nite-Synagogues By Night, an evening of exhibitions, music concerts and fashion shows by young artists from Poland and around the world. The free event is sponsored by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, JCC Krakow and the Krakow Jewish community. (As reported by the JTA)

2012: “Thousands demonstrated for social justice tonight in Israel’s three largest cities in an effort to rejuvenate the movement that swept the country last summer with tent cities and weekly demonstration. Many of the protesters, especially in Tel Aviv and Haifa, were from the Meretz and Hadash parties, as well as from leftist youth movements.” (As reported by Haaretz)

2012: Dianna Agron hosted the GLAAD Media Award in San Francisco.

2013: A grand ceremony to dedicate British Columbia’s first synagogue will be reenacted today exactly 150 years to the day following the establishment of Congregation Emanu-El in downtown Victoria, the picturesque capital of Canada’s western-most province. (As reported by Arthur Wolak)

2013: The American Society for Jewish Music and the American Jewish Historical Society are scheduled to present “Music in Our Time: 2013” an annual concert that features music with Jewish content.

2013: The Israeli National Soccer Team is scheduled to play the Honduran National Team at Citi Field in what will the Israeli team’s first New York appearance in 35 years.

2013: A conference on “Holy War and Sacred Struggle in Judaism, Christianity and Islam” is scheduled to open at Tel Aviv University

2013: A farewell dinner is scheduled to be held in New Orleans for Rabbi Uri Topolosky of Congregation Beth Israel and his wife Dahlia. (For more about the New Orleans Jewish Community see the Crescent City Jewish News edited by Alan Samson)

2013 American model Lisa S. (born as Lisa Selesner) and actor Daniel Wu gave birth to their daughter Raven.

2013: “Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges” is scheduled to have its final showing at the National Museum of American Jewish Museum. (Special thanks to Rabbi Fred Davidow, an “authentic Southern Jew” and a real mensch for making us aware of this)

http://www.nmajh.org/SpecialExhibitions/

http://articles.philly.com/2013-01-13/news/36314341_1_jewish-scholars-black-colleges-jewish-heritage

2013: The New York Timespublished reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster – the Creators of Superman by Brad Ricaa, No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth Wisse and Lady At The O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Anna Kirschner.

2013: The Bayit Yehudi party has officially endorsed Rabbi David Stav as its candidate for the position of Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi in a vote that took place during a faction meeting this afternoon.

2014: The JCC in Manhattan is scheduled to host a screening of “An Honest Liar.”

2014: “Israel fired artillery shells at a target in Syria early this morning after a mortar shell from the war-torn country hit Mount Hermon, opening a second front hours after returning fire into Gaza.” (As reported by Lazar Berman)

2014: “Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas swore in the ministers of a new unity government” which he hailed as ending the split with Hamas which is part of this reconciliation government, a fact denied by the United States which says that it can negotiatie with the PA because members of Hamas are not ministers in the new cabinet.

2014(4^thof Sivan, 5774): Eighty-eighty year old chemist Alexander Shulgin passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/us/alexander-shulgin-psychedelia-researcher-dies-at-88.html?rref=obituaries&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Obituaries&pgtype=article

2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “Rethinking Jabotinsky,” a book talk with Hillel Halkin in conversation with New York Times cultural critic, Edward Rothstein, Columbia University historian Rebecca Kobrin, and moderator Abe Socher, editor of The Jewish Review of Books.

2015: The National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to sponsor a trip to Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre to experience “Irving Berlin’s I Love a Piano” a musical that follows the journey of a piano as it moves in and out of American lives from the turn of the century to the present.

2015: “The Pennsylvania Senate voted 49-0 today to confirm Dr. Rachel Levine as the state's physician general -- making her the highest ranked out transgender person ever to serve in Pennsylvania government.

2015: Christopher Bandini reviewed Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Third Reichby Emily Kurlioff.

http://newbooksnetwork.com/emily-kuriloff-contemporary-psychoanalysis-and-the-third-reich-routledge-2013/

2015(15^thof Sivan, 5775): “Just a few days shot of his 102^nd birthday, former JHSGW president Henry Brylawski passed away today.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=HENRY-H-BRYLAWSKI&pid=175004701&utm_source=Henry+Brylawski&utm_campaign=Henry+Brylawski&utm_medium=email

2015: “Channel 2’s Moshe Nussbaum reported” today that Israel did not attack Lebanese territory earlier in the day meaning that reported by “Lebanese media outlets” that IAF had struck near the city of Brital” and inflicted casualties were false.

2015(15^thof Sivan, 5775): Eight-eight year old Nobel Prize winning chemist Irwin Rose passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/science/irwin-rose-nobel-winning-biochemist-dies-at-88.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

2015: President Obama posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to Sergeant William Shemin, who served in the Army during WW I.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/us/two-world-war-i-soldiers-to-posthumously-receive-medal-of-honor.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

2015: Elsie Shemin-Roth is scheduled to receive the Medal Honor today on behalf of her late father Sgt. William Shemin, “nearly a century after he pulled wounded comrades to safety” during World War I. (As reported by Salter

http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/2014/12/15/century-later-jewish-soldier-may-get-top-medal/20457923/

2015: Israeli pop star Kobi Peretz is scheduled to perform at the Highline Ballroom.

2016: The 4^th Annual Israel Film Center Festival is scheduled to open tonight with a screening of the winner of the 2015 Israeli Academy Awards, “Baba Joon.”

2016: In Israel, “the Energy Ministry confirmed that the Leviathan offshore field has 20 per cent less gas than previously reported saying that there were 500 billion cubic meters of gas in the reserve and not 620 billion cubic meters.

2016: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at Temple Judah funeral services are scheduled to be held for Harold Becker, a successful businessman, World War II veteran, generous philanthropist and pillar of the Jewish community

http://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2016/May/Harold-Becker/

2016: Sara “Hurwitz delivered the "A Message from the Dean" at Yeshivat Maharat’s  Semikha Ceremony, hosted at Ramaz Lower School in which she applauded "the loud voices of those who hired our graduates as spiritual leaders, who support our graduates in fulfilling their dreams of serving the Jewish people as Orthodox clergy" and expressed her belief that the graduates: Hadas (Dasi) Fruchter, Ramie Smith, and Alissa Thomas-Newborn, "embody the ethic of optimism.”

2017: “The Women’s Balcony,” the “#1 Film of the Year in Israel” is scheduled to open in Scottsdale, AZ.

2017: “Committee Elections for next terms are scheduled to be held this evening following the Friday Night Dinner” hosted by the Oxford University Jewish Society.

2017: “Letters from Baghdad” is scheduled to premiere at Lincoln Plaza Cinema and Agelika Film Center.

2018(19^th of Sivan, 5778): Parashat Behalotecha;

2018: 'Keynote' a Site Specific Installation by Tirtzah Bassel, “an Israeli artist based in New York,” is scheduled to open today.

2018: Participants in the Silent Auction sponsored by the Straus Historical Society scheduled to take place on June 4 begin previewing the items today.

2018: “A new event celebrating 50 years of educational partnership with Hebrew University that was scheduled to take placed today at the UCLA Hillel” will not take place as alumni express their outrage at violence “on the Gaza border” – an outrage that apparently did not carry over to this week’s rocket barrage from terrorists in Gaza launched against Israel.”

2019: In Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is scheduled to hold its annual BBQ potluck dinner and annual congregational meeting featuring a “Year-In –Review” prepared by Steve Eckert, whose artistry proves once again that here is something about a Jews and Cameras (or at least talented ones like Steve)

2019: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Funny Man: Mel Brooks, the biography of the Jewish comedian by Patrick McGilligan and The Drama of Celebrity, Sharon Marcus’ biography of Sarah Bernhardt.

2019: Avodah New Orleans is scheduled to host its "Eighth Annual Partners in Justice Jazz” honoring “three incredible heroes in the work for a more equitable Louisiana.”

2019(28^thof Iyar, 5779): Celebration of Yom Yershualayim, marking the 52^ndanniversary of the re-unification of Jerusalem, marking the end of the illegal 19^t year-long occupation of the eastern part of the city by Kingdom of Jordan; an occupation that brought no complaint from the world community or demand from the Arabs of Palestine to have it turned over to them as a capital for their “state.”

2019: Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled to host Deborah Ugoretz as she discusses the practice by 19^th century Jews in Poland and Poland “of making decorative papercuts for Shavuot, often representing flowers and animal” followed by her demonstration of this unique holiday custom.

2019: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present a performance of Verrd’s “Nabucco” adapted by and starring David Seroro in the title role.

2020: “Lynn Melnick, the author of the poetry collections Refusenik, Landscape with Sex and Violence, and If I Should Say I Have Hope, and the co-editor of Please Excuse This Poem: 100 Poets for the Next Generation is scheduled to lead a “Poetry Writing Workshop Inspired by ‘The New Colossus’ sponsored by the AJHS.

2020: Live on Zoom, The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to “The Muslim World’s Reaction to the Six Day Work.

2020: Live on Zoom the Leo Baeck Institute is scheduled to host a discussion of Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday, featuring George Prochnik, author of The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World.”

2020: Today on GiveNOLA Day donors can make contribution to JCRS (Jewish Children’s Regional Service), an organization that really delivers the goods for Jewish youngsters living throughout the southern United States.

2020: LSJS is scheduled “Batsheva,” the third in a lecture series Debbie Meyer on “The Trials of King David.

2020: On-line, The Project on Russian and Eurasian Jewry is scheduled to present “The Marriage of Véra Slonim and Vladimir Nabokov as Jewish, Russian and American History.”

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350:  Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators. The Constantinian Dynasty took its name from its most famous member, Constantine I, the Emperor who turned the Roman Empire into a Christian entity; a policy followed by his successors much to the dismay of the Jewish people.

1098: During the First Crusade, Antioch falls to the crusaders after an eight-month siege. This would open the road to Jerusalem, where, after another siege, the Christians would capture the City of David and slaughter its Jewish inhabitants.

1140: French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.  Abelard may have been a heretic in the eyes of the Catholic Church, but when it came to the Jews, his views were classically Christian.  He believed that the Jews were wicked and that God’s grace had passed from them to the Gentiles who had accepted Christ. The grace of God would return to the Jews in the end of time when the Jews will be converted to Jesus.  Christ is spoken of as about to be crowned or about to be crucified it is said that He “went forth”; to signify that the Jews, who were guilty of so great wickedness against Him, were given over to reprobation, and that His grace would now pass to the vast extent of the Gentiles, where the salvation of the Cross and His own exaltation by the gain of many peoples, in the place of the one nation of the Jews, has extended itself. Whence, also, to-day we rightly go forth to adore the Cross in the open plain, showing mystically that both glory and salvation had departed from the Jews and had spread themselves among the Gentiles. But in that we afterward returned [in procession] to the place whence we had set forth, we signify that in the end of the world the grace of God will return to the Jews; namely, when, by the preaching of Enoch and Elijah, they shall be converted to Him. Abelard may have been a heretic in the eyes of the Catholic Church, but when it came to the Jews, his views are classically Christian. 

1361: In Spain orders are given for the construction of a Juderia (Jewish Quarter) in Tarazona. The Jewish Quarter is to be separated by walls from the Christian community. The Christians living where the Juderia is to be built were given property of the same value and relocated.

1425: Pope Martin V issued “Sedes apostolica,” a Papal Bull that commanded Jews to wear “a distinctive badge.” [Editor’s note – this may have more to do with Pope Martin’s fight against slavery.  The badge was intended as a way of deterring the sale of Christians as slaves.  For a Pope, his views on the Jews was on the positive side of the scale as can be seen from his “Declaration on the Protection of the Jews” issued in 1419.]

1455: Pope Calixtus III canonized Vincent Ferrer, the Dominican friar who converted thousands of Jews to Christianity with threats of violence and the actual incitement of mobs in a variety of places including Toledo and Valencia.

1621: The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands, which would come to include New Amsterdam. A Jewish merchant named Joseph d’Acosta was one of the company’s shareholders.  The fact that the Dutch West India Company had Jewish shareholders would prove to be of critical importance when Peter Stuyvesant would try to expel the Jews from New Amsterdam which was part of New Netherlands.

1658: Pope Alexander VII appointed François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France. Alexander was the pope who seemed to have a great deal of concern about the rights of tenancy in the ghetto since he issued two bulls – Verbi Aeterni and Ad Ea Per Quae- on the subject.

1658: Today the Court of Burgomasters, apparently on its own initiative, declined to permit judgment in civil actions to be taken against Jacob Barsimson, a Jew, holding that "though defendant is absent, yet no default is entered against him, as he was summonedon his Sabbath": an instance of religious toleration and just dealing foreshadowing a New York statute of two centuries later that made it a misdemeanor maliciously to serve any one with process on his Sabbath, or with process returnable on that day ("New York Penal Code,"§ 271). Similarly, the municipal authorities licensed Asser Levy and Moses Lucena, Oct., 1660, as sworn butchers, providing on their application that they might take the oath at the hands of the officer "agreeably to the oath of the Jews," and with the reservation that they should not be bound to kill any hogs.

1678(13^thof Sivan): Rabbi Ephraim ben Jacob Katz, author of Sha’ar Ephraim, passed away

1752: During the quarrel between Rabbi Jacob Emden and Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschutz a secular Danish court ruled in favor of Emden, severely censuring the three communities of Altona, Hamburg and Wansbeck and ordering them pay a fine of one hundred thalers. This enabled Emden to return to Altona where he regained possession of his synagogue and his printing press.

1753(1st of Sivan, 5513): Rosh Chodesh Sivan observed three days before the British Museum was “established in London by Act of Parliament and at a time when Great Britain was waiting for Royal Assent to the recently passed Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753

1756(5^thof Sivan, 5513): Erev Shavuot observed for the first time since Britain had officially declared war on France in what would become known as the Seven Years War

1768: King William V, the Dutch ruler, visited both the German and Portuguese synagogues today which along with his attendance at the weddings of Jewish subjects was an acknowledgement by the Prince of Orange of the loyalty Jewish community.

1775(5^thof Sivan, 5535): Parashat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot was observed on the same day that General George Washington took official command of the Continental Army, most of which was besieging the British at Boston.

1782(21^stof Sivan, 5542): Aaron F. Goldsmid, the London merchant who was founder the famous British Goldsmid family passed.  A native of Amsterdam, he “was the son of Benedict Goldsmid, a Hamburg merchant. In 1765 he left Holland with his family to settle in London, where he founded the firm of Aaron Goldsmid & Son, subsequently Goldsmid & Eliason. The firm of Aaron Goldsmid & Son experienced serious reverses through the failure of Clifford & Sayer, one of the principal houses in Holland. Hence only George, the eldest son, entered into partnership with his father. The other sons founded new businesses for themselves in which they amassed large fortunes. Goldsmid left four sons and four daughters. The second son, Asher, was one of the founders of the firm Mocatta & Goldsmid, bullion-brokers to the Bank of England. Benjamin and Abraham were famous as financiers and philanthropists.” (As reported by the Jewish Encyclopedia)

1786(7^thof Sivan, 5546): Second Day of Shavuot and Shabbat were observed three days before Nathaniel Goham was chosen President of the U.S Confederation Congregation which was the governing body the United States from the end of the Revolutionary War until the adoption of the United States Constitution.  

1794(5^thof Sivan, 5554): Erev Shavuot observed as rebel forces in “Lesser Poland” and Lithuania home to a large Jewish population including the Vilna Gaon continue the fight to throw off the Yoke of the Czaar.

1803: Birthdate of Talmudist Gabriel Jacob Polak whose works included “Dibre Kodesh,” a Dutch-Hebrew dictionary and “Halikot Kedem,”  a collection of Hebrew poems.

1805(6^thof Sivan, 5565): Shavuot observed as Lewis and Clark camped on the right side of the river at modern Loma, Montana while they were trying to figure out which river was the Missouri and which was the Maria River.

1812: In Copenhagen, Salomon Monies and his wife gave birth to Danish portrait painter David Monies.

1813(5^thof Sivan, 5573): Erev Shavuot observed during the War of 1812 as American forces advance towards modern day Stoney Creek, Ontario as they continue what has been their successful invasion of Canada.

1815: “Naples was restored to Ferdinand of Sicily” – a kingdom which had expelled its Jews at the end of the 15^th century.

1816(7^thof Sivan, 5576): Second Day of Shavuot observed on the same day the United States signed a treaty with the Winnebago Tribe.

1824(7^thof Sivan, 5584: Second Day of Shavuot is observed during the Presidency of James Monroe, the last of the founding fathers to occupy the White House.

1829: In Altenstadt, Germany Moses Kahn Klara gave birth to Herman Kahn who as Moses Cone went into business with his brother-in-law Jacob Adler in Jonesboro, TN, before moving to Lynchburg, VA and later Baltimore where he laid groundwork for what would become Cone Textile Mills operated by two of his sons, Moses and Ceasar whom he raised with his wife Helen.

1835(6^thof Sivan, 5595): Shavuot

1843(5^thof Sivan, 5603): Parashat Bamidbar; erev Shavuot celebrated on the birthdate of King Frederick VIII of Denmark, under whose grandfather King Frederick the VII, the constitution removing the last restrictions on the Jews of that Denmark was adopted two days after the infant heir’s second birthday.

1845: In Germany, Mayer and Dina Bamberger gave birth to Gabriel Bamberger, the husband of Lina Wohl Bamberger who was living in Chicago when he passed away in 1909.

1846: Abraham Edward Alexander married Hannah Symons on the United Kingdom.

1848: In Pennsylvania Isaac and Henrietta Yetta Kohn gave birth to Berth Kohn who became Bertha Tim when she married Louis Tim

1849: In Montgomery, Alabama, the Chevra Mevaker Cholim, with the approval of 30 members, became Congregation Kahl Montgomery which is now known as Temple Beth Or. The congregation built its first sanctuary in 1862.

1850: The traditional founding date of Kansas City, Missouri. Temple B’nai Jehudah, the first Jewish congregation in Kansas City would be formed twenty years later in 1870. The congregation built a temple in 1908. In 1909, United Jewish Social Services opened the Alfred Benjamin Dispensary at 17^th and Locust to provide medical treatment to Jewish Immigrants.  This institution evolved into Menorah Hospital by 1931.

1853: In Kent (UK), Anne and Will Petrie gave birth to William Mathew Flinders Petrie, the Egyptologist who discovered the Merneptah Stele and identified the word Israel in the writing.  This became an important non-biblical proof of the existence of the ancient kingdom of Israel.

1853: “The Last Hartford Convention” published today described the activities of a convention that began yesterday to discuss the Bible.  In mocking tones the author assumes that by now “the very existence of the Hebrew law-giver has been pronounced a myth; the Creation a counterfeit; the Deluge a fable; the Exodus a forgery.”  The author wonders what “stores of rabbinical learning” including “Talmud, Targums and Commentators” as well as contemporary historians who have corroborated the stories of the Israelites will be discredited by these contemporary philosophers whom he compares to the infidels going back to Roman times who have tried and failed to discredit “the first five books.”

1857: Henry Hart married Rosa Nathan at the Great Synagogue in London

1857: Barend Hyman married Rachel Minden at the Great Synagogue in London.

1863: Birthdate of William H. King, the Senator from Utah who in 1927 “declared…that he favored the United States severing diplomatic relations with any country which failed because of anti-Semitism to protect its Jewish nationals” and “expressed the belief that eventually Palestine would be able to support a population of a million Jews.”

1867: Four days after his death, Simon Lazarus Oppenheim, a native of Frankfurt am Main, was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1870: The London Standard denounced the review of Benjamin Disraeli’s Lothair published in Blackwood. The Standard did not take issue with Blackwood’s right to make negative comments about the book.  The complaint was that Blackwood made the review “the vehicle for a coarse, violent and outrageously personal attack” on Mr. Disraeli.  “The critic has used the book as opportunity for indulging his spleen against its distinguished author.”

1870: “A petition by Jews living in Indianapolis, Indiana urging the President of the United States to Intervene on behalf of Romanian Jews was referred the Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations.”

1870: It was reported today that Simon Wolf delivered telegrams from all over the United States asking that the U.S. intervene with the government of Romania on behalf of its Jewish citizens.  The U.S. has decided to appoint Adolphe Buchner, who is Jewish, to serve as Consul at Bucharest as a way of expressing its desire that the Romanians stop mistreating their Jewish citizens. [The President who was showing support for the Jews was U.S. Grant, who as Dr. Sarna has pointed out in his marvelous book on the famous General and President, was no anti-Semite.

1870: The United States Senate spent an hour this morning discussing the recent massacre of Jews in Romania during which Senator Morton of Indiana presented a request that the President intervene to “save the Jews of” Romania “from further persecutions.”   The Senate passed a motion offered by Senator Sumner of Massachusetts asking the President to provide the Senate with any information in the possession of the State Department concerning the violence.  “Mr. Sumner said that the interests of humanity demanded that the fullest information should be had by the Senate on this subject.”  According to Sumner, “the massacre was a most terrible affair, the whole enormity of which was not yet made public.”  Senator Sprague of Rhode Island said that Jews owned most of the land in Romania and controlled all of the trade in the Principality “while a vast population of Christians” were deprived of the means of support” and that this was the cause of the violence.  He said that these facts “furnished food for profound reflection…to affairs here in our country, where the tendency” is rapidly moving “in the same direction.  Senator Stewart of Nevada “said he hoped Mr. Sprauge did not mean to imply that when a man gets rich he ought…to be killed.”  Senator Sprague “smiled faintly” but made no further reply.  [Editor’s note – The concern for the Jews of Romania was the first expression of support for the plight of foreign Jews in the post-Civil War United States.  Senator Sumner had been a leading Abolitionist and was a major political power in the dominant Republican Party. The President who would show support for the Jews was U.S. Grant.  By the same token the views of Senator Sprague, the son-in-law of Salmon P. Chase, another prominent Republican who served as Sec. of Treasury and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, were the an example of the genteel anti-Semitism which would manifest itself in everything from exclusion at fancy hotels to quotas at the leading ivy league universities.]

1871: “Rome: The Press in the Eternal City” published today reported in the newly united Italy, Jews and Free-thinkers dominate the world of literary opinion.  Among the Jews are: Giacomo Dina ‘the patriarch of Italian journalism” and the editor of Florence Opinione;” Carlo Levi, editor of the Nuova Roma; Edward Arib, “the ablest representative of the liberal press” and editor of Liberta; Alessandro D’Acona of Pisa and Luigi Camerini of Milan, “accomplished critics of belles lettres.  At the same time, the clerical press which is an inferior journalistic product is filled with anti-Semitic comments. For example, Buon Senso referred to Edward Arib as a “shameless Jew…’following the example of the Jews in the days of Nero who were the real instigators of the Roman Emperor’s persecution of the Christians.” [Editor’s Note – Italy, after the reunification, was one of the best places for Jews to live in Europe. At the same time, there was an undercurrent of anti-Semitism tied to the Papal parties that would flower when Mussolini would become Hitler’s partner.]

1873: Birthdate of German born and educated American pharmacologist Otto Loewi recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  He passed away in 1961.

1875: In Cleveland, OH, of Julius (Joseph) Feiss and Caroline (Carrie) Feiss gave birth to Paul Lewis Feiss, the chariman of the board of the Joseph and Feiss, a men’s tailoring firm in Clevenland, the husband of Edith Feiss and philanthropist who was “a founder of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Orchestra and Mount Sinai Hospital while serving on the executive committee of the Cleveland round Table of the National Conference of Christians and Jews

1877: “The Return of the Jews” published today reported that the long dreamed of “rehabilitation of Judea” by the Jews might be realized in the not too distant future.  While there are only a small number of Jews living in Jerusalem thanks to the advances in modern transportation there has been increasing stream of Jews coming to visit from Poland, Morocco and Russia.  Captain Charles Warren, who is best known for the maps he has made of Jerusalem, thinks that that the Jews of Morocco would be the best candidates for restoring Judea to its former glory.  They are the only significant Jewish population with agricultural skills. Unlike the Jews of Jerusalem whom Warren described as being “incompetent to revive the glories of the past” because of long years of “indolence and degeneracy” the Jews of Morocco  are  “patient…and less fanatical than many of their brethren” as well as having a proven track record of being able to use irrigation to raise crops. [The vision of Captain Warren “the agent of the English exploration fund in Pale tine pre-dates Herzl by thirty years.]

1877: It was reported today that there are 152 synagogues in the United States with 33 in New York, 23 in Maine, 14 in Pennsylvania, 9 in Illinois and 7 each in California, Ohio and Vermont.

1877: The Board of Jewish Delegates reported that 174 out of 341 congregations and 99 other organization have responded to its questionnaire.   According these responses there are 189,576 Jews in the United States.  Based on this admittedly incomplete response, the board estimated that there are 250,000 Jews living in the United States with 60,000 living in New York City.

1878: In Alexandria, VA, founding of Congregation Beth El on North Washington Street

1878: While serving as regent during Kaiser Wilhelm’s recuperation from an assassination attempt, Frederick appointed Dr. Friedberg, who was both Jewish and a Liberal “to the highest judicial post in the kingdom” – a move that greatly displeased the Kaiser who refused to honor Friedberg with the Order of the Black Eagle when he returned to power. (Editor’s note – “Dr. Friedberg” is Heinrich von Friedberg who had converted to Christianity – a conversion that apparently did not satisfy the first Kaiser and showed how the idea of “Jewish blood” had taken hold in 19^th century Europe.)

1879(12th of Sivan, 5639): Lionel Nathan de Rothschild the son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Hanna Barent Cohen passed away. Lionel’s was the first Jew to serve as an MP in the House of Commons.  First elected in 1847, he was not able to assume his seat until 1858 following a decade long fight to change the rules about the oath of office.  Queen Victoria refused to appoint him to the House of Lords.  She would later recant and elevate Lionel’s son to the Lords.

1879: In Yalta, “Yakov Abramovich Leventon, a pharmacist, and Sofia (Sara) Lvovna Horowitz: gave birth to Marem-Ides Leventon who gained fame as actress Alla Nazimova.

1880: As unrest continues to grow in Russia, it was reported that several Jews have been arrested near St. Petersburg on charges that they are connected with the Nihilst (an all-purpose term used by the authorities for revolutionaries seeking to over-thrown the Czar)

1880: Birthdate of Pennsylvanian Benjamin Rosenbloom the University of West Virginia tackle who “during several games away from home heard he cry of ‘Kill the Jew’” and who went on to a career in law and politics which took him to U.S. House of Representatives

1881(6^thof Sivan, 5641): Shavuot

1882: In Tilsit, East Prussia “merchant and Rabbi Isidor Urdang and his wife Emma Marrie” gave birth Georg Urdang, the University of Wisconsin professor of pharmacy and founder of “the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy.”

https://www.japha.org/article/S0095-9561(16)36034-0/abstract

1882: As conditions worsen for Jews in the Ukraine, it was reported that Russian Jews who lack passports are being denied the right to immigrate.

1885 (OS May 22): Birthdate of Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov, a leader of the Bolsheviks who also was a leader of the infant Soviet Union.  He passed away in 1919, before the Revolution turned sour and anti-Semitism reared its ugly head.

1885: The Board of Directors of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children appealed for contributions to support its upcoming summer program of excursions.  Donations should be sent to Nathan Lewis, President of the Board, John J. Davis or any of the other directors. [Editor’s Note – This was the Jewish version of the popular movement to provide trips to the country for children living in the tenements of major cities.]

1885: It was reported today that in Vienna, the Liberals had elected 8 candidates, the Democrats had elected three candidates and the anti-Semites had elected one candidate.  It was their poor showing at the polls that caused the anti-Semites to begin rioting in the Austrian capital.

1887: Witnesses continued to testify in the trial of Adolph Reich who has been charged with murdering his wife last April. A former landlady testified that Reich had hit his wife and pulled her hair out while another testified that Reich thought his wife was having an affair with him.  The witnesses denied the accusations saying he visited her to pick up the coats which made for his shop. Proceedings were delayed because a Hebrew Bible had to be brought to the courtroom for use by some of the witness.

1888: A convention was held today in Philadelphia that incorporated the American Jewish Publication Society.  In a telegram sent to the meeting from Berlin by Jacob H. Schiff, the prominent businessman and philanthropist offered to donate five thousand dollars to an endowment named in honor of Michael Heilprin if the society can raise an additional fifty thousand dollars in the next year.The purpose of JPS was and is to publish in English books of Jewish interest. Among its hundreds of publications are Graetz's, Dubnov's and Baron's History's of the Jews, and Ginsburg's Legends of the Jews. Other important authors included Israel Zangwill, Leo Baeck, Cecil Roth, Jacob R. Marcus, and Louis Finkelstein. Starting in 1899, the JPS has published the American Jewish Yearbook.

1892(8th of Sivan, 5652):Isidore Loeb, a French-Jewish scholar passed away.  Born at Sulzmatt (Soultzmatt), Upper Alsace in 1839, he was “the son of Rabbi Seligmann Loeb of Sulzmatt” and “was educated in Bible and Talmud by his father. After having followed the usual course in the public school of his native town, Loeb studied at the college of Rufach and at the lycée of Colmar, in which city he at the same time attended classes in Hebrew and Talmud at the preparatory rabbinical school founded by Chief Rabbi Solomon Klein. In 1856 he entered the Central Rabbinical School (Ecole Centrale Rabbinique) at Metz, where he soon ranked high through his knowledge of Hebrew, his literary ability, and his proficiency in mathematics. In 1862 he was graduated, and received his rabbinical diploma from the Séminaire Israélite de France at Paris, which had replaced (1859) the Metz Ecole Centrale Rabbinique. Loeb did not immediately enter upon a rabbinical career, but tutored for some years, first at Bayonne, France and then at Paris. In 1865 he was called to the rabbinate of St. Etienne (Loire). His installation sermon, on the duties of the smaller congregations (Les Devoirs des Petites Communautés), is one of the best examples of French pulpit rhetoric. Soon, however, he felt a desire to extend the field of his activity. He went to Paris, where he was appointed secretary of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, which position he held until his death. It was largely due to Loeb's labors that this association became an important factor in the progress of Oriental Judaism; and he created the library of the Alliance, which is one of the most valuable Jewish libraries in existence. Meanwhile he continued his historical and philological researches, and developed an extensive literary activity. The chair of Jewish history in the Rabbinical Seminary of Paris having become vacant through the death of Albert Cohn (1877), Loeb was appointed his successor. He held this position for 12 years. His main activity, however, was devoted to the Société des Etudes Juives, which was organized in Paris in 1880. Beginning with the first number, he successfully edited the Revue des Études Juives, the organ of that society, and was, moreover, a voluminous and brilliant contributor thereto.

1889: Forty-six year old Bernhard Förster a leading German anti-Semite who described Jews as “a parasite on the German body” and who was married to the Elisabeth Nietzsche, the sister of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche committed suicide today in San Bernardino, Paraguay.

1890: The Reverend Dr. Madison Clinton Peters, the author of Justice to the Jew, The Wit and Wisdom of the Talmud and The Jew as a Patriotmarried Miss Sarah H. Hart in Philadelphia, PA, today.

1890: “Catechising The People” published today described the challenges census takers faced among New York’s immigrant population.  Once the Jews understood “the purpose of the questions they became quite cheerful and communicative.”

1891: It was reported today that New York’s 25^th police precinct under the command of Captain John Gunner is home to many prominent public buildings and institutions including several synagogues and the Mount Sinai Hospital

1891: In Vilna, David and Sarah Abramowtiz gave birth University of Cincinnati graduate and HUC ordained Rabbi, Samuel Joshua Abrams, the husband of Sarah R. Friedman who served several congregations starting with B’nai Israel in Kalamazoo before finally settling in at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Boston in 1920 which led to him being a member of the Board of Jewish Education In Boston and being a member of the executive committee of the Boston Zionist Organization.

1892(8^th of Sivan, 5652): Fifty-two year old Isidore Loeb the editor of the Revue Des Etudes Jives, a quarterly created by the Société des Etudes Juives passed away today.

1892: Comptroller Myers said today “that the discrepancies he had discovered in the accounts of two public institution,” one of which the Ladies’ Deborah Nursery and Child’s Protectory, “arose from a lack of conformity between the commitment papers of the children made out by the police magistrate’s clers and the papers made out by the officials of the homes.”

1892: “Hamilton College Clark Prize” published today described the outcome of the school’s public speaking competition which was won by Gregory Rosenblum who spoke on “The Jews of Russia,”

1893(19^th of Sivan, 5653): Sixty-one year old Joshua Hendricks passed away this evening at his home on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Mr. Hendricks was a fourth generation owner of Hendricks Brothers, a firm specializing in metals (specifically copper) which was founded in 1764.

1893: Forty-six year old Member of Parliament “Arthur Strauss married 29-year-old Minna Cohen on 3 June 1893 at the Register Office in the District of St. George's Square, Pimlico, London.”

1893: “Senator Hill Backed Down” published today described a verbal altercation that took place when Senator Hill, a member of the Senate Committee on Immigration asked Colonel John Weber, the former Commissioner of Immigration at the Port of New York (Ellis Island) if he gotten his position as a general agent for the Baron Hirsch Fund “because of the special favors show to Jews on Ellis Island.” Weber, a veteran of the Civil War and a former member of the House of Representatives who had used his experience as an agriculturalist to help the Hirsch Colony at Woodbine, NJ “flushed angrily” at the accusation and told Senator Hill, “You had better put that question again.  I hardly understand it.”  Hill chose not to repeat the question which was indicative of his anti-Jewish bias when it to immigration.

1893: Six years after the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition was held in 1887, a meeting was held under the leadership of Lucien Wolf at the club of the Maccabaeans in London where the Jewish Historical Society of London was founded for the purpose of "conducting researches into the history of the Jews of the British empire, transcribing and publishing documents, forming a library and museum, and organizing a course of lectures on general Jewish history."

1894: Approximately 2,000 people attended the annual reception at the Montefiore Home for Incurables which was held this afternoon.

1894: “New Publications” published today included a review of Roger Williams: The Pioneer of Religious Liberty by Oscar S. Strauss.

1895: Isaac Stern, Dr. Alfred Meyer and Professor Felix Adler were among those who spoke at the graduation exercise of the 1895 class of the Mount Sinai Training School for Nurses where sixteen graduates four of whom were Jewish were honored today.

1895: Birthdate of Hungarian born American movie maker Zoltan Korda, who was the ‘middle brother” of two other filmmakers – Alexander Korda and Vincent Korda.

1896: General James R. O’Beirne and Rabbi Rudolph Grossman of Temple Beth-El were among those who gave addresses at exercises held today in the auditorium of the Educational Alliance Building where students enrolled in the Baron de Hirsch English day classes demonstrated the progress they had made since Memorial Day.

1896: Birthdate of Rochester, NY native, NYU trained attorney and U.S. Navy Ensign in WW I, Benjamin Jacob Rabin, the New York Congressman who moved on to being a judge in the New York state judicial system while being married to Syd Sobel Rabin.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/benjamin-rabin

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/02/24/77444148.pdf

1898: Four days after his death, 38 year old Myer Franks was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.

1899: “The Court of Cassation” revised “the Dreyfus case and” ordered “a new trial before the court-martial at Rennes.

1900(6^th of Sivan, 5660): First Shavuot of the 20^thcentury

1900: Birthdate New York native and college drop-out Abel Green, the longtime editor of Variety who was first hired as journalist by Simon Silverman.

1900: Birthdate of Brooklyn native, NYU trained accountant and Fordham trained attorney, Abraham Mandel a political reformer, Zionist and supporter of FDR.

1900: The International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGW) is founded.  In its early days, the union was dominated by Jews who made up a disproportionate number of the workers in an industry known for its sweatshop conditions.  At the close of the 20^th century, the Union gained renewed famed for its jingle “Look for the Union label in the clothes you are wearing.”

1901: “Protective League Meeting” published today described a meeting what used to be called the Jewish Peddler’s Union where “an appeal for justice was made for the entire Jewish race, both rich and poor.”

1902: “Jerome Answers Gruber” published today provided the District Attorney’s criticism of him for using the term “Ghetto” when referring to the Lower East Side saying that “the Ghetto is not a term of reproach” and that is merely “signifies a district in which a number of Hebrews live.”

1903: Birthdate of Russian native David C. Anchin, the CCNY trained accountant and Fordham trained attorney who raised two daughters – Ruth and Isabel – with his “wife, the former Anne Sternlight.

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/20/obituaries/david-c-anchin-accountant-86.html

1903: A mass meeting to protest the atrocities inflicted by the Russians on the Jews is scheduled to be held tonight at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.

1904: Herzl leaves for Edlach, Austria accompanied by his wife and his fellow Zionist Yona Kremenetzky.

1904: “The Seventh Annual Convention of the Federation of American Zionists” opened today at Germania Hall in Cleveland, OH.

1904: Birthdate Jacob Pincus Perelmuth who gained fame as Jan Peerce, the Cantor and a tenor performing at the New York Metropolitan Opera.

1905(29^th of Iyar, 5665): Parashat Bamidbar

1905: Dr. David Blaustein presided over “the first of a series of meeting of Jews throughout the United States to rasie a fund for the relief of the Jews Russia which was held tonight in the auditorium of the Educational Alliance on East Broadway

1906: In Louisville, Adath Israel Temple dedicated its third congregational home. The building was designed by architects Kenneth McDonald and J.F. Sheblessy and was commonly known as the “Third Street Synagogue.” Following it merger with Brith Sholom in 1976, the congregation took the name Congregation Adath Israel Brith Sholom

1907: Harry Harris, the Jewish boxer who had given up the ring for the theatre, missed the “rosin” so much that today he was signed to fight Harlem Tommy Murphy, a leading contender in the lightweight class.

1909: The Hebrew Relief Association of Peoria, Illinois gave $5.00 to the National Conference of Jewish Charities today.

1910: In New York, Joseph Russell Levy, “the son of a prosperous Jewish cigar manufacturer from Salt Lake City” and Alta Mae Goddard, an Episcopalian gave birth to Marion Goddard Levy who gained fame as actress of Paulette Goddard.

1911(7^th of Sivan, 5671): Second Day of Shavuot

1911(7^th of Sivan, 5671): Mildred G. Calisch the only daughter Edward Nathan Calisch, the graduate of HUC and rabbi of Congregation Beth Ahabah in Richmond, VA, was killed today in an automobile accident.

1911: Birthdate of Marion Levy who gained fame as the actress Paulette Goddard known for playing opposite Charlie Chaplin in "The Great Dictator."

1912: The 16^th annual convention of the National Association of Clothiers opened at the Royal Palace Hotel in Atlantic City where for the first time the organization was not led by Marcus W. Marks who, after eleven years had resigned his Presidency in Januuary.

1912: Aviation pioneer and Adas Israel congregant, Arthur Welsh prepares for a two-hour test of the Wright military planes.

1913: Birthdate of Yitzhak Berman the native of Berdychiv who made Aliyah in 1920 and following military service pursued a successful legal career before entering politics where he rose to Speaker of the Knesset.

1913: In Manhattan, Abraham and Ida Krim gave birth to Norman Bernard Krim “an electronics visionary who played a pivotal role in the industry’s transition from the bulky electron vacuum tube, which once lined the innards of radios and televisions, to the tiny, far more powerful transistor…He , did not invent the transistor…but he saw the device’s potential and persuaded his company to begin manufacturing it on a mass scale…” (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)

1914: In a telegram dated today, the St. Petersburg Correspondent of The Times said, “In order to attract” foreign investments the Czar is believed to be “in favor of the gradual removal of certain disabilities regard the participation of Jews in joint stock companies.”

1915: It was reported today that Rush Rhees, the President of the University of Rochester is scheduled to speak at the upcoming meeting called to protest the execution of Leo M. Frank.

1915: At a mass meeting, the Cincinnati (Ohio) Businessman Men’s Club “passed a resolution asking for the Governor of Georgia to commute the sentence” of Leo Frank “to life imprisonment.

1915: At Columbus, Ohio, the Directors of the Chamber of Commerce voted to ask for clemency for Leo Frank.

1915: Following his release from prison for his role in the death of Mary Phagan, Jim Conley was reported today to “show no remorse” and declared that Frank “ought to be hanged.”

1915: Among those who signed the petition sent from Brooklyn to the Governor of Georgia asking for clemency for Leo Frank were Brooklyn Borough President Lewis H. Pounds, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Callaghan, Dr. S. Edward Young, the pastor of the Bedford Presbyterian Church, Congressman Rueben Haskell and United States District Attorney Melville J. France.

1916: The British and French declare a state of siege in Salonica and remove all Greeks from official posts due to the possibility they were pro-German.

1916: It was reported today that “under Austrian law non-Christians may marry Jews but not Catholics nor Protestants.”

1916: It was reported today that the State Board of Charities had heard conflicting information at the hearing on granting a charter for the Beth Moses Hospital in Williamsburg with Justice Jacob St. Strahl representing the Hebrew Ladies’ Dispensary and Dr. J.M. Goldberg asserting that the charter should not be granted and Rabbi Raisin telling the board that “Williamsburg had 200,000 Jews…and that it could well afford to maintain two ‘kosher’ hospitals.’

1917: “The thirteenth annual meeting of the Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society” is scheduled to “be held at the Auditorium of the Irene Kaufmann Settlement” in Pittsburgh at two o’clock this afternoon.

1917: In Chicago, the meeting of the Young Women’s Auxiliary of the Jewish Consumptive’s Relief Society is scheduled to take place today at the Sinai Center.

 1917: Following reports of a German bombing raid conducted for the first time by bombers instead of Zeppelins that killed 95 and injured 192, “Albert Einstein wrote a friend in Holland, ‘The ancient Jehovah is still abroad.  Alas he slays the innocent along with the guilty, whom he strikes so fearsomely blind that they can feel no sense of guilt.’”

1917: In Chicago, the closing exercises of the K.A.M. Sabbath School are scheduled to take places this morning in vestry rooms of the Temple.

1917: Joseph Feinberg, N.M. Barnett, Leo H. Hoffman and N.D. Kaplan are among those who are scheduled to address this afternoon’s mass meeting at Congregation Beth Hamedrosh Hagodel as preparations are made for electing delegates to the American Jewish Congress.

1917: Ruby Davis will play patriotic airs and Major Abel Davis will speak on “Jewish Patriotism” at the annual meeting and supper of the Isaiah Alumni Association will is scheduled to start at 6:30 this evening.

1917: The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of Camden, New Jersey purchased 572 and 574 Walnut Street from Smith C. Moore and his wife Elizabeth, for the sum of $4,000 as recorded in Camden County's real estate records, Book 418, pages 296 and 297. On the same the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of Camden, New Jersey purchased 570 Walnut Street from Joseph F. and Mary C. Mack for $2100, as recorded in Camden County's real estate records, Book 418, pages 297 and 298.

1917: In New York City, 16 year old Josephine (née Condon) and 31 year old Bernard Gorcey, both of whom were vaudeville actors gave birth to Leo Bernard Gorcey best known for his roles with The Bowery Boys and the Dead End Kids.

1917: During WW I, anti-Jewish riots broke out Leeds, UK.

1917: U.S. premiere of “The Slave,” a silent five reel move filmed by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg.

1918: “The provisional Zionist Committee” in New York City “received a cable from Lemberg, Galicia,” today that described the arrival there of Daniel Auster “a teacher at the Jewish High School in Haifa” who was one of the 1,500 Jews deported by the Turks and sent to Damascus.

1918(23^rd of Sivan, 5678): Seventy-eight year old Louis Barnett Abrahams, the son of Hannah and Cantor Barnett Abrahams, the husband of Fannie Rosetta Mosely and the nephew of Sofer and Dayan Rabbi Aaron Levy, who became the headmaster of Jews’ Free School in London and founder of the Jewish Record passed away today.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6753208/l_b_abrahams_times_obituary/

http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-59256

1919(5^th of Sivan, 5679): Erev Shavuot; Jews prepare to observe the holiday for the first time since the end of the World War

1920: Rabbi Jacques J. Lyons son Julius J. Lyons the lawyer and banker who had left his home in New Jersey a year ago to live with his son Edwin in San Diego and who passed away last month was remembered in print today for his charitable and civic activities including service on the boards of the Mount Sinai Hospital, the Hebrew Technical Institute and the Montefiore Home

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F7081EF8345F1B7A93C1A9178DD85F448285F9

1921: On the King’s Birthday, Sir Herbert Samuel, the High Commissioner for Palestine made the first official interpretation of the Balfour Declaration, assuring the Arabs that immigration would be controlled according to the "economic absorptive capacity" of the country - and in fact suspended immigration, though only temporarily.  In describing the impact of the speech to Winston Churchill at the end of the month, Samuel said the Jewish population viewed the speech as a “severe set-back” to their aspirations and that it made them feel “very nervous and apprehensive.

1921(26th of Iyar, 5681): German born New York physician Simon Baruch, father of Bernard Baruch, passed away

1922(7^th of Sivan, 5682): Second Day of Shavuot

1922: “After the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry had published its findings on the Arab Riots of 1921,” today, the government issued a White Paper stating “that the Balfour Declaration could not be amended and that the Jews were in Palestine by right,” but which “reduced the area of the Mandate by excluding the area east of the Jordan River” giving given to the Emir Abdullah and establishing for the first time  “the principle of "economic absorptive capacity" as a factor for determining the immigration quota of Jews to Palestine”

1922: Birthdate of English actress Joy Shelton, the wife of actor Sydney Tafler, the son of “Eva (née Kosky) and Mark Tafler.

https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/joy_shelton

1924(1st of Sivan, 5684):  Rosh Chodesh Sivan

1924(1st of Sivan, 5684):  Franz Kafka, author of The Trial and Metamorphosis, passed away at the age of 40.

1924: In his first year as a professional 18 year old Sidney “Sid” Terris won “a ten round decision on points at the Henderson Bowl in Brooklyn.”

1925: In the Bronx, Helen (née Klein) and Emanuel Schwartz gave birth do Bernard Shwartz, who gained fame as actor Tony Curtis and may be best known for his performance  in the film "Some Like It Hot," where he co-starred with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemon.

http://www.tonycurtis.com/page/page/8747138.htm

1925: Birthday Bucharest native Mindru, the Israeli pianist.

http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Katz-Mindru.htm

1926: Birthdate Newark, NJ Irwin Allen Ginsberg who gained fame as poet and beatnik, Allen Ginsberg.

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/allen-ginsberg

1928: In New York, “Max and Eva Rebecca Dolansky” gave birth to Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin, the husband of Tziva Donin and the author of To Be a Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life.

http://thewisdomdaily.com/is-it-still-possible-to-find-spiritual-fulfillment-at-a-synagogue/

1928 (14^th of Sivan): Samuel Chaim Landau founder of Torah va-Avo-dah, the religious Zionist movement, passed away 

1929: In Philadelphia, “Edith (née Cohen) and Nathaniel Barris, a dentist” gave birth Charles Hirsch Barris who as Chuck Barris gained fame for creating numerous TV game shows including the Newlywed Game and the Gong Show.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/chuck-barris-dead-dies-gong-show-host-1202013790/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/arts/chuck-barris-dead-gong-show-creator.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1930(7^th of Sivan, 5690): Second Day of Shavuot

1931: “The Band Wagon,”  “a musical revue with book by George S. Kaufman and Howard Dietz, lyrics by Howard Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz” “opened on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre.”

1932: Birthdate of Fischel Lebowitz the native of Transylvania, Romania, who survived the Holocaust, and as Fred Lebow became a successful American businessman, an avid distance runner and the founder of the New York City Marathon.

1933: As the Catholic Church sought to establish positive relations with the new Nazi regime, “a joint pastoral letter appeared from the German Bishops' Conference” that “contained a statement that if the State would only respect certain rights and requirements of the Church, the Church would gratefully and happily support the new situation.”

1936(13^th of Sivan, 5696): Abraham Adelberg who came to the United States in 1888 where he was a successful “clothing merchant” and trustee of the village of Cedarhurst, NY which he served as Mayor from 1926 to 1932 passed away today.

1936: Professor Georg Bernhard, the German journalist, statesman and economist” who had said “in an interviews that his mission is to work to unseat Hitler in Germany” arrived in New York today aboard the liner Paris “as the guest of the American Jewish Congress.”

1936: “Assurance that Great Britain would halt Arab uprisings and safeguard the rights of Jews in Palestine was given” today “by Major Henry Adam Procter, Conservative Member of the House of Commons, at a luncheon tendered him by the Zionist Organization of America at the Hotel Astor.”

1936: “The Mandates Commission of the League of Nations decided today after a two-day discussion to deal with the present unrest in Palestine at this session, in connection with the 1935 report of Great Britain as the mandatory, in so far as is now possible and not to defer discussion of the report to its Autumn session.”

1936: As the Arab uprising continues, David Vardi, a 27 year old owner of an orange packing house near… Rishon Litzion and Israel Arger, a 31 year old workman, were seriously wounded today when two Arabs who were old friends of theirs shot them in the packing house. Both were shot in the head and there is little hope for their recovery. In Haifa, a bomb was thrown at a Jewish owned bus, wounding three riders. 

1937: The Palestine Post reported that the Polish General Consul in Jerusalem told the Va’ad Leumi (The National Council of Palestine Jews) that he was deeply distressed at the recent anti-Jewish disturbances in Poland. He promised to forward, without delay, the Va’ad protest to his government. The Palestine government agreed to compensate, to a certain extent, the victims of the 1936 Arab disturbances, or their dependents

1938: “Josette,” a comedy co-starring Simone Simon and with music by Walter Scharf was released today in the United States.

1939: The fifty children rescued from Nazi Europe in act of courage and derring-do by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, arrived today in New York aboard the S.S President Harding.

1939(16^th of Sivan, 5699): Fifty year old Sir Philip Sassoon, a member of the distinguished Sassoon family passed away today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Philip_Sassoon,_3rd_Baronet

http://www.jta.org/1939/06/05/archive/sir-philip-sassoon-dead-in-london-at-50



1940: It was reported today that during his commencement address at the Jewish Institute of Religion, Dr. James G. Heller, vice president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis said “When the world is faced with terror, go back to the past of Israel and believe in your people and in yourself.” (He said this as the Jews of Poland feel under the heel of Nazi and Soviet tyranny)

1941: Author Irving Wallace married writer Sylvia Kahn.

1941: Eighty-two year old Kaiser Wilhelm II died in exile today.

http://www.jta.org/1941/06/05/archive/ex-kaiser-dead-at-82-turned-anti-semitic-after-germanys-defeat

http://www.vlib.us/wwi/resources/archives/texts/t050404/will.html

1942: The German military commander of occupied France ordered all Jews to wear a yellow Star of David with the inscription "Juif" on it.

1942(18th of Sivan, 5702): In Warsaw, 110 Jews were shot in the prison on Gesia Street. Ten Jewish policemen are among the victims.

1942: Jews revolt in Breslau, Germany.

1943(29th of Iyar, 5703): German troops in the Warsaw Ghetto destroy a bunker on Walowa Street that conceals 150 Jews.  It was one of the last remaining bunkers in the ghetto. By September, all that were remaining would be flushed out and destroyed.

1943: Near Michalowice, Poland, Germans kill two Polish farmers who have rescued and hidden three Jewish escapees in a barn.

1943: Max Sievers, a non-Jewish opponent of the Nazis who had immigrated to the United States in 1939 but was forced to leave because he could not get a visa was arrested by the Gestapo today.

1944: In response to Rudolf Kastner's plea to let some of the Hungarian Jews remain in Budapest, Eichmann said, "I have to clean up the provincial towns of the Jewish garbage. I must take this Jewish muck out of the provinces. I cannot play the role of the savior of the Jews.”

1944: A train from Lyon arrived in Birkenau. One survivor, Freda Silberberg, stated how it was the French that arrested her, not the Germans. Dr. Mengele selected Freda for his experiment pool.

1945: As European colonial powers sort out their holdings in a post-war world, French troops temporarily left Damascus at the same time that Jews in Palestine were suffering the disillusioning reality that the British had no intention allowing the establishment of a Jewish homeland.

1946: “The foundation stone of the Institute of Biophysics and Physical Chemistry was laid today under a blazing sun” today Rehovoth.

1947: “Ernest Papanek, executive director of American Youth for World Youth, today told the national conference of Jewish Social Welfare” at their meeting in Baltimore that “Jewish youth in Europe, particularly in the displaced persons camps, constitute a new pschological species of shock cases, as a result of "an utterly abnormal life.”

1948: Four Egyptian aircraft flew over Tel Aviv on what would be the 16^th bombing raid over the Jewish city. Numerous civilian casualties had been sustained in the previous attacks and the residents expected more of the same.

1948: In a modern version of David versus Goliath, Modi Alon flew Israel’s one serviceable fighter aircraft across the Tel Aviv skies and attacked four Egyptian aircraft that were set to bomb the city.  Alon shot down the two bombers and forced their fighter escorts to flee.  These were the first aerial combat victories scored by the IAF.  In one of those strange moments of the war, the people of Tel Aviv actually watched the performance of a combat air arm that they had not known even existed.

1948(25th of Iyar, 5708):Eighty-one year old Avraham Mordechai Alter who was also known as the Imrei Emes after the works he authored, was the third Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger a position he held from 1905 until his death in 1948 passed away today.He was one of the founders of the Agudas Israel in Poland and was influential in establishing a network of Jewish schools there. It is claimed that at one stage he led over 200,000 Hasidim.

1948: Having survived the Holocaust and the “Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia” wine make Eugen Herzog, his wife Sidonia and their children arrived in New York City clinging to the earthen potato pot on which they had prepared their meals while hiding in Europe. (As reported by Laurie Gwen Shapiro)

1949: “Du Guesclin” a film about a 14^th century general featuring Gérard Oury as “Charles V of France” was released in France today.

1949: In Baltimore, MD, Elizabeth D. (née Davidson) and Donald N. Rothman, a lawyer and the brother of film executive Tom Rothman, gave birth to actor John Mahr Rothman.

1949: NBC and DuMont broadcast the final episode of the “Admiral Broadway Revue” a variety show created by Max Liebman with scripts by Mel Brooks and Mel Tolken starring Sid Caesar.

1953: Professor Otto Loewi, winner in 1936 of the Noble in medicine for the discovery of the chemical transmission of nervous impulses who is now the Research Professor of Pharmacology in the New York University College of Medicine celebrated his 80^th birthday today.

1954: Today 17 year old Abbie Hoffman was arrested for the first, but not the last, tie “for driving without a licencse.

1956: NBC broadcast the last episode of “The Bachelors” with music by David Rose today.

1957: Howard Cosell's television show appeared for the first time.

1960: Four newly deciphered letters of Bar Kochba describing organizational challenges faced by the leader of the revolt against the Roman Empire (132-135 CE) were presented in a lecture given today by Professor Yigal Yadin today at Hebrew University. The letters revealed that the supply route for Bar Kochba’s soldiers was via Ein Gedi and Tekoa.  This is the same Tekoa which was home to the prophet Amos.  Yigal Yadin was head of the Israeli military during the War for Independence.  His work helped to establish for those who had doubts, the legitimacy of Jewish history.

1961: The final curtain came down on “Wildcat,” with music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh

1963(11^th of Sivan, 5723): Eighty-eight year old American Orientalist William Popper, the husband of Tess Magnes, and brother-in-law of Dr. Judah Magnes, who wrote his doctorial decision at Columbia under Dr. Richard Gottheil passed away today.

http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb338nb1j4;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00016&toc.depth=1&toc.id=&brand=calisphere

1963:  Pope John XXIII passed away. Born Angelo Roncalli, in 1935 he was made Apostolic Delegate to Turkey and Greece. Roncalli used this office to help the Jewish underground in saving thousands of refugees in Europe, leading some to consider him to be a Righteous Gentile

1964: Israel played South Korea in the finals of the 1964 AFC Asian Cup football tournament at Ramat Gan Stadium.

1964: After a week of matches, Israel won the 1964 AFC Asian Cup.

1965: U.S. premiere of “The Sandpiper” with a script co-authored by Dalton Trumbo and music by Johnny Mandel.

1965: “The Knack…and How to Get It,” the award winning comedy directed by Richard Lester and produced by Oscar Lewenstein was released today in the United Kingdom

1967: Shabbat was not a day of rest as the Arab vise squeezed around the state Israel.  The people were beginning to feel the psychological pain of being surrounded.  The Israeli economy was unraveling under the pressure of continuous mobilization.  Dyan continued to review the plans of the General Staff.  Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Avraham Harman landed in Israel and reported to Eshkol, Eban, and the senior military officers that the West would not come to Israel’s assistance.  If the blockade were to be broken, Israel must do it herself.  As the various leaders left that evening the plan was clear.  Israel would take action against Egypt, and only Egypt.  Jordan would not be attacked if Jordan stayed out of the fight.  Contrary to revisionist historians, there was no grand military plan to seize the Sinai, the Golan, the West Bank and Jerusalem.  The fact that Israel ended up with these at the end of the war was a result of shifting tactical situations as well as the fear on the part of the Arab states that if they did not fight they would miss out on the spoils that went with the destruction of the Jewish state

1968(7^th of Sivan, 5728): As Gene McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy battle out it in California during the Democratic Presidential Primaries, Jews observe the second day of Shavuot, the last Jewish holiday Kennedy will be alive for.

1969(17^th of Sivan, 5729): Seventy-two year old James Warburg, the son of Paul Warburg and nephew of Jacob Schiff whose colorful life including serving as a Navy pilot in WW I, financial advisor to FDR, a stint with Wild Bill Donovan during WW II and advocacy for international cooperation as a way of preventing WW III passed away today.

1970(28^th of Iyar, 5730) Yom Yerushalyim

1971(10^th of Sivan, 5731): Sixty-eight year old civic leader Barbara Ochs Adler, the widow of General Julius Ochs Adler passed away today.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/adler-barbara-ochs

1971: German born mathematician Heinz Hopf passed away.  His father was Jewish but his mother was not.  For the Nazis, this made him Jewish and he sought refuge in Swiss citizenship during the Hitler period.

1972: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Sally J. Priesand, 25, became the first woman in Reform Judaism to be ordained as a Rabbi.

1973(3^rd of Sivan, 5733): Eighty-one year old Dr. Joseph Herman Isenstead, the West Prussian born son of Herman and Jenny (Eisack) Eisenstadt and a holder of the Iron Cross for his four years of service in the Medical Corps of the German Army in WW I who, along with his wife the former Elly Neuman, in 1936, came to the United States where he practiced “medicine specializing in the treatment of liver disease” passed away today.

1974: Albert Isakovich Koltunov, lottery worker from Chernovtsy was sentenced to five years strict regime prison on trumped-up charge of bribery after he had applied for exit visa to Israel mid-February 1974 and was arrested on March 14th.

1974: Aharon Uzan completed his term as Communications Minister. 

1974: Yitzhak Rabin, the first native-born Israeli (Sabra) to become prime minister of Israel, assumed office.

1974: Avraham Ofer replaced Yehoshua Rabinovitz as Minister of Housing and Construction.

1974: Yosef Burg completed his term as Interior Minister

1974: Shlomo Hillel replaced Yosef Berg as Interior Minister

1974: Yigal Allon began his term as Foreign Minister

1974: Avraham Ofer, replaced Yehoshua Rabinovitz as Communications Minster

1974: Gad Yaacobi replaced Aharon Yariv as Transportation Minister

1974: Hairm Yosef Zadok replaced Yitzhak Rafael as Minister of Religious Services.

1975: “Chicago,” a musical with lyrics by Fred Ebb, who co-authored “the book” and co-starring Jerry Orbach openeded today at the 46^thStreet Theatre.

1976(5^th of Sivan, 5736): Erev Shavuot

1976: Composer Randy Edelman, the son of a New Jersey Jewish family, married singer Jackie DeShannon.

1976: “President Gerald M. Ford signs into law a bill creating a U.S. Commission on Security and       Cooperation in Europe (the “Helsinki Commission”) to monitor adherence to the Helsinki process.  The Commission has the active support of the Soviet Jewry Movement and human rights groups.”

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel would not take any steps against Syria until more was known about the extent and purpose of their incursion into Lebanon. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin reported that Syrian soldiers were clashing with and killing terrorists.

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that Yigael Yadin, the leader of the new political party, the Democratic Movement for Change, which won 13 seats in the Knesset elections, was offered the deputy premiership in the Menachem Begin's new Likud cabinet. 1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Israeli Kfir multi-mission combat aircraft was one of the leading stars at the Le Bourget aircraft mart in Paris. 1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that an annual prize in the field of the coverage of Israel's foreign relations was established in memory of Ted Lurie, the second editor of the Post.

1979: Three people were injured when a bomb went off at a bookstore in Jerusalem.

1982: Moscow refusenik and Hebrew teacher Pavel Abramovich was summoned to the KGB for the third time in the course of a month.

1982: The Israeli ambassador to Britain, Shlomo Argov, was shot on a London street. The failed assassination attempt was under the command of Fatah leader Abu Nidal. Argov survived but was permanently paralyzed.

1982: Israeli planes attack Palestinian camps in Lebanon after Fatah attempted to murder Ambassador Argov in London.

1983: “The Man With Two Brains” a comedy directed by Carl Reiner who also co-wrote the script was released in the United States today.

1983: A month after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, “WarGames” produced by Leonard Goldberg and featuring Maury Chaykin was released in the United States today.

1983: “The Last American Virgin” directed by Boaz Davidson who also wrote the script, produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan and filmed by cinematographer Adam Greenberg was released in Sweden today.

1983(22nd of Sivan, 5743): Harry Lieberman, a primitive-style painter who began his career as an artist in his 70's, died today in North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, L.I., after suffering a cardiac arrest. Mr. Lieberman was 106 years old and lived in Great Neck, L.I. Throughout his 26 years as a painter, Mr. Lieberman completed hundreds of pieces and his work was shown in museums and galleries in Great Neck, in New York and in the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington. His work has also been on display in Houston, Seattle, Los Angeles, La Jolla, Calif., and Rotterdam, Holland. It was the boredom of his retirement after selling his confectioner business at the age of 74 that prompted Mr. Lieberman to try his hand at sketching at an art class at the Great Neck Golden Age Club. Mr. Lieberman soon moved on to watercolors and oil painting, using the two-dimensional primitive style. As a young man Mr. Lieberman studied the Talmud, and stories from that religious work as well as the Bible served as the subject matter for most of his paintings. He once told an interviewer that a man of his age - he was 100 at the time - needed a reason to get out of bed in the morning and that the older he got the better that reason needed to be. Mr. Lieberman was born Naftulo Hertzke Liebhaber in Gnieveshev, Poland, in November 1876. In 1906 at the age of 29 he emigrated to the United States, sending for his wife two years later. The Liebermans, who worked first as cloth cutters, bought a candy store that soon prospered into a wholesale confectioner business.

1983(22^nd of Sivan, 5743): Eight-six year old labor leader Charles S. Zimmerman passed away today (As reported by Joseph B. Treaster)

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/05/obituaries/charles-s-zimmerman-dies-at-86-longtime-garment-union-leader.html

1987(6^th of Sivan, 5747): Shavuot

1987(6^th of Sivan, 5747): Seventy-nine year old Jackie Fields (born Jacob Finkelstein) who won a Gold Medal in the featherweight division during the 1924 Summer Olympics and as a professional won the Welterweight Title passed away today in Los Angeles.

1988: “Big,” a comedy produced by James L. Brooks, with a script co-authored by Anne Spielberg, featuring Jon Lovitz, with music by Howard Shore and filmed by cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld was released in the United States today.

1988(18^th of Sivan, 5748): Eighty-two year old Edith Mayer Goetz the wife of the late movie producer William Goetz and daughter of the late film mogul Louis B. Mayer, passed today at her home in Los Angeles after a lengthy illness.

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-06-04/news/mn-3689_1_late-film

1990(10^th of Sivan, 5750): Eighty-five year old Nathaniel “Nate” Weinstock who “played tackle at Western Maryland College in the 1920’s” and who was good enough to play for the East team in the East-West Shrine All-Star Football Game passed away today.

1992: Ron Castan and Briean Keon-Cohen represented Eddie Mabo before the High Court in Australia which ruled in the claimant’s favor thus establishing the “concept of native title.”

1995(5^th of Sivan, 5755): Erev Shavuot

1995(5^th of Sivan, 5755): Seventy-two year old “Arthur K. Shapiro, a psychiatrist whose work at Mount Sinai Medical School advanced the knowledge and treatment of Tourette's Syndrome” passed away today. (As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/06/obituaries/arthur-shapiro-72-led-research-of-tourette-s.html

1996:"Theme from Mission: Impossible” the theme tune of the TV series Mission: Impossible The theme which was written and composed by Lalo Schifrin was released on CD and vinyl today.

2000: “Today the Four Mothers” led Ms. Ben Dor who had opposed Israel’s fighting in Lebanon,met with Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who last week completed the unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon that they had pushed for.” (As reported by Deborah Sontag.

2001: Mel Brook's won a record 12 Tony Awards for the musical comedy "The Producers."

2001: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Heinz Kohut:The Making of a Psychoanalystby Charles B. Strozier and the recently released paperback editions of Ravelsteinby Saul Bellow,I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945 by Victor Klemperer, The Human Stain by Philip Roth and Bee Season by Myla Goldberg.

2001(12^th of Sivan, 5761): Twenty-five year old Jan Bloom from Ramat Gan succumbed to the wounds she sustained when a suicide bomber exploded a bomb two days earlier at the Dolphinarim.

2001(12 of Sivan, 5761): Seventy-seven year old “Harry Zohn, an educator, writer and translator of important works of German literature” passed away today. (As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/12/us/harry-zohn-brandeis-professor-77.html

2001: Yitzhak Vaknin began another term as Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Welfare.

2002(23rd of Sivan, 5762): Eighty-nine year old businessman Lew Wasserman who was Chairman and CEO of MCA from 1946 until 1995 passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/04/business/lew-wasserman-89-is-dead-last-of-hollywood-s-moguls.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

2002: Ariel Sharon completes his term as Interior Minister.

2002: Eli Yishai begins his term as Minister of Internal Affairs.

2002: David Azulai becomes Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.

2003: Riding on the shoulders of ecstatic supporters, Ahmed Jubarah, a Palestinian released by Israel today after serving 28 years for a deadly 1975 bombing in Jerusalem as an act of goodwill on the part of the Israelis on the eve of peace talks, proclaimed himself a man of peace

2004: Today, Neil “Sedaka will bare his Yiddish soul at Carnegie Hall by singing the kind of songs he may have heard at his bar mitzvah party at Rosoff's in Times Square” No Jewish rock star has exposed his roots so explicitly with warhorses like ''My Yiddishe Mamme,''''Shein Vi Di L'Vone'' (''Pretty As the Moon'') and ''Mein Shtetele Belz'' (''My Village of Belz''). (As reported by Joseph Berger)

2005: The funeral of Israel Epstein, which was attended by numerous Chinese dignitaries, took place this morning at the Babaoshan Cemetery for Revolutionaries, in Shijingshan District, Beijing

2005(25^th of Iyar, 5765): Leon Askin passed away today in Vienna at the age of 97.  Born in 1907 as Leo Aschkenasy into a Jewish family in Vienna, Askin already wanted to be an actor as a child. His dream came true, and in the 1930s he worked as a cabaret artist and director at the "ABC Theatre" in Vienna: in this position he also helped the career of the writer Jura Soyfer get off the ground in 1935. Persecuted by the Nazis, Askin escaped to the United States via France, arriving in New York in 1940 with no money and less than a basic knowledge of English. When the U.S. entered the Second World War Askin joined the U.S. Army. While serving in the military he learned that his parents had been killed at Treblinka extermination camp. After the war, Askin went to Hollywood, invariably portraying foreign characters who speak English with a strong accent. He gained wide popularity by appearing as Gen. Albert Burkhalter in the sitcom Hogan's Heroes in the late 1960s.As opposed to other exiled Austrians, Askin never refused to work again in his home country. In 1994 he permanently took up residence in Vienna, where he remained active until his death in cabaret, as well as the Volksoper and Festwochen. He was awarded Vienna's Gold Medal of Honor.

2005: Release date for “Lords of Dogtown” co-starring Emile Hirsh

2005: In “Ghosts from the Ghetto” published today Sarah Ozacky-Lazar reviews Return to the Warsaw Ghetto by Marian Apfelbaum.

http://www.haaretz.com/general/ghosts-from-the-ghetto-1.160343

2005: Irish editor David Marcus, author of Oughtobiography – Leaves from the diary of a hyphenated Jew“was awarded an honorary Degree of Doctor of Literature by the National University of Ireland, University College, Cork”

2006(7th of Sivan, 5766): Second Day of Shavuot

2006: A group of neo-Nazis assaulted Croatia's Chief Rabbi Eliezer Aloni on a Zagreb street in front of his synagogue on Shabbat.

2007: In London, the ZF presents Portraits of Israel “a photographic journey through the history of Israel as seen through the lens of Rudi Weissenstein.  He dedicated his life to documenting Israel’s growth from 1936 until his death in 1992.  He was the official photographer at the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1948.

2007: The Sunday New York Times book section features reviews of two tomes about Jewish comedians,  It’s Good to be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks by James Parish and Rickles’ Bookby Don Rickles with David Ritz; The Big Question by Jewish game show host Chuck Barris, Summer Reading by Hilma Wolitzer, A Day at the Beach by Helen Schulman, From A Cause to a Style:Modernist Architecture’s Encounter With the American City  by Nathan Glazer,The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander, Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season by Jonathan Eig and Jewish author Joseph Finder’s review of April in Paris by Michael Wallner.

2007: The Sunday Washington Post book section features a review of The Gravediggers Daughter, a novel about a Jewish immigrant who struggles to blot out her past, by Joyce Carol Oates, who discovered late in life her own family's Jewish history. Her grandmother, who immigrated to the United States in the 1890s, kept her religion hidden for fear of persecution

2007: In an article entitled “Lower East Side Is Under a Groove,” the New York Times reports on the role played by Sion Misrahi, the son of Jewish immigrant from Greece, in the rejuvenation of New York’s Lower East Side.

2008: In Cedar Rapids, at Temple Judah, funeral services are held for Abbott Lipsky followed by the internment at Eben Israel Cemetery. Those who knew Abbott B. Lipsky remembered him t as the kind of person you wanted to befriend. Lipsky, well-known in Cedar Rapids for his work in the community, was described as a role model who had a wry sense of humor and a keen and inquiring mind. Lipsky passed away on Wednesday, May 28 at the age of 94. Lipsky's roles in the community included serving as the first chairman of the Cedar Rapids Civil Rights Commission, and founding the Citizen's Committee for the Cedar Rapids Public Schools and the Downtown Cedar Rapids Association. He moved to Cedar Rapids in 1945 to join his wife's family business, Smulekoff's Furniture Co., where he has served in management, later rising to president.

2008: As the race of Grand Rabbi of France heats up with weeks of sniping from both sides, the two main Jewish communal organizations in France — the CRIF and the Unified Jewish Social Fund, or FSJU — issued an unusual joint statement urging both sides to calm down.“It appears that a series of verbal, written and visual slips is hurting the dignity of the campaign and risks giving a negative image of our community as a whole. This is why CRIF and FSJU believe it is their duty to exhort the friends and supporters of the candidates to show restraint and keep in mind that beyond the democratic battle, the general interest of the community should prevail over any other considerations.”

2008: the Ville-Marie council unanimously voted to demolish the building that had been home to Bens De Luxe Delicatessen on condition that the developer must commemorate the deli in the new building.

2008: “Waiting for the Barbarians” an opera in two acts composed by Philip Glass, was performed today at the Barbican Centre in London.

2008: A recording of Philip Glass’ “Waiting for the Barbarians” “was released today on the Orange Mountain Music Label.”

2009: The Brooklyn International Film Festival, which will feature two Israeli movies, hosts a Kick-Off Party at Delancy restaurant.

2010: A series of programs Jewish including “Identity through Music” in which percussionists and composer David Freeman demonstrates how contemporary musicians incorporate and reinterpret traditional Jewish texts and “A One-Pot Seminar” in which Gabe Goldstein, Associate Director for Exhibitions and Programs at the Yeshiva University Museum discusses what we can learn about an individual's identity and community from a cholent pot are scheduled to be presented at Yeshiva University Museum as part of Limmud NY

2010: Danny Valencia “went 1 for 3” in his “Major League debut with the Minnesota Twins” today.

2010(21^stof Sivan, 5770): Steve Averbach, the former Monmouth County resident who was paralyzed in an attempt to thwart a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in 2003, died suddenly today at his home in Tel Aviv

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/app/obituary.aspx?n=steven-averbach&pid=143584151#fbLoggedOut

http://www.njjewishnews.com/article/1442/steve-averbach-hero-of-2003-attack-dies-at-44

2011(1^stof Sivan, 5771): Rosh Chodesh Sivan

2011(1^stof Sivan, 5771): One hundred one  year old “Harry Bernstein, whose painfully eloquent memoir about growing up Jewish and poor in a northern English mill town earned him belated literary fame on its publication in 2007, when he was 96” passed away today. (As reported by William Grimes)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/books/harry-bernstein-writer-who-gained-fame-at-96-dies-at-101.html?_r=0

2011(1^stof Sivan, 5771): Eighty-nine year old Israeli businessman Sammy Ofer passed away this morning in Tel Aviv (As reported by Isabel Kershner)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/world/middleeast/05ofer.html

2011(1^stof Sivan, 5771): Fifty-nine year old pop music icon Andrew Gold passed away today. (As reported by Paul Vitello)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/arts/music/andrew-gold-singer-and-songwriter-dies-at-59.html?_r=1

2011(1^stof Sivan, 5771): Gus Tyler, who had been associated with the Forwards since 1932 passed away today.

http://forward.com/articles/138467/labor-leader-forward-writer-gus-tyler/

2011: The final Musical Shabbat of the year is scheduled to take place at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA.  This marks the fourth year that the community has participated in this most popular way of experiencing the Joy of Shabbat.

2011: In the midst of a swirling controversy, Tony Kushner accepted an honorary doctorate today during the graduation ceremonies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

2011: The Historic 6^th& I Synagogue plans on meeting a variety of spiritual needs as it hosts two Shabbat services – the laid back, lay led 6^thStreet Minyan and Friday Night Shabbat Services with MesorahDC followed by a traditional Shabbat dinner.

2011: Labapalooza is scheduled to present “Planet Egg” by Zvi Saharis, an Israeli who studied directing at the University of Haifa, at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, NY.

2012:  JCCNV is scheduled to sponsor the Israel Street Festival in Fairfax, VA

2012: Sally Priesand, Sandy Eisenbeg Sasso, Amy Eilberg, and Sara Hurwitz met again, this time at Monmouth Reform Temple at a celebration honoring the four first women rabbis to be ordained in their respective denominations, and the 40th anniversary of Sally Priesand's ordination as the first Reform female rabbi.

2012: Temple Emanuel in Kensington, MD is scheduled to host “Tango Comes to the Land of Milk & Honey, Kolot Halev’s annual concert with Hazzan Ayelet Piatigorsky and featuring Emmanuel Trifilio on the original tango folk instrument, the bandoneón performing selections that range from Sephardic ballads to Yiddish songs to Moroccan and Mexican melodies.

2012: The National Museum of American Jewish Military is scheduled to host “Family Stories: Sons, Fathers and Zaydes,”  an afternoon long event that will enable participants “to create a lasting tribute to that special male relative or friend through a skit, a scrapbook, a video, a song and dance routine, or whatever the imagination conjures.”

2012: “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisan Avant-Garde,” an exhibit of works collect by Gertrude, Leo, Michael and Sarah Stein is scheduled to come an end at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

2012: “Celebrate Israel,” complete with an 8 o’clock fun run through Central Park and a five hour parade is scheduled to take place today in the Big Apple.

2012: Early this morning, IAF jets attacked three weapons manufacturing facilities in the central Gaza Strip and two tunnels that the Israel Defense Forces say are used to commit terrorist acts against Israeli military patrols in the area. The IAF flights were in response to an attack on June 1 near the security fence with Gaza in which one Israeli soldier was killed. The sites targeted by the Air Force belong to the Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror organizations, Israeli military sources said

2013: Justice Minister Tzipi Livni is scheduled to address the American Jewish Committee’s Global Forum today.

2013: Marlene Trestman, the author of a book on Bessie Margolin, was honored at this evening Supreme Court’s Historical Society Gala Dinner “where she was also presented with a piece of marble from the Supreme Court edifice.” (As reported by Crescent City Jewish News)

2013: The seating capacity of Teddy Stadium, an athletic venue in the Malha neighborhood of Jerusalem named for Teddy Kollek, the city’s greatest mayor, was increased to 31,733 when the “south side stand was completed” today.

2013: Just a month before the 150^th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, The American Jewish Historical Society and Yeshiva University Museum are scheduled to present “Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: Jews and the Battle of Gettysburg.”

2013: Syria will not get S-300 missiles from Russia until 2014, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee today.

2013: Chief Rabbis Shlomo Amar and Yona Metzger received letters today threatening violence if the Women of the Wall activist group is not allowed to pray according to its practices at the Western Wall in its upcoming prayer service.

2013(25^thof Sivan, 5773): Ninety year old Arnold Eidus who gave up a successful advertising career to become a concert violinist passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/business/arnold-eidus-90-adman-with-stradivarius-dies.html

2013(25^thof Sivan, 5773): Eighty-nine year old New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg passed away today.

http://www.jta.org/2013/06/03/news-opinion/politics/new-jersey-sen-frank-lautenberg-dies-at-89

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/nyregion/frank-lautenberg-new-jersey-senator.html?hp&_r=0&pagewanted=print

2014(5^thof Sivan, 5774): Erev Shavuot – Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa is scheduled to host Confirmation Services led by Alyssa Roach and Lincoln Ginsberg.

2014(5^thof Sivan, 5774): Eighty four year old New York Republican leader Roy Goodman passed away today. (As reported by Richard Perez-Pena)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/nyregion/roy-m-goodman-new-york-state-senator-for-more-than-30-years-dies-at-84.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=1

2014: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host “Shavuot After Dark” where members will lead an interactive session, “Exploring Jewish Washington: Another Kind of Jewish Geography.”

2014: A group of Palestinians clashed this morning with security forces and threw rocks at Israeli cars near the Tapuah Junction resulting in at least 2 Israeli civilians being injured by their rocks.

2014: In Jerusalem, the First Station Complex will feature street theatre, a puppet show and “kid’s activities” as part of the Shavuot celebration

2014: Midburn Israel, “an experiment in community, art, self-expression and self-reliance” is scheduled to start in Ramat Hanegev.

2014: Israel's Teva is being sued by the city of Chicago together with other major pharmaceutical manufacturers for excessively promoting painkillers, effectively getting people hooked and costing the city untold amounts of money, Bloomberg reported today. (As reported by Ynetnews)

2015: Gilad Hekselman and his trio are scheduled to appear at Smalls where they play “Gilad's original music as well as some jazz standards and Israeli songs.”

2015: “The first anniversary of the deaths of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach, the Israeli teenagers kidnapped and killed by Palestinian terrorists last summer, was marked today with a Unity Day.”

2015: “When a School Board Victimizes Kids” published today described the conflict surrounding education in East Rampo, the school district in Rockland County.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/opinion/when-a-school-board-victimizes-kids.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=1

2015: “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife” opened at Theatre J in Washington, DC

2015: As the Red Alert siren was sounded in places that included the Ashkelon and Netivot areas, two rockets from Gaza exploded in the Sdot Negev region. There were no physical injuries or damages.

2016: In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to host its final Musical Shabbat of the year featuring Shir Yehudah..

2016: As part of the Israel Film Center Festival the JCC Manhattan is scheduled to host a Kabballat Shabbat Concert featuring Israeli Idan Raichel.

2016: The Cedar Rapids Gazette published “Morley Raised Writing to an Art Form.”

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-morley-raised-writing-to-an-art-form-20160603

2017(9^thof Sivan, 5777): Parashat Naso;

2017(9^thof Sivan, 5777): Ninety-eight year old political activist Sara Ehrman passed away today. (As reported by Amy Chozick)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/us/sara-ehrman-dead-adviser-to-clintons.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2017: Today, “Israeli security forces stood guard during a protest of Ultra Orthodox Jews protesting against businesses that operate on Saturdays and recruitment of the ultra-Orthodox to the army, outside the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem.” (As reported by Sue Surkes)

2017:  In Jerusalem, The Israel Festival is scheduled to host performances by “flamenco dancer Israel Galván” and the “intensive pop performance of “Crazy Girls Save the World,” from the Japanese Miss Revolutionary Idol Berserker.”

2017: Twenty-seven year old right-hander Brad Goldberg “faced five batters in one-third of an inning, allowing four runs on a walk and three hits, including a solo home run to Tigers outfielder Justin Upton” “when he made his Major League Baseball debut for the Chicago White Sox” today. (As reported by Ed Carroll)

2018: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Flash:The Making of Weegee the Famous by Christopher Bonanos, Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces by Michael Chabon, Robin by Dave Itzkoff and Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money and Other Burning Questions From a Nation Obsessed by Jessica Weisberg

2018: “Famed Israeli singer Shiri Maimon is scheduled to perform in Times Square this evening as of an event celebrating Israel’s 70^th Anniversary.

2018: The Breman Museum in Atlanta is scheduled to host “The Way We Were: A Journey Into the Music of Alan and Marilyn Bergman.”

2018: “The Yemenite Conference: Shared Cultural Values of Jews & Muslims in Yemen” is scheduled to begin tonight at The Center for Jewish History

2018: The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington is scheduled to host a musical celebration marking Israeli’s 70^th anniversary at Tysons Corner Center in Virginia.

2018: “Hero Among Us,” a film funded by The Tahler Holocaust Memorial Fund, “providing an account of Army combat medic Sgt. John Gualtier’s liberation of the Gunskirchen Lager concentration camp in Austria” is scheduled to be shown in Iowa City

2019: The Center For Jewish History and the American Jewish Historical American Jewish Historical Society are scheduled present “Out of the Box” during which Rachel Miller, the Director of Archive and Library Services at the Center for Jewish History talks about “tens of thousands of boxes in the archival collections filled with photographs, journal, letters, documents” and untold stories such as the one labeled El Toreo de la Torah or the Bullfighter from Brooklyn that tells the tale of Brooklyn born Sydney Franklin, “the world’s first Jewish matador.

2019: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a discussion of how Jewish refugees coped “in China after escaping persecution under the Seleucid Empire, under the Romanov’s, and under the notorious Nazi Regime” preceded by a dinner of “Chinese Food”

2019: Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to present “American Hit Parade – Jewish Tonys” curated by Scott Siegel during the an explanation may be offered for the fact that “more than 60 percent of all Tonys ever awarded for musical production have gone to Jewish composers, lyricists and librettists” including Richard Rodgers, Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Jerry Herman, Harvey Fierstein and so many more.

2020:Dr. Bernice Lerner, in conversation with Dr. Michael Zank, director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University, is scheduled to discuss her new book, All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

2020: Filmmaker Laura Bialis (“Rock in the Red Zone”) is scheduled to join producer Roberta Grossman (“Above and Beyond”), writer Sophie Sartain and executive producer Nancy Spielberg (“Who Will Write Our History”) to give Boston a special behind-the-scenes look at their new film, “Vishniac.”

2020: Live on Zoom YIVO is scheduled to present “Dybbuks, Golems, S. An-ski, and Jewish Legends in Times of Fear.”

2020: Jewish Family and Children’s Services are scheduled to present a workshop on spiritual fitness and moving forward in tough times, with Chaplain Bruce Feldstein and therapist Mimi Ezray.

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1039 Conrad II passed away.  Born in 990, he served Holy Roman Emperor from 1027 until his death. His reign was part of positive period for the Jews of the Rhineland. The first synagogue was built in Worms in 1034 and Rabbi Gershom ben Judah taught at his famous academy in Mainz until his death in 1028.

1391: A riotous mob led by the Queen Mother's confessor, killed many Jews in Seville, Spain.

The massive riots were part of Ferran Martinez’s plan to eradicate the Jews. Historian Netanyahu stated the assault upon the Jewish community "resulted in a bloodbath of massive proportions that all but annihilated the Sevillian Juderia."

1632: Jacob Bassewi (Bassevi) and Leon Bassewi, his cousin and business partner, “received a privilege from the Duke governing Prague that gave them “the right to do business without any hindrance in all the town, markets and areas of the dukedoms of Friedland, Sagan and Glogau”

1632: Albrecht Wallenstein, the Count of Friedland, granted Jacob Bassewi and his cousin Leon Bassewi in order to improve his possibilities for business and living, the exceptional freedom to build a house in our town of Reichenberg at the best location for him and in order to speed up the process we order, you our chief officer, to support him with material and payments to the citizen builders. In the event that he should find a house that is already built, we give you the powers to allow him to buy it and allow him to have his friends or children, Jewish or gentile, to live there and to direct his business from there. We further order that, if the Bassewi people need protection anywhere in our Dukedom or in all of the Kingdom of Bohemia, they shall enjoy our highest official protection. Nobody shall dare to act against this our will without punishment. We seal this letter with our great seal.”

1672(9th of Sivan): Rabbi Moses Rikves, author of Be’er ha-Golah passed away
1697: Birthdate Rabbi Jacob Israel Emden, the Altona born Talmudic scholar most famous for his fight against those whom he considered to be Sabbateans.  His most famous dispute was the one with Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschutz.

1733: The Prattenburg, on which Jacob de Beer has been serving as ship gunner arrived in Batavia today 211 days after its departure fomr the Netherlands.

1738: Birthdate of King George III, the British monarch best remembered as the ruler during the American Revolution. During his reign conditions of his Jewish subjects would improve on several fronts as can be seem from the establishment of the London Board of Shechita, establishment of the Jews’ Free School and Jewish Blind Society.

1767(7^thof Sivan, 5527): Bezaleel, the son of Moses Brandeis ha-Levi, who like his father “was the district rabbi of Bunzlau (Bohemia) passed away today

1751(11th of Sivan): Rabbi Abraham Geron of Adrianople, author of Tikkun Soferimpassed away

1756(6^thof Sivan, 5516): Shavuot celebrated as George Washington writes to his subordinates during the French and Indian War expressing his approval of the advance of the Prince William Militia

1775(6^thof Sivan, 5535): Thirteen days before the Battle of Bunker Hill, while American forces are besieging the British at Boston, observance of Shavuot.

1783: Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga, the future Pope Leo XII who would put the Gate back on the Ghetto and pursue other policies inimical to the Jews, was ordained as a priest.

1789: “The Captivity of Judah” by William Crotch was played at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (UK).  Crotch was not Jewish but his pupil Charles Kensington Salaman, the British pianist and composer was.  Crotch’s “most successful composition was the oratorio “Palestine”

1794(7^thof Sivan, 5554): Second Day of Shavuot was observed on the same day that Tadeusz Kosciuszko made changes in the military command of the rebels in Poland and Lithuania, home to large Jewish community that included the Vilna Gaon, that was fighting to end the Russian annexation of their country.

1805(7^thof Sukkoth, 5565): Second Day of Sukkoth is observed on the same day that Lewis and Clark tried to find the true course of the Missouri River in what is now Montana during the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase

1811: Jacob Reuben married Leah Lyons today in the United Kingdom

1813(6^thof Sivan, 5573): As the War of 1812 goes into its second year, observance of Shavuot.

1821: Influential 19^th century economist David Ricardo the son of Anglo-Sephardic Jews who became a Unitarian when he married Priscilla Anne Wilkinson voted for criminal law reform as an MP.

1828: Lawrence Hyam married Caroline Elias at the Great Synagogue in London.

1829(3^rdof Sivan, 5589): Hannah de Pass, the native of Kingston, Jamaica who was the daughter of Ralph de Pass and the wife of Benjamin Milhado whom she had married at Charleston in 1796 passed away today.

1832(6^thof Sivan, 5592): As Andrew Jackson prepares to seek re-election, celebration of Shavuot.

1835(7^thof Sivan, 5595): Second day of Shavuot

1835(7^thof Sivan, 5595): Seventy year old Seckel Isaac Fränkel who in 1818 was the rabbi for the new Reform Jewish Temple of Hamburg for which he wrote a new prayer book passed away today.

1837: Joseph Baum married Esther Harris today in the United Kingdom.

1840: During the Damascus Affair, Adolphe Cremieux, vice president of the Central Consistoire of French Israelites, dispatched an appeal to Sir Moses Montefiore, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, to join with him and a delegation from the French Jewish community in a visitation to Mehemet Ali in Alexandria, Egypt. 

1841: At a time when Jews in Prague “had been prohibited from spending the summer in the suburbs” an edict was issued that allowed the Jews to own rural real estate provided that they “worked the land themselves.”

1843(6^thof Sivan, 5603): Shavuot celebrated one day after the birth of King Frederick VIII of Denmark, under whose grandfather King Frederick the VII, the constitution removing the last restrictions on the Jews of that Denmark was adopted two days after the infant heir’s second birthday.

1848: French banker and opponent of Napoleon III’s imperial designs Michel Goudchaux was elected to the Assembly today in a by-election “In the department of the Seine.”

1851: In Voyska, Bohemia Simon Steinbach and Rosalie Weisskopf gave birth to Lewis W. Steinbach the husband of Johanna Rosenbaum who earned his medical degree at Jefferson Medical College who became a leading surgeon in Philadelphia, PA.

1852: Beth Hamedrash Hagadol “a congregation for Russian Jews was formed with the help of former German Jewish immigrants. This traditional congregation opened a school and soon became the center of Orthodoxy in the U.S. Abraham Joseph Ash, an halachic authority, was elected as its rabbi in 1860 and held the position until his death in 1888. So as not to be dependent on a community salary, he also tried his hand in business without much success.” While some like to emphasize the cleavages between the different elements of the New York Jewish community, this synagogue formed for Russian Jews, with support from German Jews, received financial assistance from a Sephardic Jew, a member of Shearith Israel, who provided funds that helped with the congregation’s purchase of its first building.

1856: Harry Gluckstein married Rose Lazarus at the Great Synagogue in London.

1857: The Springfield Republican reported that Isaac Jackson a Jewish boy who was either 17 or 18 years old had been robbed and shot to death by Charles Jones while he was driving a wagon on the road between Westfield and Russell, MA in a case of what the paper described as “a dreadful murder.”  Jackson was one of four brothers who owned a store at Westfield and delivered merchandize to the surrounding towns.  The murder appeared to have taken place on the first of June.  The missing wagon and the corpse were discovered on the second of June.  Charles Jones, a violent man with a criminal record has been taken into custody.

1871: Elizabeth and George Joseph Emanuel gave birth to Joseph Emanuel, the husband of Ethel Emanuel

1873: According to a report published today, the following New York City institutions received these payments from the Excise Fund New York:

Hebrew Free Schools:  1871 - $3899.00   1872 - $1806.00

Polomes Talmud Torah School: 1871- $420.00

1874: Publication of the first edition of The Morecambe Visitor and General Advertiser, (later just called The Visitor) which came under the sway of Arthur Caunt starting in 1898 who would be sued for libel when “he penned a diatribe against British Jews for not doing more to prevent Zionist killing of British troops in Palestine, describing ‘Jews as a plague on Britain.

1877: U.S. Secretary of State Seward received a letter from Meyer S. Isaacs, President of the Board of Delegates of American Israelites which requests that American diplomats help to protect Jews of Russian birth living in and around Jerusalem.  The ruling Ottomans were hostile to the Jews because they were Russian and because they were Jews.

1878: Three days after she had passed away, Sarah Henriques, the wife of Moses Henriques and the mother of Elizabeth Henriques was buried today in the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1878: The Ottoman Empire ceded control of Cyprus to the British Empire. Ironically, Benjamin Disraeli was the Prime Minister when this happened.  After all for Jews, British control of the island has a negative connotation. They turned the island into a giant prison for Jewish refugees trying to get into Eretz Israel during after World War II.

1878: Sarah, “the beloved wife of M.J. Henriques” was buried today at the Balls Pond Jewish Cemetery three days after her death.

1880: Sarah Bernhardt signed a contract today for a series of 60 performances to be given this winter at Booth’s Theatre.

1881(7^th of Sivan, 5641) Second Day of Shavuot

1882: A conference of delegates representing Jewish organizations from across the United States and Europe opened this morning at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum to discuss how to cope with the increasing stream of Jewish immigrants from Russia.  The Executive Committee of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society had issued the call for the meeting and H.S. Henry, the Society’s President, presided over the opening session. Henry said that since its founding in December of 1881, HIAS has collected over $75,000, all but $7,000 of which it has spent on helping over 3,000 immigrants.  The leaders discussed the seemingly overwhelming task of helping their suffering co-religionists but affirmed their commitment to do so.  One of the practical programs discussed was the settling of refugees in the open tracts of land in Minnesota and the Dakotas. According to figures presented to the conference it would take over a thousand dollars to provide a single agricultural settler with everything from provisions, fuel, seed, livestock, 80 acres of land, materials to build a house, furnishings and provisions until the first harvest is sold.

1882: “A general conference of delegates from the various Jewish societies in the United States” which had been convened to discuss the challenges related to the continuous arrival of refugees from Russia opened this morning in New York at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. “The meeting was called to order by H.S. Henry, President of the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society of the United States.

1882: It was reported today that appeal is being circulated in Paris to secure funds to help Jews leave Russia.  Famed author Victor Hugo’s name is at the top of the list of those who signed the appeal.

1882: It was reported today that President Chester A. Arthur and former President U.S. Grant are among the leaders who will be attending the upcoming fundraiser designed to provide aid for Jewish refugees from Russia.

1882: It was reported today that European Jews are debating the direction Russian immigrants should take – west to the United States or east to Palestine.  An un-named Anglo Jewish citizen contends that the United States is the better of the two destinations. The movement to settle Palestine “is a mere hobby of Protestant Christians.”  The Ottoman government would not support the settlement and the Jews would be moving to a country less civilized than the one they are leaving.  Among the advantages offered by the United States are a high state of civilization, large unsettled areas and the 400,000 Jews already living there who would help the newcomers.

1883: In London Benjamin Leopold Farjeon, the son of Orthodox Jews and Maggie (Jefferson) Farjeon gave birth to British author Joseph Jefferson Farjeon

1883: In Altona, Germany, Emilie (née Fischel) and Otto Ehrenberg gave birth to Hans Phillip Ehrenberg a convert who co-founded the Confessing Church but who was forced to flee to England because of Jewish ancestry when the Nazis came to power.

1884: The Indian Agent at the Acoma Reservation wrote to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs complaining the Solomon Bibo had violated “his Trader’s License” when he entered into a business arrangement with members of that tribe.

1886(1^stof Sivan, 5645): Rosh Chodesh Sivan\

1886: Printer Jacob Warschawski wrote in the American Hebrew today describing conditions in Kansas saying, “We are scarce of rain, and if it will keep back a little longer it will be very hard for us new starters. We have organized a Home Protection Association in our colony with our Christian neighbors, and we will soon have a post office by the name, "Touro." Among our colonists, and with our Christian neighbors there is Sholem, peace.”

1887: In Summit, NJ, Gustav Pollak, “an editor and writer for The Nation magazine” and Cecilia Heilprin gave birth to Harvard trained attorney Walter Heilprin Pollak who traded in career with white shoe law firm Sullivan and Cromwell to defend the downtrodden and the underdog including “the Scottsboro Boys” while developing a life-long friendship with Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo.

1890: In South Carolina, David L. Hart married Laura L. Levy today.

1892: Mrs. Davis the long time matron of the Ladies’ Deborah Nursery and Child’s Protectory offered an explanation for the discrepancy between their records and those of the police magistrate’s clerks.  According to Mrs. Davis, the Jewish agency does a more detailed check and often finds that the children are younger than originally reported which leads to a longer a stay at the facility which in turn results in additional charges to the government.

1892: Birthdate of Lithuania native Boris Deutsch, the “modernist who specialized in Jewish genre and figures” and who settled in Los Angeles in 1919 where produced his “single film, ‘Lullaby’ in 1929.”

https://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-615-boris-deutsch

1893: The Shirt Contractors’ Association posted a notice which the Jewish shirtmakers “regard as the beginning of a fight by the Contractors’ Association against the union.”  As if to reinforce their fears, 4 of the contractors lock out their shirtmakers today.

1894: Birthdate of Rumanian native and NYU trained dentist Dr. Moses Diamond, a professor of dental anatomy at Columbia University’s College of Dental and Oral Surgery who raised a son, Eli, with his wife Frances Goodman Diamond.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/10/07/84222951.pdf

1894: It was reported today that Frederick Nathan was one of the members of the Finance Committee of the Mutual Employment Society which was founded last winter to help applicants find jobs at no cost to employers.

1894(29^thof Iyar, 5654): Eighty-eight year old philologist and lexicographer Wilhelm Freund, author of Wörterbuch der Lateinischen Sprache passed away today at Breslau,

1894:”Reception at Montefiore Home” published today described the event which is usually held on Decoration Day but was postponed because of memorial services being held for the late Jesse Seligman.

1895: “Samuell Casten, alias ‘Jew Sam’ was indicted by the Grand Jury” in response to charges of grand larceny brought by Mrs. Helen Maillard/

1895: Henry Lipkie married Jessie Mayer today in the United Kingdom.

1896: In Bellaire, Ohio, the “Ladies’ Auxiliary Society of the Congregation Sons of Israel” whose members included Mrs. Max Herzberg and Mrs. Harry Herzberg was organized today.

1896: Judge Myer S. Isaacs was among the members of Council of the University sitting on the dignitaries’ platform at the New York University commencement exercises being held in Carnegie Hall.

1897: In Prague, Leopold and Valerie Pick gave birth to Holocaust victim Franziska Pick who became Franziska Bondy when she married Pavel Bondy.1897: The first issue of "Die Welt" appears. The English Hovevei Zion officially dissociates itself from the Zionist Congress.

1897(4^thof Sivan, 5657): Sixty-eight year old Herford, Germany native Ferdinand Flak, the husband of Jeannette Levy Falk and the father of Arnold, Gustave, Myron and Gertrude Falk, passed away today after which he was buried in New Orleans at Hebrew Rest Cemetery.

1897: Sixty-four year old Leah Michaels, “the widow of Nathan Michaels” was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.

1897: Sixty five year old Louis Blum was sentenced to ten days in prison for violating  the bottling law when broke off the heads of empty siphons and used as them as hooks for a chupah that was building at the synagogue where he was the sexton.

1898(14^thof Sivan, 5658): Parashat Naso

1898: Violinist and conductor David Mannes, the New York City born son of Henry and Natalie (Wittkowsky) married Clara Mannes l

1898: The Human Rights League (Ligue des droits de l'homme or LDH) was founded today by Ludovic Trarieux to defend Captain Alfred Dreyfus who was falsely convicted on charges of treason.

1899: It was reported today that The Hebrew Citizens League of Jersey, whose objectives “will be to induce Hebrews are not naturalized to become citizens at once” and “to protect their legal rights” has filed articles of incorporation with County Clerk John G. Fisher.

1899: It was reported today that “the Dreyfus affair has been instrumental in weakening the bonds of friendship between Russia and France and in destroying the faith with which Russian military men had in the discipline of the French Army” which appears to be leading to a “rapprochement between Russia and Austria-Hungary.”

1899: A riot broke out at the Auteuil race course where the mob expressed its hostility for President Loubet with a variety of verbal assaults including the call of “Down with Traitors, Jews and Dreyfusites.!”

1899: The officers of the newly incorporated Hebrew Citizens’ League of Jersey City are: President – Louis Strang; Vice President – Samuel Lastage; Treasurer – Harris Steirman; Financial Secretary – Henry Weisberg; Counsul – Peter James; Sergeant at Arms – William Steirman.

1899: “Harsh Treatment of the Jews” published today described the “latest outrage against the Russian Jews” which took place at Nikolaev where an anti-Semitic movement started by religious fanatics who “pillaged” every shop owned by the Jews and left over 200 of them wounded, “many of them fatally.”

1899: “The Library of Princeton University” published today described the history of the institution and some of its prized tomes including “Jonathan Edward’s Hebrew Bible, a large folio with the celebrated theologian’s autograph.”

1899: “Science and Industry,” a compilation of activities in Europe published today described the opening of a Spinoza museum “in the house where the famous Hebrew philosopher lived and polished lenses for his bread at Rhynsburg, near Leyden” which “has been restored to its 17^th century style.”

1899: The Neue Freie Presse publishes Herzl's editorial about the return of Colonel Dreyfus.

1900(7^thof Sivan, 5660): Second Day of Shavuot

1900: Birthdate of New Jersey native Helen Rovine, the husband of Benjamin Grossman with whom she had three children

1900: Birthdate of Nelson Glueck, American Jewish archaeologist. Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem between 1932 and 1947, he explored and dated over 1,000 ancient sites in Palestine and the Near East. One of his popular works was Rivers in the Desert.

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0160/ms0160.html

1901: “According to the Kreuz Zietung, the recently organized German Hebrew Aid Society will enter competition with the Alliance Israelite Univserselle in succoring Jews in distress in Southeastern Europe.

1902:While inParis, Herzl receives the invitation to appear before the Royal Commission for Alien Immigration in London. The meeting is scheduled to last two days.”

1903: Herzl renews his efforts to gain support Great Britain and again submits plans to Constantinople for a Charter for Mesopotamia.

1904: “The Seventh Annual Convention of the Federation of American Zionists” is scheduled to for a second day at Germania Hall in Cleveland, OH.

1905: Today, Acting Secretary Loomis of the State Department has been officially informed by Ambassador Meyer, at St. Petersburg, of the proposed new law in Russia under which all American passports, including those for citizens of the Hebrew faith, will be recognized there.

1906: It was reported today that Solomon Lowenstein was among the speakers at the “annual distribution of the Betty Bruhl and other prizes to the children of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum” “which amounted to about one thousand dollars in cash and were awarded for general excellence, proficiency in studies, and good grades.

1907: Max Margolis wrote to the Central Conference of American recommending the adoption of the report prepared by the Committee on the Uniform Pronunciation of Hebrew under the chairmanship of Dr. Henry Malter.

1907(22nd of Sivan, 5667): Young Barney Aaron, the English born American bare knuckle boxer who ws the U.S. Lightweight Champion and the son of English boxer Barney Aaron who was called “The Star of the East” passed away today on Long Island, NY.

1908: Alfred Dreyfus was wounded by a disgruntled journalist while “attending the ceremony” during which the ashes of Emile Zola were interred in the Pantheon.  Zola was the French journalist and author who led the fight to free Dreyfus during which he exposed the anti-Semitic and corrupt nature of the French officer corps.

1909: The President of the Turkish Chamber of Deputies speaks in favor of Jewish immigrants being admitted to the Ottoman Empire. He sees it a as a necessity for the growth of the country.

1910: Birthdate of Mannheim, Germany native and Heidelberg trained attorney Frank L. Auerbach who in 1938 fled Nazi Germany and came to the United States where he earned a Masters in Social Work from Columbia and became an expert on immigration law while raising two sons – Ernest and Steven – with his wife Gertrude.

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/09/22/archives/frank-auerbach-us-official-dies-expert-in-immigration-law-came-here.html

1910: “The Girl in the Train”, the English language of Die geschiedene Frau (The Divorcée), an operetta in three acts by Leo Fall was performed for the first time today at the Vaudeville Theatre in London.
1911: The Hahambashi receives several telegrams from Arabia and Syria describing attacks on Jews. Details of the attacks were given to the authorities who could then intervene.

1911: Ground was broken today for the new building to be occupied by the Marks Nathan Jewish Orphan Home.

1912: Massachusetts became the first state to pass a minimum wage law. Boston attorney Louis Brandeis, the future Supreme Court Justice, was an ardent advocate for minimum wage laws.

1913: This evening, at the Columbia Club in Dallas, TX, David Eliassof, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Eliassof of Chicago married “Marguerite C. Repp, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Repp of Dallas, TX.”

1913(28^thof Iyar, 5673): Rabbi Abraham Samuel Neumark passed away today in New York City.

1913(28^thof Iyar, 5673): Journalist Lewis Godlove passed away today in St. Louis at the age of 55.

1914: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Theresa Kresham, the mother of four daughters and one son, Edwin Kresham after which burial will take place at Mount Israel.

1914: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services were held today at Furth’s chapel for sixty-six year old “Chevalier N .B. Emanuel, assistant director of the Chicago Grand Opera Company and museum of international note” who had been named Chevalier by the King of Italy

1915: As of today, “Warsaw newspapers which have been smuggled through the lines say that the number of homeless Jews on the Russian side is increasing steadily.”

1915: In Rochester, NY, Mayor Hiram H. Edgerton presided over a “mass meeting…in Convention Hall to protest against the scheduled execution of Leo Frank” which was condemned by the featured speaker by James. G. Cutler, the former Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.

1915: According to the remarks of Ohio Judge Rufus R. Smith published today, “The execution of (Leo) Frank or even his imprisonment for any length of time would constitute an indictment of the administration of criminal law in this country which would be shameful and humiliating.”

1915: Irving Berlin and Jerome Siegel were chosen to serve as Governors at the annual election of officers today at the Friar’s Club on West 45^th Street.

1915: In New York, The Appellate Division reversed a judgment that had been rendered in favor Daniel Guggenhiem’s Guggenheim Exploration Company and decdied that a mining engineer who had worked as assistant manager and consulting engineer for the company was entitled to stock in the Yukon Gold Company valued at more than $100,000.”

1915: “Fearing that a mass meeting which to be held on the State Capitol grounds” in Atlanta “tomorrow night for the purpose of protesting again the commutation of the death sentence of Leo M. Frank, may result in a riot, Mayor James G. Woodward this afternoon wrote Governor John M. Slaton urging that the latter have the military on hand at the meeting.”

1916: Herman Bernstein, editor of The American Hebrew received a cable from Lord Reading, Chief Justice of England, expressing his approval of Louis Brandeis taking his seat on the Supreme Court.  “Membership in the Supreme Court of the United States,” the English jurist wrote, “is one of the greatest distinctions known to the legal world and I heartily congratulate the new Associate Justice.”

1916: “The Central Committee of the United Krakauer War Relief Fund held its first meeting tonight at the Temple Israel at 120^th Street and Lenox Avenue” where it began efforts to raise $50,000 to provide “relief for the destitute Jews of Cracow.”

1916: The National Farm School, “a Jewish institution in Bucks County” held its 19^thannual Spring exercise marking the consecration of festive and memorial trees and the installation of the 52 students of the freshman class” was addressed by former U.S. President William Howard Taft.

1916: “Jacob H. Schiff informed the Kehillah at it its seventh annual convention today “that he had been hurt by recent attacks made upon him in connection with his efforts to help to solve the problems of his co-religionists and that hereafter Zionism, national, the Congress movement and Jewish politics in what form they may come up would be a sealed book to him.”

1917(13^thof Sivan, 5677): While serving with His Majesty’s forces, 19 year old Second Lieutenant Vivian Sylvester Moses was killed today.

1917:  In Cleveland, Ohio, Anna (née Klafter) and Charles I. Metzenbaum gave birth to Howard Metzenbaumn, a Democrat and a liberal, who served in the U.S. Senate representing the state of Ohio.

https://case.edu/ech/articles/m/metzenbaum-howard-morton

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/13/local/me-metzenbaum13

1917: On the second day of anti-Jewish rioting at Leeds during which the Jewish quarter was looted, “Victor LIghtman…called upon the chief constable who assured them that immediate states would be taken to restore order.”

1917: In Pittsburgh, PA, the National Association of Jewish Social Workers Annual Convention went into its second day with presentations by Edwin Goldwasser, Morris D. Waldman and Solomon Lowensein.

1917: According to a dispatch from Paris, the “Spanish government has instructed its representatives in Berlin, Vienna and Constantinople to present an urgent note demanding the cessation of the persecution, deportations, and looting practiced against the Jews in Palestine.”

1917:  The Pulitzer Prizes for journalism, literature and music are awarded for the first time.  America’s premier honor for arts and literature was created under the terms of the will of publisher Joseph Pulitzer, an immigrant from Hungary whose father was Jewish and whose mother was Roman Catholic.

1917: In Argentina, President Iriogyen replied “favorably to a Jewish delegation which appealed for the intervention of the Government to bring about the cessation of massacres in Palestine.”

1917: During World War I Jules Cambon, Director-General of the French Foreign Ministry wrote to Nahum Sokolow offering vague words of support for Zionist efforts in Palestine. Much to the chagrin of the French, these vague assurances helped pave the way for the issuance of the Balfour Declaration.

1917: In Argentina, “President Irigoyen replied favorably to a Jewish delegation which appealed for the intervention of the government to bring about the cessation of the massacres in Palestine.

1917: The Ladies’ Auxiliary of Temple Shalom are scheduled to host the first meeting of a Red Cross unit being formed by Jewish women “on the North Side and North Shore suburban towns” this afternoon at 1 p.m.

1917: In the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn Abraham Miller, a tailor whose original last name was Milstein and his wife Lillian Blaban gave birth to Moishe (Morris) Miller who the world would know as Robert Merrill, the Baritone who gained fame singing for NBC and the Metropolitan Opera.

1918: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Herbert M. Mandell, a CPA and partner in the public accounting firm of Clarence Rainess and Company who was the deputy may of the Village of Hewlett Harbor, NY and the husband of Lenore Mandell with whom he had three children --- Marjory, Richard and James.

1918: Catcher Bob Berman made his major league debut with the Washington Senators.

1918: Birthdate of Pennsylvanian Paul Friedlander, the Carnegie Tech quarterback who led his 6^th ranked team to play No. 1 Texas Christian University in the fifth annual Sugar Bowl.

1918: Encouraged by the British, “Dr. Chaim Weizmann met the Emir Feisal, the leader of the Arab Revolt, near the port of Akaba, and worked out with him what seemed to be a satisfactory Arab support for a Jewish National Home in Palestine.”

1918: It was reported today that an epidemic of typhus is “raging at Safed where there at present over 500 Jewish orphans.”

1919(6^thof Sivan, 5679): Shavuot

1919:  Birthdate of Robert Merrill. Born Morris (Moishe) Miller in Brooklyn, New York, Merrill was the son of two Jewish immigrants from Warsaw named Milstein who Americanized their name to Miller.  Robert Merrill became one of the greatest operatic baritones of the 20^thcentury.  Lest anyone question his Jewishness please note that when Merrill died in 2004 he was buried in the Sharon Gardens Cemetery, the Jewish section of the Kenisco Cemetery.

1919: By a vote of 56 to 25 the United States passed the 19^th Amendment which had the support of many Jews including the National Council of Jewish Women.

1920: It was reported today that Rabbi William Fineshriber will lecture at Tulane University on “The Hebrew Prophet as Mystic,” “Jewish Devotional Literature” and “Hebraic and Jewish Genius” as part of The Jewish Chautauqua Summer Courses.

1920: Alfred N. Bergman and Henry J.D. Meyer were promoted to the rank of Lieutenant while serving with the Field Artillery of the United States Army.

1920: Willard S. Isaacs was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant while serving with the Infantry of the United States Army.

1920: Herman H. Meyer, an officer serving in the Infantry was promoted to the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army.

1920: Albert Nunez of New Arabi, LA and Harry E. Rice of Xenia, OH were appointed postmasters today.

1920: Cavalry trooper Sol M. Lipman was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in the United States Army.

1922: Twenty days before they assassinated Walther Rathenau, the same two assassins attempted to murder former Phillip Scheidemann, a non-Jewish leader of the Weimar Republic who was forced to flee Germany when the Nazis came to power.

1923(20^thof Sivan, 5683): Eight-six year old Bavarian native and Ohio Law College trained attorney Simon Wolf, the husband of Caroline Hahn and the father of Florence Wolf Gotthold, who enjoyed friendships with Presidents Lincoln, Grant, McKinley and Wilson and who served in several governmental positions including counsul general Egypt while serving as an unofficial spokesman for the Jewish community passed away today.

https://www.jhsgw.org/exhibitions/online/lincolns-city/exhibits/show/mr-lincolns-city/president-ear

https://www.jhsgw.org/exhibitions/online/jewishwashington/exhibition/friend-of-presidents-simon-wolf-1836-1923

1924: Birthdate of British immunologist Maurice Hart Lessof, the husband of Leila Liebster and President of the British Society for Allergy who said food allergies are common illness “that should be taken seriously” and that “many people have been forced to lead miserable lives because narrow-mined doctors are unwell to accept food allergy as a major cause of illness!”

1926: Dr. Nathan Ratnoff, Chairman of a Joint Hospital Committee representing Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America and the American Physicians’ Committee, announced plans to establish a college of medicine at Hebrew University and to upgrade hospital facilities at the Mt. Scopus institution as part of a program to improve health conditions for those living in Palestine.  The committee plans on raising at least one million dollars to make the plans a reality.

1926 Ignacy Mościcki who would appoint Biblical scholar, historian and Jewish community leader Moses Schorr to serve in the Senate despite growing anti-Semitism, began serving as President of the Republic of Poland today who in 1935 as President of Poland and despite the growing anti-Semitism in the country appointed Biblical scholar, historian and Jewish community leader Moses Schorr to serve in the Senate.

1926: In Kiel, Germany, Rosel (née Zamora) and Rabbi Max Malina gave birth to Judith Malina “an American theater and film actress, writer, and director, who was one of the founders of The Living Theatre.” (As reported by Bruce Weber)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/11/theater/judith-malina-founder-of-the-living-theater-dies-at-88.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

http://forward.com/the-assimilator/218426/judith-malina-theater-rebel-dies-at-88/

1927: Two weeks after Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris, Charles Levine’s plane Columbia took off from New York for what was supposed to be the first flight to Berlin.  Clarence Chamberlin was the pilot, but Levine was planning to lay claim to being the first trans-Atlantic passenger.  The flight ended at Eisleben, 100 miles short of Berlin but was longer than the Lone Eagle’s flight.

1927: Birthdate of Richard Allen Silberman, the native of Kansas City, MO who gained gamed as movie producer Richard “Dick” Shepard.

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-richard-shepherd-20140116-story.html#axzz2qhGPobF0

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/entry/view/id/25048

1929: In accordance with the terms of his seventy-one year old Nathan Lamport, who had passed away at Dobbs Ferry, in 1928 was buried in Jerusalem along with his late wife Sarah next to the grave of his father on the Mouth Olives in a service attended by his eldest son Samuel, his daughter-in-law Miriam, his brother Solomon and Samuel L. Sar, the “registrar of Yeshiva College of which Mr. Lamport was President.

1930: A sequel to the original Garrick Gaieties directed by Philip Loeb opened on Broadway today.

1931(19^thof Sivan, 5691): Seventy-one year old Northwestern University trained  attorney Sigmund Zeisler, the Austrian born son of Ignatz Zeisler and Anna Kanner and husband of concert pianist and his second cousin Fannie Bloomfield Ziesler passed away today after which he was buried at Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago.

1931: It was reported today that Miss Dorothy Duveen, the only daughter of Jewish art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen is engaged to marry the son and heir of Sir William Garthwaite, William F.C. Garthwaite.

1931(19th of Sivan, 5691):Mortimer L. Schiff “an American banker and notable early Boy Scouts of America (BSA) leader” passed away.  “Mortimer Leo Schiff was the only son of the German-Jewish American banker and philanthropist Jacob Schiff and his wife Therese. While he worked as a partner in the financial firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. from 1900 until his death in 1931, he also devoted much of his time to the development of scouting in America. He was a member of the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the Theodore Roosevelt Council Executive Board. After a long tenure as vice-president of the BSA beginning in 1910, during which he also appeared on the cover of Time magazine on February 14, 1927, he was elected president of the organization in 1931. However, his untimely death came only one month later. He had also been serving as the BSA's International Commissioner for several years. The property for the Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation was subsequently purchased by his mother, named in his honor, and donated to the BSA for their national training center. His son John Mortimer Schiff was also involved with the BSA.” Schiff was awarded the Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, granted by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting. Both Mortimer and his son, John M. Schiff, received Silver Buffalo Awards from the BSA.”

1931: Birthdate of Sir Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal, AC, CBE, FRS, FAA, an Australian research biologist.

1932: As Germany spirals into political chaos In Germany, President Paul von Hindenburg dissolves the Reichstag and sets new elections for next month which are likely to be won by Hitler and his Nazis.

1933: CBS radio broadcast the last episode of the first season of “Lazy Dan, the Minstrel Man” starring Irving Kaufman today.

1933: Today, during “the eighth annual commencement exercise of the Jewish Institute of Religion, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of the Free Synagogue declared that “one of the major tragedies of civilization is being enact in Germany where Jews are being oppressed and discriminated against by Chancellor Hitler.”

1934: In Poland, “The ORT Technical Training School for Girls, which carried on instruction in Yiddish received full state rights and privileges which are granted other public educational insitutions.”

1936: In Poland, the Prime Minister, F. Slawoj-Skladkowski, declared his support for the "economic war" against the Jews.

1936: Professor Georg Bernhard the “German journalist, statesman and economist who had given up his position as Chair of Economics at the University of Commercial Studies in Berlin as part of his protest against Hitler and is in the United States to raise fund for the German Jewish refugees in France is scheduled to “be the guest this afternoon of the Administrative Committee of the American Jewish Congress at a luncheon at the Hotel Biltmore.”

1936: Leon Blum became the first Jew to be elected premier of France. Blum, a socialist, instituted the 40-hour work week and many important social reforms. His government fell over lack of parliamentary support for his financial program, lasting only one year.

1936: In France, Georges Mandel completed his term as Minister of Post during which he “oversaw the first official television transmission in French.”

1936: “In Gaza, where eight of the twelve municipal councilors had refused to join the Arab strike, a bomb was thrown in the yard of the municipal offices” in an apparent attempt to intimidate them.

1937(25th of Sivan, 5697): Helmut Hirsch, a German Jew who was executed by decapitation, for his part in a bombing plot intended to destabilize the German Reich. There had been several efforts to intervene to save his life including a 11^thhour appeal to Hitler who turned down the request. While details about the actual plan may be sketchy, there is no reason to doubt his courage. 

1937: The Palestine Post reported from London that the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Ormsby-Gore, told the House of Commons that in view of the changed financial and security situation in Palestine, and the uncertainty regarding the country's future, pending the awaited recommendations of the Royal (Peel) Commission, he could not encourage the initiation of any schemes for immediate development in Palestine. He was leaving, however, open options for urgent development projects approved by the Palestine High Commissioner, Sir Arthur Wauchope.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that Kemal Bey, the well-known Arab terrorist who led the attack against Tel Yosef in 1921, was killed in his village in the Huleh area, as a result of a family dispute.

1937: In London, Henri Armand Hugh Selbourne, and Sulamith (Amiel) Selbourne – “a descendant of generations of Jewish thinkers and rabbinical scholars and, in a cognate line, sharing an ancestry with Karl Marx” gave birth to David Selbourne “a British political philosopher, social commentator and historian of ideas.”

1938(5^thof Sivan, 5698): Parashat Bamidbar; erev Shavuot

1938(5^thof Sivan, 5698): Sixty-nine year old Mary Goldfarb, the mother of three children – Jacob, Samuel and Lillian – and an active participant  “Brooklyn Jewish Charities” passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/06/07/96829556.pdf

1938: Sigmund Freud, his wife Martha, his daughter Anna, left Vienna on the Orient Express bound for Paris, the way station on their final destination – London.

1939: The SS St. Louis, a German passenger liner carrying 900 Jewish refugees was denied permission to dock at any ports in Florida.  The ship steamed off the coast of the United States where the passengers could see the lights of Miami.  The Coast Guard had orders to keep the St. Louis and its Jewish passengers from reaching the United States.  The ship and its wretched cargo returned to the Europe where many perished in the Holocaust.  This episode became the basis for the film “Voyage of the Damned.”

1940: Under orders from Benito Mussolini, the Italians began building Ferramonti, the largest of 15 concentration camps constructed just before Italy entered World War II.

1940(27^thof Iyar, 5700): Forty-nine year old Zevi Hirsch Wolf Diesendruck, the Austrian born scholar who translated Plato from Greek to Hebrew and “wrote several volumes on Maimonides passed away today in Cincinnati, OH where he was the chair of the Jewish Philosophy Department at Hebrew Union College.

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0462/ms0462.html

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/06/05/113087822.pdf

1941(9^th of Sivan, 5701): Fifty-three year old Polish born, Brooklyn Law School trained attorney Morris Michael Edeslstein, the two term New York Congressman died today in “the cloakroom of the House of Reprsentatives.”

1941: Eighty-two year old Wilhelm II, the last Kaiser died in exile in the Netherlands. While thousands of German Jews fought and died for the Kaiser, he was an anti-Semite who blamed his defeat and abdication on “the tribe of Judah.”

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/morris-michael-edelstein

1941: The republic of Croatia issued an order depriving all Jews of their property and compelling them to wear a yellow badge with the letter Z.

1942(19th of Sivan, 5702): Mordechai Gebirtig, Yiddish poet and songwriter was murdered by the Nazis in the Krakow Ghetto on what was known as “Bloody Thursday.”

http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/ghettos/krakow/gebirtigmordechai/

1942: Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich Security Police and SD, dies of blood poisoning caused by injuries suffered in the May 27 attack by Czech partisans.  Heydrich chaired the conference in January of 1942 when the plans for the last phase of the final solution were set in motion.  The Czechs who killed him were working for the British and his killing really had nothing to do with his virulent anti-Semitic attitudes or plans.

1942: “Mrs. Miniver” the Academy Award film that provided an idealized view of Britain in the days of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain directed by William Wyler, with a screenplay by George Froeschel and filmed by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg was released today in the United States. (Editor’s note – I love this film, corny as it may be)

1942:  The Battle of Midway begins and will last until June 6, 1942.  The American victory over Japan marked a major turning point on the road to victory for the Allies.  The victory was an audacious gamble pulled off by a comparatively small number of U.S. naval vessels against a major Japanese armada.  If the U.S. had lost, the Pacific coast would have been open to invasion.  The American victory was made possible, in part, by the ability of the Americans to read the Japanese code.  The team that cracked the code was led by Colonel William Friedman.  Friedman was the son of Russian immigrant Jews.  He and his wife were two of the top cryptologists of the 20^th century.  This was no mean fete in the days before computers were available.

1943(1st of Sivan, 5703): Rosh Chodesh Sivan

1943(1^stof Sivan, 5703): Seventy-nine year old Burnet Wadel, the Summit, Mississippi born son of Abraham and Ernestine Wadel, and pioneer settler in Tyler, TX where he was a member of the Board of Education and President of the Salvation Army passed away today.

1943(1^stof Sivan, 5703):  Fifty-two year old Dutch native Sabiena Cohen, the wife of Levie Van Praage and mother of Jacques Van Praage was murdered today at Sobibor.

1943(1^stof Sivan, 5703):  Fifty-five year old Dutch native Levie Van Praage, the husband of Sabiena Cohen and father of Jacques Van Praage was murdered today at Sobibor.

1943(1^stof Sivan, 5703: Hannah Karminski, who assumed more of a leadership role of the Jüdischer Frauenbund, JFB (League of Jewish Women)  after Bertha Pappenheim passed away in 1936, was murdered today at Aushwitz-Birkenau.

1944: Thirty five year old Polish Olympic skier and artist Bronislaw Czech was murdered by the Germans today at Auschwitz. (Editor’s note – He was not Jewish but we have an obligation to remember all who were the victims of evil; Zachor: Remember lest you forget)

1945: Lyndon Johnson visited Dachau. According to Lady Bird, when her husband returned home, "he was still shaken, stunned, terrorized and bursting with an overpowering revulsion and incredulous horror at what he had seen."

1945:  Soldiers of the Jewish Brigade had their first contact with Jews from central or Eastern Europe when four young men who had traveled from Poland, Rumania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia arrived at their camp at Tarvisio, Italy.

1946: By a 6-1 vote, with Justice Felix Frankfurter writing a concurring opinion, “the United States Supreme Court ruled in Morgan v. Virginia that a Virginia law, requiring segregation of white and African-American bus passengers, was illegal for interstate travel.”

1947: “The Jewish Agency for Palestine appealed today to the United Nations committee of inquiry into Palestine to recommend the establishment of a Zionist state” while also asking that General Assembly remove “British restrictions on Jewish immigration and land settlement immediately.”

1948: “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,” a most charming comedy produced by Dore Schary and Melvin Frank, who co-wrote the script and co-starring Melvyn Douglas was released today in the United States after premiering in New York three months earlier.

1948(26^th of Iyar, 5708); Samuel Krauss passed away today in Cambridge.  Born in 1866, he served as professor at the Jewish Teacher’s Seminary in Budapest from 1894 to 1906 and then moved on to the Jewish Theological Seminary in Vienna where he stayed until the Anschluss forced to take refuge in England in 1938.  He was the author of the pioneering work on archaeology, Talmudische Archäologie

1948: The infant IAF began moving its units away from the front line toward a more secure base at Herzliya.

1949: Golda Myerson, the Israeli Minister of Labor, Social Insurance and Housing arrived in New York today “where she emphasized the critical housing shortage in Israel” and “asserted that 160,000 housing units were needed immediately to take care of the heavy influx of immigrants.”

1949: In New York, Florence and David Cohen, a Philadelphia City Councilman, gave birth to their first child Mark B. Cohen who served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for over forty years.

1950: In “Trouble-Shooter Diplomat,” published today Gertrude Samuels provides a detailed portrait of Israeli Diplomat Eliahu Elath who represented Israel at the San Francisco Conference in 1945, served as Israel’s first Ambassador to the United States and was about to assume a similar position at the Court of St. James.

1950(19^thof Sivan, 5710): Sixty-five year Pinchus Kahanovich who wrote under the pseudonym “Der Nister” died today in the Gulag after having been arrested during Stalin’s purge that was designed to wipe out Jewish authors and the culture that had produced them.

http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Der_Nister

1951(29th of Iyar, 5711): Russian born American symphony conductor Dr. Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky passed away.  Born in 1874, Serge, as he was known, was music director of the Boston Symphony for a quarter of a century.

1952: The Jerusalem Postreported from London that West Germany had tentatively offered to negotiate with Israel a reparations offer, totaling approximately $585 million, on the basis of 10 annual payments. The Times warned Germany not to make this restitution offer entirely at the expense of its other contractual creditors, and thus shirk its responsibility for the wrongs done to Jews by Hitler's Germany.

1952: The Jerusalem Postreported that The Knesset approved amendments to the Patents and Designs Ordinances, aimed at fulfilling the requirements of the International Charter of 1934.

1952: The Jerusalem Postreported that restrictions were announced on a gradual reduction of interurban and urban bus services, ordered by the government in order to save fuel and foreign currency. Plans were made, however, for a complete end to the rationing of all textiles.

1953: In the United States, release date for MGM’s “Julius Caesar” directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and filmed by Joseph Ruttenberg.

1956: New York Mayor Robert Wagner and Israeli Air Force General Shlomo Shamir addressed the annual donor luncheon of the Mizrachi Women’s Organization of America at the Waldorf-Astoria. Mayor Wagner told the 1,200 attendees that “the children in the State of Israel must receive every opportunity to grow up to become leaders and defenders of their country.”

1959 (27^th of Iyar, 5719) Seventy-one one old Polish born, Columbia and JTS trained Rabbi Max Drob the long-time chaplain at Manhattan State Hospital and leader of the Concourse Center of Israel in the Bronx who raised four children – Judah, Harold, Frank and Ruth – with his wife Dorothy passed away today.

http://www.newkabbalah.com/max.html

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/06/05/82715648.pdf

1959(27^thof Iyar, 5719): Fifty-eight year old Hungarian born American movie director Charles Vidor who passed away while filming his last movie “Song Without End” passed away today.

http://www.hollywoodsgoldenage.com/moguls/charles_vidor.html

1963(12^th of Sivan, 5723): Seventy-seven year old Riga native and Cornell undergraduate Samuel Berkowitz the holder of a Masters from Columbia and the husband Frances Berkowitz with whom he raised three children, Henry, Arthur and Evelyn, who was a retired public school principal passed away today

1964:  Dodger pitcher Sandy Koufax threw his third no-hitter beating the Phillies, 3-0.

1967: Meir Amit reported to the cabinet meeting that U.S. Secretary Robert McNamara had said "I read you loud and clear." in response to Amit’s request “All we want is three things: One, that you refill our arsenal after the war. Two, that you will help us in the UN. Three, that you will isolate the Russians from the arena." Amit told the cabinet this was a green light from the United States if Israel launched a pre-emptive strike against its Arab enemies.

1967: As war clouds gathered over Israel, General Mordechai “Mottie” Hod “briefed his wing commanders.

1967:  For seven hours Israel’s National Unity Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol met to hear a review of the military options presented by Moshe Dayan as well as an update by intelligence sources on the situation in the Egyptian military command.  Egyptian generals were pressuring Nasser to let them strike the first blow.  The “Arab streets” were demanding action.  Delay was Israel’s enemy.  Each day the Arab forces grew stronger, while Israel’s forces were at their “optimum level.”  The Cabinet agreed that the military option was all that was left.  The Cabinet voted unanimously to let Eshkol and Dayan choose the time and place of attack.  After the Cabinet adjourned, the two Israeli leaders agreed that H-hour was 7:45, Monday, June 5. The report delivered by General Meir Amit was considered critical to the decision. Amit had just returned from Washington where he met with Defense Secretary MacNamara who assured the Israeli General of America’s willingness to re-supply Israel after the war, help the Jewish state at the UN and to keep the Soviets out of the area.

1969: Rabbi Balfour Brickner said today that “eleven Reform student rabbis will live and work in the slums of major cities this summer in the third year of third year of the Rabbinic Internship in Urban Affairs program.”

1969(18^thof Sivan, 5729): Eighty-two year old Lillian Schifrin, the Cincinnati born daughter of “Adolph Aira Berman and Mary Agnes Jacobs and the “ex-wife of Isidor Schifrin” passed away today in her home town.

1970(29th of Iyar, 5730): Seventy eight year old comedian Menasha Skulnik, known as Menasha the Magnificent, passed away today.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C00EFDA103EE034BC4D53DFB066838B669EDE

 1971(29^th of Iyar, 5730): Sixty-nine year old comedian Joe E. Lewis best known for having been mutilated and left for dead after turning down a contract with Al Capone passed away today.

http://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/id39.htm

http://www.lvstriphistory.com/ie/joelewis.htm

1971(11^thof Sivan, 5731): Eighty-six year old Marxist philosopher György Lukács passed away in Budapest.

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lukacs.htm

1972: After being released in the UK in May, “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg” directed by Peter Medak and co-starring Janet Suzman was released today in the United States.

1972: Joseph Brodsky, Russian born Jewish poet and essayist who would go on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and would serve as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1991 and 1992, was expelled from the Soviet Union.

1976(6^thof Sivan): As Regan and Ford contest for the Republican nomination for President, observance of Shavuot

1981: The New York Times reported that George Balanchine, choreographer and artistic director of the New York City Ballet, has received the Jewish National Fund's first Tarbut Award, given to the choreographer in honor of his ''great achievements in expanding the scope and dimension of dance in America and throughout the world.''

1981: Begin and Sadat held a summit meeting at Sharm El Sheikh two days before the scheduled of the Iraqi nuclear reactor – a fact known to Begin but not Sadat.

1982:  In attempt to dislodge the PLO from its bases, Israel attacked targets in south Lebanon.

1982: “Hank Panky” a comedy starring Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner was released today in the United States.

1983(23^rdof Sivan, 5743): Parashat Sh’lach

1983(23^rdof Sivan, 5743): Seventy year old Yaakov L. Fishman who had been chief rabbi of Moscow’s Choral Synagogue for twelve years passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/08/obituaries/yakov-l-fishman-70-moscow-rabbi-is-dead.html?searchResultPosition=15

 1985: In the seemingly endless attempt by some to breach the wall between church and state the U.S. Supreme Court rules in Wallace v Jaffree that an Alabama law mandating a minute of silent mediation or voluntary prayer at the start of the school day is unconstitutional.

1985: At Hod HaSharon, Rafi Fefaeli and former fashion model Tzipi Levine gave birth to actress and model Bar Refaeli.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bar_Refaeli_2011.jpg

1986: Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pled guilty in US court

1987: The IPO music director, Zubin Mehta, conducts with soloists Itzhak Perlman and Gerry Mulligan in a classical-jazz concert.

1989: Wendy Wasserstein became the first woman to win a Tony Award for Best Play, for The Heidi Chronicles.

http://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/04/1989/wendy-wasserstein

1990(11th of Sivan, 5750):  Jack Gilford passed away at the age of 82, a victim of stomach cancer. He gained fame as comedic actor whose "rubber face" was an acting trademark gained additional fame playing a piece of fruit in the Fruit of the Loom commercials.  

1993: “Life with Mikey” produced by Scott Rudin, co-starring David Krumholtz and featuring music by Alan Menken was released today in the United States.

1993: "Reemergence: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe," a film series featuring “five recent movies and one short about the Jewish experience in Europe” is scheduled to open in Washington, D.C.

1994(25^thof Sivan, 5754): Eighty-four year old Roberto Burle Marx “one of the most influential landscape architects of the twentieth century” whose works are on display at the Jewish Museum until September, passed away today

1995(6^thof Sivan, 5755): Shavuot

1995(6^thof Sivan, 5755): Seventy-six year old Leo Cantor who played fullback in the same UCLA backfield as Jackie Robinson and went on to a career in pro-football passed away today.

http://www.nfl.com/player/leocantor/2511023/profile

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CantLe20.htm

1995: Outfielder Brian Kowitz made his major league debut with the Atlanta Braves.

1997(28^thof Iyar, 5757): Thirty years after the Six Day, Jews observe Yom Yerushalayim

1998: The Republican controlled U.S. House of Representatives passes “a School Prayer Amendment that would overturn the Supreme Court decision banning state-written and state-mandated Christians in public schools.:  While the Bill passed by a simple majority it failed to gain the two-thirds majority necessary to move forward the amending process.

2000: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback edition of The Lexus and the Olive Treeby Thomas L. Friedman.

2001: Today, “in a day-long procession of grief” 19 young people, including Yelena and Yulia Nelimov, teenage sisters who came from Russia to live in Israel, who were a victim of a Tel Aviv suicide bombing on June 1, “were buried side by side here today in a row of eight fresh graves. (As reported by Joel Greenberg)

2002: The BBC broadcast “Victoria and Her Sisters” the 13^th episode of “A History of Britain a documentary series written and presented by Simon Schama” which began its second season tonight.

2003: Based on the unofficial election results released today it was reported that “Jerusalem has elected its first ultra-Orthodox Jewish mayor, Uri Lupolianski, a rabbi and father of 12 who has pledged to improve city services and has refrained from confronting volatile political issues

2004: “Shul Life, Circa 1850” published today, Adam Dickter provides a portrait of the “early days of Brooklyn’s Kane Street synagogue.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-95988109.html

2005(26^th of Iyar, 5765): Parashat Bamidbar

2005:Syria's information minister today denied Israeli claims that his country test-fired Scud missiles on May 27, calling the accusations an "expression of Israel's hostile intentions." (As reported by Steve Erlanger.)

2006: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback editions of Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman,Edited by Michelle Feynman, What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building by Noah Feldman and Wilt, 1962: The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era by Gary Pomerantz.

2006:  In a show of the changing face of Jewish involvement in all facets of life Haaretz reported that Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer advanced to the last sixteen of the French Open, after a resounding 6-4, 7-5 defeat of sixth-seeded Russian Elena Dementieva. Peer, ranked 26 in the world, has won three out of three tournaments this year - Pattaya, Prague and Istanbul - but this is her first win against a top ten player who has also competed in two Grand Slam finals.

2007: In the “Verbatim” section Time magazine featured the following quote by Rutka Laskier, “'If only I could say, It's over, you only die once ... but I can't, because despite all these atrocities, I want to live, and wait for the following day.'” Rutka Laskier has been described as the Polish Anne Frank. Like Frank, she wrote a Holocaust-era diary, at the age of 14. Like Frank, Laskier perished during the Holocaust. Apparently, the Nazis killed her at Auschwitz.

2007: An article about Scholar and Rabbi Jacob Neusner entitled “The Pope’s Favorite Rabbi” appears in Time Magazine. The brief article briefly describes Neusner’s view of Christianity and their impact on Pope Benedict XVI.  The Pope devotes 20 pages of his new book to A Rabbi Talks with Jesus, a 161-page tome published in 1993. In that volume, the professor (now at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.) and non-congregational rabbi projected himself back into the Gospel of Matthew to quiz Jesus on the Jewish law. He found the Nazarene's interpretation irredeemably faulty. In his 14-years-delayed response, Benedict not only compliments Neusner as a "great Jewish scholar" but also recapitulates the thesis of A Rabbi Talks and spends a third of one of his 10 chapters answering it.

2008: In Washington, D.C., the AIPAC Policy Conference comes to an end.

2008(1st of Sivan, 5768): Rosh Chodesh Sivan

2008: Today, the Great Synagogue of Brussels which had been designed in 1875 and built in 1875 was dedicated as the "Great Synagogue of Europe" today by President José Manuel Barroso and two of Europe's leading rabbis who signed a document of dedication.

2008: A judge declared a mistrial in the case of Navee Haq, the man who stormed into a Jewish center two years ago and shot six women, killing one, as he ranted against Israel and the Iraq war.  The jurors appeared to be hopelessly deadlocked over whether or not he was guilty by reason of insanity. 

2008: The Historical Society of Jews from Egypt asked the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to intervene on its behalf with government in Cairo sincethe Egyptians have refused to release archives connected to the Jewish community.

2009: Elinor Lipman, author of the bestselling novels The Inn at Lake Devineand Isabel's Bed, reads from her new novel, The Family Man, at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue (formerly Adas Israel) in Washington, D.C.

2009: Stanley “Drucker was awarded a Guinness World Record for longest career as a clarinetist after his performance of Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto with the orchestra. Guinness thus logged his Philharmonic career at "62 years, 7 months and 1 day as of June 4, 2009".

2009: The Israeli government praised U.S. President Barack Obama's speech to the Muslim world today, saying it shared his hopes for Middle East peace, but stressed that Israel's security interests remained paramount.

2010: The “Waiting Room,” the first New York solo exhibition of Be’er Sheva native Maya Bloch is scheduled to open at Thierry Goldberg Projects.

2010: At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA, Friday night services feature the baby-naming ceremony for Nicole Charley Hurwitz, the second granddaughter of Ivy and Bill Hurwitz.

2010: The Baltimore Zionist District is scheduled to sponsor “A Rally to Stand in Solidarity with Israel” at the corner of Pratt and Light Street in Baltimore, MD.

2010(22^ndof Sivan, 5770): Ninety-nine year old Himan Brown who created a series of classic radio dramas including “The Adventures of the Thin Man”, “Dick Tracy,” and “Inner Sanctum” passed away today. (As reported by Joseph Berger)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/arts/07brown.html

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=himan-brown&pid=143346493

2011(2^ndof Sivan, 5771): Eighty three year old Felix Zandman, the Holocaust survivor who “founded Vishay Intertechnology Inc., a $2 billion electronics firm traded on Wall Street that supplies the computer, aerospace and other industries” passed away today.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E1DA153AF931A25755C0A9679D8B63

2011(2^ndof Sivan, 5771): Ninety-one year old Leo Greenland, advertising man par excellence, passed away. (As reported by Maraglit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/business/13greenland.html

2011: The great New Zealand soprano Kiri Te Kanawa is scheduled to give a rare recital tonight at the Jerusalem International Convention Center (Binyanei Hauma)

2011(2^ndof Sivan, 5771): Thirty-six year old Buffalo Grove High and University of Illinois alum Lindsey Durlacher, the Greco-Roman wrestler who won Gold Medals in four Maccabiah Games passed away today as a result of the injuries he suffered in a snowmobile accident.

http://www.legacy.com/ns/lindsey-durlacher-obituary/151604327

2011: “Sundaes on Saturday” will be the theme of this month’s traditional Shabbat Minyan at Temple Judah featuring a Kiddush where attendees will make their own ice cream concoctions as everybody gets in the Shavuot Mood.

2011: Thousands visited Krakow's seven historic synagogues in an unprecedented event aimed to foster Jewish identity among Krakow's small Jewish community.

2011: Around 5,000 people took part in a march in central Tel Aviv this evening supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders. The march ended with a rally at the Tel Aviv Museum. MKs Dov Khenin (Hadash) and Zahava Galon (Meretz) and playwright Yehoshua Sobol gave speeches.”

 2012: Melting away “the first feature film in the history of Israeli cinema dealing with the parents' perspective on having a transgender child” is scheduled to be shown in Washington, DC.

2012: The 92^nd Street Y is scheduled to offer “It’s Magic: Nine Decades of Songs from Warner Brothers” which celebrates the role of music at the studio owned by four Jewish brother starting with “The Jazz Singer.”

2012: In Jerusalem, the Israel Festival is scheduled to host “Theatre ad Infinitum” at the Khan Theatre 

2012(14^thof Sivan, 5772): Seventy-four year old Steve Ben Israel passed away.

http://thevillager.com/2012/06/07/steve-ben-israel-countercultural-performer-dead-at-74/

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/theater/steve-ben-israel-performance-artist-dies-at-74.html?_r=1&hpw

2013: The Alexandria Kleztet is scheduled to perform at Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club in Bethesda, MD.

2013: Finerman's Rules: Secrets I'd Only Tell My Daughters About Business and Lifeby Karen Lisa Finerman was published today by Hachette Book Group's Business Plus

2013: Revenge Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger, a sequel to The Devil Wars Prada was released today and “debuted at No. 3 on the New York Times bestseller list.

2013: At Tel Aviv University the conference entitled “Holy War and Sacred Struggle in Judaism, Christianity and Islam” is scheduled to come to an end.

2013: Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns by Lauren Weisberger was published today.

2013: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and The Center for Jewish History are scheduled to present a panel discussion entitled “Hungary and the Holocaust: Assessing the Past; Preparing for the Future.”

2013: Relations between coalition parties Hatnua and the Bayit Yehudi continued to deteriorate today, with Religious Services Minister Naftali Bennett effectively blocking a bill by MK Elazar Stern (Hatnua) to change the panel that chooses the chief rabbis.(As reportedy Lahav Harkov & Jeremy Sharon)

2013: IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz has ordered a major reduction in the employment of external advisers, and cancelled all non-operational trips of IDF delegations to militaries abroad today. Speaking at the site of an Infantry Corps drill, Gantz said he believes the IDF is up to the "difficult task" of making defense budget cuts. (As reported Yakkov Lapin)

2014 (6^th of Sivan, 5774): Shavuot

2014: Starting at 12:30 A.M. the JCC in Manhattan is scheduled to show “Tikkun Leil Shavuot: Supermensch” a film at about Shep Gordon.

2014: As part of the Shavuot celebration Jews in Little Rock are scheduled to gather at the Chabad House under the leadership of Rabbi Pinchas Ciment for a reading of the Ten Commandments followed by a delicious dairy Kiddush complete with cheesecake and ice cream.

2014: At least 46,000 tickets have been sold for the Rolling Stones first ever concert in Israel which is scheduled to take place tonight at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park. (Time of Israel)

2014: The Shalom Hartman Institute is scheduled to hold English language study sessions as part of the Shavuot observances led by Suzanne Last Stone, Gil Tory, Menachem Fisch and Menachem Loberbaum.

2014: The Iron Dome system fired intereptors as at least two mortars were fired from Syria into the Golan Heights.

2014: As Israelis celebrate Shavuot they are experience a heat wave resulting in record or near record temperatures at Beersheba, Kfar Saba, Haifa and Tel Aviv. (As reported by Noam (Dabul) Dvir)

2015: In Washington, DC, Theatre J is scheduled to celebrate “30 years of Charles Busch” with a performance of “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife.”

2015: The Israel Film Center Festival is scheduled to open the JCC Manhattan.

2015: “The US Senate unanimously approved a resolution condemning anti-Semitism in Europe” today.

2015: The International Consortium for Research on Antisemitism and Racism; Center for Research on Antisemitism, Berlin and the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism are among the co-sponsors of “Gender, Memory and Genocide: An International Conference Marking 100 Years Since the Armenian Genocide” is scheduled to open today

2015: The Cleveland Cavaliers, led by Coach David Blatt are scheduled to play the Golden State Warriors in the first game of the NBA Championship series.

2016(27^thof Iyar, 5776):  Completion of Vayikra (Leviticus)

Bechukotai (In my statutes); for more see

2016: “Tatram,” “an eclectic instrumental power trio for in Israel in 2011 is scheduled to perform this evening at Iridium.

2016: “Facts on the Ground,” a solo exhibition of the works Shimon Attie at the Jack Sahinman Gallery is scheduled to end today.

2016: The 17^th annual Washington Music Festival is scheduled to open tonight with a performance by “Yemen Blues.”

2016: A solo exhibition featuring the works of Tal Eshed is scheduled to end at Tanja Grunert Gallery.

2016: The Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation is scheduled to host its Casino Royale fundraising event.

2017: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Testimony by Scott Turow, Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913 by Daniel Wolff, Light Come Shining: The Transformations of Bob Dylan by Andrew McCarron and Bob Dylan: The Lyrics by Bob Dylan.

2017: As part of the Israel Festival “The Incubator Theater is scheduled to bring its treatment of “Job,” starring veteran actor Sasson Gabbay in the role of the tormented emissary, supported by Keren Hadar as Job’s wife to the Henry Crown Hall, Jerusalem Theater.”

2017: “Shavuot Park Day” is scheduled to take place this afternoon at Hudson Springs Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

2017: Author Marty Brounstein is scheduled to “share a remarkable true story of courage during the Holocaust, when Frans and Mien Wijnakker, a Catholic couple in a small town, saved the lives of over two dozen Jews in southern Holland during World War II at The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host

2017: “Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner who “has spent the past decade filing lawsuits for the victims of terror attacks against the governments, banks and corporations that enabled or financed the violence” is scheduled to “speak about her work in a live interview in Jerusalem” today.

2017: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host the “H Street, NE Stroller Tour” where attendees will visit a neighborhood once home to “75 Jewish-owned businesses.”

2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host an afternoon of “Punting and Picnics.”

2017: In Stony Brook, New York, an exhibit entitled, “Brilliant Partners: Judith Leiber’s Handbags & The Art of Gerson Leiber” that “features nearly 200 examples of “his and her” art: 130 of her handbags and 50 of his pieces” is scheduled to come to an end today.

2018: Marc Jacobs, who won the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 is scheduled to attend the organization’s award ceremony tonight at the Brooklyn Museum where he is one of the nominees for “the group’s top award, women’s wear designer of the year.”

2018: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host an evening with former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary State of Collin Powell, the only Yiddish speaker to hold both of these positions.

2018: Tonight, “when some of fashion’s biggest names gather at the Brooklyn Museum for the annual Council of Fashion Designers of America awards — often called the Oscars of the fashion world — a familiar figure will again be celebrated: Marc Jacobs.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/business/how-marc-jacobs-fell-out-of-fashion.html?hpw&rref=business&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

 2018: The Straus Historical Society is scheduled to host its Silent Auction this evening.

2018: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host an evening with Rabbi Ram Winograd, the graduate of Hebrew University and Oxford who “resides as Judge at the Jerusalem District Court.”

2018: In Los Angeles, Rabbi Mendel is scheduled to present the final session “Kabala of Communication – It’s Art and Soul.”

2019(1^stof Sivan, 5779) Rosh Chodesh Sivan

2019(1^stof Sivan, 5779): Seventy-three year old Nacham Rivlin, the wife of President Reuven Rivlin passed away today.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/nechama-rivlin-wife-of-president-reuven-rivlin-dies-at-73/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2019-06-04&utm_medium=email

2019: In Metairie, LA, meeting of the Rosh Choesh Society, a monthly night out where “women of all walks of life” share and enjoy an evening of camaraderie” while discussing “how to bring meaning to everyday life.”

2019: In Atlanta, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host the second day of the Summer Institute on Teaching the Holocaust.”

2019: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to host “Hebrew Liederaband – An Evening of Hebrew Music” which “was devised by YIVO’s Anne E. Leibowitz Visiting Professor-in-Residence in Music, Neil W. Levin, who will deliver the pre-concert lecture on the development of the Modern Hebrew song tradition, its literary basis, and the spirit of rejuvenation that drove it.”

https://mailchi.mp/jewishreviewofbooks/yivo-institute-for-jewish-research-yivo-study-tour-a-once-in-a-lifetime-journey-of-discovery-777077?e=b40a1dec43

2019: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host its annual Summer Party including “a kosher barbecue, dancing, singing and beatboxing.”

2019: As part of his series on “The Ten Lost Tribes” Rabbi Dr. Raphael Zarum, the Dean of the London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to lecture on the “Deportations: Where did the Ten Tribes go?”

2019: Avivah Zornberg, the author of Moses: A Human Life is scheduled to end her latest American lecture tour today.

2020: Peninsula JCC’s Michele Solomon is scheduled to host a virtual demonstration of how to make a rainbow challah in honor of Pride month.

2020: The S.F.-based Jewish Film Institute is scheduled to present the 26-minute pilot episode of “Lady Liberty” a comedy about an aspiring Jewish comedian learning to claim her queerness followed by conversation with creator-writer-star Julia Lindon and director Lee Nagel.

2020: Live on Zoom the American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present “The Art of the Jewish Family.”

2020: The JCC of Greater Boston is schooled to present PJ Library sisters Hannah and Lyla from their home as they guide you through a step-by-step crafting tutorial.

2020: Live via Zoom, JWA is scheduled to present “Leading through Crisis and Change:

Jewish Women at the Turn of the 20th Century.”

2020: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker is scheduled to host Harvey Fierstein “for a schmooze with Academy Award Winner Elinor Burkett.

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70: Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.

1191 After conquering Cyprus, Richard the Lionheart and his Crusaders set sail for “the Holy Land.” This crusading left England in the control of Prince John who, amongst other things, exploited the Jewish subjects in a way that the King would not have approved of.

1257:  Kraków, Poland receives city rights. Jews were probably among the earliest settlers of Krakow which was settled by traders from Germany.  Jews had been moving to Poland from Germany since the days of the Crusades.  Certainly there was a Jewish population in the town by the middle of the 14^th century since the oldest synagogue in the town dates from a visit from Casimir the Great.

1249: French King Louis IX who had burned 24 cartload of Jewish books in 1242, and who had made plans to expel the Jews after confiscating their property and ordering them to wear a “Jew’s badge” and “to listen to missionary sermons” landed in Egypt, the first stop in his ill-fated Seventh Crusade, which along with his treatment of the Jews helped to earn him canonization by the Church.

1305: Raymond Bertrand de Got is elected Pope under the name Clement V who according to Elizabeth D. Malissa, “is the first pope to threaten Jews with an economic boycott in an attempt to force them to stop charging Christians interest on loans.”

1316: The reign of Louis X who reluctantly permitted the Jews to France after he found out that their confiscated property had less value than the taxes that they were paying and that the Christians who had replaced the Jews were charging higher rates of interest when lending money, came to an end today.

1349: Following the massacre of the Jews of Strasbourg, the people of the German city who were worried that they might have to share some of their loot with the monarch, or even give it back to the survivors made an alliance today with the bishop and the Alsatian rural nobility: the city would offer aid in times of war and promised to give back all bonds, and received the assurance that the bishop and nobles would support Strasbourg against anyone wanting to hold it to account for the murder of the Jews and confiscation of their assets.”

1443: Ten years before the Jews were expelled from Wroclaw in 1453, the capital city of the province of Lower Silesian in Poland was struck by an earthquake that registered 6 on the Richter Scale. 

1507: In Pilsen, today marked the fourth and final in a series of fires that burned down all of the homes belonging to the Jews “burned down.”

1632: Albrecth Wallenstein bought the estate at Reichenberg and then looked to Jews, particularly Jacob Bassewi, the “former Prague banker and merchant” to help “develop the economy of his territory.”

1705(13th of Sivan): Manuel (Isaac Hayyim) Teixeira de Sampaio, passed away  

1717 Sephardic Jews Abraham and Esther da Costa gave birth to Emanuel Mendez da Costa, husband of Leah del Prado who went from being a notary to a scientist of such repute that he was one of the fist Jewish Fellows of the Royal Society of London before gaining infamy for his embezzlement

https://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/2018/10/16/face-from-archives/

https://www.lindahall.org/emanuel-mendes-da-costa/

1725: Today, Jacob de Beer was employed by the Dutch East India Company.

1772: In London, the Board denied the petition of Asher del Banco that would have allowed him to marry a “Tudesca.”

1740(10th of Sivan)” Rabbi Eliezer Rokeah of Amsterdam, author Maaseh Rokeah passed away

1756(7^th of Sivan, 5515): Second Day of Shavuot observed as the French besieged Minorca during the Seven Years.

1764(5^th of Sivan, 5524): Erev Shavuot observed on the Birthdate of James Smithson, the British benefactor who was the posthumous founder of the Smithsonian Institution.

1775(7^th of Sivan, 5535): Second Day of Shavuot observed today as the Rebels continue to tighten their siege of British troops in Boston that will lead to the Battle of Bunker Hill twelve days later.

1788: As the newly formed United States groped for a form of government that would be an improvement over the Articles of Confederation, former Harvard President and leading clergyman “Samuel Langdon addressed the New Hampshire state legislature on the subject of “The Republic of the Israelites an Example to the American States.”  Langdon was one of those who saw the ancient Israelite society as providing the prototype for an American republic.  For example, he saw the Seventy Elders selected by Moses as a “Senate” and proof that the Israelites had a voice in the government, something he desired for the emerging United States of America.

1791: Baruch (Barrak) Hays and his first wife Prudence gave birth to Jacob Hays.

1793: Joel Emanuel and Julia Lazarus were married today at the Great Synagogue in London.

1793: Henry Jacobs and Kitty Moses were married today at the Great Synagogue in London.

1803(15^th of Sivan, 5563): Dr. Abraham Kisch, the native of Prague who tutored Moses Mendelsohn in Latin and was director of the Meisel Hospital passed away today.

1805: Lisa & Kahn one of the oldest banking houses in the Netherlands was founded today by two Polish Jews – Hirschel Eliazer Kahn and Moses Calmus Lissa.

1806: Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, began his reign as King of Holland. Louis was supportive of his Jewish subjects and sought to make them full-fledged citizens of his Dutch kingdom. He “changed the market-day in some cities (Utrecht and Rotterdam) from Saturday to Monday” and abolished the use of the "Oath More Judaico" Henceforth, Jews and Christians would swear to the same oath when testifying. in the courts of justice, and administered the same formula to both Christians and Jews. In an attempt to improve their skills in the art of war, ‘’he formed two battalions of 803 men and 60 officers, all Jews.” Prior to his reign, the Jews had been until then excluded from military service. [Editor’s Note – It may seem strange to westerners living in the 21^st century, but at that time, serving in the military was considered a sign of full-citizenship. If you will remember the story of Asser Levy and his fight to serve in the militia in New Amsterdam you will understand the importance of what Louis did.]

1807: In New Haven, CT, Isaac Pinto, the son of Jacob and Abigail Pinto and his wife Maria PInto gave birth to Henry Marshall Pinto

1813(7^th of Sivan, 5573): Second Day of Shavuot and Shabbat observed as American forces continue, what at the time, looked like their successful foray into Canada during the War of 1812.

1818: “Loeb Baruch went to Rödelheim and was baptized by Pastor Bertuch as a convert to the Lutheran Church; assuming the name of "Karl Ludwig Börne.”

1819: In London, Solomon Ben Masud Ben Abraham Sebag and Sarah Goldsmid gave birth to Jemima Sebag-Montefiore the sister of Sir Joseph Sebag-Montefiore.

1822: Abraham Davis and Catherine Harris were married today at the Great Synagogue in London.

1828: Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler “received a doctorate from the University of Erlangen for a dissertation on a philosophical subject.”

1828: In Durbach, Germany, Emanuel and Johanna Bodenheimer gave birth to Jakob Bodenheimer.

1829: Birthdate of Marcus Jastrow, the Polish born Talmudist who would become the Rabbi at Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia, PA.

http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/cajs/jastrow/01.html

1832: Thanks to the work of the late Ezekiel Hart who had been denied his seat in the legislature in 1809 and his son Samuel Hart, the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, passed the 1832 Emancipation Act that ultimately guaranteed full rights to people practicing the Jewish faith.  Canada was a trend setter since it would be 27 years before such a measure was passed any place in the British Empire.

1835(8^thof Sivan, 5595): Rabbi Mattathias di Moses Zacuto and 47 other people including Rabbi Raphael Amar died today when a building collapsed during a wedding celebration in Alessandra, Italy.

1837: Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas. By 1854, there were enough Jews living in Houston for the establishment of cemetery and by 1859 the Jewish community was large enough to get a charter for what was the first congregation in Texas in 1859. The Congregation, Beth Israel, began as an Orthodox synagogue, but became a Reform congregation some fifteen years later.

1838: Jacob Kann married Amalie de Jonge.

1843(7^thof Sivan, 5603): Second Day of Shavuot

1847: In Baltimore, MD, “Helena and William Saks” gave birth to Andrew Saks who with his brother Isadore opened Saks and Company which came to be known as Sakes Fifth Avenue.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140212133833/http://cyrus.piedmont.edu/users/mgardner/Saks_Paper_6-22-05.html

1848: In Breslau, Silesia, Rabbi Abraham Geiger and his wife gave birth to author and historian Ludwig Geiger.

1849: In Denmark, article 84 of the new constitution negated discrimination of "any person on the basis of religious grounds." This removed the last restriction on the Jews making them full citizens.

1850: Hyman Davis and Isabella Davis were married today at the Great Synagogue in London.

1854: In Marisfeld, Germany, Abraham Friedman and his wife gave birth to Meyer Friedman, the husband of Carrie Fist who was a director of the Daniels Bank, United States National Bank and Denver Credit Men’s Association as well as the national trustee and vice-chairman of the Local Board of Managers of the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives in Denver, Colorado.

1854: Today the Rochester Daily Democrat carried the announcement that "The Jewish Worship -- Darrow & Bros. have issued a volume of fifty pages entitled 'The Stranger In The Synagogue; Or The Rites and Ceremonies of the Jewish Worship, described and explained.' It is compiled 'by Simon Tuska, a son of the Rabbi of the Congregation Berith Kodesh, of the City of Rochester.' For sale by the publishers."

1855: In New York City, “The Jews’ Hospital” opened for patients today.  While the hospital may have been intended to serve destitute and newly arrived Jews, its mission soon changed.  During the Civil War it treated untold number of Union casualties beginning with those who were wounded during McClellan’s Peninsular Campaign. It was originally located on West 28th Street in Manhattan. It changed its name to Mt. Sinai Hospital in 1866.

1860:Emily Jane Mires, the daughter of Franco-Jewish financier Jules Mires, married Prince Alphonse de Polignac the second son of President of the Council of Ministers. In 1861 the couple had a daughter named Jeanne

1861: During the American Civil War,Frederick Knefler was promoted from the rank of lieutenant to captain in the 11^th Indiana Infantry.  Knefler would eventually work his way up to the chain of command to become a Brigadier General.  His commanding officer in the 11^thIndiana was Lew Wallace, author of Ben Hur, the 19^th century classic set in Judea with a Jewish hero.  Wallace and Knefler were friends before the war.

1865(5^th of Sivan, 5657): Parashat Bamidbar; erev Shavuot

1867: Today in London, Middlesex native Rebecca Henriques Valentine married David Moss with whom she had six children.

1870: Today's "Foreign Items" column reported that Warsaw, Poland, has a population of 254,561 of which 67,584 are Jews.

1870: Birthdate of German born oncologist Ferdinand Blumenthal.

1870(6th of Sivan, 5630): First Day of Shavuot

1870: During Shavuot Services, seven young ladies and four young men took part in Temple Israel’s first ever Confirmation Ceremony.  Services were led by Rabbi Raphael D.C Lewis of Brooklyn, NY. The service began at ten in the morning with the hymn Adon Olom which was sung to the accompaniment of organist Morris Abrahams.

1870: Members of the Temple Israel confirmation class and their parents visited the home of Rabbi D.C. Lewin this evening where they presented him with a pair of engraved silver goblets as a token of their appreciation for his work with them.

1870: In New York City, “Maurice and Henrietta (Bucky) Simon gave birth to “Denver-Gross Medical College” trained physician “Saling Simon, the World War I U.S Army Captain and the husband of Memphis, TN native Sara Lowenstein, who specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis which led him to serve on the Board of the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives while practicing in Denver, CO.

1870: According to reports published today, Temple Emanuel located on New York’s Fifth Avenue had a total income of $97, 627.70 this past fiscal year with expenses of $38,179.52 that included such items as salary for the staff (21,500); choir and organ (5,425.76); school (1,708.44) and insurance (2,301.39).  The income included payments for pews in the amount of 34,425.92 and 17,344.70 from “the charity collection for the year.  As to membership, the Temple “has 3059 pew owners and 61 seat holders.”

1870:“The New Persecution of the Jews” published today described the persecution of Jews at the hand of Romanian Christians as being “so savage and so causeless, the civilized world can be one sentiment – that of immeasurable indignation.” After providing a succinct, sympathetic picture of Jewish history while drawing a picture of Jewish suffering at the hands of Christians the article describes the positive nature of the American Jew.   “Not one of all the multitude of nationalities which we have received among us can boast of so large a proportion of peaceful and law-abiding members.  A Jew in prison is a thing almost unheard of; a Jew soliciting public charity has yet to be found; a Jew who boast of his caste, grows noisy over his religion or reviles that of his neighbors, if he exist at all, has become known to the general community…It is only bigotry which represents a Jew as an object of hatred or aversion.  To that race we owe much of our civilizations, and all the religion we possess.  It has endured persecution through generation after generation and has never evinced any disposition to retaliate….It is to be hoped that the United States Government will do all in its power to check the hideous massacre lately begun in Rumania.”

1871: In Cleveland, OH, “Ranks Kusman Syman and Rebecca (Goldsmith) Syman gave birth to Wittenberg educated and Ohio State University trained physician Louis Syman, a specialist in the practice of internal medicine and husband of Bertha M. Reihnhiemr who served as the “regimental surgeon of the 362^nd Infantry, U.S. Army during WW I before continuing his practice in Springfield, OH.

1873: Birthdate of Russia native Israel Cass, who came to the United States in the last decade of the 19^thcentury and started Cass and Rosenthal, a manufacturer of infants and children’s coats with German Jewish immigrant Max Rosenthal.

1973: In San Francisco, Meyer and birth solon gave birth to California School of Design graduate Harry solon the painter whose works were exhibited in numerous places including the Sala des Artistes Francais in Paris and who was a member of the Society of American Artists and the Society of Western Artists.

1874: Birthdate of Chicago native and Minneapolis businessman Arthur Mayer Harris, the owner of Harris Machinery Compay and the director of the Talmud Torah.

1875: In Louisana, Prague natives Ferdinand and Lizzie Sicher Fishell gave birth to Daniel S. Fishell.

1876: “A Moor stabbed eleven Jews” today at Alcassar, a Moroccan city in the Province of Fez.  Among the wounded are Moses Abecasis.

1877: Reports reaching Bucharest that American Jews have petitioned Secretary of State W.M. Evarts on behalf of their co-religionists in Romania and Turkey “has created a considerable amount of astonishment” among Jews and non-Jews alike.

1877: Four days after he had passed away, 48 year old Julius Calisher, the Birmingham born son of Phoebe and Nathan Jacob Calisher and the husband of Julia Calisher was buried today at “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1877: Jacob and Therese Schiff gave birth to Mortimer Leo Schiff, banker, philanthropist and early supporter of the Boy Scouts of America.

1878: Today “Johan A, Kasson, the U.S. Minister to Austria” became “the first diplomatic representative to officially recommend action at the Congress of Berlin on the subject of the removal of Jewish disabilities.”

1881: A group of Polish Jews fought back today on Hester Street when two members of the “border gang” –John Reilly and Thomas Sinclair – began torment them.  Reilly responded to the Jewish resistance by drawing his revolver and shooting indiscriminately at the Jews. Louis Wolf was wounded by one of the shots which was heard by two 7^th Precinct Detectives who chased down the fleeing thugs and arrested them.

1881: In “An Eastern Story,” a reviewer examines the recently published Rabbi Jeshua, a book that is described as “peculiar” because of the “parallelism which exists between the history of Rabbi Jeshua and the founder of Christianity.

1882: It was reported today that an Austrian physician had seen more than 125 “mutilated Jews” at a hospital in Odessa.  He described the wounds as being “of a very dangerous character.”  The attackers showed a spirit of cruelty by pouring spirits and petroleum into the wounds. One woman had her breast cut off while her one year old child had its eyes put out with a red hot iron.  At this time there are 3,000 homeless orphans wondering the area. (Editor’s note – You can draw a straight line from these reports to the meetings being held in the United States on how to cope with the rising tide of Jews fleeing Russia)

1882: It was reported today that “a colonization society” with a capitalization of a million dollar is to be formed to implement plans to settle Russian Jews in homesteads and other agricultural settlements in the American West.

1882 (18th of Sivan, 5642): Fifty six year old Alexander Abraham de Sola passed away. Born in 1825, he was a Canadian Rabbi, author, Orientalist, and scientist. Originating from a large renowned family of Rabbis and scholars, De Sola was recognized there as one of the most powerful leaders of Orthodox Judaism in the United States during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Born in London, England, the sixth child of David Aaron de Sola and Rebecca Meldola, his maternal grandfather was Haham Raphael Meldola, a prominent English Rabbi. His sister Eliza, married Rabbi Abraham Pereira Mendes, and was the mother of Dr. Frederick de Sola Mendes.In 1873, by invitation of President Ulysses S. Grant's administration, De Sola opened the United States Congress with prayer. This invitation might have had a double significance at the time.  By asking a rabbi to provide the opening prayer, Grant was once against providing evidence that he was not an anti-Semite.  By asking a British rabbi to provide an opening prayer, the administration might have been signaling its desire to improve relations with Great Britain.

1882: The Musée Grévin, opened today in Paris. Arthur Meyer was the co-founder of what has become a very popular waxwork museum.  The grandson of a Rabbi, he was born in Le Harve in 1844 and became a major publisher in the French newspaper business.  His role as “press baron” reminds one of that played by Jews in other countries.  Like other Jewish moguls of journalism, he converted, in his case to Catholicism and he was a member of the anti-Dreyfus forces.

1883: In Paris Béatrice de Rothschild married Maurice Ephrussi in what some might have considered more of banking merger than a love-match.

1883: Birthdate of English economist John Maynard Keynes, whom most people know as the father of Keynesian Economics but do not know as “avenomous anti-Semite who could have given Richard Wagner a run for his money”who said the Jews“have in them deep-rooted instincts that are antagonistic and therefore repulsive to the European, and their presence among us is a living example of the insurmountable difficulties that exist in merging race characteristics, in making cats love dogs ...It is not agreeable to see civilization so under the ugly thumbs of its impure Jews who have all the money and the power and brains.”

http://www.allbusiness.com/europe/7362692-1.html

1885: Birthdate of French journalist and political leader Geroges Mandel who served in the Chamber of Deputies where he warned of the danger presented by the Nazis and Fascists.  He joined the Resistance and was cruelly murdered by the Vichy paramilitary forces.

1885(22^nd of Sivan, 5645): Eighty-year old Sir Julius Benedict the German born composer and conductor who “conducted Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah at Exeter Hall, for the first appearance of Jenny Lind in oratorio” and “wrote a march for the wedding of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and Alexandra of Denmark in 1863” passed away today.

1886: On Shabbat most of the Rabbis in Philadelphia spoke to their congregations about the unwillingness of the school superintendent to allow the Jewish students to make-up the final exams which are scheduled to be given on Shavuot.  The superintendent has refused to make any accommodation and failure to take the exams could result in failing for the school year.  The Rabbis “cautioned the young of their congregations against attending school on the upcoming festival.”

1886:William Eugene Blackstone, the author of the Blackstone Memorial, married Sarah Lee Smith.  The Blackstone Memorial was a petition signed by many prominent Americans calling for the return of the Jews to Palestine which was sent to President Benjamin Harrison.

1887: It was reported today that rumors are circulating concerning a proposal to make Pope Leo XIII King of Palestine under a protection of all the Catholic powers.  Some see this is a way to compensate the Pope for having lost his temporal powers in Italy at the time of the reunification.  The proposal does not take into consideration the fact that the Russians, who are Orthodox, feel they have a special role to play in the Holy Land as do the Anglican British. The report concedes that nobody has taken into consideration how the Jews and Moslems would feel about governance under a Papal monarch.

1888: Birthdate of attorney and Democratic Party member Benjamin Charles Ribman, “a leader in the civic and Jewish communities”

1889(6^th of Sivan, 5649): Shavuot

1889: In Vienna, Hugo Thimig and his wife gave birth to actress Helen Thimig who was married to Max Reinhardt from 1935 until his death in 1943 who “went into exile in the United States during the Nazi era.”

1892: Founding of the Jewish community of Oslo, Norway.

1892: Professor Edward North of Hamilton College is scheduled to deliver a lecture “The Inter-Correspondences of Hebrew and Greek.”

1892: Congregation B’nai Jeshurun hosted its annual reception for its religious school this afternoon.

1893: The Jewish shirtmakers expect that five hundred of them will be “locked out” by the Shirt Contractors’ Association today as the association moves to “break” the union.

1894: Birthdate of Bucharest native and American trained physician John Adam Glassbury.a specialist in “speech disorders, the husband of “poet and collector of Asian Art Betty Blanc Glassbury” and the father of Eunice Glassbury Dombroff

1895: Samuel Castin is being held by authorities on charges that he sold $4,500 worth of jewelry that did not belong to him and kept the money for himself.  Castin is known as “Jew Sam.” (Everybody was not a Talmud student)

1897: “Books on Many Themes” published today provides a series of brief reviews including one on The Prophets of Israel by Professor C. H. Cornhill who “having studied the history of Assyria, Babylon and Egypt shows the true origins of the religion.”

1897: Publication of a review of The Myths of Israel by Amos K. Fikse which is a sequel to his previous work, The Jewish Scriptures.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9900EFDC123EEE3ABC4A51DFBF66838A639EDE

1898: Twenty-four year old Elgin, Illinois born Benjamin Charles Bachrach, the holder of an A.B. from Notre Dame and an LL.B from Kent College of Law in Chicago married Martha Hartman today in Chicago.

1898: Approximately “sixty young girls arrayed in white and a quarter of as many boys” from the Hebrew Free Schools took part in the Confirmation ceremonies at the Educational Alliance Building

1898: “Society Notes” published today described plans for an upcoming “patriotic tea in commemoration of Alexander Hamilton” sponsored by St. Luke’s Church which include a performance by the Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band. (Ed. Note – You have to wonder if the people at St. Luke’s Church appreciated the irony of a band made up of Jewish orphans playing in honor of Alexander Hamilton)

1899: Two days after she had passed away, 50 year old Emma Esther Harris, the wife of Reuben Harris, was buried today in London at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”

1899(27th of Sivan, 5659): German printer, publisher and bookseller, Hirsch Fishl passed away in Berlin. Sometime after 1860, while living in Halberstadt, Hirsch developed a specialty of buying and selling Hebrew books and manuscripts.  Hirsch provided Joseph Zender with many of the incunabula and rare books that were part of the first collection of Hebrew Books created for the British Museum.  He also provided assistance forThe Bodleian Library and the Rosenthal Library at Amsterdam when they sought to acquire Jewish and Hebrew Books.  (As reported by Singer and Van Straalen)

1899: In New York City, the Health Board “established a quarantine in the grammar department of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society” following the discovery of three cases of diphtheria.

1899: Today Alfred Dreyfus was “notified of the decision of the Supreme Court” that would lead to his being shipped back from Devil’s Island where his case would be reheard.

1899: “A meeting of the members of the Educational Alliance and the Hebrew Free School Association of the City of New York was held” tonight at Temple Emanu-El “to ratify the agreement for the consolidation of the two institutions as provided for by a recent act of the Legislature.”

1900: Birthdate of Victor Kluger who worked with Miep Gies and others to hide eight people including Anne Frank for two years.

1901: “Hebrew Aid Societies in Competition” published today provided a report by the  Kreuz Zietung, about a  recently formed German Hebrew Aid Society that plans on competing with the French Alliance Israelite Universelle in providing add to the distressed Jews in Southeastern Europe.

1902” It was reported today that “Dr. Emil Hirsch, the rabbi of the Temple Israel Congregation” in Chicago “is not at all disturbed by a story from New York that the Rabbincal Association of that city has adopted resolutions declaring him no long a followers of the faith” and the he has “openly ridiculed” their action saying that for him it is “totally without effect.”

1903: “A mass meeting, attended by about 1.200 representative citizens of Washington, was held in the Columbia Theatre this afternoon to consider the recent outrages perpetrated on the Jews of Kishineff, Russia.”

1904: Max Meyerhardt and Dora Meyerhardt gave birth to Julius Max Meyerhardt.

1904: “The Seventh Annual Convention of the Federation of American Zionists” which was attended by 188 authorized delegates continued to meet for a third day at Germania Hall in Cleveland, OH.

1905: In Dusseldorf, Germany, Gustav Cohn the German born son of “Levi and Eva Regina Cohn” and his wife Paula Cohn gave birth to “Luise (Lissy) Cohn” he wife of Bernard Kaufmann

1907: “In the Berlin suburb of Oberschöneweide, Heinrich Peierls an electrical engineer, from a family of Jewish Merchants, who was the managing director of a cable factory of Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG), and his first wife Elisabeth née Weigert” gave birth to Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, the award winning “Jewish German-born British physicist who played a major role in the Manhattan Project and Tube Alloys, Britain's nuclear program” who was described as "a major player in the drama of the eruption of nuclear physics into world affairs

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Peierls.html

https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/rudolf-peierls

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sir-rudolf-peierls-1602308.html

1908(6^thof Sivan, 5668) Shavuot

1908: In White Plains, NY, Felix and Frieda Warburg give birth to their fifth and youngest child Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg, the philanthropist who was among other things “a founding father of the American Ballet Company, the precursor of the New York City Ballet.

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/22/obituaries/edward-warburg-philanthropist-and-patron-of-the-arts-dies-at-84.html

1909: Birthdate of actor and director Henry Levin.

1910: “Jews Going To Turkey” published today reported that the expulsion of Jews from Russia is increasing day by day” and that up to 30,000 Jewish throughout Russia have been expelled from where they have been living forcing to emigrate to the United States, Canada, Argentina and to Turkey “where the Jewish leadrs are making arrangements for them to establish colonies.’

1911: “President Taft to-day directed the Secretary of War to administer a severe reprimand to Col. Joseph Garrard, commanding the cavalry post at For Myer, near Washington, because he had made a recommendation against the advancement of an enlisted man on the express grounds that he was of Jewish parents who are engaged in the tailoring trade.”

1912: Birthdate of Arnold Forster, an American Jewish leader, lawyer and writer who became a longtime executive of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith.

1913: Dora Margolyn, the daughter of Harry and Rebecca Margolyn and older sister of Becy Maroglin, the prominent Tulane trained labor lawyer enter the Jewish Orphans’ Home in New Orleans which at that time was run by Arkansan Leon Volmer who had previously “served as a rabbi on a Reform Congregation Charleston, W.VA, where he had earned a reputation as a lovable and compassionate man.”

1913: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services were scheduled to be held in Chicago for Charles K. Markman, the “husband of Julia Virginia Markman and the father of Eva, Samuel, Henry, Baubian, Milton and Simeon Markman.”

1914: Barely a year after it was launched, the Russian Yiddish weekly newspaper Di Tsayt (The Times) was shut down by the Russian government” was shut down when the last paper was deliveredtoday.

1914: Birthdate of Estelle Lebost, the native of the Bronx who gained fame as Estelle Reiner, the wife of  multi-talented Carl Reiner and mother of Rob Reiner, “Meathead” on “All In the Family.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/movies/30reiner.html?_r=0

1915: It was a reported today estimated that there were “about 100,000 homeless people” in the region around Lodz with about 22,000 living at Lomza.

1915: It was reported today that at a recent conference of the Jewish Aid Society in Moscow “it was decided to appeal to Jews throughout Russia for aid” for the homeless “and a plan was discussing for taxing wealthy Jews for the benefit” of those suffering the privations of the World War.

1915: As of today, copies of the resolution adopted by the citizens of Rochester, NY calling for the commutation of Leo Frank’s sentence are on their way to the Georgia Prison Commission and the Governor of Georgia.

1915: According to reports published today “the more than 3,000 Galician Jews living in Jerusalem “are on the verge of destitution” because of they no longer received support from the Jews of Galicia due to the World War.

1915: It was reported today that Dr. A.S. Blumenthal, a rabbi from Palestine, has arrived in New York bearing “letters of introduced to Nathan Straus” asking for his help in raising money for the Jews of Palestine who have been impoverished by the war – an effort that has been endorsed by Austro-Hungarian Consuls in both New York and Jerusalem.

1915: “Russian distrust of the Jews is shown by an alleged secret order issued by the General of the Russian Army and distributed to the commanding officers in Poland and Galicia” published in New York today which claims that Jews provide food and shelter for the German Army while serving as spies.  “To remedy this alleged condition it is ordered that when the Russians enter a town…the leaders of the Jewish community be taken and held as hostages” and that “at the same time a warning should be given to all Jews that if any one of them should in any way help the enemy even after we have left the town, these Jewish leaders will killed.”

1915: Atlanta Mayor James G. Woodward is awaiting reinforcements from the Governor because he is afraid that the police force will not be able to control the demonstrators gathering in the city to express their support for the execution of Leo Frank.

1915: The Colonization Committee of Petrograd sent a cable today to the American Jewish Relief Committee describing the “acute and indescribable distress” the Jews are suffering and stating that “sums collected” for their relief have been “completely exhausted.”

1915: In Atlanta, over 4,000 people attended a mass meeting held tonight on the grounds of the State Capitol where “resolutions protesting against the commutation of the death sentence imposed upon Leo M. Fran for the murder of Mary Phagan were adopted.

1915: “Hollins N. Randolph, one of the leading lawyers of Atlanta and the counsel for the Federal Reserve Board…sent a letter to the Prison Commission expressing his doubts about the guilt of Leo Frank and urging clemency.

1916: “Former Judge Leon Sanders, President of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society said” tonight “that C.L. Marcus a financial agent of the society had gone to Europe about two weeks ago in order to see that the persons to whom relief funds had been sent go their money.”

1916: President Wilson responded positively to a request by Representative London of New York that he “take every opportunity to assist the Jews in Russia to obtain relief from oppressive conditions.”

1916: Rabbi de Sola Mendes is scheduled to officiate at the marriage of Dorothy H. Bronner, “ daughter of Mrs. William H. Bronner and Arthur M. Levy, a son of former Tax Commissioner Ferdinand Levy and Mrs. Levy” which will be followed by a wedding breakfast at the St. Regis Hotel.

1916: Today, twenty-four year old Dr. Joseph Herman Isenstead, the West Prussian born son of Herman and Jenny (Eisack) Eisenstadt and a holder of the Iron Cross for his years of service in the Medical Corps of the German Army in WW I married

the former Elly Neuman, the mother of their children Eric and Ruth, all of whom in 1936, came to the United States where Dr. Isenstead  practiced “medicine specializing in the treatment of liver disease.”

1916: Sixty-five year old Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, simply known as Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of State for War (the top military post in the UK) died today when the HMS Hampshire which was taking him to Russia was sunk by a German U-boat. The first major event in his storied career was his participation at the age of 24 in came to known as the Survey of Western Palestine a major mapping expedition that covered what is today Israel, Gaza and Judea/Samaria. The survey had provided the basis for many later archaeological and geographic expeditions and even provided the coordinates that would set the modern border between Lebanon and Israel.

1916: After a bruising confirmation process laced with anti-Semitism that lasted for more than four Louis Brandeis became the first Jewish Justice of the United States Supreme Court when he took the oath of office in the courtroom of the United States Supreme Court.  The chamber was filled to capacity with family members, well-wishers and government officials including Secretary of War Baker, Attorney General Gregory, Senator Nelson of Colorado and Senator Martin of Virginia. “The oath was administered to Mr. Brandeis today by virtue of the action of the Senate in waiving its three-day notification rule providing that a person confirmed by the Senate shall not assume office until three days after he is notified of his appointment.”

1917: During World War I, in the United States registration began under the Selective Draft Act covering all men between the ages of twenty one and thirty.  According to historian Martin Gilbert, the New York Times declared that this act gave “’gave a long and sorely needed means of disciplining a certain insolent foreign element in this nation.’ The reference was to America’s Jews, whose pacifist elements were no greater, by proportion than those of other Americans.  Universal military service, one American rabbi insisted, was an institution deriving from the time of Moses.  In support of this pro-war view there was also a verse in the Psalms which British Jews had cited two years earlier as a religious justification for to war: ‘Blessed be the Lord, my Rock, Who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to fight.’ Within two months of the passage of the Selective Draft Act, Jews made up 6 per cent of the American armed forces, though they were only 2 per cent of the population.”  The most of those Jews in uniform would be Irving Berlin.

1917: This afternoon, the Women’s Club of the Jewish Educational Alliance is scheduled to give a whist party to raise money for a children’s playground in Chicago.

1917: In Pittsburg, PA, Dr. Lee L. Frankel of New York City presided over the evening session of the annual convention of the National Association of Jewish Social Workers.

1918(25th of Sivan, 5678): Twenty-six year old North Carolinian,Arthur Bluethenthal an All American Center and Princeton graduate who had been a member of the French Lafayette Escadrille since 1917 was shot down “in aerial combat with four German planes while directing artillery fire today near Maignelay, France, 50 miles north of Paris

1919(7^th of Sivan 5679) Second Day of Shavuot

1919(7^th of Sivan 5679): After passing away today, 22 year old Tilly Brown, the wife of Harris Brown, was buried today at the Belfast Jewish Cemetery in Northern Ireland.

1920: The “monster fair and bazaar” sponsored by Temple Emanu-el at Boro Park is scheduled to open today at the Y.M.H.A. building in Brooklyn.

1920: Today, Hebrew Union College Awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Hebrew Laws to Jacob H. Schiff of New York City.

1921: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Dr. Simon Baruch, father of Bernard Baruch, at the West End Synagogue in New York City.

1921: Graduation exercise for students attending the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Teachers’ Institute are scheduled to begin at three o’clock this afternoon in Aeolian Hall.

1922: Today, “in response to recommendation by President Abbot L. Lowell, the Harvard Board of Overseers created a committee to examine the ‘principles and methods for mere effectively sifting candidates for admission’” which Jewish alumni suspected was “a strategy for the imminent limitation of Jewish enrollment.”

1922: Liebman-Philipson and Wolf, manufacturers of Cambridge Clothes for  men and young men is scheduled to move their cutting rooms and offices to their news plant at Canton and Cromwell Streets in Chicago today.

1923: Sam and Annie Stein Lazarus gave birth to Ralph Lazarus, the fourth of their five children.

1924: In Wiener Nestadt, Austria, Max and Ida Zimmer, both of whom died in “concentration camps during the Holocaust” gave birth to Margarete Zimmer who came to United States at the age of 15 and gained fame as Greta Zimmer Friedman, the girl who was photographed being kissed by a stranger—a Navy sailor—on V-J Day 1945 by Life photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Zimmer_Friedman#/media/File:Legendary_kiss_V%E2%80%93J_day_in_Times_Square_Alfred_Eisenstaedt.jpg

1925: Mrs.Bertha Phillip Dworsky, the founder in 1896, of the Daughters of Jacob, “the first Orthodox Jewish home in New York City and the mother of Harold and Moses Dworsky and Blanche Dworsky Ratner, the President of the Daughters of Jacob Geriatric Center passed away today in New York City.

1925(13^th of Sivan, 5685): Seventy-seven year old “Isaac Minis Hays. a Philadelphia physician and author and editor of books on medicine and Benjamin Franklin who was Librarian of American Philosophical Society from 1897-1922 passed away today.

https://snaccooperative.org/view/72573446

1926: In Budapest, “Tivadar Schwartz, a well-connected Jewish lawyer, publisher, investor and former officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, and the former Erzebet Szucz, the daughter of a well-to-do fabric store owner” gave birth to Paul Schwartz who gained fame as Paul Soros. (As reported by Robert D. Hershey, Jr.)

1927(5^TH of Sivan, 5687): Erev Shavuot

1927(5^th of Sivan, 5687): Cornell trained physician and bacteriologist Abraham Zingher, the Romanian born son of “Joseph and Yetta (Berman) Zingher and  WW I Medical Corps Veteran died prematurely under unusual circumstances today.

1929: “Sir Boyd Merriman, who had served as counsel for the Jewish case before the British Commission of Inquiry” meeting in Jerusalem completed his first terms as Solicitor General for England and Wales.

1930:Birthdate of Jerome Howard Abrams who, as Jerry Ames, became a major force in the field of American Tap Dance. The 2006 recipient of the Flo Bert Award for his lifetime contribution to tap dance changed his name, like many other performers of his era, because his “Jewishness” could hinder his career. 

1930 Manny Shinwell completed his service as Financial Secretary to the War Office and began serving in the Cabinet as the Secretary for Mines.

1931: Eighty-one year old John Lawson Stoddard, the American author whose support for “the restoration of the Jews in Israel” was encapsulated in his statement “You are a people without a country; there is a country without a people. Be united. Fulfill the dreams of your old poets and patriarchs. Go back, go back to the land of Abraham.”

1932: Dr. Cyrus Adler announced that Dr. Morris D. Levine has been appointed to a full professorship at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

1932: Dr. Cyrus Adler was honored today during the commencement exercises at the Jewish Theological Seminary for his thirty years of service to this flagship institution of the Jewish community.

1932: Ten new rabbis will be ordained today at the 7^th annual commencement exercises of the Jewish Institute of Religion. The chairman of the board of Trustees, Judge Julian W. Mack will preside at the event being held at Carnegie Hall and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, President of the Institute will confer the degrees on the newly minted clergyman.

1933: “Irving Wexler, better known as Waxey Gordon, wealthy beer distributer and racketeer who has pleaded not guilty to charge of income tax evasion is scheduled to appear in court today when the judge will set a trial date.

1933(11^th of Sivan, 5693): Seventy-year old David Belais, who had formed the firm of Belais and Cohn with metallurgical chemist Sigmund Cohn, passed away today.

1933: It was reported today that Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of the Jewish Institute of Religion conferred, in absentia, “the honorary degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters on Professor David Yellin for his contributions in the field of Hebrew grammar and etymology, biblical exegesis and interpretation of modern Hebrew poetry in the Judeo Arabic epoch.”

1933: Arturo Toscaninii boycotts a German music festival to protest Nazi repression of what the regime classified as “degenerate artists.”

1934: “The Most Precious Thing in Life” a romantic drama with a script co-authored by Dore Schary was released today in the United States.

1934:Tensions began to rise today in Eastern Thrace that would lead to full blown violence during June and July known as the Thrace Pogroms which was the name given to a series of violent attacks on the Jews by Moslem Turks inthe “cities of Tekirdağ, Edirne, Kırklareli, and Çanakkale.” The violence began with boycotts of Jewish shops and products which “was followed by vandalizing of Jewish houses and shops.”  There is a dispute as to who caused the violence.  Some attribute it to leaders who were pro-Nazi while others attribute it to members of Atatürk's Republican People's Party.  Who started the violence may be a matter of dispute but the effects are a matter of record. “Over 15,000 Jews had to flee from the region.”

1935: The Metropolitan League of Jewish Community Associations honored The American Jewish Olympic team which recently competed in the Maccabiah games held in Tel Aviv at a reception held at the 92^nd Street Y.M.H.A. The three hundred attendees included E.J. Londow, the chairman, Judge Jonah Goldstein and Rabbi Louis I. Newman. Among the honorees were Jance Lifson, Dores Kelm, William Steiner and Martin Weintraub.

1935(4^th of Sivan, 5695): Sixty-nine year old Menshevik and supporter of the Communist International Aleksandr Martynov, the native of Pinks, passed away today in Moscow.

1936: It was reported today that 77 year old Miss Bertha Pappenheim the “writer, Jewish feminist leaders, crusader against white slave traffic” whose literary works including a translation from Yiddish to German the memoirs of Gluckel von Hameln, the noted Jewish writer from whom she was descended” has passed away in New Isenberg.

1936: “Private Number,” a drama co-starring Joe E. Lewis was released in the United States today.

1937: Birthdate of Benjamin Jerry Cohen the native of  Ossining, New York who I”s the Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, Santa Barbara.… where he has been a member of the faculty since 1991” and “teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on international political economy.”

1937: In Oran, Algeria, Eve (nee Klein) and George Cixous gave birth to Hélène Cixous “a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician.”

1937: It was reported today that “all Jews except those who renounced Judaism are excluded from” The Camp of National Unity which “is designed to be the organization of the Polish nation” and “intends to dominate the policy of the government” in much the same way that the Nazi Party dominates the policy of the German government.

1938(6^th of Sivan, 5698) Shavuot

1938: Sigmund Freud, his wife Martha and daughter Anna arrived in Paris from Vienna on their way to seek refuge in London.

1939: Governor Lehman delivered the commencement address today at Russell Sage College where he said that “the three most important principles of democracy are tolerance, loyalty and service.”

1940: “With the ever-increasing threat of war in the Eastern Mediterranean” the New York Times described preparations being made to defend Palestine from attacks by Axis forces.  Palestine is an attractive target because Haifa is the terminus of the oil pipeline from Iraq and has become one of the busiest ports in this part of the world. Additionally, Palestine has become “one of the largest manufacturing centers in the Near East” thanks in large part to the influx of Jewish settlers from Germany and other parts of Europe over the last seven years. The Jews of Palestine are committed to the defense of area and are determined to stay put and deal with any invasion.

1940: Birthdate of David Brudnoy, Boston talk radio host

1940: “Deputy Chief Gertrude D.T. Schimmel, the second highest ranking woman ever in the New York City Police Department began her career as a policewoman” today.

1941: Rabbi Zerach Warhaftig and his familyleft Yokohama on the Japanese ocean liner Hikawa Maru bound for Canada having escaped from Lithuania thanks to the super-human efforts of Japanese Vice-Consul in Kaunas, Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara.

1941: In Brookline, MA, “Harry Kraft, a dress manufacturer in Boston's Chinatown and a respected Jewish lay leader at Congregation Kehillath Israel in Brookline who wanted his son to become a rabbi and his wife gave birth to businessman and philanthropist Robert Kenneth Kraft, the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots NFL Team

https://www.forbes.com/profile/robert-kraft/

1942: In Newark, NJ, Frank Shapiro “a manufacturer of novelty hats” and “the former Leona Glickstein” gave birth to Kenneth Roy Shapiro the creator of “The Groove Tube.” (As reported by Richard Sandomir)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/obituaries/ken-shapiro-whose-groove-tube-satirized-tv-dies-at-75.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=thumb&module=region&region=region&WT.nav=region&_r=0

1942: In Cracow; Poland, thousands of Jews were rounded up for deportation.

1942: Eisengruppen report stating efficiency of Gas vans; "Since 1941, 97,000 have been processed in the three vehicles in operation without any malfunctions in the vehicles."

1942: The SS reports that 97,000 persons have been "processed" in mobile gas vans.

1942: During a roundup of Jews in Kraków, Poland, SS men brutally torment two men--one who has just one leg and another who had lost his eyesight while fighting for Germany in World War I.

1943: The Nazis deported 1266 Jewish children under the age of 16 from Vught, Holland to the Sobibór death camp where they are gassed upon arrival.

1943(2nd of Sivan, 5703): In Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland, more than 100 Jewish workers at the Rudzki factory are shot.

1943:  When the National Headliners' Club included women in its ranks of prizewinning journalists for the first time in 1943, Sylvia Porter was one of just two women to receive a Headliners' award. Today she was honored for "outstanding" work in financial and business reporting. By then, Porter had been working in journalism for a decade, but the award was only the first of many Porter would earn over a career that spanned half a century.

1943: Etty Hillesum voluntarily returned to Westerbork where she “continued to provide a bit of support for the people as they were preparing themselves for transport. It was for this reason that Etty Hillesum consistently turned down offers to go into hiding. She said that she wished to "share her people's fate".

1944: Joel Brand was arrested by the British as he tried to get to Palestine during negotiations which he thought would help save the Jews of Hungary from the Final Solution.

1944: The Allies marched into Rome, 1944. Jews emerged from their hiding places and the gate of the great synagogue was opened. There has been a great deal written about the Pope's failure to come to the aid of the Jews during the war.  But we must not lose sight of the heroic efforts on the part of many individual Italians many of whom were priests and nuns who risked their lives to hide the Jews of Italy.  The stories of people being hidden in monasteries, nunneries and in Catholic cemeteries are tales of courage and daring do that even Tom Clancy or Ian Fleming could not have invented.

1944: In the weekly internal report of the War Refugee Board, it states that notice was recently sent to Algeria about the evacuation of 1,000 refugees now in southern Italy to be accepted by the United States. Among the countries which refugees originated from were Bulgaria, Greece, Spain, Turkey and Yugoslavia.

1945: At moshav Herut, Mendi and Drora Kayla Shulman gave birth to their daughter Nechama who would become famous as Nechama Rivlin when she married Reuven Rivilin the speaker of the Knesset and President of Israel.

1945: Binem Wrzonsk “joined a group of boys and young teenagers, known as the "The Buchenwald Boys" who were brought to France in a special convey under the sponsorship of the O.S.E” Among the boys were Elie Wiesel and Kalman Kaliksztajn.

1945: J.E. Meyers photographed three children – a girl from Poland, a boy from Latvia and girl from Hungary – who had just been released from Buchenwald on a train that is taking them to Palestine.

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/military/ww2/photos/images/ww2-200.jpg

1945: The Four Allied Powers – US, USSR, UK and France signed the Declaration Regarding the Defeat of Germany and the Assumption of Supreme Authority by Allied Powers

1945(26^thof Sivan, 5705): Sixty year old Maurice Lewis Phillips, “the son of Simeon and Rosetta Phillips passed away today.

1946: Jews from Palestine visited the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/june/16.asp

1947: “Dr. Chaim Weismann, former president of the World Zionist Organization was invied by the Natioanl Council of Palestine Jews today to appear before the United Nations Committee on Palestine which will arrive here next week.”

1948: American pilot Stan Andrews began serving with the Israeli Air Force today.

1948: Israeli armed forces captured Yavneh.

1949: It was reported today that Mrs. Golda Myerson, Israeli Minister of Labor, Social Insurance and Housing, emphasized the critical housing shortage in Israel” terming  “it the major problem of her country, and asserted that 160,000 housing units were needed immediately to take care of the heavy influx of immigrants.”

1950: European diamond manger, Jacques Torczyner, warns that unfair labor practices by the West German diamond industry will have a negative impact on other diamond cutting centers including the one at Tel Aviv.

1950: Eliahu Elath flies to London to begin serving as Israel’s first ambassador to Great Britain “which has recently accorded Israel full recognition…”

1951(1st of Sivan, 5711): Rosh Chodesh Sivan

1952: CBS broadcast the last episode of “Casey, Crime Photographer,” that featured music by Morton Gould.

1954: Birthdate of New York native and leading fashion photographer Steven Meisel.

https://032c.com/2008/who-is-steven-meisel/

1954: The last new episode of the hit comic variety program, Your Show of Shows, airs. The show co-starred Sid Caesar and included Carl Reiner and Howie Morris as “second bananas.”  Writers for the show included Mel Brooks, Woody Allen and Neil Simon.

1955: “The Big Bluff,” a film noire directed and produced by W. Lee Wilder with a script by Fred Freiberger was released today in the United States.

1955(15th of Sivan, 5715): Eighty-year old  CCNY graduate and HUC ordained rabbi, David Lefkowiz,, the Hungarian born son of Lena Lefkowitz, the leader of Dayton’s Temple B’nai Jeshurun and Dallas’ Temple Emanu-El where he opposed the rising Ku Klux Klan and husband of Sadie Braham with whom he had four children including David, Jr. who followed his father into the rabbinate passed away today

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0195/ms0195.html

1956: It was reported today that the Mizrachi Women’s Organization of American has $1,165,000 in the past year to support projects in Israel including “several children’s villages, vocational high schools, nurseries and settlement houses.”

1956: In Seattle, WA, Canadian native Evelyn Ruth Gorelick and her husband gave birth to Kenneth Bruce Gorelick better known as one of America’s biggest selling instrumental musicians Kenny G.

1956: In the UK premiere of “Jacqueline” featuring Harold Goldblatt as “the Schoolmaster.”

1957(6th of Sivan, 5717): First Day of Shavuot

1958: “Exhibition of the Decade” an art exhibition created to celebrate Israel’s tenth anniversary opened today in Binyanei Hauma in Jerusalem featuring “Might” a work by Yosef Zaritsk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Zaritsky#/media/File:Might_by_Yosef_zaritsky.jpg

1959: Dr. Bernard Mandelbaum was appointed provost of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

1959: Ogden Rogers Reid was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Israel.

1961: Birthdate of Onno Hoes, the Dutch political leader whose mother was Jewish which is the explanation given for his support of Zionism.

1962: In Chicago, Gene Carlin, the owner of “a plumbing supply business called Bilko” in suburban Morton Grove and his wife he former Carole Crafton gave birth to “comedian, actor, author and Emmy Award winning producer” Jeffrey Todd “Jeff” Garlin.

1963: U.S. premiere of “Irma la Douce” a comedy directed by Billy Wilder who along with I.A.L. Diamond wrote the script for the film they co-produced that featured music by Andre Previn.

1963: “Come Blow Your Horn,” the movie version of the Neil Simon play, directed by Bud Yorkin who shared the role of producer with Norman, the author of the screenplay was released in the United States today.

1963: CBS broadcast the final episode of “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” created by Max Shulman.

1965(5^thof Sivan, 5725) Erev Shavuot

1965(5^thof Sivan, 5725): Eighty-four year old English author Eleanor Farjeon, the daughter of author Benjamin Farjeon passed away today.

1967: Moshe Dayan replaced Prime Minister Levi Eshkol as Minister of defense.

1967: Zvi Dinstein completed his term as Deputy Minister of Defense

1967: Operation Focus (Mivtza Moked) began at 07:45

1967: Mordechai “Hod took a calculated risk by committing all but 12 of his combat aircraft to the pre-emptive strike. At 7.10 am, he dispatched a first wave of 183 aircraft and, soon after, a second wave of 164. Flying out to sea, they descended to avoid detection by radar, and made for the Egyptian coast. It took 45 minutes for the first wave to reach its targets. "These were," Hod later recalled, "the longest 45 minutes of my life." At exactly 7.55 am, Hod's pilots struck. The Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan, recalled: "Mottie [Hod] and his senior staff officers sat in the front row facing a glass partition, and I sat just behind them . . . I was watching Mottie drink jugful after jugful of water, as he followed his pilots with deep anxiety."After two hours and 50 minutes the Egyptian Air Force was in ruins, and Hod needed only another hour to finish off the Jordanian and Syrian Air Forces. By midday of June 5, he had total control of the skies. (As reported by the Telegraph – We have included this detailed description to remind those revisionist historians that in war, the only sure victories are the ones viewed in hindsight)

1967: War broke out between Israel and the Arab nations.   This day marks the first of six of the most momentous days in Jewish history.  In May of 1967, Egypt ordered the U.N. peacekeeping force out of the Sinai and sent Egyptian forces into the Sinai Peninsula.  Both of these acts were violations of the agreements that had ended the Suez Crisis of 1956-57.  Egypt also closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping effectively blockading the port of Elath.  Such a blockade is an act of war under international law. The Egyptians also formed a joint military command with the Syrians and the Jordanians.  For a month, Israel heeded the voices of caution from the international community.  However, nothing was done to relieve the desperate situation.  So on the morning of June 5, 1967, the Israeli Air Force struck the Egyptian Air Force, destroying much of it on the ground.  This was an act of real daring since the Israelis had left only 12 fighters to cover the rest of the country in case of air attack.  Following the successful air action, Israeli troops entered the Sinai and engaged the larger Egyptian forces.  The world waited and held its breath. At the same time, the Israelis used three different channels to try and convince the Jordanians not to enter the fight.  The Jordanian response was to begin shelling the western section of Jerusalem and to begin to move troops forward.  Reluctantly, Israeli forces moved into the eastern section of Jerusalem.  Two days later, the city would be united as the capital of the Jewish state and the Western Wall would once again be open to the Jews from throughout the world. (For more details on the war you might want to read Six Days of War by Oren, Israel’s Fight for Survivalby Donovan, or Israel by Martin Gilbert.  As these accounts, all written in different eras after the war confirm, Israel had no grand strategy to conquer the Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan. The attacks aimed at the Egyptians were part of a grand design, but the fight against the other states was in response to unfolding events on the ground.  For example, the destruction of the Egyptian Air Force was a strategic move.  The destruction of the Jordanian, Syrian and Iraqi air forces was a tactical move that took place when the planes from these three Arab nations crossed into Israeli air space in mid-morning of June 5.)

1967(26th of Iyar, 5727): Arthur Yitzhak Biram, Israeli philosopher, philologist, and educator, passed away in Haifa.  Born in Bischofswerda in Saxony in 1878, the son of a modest, but successful businessman Biram attended school in Hirschberg, Silesia. His sister Else Bodenheimer became a well-known art sociologist. He studied languages, including Arabic, at University of Berlin and at University of Leipzig and earned a doctorate Dr. phil. at the University of Leipzig in 1902, discussing the philosophy of Abu-Rasid al-Nisaburi.[1] In 1904 he concluded the rabbi seminar at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums. Afterwards he taught languages and literature at the Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster. Biram was one of the founders of the Bar-Kochba club, and a member of the German liberal religious stream 'Ezra', which recognized the importance of high school education. In 1913, he emigrated to Ottoman Palestine. Dr. Arthur Biram was appointed the first principal of the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa but a few months later, World War I broke out, and Dr. Biram was drafted by the German army and stationed in Afula. In 1919, he returned to school. He married Hannah Tomeshevsky, and they had two sons. Both sons were killed: Aharon died in an accident while on reserve duty, and Binyamin, an engineer at the Dead Sea Works, was killed by a mine. As part of Dr. Biram's philosophy of education, in 1937, he implemented compulsory Hagam  training for girls in the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, laying the foundation for recruitment of women in the Haganah, and later the Israel Defence Forces. In 1948, he resigned his post as principal, and on his 75th birthday, he authored a collection of essays on the Bible. Altogether, he wrote about 50 publications in Hebrew, German, English, and Arabic.

1967: The Israeli army captured the city of Gaza. Gaza had been occupied by the Egyptians since 1948 and was a base for terrorists.  

1967: The town of Latrun, overlooking the old road to Jerusalem was captured.  Latrun dominated the road to Jerusalem and had been the cite of great deal of hard fighting during the War For Independence in 1948.   The city of Qalqilya was also captured on the same day.

1967: The U.N. Security Council unanimously ordered a cease-fire in the Middle East War.   This was the same U.N. that had betrayed the Israelis by removing its forces from the Sinai and had sat silently while the Arab states tightened the noose around Israel's neck.

1967: In Cairo, Dr. Fraouk Shabtai and two of his brothers were taken to Abu Zaabal prison and later transferred to an internment camp at Tourah where they would spend the next two years.  They were part of at least “425 Jewish males – the vast majority of the Jewish community’s men – who were detained in Egypt during the Six Day War.”

1967:Avraham "Avi" Lanir flew his plane the “Black Mirage” in attack on the Egyptian air base at Fayid.  The plane earned its nickname when it was scorched during Lanir’s dogfight with the Syriansin April of 1967.

1967: Mob violence broke out in Tunis. One hundred shops were systematically looted and burnt; cars belonging to Jews were overturned and set ablaze; forty scrolls of the Law were taken out of the main synagogue by the pillagers and were desecrated before they were burnt; the main synagogue was itself set on fire until it lay a smoldering ruin, the police having stood by and watched. President Bourguiba made an impassioned plea on radio and television to stop the rioting, apologizing to the Jewish community and promising to punish the perpetrators. The Jews had little confidence in the government’s ability to protect them.  The population went from 105,000 to 23,000 by the end of 1967 and 9,000 by 1900. In the 21^stcentury, terrorists would burn an ancient Tunisian synagogue.

1967:Today, on the first day of war,Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu’s battalion fought the battle of Um Katef in Sinai, then reinforced the Golan Heights. During the battle, Yonatan received a wound to his elbow while helping rescue a fellow soldier who lay wounded deep behind enemy lines.

1967: “At 22:30, Ariel Sharon orders the artillery to begin shelling the Egyptian forces in Um-Katef and Um-Shihan. The targets are illuminated with enormous searchlights, and within twenty minutes 6,000 shells land on the Egyptian forces. After the artillery softening-up, an infantry brigade begins to clear the Egyptian posts in face to face battles. At the same time paratroopers are dropped from helicopters near Egyptian artillery units and hit them. Armored forces block roads to prevent arrival of reinforcement. Even though some units encounter difficulties, the campaign as a whole is executed according to the plan that was designed by Sharon and the heavily defended Abu-Ageila region is penetrated and captured. Casualties: About 1,000 Egyptian soldiers are dead. On the Israeli side: 40 dead, and about 120 wounded. Penetrating the defenses of Abu Ageila enables the Israeli armored divisions to go through it and attack the Egyptian armored formation

1967: A line of Sherman M-50 tanks and trucks full of soldiers rode towards East Jerusalem to confront the Jordanians

http://cdn.timesofisrael.com/uploads/2017/05/34.jpg

1968: Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy, who died the next day. Kennedy was the Senator from New York and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President.   At one point, this Arab assassin claimed that he shot Kennedy because he supported Israel. Regardless of the reason (mental health problems were also given as a defense), long before 9/11 Arabs violently intruded their way into the American political scene and had a defining effect on altering history.

1969: Dr. Shabtai and his wife Laila were married in Paris two years to the day after Dr. Shabtai had been seized by Egyptian authorities at the start of the Six Days War.

1969:  The University of Texas at San Antonio was founded.  Today there are approximately 150 Jewish students UTSA.  The Hillel House serves students at UTSA as well those at other colleges and universities in San Antonio.

1970: Birthdate of Ilene Prusher American born graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism who moved to Jerusalem where she has written for Haaretz and Jerusalem Vivendi while writing her first novel Baghdad Fixer.

1972(23^rdof Sivan, 5732): Fifty-five year old Columbus, Ohio native Samuel Ungerleider, Jr., the senior vice president of Gottesman & Co., Inc., and the Central National Corporation and “president of the 92d Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association” who was married to the “former Joy Gottesman” with he had four children – Peter , Steven, Andrew and Jeane – passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/06/archives/samuel-ungerleider-jr-dead-pulp-and-paper-executive-55.html

1974: Dr. Henry Kissinger told Senators Jackson, Javits and Ribicoff of Soviet readiness to guarantee in writing emigration of 45,000 Jews per year and to deal with problems of harassment of emigration applicants.

1974: “In a major policy address at the Naval Academy in Annapolis,” President Richard Nixon “blasted those who want to use détente to extract policy changes in the Soviet Union (i.e. improved treatment of the country’s Jews and an end to attacks on those seeking to move to Israel.)

1975: The Suez Canal opened for the first time since the Six Day War of 1967.

1975: Terrorist attacked a bus in Jerusalem using grenades.

1975: Terrorist fired rockets at Qiryat Shemona.

1976(7^thof Sivan, 5756): Last observance of Shavuot Shel Shabbat during the Presidency of Gerald Ford.

1979(10^thof Sivan, 5739): Ninety-one year old HUC trained rabbi Morris Samuel Lazaron the Savanah, GA born son of “Samuel L. and Alice (deCastro) Lazaron and husband of Pauline Horkheimer with whom he had had three children – Morris, Jr, Arnold and Clementine who was a leader of the “anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism passed away today in London.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/lazaron-morris-samuel

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0071/ms0071.html

1980: Dr. Jerzy Borysowicz, “director of the mental hospital in Radom located at Warszawska Street who provided “daily help” to the Jews during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and who treated Mordechai Anielewicz passed away today four years before he was awarded the title of Righteous among the Nations posthumously,

1981(3^rdof Sivan, 5741): Ninety-three year old Romanian native and American trained attorney Oscar Lazarus, who founded a watch repair shop with his brother that became the Benrus Watch Company passed away today.

1982: Israel launched Operation Peace for Galilee against the PLO and other hostile forces after the assassination attempt on the life of Shlomo Argov, Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom.

1983: Eighty-five year old August W. Bennet, a Republican  who while serving in the House of Representatives in 1945 presented a joint resolution in the House of Representative “asking for United States recognition of ‘the Hebrew Nation’ as an intergovernmental agency to repatriate Jews surviving in Europe to Palestine and for an administration to facilitate the establishment of a free state there guaranteeing civil, political and religious rights of all its inhabitants” passed away today in Concord, MA leaving behind no explanation for this courageous act for which there was little or no political gain.

1983: The funeral for Charles Zimmerman a “former chairman of the civil-rights committee of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and president of the Jewish Labor Committee” is scheduled to take placed at Riverside Chapel on Amsterdam Avenue.

1984: In Cairo, Egypt, the “security officer of the Israeli Embassy, Zvi Kedar, was wounded in the hand by a shot fired from a moving vehicle” (Jewish Virtual Library)

1984: In New York City, Gail Winston and Frank Rich gave birth to American author Simon Rich, the brother of Nathaniel Rich.

1984(5^thof Sivan, 5744): Erev of Shavuot

1984(5^thof Sivan, 5744): Ninety-three year old Nehemiah, the rabbi turned merchant who co-founded Giant food stores, the first Washington, DC grocery chain to sell Challah in its bakery, passed away today.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1984/06/06/nm-cohen-93-founder-of-giant-food-stores-dies/aec7a3a4-08c0-42eb-a9b6-9c4ce819cec0/?utm_term=.cf9e112f1629

1985: Today, President Reagan nominated 35 year old Alex Kozinski “to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.”

1986: Two people were injured during a bombing at supermarket in Jerusalem.

1987: Ted Koppel hosts a "National Town Meeting on AIDS" on a special four-hour long live broadcast of Nightline.

1988:An exhibition at the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna that presents a large private collection illustrating Jewish life in that city is scheduled to come to an end.  The exhibition includes “historic objects from Jewish homes and houses of worship in Vienna, as well as books, parchments, charts, artworks and handicrafts, all assembled over the last three decades by the collector Max Berger.”

1991(23^rdof Sivan, 5751): Sixty-year old Larry Kert, the American entertainer best known for his award winning portrayal of “Tony” in “West Side Story” passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/07/obituaries/larry-kert-60-a-romantic-lead-in-the-original-west-side-story.html

1993(16^thof Sivan, 5753): Parashat Beha’alotcha

1993(16^thof Sivan, 5753): Ninety-one year old Baron George Russell Strauss passed away today.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-strauss-1490546.html

1995(7^thof Nisan, 5755) Second Day of Shavuot

1995: Bose-Einstein condensate is first created for the first time. The collapse of the atoms into a single quantum state is known as Bose condensation or Bose-Einstein condensation. This phenomenon was predicted in the 1920s by Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein, based on Bose's work on the statistical mechanics of photons, which was then formalized and generalized by Einstein.  (And you thought he stopped with the E= MC squared.)

1997: In New York Rabbi Amy B. Ehrlich officiated at the wedding of novelist Dani Shapiro whose latest work was Picturing the Wreck and Michael Paul Maren, a contributing editor at New Yorkmagazine and the author of  The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity.

1998: U.S. premiere of “The Truman Show” a comedy produced by Scott Rudin and Edwin Feldman, co-starring Noah Emmerich with music by Philip Glass.

1998: After premiering last year at the Toronto International Film Festival, “Mr. Jealousy” a comedy written and directed by Noah Baumbach was released in the United States today.

1998: Author and commentator Alfred Kazin passed away on his 83^rdbirthday. His last published work was God and the American Writer which appeared in 1997.

1999(21st of Sivan, 5759): Melvin Howard “Mel” Tormé nicknamed The Velvet Fog, “an American musician, known for his jazz singing” passed away.  “He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books. He co-wrote the classic holiday song "The Christmas Song" (also known as "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire") with Bob Wells.  [And you thought that Irving Berlin was the only Jew writing Christmas songs.] (As reported by Stephen Holden)

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/06/us/mel-torme-velvet-voice-of-pop-and-jazz-dies-at-73.html

1995(7^thof Sivan, 5755): Second Day of Shavuot

1998(11^thof Sivan, 5758): Author and literary critic Alfred Kazin passed away today on his 83^rd birthday.

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/06/books/alfred-kazin-the-author-who-wrote-of-literature-and-himself-is-dead-at-83.html

1999: At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA, Aufruf for Deb and Mitchell Levin.

2000(2^ndof Sivan, 5760): Eighty-nine Swiss philosopher and Einstein Medal winner Jeanne Hersch passed away today in Geneva.

http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jun/08/local/me-38976

2001: “Rabbi David Ellenson, a scholar of Jewish religious thought at Reform Judaism's seminary and professional school, has been chosen as the institution's new president, its board of governors announced today.”

2002(25th of Sivan, 5762): Of the 17 Israelis who were killed this morning when a stolen car packed with explosives pulled alongside a public bus and exploded near the northern town of Megiddo, 13 were soldiers, most of them conscripts. Seven were buried today at the Hadera military cemetery. At least five of the victims were immigrants from the former Soviet Union, young people whose parents had brought them out of Dagestan and Moldova and Ukraine. One of the victims, Violetta Hizgayev, a shy, 19-year-old sergeant in the ordinance corps, had struggled more than most. Gennadi Issakov, 20, who also was killed in the attack, had been a sergeant in Jenin for the District Civil Liaison office, a military unit set up under Oslo peace accords to staff checkpoints, supervise the delivery of international relief aid and issue the rare permits for West Bank Palestinians to travel inside Israel.

2003(5th of Sivan, 5763): Erev Shavuot

2003: The bodies of David Shambik, 26, and Moran Menachem, 17, both of Jerusalem, were found near Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem, brutally beaten and stabbed to death.

2003(5th of Sivan, 5763): Meir Vilner “an Israeli communist politician and Jewish leader of the Communist Party of Israel (Maki), which consisted primarily of Israeli Arabs” passed away. “He was the youngest and longest surviving signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948.” He was the cousin of Abba Kovner who certainly did not share his views.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Vilner

2004: At the Lancaster City Museum and Art Gallery the touring exhibition “Hannah Frank: A Glasgow Artist” came to a close.

2004: Rabbi Julia Babbette Sarah Neubererg, the unsuccessful Social Democratic Party candidate for Parliament, “was created a life peer as Baroness Neuberger today.

2005(25^thof Sivan, 5762): Cpl. Dennis Bleuman was one of 17 Israeli soldiers murdered today by an Arab terrorist.

2005: “The Comeback” starring Lisa Kudrow as “Valerie Cherish” premiered on HBO today.

2005:The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Luckiest Man:The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig.

2005: Acclaimed historian Gerda Lerner received an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In granting the degree, the president and rector of the Hebrew University noted, "For many young people, your remarkable academic career, achieved despite the harrowing experiences suffered during the Nazi era in Europe, provides a model of what may be accomplished in the face of adversity." The following day, as part of a conference in her honor, she gave a keynote address titled, "What Is Women's History and Why Should We Study It?" Lerner is widely regarded as uniquely positioned to answer that question, having shaped the field of women's history from its earliest beginnings.

https://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/05/2005/gerda-lerner

2006: In “Daniel Handler Interview” published today Caroline Westrbook looks at the author who “has found famed as the man behind Lemony Snickect.”

http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/1914_daniel_handler_inter.htm

2007: Michael Oren appeared on “Worldview, a daily global affairs program produced by Chicago Public Radio station WBEZ (91.5).”

2007: In London, the Zionist Federation and St. John Wood’s Synagogue present “The Six Day War 40 Years On: Where Next for Israel?” with David Horovitz, Editor-In-Chief of the Jerusalem Post.

2007: In a court case tied to the Bush Administration’s behavior that led to the war in Iraq, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison and fined $250,000 for lying to investigators about his role in leaking the identity of an undercover CIA officer named Valery Plame.  Both Libby and Plame are Jewish.

2007: Publication The Harp and the Shield of David: Ireland, Zionism and the State of Israel in which author Shulamit “Eliash examines the relationship between Ireland and the Zionist movement, and the state of Israel from the context of Palestine’s partition and the delay in Ireland’s recognition of the State of Israel until 1963.”

2008: Pinchas Zukerman returns as a soloist playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Slatkin.

2008(2nd of Sivan, 5768): Amnon Rosenberg a 51 year old father of three from Nirim lost his life during a noontime mortar attack on the Kibbutz Nir Oz factory where he was working.   Two others were seriously wounded and a fourth suffered light wounds in the noontime attack.

2008: During an appearance on MSNBC today, Andrea Mitchell, set off a minor “firestorm” when she “referred to the voters of the southwest Virginia region as rednecks.”

2009: The Tenth Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival presents “ShirLaLa: Family Shabbat Service and Dinner” featuring Shira Kline whose “creative songs delight children, parents and grandparents alike, making Shabbat a fun, interactive experience.”

2009: U.S. President Barack Obama toured the Buchenwald concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany. with Holocaust survivor Bertrand Herz, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Elie Wiesel.

2009: At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Sophie Shiffman and her family begin her Bat Mitzvah Shabbat by participating in Friday evening services.

2009: President Obama toured Buchenwald concentration camp today with Chancellor Merkel, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and survivor Bertrand Herz.

2010: During Shabbat services at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA, Jonathan Kerbis, son of Esther and Sergio Kerbis, is scheduled to be called to the Torah for his last Aliyah before making Aliyah and beginning his training with the IDF.

2010: Scott Ballan, the son of the lead bond lawyer for the financing of the $1.5 billion new Yankee stadium is scheduled to celebrate his Bart Mitzvah today.

2010: After Shabbat had ended, Orthodox boxer Yuri Foreman'sd defended his title in a bout with former welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (34-2).  Foreman lost the fight for the WBA junior middleweight crown at Yankee Stadium in a TKO in the 9th round ending a streak of 29 undefeated fights..

2010: An Egyptian appeals court today upheld a ruling that orders the country's Interior Ministry to strip the citizenship from Egyptians married to Israeli women. The case underlines the deep animosity many Egyptians still hold toward Israelis, despite a peace treaty signed between the two countries 31 years ago. The Supreme Administrative Court's decision also scores a point for Egyptian hard-liners who have long resisted any improvement in ties with Israel since the signing of the 1979 peace treaty.

2011: The Annual Cantor’s Concert is scheduled to take place at Tikvat Israel featuring Cantor Rochelle Helzner and Rabbi Joshua Maroof

2011: “Uzi Landau spoke at the inauguration of Ketura Sun, Israel's first commercial solar field built by Arava Power Company, located at Kibbutz Ketura.”

2011: The Gold Coast Film Festival is scheduled to present “Homecoming” a documentary about “three teenagers who were born in Israel to foreign workers who came to Israel in search of a better life.”

2011: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish author and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “The Ballad of Bob Dylan: A Portrait” by Daniel Mark Epstein and “Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn’t Want to Be One” by Mark Kurlansky

2011: The Los Angeles Times features reviews of books by Jewish author and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture” by David Mamet.

2011: An estimated 30,000 people marched up New York's Fifth Avenue in the annual Celebrate Israel Parade amid a sea of blue-and-white flags..

2011: Two Palestinian teenagers were indicted in the murder of five members of the Fogel family from the West Bank settlement of Itamar. Amjad Awad, 19, who worked as a laborer in Israel, and Hakim Awad 18, a high school student, were indicted today in a West Bank military court for the murders of Udi Fogel, 36, Ruth Fogel, 35, and their children Yoav, 11, Elad, 4, and Hadas, 3 months. 2012: “Mary Lou”, a cinematic creation of Israeli director Eytan Fox, is scheduled to be shown at the JCC in Manhattan

2012: The opening reception for "Equus Ambiguity -The Emergence of Maturity,” Moshe Givati’s solo exhibition is scheduled to take place at the Jadite Galleries in New York.

2012: The Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning is scheduled to present the “He & She” the 10^th Annual Exhibition of Works of The Artists’ Beit Midrash

2012: “With his bill to legalize West Bank outposts facing defeat in the Knesset, National Union MK Ya'acov Katz … slammed a government plan to carry out the Supreme Court's orders to evacuate houses in the Ulpana outpost outside of the Beit El settlement, dubbing it "destruction for the sake of destruction." (As reported by Lahav Harkov)

2012(15^thof Sivan, 5772): Ninety-one year old “Eugene Ferkauf the founder of the E. J. Korvette chain of discount department stores, whose 1950s strategy of low prices, quick turnover and high volume helped shape today’s retail landscape” passed away today.(As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/business/eugene-ferkauf-founder-of-e-j-korvette-chain-dies-at-91.html?_r=2&hpw&

2013: Dr. Sanjay Subrahmayan is scheduled to present a lecture styled Jews And "New Christians" In Portuguese Asia, 1500-1500 at the Library of Congress

2013: Zemer Chai, “DC’s Premier Jewish Choir” is scheduled to present ‘Sing Halleluyah’ at Ohr Kodesh in Chevy Chase, MD.

2013: The Tenement Museum celebrated its 25th anniversary, and the 150th anniversary of the restored building at 97 Orchard Street, which housed over 7,000 people from more than 20 countries from 1863 to 1935. (As reported by Anne Cohen)

http://blogs.forward.com/the-jew-and-the-carrot/178252/a-taste-of-the-tenements/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Saturday-and-Sunday_Daily_Newsletter%25202013-06-08&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_term=The%2520Forward%2520Today%2520%2528Monday-Friday%2529

2013: In Wisconsin, Tikkun Ha-Ir’s Glean Machine, which collects clothing, household items toiletries, books toys, art supplies and nonperishable food, ends its spring and summer supply drive.

2013: A judge in Tel Aviv sparked outrage today after he reportedly remarked, during an appeals hearing on a rape case several days ago, that some women enjoy rape.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/some-women-enjoy-rape-tel-aviv-judge-says/

2013: Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan was the site of the funeral for New Jersey U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/nyregion/dignitaries-gather-to-honor-frank-lautenberg.html?hpw&_r=0

2013: Today, Glenn “Greenwald was first to report on the top-secret United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order requiring Verizon to provide the National Security Agency with telephone metadata for all calls between the US and abroad, as well as all domestic calls.

2014(7^thof Sivan, 5774): 2^nd day of Shavuot/ Yizkor

2014: National Hebrew Book Week is scheduled to being at Liberty Bell Park in Jerusalem.

2014: “Paradise Cruise,” a film about a woman who photographs Israeli military funerals and her lover Yossi is scheduled to be shown in Manhattan.

2014: In the UK, the Wiener Library is scheduled to host “Through a Child's Eyes: Holocaust Literature for Young People.”

2014: The International Olympic Committee today confirmed a reported that it will contributed $250,000 toward a memorial for the 11 Israeli athletes and officials who were murdered by Palestinian terrorist at the Munich Olympics in 1972.

2014: “The Australian government will not refer to East Jerusalem as “occupied, territory” the government said in a statement issued today, in what one legislator called a “massive shift” in foreign policy.” (As reported by Stuart Winer)

http://www.timesofisrael.com/australia-drops-occupied-label-from-east-jerusalem/

2015: “Tuvianksy,” a documentary about an Israeli officer who was wrongly executed on charges of treason during Israel’s War for Independence is scheduled to be shown at the Israel Film Center Festival hosted by the JCC Manhattan.

2015: Today, Agnieszka Kurant who was raised a Catholic and who found out at the age of 14 that her mother’s family were Polish Jews, “became one of only a handful of artists to have their work adorn the famous curved facade of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.”

2015: “Gender, Memory and Genocide,” an international conference marking the 100^thanniversary of the Armenian Genocide co-sponsored by the Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism in London is scheduled to continue for a second day.

2015: The funeral for Rabbi Benjamin Klein, of blessed memory was held today in New York.  A native of Jerusalem who came to New York at the age of woo to study at the Central Lubavitch Yeshiva, Rabbi Klein was best known “as a personal secretary of the Rebbe, dealing especially with the Hebrew speaking Jews as well the Rebbe's liaison to the numerous on-goings between the Israeli government and the Rebbe.”  Rabbi Klein is survived by his wife, the former Laya Shusterman, ten children including Estie Ciment, the wife or Rabbi Pinchas Ciment, who has carried on her father’s work in the best possible way as the Rebbetzen for Chabad Lubavitch of Arkansas as well as “many grandchildren and great grandchildren.”

2016(28^thof Iyar, 5776): Yom Yerushalayim

2016: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including A Hero of France by Alan Furst, Labor of Love: The Invention of Loveby Moira Weigel and Federer and Me: A Story of Obsession by William Skidelsky

2016: “Sabena Hijacking – My Version” and “Shiva (Seven Days)” are scheduled to be shown this evening at the Israel Film Center Festival.

2016: The Hadar Noiberg Trio is scheduled to perform this evening at the 17^thAnnual Washington Jewish Music Festival.

2016: The Cinema South Film Festival is scheduled to begin at the Sedrot Cinemateque.

2017: A one-day conference on “Migration Past and Present” 19^th Century Jewish Migrations to Current Issues” which is “the product of a collaboration between the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University, the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University, and HIAS” is scheduled to take place at the King Juan Carlos Center in Manhattan.

2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to sponsor an Interfaith Ramaden Break – fast” – its second interfaith event of the term.

2017: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to Floyd Abrams, the author of The Soul of the First Amendment: Why Freedom of Speech Matters, in a discussion of the dangers posed by attacks on the freedom of Speech.

2017(11^thof Sivan, 5777): Eighty-eight year old Vic Gold Republican “wordsmith” and publicist who worked with Barry Gold and Spiro Agnew passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/us/politics/vic-gold-dead-goldwater-agnew-spokesman.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2017: “The US Senate unanimously passed a resolution today that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem.” (As reported by Eric Cortellesa)

2017(11^thof Sivan, 5777): Ninety-two year old architect William Krisel passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/arts/design/william-krisel-dead-architect-alexander-house-sun-belt.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

http://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/182597/jewish-architect-william-krisel-built-desert-oasis/

2017: Dr. Lauren B. Strauss of American University is scheduled to present “The ‘Queen’ of All Migrations: Jewish Immigration in the Early 20^thCentury” at Rodef Shalom in Falls Church, VA.

2018: Fifty-first anniversary of the Six Day War in which Israel thwarted yet another Arab attempt to destroy the Jewish state.

2018(22^ndof Sivan, 5778): Seventy-seven year old Ira Berlin, the chemistry undergrad who changed fields, got a PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin and went to develop an expertise in “the complexities of American slavery and its aftermath” passed away today in Washington. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/obituaries/ira-berlin-groundbreaking-historian-of-slavery-dies-at-77.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

2018: Aviv Kempner, the director, producer and writer who created “Rosenwald” is scheduled to speak at event honoring “Langston Hughes and his contribution to African American art and culture” at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C.

2018: In New York, “The Yemenite Conference: Shared Jewish and Muslim Cultural Values” presented by the American Sephardi Federation and the Institute of Semitic Studies is scheduled to come to an end today.

2018: “The 6^th Annual Israel Film Center Festival” is scheduled to open “at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan” today.

2019: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host “Anne Frank Remembered: 90^th Birthday Anniversary” during which “Ronald Leopold, Executive Director, will describe how his museum serves as a window to the past and mirror to the present.”

2019: Book launch for The JDC at 100: A Century of Humanitarianism.

2019: Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, the World Zionist Organization Department for Diaspora Activities, and The Israeli House - Consulate General of Israel are scheduled to host “Songs of Jerusalem” a concert in honor of Jerusalem Day, during which Israeli singer Judah Gavra and the MusicTalks ensemble offer a musical tribute to the City of David.

2019: Fifty-two years ago today “a line of Sherman M-50 tanks and trucks full of soldiers rode towards East Jerusalem” rode towards East Jerusalem to confront the Jordanians who had illegally occupied the area for nineteen years.

https://www.militaryimages.net/threads/the-six-day-war-1967.7909/#lg=attachment165394&slide=0

2019: Today, one day after she had passed away, on what would have been her seventieth birthday, Nechama Rivlin, the wife of Reuven Rivlin, the President of Israel is scheduled to be buried today in Jerusalem at the Mount Herzl national cemetery.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/nechama-rivlin-wife-of-president-reuven-rivlin-dies-at-73/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2019-06-04&utm_medium=email

2020: The Combined Jewish Philanthropies are scheduled to host “Friday Night Lights: Welcoming Shabbat Together Online.”

2020: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. Is scheduled to host a virtual Lunch and Learn: The Legacy of Winston of Churchill: A Conversation with Dr. Rob Havers, the President and CEO of the Pritzker Military Museum and Library, in honor of the 76^th anniversary of D-Day.

2020: The Maine Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to begin online today.

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1191: As the Christians seek to retake Jerusalem King Richard the Lionhearted arrived at Tyre.

1242: Two dozen wagonloads of Talmudic volumes and 200 other rabbinic manuscripts were burned at Paris.

1247: Pope Innocent IV contacts the king of Navarre. In a dispatch he requested the king compel Christian debtors to pay off their debt to Jewish lenders.

1249: King Louis IX, the French King who made great effort to convert Jews, occupied Damietta Egypt during the 7^th Crusade.

1391: Ferrand Martiniz of Seville incited a mob to attack the Jewish quarter. It soon spread to all of Spain except for Granada. Over 10,000 Jews were killed; many others chose conversion and became New Christians. Of these, many continued to practice Judaism in secret, while paying lip service to the Church. This eventually led to the Inquisitions. In Barcelona, the Jewish quarter, located for over 400 years near the castle, was totally destroyed.

1391: “In the aftermath of the great massacres of Jews” in Spain “which began” today, Paul of Burgos who “was original names as Solomon ha-Levi’ “converted to Christianity, and became an archbishop, lord chancellor, and exegete  known as Pablo de Santa Maria.

1487: In Soncino, Italy, Joshua Solomon Soncino completed the printing of a Pentateuchwith a commentary by Rashi.

1490: After being interrogated by the Vicar-general of the Bishopric of Astorga, Benitor Garicia confessed to having secretly returned to practicing Judaism five years ago and that he had encouraged two other conversos – a man named Franco from Tembleque and Juan Juan de Ocaña, from La Guardia – to return to Judaism.  Eventually all three would be put to death on charges of having participated in ritual murder of one who came to be known as the Holy Child of La Guardia.

1506: Birthdate of King John III of Portugal.  Persecution of Marranos and Conversos intensified during his reign with the arrival of the Inquisition.  On the other hand he met with David Reubeini in 1525 and the two negotiated over the possibility of the King supplying this adventurer with as many as eight ships to use in a fight against the Moslem leader, Selim I.  Since much of the life of Reubeni is shrouded in myth and half-truths, we cannot be sure as to the reason the negotiations failed.

1536: The Inquisition was introduced into Mexico.  Convsersos, Sephardic Jews who had been forcibly converted to Catholicism arrived in Mexico with Cortes and the Conquistadores.  Among these first arrivals was Hernando Alonzo who built the boats used by Cortes during his conquest of Mexico.  The most famous of these early arrivals was a Luis de Carvajal, the noble who established the New Kingdom of Leon in what today is part of northern Mexico.  The arrival of the Inquisition had an inimical effect on the Conversos, many of whom secretly practiced Judaism.  The descendants of these people may be found among the crypto-Jews of New Mexico who began trying to reconnect with their Jewish roots in the last decades of the 20th century

1629 (14th of Sivan): Rabbi Joseph ben Benjamin Samegah author of Mikrae Kodeshpassed away.

1716: The SS Restoration arrived in Massachusetts carrying several Jewish merchants who would help to form the core of the Jewish community in the Bay Colony.

1764(6^thof Sivan, 5524): Shavuot observed as General Gage seeks to end the uprising known as “Pontiac’s Uprising”  

1771: Isaac Lindo presented the synagogue in Barbados with a Sefer Torah

1775(28th of Iyar): Leib Epsitein, author of Or ha-Shanim passed away.

1782: Two days after he had passed away, “Moses Asher of Shulda” was buried today at the “Alderney Road (Globe Rd) Jewish Cemetery.

1799: Lyon Samuel and Kitty Solomons were marred at the Great Synagogue in London today.

1802: Birthdate of Rabbi Aaron II of Klarlin the Chasid who was the grandson of Aaron ben Jacob.

1808: Birthdate of Jacob Raphael De Cordova, Texas land agent and colonizer. A native of Jamaica, he settled in Philadelphia in the 1820’s with his father before moving to Texas in 1839.  Jacob and his brother Phineas De Cordova operated one of the largest land agencies in Texas. Jacob was one of three men who helped lay out Waco in 1848.  He passed away in 1868.

1818: Birthdate of I.M Rabinowitz

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/gorodets/gor094.html

1819: Joseph Myers married Rebecca Cohen today in the United Kingdom.

1821(6^thof Sivan, 5581): Shavuot

1821: Birthdate of Moses Isaac Tedeschi, the native of Triest whose knowledge of the Bible and Italian enabled him to lecture “in the Talmud Torah in his native city.”

1821: Birthdate of Leone Levi, the native of Ancona, Italy who immigrated to London where he became a successful jurist, statistician and Presbyterian.

1821: Abraham Durlacher, the son of Lewis Durlacher and Susannah Levy was circumcised today in London.

1821: Influential 19th economist David Ricardo the son of Anglo-Sephardic Jews who became a Unitarian when he married Priscilla Anne Wilkinson voted in Parliament today “for an inquiry into the administration of justice in Tobago.”

1826: Birthdate of Léon Say “a former employee of the Rothschild's Northern Railway Company who became the Minister of Finance in 1872’ who supported Alphonse de Rothschild’s attempt to preserve France’s bimetallism system.

1827: Phineas Nathan and Rachel Barnett were married today at the Great Synagogue in London.

1829(5^th of Sivan, 5589): Parashat Bamidbar; erev Shavuot observed on the birthdate of Allan Octavian Hume, the British civil servant who was so appalled by his country’s policies in India that he helped to found the Indian National Congress.

1832: English philosopher Jeremy Bentham “who spoke out many times on behalf of the Jews as an oppressed minority who were victims of popular prejudices” passed away For a detailed account of Bentham’s complex view of the Jewish people see “Jerry Bentham: Critical Assessments, Volume 4” starting on page 319.

1838(13^thof Sivan, 5598): In Vienna, Judah Jeiteles, the son of Jonas Jeiteles, the author of “Mebo Lashon Aramitm” the first Hebrew language grammar of Biblical Aramaic passed away today.

1838: Samuel Magnus married Miriam Isaacs at Chatham today.

1839: The first train of the Nordbahn, or Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn, Austria's first steam railway company which was financed by Salomon Mayer von Rothschild which had come from Vienna arrived at Břeclav

1841: In Silesia, Gustavus Mosler, a lithographer, cigar maker and tobacconist and his wife gave birth Henry Mosler, who was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio where he began his career as a wood engraver, sketch artist and illustrator.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=940CE4D9133FE432A25751C2A9629C946195D6CF

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Mosler#/media/File:Confederate_Bowling_Green_lithograph.jpg

1841: Raphael Picard and Sarah Levy were married at the New Synagogue in London.

1844: In London, George Williams founded the first YMCA which was the model for the YMHA and in America, the site of the creation of basketball which was for a time “the Jewish sport.”

1846: Birthdate of Colonel Nicolas Jean Robert Conrad Auguste Sandherr who while serving in the Statistical Section (Counterintelligence) gather a secret commission of inquiry to investigate the origin of documents that showed French military secrets were being sold to the Germans which concluded the Captain Dreyfus was the culprit.

1848(5^thof Sivan, 5608):Erev Shavuot observed as The Party of Order sought to reverse the changes brought about by the Revolutions of 1848 in France.

1851(6^thof Sivan, 5611): Shavuot

1855: Isaac Kaatz, Gottlieb Milhelm and Anton First were arrested today on charges of having been involved in the theft of eight cows from a farm belong to Colonel Lewis Morris.  The three carcasses found in the possession of the accused all bore a mark indicating that they were Kosher.

1858: In Greater London, Nathaniel Mayer Montefiore, the Brighton born son of Henriette and Sir Abraham Montefiore and his wife Emma Montefiore gave birth to Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore.

1859: In Australia, Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales. By 1865, there were enough Jews living in the Queensland city of Brisbane that a congregation was formed that held services in a local Masonic hall until 1886 when a sanctuary with a seating capacity of 400. In 1879, the Jews of Toowoomba, Queensland, built a synagogue which, as the community shrunk in size, was only used on the High Holidays.

1859: In Budapest, Dr. Lowinger Ignatius Salzer and his wife Berti gave birth to Donát Bánki “the Hungarian mechanical engineer” whose invention included “the carburetor for the stationary engine.”

1861: Fifty year old Count Cavour, a leader in the movement to create a unified Italy in which all people, including the Jews, would enjoy full civil liberties, passed away.  While Cavour complained about Baron James Rothschild because of his banking practices, he used him to finance the cause and counted among his closest advisors Isaac Atrom who was dissuaded from resigning his position when Cavour passed away.

1865: Birthdate of Dr. Max Rosenthal, the son of Herman Rosenthal, the gynecologist who served as House surgeon at St. Mark’s Hospital and the Montefiore Home in New York City. His young brother George became the manager of the Edison General Electric Company at St. Louis.

1866: In the United Kingdom, Judah P. Benjamin, the former Confederate cabinet member and unrepentant rebel “was called to the bar” today.

1867(6^thof Sivan, 5657): Shavuot

1867: In Cincinnati, Ohio, George Seeman, a cotton factor who was business with the Lehmann brothers and Caroline (Carrie) Goodhart gave birth to Julia Seeman who married Felix Drefyous at New Orleans’ Temple Sinai in 1891.

1870(7th of Sivan, 5630): Second Day of Shavuot

1870: A meeting is scheduled to be held a Temple Israel in Brooklyn “to consider the distressed condition” of the Jews in Romania.

1872: The New York Times reported that “the Greeks in the Levant have hit on a new mode of converting Jews.”  After hearing the “stale old fable…that a Christian child had been killed…by the Jews so as to mix its blood with their bread at Passover” the Greeks have been “inflamed…with a fine spirit of proselytism” that began with the seizure of Polish Jew whose hair and beard they smeared with tar before setting it on fire.  After enough Jews were tortured in a similar fashion, they sought shelter with the local Moslems.

1873: Today’s Minor Topics column described the progress that Jews of England have made during the 19th century. Thirty years ago a Jew could not sit in Parliament. And now Sir George Jessel, who was appointed Solicitor General last year, is about to named Master of the Rolls, a position so prestigious that is just below the post of Lord High Chancellor.

1874: In New York City, “Isaac and Delphine (Wertheimer) Steinthal gave birth to New York City high school graduate Albert E. Steinthal who went from working for Sweetser, Pembrook and Company to forming “L. Steinthal and Bro.) with his sister Lena while being an active member of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, the Free Synagogue and Temple Eamn-El.

1874: Birthdate of Posen, Germany native, Simon Peiser who in 1892 came to the United States where he graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1896, was ordained as a Rabbi at the Hebrew Union College and married Amelia Buchman in 194, “two months after becoming Superintendent” of the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum.

1875: Birthdate of Novelist Thomas Mann. Mann was not Jewish but in 1905 he married Katia Pringsheim, daughter of prominent family of Jewish intellectuals.  They had six children.  Mann left Nazi German in 1933, four years after having won the Nobel Prize for Literature.  He lived in the United States for many years.  He died in Switzerland in 1955, never having lived in his native land again.

1876: Alois Schicklgruber changes his name to Hiedler which morphs into Hitler.  In this case a name change may have helped to change history because as one comic said, can you imagine people saying Heil Schiclgruber with a straight face?

1877: Anglo-Jewish author Benjamin Leopold Farjeon married Margaret Jane “Maggie” Jefferson, the daughter of Joseph Jefferson, a member of a distinguished American acting family.

1877: In Philadelphia, Sarah Behrend and her husband gave birth to Jefferson Medical College trained physician Moses Behrend, the husband of Clara Rosenbaum

https://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(30)90197-4/abstract

1878(5th of Sivan, 5638): Erev Shavuot

1878: In “The Pentecost Festival” published today, the New York Times reported that “The Festival of Pentecost, which will be celebrated this evening at sunset by all the Jewish congregations in the world, is the second of the three great feasts which mark the calendar of the Hebrew Church. These are the Passover Festival, or Feast of Unleavened Bread; the Pentecost Festival, or Feast of Weeks, and the Tabernacles.” The article traces the history of the holiday from its origins as an agricultural festival to a celebration of the giving of the Decalogue to its modern observance which includes the ceremony of Confirmation.

1879: It was reported that problems of the Jews in Romania are not a matter of religion but a matter of money.  Supposedly until 1864 the Jews and the Romanians lived peacefully side by side. The Jews would lend money to the Romanians at exorbitant rates of interest which the Romanians gladly paid since they had no intention of paying off the loan.  Furthermore, the loans were secured by mortgages; mortgages on which the Jews could never collect because they were not classified as citizens and only citizens could own real estate.  That all changed when Napoleon III demanded that the Jews be made citizens.  Reportedly, the Jews began foreclosing on the mortgages, expelling the Romanians from lands their families had held for centuries. This forced the Romanians to begin shooting and hanging the Jews or driving them from the country. The Jews were being persecuted but not for reasons of religion.  At the same time, the Romanian government contended that it was not violating the edict of the Berlin Congress regarding the treatment of Romanian Jews because the Jews living in Romania were “foreigners” and not citizens of the country. [Editor’s note – people may run out of money but they never run out of rationalizations for cheating and killing Jews.]

1880: In “Man Before Adam” the reviewer of Preadmites: The Existence of Man Before Adam points that Dr. Alexander Winchell challenges several Biblical based conventions including that creation took place 4,000 before our era, that Adam was created on the 6^th, that Eve was from Adam’s Rib, that Adam lived for 930 years, that 1,656 after creation there was a great a flood that destroy everybody except Noah, his family and the animals on the ark and that the origin of the human species took place in Western Central Asia. [Winchell was a Protestant minister.  His book is an example of the challenges to the literal reading of the Bible taking place in the 19^th century among many denominations.  For Jews, this was a dominant motif of the Reform movement and many German-Jewish biblical critics.]

1880: It was reported today that The Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Harlem will be hosting a strawberry festival later this month to raise funds for the organization.

1880: It was reported today that the last religious census in France showed that there were almost 36 million Roman Catholics in the country but only 50,000 Jews.

1880: Rabbi Meisner of the Rivington Street Synagogue officiated at the wedding of Miss Essie Pakulski and Louis Mendelson, the son of the synagogue’s president  The ceremony took place at Irving Hall and followed the Reform ritual.

1882: Samuel Obrieght, a young Jewish man who was a partner in his family’s liquor business, suddenly married a Christian woman.  This fact became part of the public record during Obreight’s sanity hearing.

1882: A festival to raise funds for Russian Jewish immigrants is scheduled to be held this afternoon in the 23^rd Ward Park in NYC.  Speakers will include Algernon S. Sullivan and Steward L. Woodford. The Philharmonic Society under the direction of Max Maretzek will provide the musical entertainment.

1883: It was reported today that the cornerstone laying ceremony for the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in Brooklyn will take place later this month.

1884: Birthdate of Isaac Alpern, the Perth Amboy, NJ businessmen who successfully worked in real estate, insurance and banking and was instrumental in the construction of new building for the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/07/14/101470687.pdf

1885(23^rdof Sivan, 5645)Bernard L. Jaworower, the agent of the United Hebrew Charities serving at Castle Garden fell overboard while leaving the steamer George Starr at the Castle Garden dock. 

1885: In Wilkes-Barre, PA, a fist fight broke during Shabbat services between two Polish Jews – Abraham Rosenthal and Abraham Zubunsky – after “Rosenthal accused Zubunsky of being more of a Christian than a Jew.”  Both men left the synagogue and went to Justices of the Peace and charged each other with assault and battery.  Not much shalom in their Shabbat.

1887: Testimony resumed today in the trial of Adolph Reich, the Hungarian Jew who has been charged with murdering his wife.

1887: Birthdate of Yale Sokolsky

1888: Birthdate of Louis Freeman, the native of Glasgow who gained fame as artist Scottie Wilson.

1888: Albert Levy sent a letter from San Francisco to his wife Katie in New York saying the he had filed for a divorce and was going to Australia.  [This correspondence came to light during an alienation of affection suit that was brought by the Roman Catholic Katie Levy against her Jewish mother-in-law, Pauline Levy.]

1889(7^thof Sivan, 5649): Second Day of Shavuot

1889: A group of Jews met at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue to begin making plans for observing the 400^th anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain.

1890: It was reported today that the managers of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children has received $3, 688.50 in contributions which will be used to finance outings for underprivileged children and their mothers. 

1892: It was reported today that Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs delivered an historical poem entitled “The Genius of Hebrew History” to those attending graduation of Congregational B’nai Jeshurun’s religious school. The poem recounted the history of the Jewish people which he subdivided into a series of epochs, each with its own set of verses.

1892: A group of prominent Jews met this afternoon at the Jewish Theological Seminary and formed The American Jewish Historical Society.  The meeting was chaired by Dr. Cyrus Adler who “explained that the object was to collect, preserve and publish data having reference to the settlement and history of Jews in America.

1893: The funeral for Joshua Hendricks, the fourth generation head of Hendricks Brothers, is scheduled to be held at his home on Cliff Street followed by interment at Cypress Hill.

1894: Governor Davis H. Waite ordered the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike. Famed financier Bernard Baruch was one of those who got his start in the “strike it rich” world of Cripple Creek.  Arriving from the east, Baruch bought shares of stock in the San Francisco mine.  During the day he worked as a “mucker” and at night he played at the roulette wheel in a local gambling joint where he was so successful that he was barred by the owners.  Baruch took his winnings and headed back to New York where he gained fame and fortune.  Sam Butcher, a Hungarian Jew, was one of the few Jews who actually made money in industrial mining in Cripple Creek.  Because many of his fellow miners were blatant anti-Semites, Butcher “took pains to conceal his identity” until he had gained financial success.   Sam and Bertha Flax were one of the first, if not the first Jewish couple to marry in Cripple Creek.  They tied the knot in 1909.  Sam was not much of a miner but he would prove be a successful restaurant owner in Denver, Colorado.

1895(14th of Sivan, 5655): Fifty-six year old Henry Phillips the Philadelphia born archaeologist and numismatist passed away today.

1896: “Reverend Herman P. Faust of the Forsyth Street Hebrew-Christian Mission called on Mayor Strong to see if something could be done” to help two Jewish peddlers who had been driven from the streets by the police.  The crackdown on street vendors is depriving many Jewish immigrants of their means of livelihood a matter into which Mayor Strong said he would look into.

1897(6th of Sivan, 5657): For the first time during the Presidency of William McKinley, observance of Shavuot.

1897: In Chicago, Jews and Christians prayed together as members of Emmanuel Congregation led by Rabbi Julius Newman joined members of the Belden Avenue Baptist Church led by Pastor Haynes at the latter’s house of worship for a service where both ministers preached to the congregation.

1897: Eleven youngsters participated in the Confirmation Service led by Rabbi Julius Newman of Emanuel Congregation.

1897: “In Williamsburg special services were held in Temple Beth Elohim on Keap Street near Broadway which is the wealthiest congregation in this section of the city” where 19 boys and girls participated in Confirmation services led by Rabbi Greenfield.

1898: “Hebrew Free Schools” published today described the Confirmation Services for the Hebrew Free School during which Esther Krosovitch recited a prayer followed by the singing of “The Heavens Declare” and “My God” by her fellow confirmants.

1898: It was announced today’s meeting of the Trustees Columbia University that Jacob H. Schiff has donated $15,000 “to establish a fellowship in political science.”

1899: “Increase In Death Rate” published today described the efforts of the Board of Health to contain the diphtheria outbreak which has included children from the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society who go to the public grammar school “at the corner of St. Nichols Avenue and 166^th Street” forcing quarantines to be put in place at both institutions.

1899: The list officers of the newly reformed Educational Alliance published today include Benjamin Altman, Henry Morgenthau and Isidor Straus

1900: “Mayer Sakel and Judith Golde (Friedman) Sakel gave birth to Manfred Joshua Sakel ,a Polish born neurophysiologist and psychiatrist who introduced insulin-shock therapy for schizophrenics and other mental patients in 1927, while a young doctor in Vienna. Insulin-induced coma and convulsions, due to the low level of glucose attained in the blood (hypoglicemic crisis) improved the mental state of drug addicts and psychotics, sometimes dramatically. His findings indicated that up to 88% of his patients improved with insulin shock therapy. His method became widely applied for many years in mental institutions worldwide. He immigrated to the U.S. ahead of WW II. in 1936. "Sakel's Therapy" is still used in Europe, but in the U.S. it has been superseded by electroconvulsive therapy and other means of treatment.

1900: Birthdate of Hunter College alum and philanthropist Sophie Spector Udell, the wife of Jerome Udell with whom she had two daughters – Helen and Edith.

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/31/archives/sophie-spector-udell-77-founder-of-association-for-new-americans.html

1901: Bella Weretnikow, who became the first Jewish woman lawyer in Washington State, was admitted to the Bar of Washington State.

1902: Pierre Marie René Waldeck-Rousseau, “the initiator of Alfred Dreyfus's 1899 pardon, as well as the law that, in 1900, offered amnesty for "all crimes and misdemeanors related to the Dreyfus Affair, or that have been included in a proceeding relative to one of these deeds” completed three years of service as Prime Minister.

1903: Dr. Kaufmann Kohler, for twenty-four years rabbi of Temple Beth-EI, delivered his farewell sermon this morning before going to his new duties as the head of the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati. At the conclusion of the service the congregation individually bade farewell and Godspeed to the retiring rabbi.

1903: “Mr. L.S. Levine, the Assistant City Solicitor of Pittsburgh” represented the city’s mayor at the opening session of the Sixth Annual Convention of the Federation of American Zionist which was being “held at the Central Turners’ Hall.”

1904: “The Seventh Annual Convention of the Federation of American Zionists” which was attended by 188 authorized delegates continued to meet for a fourth day at Germania Hall in Cleveland, OH.

1905: Birthdate of Laszlo Halaz, the native of Hungary who “was appointed he first director of the New York City Opera” a position from which he mounted the first performance of “The Dybbuk,” an opera by David Tamkin.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/31/arts/laszlo-halasz-first-director-of-city-opera-is-dead-at-96.html

1906: Three days after he had passed away, eighty-year old Leopold Schloss, the husband of Annie Horatia Montefiore, passed away today

1906: Birthdate of David Kessler, the man who would play the leading role in making the Jewish Chronicle one of the most respected Jewish weeklies in the world.

1907: Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, a graduate school for biblical and rabbinical studies, was chartered in Philadelphia.

1907: “In Chicago’s West Side Lawndale neighborhood Harry and Rebecca Beatrice Korshak gave birth to Sidney R. Korshak, the labor lawyer with alleged connections to the Chicago mob and Hollywood insider whose career was the opposite of that of his younger brother Marshall Korshak and who raised three children – Stuart, Katherine and Harry – with his wife Bernice Steward..

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/22/us/sidney-korshak-88-dies-fabled-fixer-for-the-chicago-mob.html

1908(7^thof Sivan, 5668): Second Day of Shavuot

1908: In Switzerland, Isidor and Alice Nordman gave birth to Jean Nordman, the “husband of Bluette Nordmann” and the “brother of Pierre Nordmann and Denise Levy who rose to the rank of Colonel in the Swiss Army.

1909: Birthdate of David Kessler, the man most responsible for making the Jewish Chronicle one of the most respected Jewish weeklies in the world.

1909: In Riga, “Mendel Berlin, a timber industrialist and direct descendant of Shneur Zalman (founder of Chabad Hasidism), and his wife Marie, née Volshonok” gave birth to Sir Isaiah Berlin who most popular essay may be “The Hedgehog and the Fox.”

http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/

1910: “Mystic Aid Religion” published today reported on a speech given by Claude G. Montefiore of London, the President of the Anglo-Jewish Association and he President of the Religious Union for the Advancement of Liberal Judaism” in which he said “No great religion can get on, or can it thoroughly healthy without mysticism or mystics” because “for a religion to be at its best some mysticism is imperatively required.”

1911: Bruno Walter “wrote to his sister that he was to conduct the premiere of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde”

1911(15^thof Sivan, 5671): Seventy-two year old Alsace native Charles Weill, the husband of Emilie Kahn Weil with whom he had had ten children passed away today after which he was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in his native Alsace.

1911: Sixty-six year old American playwright and producer Edward “Ned” Harrigan the author and producer of “Mordecai Lyons” an 1882 drama which unlike some “Jew plays” is “serious and valuable” when it comes to portraying its Jewish characters passed away today.

1912: Julia Richman, superintendent of New York City Public Schools set sail for France where she hoped to rest and improve her French language skills.

1913: The First American Conference on Social Insurance to which Lee K. Frankel was a delegate opened today in Chicago.

1913: In Galveston, TX, Congregation B’nai Israel marked the twenty-fifth anniversary Henry Cohen’s service as the Congregation’s rabbi during which he had married Mollie Levy with whom he had two children.

1914(12^thof Sivan, 5674): Parashat Nasso

1914(12^thof Sivan, 5674): Seventy-seven year old Austrian born chemist Adolf Lieben “who death he held the chair of general and pharmacological chemistry at the University of Vienna” passed away today.

1914: It was reported today that due to “the hostile attitude of the immigration officers at Galveston,” “the movement to diver a part of the Jewish immigration from New York to Galveston, TX, started through the Jewish Immigrants’ Information in 1907 with funds set apart for that purpose by Jacob Schiff will be discontinued” starting in October.

1915: Dedication of the Hebrew Institute at McKeesport, PA.

1915: The reasons for the opposition to commuting the sentence of Leo Frank offered by Reverend A.C Hendley, the pastor an Atlanta Baptist Church published today included his belief that “outside influences were attempt to dictate to Georgians how they should administer justice” and that “Leo M. Frank was fairly tried and convicted and the United States Supreme Court…has affirmed the findings of the Georgia courts.

1915: At its annual meeting, the Federation of Oriental Jews of America “pledged its support to President

Wilson for upholding the rights and honor of the United States.”

1915: “Speaking at the graduation exercises of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America at Aeolian Hall this afternoon Dr. Solomon Schechter, President of the Seminary, attributed the catastrophe of the present world war to over-emphasis on unreligious secular nationalism and declared that the regeneration of humanity that would result out of the present struggle and chaos would take place not in the direct of the religion of valor but in a return to the religion of Israel with ideals no longer of strength, force and astuteness but of gentleness, humility and loving kindness.”

1915: In Atlantic City, NJ. “1,237 delegates representing 200,000 members cheered wildly as” “Louis Brandeis of Boston” “sound a call for a United Judaism” at the 29^th annual convention of the United States Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of B’rith Abraham.

1915:“In the presence of 200 men, women and child…more than half of whom were blind, the roof garden on top of the new Bank of the United States Building at 77 Delancey Street was formally opened this afternoon as a recreation and social center for the Hebrew Association for the Blind.

1915: Based on letter that Hugh M. Dorsey has sent to Governor Slaton “it became practically certain today that when the case of Leo M. Frank…comes before the Governor for consideration of the prisoner’s appeal for commutation to life imprisonment, Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey will appear to oppose any change in the sentence.”

1916(5^thof Sivan, 5676): Erev Shavuot

1916: “Among those receiving degrees at the 99^th Convocation of the University of Chicago held” today were Leo Mordecai Goldsmith of Aurora, Isadore Michael Levin of Chicago and Harry Cohn of Collinsville

1916: It was reported today that “British censors have confiscated almost 10,000 checks amounting in all to 800,000 marks (about $200,000) sent by Americans through the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigration Aid Society of American to dependent relatives in Russian Poland.”

1916: Among the Planks of the Republican Platform that were agreed on today by Senators Lodge, Borah and Sutherland was one on “Americanism” that recognized “the need of a treaty of commerce with Russia that will give full equality to American citizens of Jewish birth traveling in Russia.”

1917: At today’s “annual meeting of the East London Fund for the Jewish, the Bishop of London expressed the hope that a Christian Power would control Palestine and characterized as folly” the belief “of some unthinking Christians that the coming of the Kingdom of god in the east would hastened by filling Palestine with unconverted Jews because that would result in the establishment of an outpost against the spread of Christianity.”

1917: The last regular meeting of the Sisters of Fidelity is scheduled to be held this afternoon at the Masonic Temple.

1917: Birthdate of Selma Goldstone, who as Selma Goldstone Hirsch would become a noted humanitarian and an author who would enjoy a long association with the American Jewish Committee.

1917: In Pittsburg, Max Senior of Citizen is scheduled to chair this morning’s session of the National Association of Jewish Social Workers where the topic of “Americanization and Citizenship” will be discussed.

1917: Birthdate of George Kidd, the native of Glasgow, who was the first Canadian Ambassador to Israel.

1918: Three hundred delegates from the United States and Canada attended the opening session of the Jewish Labor Congress at the Central Opera House in New York City.

1919: Kiev native Elias Elvove, the son of Joseph and Etta Elvove, and his wife Elka Elvov gave birth to Faiga Rose Elvove.

1920: Rabbi Herbert Levintahl is scheduled “to deliver the baccalaureate sermon” at the “commencement exercises of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and the Teacher’s Institute” this afternoon at Aeolian Hall.

1921: In Frankfurt-am-Main, R' Dr. Joseph Breuer, the son of “Rabbi Salomon Zalman Breuer and Sophie Tzipoorah Breuer” and his wife, Rika Breuer, gave birth to Samson Breuer.

1921: “It was stated tonight on high authority that President Harding” is planning on naming Jewish advertising mogul Albert D. Lakser, President of the Lord and Thomas Advertising Company of Chicago to be Chairman of the Shipping Board.

1922: American actress and singer Lillian Russell who had been married to the Anglo-Jewish composer Edward “Teddy” Solomon passed away.

1923(22^ndof Sivan, 5683): Tzvo Yosef Goldberg whose daughter Fraida married Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Ferber passed away.

1925: Birthdate of Philadelphia poet Maxine Winkour who gained as poet and novelist Maxine Kumin who published her first collection of poetry, Halfway in 1961. Influenced by the confessional style of poetry, it was followed in 1965 by The Privilege and in 1970 by The Nightmare Factory, both of which explore her Jewish identity and family. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1973.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/08/books/maxine-kumin-pulitzer-winning-poet-dies-at-88.html?hpw&rref=obituaries

1926(24^thof Sivan 5686): Thirty-four year old Blanche Adler, the daughter of Morris and Julia Weslosky and the wife of Ben Adler with whom she had – Morris and Frances – passed away today in her native Albany, GA.

1926: Second baseman Andy Cohen makes his major league debut with the New York Giants.

1926(24th of Sivan, 5686): As he was crossing Second Avenue at 15th Street, Meyer London, one of only two members of the Socialist Party elected to Congress was caught in the middle of heavy automobile traffic passing in both directions. London became confused and when he halted in the middle of the road he was struck by a car, suffering internal injuries. The driver rushed him to Bellevue Hospital, where London’s daughter was an intern. When she saw her father London’s only concern was that the driver not be punished. "It’s not his fault", said London "and he is a poor man." London died at 10 o'clock that night at the age of 56, after physicians had labored for 11 hours to save him.

1927(6^thof Sivan, 5687): Shavuot

1927: In New York City, “Eugene and Ruth (Clark) Sterne gave birth to Navy Veteran Richard Clarke Sterne, the holder of an A.B. from Columbia and Ph.D. from Harvard who pursued an academic career at several universities while writing literary criticism and Dark Mirror: The Sense of Injustice in Modern European and American Literature and raising three children – Lawrence, Samuel and Daniel – with his wife Ruth Cecile Winer.

https://www.thenation.com/article/memoriam-richard-clark-sterne-historian-nation/

1927: In Amsterdam, Jo Spier, “a newspaper illustrator and cartoonist, and the former Albertine van Raalte, a homemaker,” gave birth to “Peter Spier, an award-winning children’s-book author and illustrator who depicted Noah’s biblical journey…” (As received by Richard Sandomir)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/books/peter-spier-dead-childrens-book-author.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1928: In Camden, NJ, the Sisterhood of Beth El Congregation is scheduled to hold its final luncheon which has been arranged by Mrs. Herman Odlen.

1930: “So This is London,” the movie version of the play with the same name with a screenplay written by Sonya Levien was released today in the United States.

1931: After 272 performances the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of “Girl Crazy” a musical with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and music by George Gershwin.

1932(2nd of Sivan, 5692): Dr. A.S. Waldstein who helped to found Paole Zion in the United States in 1904 passed away in Tel Aviv at the age of 58.

1932(2^ndof Sivan, 5692): Fifty-five year old Benjamin Schlesinger, who served two terms as President of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union who suffered from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma passed away.

1933: “Magistrate Jonah J. Goldstein, President George J. Ryan of the Board of Education; Deputy Superintendent Harold G. Campbell; Dr. Eugene Colligan, president of Hunter College; Miss Adele Bildersee, dean of women at Brooklyn College, and Dr. A. Broderick Cohen, dean of the evening session at Hunter College” were the speakers at this evening’s dinner at the Hotel St. George  where the one thousand attendees were beginning  “a campaign to enroll 25,000 new members in the Brooklyn Committee of the Jewish Education Association and to increase attendance at the Jewish religious schools” in Brooklyn. (JTA)

1933: The Council of the League of Nations conducted a second day of hearings on “the persecution of the Jews in Germany” in official response to the Bernheim Petition. “Many of the speakers severely censured Germany for the treatment of its Jews and demanded that they be accorded minimum human rights.” At the end of the hearing, the Council took the “bold step” of requesting Germany to provide “information on further developments.”

1933: In the Bronx, a Lithuanian Jewish “house painter” and an Jewish immigrant “dressmaker gave birth to Michigan State University alum Eli Broad, the businessman and philanthropist who at one time was ranked as “the 65th wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $7.4 billion.”

https://www.forbes.com/profile/eli-broad/

1934: In New York City, “Nina (née Peltzman) and Nathan Katz, who was a dress manufacturer gave birth to Gilbert Katz who gained fame as director and producer Gilbert “Gil” Cates. (As reported by Michael Cieply)

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/movies/gilbert-cates-producer-of-oscar-shows-dies-at-77.html

1934: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.) as part of the fabled New Deal.  One of the purposes of the S.E.C. was to create a level playing field for all investors.  The regulatory agency was created to end the kind of stock fraud and manipulation that had been rampant in the 1920’s and helped cause the Great Depression.  Like many other New Deal agencies, the S.E.C. provided employment for the college educated offspring of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States prior to World War I.  In the case of the S.E.C., it gave several Jewish lawyers a chance to practice securities law, a branch of the law to which they had limited access because of the WASP dominated culture of the financial industry. Among those who worked for the SEC was Joseph B Levin an attorney who rose through the ranks to become Assistant General Counsel.

1935: In London, premiere of “39 Steps” a murder mystery produced by Michael Balcon, co-starring Lucie Mannheim and with music by Louis Levy.

1936: The American Jewish Committee issued a statement reiterating it opposition to the world Jewish Congress scheduled to be held in Geneva in August which Dr. Stephen S. Wise, head of the American Jewish Congress is a leading proponent.

1936: In Paris, “by the enormous majority of 384 to 219 the new Chamber of Deputies this evening voted confidence in Premier Leon Blum’s Cabinet to carry through the program of reforms for which the country voted when it returned the Popular Front to power a month ago.”

1936: The British military commander of the Southern District published an order prohibiting all Jewish motor traffic from entering or leaving Tel Aviv.  This “blockade” of Tel Aviv, was in response to the murder of an Arab kerosene vender who was shot while riding on a highway between Tel Aviv and Petach Tikvah.

1937: The Palestine Post military correspondent reported that according to reliable sources, the number of British battalions present in the country depended entirely on the security situation and the attitudes of the various sections of the population. Britain had resolved not to take any more risks by reducing the defense force of the land to a mere police force, as the situation existed before the organized Arab troubles of 1936, which left such a bloody aftermath.

1937: “The Jewish Theological Seminary of America held its 50^thanniversary convocation exercises” this afternoon during which “eight graduates of the Seminary Rabbinical College were ordained as rabbis Dr. Cyrus Adler, the president of the seminary.”

1937: Today “two hundred delegates from 27 organizations” throughout the United States” heard “former Justice Jeremiah T. Mahoey and other speakers” protest “against discrimination against Jews in Rumania and urge action on their behalf by American Jews at the 28^th annual convention of the United Rumanian Jews of America at the Hotel Astor.”

1937: The Palestine Post reported that a mass meeting was held at the Tel Aviv's Mograbi building during which the participants vowed active support for the beleaguered Polish Jewry.

1938: Thanks to the intervention of influential friends Sigmund Freud, his wife Martha and his daughter Anna arrived in London from Vienna via Paris.

1939: Because he felt that his terms were not being met, President Bru ended negotiations concerning the landing of the passengers from the SS St. Louis which would force the ship to begin the return trip to Europe.

1939: It was reported today that the Valedictorian at Columbia College was Abraham Genecin, the Minneapolis born son of a Russian immigrant who went on to earn a Medical Degree from Johns Hopkins, and serve with the U.S. Army medical career after which he worked as “a cardiologist, internist and associate professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School

1939: Among the passengers aboard the SS St. Louis who were filled with dread today as the ship prepared to return to Germany were 15 year old Arno Motulsky, who would survive to “become a founder of medical genetics,” his mother “the former Rena Sass” and “his younger siblings,” – Leah and Lothar (As reported by Denise Grady)

1939: The Jewish city of Tel Aviv was virtually cut off from the outside world today when, by order of the British military commander of the Southern District, all Jewish motor traffic into or out of the city was prohibited until tomorrow night. Only medical and milk transportation is permitted.

1940: The New York Times reported that the Nazis had moved “through Amsterdam with ready-made lists of enemies and Jews, rounding them and having them shot en masse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Fb4BzHHfD4Y

1941: It was reported today that another 47 “foreign Jews” have been arrested in or near Marseilles “under orders of Admiral Francois Darlan, the Minister of the Interior, for the French government at Vichy.

1941: “More than one-third of the 15,000,000 Jews in the world are now in countries under German domination, subject to discriminatory antiJewish regulations that make sound economic and social existence impossible, Joseph A. Schwartz, vice chairman of the European field of the Joint Distribution Committee, reported in an address before the national conference of Jewish Social Welfare here today. “

1942: Following a failed attempt in 1940, the Nazis succeed in ordering Belgian Jews to wear the Yellow Star.

http://skepticism-images.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/images/jreviews/Jude-Jew-Star.jpg

1942: During his sermon today, Rabbi Israel Goldstein told the congregants of New York’s Temple B’Nai Jeshurun that Japan's air raid on Dutch Harbor, Alaska, was the "final shattering blow to the illusion of those who until recently coddled themselves with the thought that oceans can protect us from air attacks."

1942: In his sermon today, Rabbi Jacob Katz of the Montefiore Synagogue “advised parents to have their children trained in mechanical skills as well as in cultural subjects.”

1942: During his sermon today, Rabbi Hyman J. Schachtel urged the congregants of the West End Synagogue to do their part in the war effort by signing up with the civilian protective services.

1942: During his sermon at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Rabbi David de Sola Pool said, “The first great challenge to the fuehrer concept was thrown down by Moses…It is not without reason that the Fuehrer has singled out the people and the religion of Moses for his most venomed hostility.”

1942: In Cracow, Poland, thousands of Jews were rounded up for the second day in a row for deportation. Eichmann, worried about appearances asks that the words ‘deportation to the East’ not be used, but instead, that ‘people are emigrated elsewhere.'

1942:  Adolf Eichmann insists via a telegram sent to Gestapo officials that residents of a mental institution must be included in a planned mass deportation of Jews from Coblenz, Germany, to Lublin, Poland.

1942:  The Jewish ghetto at Kraków, Poland, is liquidated; 6000 Jews from the city are murdered at Belzec.

1942: The Nazis burned the village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal for killing Heydrich.

1943: Helga Deen saw 1,300 children leave Vught, a Dutch internment camp, for Sobibor and Auschwitz. In her diary she wrote, “Transport.  It’s too much.  I’m destroyed and tomorrow again.” Deen would later be shipped to Sobibor where she was murdered by the Nazis.

1943:  Jacob Gens, the leader of the Jewish Council in Vilna, argued that Vilna's Jews will have an improved chance of survival if they demonstrate their usefulness as workers.

1943: “We Will Never Die” was performed at the Boston Garden, with guest stars Ralph Bellamy, Lionel Atwill, Howard Da Silva, Berry Kroger, and Jacob Ben-Ami in prominent roles. The Boston Jewish Advocate reported: “This spectacle must have impressed and stirred the imagination of the many who saw it to a degree impossible to achieve through the printed word.”

)http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/pageant.html

1943(3rd of Sivan, 5703): Germans execute all 1000 Jews still remaining in the Rohatyn (Poland) Ghetto after German authorities discover a plot of local Jewish policemen to purchase weapons.

1944: “Despite having no parachute training”, Mickey Marcus who had Ranger training “traded on being a West Point classmate of General Maxwell Taylor to parachute into Normandy with the first wave of the “Screaming Eagles

1944: Allied forces led by the United States land on the beaches of Normandy. While no exact figures exist for the number of Jews who took part in “The Longest Day” the graves marked by Stars of David attest to the fact that Jews were not only present but paid the last full measure.  According to one source 550,000 Jews served in World War II in the U.S. military. Of those, 11,000 were killed, 40,000 were wounded, and 52,000 were decorated for gallantry. Jews made up some 3.5 percent of the U.S. military during the war.

1944: Among the units landing at Normandy today were a contingent of the Ritchie Boys.  The Ritchie Boys was a special U.S. Army intelligence unit of approximately 10,000 German speaking soldiers most of whom were Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria.  Trained at Fort Richie, Maryland, they were able to use their special language skills and intimate knowledge of the culture to infiltrate behind German lines, capture and interrogate prisoners and conduct disinformation campaigns. Among those making the land was Stefan Heym who would confound people by moving back to Europe after the war and taking up residence in the German Democratic Republic (Communist East Germany)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPlUMe_nKO0

1944: Maria Madi, a native of Budapest wrote in her diary today “B.B.C. announces at 9:30 am that allied invasion has begun on the Normandy peninsula, between Cherbourg and Le Havre. I almost gave up hope these days, am trembling all over from excitement. If only it would be a succe

“This afternoon, very few G[erman] soldiers can be seen on the streets, they are shut up in their quarters, I suppose, in order not to hear the news. Here the noon papers brought the news, without any trace of G[erman] measures taken against the invasion…”

http://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-features/collections-highlights/remembering-d-day-70-years-later/document-and-testimony-gallery/maria-madi-diary

1944: Lester Milton Bronstein, the father of Ambassador Michael Oren, was among those who took part in the D-Day Invasion.

1944: Robert Capa is part of the first wave of troops to land at Omaha Beach.  He goes in with Company E armed with a Contax camera.  After ninety minutes of shooting, he heads back to London with ten rolls of films that capture the first moments of the invasion.  Due to mistakes made by the lab technician employed by Life Magazine, only 11 of the 106 pictures survive the development process. 

http://www.skylighters.org/photos/robertcapa.html

1944: Lt. Bert Katz led a unit that hit Easy Red Sector of Omaha Beach at “H plus seven minutes” which means that his platoon hit the beach seven minutes after the start of the “Longest Day. In a testament to the withering fire faced his unit, “within the first ten minutes” he lost 23 men and while he himself was wounded he stayed with his men as they fought their way across Europe during the next 11 months until VE Day. This is the same Bert Katz who returned to Cedar Rapids, Iowa where he became a successful businessman, philanthropist and leader of Temple Judah and the Jewish community.

1944: Major Benjamin “Ben” Dunkelman, who had enlisted as private in The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada in 1939 landed at Juno, the beach assigned to the Canadians during the Normandy Invasion.

1944: Lieutenant Mortimer Caplin (the future Commissioner of the IRS) “was commander of a Naval Beach Master Group on Omaha Beach” who used his wits and imagination to force a reluctant Liberty ship skipper to run his ship aground so that its cargo of ammunition could distributed among the tankers and artillerymen heading inland and was award the French Legion of Honor for being part ‘of the initial landing force.”

1944: Private Max Fuchs, “a rifleman in the First Infantry Division” came ashore today at Normandy having no idea that in October he would be leading “an open-air service” at Aachen, “the first Germany city to fall to the Allies” complete with all of “the traditional Sabbath hymns.”

1944: Louis Rabinowitz who had been appointed Senior Jewish Chaplain of the British Army followed up his service with Allied forces in the Middle East by taking part in the Normandy invasion.

1944: Captain Charles Stein, “an Austrian Jewish refugee” landed on Omaha Beach today.

1944: Sarah Levnedeal, the wife of Max Levendal and the mother of Isaac Levndel was arrested today and sent to Drancy

1944:  SS-Obergruppenführer and Nazi Party leader Carl Rudolf Werner Best was told today of the refusal of the Danish police to protect “57 enterprises the Germans deemed at risk of sabotage by the Danish resistance movement.”

1944: When German authorities become aware that news of the Allied invasion is circulating through the Jewish ghetto at Lódz, Poland, a search is mounted for illegal radios. Six Jews are arrested. On the same day the Germans rounded up all 1,795 Jews on the Greek Island of Corfu and deported them to Birkenau death camp where 1,500 were murdered by gas upon arrival. The Germans also captured 260 Jews this day on the Island of Crete.

1944(15th of Sivan, 5704): A German deportation ship with approximately 260 Canean Jews aboard is sunk off the coast of Crete. Latter-day accounts conflict as to the details: In one version, the ship carried the corpses of Jews murdered by Nazis, who set the ship afloat and sank it to destroy evidence of the crime. In another, the ship was bound for Auschwitz but was torpedoed and sunk by a British submarine. Besides Jewish people, the ship may have carried 300 Italian POWs and 400 Greek civilians.

1944(15th of Sivan, 5704): In Poland, 150 police, all of whom were Nazi sympathizers ambushed Jacob Allweiss and his two sons Zygie and Sol.  Jacob is murdered.  The two sons escape.

1944: Two more Auschwitz inmates, Arnost Rosin and Czeslaw Mordowicz, arrived in Zilina. They reported that trainloads of Hungarian Jews were being massacred.

1944: In Corfu, Greece, the Germans rounded up 1,795 Jews. One thousand, five hundred of them were then gassed at Birkenau.

1944: Birthdate of Rene Rivkin, Australian entrepreneur, investor, investment adviser, and stockbroker. He was a well-known stockbroker in Australia for many years until his conviction for insider trading.

1944: As Joel Brand sought to help save the Jews of Hungary Anthony Eden expressed his sympathy regarding the decision to block the negotiations with Eichmann, but said he had to act in unison with the United States and Soviet Union.

1945: The Lady and the Monster” based on a novel by Curt Siodmak with a script by Frederick Kohner co-starring Erich von Stroheim was released in Sweden today.

1945: Robert Capa met Ingrid Bergman for the first time.  The meeting marked the beginning of passionate love affair between the Jewish was photographers and the Scandinavian cinema star.  Their relationship will be part of the plot for the Alfred Hitchcock thriller “Rear Window.”

1945: The Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter also known as "Safe Haven," located in Oswego, New York the first and only refugee center established in the United States during World War II which housed almost 1000 European refugees, most of whom were Jewish was closed today.

1946: Birthdate of Tony Levin, bassist for King Crimson.

1947: “The World Jewish Congress announced here” tonight “that Austrian authorities had granted permission to 250 Rumanian Jewish refugees to enter the United States zone in Austria after their train had been stranded for several days on a railway bridge…”

1947: Four days after his burial at Willesden Cemetery, the obituary of Myer Jack Landa was published today.

1948: The IAF completed its move to a new base in Herzliya.

1948: In New York City, literary critic Alfred Kazin and his wife gave birth to Georgetown University history professor Michael Kazin who earned his Ph.D at Stanford, became the co-editor of Dissent, “a left-wing intellectual magazine founded in 1954 whose previous editors have included Irving Howe, Mitchell and Cohen and Michael Walzer and “married physician Beth Horowitz” with whom he had two children.

https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/faculty-profile?netid=mk8%2F

1949: In Jerusalem “A group of religious zealots knows the guardian of the City has declared war against the ‘pagan’ Jews and by methods often as violent as those of terrorists organizations is attempting to impose upon them its religious practices especially the strict observance of the Sabbath

1950: Birthdate of director Chantal Anne Akerman, the native of Brussels whose mother Natalia (Nelly) had survived Auschwitz “where her own parents had died”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/arts/chantal-akerman-belgian-filmmaker-dies-65.html?_r=0

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/08/chantal-akerman

1950: “Odette,” a biopic about British agent who was not executed at Ravesnbruck filmed by cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum was released today in the United Kingdom.

1950: Mrs. Martha Sharp left New York tonight by plane to visit “her 20,000 children” in Israel. “These thousands of Israeli boys and girls are Mrs. Sharp’s charges by long-range adoption since she is a founder and national vice chairman of Children to Palestine, Inc., an American organization that is bringing them out of starved and fear-ridden backgrounds to a new life in a new land.” Mrs. Sharp is the wife of a Unitarian minister in Chicago. In the next month she will help some of them move into the only real homes they have ever known and watch others learn to play children's games for the first time.

1951(2^ndof Sivan, 5711): Hilda Aaron passed away today after which she interred at the Adath Jeshurun Cemetery in Hampton Township, PA.

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported on the ground- breaking ceremony for the projected $10 million Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School on the bare Judean hills, west of Ein Kerem. Speakers declared that this construction did not mean the abandonment of Hadassah facilities on Mount Scopus which were effectively under Arab control in violation of existing U.N. guarantees

1954: In Brooklyn Harriet (née Gilbert), a school librarian, and Irving Fierstein, a handkerchief manufacturer gave birth to actor Harvey Fierstein

1955: In Flint, Michigan Jeanette and Jerome Bernhard, a proctologist, gave birth to comedienne Sandra Bernhard whose humor can be heard on “I’m Still Here…Damn It,” her 1998 comedy album.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Still_Here..._Damn_It!#/media/File:Sandrabernharddamnit.jpg

1955:  Birthdate of Samuel Michael “Sam” Simon, the “co-creator of the ‘The Simpsons.’”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/arts/television/sam-simon-who-helped-shape-the-simpsons-dies-at-59.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1955(16^thof Sivan, 5715): Seventy two year old British author Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, the son of Benjamin Leopold Farjeon passed away.

1956: David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister resigns. David Saul Marshall was born in Singapore in 1908 to a Jewish family that had originally come from Iraq.  He became a lawyer and a leading leader of the left wing.  In later years he would serve in several diplomatic postiions before retiring after a dispute with the Prime Minister of Singapore.

1957(7th of Sivan, 5717): Second Day of Shavuot

1957: “The Delicate Delinquent” produced, written and starring Jerry Lewis was released in the United States today.

1957: The Soviet government informed the Jewish community that it would permit the opening of a yeshiva in Moscow for the training of rabbis. The announcement was made on Shavuot, probably to "impress" world Jewry that the USSR was doing a wonderful thing for Jews and Judaism. It turns out that this was mostly "smoke". The laymen's council of the yeshiva was dissolved in 1961. The bulk of the students had come from Georgia. After Pesach of 1962, these students were denied permits by the local government to return to Moscow. Thus the yeshiva, reduced to a handful of students, could no longer hope to provide rabbis for Russian Jewry.

1959: In Palo Alto, CA, Dorothy Jean St. Germain (née Rich) and Phillip Gary Schultz gave birth to American Olympic wrestler, David Leslie "Dave" Schultz

1959: Ruth R. Wisse “arranged a rendezvous for the Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, who was then on his maiden visit to North America.”

https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/259/the-poet-from-vilna/?utm_source=Jewish+Review+of+Books&utm_campaign=7e04a6fc68-tikvah_uyp_summer_2018_faculty-jrb&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_538f7810ff-7e04a6fc68-184100029

1960(13^thof Sivan, 5750): Sevent-three year old Sigismund Lieberman, the Polish born son of Natalia and Adolph Lieberman, “the husband of Mary S. Lieberman and the father of George and Norma Lieberman” passed a way today in the Bronx, NYC

1960: “The Damaged Eye” co-starring Herschel Bernardi and filmed by cinematographers Helen Levitt and Haskell Wexler was released in the United States today.

1961: “Hadassah-Ein Kerem opens with a moving day. Supervised by HMO senior staff, the Israeli Army meticulously and efficiently transports every patient in each of Hadassah's five temporary hospitals to a preassigned bed at the new medical center.”

1961: Carl Jung, the man Freud called "his adopted eldest son, his crown prince and successor" but who later broke with his mentor, passed away today.

1962: In New York, Enid (Rodman) and Harold Flender, a writer and screenwriter gave birth to actor, writer, director and producer Rodman Flender.

1963: In Richmond, VA, realtor Eddie Cantor and Mary Lee (nee Hudes), a schoolteacher gave birth to Eric Cantor who represented Virginia’s Seventh District and served as House Majority Whip before being defeated in his bid for re-election.

1963: Birthdate of British actor Jason Isaacs.

1965(6th of Sivan, 5725): First Day Shavuot

1965(6^thof Sivan, 5725): Sixty-eight year old New York native Dr. John Henry Garlock a member of the faculties at Columbia and Cornell passed away today.

1967: This marked the second day of Israel's Six Day War. Now that the Israelis had control of the skies, their armor and infantry could begin advancing against the numerically larger Arab armies. As accounts of the fighting will attest, this was no cakewalk.  The fighting in Sinai involved some of the largest clashes between tanks since World War II.  And the Jordanians fought tenaciously along the Green Line around east Jerusalem.

1967:  At six o’clock in the morning the Supreme Command of the Arab armed forces began broadcasting on the great lies that is still believed to this day.  Repeating a report that Nasser had made to King Hussein the night before, the Arab military leaders claimed that the Egyptian and Jordanian air forces had been demolished on the first day of the war by U.S. planes attached to the Sixth Fleet and by British warplanes flying from unspecified bases.  This tale had not no basis in fact.  It gave Nasser a chance to save face with the Arab masses and to provide his Soviet patrons with an excuse for intervening.  The Cold War is already becoming a distant memory to those living in the 21st century.  However, the conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was very real in 1967.  The Soviets were actively looking for a way to gain control in the Middle East and the Communist Bloc was Nasser’s patron, a factor that was part of the military and political equation facing the Israelis.

1967: Defense Minister Moshe Dyan still refused to allow any military action to be taken along the Golan Heights.  With fighting raging in the Sinai to the South, he did not need additional military worries.  What did worry Dyan was that the U.N. might impose a cease fire before Israeli forces could seize Sharm el-Sheik, the choke-point held by the Egyptians that made it possible for them to close the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.  Dyan ordered Chief of Staff Rabin to move with all speed to seize Sharm.  Rabin completed planes for a combined assault that was to be carried out the next evening. 

1967: “The Egyptian armored forces collapse. Ariel Sharon's division later joins an armored brigade making its way to the Egyptian posts at Tamed and Nakhl. When they arrive there, Sharon quickly reads the battlefield and successfully ambushes an Egyptian armored brigade. The Egyptian tanks column goes straight into Sharon's trap and there they it is systematically destroyed. At the end of the day, what's left is a 20 mile long column of twisted and burned Egyptian tanks and vehicles, and hundreds of dead bodies beside them.”

1967:  Egyptian troops are ordered to fall back to the Suez Canal.  In the evening, unbeknownst to the Israelis, Egypt evacuated the strategically important position of Sharm el-Sheik.  

1967: According to transcripts released in 2017, “what to do with the Old City was a hot topic conversation in” today’s meeting of “the security cabinet.”

1969: Two days after she had passed away, funeral services were held today for eighty-two year old Lillian Schifrin, the Cincinnati born daughter of “Adolph Aira Berman and Mary Agnes Jacobs and the “ex-wife of Isidor Schifrin.

1970: Peggy and Dr. Milton D. Glick, who would eventually become President of the University of Nevada, Reno, gave birth to their son David.

1970(2^ndof Sivan, 5730): Twenty three year old Josh (Eli Joshua) Bay the son of Charles and Canadian born actress Frances Bay passed away today.

1971(13^thof Sivan, 5731): Seventy-six year old Polish native, violinist and professor emeritus of bio-chemistry at the University of California Lila Berlin Hassid, the wife of Professor William Zen Hassid who was famous for her Yiddish language skills passed away today.

1972(24^thof Sivan, 5732): Eleanor Joan Clara Nathan, the wife of Baron and Major Louis Nathan Nathan and mother of Captain Roger Carol Michael Nathan passed away today.

1974: “In anticipation of President Nixon’s visit, telephones of Moscow Jewish activists were cut off and many of them received conscription orders particularly those organizing scientific seminar 

1974: The Syrians returned the body of Avraham “Avi” Lanir.  The Syrians captured him during the Yom Kippur War and tortured him to death in an attempt to extract information from him about Israel’s nuclear program.

1975: “One hundred activists send an appeal to the United States and House of Representatives in defense of Anatolii Malkin.”

1975: The USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a decree imposing a new tax of 30% on money sent to Soviet citizens from abroad i.e. money sent to aid reufsniks.

1975(27^thof Sivan, 5737): Forty-nine year Larry Blyden, a Jewish actor from Houston, TX passed away today.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19750607&id=yD0gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AmcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4123,2639288

1976: “The Omen” a horror film directed by Richard Donner, produced by Henry Bernhard, written by David Seltzer and with music by Jerry Goldsmith was released in the United Kingdom today.

1977: Birthdate of Jerusalem native and popular singer Alma Zohar whose debut album was Dabri which was released in July of 2008 and who is the half-sister of electronic musician Matan Zohar (a.k.a. Mat Zo).

1979(11^thof Sivan, 5739): Seventy one year old Sidney Bernard Finn, the Freedom, PA born son of Abel and Rebecca (Gordon) Finn the Ohio St. Aluma and award winning Harvard trained dentistwho was the husband of Irma Harriet Rubens with whom he had two children – Catherine and Andrew – passed away today.

1979: Premiere of “Escape to Athena” a movie set in Nazi occupied Greek Island produced by Lew Grade and co-starring Elliot Gould

1979(11^thof Sivan, 5739): Ninety-year old Rabbi Morris Samuel Lazaron Sr, the Savanah, GA born son of Samuel Louis Lazaron and Zipporah Alice DeCastro Lazron, and the husband of Pauline Lazaron with whom he had had three children – Morris, Harold and Clementine – passed away today after which he was buried in Maryland at the Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery.

1980: U.S. premiere of “Up the Academy” a comedy co-starring Ron Leibman and Barbara Bach whose father was Jewish but whose mother was not.

1981: Final plans were completed for “Operation Opera” the Israel attack on an Iraqi nuclear reactor that Iran had tried and failed to destroy.

1982: 1982: Israeli troops enter Lebanon to drive out PLO.  The PLO had established itself as a "state within a state."  The government of Lebanon was incapable or unwilling to put an end to this source of terror so the Israelis acted accordingly. The triggering event was the attempted assassination of Shlomo Argov the Israeli ambassador in London.  The invasion would become a divisive and corrosive event for the Israelis that, to put it mildly, was not one of their shining moments.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/feb/25/israelandthepalestinians.lebanon

1982: Members of the famous Golani Brigade attacked Beaufort Castle which was held by the PLO.

1983: In “Orthodox Jewish Women Push Role In Prayer” published today, Charles Austin described attempts to harmonize traditional roles with change social mores.

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/06/nyregion/orthodox-jewish-women-push-role-in-prayer.html?searchResultPosition=12

1984(6^thof Shavuot, 5744): Shavuot

1985: The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz'"Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.

1986(28^thof Iyar, 5746) Yom Yerushalayim

1986: U.S. premiere of “Raw Deal” written by Norman Wexler and co-starring Steven Hill and Sam Wanamaker.

1987: “Poet, essayist and critic” Katha Pollitt “married Randy Cohen, author of the New York Times Magazine column ‘The Ethicist’” today.

1988(21^stof Sivan, 5748): Twelve days before his 87^th birthday Wellesley (Pinchas) Aron the London born graduate of Cambridge, founder of Habonim who as a Major in the British Army “assumed commanded of a Jewish Palestinian unit, later absorbed into the Jewish Infantry Brigade passed away today.

http://wasns.org/in-memory-of-wellesley-aron

1988: Pitcher Steve Rosenberg makes his debut with the Chicago White Sox.

1990(13^thof Sivan, 5750): Sixty-five year old Regina Elfenbein, the Chelm born daughter of Chaim and Chana Nankin and the wife of Cecil Donald Elfenbein passed away today in Dallas, TX.  (Editor’s note – so the Chelmites were not just tales told to children)

1991: David John Pleat began serving as the manager for Luton Town football team.

1991(24^thof Sivan, 5751):  Stan Getz passed away. Born Stanley Gayetzky in 1927, Getz was the leading tenor sax player of his time.  Even people who did not like jazz enjoyed listening to the smooth sound of Stan Getz.

1992(5^thof Sivan, 5752): Eighty-four year old Marvel comic founder Martin Goodman passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/11/obituaries/martin-goodman-84-began-marvel-comics.html

1994(27^thof Tammuz, 5754): Sixty-nine year old Yohai Ben-Nun, the sixth commander of the Israeli navy passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/10/obituaries/yohai-bin-nun-69-ex-israel-navy-chief.html

1997: “Crash” a thriller directed and produced by David Cronenberg who also wrote the script and with music by Howard Shore was released today in the United Kingdom.

1999: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback editions of Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches From the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz, Damascus Gate by Robert Stone and Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl.

1999: Deb and Mitchell Levin marry at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  He moved up in class and she got an adult child to try and housebreak.  For those of you who have not figured it out, she is the one who makes this daily work possible.  On top of being an Ayshish Chayel in the truest sense of the word, she is also is great at everything from creating blogs to making homemade Kosher pizza, to creating memorable siddurim to hosting the visiting chazzan who is a kosher vegetarian. 

2000: “Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright arrived in Israel today for her first visit in six months, seeking to inject a sense of urgency into the long-running Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and to lay the foundation for a three-way retreat-style summit meeting.” (As reported by Deborah Sontag)

2001: An Arab suicide bomber massacred 21 young Jewish teenagers and injured a hundred more outside a Tel Aviv discotheque.

2001: Joe Lieberman began serving as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security.

2002: Today, in retaliation for  a suicide bombing carried out by an Islamic Jihad terrorist,  “the IDF executed a new siege of the “Ramallah Muquata’a after having attacked the headquarters with tanks, bulldozers and armored vehicles” leaving Arafat's office building and other parts of his compound partly destroyed.

2003(6^thof Sivan, 5763): Shavuot

2003: Today, “Yasir Arafat implicitly criticized Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas for having failed to win any concessions from Israel” during talks designed to stop attacks on that country.

2004: First day of a Birthright trip to Israel - Towards a Sustainable Future for Israel: An Environmental Leadership Seminar for Students and Young Professionals – focused on the environment sponsored as a joint project of COEJL, the Heschel Center for Environmental Leadership and Learning, the Jewish Agency for Israel, and Hillel.

2004: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback edition of “Sloan-Kettering: Poems” the Israeli poet and famed partisan Abba Kovner’s poetic chronicle of his losing battle with cancer which he describes with ruthless honesty, even as he celebrates his tenacious grip on the world he is leaving.

2004: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s government approved an amended plan for disengagement form Gaza.

2004: Avigdor Lieberman completed his term as Minister of Transport, National Infrastructure and Road Safety

2005: Majdi Halabi was officially listed as M.I.A. (missing in action).

2005 (28th of Iyar): Observance of Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day). Jerusalem Reunification Day celebrates the reunification of Jerusalem on June 7, 1967 which was the 28th day of the month of Iyar.  The observance follows the Jewish calendar so it seems to “float” on the secular calendar.  On the 28th of Iyar, soldiers of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) reunited the Old City of Jerusalem which had been illegally occupied by the Jordanian Army since 1948 with what was then referred to as the New City of Jerusalem.  (Please note, there never was a city called “East Jerusalem.” The term east Jerusalem is strictly geographic as in the southeast side of Cedar Rapids.) This was the first time that all of Jerusalem was under Jewish sovereignty since the days of the Second Temple.

2006: The New York Times and The Washington Post reported that “the C.I.A. knew where Eichman was hiding” and made no attempts to inform the government of Israel, which was actively looking for him and other Nazi war criminals.  This revelation came to light as large quantities of government documents describing U.S. relationships with ex-Nazis after World War II were declassified.  While it had been known for some time that the U.S. and later the West German government employed former Nazis in their intelligence agencies, these documents show the depth and the folly of the involvement.  Apparently many of these former Nazis turned out to be double agents who working for the Soviets and who did a great deal of harm to Western intelligence efforts during the Cold War.

2006: British author Naomi Alderman has won the 2006 Orange Award for New Writers with her debut novel Disobedience.  The novel is set in the Orthodox Jewish community of Hendon, London where Alderman grew up.

2006(10^thof Sivan, 5766): Eighty-eight year old Arnold Newman, a portrait photographer and so much more who is part of that seemingly unending line of Jews with a camera passed away today in Manhattan. (As reported by Andy Grundberg)

https://jmof.fiu.edu/exhibits/traveling-exhibits/newman/

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/arts/07newman.html

2007: Professor Norman Finkelstein is a guest on daily global affairs program produced by Chicago Public Radio station WBEZ (91.5) where he presents a “revisionist view of the Six Day War.”

2007: Jack Markell officially launched his candidacy for Governor of Delaware

2007: An exhibition styled “Image of His Soul" Max Liebermann – Works on Paper opens at the Hecht Museum in Haifa.

2007: The Sir Zelman Cowen Prize in medical research is awarded to Prof. Nir Friedman at the Hebrew University's Board of Governors' meeting by fund trustee Michael Dunkel, a member of the Board of Governors.

2008: At the JCC in Washington, D.C. cantor, composer, arranger, choral conductor, and director of the ensemble Vocolot, Linda Hirschhorn will co-lead a musical Erev Shabbat service with Rabbi Robert Saks of Congregation Bet Mishpachah, the event’s co-sponsor. Linda Hirschhorn will play the guitar during the service.

2008: Opening of “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” starring Adam Sandler playing an Israeli assassin turned hairdresser.

2008: Today, Frank Stella, the non-Jewish “artist who turned destroyed Polish shuls into great art co- published an Op-Ed for The Art Newspaper decrying a proposed U.S. Orphan Works law which "remove[s] the penalty for copyright infringement if the creator of a work, after a diligent search, cannot be located." 

2009: Alysa Stanton the first African-American female rabbi is ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. Stanton, a convert and mother to an adopted 14-year-old daughter, is a trained psychotherapist who specializes in trauma and grief. In August, she will become the spiritual leader of Congregation Bayt Shalom in Greenville.

2009: At Temple Judah, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Sophie Shiffman, daughter of Howard Shiffman of Toronto, Ontario and Peggy and Don Aungst of Independence, IA is called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah.

2009: The Vatican says it has "taken action" to track down Jewish children who were hidden by the Church and Catholic families during the Holocaust and later disappeared. In a letter sent to Yad Le'Achim today, a haredi anti-missionary organization, Archbishop Antonio Franco, the apostolic nuncio in the Holy Land, wrote, "The matter of the fate of the Jewish families during World War II is a very delicate and very complex one.""I know that there has been action taken by the Holy See, but at this moment I cannot be accurate in my information. I assure you that I will try to provide more precise information and see if an appeal that the one you propose could be made." Yad L'Achim said the letter marked the first time the Church had publicly acknowledged the issue. Before Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Israel last month, Rabbi Shalom Dov Lipshitz, who heads Yad L'Achim, asked that the pope call on all members of the Catholic Church to reveal the identities of Jews saved by the Church from the Nazis. "We believe that hundreds, perhaps thousands of Jews and their offspring can be discovered if the pope makes an unequivocal announcement while in Israel that every Catholic has an obligation to reveal the Jewish roots of those saved from the Holocaust," Lipshitz said. He said Yad L'Achim had a list of about 2,000 names of children believed to have been handed over to Catholic families, orphanages and other Church institutions to hide them from the Nazis. A sample page from the list was sent to The Jerusalem Post. It includes the names, dates and places of birth and last known addresses of the individuals thought to be Jews. All of the people on the sample page were from the Netherlands, and all were born between 1920 and 1938. Lipshitz said Yad L'Achim's list, based on information collected after the war, also included Jews from France, Italy and Belgium. He added that his organization was working with the Conference of European Rabbis to obtain more lists and track down the names that he already had. Yad L'Achim and the conference plan to open an office in Europe to coordinate these efforts. "Time isn't working in our favor and we must act quickly," Lipshitz said. "There is no doubt that the martyrs [Nazi victims], the parents and grandparents of these orphans, most of whom don't even know they are Jewish, won't find heavenly rest until their descendants return to the religion of their fathers," he said.

2010: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Alone With You by Marissa Silver

2010: I wish the American Jews who feel misrepresented by the lobby would stand up by Philip Weiss

http://mondoweiss.net/2010/06/i-wish-the-american-jews-who-feel-misrepresented-by-the-lobby-would-stand-up.html

2010: Members of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington are scheduled to lead a special tour of Jewish sites in Old Town Alexandria that will include visits to the sites of two former synagogues and several Jewish businesses.

2010: The Washington Jewish Music Festival is scheduled to open with a screening of the Jazz Baroness and a performance by Danny Sanderson.

2010(24th of Sivan, 5770): Rabbi Jacob Milgrom passed away today in Jerusalem at the age of 87. He was “considered by many the worlds’ foremost authority on the biblical Book of Leviticus. Milgrom’s three-volume series on Leviticus, interpreting Jewish dietary and purification rituals and the Bible’s position on homosexuality, concluded that the ban on homosexuality applies only to Jewish men.”

2011: “Music and Healing” a program designed to acquaint attendees with “contemporary, folk and traditional songs that can help them through times of need and comfort is scheduled to take place at Tefereth Israel in Washington, DC.

2011: The Children of Israel Journeyed: Selections from the Chagall Bible Series, an exhibit at the Jewish Museum of Milwaukee, “showcasing twenty-one hand-painted etchings by Marc Chagall” and  The  Haggerty Museum’s massive Chagall Tapestry is schedule to come to a close.  The Haggerty is part of Marquette University.

2011: Israeli military officials disputed today the casualty figures announced by Syria a day earlier, after Israeli forces fired on protesters who had tried to breach the Syrian frontier with the Israeli-held Golan Heights, the discrepancy in numbers underlining the messages being conveyed by both sides.

2011: Dominique Strauss-Kahn pleaded not guilty today in a New York court appearance.

2011: New York Congressman Anthony Weiner admitted that his twitter account had not been hacked and that he had been sending pictures of himself to at least six female followers.

2011: Eighty-five year old Zev Birger, the concentration camp survivor who reinvigorated the Jerusalem International Book Fair passed away today. (As reported by Isabel Kershner)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/world/middleeast/13birger.html?_r=1

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=224206&R=R2

2012: A Young Leadership Concert featuring Itamar Zora and the Salome Chamber Orchestra is scheduled to take place at Congregation Shearith Israel (The Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue)

2012: The Los Angeles dance company BODYTRAFFIC is scheduled to perform the world premiere of the latest work by Israeli choreographer Barak Marshall with guest artist Margalit Oved at the Joyce in New York City.

2012: In Chevy Chase, MD, Ohr Kodesh is scheduled to host a concert presented by Zemer Chai.

2012: The Wiener Library in the UK is scheduled to present ‘Target Heydrich: Laurent Binet on HHhH’ in which the author will talk about her historical novel about the two men who killed the man known as “Himmler’s Brain.”

2012: In an interview today Robert Levine “discusses moving to Saint Louis Park, Minnesota in the early 1950s and Jewish life there.”

2012: In an interview today Avis Held “discusses moving to Saint Louis Park, Minnesota in the early 1950s and Jewish life there.”

2012: It is lucky 13 for me as we celebrate our anniversary. And it is lucky for anybody who reads this because if it weren’t for Deb none of this would exist!

2012: Israel's Knesset voted down a bill that aimed at legalizing homes on the Ulpana Hill neighborhood in the West Bank settlement of Beit El, which were built on privately owned Palestinian land.

2012: Defense Minister Ehud Barak acknowledged Israel's offensive cyberspace operations for the first time. (As reported by Gili Cohen and Oded Yaron)

2012: Opening of National Hebrew Book Week

2012: “Adam Richman's Best Sandwich in America,” an American food reality television series premiered today on the Travel Channel

2013(28^thof Sivan, 5773): Ninety four year old Nobel laureate Jerome Karle passed away today. (As reported by Kenneth Chang)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/15/health/jerome-karle-94-dies-nobelist-for-crystallography.html?hpw&_r=0

2013: The Associates of AFIPO are scheduled to present “Vintage Thursday,” a winetasting and silent auction evening to benefit the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra,

2013: In London, the Weiner Library is scheduled to present “Film Talk” ‘Kosher Nostra’ – Screening the Memory of the Jewish-American Gangster in ‘The Godfather Part II’”

2013: Israel’s Gesher Theater is scheduled to perform “Enemies, A Love Story” by Isaac Bashevis Singer at New York’s Lincoln Center. 

2013: Syrian opposition and government forces today were engaged in hours of fierce battles at and around the Quneitra border crossing, the only crossing between Israel and Syria.

2013(28^thof Sivan, 5773): Ninety-two year old Berlin born physicist Eugen Merzbacher who fled Nazi Germany passed away today.

http://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?merzbachere

2013: “Spertus Institute screens Hava Nagila (The Movie), the definitive, glorious, musical story of how a traditional melody from Ukraine became a Jewish staple and worldwide hit.”

2013: US military aircraft and an Israeli passenger plane nearly collided over Eilat today.

http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/US-Army-aircraft-passenger-plane-have-near-miss-over-Eilat-315771

2014: The 92^nd Street Y is scheduled to host “Edward Henkel's MovementTalks: The Power of Women Minding the Dance with Christine Dakin, Dawn Paap and Catherine Peila”

2014: Rabbi Shira, Rabbi Laurie Green of Bet Mishpachah, and members of GLOE are scheduled to lead an inclusive service celebrating the diversity of our community at the Historic 6^th& I Synagogue.

2014: On the 70^th anniversary of the Normandy invasion as special homage is paid to the dwindling number of veterans who hit the beach on D-Day, residents of Cedar Rapids in general and members of the Jewish community in particular an honor Bert Katz.  As a young captain, Katz led his unit on to Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach seven minutes after the start of the invasion.  Despite the fact he was wounded and lost 23 of his men to murderous enemy fire, Katz saw to it that his unit performed their vital mission on “The Longest Day” and the many days and months that would follow until the war’s end.

2014: Today, “Spain’s cabinet  approved a bill allowing descendants of Jews forced into exile centuries ago the right to dual citizenship, but said applicants will have to take a Spanish culture test in addition to having their ancient ties to the nation vetted by experts.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/spain-approves-sephardic-jew-citizenship-plan/

2014: “Labor Party MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer’s bid for the presidency seemed to have gone up in smoke today after police questioned him for nearly five hours on suspicion that he illegally received millions of shekels from various sources, using some of the money to purchase a luxury apartment home in Jaffa. (As reported by Advi Sterman)

2015: “Is That You?” is scheduled to be shown at the Israel Film Center Festival at the JCC Manhattan.

2015: In Cedar Rapids, the traditional minyan observes D-Day Shabbat followed by “a special Kiddush celebrating the 81^st birthday of Murray Wolf “complete with his favorite homemade delicacies” prepared by his wife Charlene.”

2015: “Gender, Memory and Genocide” an international conference marking the 100^thanniversary of the Armenian Genocide co-sponsored the Pears Institute of the Study of Ant-Semitism is scheduled to come to an end today.

2015: “American Pharaoh” owned by Ahmed Zayat won the Belmont Stakes today which made him the winner of racing’s Triple Crown.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/american-pharoah-gives-zayat-the-biggest-prize-in-racing/

http://www.onlysimchas.com/news/10137/american-pharaoh-horse-owned-by-orthodox-jewish-father-and-son-wins-kentucky-derby

http://tabletmag.com/scroll/190770/owner-of-kentucky-derby-winner-american-pharaoh-is-an-orthodox-jew

2015: As we contemplate the miracles of Shabbat, on this Shabbat I cannot help but be overwhelmed by the miracle that Deb Levin married me 16 years ago today!

2016: Ori Ronen, whose newest single is “I Have a Friend” is scheduled to perform at the Cinema South Festival is Sderot.

2016: The 25^th Annual Summer on Teaching the Holocaust is scheduled to begin at The Lillian and A.J. Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education.



2016: Yemen Blues is scheduled to present their new show “Insaniya” (Humanity) at Joe’s Pub.

2016: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today reiterated his rejection of the allegation that he received €1 million in campaign funding from Arnaud Mimran, but acknowledged for the first time that he had received a smaller sum from the accused French fraudster.”

2016: The 17^th Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival is scheduled to host “Musical Soundscapes of Morocco: From Africa to America” and the New York Andalus Ensemble which “performs in Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish and Ladino.”

2016(29^thof Iyar, 5776): Ninety year old Tony award winning playwright Peter Shaffer passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/arts/peter-shaffer-dies-at-90-playwright-won-tonys-for-equus-and-amadeus.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2016(29^thof Iyar, 5776): Ninety-eight year old children’s author Rhoda Blumberg passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/books/rhoda-blumberg-whose-childrens-books-bought-history-to-life-dies-at-98.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1

2016: “Fire Birds” and “Afterthought” are scheduled to be shown at the Israel Film Center Festival.

2016: Dan Margalit, the Tel Aviv native who in 1977, while working as a Washington correspondent revealed that Leah Rabin, wife of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, had a United States bank account, illegal in Israel at the time” which “led to Rabin's resignation and the nomination of Shimon Peres as the Alignment's candidate for prime minister” “informed the public via his Twitter account that he had been fired from Israel Hayom.”

2017: Today, Dan “Margalit informed the public via his Twitter account that he had been fired from Israel Hayom”

2017:  “Haim Naggar, who was 20 at the time of the Six-Day War” and Dr. Joseph Shinar who “was wounded during the Six-Day War” are among those scheduled to address those attending “50 Years – Remembering The Six Day War” sponsored by Iowans Supporting Israel.

2017:  “A special screening of ‘Denial’ is scheduled to take place at the Imperial War Museum in London” which includes a special “Holocaust exhibition.”

2017:  A preview screening of “Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer” which is Joseph Cedar’s first English speaking film” and co-stars Lior Ashekenazi.

2018: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host an After Party event following the opening of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” with David Serero in the title role.

2018: In Memphis, TN, Temple Israel is scheduled to demonstrate a commitment to scholarship with a learn over lunch on “Great Jewish Renegades” as well as a commitment to social justice with an evening of MIFA Mitzvah Opportunity preparing means for “low-income” senior citizens.

2018: In Jerusalem Mercaz Hatarbuyot is scheduled to host a “Unique Trio Concert” featuring concert pianist Eliahou Zabaly, violinist Gabriel Chouraki and cellist Azure Kline.

2018: The Aleph Society is scheduled to host a dinner celebrating “the worldwide release of the remarkable new Steinsaltz Humash” hosted by Senator Joe Lieberman where Francis Klagsburn and John Podhoretz will discuss “Jews and Power.”

2018: While most of the world are scheduled to celebrate the victories at Midway in 1942 and Normandy in 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Deb and Mitchell Levin celebrate another wedding anniversary, which never ceases to amaze Mitchell because he cannot believe Deb has put up with him for so long!

2019: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host a discussion of

This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto Hardcover with author Suketu Mehta and Nancy Foner.

2019: At Oxford, “Interfaith Dialogues” are scheduled to take place “In Jesus College’s Harold Wilson Room where attendees can enjoy the “usual kosher/halal lunch.”

2019: On the 75^th anniversary of the D-D invasion Cedar Rapidians have a unique opportunity to offer thanks Bert Katz, a veteran of the Longest Day who is still with us. Katz hit the beach with minutes after H-hour and despite being wounded and losing almost two dozen of his minute, went to work fulfilling their responsibilities in what would be their first step on the march to free Europe from Hitler’s grip (As reported by Kim Ketelsen)

2019: As we celebrate the 75^th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion we remember many individuals (see entries above for 1944) who were there on that day including A.J. Liebling, the forty year old war correspondent for the New Yorker who went ashore at Omaha Beach in an LCI; Dr. Samuel Fieler, “a regimental dental officer” with the 82^ndAirborne “who had escaped Berlin in 1938” and who had volunteered to jump with “assault echelon” in a night action that was predicted to have a 70 per cent casualty rate; 19 year old Private Harold Baumgarten of Company B, 116^thRegiment, 29^th Division, the first infantry unit on Omaha who had  “drawn a Star of David on the back of his field jacket” and who survived being wounded five times which may have accounted for his decision to go to medical school and become a practicing physician after the war; and Corporal Peter Masters and Harry Nomberg two members of “3 Troop of No.10 Commandos” a unit made up of “European Jews who had escaped to England” and who needed no extra encouragement to carry out whatever plans their leader Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten had in store for them. (As reported by Stephen Ambrose)

2020: D-Day Anniversary: June 6 marks the 76^th Anniversary of the landing at Normandy.  Sadly, it is the first time we mark this anniversary without Temple Judah’s Bert Katz who stormed ashore that day and who passed away earlier this year after leading a full life as a husband, father, grandfather, businessman, philanthropist and pillar of the Cedar Rapids Jewish Community

2020: The Maine Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of  “The Spy Behind Home Plate” online today.

2020: The Asiyah Jewish Community is scheduled to present on-line Tai Chi & Torah: “The Lord of the Rings” Edition”

2020: Dorshei Tzedek is scheduled to host its weekly Zoom Shabbat experience

2020(14^thof Sivan, 5780): Parashat Naso; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

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421: Theodosius II, the Emperor whose code sought to reinforce Christianity as the state religion at the expense of Judaism, married Aelia Eudocia Augusta, a pagan who converted so that they could be married by the Church.

1099:  During the First Crusade, the Christians begin the siege of Jerusalem. The armies of the First Crusade (1096-99) reached the walls of Jerusalem. The First Crusade would prove to be the most successful of all of the crusades in terms of meeting the goal of reclaiming the Christian Homeland from the Moslem infidel.  Forgotten in all of this were the true titleholders – the Jews – except when it came to massacring them.  It is ironic that events on this same seventh day of June set matters to right.

1191: As he continues on his quest to gain control of Jerusalem for the Christians, Richard l leaves Tyre and heads for Acre where he will lay siege to the city.

1233(21^stof Sivan, 4993): Today, for the first time, Jews were ordered to wear distinctive clothing was mandated in Spain. The following year Pope Gregory IX developed guidelines for this, sent in the form of a letter to the King of Navarra: "Since we desire that Jews be recognizable and distinguished from Christians, we order you to impose upon each and every Jew of both sexes a sign, viz, one round patch of yellow cloth of linen to be worn on the uppermost garment."

1365: Urban V issued “Sicuti judaeis non debet” a Papal Bull that forbade people from molesting Jews or forcing them to be baptized.

1494: Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas which divided the New World between the two countries. Considering the Inquisition and the Expulsion from Iberia, this division could have meant that Jews would have been banned from the Western hemisphere.  Fortunately for the Jews, Protestant Holland and Anglican England (as well as France) did not recognize the treaty and had other plans for dividing the lands of the New World.

1594(18^thof Sivan 5354): Roderigo Lopez a Marrano physician was hanged in England. Born in 1525, he supposedly arrived in England as Francis Drake's prisoner of war. He rose in importance to become Queen Elizabeth's physician (1586). Accused by other members of the court of being a Spanish spy who was trying to poison the Queen, he was arrested but the Queen refused to carry out the death sentence. In June 1594 she finally consented and he was hanged. Throughout his trial he was vilified as being a "Jew".   According to some accounts, Lopez was a foolish person who got in way over his head playing politics at the Court of Queen Elizabeth.  In the days of Good Queen Bess, the rule of thumb was "when in doubt, hang 'em."

1651(18^thof Sivan, 5411): Polish Talmudist Abraham Rapoport, the “son of Israel Jelriel Rapoport of Cracow and son-in-law of Mordecai Schrenzel of Lemberg who “was president of the Council of Four Lands, and was administrator of the money collected for the poor in the Holy Land” passed away today.

1654: Louis XIV was crowned King of France. Louis’ record in dealing with the Jews was, uneven to say the least.  In keeping with the mercantilist policies of his minister Colbert, Louis issued a charter of liberty for Jews under royal authority in 1671.  Among other things, this opened up the port of Marseilles as a harbor where Jews could trade freely, much to the consternation of the local Christian merchants.  When the merchants complained, Louis (in a reply probably written by Colbert) responded: “Commercial envy will always impel the Christian merchants to persecute Jews.  But you should be above such motives that issue from personal interests.  You should take into consideration the benefits the government derives from the industrial activity of the Jews, which comprises all the parts of the world thanks to their association with their coreligionists.” This benign attitude did not last forever.  As Colbert fell from favor and Louis grew more pious as he grew older, he acceded to demands to ban Jews from various parts of his empire.  In 1710, “He ordered Jews ‘to leave the kingdom without any belongings,’ and told local officials to take any and all means to expel Jews ‘because that is our wish.’”

1692:  Port Royal, Jamaica is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1600 people are killed and 3000 are seriously injured. Jew first started arriving in Port Royal in 1663, eight years after the British took the island from the Spanish.Sadly, there is little documentation of Jewish life in Port Royal, but earthquake survivor Edmund Heath's account of the infamous 1692 event, notes the existence of a Jew's street and synagogue which records locate on New Street running parallel to Cannon Street. The Jewish legacy in Port Royal also includes a cemetery at Hunt's Bay. During the 17th century it was not unusual to see Jewish families carrying their loved ones by boat across the harbor to be buried.

1699: “By an agreement dated today, the council of Worms pledged itself to grant the Jews certain concessions, and this arrangement was confirmed by Joseph I.”

1772(6^thof Sivan, 5532): Shavuot

1733: George Frideric Handel completed “Athalia,” an oratorio based on a play of the same name by Racine.  Both works depict the life of the widow of the King of Judah whose murderous ways make her “a Jewish Lady MacBeth.”

1737(8^thof Sivan, 5497): Levi Ulff whom “the king had appointed his Court and order the royal regiments to secure their ribbons” from his ribbon factory which had been moved to Charlottenburg in 1714 passed away today.

1753(5^thof Sivan, 5513): Erev Shavuot

1753:In Great Britain, an Act of Parliament styled “The Jewish Naturalization Act 1753” received royal assent today. The Act gave foreign-born Jews to become naturalized by making application to Parliament.  This meant that foreign born Jews would enjoy the same rights as native born English Jews. While the act enjoyed support in the House of Lords, it was repealed in 1754 due to opposition from the Tories in the House of Commons. [Ed. Note – When the “Jew Bill was introduced in the 19^th century, the pros and cons would be just the opposite with the Commons supporting the bill and the Lords opposing it.

1764(7^thof Sivan, 5524): Second Day of Shavuot; Yizkor recited as Boston deals with the aftermath of an outbreak of smallpox.

1779: Eighty-year old William Warburton, the Bishop of Gloucester passed away.  His major work was The Divine Legation of Moses in which he uses the absence of the mention of the afterlife in the Torah as a proof that Moses received a divine revelation which he then uses to defend Christianity against the beliefs of the deists.

1780: The Army was called out today to quell the “Gordon Riots” and among other things arrested Lord George Gordon, the future convert to Judaism, on charges of high treasons – charges of which he would be found not guilty.

1787: Birthdate of Amsterdam native Mozes Aron Coronel, the husband of Ribca Abenda and father of Aaron Coronel.

1790(25^thof Sivan, 5550) Beer Nehm Rindskopf, the thrice married son of Nehm Joseph Rindskopf and Hindle Rindskopf passed away today in Frankfurt, Germany.

1791(5^thof Sivan, 5551) Ererv Shavuot observed on the same day General Lafayette wrote from Paris to Thomas Jefferson “lamenting” the fact that Jefferson had left France since he could have been so helpful in drafting the Constitution which Lafayette feared would not solve the woes of his country that was being rocked the Revolution that had begun in 1789.

1797:The Treaty of Tripoli (Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary) “which was submitted to the Senate by President John Adams, received ratification unanimously from the U.S. Senate” today including Article which reads “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion…

1798(Sivan 23): In Pesaro, Italy Jews were murdered following the retreat of the French Army.  The day became a fast day

1804: Dutch born Ann Magnus and Isaac Nathan Lear buried their unnamed child today.

1806: Today, “the wealthy leaders of the Sephardic” community “of Bordeaux” expressed their fear of the “evil that had manifested itself among their poor and sought to prevent the infection by religious education during the old regime and also by vocational training after the emancipation.”

1806: Today, “the Philanthropic Society of the Bordeaux Jews maintained that poor Jewish children could at least be taught arts and manual trades, for Jews were longer exclude from these economic opportunities.”

1810(5^thof Sivan, 5570): Erev Shavuot observed on the day when the first issue of  Gazeta de Buenos Ayres, the first newspaper to open in post-Colonial Argentina was published today leading to this date being honored as Journalist Day in a country that became famous for the positive relations between the future Pope and the local rabbis.

1815: The Jews of Saxony “were permitted to give a reception of King Frederick August, the Just.

1820: “Isaac B. Barrett and Rachel J. Barret” gave birth to Esther Barrett who became Esther G. Poznanski when she married “Gustavus Poznanski” with whom she had four children.

1821(7^thof Sivan, 5581): Second Day of Shavuot

1828: In Berlin, Wilhelm Wolff Beer and Doris Beer gave birth to Julius Alfred Beer.

1829(6^thof Sivan, 5589): Shavuot

1829: At New Street Covent Garden, Simon Marcus and Eleanor Levy gave birth to their sixth child, Matilda Marcus.

1837: Birthdate of Alois Schicklgruber, the son of an unwed mother who would change his name to Alois Hitler, the father of Adolph Hitler.

1842(29^thof Sivan, 5602): Rabbi Baruch Gougenheim, the French born son “Sara and Jacob Wolff Guggenheim” and the “husband of Rosel Rosette Rosele Gougenheim” passed away today.

1843: In Denmark, the Supreme Court sentenced Meïr Aron Goldschmidt “to prison (6 times 4 days), a fine, and future censorship” for criticism of the king that appeared in the satirical magazine “The Corsair” which he founded and served as chief editor.

1845: Birthdate of “Hungarian violinist Leopold Auer,”

http://leopoldauersociety.com/leopold-auer-bio-2/

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/music-history-composers-and-performers-biographies/leopold-auer

1848(6^thof Sivan, 5608): As Europe is rocked by revolutions, Jews observe Shavuot

1851(7^thof Sivan, 5611): Second Day of Shavuot

1852: Birthdate of David Kaufman, the native of Moravia who became one of the leading scholars in the fields of history and the philosophy of religion.

1854: Benjamin Marks and Mary Aaron were married today at the Great Synagogue in London.

1854: In Philadelphia, PA, Meyer Guggenheim and Barbara Myers gave birth to New York resident Isaac Guggenhim the husband of Carrie Sonneborn, “director of the American Smelting and Refining Company, the National Park Bank” and a “member of the firm of M. Guggenheim’s Sons.

1854: The New York Times reported that Frederika Bremer has written a warm appeal to the Swedish Parliament on behalf of the Jews.

1857: The New York Times reported that the Weekly Gleaner: A Voice of Israel, a Jewish newspaper, is now being published in San Francisco. Rabbi Julius Eckman was the paper's publisher.

1858:"New York City: The Rogue's Portrait Gallery" published today says that Number 169 is a likeness of an old vagabond called "Jew Mike.”

1860: In Vienna, Professor Dr. Simon Spitzer and Marie Spitzer gave birth to Eugenie Spitzer who was married to Mortiz Wottitz and then Zygmnunt Wartski.

1861: Today subscribers across the country opened the Jewish Messenger  to read a response by the fledgling Shreveport Jewish community to column entitled "Stand By the flag" written by Rabbi Samuel Isaacs. The resolution, signed by M. Baer, President of the Shreveport community, proclaims: “We solemnly pledge ourselves to stand by, protect, and honor the flag, with its stars and stripes, the Union and Constitution of the Southern Confederacy with our lives, liberty, and all that is dear to us.” In harsh language, Baer identifies Isaacs as “an enemy to our interest and welfare,” and accuses him of raising “hatred and dissatisfaction in our midst, and assisting to start a bloody civil war amongst us.”

1865: Ferdinand James Anselm von Rothschild married his cousin Evelina de Rothschild the daughter of Lionel de Rothschild

1865: Two days after he passed away, 84 year old Raphael “David” Picard, the Prussian born son of Juda Lieb Leham Bicker and Keyla Catherin Wolf Ulmann was bured today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”

1867(4^th of Sivan, 5627): Seventy-eight year old “Italian Hebraist” who had been principal of the Jewish school at Florence and who had taught Professor Fausto Lasino, passed away today.

1870: The attorney representing Sigmund, Joseph and Julius Walberg who are “charged with making false revenue returns as brokers” made a motion for discharge.

1870: The news that a congregation in Charlottesville had voted to join the Reform Movement was greeted with applauses at today meeting of the Rabbinical Council being held in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1870: The Rabbinical Council adopted a resolution providing for a “uniform reading” of the Torah over a three year period at Sabbath services.  The selections should omit “antiquated laws.”

1871: In Cincinnati, Ohio, a meeting of the Rabbinical Council, the governing body of the Reform Movement, the Prayerbook Committee was authorized to publish their new work as soon as it was ready.

1871: “Russian Tyranny and Jewish Resistance” published today reported that Jews in Poland have resisted the government orders to do away with their traditional attire, hair styles and beards.  Since the Jews are not following the news edicts, the police are stepping in to shorten the long coats favored by some Jews and cutting off their “curls.”  Lengthening the short pants of the Jews has been more of a problem.  But the greatest challenge is getting rid of the beards.  In one rural town, the police grabbed an 80 year old Jew and began cutting his beard.  He cried out and when his co-religionists came to his aid, they were pounced on, forced into chairs, and sheared in “a hurried and rough manner” that was deemed less than “pleasant.”  While the Warsaw Police have avoided such extreme measures up until now, they will adopt them to ensure that the government’s edicts are carried out. 

1872: Birthdate of painter and musicologist Rodolphe d'Erlanger.

1873:“Hebrew Orphans’ Excursion” published today reported that the managers of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Free schools have made plans provide the youngsters in their care with excursions this summer starting on June 23..

1874(22^ndof Sivan, 5634): Eighty-seven year old Karaite archeologist Abraham ben Samuel Firkovich passed away today.

1875: “Ancient Libraries” published today provides a series of interesting sketches of the great libraries of the world including the following comments about the Jews and their ancient literature.  The author assumes that the Biblical city Kiryat Sefer took its name from the fact that it was a repository for works written by or inspired by Moses as well as “rhapsodies of prophets, the verses of poets, works of historians and dark sayings of proverbial philosophers.  Prominent among these must have the contributions of the great King Solomon who spoke 3,000 proverbs, whose songs were 1,005” who spoke with “scientific method and precision about beasts, fowl creeping things and fishes as well as plants  including the Cedars of Lebanon and hyssop growing out of the walls.  The author assumes that these Jewish libraries were “swept out of existence” and much of the literature was lost except for fragmentary references which can be found in books which have been preserved for religious purposes.

1875(4^thof Sivan, 5635): Babette Marx the wife of Alexander Blum with whom she lived in Algiers and then moved back to Frankfurt to live with her sister Esther Kosel, passed away today.

1876: Alois Schiclgruber is officially recognized as the son of Johann Georg Hiedler and his name is changed to Alois Hitler, a linguistic move that could not have been anything but useful to the future Nazi murderer.

1877: Birthdate of Louise Kahn Hirschman

1878(6th of Sivan, 5638): First Day of Shavuot

1878: Rabbi Gustav Gotthel is scheduled to lead Shavuot Services at Temple Emanuel in New York City

1878: Rabbi Adolph Huebsch is scheduled to lead Shavuot Services at Ahavaht Chesed on Lexington Avenue & 55^th Street

1878: Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs is scheduled to lead Shavuot Services at B’nai Jeshrun on 34^thStreet.

1878: Rabbi Frederick De Sola Mendes is scheduled to Shavuot Services at Shaaray Tefillah on 44^thStreet.

1878: A man named Dixon was hung today in Vicksburg, MS, having been convicted of brutally murdering a 45 year old Jewish peddler named Bachman while he was traveling on the steamboat Fair Play in December of 1877.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F0CEED9173EE63BBC4053DFB0668383669FDE

1880: The New York Times published a review of The Poetry of the Talmud by Simon Seckles.

1880: Fifty-two year old General Frederick Vilmar commander of the 2^nd Brigade of the New York National whom Julius J. Lyons, the son of Rabbi Jacques Lyons served as Judge Advocate from 1875-1876 passed away today.

1881: In Essex, NJ, Moises/Moritz Tintner and Adeline Tintner gave birth to JTS ordained Rabbi Benjamin Abner Tinter, the holder of an AB, MA and Ph. D. from Columbia who was “the first American-born rabbi and the first graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary to serve Congregation B’nai Jeshurun and who in 1930 was elected state chaplain of the American Legion, Department of New York,

1881:Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont graduated from the Naval Academy.  His father was August Belmont, the Jewish financer for whom the Belmont Stakes is named.  His mother was the daughter of Oliver Hazard Perry and was not Jewish.

1881: At the Republican State Convention, Louis Seasongood, a Jewish leader from Cincinnati is among those being considered as the party’s nominee for Lieutenant Governor.  Seasongood had been defeated by General Hickenlooper for the position two years ago.

1881: It was reported today from St. Petersburg, that the “excitement against the Jews here has abated but has not entirely disappeared.”  [Editor’s note – what charming euphemisms for anti-Semitic riots; as can be seen from the entries below, there was no abatement. ]

1882: It was reported today that the Mansion House Committee for the Relief of Russian Jews has collected over eighty-two thousand British Pounds of which it has spent all but 25 thousand pounds.  The Committee is going to send representatives to Hamburg to oversee the departure of the Russian Jews from the German seaport.

1882: At today’s session of the Republican State Convention being held in Columbus, the party adopted the following resolution. “We condemn the terrible persecutions inflicted upon the Jews of Russia and other sections of Europe, and while he heartily approve the action of the Government in its efforts to ameliorate the condition of these unfortunate people, we earnestly solicit a continuance of its most energetic efforts to that end.” 

1884: Birthdate of NYC native and NYU trained attorney Morris Alfred Vogel.

1886: Three days after she had passed away, 49 year old Emilie Henriette Levis the German born wife of Julius Levis with whom she had had five children was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1886: “Indignant Rabbis” published today described the refusal of Mr. Taylor, the principal of Central High School in Philadelphia, PA to excuse the Jewish students for missing the upcoming final exams which have been scheduled on the days of Shavuot.  Despite pleas from the city’s rabbis to reach some kind of accommodation, Taylor has remained adamant which means the Jewish children could fail through no fault of their own.

1889: “To Celebrate Two Anniversaries” published today took note of the fact that the year 1892 “will witness the four hundredth anniversaries of the expulsion of the Hebrews from Spain and the discovery of America and described plans already being made by those meeting at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue to honor both of these events.

1890: In Bloomington, Illinois, “a gas jet, which had served as the eternal light” at the Moses Montefiore Congregation “ignited a fire on the altar” that destroyed “so much of the Temple’s interior that it had to be completely redecorated.

1890: In Philadelphia, Dr. Solomon da Silva Solis-Cohen and Emily Grace Solis-Cohen gave birth to Leo Solis-Cohen, M.D.

1891: “The committee for the relief of Russian Jews reports” that many of the Jews arriving at Charlottenburg “were wounded while fleeing from the Russian police.” Even more Jews were killed and the exodus is assuming such vast proportion” that the German Government will be forced to intervene “since private charity will soon be powerless to cope with the demands”.

1891: “Friends of the Jews Who Want Them Not” published today described “the indignation of Western Europe” to “Russia’s barbaric expulsion of the Jews” which is beginning to be mixed with a desire “to pass the exiled horde” on to some other nation or nations. “The various organizations and committees which have been formed” in Berlin, Vienna, Paris and London “to look out for the comfort and safety of the Jews after they leave Russia” reportedly spend a large amount of their funds on purchasing “passage tickets to America”

1891: “The Field of Future of Wars” published today described the little known eastern portion of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a primitive place where “the village inns – low drinking places at best – are generally kept by Jews, who entice by all means in their power, the peasants to come an consume as much ‘wodka’ as possible.”

1891: “High Sheriff Benjamin Disraeli” published today reports that “an Irish antiquarian has just discovered that the ‘Benjamin D’Israeli, Esq.,’ who was High Sheriff of the Count of Carlow in 1810, was an uncle of Lord Beaconsfield.”  He died in 1814 and is buried in St. Peter’s Church in Dublin. [Editor’s Note – If this report is accurate and if this High Sheriff Disraeli was Jewish it makes one wonder what oath he swore when he took the office. 

1892: Twenty-seven year old CCNY grad and NYU trained attorney Joseph L. Buttenweiser, the Philadelphia born son of “Laemmlein Buttenweiser and Leah Buttenweiser” married Lean Weil today.

1892: “Jewish Historical Society” published today described the organizational meeting of the American Jewish Historical Society at JTS which included an acrimonious debate between laymen and rabbis touched off by the fact that the report of the Committee on Organization did not recommend a rabbi for any of the officer positions.  The debate became so heated that Rabbi Kaufman Kohler “jumped up and left the room.”

1893: Fifty-nine year old American actor Edwin Booth whose portrayal of Shylock was that critics said, “there is no other actor who realize so well as he all the meaning of the character – the bitter hatred, the firmness of purpose, the deep passion, the unswerving faith and the tenderness of his undemonstrative affection for his child” passed away today.

1893: Birthdate of Samuel Pinanski, the native of Boston who was President of the American Theatres Corporation and an officer of the Hebrew Free Loan Society.

1895(15^thof Sivan, 5655): Forty-four year old Berlin born composer and conductor Martin Roder  who came to the United States in 1892 “to take charge of the vocal department in the New England Conservatory at Boston” passed away today.

1896: In New York, “Dr. Isaac M. Haldeman” delivered a sermon at the First Baptist Church in which he said “that the Jews had been persecuted by all the civilized nations of the world, so that they were driven to lying, cheating and other vices.  No tongue could describe the tortures inflicted on them – not by pagans, but by Christians…”

1896: Professor Isaac Franklin Russell of NYU Law School delivered a lecture at the Hebrew Institute on “Tom Paine.”

1896: “Mayor Strong Asked to Aid Peddlers” published today described the plight of two Jewish peddlers who have been “driven from the streets by police” because they like so many others have deprived of their livelihood i.e. selling collar buttons and suspenders from various street corners.

1896: The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band will perform at a strawberry festival this afternoon sponsored by the Lebanon League which is raising funds for the Lebanon Hospital at Westchester and Cauldwell Avenues.

1896: “Beginnings of a Prime Minister” published today described the handicaps that Benjamin Disraeli had to overcome in making his way to the top of the English political ladder.  It noted that he did “not have the advantages of wealth or connected enjoyed by so many of his race.  His father was a “renegades” who educated his son at “second class private schools” where he was not able to make the friendships and associations that “wealthy Jews nowadays” make at “public schools and universities.”

1897(7th of Sivan, 5657): Second Day of Shavuot

1897: No Orthodox Jew voted in the judicial elections held in Chicago today since marking the ballot would violate the prohibition against writing on a Jewish festival.

1897: Birthdate of Austrian born composer and conductor, George Szell. He was best known for his long, successful career as musical director of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra.  He held the position from 1946 until 1970.

1897: “Myer S. Isaacs, President of the Board of Trustees of the Baron de Hirsch Fund, has received a draft for $400,000, from the Baroness de Hirsch, as the first advance on the donation of $1,000,000 recently made by the Baroness to assist the poor of New York City.”

1898: It was reported today that “gangs of peasants attacked and plundered he shop at Frystak and wounded several Jews’ while the police in this Galician town “fired on the mob killing six of the rioters and wounding five more.”

1898: Three days after he had passed away, 51 year old Lewis John Somers, the son of Ann and Judah George Somers was buried today in London at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery.

1899: During ten days of meetings at The Hague that would end on June 17 Herzl met several of the most representative Russian leaders. Baroness Bertha Von Suttner introduced him to Russian State Counselor Ivan von Bloch who is responsible for the calling of the Conference. The meetings result in Herzl's name being brought favorably to the attention of the Czar. Herzl also met with Nouri Bey, General Secretary of the Turkish Foreign Office who promises to get together a group of officials to arrange an audience with the Sultan.

1900: It was reported today that during the commencement exercise for the University College and Applied Science at NYU, the Hebrew Language Prize had been awarded to Henry Noble MacCracken, the son of the school’s chancellor.

1901: Birthdate of Sam Katzman, an American film producer and director who began working in the industry at the age of 13 when it was centered on the east coast.  He moved west with the industry and enjoyed a successful 40 year career in film.  He passed away in 1973.

1902(2^ndof Sivan, 5662): Parashat Bamidbar

1902: Today reports from London said that “Vienna newspapers are calling attention to the passage of small groups of Rumanian Jewish immigrants passing through Vienna en route to the United States” because “they are fleeing to escape poverty and distress” found in a country where “the disabilities they have suffered practically exclude most of them from the opportunities enjoyed by Christians” when it comes to “earning a livelihood.”

1903: In Pittsburgh, PA, the sixth annual convention of the Federation of American Zionists is scheduled to continue for a second day.

1903: Jacob Massel of Glasgow and Isaac Allen of New York addressed today’s meeting of the Ladies’ Zion Society at New Brighton Synagogue on what has been designated as “Convention Day.”

1904(24^thof Sivan, 5664): Moishe Finkel took his own life after shooting his wife and actor David Levinson who was a romantic rival.  Born in 1850, Finkel was a leading member of the Yiddish theatre in the United States. His tempestuous personal life would have fine material for tragedy or melodrama.  His professional life was intertwined with such greats of the Yiddish theatre as Jacob Adler and Boris Thomashefsky.  And he was the father in law of famed Hollywood actor, Paul Muni.

1904: “The week long Seventh Annual Convention of the Federation of American Zionists” during which resolutions were approved “for the founding of Yiddish magazine, for the development of the work of the ‘Mizrach,’ for the establishment of Hebrew classes and a system of tuition for Jewish children and for the general supervision of the education of Jewish throughout the country” came to a close today at Germania Hall in Cleveland, OH.continued to meet for a third day at Germania Hall in Cleveland, OH.

1904: In South Carolina, Rabbi J.J. Simenhoff officiated at the marriage of Clarence Mintz and Tillie Selman.

1905: “Oscar Hammerstein said” tonight “that negotiations between his representatives in Paris and Mme. Sarah Bernhardt fo he appearance in vaudeville next season positively had not been given up” and that he “expects to bring over a number of well-known European artists.”

1906: “At a dinner given” tonight at Clinton Hall by the officers of the United Hebrew Charities to some fifty well-to-do residents of the east side, Nathan Bijur, one of the officers said that the organization was now staggering along under a deficit of $40,000 and that unless that amount and more was raised by August 10 the doors of the society’s main building and of several subordinate houses would have to close.”

1907: The “owner of six dwelling-houses in the parliamentary and metropolitan borough of Islington” was ordered to appear today before Joseph H. Polka, Esquire, on the justices of the peace for the county of London

1908: Founding of Kinneret

1909: In Croatia, Rabbi Avraham Marmorstein, the son of Yehuda Leib (Leopold) Marmorstein and Rivka (Regina) Marmorstein, and his wife Antonia Toba Marmorstein gave birth to Emil Marmorstein

1910: Eighty-six year old Goldwin Smith the British born Canadian academic who was a political opponent of Benjamin Disraeli, passed away. “A pathological anti-Semite, Smith disseminated his hatred in dozens of books, articles and letters. Jews, he charged, were "parasites,""dangerous" to their host country and "enemies of civilization." His bilious anti-Jewish tirades helped set the tone of a still unmoulded Canadian society and had a profound impact on such young Canadians as W.L. Mackenzie King, Henri Bourassa and scores of others. Indeed in 1905 in the most vituperative anti-Jewish speech in the history of the House of Commons, borrowing heavily from Smith, Bourassa urged Canada to keep its gates shut to Jewish immigrants.

1911: Following “the recent publication of President Taft’s censure of Colonel Gerrard, who opposes the” promotion of Jewish enlisted men, “resolutions demanding investigations in the Army and Navy to deter whether Jews are discriminated against were introduced in the House today by Representative Edwards of Georgia.”

1912: Evening schools to be opened in New York City for Turkish Jews to learn English during the summer months.

1912: In Kharkoff, the police instituted “proceedings against Zionists for belonging to an illegal organization and supporting institutions abroad.”

1912: Russian Minister Count Sergei Witte denied accusations by his opponents “that in 1890 he had sent millions to America to assist Jewish bankers.”

1912: Several fires, of unknown origin, destroyed “large portion of townlets” near Podolia, Lublin and Kalish “leaving several hundreds of Jewish families homeless. 

1913: In Chicago, The Frist American Conference on Social Insurance which Lee K. Frankel has attended as a delegate from New York came to an end.

1914: The Federation of Oriental Jews held its second annual meeting today PS 91 in NYC.  The federation is made of representatives of 28 different organizations which have approximately 3,000 members.  The federation estimates that there are between 10,000 and 15,000 Oriental Jews living in New York.  The term refers to Sephardic Jews most of whom are recent immigrants from areas that have been under Ottoman rule including Greece.  Unlike their northern and eastern European co-religionist, they do not speak Yiddish, relying instead on Ladino for much of their colloquial conversation.

1914: Twenty-one men received diplomas and five were ordained as Rabbis at today’s graduation exercises held by the Jewish Theological Seminary at the Aeolian Hall.  Louis Marshall presided over the event and read a speech prepared by Dr. Solomon Schechter who was unable to be present because of ill health.

1914: Simon F. Rothschild delivered the opening address at today’s ceremony dedicating the newly constructed building in Brownsville that will house the Hebrew Educational Society.  Among other speakers were Felix Warburg, Abram Elkus and from the world of New York politics, Controller William A. Pendergast.

1914: Over a thousand people attended today’s opening of a new building to house the Harlem Hebrew School  The school was begun five years and is supported by the Yeishva Torah Chaim of Harlem.  Almost 500 children attend the school which provides courses in Hebrew, the Bible and Jewish history before and/or after public school hours.

1915: As of today, the officers of the Hebrew Association for the Blind included President Benjamin Berinstein, a lawyer ”who as a blind student at Columbia made a name for himself as a debater and member of Phi Beta Kappa, Vice President Jacob Salmovitz, Recording Secretary Catherine Cohen, Trustee Henry Shapiro and Sergeant-at’Arms Harry Kantrowitz.

1915: “Today, the Exchange Telegraph Company has received a dispatch from Berlin by way of Amsterdam saying the Berliner Tageblattdeclares that the German anti-Semitic organs are starting a new campaign to prevent Jews from becoming officers in the army after the war.”

1915: Dr. Cyrus Adler, the President of Dropsie College warned against the latest attempt to separate the synagogue from the Hebrew School.  Such an action “can only result in an exaltation of ‘Hebraic culture’ as against ‘Jewish knowledge and Judaism.’ A secularized Hebrew school is as much a paradox as a non-religious Jewish state and a tragedy which will eventually destroy the synagogue and render asunder the Jewish home.”

1915: In Atlantic City, NJ, the delegates attending the national convention of the Order of B’rith Abraham are scheduled to vote on resolutions endorsing the meeting of a “Jewish national congress” “composing all the fraternities of the race in this country” and demanding that the 11,000,000 Jews of Europe “be according all the rights of free men” when the World War is over.

1915: In Atlantic City, NJ, the delegates attending the national convention of the United States Grand Lodge, Independent Order of B’rith Abraham “adopted resolutions declaring Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan to be the ‘great humanitarian’ extending ‘grateful appreciation’ to President Wilson for his veto of the Immigration Bill which would have closed the gates of America to their brethren and declaring for the immediate calling of a national conference of Jews in America.”

1915: “It was announced that Dr. Abraham Galante of Constantinople has been invited to New York as the Chief Rabbi of the Oriental Jewish Communities in the United States.”

1915: No reason was given for failure of the State Prison Commission in Georgia to announce “its decision today on the pleas of Leo M. Frank for commutation of his sentence” as had been expected by the large crowd that had gathered at the capital.

1915: As of today, the officers of the Federation of Oriental Jews of America are Honorary President Edward Valensi, President Joseph Gedalecia, First Vice President Samuel Coen, Second Vice President Ezra Barcola, Third Vice President Moses Shalom, Executive Secretary Albert J. Amateau, Recording Secretary Robert Franco, Treasurer David Carasso and Controller Jacob Farhi.

1916(6^thof Sivan, 5676): As the Jews on both sides of the conflict observe Shavuot the Germans take Fort Vaux during the Battle of Verdun, the contest of wills that had begun in February and would last until December.

1916: “The investigation being conducted into alleged discrimination against Jews in the New York National Guard” continued today during which “most of the officers…who were called to the stand repeatedly denied that they held any prejudices against Jews or that the question as to the exclusion of Jews had ever been discussed among the officers of their companies.”

1916: Samuel Strauss, a member of the Board of Directors of the Educational Alliance told those attending the school’s confirmation exercises “that unless the Jews of this country made themselves more responsive to conditions of good citizenship and service to America, America will become a place from which we will have to move on again in our eternal wanderings.”

1916: The Republican National Convention which Samuel S. Koening attended as a delegate from New York opened today in Chicago.

1916: Ruth Klauber and Philip Reinsberg were married today in Chicago.

1917: In Petrograd, at the opening session of the Zionist Congress, President Tschlenow read a telegram from the Minister of Foreign Affairs “announcing that information received regarding the atrocities committed by the Turks again the peaceful population of Palestine was of such a nature that it had been considered advisable to communicate with the Allies, with a view to joint representations to the Turkish Government through neutral Powers.”

1918: In Berlin, the Tageblatt stated “editorially that the wording of the so-called Jewish emancipation clauses of the Treaty of Bucharest” were “accepted without sufficient examination by the representatives of the Central Powers” and make it possible for the Romanian government to evade “its pledges with new tricks.”

1918: “Zionists purchased Sarona, “a German Templer Colony established in 1871” which is located between Jaffa Petah Tivkva.

1918:Two days after she had passed away, 21 year old Hettie Marcus, the daughter of Samuel and Kitty Marcus was buried in London at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”

1918: Italian Foreign Minister Baron Sidney Costantino Sonnino informed “Nahum Sokolow that his Majesty’s Government is pleased to confirm the declaration already mad through representatives in Washing, the Hague and Salonica, to the effect that they will gladly use their best endeavors to facilitate the establishment in Palestine of a Jewish national center, it being understood that this shall not prejudice the legal or political status enjoyed by Jews in all other countries.

1919(9^thof Sivan, 5679): Parashat Nasso

1919: Conditions of Jews in the Palestine cities of Safed, Tiberias and Kfra Saba are described as bad. The death rate is appalling. Thousands of Jews are starving.

1919: Birthdate of Yohanan Aharoni the Frankfurt born Israeli archeologist who served as chairman of the Department of Near East Studies and chairman of the Institute of Archeology at Tel-Aviv University.

1920: Today marked the third day of Temple Emanu-El’s fund raising fair and bazaar which was being held at the Y.M.H.A. building in Brooklyn

1921: In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Russian-Jewish immigrant “Samuel and Anna Refkin” gave birth to Isadore Irving Refkin, the U.S. Army enlisted man who served as a spy and a saboteur in WW II. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/obituaries/irv-refkin-brash-accidental-spy-in-world-war-ii-dies-at-96.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&rref=obituaries&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Obituaries&pgtype=article

1921: President Warren Harding is scheduled to meet with Albert D. Lasker and discuss his appointment to serve as Chairman of the Shipping Board.

1923: In Jerusalem, Yechiel Halperin and his wife gave birth to Uzziel Halperin who gained fame as “linguist and social activist” Uzzi Ornan.

1924(5^thof Sivan, 5684): Parashat Bamidbar; erev Shavuot.

1926: The body of Meyer London, one of only two Socialists to serve in the House of Representatives “was taken to the Forward building, where it lay in state while 25,000 men, women, and children filed past the casket, paying their respects.”

1926: “Louis Greenspan…whose automobile struck Meyer London was arraigned” today “in the Homicide Court on a short affidavit…charging suspicion of homicide.”

1927(7^thof Sivan, 5687): Second Day of Shavuot

1928: Birthdate of Sirma native Herman Klein whose family was deported to Auschwitz when he was sixtenn years old.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/id-card/herman-klein

1928: In New York, Ethel (née Newman) and Ira Strouse gave birth to composer and lyricist Charles Strouse whose first Broadway show was the 1960 hit “Bye Bye Birdie.”

1929: The Lateran Treaty which normalized relations between Italy and the Vatican is ratified.  The agreement gave Mussolini, the Italian Prime Minister, a greater measure of respectability.  The Mussolini Connection would set the tone for the Vatican’s relationship with Hitler when he came to power.  Italy's anti-Jewish laws of 1938 prohibited marriages between Jews and non-Jews, including Catholics. The Vatican viewed this as a violation of the Concordat, which gave the church the sole right to regulate marriage between Catholics. But this was not enough of an issue to disrupt the relationship between Rome and the Vatican.

1929: The original Broadway production of Blackbirds, a musical revue with lyrics by Dorothy Fields “opened at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France.

1932(3^rdof Sivan, 5692): Sikxty-three year old Polish “neurologist and psychiatrist’ Edward Flatau who wrote of the first modern books on migraines passed away today in Warsaw.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Flatau#/media/File:Flatau_migrane_de.jpg

1933: Today, Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald addressed the opening session of the Anglo-Palestine Exhibition in London.

1933: Today, “one week to the day after he had been arrested on a charge of allegedly putting a false interpretation upon new concerning police actions in a raid on the Jewish section of Berlin, Otto Schick, editor of the Berlin bureau of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency was breed by the Nazi authorities.”

1935(6^thof Sivan, 5695): Shavuot

1936(17^thof Sivan, 5696): Seventy-one year old German actor Hermann Picha passed away today in Berlin.

1936: Leon Blum the first Socialist and the first Jew to serve as Prime Minister of France presented his list of ministerial appointments to the Chamber of Deputies. Blum is attacked in anti-Semitic diatribe by right wing deputy named Xavier Vallet who will later serve as an official with the Vichy Government.

1936:Five Arabs were killed and many were wounded this afternoon in a clash with British troops and policemen after an attack on several Jewish-owned buses outside Jerusalem. A British soldier and a British police corporal were seriously wounded.

1936: “A large Jewish-owned timber depot in the heart of Jerusalem was set afire by Arabs tonight and the flames spread to several nearby stores.  The damage to the timber depot was put at $40,000.00.

1936: “Nazi pamphlets printed in Arabic were distributed in Acre blaming the British for “favoring” the Jews.

1936: A young American tourist who would come to be known as President John F. Kennedy arrives in Jerusalem during a visit to the Middle East.

1936: A reception organized by James W. Gerard, the former Ambassador to Germany, in honor of anti-Hitler Professor Georg Bernhard, is scheduled to be held tonight at the Hotel New Yorker.

1937: The Palestine Postreported that the London Evening Standard protested editorially against the long delay in the publication of the report of the Royal (Peel) Commission on Palestine, while all sectors of the Palestine population "waited for a real peace." The House of Commons was told that no fees were paid to the Commission members, but one of them continued to draw his salary of £4,500 a year, as president of the Industrial Court. The cost of the commission's subsistence allowances, traveling and other expenses amounted to £2,837, 18 shillings and 3 pence.

1937: “Two hundred rabbis, most of them alumni, were welcomed” today “by Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America at the 37^thannual convention of the Rabbinical Assemly of America which opened” this morning where support for the “general spirit of the New Deal,” “the loyalist forces in Spain” and the Wagner Labor Relations Law” were expressed.

1937: The Palestine Postreported that refugees from Nazi Germany recalled the circumstances of the secret execution in Berlin of an American Jew, Helmut Hirsch, who was accused of spying.

1938: In Shaker Heights, Ohio, Saul and Dorothy Goldstein gave birth to Michael Goldstein, the student of opera turned “music publicist” and music journalist. (As reported by Vincent M. Mallozzi)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/obituaries/michael-goldstein-publicist-who-started-soho-weekly-news-dies-at-79.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1939: Albert Einstein wrote to Wilfred Israel saying, I was extremely glad with your friendly letter and especially with the fact that you are finally safe. What you have done was truly heroic, but I couldn't get rid of the feeling that you are too good for this world, but even more so for the environment, in which you insisted on staying for so long. With the hope of seeing you again once more in this life, heartily regards to you and yours,”

1939: “Another ship attempting to land 260 illegal (Jewish) immigrants north of Haifa was captured today. 

1939: Birthdate of New York native Mark Reiner, the NYU basketball player named “Player of the Year” in 1961 whose coaching career at Brooklyn College was marred by allegations of impropriety brought by former athletic director Joseph Margolis in 1986.

1939: Today, with supplies running low and with a complete breakdown in negations, Captain Schroeder told the passengers of the SS St. Louis that they would be returning to Europe, and barring some unforeseen consequences, that would mean Germany.

1939: Palestine was today the scene of further Jewish and Arab terrorism. One life was lost in the retaliation and counter-retaliation, and six Jews and one Arab were injured, in addition to considerable damage to government property. The tension continues to run high. A bomb was exploded today on the main railway line 150 yards from the main station.  There were four other bombing attacks in Tel Aviv during the rest of the day. 

1940(1^stof Sivan, 5700): Rosh Chodesh Sivan

1940: “After the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, David Ben-Gurion, Chairman of the Jewish Agency, wrote to his wife from London about Churchill’s speech following the evacuation. “I know that you cannot stand against Hitler with speeches,  Without planes and tanks and bombs and cannons we will not destroy the ‘Mechanized Attila’…But Churchill’s speech was undoubtedly the steadfast and stubborn persistence of the English nation to stand and fight to the end.”  “The phrase ‘Mechanized Attila’ had been coined by Leon Blum the first Jew to serve as Prime Minister of France.  After quoting Churchill’s speech that included the immortal words “we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender…” Ben Gurion writes his wife that these words ‘were not merely a jest.  This is the spirit of the rebellious England and in it a guarantee for better days – even if not the soonest.

1941(12 of Sivan, 5701): Parashat Nasso

1941: It was reported today that “despite all the obstacles and difficulties arising out of the war situation, the Joint Distribution Committee is today functioning throughout Europe” with “help being extended in Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, France and Holland and possibilities of immigration being made available to the Jews still remaining in Germany, Austria, Bohemia and Slovakia.”

1941: Release date for “Shining Victory” the first film directed by Irving Rapper written by Howard Koch with music by Max Steiner.

1942(22nd of Sivan, 5702): The Jewish ghetto at Krakow, Poland, is liquidated; 6000 Jews from the city are murdered at Belzec.

1942(22nd of Sivan, 5702): A Jewish woman who has escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto into the city proper is dragged back to the ghetto and shot.

1942: The Jewish Yellow Star is made mandatory in Occupied France

1942(22nd of Sivan, 5702): Alan Blumlein died when his Halifax bomber crashed. The British-born radar and electronics expert was on active duty with the Royal Air Force (RAF).  He was part of an elite group of specialist working on the electronic counter measures and devices that helped to give the Allies an edge over the Axis in the dark days of World War II.  His death was described in The Daily Telegraph as a national loss. Air Chief Marshall Sir Phillip Joubert described it as a catastrophe for the war effort, and Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air, wrote that ‘it would be impossible to over-rate the importance of the work on which they were engaged’, which had undoubtedly saved thousands of lives.”

1943 Dr. Klaus Clauberg reports from Auschwitz that the apparatus to sterilize 1000 Jewish women a day is being set in place.

1944: In the United States, premiere of “Christmas Holiday” directed by Robert Siodmak with a screenplay by Herman J. Mankeiwicz.

1944: The first phase of the deportation and mass murder of the Hungarian Jews is complete. Nearly 290,000 Jews have been killed in 23 days.

1944: At the height of the deportation of Hungarian Jews, Hannah Szenes crossed the border into Hungary.

1944: Joel Brand arrived at Aleppo today where two men, who later were identified as British intelligence, “pushed him into a waiting Jeep with its engine running.”

1945: In Brooklyn, attorney Bernard Fink and the former Sylvia Caplan gave birth to attorney and social activist Elizabeth Marsha Fink.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/nyregion/elizabeth-m-fink-a-lawyer-for-attica-inmates-and-radicals-dies-at-70.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&rref=obituaries&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Obituaries&pgtype=article&_r=019451

1945: Today, twenty-five year old Zelman Cowan, the future Governor-General of Australia, married 19 year old Anna Wittner, with whom he “had four children, Shimon, Yosef Kate and Ben.”

1945: Today, Jan Peerce and the “RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sylvan Levin” recorded “Bluebird of Happiness” a 1934 ditty comped by Sandor Harmati, “with words by Edward Heyman.

1945(26^th of Sivan, 5705): Eighty-one year old Dr. Charles Isaiah Hoffman, Rabbi Emeritus of Oheb Shalom Synagogue passed away today.  Born in Philadelphia, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and practiced law from 1886 until 1900 when he began studying for the Rabbinate at JTS.  Six months after his graduation in 1904, he filled the pulpit of the Newark, NJ congregation while helping to create several Jewish periodicals including “The Jewish Exponent.” [Editor’s note – Dr. Hoffman’s decision to pursue the pulpit as “a second career” was as uncommon in his day as it apparently has become common in our own times.]

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FA0813FE395F1B7B93CAA9178DD85F418485F9

1946: In Manhattan, “Sam Steinfeld, who worked in the import-export field and the former Faye Litsky” gave birth to Allan Howard Steinfeld who succeeded Fred Lebow as head of the New York City Marathon. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/sports/allan-steinfeld-dead-new-york-city-marathon.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1947: The Oujda and Jerada pogrom which took place in northeastern Morocco began today. 

1948: Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a Constitution making his nation a Communist state. Beneš was one of the most decent and democratic leaders of his time.  As a leader of the Czech government-in-exile during World War II he condemned the treatment of European Jewry and supported a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

1948: Mordechai Weingarten the Jewish community leader who had participated in the negotiations that resulted in the surrender of the Old City to the Arabs was placed under house arrest when he returned to western Jerusalem.

1949: “Bernard Baruch” is scheduled to “present an award to Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations Palestine mediator at a dinner” tonight “at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews.”

1950: Mrs. Martha Sharp, the wife of a Unitarian minister from Chicago and the vice chairman of Children to Palestine, visited the children’s village of Ben Shemen in Kfar Vitkin, thirty miles north of Tel Aviv. A grant of $25,000 from her organization is being used to build housing for children who escaped from the European Holocaust and have known no real home.  The Village is named after Reverend Samuel A. Eliot, “the organizer of this interfaith rescue movement.

1950: The Mizrahi Women’s Organization of American hosts the second day of a two-day donor luncheon series for 3,000 members of its metropolitan branches to initiate an all-year silver jubilee celebration.  Mizrahi in Israel has grown from a single home for adolescent girls in Jerusalem to a networked of 49 projects including 13 institutions for children. 

1950: “Armored Car Robbery” directed by Richard Fleischer was released today in the United States.

1953: Birthdate of Joan Stein, a Tony-winning theater and television producer who helped to launch several long-running L.A. stage productions, including "Love Letters,""Forever Plaid" and Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile."

1953(24^thof Sivan, 5713): Seventy-seven year old Julius I. Peyser the World War I veteran, lawyer, banker and Zionist who graduated from Georgetown University and taught at George Washington University passed away today.

1953(24^thof Sivan, 5713): “A youngster was killed and three others were wounded, in a shooting attacks on residential areas in southern Jerusalem.”

1954(6^thof Sivan, 5714): Shavuot

1954: Forty-one year old WW II code-breaker Alan Turing, who “sponsored two Jewish refugee children from Austria and helped educate them in the UK” passed away today.

http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/enigma-codebreaker-alan-turing-two-jewish-refugees/

1956: Sixty-five year old actor Sam Jaffee married 32 year old Betty Ackerman with whom he would co-star in the television series “Ben Casey” and with whom he had happy marriage until his death in 1984.

1956: David Saul Marshall completes his services 1^st Chief Minister of Singapore.

1956(28^thof Sivan, 5716): Eighty-year old French author Julien Benda whose most famous work was The Betrayal of the Intellectuals passed away today.

1961: Holocaust survivors provided shocking testimony at today’s session of the trial of Adolf Eichmann. [Editor’s note – In a time when there a myriad of Holocaust Memorial Museums dotting the landscape and the Shoah was talked of only in hushed tones, the following article by Homer Bigart provides what, for its time was a blinding revelation.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10B17F83B5912738DDDA10894DE405B818AF1D3

1961: In the U.S. premiere of “The Curse of the Werewolf” a horror film with music by Benjamin Frankel.

1961: The World Wrestling Championship in which Boris Gurevich won a Silver Medal came to an end today in Japan

1961(23^rdof Sivan, 5721): Sixty-one year old Milton Charles Calechman, the “son of Abraham Calechman” and “brother of Harold Calechman” passed away today after which he was buried in the “B’nai Jacob Memorial Park” in New Haven, CT.

1964: Third baseman Stephen Allan “Steve” Hertz, the future manager of the Tel Aviv Lightning, played his last major league as a member of the Houston Colt .45s.

1965: The $64,000 Question premiered on CBS-TV. Louis Cowan who has worked to rescue Jews from Germany before the war, created the show. Hal March, a Jewish comic and actor whose real name was Harold Mendelson was the show’s host.  Charles Revson, the Jewish Canadian Cosmetic King, had his company, Revlon, sponsor the show.

1965(7th of Sivan, 5725): Second Day Shavuot

1965(7^th of Sivan, 5725): Twelve days before his 75^th Birthday McGill University alum and Harvard Ph.d. Abraham Aaron Roback the Goniondz, Russia, born son of  “Isaac and Libby (Rahver) Roback” d psychologist, and contributor to Yiddish journals who was a faculty member at several schools including Clark University, MIT, Radcliffe and Harvard passed away today. (Some show his death date as June 5)

https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book//lookupname?key=Roback%2C%20A%2E%20A%2E%20%28Abraham%20Aaron%29%2C%201890%2D1965

https://www.jta.org/1965/06/08/archive/dr-a-a-roback-noted-psychologist-and-strong-supporter-of-yiddish-dead\

1965(7th of Sivan, 5725): Comedic actress Judy Holiday passes away at the age of 43.

http://www.focusfeatures.com/article/judy_holliday_dies

1966(19^th of Sivan, 5726): Eighty year old Jacob M. Budish, the Russian born American author and academic who specialized in the Labor movement passed away today.

http://www.jta.org/1966/06/08/archive/jacob-m-budish-noted-jewish-labor-economist-and-author-dead

1966(19^th of Sivan, 5726): Sixty-seven year old NYC native and Columbia University trained dentist Dr. Louis W. Scaletter, the husband of the late Martha Gitlin Sscaletter and the father of physicians Howard and Raymond Scalettar passed away today.

1967: Six months after premiering in Japan, “El Dorado” a cowboy movie co-starring James Caan was released in the United States today.

1967 (28 Iyar, 5727): Dorothy Parker passes away.Born Dorothy Rothschild in 1893, Dorothy ("Dottie" or "Dot") Parker was an American writer and poet best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles.

http://www.dorothyparker.com/nytobit.html

http://dorothyparker.com/gallery/new-york-times-obituary

1967: Israel captured the Old City of Jerusalem uniting the city for the first time since the establishment of the state. On June 7, 1967 at 10:15, with the radio confirmation, "The Temple Mount is in our hands," the Israeli flag was raised above the Western wall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paratroopers_at_the_Western_Wall#/media/File:Soldiers_Western_Wall_1967.jpg





1967 (28 Iyar, 5727): Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Unification day). Prior to the 6-Day War, Israel had sent repeated requests to King Hussein of Jordan appealing to him remain outside the conflict (trying, therefore, to prevent a three-front war). Due to Arab League pressure, Jordan began to shell Jerusalem on June 5. When the Jordanian force crossed the cease-fire line at Government House, Israel retaliated. General Uzi Narkis brought in Colonel Motta Gur to lead the attack in Eastern Jerusalem.

1967: “David Rubinger, an Austrian-born photojournalist, chronicled the birth of the modern state of Israel, its leaders, its triumphs” took the iconic photo, of the Israeli paratroopers Zion Karasanti, Yitzhak Yifat and Haim Oshri at the Western Wall today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paratroopers_at_the_Western_Wall#/media/File:Soldiers_Western_Wall_1967.jpghttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/world/middleeast/david-rubinger-dead-israeli-photographer.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1

1967:  Israeli forces captured Jericho, Bethlehem, Sharm-el-Sheikh, and lifted the blockade of the Gulf of Eilat. The entire Jordanian bulge on the western bank of the Jordan came under Israeli control. Hostilities between Israel and Jordan came to an end upon their acceptance of the cease-fire demanded by the Security Council of the U.N., 1967.

1967: http://www.sixdaywar.co.uk/independent_dogfight-of-april-7th.htm

1967: On the third day of fighting, the IAF destroyed hundreds of Egyptian vehicles trying to flee across the Sinai in convoys and trapped thousands more in narrow Sinai passes.

1967: By the end of the third day Jordan's air force of 34 combat aircraft had essentially ceased to exist and the Jordanian military was no longer in the fight.

1967: A successful joint attack by armor units and elements of the Golani led to the capture of Nablus this afternoon.

1970: Myrna Lamb’s musical “Mod Donna” closed today at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre in New York today.

1970: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for seventy-eight year old Broadway and Yiddish Theatre star Menasha Skulnik followed by burial “in the Yiddish Theatre Alliance section of the Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, Queens.”

1971: Singer-songwriter Carole King achieved stardom with the release of her album Tapestry

1972: German Chancellor Willy Brandt visited Israel

1974: Refusniks Valery and Galina Panov obtained exit visas.

1975: "Whispering Grass (Don't Tell The Trees)"“a popular song written by Fred Fisher and his daughter Doris Fisher” reached the “number one in the UK Singles Chart” today.

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that according to Aviation Week Israel was having second thoughts about buying the American F-16 fighter, and planned to design its own fighter plane. Egypt started digging a tunnel under the Suez Canal, about 20 km. north of Suez city.

1978: Six months after opening in Japan, “Capricorn One” directed and written by Peter Hyams, starring Elliot Gould and with music by Jerry Goldsmith was released in the United States today.

1978: President Carter nominated Louis Hl. Pollack to serve a Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

1981(5^thof Sivan, 5741): Erev Shavuot

1981: The Israeli air force attacks and destroys the Iraq nuclear reactor at Osiriq. Both the United States and leaders in the Israeli opposition condemned Menachem Begin. After Operation Desert storm the American State department belatedly praised his actions, admitting it had saved countless lives.

1982(16^th of Sivan, 5742):Ninety-one year old Portage, PA native Hyman “Goldie” Goldstein the Dickinson College football player described by legendary coach Pop Warner as “being a star kicker, passer and ball carrier” possessing “the rare quality of fine judgment and generalship” who went on to serve in the Navy during WW I and pursue a legal career in Carlisle, PA passed away today.

http://archives.dickinson.edu/people/hyman-goldstein-1891-1982

1983: It was reported today that “Leaders of an official anti-Zionist Committee set up six weeks ago” have said “that they were satisfied that Jewish emigration had effectively stopped because most Soviet Jews who wanted to leave have gone.”

1984(7^th of Sivan, 5744): Second Day of Shavuot

1984: “The Revolt of Job,” “a gently told story of one Jewish couple's attempt to defeat their family's extinction in the Holocaust by adopting a non-Jewish boy, a child who would survive to carry on their line” is scheduled to have its last screening at the Vandam Theatre in New York. (As reported by Seth Mydans)

1985: “Perfect” a romantic film featuring Laraine Newman and Jann Wenner was released in the United States today.

1987: An article published today entitled “Celebrating the East End’s Jewish Heritages” provides a brief overview of the history of the Jews who settled in London and a schedule of the events for this summer's Jewish East End Celebration.

1991: U.S. premiere of “City Slickers” a mid-life crisis comedy starring Billy Crystal, featuring Josh Mostel, Lindsay Crystal and Jake Gyllenhaal with a script by Lowell Ganz.

1992(6^th of Sivan, 5752): For the last time Shavuot is celebrated during the Presidency of George Brush.

1993: Yitzhak Rabin completes his term as Interior Minister

1993: Prof. Shimon Shetreet completed his term as Science and Technology Minister of Israel

1993: Shulamit Aloni replaced Moshe Shahal as Minister of Communication.

1993:Aryeh Deri begins his term as Interior Minister.

1993: Moshe Shahal succeeded Amnon Rubenstein as Energy and Water Resources Minister

1995:Uzi Baram completes his term as Minister of Internal Affairs.

1996(20th of Sivan, 5756): Max Factor passed away.  Factor arrived in the United States at the start of the 20^th century.  He was a pioneer in the cosmetics industry who parlayed his work with Hollywood movie stars into his own cosmetics company, the name of which survives under the Max Factor Cosmetics label.

1997(2^nd of Sivan, 5757): Parashat Bamidbar

1997(2^nd of Sivan, 5757): Seventy-five year old Dr. Stanley Schacter, the Columbia University professor who “was one of the few social psychologists to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences.” (As reported by Karen Freeman)

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/11/nyregion/stanley-schachter-dies-at-75-psychologist-of-the-mundane.html?pagewanted=1

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/23/02/29.html

1998: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Process: 1,100 Days That Changed the Middle East by Uri Savir

1999:Marigold Merlyn Baillieu Myer (Lady Southey AC) the youngest daughter of Sidney Meyer and Margery Merlyn Baillieu Myer “became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her service to the community in the support of health care, medical research and the arts.”

2000: In “Bittersweet Homecoming for a Well-Traveled Exile” published today Richard Bernstein provided a review of Stonedial by George Konrad whose “main character” is “Janos Dragoman, a Jew who returns to the Hungarian city of his youth…”

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/07/books/books-of-the-times-bittersweet-homecoming-for-a-well-traveled-exile.html?searchResultPosition=5

2001: David Wright Miliband assumed office as a Member of Parliament for South Shields.

2002:Seven soldiers were buried today at the Hadera military cemetery today.  They were part of a group of 17 Israelis, including 13 soldiers who were killed when a stolen car packed with explosives pulled alongside a public bus and exploded near the northern town of Megiddo.

2003(7^th of Sivan, 5763: Second Day of Shavuot and Shabbat

2003(7^th of Sivan, 5763): John Jay Dystel, the son Marion Dystel and publisher Oscar Dystel passed away today.

2004:The Supreme Court ruled that the 88-year-old niece and heir of an Austrian Jewish art collector can pursue her lawsuit against the Austrian government and its national art gallery for the return of six paintings by Gustav Klimt that belonged to her family before the Nazi takeover.

2005: A mortar shell fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza struck a greenhouse in the Israeli settlement of Ganei Tal today, killing three workers-- two Palestinians and a Chinese laborer-- and wounding five more. Who were Palestinians from Khan Yunis,

2006:  Hebrew Book Week begins.Despite the name, the “week” will last for 10 days. This year's theme is “Developing the Galilee and the Negev.”

2006: The Central Council of Jews, Germany’s main Jewish organization elected Charlotte Knobloch as its leader.  The 73 year old Holocaust survivor from Munich is the first woman to hold this post.

2007: In “Rebuilding Jewish Life in New Orleans,” published today Bruce Noland describes how “financial incentives and other effort are starting to pay off” in a post-Katrina World.

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-06-07/news/36871500_1_jewish-federation-jewish-community-jewish-college-students

Twenty-three and single, Katie Tutwiler is another of those idealistic young people pouring into post-Katrina New Orleans. Tutwiler moved to New Orleans fresh out of college last summer, tugged by a moral call to join the city's great story of post-hurricane reconstruction. Although she is only nominally Jewish, Tutwiler has been aggressively courted by the area's Jewish community. She received a $1,000 moving grant and was offered a year's free dues to a synagogue and a one-year membership to a Jewish community center. The recruiting effort may be paying off. Tutwiler, a self-described religious "seeker" shopping for a religious identity, has signed up with Birthright Israel for a free trip to Israel this summer, even as her personal exploration also includes attending Catholic Masses. Tutwiler is in play, so to speak, and thus qualifies as a poster child for the New Orleans Jewish community's year-old "newcomers program," which to date has devoted an estimated $180,000 to recruit young Jews to rebuild the city's Jewish community, and the larger city as well. Prominent African American leaders such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson have lobbied for the "full right of return" of all displaced city residents, including poor black people stranded in other cities. But there has not been a specific effort to lure black residents back to New Orleans, where they made up two-thirds of the population before Katrina. The newcomers program is just one of the initiatives in a five-year "strategic plan" New Orleans Jews recently fashioned as part of a $24 million blueprint to revitalize a small but sturdy community that had been shrinking and graying even before Katrina made landfall in 2005. The plan's first goal is to recruit young Jews to New Orleans and nourish them here through the newcomers program. But plans are afoot to fashion incentives to retain at least 50 of the area's 400 to 500 Jewish college students who graduate each year, Michael Weil, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans, said. Besides recruiting, there are 11 goals in the strategic plan, Weil said, including maintaining ties with an estimated 3,500 permanently dislocated Jewish New Orleanians; building support systems to nourish Jewish families; fostering collaboration among local Jewish institutions; developing Jewish education; and a national fundraising and public relations campaign. "It's ambitious, it's doable and we're going to make it happen," said Weil, an economist and strategic planner who worked in Israel before he was hired by the federation in 2006. The newcomers program that aided Tutwiler so far has distributed incentives to 116 Jewish individuals or families, said Jennifer Samuels, who helps run the program. Weil estimated that the total number of Jewish newcomers, including those who didn't apply for incentives or haven't yet been identified, is closer to 850. The day Katrina made landfall, the area's Jewish community was estimated to be about 9,500 (less than 1 percent of the metro area population), down from an estimated 13,000 nearly 25 years ago. Research by Louisiana State University sociologist Frederick Weil and others estimated that Katrina reduced the area's Jewish population to about 6,000 in the summer of 2006. They believe the number rebounded to 7,000 to 8,000 earlier this year. Tutwiler said her decision to come to New Orleans was born out of a desire to join a wounded but still fascinating community, and was not triggered by financial incentives. As the daughter of an Episcopalian father and a nonobservant Jewish mother, she said she grew up in a home with no strong religious influence. She knows only the opening phrases to a few common Hebrew prayers, and until recently, she did not know there was a synagogue in her hometown of New Iberia, La., about 100 miles west of New Orleans. "I'm Jewish," she said, "but not quite in the fold." Tutwiler heard about the Jewish incentives program from her grandmother, Catherine Kahn, a New Orleans resident and board member at Temple Sinai, who urged Tutwiler to check it out. Now Tutwiler sometimes accompanies her grandmother to temple and has begun to inquire about her Jewish heritage. In that sense she is quite typical, Michael Weil said. "There's a pattern here" among newcomers, Weil said. "They tend to be on the margins of mainstream Jewish life. These are not your regular synagogue-goers. Their Judaism is more virtual than real. They're less actively involved. But they're motivated. They see themselves as pioneers." He said their willingness to help rebuild the city often is part of a deeply Jewish imperative toward public service called "tikkun olam" or "repairing the world.""You'd think that when you're hit with a major disaster it would knock you flat and you wouldn't have the strength to get up again," Weil said. "But what this community has said is, we're not accepting that. We think we're important, and we have a future, and we intend to go to some significant place, and we'll do whatever it takes to get there."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/06/AR2008060603565_pf.html

2007: A revival of “Babes in Arms is a 1937 musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by Rodgers and Hart” opened today at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

2007: In London, Israel Connects presents “Portraits of Israel.”  The exhibition is a collection of the photographs of Rudi Weissenstein taken from 1932 through 1999. Weissenstein was the official photographer at the signing of the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948.

2007(21^st of Sivan, 5767): Eighty-three year old poet and translator Michael Hamburger passed away today.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jun/11/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries

2008: In Washington, D.C. The JCC presents “David Buchbinder's Odessa/Havana.”An exciting Jewish-Cuban musical fusion, Odessa/Havana is led by award winning trumpeter and composer David Buchbinder and includes some of today’s most accomplished jazz musicians.

2008: As a foretaste of celebrating Shavuot, in Cedar Rapids, at Temple Judah, traditional Shabbat morning services at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids features a “Sundaes on Saturday” Kiddush.

2008(4^th of Sivan, 5768): Ninety-one year old Dr. Montague Ullman passed away today.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=Montague-Ullman&pid=111558365#fbLoggedOut

2008; Sportscaster Jim McKay past away at the age of 86. “His professionalism and sensitivity melded in 1972. During the Munich Olympics, as he left the hotel sauna and was about to go into the swimming pool on his only day off, he received word that Arab terrorists had invaded the Israeli living quarters in the Olympic Village. Mr. McKay hurried to the studio, and for 16 consecutive hours he anchored ABC’s extraordinary news coverage, with field reporting from Peter Jennings, Howard Cosell and others. The episode ended with the murder of 11 Israeli athletes, coaches and trainers. When that word reached Mr. McKay, he said he thought that he would be the person who told the family of David Berger, an Israeli-born weight lifter whose family lived in Shaker Heights, Ohio, “if their son was alive or dead.” He looked at the lens and said, “They’re all gone.” When ABC finally signed off, Mr. McKay, physically and emotionally spent, returned to his hotel room. Only then did he realize he had been wearing a wet swimsuit beneath his trousers. The next day, Mr. McKay received this cable from an old CBS colleague: “Dear Jim, today you honored yourself, your network and your industry. Walter Cronkite.” Mr. McKay’s work at Munich won him an Emmy Award for news coverage, the first for a sportscaster, and the George Polk Award. Through the years, he won 12 more Emmys.”

2009: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Red and Me by Bill Russell, Red Orchestra by Anne Nelson and the recently published paperback edition of Audition: A Memoir by Barbara Walters.

2009: The Washington Post featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including American Passage: The History of Ellis Island by Vincent J. Cannato.

2010: The New Yorker is scheduled to publish its “20 Under 40” list of fiction writers worth watching that included Jewish authors Jonathan Safran Foer, 33;Rivka Galchen, 34;Nicole Krauss, 35;Gary Shteyngart, 37;David Bezmozgis, 37.

2010: Sirius/XM Radio star and Broadway pianist Seth Rudetsky is scheduled to perform at the Washington Jewish Music Festival.

2010(6^th of Sivan, 5770):Rabbi Mordecai Eliyahu passed away.

2010(6^th of Sivan, 5770): Eighty-seven year old Rabbi Jacob Milgrom considered by many the world’s foremost authority on the biblical Book of Leviticus passed away today in Jerusalem.,

http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/58341/rabbi-biblical-scholar-jacob-milgrom-dies-at-87

2010:Shahar Pe'er, an Israeli professional tennis player, was ranked Number Fourteen today which was her career-high rating as a single’s player.

2010:Former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin has been acquitted of allowing minors to work at the Postville slaughterhouse. Today, Jurors acquitted him of all 67 counts of child labor violations.

2010:The funeral for Steve Averbach, the former Monmouth County resident who was paralyzed in an attempt to thwart a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in 2003 was scheduled to take place today in Israel.

2010:Navy commandoes foiled a major terrorist attack from the Gaza coast shortly before dawn today morning, and the Air Force strafed a rocket launching cell.

2010(25^th of Sivan, 5770):Rabbi Mordecai Eliyahu former chief rabbi who encouraged Israelis to oppose removal of settlements and blamed Reform Jewry for the Holocaust passed away at the age of 81.

2010: Joe Schlesinger, the Canadian television journalist and author “received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Queen's University in Kingston and delivered the convocation speech to a part of the graduating class of 2010 from Queens Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He declared that the students would forget a good part of what they learned but they can find out what they need to know in the realm of facts by ‘googling it’!”

 2011: Congregation Beth Israel in Glendale, Wisconsin, is scheduled to present a program entitled “The Levite & His Concubine.”

2011(5^th of Sivan, 5771): Erev of Shavuot

2011(5^th of Sivan, 5771): Ninety-one year old Mietek Pemper, the secretary who actually compiled what became known as “Schindler’s List” passed away today.  (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/world/europe/19pemper.html

2011(5^th of Sivan, 5771): Eighty-eight year old Leonard B. Stern, the man who created “Mad Libs” passed away today in California. (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/arts/television/leonard-b-stern-creator-of-mad-libs-dies-at-88.html

2011: Bradlee Birchansky and Jon Burstain, two outstanding young men, are scheduled to be confirmed this evening during Shavuot services at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

2011: Carolyn Goldmark Goodman, the wife of Oscar Goodman “was elected Mayor of Las Vegas with 60 percent of the vote.”

2011:Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) introduced a resolution calling for the withholding of U.N. funding if the General Assembly recognizes a Palestinian state.

2011:U.S. President Barack Obama said today he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed that any Palestinian effort to seek UN recognition for statehood should be avoided.."

2012: The Carmen at Masada Opera Festival is scheduled to open,

2012: The Anat Cohen Quartet is scheduled to perform in Washington, DC.

2012:Israel’s Defense Ministry announced today that it will erect between 20,000-25,000 tents for African migrants at various detention centers by the end of the year.

2013: “Fill the Void,” a film about an orthodox Chasidic family from Tel Aviv, is scheduled to open at several theatres across the United States including the Clay in San Francisco, the Bethesda Row Cinema in Bethesda, MD and Shrilington 7 Theatres in Arlington, VA.

2013: Tel Aviv hosted its 15th annual Gay Pride Festival today, with a record-breaking 100,000 spectators and participants attending the celebrations, including droves of tourists from all over the world.

2013: Yediot Aharonot reported today that the US recently conducted a test of its bunker buster bomb, destroy a replica of an underground nuclear facility in an effort to show Israel and other ally states that it is capable of striking Iran’s nuclear plants.

2014: The Tel Aviv International Student Film, which this year has enjoyed the unexpected support of Steve Tisch of the New York Giants is scheduled to come to an end. (As reported by Debra Kamin)

2014: “Paradise Cruise,” a film about an Israeli photographer and her rebellious boyfriend, is scheduled to be shown at Windmill Studios.

2014: The traditional minyan at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids celebrates the 80^thbirthday of Murray Wolf.

2014: Today, “Pope Francis entreated social media followers to pray for Middle East peace” just one day before the Presidents of Israel and the PA are to visit the Vatican and join the Pontiff in a special prayer for peace.

2014: “Hatnua MK Amram Mitzna said today that he will make every effort to convince his party members to leave the coalition and bring an end to the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.” (As reported by Spencer Ho)

2015: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Words Without Music: A Memoir by Philip Glass, Jonas Salk: A Life by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, The New World, a novel co-authored by Eli Horowitz and Coup de Foudre“a thinly — or possibly barely — veiled account of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair, in which Strauss-Kahn was accused of sexually assaulting a housekeeper at a New York City hotel” by Ken Kalfus.

2015: “The Members Book Club” at the National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to discuss Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman.

2015: “Touchdown Israel” and “Sallah Shabati” are scheduled to be shown at the Israel Film Center Festival.

2015: “A Walk on the Moon” starring Diane Lane is scheduled to be shown at the Borscht Belt Film Festival.

2015: The Darom Film Festival is scheduled to open at Sderot.

2015: “Lincoln and the Jews,” an exhibition sponsored by the New York Historical Society “inspired by the publication of Lincoln and the Jews: A History co-authored by Jonathan D. Sarna is scheduled to come to an end today.

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158493

2015: “A court awarded filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici NIS 800,000 ($260,000) in damages today in a libel case against a former Israel Antiques Authority curator Joe Zias who had accused the three-time Emmy award winner of falsifying material in a documentary about the origins of Christianity.”

2015: “Israeli jets struck target in the Gaza Strip early this morning “hours after rocket from the coastal Palestinian territory exploded in southern Israel.”

2015: In Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is scheduled to host “Secret Jewish Services in a Nazi POW Camp - Stalag Luft 1” during which Ron Levine will give a presentation discussing how his father, Henry Sanford Levine, led weekly Shabbos and High Holy Day secret Jewish services in a Nazi POW camp, Stalag Luft 1. Henry Levine was a navigator on a B-17 that was shot down over Nazi Germany. After the Gestapo located him they transferred him to Stalag Luft 1, where he became a POW. Ron’s father made a wooden Mogen David while imprisoned. It is made of two triangles not permanently attached so they could be kept separately as two innocuous triangles. Triangles meant nothing to a Nazi guard. A Mogen David could get you killed. Ron has the Mogen David in his possession. Towards the end of the war, special barracks were built for the Jewish POWs so they could be transferred to the Death Camps. The Russians liberated the camp before the Jewish POWs could be executed.

http://thegazette.com/subject/life/people-places/wwii-veteran-held-jewish-services-in-german-pow-camp-20150605

2016: “Every Word has Power,” a “concert film shot at Lincoln Center, featuring musician Basya Schechter (of Pharaoh’s Daughter) adapting ten of Rabbi Heschel’s poems into song” is scheduled to be shown at the 17^thAnnual Washington Jewish Music Festival.

2016: “Man in the Wall” and “Encirclements” are scheduled to be shown at the Israel Film Center Festival in Manhattan.

2016: The work of Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz is scheduled to be honored at the 22^nd Aleph Society Dinner at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.

2016:  In Portland, the Mittleman Jewish Community Center is scheduled to present Rabbi Jonathan Porath speaking on “How Jews of America Saved Jews of Europe During the Shoah: The Story of the Joint Distribution Committee.”

2016: Women of the Wall Executive Director Leslie Sachs was detained by police this morning for carrying “a Torah scroll into the prayer plaza in contravention of Orthodox regulations imposed at the site.”

http://cdn.timesofisrael.com/uploads/2016/06/IMG-20160607-WA0027.jpg

2016: “Between Kermanshah To Majdanek” is scheduled to be shown at the Cinema South Film Festival in Sderot.

2017(13^thof Sivan, 5777): Seventy-seven year old Ed Victor, the Bronx born son of Russian Jewish immigrants who transformed himself into a leading London literary agent passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/business/media/ed-victor-dead-literary-agent.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

2017: It was reported today that “Naomi Alderman’s The Power has become the first science fiction novel to scoop the Baileys prize for women’s fiction.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/07/baileys-prize-naomi-alderman-the-power

2017: “La Putyka, a Czech circus, is scheduled to perform “Slapstick Sonata” and “La Putkya,” a cornucopia of acrobatics, theater, live music and puppets at Zion Square” today.

2017: In Alexandria, VA, Beth El Hebrew Congregation is scheduled to host “What Makes Jewish Music Jewish? – a special musical morning with NPR’s Miles Hoffman.”

2017: Brooklyn Institute for Social Research & Center for Jewish History are scheduled to host the first session of Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism taught by Dr. Samantha Hill.

2017: Novelist Dora Horn is scheduled to lead a tour of the Yeshiva University Museum’s exhibition “City of Gold, Bronze and Light: Jerusalem between Word and Image” in she “explores Jerusalem's role in the work and imagination of modern Jewish writers.”

2018: “Dov Boros, a survivor of the ghetto in Budapest, Ida Kersz who was saved by a Polish Catholic family and Dr. Adina P. Sella who found safety in Italy during the Holocaust” are scheduled to speak at the Israel at 70 celebration hosted by the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center.

2018: JW3 is scheduled to host two screenings of “Entebbe” in London.

2018: “The Power of Protest: The Movement to Free Soviet Jews, a special traveling exhibit created by the National Museum of American Jewish History, is scheduled to be for the last time at the State Historical Museum of Iowa today.

2019(4^thof Sivan, 5779): Jewish Math Time – in the evening, count the 49^thand final day of the Omer

2019: As students complete their exams, the Oxford Jewish Society is scheduled to host Kabbalat Shabbat Services followed by a Friday night dinner.

2019: “CIJA Pride Shabbat is scheduled to take place is Edmonton, Alberta.

2019: In Los Angeles, the Royal Theatre is scheduled to host a screening of “The Spy Behind Home Plate” followed by a Q and A with director Aviva Kempner

2019: On the secular calendar, 52^nd anniversary of the liberation of east Jerusalem and the re-unification of the city after 19 of illegal occupation by the Jordanians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paratroopers_at_the_Western_Wall#/media/File:Soldiers_Western_Wall_1967.jpg

2020: The Maine Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of  “The Spy Behind Home Plate” online today.

2020: The Brooklyn Film Festival which has hosted an on-line screening of the U.S. premier of the Israeli film “On the Side” is scheduled to come to an end today.

2020: David Broza is schedule to welcome us into his living room on-line where he will be performing “His most popular songs alongside some rare ones.”

2020: The New England Yachad is scheduled to present on-line “YAYA Chavurah.”

2020:  During the virtual presentation of “Roots of Yiddish Comedy,” Klezmer teacher, Yiddishist and singer Jeanette Lewicki is scheduled to talk about how early Yiddish comedians spread Jewish values. Includes records, music and live performance.”

2020: Live on Zoom, the American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to a virtual class of Soapbox Yoga.

2020: Live on Zoom, the American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “Yemenite Men and Women and their Music.”

2020: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Away From Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge of the West by Gilles Kepel and Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy by David Frum

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65 CE: Jewish insurgent forces captured the fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem. This battle marked the outbreak of the Jewish revolt against Rome. This revolt would end with the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E.

68: The Roman Senate accepts Galba as the new Emperor. Galba was the second of men who would claim title of Emperor in the eleven months between June, 68 and July, 69.  The first of the five was Nero and the last of the five was Vespasian.  There are those who contend that there is direct connection between this Imperial anarchy and the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple.  Vespasian was determined to secure the throne and to promote is son Titus as his heir.  He decided to take the unusual step of completely destroying the Jewish capital and its house of worship as a way of demonstrating that he had the power to hold the throne and put an end to the revolving door Emperors. 

570: Religion of Islam founded in Mecca. Like Christianity, Islam is rooted in Judaism.

632: According to tradition, the anniversary of the death of Mohammed, founder of Islam. Mohammed had expected the Jews of Arabia to accept his new faith. When they did not, he turned on them. This is an oft told tale in Jewish history.

1191: Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade.

1374: Geoffrey Chaucer is appointed Comptroller of Customs and Subsidy of Wools, a position that pays ten pounds per year.  This steady income gave him the freedom to write The Canterbury Tales which contained the “Prioress Tale” complete with its anti-Semitic featuring an eight year old Christian child who is murdered in the Jewish quarter of the town while singing hymns in praise of his faith.  At the end, the Jewish community is wiped out as punishment for the death of the Christian child.

1622: Albrecht Wallenstein, the Count of Friedland, who was supportive of Jewish economic activities as can be seen by his dealings with “former Prague banker and merchant Jacob Bassewi” arranged a festive dinner today to be given “in connetion with the reckoning up of the malt tax” at Riechenberg.

1662: Asser Levy bought a lot from Barent Gerritsen on Hoogh Straat (Stone Street) in New Amsterdam [New York City].  By doing this Levy became the first Jewish landowner in what is now the United States of America.

1664: King John Casimir of Poland denied the Jews of Vilna the right to deal in non-Jewish books

1723(5th of Sivan): Seventy-nine year old Isaac Vita Cantarini, “Italian poet author, physician and rabbi who was the author of Pahad Yizhakpassed away

1753(6^th of Sivan, 5513): Shavuot

1763: Twenty four year old“Rebecca Claudia bat Zvi wife of Itsca [Isaac] Shnof of Hamburg” who had died on Shabbat was buried today at “Alderney Road (Globe Rd) Jewish Cemetery.

1776: Aaron Hart, the father of Trois-Rivières, Quebec native and legislator Ezekiel Hart, was among those who fought to repel American campaign to conquer Canada which came to an end today with the Battle at Trois-Rivières, Quebec

1779: Birthdate of “German Christian cabalist” Joseph Franz Molitor whose work was intended “to show the superiority of cabalistic mysticism over that of the Christian, and that Christianity is Judaism obscured by a false mysticism

1787: Birthdate of Emanuel Aguilar, father of author Grace Aguilar.

1789:  James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the House of Representatives.  Those favoring ratification of the U.S. Constitution promised that a Bill of Rights (what would be the first ten amendments to the Constitution) would be enacted as soon as the new federal government was formed.  The First Amendment is of particular importance to Jews because it guarantees freedom of religion in the nation’s organic document.  This has made the experience of Jews in the United States different from all other Diaspora Communities.

1791(6^th of Sivan, 5551): Shavuot observed on the same day that Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson stating he thought “it would be productive of very useful information if some Officer of the United States in each foreign Country, where there is one, were instructed to transmit, occasionally, a state of the coins of the Country specifying their respective standards weights, and values, and, periodically, a state of the market prices of gold and silver in coin and bullion, and of the rates of foreign exchange, and of the rates of the different kinds of labour as well that employed in manufactures as in tillage.”

1796: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Abraham Azuby officiated at the marriage of London, England native Hannah Abrahams, and local merchant Samuel Levy.

1799(5^th of Sivan, 5559): Parashat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot observed for the last time in the 18^th century.

1809: Thomas Paine, the author of “Common Sense” and political pamphlets passed away.  Paine relied on the experience of the ancient Israelites when arguing against monarchy. “The quiet and rural lives of the first patriarchs hath a happy something in them, which vanishes away when we come to the history of Jewish royalty. Government by kings was first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry.”

1809: Alexander Isaac married Sophie Levy at the Hambro Synagogue.

1810(6^th of Sivan, 5570): Shavuot

1810: Birthdate of German jurist and political leader Moritz Warburg the Altona native who served as a member of the Sleswick-Holstein constituent assembly for 22 years.

1810: Israel Jacobson introduced an organ for the first time at a Reform service in Berlin.

1812: Birthdate of Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst the native of Moravia who was a child prodigy when it came to playing the violin and the viola.

1815: “The Congress of Vienna finally adopted Article 16 of the "Bundesakte," which guaranteed to the Jews in all German states the rights which they had obtained "from" the various states, instead of "in" the various states, as the original text read.”

1815: During negotiations intended to guarantee Jewish rights in the Treaty of Vienna, the Mayor of Bremen inserts language in “Article 16” that will effectively end the rights gained by most German Jews during the military successes of Napoleon.

1815: Birthdate of Rabbi Samuel Hirsch.  Born in Germany, Hirsch was a leading advocate of radical Reform Judaism.  "He was among the first to propose holding Jewish services on Sunday."  He passed away in 1889 in Chicago, Illinois.

1817: At “Berner Street, Commercial Road, London” Simon Marcus and Eleanor Levy gave birth to Lewis Marcus.

1818: Isaac Cohen married Rebecca Hart Myers at the Great Synagogue in London.

1818(4^th of Sivan, 5578): Fifty-nine year old Baroness Franziska "Fanny" von Arnstein the daughter of Daniel Itzig and the wife of banker Nathan Adam von Arnstein, a partner in the firm of Arnstein and Eskeles passed away today.

1819: Birthdate of Glogau native Meir Wiener, the “headmaster of the religious school at Hanover” and the translator of several works included those of Joseph ha-Kohen and Solomon ibn Verga.

1827: Birthdate of Wolf Frankenburger, the native of Bavaria who was a member of the Reichstag, a proponent of German unification after the Franco-Prussian War and “championed the rights” of his fellow Jews.

1829(7^th of Sivan, 5589): Second Day of Shavuot observed as Russian forces are scoring victories over the Ottomans during the Russo-Turkish War which resulted in Greece gaining its independence with all that that meant for the Jewish population of all three countries.

1836: Solomon De Lissa married Rosetta Solomon today at the Western Synagogue.

1838: Birthdate of Italian Premiere Paolo Boselli who met with Nahum Sokolow and expressed his support for the Zionist plans in Palestine.

1842: Aaron Barnett married Sarah Cohen at the Great Synagogue in London.

1842: “The account of Isaac Lyon, for printing done by order of the” United States District Court “amounting to $54.62 was ordered paid” today.

1843: This afternoon Mr. Woolfson laid the foundation stone for the synagogue now being built at Grove Place with the assistance of Mr. Marks, the congregation’s President. (As reported by the Voice of Jacob)

1848(7^th of Sivan, 5608): Second Day of Shavuot observed five days after Austrian Emporer  Ferdinand had issued the second of two manifestos that turned the Imperial Diet into a Consituent Assembly to be elected by the people during a period of revolts that swept much of Europe including Germany, Austria and France.

1857: An English Jew named Theodore Seymour was arrested in Boston this evening on charges of having stolen an unspecified number of gold bracelets from Tiffany & Co, the famous New York jewelry store.  Mr. Seymour who also used aliases of Leman and Simon had worked there for a year before being recently discharged.  The police recovered the merchandize valued at $500 during the arrest.  Seymour will be sent back to New York City to stand trial.

1858: Two days after he passed away, “Moshe bar Nathan” was buried today the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”

1859(6^th of Sivan, 5619): Shavuot

1860: In Cincinnati, OH, “Mayer Moritz and Caroline Frank” gave birth to 1881 Naval Academy graduate Albert Mortiz, the husband of Caroline Frank who served on a succession of ships starting with the Enterprise in 1882, served on shore as the “inspector of machinery of the Battleship Maine of Spanish-American War Fame and “erected the first ice-plant on Guam while rising to he rank of lieutenant commander in 1903.      

1861: Philadelphian Joseph Davidson, who reached the rank of First Sergeant and would killed at Chancellorsville, began his service as a member of the 28^thRegiment.

1862: During the Civil War, the 11^th Regiment of the New York State Militia under the command of Colonel Joachim Maidhof began serving in the 2^nd Brigade in the Department of the Shenandoah.

1865: Sixty-one year old Sir Joseph Paxton designed Mentmore Towarers, “one of the greatest country houses built during the Victorian Era” for Baron Mayer de Rothschild and Château de Ferrières at Ferrières-en-Brie near Paris for Baron James de Rothschild passed away today.

1867(5^th of Sivan, 5627): Parashat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot

1867: Birthdate of Frank Lloyd Wright who designed the house of worship used by Beth Sholom Congregation in Elkins Park, PA (suburban Philadelphia). “Construction began in 1953 and was completed in 1959. Wright designed the building to look like a "luminous Mount Sinai," with an extravagant fountain at its entrance, carpet that's meant to look like desert sands, and a mountain-like roof that looks a bit like a Klingon spacecraft. The building…has been accorded status as a National Historic Landmark. Wright's design surrounds congregants with meaningful symbols, adding a new spiritual dimension to the very act of going to synagogue.”

1869: With her health declining Jewish born feminist and abolitionist Ernestine Louise Rose and her Christian husband William Ella Rose set sail from the United States for a trip to England.

1871:Birthdate of Julius Fleischmann, the son of Charles Louis Fleischmann of Fleischmann’s Yeast, who would become mayor of Cincinnati before dying an untimely death in 1925.

1871: At today’s meeting of the Rabbinical Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr, Max Lillienthal reported that he had not been able “to effect a reconciliation between the members of the Conference that had met at Philadelphia in 1869, and those who were attending the current Conference.

1871: Joseph Deutsch, the German born son of Moses Deutsch and Sarah Levy and his wife Theresa Deutsch gave birth to Bertha Deutsch who became Bertha Hurwitz when she married Ezra Hurwitz with who she had four children.

1871: Today’s meeting of the Rabbinical Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, adopted the report of the Committee on the Establishment of a Rabbinical Seminary favoring the development of such an institution and instructed the committee to develop a “a more detailed course of study.”  This is one of the steps that led to the creation of Hebrew Union College.

1872: In London Alice le Strange married Laurence Oliphant. Oliphant was a British journalist and MP who became a devoted advocate of settling Jews in Palestine as can be seen by his fundraising activities, his attempts to gain a lease from the Ottomans on a portion of Eretz Israel for that purpose and his employment of Naftali Herz Imber as his personal secretary.

1872: A special meeting was held tonight at the synagogue on East 57^th Street where resolutions were adopted to express the Jewish community’s sense of loss following the recent death of James Gordon Bennett, the fouder, owner and editor of the New York Herald.  Besides describing him as a fearless, honest and upright champion” of the general population, the resolutions said “that in him the Israelites generally had an honest supporter and a true friend and that the New York Herald…always gave firm and true support to our creed.”

1878(7^th of Sivan, 5638): Second Day of Shavuot

1879: Birthdate of Dunkirk, NY native Ira Morris Gast, the Columbia undergrad and NYU PhD, the author Foundation of American History and co-author of Fundamentals of Educational Psychology.

1879:Rabbi Isaac C. Noot officiated at the corner-stone laying ceremony for the new synagogue being built by Congregation B’Nai Israel.  The building located at 289 East Fourth Street will be the home to this Orthodox congregation which had been founding in 1847.  A copper box was placed in the cornerstone containing a variety of items including copies of New York newspapers and the issue of Frank Leslie’s Monthly that contained a history of the Jews of New York.  Dr. Lyon Berhard, the oldest member of the congregation was given the honor of laying the cornerstone.

1879: The officers and members of B’nai Israel lead the cornerstone for the building that will house their new synagogue on E. 44^thStreet in New York. The congregation is currently worshipping at its temporary home on Rivington Street which it has been using since it sold its building on Stanton Street so that it could afford to construct the new building.

1880: Three days after he passed away, “65 year old Amos Henriques” was buried at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1881: In Cleveland, Ohio, Louis Seasongood, “a rich Hebrew from Cincinnati” lost his bid for the second time to be nominated as the party’s choice for Lieutenant Governor.

1882: It was reported today that the body of young man thought to be a Jew was taken to the morgue after it had been found hanging in New Jersey’s Glendale Woods. [Editor’s note – it took me a few minutes to figure out why they assumed he was Jewish]

1883: A jury in Westchester Country found Theodore Hoffman guilty of murdering a Jewish peddler named Zife Marks.  The judge sentenced the prisoner to death by hanging.

1884: In the Kiev Governorate, Hersch Gottesmann and Carna Birinska gave birth to “playwright, screenwriter and director Leo Birinski.

1885: “Explorations in the Delta” published today describe the recent explorations conducted in the Nile Delta region under the auspices of the Egyptian Exploration Fund Society. As a result of these archeological activities Edouard Naville has produced a memoir about Pithon, the Biblical city built by the Israelite slaves.

1885: In Pennsylvania Reverend D.E. Shaw of Keokuk, Iowa has been elected Professor of Hebrew at Lincoln University. [Since I am from Iowa, I could not resist the entry]

1885: Attendees at a meeting of Baptist Ministers called to examine the new translation of the Old Testament were critical of the liberties taken with translating the Hebrew text into English feeling in several cases that the new translation did not reflect the accurate meaning of the Hebrew.  They suggested that the translators return to their work so that, for instance, in Genesis, the text would read the morning of the first day, rather than the one day.

1886(5^th of Sivan, 5646): Erev Shavuot

1886: In Bavaria,Leopold (Lehmann) Schloss and Karoline Schloss gave birth to Dorchen Schloss

1886: Birthdate of “Zaliztsi, Austrian Ukraine” native Pauline Margulies, the wife of Max (Mendel) Margulies the mother of Ann Ross and the mother-in-law of Paul Ross.

1887: “Bessarabian Jewish immigrants Augusta "Gussie" (née Mendeburskey) and grocery store owner Israel Balaban” gave birth to Barney Balaban, the eldest of their seven sons and the “president of Paramount Pictures from 1936 to 1964.”

http://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/08/archives/barney-balaban-dead-at-83-headed-paramount-pictures-builder-of.html?_r=0

1889(30^th of Sivan, 5659): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1889: Harry Marks, the founder of the Financial News was caricatured in Vanity Fair today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harry_Marks_Vanity_Fair_8_June_1889.jpg

 1889: The Hebrew Relief Fund made a contribution of $161 to aid those suffering from the effects of the Conemaugh Floods.

1890(20^th of Sivan, 5650): Charles Bienenstok, the German born son of Simon and Helena Bienenstok and the husband of Sarah Davis Bienenstok passed away today in St. Louis after which he was buried in the United Hebrew Cemetery in University City, a suburb of St. Louis, MO.

1890: “Judah” the new play by Henry Arthur Jones which will be performed next winter at Palmer’s Theatre in New York is reported “to have been praised without stint” during its performances in London.  The hero of the play is Judah Llewellyn the son of Welch fatherand a Jewish mother who falls in love with a character named Vashti.

1890: Julian Nathan presided over the closing exercises of the Sunday School of the United Hebrew Charities which were held this morning.

1890: “Jewish Annals” published today provided a detailed review of Outlines of Jewish History From B.C. 586 to C.E. 1890 which had been revised by Michael Friedländer

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20A17F9395F10738DDDA10894DE405B8085F0D3

1891: Birthdate of South African cricketer Manfred John Susskind in Johannesburg, Transvaal

1892:  Today, the Tegeblatt confirmed recent rumors that Emin Pasha had died of smallpox in Africa. Born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer, the physician and naturalist was baptized at the age of 7 when his widowed mother married a Lutheran.  (The rumors were just that rumors since he passed away in October of 1892)

1893: The American Israeli published what some considered to be an exposé about Immigration Commissioner Joseph Senner.

1894: In Prague, “Gustrav Schulhoff, a wool merchant and his wife Louise Wolf gave birth to composer and pianist Erwin Schulhoff.

1894: In New York, Morris Jacobs testified before the Lexow Committee, a New York State Senate committee investigating police corruption in New York City, “that anybody who has ‘pull’ and $300 can get an appointment to the police force without reference to his qualifications.  In his own case, Jacobs or his political supporters, did not think he could pass ‘the intellectual examination” because the questions were “too technical” so “ex-policeman was induced to impersonate Jacobs” and take the examination for him.

1895: One hundred delegates attended the first meeting tonight of “a new anti-Semitic organization founded by Dr. Boetekel and Rechtor Ahlwardt, the notorious Jew-baiters. Resolutions were unanimously adopted calling for “the exclusion of all Jews and Germans having Jewish wives from all public functions, from the learned professions and from all positions of all authority in the army and navy,” the suppression of Jewish immigration and the prohibition of Jews from acquiring ownership of landed property or from leasing farms.”  (This is 35 years before Hitler came to power)

1895: Birthdate of Roxbury, MA, native Julius Daniels the WW I veteran and Boston University alum with worked with Edison Electric.

1896: “Jews To Rule The Earth” published today described the belief of Reverend Isaac M. Haldeman, a Baptist minister “that the Jews had been persecuted by all the civilized nations of the world, so that they were driven to lying, cheating and other vices.  No tongue could describe the tortures inflicted on them not by pagans but Christians…”

1896: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Norman Salit, a graduate of JTS and NYU Law School and President of the Synagogue Council of America who was the husband of Ruth Salit and the father of “Mrs. Naomi Birnbach.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/07/22/99760949.pdf

1897: “Baptist Worship With Jews” published today described the joint service held at the Belden Avenue Baptist Church in Chicago which was led by Rabbi Julius Newman and Reverend M.W. Haynes.

1897: “Jew Refrain From Voting” published today attributed the light turn out during the recent judicial election in Chicago to the fact that it was held on a Jewish holiday when the Orthodox members of that faith would not be at the polls.

1898: Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes provide over the opening session of conference of Jews from the United States and Canada meeting today at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue

1898: The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band is scheduled to play at today’s “patriotic tea in honor of Alexander Hamilton sponsored by the Hospital and Charitable Committee of the Parish Guild of St. Luke’s Church

1898: The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America was organized. Or Chaim was one of the founding congregations. The Orthodox Union has grown to be one of the largest umbrella organizations for Orthodox Judaism in North America.  One of its earliest accomplishments was the establishment of Elchanan Theological Seminary, a modern academic institution designed to train Orthodox Rabbis.  It was the original School of what is now Yeshiva University.  The familiar sign of the OU can be found on numerous food products indicating that they are Kosher.

1899: Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Beerman hosted their annual garden party for those living at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews.

1899: German anti-Semitic agitator Count Walter Puckler continued “his Jew-baiting crusade” with a lecture in Berlin on “The Progressive Judaisation of Germany.”

1901(21^st of Sivan, 5661): Parashat Beha’alotcha

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1901/06/08/101074629.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1902: It was reported today, that even some Jews have been found among those going to the Greek Church of the Virgin Gorgoepikoos where people of all denominations have been seeking cures for the ailments.

1903: The Sixth Annual Convention of the Federation of American Zionists continued today at Central Turners’ Hall in Pittsburgh.

1904: As of the week ending today, nearly 800 Russian reservists and regular soldiers, many of whom are Jews from Bessarabia or Warsaw, have crossed the Austrian border on their way, they hope, to the United States or Argentinia.

1905: Birthdate of Uman, Russia native and University of Pennsylvania trained neurologist Dr. Morris Bender who raised five children – Barbara, Leila, Adam, Barnaby and Victor – with his wife Sarah.

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/27/obituaries/dr-morris-bender-78-expert-on-brain-tumo

1905: In Baltimore, MD, Lewis J. Putzel, the son of Sophia and Selig Gerson Putzel and Bertha (Birdie) Putzel gave birth to Margaret Ney/Humel

1906: Yale University M.D. Max Ruskin Smirnow, the son of Meir and Leah Smirnow and the winner of the Keene Prize in 1906 “for original research work in medicine” who was an instructor at his alma mater” and an “author of a number of papers on original research in pathology and bacteriology” married Ellen Rebecca Shane today at New Haven, CT with whom he raised Adele Smironow Beck, the University of North Carolina, Greensboro trained medical technician and the wife of Dr. Sidney H. Beck.

1907(26^th of Sivan, 5667): Parashat Sh’lach

1907: Today, Pastor Roden, the Spanish missionary who has come to Berlin to revise the existing Abyssinian version of the Bible on behalf of the British Foreign Bible Society is quoted as saying “Abyssinian Hebrews are the dark-skinned descendants of the original children of Israel” and “although colored, they possess all the national Hebrew characteristics, facial peculiarities and economic tendencies”.

1907: Having left Bremen yesterday, “the first detachment of Russian Jews with which Zangwill's Jewish Territorial Organization is colonizing the Southwestern United States” are steaming across the ocean aboard the Cassel bound for Galveston.

1908:Eight hundred delegates, representing the 60,000 members of The Federation of Galician and Bucovinian Jews which was formed in June, 1904, to assist Jewish immigrants from the provinces of Galicia and Bucovinia, Austria, to obtain work attended its annual convention today at Tammany Hall.

1908: “The trial by jury of the thirty-six participants in the pogrom of 1905” is scheduled to begin today “at Bialystock” with the indictment containing the “entire list of causalities” which shows  11 Christians and 73 Jews killed and 23 Christians and 82 Jews wounded.”

1909: Judge Honore to-day ordered William Guggenheim of New York, who was Jewishi and Grace B. Guggenheim, who was not to show cause why their divorce procured in Chicago in 1901 should not be set aside.”

1910: “According to advices received” in St. Petersburg, form Smolensk the governor us employing secret police “to trace Jews who have been illegally residing: in the province: and has arrested and deported at least ten some of whom were young men employed in the flour mills at Polchinok, “an important flour center.”

1911: “Seeks Light on Jew Bias” published today described resolutions in introduced by Representative Edwards of Georgia that “would direct the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy to ‘institute an immediate investigation to ascertain how far and what discriminations are operating against Jews’ in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Naval Academy, Military Academy and all branches of the services.”

1912: Hyman Gerson Enlow, the rabbi at Adath Israel in Louisville, KY, who had turned down an invitation from Claude G. Montefiore to come to England to help further the cause of Liberal (Reform) Judaism “delivered the baccalaureate sermon at the graduation exercises of the Hebrew Union College.”

1913: Eleven students of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America became rabbis this afternoon at the graduating exercises in Aeolian Hall, when Dr. Solomon Schechter, the President of the seminary, conferred the degrees. The services marked the tenth anniversary of the seminary's reorganization.

1913: Nine boys and nine girls were confirmed this morning at exercises held this morning the Chicago Home for Jewish Orphans.

1913: In Philadelphia, “S.L. Nusbaum, a bookbinder” and the former Jenny Singer gave birth to Nathan Richard Nusbaum, who gained fame as author N. Richard Nash, whose best known work is “The Rainmaker” which was a Broadway and Hollywood success.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/19/arts/n-richard-nash-dies-at-87-author-of-the-rainmaker.html

1914: “The Northwest Side Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Marks Nathan Orphan Home is scheduled to give “a hard time party” this evening where guests were urged to “wear your old clothes” because “it will cost extra if you dress your best.”

1914: It was reported today that “the family of the late Professor Loeb has presented the” the Jewish Theological Seminary “with the sum of $50,000 witch which to erect a new library building.”

1915: The Jewish National Committee is reported to be opposed to the creation of Jewish congress “to demand full recognition of the rights of the eleven million Jews in Europe when the war closes” because it believes “the committee is fully capable of dealing with the situation through the State Department in Washington.”

1915: “Demands from some of the delegates that the national convention of the Independent Order of B’rith Abraham record a protest” about the Russian treatment of the Jews “were stilled when conservatives pointed out that should Russia win in the war, the sufferings might be greatly increased.”

1915: Mrs. Nina Stevens who had admitted to making false affidavits showing that Leo “Frank was a degenerate” after having be “plied with whiskey by the Atlanta police” was convicted today of “running a disorderly resort” for which she was fined “one hundred dollars with an alternative of thirty days in jail.”

1915: According to reports published today, The Tageblatt,“is urging the government to put an end to the attacks” by German anti-Semitic organs on Jewish soldiers “inasmuch as German Jews are dying gloriously by the thousand on the fields of battle.”

1915: According ‘to an announcement made this afternoon” “the Prison Commission will make its report to Governor Slaton on the Leo Frank case some time tomorrow.”

1916(7^thof Sivan, 5676): Second Day of Shavuot

1916: “The industrial department of the United Hebrew Charities…made a further appeal to the public” today “for contributions of waste materials and discarded household articles and old clothing for the utilization in some form for the benefit of 3,500 families.”

1917(18^thof Sivan, 5677): “Talmudic scholar Sheftel Rubin” passed away today in Dublin.

1917: Pope Benedict received Nahum Sokolow, “a member of the Zionist Executive Committee in a special audience” and declared “himself in sympathy with Zionist aims in Palestine.”

1917: Italian Premiere Paolo Boselli met with Nahum Sokolow today and stated that his “government is prepared to favor Zionist aims in Palestine.”

1917: At a meeting in Berne today, Abram I. Elkus, the former American Ambassador at Constantinople told “Rabbi Messinger, the Second Chairman of the Swiss Zionist Society” “that according to his reports” as of now, “no massacre” of Jews had taken place and that “the rumors that massacres had accompanied the Jaffa evacuation” were untrue.

1917: Birthdate of Stanley Rabinowitz, the Duluth native, raised in Iowa who would serve as the Rabbi at Adas Israel, Washington, DC’s premiere Conservative Congregation.

http://www.kcjc.com/index.php/opinion/1824-opinion/archived-opinion/1267-a-personal-tribute-to-a-prominent-rabbi

1918: The Philadelphia Inquirer described the plans of the Camden Jewish community to raise $10,000 with which to complete the building of the new facility for the Y.M.H.A. and Y.W.H.A. on Walnut Street.

1918: Birthdate of Esther Vilenska, a native of Poland who made Aliyah where she gained fame as an author and a member of the Communist Party.

1918: In Syracuse, NY, “Edna and Louis Rosovsky, immigrants from Russia” gave birth to Lillian Rosovsky who gained fame as Lillian Ross, the long-time reporter for The New Yorker. (As reported by Michael T. Kaufman)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/business/media/lillian-ross-dead-new-yorker-reporter-who-wrote-memoir-of-love-affair.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=region&region=region&WT.nav=region&_r=0

1919: While delivering an address at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America Commencement Ceremonies today Professor Louis Ginsberg read a letter from Harry Cohen stating that Graduating Class has “decided to give a fit of about fifty dollars to be used to purchased books, under the directions of the Librarian and the Professor of Homeltics on the sociological and psychological aspects of the religious problems of the day” and that graduates suggest that the gift, which is the first of its kind, “be known as ‘The Class of 1919 Gift for the Purchased of Books on Religious Problems of the Day’.”

1920: The Republican Convention which nominated Warren Harding who would receive a plurality of the Jewish vote in November, opened in Chicago today.

1920: Today, at Buckingham Palace, King George V, “invested Captain Alexander Aaronsohn with the Distinguished Service Order” for his espionage activity including penetrating “the enemy lines in Palestine, bringing back valuable information which made possible the British ‘push’ against the Turks north of Jaffa” and whose sister Sarah who had been tortured to death by the Turks because she would not give away information about the British was honored by the eretion of a monument at Athlit. (Before dying she had defiantly said “You may spill all the blood you want, you may torture us but you cannot prevent the British Army from coming here.”

1920: Osip Maksimovich Brik, the son of Jewish jeweler and avant garde author, joined the Cheka, the early version of the Soviet secret police. 

1921: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Rabbi,Moshe Shererm the graduate of Torah Vodath and Ner Israel rabbinical college in Baltimore  who turned Agudath Israel into a force to be reckoned with and who raised two daughters – Rochel and Elky – with “his wife, the former Deborah Portman.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/19/nyregion/rabbi-moshe-sherer-76-who-contributed-to-rise-of-orthodoxy-s-right-wing-in-us.html

1922: Today, as the United States grappled with the challenges of Prohibition, Adolphus Busch, the son of Beer-Baron August Busch, forwarded a letter from his father describing the sale of liquor aboard American ships to President Harding who turned the matter over to Albert Lasker whose ships were selling alcohol for a response.

1923: In Brooklyn, Max Kaiser, “a house painter” and “the former Nettie Slavititski” gave birth to Herbert Kaiser, the WW II Navy Veteran, Swarthmore College graduate and Foreign Service Officer who in retirement raised millions of dollars for training medical personnel in South Africa. (As reported by Bart Barnes and Neil Genzlinger)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/herbert-kaiser-diplomat-and-philanthropist-who-helped-train-black-medical-professionals-in-s-africa-dies-at-94/2018/04/03/6807bc68-368c-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html?utm_term=.8787602ef49d

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/obituaries/herbert-kaiser-94-health-care-champion-in-south-africa-dies.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1923: Birthdate of Ella Adler, the native of Krakow who survived Auschwitz and eventually made a new life for herself in the United States.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/azcentral/obituary.aspx?n=ella-adler&pid=95738220#fbLoggedOut

1924: Birthdate of Samuel Karlin, the Polish born, Chicago “raised mathematician who applied his theoretical brilliance to such far-flung areas as economics and population studies, before helping to find ways to analyze DNA swiftly and comprehensively.” (As reported by Douglas Martin)

1924(6th of Sivan, 5684): First Day of Shavuot

1924: In Kansas City, MO, Edith Adelman Pines and Sidney Pines, the owner of “a company that installed heating and air-conditioning systems” gave birth to physicist David Pines. (As reported by Kenneth Chang)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/obituaries/david-pines-93-insightful-and-influential-physicist-dies.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

https://physics.illinois.edu/people/memorials/27512

1925: Today, “Garrick Gaieties,” “a revue with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart re-opened today.

1926: Louis Greenspan whose automobile struck and killed Congressman Meyer London was released on bail today.

1927: In Brooklyn, a bus driver named William Stiller and his wife Bella Citron Stiller gave birth to Gerald Isaac the oldest of the four children who gained fame as comedic actor Jerry Stiller best known as part of the team of Stella and Meara and being the father of Ben Stiller.

1928: Attorney General Albert Ottinger’s investigation into complaints made by the Hebrew Religious Protective Association concerning the practices of certain New York area cemeteries continued today.  Among the complaints was an allegation by Harry Kaplan, President of Adath Israel, that his brother was buried in a grave at the Baron Hirsch Cemetery in Port Richmond on Staten Island that contained four feet of water.

1929: Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) asked Britain for political asylum.

1930: Birthdate of Robert John Auman the German born Israeli-American mathematician and member of the National Academy of Sciences who married Batya Cohen after the death of his first wife Esther Schlesinger and who, among other things along with Michael Maschler used the Game Theory to analyze sections of the Talmud.

http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/raumann/cv.htm

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2005/aumann-bio.html

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2005/aumann-lecture.html

1933: This evening in Detroit, “Henry Wineman, the chairman of the board of governors of the Jewish Welfare Federation” is scheduled to preside over the opening session of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service.

1933: It was reported today that “The German Dunlop Rubber Company which is affiliated with the Dunlop organization in the United States” “has procured a ruling from Nazis” saying that was “free of non-Aryan influence.”  (Editor’s note:  They no longer employ Jews)

1933: In Brooklyn, Russian immigrants Meyer and Beatrice Grushman Molinsky gave birth to Joan Alexandra Molinsky who gained fame as comedian and game show player Joan Rivers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/arts/television/joan-rivers-dies.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1933: Jesse Isidor Straus, whom President Roosevelt had appointed U.S. Ambassador to France presented his credentials today.

1934:A death sentence was pronounced today against Abraham Stavsky, who, with Zvi Rosenblatt, was on trial for the murder on June 16, 1933, of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, labor leader and member of the Jewish Agency Executive of Palestine. Rosenblatt was acquitted on the ground of insufficient evidence. Notice of appeal has been filed on behalf of Stavsky.

1935: Birthdate of Montreal native Harold Tafler Shapiro, “the former President of Princeton and the University of Michigan” and husband of Vivian Shapiro with whom he had four children – Anne, Marilyn, Janet and Karen.

https://www.princeton.edu/~hts/

1935: The owners of “Ruby Foo’s in Montreal: gave birth to Montreal native Bernard Jack Shapiro, the twin brother of Princeton President Harold Tafler Shapiro, who became “the first Ethics Commissioner of Canada and 14^th Principal of McGill University.

1936: In Jerusalem, the Jewish community joins in the celebration of King George’s birthday. 

1936:As Arab violence mounts two Arabs died and 26 Arabs and Armenians were injured by a bomb which exploded inside the Jaffa Gate today.

1936: Tonight, as violence continues to escalate “High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope prohibited telephone communication beyond the borders of Palestine except with special permission.

1936: Today “Bucknell University conferred honorary degrees upon Roger Williams Straus of New York and Newton D. Baker of Cleveland, co-chairman of the National Conference of Jews and Christians for their promotion of religious liberty.”

1936: “Nazi pamphlets printed in Arabic distributed in Acre…blamed the British government for ‘favoring’ the Jews.”

1937(29^thof Sivan, 5697): Seventy-four year old Mir native Dr. Henry Sliosberg, the lawyer and defender of Jewish rights who was President of the Jewish Community of St. Petersburg before the coming of the Bolsheviks who imprisoned him for three years and the president of the Russian community in Paris, passed away today.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=990CE2DA1E3AE23ABC4153DFB066838C629EDE

1937: “La Grande Illusion” a war film starring Erich von Stroheim and with music by Joseph Kosma was released in France today.

1937: Chaim Weizmann presented his reasoning for supporting partition at private dinner given by Sir Archibald Sinclair where his fellow diners included Winston Churchill, James de Rothschild and several parliamentary supporters of Zionism.  Weizmann was willing to “settle for a Small state at once” rather than wait for a “Large state” that might come in some distant future. Churchill opposed partition and contended that the Jews should wait for their state in all of Western Palestine as envisaged by the White Paper issued in 1922.

1938: A year before the Nazis invade Poland, anti-Semitic riots began in Warsaw today.

1939: In Palestine, Sir Harold MacMichael, British High Commissioner hosted a garden party in honor of the King’s birthday.  All Jewish leaders had declined the invitations as a way of expressing their displeasure with the recent White Paper that, if enforced, will put an end to Jewish immigration an the hope of a Jewish home in Palestine.

1939: In response to an order by Chief Rabbi Herzog, all synagogues pronounced the usual prayers for the King and his family in honor of the monarch’s birthday.

1940(2^nd of Sivan, 5700): Parashat Nasso

1940: “More than 400 delegates and guests attended tonight’s dinner in Asbury Park, NJ marking the opening of the thirty-second annual convention of the Federation Polish Jews in America where Count Jerzy Potocki, the Polish Ambassador to the United States, told diners “that Poland would be a free country again and that there would be no place for anti-Semitism in the new Poland.

1941: In Nashville, TN, musicologist David Robison and Naomi Robison gave birth to flutiest Paula Robison.

1941: During World War II, "mixed squads, some made up of Palestinian Jews and Australians, others entirely Jewish" went into operation for the first time in Lebanon and Syria which were controlled by Vichy Government.  It was during this combat that Moshe Dyan lost his eye and began wearing his famous eye-patch.

1942: In Poland, at the urging of the Jewish Council of Pilca, hundreds of Jews flee for the forests.

1943(5th of Sivan, 5703): Erev Shavuot, The Jewish community at Zbaraz, Ukraine, is destroyed.

1943: Eighty-five year old Dr. Hiram N. Vineberg, the consulting gynecologist at Mount Sinai Hospital who “is responsible for relieving women of suffering and disablement by insisting, half a century ago, that reproductive organs be conserved during operations” and whose adventure filled life included treating Princess Liliuokalani for black tongue while in Hawaii is scheduled to be “honored this afternoon at the hospitals Blumenthal Auditorium.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/06/08/83927299.pdf

1943: In Jerusalem, Blanka and Joseph Davis, both of whom came to Palestine during the 5^th Aliyan gave birth Uriel “Uri” Davis, whose pro-Palestinian views led him join Fatah and convert to Islam after marrying Miyassar Abu Ali, a Palestinian, in 2008.

1943: Dr. Albert Menasche arrived at Auschwitz from Greece. He "joined" the camp orchestra. The orchestra would play as the new arrivals entered the camp.  The orchestra came to public notice after the war in the film, "Playing For Time.:  Dr. Menasche was the only one of a family of more than thirty to survive.

1943:A transport arrived in Auschwitz today and after a selection 220 men and 88 women are admitted into the camp. The other 572 deportees are murdered in the gas chambers.

1943: What may have been the last transport of Jews sent from Salonica left for Bergen-Belsen today.  Included in the transport was the Chief Rabbia of Salonica, Rabbi Zvi Koretz and his family. A list of all of the Jews of Salonica with their addresses and ages was given to a Jew named Vital Hasson by the chief rabbi. Hasson was said to have escaped to Albania.

1944: “President Franklin Roosevelt signed a memorandum directing the establishment of an Emergency Refugee Shelter at Fort Ontario, Oswego, NY.”

http://www.oswego.edu/library/archives/EmergencyShelter.pdf

http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/?content=fort_ontario

1944: "The Greek tanker Tanias, commandeered by the Germans was torpedoed by the British submarine HMS Vivid 53 kilometers west of Heraklion, capital of the Greek island of Crete.  On board were all of the 265 Jews of Crete including many children, all of whom perished.

1945: “Wonder Man” a musical starring Danny Kaye, “based on a short story by Arthur Sheekman,” and produced by Samuel Goldwyn was released in the United States today.

1946: Today, during Aliyah Bet, Haviva Reik, carrying 462 passengers, was intercepted by HMS Saumarez but not before, “150 people had previously transferred from the Haviva Reik to the Rafi off the Palestinian coast, and the crew had disembarked.”

1947:The Oujda and Jerada pogrom came to an end leaving 42 Jews dead and approximately 150 injured.  The excuse for this pogrom in northeastern Morocco was the local Muslim reaction to fighting in Palestine.

1948(1^st of Sivan, 5708): Rosh Chodesh Sivan

1948: Birthdate of Rabbi Harold Berman who will enjoy a 34 year career at Tiftereth Israel in Columbus, Ohio.

1948: Today twenty-four year old Newark, NJ native Gideon Lichtman became the first fighter pilot in the young Israeli affair to shoot down an enemy fighter in aerial combat, a feat that would make him a target for terrorists and force him use a an assumed name while teaching high school in Florida for thirty years.

1948: "The Milton Berle Show" premiered on NBC TV. This aging Jewish vaudevillian would come to "own" Tuesday night. He was the first national star of the infant medium.

1948:  During The War of Independence, David Ben-Gurion orders his military leaders to attack the fortress at Latrun for a third time. This is one time that Ben-Gurion will not be able to bully the opposition into doing things his way.  Ben-Gurion is desperate to break the Arab stranglehold on the road to Jerusalem and to ensure that the “City of David” is part of the new Jewish state.  Yigal Allon, the chief of staff and his brigade commanders oppose the attack.  Allon’s position gains additional credibility when Mickey Marcus adds his voice to the opposition.  Marcus is a West Point graduate who reached the rank of Colonel in the American Army during World War II.  No longer on active duty, Marcus is serving as “military advisor” to Ben-Gurion.  In fact, under the name Stone, Marcus has been given the responsibility of opening the road to Jerusalem.  The military leaders all oppose the attack for the same reason it will fail just as the first two attacks have with great loss of life.  Besides which, they do not see the capture of Latrun as being the key to opening the road to Jerusalem.  Two Israeli soldiers have discovered an alternative route to Jerusalem.  It is a donkey trail that goes beyond Latrun.  If the Israelis are lucky, the can widen the path, turn it into a passable road and break the siege.  The Jews must work on the project at night and quietly enough that they will not attract attention from the Arab army.  If their presence is discovered, they will be sitting ducks, the road will not be completed and Jerusalem will not be united with the Tel Aviv before the impending cease-fire.

1948: Mordechai “Modi” Alon took off from the new airstrip at Herzliya leading Gideon Lichtman on his first combat mission for the IAF during the War for Independence.

1948: After seeing four Egyptian Spitfires heading for Tel Aviv, Gideon Lichtman shot down one of them and the other three attacked the Jewish city.

1949: Cardinal Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, the Archbishop of Paris who had initially supported Petain but “wrote a public protest against the deportation of the Jews and condemned Vichy in 1942” “was buried in the crypt of the archbishops in Notre-Dame Cathedral” today.

1949: Numerous celebrities including Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Frederic March, John Garfield and Edward G. Robinson were named in an FBI report as members of the Communist Party.  The disproportionate number of Jews named in what later was proven to be a bogus report, set the stage for claims that the Jews were responsible for the Communist menace.

1949:  In Lviv, concentration camp survivors Joachim and Hellen Ax gave birth to American pianist Emanuel Ax who first captured public attention in 1974 when, at the age of 25, he won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv and who raised “two children, Joey and Sarah” “with his wife, pianist Yoko Noazaki.

1950: “Dance Hall” a film about romantic encounters featuring Sydney Tafler as “Jim Fairfax” was released today in the United Kingdom.

1950: According to reports published in the New York Times,the government of Israel, in response to a request from Secretary State Dean Acheson, is investigating charges of the mistreatment of Arab infiltrators who have crossed into the Jewish state from Jordan. Acheson’s request was triggered by complaints from Arab states, who, it should be noted, still consider themselves to be officially at war with the state of Israel.

1951: Oswald Pohl, chief of the economic office of the SS, Otto Ohlendorf, responsible for the murder of 90,000 Ukrainian Jews, and Colonel Paul Blobel, organizer of the massacre of the Jews of Kiev, were hanged.

1952: Movie producer Sidney Luft, the son of Jewish immigrants, married film star Judy Garland. His marriage to her is his only real claim to fame.

1953: Alexander Korda married Alexandra Boycun.

1954(7^th of Sivan, 5714): Second Day of Shavuot

1954: Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel founded

1959(2^ndof Sivan, 5719): Seventy-six year old Austrian native Harry “Baum a volunteer settlement worker on the Lower East Side who became one of basketball's greatest coaches during the early decades of the 20th Century and is considered the father of fundamental basketball tactics” passed away today in New York.

1961: Information regarding Malka “Mala” Zimetbaum “a Belgian woman of Polish Jewish descent, known for her escape from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and the resistance she displayed at her execution following the escape's failure” was made available to the public in the official testimony of Mrs Raya Kagan today during Session 70 in the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in Jerusalem

1962(6^thof Sivan, 5722): Shavuot

1966: A revival production of Frank Loesser’s “Guys and Dolls” starring Jan Murray (Murray Janofsky) as “Nathan Detroit” opened at New York City Center

1966: In Spring Valley, NY, Francesca Goldberg, “a ballet dance and eurythmy teacher” and “Paul Margulies, a writer, philosopher, and Madison Avenue advertising executive” gave birth to American actress Julianna Margulies.

1966: A merger agreement between the NFL and the AFL which was opposed by Al Davis was announced today.

1966: Today, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel record “Patterns” which was the second trick on the album “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.”

1969: In Silver Spring, MD, attorney Stanley Futterman and psychoanalyst Linda Roth Futterman gave birth to actor and screenwriter Daniel Paul “Dan” Futterman.

1967:  In the one sour note of the Six Day War, Israeli planes accidentally attack the American Naval ship, U.S.S. Liberty.  Despite numerous investigations that proved otherwise, there are anti-Semites, those who are anti-Israel and assorted conspiracy buffs who claim that the attack was deliberate.  American ships had been ordered out of the area. Apparently word did not reach the Liberty.  We know from the episode of the U.S.S. Pueblo the following year, that the American government did have some problems in dealing with electronic listening or spy ships.  Some of the killed and wounded among the Liberty's crew were Jewish.  They were on the vessel because of the knowledge of Hebrew.  Attached please find the most recent article on this event based on the most recently released transcripts of the communication between the pilots and their controllers.

1967: President Nasser of Egypt accepted the cease-fire ordered by the Security Council. This came too late to save the Egyptian military.  In a change of plan, Dyan had already given orders for the Israeli forces to push on to the Suez Canal. The Egyptians continued to fight and in the end would leave 15,000 dead in the Sinai.  There was still no agreement among the Israelis as to how to deal with Syria, whose provocative, bellicose behavior had helped to feed the flames of war.  The settlers living under the guns of the Golan Heights and the general in commanded of the Northern Frontier pressured Prime Minister Eshkol to take action and end the Syrian menace to the Galilee.  Moshe Dyan showed the same reluctance he had when it came to taking Jerusalem and opposed action against the Syrians.  At the end of the meeting, the settlers and the generals drove north, thinking that they had lost and Syria would continue to menace them after the fighting stopped. 

1970(4^th of Sivan, 5730)

1970(4th of Sivan, 5730): American psychologist Abraham Maslow, famous for his Hierarchy of Needs, passed away.

http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/maslow.htm

1971: Birthdate of Mark Feuerstein, the New York native best known “Dr. Henry Hank Lawson” of the television hit show “Royal Pains.

1974: The “KGB detained Professor Voronel for several hours and threatened him with imprisonment and exile in Siberia unless he ceases to sponsor a scientific seminar for refuseniks ”

1975: Near Beit Lid, soldiers killed terrorists who attacked hitchhikers and soldiers with grenades.

1977: “The Other Side of Midnight,” the movie version of Sidney Sheldon’s novel of the same name produced by Frank Yablans, Howard W. Koch and Hawk Koch was released in the United States today.

1981(6^th of Sivan, 5741): Jews observe Shavuot for the first time during the Presidency of Ronald Reagan.

1981: Following yesterday’s bombing “Iraq’s Osiriak nuclear facility” by the IAF, the U.S. State Department said today “in a prepared statement that ‘the unprecedented character’ of the attack ‘cannot but seriously add to the already tense situation in the area’ and said it was possible Israel had violated the agreement under which it purchased the American F-4 and F-15 jet fighter bombers used in the attack.”

1983: “The State Department today described as patently false an assertion made by an officially sanctioned Soviet anti-Zionist committee that most Jews who wished to leave the Soviet Union had already done so. ''The contention that the majority of Jews who desire to emigrate from the Soviet Union have already left is patently false,'' Alan D. Romberg, a State Department spokesman, said.”

1984: After yesterday’s screening in Westwood, CA, the rest of the United States gets its first chance to see “Ghostbuster” a comedy directed and produced by Ivan Reitman with a script co-authored by Harold Ramis, co-starring Rick Moranis and Harold Ramis, with music by Elmer Bernstein.

1986: The comic strip “Dondi” co-created by Irwin Hasen ran for the last time today.

1986: Former United Nations Secretary-General and veteran of Hitler’s Army, Kurt Waldheim, was elected president of Austria..

1987: Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres agreed today to appoint a career diplomat, Moshe Arad, as Israel's next ambassador to Washington.

1988(23rd of Sivan, 5748): Eighty-three year old actor Eli Mintz who created the character of “Uncle David” on the “Goldbergs” passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/09/obituaries/eli-mintz-stage-and-film-actor-and-uncle-david-in-goldbergs.html

1989(5^th of Sivan, 5749): Erev Shavuot

1989: In Pacific Palisades, CA, Lee Schwartz, a business consultant to manufacturing companies, and Olivia Goodkin, an attorney gave birth to Cleveland Brown’s Offensive tackle Mitchell Bryan Schwartz whose Hebrew name is “Mendel” and who is the brother of Geoff Schwartz who plays for the New York Giants making them the first duo of Jewish brothers to play in the NFL since 1923.

1991: Outfielder Ruben Amaro, Jr., the son of Judy Amaro-Perez (née Herman)[3] is of Russian-Jewish heritage and his father was a Marrano Sephardic Mexican-Cuban made his major league debut with the California Angels.

1992: In Paris, Atef Bseiso, the head of PLO Intelligence was killed by two unidentified gunman.

1995(10^thof Sivan, 5755): Seventy-five year old Colorado native, Isadore “Izzy” Spector who played halfback for the University of Utah from 1939 to 1941 passed away today

1997: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood  by Naomi Wolfe, Ovitz:The Inside Story of Hollywood's Most Controversial Power Broker by Robert Slaterand the recently released paperback edition of The Temple Bombing by Melissa Fay Greene in which“the author shows the intertwining of racism and anti-Semitism in the South in the 1950's, when Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, a Northerner, came to Atlanta to lead its oldest synagogue. Enraged by Rothschild's support of black civil rights, white supremacists bombed the temple in 1958.”

1999: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Judge Fred Carolano is scheduled to sentence 72 year old Rabbi Jacob Lustig of Kneseth Israel Congregation who had pleaded guilty to a variety of crimes that resulted in a “massive fraud involving instant bingo games throughout Greater Cincinnati.

1999: Oscar Goodman began serving as he 21^st mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada.

2000(5^th of Sivan, 5760): Erev Shavuot

2000(5th of Sivan, 5760):Joshua Myron, one of the last of the camel-mounted Zionist brigade that fought with Vladimir Jabotinsky against Turkey in Palestine during World War I, passed away today  in Manhattan at the age of 102. With the outbreak of World War I, Mr. Jabotinsky, then a Russian journalist, realized that the Ottoman Empire was likely to lose to the British and that it would pay for the Zionist settlers in Israel to back the winning side. He spread the idea of forming a Jewish Brigade, sometimes called the Jewish Legion, to fight beside the British. The British Army unit, which recruited Jews from both the Middle East and Europe, used camels to move from front to front, and Mr. Myron rose to become company sergeant in charge of transport. The brigade is believed to have contributed significantly to the British war effort, and Mr. Jabotinsky believed its aid was a major factor in winning the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which Britain announced support for a Jewish national home in Palestine. ''Half the Balfour Declaration belongs to the Legion,'' Mr. Jabotinsky wrote. Among the other members of the brigade was David Ben-Gurion, later the first prime minister of Israel. Mr. Myron was born at Rishon Lezion, the first officially Zionist settlement in Palestine, and devoted his life first to battling for a Jewish homeland, then to supporting Israel after its establishment in 1948. After emigrating to New York and becoming a pharmacist, he remained active in raising arms and money for Israel. Mr. Myron's father, Feivel Miransky, left Russia with a group of pioneers called the Biluim to go to Palestine as one of the founders of Rishon Lezion. Jews already lived in Palestine, but had not banded together in settlements in support of the Zionist ideal. The settlement of Rishon and other Zionist towns was financed by Baron Edmond de Rothschild, who established a large vineyard there. Mr. Miransky set up a carriage service to link Rishon with Jaffa, which became Tel Aviv. At the time, the trip took more than two hours on a sandy, muddy road. Mr. Myron was born on Aug. 17, 1897, into a frontier existence. His grandson Marc Lubin told of the time some of Mr. Myron's father's horses were stolen when he was 16. He reported the theft to the police and was told he was on his own. He ended up crossing the Jordan River and taking his horses back. After the war, Mr. Myron decided to move to the United States. He immediately experienced what he regarded as a stinging insult and a great inconvenience when the British refused to grant him traveling papers, saying he was officially a Turkish subject. So, officially at least, he arrived in America as a Turk. He had intended to study veterinary medicine at Columbia University but the school was not accepting new students at that time. He studied pharmacy at Albany College of Pharmacy. While there, he married Sybil Berkowitz, who died in 1973. In the early 1930's, they returned to Palestine, where their daughter, Naomi Scheurer, was born. She now lives in Manhattan; Mr. Myron is also survived by three grandchildren. Eventually, the Myrons moved to Suffern, N.Y. Mr. Myron commuted to Manhattan, where he owned two Midtown pharmacies. Before the modern state of Israel was created, he sent money and arms to those fighting to create it, his grandson said, and he never lost his pugnacious streak. At his funeral, the rabbi remembered his response to a move in his synagogue, the Congregation of the Sons of Israel, to share more equally the honor of reciting prayers during holy days. It was decided that each member would be limited to just one reading. Mr. Myron said that sounded good. Then he asked, ''Which two things am I doing?''

2001: U.S. premiere of “Evolution” a sci-fi comedy directed and co-produced by Ivan Reitman and a screenplay by David Diamond and David Weissman who were graduates of Akiba Hebrew Academy in Merion, PA.

2001: “Arafat’s Failed Utopia,” Amos Perlmutter’s last column appeared in the Jerusalem Post

2002: “Today Jerusalem had its first gay pride parade, over loud protests from Orthodox Jewish politicians and some demonstrators, who condemned it as a celebration of sin.”

2003(8^th of Sivan, 5763): Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Assaf Abergil, 23, of Eilat; Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Udi Eilat, 38, of Eilat; Sgt. Maj. Boaz Emete, 24, of Beit She'an; and Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Chen Engel, 32, of Ramat Gan were killed and four reserve soldiers were wounded when Palestinian terrorists wearing IDF uniforms opened fire on an IDF outpost near the Erez checkpoint and industrial zone in the Gaza Strip. Three terrorists were killed by IDF soldiers. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad issued a joint statement claiming responsibility for the attack.

2003(8^th of Sivan, 5763):St.-Sgt. Matan Gadri, 21, of Moshav Moledet was killed in Hebron while pursuing two Palestinian gunmen who earlier had wounded a Border Policeman on guard at the Tomb of the Patriarchs. The two terrorists were killed.

2003(8^th of Sivan, 5763): Eighty-four year old Colin Legum “a journalist and writer on African affairs” who was “strongly Zionist and anti-Marxist” passed away today.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/colin-legum-36609.html

2004: FOX broadcast the first episode of “The Jury” a television series created by Barry Levinson.

2005:“A year after making what was described as a historic pledge to fight anti-Semitism, leaders from 55 nations gathered at Cordoba, Spain today to discuss strategies for turning that promise into action.”

2006: Nobel Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel has called on Israel to take in refugees from Darfur. Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, says, "We as Jews are obliged to help not only Jews. I was a refugee and therefore I am in favor of admitting refugees. I thought it was very laudable when Israel became the first country to admit the Vietnamese boat people. History constantly chooses a capital of human suffering, and Darfur is today the capital of human suffering. Israel should absorb refugees from Darfur, even a symbolic number."

2007: After having been first seen at the Cannes Festival, American audiences got their first chance to “Ocean’s Thirteen” produced by Jerry Weintraub, with a script co-authored by Brian Kppelman starring Ellen Barkin.

2007: Haaretz reported that “despite the increasing tensions with Syria, Israel will not ask to widen the mandate of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) on the Golan, which is due to be extended at the end of the month, government sources in Jerusalem said.”

2008:In San Francisco the Contemporary Jewish Museumofficially opened the doors to its new building today with a community-wide celebration.

2008: Erev Shavuot 5768

2008: At Temple Judah, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Erev Shavuot Confirmation Service for  Gabriel Kringlenand Jacob Muesham.

2008: The Sunday New York Times book section features a review of The German Bride, a novel set among the German-born merchants and traders who in the middle of the 19th century left Europe for the raw possibilities of the American West written by Joanna Hershon

2008: Thomas Friedman described the future of Israel. “From outside, Israel looks as if it’s in turmoil, largely because the entire political leadership seems to be under investigation. But Israel is a weak state with a strong civil society. The economy is exploding from the bottom up. Israel’s currency, the shekel, has appreciated nearly 30 percent against the dollar since the start of 2007. The reason? Israel is a country that is hard-wired to compete in a flat world. It has a population drawn from 100 different countries, speaking 100 different languages, with a business culture that strongly encourages individual imagination and adaptation and where being a nonconformist is the norm. While you were sleeping, Israel has gone from oranges to software, or as they say around here, from Jaffa to Java.”

2008:An 18-year-old Palestinian was arrested at the Hawara checkpoint near Nablus after military police on duty discovered he was carrying six pipe bombs, an ammunition cartridge and bullets, and a bag of what appeared to be gunpowder.

2009: Thomas R. Frieden began serving as the 16^th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

2009:Center for Jewish History and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum present a program entitled  “A Discussion of Refugees and Rescue: American Diplomat James G. McDonald and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1935-1945” The remarkable efforts of James Grover McDonald to call attention to the threat faced by European Jewry and his tireless attempts to relay these concerns to the highest levels of government are explored in the acclaimed new volume Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1935-1945, edited by Richard Breitman, Barbara McDonald Stewart, and Severin Hochberg. As Chairman of the President's Advisory Commission on Political Refugees, McDonald personally interacted with many of the leading figures who shaped the events of World War II and the Holocaust - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, Cardinal Pacelli (the future Pope Pius XII) - and numerous others. The evening's discussion highlights new insights into the Nazi regime and American responses to the Jewish refugee crisis from the insider's perspective of James G. McDonald's remarkable and well-documented experiences

2009: David W. Jourdan, a former submariner in the U.S. Navy and the founder/president of Nauticos, an ocean exploration company, discusses and signs his new book, Never Forgotten: The Search for Israel's Lost Submarine Dakar at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

2009: Israel Defense Forces soldiers early today killed at least four Palestinian terrorists who were trying to cross into Israel from the Gaza Strip.

2009(16th of Sivan, 5769): Sheila Finestone, who had had a distinguished career as a Canadian Member of Parliament and Senator passed away at the age of 82.

2010: “The Naming,” the new multi-disciplinary work by Persian Jewish innovator Galeet Dardashti, the driving force behind the popular band Divahn  is scheduled to be peformed at the Washington Jewish Music Festival.

2010: Russ & Daughters is scheduled to welcome the New Catch Holland Herring with its traditional first taste of “Hollandse Nieuwe”

2010: President Shimon Peres, in South Korea to boost economic ties today, also did his part for Israel's aliyah (immigration of Jews to Israel) effort, encouraging a special robot to get "upgraded" in Israel. President Peres' visit aims to boost economic ties between Seoul and Jerusalem and will address the issue of sanctions against Iran

2011: Canadian television journalist Joe Schlesinger received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Alberta in Edmonton for his long and distinguished career. He also delivered a speech to the 2011 graduating class of the Faculty of Arts, impressing on the new alumni that learning is a life-long endeavor, and that one should not be complacent and allow their minds to stagnate. His speech received a standing ovation

2011(6^thof Sivan, 5771): First Day of Shavuot

2011(6^thof Sivan, 5771): Ninety-six year old  Latvian born French physicist Anatole Abragam who “was awarded the Lorentz Medal” and “elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences” passed away today.

2011: Contemporary Israeli Dance Week is scheduled to begin this evening at La MaMa in New York City.

2012(18^thof Sivan, 5772): Ninety-five year old Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz who had led Washington’s Adas Israel for 25 “challenging” years passed away today on his birthday. (On a personal note, my father served on the search committee that brought Rabbi Rabinowitz to Washington from Minneapolis.  My brother was his first Bar Mitzvah.  And he was my teacher in a post-confirmation class where he challenged our conventional views of Judaism and tried to get us to see that being Jewish meant knowing the law but making sure that the observance was consistent with spirit as well as the letter of the law.  One of my regrets is that I only was around him for two years before leaving for college.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/stanley-rabinowitz-former-rabbi-of-washingtons-adas-israel-congregation-dies/2012/06/15/gJQAWrMhfV_story.html

http://adasisrael.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/obituary-STANLEY-RABINOWITZ1.pdf

2012: The Gallim Dance Company, which takes its name from the Hebrew word for waves, is scheduled to have its opening night performance at The Joyce in NYC.

2012: Planet Brass is scheduled to perform an evening of music created by Israeli Rafi Malkiel at the David Greer Recital Hall.

2012: In Iowa City, at Agudas Achim, Professor Robert Cargill is scheduled to facilitate  a digital media presentation on "The Coronation of the King: The Importance of the Gihon Spring and the Kidron Valley to the Early Jewish Monarchy and to Later Prophets and Christian Interpretive Traditions."

2012: Thousands of people participated in Tel Aviv's 14th Gay Pride Parade today, including many tourists arrived in Israel to attend the annual gay pride week-long events.

2012(18^thof Sivan, 5772):  In a tragic reminder of the high pirce that Israel continues to apy for its vary survival Corporal Dor Gan died tragically today in roll-over accident while patrolling on the Goland Heights.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/idf-soldier-killed-after-patrol-car-overturns-near-syria-border-1.435265

2013: At Adas Israel in Washington, DC, Judith Hauptman, Professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture at The Jewish Theological Seminary, is scheduled to deliver the d’var Torah at the service honoring Rabbi Charles Feinberg’s 40th anniversary in the Rabbinate.

2013(30^thof Sivan, 5773): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

2013(30^thof Sivan, 5773): Eighty-three year old Yoram Kaniuk the iconoclastic Israeli author of more thirty novels passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/books/yoram-kaniuk-maverick-israeli-novelist-dies-at-83.html?hpw

2013: Opposition leader Shelly Yachimovich today urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take steps toward a political peace agreement with the Palestinians, adding that her party would consider joining the coalition if such a step were necessary to achieve that goal. The Labor Party leader, speaking at a Shabbat culture series in Ness Ziona, said there wouldn’t be a “better Palestinian partner in the next few years” and that the dramatic shifts around the Middle East are not in Israel’s favor. The majority of lawmakers in the Knesset support peace talks, she added. (As reported by Michal Shmulovich)

2013: Police evacuated ten homes in the village of Roglit as brush fires raged near Beith Shemesh today

2014:  The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald and My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff

2014: In Potomac, MD, the Potomac Community Center is scheduled to host a program of klezmer music interwoven with an engaging narrative on the history of this unique musical form and its impact on Jewish culture with Seth Kibel.

2014: According to Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi, “Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will join Pope Francis in a prayer for peace at the Vatican today. (As reported by JTA)

2014: In Olney, MD Shaare Tefila Congregation is scheduled to host Dr. Erica Brown speaking on “Why Be Jewish? Personal Commitments to Peoplehood.”

2014: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to present an evening with Isaac Levendel, author of Hunting Down the Jews: Vichy, Nazis and Mafia Collaborators in Provence 1942-1944

2014: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Temple Judah is scheduled to hold Congregational Annual Meeting preceded by a potluck dinner

2014: “Emergency sirens sounded in several cities in southern Israel tonight, as a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip in the direction of Ashkelon, setting off the Code Red alert in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council.”

2014: “President Shimon Peres issued a prayer for a lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace at the Vatican today, alongside Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Pope Francis.” (As reported by Marissa Newman)

2014: Today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Australia’s announcement that it would no longer use the term East Jerusalem because it was “judgmental language” while the Palestinian leadership denounced the decision as "disgraceful and shocking", with the ministry making a formal diplomatic protest. (As reported by YNET)

2014, Sophie Okonedo won a Tony for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun.

https://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/08/2014/this-week-in-history-sophie-okonedo-wins-tony-award-for-raisin-in-sun

https://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/08/2014/this-week-in-history-sophie-okonedo-wins-tony-award-for-raisin-in-sun

2014(10^thof Sivan, 5774): At the age of 111 years and 124 days, Polish born American chemist, parapsychologist and author Alexander Imich who passed away today.

http://www.lef.org/magazine/2008/10/Alexander-Imich/Page-01

http://forward.com/tag/alexander-imich/

http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/199709/alexander-imich-worlds-oldest-man-dies-at-111/

2015: Today “the Supreme Court struck down part of a federal statute that allowed Americans born in Jerusalem to record in their passport "Israel" as the place of birth.

2015: Professor Schaffer is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Jews in the British Army 1900-45” at Leeds, UK.

2015: “The IDF deployed an Iron Dome anti-missile battery beside the southern Israeli city of Beersheba today, after multiple rocket salvos were launched at Israel from the Gaza Strip over the past few weeks.”

2015: In Chevy Chase, MD, Ohr Kodesh is scheduled to host “My Soul Longs for You:Melodies of the Russian Jews with Kolot HaLev.”

2015: Today, in Paris, prosecutors began presenting “their case against 15 defendants” all members of “the terrorist group Forsane Alizza” who are “accused of planning jihadist attacks on French Jews and other targets.”

2015: “Sacred Spem” is scheduled to be shown at the Israel Film Center Festival at the JCC Manhattan

2015: “My Beloved Uncles” is scheduled to be shown at the Cinema South Film Festival in Sderot.

2015: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host “a special screening of Paul Hirschberger’s ‘Touchdown Israel’” a film about the “Jewish connection to football.”

2016(2^ndof Sivan, 5776): “Four people were kill and three were seriously injured  this evening in a shooting at Sarona Market, a popular out shopping center in Tel Aviv.

https://www.jta.org/2016/06/08/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/4-killed-4-badly-injured-in-suspected-tel-aviv-terrorist-attack

2016: The Center Jewish History and YIVO are scheduled to host a book talk and multimedia presentation featuring Joshua Rubenstein author of The Last Days of Stalin.

2016: “Bentwich” and “Dawn” are scheduled to be shown at the Israel Film Center Festival in Manhattan.

2016: “100 Years of Jewish Fashion Design” published today provided a history of the Anglo-Jewish contribution to the world of clothing the best and not so best dressed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/09/fashion/jewish-museum-london-menswear.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=1

2016: “Babylon Dreamers” is scheduled to be shown at the Cinema South Film Festival in Sderot.

2016: “Finding Dory” an animated comedy film featuring the voices of Albert Brooks and Eugene Levy premiered today at the El Captain Theatre in Los Angeles.

2016: The Geulah Trio is scheduled to perform at the 17^th Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival.

2017: “La Putyka, a Czech circus, is scheduled to perform “Slapstick Sonata” and “La Putkya,” a cornucopia of acrobatics, theater, live music and puppets at Zion Square” today as part of Israel Festival.

2017: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Dough,” a comedy about “an old Jewish baker” whose “failing business gets an unexpected boost when his young Muslim apprentice, also a cannabis dealer, drops a load of dope in the dough.”

2017: As Britons go to the polls in the “snap general election” called by the Conservative P.M. Zac Goldsmith is seeking to represent Richmond Park in the House of Commons.

2018: Today “was the most productive day for Jewish batters in Major League Baseball history” as five players – Ryan Braun, Kevin Pillar, Alex Bregman, Ian Kinsler and Joc Pederson – “combined for six home runs…to help their respective teams to victory.”

2017, In what was the first time the FDA had sought to withdraw a product based on a risk associated entirely with the illicit use of a medical product, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb requested the market withdrawal of the opioid Opana ER based on a risk associated with the illicit use of the product when the drug was inappropriately reformulated for abuse through injection.

2018: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host Kabbalat Shabbat services followed by festive dinner.

2018: Tel Aviv hosted its 20^th Gay Parade today which drew 250,000 participants and on-lookers.

2018: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Boy Downstairs” starring Zosia Mamet and Matthew Shear in London.

2019: Tonight, “starting at 8 p.m. the Oshman Family JCC and the Israel-based education organization Bina are” scheduled to take over the Town and Country Village Shopping Center in Palo Alto, CA “for “Night Shift,” a Shavuot festival of music, food and learning that aims to give Palo Alto a little of the feel of Israel, where Jewish celebrations are part of everyday life.”

2019(5^thof Sivan, 5779): Triple Header Shabbat – Start Bamidbar; Finish Pirke Avot with Chapter 6; Erev Shavuot. 

2020: AISH.Com/LIVE is scheduled to host Covid-19 survivor Rabbi Yaakov Salomon as he share his “life changing insights.”

2020: Using a virtual format, the Israel Film Center Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Mossad” followed by a Q&A session.

2020: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to Chef Michael Solomonov’s virtual “Edible Journey Across Israel.”

2020: Hebrew College is scheduled to present “PsalmSeason Online Concert.”

2020: In part 1 of a two-part series from S.F.-based JFCS Holocaust Center, Anita shares her experiences surviving in the Netherlands as a hidden child in virtual environment.

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68: The Emperor Nero died in Rome. Nero had appointed four governors of Judea each of whom was crueler and greedier than his predecessor. The Jewish Revolt in 66 was caused, in part, by this succession of disastrous appointments by Nero. Nero had ordered Vespasian to invade the Galilee and suppress the revolt of the Jews. The political unrest that followed Nero's death as various parties vied for the throne slowed down the final defeat of the Jews. In the end, Vespasian was made Emperor thanks to the support of his legions and he sent his son Titus to conquer Jerusalem.

423: Emperors Honorius and Theodosius II forbid Jews from building any new synagogues

721: At the Battle of Toulouse, Odo of Aquitaine defeated the Moors led by Al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani, the governor of Al-Andalus. Al-Andalus refers to that part of the Iberian Peninsula which was under the control of the Moslems. While the defeat at Toulouse (in modern day France) helped to confine the forces of Islam to territory south of the Pyrenees mountains, it served to reinforce the fact that Spain would not be ruled by Christians. For a limited period of time, this created what some called a Golden Age for the Jews of Spain. The reality is a little more complicated. It would more than seven centuries for the Christians to dislodge the Moslems from the Iberian Peninsula. Depending on the whims and needs of various rulers (both Christian and Moslem), Jewish fortunes waxed and waned. It would all end with the expulsion of 1492.

1171(4th of Tammuz):  A few days after decreeing that the 20th of Sivan should henceforth be a day of fasting and mourning in honor of the 51 Jews burned at the stake Blois, Rabbi Jacob Ben MeirTam, the grandson of Rashi passed away

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0019_0_19552.html

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8436-jacob-ben-meir-tam

1239: Today “Duke Frederick II…issued an order excluding” Jews in Vienna “from hold those offices in which they might cause inconvenience to Christians.”

1493: Jewish astronomer Abraham Zacut “was in Lisbon” today “working for Juan II of Portugal.”

1595: Birthdate of King Wladislaus IV who was King of Poland at the outbreak of The Khmelnitsky Uprising and failed to check it at its inception. This failure contributed to the worst massacre of Jews until the 20th century and the Holocaust.

1672: Birthdate Tsar Peter I of Russia, known as Peter the Great. He may have been “great” to the worst of the world but not so great as far as the Jews were concerned since he banned Jews from his domain even as he sought to modernize it.

1693(5th of Sivan): Rabbi Gershom Ashkenazi author of Avodat ha-Gershuni passed away.

1732: James Oglethorpe was granted a charter to establish the colony of Georgia. The colony was settled in June of 1733. In July of 1733, “forty Sephardic Jews arrived in Savannah” marking the beginning of the Jewish community in Georgia.

1753(7^th of Sivan, 5513): Just a month (July 7)  before royal assent is given to the Jewish Naturalization Act in Great Britain, the  Second Day of Shavuot is observed

1758: New York merchant Philip Cuyler wrote to David Franks concerning the upcoming sailing of two of two the Jewish merchant’s ships that were sailing for Europe.

1763: Joseph Simon Magnus married Bele Eliaser Cohen today in the United Kingdom.

1768: Birthdate of Samuel Levin Egers, the native of Halberstadt who served as the rabbi at Brunswick from 1809 until 1842.

1787: Birthdate of Sarah (nee Dias Fernandes) Aguilar the wife of Emanuel Aguilar and the mother of author Grace Aguilar.

1790(27th of Sivan, 5550): Purim of Florence is celebrated by Florentine Jews because on the 27th of Sivan, 1790 they were saved from a mob by the efforts of the bishop. The festival is preceded by a fast on the 26th of Sivan. The details of the occurrence are related in full by Daniel Terni in a Hebrew pamphlet entitled "Ketab ha-DaṬ," published in Florence in 1791.

1791(7^th of Sivan, 5551): Second Day of Shavuot observed on the same day the National Constituent Assembly issues a decree on the publications from the Pope saying that “no message from the head of the Catholic church can be published, unless it has been sanctioned by the king.”

1793 the French Revolutionary troops opposed the Austrians just outside Arlon the town where twenty years later Simon Fribourg founded a small grain-trading firm that would eventually become the Continental Grain Company.

1794: Birthdate of Julius Rubo, the native of Halberstadat who served as volunteer in the war against Napoleon before pursuing a legal career and serving as leader of the Jewish community in Berlin.

1799(6^th of Sivan, 5559): Shavuot observed for the last time in the 18^th century.

1803: Jacob David Goldschmidt, zum grunen Lowen and Edel (Adelheid) Goldschmidt gave birth to Moritz Moses Jacob von Goldschmidt.

1810(7^th of Sivan, 5570): Jews observe the Second Day of Shavuot on the birthdate of Otto Nicolai the German born musician who succeeded Felix Mendelssohn (the grandson of Moses Mendelssohn) as Kapellmeister at the Berlin Cathedral

1815: The Congress of Vienna came to an end. Europe enters into a period of political reaction following the defeat of Napoleon. “After Napoleon's defeat and the Congress of Vienna, the Germans took their revenge on the French and the Jews. The Congress of Vienna had provided for full civil and political rights "to differing parties of the Christian religion," but the "civil betterment" of the Jews was put off for further study. The Congress stated that Jews could retain such rights as they already had, but nearly everywhere in Germany the rights that the Jews had won were disavowed and rescinded. (Prussia was an exception: only some Jewish rights were abolished; most were retained.) A period of reaction set in, in which anti-Semitism was a major component.” Surprisingly enough, Prince Metternich, the reactionary Austrian Foreign Minister played a positive role for Jews living in the German cities of Frankfurt, Lubeck and Bremen while the Congress was in session. When the ruling bodies of those cities attempted to take away rights previously granted to the Jewish communities, the Jews appealed to Metternich for help. Metternich interceded on behalf of the Jews because depriving them of their rights would have been a violation of the guarantees made by the Congress of Vienna. Metternich was not a philo-Semite. Rather he was aware of the economic power of these Jewish leaders and he knew that they would be a force for stability. Also, Metternich based Austria’s foreign policy on the decisions of the Congress and he was opposed to anything that would undermine the agreements reached there.

1817: Birthdate of General Busac who in 1912 was reported to be the “oldest officer serving in the French Army.”

1818(5^th of Sivan, 5578): Erev Shavuot observed as Prime Minister Jenkinson prepares to dissolve Parliament in the UK.

1820: Three days after he had passed away, 88 year old Joseph Moss was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”

1832: In Covent Garden, Eleanor Levy and Simon Marcus gave birth to their sixth and youngest child, Matilda Marcus.

1837(6^th of Sivan, 5597) Shavuot is observed for the first time during the Presidency of Martin Van Buren.

1838(16^th of Sivan, 5598): Thirty-eight year old Amalie Friedlander (nee Heine) a cousin of the famous poet Heinrich Heine and the object of his unrequited love passed away today in Berlin.

1841: Samson Wetheimer married Helena Cohen at the Great Synagogue in London.

1843: The Voice of Jacob reported that Mr. Woolfson and Mr. Marks laid the foundation for the new synagogue on St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands

1843: Birthdate of Nobel Peace Prize winner Bertha von Suttner known as “Jew Bertha to the anti-Semites.”

https://depts.washington.edu/vienna/literature/suttner/suttner_bio.htm

1849: Edward Angel married Julia Isaacs at the West London Synagogue.

1851: In Hull, Bethel Jacobs gave birth to architect Benjamin Jacobs the President of the Hull Hebrew Board of Guardians and Hull Hebrew Boys’ School while serving on the London Committee of the Jewish Lads’ Brigade and “Hon. Major of the 2^nd E.  York Volunteer Artillery.”

1852: Henry Berkowitz married Rosetta Poland at the Great Synagogue in London.

1852: Two days after he had passed away, 86 year old Moses Solomon, the son London born son of Tobias and Sarah Solomon, as buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”

1854: The New York Times reports that “It is said that there is not a single Jew in the United States engaged in agriculture.”

1856(6^th of Sivan, 5616): Shavuot

1856: In Berlin, Simon Bienenstock, the Berline born son of Robert L. Bienenstock and his wife Helena Bienenstock gave birth to Siegfried Bienenstock

1856: Birthdate of Aaron David (A.D.) Gordon, the founder of Hapoel Hatzair.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ad_gordon.html

http://www.zionism-israel.com/bio/biography_gordon.htm

1859(7^th of Sivan, 5619): Second Day of Shavuot; on the Jewish calendar yahrzeit of Jewish historian of Jacob Ezekiel

1864(5^th of Sivan, 5624): Erev Shauvot observed as Union and Rebel forces clashed in the “First Battle of Petersbrug.”

1863: During the Civil War, Jacob Ezekiel Hyneman, a native of Richmond, VA serving with the Union Army was wounded at the Battle of Brandy Station, the most important clash of cavalry in the east which help to set the stage for the Battle of Gettysburg.

1865(15^th of Sivan, 5625): In the Hague 52 year old Jacob Hirschel Kann, the husband of Amalie de Jonge passed away today.

1867(6^th of Sivan, 5627): Shavuot

1867: “Edward Kirstein, an immigrant from Germany who first worked as a peddler and eventually owned an optics store in Rochester” and the former Jeanette Leiter gave birth to Louis E. Kirstein the businessman who was chairman of Filene’s and philanthropist who was the husband of Rose Stein.

http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/downloadFile.cfm?FileID=19415

1869: Rabbi J.H. Chumaceiro officiated at the wedding of David Bentschner and Hanne Jacobi

1869(28^th of Iyar, 5629): Solomon ben Judah Aaron Kluger, Polish born rabbi and chief dayyan passed away today at Brody, Galicia

http://www.shlomokluger.com/

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9394-kluger-solomon-ben-judah-aaron

1870: Author Charles Dickens passed away. Dickens was considered an anti-Semite by some because of his character Fagin in Oliver Twist. Dickens defended himself against what he considered a false claim. In a later work, Our Mutual Friend, Dickens created the sympathetic Jewish character Mr. Riah who is the victim of a Christian moneylender. "The Jewish people are a people for whom I have a real regard and to whom I would not willingly have given an offense...for any worldly consideration."

1871: It was reported today that French Banker Jules Mires has passed away.

1871: The three-day long Rabbinical Conference, a meeting of leaders of the Reform Movement, came to an end in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Twenty-three congregations were represented at the meeting.  The Conference agreed to provide “a modern prayer book” which would not contain any references to a return of the Jews to Jerusalem, the offering of sacrifices or a personal messiah. It was also agreed that services would be conducted primarily in English instead of Hebrew. In the field of education, the Conference approved the establishment of seminary to train rabbis and the development of a uniform course of study for congregational Sabbath Schools. 

1872: At Papa Hungary, Carl Ellinger and Marie Deutsch gave birth to Emil Ellinger who served as a Rabbi at Mount Vernon, Indiana and Sioux City, Iowa, before taking the pulpit at “Congregation Gemilas Hasodim” in Alexandria, LA.

1873(14^th of Sivan, 5633): Sixty-one year old Moses Nathans, the father of Benveneda Nathans Potsdamer

 Ella Cornelia Nathans Thalman and Laura Augusta Nathans Sonneborn, and the husband of the former Benveneda Valintina Solis who he had married in 1831 after breaking tradition and negotiating directly with her father in 1830 over his desire for the wedding, passed away today after which he was buried at Mt. Sinai Cemetery in Philadelphia, PA.  

1875(6^th of Sivan, 5635): Shavuot

1875: In New York, a large number of Jews met at Adath Israel to memorialize the passing of the James Gordon Bennett., the founder editor and publisher of the New York Herald.  Those in attendance adopted a series of memorial resolutions that were to be sent to his widow and son which described Bennett as “an honest supporter and true friend” of the Jewish people who “always gave firm and true support to our creed.”1876: President U.S. Grant and Thomas Ferry, the President Pro Tempore of the United State attended the consecration services of Adas Israel, the new orthodox synagogue in Washington, DC. The service was bilingual with prayers in Hebrew and an address by Rabbi George Jacobs of Philadelphia in English. Adas Israel has moved twice since this event but still remains located in the District of Columbia; its members under the leadership of Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz, having made the courageous decision not to move to the suburbs. It is one of the leading Conservative Congregations in the United States.

1876: Eighteen year old Helene Goldschmidt married Leon Yehudah Tedesco, the son of Giacomo Tedesco and Therese Cerf.

1878: In Paris, 34 year old Adolphe Bloch married Noémie Bloch

1880:  In New York City, the Young Men’s Hebrew Association is scheduled to host a strawberry festival and concert at Lyric Hall tonight to raise funds for its library.

1880(30^th of Sivan, 5640): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1881: It was reported today that the government is conducting a census among the Jews living in Kiev with the goal of expelling those from the city who do not have a right to live their under the restrictive residency laws applied to them.

1882: “Death After Fasting Seven Month” published today described the death of a Polish Jew named Adolph Schomger who stopped eating after having been sentenced to the penitentiary in Nebraska after having been convicted of stealing.  Schmoger was transferred to “an insane asylum” but his starvation tactics continued causing his weight to fall from 150 to 80 pounds to his death.

1886(6^th of Sivan, 5646): Shavuot

1886: Birthdate Posen native Dr. Julius Brodnitz, “the attorney and president of the Central Union of Jews in Germany.”

1886: Final exams are scheduled to be given at Central High School in Philadelphia, PA despite the fact

that it is Shavuot.  The principal has refused to make any accommodation for the Jewish students despite pleas from the city’s Rabbis.

1887: Dr. Sabato Morais, the rabbi at Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, became the first Jew recognized by the University of Pennsylvania with an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

1887: In New York, Adolph Reich was convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death.  Court officials said that it was rare for Jews to be charged with murder since they were “as a rule orderly, law-abiding citizen” and they could not remember one ever being executed.

1889: Rabbi J.L. Kadushin officiated at the marriage of Otto Pierre Siegelstein and Mary Bubis.

1890: It was predicted today that Edmund Gosse’s biography of his father Philip Henry Gosse whose works include The History of the Jews from the Christian Era to the Dawn of the Reformation“will secure a place of importance among forthcoming biographies

1891: I.S. Isaacs of the United Hebrew Charities was among those who will be attending a special meeting of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment where the United Charities Association will present a proposal to establish a “free lodging house” in New York.

1891(3rd of Sivan, 5651): Eighty-one year old Samuel Adler “a leading German-American Reform rabbi, Talmudist, and author” passed away. He was also the father of Felix Adler, the well-known founder of the Society for Ethical Culture.” Born at Worms in 1809, he came to the United States to serve as Rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in New York; a position he held for seventeen years before accepting the position as Rabbi Emeritus. He was an outspoken opponent of slavery and a staunch supporter of Abraham Lincoln.  One of the happiest moments of his life came when saw Major Anderson, the Union officer who had defended Fort Sumter, in his congregation.  After service “he laid his hands on the soldier’s head and pronounced…the anciently priestly blessing…”

1892: “Emin’s Death Confirmed” published today described the demise of Emin Pasha, who had been born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer to a Jewish family in Silesia.  (The only problem is that Emin Pasha did not die until October of 1892)

1892: Birthdate of Aix-en-Provence native of Armand Lunel, “the last known speaker of Shuadit” “also called Judeo-Occitan or less accurately Judæo-Provençal or Judeo-Comtadin, is the Occitan language as it was historically spoken by French Jews.”

http://thejewniverse.com/2014/the-last-man-who-spoke-provences-dead-jewish-language/?utm_source=Jewniverse+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5c383a1f2c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b48fb1c44e-5c383a1f2c-27129561

https://web.archive.org/web/20070311033816/http://www.bh.org.il:80/Names/POW/lunel.asp

1892: Three days after he had passed away, “Hugo Jokl” was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1893: Birthdate of Samuel Nathaniel Behrman, the Worcester, Massachusetts native, who gained success writing scripts of stage and screen as well as doing profiles for the New Yorker. Among his subjects were Chaim Weizman, George Gershwin, Max Beernbohm, Joseph Duveen and Eddie Cantor.

The Worcester Account is an account of his childhood from 1893 to shortly after he moved to New York City in 1917.

1895: The closing exercises of the Louis Downtown Sabbath and Daily Technical Schools took place this afternoon at Temple Emanu-El.

1895: It was reported today that the “anti-Semitic craze” that “has been making such wild headway lately in Vienna” and the rest of Austria is not only not losing strength “in several other great Continental states” but is growing in Germany.  A congress of a newly formed anti-Semitic party that just met in Berlin has adopted a program which regards any family that has one Jewish member during the last three generations is Jewish. Furthermore, all such “Jewish families” must be “excluded from the army, journalism, the legal, medical and educational professons and prohibited from owning land or taking public contracts (Shades of the Nazis)

1895: The Sunday Closing laws were strictly enforced today in New York City as police arrested any Jews or gentiles found in violation of the strictures which included closing all stores by ten in the morning and all barber shops at one in the afternoon.

1895: Practical Benevolence” published today provided a history of the Mt. Sinai Training School for Nurses which is funded by generous New York benefactors but whose student body is only one quarter Jewish while the rest are Christians. The officers who administer the school are: President – Leopold Weil; Vice President – Isaac Stern; Treasurer – Samuel Stiefel; Secretary – George Blumenthal; Directors – Human Blum, Isaac Wallach, David Wile, Julius Ehrman, Myer Lehman and Max Nathan.

1895: “Napoleon’s Times Pictured” provided a review George Duval’s The Romance of the Sword a novel whose plot revolves around a mythic blade that the Count d’Artois sold to Samuel the Jew

1896: Birthdate of Nathaniel Lawrence Goldstein whose service as New York State Attorney General paralleled the gubernatorial of Thomas E. Dewey

1896: Birthdate of German jurist Karl Sack who was executed for his role in the plot to kill Hitler on July 20, 1944.

1896: Just days before his 38^thbirthday the Marquis de Morès, a French anti-Semitic politician, was killed as he journeyed to meet the Mahdi, the Muslim leader responsible for the death of General Charles “Chinese” Gordon.  De Morès was a member of The Antisemitic League of France who challenged Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus, a Jewish member of the Chamber of Deputies, to a duel after Dreyfus wrote an article about him with which he disagreed.

1898: Today on what would prove to be the day before his death Rabbi Samuel “Mohilewer wrote a circular letter to all friends of Zion, recommending the foundation of the Jewish Colonial Bank and the colonization of Palestine, and at the same time urging again the idea of unity.”

1898: A conference of Jews from the United States and Canada meeting at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue adopted a constitution which “provided that the name” of the new organization “should be the Orthodox Jewish Congregational Union of America.

1898: In New York, at Clark’s the annual meeting of the Judeans, “an organization composed of gentlemen interested in literature, science and the arts” was followed by a reception in honor of Oscar S. Straus who has just been appointed U.S. Minister to Turkey.

1898: Mr. and Mrs. I. Bierman hosted a garden party for the residence of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews.

1898: During the Spanish American War, 1^stLt. Albert B. Frankel, Corporal Sigamund Rochild, and Private Charles L. Reitz of Company A, from West Point, Mississippi of the 2^nd Mississippi Volunteer Infantry were among those mustered into federal service today.

1899(1st of Tammuz, 5659): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1899: Prompt action today avoided a clash between those acting on behalf of Congregation Sheavith Israel of New York and Jews living in Newport each of whom are trying to assert control over the famous Rhode Island synagogue.

1899: “Garden Party for Aged Hebrews” published today described the annual social event held at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews which was attended by 230 residents who ranged in age from 60 to 90.  In addition to enjoying refreshment attendees enjoyed the music of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band.

1899: In Albany, NY, a certificate of consolidation was filed with the Secretary of State which join the Educational Alliance and the Hebrew Free School Association under the name of The Educational Alliance.

1899: The French cruiser Sfax arrived at Devil’s Island. The ship’s mission was to bring Dreyfus home after four years and three months of being imprisoned for a crime he did not commit.

1901: One day after he had passed away, “Nachum Meir ben Israel” was buried today in Hong Kong at the “Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery.”

1902(4^th of Sivan. 5662): Sixty-seven year old Jacob Herzl, Theodore Herzl's father dies in Vienna. Herzl goes back to Vienna for the funeral.

1903: In New York, Bernard Glick and opera singer gave birth to Marcia Glick who gained fame as author and critic Marcia Davenport.

1903: The Six Annual Convention of the Federation of American Zionist is scheduled to continue its meeting in Pittsburgh, PA

1905(6^th of Sivan, 5665): Shavuot

1905: Pogrom began in Lodz, Poland

1906(16^th of Sivan, 5666): Parashat Baha’alotcha

1906: In “Needs of the United Hebrew Charities” published today, Nathan Bijur agreed that he said that the United            Hebrew Charities was facing a deficit of $40,000 but denied that he or another member of the leadership of the organization had said that unless that amount was raise by August 10 the society:would be compelled to discontinue the giving of relief.

1907: President H. Pereira Mendes presided over the Fourth Biennial Convention of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of the United States and Canada

1908: “Galician Jews Meet” published today described the opening of the new hospital founded by The Federation of Galician and Bucovinian Jews that is supposed to open on September 1.

1910: “Jews  Hunted Down” published today described the arrest and shooting of Jews in the woods near Polichinok by secret police employed the Governor of Smolensk.

1911: The Jewish community of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, publishes a protest against the appeal of the Anglican Church to raise funds designed to “gather Jews into the fold” i.e. create proselytes

1912: In Tucson, AZ, Clara Ferrin a thirty-year old school teacher “married a local merchant, David W. Bloom.”

1913: Dedication of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association in Washington, DC.

1913: Adolph Greenhut, a native of Bohemia who became a naturalized citizen in 1874 was elected Mayor of Pensacola, FL, a position he would hold until 1916.

1914(15^th of Sivan): On the Jewish calendar, anniversary of the birth and death of Judah, the 4^th son of Jacob and Lean. (As reported by Aish)

1914: Today, during the 91^stconvocation of the University of Chicago, the cornerstone was laid for the Julius Rosenwald Hall with the “donor taking part in the ceremony as guest of honor.”

1915:  Mrs. Nina Formby who moved to New York City in February of 1914 was identified in print today as being the only woman to have offered an affidavit showing that Leo Frank was a degenerate which she later recanted “asserting that she made it under duress.” (Editor’s note – Nina Formby may also have been known as Mrs. Nina Stevens who had claimed that she had filed and recanted such an affidavit.)

1915: This morning, the Prison Commission of Georgia submitted a report to Governor Slaton in which “it declined to recommend that the death sentence imposed on Leo Frank be commuted to life imprisonment.  R.E. Davison and E.L. Rainey voted for the report and Judge T.E. Robinson voted against the report meaning that clemency was denied by a two to one vote.

1915: A friend of Leo Frank, Milton Klein, went to Frank’s cell in the Tower and in the presence of his father and his wife told the prisoner of the decision not to commute his sentence. 

1915: “Leo M. Frank said tonight that he believed even yet that his life would be spared.”

1916: “Jews Defended in Russian Duma” published today described the speech delivered by Deputy A.I. Shingarev in the Duma in which he defended the Jews from attacks by government ministers in which, among other things, they were blamed for collaborating with the German Army,

1916: Birthdate of Louis Werfel who gained fame as “The Flying Rabbi” when he served as a chaplain during World War II. Werfel was one of only six Jewish chaplains who died during WW II.  He died while returning from conducting Chanukah services at Casablanca in 1943.

1917: In Alexandria, Egypt, Leopold Percy Hobsbaum and Nelly Hobsbaum (née Grün) gave birth to British Marxist historian Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/arts/eric-hobsbawm-british-historian-dies-at-95.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1

1917: Two thousand Jews, including 200 rabbis from cities across the United attended a celebration marking the 60^thbirthday of Hirsch Masliansky, the rabbi at the Synagogue of Educational Alliance where he was praised by a wide variety of speakers including prominent lawyer Louis Marshall, Rabbi Judah L. Magnes and Commissioner of Education John Barondess.

1917: Graduation Day at the Teacher’s Institute of the Hebrew Union College.

1917: It was reported that the Karaites, who under the Czar “held themselves aloof from Jewry from fear of…being subjected to anti-Semitic restrictions” held a conference at Eupatoria where “the opinion gained ground that now” following the overthrow of the old regime “there was nothing in the way of a closer” relationship “between them and the general body of Jews.”

1918[ML1] : Led by Louis Brenner, the Jews in Camden, NJ, will start a drive today to raise the money necessary to complete the new facility to be shared by the Y.M.H.A. and the Y.W.H.A.

1918: Seven hundred delegates representing 55,000 Jews from all over the United States are scheduled to attend “the thirteenth annual convention of the Independent Order of B’rith Shlom” opening today in Baltimore, MD.

1918: In a speech at Washington Irving High School attended by representatives from “more than 400 Jewish organization, Professor Thomas G. Masaryk, “urged the Jews to give all their energies in support of the Allied cause” so that co-religionists in Eastern Europe might “be liberated from the German heel.”

1918: Morris Peltz, the son of Brooklyn residents Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Peltz, who had enlisted in the U.S. Army four years ago was suffered wounds today in France while serving with Company C of the 16^th Infantry that would result in his death.

1919: Captain Montgomery Schuyler sent a telegram from the Headquarters of the American Expeditionary Forces, Siberia at Vladivostock in which he said of the “384 commissars” in Russia “more than 300 were Jews” of whom “264 had come to Russia from the United States since the downfall of the Imperial Government.”

1920: “Nathaniel Phillis, President of the League of Foreign Born Citizens delivered an address before the Asssoicated Lodges of the Independent Order B’nai B’rith” today “on the subject of ‘Am I My Brother’s Keeper --- The Duty of the Native Born to the Foreign Born.’”

1921: Birthdate of Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, leading Jewish author, philosopher and fighter for civil rights of all who passed away in 2006.

1921(3rd of Sivan, 5681): Sixty-two year old Julius Walter Freiberg, the son of Julius and Duffie Freiberg and the husband of Stella Freiberg passed a way today in his hometown, Cincinnati, Ohio.

1922: Silent film star Beatrice Carpenter and Herman Axelrod gave birth to George Axelrod. Axelrod’s father was a Russian Jew while his mother was not Jewish. His breakout work was “The Seven Year Itch” which was a successful play and film.

1924(7th of Sivan, 5684): On the same day that Mallory and Irvine reportedly died in their quest to reach the top of Mt. Everest, Jews observe the Second Day of Shavuot

1926: Congressman Meyer London’s funeral was held in New York City with tens of thousands filling the streets in his honor.

1927: “In Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary), a spa town in the then German-speaking Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia,’ Arnold Stein who “had a small shop in the town selling ladies' coats and dresses” and the former Erna Eisenberger who “owned a knitwear business” gave birth to Gerda Kamilla Mayer the English poet who had “escaped to England from Prague in 1939 on a Kindertransport.”

1928: Delegates representing 400 organizations are expected to attend today’s’ convention The Hebrew Religious Protective Association at the Broadway Central Hotel.

1929: At Temple B’nai B’rith in Los Angeles, “actress Carmel Myers married her second husband, attorney Ralph Blum.

1930: Thirty-eight year old Chicago Tribune journalist Alfred Lingle whose parents converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism when he was eight years old was shot and killed in a Chicago train station in what was assumed to be a mob related murder

1930: Birthdate newscaster, author and educator, Marvin Kalb. Kalb first gained fame as a correspondent with CBS Television News. Kalb has an equally famous brother, Bernard, with whom he sometimes shares the lecture circuit much to the delight and enlightenment of the attendees.

1931: Birthdate of Yacov Moseh Maza the native of Sheboygan, Wisconsin who grew up on the Lower East Side where he followed in the footsteps of three generations of the men in his family when “he received semikah from Moshe Feinstein but who left the rabbinate to gain fame and fortune as comedian Jackie Mason.

1933: “Professional Sweetheart,” a romantic comedy featuring Gregory Ratoff as “Sam Ipswich” was released in the United States today.

1933: In Detroit, the convention of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service who have already heard a special by Dr. I.M. Rubinow on “The Credo of a Jewish Social Worker” is scheduled to continue for a second day.

1935(8th of Sivan): Dr. Shermaryahu Levine passed away

1935: Anti-Jewish riots occur in Grodno, Poland.

1936: It was reported today The Jews of Germany, the new book by Marvin Lowenthal, the author of A World Passed By that described the surviving monuments and life of the Jew in Europe and North America, will be published at the end of this month.

1936: “Robert Edward Edmondson, publisher of anti-Semitic leaflets, lashed back at Mayor La Guardia for having instigated the criminal proceedings against him” calling the mayor “a radical Jew.”

1936: In Buffalo, NY, Maxwell and Rose Ruttenstein, the owners of three clothing shops gave birth to Kalman Ruttenstein the fashion director for Bloomingdale’s.

http://www.hamptons.com/Out-And-About/Within-The-Hedges/700/A-Passion-for-Fashion-Remembering-Kalman-Kal.html#.VXOzlmfJB9A

1936: John F. Kennedy, future President of the United States left Jerusalem for Lebanon and Syria.

1936: Arabs attempted to attack Kfar Yeheskiel, a Jewish workmen’s settlement in the Jezreel Valley. Jospeh Tavory, a Jewish truck driver was wounded during the unsuccessful attack.

1937: The Palestine Post reported that according to French press reports the British government was expected to propose, at the June 18 session of the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations in Geneva, the establishment of a Jewish republic and a joint Arab Palestinian-Jordanian state under Emir Abdullah.

1937: Chaim Weizmann gave an account of his dinner of the previous night where he had dined with Winston Churchill and other Zionist supporters in Parliament to a number of leading Zionists then visiting London including David Ben-Gurion

1937: “The Christian Century, a Protestant weekly magazine, publishes an editorial entitled ‘Jewry and Democracy’ which questions the ability of a democracy to include a minority like the Jews.

1937(30^th of Sivan, 5697): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1937(30^th of Sivan, 5697): Thirty-seven year old Italian political leader Carlo Rosselli and his brother Nello were beaten to death at “the French resort town of Bagnoles-de-l'Orne” were beaten to death by French fascists alleged to have been acting on orders from Benito Musssolini.

https://libcom.org/history/assassination-rosselli-brothers

https://primolevicenter.org/printed-matter/remembering-carlo-and-nello-rosselli/

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/12/19/reviews/991219.19stillet.html

1938: The Main Synagogue in Munich was burned down. Two thousand Jews throughout Germany were arrested and were sent to concentration camps to do hard labor.

1939: Birthdate of Letty Cottin Pogrebin, who has become one of the most well-known figures in both the Jewish and secular feminist movements.

1939: “Against the pennant-winning Cincinnati Reds at the Polo Grounds, Harry Danning was one of five Giants to hit a home run in the fourth inning, breaking the prior record of four home runs by a team in one inning.

1939: Today, “Canadian immigration officials”  hostile to Jewish immigration led by Frederick Blair persuaded Prime Minister” William Lyon Mackenzie King not to provide sanctuary for the passengers aboard the SS St. Louis.

1940: In a newspaper article published today, Vice Admiral Joseph K. “Taussig was referred to as ‘the star scholar and strategist of the U.S Navy.”

1941: Abraham Pais obtained his doctoral degree in theoretical physics today, just five days before the deadline. His was the last Ph.D. issued to a Dutch Jew until after the war. Abraham Pais

1941: Kaiser Wilhelm II was laid to rest in the Mausoleum at Huis Doorn , Netherlands.

1941: When the village of Lidice was destroyed today in reprisal for the assassination of SS commander and Hitler favorite Reinhard Heydrich 199 men were executed, 195 women were immediately deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp, and 95 children taken prisoner. Of the children, 81 were later killed in gas vans at the Chełmno extermination camp, while eight others were taken for adoption by German families. All adults were murdered in the village of Ležák, men and women alike. Both towns were burned, and the ruins of Lidice leveled

1942: Lord Wedgwood opened the debate in the British House of Lords by urging that the mandate over Palestine be transferred to the United States, since Britain had reneged on its commitments. He stated with bitterness: "I hope yet to live to see those who sent the Struma cargo back to the Nazis hung as high as Haman cheek by jowl with their prototype and Führer, Adolf Hitler

1942(23rd of Sivan, 5702): When a Jewish mother at Pabianice, Poland, fights fiercely for her baby during a deportation, the baby is taken from her and thrown out a window.

1942: A gassing van is sent to Riga, Latvia, for the execution of Jews.

1942: German criminal police in the Lodz Ghetto reported that 95 Jews ‘have been hung publicly here.

1943(6th of Sivan, 5703): First Day of Shavuot

1944: Jewish-Hungarian poet and Jewish-Palestinian paratrooper Hannah Szenes is arrested in Hungary after completing her mission for the British in Yugoslavia. She was attempting to help the Hungarian Jews who were being transported to Auschwitz. Born in Hungary in 1921, Szenes witnessed the rise of anti-Semitism in pre-World War II Hungary. She became a Zionist and moved to Palestine in 1938. By 1941 she had joined a kibbutz and the Haganah. She was one of many European born Jews living in Palestine who joined the British Army and agreed to be dropped behind enemy lines. Their purpose was two-fold - to add anti-Nazi partisan forces and to help the Jews facing extermination. Just before her death at the hands of her Hungarian captors Szenes wrote the following poem: “One-two-three... eight feet long, Two strides across, the rest is dark... Life hangs over me like a question mark. One-two-three... maybe another week, Or next month may still find me here, But death, I feel, is very near. I could have been twenty-three next July; I gambled on what mattered most; The dice were cast. I lost." Most Israelis can recite the following lines, "Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart." Her most famous work is one that is often sung in Hebrew and English.

"Lord, my God,

I pray that these things never end:

The sand and the sea,

The rush of the waters,

The crash of the heavens,

The human prayer

1944: During the trucks for Jews negotiations, Adolf Eichmann (who probably was never serious about saving the Hungarians) said: “If I do not receive a positive reply within three days, I shall operate the mill at Auschwitz.”

1944: Lew Lehr “was heard on the radio show “You Asked for It.”

1945: Prime Minister Winston Churchill rejects a written request by Chaim Weizmann for an end to all restrictions on Jewish entry into Palestine now that the war with Germany is over saying “”There can I fear be no possibility of the question being effectively considered until the victorious Allies are definitely seated at the Peace table.” This statement effectively ended Weizmann’s leadership role. Many Zionists viewed this as a betrayal by the British in general and by the supposedly pro-Zionist Churchill in particular.

1946: In “Wholesale Rescue” published today Julian Meltzer described how “nearly twenty thousand children were spirited away from Hitler’s Europe.”

1947(21^st of Sivan, 5707): Jacob Shapiro, one of the organizers of Murder, Inc. died of a heart attack at Sing Sing.

1948: The INS Wedgewood was commissioned today.  A Flower class corvette, it was named after Josiah Wedgewood.

1948: INS HaTikvah (K-22) was commissioned today.

1949: It was reported today that “eleven Hungarian Jewish leaders all identified with the Zionist movement have been arrested and will go on trial June 17 on charges of having promoted illegal mass emigration of Jews from Hungary.”

1949(12th of Sivan, 5709): Eighty-six year old Dr. Moses Hyamon, the native of Russia and distinguished scholar who served as Chief Rabbi of the British Empire before World War I and who had been Rabbi of New York’s Orach Chaim passed away

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F40711FC3A5A157B93C3A8178DD85F4D8485F9

1949: Mira (Miriam) Shefer left Cyprus on the SS Sha’ar Yishuv.  After having survived the Holocaust, she traveled from Poalnd, crossed the Alps into Austria before arriving in Italy where she boarded the SS Kadima.  Although the ship was equipped for 400 passengers, this desperate voyage took 800 Jews through the British blockade to Haifa.  Unfortunately for Mira and the rest of the passengers, the British sent them all to Cyprus where she endured life in an internment camp until the creation of the Jewish state.

http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/zdzieciol/16,accounts-memories/14589,mira-miriam-shefer-about-zdzieciol-and-her-family-before-war-family-s-fates-during-war-way-to-israel-after-war/?action=viewtable&page=1

1950: Jefferson Caffery, the United States Ambassador to Egypt, said that “last month’s declaration by the United States, Britain and France on the Middle East was not intended to picture the present frontiers between Israel and her Arab neighbors as permanent borders.”

1950: Israel responded to charges of mistreatment of infiltrators from Jordan by telling the Arabs to “keep on your own side of the border.” The Israelis claim that there only responsibility is to “escort the infiltrators to a point near the border and send them on their way.” According to the agreement signed at Rhodes in 1949 that ended hostilities between Israel and Jordan, “neither troops nor civilians could pass into each other’s territory.”

1951: The last group of Nazis convicted of war crimes during World War II is hanged in Nuremberg.

1951(5^th of Sivan, 5711): Parashat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot

1951(5^th of Sivan, 5711): Esther (nee Rosengrass) Hyman who had been Esther Libbert, the widow of Abraham Libbert when she married Titanic survivor Abraham Joseph Hyman passed away today.

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that banknotes issued in 1948 by the Anglo-Palestine bank as Israel’s legal tender had to be exchanged for new notes, in different colors, issued by Bank Leumi L’Israel. A 10 percent compulsory deduction for a 15-year loan, at 4%, was to accompany each exchange of the old notes for the new, and a similar deduction was to be carried out automatically on all bank deposits. The loan was expected to bring IL 25 million for the Treasury. Three hundred new immigrants marched in Tel Aviv demanding better housing.

1952: Birthdate of Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer, songwriter, composer and television personality who died of a heart attack in 2004 at the age of 52

1953: A day after Israel and Jordan signed an agreement, with UN mediation, in which Jordan undertook to prevent terrorists from crossing into Israel from Jordanian territory” gunmen attacked a farming community near Lod, by throwing hand grenades and spraying gunfire in all directions killed one of the residents. The gunmen threw hand grenades and sprayed gunfire in all directions.

1953: Tonight, “another group of terrorists attacked a house in the town of Hadera.”

1955(19^th of Sivan, 5715): Seventy-three year old Pesach Liebmann Hersch the son of Hannah-Dvorah Hersch (née Blumberg) and Meyer Dovid Hersch who gained fame as the pioneering demographer and statistician Liebmann Hersch, the husband of Liba Lichetenbaum with whom he had three children Irene, Joseph and philosopher Jeanne Hersch passed away today.

http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=34147

1956: Thirty-two year old Cal Abrams played his last major league as an outfielder with the Chicago White Sox.

1958: In Washington, DC. Norman Harold Horwitz, a neurosurgeon,[5] and Elinor Lander Horwitz, a writer, gave birth to Brown and Columbia educated Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Anthony Lander “Tony” Horwitz the husband of Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Geraldine Brooks and the author of Confederates in the Attic.

https://tonyhorwitz.com/

1961: Birthdate of Aaron Sorkin producer and writer for television hit, “The West Wing

1962(7th of Sivan, 5722): Second Day of Shavuot

1962: In Tel Aviv, Yossi and Ilana Banai gave birth to Israel pop rock start Yuval Banay.

1962(7th of Sivan, 5722): Madame and bordello owner, Polly Adler, passed away.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/adler-polly

1963: Barbra Streisand appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show."

1963: After 304 performances at the Sheridan Square Playhouse, the curtain came down “The Days and Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker” directed by Ulu Grosbard.

1963: Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz of Adas Israel attended the ground breaking ceremonies for the Abraham S. Kay Spiritual Life Center, the American University in Washington, D.C.

1964(29^th of Sivan, 5724): Just weeks before his 80^th birthday, Russian born American pianist and composer Louis Gruenberg passed away

http://www.musicassociatesofamerica.com/madamina/1981/gruenberg.html

1966(2st pf Sivan. 5726): Fifty-eighty year old English botanist E.F.(Edmund Frederick) Warburg, “son of Sir Oscar Emanuel Warburg, businessman and later chairman of the London County Council, and his wife, Catherine née Byrne” and husband of Primrose Barrett who served with the RAF during WW II and who in 1948 began working in the department of botany “at Oxford as demonstrator in botany and curator of the herbarium” after which he co-authored Flora of the British Isles and Excursion of Florapassed away today.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1179/006813867804804188

1967(1^st of Sivan, 5727): Rosh Chodesh Sivan

1967(1^st of Sivan, 5727): Fifty-nine year old “English author Pamela Frankau,” the daughter of “the novelist Gilbert Frankau” and granddaughter of Julia Frankau who wrote under the “pseudonym Frank Danby” passed away today.

http://www.bc.edu/sites/libraries/newsletter/2012spring/pamelafrankau/index.html

1967: In a change of mind and policy, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan told Chief of Staff Yitzchak Rabin that the IDF would take the Golan Heights after all. Rabin began moving forces from the Central Command to the North. The fighting was tough as the IDF advanced against the well-fortified Syrian positions. By nightfall, the IDF seemed to be taking control of the battlefield and there was already talk about advancing on the Syrian capital of Damascus. The Israelis were concerned about the fate of the 15,000 Jews living in Syria. For years the Syrian government had held them under virtual arrest, denying any of them the right to leave the country.

1967: While fighting on the Golan as part of the 78^th patrol platoon of the Alexandroni reserve infantry brigade 27 year old Igal Pazi “stepped on a foot mine on the platoon's way to Dabashia” costing him “his right leg below the knee.”  In a display of indomitable will, Pazi turned himself into Gold Medal winning member of the Israeli Paralympic volleyball team.

1968: In an article entitled “This Piece of Earth,” Chaim Potok reviewed “Light on Israel” by Maurice Samuel, “The Road to Jerusalem: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1967” by Walter Laqueur, “Under Fire: Israel’s 20 Year Struggle for Survival”, edited by Donald Robinson, “The Resurrection of Israel” by Ann Latour; translated by Maragaret S. Summers and “The Hand of Mordechai” by Margaret Larkin.

1969: Charles Eustace McGaughey began serving as Canada’s Ambassador to Israel.

1970: (5^th of Sivan, 5730): Erev Shavuot

1970: (5^th of Sivan, 5730: Seventy-four year old Irving A Mancher, who was brought to the United States from his native Minsk at the age, lost his eyesight at the age of 15, at still went on to run “two of the largest independent coal and fuel-oil distributing concerns” while supporting numerous causes including “the Jewish Institute for Religion” and raising two sons, Jay and Horace, with his wife, passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/12/archives/irving-a-manacher-president-of-coal-concerns-dies-at-74.html

1970: “Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx” a comedy starring Gene Wilder was released today in the United States.

1971: U.S. premiere of “They Might Be Giants” the film version of James Goldman’s play of the same name for which Goldman wrote the screenplay, co-starring Jack Gilford.

1975: Malcolm Toon is appointed U.S. Ambassador to Israel.

1977: President Gerald Ford received the first annual Yonatan Netanyahu Memorial Award.

1977: “Fire Sale,” a comedy directed by Alan Arkin who also starred in the film along with Rob Reiner and Sid Caesar and with music by Dave Grusin was released in the United States today.

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that, according to US Assistant Secretary of State Alfred Atherton, it would be "perfectly reasonable" for Israel to seek compensation from the Arab states for the property left behind by Jewish refugees who came to Israel after 1948. The Prime Minister designate, Menachem Begin, assured the press that his election wouldn't affect Israeli relations with Germany

1981(7^th of Sivan, 5741): Two days after the IAF destroyed the Osirak nuclear reactor Jews celebrate the Second Day of Shavuot

1981: Four days after he had passed away, funeral services were held today for ninety-three year old Romanian native and American trained attorney Oscar Lazarus, who founded a watch repair shop with his brother that became the Benrus Watch Company passed away today.

1981: “Western European governments were sharply crucial today of Israel’s air raid that destroyed a French-built nuclear facility in Iraq” with the British calling it “a grave breach of international law,” the French calling it a “violation of French law” and the Italians expressing “grave concern.’  (Editor’s note – nobody said anything about what would have happened if the Iraqis had been allowed to begin developing a nuclear weapon.)

1981: In Jerusalem, the former Shelly Stevens and “Avner Hershlag, an Israeli fertility specialist gave birth Neta-Lee Hershberg, better known as Natalie Portman the Harvard graduate and Academy Award winning actress who took her grandmother’s maiden name for her stage name and has appeared in a wide variety of films including “Star Wars :Episode III,” “The Other Boleyn Girl” and “Black Swan.”

1982: Today, the IAF launch “Operation Mole Cricket 19” an air campaign designed to suppress Syrian air defenses in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley.

1982: Units of the Golani Brigade and the Barak Armored Brigade began their attack on Doha and Kafr Sil, two villages on the outskirts of Beirut.

1983: Leo Abse began serving as a Member of Parliament for Torfaen.

1983: Julia “Neuberger,the Social Democratic Party candidate for Tooting” finished third in today’s General Election , coming in third with 8,317 votes (18.1%).

1985: Abraham David Sofaer completed his service as Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

1987: Gad Yaacobi began serving as Minister of Communications today

1987: The trial of Klaus Barbie took a new turn today as historians, led by the niece of Charles de Gaulle, began testifying over the objections of Mr. Barbie's attorney. Genevieve de Gaulle, 66 years old, a survivor of the Nazi Ravensbruck camp, told how gypsy girls were sterilized by X-ray and Polish girls were mutilated in experiments. A historian, Leon Poliakov, 76, said the killing of Jews, gypsies and mentally ill Germans was the cornerstone of Hitler's drive to conquer the world. Countering claims that SS officers such as Mr. Barbie were unaware of the fate awaiting Jews in the camps, Mr. Poliakov quoted Heinrich Himmler, the SS leader, as telling officers in 1943: ''The Jews will be exterminated. It is clear. It is part of our program.'' (As reported by Reuters)

1989(6^th of Sivan, 5749): Shavuot

1989: Rabbi Eugene J. Sack of Mountain View, CA, presided over the marriage of his son Robert D. Sack and Anne Katherine Hilker who are “associates at the New York law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.”

1992: In Toronto, Stuart Hyman, “the Chairman and Governor of the Markham Royals, and Vice Chairman of the Ontario Junior Hockey League” and his wife Vicky gave birth to Zachary Martin "Zach" Hyman, the Left Wing for the Toronto Maple Leafs and “award winning” author of children’s books.

992: On the 25 anniversary of the 1967 Middle East War, an article, entitled “Voices of Israel: To Many, the Fruits of the '67 War Taste Bitter,” The New York Times reported on how some Israelis view the road their country has traveled since that June.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/08/world/voices-of-israel-to-many-the-fruits-of-the-67-war-taste-bitter.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

1993(20^th of Sivan, 5753): Seventy-seven year old Anglo-Jewish political scientist Samuel Edward Finer passed away today. (As reported by Dennis Kavanagh

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9394-kluger-solomon-ben-judah-aaron

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-professor-samuel-finer-1490939.html

1994(30th of Sivan, 5754): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1995: “Congo,” a sci-fi thriller with music by Jerry Goldsmith was released today in the United States.

1996(22nd of Sivan, 5756): Twenty-six year old Yaron Unger and 25 year old Erfat “Unger of Kiryat Arba, were killed when terrorists fired on their car near Beit Shemesh.”

1999: Haaretz reported that Israel and the U.S. are both demanding the immediate release of 13 Jews arrested in Iran on charges of espionage, saying the charges are trumped-up and may be motivated by anti-Semitism. The 13 Jews, from Shiran and Isfahan in southern Iran, were arrested on the eve of Passover and accused of spying for the "Zionist regime" and "world arrogance" - references to Israel and the United States respectively. However, the arrests only became public knowledge on Monday. Those arrested include a rabbi, a ritual slaughterer and teachers.

2000(6th of Sivan, 5760): First Day of Shavuot

2000: In “How Six Day War Almost Led to Armageddon” published today, Isabella Ginor described how close Israel’s victory almost led to nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/10/israel1

2001(18^th of Sivan, 5761): Parashat Beha’alotcha

2001(18^th of Sivan, 5671): Eighty-seven year old New York native Martin Meltsner, the son of Morris Meltsner and Rose Klarman passed away today in West Palm Beach, FL.

2001(18^th of Sivan, 5671): Social activist and “avid golfer” Louise Sulzberger, “the widow of stockbroker David Hays Sulzberger” and sister-in-law of New York Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger passed away today at the age of 103.

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/10/nyregion/louise-mayer-sulzberger-103-devoted-years-to-social-services.html

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jun/13/local/me-9905

 2002: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Back Then” by Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan and “Nuremberg: The Real Trial of the Century” by William F. Buckley Jr.

2003(9^th of Sivan, 5763) “The three main Palestinian militant groups staged an unusual joint attack today on an Israeli Army outpost here, killing four soldiers and later killing a fifth soldier  in a second attack later today in the West Bank city of Hebron.

2004: Following yesterday’s resignation of Effiam Etiam and Yitzhak Levy from his cabinet, today Prime Minister Sharon is fighting “to maintain his shaky coaltion.”

2005: Yisrael Meir Lau reinstalled as Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv

2005: “Free Zone,” “second film of Amos Giai’s Border Trilogy, co-starring Natalie Portman was released in Israel today.

2005: Richard and Robert B. Sherman were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

2006: Congressman Timothy V. Johnson delivered a speech in the House of Representatives honoring and recognizing “Joel M. Carp upon the occasion of his retirement after 28 years of service with the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.”

2007: In Cedar Rapids, Jonathan Chadick becomes a Bar Mitzvah at Temple Judah.

2007: In an effort to encourage people to get out of their cars and start riding bikes instead, municipal authority packed Tel Aviv's Rabin Square with bicycles for riders who wish to spend part of their day on an urban bicycle trek. A total of 600 street bicycles and 100 bikesfor children above age 6, are offered free of charge to those who want to get to know Tel Aviv on two wheels and use this opportunity to learn about bike-riding as an alternate means of transportation. Dr. Moshe Tiomkin, head of the Tel Aviv Authority for Traffic, Transportation and Parking, explained that the municipality plans to create a web of paths connecting the entire city, so residents may ride bicycles from one point to another, "to work and class, and to run errands on bicycles."

2007: “Stan Lee Media sued Stan Lee; his newer company, POW! Entertainment; POW! subsidiary QED Entertainment; and other former Stan Lee Media staff at POW.”

2007(23^rd of Sivan, 5767): Centenarian plus two Rudolf Arnheim, a refugee from Nazi German whose knowledge of psychology, philosophy  and critical skills were the mark of what used to be called an “educated man” and also made him an outstanding professor of the psychology of art at Harvard, passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/obituaries/14arnheim.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

2008(6th of Sivan, 5768): First Day Shavuot

2008: MSNBC newscaster Andria Mitchell apologized on air today for having “referred to the voters of southwest Virginia region, including Bristol, as rednecks” saying that what she had said was “stupid.”

2008: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates nominated General Norton Schwartz a Jewish 35-year-old veteran with a background in Air Force special operations, as the new Air Force chief of staff. Schwartz, a pilot with more than 4,200 flying hours, served as Commander of the Special Operations Command-Pacific, as well as Alaskan Command, Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense Command Region, and the 11th Air Force. Prior to assuming his current position, Schwartz was Director, the Joint Staff, in Washington, DC. He attended the Air Force Academy and the National War College, and he participated as a crew member in the 1975 airlift evacuation of Saigon. In 1991, he served as chief of staff of the Joint Special Operations Task Force for Northern Iraq in operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. When the Jewish Community Centers Armed Forces and Veteran's Committee presented its Military Leadership Award to Schwartz in 2004, he said he was "Proud to be identified as Jewish as well as an American military leader."

2009(17^th of Sivan, 5769): Sixty-two year old Ralph Lazarus the husband of Barbara (Ullian) Lazarus who split his time between Lake Worth, FL and Chestnut Hill, MA passed away today.

2009: The Foundation for Jewish Studies Northern Virginia Lunch & Learn presents Paul Forbes, teaching “Traditional Biblical Stories: Fact or Fiction?” (The archeological evidence available about the Garden of Eden, Noah’s Ark and Sodom & Gomorrah) at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia

2009: U.S. special Mideast envoy George Mitchell assured Israel today that Washington would remain its close ally despite differences over West Bank settlements and peacemaking with the Palestinians. Mitchell said the U.S. commitment to Israeli security is unshakable, adding, "We come here to talk not as adversaries and in disagreement, but as friends in discussion." The envoy made the comments with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side before a meeting with the premier Tuesday evening.

2009: Jody Wagner won the Democratic nomination for Lt. Governor in Virginia.

2010: The Uri Gurvich Quartet is scheduled to perform at the Washington Jewish Music Festival.

2010: Gilad Hekselman Quartet is scheduled to perform at the Jazz Standard in New York City.

2011(7^th of Sivan, 5771): Second Day of Shavuot

2011: The Ivri Lider Electronic Trio, featuring Ivri Lider – “one of Israel’s biggest selling artists of all time” – is scheduled to perform at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City.

2011: Carolyn Fine, the valedictorian at a northern California high school is planning to deliver her graduation address via a pre-recorded audio message in order to observe Shavuot.

2011: Today was the 135th anniversary of the dedication of the oldest synagogue in the national capital city. On June 9, 1876, less than the month before the nation's centennial, Adas Israel Congregation dedicated its first synagogue.  Flowers and "festoons of evergreens" decorated the sanctuary and American flags "drooped gracefully" over the Ark. The room was filled to capacity and several latecomers were turned away. President Ulysses S. Grant, the first U.S. president to attend synagogue services, sat at the front of the sanctuary on a sofa rented especially for the occasion. He donated $10 to the synagogue's building fund, the equivalent of $200 today.Grant's attendance reflects the unique relationship between the Washington, D.C, Jewish community and national leaders. His presence also held special meaning because, as a Union Army general during the Civil War, Grant issued General Orders No. 11, expelling Jews "as a class" from the areas under his command.  Grant dodged charges of anti-Semitism throughout his political career and perhaps attending this dedication was an overture to the Jewish community.The three-hour dedication ceremony was covered in several local and national newspapers, including The National Republican, The Jewish Messenger, and the Washington Chronicle. In fine detail, the articles described the decorations, prayers, and sermon given by visiting Rabbi George Jacobs of Philadephia's Congregation Beth El Emeth. [As reported by The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington]

2012: Ufruf of Jacob Kline and Alice Baker is scheduled to take place at Aguas Achim in Iowa City, IA.

2012: Ambassador Princeton N. Lyman is scheduled to deliver a talk entitled “Sudan Twenty Seven Years after Operation Moses” which will begin with a reminder of the “evacuation of 9,000 Jewish Ethiopian refugees from Sudan in 1984.”

2012(19^th of Sivan, 5772): Eighty-two year old “Israel Shenker, a scholar trapped in a newsman’s body who was known to readers of The New York Times for his vast erudition and sly, subversive wit,” passed away today at Kibbutz Shoval in southern Israel (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/obituaries/17shenker.html?pagewanted=print

2012: Today, Shabbat, approximately 200 people rode buses commissioned by the Meretz Party as part of a campaign calling for public transportation on the Shabbat.

2012: Speaking in Tel Aviv, Israeli political leader Shelly Yechimovich called on the international community impose a complete embargo on Assad’s Syria.

2013: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Slippage by Ben Greenman

2013: The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington is scheduled to host “Israel@65”

2013: The Maccabeats are scheduled to perform at Temple Oheb Shalom in Baltimore, MD

2013: This year’s Dan Prize Awards Ceremony is scheduled to take place at Tel Aviv University. Among the winners is Leon Wieseltier the literary editor of The New Republic who wrote the must readKaddish

2013: The Hillel Milwaukee is scheduled to receive “a Torah scroll owned by the former Beth El Ner Tamid Synagogue before it combined with Congregation Beth Israel to form Congregation Beth Israel Ner Tamid.

2013: When Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, holds its congregational meeting this evening, Laurie Silber will complete her tenure as President of the Congregation which will mark the end of an era.  For decades, Laurie has served the Cedar Rapids Jewish community in ways too numerous to count. These include Sunday School Teacher (second and third grade for 26 years), Sisterhood President and two terms as President of the Congregation.  She was the driving force behind several initiatives that enriched the community including the quarterly Musical Shabbats and the Shabbat Alive appearances by Rick Recht. Laurie joins a group of unique Jewish women that includes Jochebed, Tzipporah and the daughters of Zelophehad all of whom were more concerned about getting things done right instead of getting to stand in the limelight.  We will miss her steady hand, her iron-willed determination, her passion for her people and the joy she brought to Judaism.  Others may follow in her footsteps, but none will be able to fill her shoes.

2013: As he completes 34 years of service Rabbi Harold Berman is honored with a dinner at Congregation Tifereth Israel in Columbus, Ohio

2013: Despite predictions of ten thousand demonstrators, only several hundred ultra-Orthodox men turned this morning at Jerusalem’s Western Wall to protest the Women of the Wall’s monthly prayer gathering.

2013: “According to documents released today by the state archives,” several months before the 1973 Yom Kippur War, then-Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir used West German diplomatic channels to offer Egypt most of the Sinai Peninsula in exchange for peace,

http://www.timesofisrael.com/golda-meir-offered-egypt-part-of-sinai-for-peace/

2014: The 92^nd Street Y is scheduled to host an evening with Jewish feminist and broadcast journalist Lynn Sheer author of Sally Ride, “the definitive biography of America’s first woman in space.

2014: Today “Dov Ben-Shimon, an executive with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, was named the executive vice president/CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ. (JTA)

2014: “The Knesset authorized in second and third reading today a bill which allocated some one billion shekel to holocaust survivors. The bill was sponsored by Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Welfare Minister Meir Cohen and is the legal cornerstone of a national program to aid survivors.”

2014: “Two Jewish teenagers and their grandfather are chased by an ax-wielding man and three accomplices as they walk to their synagogue in the Paris suburb of Romainville on Shavuot.”

2014: “President Shimon Peres is scheduled to award Italian President Giorgio Napolitano with the Presidential Medal of Distinction, Israel’s highest civilian honor” today. (As reported Marissa Newman)

2015: Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London in collaboration with the SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies is scheduled to present “Paupers and Bankers: Modern Representation of Jews and Money.”

2015: “Arab Movie” is scheduled to be shown at the Cinema South Festival at Sderot.

2015: “Is That You” and “Youth” are scheduled to be shown at the Israel Film Center Festival hosted by JCC Manhattan.

2015: Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport who “wasn’t allowed to defend her doctoral thesis in 1938 under the Nazis because she was part-Jewish” today became Germany’s oldest recipient of a doctorate at when she received the degree today at the age 102.

2015: The Center for Jewish History and American Sephardi Federation are scheduled to present a screening of “Price for Freedom,” a film “dedicated to telling the harrowing history of terror, torture, and triumph of author Dr. Marc Benhuri”

2015: Today “a long list of major American Jewish organizations, many of which had filed amicus briefs supporting the inclusion of the word “Israel” on passports for US citizens born in Jerusalem, expressed dismay at yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling that American citizens born in Jerusalem may only list their birthplace as Jerusalem, rather than as Jerusalem, Israel

2016: The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to hold its annual meeting this evening.

2016: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host the “Inaugural Evelyn Greenberg Preservation Awards”

2016: “Zion80 which “explores Jewish music – from Carlebach to Zorn and everything in between – through the lens of the Afrobeat funk master Fela Anikulapo Kuti” is scheduled to perform at the 17^thAnnual Washington Jewish Music Festival.”

2016: “A Tale of Love and Darkness” based on the novel by Amos Oz is scheduled to shown on the closing night of the 4^thAnnual Israel Film Center.

2016: The Center for Jewish History and the Leo Baeck Institute are scheduled to host “From Vienna to New York” Jewish Exiles Remember ‘Austria’ in the Aftermath of Holocaust” – “a discussion between scholars of Jewish –Austrian culture and former Jewish-Austrian exiles on how ‘Old Austria’ is remembered in the United States today.”

2016: All decent human beings are in mourning over those killed in yesterday’s terrorist that took place “at the restaurant-laden Sarona compound, across from the Kirya military headquarters” in Tel Aviv and pray for the full recovery of those who were wounded during the shooting spree.

2017: “Leonid Slutsky will look to become the first Russian coach to manage in the English Premier League after taking charge of second-tier Hull today.

2017: “A proposed budget cut by President Donald Trump of $3 million to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum has sparked a bipartisan backlash in the nation’s capital” which led “sixty-four members of Congress to send a letter to the president today demanding the budget proposal be amended to maintain the museum’s current funding levels, while Anti-Defamation League chief Jonathan Greenblatt issued a statement calling the cuts “a mistake.”

2017:  “The Women’s Balcony,” the “number one film of the year in Israel” is scheduled to open Kew Gardens and Malverne, NY.

2017: “¿Que haré yo con esta espada?” (“And what will I do with this sword?”), “a 4.5 hour performance with two intermissions” is scheduled to be performed today, at Sherover Hall, Jerusalem Theater.

2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host an after presentation by Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield speaking on 'Between radical acceptance and Tikkun olam: Rabbi Akiva's journey through an imperfect world.'

2017: “Letters from Baghdad,” “the true story of Gertrude Bell and Iraq” is scheduled to premiere in Metropolitan Washington.

2017: In New York, Town and Village Synagogue is scheduled to host “20s & 30s Broadway Shabbat.”

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/20s-30s-broadway-shabbat-tickets-34146246342?aff=erelexpmlt

2018(26^th of Sivan, 5778): Parashat Shelach-Lecha;

2018: “Don’t Forget Me” is scheduled to be shown at the International Film Festival at Long Beach Island, NJ.

2018(26^th of Sivan, 5778): Ninety-two year old American photographer Clemens Kalischer, the Bavarian born son of physiotherapist “Ella (Norden) Kalischer” and psychoanalyst Hans Kalischer and the husband of Angela Kalischer passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

http://forward.com/articles/175376/photographer-clemens-kalischer-survived-holocaust/?p=all

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/obituaries/clemens-kalischer-97-refugee-photographer-of-humanity-dies.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/462/the-work-of-clemens-kalischer

2018: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to hold Shabbat services this morning after which “freshers are invited to the Chaplain’s house for a hot, home cooked lunch,” while sharing their stories from their first year at Oxford.

2018: Lovers of Literature are scheduled to “celebrate” the ninth anniversary of the founding of Tablet.

http://www.tabletmag.com/

2019: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth by Josh Levin, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialize World by David Epstein and the recently released paperback edition of The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner and Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else) by Ken Auletta, “the son of an an Italian-American father and a Jewish-American mother.”

2019: After a month, this evening, the Serenbe Playhouse is scheduled to host the final performance of “Ragtime,” “the Tony Award-winning musical based on E.L. Doctorow’s novel of the same name.”

2019: This morning Chabad of Iowa City, under the leadership of Rabbi Avrohom Belsofsky is scheduled to host a reading of the Ten Commandments followed by a family style dairy buffet.

2019(6^th of Sivan, 5779): Shavuot

2020: The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host on-line Debbi Meyer as she lectures on The Trials of King David: Fallout.

2020: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host a virtual poetry writing workshop inspired by “The New Colossus.”

2020: The Schusterman Center of Israel Studies is scheduled to present online “Israel After the Elections: What’s Next?”

2020: The Israel Film Center Festival is scheduled to host on-line a screening of “The Electrifiers” followed by a question and answer session.

2020: San Francisco based JIMENA is scheduled to host Iranian American Jewish journalist and activist Karmel Melamed provides a virtual presentation about the lives Jews under Iran’s totalitarian government.

2020: An expert librarian from the Genealogy Institute at the Center for Jewish History is scheduled host a lecture on Facebook on “how toResearch Your Ancestor’s Town with the Center's Online Resources.”

2020: The Combat Anti-Semitism Movement & American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present: “How Muslims and Jews Can Combat Anti-Semitism Together: A Dialogue with Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Al-Issa.”

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1190: During the Third Crusade Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem.  The German emperor was one of three monarchs leading the crusade.  The other two were Phillip Augustus of France and Richard the Lionhearted of England.  From the Jewish point of view, the untimely drowning was a great loss.  “For German Jewry, The Third Crusade could have raised havoc similar to the first.”  That it didn’t was a result of the foresight demonstrated by Frederick. “His timely order not to preach against the Jews, directed to monks and priests, helped, and his warnings to the Diet (Parliament) that anyone convicted of killing Jews would with his own life helped even more.  Local marshals dispersed surly mobs hovering around Jewish districts, and Frederick let it be known that anyone who inflicted injury on a Jew would have his hand chopped off.  At the emperor’s urging, bishops in his realm threatened people who attacked Jews with excommunication.  A Jewish chronicler, Ephraim ben-Jacob of Bonna, wrote, ‘Frederick defended us with all his might and enabled us to live among our enemies, so that no one harmed the Jews.’”

1376: Wenceslaus IV who as Emperor failed to continue the Imperial protection of the Jews of Luxembourg led to their expulsion in 1391 began his reign as King of the Germans.

1493: In Nuremberg, “George Fugger and Regina Imhof” gave birth to their “third and youngest son” Anton Fugger the German merchant who hired Hans Dernschwam the German traveler who described the condition of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire including those “in Constantinople” where “the Jews were thick ‘as ants’” and “there were forty-two or more synagogues divided by nationality” serving a community that numbered “over Jewish men alone.”

1539: Pope Paul III sends out letters to his Bishops calling for a delay in the start of the Council of Trent, which would turn out to be one of the major conclaves in the history of the Catholic Church.  Pope Paul III is the Pope who is credited with starting a series of tribunals that became known as the Roman Inquisition or, more simply, The Inquisition. While the Inquisition was aimed at a variety of non-believers, over the centuries Jews, Marranos and Conversos suffered disproportionately under this scourge.

1577: Pope Gregory XIII issued a warrant that “confirmed the statutes of the (Roman) Jewish community and permitted the collection of taxes.”

1624: During the Dutch War for Independence France and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Compiegne which enabled France to supply the Dutch with financial aid in their fight to gain independence from Spain. Since Protestant Holland’s victory over Catholic Spain was in the best interest of the Jews since the former had provided a safe haven and the latter followed a ruinous policy of anti-Semitism.

1648: Start of the Cossacks ten year war with the Poles also known as the Chmielniki Uprising.  The Jews were caught between the Russian Orthodox Cossacks who hated the Roman Catholic Poles who had been occupying their land.  Jews had served as agents for the Polish nobles managing their lands and collecting the taxes.  For this, and the fact that they were Jews, the Cossack hated them.  At the same time, the Poles betrayed the Jews, in many instances turning them over to the Cossacks thinking that this would mollify the angry horde.  It didn't but from the Jews' point of view that really did not matter since they were killed regardless of what happened. In the ten tumultuous years that followed, over seven hundred Jewish communities were destroyed and between one hundred and five hundred thousand Jews lost their lives. The ensuing sense of helplessness contributed to the rise of the messianic movement which soon followed.

1729(13th of Sivan): Rabbi Abraham ben David Yizhaki, author of Zera Abraham passed away

1749 (7th Sivan 5509): Count Valentine Potocki is burned at the stake in Vilna. The count, along with his friend Zeremba, met an old Jew in a tavern and promised to convert if he could convince them of the preeminence of Judaism. Potoscki converted and eventually settled in Vilna. Zeremba hearing that his friend converted did likewise and moved to Eretz- Israel. His presence became known and he was put on trial for heresy when he refused to recant. His ashes were collected and buried in Vilna where the inscription on tomb read Abraham Ben Abraham Ger Zedek (a righteous proselyte). The Jews of Vilna would visit his grave and say Kaddish.

1759: At Frankfurt an der Oder, Brandenburg, Germany, Naphtali (Herz) Beer and Jente Enoch Beer gave birth to Jacob (Jehuda) Herz Beer, the father of composer Giacomo Meyerbeer.

1760 (26^th of Sivan 5520): On the secular calendar, of Israel ben Eliezer passed away. Also known as the Baal Shem Tov he was the "founder" of the Chassidic Movement.  Born in 1700 in Lokop, Podolia and orphaned at a young age, he was raised by the Jewish community and spent much of his time alone in the nearby forests. After he married, he moved to the Carpathian Mountains and then to a small town where his wife set up an inn. At age thirty-six, he revealed himself to the community as a healer and a comforter. He received the name 'Baal Shem Tov' (Master of the Good Name) and was simply called the 'Besht'. His major philosophy consisted of worshipping G-d with joy and believing that simple prayers when uttered in earnest were more important that extreme intellectualization. The Besht believed that Tzaddikim, or righteous ones, were sent by G-d to guide the people. Though he left no writings of his own, he was immortalized by the often miraculous and magnified stories of his life as told by his closest followers.

1768: Birthdate of Lyon Israel Samuel the native Heidelsheim, Germany who died in Paris in 1843.

1760:Canadian businessman and political leader, Aaron Hart, became a member of the St. Paul's Lodge of Freemasons today “making him one of the first Jews in North America to become a Mason”

1783: In Baltimore, Phillip Russell and his wife gave birth to Samuel Russell who settled in Savanah 1803 where he married Sarah de Lyon in 1806.

1797: “The Treaty of Tripoli” which had been ratified unanimously by the U.S. Senate three days ago and which said that “the Government of the United States is not any sense founded on the Christian religion” took “effect as the law of the land” today.

1789 Birthdate of Eduard Israel Kley, the native of Wartenberg who was one of the “founders of Reform Judaism.”

1799(7^thof Sivan, 5559): Last observance of Shavuot in the 18^th century

1802: David Moses Dyte married Hannah Lazarus at the Great Synagogue in London today.

1805: Yusuf Karamanli signed a treaty today marking the end of the “First Barbary War” which was part of the United States early foray into the world of Islam and Middle East which is so well documented in Power, Faith and Fantasyby Michael B. Oren.

1810: In Mlecice, Marcus and Maria Lobl gave birth to Katherina Lobl

1812: Moses Haim Montefiore married Judith Cohen today in the United Kingdom.

1815: “Prince Karl von Hardenberg, the Prussian representative to the Congress of Vienna, wrote an urgent request to the Senate of Lubeck to grant civil rights to its Jewish population.”

1816: One day after he had passed away, 78 year old Joseph Gompertz, the son of Barent Gompertz and Rachel Benjamin Isaac, the husband of Esther Moses and the father of Lyon Gomperts, was buried today at “Hoxton Old Jewish Burial Ground.”

1818(6^thof Sivan 5578) Shavuot observed on the same day that “The British Parliament was dissolved by Prime Minister Jenkinson, and new elections werescheduled for August 4 for the House of Commons

1825: Seven days after he had passed away in his house at Bath, 51 year old Lyon Joseph was buried today in the “Plymouth Hoe Burial Ground

1826(5^thof Sivan, 5586): Parashat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot; on the Jewish calendar yahrzeit of Rabbi Gershom of Metz

1827: Birthdate of Thomas W. Ferry, U.S. Senator from Michigan who would be the first President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate to attend the consecration of an orthodox synagogue in Washington, D.C.

1829: Birthdate of Filosseno Luzzatto “an Italian Jewish scholar” who was the son of Samuel David Luzzatto.

1834: John Levy married Mary Lazarus at the Great Synagogue in London today.

1837(7^thof Sivan, 5597): Second Day of Shavuot, Yizkor is recited for the second time during the Presidency of Martin Van Buren.

1837(7th of Sivan): Rabbi Chaim Isaac Mussafia of Jerusalm, author of Chaim va Chesed passed away

1846(16^thof Sivan, 5606): Fifty-four year old Heimann Joseph Michael, the native of Hamburg who became a leading Hebrew bibliographer of the first half of the 19^thcentury passed away. His impact outlived his death as can be seen by the fact that his seminal work Or ha-Hayyim which was edited by his son was published in Frankfort in 1891.

1849: In Poland, Rachel Lubin (Holtz) Weinstock and Solomon Weinstock gave birth to David Lubin American merchant and agriculturalist who became Director of the International Society for the Colonization of Russian Jews in 1891.

1852: In New York, a Jewish peddler was arrested today on charges of having stolen a watch valued at $30 from a resident of Newton.

1856(7^thof Sivan, 5616): Yizkor is recited on the second day of Shavuot for the last time during the Presidency of Franklin Pierce.

1859(8^thof Sivan, 5619): Samuel Russell died today aboard the HMS Colossus from injuries he suffered when he fell from the main deck.  A resident of Sheerness, Russell was married to Yitta Russell.  Sun Street was renamed Russell Street in his honor.

1859: In St. Louis, MO, Morris Rosenheim and Matilda Ottenheimer gave birth Alfred Faist Rosenheim the architect educated at Washington University, Hassell’s Institute and MIT whose projects included the Rosenberg Memorial Library in Galveston, TX.

1860: In New York, Congregation B’nai Israel purchased additional land on the corner of Stanton and Forsyth Streets on which they were building a sanctuary that was consecrated in August of the same year.

1861: In Prague, “Moses and Rosie (Fishl) Adler gave birth to Savannah, GA businessman and philanthropist Leopold Adler, the husband of “Hannah Gukenheimer” the founder of Leopold Adler Department Store (at one time the largest in Georgia), the chairman of the board of Savannah Bank and Trust Company, the President of Mikve Israel Congregation and the Chairman of Jewish Relief Drives since World War I.

1863: James (Jacob) Seligman and Rosa Seligman gave birth to Francis (Fanny) Nathan.

1864(6^thof Sivan, 5624) Shavuot observed by soldiers on both sides of the line as Grant moved to begin the siege of Petersburg in the aftermath of the blood battles in and around Cold Harbor

1867(7^thof Sivan, 5627): Second Day of Shavuot and on the Jewish calendar yahrtzeit of Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Mussafia of Jerusalem

1868: In Grebenstein, Germany, “Beer / Bär Vorenberg and Taubchen (Henriette) Vorenberg” gave birth to Boston merchant and credit union pioneer Felix Vorenberg, the Chairman of the Board of the Gilchrist Company and with fellow merchant Edward A. Filene, the founder of the Massachusetts Credit Union, “the first of its kind” in the United States who was the husband of the former Rose Frankenstein the father Frank Vorenberg, the President of the Gilchrist Company.

1869: In Louisville, KY, Louis and Helen Nemark Marocsson gave birth to violinist Sol Marcosson, the “first violin of the Cleveland Orchestra” starting in 1918, brother of author Isaac Marcosson and husband of Dorothy Frew with whom he raised four children – “John, Fred, Ruth and June.

https://case.edu/ech/articles/m/marcosson-sol

1870: The New York Times reported that the fact that Sir Moses Montefiore has verified reports of the massacre of Jews in Romania has discredited claims that these attacks did not take place.

1872: “The Russian Jews” published today described a paper on the Jews of northwestern Russia that was presented at a recent meeting of the Russian Geographical Society held at St. Petersburg.  The author of the paper divides the Jews into a variety of groups and sub-groups.  According to him the Jews belong to two major groupings which differ in regard to “religion and language.”  One group believes in the Talmud and speaks a “corrupt German dialectic.”  The second group, called the Karaites, “rejects the Talmud, are not even absolute believers in the Bible… “have their own traditions which have collected into a book” that “has the same authority over them as the Talmud has over other Jews”  and speak a language that “is of Tartar Origin.  The author goes on to divide the first group into two subgroups – the Mitnagdim and the Chasidim who are called “Jumpers” by the Russians because they leap from the ground when praying – and describes the differences in their respective views and practices.  Finally, the Jews are broken down into Four Groups that include “the worldly Jews,” “the devout” Jews, “the Germans” who are followers of Moses Mendelsohn and the “Epicureans” who reject all forms of Jewish custom and ceremony as well as the Talmud.

1872: “The Romanian Jews and the Reichstag” published today reported that in May of this year  the German government has joined other European powers in responding to requests to help the Jews of Romania. The government announced that it could not interfere in the internal affairs of another country especially since none of those affected were German citizens. Germany reiterated the request of the other powers which had been made in February that persecution of the Jews stop.  The government also took credit for the release of some of the wrongfully convicted Jews. [Editor’s note- the issue of the treatment of Romania’s Jews is one that would agitate the European Powers and the United States during the last decades of the 19^th century.]

1872: “The Israelites of Prussia” published today reported that “the Jewish questions” (the treatment of the Jews of Romania) is of special interest in Berlin because “trade and banking is mainly in the hands of the elect people.”  “The financial heads of the dispersed nation have joined..to make their power felt to get the other nations to act against Romania.“A Committee of the Alliance Israelite Universelle has been formed” in Berlin “as a standing council of war” that would destroy the value of Romanian bonds. “That is a strong measure, but one for which the Jews have the power.” [Editor’s Note – The view of the Jew as “the other” who is part of an international financial concern would grow along with other European stereotypes: International Communist Conspirator and impoverished shiftless vermin.]

1872: “Jewish University” published today reported that a Jewish university was opened at Berlin in May.  The Jewish community has been working on this project for several years and its opening is another example of the great strides made them in the Kaiser’s Empire.  The ceremony was attended only by Jewish officials but this should not be of any concern since there are plenty of Jews to attend the school.

1873: Simon Cook began serving as a Cadet and Midshipman in the United States Navy.

1875(7^thof Sivan, 5635): Second Day of Shavuot

1877: “A Jewish Suit For Divorce” published today described the adjudication of cause of action in Great Britain filed by an American Jew named Elias Isaacs naming his wife Deborah as respondent  and her lover, Bloc, as correspondent. The jury found that the respondent and co-respondent were guilty of damages but declined to assess damages because the petitioner had “conduced” (contributed to) his wife’s misconduct by separating from her for an extended period of time and not given her the protection one should expect in a marital relationship. [And people think that Jews are dull and boring]

1877: “The Place of Wailing” published today reported that the picture which Jerusalem presents that longest haunts the memory is perhaps the spectacle of the Jews wailing before the ancient wall of their city.  There in full sunlight, bowed in every attitude of grief, their faces set against those gigantic blocks which reveal…their antiquity, a group of 30 to 40 Jews are seen, perhaps a little too much as in an opera, by a long line of cold-faced Europeans.  The two groups are in startling contrast. Everything in the one speaks of the orderly life, the suppression of feel, the formality of vesture, a colorless insipidity, the outcome of our modern conventional existence; the other shows us figures, for the most part, which might stepped froth from the pages of the Bible, some of the heads of such grandeur that they might be the descendants of prophets; maidens whose contrite aspect reminds one of Ruth and Esther, surrender themselves to a sorrow which reverberates through the ages and is the one true bond which connect the grand days of old with the present.

1879: In Cleveland, OH, Louis and Fannie Grossman gave birth to Cleveland Law School trained attorney Mary Belle Grossman, the municipal judge who was a member of Hadassah and the Temple Women’s Association.

1879: Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the point resolution reported by the Committee on Foreign Affairs in relation to treaty negotiations with Russia as to American Israelites.

1880: Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy.  Belmont was the son of August Belmont the Hessian Jew who came to the United States as a representative of the Rothschilds and built a fortune of his own.  The naval career might have seemed strange for the son of a Jews. But, his maternal grandfather Commodore Mathew Perry who commanded the naval expedition that opened trade with Japan and a maternal grand-uncle was Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of the War of 1812. 1880(1st of Tammuz, 5640: Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1882: Birthdate of John David Whiting, the native of Jerusalem who grew up in the American Colony and served as the U.S. Vice Counsul of Jerusalem from 1908 to 1910 and again from 1915 to 1917.

1883(5^thof Sivan, 5643): Sixty-three year old Baron Simon von Winterstein, Austrian businessman and member of the Imperial Council who also served as President of the Viennese Jewish Community passed away today.

1883: It was reported today that soprano Sophia Neuberger will be accompanying violinist Camilla Urso on an extended concert tour.

1886(7^thof Sivan, 5646): Second Day of Shavuot

1886: For the second day in a row, final exams are scheduled to be given on Shavuot at Philadelphia’s Central High School despite the requests of the city’s rabbis to make other arrangements.

1888: The Baltimore Branch of the “Alliance Israelite Universille” whose members included the father of Henrietta Szold was formed today

1888: In Manhattan, Barbara and Jacob Henry Adler gave birth to Abraham Adler

1890: It was reported today that the upcoming sixth annual graduation exercises for the students at the Hebrew Technical Institute will take place at the school which is located on Stuyvesant Street.

1891: Two days after she had passed away, Henrietta (Delgado) Alberga, the wife of David Judah Alberga and the mother of Theresa and Eugene Alberga, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1893: In Berkley, VA, founding of Congregation Mickroh Kades which holds services three times a day and hold religious school classes six days a week.

1894(6^thof Sivan, 5654): Shavuot

1894: “No More New Plays To See” published today described the theatre season which has just come to the end including the fact that  Sidney Grundy has blamed the prejudice of the reviewers for the failure of his five act play, “An Old Jew.”  However, “anybody who reads the play will be likely to decide that it failed because it is a very bad play with a wildly-improbable plot and superabundance of talk.

1894: As part of the increasingly aggressive campaign to convert Jews living in the United States, Reverend John Wilkinson, the English minister who leads the mission to convert English Jews, address the meeting of the American Hebrew Christian Mission Society.

1894: Solomon Moses who has enjoyed a long association with the United Hebrew Charities is among those serving on the Tenement House Committee appointed the governor to examine conditions in this kind of dwelling in New York City.

1895: It was reported today that there 475 girls enrolled in the Louis Down Town Sabbath and Daily Technical Schools which were founded by Mrs. A. H. Louis.

1895(18^thof Sivan, 5655): Forty-forty year old German born composer and conductor Martin Roder passed away in Boston where he had been serving as chairman of the vocal department in the New England Conservatory since 1892.

1895: Three days after he had passed away, 74 year old Michael Baber Isaacs, the husband of Barbad native Kate Isaacs and the father of Sara Isaacs, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1895: Sarah Chapman was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1897: Wisconsin native Louis C. Wolf was promoted to 2^nd Lt. in the Engineers.

1897: Two days after he had passed away, Nathan Rhenberg was buried today in London at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”

1898: Rabbi H.P. Mendes of New York’s Spanish and Portuguese has been elected of the newly formed Orthodox Jewish Congregational Union of America which is made up of congregations from the United States and Canada.

1898: “Minister Straus Honored” published today described “an informal reception” given by The Judeans Oscar S. Straus following his appointment as the U.S. Minister to Turkey.

1898: The Jewish Chronicle carried a vivid account of an anti-Jewish riot in Jassy, Romania — a place that the paper decided was no longer safe for Jews

1898: One day after he had passed away Barnard Blumstein was buried in London today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”

1898(20^th of Sivan, 5658): Seventy four year old Rabbi Samuel Mohilewer who was an early Zionist leader and proponent of the founding of the Jewish Colonial Bank passed away today leaving a legacy that included his Joseph who was also a Zionist and the rabbi at Bialystok.

1899: Birthdate of Lemberg native Irma Weitsenkorn, who gained fame as the American social reformer and humanitarian Irma May.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/may-irma

1899: Louis Pearshall, Louis Stern, Isador Straus and Julia Richman are among the directors named to oversee the operations of the reconfigured Education Alliance.

1899: Captain Alfred Dreyfus left French Guiana today on board the French cruiser Sfax.

1899: As part of his ongoing “Jew-baiting crusade” Count Walter Puckler-Muskau gave a second lecture in Berlin today entitle “The Progressive Judaisation of Germany.

1899: At Rodoph Shalom, Rabbi Rudolph Grossman delivered a sermon about the plight of Captain Dreyfus entitled “Justice.”

1900: Anti-Semitic riots broke out at Tuchel, the West Prussian city that was the home of the famed pharmacologist and toxicologist Louis Lewin

1900: Birthdate of Alfred Harding who was transported from Prague to Ujazdow to Majdanek in 1942 where he was murdered at the age of 42.

1901:  In Berlin, Rosa Loewe and Edmond Loewe, “a noted Jewish operetta star who performed throughout Europe and in North and South America including starring as Count Danilo in the 1906 Berlin production of The Merry Widow” gave birth to composer, Frederic Lowe who teamed with Alan Jay Lerner to create such

hits as Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon and My Fair Lady. (As reported by Stephen Holden)

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/15/obituaries/frederick-loewe-dies-at-86-wrote-my-fair-lady-score.html

http://www.frederickloewe.org/fritz/bio.htm

1901: In Lithuania “Morris and Sarah (Notes) Flom” gave birth to Lehigh University alum Samuel Louis Flom, the husband of Julia Mittle Tampa, FL, businessman who “served as chairman of the board of Florida Steel” from its founding in 1937 until his death in 1980 while serving as President of Schaarai Zedek.

1901: Birthdate of the multi-talented Englishman Eric Maschwitz.

http://spartacus-educational.com/SPYmaschwitz.htm

1902(5^thof Sivan, 5662): Erev Shavuot

1902: Birthdate of Cincinnati native Dr. Maurice Levine, the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at his undergraduate alma mater the University of Cincinnati

http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OhCiUWC0003.xml;query=;brand=default

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.128.5.652?journalCode=ajp

1903: In Pittsburgh, the sixth annual convention of the Federation of American Zionist came to an end today.

1904: Theodor Kohn was forced to resign as an archbishop because he was born Jewish.  (Is this a reminder of the Inquisition or a harbinger of Nazi rules on race?)

1905(7^thof Sivan, 5665): Second Day of Shavuot

1905: Hans Kelsen, the Bohemian born Jewish jurist was baptized as a Roman Catholic, the first of two religious conversions that he would undergo.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/kelsen-hans

1906: Sixty-three year old Mary Carinna Putnam Jacobi, an American suffragette and physician who was the widow of Dr. Abraham Jacobi, the pioneering Jewish pedestrian passed away.

1906: “Moorish Jews Grateful” published today reported that “one of the last and strongest instructions given by Secretary Root to the representatives of” the United States “at the Algeciras Conference related to the protection of the Jews in Morocco and the obtaining for them of equal privileges guaranteed by the signatory nations.”

1907: The parents of Riva (Rebecca) Hillesum-Bernstein who would be the maternal grandparents of Riva (Rebecca) Hillesum-Bernstein arrived in Amsterdam where they were re-united with their daughter and son.

1908: Birthdate of Omaha native Elmer Greenberg who won All-American honors while playing “guard at the University of Nebraska from 1927-1930.”

1908: Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, the son of August Belmont, who inherited a fortune large enough when his father died to marry a Vanderbilt.  In an era of matrilineal Judaism, Belmont was not Jewish and he certainly was not considered to be one as he moved through the high society of his time. But he was August’s son and the enemies of August never let anybody forget about his Jewish antecedents.

1909: First day of a two day conference held in New York that would create the youth organization known as Young Judaea.

1909: Sir Osmond d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 1st Baronet and his wife gave birth to his oldest son Major-General Sir Henry Joseph "Harry" d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 2nd Baronet

1910: Gustave Bauer, a banker from Madrid was elected, to the Spanish Parliament as the deputy for Corogna. He was the first Jew elected to public office since the expulsion in 1492.

1911: Birthdate of Hans Herzl, son of Theodor Herzl.

1911: After 104 performances at the Winter Garden Theatre, the curtain came down on Jerome Kern’s “La Belle Paree” the musical revue “that launched Al Jolson’s career.”

1912: Today marked the second and final day of the fourth annual convention of Russian Polish Jews where the President Samuel Kanirch had announced at the opening session plans to erect a hospital on Lexington Avenue to be known as Beth David which was projected to cost $150,000,

1913: “New Institution Opened for Foreigners Who Work at Night” published today described adult newly founded adult education run by the Federation of Oriental Mews of America under the leadership of Mrs. Victor Schwartz, which according to Joseph Godalecia will soon be offering “new classes o accommodate elderly men who want to learn” English.

1913(5^thof Sivan, 5673): Erev Shavuot

1914(16^thof Sivan, 5674): Thirty-eight year old William “Willie” Hammerstein the New York City born “son of Oscar Hammerstein, the theater impresario, and his first wife, née Rose Blau” “the manager of Victoria Theatre and Roof Garden” who had married Annie Nemo, the sister of his first wife Helen Nimo with who had two sons, Reginald and Oscar, the award winning “teammate of Jerome Kern and Richard Rogers, passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/06/11/100319583.pdf

1915: In Lachine, Quebec, Lescha (née Gordin) and Abraham Bellows gave birth to Solomon Bellows who gained famed as author Sol Bellow whose famous works include Herzog and Humboldt’s Giftand who won both the Pulitzer and the Nobel prizes.

1915: The comments of Reverend S. Edward Young, the pastor of the Bedford Presbyterian Church following the yesterday’s decision by the Georgia Prison Board not to commute Leo Frank’s death sentence published today said that “The Georgia Prison Board evidently has been under the spell of Georgia prejudice against Frank” and that ‘Now is the time for the whole nation express itself to the governor” to have him grant Frank clemency.

1915: Maurice B. Kovnat, the Secretary of the Anti-Capital Punishment Society of America expressed his hope that Leo Frank’s life would be spared saying that “We trust that the fervent prayers of thousands of people outside as well as in Georgia will be heard and acted upon in like spirit.”

1915: “After a conference today with attorneys representing Leo M. Frank and Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey” scheduled the “hearing of arguments for and against Frank’s application for a commutation of death sentence to life for imprisonment” for June 15 at nine o’clock.

1915: The Actions Committee (Va'ad HaPoel HaZioni) convenes in Copenhagen

1915: Mrs. Helen Rothschild, the wife of a clothing manufacturer, was taken to Flushing Hospital this morning after suffering what appeared to be an accidental drug overdose.

1916: In Chicago, Gilbert I. Stadeker, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Stadeker married “Nannette Rosenthal, the daughter of Sarah Rosenthal.”

1916: The National Republican Convention which nominated Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who would often vote with Brandeis and Cardozo during his second stint on the court, for President and which Samuel S. Koenig attended as a delegate from New York came to a close today.

1916: In Boston, “Nathan Rosenberg, a grocery owner, and Phoebe Rosenberg née Swart, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe” gave birth to William Rosenberg, founder of Dunkin Donuts.  Rosenberg opened his first Dunkin Donut shop in his native New England in 1950.  Not only was he a pioneer in this particular food genre, he was a pioneer in the franchise industry.  Rosenberg was an equine enthusiast and philanthropist.  By the time he died at the age of 86 he had given millions to several causes including Harvard Medical School where a chair was endowed in his honor.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/23/business/william-rosenberg-86-founder-of-dunkin-donuts.html

1916: “Degree of D.D., honoris causa” was conferred on Gotthard Deutsch by Hebrew Union College.

1917: A column styled "Latest Publication" published today reported that copies of “The Russian Revolution” by Isaac Don Levine and the “The Holy Scriptures,” a new English translation published by the Jewish Publication Society were available in New York City.

1917: The Confirmation Exercises at the Chicago Home for Jewish Orphans are scheduled to held today at 628 Drexel Avenue where fifteen boys and ten girls will be honored.

1917: Reverend Herbert S. Goldstein, the leader of “the new Institutional Synagogue” held “second Jewish religious revival meeting this morning in center of the Jewish district of Harlem.”

1917: The Executive Board of the Jewish Congress Association is scheduled to open a three day meeting today where it will discuss “all matters pertain to the upcoming election of delegates.”

1917: In the United States, three hundred and thirty-five thousand people chose representatives for the first American Jewish Congress. The Congress would meet for the first time in 1918 under the leadership of Rabbi Stephen Wise. Founded to ameliorate the suffering from WW I, the Congress became an advocate for civil rights and civil liberties as well as seeing to it that the Jewish point of view was taken into consideration on the national political scene.  The organization is a staunch defender of the doctrine of separation of church and state and an ardent advocate for the state of Israel.

1917: The Hebrew Institute on W. Taylor Street and the Hebrew Literary Society on South Ashland are two of the special polling places for the election sponsored by the Jewish Congress Association of Chicago.

1917: It was estimated that in New York, “about 150,000 Jewish men and women” voted today “for delegates to the American Jewish Congress” which is scheduled to meet in Washington on September 2 “to consider means of bringing political equality and relief to Jews in any part of the world where they may be burdened by oppression and suffering.

1918: Two days after she had passed away, 37 year old Betsy Goldberg, the wife of Barnett Goldberg was buried today in London at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”

1918: “Jewish sentiment toward the meeting demanding recognition of the Soviet Government was expressed” today “by William Edlin, editor of The Day in an article in which he appealed to Russian Jews of the city to ‘boycott the mass meeting’ by remaining away, or, if they do attend, to ‘make it clearly known that their sympathies are not with the Bolsheviki, but clearly against them.’”

1919: British economist William Cunningham passed away. Cunningham was the author of The Growth of English Industry and Commerce in which he described the status of Jews in medieval England.  “The Jews had no rights or status of their own; they were the mere chattles of the King; all that they had was his.  In this lay their security from popular violence: but it was a security for which they had to pay dearly.  Their transactions were all registered in the Exchequer.”  This meant that the debts due to Jewish money lenders were really due to the king.  And since Christians could not lend money interest, the English king “had indirectly a monopoly on money-lending” in his realm.

1920: The Friends of Jewish Music are scheduled to sponsor a program at the Y.W.H.A. featuring the works of Solomon Golub who will perform his own compositions.

1921: Birthdate of Lower Saxony native Oskar Gröning the SS officer “known as the bookkeeper of Auschwitz.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/bookkeeper-of-auschwitzs-plea-for-mercy-rejected-german-media/ar-AAuNM0R?li=BBnbfcL&OCID=msnHomepage&li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

1921(3^rdof Sivan, 5681): Fifty-two year old Julius Benjamin “Julie” Freeman a pitcher with the St. Louis Browns passed away today who may or may not have been Jewish.

1922(14^thof Sivan, 5682): Parashat Nasso

1922: It was reported today that in Massachusettes, the state Senate has followed the lead of the House and voted to remove “John Singer Sargent’s painting ‘The Synagogue’ from the Boston Public Library after Jews led by Representative Coleman Silbert had objected to the painting.

1923: In Slatinské Doly, Mechel Hoch and Hannah Slomowitz gave birth to Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch who gained fame as British media mogul Ian Robert Maxwell.

1923: Cornerstone laying ceremony for the New Hebrew Home for the aged at 1125 Spring Road, NW in Washington, DC.

1923: Birthdate of French actress Marie Madeleine Berthe Lebeau who gained fame as the female French guitar player in “Casablanca” who is real life had been forced to flee from the Nazis with her Jewish husband, actor Marcel Dalio.

1923: Twenty-eight year old WWI U.S. Army veteran and editor of Jewish publications including the Maccabean Meyer W. Weisgal, the Polish born son of Solomon and Lea Weisgal married Shirley Hirshfeld today.

1924: “Dangerous Clues” a crime film with a script co-authored by Adolf Lantz was released today in Germany.

1924: The Republican National Convention which Samuel S. Koenig attended as a delegate from New York opened in Cleveland, Ohio with President Calvin Coolidge a shoo-in to be nominated for the top spot.

1925: In Boston, MA, Lena (Katzenberg) and Simon Hentoff, a traveling salesman” gave birth to historian and author Nat Hentoff.

https://www.cato.org/people/nat-hentoff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/opinions/hentoff.htm

1925: In Passaic, NJ, Mildred Scheff and George Horowitz, a real estate broker and businessman gave birth to James Arnold Horowitz who gained fame as author James Salter.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/20/books/james-salter-a-writers-writer-short-on-sales-but-long-on-acclaim-dies-at-90.html?_r=0

1926: Rabbi Maurice Maser became Director of the Hebrew Home for the Aged in Washington, DC.

1926: Socialist Congressman and champion of the underdog Meyer London was buried today at Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Queens following a funeral that included a procession of 50,000 mourners and half a million on-lookers.  London may have the distinction of being the only Socialist who was condemned as an anti-American radical to have a United States naval vessel named in his honor. The U.S.S. Meyer London, one the famed fleet of Liberty ships, was launched in 1943 and was sunk by an enemy torpedo off the coast of Libya in 1944.

1927: It was reported today that “Rabbis of all synagogues were requested to speak on the 150th anniversary of the adoption of the flag, in a resolution passed by the Synagogue Council of America” this Shabbat which falls three days before the officially designated date (June 14) of a holiday championed by Ben Altheimer, a leader of the Jewish community from Arkansas.

1928: In Philadelphia, Betty and Rabbi Simon Greenberg, the future vice chancellor of JTS gave birth to Moshe Greenberg, “one of the most influential Jewish biblical scholars of the 20th century.”

1928: In Brooklyn, Polish Jewish immigrants Sadie (née Schindler) and Philip Sendak, a dressmaker gave birth to Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are.

1929: Today, Pope Pius XI, who in 1933 would order his papal nuncio in Berlin to look into ways to help the Jews and who in 1938 condemned Kristallnacht and delivered a speech denying the Nazi doctrines on race, “promulgated 21 articles laying out the basic laws of Vatican City.”

1931(25^th of Sivan, 5691): In Bobowa, Poland, Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam, the Grand Rebbe of Bobov and his wife (who died in the Holocaust along with two of her children gave birth to “Naftali Tzvi Halberstam, the husband of Rebbetzin Hesa” who succeeded his father as Grand Rebbe after the latter’s death in 2000.

1932: In Brooklyn, Morris and Evelyn (Bayer) Ginsburg gave birth to Martin David Ginsberg Georgetown University Law Professor and famed tax attorney.

1932(6th of Sivan, 5692): First Day of Shavuot

1933: President Roosevelt submitted the name of Dr. William E. Dodd to serve as Ambassador to Germany and the Senate voted to confirm the nomination.  Dodd served with distinction, but much to his dismay was unable to convince the State Department and others of the dangers presented by the rise of the Nazis.

1933: Joe T. Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic majority leader, gave a speech on the floor the U.S. Senate strongly condemning the persecution of the Jews in Germany.  He described what was going on in Germany as “sickening and terrifying.”  As the Senate’s leading Democrat, Senator Robinson often serves as the unofficial spokesman for the administration.  Jesse Metcalf, the Republican Senator from Rhode Island joined in the condemnation saying that “a violation of religious freedom in any part of the world is a blow at” American ideals. Senator Robert Wagner of New York expressed his “horror at the resorts of intolerance “[rp,I[, discrimination and violence.”  Wagner’s condemnation carried additional weight since he was born in Germany and grew up there. Senator Royal Copeland spoke approvingly of Jews as a group, endorsed the comments of Senator Robinson but expressed the view that the German people were not responsible but rather they were “under a power over which they have no control.” [An early version of “the Germans are not Nazis” argument]

1934(27^th of Sivan, 5694): Eighty year old Samuel Lewis, the native of Maitland, New South Wales and husband of Annette Cohen passed away today in Kensington Middlesex England.

1934(27th of Sivan, 5694): Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky passed away. He “was a Soviet developmental psychologist whose work received widespread recognition in the Western world around the 1960s. According to Vygotsky, the intellectual development of children is a function of human communities, rather than of individuals.”

1935: It was reported today that in Germany, the Ministry of Eduction has outlawed the teaching of Esperanto because it “was conceived and evolved by the Oriental Jewish occultist Lazarus Zamenhof”

1936: “Robert Edward Edmondson, the anti-Semitic publisher failed to appear in the Tombs Court” this morning “to answer the summons issued by Mayor La Guardia charging him with criminal libel.”

1936: The Palestine Post reported that two Arabs died and 26 Arabs and Armenians were injured by a bomb which exploded inside the Jaffa Gate on June 8.

1936: The Palestine Post reported that Mr. Ormsby Gore, the colonial secretary, told the House of Commons in London that the Palestine government was taking all possible action to protect life, property and communications in the country. The Palestine government was granted further emergency powers under the Palestine (Defense) Order in Council of 1931.

1936: “Five Arabs were seriously wounded today in as part of a round of disorder such as have become typical of the Arab anti-Jewish campaign In Palestine.”  As the Arab uprising continued, “Jerusalem was again cut off from the rest of Palestine and the world in general when telephone and telegraph lines were severed” supposedly by Arab vandals.

1937: Birthdate of Italian actress Luciana Paluzzi, the third wife of Jewish businessman and philanthropist Michael Jay Solomon.

1937: “The Wesdeutsched Beobachter, the Nazi party organ for the Rhineland, declared today that German firms should be represented abroad by Jewish agents” which is rumored to be a prelude to an order being issued that would compel Germans businesses to dismiss their Jewish representatives working abroad.

1937: Dr. Julien Weil, Chief Rabbi of Paris, and Dr. Eisenstadt, former Chief Rabbi of St. Petersburg, Russia, officiated at the funeral services for Dr. Henry Siolosberg the 74 year old “former president of the Jewish Community of St. Petersburg and former President of the Russian Community in Paris.

1938: L'Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, publishes an article by Jesuit priest Father Enrico Rosa on the violent anti-Semitism in Germany

1939: As of today, as a resulted of “emigration, legal or illegal and death, natural or unnatural” the number of Jews in “Great Germany” has been reduced from a pre-Nazi “population of 700,000” to 550,000”  not counting the additional number of Jews acquired by the annexation of Bohemia and Moravia.

1939: After having been refused entry into Canada yesterday eight year old Ronnie Breslow and her mother were among the passengers confronted with the real possibility of being returned to Europe.

1940:A.J. Liebling, who had been in Europe since October of 1939 working as a war correspondent left Paris today and would not return to France until June 6, 1944 when he landed on Omaha Beach aboard “a U.S. Coast Guard-staffed landing craft which he wrote about in his 1944 book The Road Back to Paris.

1940: As the Nazi Blitz of the Low Countries and France was reaching a successful climax Italy under Mussolini, entered World War II on the side of the Germans. Italy's attack on France was described by Churchill as the hand that has held the dagger has now struck it in the back. This move by Mussolini would ultimately imperil the Italian Jewish Community, resulting in deportation and death later in the war.

1940: The French government departed Paris as the German armies swept forward.  Soon an Armistice would be signed dividing control of France between Nazi occupation and the pro-Nazi Vichy Government.  Jews would be at peril in both places.

1940: As two million Parisians flee the City of Light, Hans and Margaret Rey find themselves trapped in a city that the French government has declared “an open city.”  This declaration means that unlike Warsaw, London, etc. Paris will be the one major city not bombed by the Nazis. This marks the beginning of strangely cordial relationship between the Nazis and the French which bodes ill for the Jews trapped in France including Hans Rey, the creator of Curious George and his wife Margaret.

1941: It was reported to that “just north of El Metulla, near the Biblical site of Dan, Vichy led French forces put up a spirited fight against Australian forces seeking to clear Syria of pro-Nazi forces.

1941: The Luftwaffe bombed the British naval-air base at Haifa today which is part of Nazi plan to attack the supply installations of the British fleet in the eastern Mediterranian.

1942: Polish actor and director August Kowalczyk escaped from Auschwitz.

1942: Today sixty year old Jaques Hanak was transported from Prague to Ujazdow where he was murdered.

1942: Today, fifty-nine year Hansel Hugo Klein was transported from Prague to Ujazdow where he was murdered.

1942: Today, fifty year old Frantisek Klein was transported from Prague to Ujazdow where he was murdered.

1942: Today, during the siege of Bir Hakeim, part of the battle being fought against Rommel in North Africa, the British campaign headquarters of the British 8th Army issued an order to retreat. By then The Jewish Company, a volunteer unit that had consisted of 400 men at the start of the fight, had lost 75% of its men as they fought to delay Rommel's offensive for 10 days.

1942: Thousands of Jews were sent from Prague to ‘an unknown destination in the East' in cattle cars. The destination was Belzec, the site of their murder. The Jews of Biala Podlaska were sent to Sobibor.

1942: Jews gathered on the west bank of the Dniestr River before their deportation to Transnistria on the east bank of the river

1943: Birthdate of television news personality Jeff Greenfield.

1943(7^th of Sivan, 5703): Second Day of Shavuot

1943: “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp” a British romance with a script co-authored by Ermeric Pressburger who also co-directed and co-produced the film that co-starred Anton Walbrook was released today in the United Kingdom.

1943(7^th of Sivan, 5703): Fifty-two year old Louis Bookman the native of Lithuania who gained fame as a cricketer and footballer for his adopted home – Ireland – passed away today.

1944(19th of Sivan, 5704): In the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane, Germans kill 642 residents as revenge for the killing of an SS officer by a Resistance sniper. Women and children are burned alive in a church and the men are machine-gunned. Of the 642 victims, seven are Jewish refugees who had escaped deportation to Auschwitz by living with sympathetic Oradour-sur-Glane villagers. Included among the dead is eight-year-old Serge Bergman.

1944: Violette Szabo, an agent with the British Special Operations Executive was captured in Normandy following a gun battle in which she provided covering fire her companion, a leader with the Maquis, could escape.

1944: Reszoe (Rudolf) Kasztner, head of the Aid and Rescue Committee known as Va’adah chose “388 members of his own extended family, as well as groups of family friends” to serve as a selected groups of Jews that will be allowed to leave Hungary as a token of German “good faith” during the negotiations with Eichmann and Himmler that are being conducted by Joel Brand.

1944: Joel Brand who was being held by the British was allowed to speak with Moshe Shertok the head of the Jewish Agency’s Political Department about the deal the Nazis were offering “trade Jews for trucks.”

1945: Today, on his 24^th birthday Oskar Gröning the SS officer “known as the bookkeeper of Auschwitz” was captured by the British from whom he withheld the details of his service at the infamous death camp.

1945: In Italy, refugees in the Bericah Movement were photographed with soldiers from Palestine.

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/june/11.asp

1946: The trade union division of the National Labor Committee for Palestine tonight made “an appeal to the Trade Union Congress and Labor Party of Great Britain for help in forcing the British Government to implement the recommendation of the Anglo-American Committee for the immediate admission of 100,000 Jews into Palestine.”

1947: In Paterson, NJ, “a first grade teacher and an accountant gave birth to Randy Edelman the composer of movie theme and television epic music themes including one of my favorites “Gettysburg” and the husband of Jackie DeShannon with whom he is raising their son Noah D. Edelman.

1947: “Living in a Big Way,” a musical comedy produced by Pandro S. Berman and a script by Irving Ravetch was released in the United States today.

1948: Syrian forces over-ran Mishmar Ha-Yarden a Jewish settlement on the west bank of the Jordan River.  The Syrians had every advantage including control of the air, tanks and a full array of artillery.  Realizing the desperate nature of their situation, the Jewish settlers sent the women and children away.  The few surviving defenders were taken to Damascus.  The Syrians called the victory Faith-Allah (the Capture of God).  After the war, the Jews rebuilt Mishmar Ha-Yarden a mile from the original kibbutz.  The ruins of the original settlement were left as a memorial to those who fought and fell in the fight to create a Jewish home. This was one of the last military actions before the first truce between the Israelis and the Arabs which was slated to start on June 11.

1948: The Negev Brigade attacked the Egyptian-held police fort of Iraq Suwaydan but were driven off in defeat.

1949: While in Paris, after having completed a tour of Israel, New York Congressman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. the son of the late President “today urged the revision of United States immigration laws to permit additional Jewish displaced persons to enter the country.”

1949: Today on the first anniversary of the death of Colonel David “Mickey” Marcus, Brigadier General Yakov Dori, the Army Chief of Staff eulogized the West Point graduate as “my closest adviser on many occasions” and praised him for his “outstanding contributions to the development of Israel’s war machine” and “in Tel Aviv former officers of World War II dedicated a housing section and name it Neve Michael in memory of Marcus who used the non de guerre Michael Stone.”

1951(6^thof Sivan, 5711): Shavuot

1951(6^thof Sivan,5711): Eighty-two year old Victor Farkas Cukor, the Hungarian born son of Joseph and Victoria Cukor, the husband of Helen Ilona Cukor and the father of Elisa and George Dewey Cukor, the director of such classics as “The Philadelphia Story,” “Gaslight” and the “My Fair Lady” for which won the Oscar.

1953: “Attackers infiltrating from Jordan destroyed a house in the farming village of Mishmar Ayalon.”

1955: Following its New York City premiere last month, “Love Me or Leave Me” directed by Charles Vidor and produced by Joe Pasternak was released in theatres across the United States today.

1956: Twenty-four year old Yale Undergraduate and Harvard trained physician “L(awrence) J(erome) Schneiderman married pianist Barbara Goldman with whom he had four children – Rob, Claudia, Heidi and Tanya.

1959: In the Bronx Anne (née Goldhaber), an English literature professor, and Bernard Spitzer, a real estate mogul gave birth to Eliot Spitzer New York State’s Attorney General, Governor and talking television head for cable news.

1960(15th of Sivan, 5720): Charles Joseph Singer, distinguished “British historian of science, technology and medicine passed away.  He was the son of Simeon Singer, the Rabbi of London’s West End Synagogue who translated the Authorized Daily Prayer Book into English. He was the husband of Dorothea Waley Cohen, who in a manner unusual for her time was a leading historian of the Medieval Period.  There is no way that this blog can do justice to Singer’s long and distinguished career.

1960: The last episode of “You Bet Your Life” Groucho Marx’s signature quiz show “was aired in its radio broadcast format.”

1962: In Los Angeles, Mickey Gershon (née Koppel) an interior decorator, and importer/exporter Stan Gershon, gave birth to actress Gina Gershon, the younger sister of Dan Gershon and Tracy Gershon.

http://www.ginagershon.com/

1964: “Bedtime Story,” a comedy produced and written by Stanley Shapiro was released today in the United States.

1966: Simon and Garfunkel recorded “Cloudy” today as the third song for “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.”

1966: Birthdate of Gina Bellman, “a New Zealand-born British actress.”

1967: As of today, Syria had lost approximately 100 combat aircraft.

1967: At 6:30 p.m. a cease-fire went into effect on the Golan Heights effectively ending the Six Day War. There was no Arab military force that could have kept the Israelis from taking Cairo, Damascus or Amman. But as Yitzchak Rabin pointed out, the Israelis had not gone to war to cease territory. They had gone to war only after all diplomatic efforts had failed and they were faced with the choice of fighting or facing extinction. In a week’s time they had changed the map of the Middle East. The forces facing them were not "tin men." Contrary to some of the comments made by the ill-informed, the Arabs had fought hard and the IDF had suffered the casualties to prove it. The fact was that in a week Israel had gone from a nation with a noose around its neck to being victors who had reclaimed Jerusalem, seized the Golan Heights from which the Syrians had shelled Israeli farmers for almost two decades and occupied a swath of land from the Jordan River to the Suez Canal. In the weeks prior to the war, Israel had been subjected to constant shelling from the Golan Heights and blockading by Egypt of the Straits of Tiran (Israel's only southern sea outlet). Once the UN observer forces left the Sinai at Egypt's behest the stage was set for war. Within a few days, the entire Sinai was in Israel's hands, and despite being warned not to interfere, Jordan shelled Jerusalem opening that front as well. This battle led to the capture of the West Bank and the unification of Jerusalem. On the Syrian front, Israel succeeded in pushing the Syrians back to Kunetra and taking part of the Hermon range. In fewer than six days, Israel had routed all three of its neighbors losing over 700 men and having over 2,500 wounded. More than 400 Arab planes and 500 tanks were destroyed. The UN Security Council rejected a Soviet call for an unconditional pullback to the "green line".

1968: ‘’  Petulia” a drama directed by Richard Lester with a story by Barbara Turner was released today.

1969(24^th of Sivan, 5729): Sixty-four year old NYU educated author and attorney Dr. Isidor Margolis, the executive director of the World Council on Jewish Education, associate professor Jewish education at Yeshiva University and the husband of Edna Heffler Margolis passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/06/14/78384556.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1970(6^thof Sivan, 5730): Shavuot

1974: Mark B. Cohen began representing District 202 in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Knesset approved the Ben-Gurion Memorial Bill on its first reading. The memorial covered Ben-Gurion's home in Tel Aviv, the Institute for the Legacy of Ben-Gurion at Kibbutz Sde Boker and the Desert Institute in the Negev. There was a threat that Egged buses would grind to a halt as the cooperative was unable to pay its fuel suppliers to whom it owed IL 4m., in addition to millions it owed to suppliers of other equipment. The Ministry of Transport insisted that if the cooperative wished to obtain the IL 200m.government-guaranteed loan, it would have to deduct IL 300 per month from its members' salaries. But following the ministry's order to carry soldiers free, Egged reneged on this agreement.

1976(12th of Sivan, 5736): Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount Studios and one Hollywood’s early movie moguls passed away at the age of 103.

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0107.html

1977: “Ford Honored” published today described President Gerald Ford’s speech condemning terrorism which he deliver at a dinner that was “raising funds for scholarships” for those attending Hebrew University.

1979: “Paul Newman, the blue-eyed movie star-turned-race car driver, accomplishes the greatest feat of his racing career today roaring into second place in the 47th 24 Hours of Le Mans, the famous endurance race held annually in Le Mans, France.”

1981(8^thof Sivan, 5741): Eighty-two year old Harry Halpern who served as the Rabbi at the East Midwood Jewish Center for forty nine years and “professor of pastoral psychiatry at JTS” while fighting for Civil and Human Rights passed away today. (As reported by Walter Waggoner)

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/12/obituaries/harry-halpern-82-jewish-leader-dies.html

1981: It was reported today that President Yitzhak Navon, acting on “the recommendation of Justice Minister Moshe Nissim” has decided to release “Michael Tzur, Israel’s most prominent criminal” in August, “ten months before his prison term had been scheduled to end.

1982: “After eight previews the Broadway production of “The Torch Song Trilogy” by Harvey Fierstein opened “at the Little Theatre where it ran for 1,222 performances” and for which Fierstein won two Tony Awards.

1982: Units of the Golani Brigad and the Barak Armored Brigade finished the fighting that resulted in the capture of two villages on the outskirts of Beirut.

1983: In New York City, producer and screenwriter Elizabeth Sobieski (née Salomon) and French born painter Jean Sobieski gave birth to Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski, the actress known as Leelee Sobieski.

1985: “Flesh and Blood” starring Jennifer Jason Leigh “as Agnes, virgin daughter of an aristocrat” had its first public screening at the Seattle International Film Festival.

1985: A day after leaving the federal bench, Abraham David Sofaer began serving as Legal Adviser of the Department of State.

1986: Khaled Ahmed Nazal, Secretary-General of the PLO's DFLP faction, was gunned down outside a hotel in Athens, Greece

1987: The off-Broadway production of “Bar Mitzvah Boy,”  “a musical with a book by Jack Rosenthal, lyrics by Don Black, and music by Jule Styne” opened “at the American Jewish Theatre of the 92^nd Street Y.

1988: “Big Business,” a comedy directed by Jim Abrahams, co-starring Bette Midler and featuring Seth Green as “Jason” was released today in the United States.

1989(7^thof Sivan, 5749): Second Day of Shavuot and Shabbat observed for the first time during the Presidency of George Bush.

1990: “The Lunch Date,” directed by Adam Davidson was “selected as "Dramatic Achievement" in the Student Academy Awards competition” today.

1991(28^thof Sivan, 5751): Ninety-two year old Lena Goldman Wilentz, the wife of David Wilentz who the Attorney General of New Jersey who prosecuted Bruno Haumptmann passed away today.

1994(1st of Tammuz, 5754): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1996(23rd of Sivan, 5756): Eight7-nine year old Austrian born English painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky passed away today.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-marie-louise-von-motesiczky-1337146.html

1996: Publication of Tim Janof’s “Conversation with Janos Starker.”

http://www.cello.org/Newsletter/Articles/starker.html

1997(5^thof Sivan, 5757): Erev Shavuot

1997(5^thof Sivan, 5757): Eight-four year old Leo Fuld, the Dutch born son of merchant Louis Fuld, the known for his knack for making Yiddish songs came alive passed away today.

http://www.hipporecords.nl/fuld.htm

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/jul/26/worldmusic1

1998: In “King of Simon Says Is Up to His Old Games,” Joyce Walder described the career of 77 year old tumbler Allan Tresser.

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/10/nyregion/king-of-simon-says-is-up-to-his-old-games.html?scp=2&sq=%22Lou+Goldstein%22+and+tummler&st=nyt

1999: In Baltimore, Maryland, Anshe-Emunah-Aitz Chaim-Tifereth Israel voted to merge with Moses Montifore Emunath Israel-Woodmoor Hebrew Congregation.

2000(7th of Sivan, 5760): Second Day of Shavuot and Shabbat observed together for the first time in the 21^st century.

2001: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Skeptical Music:Essays on Modern Poetry by David Bromwich and Dance with Demons:The Life of Jerome Robbins by Greg Lawrence.

2002: President Bush welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to the White House.

2003(10^thof Sivan, 5763): Seventy-six year old Gene Stanley Goldfarb, the Chicago born son of Frances and Samuel J. Goldfarb and chairman of the board of House of Perfection, a manufacturer of children’s, junior women’s’ clothing whose philanthropies included the U.J.A, Ben-Gurion University, the Technion, the ADL and the United Negro College Fund and who raised two daughters, Lauren and Ellen, with his wife Judith Ellen Goldfarb, passed away today.

2003: “Wicked,” a Stephen Schwartz musical began its pre-Broadway run at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco.

2004(21^stof Sivan, 5764): Ninety-two year old Margit Raizel Wolf, the wife of Franz Karl Wolf and, passed away today in Israel.

2004: Ambassador Earle I. Mack presented his credentials to the President of Finland,

2004: Javier Solana, High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), stated today, “I welcome the Israeli Prime Minister's proposals for disengagement from Gaza. This represents an opportunity to restart the implementation of the Road Map, as endorsed by the UN Security Council.”

2004: Effi Eitam and Yitzhak Levy quit the government to protest the plan to leave Gaza.

2004: Tzipi Livini succeeded Effit Eitam as Minister of Housing and Construction.

2005: Major General Yiftach Ron-Tal took command of Modash, the Field Intelligence Corps.

2005: In a letter to the editor of Haaretz published today, “Avraham Cykiert of Mulgrave, Australia claimed to have ghost written” Caged, the memoirs of Warsaw Ghetto warrior David Landau “and said that Landau's daughter had "doctored" his manuscript.

2006:  Bat Mitzvah of Gail Barnum, daughter of Amy and Joel Barnum.

2007: In “Adjusted Income” published today, Daniel Handler described what it is like to have lots of money made by writing children’s books.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/magazine/10lives-t.html?ex=&en=36da098aefe0174b&ei=5090&partner=span%20class=Handler's

2007: At Temple Judah, In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Dr. Howard Lenhoff describes a real and modern exodus--the rescue of Ethiopian Jews and their deliverance to Israel. Dr. Lenhoff, a graduate of Coe College and a distinguished biologist at the University of California (Irvine), was instrumental in this rescue. He is the author of author of, Black Jews, Jews, and Other Heroes. How Grassroots Activism Led to the Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews

2007: Annual Temple Judah Congregational Meeting in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

2007: The Sunday New York Times book section featured a review of Sylvia and The Collected Stories two works by the late Jewish author Leonard Michaels.

2007: Norman Finkelstein, who gained famed for his controversial comments about the Holocaust, has been denied tenure by De Paul University

2007: The Sunday Washington Post book section featured a review of 1967: Israel, the War and the Year That Transformed the Middle East by Tom Segev.

2007:  The Sunday Chicago Tribune featured an article entitled “Facing a grim reality in Austrian Town” which tells of how beneath the quiet homes and neat hedges of Gusen, lie the remains of a Nazi concentration camp. Ironically, Mauthausen is only four miles away and it is preserved as a monument the victims of the Holocaust.  At Gusen, the citizens actually live in buildings left from the camp.  Christopher Mayer, a 32 year old artist has designed an audio tour for visitors to hear the recollections of survivors. www.chicagotribune.com/nazicamp

2007:Today, the Great Synagogue’s emeritus Rabbi, Raymond Apple, was confirmed as the keynote speaker for the International Council of Christians and Jews’ (ICCJ’s) 2007 conference in Sydney to be held in July.

2007: Ronald Lauder was elected President of the World Jewish Congress today defeating the South African businessman Mendel Kaplan and Einat Wilf of Israel

2008(7th of Sivan, 5768): Second Day Shavuot

2008(7^th of Sivan, 5768): Eighty-eight year old Swarthmore grad, WW II Army veteran and minor league baseball player Eliot Asinof whose most famous book was Eight Men Out which told the story of the 1919 “Black Sox” passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/sports/baseball/11asinof.html?_r=0

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/26/culture.obituaries

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103678.html

2008: Ninety percent of the Israeli public thinks that the country is tainted with corruption and over half say that corruptibility is a necessary to prerequisite to success in the political sphere, according to the Israeli Democracy Institute’s (IDI) annual Democracy Index which was submitted to President Shimon Peres.

2008: Samuel Israel III’s GMC Envoy was found abandoned on the Bear Mountain Bridge today a day after he failed to report to prison.

2009: Release date for “Jaffa” the film whose Hebrew name is Kalat Hayam (The Bride of the Sea)

2009:Simon Schama, a professor of art history at Columbia University and a cultural critic for the New Yorker magazine, discusses and signs his new book, The American Future: A History at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.

2009: The Hebrew Book Fair opens at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv.As part of the Book Fair events, the Centennial Year Administration will launch 4 new books dedicated to Tel Aviv – Yafo. These four volumes, selected from 50 candidates include: A Crane Points to the Sea– A poetry book by Gilad Cahane, The Sarona Templar Colony at Times of Struggle by Nir Mann, A City with a Concept: 100 Years of Urban Planning in Tel Aviv by Natty Marom and The Lost Children: Mandatory Tel Aviv's Back Yard by Dr. Tami Razi

2009: The RSX European Open Windsurfing Championship begins at Tel Aviv’s Gordon Beach.

2009: Ken “Feinberg was appointed by the U.S. Treasury Department to oversee the compensation of top executives at companies which have received federal bailout assistance.”

2009:An American white supremacist opened fire at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum today killing a security guard before being shot himself, according to initial reports. The shooter was named as James Von Brunn by a law enforcement official, pending confirmation and speaking on condition of anonymity, who noted that his car had been found near the museum. Both Von Brunn and the unnamed security officer were rushed to hospital following the shootout, which took place at midday. Von Brunn was described by officials as in "grave condition." A Washington Fire Department spokesman said that a third person had been lightly wounded in the exchange, in which two officers fired back at the assailant. Following the attack, President Barack Obama reacted with shock, saying that the act demonstrated the need to fight anti-Semitism. "I am shocked and saddened by today's shooting at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum," he said in a statement. "This outrageous act reminds us that we must remain vigilant against anti-Semitism and prejudice in all its forms. No American institution is more important to this effort than the Holocaust Museum, and no act of violence will diminish our determination to honor those who were lost by building a more peaceful and tolerant world. "Today, we have lost a courageous security guard who stood watch at this place of solemn remembrance," the statement continued. "My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends in this painful time." Bystanders described a scene of fear and chaos as they heard security officers yell at hundreds of students, tourists and museum staff to flee the premises. Public safety officers then secured the perimeter and cut off vehicles from the site. FBI agents are helping with the investigation, as authorities said they were checking for possible terror connections. Washington Police Chief Kathy Lanier said the police had received no information or threats that such an attack was in the offing. She refused to confirm that Von Brunn was the lead suspect during a press conference following the shooting. Von Brunn is a well-known white supremacist, Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center told CNN, referring to a Web site and publications he produced over several years in which he has "raged" against Jews and blacks. He noted that Von Brunn had been arrested in the past in connection to hate crimes. But some of the witnesses to today’s shooting said they didn't believe the shooter to be elderly, though Von Brunn is in his late 80s. However, they also noted that they found themselves amid chaos and confusion as museum-goers tried to figure out what to do. "People were running as fast as they could... People were on the floor," said 19-year-old Maria Hernandez, who heard the shots and saw blood covering the ground. "It was just chaos everywhere." She also heard this "very angry yell" coming from the perpetrator, while the guards were telling him to drop his weapon and get down on the floor. Karen Unruh, who was waiting in line with her two grandsons when the shooting started, heard a "bang, bang, bang" and worried that they would be the next victims, so "we just hit the floor." Standing among the throng of reporters and curious tourists outside the museum following the attack, she expressed shock at what happened. "I just can't believe this is happening to us in America." Ora Mois, who was visiting Washington from Kfar Saba, also couldn't believe that she found herself amid such violence in the US. "In Israel, we've gotten used to this, but here? It's the American dream, to come here, to travel, but not like this." But her brother Moti Shair said he wasn't surprised. "People are looking for Jews, wherever they are, to make a point," he said. "It's terrible. It reminds me of some sad memories from the past. They're still looking for Jewish targets." Several Jewish and Israel groups expressed alarm at the news. "We are shocked and saddened by today's shooting incident at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The Embassy of Israel condemns this attack and is closely following the situation," the embassy said in a statement. Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon, who was concluding a two-day visit to Washington, was not believed to be in the area, as a visit to the museum was not on his itinerary. The Holocaust Museum also put out a statement emphasizing its concern for the injured security officer, before he passed away. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the officer and his family," it read. The statement indicated the facility was expected to reopen Thursday. US President Barack Obama was saddened by the shooting at the museum, which is near the White House, a spokesman said. In Jerusalem, Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein said, "This evening's incident is, regrettably, yet another proof that anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial are still alive and well. Israel must fight these phenomena in the domestic arena, in the international arena, in the legal arena, in academia and in the media, and must demand that the rest of the world say 'No!' to incidents such as this." The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial expressed shock at the "appalling" shooting attack on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Yad Vashem spokeswoman Iris Rosenberg said in a statement that "the museum, in addition to being a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, is dedicated to educating against this kind of hate. His target makes this shooting that much more heinous." Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev spoke to the Washington museum's Director Sara Bloomfield to express support, and deep empathy, to her and all the museum staff. The shooting was also condemned by the chief Nazi hunter of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center. "On many levels it is a very symbolic target, and it is not surprising that someone who espouses White supremacy would want to attack an institution like that, since Holocaust museums are the antithesis of this person's racist ideology and anti-Semitism," said Dr. Efraim Zuroff, the organization's Israel director. He noted that the fact that the suspected shooter is 89 years old reinforces the organization's view that in terms of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, age is not an issue. He added that the Wiesenthal Center in California has been the target of threats and violence, as well as actual property destruction.

2010(28^th of Sivan, 5770): Ninety year old Ruth Kaufman Heckerling the Union City, TN, daughter  Rebecca and Morris Kaufman, the Miami Beach High School and Pratt Institute trained interior designer and cartoon colorist who married Philip E. Heckerling with whom she had two children Stephanie and Dale.

2010: Grammy Award-winners Susan McKeown and Lorin Sklamberg are scheduled to present Saints & Tzadiks, a project celebrating Yiddish and Irish song at the Washington Jewish Music Festival.

2010:Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company is scheduled to perform “Oyster at Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina.

2010: Israeli writer and peace activist David Grossman has been named winner of the 2010 Peace Prize by the German association of publishers and booksellers

2010: In More Money Than God” Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite, which was published today, the author “dedicated a chapter to Michael Steinhardt” whom “he described as a ‘lover of botany and a collector of exotic fauna,’ living in his retirement ‘on his country estate an hour's drive north of New York City.

2011: The CSI Milwaukee Directors Seminar sponsored by the Coalition for Jewish Learning is scheduled to take place at the CJL in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “The Coalition for Jewish Learning (CJL), the education program of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, promotes and advances Jewish education in the greater Milwaukee community, provides a support system for the community’s institutions of Jewish learning, and forges coalitions to ensure excellence in Jewish education.”

2011:An award winning solo piece by Israeli based Idan Cohen - "My Sweet Little Fur" is scheduled to be performed by Ran Ben-Dror on the third night of Contemporary Israeli Dance Week.

2011:Police entered a sensitive Jerusalem holy site to disperse Palestinian protesters who were hurling stones today.

2011(8^th of Sivan, 5771): Eighty-five year old Norman Redlich, a leading member of the New York bar and the Dean of New York University Law School passed away.  (As reported by Paul Vitello)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/education/11redlich.html?_r=1

2011(8^th of Sivan, 5771):Adolph William ("Al") Schwimmer, founder of Israel Aircraft Industries and winner of the Israel Prize died today at Tel Hashomer hospital on his 94th birthday. Schwimmer, an American citizen born in New York, was convicted in 1950 of violating the Neutrality Act for smuggling planes to Israel during the 1948 War of Independence. He was stripped of his civil rights, but not imprisoned. The American Jew was able to covertly bring the aircrafts to Israel by establishing false companies, one of which was purportedly the official airline of Panama. Schwimmer was in the Air Transport Command in World War II, providing him with many contacts that were pilots and in the airplane industry. He was able to use his contacts to transport the planes to Israel. Schwimmer was pardoned in 2001 by then outgoing U.S. President Bill Clinton. The pardon was awarded without any formal request from Schwimmer. In an interview with the Jerusalem Report in 2001, Schwimmer said he never applied for a pardon, calling it is a "complicated process". The expatriate added that "you have to express regret for what you did, and I didn't feel that way." However, the eldest son of Hank Greenspun, a close friend of Schwimmer's who worked with him when he was smuggling arms into Israel during the Independence War, is an attorney and a friend of Clinton. The younger Greenspun sent all the paperwork to the Justice Department and told Schwimmer, "I'm not asking you. I'm telling you, I sent in your application for a pardon." After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Schwimmer joined the nascent Israel Air Force, after which he established an aircraft company that evolved to become the Israel Aircraft Industries during the 50's. Schwimmer ran the aircraft company for over 20 years, during which he became close with current President Shimon Peres. After disagreements with former Defense Ministers Moshe Dayan and Ezer Weizman, Schwimmer left Israel Aircradt Industries, becoming a "special adviser" for the Israeli government for which he was paid a symbolic one shekel a year. Schwimmer was awarded the Israel Prize for his contributions to Israeli society in 2006.

2011: Congressman Anthony Weiner acknowledged he had exchanged at least five private messages on Twitter with a 17-year-old Delaware girl, but indicated that the messages were “neither explicit nor indecent.” 

2012: 45^th anniversary of the end of the “Six Days War.”  The Jews of the world gave a collective sigh of relief.  David had defeated a really big Goliath.  On June 5 when the war started the deck was stacked against Israel’s survival.  Not only were they facing an Arab alliance with a massive military, they were, in effect, facing the Soviets who were dedicated to the victory of their Moslem client states.  When the first reports of Arab claims about having inflicted heavy losses on the Israelis, people were really scared.  Remember, this was in the days before the internet, etc. so communication from the battlefield was a dicey thing at best.  By the time the war was over, there were plenty of American Jews who had been ambivalent about Israel who know took great pride in the Jewish state and became active supporters.  Despite what the revisionists might write today, that victory not only saved Israel, it created a whole new positive feeling that many Jews (and non-Jews) had about being Jewish. 

2012: As Temple Judah continues to celebrate the 90^th anniversary of its founding the co-presidents of the congregation are scheduled to cook BBQ before tonight’s annual congregational meeting. 

2012: David Broza is scheduled to perform at Israeli-American Night part of the Music Under the Stars program at Eisenhower Park.

2012: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman by Alice Kessler-Harris

2012: Greater Chicago Jewish Festival is scheduled to take place at St. Paul Woods in Morton Grove, Il

http://pocet.org/

2012:With his mind clearly on the dangers of a violent confrontation with settlers over the looming evacuation of the Ulpana outpost, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke at the annual Altalena memorial today about two principles enshrined by Menachem Begin: the supremacy of the rule of law and no civil war under any circumstance. (As reported by Herb Keinon)

2012(20^th of Sivan, 5772): Eight-two year old beach volleyball player and pioneer Gene Sleznick passed away today. (As reported by Baxter Holmes)

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-gene-selznick-20120612,0,2222597.story

2013: The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host Yaacov Fisher who will speak on “The State of Israel’s Economy: Challenges Amidst Growth.”

2013: The U.S. government has recovered 400 pages from the long-lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a confidant of Adolf Hitler who played a central role in the extermination of millions of Jews and others during World War Two. (As reported by Haaretz and Reuters)

2013: As the fighting in Syria intensifies, the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar President Bashar Assad has issued a strong warning to Israel saying that he is completely serious in opening up the Golan front against Israel (As reported by Ariel Ben Solomon)

2013: Today Knesset Economics Committee Chairman Avishai Braverman…threw his support behind Bank of Israel Deputy Governor Karnit Flug to replace her boss, outgoing governor Stanley Fishcher (As reported by Niv Elis)

2014: A “dialogue between Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz and the Honorable Antonin Scalia is scheduled to take place at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.”

2014: Adam Phillips, one of the world's foremost authorities on Freud, is scheduled to join novelist and critic Daphne Merkin for a discussion of Phillips’ new biography of the father of psychoanalysis at the 92^nd Street Y.

2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Family’s Past” by Ariel Sabar.

2014: Rabbi Marc Schneier, founder and president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding and founding rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue and Imam Shamsi Ali, the spiritual leader of two Muslim congregations, the Jamaica Muslim Center, New York City's largest Islamic center and Al-Hikmah Mosque are scheduled to participate in “Sons of Abraham: A candid conversation about the issues that divide and unite Jews and Muslims” at the Skirball Center.

2014: Today, the Knesset chose year 74 year old Reuven Rivlin, a sabra born in Jerusalem whose career included three years as speaker of the Knesset  to succeed Shimon Peres as President of Israel.

2014: Twenty-five year old Alexandre Stern who worked in the communication department of the Brussels Jewish Museum and who was murdered during a shooting at the Museum on May 24 will be buried in a Muslim cemetery in Morocco this afternoon per the agreement of his father who is Jewish and his mother who is a Muslim.

2014: A Jewish teen wearing a yarmulke and tzitzit is attacked with a Taser by group of teens at Paris’ Place de la République square. In Sarcelles, two Jewish teens wearing yarmulkes are sprayed with tear gas. (As reported by Stephanie Butnick)

2015: “Anderswo” (Anywhere Else) and “Next to Her” are scheduled to be shown at the Israel Film Center Festival hosted by the JCC Manhattan

2015:“The Taglit-Birthright Israel program, which sends young Jews on free trips to Israel, celebrated its milestone 500,000th participant this week” in a ceremony today “when 24-year-old Molly Dodd from New Jersey presented Birthright cofounders Michael Steinhardt and Charles Bronfman with framed letters from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from 1998, in which he gave his blessing for the program to begin.”

2015: “Madame Rosa, La Vie Devant Soi: which won the 1977 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is scheduled to be shown at the Cinema South Film Festival in Sderot.

2015: Art Garfunkel “is scheduled to play in Tel Aviv’s Bloomfield Stadium” (As reported by Stuart Winer)

2016: “Suddenly, A Knock at the Door” by Robin Goldfin which is based on the stories by Israeli author Etgar Keret is scheduled to be performed this evening at the Theatre for the New City.

2016: In Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host a dinner and serving honoring Jerry Sorokin for his 17 years of service as Executive Director of the University of Iowa Hillel.

2016: The Edent-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host “The Symphonic Piano Series” featuring Michael Zartsekel, Dror Semmel and Ron Trachtman.

2016: As Jews begin to observe Shabbat this evening they will mourn the victims of the Tel Aviv terror attack – 42 year old Ido Ben Ari from Ramat Gan, 39 year old Ilana Naveh from Tel Aviv, 58 year old Micahel Feige from Ramat Gan and 32 year old Mila Mishayev from Rishon Lezion.

2017(16^th of Sivan, 5777: Parashat Beha’alotcha

2017: In Los Angeles “the University Synagogue in Brentwood, and both campuses of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple – the Erika J. Glazer Family Campus in Wilshire Center/Koreatown or the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Campus in West Los Angeles” “were temporarily closed after receiving bomb threats” today which is Shabbat.

2017: At Oxford, Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield from the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies is scheduled to speak at the Seudah Shlisit on 'Maimonides and Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi: The Great debate about Jewish Particularism.'

2017: As part of Israel Festival, the Eden Tamir Music Center in Ein Kerem, is scheduled to host a classical musical concert this morning.

2018: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers includes How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan, President Carter: The White House Years by Stuart E. Eizenstat and There Are No Grown-Ups: A Midlife Coming of Age Story by Pamela Druckerman

2018: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center is scheduled to host a Pride Month event this afternoon.

2018: Doris Fogel is scheduled to speak on how she survived the Holocaust at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center.

2018: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “a day-long conference that will features academics, artists, writers, and diplomats in discussion about Israeli society and politics as well as relations between Israel, America, and the Jewish diaspora.”

2018: In a testament to the vitality of non-coastal American Judaism, The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines, IA, is scheduled to hold it “annual meeting.”

2018: IAC Cinematec in collaboration with New York Israel Film Center Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of ‘The Testament' by Director Amichai Greenberg.

2018: “The shimmering musical “The Band’s Visit,” based on Israeli film of the same name, was the big winner at the Tony Awards today, capturing the best musical award and nine other prizes.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/bands-visit-based-on-israeli-film-wins-best-musical-in-tony-awards-sweep/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=ebcd9470c3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_10_06_50&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-ebcd9470c3-53921877

2019(7^thof Sivan): On the Jewish calendar, “yahrzeit of Avraham Ben Avraham, who was burned at the stake in 5509 (1749)” and was known as Count Valentine Potocki before his conversion from Roman Catholicism.

https://www.aish.com/dijh/Sivan_7.html

2019: As the United States is preparing to release the economic portion of the peace plan touted by President Trump and his son-in-law, it was reported today that Germany’s foreign minister has “reaffirmed Berlin’s support for a two-state solution…”

2019: Like so many other Jewish institutions, the Center for Jewish History is closed for Shavuot

2019(7^th of Sivan, 5779): Second Day of Shavuot; Yizkor

2020: The Combined Jewish Philanthropies are scheduled to present Global Jewish Citizenship During 21st Century Pandemic.

2020: Seth Brysk, S.F.-based regional director of ADL, is scheduled to talk about new strands of bigotry, from Zoombombing to attacks on the Asian community as part of the virtual presentation of “Anti-Semitism and Hate in the Age of Covid-19

2020: In a virtual environment the Israel Film Center Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The Art of Waiting” followed by a Q and A session

2020: The ASF institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to host “Imagining the Jew in Early Modern England: A Presentation on Two Sephardim: Rodrigo Lopez & Menasseh Ben Israel” with Leonard Stein.

2020: Vice President of Illinois Holocaust Museum Board of Directors Rick Salomon is scheduled to introducea commemoration of  Juneteenth with an evening of reflections from noted civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill, President & Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

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1509:  Marriage of King Henry VIII of England and Katherine of Aragon. Before marrying Henry, the Spanish made him promise that he would never permit Jews to live in his Kingdom.  Henry agreed which was no big deal at the time since Jews had been officially banished from the realm for centuries.  In one of those ironic twists of history, Henry would rely on the book of Leviticus when seeking to divorce Katherine.  He sought support from Rabbis in Italy whose interpretation of the divine text might be different from the prelates in England.  The Italian Rabbis did not jump at the opportunity to bail out the English monarch since they had no desire of angering the “Bishop of Rome” who had power over their existence.

1557: The reign of King John III of Portugal came to an end.  During his reign, John brought the Inquisition to Portugal and its colonies.  Since the Jews had been expelled from his realm the Inquisition was aimed at Conversos. Oddly enough, John met with David Reubeni in November 1525 where the King promised to supply him with ships and cannons.  The King recanted when he realize that it made sense to arming Jews while his Inquisition was hunting backsliding marranos.

1590: The entire Jewish quarter of Posen which was built almost entirely of wood burned while the gentile population watched and pillaged. Fifteen people died and eighty scrolls were burned.

1616: Sir Henry Finch, author of a book that called “for the restoration of the Jews to the promised land” “was called to the degree of serjeant-at-law” today.

1634: After having been pilloried twice last month, William Prynne, an opponent of Jews settling in England sent a letter to Archbishop Laud charging him with “illegality and injustice.

1774: Jews in Algeria escape the attacks of the Spanish army.

1776: In South Moravia, Chaile/Caroline and Salomon Strakosch “the elder” gave birth to Leopold "Löbl Jünger" Strakosch

1777(6^thof Sivan, 5537): Shavuot

1796(5^thof Sivan, 5556): Parashat Bamibdar and Erev Shavuot observed for the last time during the presidency of George Washington.

1798: Troops from Napoleon’s Army that were on their way to fight the British in Egypt, Palestine and Syria disembarked at Malta in defiance of the Grand Master of the Knights, a reactionary opposed to the French Revolution.

1807(5^thof Sivan, 5567): Erev Shavuot’

1807(5^thof Sivan, 5567): Sashia, the wife of Reb Nachman of Bratslav and the daughter of Rabbi Ephraim, died today from tuberculosis

1807: Curacao businessman Moses Levy Maduro Peixotto landed in North America.  He would not be able to return to Curacao and settled in New York where he served as the Rabbi for Congregation Shearith Israel 

1813: In St. Thomas gave, Jacob Baiz, a native of Bayonne, France, and his wife Leah birth to Isaac Baiz

1826(6^thShavuot 5586): Shavuot

1829: Birthdate of Alphonse Millaud, the nephew of French published and banker Moïse Polydore Millaud

1832: The original version Robert le diable(Robert the Devil) an opera in five acts composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer was performed at the Haymarket Theatre in Great Britain.

1832: In Brussels, Jonathan-Raphaël Bischoffsheim a founder of the National Bank of Belgium married Henriette Goldschmidt with who had three children, Clair, Ferdinand and Hortense.

1834: Lewin Aron (`Libesch') Pinner, who served as a rabbi in Bombst and Wronke became a naturalized citizen of Posen under the terms of the Emancipation Act of 1834.

1835: Congregation B'nai Israel laid the cornerstone for the first synagogue to be built in Cincinnati, Ohio. The congregation would hire Max Lilienthal as its Rabbi in June of 1855.

1841: Twenty year old Rabbi Haim Nathan Dembitzer married Doba Duetscher.

1845(6^thSivan, 5605): Shavuot

1845: In Pikeln, Russian Empire, Rabbi Benjamin Rabinowitz and his wife gave birth to Elijah David Rabinowitz-Teomim, who served as Rosh Yeishiva of Mir before emigrating to Jerusalem in 1901.

1846 In Tabor, which is now part of the Czech Republic gave Rabbi Gutmann Klempere and his wife Julie birth to Dr. Jur. Alois Klemperer

1847: The Jewish Chronicle reported that Maurice S. Mawson of Pernambuco had married Rose Phillips, the second daughter of Michael Phillips.  The bride was from Jersey and the wedding took place at St. Helier.

1849: At the 14^th meeting of The Free Sons of Israel, Noah Lodge Number 1, a constitution was adopted marking the real date from which the society began working as an effective organization.

1852: “America’s Mail – Some Additional Items” published today included a copy of Lionel Rothschild’s “address to the independent electors of London” in which he thanked them for their twice electing him to the House of Commons even though he has been denied his right to take his seat in Parliament and soliciting their support in the upcoming election so that the will of the people will hold sway and he will finally be seated.

1852: In Hammerstein, Prussia, Marcus Hertzberg and his was wife gave birth to A.M. Hertzberg, the Mayor of Roma, “J.P. for the Colony of Queensland, Australia,” and husband of Miriam Cohen, “the third daughter of Samuel Cohen” who began serving as President of the “Brisbane Hebrew Congregation” in 1894.

1857: "Denominations in London," published today reports that according to Mr. Low's Handbook to Places of Worship London has 11 synagogues with 8,642 seats.

1857: Today, Kehillat Anshe Ma'arab, the first Jewish congregation closed its original burial grounds which had been established by the now defunct Jewish Burial Ground Society and had the first burial in its new cemetery.

1859: In Beaufort, SC, cotton plant owner “Morris Pollitzer and Anna Kuh Pollitzer gave birth to Columbia University alum Sigmund Pollitzer, the dermatologist who “who served as a surgeon in the Serbian-Bulgarian War” and was President of the American Dermatological Association.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/661088

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/11/02/94451130.pdf

1859: Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, who served as Austria’s foreign minister for nearly forty years, passed away. Metternich’s dealings with Jews were as devious and Machiavellian as were his dealings with anybody else.  Metternich was careful not to pursue anti-Jewish policies that would offend the powerful Salomon Rothschild.  He did come to the defense of the Jews during the Damascus Blood Libel.  But Heinrich Graetz, the Jewish historian who lived during the Metternich Era, viewed him negatively saying that Metternich was prone to treat the Jews in a manner consistent with Maria Theresa rather than with the benevolence shown by Emperor Joseph II. During the Napoleonic era Metternich said of the Jews, “I fear that” they “will believe Napoleon to be their promised Messiah.”

1859: A major silver strike known as the Comstock Lode is discovered in Nevada.  David H. Cohen was one of several who Jews worked “as ordinary muckers and miners” where they earned four dollars for spending 12 hours beneath the earth.  Adolph Sutro was a self-taught engineer who tried to bring modern technology to the mining operations.  This included the building of the Sutro Tunnel which a “passageway” designed to improve ventilation in the mines while providing an easier way to haul the ore and drain excess water.

1859: Disraeli was replaced by his arch-rival William Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

1863: In Frankfurt, Selig Meier Goldschmidt and his wife Clementine Fuld the daughter of Herz Salomon Fuld and Caroline Schuster gave birth to Hedwig Goldschmidt

1864(7^thof Sivan, 5624): Second Day of Shavuot

1864: Ignaz Israel Bondy and Ottilie Bondy gave birth to Alois Ernst Bondy.

1864: During the Civil War, Philadelphian Emil Myer completed his three year enlistment in the Union Army mustering out as a Captain in Company C of the 27^thRegiment.

1864: During the Civil War, Philadelphian Jacob Luescher completed his three year enlistment in the Union Army mustering out as Sergeant in Company A of the 27 Regiment.

1864: During the Civil War, Philadelphian Henry Roengarten who had begun his service as a Corporal with Company completed his three year enlistment mustering out as a Sergeant in Company K of the 27^th Regiment.

1864: During the Civil War, Philadelphian Jacques Adelsheimer, who had risen from the rank of private to Captain while serving with the 27^th regiment and who had been wounded at Chancellorsville in 1863 completed his three year enlistment.

1865(17^thof Sivan, 5625): Elias Chaim Lindo, the nephew of Moses Mocatta who moved from St. Thomas to London in the 1830’s where he pursued a life of Jewish scholarship that included writing The History of the Jews of Spain and Portugal passed away today.

1865: Frederick Knefler is mustered out of the Union Army with the rank of Brevet Brigadier General. He had joined the army in 1861 with the rank of Lieutenant.

1867: In Königsberg, which was then part of Germany, Pinkus and Ida Stern gave birth to Georg Joseph Stern an electrical engineer who retired from AEG in 1930 and “devoted himself to his musical compositions until he passed away in 1934.

1868(21^stof Sivan, 5628): Lazar Horowitz, the leading Orthodox Rabbi in Vienna who defended the historian Heinrich Graetz against charges of heresy and whose most famous work was “Yad Eleazar” passed away today.

1870: The funeral of Mrs. D. Dinkelspiel, the wife of the Treasurer of the Hebrew Mutual Benefit Society is scheduled to be held this morning at Number 7, West 53^rd St.

1871: In Louisville, KY, Lazarus Selligman and Carrie Sabel gave birth to Alfred Selligman the graduate of the University of Louisville law school, husband of Jennie Katz, defeated Republican candidate for Commonwealth attorney who is a trustee of the Jewish Free Hospital, director of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association and leader of Congregation Adath Israel.

1871: It was reported today that the Jewish Times has taken issue with criticism published in some Connecticut newspapers of the fact that a rabbi had been asked to lead the opening prayer at the state legislature.  The Times contended Protestant, Catholic or Jew could call upon the Divine to provide support for the legislators and that anybody who questioned that was neither a Christian nor a gentleman.

1871: The Notes and News column reported on the efforts of Polish authorities to enforce the new Russian rules that require the Jews to give up their traditional garb and hairstyle – including the requirement that they shave their beards, cut off their side curls, give up their long coats and their short pants. The Jews are resisting the changes and the authorities are resorting to trickery and force to accomplish their goals.

1871: Hatzofeh B’Eretz HaChadashah (The New Land Speculator) “the first Hebrew periodical in America published its first issue today in New York.”

1872: On the day after his death, “watchmaker Joseph bar Yitzhak, the husband of Fanny and Sarah Joseph and the father of Julia, Louis and Rose Joseph was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1872: “Jews versus Christians” published today described the efforts of various societies, many of which are located in England, to convert Jews. These efforts have met with “very limited success.”  Most Jews do not respond to these expensive attempts and the few that do “are of a sort whose private life and reputation does not render them very valuable acquisitions as citizens.”  The article continues with a repute of the attacks on the Jews of Smyrna and suggests that the money might be better spent teaching the Christians of Smyrna to behave like Christians.  The article concludes that considering the Christian violence in Smyrna, “people almost be excused for thinking that a liberal-minded Jew may easily be a better man than a Smyrna Christian.”

1873: In Hobken, NJ, founding of the Hebrew Ladies’ Aid Society of Congregation Adath Emuno which had been founded in 1871.

1876: Birthdate of NYU and JTS alum Bernard Calonius Ehreneich, the Hungarian born son of Henry Reuben and Hannah Ehrenreich, the husband of Irma Bock and the father of Rosemarie and Louis Sigmund Ehrenreich who served as a rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel in Atlantic City, Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Philadelphia and Congregation Kahl Montgomery in Montgomery, AL.

http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=109204

1876: “Consecration of a Synagogue” published today described the services consecrating a new orthodox synagogue in Washington, DC which were attended by U.S. Grant, the President of the United States and the Speaker Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate (Editor’s note: The article fails to name the Synagogue. It was Adas Israel which is still located in Washington, DC.)

1876: Louis Raminsky, a Jew living on Mott Street was assaulted by Irishman named George Richardson who mistook him for a man named Rubenstein.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A04EEDC1F3FE73BBC4A52DFB066838D669FDE

1877(30th of Sivan, 5637): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1877: As part of their on-going and rather unsuccessful attempt to convert Jews, the Conference on Jewish Mission began today “under the Presidency of the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells.

1878(10^thof Sivan, 5638): Thirty-eight year old Lucien Levy passed away this afternoon.  Based on the note found with the body, he had committed suicide by taking strychnine. Levy, a successful New York businessman had been for a week prior to this death.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D04E4D7143FE432A25750C1A9609C946990D7CF

1879: “American Israelites in Russia” published today described the attempts of the U.S. House of Representatives to remedy an inequity when it came to Jews owing landing in Russia.  Under Russian law, Jews, including Jews who are citizens of the United States are not allowed to own land in Russia. British Jews are allowed to own land in Russia under a treaty that exists between those two countries.  The House wants the situation remedied since it amounts to discrimination again American citizens based on their religion; something which the legislators feel is intolerable.

1881: Maruice Lippmann and Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette Dumas gave birth to French gold medal winning fencer Auguste-Alexandre Lippmann. 

1881(14^thof Sivan, 5641): British painter and engraver Solomon Alexander Hart, the son engraver and Hebrew teacher Samuel Hart passed away.  An observant Jew, “he was the first Jewish member of the Royal Academy in London.” “Among Hart's Jewish works are: "Hannah, the Mother of Samuel"; and "The Conference Between Manasseh ben Israel and Oliver Cromwell," which was bought by F. D. Mocatta, who subsequently presented it to Jews' College.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hart_Self_Portrait.jpg

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hart,_Solomon_Alexander_(DNB00)

1881: It was reported today that there are 277,000 Jews living in Kiev; 155,000 in Kovno, 143,000 in Minsk; 119,000 in Vilna and 98,000 in Bessarabia.  The total Jewish population of Poland is reported to be 815,000.  Large communities of Jews can also be found in St. Petersburg and Moscow where they have been settling since the ban instituted by Nicholas I was overturned by his successors.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C07E5DF103CEE3ABC4952DFB066838A699FDE

1882: The New York Times published a review of Spinoza: A Novel by Berthold Auerbach which has been translated into English from the original German.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9500E2DF1E3EE433A25752C1A9609C94639FD7CF

1882: It was reported today that a dispatch from St. Petersburg states appointing Jews as Chief Surgeons in the Russian Army has been forbidden.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F05E4DF1E3EE433A25752C1A9609C94639FD7CF

1882: Birthdate of Cacilie Altmann who was transported from Hannover, to Terezin and finally to Auschwitz where she was murdered in 1944.

1883(6^thof Sivan, 5643): Shavuot

1883: “Felix Adler and Israelites” published today described the belief of some Jewish leaders, including those who are friends of Felix Adler, that membership in his Ethical Cultural Society means that Jews have joined a group that is beyond the pale of the Jewish community.  Dr. Solomon H. Sonneschein a leading rabbi in St. Louis has written an open letter published in the American Israelite that asks his friend Adler, “Are you still an Israelite, a disciple of Moses and the prophets, a standard bearer of God’s love and truth, as understood by reformed Judaism…or have you hopelessly abandoned the faith in which you were born and bred?”

1884: Myer Lipman Nathan and Esther Sarluis were married today at the Great Synagogue in London.

1884: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Grace Baer Bachrach, the school teacher and wife of attorney Clarence G. Bachrach  with whom she had two children who was so active in various civic and cultural organizations including the “Brooklyn division of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies” that was honored as “Brooklyn’s First Lady of Philanthropy in 1956.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/06/19/82045594.pdf

1885: It was reported today that a Jew named Solomon Ovitch has arrested for seditious practices at Kharkoff.

1886(8th of Sivan, 5646): James Koppel Gutheim, who has been serving as Rabbi at Temple Sinai, the leading Reform congregation in New Orleans, passed away this evening in the Crescent City

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9901E2DF1438E533A25751C1A9609C94679FD7CF

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Koppel_Gutheim

1886: In New York City “Louis Kelvin and Eva (Scollard) Steinman gave birth today to CCNY and Columbia educated award winning structural engineer David Barnard Steinman, the husband of Irene Hoffman.

https://www.asce.org/templates/person-bio-detail.aspx?id=11213

1887: Mrs. Abraham Bernstein, the wife of Jewish peddler living at Port Chester, found today that her husband was living in Glenville, Connecticut, with another woman. The towns are only a couple of miles apart.

1887: Birthdate of Max Sievers, the chairman of the German Freethinkers League whose inability to get a visa while living in the United States in 1939 after having fled the Nazis meant he had to return to Europe where he was evening beheaded by the Germans.

1888: In New York during trial being held in the Court of General Sessions, the defense attorney “spoke to the Jury as Christians and became very indignant” when held them that Jews do not believe “in the divinity or miracles of Christ.” He apparently forgot that five the jurors were Jewish.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9904E4DA143AE033A25751C1A9609C94699FD7CF

1889: Birthdate of Joseph Lewis, the Montgomery, Alabama born Jew turned atheist who as President of The Freethinkers of America” called on Jews to “renounce their ‘antiquated creed’” and denounced “Yom Kippur as the ‘most degrading and humiliating day in all the superstitious annals of religion’”

1891: In Berlin, an Associated Press correspondent met today with Herr Goldberg a prominent Jewish financer who is the Director of the International Bank in Berlin and serves as Consul General for Belgium

1891: The first vice president and second vice president of the New York Life Insurance Company admitted today that Julio Merzbacher had not retired as the company’s Spanish-American because of ill health as previously announced but that he had left the company after his embezzlement of from $300,000 to $500,000 had been discovered.

1893: The new Jewish cemetery on Long Island was dedicated today by the Mount Zion Association.

1893: Timothy J. Campbell was among those who delivered a speech when “a granite monument was unveiled today” in “memory of the late Moses Mehrbach” at Cypress Hills Cemetery where Rabbi Hirsch “conducted the devotional services and made the dedicatory address.”

1893: In Atlantic City, N.J., dedication of the Jewish Seaside Home takes place. The home was the outgrowth of a project in which four cottages had been rented to provide a refuge designed to help improve the health of invalid mothers and their children. The cottages were purchased and converted into a thirty room institution which would meet the needs of these women and their offspring.

1893: George Kennan will the guest of honor at dinner in London in honor of Colonel Goldsmid “who has just returned from organizing Hirsch colonies in Argentina

1894(7th of Sivan, 5654): Second Day of Shavuot

1894: “Movement to Christianize the Jews” published tdaoy described a speech given at the meeting of the American Hebrew Christian Society in New York where Rev. John Wilkinson, Director of Mildmay Mission to the Jews of London, England “said that he had come to tell his American brethren how to establish mission for Christianization of the Jews and to try to influence the Christian Americans to take a more active part in reclaiming them.”

1895: S.K. Brown, the son of an Austrian rabbi was ordained as a Baptist minister in Camden, NJ.

1897: Dental surgeon and businessman Dr. Hugo and Minna Luise Ascher gave birth to Maragarete Lilly (Grete) the younger sister German expressionist painter Fritz Ascher.

1897: The Jewish community in München protests against holding the Zionist congress in the city.

1897: Texas native Andrew Moses began serving as a 2^nd Lt. in the 11^thInfantry, USA.

1898: “London Literary Notes” published today includes a review of Jew, Gypsy and El Islam in which the author, the late Sir Richard Burton expresses his admiration for Mohammedanism but “abuses the Jews.”

1898: “Mr. and Mrs. Bierman’s Garden Party” published today described the soiree given for more than 100 residents of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews who were served refreshments after enjoying musical selections played by the band from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum

1898: “New Rabbis To Be Ordained” published today described the upcoming plans for the graduation exercises to be held at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1899: “Dreyfus and Picquart” published today noted that Captain Dreyfus “has done nothing, absolutely nothing to become the center of all this fury except not have sold the military secrets of France.”  The real hero of affair is Major George Picquart, the Minister of War.

1899: The ninth version the French anti-Semitic publication of Anti-Juif du Midi was published at Montpellier.

1899: “Aid Asked for a Worthy Family” published today described the efforts of the United Hebrew Charities to raise $400 for a 35 year old man, his wife and four children.  “Through overwork, both the man and the wife have become chronic invalids” and the money would be used to help them open “a notion store” that would provide them with income and allow the family to stay together.

1899: “In The Russian Capital” published today described the attack in Nicolaieff in which an unknown number of Jews have been killed or wounded. 

1900: Birthdate of journalist, producer and broadcaster Lawrence E Spivak, one of the creators, first producers and first moderators of Meet the Press the original television news interview show. It was unique for its time because it put a major political or other such leader on live television facing the unfiltered question of four members of the working press. In various formats, this program has survived for almost six decades. Spivak died in 1994.

1901: “The first annual meeting of the National Conference of Jewish Charities” took place at Chicago,

1901: In London Herzl attends a banquet at the Maccabaeans with Israel Zangwill and Sir Francis Montefiore and other influential and wealthy Jews. But the successes in London are merely social.

1902(6^th of Sivan, 5662): Shavuot

1903: Leo Wise wrote a letter to Rabbi Zadok Kahn, the Chief Rabbi of France

http://cojs.org/cojswiki/Letter_from_Leo_Wise_to_Rabbi_Zadok_Kahn:_Distribution_of_Funds,_June_11,_1903

1903: Rabbis Pereira Mendes and Rabinowitz address of joint meeting of B’nai Zion Kadimah and Benoth Zion Kadmah at the First Romanian Synagogue on Rivington Street.

1903: In Boston, the Hebrew National Association held a meeting today during which new officers were installed and was then followed by concert that raised $65.00 for the Kishinev Fund.

1904(28^th of Sivan, 5664): Parashat Sh’lach

1904: “Russia” published today provided a lengthy review of George Drage’s Russian Affairs in which the author writes “Concerning the Jews” that “from 1887 to 1890 all Jews resident districts were harried from the homes and forced to living in the Pale” and that the Russian persecution stands apart from other of the anti-Semitic movement on account of its unparalleled magnitude and ferocity and also because it is the direct act of a government deliberately, systematically, remorselessly seeking to reduce to utter misery about four and a half million of its own subjects.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/06/11/101317894.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1905: Samuel Shimansky “acted as master of ceremonies” today when “the cornerstone of the new synagogue of the Congregation Beth Israel was laid this afternoon” while ten policeman “were on guard fearing the possibility that the ceremony would be disturbed.”

1906: As a prelude to the Bialystok Pogrom, “the Police Chief of Białystok, Derkacz, was murdered, most likely on the orders of the Russian commissar and fervent anti-Semite Szeremietiev. Derkacz, who was Polish, was known for his liberal sympathies and opposition to anti-Semitism; for this he was respected by both the Jewish Bund and the Polish Socialist Party. On a previous occasion, when Russian soldiers attacked Jews in the marketplace, Derkacz had sent in his policemen to put down the violence and had declared that a pogrom against the Jews would occur “only over his dead body”.

1906: Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed The Wadsworth District Sunday Bill which would have the effect of unduly penalizing Jewish merchants in Washington, D.C. who would have to closed for both days of the weekend.

1907: In Mulhouse, Constance Kenendel Lang and Baruch Kahn gave birth to Arthur Kahn

1909: In New York, a two day conference that has created Young Judaea came to an end.

1909(22nd of Sivan, 5669): Jacob Michailovitch Gordin “a Russian-born American playwright active in the early years of Yiddish theater” who “is known for introducing realism and naturalism into Yiddish theater” passed away. https://www.bartleby.com/228/0852.html

1910(4^th of Sivan, 5670) Parashat Naso

1910: While sentencing Michael Lazarus and Maxy Mayer to the Workhouse today “for attempting to pick pockets, Magistrate Cornell in the Essex Market Court said, “It is perfectly appalling to me to see the number of young Hebrews who come to this court these days” because “when I was first a Magistrate there were few Hebrews that came before me for this offense.

1911: “Colonel Garrard Explains” published provided Fort Meyer Commandant Colonel Joseph Garrard explanation “for expressing, in an official indorsement, the sentiment that a Jew, the son of a tailor would be a desirable army” saying that “the custom in the service requires officers to call on and receive calls from brother officers and their families” and this would not be appropriate in the case of a Jew and besides which he was sure that the papers explaining all of this had been stolen and given to attorney Solomon Wolf who then gave them to the President.

1912: The City of Sumter, South Carolina where Jews purchased land for a cemetery in 1874 and is the home of Temple Sinai, adopted the council-manager form of government, making it the first city in the United States to do so.

1912: As of today, there are four Jewish candidates seeking election to the Duma from Odessa.

1912: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Benjamin R Epstein, the Pennsylvania educated former director of the ADL and author who raised two children – Ellen and David – with his wife Ethel.

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/04/obituaries/benjamin-epstein-director-of-league-fighting-prejudice.html

1912(26th of Sivan, 5672): Arthur L. Welsh passed away. Born in Kiev in 1881, Leibl Welcher, came to the United States with his father Abraham and mother Deborah at the age of 10 where he would become Arthur L. Welsh.  After trying a variety of careers, including a stint in the U.S. Navy, Welsh found his calling as test pilot with Orville and Wilbur Wright.  In 1912, the Wrights had sent Welsh to the U.S. Army Signal Corps in College Park, MD, to serve as a civilian test pilot for a new plane being developed for the War Department. On June 11, 1912, Welsh, accompanied by Signal Corps Lt. Leighton W. Hazelhurst, was attempting to complete final military tests of the Wright Model C airplane when the airplane buckled under its 450- pound load. Both men were killed instantly, the first-ever fatalities at College Park. Hap Arnold who gained fame as one of the most decorated leaders of the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II was one of his most famous students.

http://www.earlyaviators.com/ewelsh.htm

http://www.jewishdayton.org/observer/the-first-jewish-aviator/

1913(6^th of Sivan, 5673): Shavuot

1913: Cantor Millard conducted Shavuot services at the Chicago Hebrew Institute.

1913: Rabbi Gerson B. Levi officiated at the Confirmation Services held at B’nai Sholom-Temple Israel in Chicago.

1913: While fighting in the Philippine Islands against rebels resisting the American occupation, Private Louis C. Mosher “risked his life” so that he could “rescue a wounded soldier under enemy gunfire.” He was awarded the Medal of Honor for this rescue.

1913: In the Bronx, Christian Steenberg, a Norwegian American and Sadie Mechanic who was Jewish gave birth to Risë Gus Steenberg who would gain fame as “Risë Stevens, the internationally renowned mezzo-soprano who had a 23-year career with the Metropolitan Opera, where she practically owned the role of Carmen during the 1940s and ’50s.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)

1914: Birthdate of actor Gerald Mohr, who although not Jewish joined Tony Curtis as a pallbearer at the funeral of fellow actor Jeff Chandler (Ira Grossel)

1915: American ambassador to Turkey, Henry Morgenthau, received an honorary degree of LL.D. from University of Constantinople.

1915: In Youngstown, Ohio, dedication of Rodef Sholem Temple.

1915: In Chicago, the Executive Board of the Anti-Capital Punishment Society of America is scheduled to host “conference for those active to save Leo M. Frank from the gallows” at the Auditorium Hotel.

1915: Tonight “former State Tax Commissioner Joseph S. Schwab, Chairman of the New York Committee on the Commutation of the Sentence of Leo M. Frank…sent a telegram to Governor Slaton of Georgia asking clemency for Frank.”

1915: Several prominent men from Illinois including Governor Dunne, Senator James Hamilton Lewis and Harlow N. Higinbotham “sent final pleas by wire today” asking Governor Slaton to commute Leo Frank’s death sentence.

1915: Based on remarks he made to attorneys representing both sides of the case, it was reported today that Governor Slaton does not want “to pass Leo Frank’s application over to his successor, Governor-elect Nat E. Harris, but to decide it himself.”

1915: In Copenhagen, at the second day of its meeting, The Action Committee (Va;ad HaPoel HaZioni) rejected Jabotinsky’s  “plan to establish a Jewish Legion” resolving  that "The Jewish Legion project stands in deep contradiction to the principles of Zionist activity... no Zionist will participate or support this activity." (Editor’s note – “Jabotinsky refuses to heed them and despite objections by the majority of Zionist leaders, moves to London where he continues to work towards the establishment of a regiment.”)

1915: It was reported that “mass meetings are being held daily throughout the state” of Georgia at which resolutions are being adopted protesting against” the commutation of Leo Frank’s death sentence.

1916: Aaron Mann, the Kovno born son of Zelick Mann and the brother Harry Mann, the owners of Mann Iron and Steele Company in Norristown, PA today married “Miss Sadei Leftco of Philadelphia, PA with whom he had one daughter.

1916: Djemal Pasha, military governor of Palestine for Ottoman Turkey, issued a warning to the Jewish settlers that the creation of future settlements would become more difficult. (This may have been in reaction to fact that a lot of the Zionists were Russians and the Turks assumed that they would make common cause with the Czar whose army they were fighting.)

1916: Today, “the Board of Directors announced the purchase of the Hope Chapel” on East Fourth Street in New York so that it could become “the new location for a new Jewish school – Talmud Torah Ansche Zitomerer.”

1916: Eight hundred people attended the wedding of Jacob Scheiner, the son of Rabbi Samuel Scheiner and Bella Schwartz, the daughter of Samuel Schwartz in New York.

1916: In the seven months following today’s meeting of the Executive Board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Greensboro Hebrew Congregation in Greensboro, NC, United Hebrew Congregation in St. Louis, New Synagogue in NYC and Temple Sinai in Lake Charles, LA have joined the Union.

1916: “Seven candidates received the degree of rabbi, Preacher and Teacher in Israel and twenty-two young men and women” were “awarded diplomas from the Teachers’ Institute during the graduating exercises of the Jewish Theological Seminary this afternoon where attendees heard speeches from Dr. Cyrus Adler, acting President of the Seminary and Professor Mordechai Kaplan who said that “the fundamental duty of the Jewish home is to keep alive he demand for religious training of the young” and that “Jewish education must come to be regarded as the one constructive activity in Jewish life which is of supreme important and to which every man, woman and child in Israel should in duty bound to contribute something whether it be in means, energy or in idealism.”

1916: The Federation of the Oriental Jews of America held its third annual meeting in New York.  Joseph Gedalecia served as President and Albert J. Amateau served as secretary. The 1000 member organization's purpose was the "Americanization and betterment of condition of Oriental Jews."

1917: “The Women’s Proclamation Committee, the national women’s organization for Jewish War Relief began its Summer Campaign in behalf of the Ten Million dollar Fund which has already received a contribution “from prominent women in Kingston, Jamaica” which was sent to Mrs. Albert Lucas, the committee’s executive secretary.

1917: The Executive Board of the Jewish Congress Association is scheduled to hold the first of two days of meetings concerning the upcoming meeting of the national organization.

1917: It was reported from New York today Judge Julian W. Mack of Chicago and Dr. Horace M. Kallen of Madison, WI, will participate in “a summer course of lectures on Zionism” sponsored by the Intercollegiate Zionist Association of America.

1917(21st of Sivan, 5677): German banker Julius Rosenheim passed away today in Berlin.

1917: “Scores of counters were employed all day” today at the headquarters of the American Jewish Congress Committee in the Metropolitan Building opening ballot boxes tallying the votes for delegates to the upcoming meeting of the American Jewish Congress.

1918: In Stamford, CT, “Leila (née Hughes), an opera singer, and Alfred E. Aarons, a Broadway theatrical producer gave birth to Table Tennis (Ping Pong) Champion Ruth Hughes Aarons who went on to a career as theatrical manager.

1918: In Odessa, Ukraine, Rabbi Joseph J. Kaplan and Chava Lerner Kaplan gave birth to American philosopher Abraham Kaplan author of The Conduct of Inquiry.

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/24/us/abraham-kaplan-75-author-and-teacher.html

1918: During World War I, at Bois de Belleau, France, “after all the other members of his group had been killed or wounded by from an enemy machine gun” Jean Mathias, a Private in the U.S. Marines, “charged the gun position alone, killing three of the crew and capturing the gun” – an action for he which he was “awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Navy Cross and the French Croix de Guerre.”

1919(13^th of Sivan, 5679): Seventy-one year old German born U.S. Naval Academy Graduate Adolph Marix who served aboard the battleship Maine when she exploded before the Spanish American War and who was promoted to the rank of Admiral in recognition of courageous conduct during the Battles of Manzanillo during that conflict and who was the husband of Grace F. Marix passed away today after which he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/adolph-marix.htm

1920: Birthdate of Irving Howe graduate of City College and a veteran of World War II who was a professor at CUNY, Brandeis and Stanford.  A noted editor of Yiddish literature who discovered the author Isaac Bashevis Singer for an English-speaking audience, his work includes A Treasury of Yiddish Poetry. His greatest popular acclaim came with the writing of World of Our Fathers.  He was a lifelong Socialist and was considered to be one of this country's most influential literary critics until his death in 1993.

1920: It was reported today that “General Allenby has sent his resignation to the government in London as a protest against the appointment of Herbert Samuel as High Commissioner of Palestine.”

1920: It was reported today that “the head office of the Jewish National Fund has received messages from all parts of the world to the effect that big movements were being organized everywhere to raise the money the Jew National Fund needs for carrying out the immediate tasks” of settling Palestine.

1921(5^th of Sivan, 5681): Parashat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot

1921: In Manhattan, Joel Russ, the founder of Russ and Daughters and his wife Bella gave birth to Ann Russ, the future Anne Russ Federman, one of the “daughters” in Russ and Daughters. (As reported by Sam Roberts. (If you haven’t been to Russ and Daughters, you haven’t lived, or at least that is what my wife would say)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/obituaries/anne-russ-federman-dies.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1921: Birthdate of London native Michael Leverson Meyerson the scion of “a timber merchant family of Jewish origin” who “won the 1971 Whitbread Award for Biography” and whose “autobiography Not Prince Hamlet was published in 1989.

1921(5^th of Sivan, 5681): Daniel Joseph Jaffé, the son of Martin Jaffé and a nephew of Sir Otto Jaffé, passed away. A noted waterworks consulting engineer, his most famous efforts were completed in China.  Evidence of his fame can be seen Hong Kong’s Jaffe Road which was named in his honor.

1922: Prominent New York merchant Louis Stern arrived in Paris having crossed the Atlantic on board the SS Homeric.

1922: “The betrothal of Dora Harrison and Fred Sirsky of Camden was solemnized today in Prosperity Hall.

1922: In Mannville, Alberta, Canada, Max Goffman and Anne Goffman (née Averbach) gave birth to sociologist Erving Goffman, the 73rd president of the American Sociological Association

1924: In Brooklyn Morris and Pauline Faust gave birth to high school guidance counselor and author Irvin Faust.

1924: Rabbi Samuel Schulman offered the invocation at the opening of the second day of the 1924 Republican National Convention during which he spoke with appreciation for "the Republican Party's precious heritage of the championship of human rights" and he called for "every form of prejudice and misunderstanding" to be "driven forever out of our land."

1926: Louis Greenspan who had been arrested after the car he was driving struck and killed Congressman London is scheduled to return to court today when police believe they will have completed their investigation into the fatal accident.

1926: The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that “a concert hall will be erected in Tel Aviv through the efforts of Palestinian Jewish musicians as a commemoration of the 25^th anniversary of the musical composer Engel.”

1927(9th of Iyar, 5687): Fifty-seven year old Louis Samuel Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling, “the first professing Jews to inherit a peerage and seat in the House of Lords, the President of the Federation of Synagogues and anti-Zionist who opposed the Balfour Declaration passed away today.

1929: The British High Commissioner wrote to the Mufti defending the right of the Jews to ‘conduct their worship’ (at the Western Wall) as in the past.

1929: Manny Sinwell began serving as Financial Secretary to the War Office.

1932(7th of Sivan, 5692): Second Day of Shavuot and Yizkor are recited for the last time during the Presidency of Herbert Hoover who appointed Justice Cardozo to the Supreme Court.

1933: The New York Times reported that the German government “is digging through the backgrounds of over 350,000 civil servants to find out who is of ‘Jewish extraction’ and thus ‘liable to dismissal.’”

1933: “The Jewish organizations of Silesia eold a conference to discuss the safeguarding of rights of German Jews.”

1933: In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, William J. and Jeanne (Baer) Silberman gave birth to Jerome Silberbman the University of Iowa graduate who gained fame as the multi-dimensional creator of comedy Gene Wilder.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/movies/gene-wilder-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/29/gene-wilder-obituary

1934: Birthdate of Murray Wolfe, successful businessman, playwright, poet, Yiddishist, and, most important of all, a first class mensch. If you did not know that Murray was a real person, you would think his life story was one of those big historic novels written Leon Uris.

1934(28th of Sivan, 5694): Lev Semenovich Vygotsky a developmental psychologist known for his socio-cultural perspective passed away. Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Orsha, Russia in 1896, Vygotsky's faith and social standing shaped many of his choices and views.

1935: In Oklahoma City, OK Sylvan N. Goldman and Margaret Katz Gold man gave birth to real estate developer and philanthropist Monte H. Goldman.

1935: Birthdate of Gene Wilder. Born Jerome Silberman in Milwaukee Wisconsin, Wilder is known for his roles in “Young Frankenstein” and “Silver Streak.”

1936: As the wave of Arab violence increased, The Palestine Post reported that many Arabs were injured and a number might have been killed in a battle with police and British troops in the Ein Harod area and during a demonstration in Hebron. Arab crowds were dispersed in Jaffa where a British constable was stabbed. Arab terrorists cut telephone wires and set some forests on fire. The Second Battalion of the Dorset Regiment arrived in Jerusalem from Egypt. Over a thousand one-year-old citrus trees were uprooted in Kfar Yona and the late Field-Marshal Allenby's statue was damaged in Beersheba

1936: As the Arab uprising continued, arsonists set fire to the fields of Kfar Joshua and to the forest at Ataroth which is located outside of Jerusalem. Guards at the forest fired shots at the arsonists as they escaped.

1936: In New York, a Grand Jury voted to indict anti-Semitic pamphlet Robert Edward Edmondson on charges of libel Dean Virginia Gildersleeve of Barnard College, U.S. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and “the Jewish religion.”

1937: Marx Brothers'"A Day at the Races" released to popular acclaim. 

1937: Stalin moves forward with the Great Purge which was animated in part by anti-Semitism as the Soviet Dictator went after those whom he claimed were followers of Trostky and which denuded the general staff of many seasoned officer which helps to explain the abysmal showing of the Russians when the Germans invaded in 1941.

1938: “Mr. Moto Takes a Chance,” “the fourth in a series of eight films starring Peter Lorre as Mr. Moto” and produced by Sol M. Wurtzel was released in the United States today.

1939: “All business in the Jerusalem post office was suspended” today except for telegraph and cable service following the explosion of a bomb that killed “a British constable” and the discovery of “an unexploded bomb which was found in the post office garage.”

1939: “Dr. Chaim Weizmann…sent a letter today to the Mandates Committee of the League of Nations attacking Britain’s new policy on Palestine as ‘the triumph of force over moderation.’”

1940(5^th of Sivan, 5700): Erev Shavuot

1940: As the Nazis sweep across France, Eugène Tisserant, a French Cardinal working at the Vatican writes to the Archbishop of Paris lamenting the silence of the Pope when it comes to the evil of the Nazis.

1940: “As a result of internal pressure from citizens objecting to the large number of “transient” refugees (many of whom were Jews fleeing Hitler’s Europe) who had reached Ciudad Trujillo and were waiting there to procure entry into other North and South American countries, the Dominican Congress passed a bill barring all immigration except of persons intending to make the Republic their permanent home.” (JA)

1940: Leon Blum, who was in London, “decided to return to Paris” today.

1941: Following the bombing of Haifa, which is an important naval base for the British, by German planes, the Vichy government has condemned reports by the British that the German war planes “returned” to the Aleppo airfield in Northern Syria. The term “returned” implies that the planes had flown from Aleppo to attack Haifa and the Vichy French claim that there are no German aircraft in Syria.  Syria is a French colony which is supposedly governed by the Vichy government under the terms of the surrender agreement signed with the Nazis.  

1941: Hans and Margaret Rey try to buy two bikes so that they can leave Paris.  The search is fruitless.

1941: Hans Rey spent 1,600 francs for two unassembled bikes.  He then spent the rest of the day putting them in working order.

1942: Major Liebmann and his hundred surviving men (out of a company that had been 400 strong when the fight began on June 2) linked up with the forces of General Marie Pierre Koenig of the 1^st Free French Division who was in charge of the fort at Bir Hakeim. The French general had no idea that his unit had been supported by this group of Jewish volunteers. In perfect French, Major Liebmann told him that his men were fighters from Palestine, but that they could not serve under their flag because of British rules. Koenig then told him to raise their Star of David flag, and all Free French officers around him saluted it.

1942: One thousand Jews were deported from Prague, Czechoslovakia, to the “East,” where they are murdered.

1942(26th of Sivan, 5702): Ten thousand Jews from the ghetto at Tarnów, Poland, were murdered at the Belzec extermination camp.

1942(26^thof Sivan, 5702): Thirty year old Herbert Baum a Jewish member of the anti-Nazi resistance was tortured to death today at Moabit Prison.

1942: “They All Kissed the Bride” starring Melvyn Douglas was released today in the United States.

1943: Himmler ordered the liquidation of all Polish ghettos.

1943: U.S. premiere of “Coney Island” produced by William Perlberg, co-starring Phil Silvers, for which Alfred Newman received an Oscar nomination “in the category of Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture.”

1944: For the next seven days the Germans shipped an additional 50,805 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz.

1944: Joel Brand, who is being held by the British, and Moshe Sharett continue their meetings where Brand continues to explain the “Jews for trucks” deal that he hopes will save the Jews of Hungary.

1945(30^th of Sivan, 5705): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1945(30^th of Sivan, 5705): Fifty-two year old Eliyahu Golomb who played a key role in the creation of the Haganah and the Palmach passed away today. Born in Russia in 1893, he made Aliyah in 1909. After working at the famed kibbutz Dagania Alef he served with the British in the Jewish Legion during WW I. During the inter-war years he worked with the Revisionists to try and form a unified Jewish military defense force. During the Arab Revolts in the 1930’s he served with the FOSH.

1946:“President Truman created today a special Cabinet committee to assist him in formulating and implementing "such policy with regard to Palestine and related problems as may be adopted by this Government."

1946: “It was learned today” that Isaac Darwich have a given to letter to the government of France form his uncle Haj amin el Husseini, thanking the French their hospitality before he snuck out of the country headed for Damascus and eventually Jerusalem. (Editor’s note – apparently the brave French had no trouble in providing refuge for the Grand Mufti who had spent of the war with Hitler in Berlin)

1947: “Forty business and professional men attended a private dinner” tonight “at the Hotel Astor sponsored the Men’s Committee of the American League for a Free Palestine presided over by Paul O’Dwyer, chairman of the Zionist organization working to raise $7,500,000.(Editor’s note – prior to 1948, Palestine was a Jewish expressince)

1948: Jordan’s King Abdullah ordered a “hunda” or ceasefire.

1948: King Abdullah visited Jerusalem and promoted Abdullah el-Tell to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and gave him command of three Jordanian infantry companies occupying the Old City. El-Tell would be the lead negotiator who met with Jewish military leaders in matters regarding Jerusalem.

1948:  The first truce between the Israelis and the Arab invaders began. During four weeks the Israelis had not only survived, they were in control of respectable amount of territory.  This included the eastern and western portions of the Galilee, the Jezreel Valley from Haifa on the Mediterranean to the Jordan River, the coastal plain as far south as Ashdod, a major portion of the Negev and the corridor that connected Jerusalem with the rest of the Jewish controlled territory.   The U.N. sponsored truce was supposed to last four weeks. 

1948: As the first truce between Arabs and Israelis went into effect, Kfar Darom was completely surrounded by Egyptian forces laying siege to the Negev Kibbutz.  The Kibbutz had been under attack since December.  The Moslem Brotherhood had tried to capture it in April and the Egyptians had begun their assault in May. Although the Kibbutz would eventually have to evacuated, its gutsy stand gave heart to the embattled Israelis and prevented the Arabs from sweeping up the road to Tel Aviv.

1948: David Shaltiel the Haganah district commander in Jerusalem began the first in a series of meetings with Abdullah el Tell the commander of the Arab Legion under the auspices of the UN.

1948:  As of today, 300 people have been killed and 1,400 more have been wounded since the battle for Jerusalem began on May 14.  The Arab Legion had lobbed more than 14,000 shells at the Jewish defenders since the British High Commissioner flew off to Haifa.

1948 (4th of Sivan, 5708):  As night fell on the first night of the truce, tragedy struck.  The Jewish commander of the Jerusalem Front, Mickey Marcus aka Mickey Stone, was shot by an Israeli guard.  Marcus was spending the night with a Palmach battalion.  When return from a trip to the latrine, Marcus was challenged by a guard.  Marcus spoke no Hebrew and was unable to respond.  The youngster fired a warning shot and called again for the password.  Marcus did not respond, but kept moving forward.  The young guard fired several more shots one of which hit Marcus, mortally wounding him.  Marcus’ most famous accomplishment was the construction of the “Burma Road” – the roadway to Jerusalem built under the threat of Arab guns that guaranteed Jerusalem would be part of the Jewish state.  Marcus’ body was taken back to the United States, escorted by several leading Israeli leaders.  Marcus was buried at West Point, the military academy that gave him the training to fight for his country during World War II and to fight for his people during the War of Independence.

1948: Syrian forces captured Bnot Ya’akov Bridge which spans the Jordan River.  The Syrians will be forced to withdraw as a result of the 1949 Armistice Agreement.

1948: Birthdate David Lehman, the son of Holocaust survivors the poet and editor for “The Best American Poetry” series.”

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/076.html

1948: American Syd Antin and South African Lionel Bloch joined the Israeli air force.

1949: “A message from President Truman was read tonight at the opening session of the eleventh national convention of Pioneer Women, the woman’s Zionist organization meeting in Philadelphia.

1950: “Israel notified Jordan that it was holding up the establishment of mixed border patrols” that are intended “to check Arab infiltrations into Israel” and thus limit the possibility of clash between the military forces of the two neighbors.  Israel said that its action was in response to Jordan’s failure to return three soldiers who had been captured six weeks ago.  Israel claims that three are survivors of a five-man patrol that had accidently crossed the Armistice line with Jordan. The Jordanian killed two of the Israelis and imprisoned the three survivors.  In the meantime, armed Arab gangs continue to infiltrate the Jewish state from Jordan.

1950: Plans to proceed with the construction of what is to be the "Harry S. Truman" village (Kfar Truman) in Israel were announced here tonight at the "Land for Israel" dinner of the New England Jewish National Fund. “Vice President Alben W. Barkley who addressed the 1,500 guest accepted honorary chairmanship of the project.” In a letter addressed to Dr. Harris J. Levine, chairman of the JNF which was read at the dinner President Truman wrote, “I am highly honored and appreciate very much what you are proposing to do.

1950: It was reported today that Rosemary Sebag-Montefiore the daughter of Colonel Thomas Henry Sebag-Montefiore and the late Mrs. Sebag-Montefiore plans to be married in England this October to her fiancé, Dr. Joseph Richmond, Levenson, the Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Max Levenson of Massachusetts

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F60816FD3A5D177A93C3A8178DD85F448585F9

1951(7^th of Sivan, 5711): Second Day of Shavuot.

1951: Eleven days after having been released in the United Kingdom “Sirocco” a film based on Coup de Grace written by Joseph Kessel, directed by Curtis Bernhardt and co-starring Lee J. Cobb was released in the United States today.

1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel resumed the Hula drainage work with full UN authorization. Syria closed the frontier with Lebanon as a protest against the expulsion of about 1,000 Syrian laborers from Lebanon.

1952: The Israeli Foreign Ministry sent a note to the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry “drawing attention to the ‘atmosphere of mystery’ surrounding the arrest of Mardechai Oren, an Israeli citizen.

1953: Gunmen attacked a young couple in their home in Kfar Hess, and shot them to death.

1953: In response to a request made in March by Cardinal Pierre-Marie Gerlier, the Archbishop of Lyon, Germaine Ribière reported that the Finlay children being held Basque priests.  She was a Catholic member of the French Resistance who had rescued Jews during the war.  The Finlay children were Jewish orphans who had been baptized and were being kept from the surviving members of their family.

1954: Archeologist Yigael Yadin sent a telegram to Teddy Kollek stating that four Dead Sea Scrolls, including the Book of Isaiah, had been brought to the United States and were being offered for sale.  Yadin said they could be purchased for $250,000, what he considered a paltry sum for so great a treasure.  He said that he could raise the money from private sources but that it would take a year.  He pleaded with Kollek to get the Israeli government to provide the funds immediately.  Prime Minister Sharett agreed and authorized the Minister of Finance to provide the funds.  Thanks to the quick action, this national treasure was secured for Israel.

1956: In Great Neck, NY, “a dress manufacturer in Manhattan's garment district and a part-time piano teacher” gave birth to Steven A. Cohen, one of the richest hedge fund managers in America who beat charges of insider trading.

1956: Recording began of the LP, “Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings” produced by Buddy Bregman and featuring songs by Irving Berlin, Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern.

1957: “Philip Klutznick, president of B’nai B’rith and Moshe Feinstein, president of the Hebrew P. E. N. Club of America. Dr. Moshe Davis, Provost of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and chairman of the Hadoar executive committee were the speakers at a dinner celebrating the 35^th anniversary of Hador, “the only Hebrew language weekly published in the United States.” (JTA)

1958: In Camden, NJ, the Beth El Choral Group conducted by Cantor Louis J. Herman and accompanied by pianist Rose Solomon performed to at the installation of the congregation’s board of director.

1958: Two months after premiering in the United Kingdom, “The Camp on Blood Island” featuring Lee Montague and Wolfe Morris was released in the United States today.

1959(5^thof Sivan, 5719): Erev Shavuot

1959(5^thof Sivan, 5719): Yiddish author Chaim Pett who had been born in Russia in May of 1902 passed away today in New York City.

http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=32818&top=1

1962: CBS broadcast “Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hal” a “musical showcase” written by Mike Nichols for which Irwin Kostal was the musical director that included the introduction of “Meantime,” a song with lyrics by Al Stillman.

1964: “Do Wah Diddy Diddy” “a song written by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich” was recorded today for the first time.

1965(11^thof Sivan, 5725): Sixty-five year old Morris Raskin, the son “of Louis Raskin and Pia Reza Rose Pauline Raskin” and husband of Marjory Raskin passed away today in Michigan

1965: In the UK, premiere of “Repulsion” directed by Roman Polanski who also co-authored the screenplay.

1967: During a meeting at David Ben-Gurion’s home, “Defense Minister Moshe Dayan proposed autonomy for the West Bank, the transfer of Gazan refugees to Jordan, and a united Jerusalem serving as Israel's capital. Ben-Gurion agreed with him, but foresaw problems in transferring Palestinian refugees from Gaza to Jordan, and recommended that Israel insist on direct talks with Egypt, favoring withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula in exchange for peace and free navigation through the Straits of Tiran.”

1967: “A delegation of former residents of the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem asked the municipality for permission to rebuild their old homes.

1967: Teddy Kollek arranged for 20,000 bottles of milk for infants to be taken in to the Muslim, Christian and Armenian Quarters of the Old City.

1967: David Ben Gurion visited the Western Wall today.

http://cdn.timesofisrael.com/uploads/2017/05/Kotel-Ben-Gurion.jpg

1968: Birthdate of Michelle Levin, mother and daughter-in-law par excellence

1969: Pierre Goldman, the son of Alter Mojze Goldman, robbed the Royal Bank of Canada in Puerto La Cruz, taking 2.6 million bolívars (the biggest hold-up of that year).

1969: U.S. premiere of “Heaven With A Gun” starring Barbara Hershey as “Leelopa.”

1970(7^thof Sivan, 5730): Second Day of Shavuot

1970: Two days after he had passed away the funeral was held today for seventy-four year old Irving A Mancher, who was brought to the United States from his native Minsk at the age, lost his eyesight at the age of 15, at still went on to run “two of the largest independent coal and fuel-oil distributing concerns” while supporting numerous causes including “the Jewish Institute for Religion” and raising two sons, Jay and Horace, with his wife, passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/12/archives/irving-a-manacher-president-of-coal-concerns-dies-at-74.html

1971(18^thof Sivan, 5731): Seventy-year old “television producer and writer Louis Solomon, the husband of “the writer Wilma Shore” with whom he had two daughters, Hilary and Dinah, passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/17/obituaries/louis-solomon.html

1972: In East Brunswick, NJ, psychiatrist Stanley Gottlieb and his wife Marsha gave birth Mount Sinai Medical Center trained physician Scott Gottlieb, 23^rdCommissioner of Food and Drugs who was nominated for the position by President Trump

1975: “Lepke” a movie based on the life of gangster Louis “Lepke” Buchalter starring Tony Curtis in the total role and featuring Warren Berlinger and Milton Berle which was directed and produced by Menahem Golan.

1976: The album “A Kind of Hush” featuring “You” by Randy Edelman was released today.

1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that in view of the voices emanating from Arab organizations "inviting Jews to return to Iraq and Morocco," Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin declared that Israel would not act under threats and would deal with this issue "in fundamental fashion." Syrian troops were reported to be moving east to face the Iraqi Army which expressed readiness to man the Golan front. Both the US and Israel were concerned that both Algeria and Libya might participate in the Arab League's "Peacemaking Force" aimed to patrol a proposed Lebanese cease-fire.

1978(6th of Sivan, 5738): First Day of Shavuot

1978(6th of Sivan, 5738: Herman Barron, the first Jewish golfer to win a PGA Tour event passed away.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F30D17F83B5513728DDDAB0994DE405B888BF1D3

1978: In Italy, Premier Giulio Andreotti's government scheduled a national referendum for today despite the fact that it had been told that it was a Jewish holiday and observant Jews would not be able to participate in the vote.

1979(16^th of Sivan, 5739): Seventy-year old Jesse Abramson, whose sport’s writing career spanned fifty-six years passed away today

http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/JesseAbramson.htm

1980: Today, “Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft making him Microsoft's 30th employee and the first business manager hired by Gates”

1981: Alan Joseph Shatter began representing Dublin South in the Teachta Dala.

1982: The Jerusalem Post published a front page photograph of 21 year old Yoav Blum an IDF soldier pictured holding a portrait of Yasser Arafat taken from the PLO’s headquarters in southern Lebanon.

1982: Israel and Syria stopped fighting in Lebanon. Israel has since withdrawn from Lebanon.  Syria finally withdrew its armed forces from Lebanon which the late President Assad liked to consider was a province of Greater Syria. Syria continues to “meddle” in Lebanon’s internal politics.  At the same time, Lebanon continues to be a battleground for a variety of political and ideological groups that have interests beyond Lebanon including the destruction of the state of Israel. Israeli casualties so far: 214 killed, 23 missing in action, one prisoner of war and 1,114 wounded.

1982: Today, “the Moscow refusenik and Hebrew teacher Pavel Abramovich was summoned to the KGB for the fourth time in the course of a month.”

1983: Mayor Ed Koch and Bronx Borough President Stanley Simon are scheduled to a gathering that will celebrate the 10^thanniversary of Lambert Houses, the award low-rising public housing buildings in the South Bronx.

1983: Nigel Lawson completed his service as Secretary of State for Energy under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

1983: Nigel Lawson began serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

1985: Seventy-year old Sir Charles Myer Abrahams who “served a flight-lieutenant in the RAFVR” in WW II and was the Vice President of the Nightingale House of the Home for the Jewish Aged and Vice President of the British Paraplegic Sports Federation passed away today.

1986: In Los Angeles, Shayna (née Saide) La Beouf who was Jewish and Jeffrey Craig LaBeouf gave birth to actor Shia LaBeouf.

1987: Leo Abse completed his service as a Member of Parliament from Torfaen

1988: Dire Straits, the rock group co-founded by Mark and David Knoplfer regrouped today for Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert at Wembley Stadium, in which they were the headline act,\.

1989: “Where The Ace Is King”

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/11/magazine/where-the-ace-is-king.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

1989: “Hotel Monterey” “a silent documentary” directed, produced and written by Chantal Akerman, the Brussels born daughter of Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor.

http://forward.com/culture/film-tv/322155/chantal-akerman-pioneering-feminist-filmmaker-dies-at-65/?utm_content=sisterhood_Newsletter_MainList_Title_Position-1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Sisterhood%20Redesign%202015-10-06&utm_term=Sisterhood

1989: After 153 performances at the 46^thStreet Theatre, the curtain came down on a revival of Garson Kanin’s “Born Yesterday” with a cast that included Tony Award nominee Madeline Kahn

1990(18^th of Sivan, 5750): Seventy-four year old philanthropist Beatrice Coleman the widow of Dr. Joseph Coleman and head of Maidenform since 1968 passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/14/obituaries/beatrice-coleman-philanthropist-74-headed-maidenform.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

http://www.thecolemanfoundation.org/

1990: Ariel Sharon succeeded David Levy as Minister of Housing and Construction.

1990: Avner Shaki succeeded Zevulen Hammer as Minister of Religious Services.

1990: Yuval Ne’eman began serving as Energy and Water Resources Minister.

1990: Roni Milo began serving as Minister of Public Security.

1993: In Boston, MA, Israeli Wendy Buchanan and her husband gave birth to “American-Israeli” figure skater Aimee Buchanan “was not able to enter the Olympics single women’s qualifier competition in Germany in 2017, because the qualifier was scheduled to take place on Yom Kippur.”

http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00054107.htm

1993(22^nd of Sivan, 5753): Fifty-nine year old English actor Bernard Bresslaw who appeared in 15 of the “Carry On Films” passed away today.

1994(2^nd of Tammuz, 5754): Parsaht Sh’lach

1994: The Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the umbrella organization of the Reform Movement is scheduled to vote tonight on the application for membership by Congregation Beth Adam, a congregation whose “liturgy does not explicitly acknowledge…God”

1997: Herb Gray began serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Canada.

1997(6^th of Sivan, 5757): Shavuot

1997(6^th of Sivan, 5757): Benjamin (Ben) Dunkelman passed away. Born in 1913 to Polish-Jewish parents who had settled in Toronto, he had a distinguished military career in the Canadian Army during WW II followed by service with the IDF during the 1948 War for Independence.

1998: In “Turf; The Neighbors Rally Around the Mayor of Bedford Street, William Hamilton described Lawrence Selman’s fight to spend the rest of his life at his Greenwich Village home.

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/11/garden/turf-the-neighbors-rally-round-the-mayor-of-bedford-street.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

1999: Polo Ralph Lauren became a public company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol RL.

2000: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hopeby Jonathan Kozol and the recently released paperback edition of Another Life: A Memoir of Other People by Michael Korda.

2001: The Right Honourable Barbara Roche completed her term as Minister of State for Asylum and Immigration under Prime Minister Tony Blair.

2001: Five month old Yehuda Shoham was stoned to death by an unknown terrorist at Shilo.

2001: “Fear Factor” a game show that Jeff Zucker used to keep NBC on top of the ratings game premiered this evening.

2002: The BBC broadcast “The Empire of Good Intentions” the 14th episode of “A History of Britain a documentary series written and presented by Simon Schama” which is now in its third season.

2003(11th of Sivan, 5763): In Jerusalem, seventeen people - 11 women and six men - were killed and over 100 wounded in a suicide bombing on Egged bus #14A outside the Klal building on Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem.

2003: Seventeen people were killed and over 100 wounded in a suicide bombing on Egged bus #14A outside the Klal building on Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Sgt. Tamar Ben-Eliahu, 20, of Moshav Paran; Alan Beer, 47, of Jerusalem; Eugenia Berman, 50, of Jerusalem; Elsa Cohen, 70, of Jerusalem; Zvi Cohen, 39, of Jerusalem; Roi Eliraz, 22, of Mevaseret Zion; Alexander Kazaris, 77, of Jerusalem; Yaffa Mualem, 65, of Jerusalem; Yaniv Obayed, 22, of Herzliya; >Bat-El Ohana, 21, of Kiryat Ata; Anna Orgal, 55, of Jerusalem; Zippora Pesahovitch;, 54, of Zur Hadassah; Bianca Shahrur, 62, of Jerusalem; Malka Sultan, 67, of Jerusalem; Bertine Tita, 75, of Jerusalem. Miriam Levy, 74, of Jerusalem died of her wounds on June 12. The 17th victim, male, who has not yet been positively identified, is believed to be a foreign worker from Eritrea.

2003: President and Mrs. Bush host 70 members of the Jewish community at the White House for a Kosher dinner to honor of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 10th anniversary.

2004:After having premiered at the Palm Beach International Film Festival, “Broadway: The Golden Age” featuring interviews with Beatrice Arthur, Tom Bosley, Kitty Carlisle, Betty Comden, Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Herman,, Martin Landau, Hal Linden and Arthur Laurents, among others was released today in the United States.

2004: In “Hebrew National Certified Kosher – But Not Kosher Enough for Some” Miriam Colton and Steven I Weiss discuss the fate of this iconic brand that has been the source of salamis and hot dogs for Jews across the decades and all across America.

https://forward.com/news/5806/hebrew-national-certified-kosher-e2-80-94-but-not-koshe/

2005: The Queen’s Birthday Honors List published today awarded a knighthood (Knight Bachelor) to Michael Kadoorie.

2005(4^th of Sivan, 5765): Eighty-six year old veteran Yiddish actress Lillian Lux passed away today.

http://forward.com/articles/3681/lillian-lux-burstein--yiddish-theater-giant/

http://www.nysun.com/obituaries/lillian-lux-86-international-star-of-yiddish-stage/15411/

2006: Shalshelet’s Second International Festival took place today at Ohr Kodesh Congregation, Chevy Chase, Maryland

2006: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Mohr by Frederick Reuss and The Good Fight:Why Liberals — and Only Liberals — Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Againby Peter Beinart

2007: Nobel Laureate Dr. Elie Wiesel delivered the 2nd Annual Gershon Jacobson Memorial Lecture at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York.

2007(25^thof Sivan, 5767): Ninety-three year old Isadore Weinstock, the Denver born son of Harry and Sarah Wilner Weinstock and the husband of “Helen A. Karsh Weinstock” passed away today in his home after which he was buried at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Commerce City, CO.

2007: On the 40^th anniversary of the Six Day War, U.S. News & World Report magazine features three articles on the subject including “A Changing Mind-Set Among Jerusalem's Palestinians,” “A Look Back at the Six-Day War” and “Marking the 40th Anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War.” This last article was written by Fouad Ajami, a Lebanese born American professor who states that “at the heart of the war lay the willful Arab refusal to accept Israel’s Legitimacy and statehood.”

2008: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Temple Judah combines the Annual Congregation Meeting with a BBQ Dinner. 

2008: In “Tulchinsky’s History of Canada’s Jewish In An Impressive Work” published today Bill Gladssone reviews the “magnus opus” by “Gerald Tulchinsky, professor emeritus of history a Queen’s University that examines almost 250 years of Canada and her Jewish population.

https://www.cjnews.com/culture/books-and-authors/tulchinskys-history-canadas-jews-impressive-work

2008: The Croatia Jewish Film Festival opened in Zagreb.

2008: The New York Times includes a review of Travel Pictures by Heinrich Heine.  Of Judaism, he writes, “I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.  It gives you nothing but scorn and shame, I tell you, it’s no religion at all, just a lot of hard luck.”  “Heine refers only once, bitingly, to German anti-Semitism.  Pointing out a hunting area, he concedes the sport’s pleasure for some. ‘My ancestors, however, did not belong to the hunters, but rather to the hunted.’”

2009: President Obama's former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright again sought to tamp down controversy in the wake comments blaming "them Jews" for keeping him away from the president. He had meant to refer to "Zionists" and not all Jews, he said in an interview on SIRIUS Satellite Radio's "Make it Plain" with Mark Thompson."Let me say like Hillary, I misspoke," Wright said. "Let me just say: Zionists."

2009: In Washington, D.C. the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is closed for the day in honor of the memory of Stephen T. Johns who died from the wounds inflicted by an anti-Semitic white supremacist who attempted to shoot his way into the building on Wednesday

2009(19^thof Sivan, 5769): Eighty-seven year old Irving Schulman, MD who helped to found the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital passed away today.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/june17/med-obitschulman-061709.html

2009: In Washington, D.C., David Makovsky, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, signs copies of his new book, which he coauthored with Ambassador Dennis Ross, special advisor to the secretary of state for the Gulf and Southwest Asia, entitled Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East

2010: Men’s Club Shabbat, completed with the installation of next year’s Board of Directors is scheduled to take place Congregation Olam Tikvah

2010:“Called up to life- Legends of the Baal Shem Tov” is scheduled to open in Gaithersburg, MD.

2010:“Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work,” comes out today.

                                                      

2010:Two Border Police officers were lightly wounded in Wadi Joz this afternoon when a pickup truck rammed into them as they entered the east Jerusalem neighborhood amidst reports of potential rioting in the area..

2011:Shelby Zukin is called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah in Iowa City, IA at Agudas Achim.

2011:In New York City the duet "Heroes" is scheduled to be performed by Israeli based Yossi Berg and Oded Graf on the 4^th night of the Contemporary Israeli Dance Week 

2011: Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer has decided to become a candidate for head of the International Monetary Fund, Israel's Channel Two News reported today.

2011: Representative Anthony D. Weiner planned to check himself into a treatment center today after House Democratic leaders, including Nancy Pelosi, called on him to resign and suggested he needed psychiatric counseling

2012: The Carmen at Masada Opera Festival is scheduled to come to a close.

http://www.carmen-at-masada.com/

2012: Dr. Paris Chronakis is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “Greeks and Jews in the 20th Century Salonika: History Through the Kaleidoscope,” at UCLA.

http://usa.greekreporter.com/2012/05/21/lecture-on-greeks-and-jews-in-20th-century-salonica/

2012: The Vatican is about to "indirectly recognize" Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem, according to  a report published today. This would be done if the draft of an economic agreement between the Jewish state and the Holy See, containing no distinction between sovereign Israel and the territories occupied by it in 1967, is approved by the two sides, Ha'aretz online reported.

2012: Forty-year old Scream star David Arquette, whose mother was Jewish, celebrated his Bar Mitzvah today at the Wall.

2013: Friends and family gather to celebrate the birthday of Michelle Levin an ashyish chayil of the first order who has done a wonderful job of creating a Jewish home for Jacob and Rachel Levin

2013: “Life in Stills” (Ha-Tzalmania) is scheduled to be shown at The JCC in Manhattan

http://embassies.gov.il/new-york/events/cultural_calendar/film/Pages/Life-in-Stills-1.aspx

2013(3^rd of Tammuz): Yahartzeit the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory who passed away 19 years ago.

2013(3^rd of Tammuz, 5773): Eight-six year old Nobel prize winning economist Robert W. Fogel passed away. (As reported by Robert D. Hershey, Jr)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/business/robert-w-fogel-nobel-winning-economist-dies-at-86.html

2013: Chairwoman of the Knesset Committee on the Rights of the Child Likud Beiteinu MK Orly Levy-Abecasis called for “real and substantial integration” of Ethiopian pupils into the education system with their native-Israeli classmates at a meeting of the Committee on the subject held today. (As reported by Danielle Ziri)

2013(3^rd of Tammuz, 5773): Evelyn Kozak, who at age 113 is reputed to be the oldest Jew in the world, passed away today.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/evelyn-kozak-worlds-oldest-jew-dies-at-113/

http://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/2251929/jewish/Evelyn-Kozak-Worlds-Oldest-Jewish-Person-Dies-at-113.htm

2013: Professor Deborah Dash Moore, co-editor of Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon, film producer Scott Berrie, musicologist and conductor Leon Botstein, and Russ & Daughters, New York’s century-old purveyor of appetizers were presented with the Jewish Cultural Achievement Award from the Foundation for Jewish Culture today.

2013: A bill to reserve four places on the rabbinical judges appointments committee for women was successfully passed into law in this morning, but not before haredi MKs repeatedly stalled the legislative process due to their vehement opposition to the terms of the new law. (As reported by Jeremy Sharon)

2014: Despite opposition from 22 Arab nations, "People, Book, Land, The 3,500 Year Relationship of the Jewish People to the Holy Land" is scheduled to open today under the auspices of UNESCO.

2014: The Oregon Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a reception marking the opening the exhibition “Vida Sefaradi: A Century of Sephardic Life In Portland.”

2014: The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, DC is scheduled to host its annual meeting.

2014: The IDF said that today’s attack on a terror target in Sudaniya in the northern Gaza Strip tonight by the IAF was a joint operation with Shin Bet that targeted “global jihad-affiliated terrorists” who were planning an attack on Israel. (As reported by Roi Kais and Yoav Zitun)

2014: A day after being defeated by a Tea Party Challenger in the Republican Primary Eric Cantor — looking composed and even unusually at ease — went before the press this afternoon and announced he’s stepping down as majority leader, ending an 11-year run in Republican leadership. Cantor is the only Jewish Republican in the House of Representatives and the only Republican to have been defeated so far this year in a primary challenge.

2015(24^th of Sivan, 5775): Ninety-one year old Anglo-Jewish actor Ron Moody, who ironically is best known for his portrayal of “Fagin” passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/theater/ron-moody-actor-who-redefined-fagin-in-oliver-dies-at-91.html?_r=0

2015: In “Texarkana Synagogue Shuts Doors For Good” published today Ben Tinsley described the fate Mt. Sinai Temple Congregation” – a fate which is being endured by many small town Jewish congregations.

http://tjpnews.com/texarkana-synagogue-shuts-doors-for-good/

2015: “Zero Motivation” is scheduled to be shown on the final day The Israel Center Film Festival

2015: “Every Time We Say Goodbye” is scheduled to be shown today at the Cinema South Film Festival today in Sderot.

2016(5^th of Nisan, 5776): Shabbat Bamidbar – begin reading the fourth book of the Torah. 

2016: As Jews observe Shabbat today they will mourn the victims of the Tel Aviv terror attack – 42 year old Ido Ben Ari from Ramat Gan, 39 year old Ilana Naveh from Tel Aviv, 58 year old Micahel Feige from Ramat Gan and 32 year old Mila Mishayev from Rishon Lezion.

2016: Sara Shalva, Director of Jewish Innovation at the Edlavitch JCC is scheduled to lead “a musical exploration of the Book of Ruth using a brand new curriculum by Alicia Jo Rabins’s indie-folk project Girls in Trouble” at the 17^th Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival.

2016: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a J.S. Bach Concerti Series featuring soloist: Tom Zalmanov, piano, soloist: Yevgenia Pikovsky, violin, soloist: Alon Mamo, piano and the Millennium Ensemble.

2017: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Al Franken, Giant of the Senateby Al Franken and Swell, a novel by Jill Eisenstadt.

2017(17^th of Sivan, 5777): Eighty-four year old U. of Chicago grad and history professor David Fromkin author of the must-read A Peace to End All Peace passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/world/middleeast/obituary-david-fromkin-dead-middle-east-author.html

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/fromkin-peace.html?_r=2

2017(17^th of Sivan, 5777): Eighty-four year old historian Norman Pollack passed away today. (As reported by Jesse Lemisch)

https://www.facebook.com/jesse.lemisch/posts/10213150328693549?pnref=story.unseen-section

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/16/farewell-dr-norman-pollack-1933-2017/

2017: Israeli Alon “Day won the NASCAR Whelen Euro race in England at Brands Hatch” which led to him joining “BK Racing for his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series debut in Sonoma Raceway's Toyota/Save Mart 350, driving the No. 23 Toyota Camry” later in the month.

2017: Among those with a Jewish connection being considered for an award at tonight’s Tony presentation are “Oslo,” J.T. Rogers’ play about the 1993 Oslo Accords, Paula Vogel’s “Indecent,” which recounts the bumpy journey to Broadway of Shalom Asch’s controversial Yiddish play “God of Vengeance,” “Falsettos,” a musical about neurotic Jews (are there any Jews who aren’t), “Hello Dolly,” Ben Platt in “Dear Evan Hansen and Patti LuPone who is not Jewish for her role in “War Paint” a musical about the two Jewish cosmetic queens. (As reported by Linda Buchwald)

2017: The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to host a family styled BBQ followed by its annual meeting.

2017: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Dudu Fisher In Concert.”

2017: The Jewish Genealogical Society is scheduled to hold its monthly meeting where Dr. Andrew Zallewski will speak on “Galician Portraits: The Story of Jews, Gentiles and Emperors.”

2018: In Atlanta, GA, The Breman Museum is scheduled to the “2018 Summer Institute on Teaching the Holocaust.”

2018: JW3 is scheduled to host three different screenings of “The Boy Downstairs” starring Zosia Mamet and Matthew Shear in London.

2018: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to offer two choices for the Monday meal – Shawarma or Vegetarian Shawarma -- both of which are Kosher, of course!

2019: Shavuot may have ended yesterday, but the simcha continues for another day as friends and family are scheduled to celebrate the natal day of the woman extraordinaire, Michelle Levin, an Eishet Chayil in the truest sense of that term.

2019: The American Jewish Historical Society and The Village Temple are scheduled to present “An Innocent Bystander: The Killing of Leon Klinghoffer” during which author Julie Salamon and Warren Bass, Senior Editor at The Wall Street Journal, revisits the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro and the brutal murder of passenger Leon Klinghoffer” by Palestinian terrorists.

2019: The Skirball Center is scheduled to host “Behind the scenes of the Unorthodox Drama, Shtisel” during which attendees “watch clips from the series” and get to meet the cast of this successful Israeli television show.

2019: Hadassah of the Upper Midwest is scheduled to host an informative evening where Stephanie Perelstein, St. Paul Hadassah President, will talk about her Hadassah Israel Mission Trip, Sara Lynn Newburger will speak about Hadassah’s involvement with the Hineni Summer Learning Series and Leslie Strohm will give an update on the “It’s Your Legacy” Program in the Twin Cities”

2020: S.F. JFCS Holocaust Center’s book club is scheduled to host a virtual discussion of Rywka’s Diary: The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto.

2020: Kerem Shalom is scheduled to host “Fun with Yiddish Online Class.

2020: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host the opening of Orchestra of St. Luke's four-week (online) festival, Bach at Home 2020…”

2020: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host a discussion The Choice: Embrace the Possible, a memoir by Holocaust Survivor and internationally acclaimed psychologist Dr. Edith Eva Eger.

2020: The Israel Film Center Film Festival is scheduled a screening of “Chained” followed by a Q and A.

2020: As part of the “Leading through Crisis and Change: Jewish Women at the Turn of the 20^th Century” is scheduled to feature Karla Goldman. the Sol Drachler Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan and director of the Jewish Communal Leadership Program as she talks about Henrietta Szold.

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JUNE 12

816: Leo III, the Pope whose aggressive plan to crown Charlemagne gave the Jews of the Rhineland a comparatively benign ruler, passed away today.

1240: Nicholas Donin, a renegade Jew under the patronage of Louis IX, convinced Pope Gregory IX to confiscate the Talmud on the grounds that it was anti-Christian. A debate ensued with Rabbi Yechiel ben Yosef of Paris and three other Rabbis speaking in defense of the Talmud. Yechiel ben Yosef of Paris was a major Talmudic scholar and Tosafist from northern France, father-in-law of Isaac ben Joseph of Corbeil. He was a disciple of Rabbi Judah Messer Leon, and succeeded him in 1225 as head of the Yeshiva of Paris, which then boasted some 300 students; his best known student was Meir of Rothenburg. But even a scholar like Rabbi Yechiel could prevail since he was not allowed to counterattack or take the offensive in his argument making the outcome a foregone conclusion. Ultimately 24 carriages loaded with Jewish books including all of the available copies of the Talmud were burned. Rabbi Yechiel eventually left France and in 1260 the rabbi arrived in Eretz Yisroel (Land of Israel) along with his son and a large group of followers, settling in Acre. There he established the Talmudic academy Midrash haGadol d'Paris. He is believed to have died there between 1265 and 1268, and is buried near Haifa, at Mount Carmel.

1247: Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, the archbishop of Toledo who was so “vexed by the prosperity of the Jews in his diocese” that he led a “mob” to the Synagogue where “he dispersed” the Jews “and then began to plunder the houses of the unbelievers.”

1519: Birthdate of Cosimo de’ Medici whose reign was “originally beneficial for the Jews as can be seen by his issuance in 1551of “an invitation to merchants from the Levant, including Jews, to settle in Tuscany and do business there; previously; giving asylum to refugees from the Papal State; and his refusal “to implement the anti-Jewish restrictions issued by Pope *Paul IV or to hand over the Jews to the jurisdiction of the Inquisition.”  But when he wished to gain the favor of the Pope he burned the Talmud and he “rigorously applied to the obligation to wear the Jewish badge.” (Jewish Virtual Library)

1648(22^ndof Sivan, 5408): Rabbi Yechiel Michael ben Eliezer, the head of the Jewish community in Nemirov was clubbed to death before his mother’s eyes during the Chmielnicki Uprising, the worst massacre of Jews until the Holocaust.

1665: The English rename New Amsterdam, New York. England had gained control of the colony as a result of winning the war with the Dutch. Ironically, Peter Stuyvesant the Dutch governor who had tried to keep the Jews out in 1654 had to leave the colony while the Jewish settlers got to stay.

1713:: “Only a few weeks after the beginning of his reign,” Frederick William I, “appointed Moses Leven Gumperts of the famous Gumperts family of Cleves as Chief Court and Army Factor.

1720: Birthdate of Isaac Pinto, translator of the first Jewish prayer book published in America. A member of Congregation Shearith Israel in the city of New York, he is remembered chiefly for having prepared what is probably the earliest Jewish prayer-book published in America, and certainly the first work of its kind printed in New York City. The work appeared in 1766, and the title-page reads as follows: "Prayers for Sabbath, Rosh-Hashanah and Kippur, or the Sabbath, the beginning of the year, and the Day of Atonement, with the Amidah and Musaf of the Moadim or Solemn Seasons, according to the Order of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews. Translated by Isaac Pinto and for him printed by John Holt in New York." Pinto was the friend and correspondent of Ezra Stiles, president of Yale College, who as late as 1790 mentions him in his diary as "a learned Jew at New York." From Stiles' account it appears that Pinto was a good Hebrew scholar, studying Ibn Ezra in the original.

1755: Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who had many Jewish friends and “believed that that Judaism is concerned only with things of this world, and lacks any formulation of the concept of immortality” received his Ph.D. today. (Jewish Virtual Library)

1773: Birthdate of Amschel Mayer Rothschild “the second child and eldest son of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, the founder of the dynasty, and Gutlé Rothschild née Schnapper.

1776: The Virginia Convention of Delegates unanimously adopted The Virginia Declaration of Rights which includes Article 16 that states, “That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience;” The declaration was drafted by founding father George Mason.

1777(7^thof Sivan, 5537): Second Day of Shavuot

1782(30^thof Sivan, 5542): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1796(6^thof Sivan, 5556): Shavuot is observed for the last time under the Presidency of George Washington.

1796: Birthdate of George Bush “an American biblical scholar, pastor, abolitionist and Christian Restorationist academic” who was an early American supporter of the creation of a Jewish state of Israel. “In 1844 Bush published a book entitled ‘The Valley of Vision; or, The Dry Bones of Israel Revived.’ In it he denounced “the thralldom and oppression which has so long ground them (the Jews) to the dust,” and called for ‘elevating’ the Jews ‘to a rank of honorable repute among the nations of the earth’ by re-creating the Jewish State in the land of Israel. This, according to Bush, would benefit not only the Jews, but all of mankind, forming a ‘link of communication’ between humanity and God. ‘It will blaze in notoriety...It will flash a splendid demonstration upon all kindreds and tongues of the truth.’”

1799: Rabbi Abraham Azuby officiated at the wedding of Phillip Cohen and Eleanor Moses, the daughter of the later Myer Moses, a successful Charleston SC merchant.

1804: David Moses, the father of Rachel Moses was buried today in the UK.

1807(6^thof Sivan, 5567): Shavuot

1807: For the first time since 1785, Reb Nachman of Bratslav observed Shavuot without his wife Sashia who had passed away Erev Shavuot.

1811: Amsterdam native Hyman Polock married Rebecca Barnett in London today after which they had two children, Miriam and Sarah who was born in Philadelphia.

1814: Birthdate of Hungarian author and liberal political leader BaronZsigmond Kemény who came to the defense of Jewish people when violence broke out against them during the 1848 revolt when for example “in Pest, the symbol of the “Legal Revolution,” the assembled citizens proposed throwing all the Jews out of the country and forbidding them from enlisting in the National Guard.

1826(7^thof Sivan, 5586): Seventh Day of Shavuot observed as the Greeks continued to fight their protracted war to gain independence from the Ottoman Empire.

1827: In London, Daniel Meyers and Hester Levy gave birth to Angel Meyers.

1829: In the United Kingdom, Ephraim and Phoebe Benjamin gave birth to Solomon Benjamin.

1830:  The French begin their colonization of Algeria when they land 34,000 troops at point just to the west of the capital city, Algiers.  Initially the French administration conferred citizenship only on Frenchmen living in the colony.  The Jews, who had been living there for centuries, were, like the Arabs, treated as indigenous people and allowed to maintain their communal and judicial systems.

1832: Rabbi Aaron Worms was unanimously elected chief rabbi of Metz.

1844: Opening of the Rabbinical Conference of Brunswick “convoked by Levi Herzfeld and Ludwig Philippson.”

1844: In Bohemia, Lambert Furth and Cezilie Treulich gave birth to Jacob Furth, husband of Jenny Bloch, “founder of the Night School for Immigrants” in St. Louis and President of Associated Wholesale Grocers who served as a board member of the Jewish Orphan Asylum and the Mt. Sinai Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.

1846: In Cincinnati, OH, “Joseph Abraham and Sarah De Young” gave birth to Victor Abraham the Cincinnati Law College trained attorney and husband of Emma Dreyfoos, who was “President Hebrew General Relief Association,” “President and trustee of K.K. B’nai Israel,” and active member of the B’nai B’rith.

1847(28^thof Sivan, 5607): Sixty-six year old philanthropist Abraham Muhr who fought for the full emancipation of German Jews passed away today.

1854: In Posen, Prussia, Joseph Brown and his wife gave birth to A.B.J. Brown who served as a rabbi in Seattle, San Jose and Oakland before assuming the position at Shaarey Zedek in San Francisco.

1855: In London, Jacob Quixano Henriques and Elizabeth Waley gave birth to Elizabeth Waley Henriques.

1856: “Slidell, Blemont and Buchanan” published today described the role of “Auguste Belmont, the Austrian Jew” who was John Slidell’s nephew by marriage in a conspiracy to nominate James Buchanan as President of the United States.  Belmont was described as an “agent of the Rothschilds.”

1856: In Dubuque, IA, Solomon and Rosetta (Lippman) Rauh gave birth to Enoch Rauch the husband of Bertha Rauh and the father of Helen and Richard Solomon Rauch.

1859:  The Comstock Lode was discovered near Virginia City, Nevada.  As with other such strikes, Jews were among those who arrived seeking to make their fortune.  Among them were David H. Cohen and Marcus Goldbaum whose names appear in connection with numerous other strikes.  One Jew who made did make his fortune from the Comstock Lode was Adolph Sutro. Sutro was not the run of the mill prospector.  Rather he was “a self-taught financier and mining engineer” who developed a new ore extraction process and built the Sutro Tunnel that was designed to provide ventilation for the miners, “ease the hauling of ore and drain water from the mines.”  He sold Nevada interests for five million dollars and moved back to the more civilized environs of San Francisco.

1859: Lord Palmerston who while serving as of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs during which tinw the British blockaded  the port of Piraeus as part of the response to Greece’s abuse of David Pacifico, whom Palmerston defended as this “man of Jewish persuasion” and on whose behalf he “made a celebrated speech which concluded that all British subjects ought to be able to say, as did citizens of ancient Rome, "Civis Romanus sum" ("I am a citizen of Rome"), and thereby receive protection from the British government” began serving as Prime Minister today.

1859: Birthdate of Sigmund Pollitzer, the Staten Island born dermatologist.

http://archderm.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=518874

1859: The United States Grand Lodge of the Order of Brith Abraham whose members included Samuel Dorf, Robert Strahl and Anson Stern was founded today in New York Cit.

1861: During the Civil War the Union began placing restrictions on trade with the Confederacy for those living in Paducah, KY. This was one of many attempts by the Union Army to deny the Rebels of many of the goods they could not produce for themselves.  General Grant’s unfortunate order a year later was actually part of this larger attempt to cripple the Confederate Army by crippling the Southern economy.  This is not meant to excuse Grant’s action but to put it into a larger context.

1862(14th of Sivan, 5622): Jacob Goodman, who had enlisted with Company D at Keokuk, Iowa, which became part of the 15^th regiment died today.  He had distinguished himself at the Battle of Corinth (Miss.) where he was fatally wounded.

1862: Three days after he passed away, eighty year old Barent Salomons was buried at “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery” today.

1867: Following its defeat by Prussia, Austria reorganized itself into the Austro-Hungarian Empire and granted legal equality to Jews living with the new constituent states.

1870: The annual examination of students of the Hebrew Free Schools of New York took place today at Steinway Hall. Several hundred students from the schools which were established five years ago by the Hebrew Free School Association took part in this rigorous, yet fun-filled annual event.  The students were quizzed by teachers from a cross section of the faculties.  They displayed “considerable proficiency” in “their knowledge of the Hebrew language and of the primary branches of English education.  Follow the exams, Alderman Henry Woltman addressed the attendees.  At the end, the principal, Mr. J.C. Noot distributed prizes to some fifty of the more “meritorious pupils.

1871: In Louisville, KY, Lazarus Selligman and Carrie Sabel gave birth to Alfred Selligman the graduate of University of Louisville Law School and husband of Jennie Katz who was “the Republican nominee for Commonwealth’s attorney in 1903” and two term President of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.

1871 Birthdate of Lithuanian native Viktoras Baranauskas, who in 1890 moved to the United States where he gained fame “US Coin Designer and Engraver,” Victor D. Brenner whose works included the famous “Lincoln Penny”

https://www.usacoinbook.com/encyclopedia/coin-designers/victor-d-brenner/

1872(6^thof Sivan, 5632): Shavuot

1872: Sir Saul Samuel began a second non-consecutive term as a member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales.

1873: According to a report published today the Hebrew Orphan and Benevolent Society has received contributions totaling $65,075.21 for the year 1872-1873.

1874: In Boston, Louis Hecht, Jr. and Rose Frank gave birth to Hattie Hecht who became Hattie Sloss when she married M.C. Sloss who served as a member “several Jewish charities in Boston” before moving to California where she was President of the San Francisco Section of the Council of Jewish Women.

1874:  According to a report published today the Hebrew and Benevolent Society received contributions totaling $70,688.26 for the 1873-1874 reporting year.

1875: Birthdate of Russian native Philip Davis, whose education at the University of Chicago, Harve and Boston University Law School led him into the fields of social work, the law and motion pictures where he served as the President of the National Motion Bureau “from 1914 to 1940.”

1876: Two days after he passed away on Shabbat, seventy-eight year old Lewis Lazarus was buried at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery” today.

1876: George Richardson was fined ten dollars at the Tombs Police Court for having struck Louis Raminsky with enough force to cut the bearded Jew’s lip. Richardson struck Raminsky because he mistook him for a man named Rubinstein whom he identified as a “murder”.

1877: According to reports published today in the New York Times Jews living in Bucharest are petitioning Secretary Evarts for protection. "They are Russian and Austrians Hebrews, and comprise the very worst types of the race, refusing either to work or to pay taxes

1877(1st of Tammuz, 5637): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1877: As part of their on-going and rather unsuccessful attempt to convert Jews, the Conference on Jewish Mission “under the Presidency of the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells” ended its two days of meeting this afternoon.

1878: A Coroner’s Inquest was held at the home of the late Lucien Levy to determine the cause of the death of the Jewish businessman who had died yesterday.  Among those giving testimony were his widow and his brother Henry.  After hearing all of the evidence, the coroner determined that the death was indeed a suicide and that no autopsy would be necessary.

1879: In Cincinnati, Ohio, “Harry Rosenbaum, who rose to prominence in the dry goods field as a director of Louis Stix & Co. in Cincinnati” and “his wife, the former Sophia Hollstein” gave birth to Edith Rosenbaum who gained fame as Edith Louise Russell, “an American fashion buyer, stylist and correspondent for Women's Wear Daily, best remembered for surviving the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic with a music box in the shape of a pig

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/edith-louise-rosenbaum-russell-1879-1975.html

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/edith-russell.html

1880(3^rd of Tammuz, 5640): A Jewish child named Kate Ungerleider died at police headquarters in New York of whooping cough.  Her father who was a member of the Simon Benevolent Society had abandoned Kate and her 3 siblings after their mother had eloped with one of his friends.

1881: It was reported today that no matter of foreign policy has attracted as much attention in England was “the horrible persecution of the Jews in Russia.”  While several Jews are trying to get the government to aid their co-religionist, Baron Henry de Worms, the MP from Greenwich, who is not Jewish is leading the way in this manner.  When Parliament is sitting, “not a night passes without” without putting one or more questions on this matter to the responsible government minister.

1882: “Jews Going of Russia” published today described the mass exodus of Jews seeking to escape the oppression of the Russian Empire and the measures being taken to deal with this in the West.

1882: Joseph Wolf and Meyer Morris, two Jewish refugees from Russia who had arrived in New York two weeks ago, were under arrest today on charges that they had attacked a member of the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society when he did not comply with their latest demands.

1884(19^thof Sivan, 5644): Eighty year old Rosa Gavay, passed away today at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews today she had an accident on the elevator and fell to her death.

1884(19^thof Sivan, 5644): Sixty year old Sarah Cohen who had been born in Russia in 1824 passed away today in England.

1884: At a time when many Jews were turning their backs on Hebrews, Protestants provided another example of their interest in the language when Reverend John M. Lansing was named to fill the newly created Gardner Sage Professorship of Hebrew at the Reformed Church in America’s seminary at New Brunswick, NJ.

1886: It was reported today that Rabbi James K. Gutheim passed away in New Orleans.  At the time of his death he was the leader of Temple Sinai.  From 1868 until 1872 he had been the “English reader” at Temple Emanu-El in New York. [Note – this was at a time when services were conducted in German]  He was praised for his working to raise the level of education and health among all the people of the city regardless of their religious beliefs.

1887: Oscar Straus, the U.S. Minister to Turkey had his first audience with the Sultan

1887 In Manchester, England, Lithuanian born Abraham Moses Jacobson and his wife Sarah Leah Jacobson gave birth to Fanny Jacobson

1887: It was reported today that “the officers and managers of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children” are collecting funds so that, for the 9^th year in a row, they can provide outings for poor and sick Jewish mothers and their children.  Last year there were seven such outings which provided service to over ten thousand woman, children and infants.  [These excursions were part of an effort in urban America to get youngsters out of the tenement districts for even a little while during the summer in the belief that fresh air would help their health.]

1889: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Levy officiated at the wedding of Jacqueline De Leon, the daughter of H.H. De Leon to Sam Keller of Sheffield, Alabama.

1890: Over 500 people attended the graduation exercises of The Hebrew Technical Institute that were held this afternoon at its facility on Stuyvesant Street

1890: As of today, the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children has received $4, 017.50.

1890: Currently the officers of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children are Nathan Lewis, President; Hezekiah Kohn, Treasurer; Joseph Davis, Secretary.

1890(24^thof Sivan, 5650): Fifty year old Max Brüll de Domony the husband of Anna von Brüll de Domony passed away in Budapest.

1890: Birthdate of Shlomo Fritz Bernstein, the native of Germany who moved to Palestine in 1936 and who as Peretz Bernstein signed the Israeli declaration of independence.

1890: Texas native Oren B Meyer who had been appointed to West Point from Ohio, began serving as a 2^nd Lt. in the 1^st Cavalry.

1891(6^thof Sivan, 5651): Shavuot

1891: West Point graduate Harry J. Hirsch began serving as a 2^nd Lt. in the 15^th Infantry.

1891: “A Trusted Agent’s Theft” published today described Julio Merzbacher’s theft of between $300,000 and $500,000 from his former employer, New York Life Insurance Company.

1891: When Morris Vender was arraigned this morning in Newark, NJ on charges of non-support he claimed that he was divorced and produced a Hebrew language document to buttress his claim

1891: “New Hebrew Cemetery Dedicated” published today described the services led by Rabbi Bernard Drachman of Park East Synagogue dedicating the new cemetery on Long Island.  Joseph Blumenthal, the President of the Mount Zion Association which owns the cemetery also spoke to the attendees.

1892: The closing exercisies of the Louis Down-Town Sabbath and Day School took place this afternoon at Temple Emanu-El during which Rabbi Gustave Gottheil “administered the Confirmation Rites” on the graduating students.

1893: “Monument to Moses Mehrbach” published today described the unveiling ceremony led by Rabbi Hirsch in the Hebrew section of Cypress Hills Cemetery of a granite monument in honor of Moses Mehrbach, of blessed memory who was a note philanthropist who served as a presidential elector for the Democrats in 1884 and 1888.

1893: Colonel Weber, who had served as Superintendent of Immigration and who had been in Europe studying “the character and habits of those intending to emigrate to the United States said today that “the Polish Jews would dull indeed if they did not take the expulsion of their coreligionists in Russia to heart.” The new decrees, which could increase immigration to the United States are aimed at the hitherto protected classes (protection cost 1,000 rubles) including doctors, lawyers, engineers, architects, artists and university of graduates.”

1893(28^thof Sivan, 5653): The body of twenty-three year old Emanuel Weltman, a peddler living with his sister Mrs. Rosenbaum was found near High Bridge this morning.

1894: The Constitutional Convention’s subcommittee on Charities and Education visited several institutions today including Mt. Sinai Hospital and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.

1894: Virginia native Otho B. Rosenbaum began serving as a 2^nd Lt. in the 7^th Infantry.

1894: The Governor’s Tenement House Committee reportedly found that the Tenth Ward which is populated almost exclusively by Jews is in the worst condition of all wards because “its population is three times as dense as the most crowded quarter in London.”  Some of the streets in the ward have taken on the characteristics “of European Juden Strassess and Ghettos.”

1894: Last will and testament of Dr. Benhard Grunhut which names Abraham Stern and William Ketcham as executors signed today.

1895: “New Publications” published today included a brief review of As Others Saw Him: A Retrospect, a novel about the life of Christ “given in the guise of letters from Meshulam Ben Zadok, a scribe of the Jews of Alexandria” written to a physician in Corinth.

1896: In Lithuania, “Rivka and Shimon Yehuda Troub” gave birth to Dovid Yitzchak Troub, the husband of Rivko Traub who in 1926 came to the United States where he served as rabbi of a congregation in New London, CT.

1897: Birthdate of Anthony Eden. Eden, the Foreign Minister under Winston Churchill and his loyal number two. Eden was an ardent anti-Nazi but many claim that he was the English leader who prevented action being taken to save the Jews of Europe during World War II. Eden became Prime Minister in the 1950’s and was the British Prime Minister at the time of the Suez Crisis in 1956. Eden agreed to the ill-fated plan that included a joint Anglo-French seizure of the Suez Canal. Despite the success of the Israelis against the Egyptians, the whole project falls apart in the face of joint U.S.-Soviet support for Egypt. In the end, the British withdrew and Eden was forced from office.

1897: The 700 peasants working on the estate of Baron Daniel, the Hungarian Minister of Commerce attacked a Jewish farmer today.  When four gendarmes were called to protect him the mob rush them, hacking at them with their scythes.

1897: Birthdate of Polish-born French pianist Alexandre Tansman.

http://forward.com/culture/217468/on-alexandre-the-greatest-jewish-composer-youve-ne/

1897: The Columbia University, home of the “Temple Emanu-El Library of Biblical and rabbinical literature, numbering 3,500 books and pamphlets rich in medieval and Modern Hebrew works” will be closed today for the first time in its history so that it can move into its new facility which will open in October.

1898: More than 100 pupils attended the closing exercises of the Religious School at Temple Rodeph Sholom this afternoon at 63^rd Street and Lexington.

1898: In Montreal, Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Cohen, the Polish born son of Haim and Sarah Cohen and his wife Krona Sarah Fierst gave birth to Louis Judah Cohen.

1899: As the Zionist movement begins to gain strength, officers of the Order of Knights of Zion in Chicago, “received official notification from the Jewish Colonial Bank of London” that it now has 100,000 shareholders.

1899: Birthdate of Fritz Albert Lipmann American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded half the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953.

1899: Birthdate of Usher Fellig who changed his name to Arthur Fellig after coming to the United States from Austria to fend off anti-Semitism.  He is best known as Wegee the American photographer and photojournalist.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F40F1FFB3F54157493C5AB1789D95F4C8685F9

1900: At St. Mathews, South Carolina, Rabbi Lesser officiated at the wedding of Flora S. Pearlstine, the daughter of I.M. Pearlstine to Jacob Jacobs of Charleston, SC.

1901: Birthdate of Ben Welden, the native of Toledo, Ohio who carved out a career as a “character actor” – one of those faces you recognize but whose name you do not know who are critical to the success of movies and television shows which in his case included the classic mystery, “The Big Sleep.”

1902(7^thof Sivan, 5662): Second Day of Shavuot

1903: Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity for Women (Alpha Chapter) was founded at the University School of Music in Ann Arbor, Michigan by seven women.  Beverly Sills is one its many Laureates.

1904: “With impressive ceremonies and in the presence of more than 2,000 members of the congregation and invited guests President Plonsky laid the cornerstone of the Temple Agudath Jeshorim, in Eighty-Sixth Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues

1905: In Massachusetts, incorporation of the Plymouth Rock Cemetery which was used by members of Congregation Anshe Sephard and Agudas Achim in Borckton.

1905: “Envoy Found Menelek An Up-To-Date Ruler” published today, described the meeting between Dr. Rosen, the German the Minister elect to Morocco and King Menelek in Abyssinia who believes “that he is the descended from Prince Menelek I, a son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, who went to Ethiopia with a group of Sabians and Jews, “lived and thrive there and these Jews were the founders of the present Abyssinian Semitic race.”

1906: Today, the U.S. Senate passed The Wadsworth District Sunday Bill which would have the effect of unduly penalizing Jewish merchants in Washington, D.C. who would have to close for both days of the weekend.

1907: In Cleveland, “all of the kosher shops were picketed by the women and children” “of the Jewish District” who are angry “over the recent raise of four cents a pound” for meat “and are urging others not buy” the meat.

1908: Birthdate of Otto Skorzeny, the Austrian born German Waffen-SS Lieutenant Colonel who may have been the only person to be decorated by Hitler with the Iron Cross and to have worked for Mossad.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/29/hitlers-commando-lt-col-otto-skorzeny-worked-as-an-assassin-for/

1909(23^rdof Sivan, 5669): Parashat Sh’lach

1909(23^rdof Sivan, 5669): Fifty-six year old Moses King, the London born son of “David Woolf King and Sarah Lazarus, the St. Louis raised Harvard graduate and publisher of travel guide books who raised three children with his wife Bertha Maria Cloyes, passed away today in New York City.

1910: “Police Hunt Down Jews In Russia” published today described dispatches received by the Jewish Aid Society Scoeity that “Jews are being unmercifully evicted from their Summer Country residences throughout Russia” and that the police in Smolensk “are drawing mounted cordons around whole districts” forcing many Jews to hid in the surrounding woods where the “police are funding them like wild game.”

1911: In a letter written today, Mark J. Katz praised the career of Rear Admiral Adolph Marix whose bravery during the Spanish American War, “displayed in his spirit engages at Manzanillo earned him the high commendation “ of his superiors” and later the recognition of Congress.”

1912: A kosher kitchen was installed at Ellis Island for use by immigrants.

1912: Songwriter Al Sherman and his wife gave birth to Richard M. Sherman who joined with his older brother Robert to crease scores for films including “Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Jungle Book, Charlotte's Web and The Aristocats.”

1913(7^thof Sivan, 5673): Second Day of Shavuot

1913: As reported today in the New Age, Anglo-Jewish businessman Godfrey Charles Joseph Isaacs,, the brother of Rufus Isaac, 1^stMarque of Reading won his case for libel against Cecil Chesterton, a case that had grown out the Marconi Scandal was awarded £100 plus costs,

1913: Dr. Felix Levy and Max Shulman are scheduled to speak during Shavuot Services at the Chicago Hebrew Institute.

1913:“Mortche” Goldberg, “his wife Rosie Goldberg, Louis Barusch, Gussie Cohen and a man still unnamed” were indicted today on charges related to their involvement with the Vice Trust that earned $1,250,000 a year in profits “and paid nearly $400,000 yearly for protection to the police.”

1914: “Der Hund von Baskerville a German silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervillesdirected by Rudolf Meinert, produced by Josef Greenbaum, with a script by Richard Oswald and filmed by cinematographer Karl Freund was released today.

1914: Birthdate of Nathan B. Sweedler.

1915: In Kansas City, MO, attorney Benjamin Morris Achtenberg and his wife Minnie gave birth to Irving Achtenberg, the husband of Gail Anita Achtenberg.

 1915: During today’s hearing on the petition of Leo M. Frank for the commutation of his sentence from death to life imprisonment which last for more than three months, Governor Slaton invited counsel for both sides to accompany him on visit to the National Pencil Factory so he can “thoroughly acquaint himself with the physical features of the building in which Mary Phagan met her death.”

1916: Birthdate of Irwin Allen who gained fame as a producer of disaster movies. Allen helped bring to the screen two of the most famous disaster films ever made – The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. His name is now synonymous with the genre – a name that can also be spotted amongst the tombstones of late and great Jewish performers in LA’s Mount Sinai cemetery.

1916: In Evansville, Indiana, Minnie Greenbaum and Mark Harry Joseph gave birth to Harry J. Sonneborn who was raised in New York by his Aunt Jeanette and her husband Louis Sonneborn who was a vice president of finances at Tastee Freeze before join McDonald’s where he became “the first president and chief executive.”

http://forward.com/culture/360991/the-secret-jewish-history-of-mcdonalds/?utm_content=culture_Newsletter_MainList_Title_Position-1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Automated%20Culture%202017-01-24&utm_term=Arts

1916: It was reported today that the officers of the Board of Directors of the Talmud Torah Ansche Zitomerer are Max Myerson, President; Abraham Mazer and Henry Linetsky, Vice Presidents; Mrs. Clara Cpazsik, President of the Ladies’ Auxiliary and Rabbi Abraham Gelerenter, School Principal.

1916: “About 500 rabbis, Presidents of congregations and prominent laymen” are scheduled “to attend a meeting” being held “this afternoon in the Aldermanic Chamber in City Hall to investigate charges that many east side and Harlem butchers have been selling fake kosher meat to Orthodox Jews” – charges verified by Joseph Hartigen, Commissioner of Weights and Measures who “has found fifty-seven butchers in the last months selling or exposing for sale meat which was falsely represented as kosh

1917 The Ziegfeld Follies of 1917 featuring Eddie Cantor opened today.

1917: The three day meeting of the Executive Board of the Jewish Congress Association is scheduled to come to an end in Chicago.

1918: Nineteen year old major league catch Robert Leon “Bob” Berman played his last game for the Washington Senators of the American League today.

1918: Birthdate of Samuel Z. Arkoff. Born in Iowa, Arkoff was an entertainment attorney when he went to work for American International Pictures or AIP. As a producer at AIP he perfected a formula for low budget films in a variety of genres including gangster, horror and "blaxploitation." His studios produced everything from "The Amityville Horror" to the series of beach party movies starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. He provided the training ground for a many famous directors including Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, and Fancis Ford Coppola, as well as such performers as Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, and Melanie Griffin. He died in 2001 and is buried in Mt. Sinai Cemetery in California.

1918: It was reported today that William Edlin, the editor of The Day, described “those who demand the recognition of the Soviet Government are the very same people who have been the pacifists and who have opposed the entrance of the United States into the war against Germany.

1918: At the age of 19, catcher Robert Leon “Bob” Berman played his second and last game for the Washington Senators of the American League

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/26/sports/sports-of-the-times-the-day-he-caught-walter-johnson.html

1918: West Point Graduate Meyer L. Casman was promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers.

1919: Meyer Casman completed his service as “student officer at the Engineer School.”

1920: Birthdate of Dave Berg who gained famed as a cartoonist for "Mad Magazine". He passed away in 2002.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Davebergself.jpg

http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/mad-on-cartoon-network/images/24503591/title/mad-magazine-wallpaper

1920: Birthday of Stanley Sheinbaum, the native of New York City who transitioned from a successful career as an economics professor to being a “peace advocate” in many venues.

http://www.wrmea.org/1989-march/personality-stanley-sheinbaum.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/us/politics/stanley-k-sheinbaum-economist-and-liberal-crusader-dies-at-96.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1920: Having nominated Warren Harding for President, who would sign a congressional resolution endorsing the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and Calvin Coolidge for Vice President, the Republican National Convention came to a close in Chicago.

1921(6^thof Sivan, 5681): Shavuot is observed for the first time during the Presidency of Warren Harding.

1921(6^thof Sivan, 5681) Zvi Shimon Album, the Lithuanian born Russian rabbi who in 1891 came to the United States where he led  “Congregation Mishna Ugemoro” in Chicago and clashed with Rabbi Yaacov David Willowsky over matters of Kashrut and leadership of Chicago Jewry passed away today.

1922(26^thof Sivan 5682): Seventy-four year old Herman Tuholske, Meseritz, Prussia, born Neuman and Johanna Arnfeld Tuholske and the  Missouri Medical College trained physician, surgeon and medical school professor who co-founded he St. Louis Post-Graduate School of Medicine in 1882 and established the St. Louis Surgical and Gynecological Hospital in 1890 and had three children with his wife Sophie Epstein Tuholske passed away today in St. Louis after which he was buried at the New Mount Sinai Cemetery in Affton, MO

https://beckerarchives.wustl.edu/FC059

1923: Harry Houdini (Eric Weiss) freed himself from a straitjacket while suspended upside down forty feet above the ground in New York City.

1923(28^thof Sivan, 5683: Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, the communal worker who founded the National Farm School passed away today.

1923: In Berlin, “German-Jewish theatre critic Alfred Kerr” and his wife, Julia Weismann “the daughter of a Prussian politician gave birth children’s author Judith Kerr “who came to Britain with her family in 1933 amid the rise of the Nazis.”

http://www.tracesproject.org/judith-kerr-obe/

1924: The Republican National Convention which New Yorker Samuel S. Koenig attended as a delegate came to a close today.

1927: Arkansan Ben Altheimer, a long-time advocate for holiday honoring the U.S. flag is scheduled to attend “a religious and patriotic service in front of the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, this afternoon.” (JTA)

1928: The second ballet version of Apollon musagète opened today in Paris “at the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt” which had been renamed in honor of the actress in 1899 – a name by which it would be continued to be known until the French surrender in 1940 when the Nazis or their Vichy stooges changed the name because the actress was Jewish.

1928: In Hamburg, “Otto Stern, a top executive for Royal Dutch Shell” and “Charlotte (Goldschmidt) Stern gave birth to Howard Peter Stern, the refugee from Nazi German who gained fame as “H. Peter Stern, the co-founder of Storm King Art Center. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/obituaries/h-peter-stern-dead.html

1929: In Frankfort, Edith (Hollander) Frank and Otto Frank gave birth to Anne Frank, one of the most famous diarists in the history of Western civilization.

1929: Birthdate of Frank Lawrence "Lefty" Rosenthal, sports handicapper and a former Las Vegas casino executive who also hosted a television talk show in Las Vegas during the late 1970s. He passed away on October 13, 2008.

1930: In a fight for the “vacant heavyweight championship today at Yankee Stadium Max Schmeling was knocked down in the fourth round by a low blow from Jack Sharkey” forcing his Jewish manager Joe “Jacobs to jump into the ring and continued to scream "foul" until the bewildered referee disqualified Sharkey.

1931: Mickey Cohen fought and lost a match against World Featherweight Champion Tommy Paul, having been knocked out cold after 2:20 into the first round.

1932: Today, Adolph Gottlieb, the New York born son of Emil and Elsie Berger, who had studied art in several European capitals including Paris, married Esther Dick after which the couple spends the summer in Rockport, MA where he continues to paint water colors and oils” before renting an apartment in Manhattan in September.

1932: In Brooklyn, “Samuel Jaffe, an elementary-school principle and his first wife Diana (née Ginsberg) gave birth to novelist Rona Jaffe who was a product of Manhattan’s affluent Upper East Side.

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/31/arts/rona-jaffe-author-of-popular-novels-is-dead-at-74.html

1933: The Joint Distribution Committee’s German relief drive is scheduled to open today in Newark, NJ under the leadership of Edgar S. Bamberger.

1933: In Philadelphia, attorney Robert Abrahams and “the former Florence Kohn, a homemaker and philanthropist: gave birth to pioneering “folklorist Roger David Abrahams.” (As reported by William Grimes)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/arts/roger-d-abrahams-dead-folklorist.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1933: In Detroit, The Convention of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service held it final meeting today.

1935: Birthdate of Sanford Morton Gorssman, the frustrated sports broadcaster who “became an Emmy-winning director of National Football Games.” (As reported by Richard Sandomir)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/04/sports/sandy-grossman-maestro-of-nfl-on-tv-dies-at-78.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=0

1936: Two passengers were seriously wounded today when a bus headed for the “Jewish settlement at Attaroth, six miles north of Jerusalem,” was fired on by Arabs.

1936: Fourteen Jews were injured, five of them seriously, when a bomb was exploded in a coach as “a train that Haifa for Lydda was pulling out of Kalkilya.”

1936: “Collective security for Jews and resistance to destruction of their rights throughout the world are general topics for discussion at a two-day conference of 1,000 delegates which opened” in Washington, D.C. “under the auspices of the American Jewish Congress of which Dr. Stephen S. Wise is president.”

1936(22^ndof Sivan, 5696): After a short illness, sixty-two year old Austrian author Karl Kraus passed away today.

http://www.theabsolute.net/minefield/kraus.html

http://www.jta.org/1936/06/16/archive/karl-kraus-vienna-writer-dies-at-62

1937: Congressman Emanuel Celler is among those scheduled to speak today “mass meeting of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born.” (Editor’s note – for those living in the 21^st century this should serve as a reminder that the issue of immigration is a not a new and of the role Jews have played in an issue that reminds of the Biblical injunction that they should protect “the widow, the orphan and the stranger in your midst.)

1937: Samuel Untermyer is among those scheduled to speak tonight at the “29^thannual convention of Polish Jews in America” which is being held at the Hotel Astor.

1938: Birthdate of French journalist and essayist Jean-Francois Kahn the brother of scientist Axel Kahn whose father was Jewish and mother was Catholic.

1939: Leonard Kaplan graduates from West Point. Leonard Kaplan served as a captain, a major, and upon leaving active duty in 1947, only eight years from graduation, he was a lieutenant colonel. While in the Army Reserves, he ultimately reached the rank of colonel. His service record included the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star with one oak leaf cluster, and a Purple Heart. During World War II he served as a battalion commander of one of the first amphibious units, serving in the South Pacific for33 months.

1939:  Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures'“Dr. Cyclops, “the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.  Paramount was dominated by two Jews: Adolph Zukor, the Chairman of the Board, and Barney Balaban, its President

1940(6^thof Sivan, 5700) Shavuot

1940: Margaret and Hans Reys arrive at Etampes having pedaled 18 kilometers from Paris.  They find suitable lodging and spend the night

1941(17th of Sivan, 5701): Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss who worked for Murder Incorporated was executed at Sing Sing.

1941(17th of Sivan, 5701): Martin "Bugsy" Goldstein who worked for Murder Incorporated was executed at Sing Sing.

1941: Birthdate of Marvin Phillip Aufrichtig, the native of Brooklyn who gained famed as the golden throated Marv Albert whose voice brought us basketball, football, hockey and tennis championships.

1942: Anne Frank received a diary on her thirteenth birthday.

1942: Today “the first US bombing of a major European target took place at the Ploiesti refineries” as part of the Oil Campaign that played a key, if under-appreciated, role in the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of the Shoah.

1942: George Frederick “Buzz” Beurling, who died in a plane crash after having volunteered to fly for the IAF during the War for Independence, “had his baptism of fire” this morning while flying his Spitfire over Malta today.

1942: In Khmelnik, the Ukraine; babies, children and old people were ordered to assemble. The children were taken away, never to be seen again.

1943: The Jewish community at Berezhany, Ukraine, is wiped out. On Shabbat, in the morning, the Nazis led 1,180 Jews of Berezhany to face death at the city's old Jewish graveyard, where the Nazis shot into a mass grave.

1943 (9th of Sivan, 5703): In the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto, the chiefs of Jewish police are forced to witness Nazi executions of recaptured ghetto escapees: 23-year-old Hersch Fejgelis, 29-year-old Mordecai Standarowicz, and 31-year-old Abram Tandowski.

1943: Birthdate of sportscaster Marv Albert.

1944: In the weekly internal report of the War Refugee Board, it states that Ambassador MacVeagh in Cairo reports there are still 5,000 Jews hiding in Greece. "Those who have been able to join the Partisans reportedly run less risk of being exterminated by the Germans, who have thus far avoided the systematic pursuit of guerilla warriors."

1944: The Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter was established in Oswego, New York by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was operated by the War Relocation Authority

1945(1^stof Tammuz, 5705): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1945(1^stof Tammuz, 5705): Sixty nine year old Theodore Hardeen, the magician and escape artist who was the brother of Harry Houdini passed away today in New York.

http://www.all-about-magicians.com/theodore-hardeen.html

1946: Fifty-two of the officials and guards from the Flossenbürg concentration camp went on trial today.

1947: U.S diplomate George Messermith, who made the “controversial decision to issue a visa to Albert Einstein” while serving as US Consulate in Germany completed his service as U.S. Ambassador to Argentina.

1948: In New York, Phillip and Rosalyn (née Bauman) Wein gave birth to “comic book writer” Leonard Norman Wein. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/arts/design/len-wein-influential-comic-book-writer-dies-at-69.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

1949: In “Inspired By The Headlines” published today Elizabeth Pallette” told the tale of “Sword in the Desert,” “the first picture to be made in Hollywood about the struggles in Palestine.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/06/12/96459470.pdf

1949: Today, at the commencement exercises of the Jewish Theological Seminary during which sixteen students were ordained, Judge Louis E. Levinthal of Philadelphia “asserted that the Jewish people must transmit to future generations ‘our cultural and religious heritage as Jews so that the our community may make its specific, its finest contribution to the total civilization of our country.’”

1950: U.S. release of 1950 film noir “Panic In the Streets” produced by Sol C. Siegel, co-starring Zero Mostel with music by Alfred Newman.

1950: Birthdate of American journalist and author and Richard Ben Cramer.

1950: Eddie Cantor, his wife Ida and Mr. and Mrs. Yolanda Markson of Los Angeles arrived in Israel this morning on what was Mr. Cantor’s first visit to Israel. Among those greeting him at the airport was United States Ambassador to Israel, James G. McDonald. Cantor has raised over ten million dollars to support the Jewish state.  He said that as a good American it was his duty to support the young democracy and that doing so was in the same spirit being shown by the United States in funding the Marshall Plan which was designed to support the democracies of Western Europe.

1951: After first being released in the United Kingdom U.S. premiere of “Sirocco” based on a novel by Joseph Kessel, directed by Curtis Bernhardt with a script co-authored by Hans Jacoby co-starring Lee J. Cobb and featuring Zero Mostel and “Balukjiaan.”

1951: In the UK, premiere of “White Corridors” produced by Joseph Janni

1951: Eleven days after premiering in the United Kingdom, “Sirocco” directed by Curtis Bernhardt based on a novel Joseph Kessel with a script by Hans Jacoby and co-starring Lee J. Cobb and featuring Zero Mostel was released today in the United States.

1951(8th of Sivan, 5711): An unnamed Israeli soldier was killed when he sought to stop Jordanian troops from crossing the border into Israel.

1952(19th of Sivan, 5712): Rabbi Henry Cohen who “served Congregation B'nai Israel in Galveston, Texas from 1888 to 1952” passed away. Born in 1863, Cohen played an integral role in the Galveston Movement. The Galveston Movement operated between 1907 and 1914 to divert Jews fleeing Russia and eastern Europe away from crowded East Coast cities. Ten thousand Jewish immigrants passed through Galveston, Texas during this era, approximately one-third the number who migrated to Palestine during the same period.”

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fco13

1952: Michael von Faulhaber, the Roman Catholic Cardinal who while Archbishop of Munich in 1933 defended the Old Testament against the anti-Semitism of the Nazis and courageously declared: “God always punishes the tormentors of his Chosen People, the Jews.""No Roman Catholic approves of the persecutions of Jews in Germany."

1953: “Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick” produced by William Perlberg and starring Dinah Shore was released today in Finland.

1954: Kenneth Nichols, the General Manager of the Atomic Energy Commissioner recommended that Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance not be reinstated. In five "security findings," Nichols said that Oppenheimer was "a Communist in every sense except that he did not carry a party card," and that he "is not reliable or trustworthy." The commission agreed, and Oppenheimer was stripped of his security clearance.

1954: After 115 performances at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, the theatre came down on the original Broadway production of “The Girl in Pink Tights” “a musical comedy with music by Sigmund Romberg; lyrics by Leo Robin; and a musical book by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields.

1955(22nd of Sivan, 5715): Eighty year old “British botanist and potato breeder” Redcliff Salaman, the author of The History and Social Influence of the Potato, the 700 page tome on this edible tuber passed away today.

http://neglectedbooks.com/?p=575

1955: A production of “Guys and Dolls” starring Walter Matthau as “Nathan Detroit” came to an end at the New York City Center.

1955: Outfielder Al Silvera made his major league debut with the Cincinnati Reds.

1955: Comedian Buddy Hackett married Sherry Cohen.

1955: NBC broadcast the last episode of “Mr. Peepers” a sitcom with scripts by Everett Greenbaum and featuring Tony Randall (Aryeh (Arthur) Leonard Rosenberg) “as history teacher Harvey Weski.”

1956: Recording was completed of the LP, “Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings” produced by Buddy Bregman and featuring songs by Irving Berlin, Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern.

1957: ITV broadcast the final episode of “The Buccaneers” a dramatic series co-produced by Hannah Weinstein.

1957: After having premiered in New York City in May, “Joe Butterfly” a comedy produced by Aaron Rosenberg, with a screenplay co-authored by Sy Gomberg and filmed by cinematographer Irving Glassberg was released today in Los Angeles.

1959(6^thof Sivan, 5719): Shavuot

1961: Walworth Barbour presents his credentials as the United States Ambassador to Israel.

1961: PM East/PM West a late night talk show co-hosted by Mike Wallace is broadcast for the first time.

1962: David Ben-Gurion sends a letter to Eliezer Steinman, in which he writes, “Today, more than ever, the "religious" tend to relegate Judaism to observing dietary laws and preserving the Sabbath. This is considered religious reform. I prefer the Fifteenth Psalm, lovely are the psalms of Israel. The Shulchan Aruch is a product of our nation's life in the Exile. It was produced in the Exile, in conditions of Exile. A nation in the process of fulfilling its every task, physically and spiritually . . . must compose a "New Shulchan"--and our nation's intellectuals are required, in my opinion, to fulfill their responsibility in this.”

1963: U.S. premiere of “Cleopatra” directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz who co-authored the script with Sidney Buchman, produced by Walter Wanger, co-starring Elizabeth Taylor and Martin Landau   During the filming of the this epic flic, Taylor, who had converted to Judaism and was married to Jewish crooner Eddie Fisher, began a torrid and public affair with her co-star Richard Burton.  Burton and Taylor both left their respective spouses, married, divorced and remarried.

1964: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today at the Riverside Chapel for Ignacy Aleksandrowicz, a “Professor Emeritus as Hobart College at Geneva, NY.”

1964(2^ndof Tammuz, 5724): Seventy-seven year Morris Cafritz, Washington, D.C. millionaire, pillar of the Jewish community and husband of leading hostess Gwen Cafritz passed away tonight in Hot Springs, AR.

http://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/13/morris-cafritz-builder-dead.html

1965: At Park Avenue Temple, Rabbi Sanford M. Shapiro officiated at the wedding of Susan Linda Weinstein, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Weinstein and Jeffrey Harold Loria, the son of Mr. Walter J. Loria, the owner of the Miami Marlins baseball team and Mrs. Loria.

1965: After 540 performances a musical version of Budd Schulberg’s “What Makes Sammy Run?” closed at the 54^th Street Theatre in New York.

1966: Ninety-two year old William Ernest Hocking who in 1930 wrote “Palestine An Impasse?” in which he claimed that “two enemies of peace…are fanaticism and fear” passed away today.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1930/07/palestine-an-impasse/306750/

1967: First Israeli ship sailed through Gulf of Eilat after the Six Days War. It was the closure of the Gulf of Eilat and the blockade of the port of Eilat by the Egyptians in May that led to the June War.

1967: The INS Dolphin arrived at Eilat

1967: David Ben-Gurion “met with Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek in his Knesset office” today.

1968: “Rosemary’s Baby” the movie version of Ira Levin’s novel directed and written by Roman Polanski and featuring Charles Grodin and the voice of Tony Curtis was released in the United States today.

1969: In Manhattan Same and Aline Schneider gave birth to NHL player who “won the Stanley Cup in 1993 with the Montreal Canadians.”

1970(8^thof Sivan, 5730): Sixty-six year old Israeli political leader Yisrael Barzilai passed away.  Born in Poland in 1913, he made Aliyah in 1934.  A member of the Knesset, he served in several ministerial positions included Minister of Postal Services and Minister of health.  Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon was named in his honor.

1971(19^thof Sivan, 5731): Parashat Baha’aloctcha

1971 (19^th of Sivan, 5731): Sixty-two year old Columbia trained psychiatrist Nathan Ward Ackerman, the Bessarabia born son of  pharmacist David Ackerman and Bertha (Greenberg) Ackerman who served as the “chief psychiatrist at the Menninger Clinic” as well as serving in the capacity for “the Jewish Board of Guardians in New York City” passed away today

http://psychology.jrank.org/pages/7/Nathan-Ward-Ackerman.html

https://www.amazon.com/Nathan-Ward-Ackerman/e/B001K8FF8I

1972(30th of Sivan, 5732): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1972(30th of Sivan, 5732): Sixty-three year old Saul David Alinsky radical, writer and social activist, passed away. Born in 1909, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Alinsky had a passion for justice that originated from his experience growing up in Chicago's Jewish ghetto where he witnessed suffering during the Depression.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/06/13/80792596.html?pageNumber=46

1974: “The Soviet government expressed a strong diplomatic protest” to the Jewish demonstrations that greeted the arrival of the Bolshoi today in Britain.

1975(3^rdof Tammuz, 5735): Seventy four year old Arthur Kober, the husband of Lillian Hellman who gained his own measure of fame as a screenwriter and author whose works appeared in The New Yorkerpassed away today in New York.

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/13/archives/arthur-kober-humorist-is-dead-at-74.html

1975: Today “The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects conferred a "Special Citation upon Robert Caro....for reminding us once again, that ends and means are inseparable

1977: After 1,944 performances at the Imperial Theatre, the curtain came on the original Broadway production of “Pippin” the Tony-award musical with lyrics and music by Stephen Schwartz starring John Rubinstein, the son of concert pianist Arthur Rubinstein.

1977: In “The Yiddish” published today Luna Rosenfeld traced the rise of the Yiddish Theatre from the Lower East Side featuring actors like Jacob Adler and playwrights like Jacob Gordin.

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/12/archives/the-yiddish.html

1979: The Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut in Storrs which was founded by the Board of Trustees in February of 1979, was formally launched at an Inaugural Program today when Nobel Laureate I.B. Singer addressed nearly 1,000 persons

1980(27^thof Sivan, 5740): Seventy-six year old Rabbi and Biblical scholar Bernard Jacob Bamberger, the graduate of Johns Hopkins and HUC, spiritual leader of New York’s Congregation Shaaray Tefila  and the husband of Ethel “Pat” Kraus with whom he had two sons –Henry and Pat—passed away today.

http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6qv67zp

1981:”Funeral services are scheduled to be held today at the East Midwood Jewish Cemetery for” Eighty-two year old Harry Halpern who served as the Rabbi at the East Midwood Jewish Center for forty nine years and “professor of pastoral psychiatry at JTS” while fighting for Civil and Human Rights

1981(10^thof Sivan, 5741): Seventy-year old Louis Solomon who went from high school teach to producer and writer while raising two daughters, Hilary and Dinah, with his wife Wilma Shore, passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/17/obituaries/louis-solomon.html

1981: U.S. premiere of ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark” directed by Steven Speilberg, with a screenplay by Lawrence and story co-authored by Philip Kaufman based on finding the Ark built by Moshe.

1982: Today “500 NJA members marched in the Disarmament Rally in New York, which was at that time the largest Disarmament Rally in American history.”

1983(1^stof Tammuz, 5743): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1983(1^stof Tammuz, 5743): Academy award winning actress Norma Shearer who converted to Judaism when she married Irving Thalberg, passed away today. (As reported by Eric Pace)

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/14/obituaries/norma-shearer-film-star-two-decades-is-dead.html

1984: Having premiered a month ago at the Cannes Film Festival, “Under the Volcano” with music by Alex North was released in the United States today.

1986: In “The Jewish Freud,” published today Michael Ignatieff begins his review of “Freud’s Discovery of Psychoanalysis: The Politics of Hysteri”by William J. McGrath and “Freud and His Father”by Marianne Krull with the following story. “When Sigmund Freud was twelve and out walking with his father Jacob in the streets of Vienna, his father wanted to show his son how much better things had become for Jews since the days when he was a poor peddler wearing a beaver hat and a kaftan in the shtetls of Galicia. So he told his son about the time in Tysmenitz when a gentile had crossed his path on the pavement and had knocked his hat into the gutter jeering after him, 'Jew, get off the pavement.’”

1987: “Million Dollar Mystery” starring Tom Bosley which was the “final feature-length film directed by Richard Fleischer” was released today in the United States.

1988:  A revival of Stephen Schwartz’s “Godspell” opened at Lambs Theatre.

1990: Moshe Arens completed his term as Foreign Minister.

1991: Premiere of “The Boneyard, a “direct-to-video horror film” co-starring Norman Fell.

1993(23^rdof Sivan, 5753): Parashat Sh’lach

1993(23^rdof Sivan, 5752: Ninety-seven year old Lower East Side native Moses Polakoff, the WW I Navy veteran and NYU trained attorney who worked in the United States Attorney’s office before going into private practice where some of his most notorious clients were Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky and the father of “three daughters, Joan, Suzanne and Nancy, passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/14/obituaries/moses-polakoff-is-dead-at-age-97-was-lawyer-for-lucky-luciano.html

1994(3rd of Tammuz, 5754): Ronald Goldman is murdered along with Nicole Brown Simpson.  OJ Simpson was found not guilty in the criminal case.  The civil trial turned out with just the opposite verdict.

1994 (3 Tammuz on the Jewish calendar):  The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, passed away.  Rabbi Schneerson, or simply "The Rebbe" as he was known by his followers and admirers, was the leader of the Lubavitch movement for decades.  He is most famous for the outreach program that he began which reached Jews throughout the world.  Thanks to his effort, it is almost impossible to go any place and not find a Chabad House.  He sent "lamplighters" out into to the world to bring the light of Torah to Jews who were in darkness whether they were in Moscow, Morocco or Little Rock, Arkansas.  One did not have to accept all of tenets of Lubavitch to be welcome.  For more about this remarkable man see the followinghttp://www.chabad.org/article.asp?AID=142232

1997(7^thof Sivan, 5757): Second Day of Shavuot

1997: Publication of Messages From My Father: A Memoir by Calvin Trilling.

https://books.google.com/books?id=rEuYqL3zRQcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22calvin+trillin%22+jewish

1998: In an article published today describing the history of Savannah, Georgia, reporter R.W. Apple, Jr. reminded his readers of the early Jewish connection to this colonial seaport. “Only five years after General Oglethorpe's arrival in 1733 to found the last of the original 13 colonies, a group of Jews landed here, and descendants of some of them, including Sheftalls and Minises, remain prominent in Savannah's economic and cultural life. Temple Mickve Israel, built in 1876, is the only Gothic Revival synagogue in the United States; its interior has cast-iron cluster pillars, a fine Spanish chandelier and good stained glass. The temple owns the oldest Torah in America and a valuable collection of books and documents, including letters from Washington, Jefferson and Madison. Some of Savannah's prettiest squares and best antiques dealers are clustered in the same neighborhood as the temple. Prices are high, but so is quality.”

1998: “Can’t Hardly Wait” a comedy starring Seth Green and featuring Jason Segel was released in the United States today.

1998: Today Congregation Bene Naharayim sent a letter “to the members of the Iraqi Jewish Community in New York” describing the life and death of “Dr.Gourji Raby, a former Professor of Physiology at the University of Baghdad, and former Vice President of Congregation Bene Naharayim.”

1998: “Six Days, Seven Nights” directed and co-produced by Ivan Reitman along with Roger Birnbaum with music by Randy Edelman and co-starring David Schwimmer was released today in the United States.

2000: “Israeli leaders proclaimed today that the death of President Hafez al-Assad of Syria had ushered in a new era or at least ushered out an old one in the Middle East,”  “but no one could predict what that portended beyond a potentially problematic transition period.

2001(21^stof Sivan, 5761): Sixty-nine year old “Amos Perlmutter, a Washington-based political scientist, author and commentator on Middle Eastern affairs” passed away today.  (As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/16/world/amos-perlmutter-69-expert-on-middle-eastern-affairs.html

2001: In ‘Anatomy of a Bagel” published today  C. Claiborne asks “How many calories are in a plain, sesame or poppy seed bagel from a New York coffee shop? What are the ingredients and nutritional value?” and then provides the following answer: “Let us assume that you get the biggest plain, enriched bagel analyzed by the United States Department of Agriculture, 4 1/2 inches in diameter, weighing 110 grams, about 3.8 ounces. The ingredients -- flour, water, salt, yeast and malt, but no sugar, if it is a classic bagel -- are boiled and then baked. They add up to 302.5 calories, the U.S.D.A. says. On a standard nutrition facts label, the bagel would boast 1.76 grams of fat, no cholesterol, 587.4 milligrams of sodium, 111.1 milligrams of potassium, 58.74 grams of carbohydrate and 11.55 grams of protein. Vitamins and minerals include a significant amount of folate, 96.8 micrograms, from the enriched flour, but most are present in trace amounts. A bagel preserved with calcium propionate has more calcium than one without it: 81.4 milligrams, compared with 19.8 milligrams. Oddly, the U.S.D.A. does not differentiate among plain, onion, poppy seed and sesame bagels. Poppy seed, which the department considers a spice, not a food, would probably not add enough calories to make a weight watcher feel guilty. There are only about 15 calories in a teaspoonful, fewer than a spoon of sugar. Sesame seeds have perhaps 26 calories in a teaspoonful, figured at a sixth of an ounce, by volume.”

2002: “A Palestinian with a bomb hidden under his shirt walked into a restaurant today on a main street in this town north of Tel Aviv, asked for a bottle of water and blew himself up, killing a 15-year-old girl and wounding eight other people.”

2003(12^thof Sivan, 5763): Avner Maimon, 51, of Netanya, was found shot to death in his car near Yabed in northern Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack. (Jewish Virtual Library)

2003(12^thof Sivan, 5763): Ninety-three year old Samuel “Sam” Schulman a businessman and own of professional sports teams passed away today.

http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jun/14/local/me-schulman14

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/16/sports/sam-schulman-93-team-owner-who-defied-nba-draft-rules.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/16/sports/sam-schulman-93-team-owner-who-defied-nba-draft-rules.html

2004 Ehud Barak defeated Amir Peretz in his bid to be the leader of the Labor Party.

2005(5th of Sivan, 5765): Erev Shavuot

2005: Several families gather in the beit midrash at Milken Community High School in Los Angeles, where the they fulfill a commandment derived from Deuteronomy 31:19 by each writing a letter in Torah scroll that will lead to its completion.

2005:  The Cedar Rapids Gazette reported that Marv Levy, former coach of the Buffalo Bills and Coe College graduate was the speaker Coe’s Alumni weekend.  A 1950 graduate, Levy had excelled as a college athlete and student having earned a Phi Beta Kappa Key.  His topic for the alumnae address was “So You Want to Write a Book.”

2005:  The Chicago Tribune featured reviews of two books that examined the role of Jews in the military.  “GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation” by Deborah Dash Moore examined the impact of military service on American Jews and the gentiles with whom they came in contact during the Second World War. “Company C; An American’s Life as a Citizen-Soldier in Israel” by Haim Watzman examines the impact of military service on Jews, the Jewish character and Israeli society based on his twenty years of service as an active duty soldier and reservist. The reviewer does an artful job of showing how these two books deal with similar issues from differing points on the experiential compass.

2005:The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Steinberg at The New Yorker” by Joel Smith and“Chaplin and Agee:The Untold Story of the Tramp, the Writer, and the Lost Screenplay”by John Wranovics

2006:JWA launches Katrina’s Jewish Voices, one of the first online collecting projects

http://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/12/2006/this-week-in-history-jwa-launches-katrina-s-jewish-voices-one-of-first-online

2006: Representative Jan Schakowsky gave a speech in Congress today in “recognition to Joel M. Carp, who is retiring this month as the Senior Vice President for Community Services and Government Relations of the Jewish Federation/Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago.”

2007:  In Los Angeles, The Skirball Cultural Center presents a double feature with the showing of two films, Sisai and Melting Siberia.

2007: The Jerusalem Post reported that “Eighty three percent of Jewish Israelis are satisfied or extremely satisfied with their lives, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics annual Social Survey 2006

2007: Akiva “Goldsman produced the Universal Pictures feature ‘Lone Survivor,’ from writer/director Peter Berg, based on the book Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 “ which was published today.

2007: The Washington Post reported about the programming on Shalom TV, a Jewish oriented cable television channel that has expanded in to the Washington-Baltimore region. The network offerings include a kosher cook-off program, hip-hop entertainer Russell Simmons discussing anti-Semitism, Hebrew lessons Talmud study and the “Jewish Mr. Rogers.”  Television targeting Jewish audiences certainly has come a long way since “Lamp unto my Feet.”

2007: News broke today that two Bear Stearns hedge funds speculating in mortgage-backed securities were melting down. (This “was the precursor to the panics and collapses” that have led to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression which, when combined with activities of Bernard Madoff, have gutted or threatened the well-being of so many Jewish communal organizations)

2007: Ehud Barak defeated Ami Ayalon in a run-off election held today for leadership of the Labor Party.

2007(26^th of Sivan, 5767): Ninety-eight year old Baron Guy de Rothschild passed away today in Paris. (As reported by Paul Lewis)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/business/worldbusiness/14rothschild.html?_r=1

2008: Hazak Week of Study begins. Hazak is the United Synagogue's organization for Jews 55 and over.

2008: The National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) will honor Mildred and George Weissman at its Israel Benefit Luncheon today.  Shari Eshet, director of NCJW's Israel Office, will keynote the luncheon which is being held at the Jewish Museum in New York City

2008: “Waiting for the Barbarians” an opera in two acts composed by Philip Glass was performed today at the Barbican Center in London

2009: Mark Kurlansky, the author of “A Chosen Few,” discusses and signs his new book, “The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food, Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal” at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.

2009: At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Tessa Cohen, daughter of Terri and Brian Cohen, helps in leading Friday Night Shabbat Services as she begins the weekend that marks her Bat Mitzvah.

2009: Funeral services for Ralph Lazarus are scheduled to held this morning in Brookline, MA for Ralph Lazarus followed by burial in Sharon, MA.

2009: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. reopened to large crowds after having been closed on Thursday to honor the memory of Stephen T. Johns, the guard murdered by a anti-Semitic white supremacist who had tried to shoot his way into the shrine on Wednesday.

2009: Opening of the Derfner Judaica Museum at Hebrew Home at Riverdale in the Bronx.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/arts/design/11muse.html

2010(30th of Sivan, 5770): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

2010: Golem with Girls In Trouble are scheduled to perform at the Washington Jewish Music Festival.

2010: The sitting of shivah by the family of Steve Averbach, who was injured thwarting an Arab terrorist attack, is scheduled to end this evening.

2011: The award winning duet "Dinner" by Israeli based Maya Stern and Tomer Sharabi is scheduled to be performed by Tomer Sharabi and Tal Kol on the fifth and final night of Contemporary Israel Dance Week.

2011: The Wisconsin Institute for Torah Study is scheduled to celebrate its 31st Anniversary and the Graduation of the WITS Class of 2011!

2011: Palestine Solidarity Group Chairman, Per Gahrton who was reportedly responsible for the segregation of the Israeli team at Malamo in 2009, is scheduled to deliver an address at the stadium where Israel will play Sweden in major international handball completion an hour after the speech.

2011: “I Married Wyatt Earp,” a musical based on the life Josephine Marcus is scheduled to have its final performance in New York.  Marcus was the eccentric Jewish daughter of a successful San Francisco family who ran away from home and ended up performing in Tombstone, Arizona where she met and wed the famous lawman.  It is because of Marcus that Earp is buried in a Jewish cemetery leading many to mistakenly assume that marshall who gained lasting fame at the OK Corral was Jewish.

2011: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You” by Eli Pariser, “A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s “Germania” From the Roman Empire to the Third Reich” by Christopher B. Krebs and “In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin” by  Erik Larson that is a biography of William E. Dodd, FDR’s first Ambassador to Hitler’s Germany.

2011: The Goodlove Family Reunion is scheduled to take place in Central City, Iowa.

2011:  In a modern day story of David beating Goliath, Mark Cuban’s Dallas Mavericks defeated the Miami Heat to win the NBA Championship.

2011: It was announced that Leonid Borisovich Nevzlin had purchased a 20% stake in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, for NIS 140m. Nevzlin's acquisition leaves the Schocken family with a 60 percent stake in the company 

2011(10^th of Sivan, 5771): Sixty-one year old Laura Ziskin, the American film producer who helped gives Pretty Woman and Spider Man, passed away. (As reported by Aljean Harmetz)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/movies/laura-ziskin-behind-spider-man-films-dies-at-61.html

2011(10^th of Sivan, 5771): Eighty-one year old Alan L. Haberman, the man who played a key role in popularizing the now ubiquitous bar code passed away.  (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/business/16haberman.html

2012: “Off-White Lies” (Orhim le-Rega) is scheduled to be shown tonight at the JCC in Manhattan

2012: In an interview given today “Ellen Riotenberg discussed her Jewish family and their background on the North Side of Minneapolis” as well as the difficulty in getting jobs “even as a trained professional if you were Jewish.”

2012: “The High Court justices who recommended state support for non-Orthodox rabbis had conflicts of interest, Religious Services Minister Ya’acov Margi charged today.”

2012: Beginning today, “a permanent exhibition is scheduled to open on the ground floor of the landmark Eldridge Street Synagogue, which is home both to K’hal Adath Jeshurun, the Orthodox congregation that built it, and to the Museum at Eldridge Street, a nonprofit that maintains and interprets the magnificently restored 126-year-old structure, between Division and Canal Streets.

2012: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor “A Centennial Celebration of the First Jewish Aviator” honoring Arthur “Al” Walsh.

2012: Aided by Orthodox, City’s Jewish Population Is Growing Again published today described the changing face of the Big Apple’s demographics.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/nyregion/new-yorks-jewish-population-is-growing-again.html?_r=1&hpw

2012: The Foreign Ministry announced today that Russian President Putin is planning to make a visit to Israel this year, although an exact date has not been set.  It would be his first visit since 2005 and comes at a time when the Russian leader is continuing to show support for the Assad government in Syria.

2012: Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said today that Israel has an obligation to remember the murder of more than a million Armenians at the hands of the Turks nearly a hundred years ago, but warned that the issue should not be turned into an attack on the Turkish government of today. The Knesset speaker made the comments at a Knesset discussion of the Armenian genocide. (As reported by Gil Hoffman)

2012: According to Joseph Berger, “After decades of decline, the Jewish population of New York City is growing again, increasing to nearly 1.1 million, fueled by the “explosive” growth of the Hasidic and other Orthodox communities, a new study has found. It is a trend that is challenging long-held notions about the group’s cultural identity and revealing widening gaps on politics, education, wealth and religious observance.

2012: “Speaking to the Haves, in a Plea to Consider All the Have-Nots” includes a review of End This Depression Now! by Paul Krugman.

2012: Seventy eight year old Elinor Ostrom, whose father was Jewish and is, as of this date the only woman to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, passed away today. (As reported by Catherine Rampell)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/nyregion/new-yorks-jewish-population-is-growing-again.html?hp

2013: “Wit’s End: The Satirical Cartoons of Stephen Roth featuring the works of the “Czech Jewish artist whose cartoons lampooned fascist dictators and put a wry spin on political events during the Second World War” is scheduled to come to an end at the Wiener Library in London, UK.

2013: The American Jewish Historical Society and Yeshiva University are scheduled to present a Curator’s Tour of “Passages Through the Fire: Jews and the Civil War.”

2013(4^th of Tammuz): Yahrzeit of Rabbi Jacob Ben Meir Tam, the grandson of Rashi.

2013: In “Born Again” Nicole Krauss reminisces Yoram Kaniuk , of blessed memory..

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/06/yoram-kaniuk-postscript.html

 2013: Traces of the crippling polio virus, discovered last week in Beersheba and Rahat, were found today in the sewers of Kiryat Gat and Ashdod as well. The Ministry of Health believes that the traces originated in the Bedouin village of Rahat. (As reported by Adiv Sterman & Stuart Winer)

2013: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yoday that Israel sought a “historic compromise” with the Palestinians to end the conflict “once and for all” and was ready to enter negotiations “without preconditions [and] without delay.”

2014: “A visitor’s center telling the story of the Eldridge Street Synagogue telling the s tory of the congregation and its place in its Baltimore neighborhood” is scheduled to open today. (As reported by Hillel Kuttler)

2014: The Israeli Film Center Festival is scheduled to open at the JCC of Manhattan with a showing of “Operation Sunflower.”

2014: In London, the Weiner Library is scheduled to host “Karl Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind as a German-Jewish Tragi-Comedy.”

2014: “David Blatt stepped down as coach of European club champion Maccabi Tel Aviv today, saying he wanted to pursue his dream of coaching in the NBA.” (Times of Israel)

2014: “A Berlin court has ordered Germany to pay the heirs of Jewish owners of a department store chain an additional €50 million ($68 million) in compensation for property seized by the Nazis” saying today that “the Schocken family lost its chain of stores, primarily in Saxony, during the Nazis’ so-called “Aryanization” of businesses in the 1930s.”

2014: The Lower East Side Film Festival is scheduled to open with a showing of “Sturgeon Queens.”

2014: “Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon today approved the extension of the IDF’s seizure of a radical Jewish learning center in the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar by three more months, saying the military’s presence in the building helped reduce settler violence.” (Times of Israel)

2014: The U.S. Senate “named Stanley Fischer vice chair of the Federal Reserve “after confirming him to the board last month.”

2014: At the age of 104, actress Rebekah Isabelle "Carla" Laemmle the daughter of Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures who tried to save Jews from the Shoah, passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/20/movies/carla-laemmle-actress-with-silent-screen-debut-dies-at-104.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/20/movies/carla-laemmle-actress-with-silent-screen-debut-dies-at-104.html?_r=0’

2015: Pennsylvania State Representative Brian K. Sims and, Deputy Consul General for the Consulate General of Israel to the Mid-Atlantic Region, Elad Strohmayer are scheduled to address a dinner sponsored by J.PROUD, Jewish Philly LGBTQ Consortium and the Young Friends of NMAJH celebrating a special Shabbat during Philadelphia Gay Pride Week.

2015: Lassana Bathily, “the Muslim store employee who saved 15 French Jews during the terrorist attack on a kosher supermarket was honored today by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who presented him with an official city proclamation honoring him for his actions in the Hyper Cacher attack in Paris.”

2015: “Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, was acquitted today of aggravated pimping charges, concluding a case that made the private lives of public figures fair game for the French news media, even if the French themselves still seemed inclined to overlook dalliances by their political leaders.”

2015: Today, “a Gaza Strip-based Salafi group affiliated with the Islamic State claimed responsibility for a rocket launched at Israel” yesterday evening.

2015: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host “Piano Games” as part of the Israel Festival.

2015: “Some 180,000 people marched through Tel Aviv’s streets today in the city’s 17th annual Gay Pride Parade, the nation’s largest and oldest gay pride event.”

2016(6^th of Sivan, 5776): Shavuot

2016: “A woman and her infant child were attacked” today “by an Arab man in the Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill.”

2016: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies by David Rieff and the recently released paperback editions of The Goddess Pose” The Audacious Life of Indra Evi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West by Michelle Goldberg and There Is Simply Too Much To Think About: Collected Nonfiction by Saul Bellow.

2016: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host a presentation by Estelle Glaser Laughlin who “was only ten-years-old when her family was forced into the Warsaw Ghetto and hid in a secret room to avoid deportation during liquidations in 1942.”

2017: It was reported today that “the sensitive intelligence that US President Donald Trump controversially revealed to the Russians was gathered by an Israeli cyber warfare unit that penetrated an Islamic State group bomb-making cell” (As reported by Stuart Winer)

2017(18^th of Sivan, 5777): Ninety-Six year old Morton Cohen, the Canadian born Columbia University doctoral student and author of Lewis Carroll: A Biography passed away today. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/04/books/morton-cohen-scholar-of-lewis-carroll-and-his-wonderland-dies-at-96.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

2017:  In Atlanta, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host the opening of the “Summer Institute on Teaching the Holocaust.

2017: Lauren B. Strauss, Ph.D., Scholar in Residence, Department of History at American University is scheduled to lecture on “The Queen of All Migrations – Jewish Immigration in the Early 20^thCentury” at Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church, Va.

2017: The Manhattan Jewish Experience – West is scheduled to host a dinner followed by a discussion of the weekly Torah portion and a “conversation with Rabbi Mark Wildes.”

2018: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to “Shtisel” watch-party “followed by a discussion about the religious issues arising from the show.”

2018: The Marlene Meyerson JCC is schedule to host a “special preview” screening of “Outdoors” (Bayit Bagalil) directed by Asaf Saban.

2018: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host a presentation by “Israeli-born happiness expert Tal Ben-Shahar who taught the most popular course in Harvard’s history and has authored several books, including bestseller Happier

2019: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host two screenings of “Eating Animals,” the film versions of Jonathan Safran Foer book by the same name, “co-produced and narrated by Natalie Portman.”

2019: The Center for Jewish History and the Leo Baeck Institute are scheduled to present “From Prauge to Princeton, the Story of German-Jewish Family, during which archivist Sarah Glover will discuss the use of archival materials to race the fate of the Kulbach family who had been part of the German Jewish Intellectual Elite.

2019: In San Francisco, Congregation Emanu-El is scheduled to host “Mother Daughter Relationships: Why Do We Feel So Close and So Far Away!” with Rabbi Beth Singer and psychotherapist Sharon Epel.

2019: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is “to honor the 90^th birthday of Anne Frank” with a “Facebook Live Episode” featuring “rarely seen photographs of Anne” which will enable viewers to “learn about her life before the Holocaust.”

2020: Join acclaimed writer, speaker, and noted Winston Churchill expert Lee Pollock as he leads a virtual Lunch and Learn on “Winston Churchill and the Jews” which happens to be same name of a great  book written on the subject by Sir Martin Gilbert Z”L

https://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Jews-Friendship-Martin-Gilbert/dp/0805088644

2019: Judah Pearl is scheduled to accept the Warrior Truth Award which had been posthumously given to his son Daniel Pearl at “The Inaugural Alegemeiner West Coast Gala.

2020: Folk musician Gerry Tenney is schedule to lead “Yiddish and Yinglish Songs,” “a sing-along for kids and adults.

2020: The Breman Museum is scheduled to host on line “Two Cities, One Story: Rabbi Jacob Rothschild” during whichJeremy Katz, Senior Director of Archives at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, and Eric Lidji, Director of the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center, will discuss the life of Rabbi Jacob Rothschild through their archival collections.”

2020: The Israel Film Center Film, “JCC Manhattan’s 8^th annual film festival” is scheduled to host a virtual screening of “There are No Lions in Tel Aviv” followed by a Q and A.

2020: The Asiyah Jewish Community is scheduled to present an on-line “Kabbalat Shabbat Experience.”

2020:Temple Judah will live stream Kabbalah Shabbat Services this evening where we will take special notice of the passing of Steve Elliot, the cousin of Steve Ginsberg and Herman Ginsberg, one of the Patriarchs of the Cedar Rapids Jewish Community

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823: Birthdate of Charles the Bald, who as Holy Roman Emperor refused to comply with anti-Semitic edicts of Amulo, the Archbishop of Lyon.  In doing so, Charles was following in the footsteps of his grandfather Charlemagne who had also refused to comply with anti-Semitic edicts issued by Christian clerics.

1299: Pope Boniface VIII allowed Jews accused by the Inquisition the right to know who their accusers were.

1299: Pope Boniface VII issued a bull today that declared all the Jews "unimportant" except those who were of recognized influence.”

1489: Joshua Solomon Soncino completed the printing of Talmud Babli Hullin.  During 1489, Soncino also completed the printing of Talmud Babli Shabbat and Talmud Babli Baba Kamma

1712(9^thof Sivan, 5472): Leffmann “Behrends’ daughter Genenendel who had married the chief rabbi of Prague, David Oppenheim in 1681 passed away today. 

http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Oppenheim_David

1727: Moses Susman was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of Judicature for having stolen property from Moses Levy that included “silver money, bag, rings and some goods and chattles.”

1777: Marquis de Lafayette arrives to help the colonists in their War for Independence.  Lafayette fell under the spell of Washington.  He was instrumental in getting French support the Americans which was key to ultimate victory.  The values of the American’s took root with Lafayette.  Despite being an aristocrat he took part in the early days of the French Revolution.  He voted in favor of a law that gave full rights to all French Jews except for those living in the northeast part of this country.   Later, when commanding French forces near the city of Metz, he assured the Jews that they and their property would be protected.  Unfortunately, not even the word of Lafayette could stop up against the Reign of Terror which was to follow. 

1780:  Rachel Pinto who had left New York when the British occupied the city and then returned at the start of June took the oath of allegiance to the crown today.

1782(1^stof Tammuz, 5542): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1797: In Amsterdam, marriage of Abraham Cohen and Eva Gompertz

1801: In Vienna, the “Theater an der Wien” which Maximillian Steiner managed in the 1870’s opened today.

1804: Nathaniel Nathan married Rachel Levy at the Great Synagogue in London.

1808: In Plymouth, England, Bohemian native Samuel Hyman and his wife Elizabeth gave birth to Henry S. Hyman.

1814: Joseph ‘Moses” Talano married Rebecca Romanel at Bevis Marks in London.

1815: In London, Benjamin Wolfe Levy and Martha Levy gave birth to Lewis Wolfe Levy, the successful Australian businessman.

http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/levy-lewis-wolfe-4017

1819: In London, Simon Marcus and the former Eleanor Levy gave birth to their third child, Julia Marcus.

1819: Carl Mayer von Rothschild and Adelheid Herz gave birth to their “eldest child and only daughter” Charlotte von Rothschild who married her cousin Lionel Rothschild in 1836.

1824: Joseph Levy married Blumah Jacobs at the Great Synagogue in London.

1825: Birthdate of Dusseldorf, Germany native Julius Eichberg, one of the greatest violin teachers” in the United States “and director of the Boston Conservatory of Music”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/01/20/106860123.pdf

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5075926/julius_eichberg_obituary_in/

1827: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi S.C. Peixotto officiated at the wedding of Nathan Cohen, to Clara Harris, the third daughter of Jacob Harris, Jr.

1832: Samuel Cohen married Rebecca Joseph at the New Synagogue in the United Kingdom.

1836: Today, “two days after her seventeenth birthday, Charlotte Rothschild, the daufhter of Carol von Rothschild and sister of Mayer Carl, Adolph and Wilhelm Carl Rothschild married her cousin Lionel who was ten years older than and moved from Frankfurt to England.

1843: In Boston, a dinner was held at Faneuil Hall to celebrate the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument. Judah Touro was honored for his role in the building of the memorial.  Bostonian patrician Amos Lawrence had pledged to give ten thousand dollars to the project if anybody would match his contribution.  Touro, who was living in New Orleans, heard about the challenge and immediately sent ten thousand dollars to Boston. The toast read at the banquet said,

Amos and Judah venerated names,

Patriarch and prophet, press their equal claims

Like generous coursers, running neck and neck

Each aids the other by giving it a check,

Christian and Jew, they carr out one plan,

For thous of different faiths, each is in heart a man

1851: Seventy-three year old Joseph Johlson the Jewish theologian who championed such reforms as Shabbat services on Sunday, sermons in German and Confirmation for boys and girls while expressing the belief that circumcision was no longer a necessary ritual for Jews passed away today at Frankfurt am Main.

1852: “Beis Hamedrash Hagadol was established at 60 Norfolk Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Its first rav was Rabbi Avrohom Yosef Asch, zt”l, who had arrived in the United States earlier that year.”

1855: Henry Simmonds married Louisa Benjamin at the Great Synagogue in the United Kingdom.

1856: Abraham Bittan married Miriam Solomons at Bevis Marks in London.

1860: William Benjamin Collins married Dinah Abrahams in London today.

1864: In Bethnal Greem, Moses David Levy and his wife gave birth to Sir Albert Levy, the founder of Ardath Tobacco Company and member of the West London Synagogue whose philanthropy earned him a knighthood in 1929

http://www.jta.org/1937/09/08/archive/sir-albert-levy-british-philanthropist-dead-at-74

1865: In Vienna, Austrian Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter gave birth to their second child Julius who became a surgeon.

1866: In Hamburg, Moritz Moses Warburg and Charlotte Esther Oppenheim Warburg gave birth to Dr. Abraham Moritz “Aby” Warburg, the husband of Mary Hertz Warburg and father of Max Adolph Warburg

http://jewish-history-online.net/article/levine-obituary-aby-warburg

1868: Birthdate of Edinburgh, Scotland native John Foster Fraser, the author of the Conquering Jew which contains the results the author’s studies of the Jew, his adaptability and vitality” as well as his views on the future of the Jews.

1870: In Russia, “Getchel and Deborah Mandell” gave birth to Max Sol Mandell, the Columbia educated Instructor of Russian Language and Literature at Yale University and husband of Dora Rubenstein who was also active in the New Haven Jewish community as can be seen by his long term service as the secretary of the “Jewish Charity Society of New Haven.”

1870: “Prophetic Disraeli” published today provided a review of “Lothair,” the first novel published by Benjamin Disraeli after he became Prime Minister and discusses the as yet untitled sequel that includes several Jewish characters and themes.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9804E1DE1F3CE13BBC4B52DFB066838B669FDE

1871: While visiting Jerusalem, former U.S. Secretary of State William H. Steward today described the city as occupying “two ridges of a mountain promontory, with the depress or valley between them.” According to Seward there are 4,000 Muslims living in the northeast quarter, 8,000 Jews living in the southeast quarter, 1,800 Armenians in the southwest quarter and 2,200 Christians belonging to assorted sects living in the northwest quarter.

1871: To days after he passed away, David Nathan, the husband of Deborah Saltiel with whom he had seven children, was buried at “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.

1877: Joseph Seligman, the famous New York financier arrived at the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga Springs, NY, as he had every summer for the past ten years. When he asked for his rooms the manager told Seligman that “he was required to inform him that” Judge Henry Hilton, the owner of the hotel, “has given instruction that no Israelites shall be permitted in future to stop at this hotel.”  After overcoming his astonishment Mr. Seligman asked, “Do you mean to tell me that you will not entertain Jewish people?” The manager replied, “That is our orders, Sir.”  Seligman wanted to know the reason for this asking, “Are they dirty, do they misbehave themselves, or have they refused to pay their bills.”  The manger replied that these were not the reason.  “The reason is simply this.” Business at the hotel was not good last season and we have a large number of Jews here.  Mr. Hilton came to the conclusion that Christians did not like their company, and for that reason shunned the hotel.  He resolved to run the Union on a different principle this season and gave us instruction to admit no Jew.” The manager expressed his personal regret at this turn of events since Mr. Seligman had been coming there for years, but he had to obey orders. An angry Mr. Seligman returned to New York where he wrote a “bitter and sarcastic letter to Hilton” and then informed his friends as to what had happened. [Editor’s Note – the treatment of Mr. Seligman would touch off a minor cause célèbre. It would also mark the “official start” of a period of increasing anti-Semitism in the United States that would include the public banning of Jews from a variety of Christian only hotels, neighborhoods, country clubs and other such institutions as well as the banning of Jews from certain professions & occupations and the creation of quota system, the most invidious of which was the one having to do with admittance to institutions of higher learning. You might think of this period as an era of Jewish Jim Crow and would persist into the last decades of the 20^th century.]

1878: “Mysterious Self-Murder” published today described the last days and self-inflicted death of Lucien Levys, a prominent member of the New York Jewish Community.

1878: Lucien Levys, who took his own life for reasons which are still not clear, is to be buried today at New York’s Salem Fields Cemetery with services provided by Mishkan Israel, the congregation to which the family belongs.  Survivors include his widow, a brother, Henry and a sister, Mrs. Henry Block, all of New York City.

1878: The Congress of Berlin, a summit of European powers where leaders discussed the Balkan region including need to guarantee the civil rights for Rumanian Jews opened today.

1880: It was reported today that there are approximately 500,000 Jews living in Morocco most of whom are descendants of Jews who were exiled from Europe during the Middle Ages.  They “are oppressed, hated degraded and persecuted” in Morocco in a fashion worse “than in any other country.” The Jews work in “various arts and trades” displaying “the ingenuity, pliability and tenacity of their race.”

1881: In the Pale of Settlement Esther and Israel Pinchus Antin gave birth to Maryashe Antin who gained fame American author and immigration rights activist Mary Antin.

1881: Two days after he passed away, seventeen year old Frederick Davis, the son of Hyman and Isabella Davis, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”

1882: Joseph Wolf and Meyer Morris, two recent Jewish refugees who have just arrived from Russia remained in jail because they could not pay the fine assessed them for having attacked and beaten an official of the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society.

1883: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi I.P. Mendes officiated at the wedding of David B. Falk and Cissie Solomons, the daughter of J.M. Solomons of Savannah, GA.

1883: Louis Ostheim began serving as 2^nd Lt. in the 3^rdArtillery of the United States Army.

1884(20^thof Sivan 5644): Boris Moses who rose to the rank of Colonel in the French Army and “became an officer of the Legion of Honor” passed away today.

1885(30^thof Sivan, 5645): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1885: In New York a bill was signed “to amend the Penal Code in regard to Jews and the observance of Sunday.

1886: The remains of James K. Gutheim who was the rabbi at Temple Sinai, lay in state at the New Orleans Reform congregation until three o’clock this afternoon when they were taken to the Metairie Cemetery in suburban New Orleans for final internment.

1887: Birthdate of Bruno Frank, the native of Stuttgart who fled German after 1933 and who wrote the screenplay for the 1939 film version of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”

1888: It was reported that the staff of the Hebrew Journal plans to sponsor a reception to raise funds for the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Agency.

1888(4^thof Tammuz, 5648): Minsk native Hanna Keila Friedland, the daughter “of R' Gershon Ginzburg of Vilna and Rachel Leah Ginzburg” and wife “of R' Moses Aryeh Leib Friedland” passed away today in St. Petersburg

1889: New York State Senator Jacob A. Cantor is invited to the opening reception of the exclusive Harlem Club.  When a member learns that Robert Bonyge has proposed Cantor for membership, he publicly tells Cantor, “Jake I have known you for a long time, and I am a friend of yours, but I must stell yout that in this club we draw the line at Hebrews.” 

1890: Applications may now be filed for the Summer Session of the Hebrew Technical School which will begin when the public schools close the year.

1891(7^thof Sivan, 5651): Second Day of Shavuot

1891: Archibald H. Welch, a Second Vice President with New York Life Insurance Company publicly revised the company’s previous versions surrounding their former employee Julio Merzbacher.  Contrary to the first reports, Merzbacher, a 58 year old Jewish immigrant from Austria, had not retired but had left the company after reports of major financial irregularities.  Contrary to previous reports, these losses did not total $325,000 but probably exceeded one million dollars.

1892: “Among The Russian Jews” published today provides a summary of the findings of Arnold White who had gone to Russia “to determine whether the Russian Jew was an agriculturist” or whether he had had ever been successful in that role. White’s report, which first appeared in the Contemporary Review went far beyond this and examined the conditions and character of Russian Jewry.  For those who wonder about the bravery of Jews, White answers the question “Will the Jew fight” as follows.  “If bull-dog courage be the test of manliness then the annals of the prize ring tells of brawny and burly with their fists, three quarters of a century ago in England held their own.  Three Russian generals have described the dauntless courage of Hebrew soldiers at the Shipka Pass.  In one instance a call for twenty-tive men to engage in a forlorn hope was answered by thirteen Jewish soldiers.(Editor’s note – The Schipka Pass is pass in the Balkans in modern day Bulgaria.  In the 19^th century it was the site of five fierce battles during the war between the Russians and the Ottomans. )

1893: “Russian Coercive Measures” published today the comments of Colonel John Weber, the former Superintendent of Immigration on condition of Russian and Polish Jews.  New decrees “directed toward Russian Jews” include ones that will force merchants who have been in business for the last twenty years to move into the Pale.  At the same time “doctors of medicine, lawyers, engineers, architects, artists, and graduates of the university…exactly the classes representing the highest” intellect are also being forced to move into the overcrowded Jewish zone. As to rumors of a mass exodus by Jews living in Poland, Weber said, “The Polish Jews would be dull indeed if they did not take expulsion of their coreligionists in Russia to hear.”

1893(29^TH of Sivan, 5653): Kiva Book, Annie Katzman and Joseph Mendelsohn died when they jumped to their deaths from the burning building on Montgomery Street where they were working in various tailor’s shops. Among the injured were Israel Amberg, Meyers Mymans, Morris Nathanson, Alice Nathanson and Morris Siegel.

1893: In New York, Deputy Coroner Conway performed an autopsy an unidentified Jewish man who was found floating in the river with his hands tied together with a piece of twine.

1893: “Commissioner Senner’s Story” published today described Immigration Commissioner Joseph H. Senner’s response to an expose published in the American Israelite that claims he “is masquerading under an assumed name” and that he deserted his wife in Germany. The commissioner said this is the fourth time these charges have been made and he has been exonerated each time.  He admits to Americanizing his name when he came to this country and insists that his wife who came with him still lives with him in New York.  He feels that his decision “to renounce his Jewish faith” is what caused Rabbi Wise to publish these falsehoods in his newspaper.

1893: The British government is willing to receive a preliminary draft.

1894(9^th of Sivan, 5654): Fifty five year old Moses Levy, a native of Alsace-Lorraine who came to the United States 25 years ago passed away. The owner of a successful flour and feed business in Brooklyn, he was a member of Temple Beth Elohim and a supporter of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.

1894: At the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum, the band and drum corps under the command of Colonel Martin Cohen entertained visiting officials from the New York State Constitutional Convention

1897: The annual confirmation exercises of the Hebrew Free Schools were held at the Hebrew Institute this afternoon.

1897: In Jamaica Plain, MA, “Max Zach, the former conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Blanche Going Zach” gave birth to Harvard graduate and WW I Army 2^nd Lt. Philip zach, “the advertising consultant to Life magazine.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/24/archives/philip-zach-73-expresident-of-capper-publications-dead.html

1897: “The Zionist Movement” published today described the two meetings held by the New York Board of Jewish Ministers to prepare for the Zionist meeting which will be held next August in Munich.  According to them, the Zionist movement has two main objectives.  “Frist to rescue the unfortunate Hebrews who are suffering under denial of civil and social rights and to encourage them to leave their poverty and misery for agriculture in Palestine and secondly to foster” the idea of “Jewish nationality.”

1897: “The Brooklyn Board of Education” published today presented the biographies of the members including Ira Leo Bamberger, a lawyer and a Republican who is the son-in-law of Moses May, “the most influential Jew in Brooklyn.”

1898: Emile Zola published his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in Paris. This was part of the famous Dreyfus Affair that rocked French society for the better part of a decade at the turn of the last century and that gave rise to the Zionism of Theodore Herzl.

1898: Birthdate of Kiev trained cantor and Zionist Lieb Glantz who lived in the United States before settling in Israel in 1954 where he continued his literary career passed away today.

http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/08/leyb-glants-leib-glantz.html

1898: Two days after he passed away, seventy-two year old Louis Sandlowitz was buried in London’s “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”

1898: One day after he died, Lazarus Israel was buried at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.

1898: The Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital. In 1902, when Dawson’s Jewish population reached its high point of 200, Solomon Packer was one of its leading merchants.

1898: It was reported today that during the closing exercises of the Rodeph Shalom Religious School Nanette M Beekman received a gold medal for general excellence, Eva Heyman received a gold medal for excellence in Hebrew and Florence Robison received a silver medal for best in Hebrew

1899: Wilson W. Dunlop came before Mayor Van Wyck on charges of having caused riots on the East Side by his efforts to convert Jews to Christianity with his preaching on the corners of Orchard and Rivington Streets. The Mayor told Dunlop, “You have been using the streets for a crusade against the Jewish religion.  This is a free country and you can make a fight against any religion you choose, but you can’t do it in the streets.  If you want to conduct a crusade against the Jews go and hire a hall.”

1899: “The Jewish Colonial Trust” published today described the involvement of the Jews of Chicago in this Zionist venture.  So far, Jews in Chicago have subscribed for two thousand shares in the Trust at a par value of five dollars.  The Union National Bank of Chicago represents the Jewish Colonial Trust in the United States.

1900: Sergeant Frank B. Yovits of Schenectady, NY was honorably discharged completing a three year enlistment in the U.S Army that included tours in Cuba and the Philippines during the Spanish American War.

1901: Tonight, a large audience packed itself into the auditorium of the Educational Alliance where they heard a presentation on the purposes of L'Alliance Israelite Universelle.

1903(18^thof Sivan, 5663): Parashat Beha’alotcha

1903(18^thof Sivan, 5663): Eighty year old Solomon Cohen, the London born son of “Barnett and Sierlah Cohen” and the husband of Julia Hannah Cohen with whom he had had ten children, passed away today in Victoria, Australia.

1903: I.M. Rosenthal presided over a meeting of “The Degel of Zion” at the Forsyth Street Synagogue where Jacob Massel told the attendees in “glowing terms” about the recent Zionist convention that had been held in Pittsburgh, PA.

1904(30^thof Sivan, 5664): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1904: Today, President Plonsky laid the cornerstone of the Temple Agudath Jeshorim in the presence of more than 2,000 members of the congregation and invited guests.

1905: The outbreak of the riots at Brest-Litvosk, was cause by Jewish merchants trying to fend army reservists on their way to the Far East who were looting their stores.

1906: The rector of the University of Göttingen announced that Max Born had won ” the prestigious annual Philosophy Faculty Prize” today a month before “he was awarded his PhD in Mathematics, magna cum laude.

1907: Based on information provided In the confession of Abe Ruef, the Mayor of San Francisco was convicted and removed from office today.

1908(14^thof Sivan, 5668): Parsashat Nasso chanted for the last time during the Presidency of Teddy Roosevelt

1909: The annual meetings of the Grand Lodge of the Order B'rith Abraham which this year marks the golden anniversary of the order, held its opening session today at the Hippodrome.

1910(6^thof Sivan, 5670) Shavuot

1910: The “crusade against the Jews ‘illegally’ “residing

1911: The Milwaukee Journal reported today that the “largest congregation in the United States” which was located at St. Louis had chosen Goodman Lipkind, the rabbi at Milwaukee’s Sinai congregation to replace Henry Messing as its new Rabbi.”

1912: Orville and Katherine Wright arrived at the home of Arthur L. Welsh's in-laws, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Harmel two days after his fatal accident.

1912: Funeral services were held for Arthur L. Welsh at Adas Israel in Washington D.C.  Joseph Gulshak, the congregation’s cantor delivered the eulogy as the congregants looked at his tallit draped casket. His pallbearers included Orville Wright, one of the famous Wright Brothers, and Lt. Henry H. Arnold.  Arnold would gain as “Hap” Arnold the five star general who led the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. “Arnold wrote in his autobiography years later about Arthur Welsh, ‘He taught me everything I know, but he knew much more.’”

1912: Portuguese government continues to favor a plan which is reported to be prepared to give Jews extensive concessions.

1912: In Munich, Dr. Alfred Haas and his wife Elsa, the daughter of of Joseph Schülein and Ida Schülein  gave birth to Charlotte 'Lotti' Schüller

1913 Birthdate of Yitzhak Fundik the native of Krakow who made Aliyah in 1933 and as Yitzhak Pundak, rose to the rank of Major General in the IDF

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/168912#.U5j-DptOWpo

1913: Birthdate of Ruth Willion, the Brooklyn native who married Morris Popkin in 1937 and as Ruth Popkin served as President of Hadassah and President of the Jewish National Fund.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/nyregion/ruth-popkin-president-of-hadassah-who-worked-to-resettle-refugees-in-israel-dies-at-101.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1914: Today twenty-seven year old Canadian born publisher and co-founder of the Book of the Month Club Harry Scherman married author Bernadine Kielty with whom he had two children, Katherine and Thomas.

1914: The Exposition and Congress of Woman’s Achievements is scheduled to open today.

1914: In a meeting that would have unforeseen consequences that would lead to World War I with all that that meant for the world in general and Jews in particular, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany concluded his visit with Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria after they had discussed the tenuous balance of power in the Balkans…”

1915: In the wake of the sinking of the Lusitania German press coverage includes the following from the Berlin Tageblatt, a daily newspaper first published by Rudolf Mosse and now run by his cousin Thedor Wolff who is the editor-in-chief under the headline “On the Way to An Agreement” – “An agreement is possible and the Washington government shows an honest desire to arrive at an agreement.”  “The hopes of our enemies…that the Stars and Stripes soon would be floating bested the Union Jack and the Tri-color are proved false.”  All indications are “that America by no means takes the position that the German Admiralty must issue an order to end the submarine warfare…”

1915: The text of the appeal from the Federation of the Rumanian Jews of America sent to Governor Slaton, which began, “Five thousand member of the Federation of the Rumanian Jews of America appeal to at this eleventh hour to exercise your power and spare the life of Leo M. Frank” was published today.

1915: In Atlanta, “another anti-Frank mass meeting was held on the Capital grounds this afternoon.”

1915: While Governor Slaton was engaged in studying the evidence today in the case of Leo M. Frank…prayers were said for the governor in several Atlanta churches” including the St. Luke’s Protestant Episcopal Church “asking that he be divinely guided in dealing with the problem before him.”

1916: Jacob Greenberg wrote from Brooklyn today that the New York Times was in error when it said that the Reform Jews celebrated Pentecost (Shavuot) for a week and the Orthodox celebrated for eight because “the Orthodox only celebrate two days and the Reform one day.”

1917: Fifteen thousand ballots were cast in today’s election to select eighty delegates “to the Congress of Salonica Jews.”

1917: Birthdate of Israel Kugler, a leader of teachers’ and Jewish labor organizations. Born in Brooklyn, to Eastern European immigrant parent, he served in the Navy during World War II and was educated at City College and at New York University. In addition to his work as an organizer, he was a professor of social science in the CUNY system and author of the book “From Ladies to Women: The Organized Struggle for Women’s Rights in the Reconstruction Era.”Kugler’s parents were involved in the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring, which is the national Jewish labor organization, and Kugler’s own children were sent to Workmen’s Circle shules (part-time Yiddish schools). After he retired from teaching and organizing in 1980, Kugler was elected president of the Workmen’s Circle. He held the office for two terms, until 1984. Kugler was also active in other progressive Jewish organizations, serving as an officer of the Jewish Labor Committee and of the Forward Association, the not-for-profit holding company of this newspaper. Philip Kugler followed in his father’s footsteps, becoming a vice president of the American Federation of Teachers. He passed away in October of 2007 at the age of 90.

1917: In Chicago, the Sinai Center Players assisted by Sinai Center Orchestra is scheduled to “give the closing performance” today at the Sinai Social Center two one act plays – “Extreme Action” and “In Honor Bound.”

1917: Fourteen German bombers attacked London dropping more than one hundred bombs killing over 162 civilians.  Some of the bombs landed on school where fifteen students were killed and another 27 maimed for life prompting some parents to send their children out the British capital.  Among those sent out were Lev Winogradsky, the future media mogul who became Lord Grade and his brother Boruch Winogradsky, the famed theatrical impresario who became Lord Delfont

1918: The will of Mrs. Anna Shane, which named many Jewish institution as beneficiaries was admitted to probate today.

1918: Fire in a synagogue results in the total destruction of the famous Hebrew library in Belgrade. The collection contained many rare manuscripts.

1918: Fifteen thousand ballots were cast in today’s election where eighty delegates were chosen to attend the Congress of Salonica Jews.

1918: During WW I, Lester Bergman a Private serving with the 5^th Regiment of the U.S. Marine Corps which was part of the AEF, attacked a German machine gun nest in fighting in the Bois de Belleau. This conspicuous bravery would lead to him being award the Silver Star.

1920: The Ahdut Ha'Avoda Party convenes in Kinneret. It decides to establish the Haganah organization for a countrywide Jewish self-defense.

1920: Birthdate of Joseph Gurwich, who as Joseph Gurwin, became a wealthy businessman and philanthropist. Unfortunately, he was also a victim of the great swindler, Bernard Maddoff

1920: Louis Marshall and Abraham Elkus are scheduled to speak at the cornerstone laying ceremony for new building being built by the Brooklyn Jewish Center which is led by Rabbi Israel H. Levinthal.

1921(7^thof Sivan, 5682): Second Day of Shavuot

1923: Twenty-one year old Jewish middleweight Phil “K.O.” Kaplan who had turned pro in 1919 fought “his first big fight” today when he fought Pete Latzo “to a 12-round draw.”

1924: Bnei Brak founded on the coastal plain east of Tel Aviv. The Bnei Brak of today was established by charedi Jews from Poland, and is famed for its many yeshivas and Chassidic communities. Judah Moses Tiehberg, the grandson of the Aleksandrow Rebbe who was murdered at Treblinka re-established the dynasty at Bnei Brak in 1953. In Biblical times Bnei Brak was located in the land of the tribe of Dan. Its most lasting fame comes from the story in the Haggadah about Rabbi Akiva and his colleagues.

1925: In Manhattan Louis and Ralphina Steinhardt Lowenstein gave birth to Louis Lowenstein, founding partner of Kramer Levin and “an influential business law professor and former corporate executive who for nearly three decades dissected the excesses of Wall Street and warned of the dangers of short-term investing”  (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)

1926(1^stof Tammuz, 5686): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1926: It was reported today that Rabbi Max Drob, President of the Rabbinical Assembly of JTS will be one of the speakers to address the upcoming annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary

1925: Birthdate of Louis Lowenstein, an influential business law professor and former corporate executive who for nearly three decades dissected the excesses of Wall Street and warned of the dangers of short-term investing

1928: Florenz Ziegfield signs a contract with MGM to produce movie musicals.

1929(5^thof Sivan, 5689): Erev Shavuot

1929: Western hero Wyatt Earp who was not Jewish, but whose last wife was, passed away today after which she arranged for him to be buried in a Jewish cemetery.

1931(28^thof Sivan, 5691): Parashat Sh’lach

1931(28^thof Sivan, 5691): Seventy-five year old Richmond born dramatist Sydney Rosenfeld, the “first editor of Puck,” “one of the main movers in the effort to secure a National Theatre for the United States” and husband of “Genie Holzmeyer Johnson” who was the author of several plays including “A Possible Case” and “The Club Friend” as well as several “operettas and musicals” including “The Lady or the Tiger” and “The Passing Show” passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/06/15/102239498.pdf

1931: Shortstop Louis Brower made his major league debut with the Detroit Tigers.

1931: Birthdate of Dr. Irvin David Yalom Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, the recipient of the American Psychiatric Association’s Oscar Pfister Prize (for important contributions to religion and psychiatry) in 2000 and the husband of award winning “feminist author and historian” Marilyn Yalom

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/marilyn-yalom

1933: In Berne, anti-Semitic pamphlets were distributed at meeting of the "Bund Nationalsozialistischer Eidgenossen" (BNSE) which was addressed by Emil Sonderegger, a former leading general in the Swiss Army.

1934(30th of Sivan, 5694): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1934: In Chicago, high school chemistry teacher Boris Duskin and his wife, poet and homemaker Rita Schayer gave birth to Ruth Sondra Duskin who began appearing on “The Quiz Kids” in 1941 and appeared in 146 episodes on radio and 11 on television after the show moved there in 1949. (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/06/arts/ruth-feldman-a-quiz-kid-who-later-distilled-the-experience-in-a-book-dies-at-80.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1934: Hitler and Mussolini met for the first time.

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue9911/icon04.htm

1935: James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer to become heavyweight champion of the world.  Baer had only been Heavy Weight Champion for a year.  There was always a question as to whether or not Baer was really Jewish.  He had been born in Nebraska and there were those who claimed his father had been Dutch or German and not Jewish.  Regardless, Baer adopted a Jewish persona in the ring and won the hearts of the Jewish world when he defeated the German boxer Max Schmeling. 

1936(23^rdof Sivan, 5696):In the UK, Phoebe Levy, the widow of  the James Levy of Brixton passed away at Jersey and is survived by her daughter Bessie Marks.

1936: It was reported today that “a factor in the current Palestine disorders that is little known to the general public is a long-standing political feud between the two leading Arab families, for which the Jews happen to be convenient scapegoats.” Much of the violence stems from a conflict between the Husseini family, which has filled the posts of Grand Mufti and President of the Supreme Council, and the more moderate Nashashibis who are led by the former Mayor of Jerusalem.

1936: Today, “a meeting was held in Washington, D.C. by a group of Jews who seek to” create a ‘World Jewish Congress’ which will “convene this Summer.”

1936: “Immediate collective action to protect the Jews from progressive deterioration of their rights was demanded at the opening session tonight at a conference called by the American Jewish Congress” which was attended by more than 100 delegates.

1937: At the Hotel Astor, ”Dr. Henry Szozkief, a communal leader and journalist in Poland told the 29^th annual convention of the Federation of Polish Jews that  immediate aid was necessary” if uncounted number of Jews were to avoid death by starvation.

1938: Birthdate of Morton H. Halperin “an American expert on foreign policy and civil liberties. He served in the Johnson, Nixon and Clinton administrations and in a number of roles with think tanks, universities and other organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations and Harvard University.” “The NATO doctrine is that we will fight with conventional forces until we are losing, then we will fight with tactical weapons until we are losing, and then we will blow up the world.” (Morton Halperin)

1939: Five Arab villagers were slain early today in Baled Es-Sheikh, near Haifa. An armed gang, dressed in European clothes, dragged the five men from their homes and shot them. A sixth villager was reported to have been abducted. The Arabs claimed that the attackers were Jews. 

1939: In what appears to be an outbreak of inter-Jewish strife between Revisionists and Laborites, “seventy persons carrying clubs studded with nails” attacked the Revisionists headquarters in Tel Aviv injuring one severely and five slightly.”

1939: “Eddie Cantor and his wife are guest of the 18,000 members of the Greater New York Chapter of Hadassah at a luncheon in the Café Tl Aviv in the Jewish Palestine Pavillion at the World’s Fair”  at the same time that they are celebrating their 25^th wedding anniversary.

1940(7^thof Sivan, 5700): Second Day of Shavuot

1940: Walter Benjamin and his sister fled Paris and sought refuge in Lourdes before the Gestapo could arrest him.

1941: Birthdate of Esther Ofarim, a sabra who became a popular Israeli entertainer and singer.

1941: The Petain Government, also known as the Vichy Government, ingratiates itself with the Nazis by announcing that 12,000 Jews have been sent to concentration camps for hindering Franco-German cooperation.

1941: Premiere of “Tom, Dick and Harry” directed by Garson Kanin.

1941: Birthdate of Esther Zaied, the native of Safed who gained fame as singer/songwriter. Esther Ofarim (she married Abi Ofarim in 1959). She actually played a role in the 1961 film “Exodus” the film adaption of Leon Uris’ novel making her one of the few Jews to appear in this pro-Zionist film.

1942(28th of Sivan, 5702): Mordecai “Mort” Starabin, the Brooklyn native an all-star tackle for Syracuse University in the 1920’s and teammate of Benny Moses and Dave Ziff  who refused to play on Rosh Hashanah passed away today.

1942: Nine Jews were hanged in Warta, 2 in Lask, and 2 in Lodz Ghetto as a tool to scare Jews from resisting deportation.

1942: Three thousand Jews are deported from the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto to their deaths.

1942: British Ambassador to the Vatican Francis d'Arcy Osborne observes about Pope Pius XII that his "moral leadership is not assured by the unapplied recital of the Commandments." British comments must be taken with a grain of salt.  After all, they were the ones who had written the White Paper locking the Jews out of the only place that would accept them.

1943: Mark Rothko, together with Adolph Gottlieb and Barnet Newman published the following brief manifesto in the New York Times:

"1. To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risks.

"2. This world of imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.

"3. It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

"4. We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.

"5. It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted."

[Rothko said "this is the essence of academicism".]

"There is no such thing as a good painting about nothing.

"We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. That is why we profess spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art."

1943: Lydia “Litvyak was appointed flight commander of the 3rd Aviation Squadron within 73rd GvIAP.”

1944: On D-Day plus 7, Roy Rogers, who had escaped from Austria before WW II, returned to Continent as he and his tank crew came ashore at Normandy as part of the British Army.

http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/front-page/a-profile-in-jewish-courage-for-d-days-70th-anniversary/2014/05/28/0/

1944(22^ndof Sivan, 5704): Twenty-nine year old RAF Flying Officer Joseph Star, the Canadian born son of Max and Bertha Star and the husband of Irene Ellen Star who became a “Canadian Jewish Military Casualty” today after which he was buried at Nottinghamshire, UK.

1944(22^ndof Sivan, 5704): Seventy-one year old San Francisco born artist, teacher and lecturer Aaron Altman passed away today in his home town.

http://www.askart.com/artist/Aaron_Altmann/4399/Aaron_Altmann.aspx#

1945: Weizmann decried Churchill’s letter rejecting the request for an end to restrictions on Jewish immigration into Palestine as an insult to our intelligence. A bitter Weizmann declared, “If Churchill had wanted to settle things, he would have done so.”  “For Ben-Gurion, Churchill’s letter was ‘the greatest blow they (the Zionists) had received.’

1946(14th of Sivan, 5706): Seventy-three year old Sigmund G. Livingston “German-born American Jewish attorney working in Chicago” who “was the founder and first President of the Anti-Defamation League” passed away in Highland Park, Illinois.

http://www.jta.org/1946/06/16/archive/sigmund-livingston-founder-of-bnai-brith-anti-defamation-league-dies-in-chicago

1947: Today,Mollie and Sydney Hodes gave birth to Joel Hodes, the sister of Lisa Hodes.

1947: Birthdate of New York Congressman Jerrod Lewis “Jerry” Nadler.

1947: Birthdate of Elyakim Rubinstein the native of Jerusalem who served Attorney General of Israel before becoming a Judge on the Supreme Court of Israel.

1948(6th of Sivan, 5708): Shavuot

1948(6th of Sivan): Rabbi Abraham Mordecai Alter, the Gur rebbe, passed away

1948(6^thof Sivan, 5708): Seventy-four year old Roemerstadt, Austria native Dr. Otto Marburg, the leading neurologist who became a “clinical professor of neurology at Columbia” after fleeing the Nazis in 1938 and who said of the United States, “I am full of gratitude to this great nation which wants nothing for itself but helps as much as possible those who need help” passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/06/14/84538495.pdf

1948: Shear Yashuv Cohen, the future chief rabbi of Haifa arrived at a Jordanian prison camp after having fought in the failed defense of the Old City of Jerusalem.

1948: Rumania and Finland recognize Israel

1949: Birthdate of Brandon Tartikoff television executive with ABC and NBC who was involved in the creation of such groundbreaking hits as “The Cosby Show” and “Hill Street Blues” and whose creative light burned out tragically at the age of 48

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/28/arts/brandon-tartikoff-former-nbc-executive-who-transformed-tv-in-the-80-s-dies-at-48.html

1949: It was reported today that the body of Konrad Goebels, the “the 57 year old brother of Nazi Germany’s Propaganda Minister” who had just finished serving a three year prison term and who had told American agents in 1946 that “he was an ardent and proud Nazi and would remain…hater of Jews “ has been found in “in a forest near Huetental.”

1949: “Miss Liberty” featuring music and lyrics by Irving Berlin that “includes the song ‘Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor’, a musical setting of Emma Lazarus's sonnet "The New Colossus" (1883), which was placed at the base of the monument in 1903” opened in Philadelphia today.

1949: Today’s scheduled “meeting of the Palestine Conciliation Commission with the Israeli delegation may well by decisive in determining the commission’s success in translating the uneasy armistice in the Palestine war into a stable peace.” (As reported by Sidney Gruson)

1950: “An air transport agreement granting equal rights in Israel and the United States for airlines designated by the two governments was signed in Teel Aviv today by Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett and United States Ambassador James G. McDonald.  This is the first air agreement between Israel and a foreign country and the first agreement with the United States on any subject.”

1950: An airplane bearing Jordanian markings which belonged to Arab Airways was forced to land after it attempted to fly over the southern Negev. The pilot, who was an American, cooperated with the intercepting Israeli aircraft and the landing took place without incident.  The Israelis have made repeated requests to the international community to avoid such over-flights due to the state of war that still exists in the region.

1950: Eddie Cantor completed his day of touring immigrant camps by having lunch at the immigrant transit camp at Natahnya. While the Jewish entertainer who has raised millions for Jewish causes since the 1930 ate, he was eyed with great interest and curiosity by the six hundred orphans living at the camp.

1951: The Jerusalem Postreported that Israel vigorously protested against the decision made by Lieut.-Gen. William Riley, UN Chief of Staff, who supported the Egyptian arguments against the opening of the Suez Canal to Israeli shipping. Migdal Gad, a new immigrant town of 10,000, held its first municipal elections. There were 1,950 eligible voters. No ice for home supply was distributed in Haifa after the authorities discovered that many distributors used false weights to cheat their customers.

1951: Nine Jewish Kremlin physicians were "exposed" as British/US agents. This became known as the Doctors' Plot. It was part of Stalin’s last push to get rid of the Jews of the Soviet Union. Only his death averted what could have been a worse mass murder than the Holocaust.

1951: “Laughter in Paradise” a British comedy with music by Stanley Black was released today in the United Kingdom.

1951: The College World Series in which Moe Savransky pitched for Ohio State University began today in Omaha, Nebraska.

1952: “The Tales of Hoffmann, a British Technicolor film adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, co-written, co-produced and co-directed by Emeric Pressburger was released in the United States today.

1953(30^thof Sivan, 5713): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1954: Cornerstone laid for Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM).

1954: The New York Times features a review of “The Spark and the Exodus,” in which Benedict and Nancy Freedman “have tried to recreate one of the tragic periods of Jewish history: the Czarist oppression, the pogroms that fired the Zionist dream of establishing a home land in Palestine.”

1954(12^thof Sivan, 5714): Sixty-three year old Yiddish author Esther Kreitman passed away today in London.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/kreitman-esther

http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org&q=kreitman%2C+esther&submit=Search

1956: The original Broadway production of “Shangri-La,” a musical with lyrics and a book co-authored by Jerome Lawrence opened today at the Winter Garden Theatre.

1956(4^thof Tammuz, 5716): Sixty-two year old “historian, literary and theater critic, editor, bibliographer, lexicographer, lecturer, teacher and librarian” Dr. Jacob Shatzky the native of Warsaw who came to the United States in 1923 and helped to found “the U.S. Section of the YIVO Institute for Jewish research” passed away today in New York City.

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=131233

1959(7^thof Sivan, 5719): Second Day of Shavuot

1960: Former U of Chattanooga guard and 2 year veteran of the CFL Hamilton-Cats signed with the newly minted Boston Patriots (now New England Pats) for whom he played 14 games.

1962: “Merrill’s Marauders” a film about the famous WW II fighters starring Jeff Chandler (Ira Grossel), directed by Samuel Fuller who also co-authored the script and with music by Franz Waxman was released today in the United States.

1962: A revival of “Fiorello!” a musical with a book by Jerome Weidman, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music by Jerry Bock opened at the New York City Center.

1963(21^stof Sivan, 5723): Seventy-four year old stockbroker Ira Haupt the Brooklyn born son of Mary and Adolph Haupt  and founder of the “Wall Street securities concern of Ira Haupt and Co whose son Stuart and his grandson Ira 2d gave him the unique distinction of have three generations hold seats on the NYSE passed away today.

1964(3^rdof Tammuz, 5724): Parashat Korach

1964(3^rdof Tammuz, 5724): Seventy-seven year old Washington realtor and philanthropist Morris Cafrtiz, the husband of Super Socialite Gwen Cafritz passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/13/archives/morris-cafritz-builder-dead-developed-properties-in-capital.html

1965(13th of Sivan, 5725):  Eighty-seven year philosopher, author and intellectual Martin Buber passes away. There is no way to do write just a few words about Buber.  His impact was too great in too many spheres.  The best way to honor his memory is to take try and read a little bit of Buber.  Whether it is something as complicated as I and Thou or as relatively simple as a collection of Chasidic tales, there is something for all of us.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0208.html

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/martin-buber

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/modernity-faith-and-martin-buber

1966: Simon and Garfunkel recorded “A Simple Desultory Philippic ( Or How I Was Robert McNamara’d into Submission)  and “A Poem on the Underground Wall” for the album “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.”

1966: Birthdate of mathematician Grigori Perelman.  True confession – I do not have a clue as to what his work is all about but the experts say the Russian born genius is best known for his work in comparison geometry.  He has also published papers purporting to prove Thurston's Geometrization Conjecture and Poincare’s Conjecture.  So far, nobody has found the flaw in his work

1966: Birthdate of Ben Horowitz, the native of London who was raised in the United States where he became a “high tech entrepreneur and investor.”

http://jamsidedown.com/2010/08/ben-horowitz-high-techs-new-andy-grove.html

 1970(9^thof Sivan, 5730): Parashat Nasso

1970(9^thof Sivan, 5730): Sixty-eight year old Abraham Ber Tabachnik, the native of Russia who came to the United States in 1921 where he became “a writer, literary critic and editor for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a wire service for the Yiddish, Hebrew and Anglo Jewish press” and who raised his daughter “Chana” with his wife “Frieda” passed away today.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/tabachnik-abraham-ber

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/16/archives/ab-tabachnik-68-writer-and-critic.html

1970: Sixteen people led by Sylva Zalmanson and Eduard Kuznetzov “attempted to hijack a plane from the USSR…in an desperate attempt” to make the world aware of the plight of Russian Jews who wanted to move to Israel.

1971: “Drive, He Said” the movie version of Brandeis University grad Jeremy Larner’s novel by the same name with music by David Shire was released in the United States today.

1971: The New York Times“published the first of a series of articles on The Pentagon Papers today. “Gerald Gold, an editor for The New York Times had supervised the herculean task of combing through a secret 2.5-million-word Defense Department history of the Vietnam War” prior to publication.

1972(1^stof Tammuz, 5732): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1972(1^stof Tammuz, 5732): Fifty-nine year old Nathan Bor, the native of Fall River, Massachusetts who “was the 1932 United States Amateur Lightweight Champion and won the bronze medal in the lightweight class after winning the third place fight” Pass away today.

1973: General Benjamin “Benny” Peled, the head of the Israeli Air Force, told Defense Minister Moshe Dayan that in the event of another war with the Arabs, a pre-emptive air strike would be critical to Israeli success.  Dayan assured him that if the government thought that the Arabs were about to attack, the air force would be given the same operational latitude that it had in 1967. [Editor’s note: One wonders if Dayan remembered this conversation in October of 1973 at the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War.]

1974(23^rdof Sivan, 5734): Ninety-two year old Gertrude Kaplan, the “daughter of Abraham and Anna (Hinde) Shemerinsky” and the wife of Jacob Kaplan with whom she had had five children passed away today in Chicago after which she buried in Forest Park, Illinois.

1974: A Gallup poll on religious worship showed that fewer Protestants and Roman Catholics were attending weekly services than ten years earlier, but that attendance at Jewish worship services had increased over the same period.

1974(23^rdof Sivan, 5734): Seventy-nine year old Sholom Secunda the Ukrainian born American composer who wrote the melody for "Bay mir bistu sheyn" which the Andrews Sisters turned to a surprising hit song passed away today.

1975: “A squad of” terrorists “belonging to the Arab Liberation Front” crossed into Israel from Lebanon apparently heading for the village of Kfar Yuval.

1976: The West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D, a novel written by Nicholas Meyer began an 11 week run on The New York Times Best Seller List.

1976(15^thof Sivan, 5736): Seventy-two year old Rose Shanis Glick, the Polish born daughter of Ely and Bernice Shanis, the wife of David Glick with whom she had one son Stephen Jack Glick and who gained fame as the founder of Rose Shanis and Company, a unique lending institution in Baltimore, MD, passed away after which she was buried at the “Beth Tfiloh Cemetery” in Woodlawn, MD.

http://jewishmuseummd.org/tag/rose-shanis-glick/

1976:The Jerusalem Postreported that the former Air Force chief Mordechai Hod was granted a draft agreement allowing him to set up a separate air-freight company in Israel. In New York an estimated 75,000 marchers paraded up Fifth Avenue in the 12th annual Salute to Israel. Over 400 cars a month were reported stolen in Tel Aviv every month. In 1975 20,566 cars were stolen in Israel, an increase of 23 per cent over 1974. Gary Davis, who declared himself to be the "First Citizen of the World," was turned away by the Ben-Gurion Airport police.

1978: The IDF withdraws from Lebanon after entering the country to root out PLO terrorists operating from this safe haven.

1979: “The Madwoman of Central Park West is a semi-autobiographical one-woman musical with a book by Arthur Laurents and Phyllis Newman and songs by various composers and lyricists” including Leonard Bernstein, Barry Manlow, Adolph Green, Stephen Sondheim and Ed Kleban opened on Broadway today.

1980: “Wholly Moses!” a Biblical spoof produced by Freddie Fields and co-starring Laraine Newman, Jack Gilford and Madeline Kahn was released today in the United States.

1981(11^thof Sivan, 5741): Parashat Beha’alotcha

1981(11^thof Sivan, 5741): Eighty-seven year old Emanie Nahm Sachs, the Bowling Green, KY born daughter of Max and Sunshine Friedman Nahm and the wife of Walter Edward Sachs whom she married in 1917 passed away today.

1984: “The Naked Face” the film treatment of Sidney Sheldon’s book by the same name, produced by Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan and Rony Yacov, starring Elliot Gould and filmed by cinematographer David Gurfinkel was released today in the United States.

1986 (6th of Sivan, 5746): First Day of Shavuot

1986 (6th of Sivan, 5746): Seventy-seven year old musical great Benny Goodman passed away.  The clarinet was his instrument of choice.  In the Big Band Era, he was known as "The King of Swing."  He gave jazz, or at least his style of it, a certain touch of panache when he played Carnegie Hall, which in those days was the High Temple of High Culture.

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=TKoBXe24CsKsswXR1YDgCg&q=benny+goodman&oq=benny+goo&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0l10.961.7140..10159...2.0..0.135.1035.9j2......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i131j0i10.bV8WoYYndKM

https://www.notablebiographies.com/Gi-He/Goodman-Benny.html

1986: “The Manhattan Project” a film directed by Marshall Brickman who also co-produced and co-wrote the script was released today in the United States.

1987(16^thof Sivan, 5747): Eighty-seven year old author and screenwriter Vera Louise Caspary, who created “Laura” which thanks to TCM is still thrilling movie viewers in the 21^st Century, passed away today in New York.

http://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/13/1987/this-week-in-history-death-of-prolific-screenwriter-and-novelist-vera-caspary

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/17/obituaries/vera-caspary-screenwriter-and-novelist.html

1987: This evening in Scranton, PA, at Temple Hesed, Rabbi Milton Richman officiated at the wedding of high school guidance counselor “Ellen Oppenheim, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Oppenheim of Scranton” and Dr. Neil Feldman, “a resident in internal medicine at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia” and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Feldman of Willow Grove, PA.”

1988: While serving as Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ben Briscoe declared today “Molly Malone Day” following the unveiling of the Molly Malone statute on Grafton Street.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Malone#mediaviewer/File:Molly_malone_grafton_street-edit.jpg

1988: Refusniks met with Richard Shifter today.

1988: Birthdate of Gabe Carimi, the offensive tackle for the Chicago Bears who played his college football at Wisconsin where he won the Outland Trophy in 2010.  Carimi’s nickname is “the Bear Jew.”

1990: David Levy began serving as Israel’s Foreign Minister replacing Moshe Arens

1991: The New York Review of Books featured a review of Wartime Lies, the first novel by Louis Begley.

1999: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “The Nanny and the Iceberg” by Ariel Dorfman and “Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age” by R. Stephen Humphreys.

1999: Bruce Fleisher won the BellSouth Senior Classic at Opryland.

1999: The Chicago Jewish Historical Society in cooperation with the Dawn Schuman Institute is scheduled to sponsor “Chicago Jewish Roots” a tour of the Maxwell Street area, Lawndale, Logan Square, Humboldt Park, Albany Park and Rogers Park” led by Dr. Irving Cutler.

1999: “The European premiere” of “The Eternal Road” an opera with dialogue by Kurt Weil with a libretto by Franz Wefel “conceived by Meyer Weisgal”  “took place in Chemnitz, German, as part of the centennial celebrations of the composer’s birth.”

2000: “The Israel Diamond Exchange said it would expel any member who ''knowingly trades'' in diamonds from rebel movements in Angola, Sierra Leone and Congo”

2000: “With striking printers shutting its presses near Tel Aviv, the daily Yediot Ahronot has been publishing sections of the paper in the Palestinian-ruled West Bank, a rival newspaper, Haaretz, reported.”

2001: “Israel and the Palestinians have accepted an American cease-fire proposal after six days of intensive mediation by the director of central intelligence, American officials said early this morning.”

2002: Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, saw landmarks of the revived Jewish quarter in the Kazimierz district

2002: Publication of “Camp David and After” – Benny Morris’ interview with Ehud Barak.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2002/jun/13/camp-david-and-after-an-exchange-1-an-interview-wi/

2003(13^th of Sivan, 5763) St.-Sgt. Mordechai Sayada, 22, of Tirat Carmel, was shot to death in Jenin by a Palestinian sniper as his jeep patrol passed by. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

2003(13^th of Sivan, 5763): Seventy-six year old Robert L. Lehman, the German born son of Michael and Toni Lehman a teenage escapee from Nazi Germany and U.S. Army veteran who went on to a distinguished career as a Reform Rabbi that including leading Hebrew Tabernacle Congregation for forty-one years and raised his daughter Sharon with his wife Loni Tucker Lehman passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/30/nyregion/robert-l-lehman-rabbi-76.html

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=2487976

2004: “The Fading World of Leopold Bloom” published today described preparations to celebrate “the 100th anniversary of the day in 1904 on which Dublin's best-known fictional Jew (and cuckold), 38-year-old Leopold Bloom, wandered the city as a modern-day Odysseus and, after numerous adventures located more in his mind than on the street, circumnavigated his way home.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/magazine/the-fading-world-of-leopold-bloom.html

2004: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback edition Heart,You Bully, You Punk by Leah Hager Cohen

2004: The world takes note of what would have been Anne Frank’s 75^thbirthday.

2005(6th of Sivan, 5765): Composer David Leo Diamond passed away at the age of 102.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jun/17/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

http://www.daviddiamond.org/

2005(6th of Sivan, 5765): First Day of Shavuot.  Showing an uncanny knack for revitalization, this previously neglected festival has gained new life in the opening decade of the 21^stcentury in America.  Ice cream bars and pizza (kosher of course) are now mainstays of the dairy menu and all night study sessions have increasingly become normative in many cities. 

2006: On his first ever visit to China, the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel called on the government to recognize Judaism as it has several other religions.  Official recognition would be beneficial to the Jews living in China.  For example, official recognition could lead to the Jews of Shanghai being able to use its former synagogue which is currently used as a government building

2006: The New York Times reported that an international team of archaeologists has recorded radiocarbon dates that they say show the tribes of Edom may have indeed come together in a cohesive society as early as the 12th century B.C., certainly by the 10th. The evidence was found in the ruins of a large copper-processing center and fortress at Khirbat en-Nahas, in the lowlands of what was Edom and is now part of Jordan. Dr. Levy, an archaeologist at the University of California, San Diego, said the research had yielded not only the first high-precision dates in the region, but also such telling artifacts as scarabs, ceramics, metal arrowheads, hammers, grinding stones and slag heaps. Radiocarbon analysis of charred wood, grain and fruit in several sediment layers revealed two major phases of copper processing, first in the 12th and 11th centuries, later in the 10th and 9th. The findings, Dr. Levy and Dr. Najjar added, lend credence to biblical accounts of the rivalry between Edom and the Israelites in what was then known as Judah. By extension, they said, this supported the tradition that Judah itself had by the time of David and Solomon, in the early 10th century, emerged as a kingdom with ambition and the means of fighting off the Edomites. In the context, Dr. Levy and Dr. Najjar wrote, "the biblical references to the Edomites, especially their conflicts with David and subsequent Judahite kings, garner a new plausibility."

2006: The Etty Hillesum Research Centre (EHOC)] which studies and promotes the research of Hillesum's World War II letters and diaries was officially opened as part of Ghent University with a celebration at Sint-Pietersplein 5.

 2006: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Mohr by Frederick Reuss and The Good Fight:Why Liberals — and Only Liberals — Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Againby Peter Beinart

2006: The Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Israel, an organization dedicated to preserving the memory of Holocaust victims, honored the Reverend Waitstill Sharp, and his wife, Martha Sharp, posthumously as ``Righteous Among the Nations'' for risking their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.

2006: Random House published Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time by Katha Pollitt, a collection of 84 of her Nationcolumns which Publishers Weeklycalled , "invariably witty, astute and relentlessly logical…”

2007: The History Channel International presents two showings of “Great Spy Stories: Mossad.” ”Born in the crucible of Israel's war of independence and honed in the struggle for survival against hostile neighbors, the intelligence service gained a reputation for ruthlessness. Whether tracking down WWII war criminals like Adolf Eichmann or eliminating terrorists like Black September, the Mossad allowed nothing to stand in its way.”

2007: Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak defeated Labor MK Ami Ayalon in the Labor Party primary.

2007: Vice Premier Shimon Peres is elected President of Israel by the Knesset.

2007: “The 350th anniversary of the readmission of Jews to the British Isles was commemorated by a service at Bevis Marks Synagogue in the presence of Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, the Lord Mayor, and Prime Minister Tony Blair. The synagogue is the only one in Europe which has had continuous services for over 300 years.”

2008(10^th of Sivan, 5768): Eighty-four year old Albert Ullman passed away in Savannah, GA

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/savannah/obituary.aspx?pid=111563461#fbLoggedOut

2008: The New York Timesfeatured a review of Travel Pictures by Heinrich Heine and translated by Peter Wortsman. In this work, “religion captivates” the poet who was born Jewish, rejected and became “a Protestant convert out of convenience. Of the three religions that dominated Europe he writes, “Catholicism: “I see no pleasure in a religion in which our dear God, God help us, is dead, and it smells of incense just like at a funeral.” Protestantism: “A harmless religion, as clean as a glass of water, but it doesn’t do you any good either.” Judaism: “I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. It gives you nothing but scorn and shame. I tell you, it’s no religion at all, just a lot of hard luck.”

2008:In a landmark ruling today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held that Agudas Chasidei Chabad of United States (Chabad) may pursue its claims in a U.S. federal court against the Russian Federation, the Russian Ministry of Culture and Mass Communication, the Russian State Library, and the Russian State Military Archive to recover a collection of sacred religious books and archives.

2008: The Third International Festival of New Jewish Liturgical Music began today in Milwaukee in partnership with The Wisconsin Society For Jewish Learning, Inc.

2009: At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids Iowa, Tessa Cohen, daughter of Brian and Terri Cohen, is called to the Torah as Bat Mitzvah. Tessa has completed her 7th grade year at Oak Ridge Middle School. She is an excellent student who plays tuba in band, electric bass guitar in jazz band and string bass in orchestra as well as singing in chorus and show choir. She also enjoys playing her tuba with the Musical Shabbat Band at Temple. Tessa has been playing soccer for 8 years. In her last game she had an awesome save as goalie and scored a goal with her left foot! Tessa’s other interests are cooking, especially cake decorating, and preserving the environment. As part of her mitzvah project, Tessa is accepting donations to the Indian Creek Nature Center in lieu of gifts. Thanks to Tessa, Am Yisrael Chai!

2009: ABC broadcast the final episode of “Pushing Daisies” produced by Bruce Cohen, co-starring Ellen Greene, featuring Paul Reubens and including guest appearances by Shelly Berman and Richard Benjamin

2009: Unknown assailants fired a Kassam rocket from Gaza tonight. No one was wounded in the rocket attack and the Kassam, which hit the Sdot Negev region, did not cause any damage. In related news, Gaza emergency services reported that an 18-year-old was electrocuted this afternoon in a smuggling tunnel under the Gaza-Egypt border. More than a dozen Palestinians have died in tunnel accidents this year.

2010:“Sondheim on Sondheim” is scheduled to have its final performance at Studio 54 in Manhattan.

2010(1st of Tammuz, 5770): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

2010(1^st if Tammuz, 5770: Eighty-five year old Ernest Martin Fleishman, a refugee from Hitler’s German who served as executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 30 years passed away today.

2010: The New York Timesfeatured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Witz by Joshua Cohen and The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris by Peter Beinart.

2010: The 30^th Greater Chicago Jewish Festival is scheduled to take place at St. Paul Woods in Morton Grove, Il.

2011(11^th of Sivan, 5771): Ninety-two year old Viennese native Max Moses Heller, the son of Israel and Leah Heller, the refugee from Hitler’s Europe and husband for sixty-nine years of the former Trude Schonthal who founded the Maxon Shirt Company and Mayor of Greenville, SC from 1971 to 1979 during which he courageously “desegregated all municipal departments and commissions” passed away today in his “Adopted American hometown.”

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/greenvilleonline/obituary.aspx?n=max-heller&pid=151892699&fhid=5447

2011: “Milton T. Okun published his memoir, Along the Cherry Lane” today.

https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/milt-okun

2011: The funeral of Al Schwimmer, who smuggled planes to Israel during the War for Independence and was the founder of Israel’s Aircraft Industry, is scheduled to be held today.

2011: The Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning in New York City is scheduled to host its annual Exhibition and Reception where it will present the works of The Artists Beit Hamidrash and The Writer’s Beit Hamidrash.

2011:Sheri Blumberg is scheduled to facilitate a discussion of “Hillel: If Not Now, When?” by Joseph Telushkin at the Jewish Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

2011: Israel Police arrested three Yitzhar settlers today, charging them with incitement to racism and violating the Shin Bet Security Service laws for a website that calls for "price tag" attacks on Palestinians. The three, students of extremist Rabbi Yitzhak Ginzburg, operate "The Jewish Voice" website, which reports news on settlements and outposts, criticizes the IDF, shows sympathy for "price tag" attacks and publishes articles by Rabbi Ginzburg.

2011: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi offered to take personal steps to try to restart stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, telling Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Rome today that he would be willing to host negotiations in Sicily.

2011:Lisa Pulver, the co-founder and director of the Muru Marri Indigenous Health Unit at the University of New South Wales, was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the annual Queen’s birthday honors list announced today. (As reported by JTA)

2011: Israel Police arrested three Yitzhar settlers today, charging them with incitement to racism and violating the Shin Bet Security Service laws for a website that calls for "price tag" attacks on Palestinians.

2012: In “Scholar Sarna says Grant ‘redeemed’ himself after anti-Jewish edict” published today Robert Cohn, the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the St. Louis Jewish Light provides an insightful review of a marvelous volume When General Grant Expelled the Jews by Jonathan D. Sarna.

https://www.stljewishlight.com/features/arts_culture/scholar-sarna-says-grant-redeemed-himself-after-anti-jewish-edict/article_2dffc164-b573-11e1-bfb3-0019bb2963f4.html

2012: Canadian author Naomi Klein and her husband “journalist and documentary filmmaker Avi Lewis” gave birth to their first child, a boy named Toma.

2012: Cellist Elad Kabilio and pianist Reanana Gutman are scheduled to perform as part of MusicTalks which aims to break down the barriers between musicians and the chamber music audiences.

2012: TheJewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington’s 2012 Annual Gala is scheduled to take place this evening at Beth Sholom Congregation and Talmud Torah in Potomac, MD.

2012: President Shimon Peres received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his singular achievements leading Israel and working for peace tonight.

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=273781

2012:http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=273685

2013: In San Diego, the annual used book sale to benefit the Samuel & Rebecca Astor Judaica Library is scheduled to continue today.

2013: The week-long Lights Festival in the Old City is scheduled to come to an end in Jerusalem.

2013: The exhibition connected with the first Formula One Race to be run in Jerusalem is scheduled to begin today at 4 pm.

2013: In the 18^th inning, Oakland A’s rookie Nate Freiman hit the game winning single against the start relief pitcher of the New York Yankees.

2013: Third baseman Kevin Youkilis played his last major league baseball game as a member of the New York Yankees.

2013: Alan Gross, who is currently imprisoned by the government of Cuba is one of the honorees at gala scheduled to be hosted this evening by the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington.

2013:Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that a years-long spat with the United States over thousands of Jewish religious writings should end now that some are on display in Moscow's new Jewish museum. Russia has resisted calls to return the so-called Schneerson collection to the New York-based Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch group, descendants of the last private owner of the writings, and Putin said they were part of Russia's cultural heritage.

http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Putin-hopes-dispute-with-US-over-Jewish-texts-over-316473

2014: In Springfield, VA, Adat Reyim is scheduled to host a special Kabbalat Shabbat service “geared toward families with young children.

2014: “Policeman” the first feature film from writer-director Nadav Lapid is scheduled to be shown at Lincoln Center.

2014: “The Classical Style,” a comic opera inspired by Charles Rosen’s book of the same name “premiered today at the Ojai Music Festival.”

2014: “About 20 masked Palestinians hurled stones at police forces at the Mughrabi Bridge at the end of Friday prayers on the Temple Mount.”

2014: “A senior Islamic Jihad official called today on Palestinians to kidnap Israeli citizens, arguing that Israel had proven in the past that it was willing to negotiate the release of Palestinian security prisoners in exchange for the lives of its civilians.” (As reported by Adiv Sterman and Mitch Ginsburg)

2014(15^th of Sivan, 5774): Fifty-five year old Kevin Skinner a devoted member of Temple Judah passed away today in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

2014(15^th of Sivan, 5774): Seventy-nine year old Brazilian banker and philanthropist Moise Y. Safra passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/business/international/moise-safra-banker-and-philanthropist-dies-at-79.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=1

2014: “Three yeshiva students in their teens are believed to have been kidnapped in the West Bank, Israeli officials announced this afternoon.” U.S. Ambassador Daniel Shapiro was informed today that one of the three victims is an American whose name has not been disclosed.

2014: “Wonders” and “Lia” are scheduled to be shown at the Israel Film Center Festival hosted by the JCC of Manhattan.

2015: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a concert featuring soloists from the Israeli Philharmonic.

2015: Agudas Achim Congregation which has moved from Iowa City to suburban Coralville is scheduled to host a gala honoring Rabbi Jeff Portman who is retiring after 44 years of service.

2015(26^th of Sivan, 5775): Sixty-one year old executive chef Walter Schieb III was thought to have passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/23/us/walter-scheib-innovative-former-white-house-chef-is-dead-at-61.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1

2016(7^th of Sivan, 5776): Second day of Shavuot

2016: “Refuge in Shanghai,” an exhibit that “examines the lives of Jews who were able to flee to” that Chinese city “before WW II and to eventually settle in Oregon is scheduled to come to an end at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education today.

2016: The Knesset is scheduled to vote for a second time on the Gafni Bill which “would bar Conservative and Reform conversions from taking place at public ritual baths in Israel

2017: It as announced today that David Grossman was “the winner of the Man Booker International Prize of 2017 for his novel A Horse Walks into a Bar translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen which makes him the first Israeli author to win the prestigious literary award.

2017: Twenty two year old University of Virginia honors student Otto F. Warmbier who been “held by North Korea for 17 months” arrived in his native Cincinnati where he was hospitalized because he was in coma – a coma from which he would never awaken.

2017: Kenneth J. Krupsky, Esq. and Baruch A. Fellner, Esq., National Board Members, Jewish National Fund – USA are scheduled to talk about the “exciting new initiatives to deal with the challenges of overpopulation and affordable housing shortages in Israel’s center — the Jerusalem/Tel Aviv/Haifa triangle — Israel’s economic, commercial and cultural hub” at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia/

2017: The Rabbinic Council Ma'agal Tzedek at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah is scheduled to host a session where attendees can learn “more about Hate Free Zones and how rabbis, cantors and our Jewish communities can be part of these important initiatives.”

2017: Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the Manny Cantor Center a “groundbreaking new policy response to intermarriage and the evolving identities of Jewish America” will be revealed.

2017: Two days after he had passed away, a graveside service will be in Lansing, Michigan, for 84 year old Norman Pollack, the husband of Nancy Pollack, the father of Peter and Sallie Pollack who taught at Yale and Wayne State before becoming a Professor of History at Michigan State whose “most recent work, Capitalism, Hegemony and Violence in the Age of Drones” will be published posthumously.

2018: Lindsay Simmonds, “a Lecturer at the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS) and a PhD student at the Gender Institute at the LSE, from which she already holds a M.Phil.” is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Korach: Form and Content” “in the Old Archive Room at Balliol College.”

2018: The Center For Jewish History is scheduled to host Joel Levy, former President and CEO of the Center for Jewish History; Herb Sturz, founder of the Vera Institute of Justice; and Kevin Keenan, Executive Vice President and Special Counsel of the Vera Institute of Justice” in a discussion about philanthropist and “business leader” Rebecca “Vera” Scwheitzer, “the founder of a hospital in Tiberias.

2019: This evening The American Sephardi Federation and Consulate General of Spain are scheduled to open the exhibit “Visados para la Libertad (Visas for Freedom)”

2019: This evening at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center Dr. Danny M. Cohen, Dr. Phyllis Lassner and Dr. Sarah Cushman are scheduled to discuss the re-release of Gisela Perl's memoir I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz.

2019: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “A Genealogy Happy Hour” for young professional where experts will show them “how to find out where their grandparents an great grandparents lived, what kind of work they did and when they arrived in the United States.”

2019: The Temple Emanu-El  Streicker Center is scheduled to host “A President Under Siege” with Graydon Carter and Michael Wolff author of Fire and Fury.

2019: On the English calendar, 5^thanniversary of the passing of Temple Judah stalwart Kevin Skinner.

2020: Keshet and Kol HaChaverim are scheduled to livestream a community Havdalah ceremony and concert for Pride weekend.

2020:Urban Adamah is scheduled to host, an all-day gathering for people who have lost a sibling, parent, partner or close friend.

2020: In Cedar Rapids, IA Temple Judah is scheduled to host Shabbat services via the wonder of Zoom

2020(21^st of Sivan, 5780): Parashat Beha’alochta; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

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1287:  Kublai Khan defeated the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.  It is quite possible that there were Jewish soldiers serving under the great Mongol warrior who became Emperor of China.  According to Marco Polo, Kubla Kahn celebrated the festivals of the Jews as well as those of the Muslims and Christians, indicating that a Jewish community existed that could make itself felt at the highest level of the Empire.

1514: Azemmour, a city in Morocco, offered privileges to Jews fleeing from Portugal.

1637: William Prynne, an opponent Jews settling in England and Puritan leader who opposed everything from stage plays to the celebration of religious holidays “was sentenced to a fine of £5,000, to imprisonment for life, and to lose the rest of his ears.”

1656: Directors of the Dutch West India Company sent a strong letter to Peter Stuyvesant in New Amsterdam ordering him to give "more respect" to the "Jews or Portuguese people" in his city. A principle shareholder in the company, a Jew named Joseph d'Acosta had assisted in obtaining this statement.

1728(7^thof Tammuz, 5488?): Sixty-three year old Moses Raphael Levy, the German born brother of Joseph and Samuel Levy, passed away today in New York City.

1751 Pope Benedict XIV issued an encyclical “”On Jews and Christians Living in the Same Place” in which he bemoans the growing presence of Jews in Poland. (The Pope would seem to be a little late in dealing with this.  Jews had been living in Poland for centuries, having been encouraged to settle their by the monarchs who saw them as financial and commercial asset.  By the middle of the 18^th centuries, the position of the Jews had deteriorated and in less than fifty years, Poland would disappear as an independent Kingdom.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Pope_Benedict_on_Jews.html

1786: Abraham Benjamin Cohen, the Dutch born son of “Benjamin Johan Cohen and Eva Jacob” and his first wife “Elisabeth Gompertz” gave birth to “Lewis Abraham Cohen.”

1790: Today, George Washington wrote to the Hebrew Congregation of the City of Savannah. “I rejoice that a spirit of liberality and philanthropy is much more prevalent than it formerly was among the enlightened nations of the earth; and that your brethren will benefit thereby in proportion as it shall become still more extensive.”

1796:  French forces attacked Frankfurt.  An artillery barrage aimed at the Austrian arsenal next to the ghetto struck the Judengasse instead.  The subsequent fired burned so much of the ghetto that 2,000 of its inhabitants were left homeless.  This forced the city’s senate to suspend the decree forbidding Jews from living elsewhere in the city.  The fire effectively marked the end of the Jewish Ghetto in Frankfurt.

1798(30^thof Sivan, 5558): As events in France tumbled toward revolution, Rosh Chodesh Tammuz was observed three days before the third estate, with its representatives drawn from the commoners, reconstituted themselves as the National Assembly, a body whose purpose was the creation of a French constitution.”

1799(11^thof Sivan, 5569): The avoidance of massacre when the French forces withdrew gave rise to the annual observance of Purim Ubrino

1804(5^thof Tammuz, 5564): Forty-nine year old Isaac Abraham Euchel, the Copenhagen born Hebrew author and founder of the “Haskalah Movement” passed away in Berlin.

1809: Jacob Davis married Leah Barnett in the United Kingdom today.

1813: Birthdate of Simon Barcuh Schefftel, the native of Breslau who was a successful merchant in Posen and the author of “a large Hebrew commentary on the Targum Onkelos which was published posthumously by his son-in-law Joseph Perles.”

1821(14^thof Sivan, 5581): Seventy-two year old Chaim Volozhin (Chaim ben Yitzchok of Volozhin), author of Nefesh Ha-Chaim passed away.  Born in 1749, he studied with the Vilna Gaon before establishing the Volozhin Yeshiva in 1803 in which he applied the methods of his famous master.  The Yesshiva outlived its creator, remaining open for 90 years. 

1821: In London, Samuel Moss Solomon and Esther Solomon gave birth to Elizabeth Solomon who became Elizabeth Cashmore when she married Michael Cashmore.

1837: Birthdate of Lyon Levy Emanuel, the native of Philadelphia, PA and brother of Louis Manly Emanuel who served in the Union Army from 1861 to 1864 and moved to New York to pursue business interest before returning to Philadelphia due to being seriously ill.

1841: Colonel Charles Henry Churchill wrote to Sir Moses Montefiore expressing his support for the creation of Jewish state in Palestine and identifying the first steps that must be taken.  First, the Jews must “take up the matter universally and unanimously. Secondly, the European Powers” must aid them in their endeavor by taking Syria and Palestine “under their protection” and governing them “according to the spirit of European administration.” Churchill was a British soldier and diplomat who was among the first people, if not the first person, to propose a practical political plan for the creation of a Jewish state in what is now the state of Israel.

1842(6^thof Tammuz. 5602): Dr. Joel Hart passed away today.  Born in Philadelphia in 1874 he was trained in London where he married his wife Louisa Levien. He served as U.S. Counsel of Leith, Scotland from 1817 until 1832.  He was a charter member of the Medical Society of the County of New York.

1845: In Melbourne, Michael and Elizabeth Cashmore gave birth to Esther Cashmore who became Esther Cohen when she married Henry Cohen.

1846: In Richmond, VA, William Thalhimer, the German born founder of Richmond, VA, Thalheimer Brothers, Inc. and Mary Millhiser Thalhimer gave birth to Gustavus Thalheimer, the husband of Pauline Thalhimer.

1847: Joseph Ullman, the German born “son of Hayim Simon Uhlmann and Rosa V Uhlmann” and his wife Sarah Ullman gave birth to Rosa Ullman who became Rosa Gottschalk when she married Albert Gottshalk.

1848: In Charleston, SC, Jacob J. Moses of Columbus, GA and Sara Ottolengui were wed today.

1848: Henry Woolf married Jane Silver at the Great Synagogue in London.

1852: In Wilkes-Barre, PA, David Coons and Helena Lang gave birth to attorney Joseph David Coons the husband of Ella Constine who was an active member of the B’nai B’rith and President of Congregation B’nai B’rith in Wilkes Barre.

1854: Saul Henriques Valeinte married Sarah Russel today in Bishopgate, London.

1856: Rosa and Jacob Seligman gave birth to Washington Seligman

1858: Birthdate of the Marquis de Morès, an anti-Semitic French nobleman who attacked Jews in France and Algeria

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50610FF395F10738DDDAF0894DD405B8085F0D3

1861: In Eufaula, Alabama, Frank Rothschild and Amanda Blun gave birth to Simon F. Rothschild, the husband of Lillian Abraham who served as member of the Board of Directors for the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and the Brooklyn society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

1864: German born Julius Freiberg, who established a successful distillery in Cincinnati and his wife Duffie Freiberg gave birth to Sally Workum Heinsheimer

1868: In Baden bei Wien, Fanny Hess and Leopold Landsteiner gave birth to Karl Landsteiner, the Austrian born American physician who received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on differentiating the blood groups in 1930.

1872: In Kansas City, MO, founding of Congregation B’nai Jehuda whose members included Leon Block, A.S. Flersheim, Alfred Hart and B.A. Feineman.

1874: In Berdychiv, Pauline and Fiebish “Feivel” Jolles gave birth to Estella (Estera) Jolles.

1874: “The Mystery of Metz: An Old Cause Célèbre” an article published today described the blood libel which took place at that ancient German city in 1669.  According to the author, who described the even in great detail, this was an example of another groundless attack that Jews had to suffer during the Middle Ages.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9801E5DA143BEF34BC4C52DFB066838F669FDE

1878: In Berlin, Emil Cohn and Deborah Lenore Cohn, the daughter of Dr. Marcus Mosse and Ulrike Mosse gave birth to Else Franziska Hirsch

1878: In New York City, “Sol and Esther (Emden) Sulzberger gave birth to NYU trained attorney Myron Sulzberger, the husband of Rena Fuld with whom he raised two sons, of Myron Jr and Edward and Democratic Party activist who served in the New York Assembly and Judge while being an active member of the Jewish community as can be seen by his services as a trustee of Tempe Beth-El and a member of the Beth-El Men’s Club.

1879: After having served in the United States Navy during the Civil War, Philadelphia merchant Edward J. Etting’s son, Theodore Minis Etting who had “studied law in the office of Henry R. Edumunds” and “attended lectures at the Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania” “was admitted to the Bar” today.

1880: Mortiz Hartman, an official of the Simon Benevolent Association went to the morgue in New York and asked for the body of a young Jewess named Kate Ungerleider who had died of whooping cough. Hartman and Louis Davis took the body of the child that had been given to them and brought it to the Bay Ridge Cemetery where they turned it over to the wife of the cemetery caretaker so that she could wash it and prepare it for burial according to Jewish law.  The woman took the body into her house and immediately came back out telling the men that the body was that of a Christian boy.  They interred the remains in a temporary grave and returned to the morgue in search of Kate’s body.  When no action was taken, Hartman went to the Commissioner of Charities and Corrections who instituted a successful search for the body.  This was the third known instances of such errors in the last six weeks.  The officials returned to the Bay Ridge Cemetery and interred it there in accordance with Jewish law.

1880(5th of Tammuz, 5640) A 32 year old tailor named Maurice Moses Heineltrop took his own life today after Seligman & May refused to pay him for a batch of waistcoats he had made for them.  Heineltrop’s sense of desperation stemmed from the fact that he employed 16 men and he would not be able to pay them for their work. 

1880: It was reported today that Professor Grazidadio Ascoli, the chairman of comparative philology at the Accademia Scientifico-Litteraria of Milan is scheduled “to publish his essay on the Hebrew inscriptions at Venosa, in Calabria.  These seem to be the earliest Hebrew inscriptions found in Europe…” [This may be reference to the inscriptions in Hebrew, Greek and Latin found in Jewish catacombs that date from the 4^th and 5^th centuries of the Common Era.

1881: “A grand festival” is scheduled to be held at the Trocadero today “to assist the unhappy Jews are just now have so rough a time of it in Southern Russia.”

1881: Ninety-year old Bloomah (Jacobs) Levy the wife of Joseph Levy and the mother of Henry, Israel, Samuel and Elizabeth Levy, was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”

1881: Based on a Reuter’s dispatch from St. Petersburg, it was reported today that peasants living in a village in the district of Kiev have paid 800 rubles to the Jews as compensation “for the sufferings they have undergone.

1882: In New Orleans, marriage of Miss Jessie Green and Isaac Feitel.  Born an Episcopalian, she converted before her marriage.  The couple had previously been married in a civil ceremony.  Today’s wedding was performed by a local rabbi.

1884: It was reported today that a half shekel coin from the time of Simon Maccabeus was sold for $10.25 at an auction conducted this week to dispose of rare coins held by Thomas Warner, a member of the American Numismatic Society.  The price compares favorably when you consider that the rarest coin in the collection sold for 25 dollars.  The half shekel had a chalice of manna with a Hebrew inscription on one side and a render of a triple lily or Aaron’s Rod on the other side.

1885(1st of Tammuz, 5645): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1885: In a demonstration of the impact of Jewish culture on Western civilization Dr. A.P. Peabody chose the words from Nehemiah “Then I consulted with myself” as the text for the Baccalaureate sermon at Harvard.  “He could not, he said think of any more appropriate basis for his remarks than these words of the foremost figure in Hebrew history from the time of Moses to the time of Christ.”  [Yes, at Harvard, Jesus was apparently considered to be Jewish]

1888: James H. Hoffman and H.M. Leipziger addressed the more than four hundred attendees at the fourth annual exhibition sponsored by the Hebrew Technical Institute located on Stuyvesant Street.  The exhibition gave the supporters of the school a chance to examine the projects and accomplishments of the 78 youngsters attending the school.

1888(5^thof Tammuz, 5648): Russian teacher and poet Wolf Ha-Kohen Kaplan, whose most famous work was "Ereẓ ha-Pela'ot" passed away today in Riga.

1890: In New Orleans, LA, Rabbi Max Heller and Ida Annie Heller gave  birth to Cecile Mathilde Heller

1891: “Russia’s War On Jews” published today begins with an eyewitness account of the Czar’s plans for his Jewish subjects.  “Jews in bands of from 1,000 to 2,000 are being escorted to different points on the German frontier and put across the line into the latter country.  There can be no question as to the intention of the Russian Government to expel all the Jews from its domain.”

1891: “Helping Sick Children” published today includes a summary of the annual report issued by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children.  Among other accomplishments, the society sponsored ten free excursions last year for 18,124 sick children and their mothers and is about to begin using the new facility at Rockaway that cost $20,225.

1891: “Browning’s Story Told” published today provides a detail review of Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Mrs. Sutherland Orr. “Mrs. Orr begins this memoir of Robert Browning with a refutation of a story current in his lifetime and revived after his death, that Jewish blood coursed in his veins, active support of which was obtained from his known interest in the Hebrew language and literature and his friendship for many members of the London Jewish Community.”

1893: “Caught In A Death Trap” published today provided details of the fatal fire at building on Montgomery Street that was the home to numerous tailoring operations.

1893: While talking to reporters at the Victoria Hotel in New York City, Pierre Botkine, Secretary of the Russian Legation said that “The Russian laws enacted against the Jews which resulted in driving many of them out of the country are necessary to protect the Russians.  He went on to say that these laws were not a matter of religion but were a matter of economics.  “Jews are so much more clever than Russians…that they would capture everything if granted liberty.”

1893(30^thof Sivan, 5653): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1893(30^thof Sivan, 5653): Moses Bloom the native of Alsace, France who opened what became the “Moses Bloom Clothing Store” in 1857 at Iowa City, Iowa where he served as an alderman and Mayor before serving in the Iowa House and the Iowa Senate passed away today.

1894: The annual commencement exercises of the Hebrew Technical Institute at Arlington Hall. Abraham Steinberg who worked in the second floor shop of Isidor Shlivek was one of the few who was able to escape down the stairway although he almost suffocated before reaching the street. Benjamin Signel, a Janitor at the Hebrew Free School said he saw two men standing at the third floor window who were afraid to jump. They tried the fire escape instead but one of the men still fell to his death.  (The Triangle Shirt Fire made headlines, but fires like this were all too common in the garment district for several decades.  It took the labor unions to create safe working conditions.  The description of this fire reminds one of those that take place in the 21^st century in “third world garment factories”)

1894: Sidney Sonnino completed his service of Minister of Finance in Italy.

1894: Sophie Markison and Benjamin Ratner, the parents of actor Gregory Ratoff were married today in Russia.

1894: The Jewish Theological Seminary hosted its commencement exercises the Music Hall in New York City.

1894: Leopold Minzesheimer continued to serve as the Superintendent of the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

1894: Herman Baar continues to serve as the Superintendent of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.  The officers are Emanuel Lehman, President and Henry Rice, Vice President.  The trustees are Morris Tuska, Nathan Necarsulmer, Julian Nathan, Myer Stern, H.S. Allen, Theodore Seligman and S. J. Bach.

1894: It was reported that the daughter-in-law of Moses Levy, had obtained a judgment of $12,000 after suing him “for alienating the affections of her husband.

1895: In Cincinnati, OH, Rabbi Simon Isaac Finkelstein, the Lithuanian born son of “of Judah Tsvi Finkelstein and Feyge Rive Finkelstein” and Hannah Basha Finkelstin gave birth to Louis Eliezer Finkelstein, the husband of Carmel Finkelstein.

1896: Based on information that first appeared in the London Chronicle it was reported today that fortune of the late Baron Hirsch will eventually be inherited by an unnamed “little Roman Catholic girl” who has been recognized of the heir of Lucien de Hirsch, the Baron’s son who predeceased his father.

1896: Louis Michael filed a response in the Chancery Court at Paterson, NJ in which the Jewish husband is being sued for divorce by his Christian wife.

1896: In St. Louis, during a dispute at the Republican National Convention, Edward Lauterbach the Chairman of the Republican New York County Committee was taunted because of his “Hebrew descent.”

1897(14^thof Sivan, 5657):When the British steamship Scot arrived at the Island of Madeira off the west coast of Morocco, it was announced that Barney Barnato, the South African “diamond king” had committed suicide by jumping overboard. His body would be recovered and buried at Willesden Jewish Cemetery, London amidst protestation that he had not taken his own life.

1897: A fire broke out at the immigrant processing center on Ellis Island which had been in use since January 1, 1892.

1897(14^thof Sivan, 5657)

1897: “Hebrew Free Schools Confirmation” published today described the annual confirmation exercises at which Albert F. Hochstadter, President of the Hebrew Free School Association awarded the Freida Schiff Prize, The Linette Friedlander Prize, The Myer S. Isaacs Prize and the Clarence Korn Memorial each of which carried a fifty dollar prize.

1898: The government has dispatched troops to Lemberg in response to anti-Semitic riots.

1898: Abraham and Grace Cahan gave birth to Morris Cahan, the “husband of Lillian Cahan” today.

1898: Morris I. Schamberg, D.D.S, M.D. today “enlisted as a private in Co. D, 1^stPennsylvania Infantry.

1898: After day after her death, 32 year old Rachel Koenigsberg, “the wife of Jacob Moses Reese” with whom she had two children, was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery on Buckingham Road”

1899: “Mr. Dunlop Before the Mayor” published today described a meeting between New York Mayor Van Wyck and Wilson W. Dunlop who is a missionary aggressively trying to convert Jews on the Lower East Side to Christianity. When Dunlop complained that he had been attacked while preaching in the street the Mayor said “You have been using the streets for a crusade against the Jewish religion and you musn’t do it anymore.  This is a free country and you can make a fight against any religion you choose but you can’t do it in the streets.  If you want to conduct a crusade against the Jews go and hire a hall.”

1900: Hawaii was organized as a territory of the United States. There were approximately four hundred Jews living in Honolulu at this time.   A German Jew named Paul Neumann had served as an advisor to the last King of Hawaii.  In 1899, the first Jew born in Hawaii was married in Honolulu.  The first synagogue would be established in 1901.

1901(27th of Sivan, 5661): Frederick Knefler passed away. A native of Hungary, Knefler settled in Indiana where he worked as a carpenter before becoming a lawyer.  When the Civil War broke out, Knefler enlisted in the 11^th Indiana Infantry under the command of his friend Lew Wallace. He served with the Union Army in the west fighting in a series of battles including Stones River, Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge.  He then played a leading role in Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign where he commanded a brigade.  His finest moment may have come at the Battle of Franklin where is bravery earned him the rank of Brevet Brigadier General making him one of the highest ranking Jewish officers to serve during the war. After the war, he returned to Indianapolis where he practiced law, worked for the government and devoted his spare time to veterans’ affairs.

1903: Macedonians attacked the Jewish quarter of Sophia, Bulgaria.

1903: In Colchester, CT, a group of young Jews met at the home of the Nahinsky family where they “organized a society under the name of the Colchester Zionists and elected officers including Leon Broder, President; Louis Cohen, Vice President; Esther Nahinsky, Second Vice President and David Nahinsky, Sergeant at Arms.

1904(1^stof Tammuz, 5664): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1904: Birthdate of Margaret Bourke-White, whose father was from an Orthodox Jewish family and whose mother was Irish.  For those who grew up in a world of hand-held video cams, satellite communications and cable network news, it is hard to appreciate the important role played photographers and photo-journalists like Bourke-White.  Her photos filled the pages of such publications as Life Magazine, which brought the world of natural disasters, war and high fashion to Middle America

http://time.com/4355162/margaret-bourke-white-cameras/

1904: In St. Louis, MO, Sadie Simon and Harry C. Bren gave birth to movie producer Milton Harold Bren, the movie producer whose most famous work was the light-hearted comedy “Topper.”

1905: Sailors aboard the Russian Warship Potemkin mutiny.  These events will provide the material for Battleship Potyomkin, a 1925 silent film classic directed by Sergei Eisenstein.

1905(11^thof Sivan 5665): Seventy-eight year old lawyer and government official  Moritz Ellstätter, the son of David Ellstaetter and Fanny Ellstaetter and husband of  Marie Ellstaetter passed away today in Baden Wurttemberg, Germany

1906(21^stof Sivan, 5666): Sixty-four year old Heinrich Alphons Strauss, the son of Samuel Strauss and Rosalia Drucker and the brother of English MP Arthur Strauss passed away today.

1906: Start of three days of anti-Jewish violence known as the Bialystok Pogrom. The violence began when “two Christian processions took place; a Catholic one through the market square celebrating Corpus Christi and an Orthodox one through Białystok’s New Town celebrating the founding of a cathedral. The Orthodox procession was followed by a unit of soldiers. A bomb was thrown at the Catholic procession and shots were fired at the Orthodox procession. A watchman of a local school, Stanislaw Milyusski, and three women Anna Demidyuk, Aleksandra Minkovskaya and Maria Kommisaryuk, were wounded. These incidents constituted signals for the beginning of the pogrom. Witnesses reported that simultaneously with the shots someone shouted “Beat the Jews!” Once the shots were fired, the violence began immediately. Mobs of thugs, including members of the Black Hundreds, began looting Jewish owned stores and apartments on Nova-Linsk Street. Policemen and soldiers who had earlier followed the Orthodox procession either allowed the violence to happen or participated in it themselves. The first day of the pogrom was chaotic. While units of the Czarist army, brought to Białystok by Russian authorities, exchanged fire with Jewish paramilitary groups, thugs armed with knives and crowbars dispersed throughout the main areas of the city to continue the pogrom.[10] Some Jewish sections of the city were protected by self-defense units, usually organized by the labor parties, which moved against the thugs and looters. They were in turn fired upon by Czarist dragoons. Thanks to the Jewish self-defense units several working class sections of the city were spared the violence and thousands of lives were saved.” 

1907: Jacob Weinberger married Blanche Solomon.  Blanche was the daughter of I.E. and Anna Solomon one of the earliest and most successful Jewish families to settle in the Arizona Territory

1909: The Order of Brith Abraham held its Golden Jubilee dinner at the New Star Casino in New York.  The dinner was attended by 2,000 guests including several notables the most important of which was the District Attorney Jerome who was the featured speaker for the evening.

1909: Rabbi Judah Magnes addressed the Zionist convention being held at the Terrace Garden. Pointing to the changes that had come about in the Ottoman Empire due to the recent Turkish revolution Magnes urged the Jews to “work for an autonomous state under Turkish suzerainty rather than an independent government.”

1910: “Made Insane by Expulsion” published today reported that “the expulsion of Jews from Keiff is attended with many pathetic incidents.”

1911: In Glasgow, Emanuel “Manny” Shinwell “played a prominent role in the six-week strike” by the National Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union which was part of nationwide strike.

1912: Educator and advocate for social change, Julia Richman arrives in France following an ocean crossing on the Victoria Louise and is taken to the American hospital where she was immediately operated on for appendicitis.

1912: “Forty-nine Zionists” in Vnnitza, Russia, were each fined twenty rubles for attending a Zionist meeting.

1912: In Russia, “three hundred Jewish families were expelled from Lask.”

1912: In Kiev, the police demanded the “power to confiscate without a trial the property of Jewish merchants…”

1912: A clause in the Judicial Bill that would have permitted Jews to be selected as Justices of the Peace was defeated today in the Duma.

1913: President Wilson’s Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan, met for thirty minutes with “Nahum Sokolov, a member of the Zionist Inner Actions Committee, Louis Lipsky, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Federation of American Zionists and Abram Goldberg, the editor of Dos Yiddishe Folk, at which time he “expressed his great interest in the work the Jews were doing for the development of Palestine” and “said that the endeavors of the Jewish people to better their condition by their own efforts had his sympathy and moral support.”

1913: Birthdate of Solomon Schwartz, the native of Whitechapel, England who gained fame as composer and conductor Stanley Black

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1414500/Stanley-Black.html

1914: “The Fourth Annual Children’s Spring Festival of the Chicago Hebrew Institute” which “will consist mostly of high class and artistic dancing coach by the children leaders themselves” is scheduled to be held this afternoon.

1914(20^thof Sivan, 5674): Seventy-eight year old Seattle, WA merchant Henry Greenbaum passed away toay.

1915: It was reported today that following the Zeppelin bombing raid on London, “two shops owned by Russian Jews were attacked…in the belief that the owners were Jewish.”

1915: Attorney Frank representing Leo Frank and Solicitor Dorsey representing the state of Georgia are expected to make their final arguments when Governor Slaton resumes “the Frank hearing at 9 o’clock this morning.”

1915: Due to the fact that he had to leave Atlanta at eight o’clock tonight so he could deliver the commencement address at the University of Georgia in Athens so at six o’clock this evening Governor Slaton adjourned the Leo Frank clemency hearing promising to resume the day after tomorrow. 

1915: “The Spectacle in Atlanta” published today

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C02E5DD1038E633A25757C1A9609C946496D6CF

1915: “When a series of letters exchanged by Senor Juan Riano, the Spanish Ambassador to the United States” on the one hand and “Louis Friedman of New York and Oscar S. Straus” on the other “were made available for publication” today it became known that “after being closed for hundreds of years the doors of Spain have been thrown open to the Jews’ and that it is expected that “in a short time, thousands of Jews now living in the Balkans and the war-stricken area will respond to the official welcome and return to Madrid.”

1916: Birthdate of Yale football player Albert “Al” Hessberg II the first Jewish member of the Skull and Bones and a long-time practicing attorney in Albany.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/26/obituaries/albert-hessberg-2d-albany-lawyer-78.html

1916: Samuel Utermeyer attended the Democratic National Convention which opened today as a delegate from New York.

1916: “The Board of Directors of the Board of Directors of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association of the Bronx unanimously adopted a resolution” today “urging Jacob Schiff to reconsider his intention of retiring from leadership in Jewish affairs and assuring him of the esteem and affection in which the overwhelming mass of Jews held him.”

1917: It was reported today that the delegates at the “Zionist Convention which is now being held in Petrograd “ “hailed President Wilson” as the friend of human freedom and the regeneration of the Jewish people” and declared their “gratitude to former Ambassador Morgenthau for his tireless efforts on behalf of the Jewish population in Palestine.”

1918: A list of the bequests made by the late Anna Shane published today includes $100 to the Jewish Sheltering Home in Philadelphia and Congregation Rodeph Shalom of Atlantic City; $50 each to the Central Talmud Torah of Philadelphia, the Hebrew Orphans’ Home of Philadelphia and the Jewish Ladies’ Relief Society of Camden, NJ; and $25 each the Jewish Consumptives’ Institute of Philadelphia and the Talmud Torah of Atlantic City, NJ.

1918: The list of those representing the Camden (NJ) Hebrew Republican Club at the State League of Republican Clubs’ Convention published today included Israel Weitzman, Human Bloom, and Joseph Varbalaw who will follow the lead of the President, Benjamin Natal.

1918: In Rome, “the Council of the Jewish Community” thanked “the government for endorsing the British declaration on Palines.”

1919: In Chicago, Illinois, “Ukrainian Jewish immigrants from Nikolayev, tailor Maurice Wattenmacker (Manus Watmakher) and his wife Molly (Bobele) gave birth to Samuel Watenmaker who gained fame as actor and director Samuel Wanamker, “the father of actress Zoe Wanamaker.

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/19/obituaries/sam-wanamaker-actor-74-who-led-new-globe-theater.html

1919: In New York City, “Meyer and Tillie (Lapidus) Dworkis” gave birth to University of Michigan graduate and NYU PhD Martin Bernard Dworkis, the USAA World War II veteran and husband of Ida Levine whose academic career was capped off by seving as the first president of Manhattan College starting in 1964.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/08/21/101563141.pdf

1919:  Birthdate of Eugene Klass, the Brooklyn native better known as Gene Barry who went on to a long, commercially successful career in film and television.  He often played suave, sophisticated types whose voices never betrayed even a bit of Brooklyn.  Barry played a starring role in the 1950’s version of War of the Worlds as well as the title role in the television western series “Bat Masterson.”

1920: Birthdate of Dr. Arnall Patzin an ophthalmologist whose research upset medical convention but ended up saving countless babies from blindness. He was born in rural Elberton, Ga., the youngest of seven children. His father, an immigrant from Lithuania, was a peddler who insisted on maintaining Jewish customs in Elberton, where his was the only Jewish family. He passed away in 2010 at the age of 89.

1920: Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein and Congressman Isaac Siegel are scheduled to address those attending this evening celebration of Flag Day at the Institutional Synagogue.

1921:  During a speech in the House of Commons, Winston Churchill, who had just returned from a visit to the Middle East, praises the accomplishments of the Zionist settlers and describes how the Arabs have benefited from their efforts.  He denounced as “disgraceful” any action of the British government that would such progress to “fanatical attacks” by outsiders.

1921:  During a debate on Palestine, Lord Winterton “warned Churchill that once you begin to buy land for the purpose of settling Jewish cultivators you will find yourself up against the hereditary antipathy which exists all over world to the Jewish race.” It would seem that from the earliest days, there was a direct connection between being anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic.

1922:  On the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Romanian immigrants Joseph and Eva Barris gave birth the youngest of their nine children – photographer George Barris.

http://www.georgebarrisphotos.com/

1923: Louis I. Newman, who was born in 1893 and who wrote “The Voice of God” married Lucile Helene Uhry today with he had three children Jeremy Uhry Newman, Jonathan Uhry Newman, and Daniel Uhry Newman.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.447616032021695.1073741829.318795741570392&type=3

1923: In Berlin, German theatre critic Alfred Kerr and his wife Julia gave birth to Anne Judith Kerr who arrived in London with her family in 1935 where she became an author and illustrator.

http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/322129/long-after-when-hitler-stole-pink-rabbit-judith-kerr-still-has-yarns-to-spi/?utm_content=daily_Newsletter_BreakingNews_Position-3&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Daily%202015-10-06&utm_term=The%20Forward%20Today%20%28Monday-Friday%29

1925: Birthdate of Serge Moscovici a Romanian born Jew who survived the Holocaust escaped from his native country following the Communist takeover and settled in France where, among other things he founded the “European Laboratory of Social Psychology.”

1925: Birthdate of New Orleanian Henry Thalsheimer.

1927: In Brooklyn accountant Nathan Lazar and his wife, the former Rita Tannenbaum, gave birth to entertainment lawyer Seymour Lazar.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/business/seymour-lazar-flamboyant-entertainment-lawyer-dies-at-88.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1

1927: Flag Day celebrated today commemorates the 150^th anniversary of the adoption of the design for the American flag by Congress.  On the previous Shabbat, in response to a resolution adopted by the Synagogue Council of America, rabbis devoted their sermons to this topic.

1929: Birthdate of Seymour Kaufman who gained fame as Cy Coleman the Tony Award winning composer and pianist.

1929(6^th of Sivan, 5689): Shavuot is observed for the first time during the Presidency of Herbert Hoover.

1931: Meir Shapiro “was appointed Rav of Lublin in the old synagogue of the Maharshal.”

1931: Twenty-six year old Louis J. Lefkowitz, the future Attorney General for the State of New York married Helen Schwimmer with whom he had two children – Stephen Lefkowitz and a daughter, Joan Lefkowitz Feinbloom.

1931: Deadline for submitting results of delegate election to the Executive of the Jewish Agency which is making plans for the Seventeenth Zionist Congress.

1932: Almost nine years to the day after earning his B.A. at Johns Hopikins and three years to the day after earning his Doctor of Divinity Degree from HUC,Rabbi Bernard J. Bamberg married Ethel “Pat” Kraus with whom had two sons: Henry, who was ordained as a rabbi in 1961 at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and David, who wrote four textbooks for Jewish religious schools while pursuing a career as an opera producer/director.”

1933(20^th of Sivan, 5693): Seventy-seven year old Ukrainian native Isaac Piroshnikof, “the founder of the Warsaw Conservatory” and “military bandleader at Vilna” who in 1912 came to the United States where “he organized the Workmen’s Circle chorus…and several children’s choruses” passed away today.

https://www.jta.org/1933/06/16/archive/isaac-piroshnikoff-dies-popular-concertina-artist

1934(1st of Tammuz, 5694): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1934: A Nuremberg court sentenced a non-Jewish wife of a Jew to four months in prison as a ‘race-defiling female.'

1934: Hitler met with Mussolini for the first time.  Hitler was the junior partner at this first meeting.  As the thirties progressed the roles would be reversed and Mussolini would shift his policies to satisfy the Nazi dictator.

1934: With a Star of David on his boxing shorts, Max Baer KO'd Primo Carnera in 11rounds to win the World Heavyweight Championship. However, Baer’s Jewish persona was considered to be more of a box office thing than a religious reality. Born in 1909 in Nebraska, his mother was Scotch-Irish and his father was described as "only nominally Jewish." Baer himself married a Catholic and did not take part in Jewish activities.

1935: In the Bronx, Louis and Bess Gornikc gave birth to American author Vivian Gornick who “was the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa” and whose latest work is The Odd Woman and the City.

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gornick-vivian

1935: In Paris, Jacques Schiffrin “a Russian Jew who had emigrated to France where he worked as publisher and his wife gave birth author/editor Andre Schiffrin the Yale University graduate whose life story can be found in his 2007 autobiography A Political Education: Coming of Age in Paris and New York.

1936(24^th of Sivan, 5696): Seventy-eight year old Paducah, KY native Marcus “Marc” Alonzo Klaw, the son of Jewish immigrants from Germany and the 1879 graduate of Louisville Law School who moved to NYC and went from serving as the legal advisor for theatre executive Gustave Frohman to being a partner of A.L. “Abe” Erlanger in Klaw and Erlanger, the leading theatrical booking agency passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/06/15/93521692.pdf

1936: Birthdate of Avraham Shochat, the Tel Aviv native, who helped found the city Arad and has served as an MK and held several cabinet posts.

1936: A letter to the editor written by William Ernest Hocking, the Harvard professor whose writings fall somewhere between genteel anti-Semitism and Pro-Arab, published today, said erroneously that Palestine was the shape and size of New Hampshire, that it is “a barren land lacking in rainfall” and that the “settling of the Jews on land in Palestine has pressed the Arabs into the poorer parts of the land.

1936: In Washington, DC, the American Jewish Congress, “which is acting as the organizing agency for the World Jewish Congress” continued for a second day.

1936: “Disorders marked a ceremony by the nationalist war veterans’ organization, the Croix de Feu, to in honor of the Jewish World Ward dead at a Paris synagogue.”

1936: “Colonel Francois de la Rocque, leader of the semi-Fascist organization was hooted by members of the League Against Anti-Semitism as he entered his car” and his followers fought with “the hooters until the policemen arrived.”

1936: The Palestine Post reported that once more the Jezreel Valley settlements of Kfar Yehezkel and Tel Yosef were singled out for concentrated Arab attacks. The settlement of Sejera in Lower Galilee suffered its stormiest night ‚ grain and cornfields were set on fire and over 250 old olive trees were cut down. After all Arab train passengers left a train at Kalkilya, a bomb thrown inside one of the coaches injured 18 Jews near Tulkarm.

1936: In attacks in and around Jerusalem today Arabs wounded five Jewish truck and bus drivers as well as an additional number of and workers, two of whom are in a serious condition. Only recently, in the same vicinity, Jewish travelers were killed in similar attacks.

1937: At the thirty-second annual convention of the Independent B’rith Sholom, a “Jewish fraternal order with 18,000 members in twenty-two states,” the delegates called on President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull “ to intercede” with Polish government to put an end to the ostracism of the Jews and the pogroms that were taking place. (Editor’s note:  Yes, this is inter-war Poland where anti-Semitism was rife and helps to explain why the Shoah was so successful in that country.)

1937: Chaim Weizmann wrote to Winston Churchill thanking him for the support he had given to Zionist cause by trying to convince Colonial Secretary William Ormsby-Gore that the Southern part of Palestine should not be incorporated into any future Arab state that would be set up in Palestine.

1938: All Jewish businesses that have not already been registered and marked must now comply with the Reich requirement.

1939: At that the same day that Flag Day was being observed in Baltimore public schools, “the Congressional Committee on Un-American Activities announced plans to investigate the branding of 14 year old Melvin Bridge, a Jewish student at Gwynn’s Falls Junior High School” who said that he was attacked by “forty youths with swastikas inked on their arms” who “cut the letter ‘H’ on his neck.”

1940: Over two hundred papers throughout the United carried a full page ad for Flag Day co-sponsored by the Jewish War Veterans.

1940: Four Son” a movie set in Czechoslovakia after the Nazi conquest featuring Ludwig Stossel was released today in the United States today.

1940: Auschwitz was opened. Approximately 2.5 million people were killed and another 500,000 died of starvation and disease there. The first inmates, included teachers, priests, and other non-Jewish Poles,

1940: Artist Jan Komskiwas in the first group of about 750 prisoners assigned to Auschwitz, in southern Poland, on the day it opened. His number, 564, was tattooed on his forearm.

1940(8^thof Sivan, 5700): Forty year old Dr. David Perla, the “associate pathologist and immunologist at Montefiore Hospital since 1927” who developed “a method for the prevention and treatment of surgical shock” and who along with his wife published “The Spleen and Its Relation to Resistance” died of a heart attack today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/06/15/112741730.pdf

1940: German Forces entered Paris. At the time France housed 300,000 Jews. Ernst Weiss, noted novelist and German-Jewish refugee who was living in Paris commits suicide.

1940: In Paris, Gestapo officers went to the flat of Walter Benjamin with the intent of arresting the expatriate German intellectual.  They failed because Benjamin and his sister had already left Paris for Lurdes.

1941: Etty Hillesum, a student at Amsterdam University described the treatment of Dutch Jews by the Nazis.  “More arrests, more terror, concentration camps, the arbitrary dragging of fathers, sisters, brothers.  Everything seems so menacing and ominous, and always that feel of total impotence.”

1941: As the Final Solution came into full fury, 400 Jews were deported from Estonia.

1941: In the Netherlands, based on a decree by the German occupiers, today was the last day on which doctorate degrees could be issued to Jews.  Physicist Albert Pais, who had completed his doctoral work on June 9, was the last Jew to earn a doctorate in the Netherlands until World War II came to an end.

1942:  Anne Frank begins to keep a diary

1942: Two thousand Jews break out of Dzisna, Byelorussia

1942: Fifty eight year old Austrian author Else Feldman “was captured by the Gestapo” today “and sent to  Sobibór where she was murdered.

1944: Two thousand Jews are deported from Corfu, Greece, to Auschwitz.

1944(23rd of Sivan, 5704):  Leon Sakkis was killed by German machine-gun fire while aiding a wounded comrade in Thessaly, Greece. Sakkis was part of a group of Jewish resistance fighters, who along with other partisans were working to keep the Germans from enjoying the “fruits” of the harvest taking place in Greece.

1945: “War Comes to America” is the seventh and final film in the Why We Fight World War co-directed by Antaloe Litvak, with a script co-authored by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein and music by Dimitri Tiomkin was released today.

1945: In London, Randolph Churchill, Winston Churchill’s son, tells Chaim Weizman that he ‘had tried to save 115 Jews in Yugoslavia; he has save 112, but 3 had perished.’ In 1944 Randolph Churchill had parachuted behind German lines to worth Marshall Tito and his Yugoslav partisans in the fight against the Nazis.  As part of that mission, young Randolph worked to have Palestinian Jews parachuted into Europe to help the partisans and to try and rescue the Jews who had not gone to the Death Camps. 

1946: In Paris, Jean and Jeanne Madeline (née Depierre) Louis-Dreyfus gave birth to Robert Louis Drefyus a great grandson of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, founder of the Louis-Dreyfus Group who became Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Adidas-Salomon and Saatchi & Saatchi.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/robert-louis-dreyfus-businessman-who-helped-resurrect-olympique-marseille-football-club-1749706.html

1946: Bernard Baruch - widely seen by many scientists and some members of Truman's administration as unqualified for the task - presented his Baruch Plan, a modified version of the Acheson-Lilienthal plan, to the UNAEC, which proposed international control of then-new atomic energy. The Soviet Union rejected Baruch's proposal as unfair given the fact that the U.S. already had nuclear weapons, instead proposing that the U.S. eliminate its nuclear weapons before a system of controls and inspections was implemented. A stalemate ensued.

1947(26^thof Sivan, 5707): Parashat  Sh’lach

1947: It was reported today “that 9,000 Jews came to Palestine during the past six months.”

1947: The Joint Distribution Committee announced today that it was sending a four man psychiatric team headed by Dr. Paul Friedman to Cyrus to help develop a mental health program for the detainees there’re, most, if not all, of whom are Jewish.

1948(7^thof Sivan, 5708): Second Day of Shavuot

1948: “The trial of the fifty-seven persons accused of the complicity in the massacre of more than 800 Jews in Jassy in June of 1941 began today.”

1948: The Paris representiatives of the Government of Israel issued a statement that “urged the public to be on guard against statements destined to create the impression that the Israeli Government is not respecting the Palestine truce.”

1948: As Arab armies continue their attempt to destroy the state of Israel, “it was announced today” that “the Arab League has protested to the United Nations truce control organization against the immigration of ‘several hundred Jews of military age’ to Palestine.”

1949: Tonight at New York International Airport, “Joseph Levy, owner of the McAlpin Hotel” left for Israel where he will “supervise the construction of a modern office building in Tel Aviv” which marks “the first American sponsored project of its kind in Israel.”

1949: It was reported today that delegates at the annual convention of the Independent Order of B’rith Abraham voted in favor of constructing a “rehabilitation hospital in Tel Aviv as a memorial to Colonel David Marcus who was killed on June 10, 1948.”

1950: The Dumont TV network broadcast the final 15 minute version of “Easy Aces.”

1950: An Israeli army spokesman denied Jordanian charges that Arabs who had infiltrated Israel “had been mistreated while being returned across the frontier” to Jordan.  What the Jordanians have not explained is why the Hashemites allow their Kingdom to be used as base for those who want to enter Israel with the intention to attack the Jewish population.

1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that Mapai won eight of 11 seats in Migdal Gad's first municipal council elections. Hapoel Hamizrahi won two and Mapam one. While there were 1,973 eligible voters, only 1,543 actually voted. Nine additional clothing points and 11 shoe points were released for the month of July. The Kaiser-Frazer plant in Haifa which was hailed as a model of American production efficiency assembled the first cars for sale in Israel.

1951: In Albuquerque, NM, premiere of “Ace in the Hole” directed, produced and written by Billy Wilder.

1952: Birthdate of Leon Wieseltier, editor of The New Republic and the author of “Kaddish” one of the finest books of its kind which Theodore Bikel did a marvelous job of recording.

1952: The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.  This was a major milestone in the creation of America’s ace-in-the-hole in the Cold War – the fleet of nuclear attack submarines against which the Soviets never did develop an effective defense. Admiral Hyman Rickover, who suffered his share of anti-Semitism in the Navy, was the father of the nuclear Navy and the submarine fleet.

1953(1^stof Tammuz, 5713): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1953: In Jaffa, two Polish born Holocaust survivors gave birth award winning actress Hana Laszlo, the wife of “Israel media proprietor Aviv Giladi” with whom she had two sons, Itamar and Ben, “film prouder that works for Len Blavatnik;s Al-Film.

1953: Herbert Aptheker was listed as a Sponsor of The National Committee to Secure Justice for the Rosenbergs and Morton Sobell

1953: One hundred and eight bachelor’s degrees were awarded during the commencement ceremony at Brandeis University.  It was the newly created school’s second commencement ceremony.  Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at JTS and George Alpert, Chairman of the Brandeis Board of Trustees received honorary degrees during the ceremony.

1954:  U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill into law that places the words “under God" to the United States’ Pledge of Allegiance.  Despite its apparent invocation of the divinity, this insertion did not evoke a storm of protest in the name of separation of church and state.  Everybody knew that this was a political statement, not a religious one.  At the height of the Cold War, it was a line in the stand between the West and the forces of “mindless, godless Communism.

1954(13^thof Sivan, 5714): In Shenandoah, VA, “education advocate, philanthropist, art collector, and college trustee Margaret Seligman Lewisohn passed away today.

1955(24^thof Sivan, 5715): Seventy-two year old Eldon Spencer Lazarus, the son “of Henry Lawrence Lazarus and Sarah Sallie E. Solomon,” the husband of Hilda Lazarus and the father of “Virginia Lazarus who became Virginia Rich when she married Richard H. Rich” and Eldon S. Spencer Lazarus, Jr. passed away today after which he was buried at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans, LA.

1956: The “Catered Affair” directed by Richard Brooks, produced by Sam Zimbalist’ based on Paddy Chayefsky television play with music by Andre Previn was released today in the United States

1957: Birthdate of Leonard “Len” Blavatnik the “Russian-born American businessman” who in 2015” was named Britain's richest man with an estimated net worth of £17.1 billion as of April 2015.”

1958: Birthdate of Wafa Sultan a Syrian born American author and critic of Muslim society and Islam who trained as a psychiatrist in Syria. Following one of her critiques of Moslem culture in which she said "no Jew has blown himself up in a German restaurant" the American Jewish Congress invited her to visit Jerusalem.

1958: In Hewlett Harbor, NY, textile manufacturer Reuben Geller and his life Lillian gave birth to “political activist” Pamela Geller who is co-founder and president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative and co-author of The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America

1959: David Joel Horowitz, the founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, married Elissa Krauthamer in a Yonkers, NY synagogue.

1962: U.S. premiere of “That Touch of Mink” a comedy with a script co-authored by Stanley Shapiro who also produced the film along with Martin Melcher.

1963(22^ndof Sivan, 5723): Fifty-nine year old actor and writer Alan K. Campbell who was of “German-Jewish descent” and who was the husband of Dorothy Parker (Dorothy Rothschild) passed away today after which he was buried “at Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond, VA.”

http://dorothyparker.com/dorothy-parker-homes/los-angeles/west-hollywood-end

1964: Funeral services are scheduled to be held this afternoon at the Weiss Memorial for Archie Gould, the husband of Helen Gould with whom he raised two children, Henry and Carol.

1965: Chuck “Barris formed his production company Chuck Barris Productions” today.

1967(6th of Sivan, 5727): First Day of Shavuot

1967(6th of Sivan, 5727): On the First Day of Shavuot an estimated 200,000 gathered in and around the Wall to celebrate the first major festival following the reunification of Jerusalem.  When Teddy Kollek appeared at the Wall he was hailed “as the first Mayor of Greater Jerusalem.”

1967: A contingent of Mossad agents that had fanned out across the West Bank to meet with members of the Palestinian elite immediately following the Six Day War submitted their classified report to the head of Military Intelligence. It argued that an independent Palestinian state should be established as quickly as possible in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, "under the auspices" of the Israel Defense Forces and "in agreement with the Palestinian leadership." They suggested that the borders of the Palestinian state be based on the 1949 armistice lines that had served as the border until earlier that month, with some minor adjustments. "In order to enable an honorable agreement," the document continued, Israel should "take upon itself the initiative to solve the [refugee] problem once and for all" by organizing an international effort to resettle them in the new Palestinian state.

1971: Funeral services are scheduled to be held this afternoon for Abe Gordon, the husband of Fan Gordon, father of two doctors – Barbara and Gordon “and Board Member of The Millinery Center Synagogue.

1972: Martin Dies, former member of the House of Representatives from Texas passed away and Chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee.  A man of considerable influence in his day, Dies was a red- baiting reactionary who, among other things, was an anti-Semite.

1974: “One thousand, two hundred twenty-five Jews were reported today to have the USSR during May, 1974 “as compared to an average of 3,000 a month in 1973.”

1974: “The Parallax View” directed by and produced by Alan J. Pakula was released in the United States today.

1975: “Lev Yagman, David Chernoglaz and Lassal Kaminsky, convicted in the 1971 Leningrad trial, were freed following completion of their five year sentences”

1975 The film “Calculated Risk” which had been; filmed in Moscow with the participation of Anatoly Sharansky and Vladmir Slepak was screened in England today.

1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that Ephraim Katzir became the first president of Israel to be entertained at the Windsor Castle by Queen Elizabeth of England. A British naval vessel arrived in Haifa to purchase provisions for the Royal Navy in the eastern Mediterranean. The British military attaché told the Postthat "Haifa is a friendly port" and was therefore chosen. Such purchases have not been made in Haifa in the past.

1977(28^thof Sivan, 5737): Sixty-nine year old actor Alan Reed, (Herbert Theodore Bergman) whose career included appearances in such major films as “Breakfast at Tiffany’s but is best known for being the voice of “Fred Flintstone” passed away today in Los Angeles.

1978: “I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road” produced by Joseph Papp opened at the Public Theatre in New York.

1980(30^thof Sivan, 5740): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz; Parashat Korach

1980(30^th  of Sivan, 5740): Seventy-six year old Rabbi and Biblical scholarBernard Jacob Bamberger, the graduate of Johns Hopkins and HUC, spiritual leader of New York’s Congregation Shaaray Tefila  and the husband of Ethel “Pat” Kraus with whom he had two sons –Henry and Pat—passed away today.

http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6qv67zp

1982: Israeli tanks cut off Muslim West Beirut, trapping leaders of the PLO,

1985: TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah.  Long before 9/11, Moslem fanatics were making war against the West.  Supported by Iran, Hezbollah splits its time between terrorist activities aimed at Israel, trying to control Lebanon and making war against Western civilization.

1986(7th of Sivan, 5746): Sixty-seven year old composer Alan Jay Lerner passed away. In one of the many cultural ironies that are so much a part of the American scene, Lerner composed with fellow Jew to write “Camelot,” a musical about English king that became a Broadway and cinematic classic that was loved by JFK, the first American Catholic President. (As reported by Samuel G. Freedman)

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/15/obituaries/alan-jay-lerner-the-lyricist-and-playwright-is-dead-at-67.html?pagewanted=print

1986(7th of Sivan, 5746): Second Day of Shavuot

1987: The annual International Israel Festival which began on May 18 is scheduled to come to an end today.

1991: Eighty-four year old artist Joy Finzi, the “found of the Finzi Trust, a foundation named for her deceased husband, composer Gerald Finzi passed away today.

http://www.joyfinzi.com/

http://www.geraldfinzi.org/

1995: Today David John Pleat began managing the Sheffield Wednesday Football Club.

1998: “The Cable Guy,” directed by Ben Stiller, co-produced by Judd Apatow and  co-starring George Segal  was released today in the United States.

1997(9^thof Sivan, 5757):  Seventy-seven year old Jay Ziskin, the California psychologist and lawyer who was the father of movie producer Laura Ziskin passed away

1998: Yad Vashem recognized Sofka Skipwith as Righteous Among the Nations.

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/righteous-women/skipwith.asp

1998: The New York Timesfeatured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Ghost Country” by Sara Paretsky

1999(30^th of Sivan, 5769): Ninety-seven year old pediatrician and Harvard Professor Dr. Louis Diamond and father of author Jared Diamond passed away today.(As reported by Nick Ravo)

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/25/us/louis-diamond-97-a-pediatrics-legend-dies.html

2000: “Pushing its habitual brinkmanship to the latest brink, the Shas Party said today that its ministers would quit the Israeli governing coalition at the next cabinet meeting on order from its rabbis.” (As reported by Deborah Sontag)

2001: “Palestinians and Israelis began the delicate search today for ways to carry out the American-brokered agreement reached earlier in the day to extend the truce that has reduced Middle East violence during the last 12 days.” (As reported by Douglas Frantz)

2002: “The Bourne Identity” a thriller directed and co-produced by Doug Liman and filmed by cinematographer Saar Klein was released today.

2003(14^th of Sivan, 5763): Parashat Nasso

2003(14^th of Sivan, 5763): Fifty-seven year old University of Pennsylvania trained attorney, real estate investor and philanthropist, Paul Bernbach, the son advertising great William Bernbach and the father of Thérèse Berbach with who he raised three children – Elizabeth, Sarah and Mathew – passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/nyregion/paul-bernbach-57-investor-and-art-patron.html

2003: At the Piccadilly Theatre, the curtain comes down on the West End production Ragtime, a musical based on the E.L.Doctorow of novel of the same name produced by Sonia Freeman, starring Maria Friedman “in the role of Mother for which she won the 2004 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical (The Freemans are sisters, the daughters of Russian born, English violinist Leonard Friedman.

2004(25th of Sivan, 5764): Max J. Rosenberg, “an American film producer, whose film career stretched across six decades” passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 89.  “He was particularly noted for his horror or supernatural films, and found much of his success while working in England. Rosenberg was born in the Bronx, New York. In 1945 he entered the film business by becoming a foreign film distributor. Although he primarily produced horror or supernatural films, his first film Rock, Rock, Rock (1956) was a musical. His partner in this film was Milton Subotsky, and the two would start the British company Amicus Productions in 1964. During his career he produced more than 50 films, on some of which he was not credited. Among the horror and supernatural films he produced were such titles as Tales from the Crypt (1972), The Land That Time Forgot (1975), and its sequel, The People That Time Forgot (1977). In 1957 he produced the first horror film in color, The Curse of Frankenstein. Rosenberg also produced a children's film, Lad, a Dog (1962), a pair of films based on the Doctor Who series, and director Richard Lester's first film, It's Trad, Dad! (1962). He was particularly proud to have produced the 1968 film of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, starring Robert Shaw and directed by William Friedkin. He worked well into his 80s; his final film credit was 1997's Perdita Durango aka Dance With the Devil.

http://www.ducts.org/12_06/html/profiles/evanier.htmlhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/max-rosenberg-38700.html

http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jun/17/local/me-rosenberg17

2005(7th of Sivan, 5765):  Second Day of Shavuot

2005: It was reported today that Lawrence A. Franklin, “a former Pentagon analyst” has been indicted by a federal grand jury that has charged “him with disclosing classified information to an Israeli official, including intelligence about a weapons test related to Iran's nuclear program.”

2006: Leaders of the largest Orthodox rabbinical organization in the U.S. have reached a compromise regarding overseas conversions with Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar.

2006: ABC broadcast the final episode of “Commander in Chief,” created by Rod Lurie and produced by Steve Bocho.

2007(28^thof Sivan, 5767): Shirlee Mages, whose father owned a thriving Roosevelt Road restaurant in the 1930s and '40s and whose husband put his name on a sporting goods chain, died today at the  age 88 “in her Gold Coast home of natural causes, said her daughter, Lili Ann Zisook. Mrs. Mages was the widow of Morrie Mages, a 1950s Chicago television staple who was often in the company of the late broadcaster Jack Brickhouse touting his sporting-goods stores through the sponsorship of a late-night movie called "Mages Playhouse." Morrie Mages and his family had a chain of 14 stores in the 1960s, but the business ran into hard times and was sold. That led Mrs. Mages to take a job managing the Pompian Shop, a ladies boutique on Michigan Avenue, her daughter said. "My mother was just a woman who did what she had to do," Zisook said. Morrie Mages subsequently rebounded with a smaller chain, anchored by a store at LaSalle and Ontario Streets. He died in 1988 at 72. Mrs. Mages, born Shirlee Gold, grew up in the Lawndale neighborhood. Her father, Meyer, owned Gold's Restaurant at 810 W. Roosevelt Rd. Gold's had a ballroom where many weddings were celebrated and future musical star Benny Goodman would sometimes play clarinet there, Zisook said. After her graduation from Marshall High School, Mrs. Mages attended Northwestern University before getting married in 1939. Always strong with numbers, she worked as a stock broker in the 1950s, her daughter said. In retirement, during which she wintered in Palm Springs, Calif., she was devoted to the mastery of canasta and mah jongg. Mrs. Mages survived bouts with breast and colon cancer and quadruple bypass surgery, her daughter said. "She was such a strong woman, not so much physically, but her mind," Zisook said. When her husband was alive, the couple organized the Morrie and Shirlee Mages Foundation, which provided sports equipment to needy youths. After his death, she led the charge to name a playground in Lincoln Park after her late husband.

2007: An exhibition entitled The Other Promised Land: Vacationing, Identity, and the Jewish-American Dream opens at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York.

2007: In a press release, Hebrew University announces that “the valuable and unique Nuremberg Mahzor of 1331 has been scanned and uploaded to the Internet site of the Jewish National and University Library of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Nuremberg Mahzor can be viewed at:

http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/mss-pr/mahzor-nuremberg/

2008: “State Renews Efforts to Bring Disputed Jewish Manuscripts From Russia published today described the efforts by the state of Israel to bring the Ginzburg Collection from Russia to a permanent home in the Jewish state.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/state-renews-efforts-to-bring-disputed-jewish-manuscripts-from-russia-1.247641

2009: Esther M. Sternberg, a doctor and the author of The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions, discusses and signs her new book Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Beingat Politics and Prose, in Washington, D.C.

2009: The Washington Post featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing” by Steven J. Zipperstein and “The American Future: A History” by Simon Schama.

2009: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy by Eric D. Weitz and Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen.

2009:A Kassam rocket fired by Gaza terrorists hit the Ashkelon Beach region this afternoon.

2010: Shabtai Rosenne was appointed to the Israeli special independent public Turkel Commission of Inquiry into the Gaza flotilla raid

2010: Mark Feuerstein “appeared as the guest host” on today’s “edition of WWI Raw to promote” an episode of his television show “Royal Pains.”

2010: The long history and deep roots of Jews in the Tar Heel state are coming to life in an ambitious new multimedia project that is scheduled to begin today with an exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh. “Down Home,” which encompasses a slickly produced documentary film and handsomely illustrated coffee-table book, celebrates Jewish contributions to North Carolina social, civic and commercial life. But the project also aims to capture a nearly vanished way of life for Jews in the state’s mill and market towns, according to Leonard Rogoff, an organizer of the project and historian at the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina, which is producing “Down Home.”  “Elderly Jews who lived the rural small-town experience are an endangered species,” said Rogoff, who also authored the companion book, “Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina” (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). “Synagogues have shuttered in cities like Tarboro and Lumberton. Smaller communities are expiring. We need to document them.” The project “tells an important part of our state’s story,” wrote Linda A. Carlisle, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, in an e-mail to the Forward. “Jewish culture has helped shape North Carolina in its rural areas as well as its urban centers for centuries.” North Carolina’s state legislature kicked in $350,000 toward the project’s $1.25 million budget, according to Rogoff; the rest came from foundation grants and individual donations. The investment has paid off with research that “contributes new insights into Jews in the South,” Rogoff said. “Histories typically focus on the pre-Civil War era and German-Reform Jews as normative southerners. We’ve emphasized the East European experience in the New South as well, and it’s updated to include the Sunbelt.” Rogoff’s team at JHFNC is also creating classroom material for 4th- and 8th-grade “People of North Carolina” courses in the state’s public schools with talks about expanding the lessons “across all grades and disciplines,” he said. According to Rogoff, the “Down Home” project tells stories of Jews from Joachim Gans, who arrived on Roanoke Island on Sir Walter Raleigh’s expedition in 1585, to Jacob Henry, who in 1809 delivered a speech in defense of religious freedom after his right to serve in the state legislature was challenged. And it spotlights civil-rights era heroes like Harry Golden, publisher of the esteemed The Carolina Israelite newspaper, “known nationally for his civil-rights advocacy, delivered in a Lower East Side accent,” Rogoff said. In a folksier vein, the book, film, and exhibit highlight experiences of prominent, prosperous families like the clan of Eli Evans, whose own history provides one narrative thread of the “Down Home” project. Evans’s paternal grandfather was an immigrant peddler, his mother’s father a shopowner; his businessman father, Emanuel, became a wildly popular six-term mayor of Durham in the 1950s, and his mother Sara served on Hadassah’s national board for 40 years. Now a New Yorker, Evans himself went on to write what many consider the definitive history of southern Jews, “The Provincials” (University of North Carolina Press, 1973), which has continuously been in print for nearly three decades. “The story of the Jews is the untold story of the South,” said Evans, a onetime speechwriter for President Lyndon Baines Johnson who went on to run several charitable endowments, including the Carnegie Foundation. “The region has whatever image it has from whatever violence there was. But that’s not the story of the Jews. Ours is the story of successful integration and good relationships.” The Jewish experience in North Carolina was unique in the South, Evans said, because North Carolina was unique in the South. “We didn’t have a strong Klan in our state. We had a commitment to public education, a more moderate political atmosphere, and enlightened political leaders,” he said. “I’m not saying no antisemitism existed. But there was a philo-Semitism that manifested itself in many ways.” The exhibit itself, which will travel across North Carolina over the next year, uses artifacts and photos to recreate a series of “environments”: A synagogue sanctuary, dry-goods store, family Sabbath table, and a study based on Harry Golden’s Charlotte home. The 81-minute “Down Home” DVD documentary, (available through the JHFNC’s website), complements the museum show with a somewhat academic mix of archival footage, insightful interviews and unfortunately costumed re-enactments. While the exhibit’s partly intended to educate North Carolinians about their own history, Rogoff said he hopes “Down Home” might reach other Jews — especially from the Northeast. “All native southern Jews have humorous stories about meeting New Yorkers who cannot believe that Jews actually live in the South,” he said. “They associate a New York accent, not a southern drawl, with being Jewish. That’s a very old cliché. New Yorkers especially can be terribly parochial, and the famous Saul Steinberg cartoon of a terra incognita beyond the Hudson aptly illustrates their provincialism.” While it spends a lot of time looking back, the “Down Home” project also suggests a Jewish southern future that looks increasingly suburban and metropolitan. “Jews are finding opportunities in the hospitals, universities, research laboratories, and financial centers that have typified the development of the state’s post-industrial economy,” said Rogoff. “North Carolina is especially inviting for two-career couples where both are professionals. Newcomers who explore the local Jewish communities generally report finding warm welcomes, contrasting the neighborliness with what they found up north. You get a heckuva lot more house for the money, and the climate is a whole lot better.” But one area where Rogoff admitted the North may have an edge is bagels. “There isn’t much aside from the ubiquitous Bruegger’s,” he said. “Cary [near Raleigh] and Chapel Hill have independent bagel makers, but a really good deli and Jewish-style bakery are opportunities waiting to happen. “

2010: Israeli superstar David Broza is scheduled to perform at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York.

2010(2nd of Tammuz, 5770): One of the Israeli police officers, Yehushua "Shuki" Sofer, who was shot in a terror attack on a patrol car this morning in the Hebron Hills area succumbed to his wounds.

2011:Rabbi Bernice K. Weiss, author of “Converting to Judaism - Choosing to be Chosen: Personal Stories” is scheduled to lead “Basic Judaism for Jews and Non-Jews Alike” a “7-part series that provides an overview of the Bible, Shabbat ritual and observances, how to observe kashrut and the Jewish laws of death and mourning” at the Historic 6^thand I Synagogue in Washington, DC.

2011: The 8^th Grade Graduation is scheduled to take place at the Hillel Day School of Metro Detroit.

2011: Flag Day is celebrated in the United States to mark the anniversary of the Continental Congress’ adoption an official flag.  According to Dr. Gary Zola, the Stars and Stripes probably made their first appearance in American synagogues during the period surrounding the assassination of President Lincoln.  This coincided with the Union victory that marked the end of the Civil War and a feeling of patriotism was running at full flood.  Zola thinks, although he can offer no proof, that American flags appeared on the bima at Jewish houses of worship during the First World War, another period of patriotic fervor.  Dr. Jonathan Sarna believes that the custom of displaying the flag in houses of worship – Jewish as well as Christian – dates back to the Spanish American War of 1898.  This also was a period of great patriotic fervor, marking a popular war that enabled those of the North & South to join together in common cause.  Regardless of when the flags first appeared, by the 1930’s they were a permanent ornamentation on the bimah, possibly as antidote to the simmering anti-Semitism that was part and parcel of the Great Depression.

2011: National Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau instructed Noble Energy to develop the Noa North gas reserve in the Noa license after concerns that the field spilled over into Palestinian territory.

2011: Actress Natalie Portman has given birth to a baby boy fathered by a choreographer she met while she filmed her Oscar-winning role in Black Swan, People magazine reported today.

2011:Today brought strange weather to both the northern and southern regions of Israel. Meteorologists confirmed that the ash cloud from an Eritrean volcano had indeed reached Eilat, but authorities insisted there was no health danger to civilians and also that flights at both Eilat Airport and Ben-Gurion International Airport were running on schedule

2011:President Shimon Peres visited the Negev Beduin village of Hura today, praising the community as a prime example of Negev development.

2011:Deputy Mayor of Economic and Housing Development and Brick City Development Corporation Chair Stefan Pryor, Manischewitz Company Co-CEOs Alain Bankier and Paul Bensabat, Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger, and BCDC CEO Lyneir Richardson, will cut the ribbon to open the new Corporate Headquarters and Plant for The Manischewitz Company,today, at 11 a.m. The facility is located at 80 Avenue K in the East Ward.

2012: “Gershwin Shows’ Tonys  Fuel Plans for a Musical” published today described plans by the trustees of George and Ira Gershwin’s estates to produce more musicals in light of the Tony won by “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess’ which won in the musical-revival category.

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/theater/gershwin-trustees-hopeful-for-a-broadway-american-in-paris.html?_r=2&hpw&

2012: Anouk Markovits, author of I Am Forbidden is scheduled to have a reading at McNally-Jackson on Prince Street in NYC.

2012: A Palestinian sniper in the southern Gaza Strip fired at an Israeli farmer working in a field near Kibbutz Nir Oz in the Eshkol Regional Council area today.

2012: Mahler on the Couch is scheduled to complete it New York City theatrical run

2012: The Jewish Museum of Australia is scheduled to host the media preview of its newest permanent exhibition, “Calling Australia Home

http://theschmooze.org/c/pdf/CAH%20MR_61412.pdf

2012: “SERET 2012” – the first London Israeli Film & Television Festival opened in London.  Seret os the Hebrew word for “movie.”

http://www.close-upfilm.com/2012/05/seret-2012-the-first-london-israeli-film-television-festival/

2013: “Man of Steel,” a blockbuster film that brings Superman back to the screen is scheduled to be released to the general public today in covnentail , 3D and IMAZ theatres.   Superman is creation of Jerry Siegel and Jose Shuster.  David S. Goyer wrote the screenplay and Israeli actress Auyelter Zurer plays the role of Superman’s mother.

2013: “Fill the Void,” a film that “tells the story an Orthodox Chassidic family from Tel Aviv” is scheduled to open in several new venues including the Music Box Theatre in Chicago and the Ritz at The Bourse 5 in Philadelphia.

2013: After straining his back again, New York Yankee Kevin Youkills put back on the disabled list.

2013: U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is scheduled to meet with Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon in Washington, DC.

2013: In the United States, observance of Flag Day, a holiday pioneered by Ben Altheimer, Sr. a Jewish businessman from Arkansas who convinced President Woodrow Wilson to adopt it as a national holiday in 1916.

2013: According to a Lebanese report today, embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad plans to open a “resistance” front on the Golan Heights and thinks such a move could unify the various factions in Syria.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/assad-plans-to-open-resistance-front-in-golan-says-report/

2013:Representatives passed a defense authorization bill that would make it U.S. policy to take “all necessary steps” to ensure Israel is able to “remove existential threats,” among them nuclear facilities in Iran.  “It is the policy of the United States to take all necessary steps to ensure that Israel possesses and maintains an independent capability to remove existential threats to its security and defend its vital national interests,” said the amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act passed today. (As reported by JTA)

2013: Donald Carr, the president of The Canadian Jewish News announced today that the board of director has confirmed that the print newspaper which has been publishing for the last 53 years will continue to publish canceling earlier plans to cancel the paper on June 20^th.(JTA and JPOst)

2013: “Judge Judy” starring Judith Sheindlin won its first Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program on its 15th nomination

2013: A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/06/14/world/europe/ap-eu-germany-us-nazi-commander.html?hp&_r=0&pagewanted=print

2014: “Operation Sunflower” and “Hanna’s Journey” are scheduled to be shown at the Israel Film Center Festival be held at the JCC of Manhattan.

2014:The search for three missing Israeli youths who disappeared in the West Bank two days ago and who are presumed kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists will not be over within a matter of hours, and could last many days, a senior military official told Channel 10 news today adding that it was not clear the three were still alive. (As reported by Itamar Sharon)

2014: “Israeli officials today released for publication the identities of three Israeli youths who went missing near Hebron on the night of June 12th. The three are Gil-ad Shaar (16) from the settlement of Talmon, Naftali Frenkel (16), a dual Israeli-American citizen from Nof Ayalon near Modi’in, and Eyal Yifrach (19) from Elad, near Petah Tikva. (As reported by Itamar Sharon)

2014: The ZviDance which has already given a special performance sponsored by Israel’s Office of Cultural Affairs is scheduled to perform for the last time in New York City.

2015: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist by Pierre Birnbaum, Move: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in the Lead by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, The Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker and Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg

2015: The Jewish Genealogical Society and the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute are scheduled to present a lecture entitled “Jews, Liquor and Life in Eastern Europe” in which “Glenn Dynner, PhD., Professor of Judaic Studies and Chair of Humanities at Sarah Lawrence College, will speak about how in pre-modern Poland the Jewish-run tavern was often the center of leisure, hospitality, business and even religious festivities.”

2015: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host the world premiere of the Sephardi adaptation of the “Merchant of Venice created by David Serero, the French-Moroccan baritone opera sing who plays the role of “Shylock.”

2015: KulturfestNYC, the first-ever international festival of Jewish performing arts, celebrating the global impact of Jewish culture presented by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene at MJH, now celebrating its centennial season, in collaboration with UJA-Federation of New York and Capital One Bank is scheduled to begin today.

2015: Kesher Israel, “the Georgetown Synagogue is scheduled to hold its Annual Dinner at which the honorees will include “ashish chayal’ Debbie Rosenbloom and “hamish mensch” David Levin.

2015: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Mike Heeren is scheduled to perform his last Presidential duty as the chief chef at the BBQ preceding the annual congregational meeting where he will pass the baton to the incoming President, Nancy Margulis which will guarantee this small, vibrant congregation the same kind of seamless leadership that the Israelites experience when Moses passed the mantle to Joshua.  Chazak, chazak!

2015: American female adventurer Sonya Baumstein “was rescued off the Japanese Pacific coast a week into her solo attempt to row across the Pacific, the Japan Coast Guard said today.”

2016:  In Rockville, MD, Temple Shalom is scheduled to host Rabbi Dr. Yehoyada Amir speaking on “New Challenges: Reform and Liberal Judaism in Contemporary Israel.

2016: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present “A Family Fun Night of Baseball In Celebration of the Pop-Up Exhibition Chasing Dreams: Baseball and Becoming American” which “weaves together America’s favorite pastime and national identity with the story of American Jewish immigration and integration,”

2017: Flag Day a holiday which was reportedly originally conceived by banker and philanthropist Benjamin Altheimer, is schedule to be celebrated today in the United States.

2017: Amos Oz and David Grossman are two of the authors awaiting to know if they have been selected as the winners ofthis year’s Man Booker International Prize.

2017: The Aleph Society is scheduled to celebrate the 80^th birthday of Rabbi Steinsaltz at a dinner this evening.

2017: Brooklyn Institute for Social Research & Center for Jewish History are scheduled to host the second session of Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism taught by Dr. Samantha Hill.

2018(1^st of Tammuz, 5778): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

2018: The United States is scheduled to celebrate Flag Day, a day intended to honor the “Stars and Stripes” and all that they stand for which ironically, was championed Benjamin Altheimer, a Jew from Pine Bluff who was born 13 years after the forces of the “Stars and Bars” which were committed to the destruction of the United States were defeated.

2018: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present a performance of “Don Giovanni” starring David Serero in the title role at the Center for Jewish History.

2018: “Israeli poet Amir Or” is scheduled visit New York’s Cornelia Street Café for a celebration of “the publication of his latest collection, Wings, in an English translation by Seth Michelson.”

2018: “The Alliance Theatre at the Breman Museum” is scheduled to present “From Script to Stage: The Evolution of New Works of Art” at noon.

2018: As part of the 2018 Unpacking the Book Events, the Jewish Book Council and the Jewish Museum are scheduled to host “Writers Make the Best Detective” featuring Rachel Kadish and Lisa Moses Leff in conversation with Stephanie Butnick

2019: In France, the Toulouse City Council is scheduled to debate whether to follow the example of Paris and erect a memorial to “Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, and two of his children, Arie and Gabriel, ages 6 and 3, and Miriam Monsonego, 8” who murdered “at the Otzar Hatorah school Tolouse” in 2012 by Mohamed Merah.

2019: In San Francisco, at a dinner following services “Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, PhD will speak on “The Meaning of the Hour: On Jewish Ethics in Times of Distress” at Congregation Emanu-El

2019: Starting today, the Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to begin allowing “Dads to visit free” as part of the celebration of Father’s Day.

2020: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Everything Is An Emergency: An O.C.D. Story in Words and Pictures by Jason Adam Katzenstein and The World:A Brief Introduction by Richard Haas

2020: The ASF’s Institute of Jewish Experience & E’eleh BeTamar are scheduled to present “Yemenite Men & Women and their Music: during which Barak Oded, “a musicologist who specializes in Yemenite songs of all types, as well as the language and tunes involved in the context of other Jewish communities. In these sessions will show the uniqueness of Yemenite song and prayers as they were distinct from other communities.

2020:NYU Skirball Department and the Consulate General of Israel in New York are scheduled to co-host “a virtual discussion with filmmaker Yair Qedar on his film about poet Avoth Yeshurun.”

2020: In the spirit of business must go on, in Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is scheduled to host its Board Meeting over Zoom this afternoon.

2020: The Jewish Community Library is scheduled to host on line “Former GTU and current U. of Toronto professor Naomi Seidman talks about her 2019 book Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement, about the education of Orthodox Polish girls

2020: Temple Beth David of the South Shores is scheduled to present a talk entitled “Shattered Stars/Healing Hearts: Returning Home” during which Irene Frielich Shares Her Family’s Holocaust Survival Story

2020: During the virtual presentation of “That Good Ole Jewish Sound,”Veretski Pass musician Josh Horowitz is scheduled to break down klezmer melodies into components to study them.

2020: “The Illinois Holocaust Museum and 60 other museums and cultural institutions around the world are schuedled to host the virtual event “We Are Here: A Celebration of Resilience, Resistance, and Hope” featuring award-winning media personalities Whoopi Goldberg, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Adrien Brody, Mayim Bialik, Jackie Hoffman, and Tiffany Haddish

2020: Flag Day, which gained its inspiration from Benjamin Altheimer, a lawyer born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas is scheduled to be celebrated throughout the United States today.

https://www.jta.org/2011/06/14/default/is-flag-day-a-jewish-holiday

https://archive.jewishcurrents.org/tag/benjamin-altheimer/

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JUNE 15

1215:  King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.  The Great Charter which is supposed to be one of the cornerstones of English and American rights contains the following reference to the Jews: “If anyone who borrowed from the Jews any amount, large or small, dies before the debt is repaid, it shall not carry interest as long as the heir is under age, of whomsoever he holds; and if that debt falls in our hands [i.e., the king’s hands, following the Jewish creditor’s own demise], we will take nothing except the principal sum specified in the bond.” King John and the Barons both saw the Jews as a source of revenue to be used and abused.

1226: Twelve Jews of Cologne martyred.

1363: Coronation of Wenceslaus IV, who as Emperor failed to continue the Imperial protection of the Jews of Luxembourg led to their expulsion in 1391 as King of Bohemia today.

1389: Murad I, the Ottoman Sultan whose reign began in 1362, allowed Jews fleeing from persecution in Hungary to settle in Thrace and Anatolia which were part of his empire. On the same day, the forces of Murad fought the Serbs in the Battle of Kosovo, a battle that would be a rallying point for Serbs in the Balkan battles of the 1990’s

1512: In another example of non-Jews exercising control over David’s City, Al-Ashraf Qansuh Al-Ghuri, “second-to-last of the Mamluk Sultans” who levied exorbitant taxes on Jews and Christians to replenish his treasury received an envoy of the King of Georgia with 20 horses who was trying to get the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem re-opened

1520: Leo X issued the papal encyclical 'Exsurge Domine,' which condemned German Reformer Martin Luther as a heretic on 41 counts and branded him an enemy of the Roman Catholic Church.  This moved heightened the tensions between Rome and those whom they saw as rebels.  This event was one of the steps in the division of Europe into Protestant and Roman Catholic states.  This conflict would lead to the Hundred Years War.  Too often, the Jews would be innocent bystanders in this Christian conflict that would turn them into victims.  Much of the treatment of the Jews in Christian Europe can only be understood if it is seen against the backdrop of this theocratic conflict.

1567: Jews of Genoa were expelled. Jews had been living in Genoa since the 6^thcentury.  They had been expelled from the city in 1515, readmitted in 1516 and expelled again in 1550.  This expulsion would be short-lived since “permission to engage in moneylending and to open shops” was again granted to the Jews in 1570. (As reported by the Jewish Virtual Library)

1580: Phillip II of Spain declares William I, Prince of Orange, to be an outlaw. William led the Dutch revolt against the Spanish that started the Eighty Years War, which ended in 1648 with recognition of the independence of the United Provinces (aka The Netherlands). The Netherlands were Protestant and they provided a refuge for the Jews of Europe including those fleeing the Spanish Inquisition begun by Phillip’s predecessors and continued by his successors.

1623: Cornelis de Witt was killed by an angry mob from the monarchist, Orangist-Calvinist faction. De Witt and his brother had admired the works of Spinoza.  News of his death was quite disturbing for Spinoza since it could presage the rise of a conservative faction that would not be tolerant of unconventional thinkers like himself.

1722(30^thof Sivan, 5482): Zebi ben Saul Landau, a member of the Polish Landau Family, who was the rabbi at Zmigrod passed away today in Lemberg.

1779(1^stof Tammuz, 5539): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1779(1^stof Tammuz, 5539): Beila bat Michael Benjamin zl passed away today in the United Kingdom.

1798(1^stof Tammuz, 5558): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1799: Birthdate of Sophie Barbanelle Bernhard who was buried in Denmark when she passed away in 1881

1800: Alexander Hamilton, the native of Nevis who according to some was the son a Jewess Rachel Levine and who attended the island’s Jewish school before leaving for North America,  completed his two years of service “as the inspector general of the United States Army” during which he “was the de factor head of the army.”

1826: Sultan Mahmud II destroyed the Janissary soldiers as part of his reforms for his empire. This was said to be a "great boon" for the Jews, who were often harassed by these soldiers.

1815: In Frankfurt am Main Malchen Schloss and David Philipp (Feist) Schloss gave birth to Salomon David Schloss

1815: Birthdate of Rudolph Carl Hertzog, the father of Louis Rudolph Hertzog and the grandfather Rudolph Hertzog who in 1839 founded the famous Berlin department store that bore his name - Rudolph Hertzog

1828(3^rdof Tammuz, 5588): David Sarzedas, Jr, the Charleston born son of David and Sarah Sazrzedas and the stepson of Col. David Mayros passed away today in Cheraw, South Carolina.

1830: In Württemberg, Germany, Bernhard Frankfurter, the son of Moses Levi Frankfurter and Mirjam Landauer, and his wife Esther Frank gave birth to Fanni Frankfurter

1833: Birthdate of Theodor Hermann Meynert, the non-Jewish psychiatrist whose students included Josef Breuer and Sigmund Frued.

1834: In what will be the first of three days of violence, “members of the local Arab population gathered to attack Tzfat’s Jewish community. Jewish property was plundered, as Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were burnt to the ground. Jewish women were tortured and raped. Many Jews were murdered or maimed.”  Tzfat is the town in Israel famous for its connection with Jewish mystics.  It is "the home of Lecha Dodi" the hymn used to welcome the Sabbath Queen. [This was not an isolated episode. Ever since the 16^th century the town which is also called Safed, became a major Jewish center it was subject to

1835: James and Eliza Davis were married today at the Great Synagouge.

1835: Birthdate of Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress and poet. Adah Menken’s true religious origins are controversial. Born in Louisiana in 1835 to Auguste and Marie Theodore, some historians believe that she was raised a Catholic, an assertion that Menken herself denied. In response to a journalist who called her a convert, Menken replied, "I was born in [Judaism], and have adhered to it through all of my erratic career. Through that pure and simple religion I have found greatest comfort and blessing.” In 1857, Adah and Alexander, (the first of her four husbands) moved from New Orleans to Cincinnati, then the center of Reform Judaism in America. Adah learned to read Hebrew fluently and studied classical Jewish texts. It was at this time that Adah’s other artistic and intellectual talents emerged. An aspiring writer, she contributed poems and essays on Judaism to Isaac Mayer Wise’s weekly newspaper, The Israelite. Menken saw herself as a latter-day Deborah, advocating for Jewish communities around the world.  In the 1860’s, Menken earned world fame in an equestrian melodrama, "Mazeppa." She daringly appeared on stage playing the role of a man, wearing nothing but a flesh-colored body stocking, riding a horse on a ramp that extended into the audience. Menken’s costume scandalized "respectable" critics—even as it attracted huge and enthusiastic audiences that included such notables as Walt Whitman and the great Shakespearean actor, Edwin Booth. She died of t.b. at the age of 33 while living in Paris.  To give you an idea of how famous she was, Napoleon III sent his personal physician to care for her.  Yet today, she is a less than a footnote in history. She passed away at the age of 33 in 1868.

1836: “Two days after her 17^th birthday, Charlotte von Rothschild who was a member of the Naples branch of the banking family married Lionel de Rothschild her first cousin from the English branch of the family.”

1836: Arkansas is admitted as the 25^th state to join the Union. There were only a handful of Jews living in the land of the Razorbacks.  Probably the first Jew to live in the state was Captain Abraham Block who moved there in the 1820’s with his family of seven and became a prominent merchant who proudly maintained his Jewish identity.  For more about the small, but vibrant Arkansas Jewish community see A Corner of the Tapestry: A History of the Jewish Experience in Arkansas, 1820s-1990s by Carolyn Gray LeMaster.

1843: In Bergen, Norway, “Alexander Grieg, a merchant and vice-consul in Berge and Gesine Judithe Hagerup, a music teacher” gave birth to the great composer and conductor Edvard Greig who in 1899 refused a request to participated in Colonne Concerts in Paris because of his opposition to the way Dreyfus had been treated , that  like any other individual who is not a member of the French nation, I am shocked by the disgusting manner in which your compatriots treat both the law and justice, and my disgust is so great that I have no desire to appear before a French audience.” (As reported by Shaul Koubovi)

1847:In a discussing the matter of Jewish emancipation Otto Von Bismarck said today that Prussia was indeed a Christian state and that Jews could not expect equality within it. They could only hold a subordinate position. That might not be perfectly Christian, but admitting the Jews into Prussia would not make Prussia itself more Christian. What the Jews most wanted, he said was to become military and civilian officers of the state and that was quite out of the question.

1850: Today, during the reign of Napoleon III, changes were made in the laws that had been adopted by Napoleon I concerning the method of choosing delegates the Jewish consistories in France.

1850: “The application for Simon Lodge No. 4 of the Independent Order of Free Sons of Israel which had been formed in 1849 was received today.

1853: Nehemiah Joseph Alexander married Rosa Bachrach at the Great Synagogue in London today.

1862: In Vilna, Moses Pinanski and his wife gave birth to Nathan Pinanski the Boston philanthropist who was the founder and president of both “Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Roxbury” and “the People’s Free Loan Society, a non-sectarian charitable organization.”

1862: Catherine Green, the daughter of Solomon and Jane Green, was buried today in the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.

1864: A portion of the lands surrounding the Custis-Lee Mansion across the Potomac River from Washington become Arlington National Cemetery.  Over 2,000 Jewish veterans are buried at Arlington National Cemetery.  Over six thousand Jews fought for the Union and about half that number fought on the side of the Confederacy.  Five Union Civil War Veterans are buried in Section Thirteen.  Two Rabbis who served as chaplains buried at Arlington are Captain Joshua Goldberg and Admiral Betram W. Korn.  Other famous Jews buried at Arlington are Arthur Goldberg, an Air Force Colonel better known for his service as Secretary of Labor, Associate Supreme Court Justice and U.N. Ambassador, The “Atomic Admiral”, Hyman Rickover, Astronaut Judith Resnick, Ambassadors Robert Guggenheim and Samuel D. Berger and Colonel Rae Landy, a veteran of both World Wars, who helped open Hadassah Hospital in 1913.  Orde Wingate, a British Major General who died in Burma during World War II is also buried at Arlington.  Wingate was not Jewish, but he played a significant role in Jewish history.  During the 1930’s, he was stationed in Palestine.  He was one of the few British officers who were sympathetic to the Zionist cause.  Among other things, he helped train the Jewish self-defense forces teaching them the arts of small unit combat and night fighting.  Two of his most famous students were Moshe Dayan and Yigal Allon.

1865: In France, Jonas Bernard and Douce Noémie Rouget gave birth to the eldest of their four sons, Lazare Marcus Manassé Bernard whose “family had introduced the Jacquard Loom to Toulouse” and who gained fame a journalist Bernard Lazare, one of “the first of the Dreyfusards.”

1868: Birthdate of Boston native Lottie Feibelman, the wife of Ely Feibelman who organized the Jewish women of Boston to supply kosher food and Yiddish speaking physicians for local hospitals and whose served as president of the Ladies Auxiliary of Boston’s Mount Sainia Hospital Outpatient Clinic from 1906 to 1916 during which time she led “approximately 350 Jewish woman in raising monies for medical instruments, linens, social services, research and a building fund.”

1870: It was reported today that the review of Disraeli’s latest novel Lothairthat appeared in Blackwood goes beyond the bounds of a literary critique and takes on the tone of polemic that attacks the British statesman personally taking special pains to mockingly refer to his Jewish origins.

1870: Today's "European Mail News" column reported that a petition is being circulated in Paris asking that the Grand Rabbi Isidore should be nominated to serve as a Senator.  No Jew has ever held such a position.

1871: While visiting “the Holy Land” former Secretary of State William Seward spent part of today at the Huvra Synagogue.

1873(20th of Sivan, 5633): Twenty-five year old Zadok, “Oskar” Waldstein, the son of Ephraim and Lea Koppel Waldstein passed away in Bavaria.

1874: Seventy-two year old German Orientalist Emil Roediger who revised Wilhelm Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar passed away today.

1875: In Patterson New Jersey, James A. Morrissee married Rachel Blumenthal, the daughter of a Jewish merchant from Montreal.  Blumenthal left his bride and told her he was going to Chicago on business for his wife. (These facts would be revealed in a subsequent, messy divorce proceding).

1876: According to a report published today the United Hebrew Charities raised $72,115.60 and the Hebrew Orphan Society raised $70,115.35 during the 1875-76 fiscal year.

1877: “To Jew” published today provides a summary of Richard Grant White’s wide-ranging linguistic history on the use of that term and concludes with the wish that the Jews “who have outlived the Pharaohs may outlive philology. Certainly they will lived down prejudice and obloquy of which this year is evidence reproachful only of its users.

1877: “Where Boccaccio Gave Offense” published today provide a critical summary of the third novel of the first day entitled “Melchisedech a Jew, by recounting a Tale of three Rings”

http://4umi.com/boccaccio/decameron/3

1878: According to reports published today "The English, French, German and Eastern branches of the Israelite Alliance have sent a delegate to" the meeting of European leaders at Berlin (Congress of Berlin) to describe "the deplorable conditions" of the Jews living in Romania and Bulgaria with the hope of gaining some relief for their co-religionists.

1878: As "The Season" opened today at Saratoga, The Grand Union Hotel announced that will continue its policy of refusing to accept Jews as guest at the hotel.

1879: “Why clergyman should study Hebrew” published today stresses the necessity for Christian clergymen to learn this ancient Semitic tongue. “Without such knowledge they can neither understand the Old Testament, nor the new, nor explain the relationship of the two.”

1879: "Murder That Do Not Out" published today explores the history of unsolved New York City murders including that of Benjamin Nathan, a wealthy New York Jew who was killed in 1870. Nathan had had his skull crushed during what appeared to be a robbery at his home.  Despite a sizeable reward and the best efforts of the police department the crime remains unsolved.

1880: It was reported that conditions in Palestine have greatly improved over the last few years.  In Jerusalem several houses have been restored or rebuilt.  The streets are now lit and, for an Oriental city, kept clean.  Water now flows to the city through the aqueduct connected to the Pools of Solomon.  The tanneries and slaughterhouses have been outside the city walls.  Bethlehem and Nazareth are emulating many of these improvements and windows are now being placed in many buildings in these cities. These and other improvements may lead to Europeans “wintering” here. [As we know, modern Israel has become a popular tourist destination for many Europeans seeking to escape the winter.]

1880: It was reported that “there is a fixed resolution on the part of thousands in Prussia to make that country as hot as possible for Jews” and this might force a large number of German Jews to move to Palestine. [The rise of Jews in German society coincided with a rise in anti-Semitism. In one sense this report is a prophecy of what happened in the 1930’s when German Jews left for Palestine.]

1880: It was reported today that while a conference in Madrid concerning conditions in Morocco was at an impasse, the British government was considering joint action by all the powers in favor of religious liberty in Morocco.  At the conference, the Austrian and American governments were ready to “energetically” plead the cause of the Jews but the French and the Moroccans halted deliberations before they could do so.

1880:It was reported today the Maurice Heineltrop, left a note for his wife before taking his own life which was written in Hebrew and begged to take care of their four children and to pay off his workers.

1881(18th of Sivan, 5641): Fifty-three year old Rachel Seixas Phillips, the wife of Adolphus Simson Solomons and the mother of Aline Esther Solomons passed away today in the District of Columbia.

1882(28^thof Sivan, 5642): Julius Porges, the Principal of Hebrew Free School Number 8 passed away today by his own hand.

1883: In Dukora, a small village in Minsk Governorate, Zev Volf and Brokhe Tsharni (née Hurwitz) gave birth to Shmuel Ṭsharni who gained fame as Shmuel Niger as a leading Yiddish literary figure in Russia and then the United States.  

1885: Birthdate of Lithuanian native Julius Kassinger, the St. Louis trained physician who 1914 applied for membership in the “St. Joseph-Buchanan-Andrew County Medical Society.

1885: In Kiev, Ephraim Kaganovsky and Beth Sheba (Katz) Cohen gave birth to Harvard trained, Minnesota dentist Abraham Kaganovksy Cohen the husband of Rebecca Falk.

1886: In Grodok, Bialystock, Louis and Mary Rosenblatt gave birth to Columbia trained attorney and New York City Magistrate Bernard A. Rosenblatt, the husband of Gertrude Goldsmith and longtime Zionist leader.

https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-2000882

1886: In a sign of an ecumenical spirit that was rare for this time in history it was reported that Dr. B.M. Palmer, a Presbyterian minister delivered the eulogy at the funeral of Rabbi James K. Gutheim of Temple Sinai.  Other signs of the esteem in which he was held by the non-Jewish community was a floral offering from Christ Episcopal Church and attendance at the funeral by several minister including the Father Hubert who was a Jesuit.

1887: “Wanted by Two Wives” published today described a strange case of bigamy involving Abraham Bernstein who deserted his wife and family in Port Chester, NY and then married a woman in nearby Glenville, Conn.  The two women have become aware of the situation and have sworn out a warrant for his arrest.  The “husband” has disappeared. [It can’t all be about Nobel Prize winners and great scholars]

1887: A fire swept through Botosani, Romania destroying over a thousand buildings most of which were occupied by Jews and leaving 8,000 people homeless and on the verge of starvation. Jews made up a large part of the population of this city in Northeast Romania.  By the first decade of the 20^th century 72% of the city’s population would be Jewish, “the highest percentage of any large city in the world at that time.”

1888:  Crown Prince Wilhelm became Kaiser Wilhelm II. Ten years after coming to the throne, the Kaiser would visit Jerusalem in 1898 where Herzl tried, and failed, to interest him creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The Kaiser’s reign was a mixed bag for Jews. As they became more successful a new virulent form of anti-Semitism grew apace.  During the War the Jews rushed to the colors, but the accusations of malingering were so strong that a special commission was established to look into these pernicious falsehood.  The true measure of the Kaiser can be seen when he was forced to abdicate he blamed it on the Jews.  The myth of the “stab in the back” so popular with the Nazis was first the lament of “Wailing Willie.”

1888: In Lemberg, Austria, “Hirsch L. and Yetta (Bentel) Blitz gave birth to Columbia University alum Samuel Blitz, the husband of Amelia Hirsch, the Secretary of the Zionist Council of Greater New York and who, as an organizer for the ZOA “traveled throughout the U.S. and Canada, visiting nearly every Jewish community in both countries.”

1888: It was reported today that Newton Harrison was the top performing student in the First Class at the Hebrew Technical Institute while Samuel Schneider was the top student in the Second Class and Max Lowenthal was the top student in the third school.  The institute was created to provide free vocational training for young Jewish boys.

1889: In Sambor, a city in Galicia attorney Joseph Steuermannand his wife Auguste Steuermann gave birth to Salomea Sara Steuermann who gained fame as actress and screenwriter Salka Viertel whose scripts included the famous 1935 epic “Anna Karenina.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/books/review/the-sun-and-her-stars-salka-viertel-donna-rifkind.html?te=1&nl=books&emc=edit_bk_20200131&campaign_id=69&instance_id=15647&segment_id=20880&user_id=2c930c5636ea27f82410440938800f2f&regi_id=5774742620200131

1889: In Sudlekov (Zhidachov), Ukraine, Rose Schwartz and grain dealer Isaac Schwartz gave birth to Avram Moishe Schwartz who gained fame as Maurice Schwartz the theatre and film actor who founded the Yiddish Art Theatre at New York in 1918.

1890(27th of Sivan, 5650): Harry Waldstein, the native of Weisendorf, Germany, who was the son of Zadok and Esther Waldstein and the husband of Sophie Schriesheimer Waldstein passed away today in NY.

1890: “Talmudic Quibbles” published today provides a commentary on the verse from Genesis “The Lord said, ‘Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great.’” (What makes this worth noting is that it was published in a leading American secular daily paper and not some obscure Yiddish or Hebrew language journal.)

1890: A review of The Montefiores: Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore an illustrated two volume work edited by Dr. L. Lowe and his sons, based on the actual diaries of these two notables in which they recorded the events from 1812 through 1883 was published today.

1890: “The closing exercises of the Sabbath school of Temple Ahawath Chesed took place this afternoon at the 55^th Street and Lexington Avenue

1891: Rabbi Gustav Gottheil presided over the opening session of the Jewish Ministers’ of America thirteenth convention which was being held at the Gates of Heaven Temple on 15^th Street.

1891: This evening, the twenty-five rabbis attending the convention of the Jewish Ministers’ Association of America hearing addresses on “The Evil of Skepticism and Its Remedy” and Does Knowledge Lessen Crime?”

1891: “Judge Andrews, in Supreme Court Chambers reserved his decision on a motion to have transferred to Montgomery County for trial a suit brought by Gustave A. Epstein against David Straus of Amsterdam, NY to recover $10,000 malicious prosecution.”  Epstein and Straus were Jewish businessman.  Andrews was not Jewish.

1891 In Philadelphia, PA, hundreds of Jewish and Russian tailors went on strike this morning.

1892: In Russia, “Nathan Byrllion and Matilda (Neistadt) Fagin” gave birth N. Bryllion Fagin who in 1900 came to the United States where he earned a BA at Michigan State, an MA at George Washington University and Ph.D at Johns Hopkins before going on to teach English literature at several institutions and write The Histrionic Mr. Poe.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/nathan-bryllion-fagin-papers-1925-1951/oclc/49310163

https://www.worldcat.org/title/nathan-bryllion-fagin-papers-1925-1951/oclc/49310163

1893: The Senatorial Committee chaired by Senator David B. Hill which has been looking into immigration practices at Ellis Island, including the treatment of Jewish immigrants will leave New York to continue its work in Oklahoma, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and California.

1893: In “Russians Fear the Jews” published today Colonel Weber, the former U.S. Immigration Commissioner takes issue with the claim by the Secretary of the Russian Legation that the laws limiting the rights of Jews are a matter of religion and are a matter of economic survival citing his observation that Jews who convert to the Orthodox religion are still discriminated against.

1894: It was reported today that Joseph Herman Hertz who has a PhD from Columbia has been ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary.  Henry M. Speaker and David Wittenberg have earned diplomas as teachers of Hebrew from JTS.

1895: Birthdate of Richmond, KY, Reuben C. Pearlman, a graduate Johns Hopkins Medical School who became a surgeon in Louisville, KY.

1895: “The announcement that Mrs. Maud Craig Burke Davis is being held by police in San Francisco on charges of forgery has caused “a great sensation” among her friends and family in Rochester, NY.  Mrs. Davis comes from a prominent and wealthy family in Rochester.  Her recent marriage to J.C. Davis came as a surprise because her family was Catholic and Davis was Jewish.

1895: Birthdate of Brooklyn native and WW I U.S. Army veteran Agen Myer, a reporter for several newspapers in France from 1919-1940 before he fled World War II and moved to the U.S who in 1919 married Helene Siegel whom she met after she read “a poem he had published from the trenches” and began writing to him during the war.

1896: Based on information that first appeared in The Fishing Gazette, it was reported today that “no one in New York except the Jews eat the buffalo carp, a fish found in the Illinois River “which does not feed on anything except vegetable matter” which is “exceedingly sweet to the taste.”  The carp was probably used by the Jews in the making of Gefilte Fish.

1896: Herzl and Newlinski travel to Constantinople. Herzl succeeds in visiting a number of highly placed individuals, including the vizier

1896: “Lauterbach Taunted As A Jew” published today described an episode at the Republican National Convention where Edward Lauterbach of New York was taunted by an opponent who “made a coarse remark when he coupled with an illusion to Mr. Lauterbach’s race.”

1897: In Berlin the former Else Lieberman and Doctor of Jurisprudence Hugo Preuß gave birth to Gerhard Preuß

1897: A fire of unknown origin which began last night, possibly caused by faulty wiring, turned the wooden structures on Ellis Island into ashes. No loss of life was reported, but most of the immigration records dating back to 1855 were destroyed. About 1.5 million immigrants had been processed at the first building during its five years of use. Plans were immediately made to build a new, fireproof immigration station on Ellis Island.

1897: In Boston, founding today of Congreation “Kennesseth Israel” whose members came to include Louis Pakroisky, David Kasanof, Moses Goldberg, M.S. Rosenbaum, Robert Krensky and Harry Werner.

1897: The Barge Office which had been the immigrant processing center from April 19, 1890 to December 31, 1891 began to fill that function again today due to the fire that had destroyed Ellis Island.

1897: “Topics of the Times” published today included a summary of The Chicago Israelite’s opposition to plans to settle Jews in Palestine.  A Jewish return to the Palestine “without a Messiah or even the remote exception of one is an extremely odd conception.”  (The opposition to Zionism by the weekly paper should come as no surprise the editor was Leo Wise the son Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise.  But it is odd to have a pillar of Reform Judaism invoke the Messiah since Rabbi Wise and Reform Judaism had rejected the concept.)

1897:  Starting today, the Barge Office was used as New York’s immigrant processing center as a result of the fire at Ellis Island.  This was the second time that the Barge Office was used in this capacity.

1898: Cornell educated newspaper executive Charles Colman Rosewater, the son “Edward and Leah (Colman) Rosewater who began his career as the business manager of the Omaha Bee before moving on to the Los Angeles Express, the Los Angeles Times, the Kansas City Journal and the Seattle Post Intelligencer before finally serving as the director of publications for Success Magazine in New York married Julia Alice Warner today

1898: “Anti-Jew Riots in Austria” published today relies on information that first appeared in the Neue Freie Presse to described the outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence that has taken place throughout Galicia.

1899: As of today the United Hebrew Charities has collected $80.50 following a special appeal to meeting the needs of destitute family consisting of husband and wife who have ruined their health working and their four children.  Donations have included one for $20 and one for fifty cents.

1899: Second Lieutenant Gustave Hirsch who had served as a signal officer was honorably discharged today from the United States Army.

1899: Captain Dreyfus is expected to disembark from the French cruiser Sfax at Brest which he had boarded at French Guiana on June 10.

1900(18th of Sivan, 5660): Eighty year old. Samuel Kristeller the Polish born German physician who also was a leader of the Jewish community serving as an active member of the Deutsch-Israelitische Gemeindebund and the Society for Propagation of Handicrafts, passed away today in Berlin. (As reported by Isidor Singer and Frederick T. Haneman)

1901: Birthdate of Sir Dove-Myer Robinson, who became Mayor of Auckland City, New Zealand.

1902: Birthdate of Max Rudolf. Born in Frankfurt Germany he was conductor Gutenberg Symphony Orchestra.

1902: In Frankfurt, Karla Abrahamsen, who came from a prominent Jewish family in Copenhagen, Denmark, and “an unnamed non-Jewish Dane” gave birth to Erik Salmonsen who gained fame as Pulitzer Prize winning psychologist Erik Erikson whose troubled personal identity problems reportedly had a profound effect on his professional research.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-professor-erik-erikson-1436255.html

1903 In Dej, Romania, Rabbi Ezekiel Pananth, the Romanian born son of R' Moshe Panet, Daszer Rebbe and Malka Panethm and his wife Rivka Paneth gave birth to Masha Paneth who became  Masha Greenwald when she married Yehoshua Greenwald.

1906: Day 2 of the Bialystok Pogrom.

1907: In his capacity as Minister of War, Major General Georges Picquart“told Dreyfus that it would be impossible to reconstitute his career, which led to Dreyfus's retirement.”  This must have been difficult for Picquart since he “became a Dreyfusard after having identified Esterhazy as the author of the bordereau.”

1909: In Cleveland, OH, “Menachem and Johanna (Herzberg) Katz gave birth to Meyer Myron Katz the husband of Goldie “Grace Epstein, who gained fame as “novelty band leader” Mickey Katz, a comedian and musician specializing in Yiddish humor also known for being the father of Joel Grey and the grandfather of Jennifer Grey, famous for her role in “Dirty Dancing.:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-05-01-mn-11563-story.html

https://case.edu/ech/articles/k/katz-meyer-myron

1910:  Birthdate of David Rose, the British-born American composer and conductor who won four Emmys and whose compositions include The Stripper, Calypso Melody, and the themes for two television hits – Little House on the Prairie and Bonanza.

1910: Moss DaCosta Woollley married Hannah Levy at “New Synagogue St. Helens London” today.

1911: Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated. For the role of IBM during the Shoah see IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black. “IBM Germany, known in those days as Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft, or Dehomag, did not simply sell the Reich machines and then walk away. IBM's subsidiary, with the knowledge of its New York headquarters, enthusiastically custom-designed the complex devices and specialized applications as an official corporate undertaking. Dehomag's top management was comprised of openly rabid Nazis who were arrested after the war for their Party affiliation. IBM NY always understood-from the outset in 1933 that it was courting and doing business with the upper echelon of the Nazi Party. The company leveraged its Nazi Party connections to continuously enhance its business relationship with Hitler's Reich, in Germany and throughout Nazi-dominated Europe.”

1912(30^thof Sivan, 5672): Parashat Korach; Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1912: Birthdate of Brooklyn native and New York Medical College Dr. Irving Innerfield, “research professor of medicine at New York Medical College and a pioneer in the medical field of inflammation” and husband of “the former Jean Pozefsky” with whom he raised four children.

1913(30^thof Sivan, 5672): Izer Perlstein, a rabbi in Rockland, Maine, passed away today.

1913: In Baltimore, MD, the Jewish Educational Alliance dedicated the Michael S. Levy Memorial Building.

1913: In South Bend, Indiana, at Temple Beth El Rabbi Abraham Cronbach officiated at Confirmation Services this morning.

1913: At the Chicago Hebrew Institute Mrs. M.L. Purvin is scheduled to address the children at today’s Sabbath School Graduation Exercises

1914: In London, soprano Alma Gluck married violinist Efrem Zimbalist with whom she had two children “Maria Virginia Goelet” and actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. best known for his starring role in “77 Sunset Strip.”

1914: Hammerstein’s Roof Garden will host an amateur dance contest tonight in connection with “Dancing by Moonlight.”

1914: Birthdate of Romania native cartoonist and illustrator Saul Steinberg who worked and studied in Italy until 1940 when the anti-Jewish racial laws in Fascist Italy forced him to flee to America by way of  Santo Domingo where  in 1941, he started publishing regularly in The New Yorker.

http://saulsteinbergfoundation.org/

https://www.illustrationhistory.org/artists/saul-steinberg

1915: Birthdate of Oscar Westreich, the native of Vienna who made Aliyah in 1933 and as Yehoshua Bar-Hillel became a noted mathematician and linguist.

http://www.hutchinsweb.me.uk/Bar-Hillel-2000.pdf

1915: A summary of the remarks of Dr. C.B. Wilmer, the rector of St. Luke’s Protestant Episcopal Church made during the clemency hearing for Leo Frank, published today included the statement that “the appeal was not based on mercy.” “We appeal on moral grounds for justice.  We appeal against the provincial prejudice which has been evident against outside interference and against the prejudice of Gentiles against Jews.”

1915: The Clemency hearing for Leo Frank was postponed for the day so that the governor, who had taken the time to visit the pencil factory where the murder had taken place, could deliver the commencement address at the University of Georgia in Athens. “Governor Slaton is putting every spare moment on the Athens trip studying the Frank trial record and the briefs submitted by Solicitor Dorsey and the attorneys for the defense.

1915: “The speech of ex-Governor Joseph M. Brown in opposition to commutation has caused much criticism including today’s communication to the press from “C. Ross Wall, a prominent Georgia which says, “I have read the outrageous and wicked diatribe of ex-Governor Brown against the long-maligned, persecuted and innocent Leo M. Frank. There is no man on earth that has more respect for the Bible than I have, but when Mr. Brown quoted from it in an effort to have an innocent man hanged in order to satiate the blood thirst of a mob which menaced the court during the trial of the Frank case and which continues its efforts to bulldoze officials of Georgia in an effort to present them from do their plain sworn duty, his conduct should and will be condemned by all Christian men and women…”

1915: Today, the New York Times published a letter Professor William R. Shepherd “sympathetic” to “the idea that the Jews should once more take up residence in Spain.”

1915: As of this date “approximately 600,000 Jews had been uprooted from the Pale of Settlement, by far the largest proportionate transplantation among the various populations of the Russian empire’s western provinces.

1916: “The Jewish Daily News announced” today, “that Dr. Harry Freidenwald of Baltimore, a member of the American Jewish Committee” who favors “the Congress movement of the American Jewry which called for a convention of American Jews to seek a settlement of right of Jews in foreign countries” “has sent a letter of resignation to that body on the ground that he did not consider the committee sufficiently representative of popular Jewish opinion.”

1916: Elma Ehrlich, the daughter of Samuel and Sarah Ehrlich married future rabbi Lee J. Levinger making her Elma Ehrlich Levinger the name under which she pursued an active career that included writing over thirty children’s books. (Jewish Women’s Archives)

1916: Today Maurice Simmons issued a copy of a letter he sent to Adjutant General Louis W. Sotesbury and a statement in which he said that the National Guard” is not taking the investigation of alleged discrimination against Jews in the National Guard seriously.

1916: In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Arthur Simon, a German born electrical engineer and pianist “Edna Marguerite Merkel” gave birth to Nobel Prize winning economist Herbert Simon.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1978/simon/biographical/

1916: “New persecutions of the Jews in Russia” were described in the edition of the American Hebrew being sold today by it European correspondent who is simply identified as “A.I.”

1916: Birthdate of developer and businessman Lois Lesser.

http://www.spokeo.com/Louis+Lesser+1

1917: Vilmos Vázsonyi began serving as Minister of Justice of Hungary.

1917: President Woodrow Wilson signed the Espionage Act of 1917 into law. Among those who have been charged under the act are Victor Berger, Daniel Ellsberg, Jonathan Pollard and the Rosenbergs.

1917: Birthdate of Lillian Violet Bassman, the Brooklyn born daughter of Russian Jews who became famous as “Lillian Bassman, a magazine art director and fashion photographer who achieved renown in the 1940s and ’50s with high-contrast, dreamy portraits of sylphlike models, then re-emerged in the ’90s as a fine-art photographer after a cache of lost negatives resurfaced…” (As reported by William Grimes)

1917: “The Royal Navy yacht Managamreturned two Palestinian Jewish agents to Athlit after they had been trained in the use of explosives in Cyprus. Their task was to blow up a section of the Haifa to Damascus railway, between Afula and Dera’a.” 

1918: Jeroham El-Yachar, the chief rabbi of Baghdad sent a protest, through the Swiss Government, in which he complained about “the cruel treatment of the Jews in the Turkish Empire” which included “various forms of oppression and robbery” and the strangling of young imprisoned Jews whose bodies are then thrown into the Tigris River.”

1919: After the street battle in the Hörlgasse today, when police shot eight of his unarmed party comrades, Karl Popper became disillusioned by what he saw to be the "pseudo-scientific" historical materialism of Marx, abandoned the ideology, and remained a supporter of social liberalism throughout his life.”

1919: “The Confirmants Club of the Bronx Free Synagogue” performed “The Jew” a comedy by Richard Cumberland that had first been performed in 1794 and was unique because it was the first play to show the Jewish moneylender as a hero and which was so well received that Louis I. Newman wrote a book about the playwright -- Richard Cumberland: Critic and Friend of the Jews.

1920: The Haganah, the pre-Israel Self Defense Force was formed during a meeting of the Ahdut Avodah party. It was designed to take the place of the Ha-Shomer movement, and was dedicated to "havlagah" or pure self-defense. The Haganah was formed in response to a wave of Arab violence from which the British were unable or willing to protect the Jewish community.  The Haganah was forced to operate underground during the 1930's and 1940's as the British took an increasingly pro-Arab stance and the Arabs engaged in periodic waves of violence.  The Haganah also was active in bringing immigrants into the country despite the White Paper.

1920: The operation to widen the Jaffa to Jerusalem Railway to “standard gauge” was completed today.

1921: Birthdate of Gavril Abramovich Ilizarov, the “Soviet physician, known for inventing the Ilizarov apparatus for lengthening limb bones and for his eponymous surgery.”

1920: All funds collected by volunteers working for The Greater New York Non-Sectarian Appeal for Jewish War Sufferers Abroad must be turned in today.

1923: The first financing by means of a bond issue for a city in Palestine was completed today when a loan 75,000 pounds was obtained for the city of Tel Aviv through the sale in New York of six and half percent municipal bonds.  Tel Aviv is described as atypical American city in point of construction and improvements planted in the heart of Asia Minor. 

1924: In Tel Aviv, agronomist Yecheil Weizmann and his wife Ida gave birth to Ezer Weizmann the colorful RAF veteran who was one of the first to fly combat mission for the newly minted IAF in 1948 and capped off a career of public service by following in his Uncle Chaim Weismann’s footsteps by serving as President of Israel.

http://www.president.gov.il/English/The_Presidency_In_Israel/Presidents_Of_Israel/Pages/EzerWeizmann.aspx

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/apr/26/guardianobituaries.israel

1925: Sir Herbert Samuel the first Jewish British High Commissioner in Palestine attended a farewell reception in his honor at Hebrew University on Mount Scopus. Colonel Fredrick H. Kish of the Zionist Executive in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Mayor Meir Dizengoff expressed their regret over his departure.  They also expressed gratitude for the efforts of Lady Samuel’s efforts.

1926: Birthdate of Pittsburgh native Herschell Gordon Lewis, the movie producer known as “the Godfather of Gore.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/movies/herschell-gordon-lewis-a-pioneer-of-gore-cinema-dies-at-90.html?_r=0

1928: The Zionist Executive in Jerusalem intervened to prevent the deportation of four Jewish immigrants. Unfortunately, they were not able to keep the British from deporting their family members. The National Council of Palestine Jews sent a letter to Lord Plumer, the High Commissioner, protesting the deportations. The council reminded the High Commissioner that only 54 Jewish immigrants had been admitted into the country during all of April, 1928.

1928: During an investigation of cemeteries and cemetery boards being conducted by the Attorney General for the State of New York, representatives of the Baron Hirsch Cemetery on Staten Island rebutted allegations of misconduct and abuse that had been previously presented by representatives of the Hebrew Religious Protective Association of Greater New York.

1929(7^thof Sivan, 5689): Second Day of Shavuot and Shabbat

1929: The sound version of “Noah’s Ark” directed by Michael Curtiz was released in the United States today.

1929: Birthdate of Orthopedic surgeon Leon Root, the author of No More Aching Back.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/health/dr-leon-root-orthopedic-surgeon-who-wrote-advice-books-dies-at-86.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&rref=obituaries&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Obituaries&pgtype=article&_r=0

1930(20^thof Sivan, 5690): Sixty-two year old Louis-Lucien Koltz, the founder of Vie Franco-Russe, an illustrated paper and the French Minister of Finance at the end of World War I who negotiated the reparation payments from Germany following the war.

1930: “Flag Day…” published today described the Jewish origin of this American holiday.

http://www.jta.org/1930/06/15/archive/flag-day-observed-june-14-originated-ben-altheimer-jewish-philanthropist-in-1910

1931(30th of Sivan, 5691): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1931: Italian Rabbi Riccardo Reuven Pacifici and his wife Wanda Abenaim, both of whom would be murdered at Auschwitz in 1943 gave birth to their oldest child Emanuele in Rome.

1932: Seventy-one year old Edmund H. Hinshaw, the Congressman from Nebraska who in 1906 attended a mass meeting at Belasco’s Theatre in Washington, D.C which a protest against the atrocities begin committed against the Jews of Russia. (Editor’s note – no explanation for his attendance; certainly not courting the “Jewish vote” in his home district.)

1932: Birthdate of Kashan, Iran, native Davoud Alliance who gained fame as British businessman David Alliance (Baron Alliance)  ranked as one of the country’s richest people “with an estimated fortune of £3.1 billion” whose philanthropies and good works included working to rescue the Jews of Ethiopia” and helping to finance the Liberal Democrat Party.

1932: In Omaha, Nebraska, William Hertzog Thompson and his wife gave birth to Susan Thompson who as Susan Buffett, the wife of Warren Buffett, whose friendship with Dorothy Kripke the wife of Omaha Rabbi Myer S. Krippe led to a $70,000 investment turning into almost 25 million dollars which went to aid a number of worthwhile causes.

1933: Governor Herbert H. Lehman and Dr. John H. Finley received the first honorary degrees to be conferred by Yeshiva College. Each was made a Doctor of Humane Letters at the institution’s second commencement exercise.

1933:  The Baltimore, MD City Council approved “resolutions protesting ‘discriminating decrees’ against Jews in Germany and asserting that body’s belief ‘in religious and racial tolerance’” that were introduced by E. Lester Muller, the council’s president were adopted today.

1933: Having earned her bachelor’s degree from Vassar in 1932, and master’s degree from Columbia in 1933, today Harriet Fleischl married “social service executive Robert C. Pilpel” and became Harriet Pilpel the name under which she earned her J.D. from Columbia and became a leading American lawyer who “participated in 27 cases that came before the United States Supreme Court.”

1935: In Budapest, Dr. Georg M. Hübsch and Magda Hübsch (née Klug) gave birth to “Canadian writer, poet and journalist” George Jonas author of Vengeancewhich inspired the movies “Sword of Gideon” and “Munich.”

1936: As Arab violence escalated, The Palestine Post reported that heavy firing marked an Arab attack on Ekron. Since there were only four Jewish defenders they sent up rockets to ask for assistance, but ultimately repulsed the marauders. There were also Arab attacks on Migdal, Geshur, Kfar Saba, Gan Yavne, Kfar Azor, Tel Mond, Tzofit and Givat Ada, Over 500 three-year-old vines were uprooted at Rehovot and Givat Brenner. The Jewish National Fund planned to replace some 40,000 trees that have been burned so far. Marine insurance premiums went up and some insurance companies refused to cover riot risks. Five Jews were injured in separate attacks on Egged buses.

1936: “Opposition to a World Jewish Congress” to be held “in Geneva in August” was “expressed in a statement issued” today “by a group of leading Jews” including Professor Morris R. Cohen, Abram I. Elkus, attorney James N. Rosenberg, Rabbi Abram Simon of Washington, Rabbi Morris Newfield of Birmingham, Rabbi David Philipson of Cincinnati and advertising executive Albert D. Lasker of Chicago.

1937: In the wake of anti-Jewish violence, “Welwel Szcezerbowski, a young Jew, went on trial today” in Poland “on a charge of murdering a policeman.”

1937: “President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull were asked today to used their good offices with Great Britain for the purpose of maintain Palestine as a refuge and a home for Jews by a delegation of the Pro-Palestine Federal of America.”

1938: Throughout Germany, any Jew "previously convicted" of a crime (even a traffic offense) was arrested.

1938: “Holiday,” a romantic comedy directed by George Cukor, with a screenplay co-authored by Sidney Buchman and featuring Binnie Barnes, was released in the United States today.

1939: Malcolm MacDonald, British Colonial Secretary, today outlined before the League of Nations Mandates Commission the proposals for the future government of Palestine contained in the recent British White Paper.

1939: At a meeting of the women's division of the American Jewish Congress in the Temple of Religion at the World's Fair Rabbi Louis I. Newman of Temple Rodeph Sholom called upon the Jews to stand forth courageously against counsels of defeat in a time of persecution. Rabbi Newman made his appeal for courage in the face of the tragedy of the liner St. Louis whose passengers had been turned away from Cuba and who would not find refuge in any western nation including the United States. 

1939: A secret directive issued to the German High Command stated that deployment for "Operation White" (invasion of Poland) would be put into operation on August 20. Hitler invaded Poland in September, 1939.  The conventional wisdom is that the invasion was made possible by the signing of the non-aggression pact between the Nazis and the Soviets in the last week of August.  Apparently Hitler planned to invade Poland at a time when such an agreement was thought to be impossible.

1939: “World premiere” of “Land of Liberty” – a documentary written by Jesse Laseky, Jr. with music by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II – “premiered at the New York World's Fair & Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco

1940: Today, New York Giants catcher Harry Danning “hit for the cycle in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.”

1940: “An official of the German Foreign Ministry, and SS Sturmbannführer Karl Bömelburg arrived in Paris today with orders to find Hershel Feibel Grynszpan.”

1940: Mordechai Rumkowski, Chairman of the Judenrat in Lodz, Poland, spoke to a large crowd today in the Lodz Ghetto.

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/june/04.asp

1941: “Professor Albert Einstein joined 1,200 persons today at dedication ceremonies for a 208-acre farm near” Hightstown, NJ “that has just been purchased by the Hechalutz Organization of America, a Zionist group, to train young Jewish boys and girls for pioneer life in Palestine.”

1942(30^thof Sivan, 5702): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1942: Deportations of Jews from the Netherlands to Poland and Germany began today. Over the next 15 months, more than 100,000 Jews would be transported from Westerbork to the various death camps in the East.

1942: Authorities in Riga, Latvia, request a second gassing van.

1943: At the Janówska death pits at Lvov, Ukraine, hundreds of Jewish slave laborers are forced to exhume corpses of Jews, plunder them for jewelry and gold dental work, and then burn the corpses to destroy evidence of the killings.

1943: Jaworzno concentration camp opens in the Auschwitz region. It contained two crematoriums.

1944:  A photo was taken today of a group of Jews from Dunaszerdahely, Hungary, boarding the cattle car that will take them to Auschwitz

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/june/13.asp

1944: U.S. premiere of “Man from Frisco,” a wartime spy film written by Arnold Manoff who later be on the infamous Hollywood Blacklist

1944: The 1,684 “exempted Jews” selected by Reszoe (Rudolf) Kasztner, head of the Aid and Rescue Committee known as Va’adah leave Hungry by a special train that takes them safely to Switzerland.

1945: “Conflict” “a film noir based on the story The Pentacle by Alfred Neumann and Robert Siodmak” directed by Curtis Bernhardt was released today in the United States.

1945: Chaim Weizmann wrote to Churchill expressing his sense of shock and betrayal over the Prime Minister’s decision to continue to restrict Jewish entrance to Palestine based on the White Paper of 1939.  Weizmann expresses his sense of betrayal since he Churchill had always conveyed the impression that as soon as the war was over, he would abrogate the terms of the White Paper. 

1946: In New York, today, the 300 delegates attending the first national convention of the American Jewish Labor Council heard executive secretary Max Stein warn “that discrimination against Jews was increasing” and issue a call “for Federal and State Legislation that would outlaw anti-Semitism. (Editor’s note – for those living in the 21^st century this has an awfully familiar sound.)

1947: Today, “President Truman assured the 800 delegates to the sixtieth annual convention of the Independent Order of B’rith Abraham of his determination to everything in his power to reach a ‘just solution’ in Palestine” which expressing his “commiseration for displaced persons” terming them “innocent bystanders of war.”

1947: In light of a number of unexplained incidents in Palestine including “the beatings of Jewish citizens in various parts of Jerusalem, “the disappearance of 16 year old Alexander Rubowitch” and the bombing the Jewish Agency’s press offices, today, “Zionist bodies expressed the hope that the Palestine Government would ‘cleanse the security forces of any elements who may be responsible for a number of mysterious crimes that have taken place of late.”

1948: Erwin Hiller, a “German born actor” who survived the Holocaust despite his Jewish ancestry unlike his older brother who was shipped to Theresienstdat “immigrated to the United States today where he eventually resumed his acting career under the name of Marcel Hillaire.

1949: While speaking at the Delmonico Hotel today, Mrs. William Prince, president of the Women’s League for Israel declared that “housing is the most acute problem in Israel” and that “the new home for young women Netanya which is to be completed within ten months would accommodate 600 girls.

1949: The first season of Milton Berle’s Texaco Star Theatre that had begun in September of the previous fall that was the product of such writers as “Nat Hiken, brothers Danny and Neil Simon, Leo Fuld and Aaron Ruben” came to an end today.

1949: In Philadelphia, the “eleventh national biennial convention of Pioneer Women” which began on the evening of June 11 and which “has been designated the Freedom Convention, dedicated to the independence of Israel” is scheduled to come to an end today.

1949: “Britain to Discuss Middle East Policy” published today reported that “fitting Israel into the pattern of British policy for the Middle East will be one of the problems discussed by British ministers and ambassadors in eight middle eastern countries who will attend a conference at the Foreign Office” in London” during the last week of July.”

1949: In New York City, Hinda (née Gould) and entrepreneur Richard L. Rosenthal, Sr. gave birth to Richard L. “Rick” Rosenthal, Jr. director of “Bad Boys.”

1950: In Jerusalem, Israel turned over the British pilot of a Jordanian airliner that had been forced down when it flew across the Negev to members of the Arab Legion.  Four Arab passengers from the plane that was flying from Amman to Cairo were also released.  Charles Clinton Cloud, Jr., an American passenger flew to Cyprus.

1950: Today, as the investigation that would lead to the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for spying, “David Greenglass named Julius Rosenberg as the man who recruited him to spy for the Soviet Union

1950: “With These Hands” an Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature “produced by the International Ladies Union” that recreates the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire featuring Sam Levene and Joseph Wiseman was released today in the United States.

1951: “White Corridors” hospital movie produced by Joseph Janni was released today in the United Kingdom.

1951: Today, American Orientalist William Popper, the husband of Tess Magnes, and brother-in-law of Dr. Judah Magnes, who wrote his doctorial decision at Columbia under Dr. Richard Gottheil “was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of California in recognition of his achievements.”

1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that Food Control Commission took care of the sale and distribution of ice for domestic use in Jerusalem.

1951: After forty performances at the Broadhurst Theatre, the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of “Flahooley, a musical with a book by E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy, lyrics by Harburg, and music by Sammy Fain.”

1951: “Three Steps North” directed and produced by W. Lee Wilder was released in the United States today.

1951: In the Bronx, “Joseph Mlotek, the education director at the Workmen's Circle, an American Jewish civic and cultural organization, and an editor at the Yiddish Forward,” and Eleanor Chana Mlotek (née Gordon), an archivist of Yiddish music, who, together with her husband, published three Yiddish songbooks” gave birth “Zalmen Mlotek, “the conductor, pianist, musical arranger, accompanist, composer, and the Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene.”

http://www.zalmenmlotek.com/

1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel had demanded that the UN Security Council should consider Egypt's refusal to allow ships engaged in trade with Israel to pass through the Suez Canal

1951: The Israeli government announced today that an Israeli soldier had been killed when he encountered Jordanian forces that had crossed the border.

1952: Today, the Israeli Foreign Ministry published the text of a note it addressed to the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister on June 11 concerning the arrest of Mordechai Oren, an Israeli citizen who is a leading member of the Mapam Party.  The Israelis demanded that a member of the Israeli Legations be allowed to visit Oren and be with him as he worked his way through the Czech justice system.  The Israelis believe that Oren was arrested as part of a plot to portray Rudolf Slansky, the former Deputy Premier, who is being held in prison as being a Zionist, something which was an anathema in Communist Czechoslovakia.

1952: “The first housing project specifically for immigrants from the United States and Canada was launched today when ground was broken for ten houses a Kfar Haroeh, a village midway between Tel Aviv and Haifa…The village which is being built on land donated by the JNF is only twenty minutes, by car from Natanya and Hadera two towns where the immigrants can go for jobs and western style entertainment.

1952(22^nd of Sivan, 5712): Forty-four year old Christine Granville, the Polish born daughter of a Catholic Count and an assimilated Jewish mother who worked for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) in occupied Poland and France passed away today.

1953: It was reported today that Senator Paul Douglas, Democrat from Illinois who had taught at the University of Chicago before WW II, was the keynote speaker at the commencement exercises of Brandeis University in Waltham, MA.

1954: Ruth Ann and Daniel Edelman gave birth to Richard Edelman who would become President and CEO of the public relations firm Edelman that was founded by his father.

1956: Birthdate of New York native Marc Siegel, the doctor who serves as a medical and political commentator on FOX.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/medicare-for-all-2020-democrats-marc-siegel

1960: “The Apartment” a Billy Wilder production that was co-written by I.A.L. Diamond was released for showing to the movie going public today.

1961: Rabbi David J. Bleich married Professor Judith Ochs today.

1961: In performances that were hailed as "good quality directed with great intelligence,""admirable for subtle expressiveness and intelligent composure," and "exceptional," the off-Broadway Living Theatre troupe made its European debut in Rome. By the time of the Living Theatre's European tour, co-directors Judith Malina and Julian Beck had been directing off-Broadway plays for over a decade.

1963: After 1,443 performances the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of Roger and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music.”

1964: ‘IESC's(International Executive Service Corps) first board meeting took place today in Washington D.C. and included American business leaders Sol M. Linowitz, chairman of Xerox Corporation and William S. Paley, chairman of CBS.”

1964: U.S. premiere of Rod Serling’s “The Yellow Canary” featuring Jack Klugman as “Lt. Bonner,” Harold Gould as “Ponelli” and Milton Selzer as “Vecchio.”

1965(15^th of Sivan, 5725): Sixty-three year old Galician born “American Assyriolpgist” Ephraim Avigodor Speiser, the holder of PhD from Dropsie College and husband of “Sue Gimbel Dannenbaum” the granddaughter of Charles Gimbel, one of the founders of Gimbel’s Department Story who taught Semitics at Penn, served with the OSS in WW II and led the excavation of Tepe Gawra, an ancient settlement near Ninveh, passed away today.

https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/ephraim-avigdor-speiser/

https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/ephraim-a-speiser/

1966: Simon and Garfunkel recorded “The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine today as cut five on side one of the album “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.

1967: Argentine born Israeli pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim married British cellist Jacqueline du Pré who had converted to Judaism at a Western Wall ceremony. 

1967: After “608 performances and 10 previews” the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of “Sweet Chairty,” with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and the book by Neil Simon.

1967: “The Dirty Dozen” a WW II classic film based on a novel of the same name by Erwin “Mick” Nathanson was released in the United States toda.

1968: After “220 performances and 19 previews” the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of “How Now Dow Jones” with music by Elmer Bernstein, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh and the book by Max Shulman.

1970: Eleven Soviet citizens, nine of them Jews, tried to hijack a Soviet airplane so they could be flown out of the country.  The plot was foiled before the plane took off and two of the Jews were sentenced to death for their part in the attempt.  Due in no small part to protests from Jewish communities around the world, the sentences were commuted to 15 years at hard labor.  The hijacking focused attention on the plight of Soviet Jews seeking to escape from the U.S.S.R.  This was a major step forward in what became the campaign to “Free Soviet Jews.”

1970: “The Strawberry Statement” produced by Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler and with a script co-authored by Israel Horovitz was released in the United States today.

1971: U.S. premiere of “Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?” a comedy directed by Ulu Grosband who also co-produced and co-authored the scripts, starring Dustin Hoffman with music by Shel Silverstein

1974: “On the 4th anniversary of the Leningrad hijack attempt 34 Leningrad activists launch a 48 hour hunger strike in solidarity with Jewish Prisoners of Conscience. Jewish prisoners in Potma and Perm labor camps also stage hunger strike on this anniversary.”

1975(6^th of Tammuz, 5735): At Kfar Yuval, “terrorists seize farmhouse, killing 1 person, injuring 6, and taking family hostage; Israeli soldiers storm farmhouse and kill all four terrorists plus 1 hostage.”

1975(6^th of Tammuz, 5735): Three were killed and another five were injured when terrorists fired three rockets into Nahariya.

1975: In the Soviet Union, Refusniks and Activists in several cities held a hunger strike to protest the sixth anniversary of the beginning of mass arrests in 1970

1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that in Washington the US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz concurred that Syria's growing military involvement in Lebanon posed no immediate threat to Israel. The Syrian forces in Lebanon were seen as holding back instead of trying to crush the PLO and its leftist allies.

1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that ore Lebanese had been given Israeli first aid at Metulla.

1977: Fifty-two year old former Dutch journalist Willem Poalk whose parents were murdered by the Nazis during the “German occupation of the Netherlands” became mayor of Amsterdam today.

1977: For days after he passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held today for 38 year old Cornell University of English Professor and author of The Meaning of Hamlet, Paul A. Gottschalk, the husband of Katherine Gottschalk and the some of Fruma Gottschalk.

1977: U.S. premiere of “A Bridge Too Far” produced by Joseph E Levine and Richard P. Levine with a screenplay by William Goldman and cameo appearance by Elliot Gould.

1978(10^th of Sivan, 5738): Eighty-two year old Ukraine native Joseph K. Alliger who in 1898 came to the United States where he became a “real-estate man and mortgage-investment” banker who was active in the UJA, JNF and HIAS while raising his “two son Martin and Howard” with “his wife, the former Gladys Scheirer” passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/06/21/archives/obituary-3-no-title.html

1978: A Broadway revival of “Once in a Lifetime” the first play on which Moss Hartman and George S. Kaufman collaborated opened at the Circle Theatre.

1979: “The In-Laws” a comedy directed and co-produced by Arthur Hiller, written by Arthur Bergman and co-starring Peter Falk and Alan Arkin was released in the United States today.

1979:”Butch and Sundance: The Early Days” a western about two outlaws produced by William Goldman and featuring Elya Baskin was released in the United States today.

1982: “The Soldier” an action film directed, produced and written by James Glickenhaus was released in the United States today.

1983: During season five, NBC broadcast the final episode of “Taxi” a sit com created by James Brooks, Stan Daniels and Ed. Weinberger starring Judd Hirsch.

1984(15th of Sivan, 5744): Seventy-eight year old character actor Ned Glass, born Nusyn Glass in Poland, passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/25/obituaries/ned-glass-an-actor-dies.html

1985: Twenty-three year old U.S. Navy Seabee diver was murdered today by Hezbollah terrorists who had hijacked TWA Flight 847.

1987: An exhibition entitled ''Daughters of the Pale,'' documenting in words and photographs the experiences of daughters of Jewish immigrant opened in London.

1987: An exhibition entitled ''East End Synagogues: From the Shtiebel to Duke's Place’’ opened at the Heritage Center in London.

1989: In “Jews and Geniuses: An Exchange” Robert F. Taruskin published today responds to Robert Craft’s “Jews and Geniuses published in February.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1989/06/15/jews-and-geniuses-an-exchange/

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1989/02/16/jews-and-geniuses/

1990: After five years in office, Abraham David Sofaer completed his servce as Legal Adviser of the Department of State.

1992: The Fifth International Convention of Studies of “Italia Judaica” opened in Palermo.

1992: Best-selling instrumental musicianKenny G (Kenneth Bruce Gorelick) married Lyndie – a union that would produce two sons before ending in divorce in 2012

1993: In Baghdad, Iraq, Eiahu and Naima Carmel gave birth to Moshe Carmelia the Albert Einstein Professor of Theoretical Physics at Ben Gurion University and the Preside of the Israel Physical Society.

http://physweb.bgu.ac.il/HOMEPAGES/FACULTY/Carmeli/main.html

1994: Israel and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations.

1994: “The Lion King” with music for which Hans Zimmer would receive two Grammy Awards and which was directed by Rob Minkoff was released in the United States today.

1996: Judge Burkhardt Stein from Tübingen County Court ordered the confiscation and incineration of all books Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte and the destruction of all means for manufacturing them. The book was written by holocaust denier and anti-Semite Ernst Gauss.

1997: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick, Steven Spielberg: A Biographyby Joseph McBride and Steven Spielberg: The Unauthorized Biography by John Baxter

2000: The United Nations is continuing work on verifying that Israel had withdrawn all of its forces from southern Lebanon.

2001: Today marked the first full day of yet another Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire.

2002: “After 109 performances and 18 previews at the Martin Beck Theatre” the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of Marvin Hamlisch’s “Sweet Smell of Success” the musical version of Sweet Smell of Success co-authored by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman that was based on Walter Winchell-like character.

2003: “After a week of ferocious bloodshed, Israel and the Palestinians held top-level security talks into the early hours of this morning in a bid to calm the region and salvage an international peace plan.” (As reported by Greg Myre)

2004 It was reported today that Palestinians have criticized and American officials have objected to Israel’s plans “to build new segments of its barrier around Ariel and other Jewish settlements that are more than 10 miles inside the West Bank

2005: In words that would come back to haunt them it was reported today that “analysts Lehman Brothers “for its strong performance in spite of a weaker bond trading environment.”

2006: Yakov Kreizberg made his “last appearance with the” London Symphony Orchestra “at the Barbican … when he performed Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto no. 5 with Stephen Hough, and Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony no. 11

2006: “The exhibition ‘Jules Fieffer: If You Really Love Me, You’d Find Me” opened at the Adam Baumgold Gallery.

http://adambaumgoldgallery.com/feiffer_jules/feiffer.htm

2007: The Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam opens an exhibition on the life and work of famous French actress Sarah Bernhardt who was the first international superstar.

2007: The 46^th Hebrew Book Week comes to a close. 

2007(29^th of Sivan, 5767):Claudia Cohen, a high-profile gossip reporter for television and newspapers who was a frequent subject of the gossip columns herself, partly because of her marriage to, and remunerative divorce from, the billionaire businessman Ronald O. Perelman, died today in Manhattan. She was 56 and had homes in Manhattan and Easthampton, N.Y. The cause was ovarian cancer, said Chris Taylor, a spokeswoman for Mr. Perelman. Ms. Cohen was known for her aggressive pursuit of celebrity news and her ability to handicap the Academy Awards. She first came to public attention in the late 1970s as a reporter and editor for Page Six, the well-thumbed column of The New York Post. In the early ’80s, she wrote a gossip column, “I, Claudia,” for The Daily News of New York. In recent years, Ms. Cohen was a regular correspondent, covering entertainment, for the syndicated talk show “Live With Regis and Kelly” and its predecessor, “Live With Regis and Kathie Lee.” She was previously an entertainment reporter for “The Morning Show” on WABC-TV. Claudia Lynn Cohen was born in Englewood, N.J. Her father, Robert, was president of the Hudson County News Company, a major distributor of newspapers and magazines. Ms. Cohen earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972 and afterward was on the staff of More, a progressive journalism review. She joined Page Six as a reporter in 1977, serving as its editor from 1978 to 1980.  In 1985, with her marriage to Mr. Perelman, now the chairman of Revlon, Ms. Cohen became a boldface name herself. (Their union was Ms. Cohen’s only marriage; she was Mr. Perelman’s second wife of four.) The couple were frequent guests at glittering parties and charity events in New York and the Hamptons, and Ms. Cohen was considered a crucial person to know if anybody who was somebody wanted to become even more of a somebody. The public scrutiny of Ms. Cohen’s private life only intensified with her divorce from Mr. Perelman in 1994. As was widely reported, she received an out-of-court settlement of $80 million. After her divorce from Mr. Perelman, Ms. Cohen, a Democrat, was romantically involved for about a year with Senator Alfonse M. D’Amato, Republican of New York. In early 1995, at the start of the relationship, Senator D’Amato called a press conference to announce that he was in love. He was, according to news reports at the time, the first senator in the history of the United States to do so. (As reported by Margalit Fox.)

2008: The Sunday New York Times book sections features reviews of Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Artby Simon Louvish and Audition: A Memoir, the autobiography of Barbara Walters. How “Jewish” is the movie maker whose father is lay leader in the Episcopal Church and whose mother is a Sephardic Jew who converted?  How Jewish is a television personality whose parents were both Jewish but who observed no Jewish ritual growing up and loves having a Christmas tree in her home?

2008: The Washington Post features books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis by Roger Lowenstein

2008: Stephan Grayek, one of the last survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising who passed away at the age of 92 was buried at the Herzliya Cemetery today. He is survived by his daughter, Ora, his son, Yitzhak, grandchildren and a great granddaughter. During the Nazi era Grayek took advantage of his Aryan features to move with relative ease in and out of the ghetto, fighting against the Nazis with both Jews and Poles. Grayek's wartime exploits were recorded in his book, “Shelosha Yemin Krav” (“Three Days of Battle”).  Eli Zborowski, chairman of the American and International Societies for Yad Vashem and vice president of the World Federation of Polish Jews, wrote in a condolence notice in the Hebrew press that he had lost his mentor and close friend. He referred to Grayek as the "commander and hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and worldwide leader of Holocaust survivors." Grayek, who was the founder of the World Organization of Partisans, Underground Fighters, Ghetto Rebels and Camp Inmates - the first body to focus public attention on the needs of Holocaust survivors - swore in 1943 to fight anti-Semitism for as long as he lived. He frequently led groups of Holocaust survivors accompanied by the children and grandchildren of survivors on journeys of memory in Poland. For many years he lobbied tirelessly for a Jewish museum pavilion in Auschwitz and against the establishment of a Catholic convent there. He declared in 1989 that no convent would go up in the largest Jewish graveyard in the world. In a Jerusalem Post interview 20 years ago, Grayek was asked why he had not experienced the trauma so common among many Holocaust survivors. He answered: "Perhaps, because like other people in the resistance, I fought back."

2008: The Jewish Film Festival in Croatia comes to an end having screened more than 20 films for 2,500 attendees.

2009: Defense Minister Ehud Barak reportedly told French officials in Paris today that the Israel has “a secret accord” with the United States to maintain “natural growth” of settlements in the West Bank.

2009: Israeli artist Irit Zohar, whose work has been exhibited at the Tel-Aviv Museum (Meirovich section) and countless other galleries, debuts in America at the Historic Sixth and “I” Street Synagogue with Painting in Action, a series of large, powerful, energetic works deeply influenced by her spirituality.

2010:Mark Russ Federman (Herring Maven Emeritus) is scheduled to his share herring tales at the Russ & Daughters Herring Pairing at New York’s Astor, an event designed to celebrate the New Catch Holland Herring and the wonders of many different herrings

2010 “The Biennial Scholars' Conference on American Jewish History,” a meeting organized by the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society, which will examine the notion of American Jewish "exceptionalism," or uniqueness, the  has shaped conceptions of American Jewish history from its beginning is scheduled to open in New York City.

2010(3^rd of Tammuz, 5770): Ninety-two year old Ida Weiner the widow of Manfred Swarsensky who served as Rabbi Temple Beth El in Madison, Wisconsin for thirty-six years, passed away two.

2011: The Leo Baeck Institute is scheduled to present a program entitled “Mahler & Radical Departures”, featuring the works of Mahler, Korngold and Schoenberg, three composers who are a representative of “German and Austrian musicians of Jewish descent who arrived in this country and transformed the American musical landscape.” The works of German-Jewish composer Mauricio Kagel are also scheduled to be performed.

2011: THE BIG JEWCY, sponsored by Jewcy.com, is scheduled to take place in Brooklyn, New York.

2011: At the Jewish Museum of Milwaukee, archivist Jay Hyland is scheduled to present a program entitled ‘Archival Exploration: WWII Edition' that will provide a first-hand look at artifacts and documents from the JMM's collection connected with WWII. This program is a 'teaser' for the 'WWII Historical Encampment Reenactment' scheduled to be later this month.

2011: A Used Book Sale is scheduled to begin today in San Diego, CA,to benefit the Samuel & Rebecca Astor Judaica Library.

2011:The new Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, started work today, taking over for Meron Reuben, who had held the post on an interim basis since last year’s departure of Gabriella Shalev.

2011: A rare total lunar eclipse will occur tonight in Israel's skies from a little after 8:00 p.m. local time until 2:00 a.m. early Thursday morning. Not only is this lunar blackout going to be one of the longest possible, but the astronomy blogger, Ira Machefsky, also known as the 'Starman of Mitzpe Ramon' told the Jerusalem Post additional surprises may be in store. This particular lunar eclipse was already set to be prime viewing for Israeli astronomy fanatics. Machefsky, who has 40 years of astronomy experience, said that the length of time the moon will be in the earth's umbral (or total) shadow is going to be exceedingly long, clocking in at 100 minutes. The partial eclipse is set to begin on today at 8:22 p.m. local time, but the climax will occur when the full ecplise occurs between 10:22 p.m. and 12:02 a.m. tomorrow morning. As the moon leaves the earth's shadow, a partial eclipse will follow until around 2:00 a.m. The moon, according to Machefsky, will travel through the longest possible path of earth's shadow, crossing its diameter in near entirety. That diameter, 6,200 miles wide, is three times the moon's diameter, at 2,100 miles, making for an extended experience. Machefsky explained that 100 minutes is pretty much about how long a lunar eclipse can actually be, with the longest at around 102 minutes. Last time there was an eclipse this long was in 2000. Machefsky told the Post that Israel is a prime spot to enjoy the lunar show because of the time of night the eclipse will occur in Israel's skies. It will also be visible from Africa, the Middle East and most of Asia. The astronomy enthusiast said the phenomenon may be additionally exceptional Wednesday night, as it could be affected by the recent volcanic eruptions in both Eritrea and Chile. Machefsky said that volcanic ash can make the atmosphere more opaque, resulting in two possible situations: the eclipse could be darker because the atmosphere is heavily laden with the fine particles in volcanic ash, or it might make for some interesting color, similar to a sunset. The Starman added that "you are seeing the sunset around the entire world at the time of the eclipse."Heading off to a "Star Party" he was organizing, Machefsky added enthusiastically that despite these predictions, the eclipse remains unpredictable, and that the effects of the volcanoes will remain unknown until the earth's satellite begins its epic show 

2012: In Washington, DC, The Hadassah Attorney’s Council is scheduled to host a luncheon event where Judith Barnet “will speak with us about her decades of experience assisting companies to grow their business in the Middle Eastern and North African marketplace.”

2012: Funeral services are scheduled to take place this morning for Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz who was the spiritual leader of Adas Israel for over a quarter of a century.  While much has been written about his stature as a “Washington Rabbi” for us he was simply the Rabbi.  Rabbi Rabinowitz arrived in the summer of 1960.  My father had been on the search committee that brought him from Minneapolis.  My brother was his first Bar Mitzvah.  That Shabbat Nachamu service may have been Rabbi Rabinoiwtiz’s first Saturday morning service.  I was in the first newly instituted post-Confirmation class which he taught.  I remember him trying to explain to a group of adolescents what a Reconstructionist Jew was.  It wasn’t about ritual; he wanted us to see that it was about the poetry of the soul.  [Excuse the personal comments, but history is a story and even for the great and near-great it is still a story about individual persons.] 

2012: Rabbi Ariel Stone the spiritual leader of Portland, Oregon’s Shir Tikvah, author of Because All Is One and the daughter-in-law of Cedar Rapids community leader Joan Thaler, is scheduled to deliver the sermon at Temple Judah this evening.

 http://www.becauseallisone.com/

2012: Uzi Arad, who served as the head of the National Security Council during the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident, slammed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his government for carrying out "sloppy work" in preparation for the flotilla to Gaza. Arad, speaking during a panel discussion in Tel Aviv today, made the comments two days after State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss criticized the government's decision-making process in dealing with the flotilla in his report on the incident.

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=273986

2012: In Los Angeles, Langer’s Deli began a celebration of its 65^thanniversary by giving away its signature pastrami sandwich which normally sells for $15.20 for free.

2012: In an interview given today Irving Stern gave “his perspective as mayor of Saint Louis Park and Minnesota state senator on local politics, commercial and residential development, and Jewish issues during his years in public service.”

2012: “That’s My Boy” a comedy produced by Adam Sander who co-starred along with Andy Samberg was released today in the United States.

2013: The Jerusalem Piano Duo – Shir Semel and Dror Semel – is scheduled to perform at the Eden-Tamir Music Center.

2013: In Coralville, Iowa, Agudas Achim is scheduled to honor outgoing religious school principal Kineret Zabnert with a special Kiddush Luncheon following Shabbat Moring Services led by Rabbi Jeff Portman.

2013: “Ameer Got His Gun” and “Dr. Pomerantz” are among the films scheduled to be shown today at “Seret 2013” – The London Israeli Film & Television Festival.

2013:Worshipers who came to a Bat Yam synagogue for Shabbat services this morning were stunned to see crosses spray-painted on the doors of the prayer house. Police were investigating the incident.

2013:“Unidentified assailants broke into an IDF base in northern Israel this morning, injuring a soldier and stealing his rifle. The assailants managed to enter the Naftali base, near Golani Junction, after tying up the soldier on guard duty. They then ran away with his rifle.”

2013: MIT’s Shafi Goldwasser was a co-winner of the Alan M. Turning Award.

http://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/15/2013/this-week-in-history-mit-s-shafi-goldwasser-wins-nobel-prize-in-computing

2013(7^thof Tammuz, 5773): Eighty-seven year old Paul Soros, the brother of George Soros passed away today. (As reported by Robert D. Hershey, Jr)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/business/paul-soros-shipping-innovator-dies-at-87.html

2014: A release today from Gaylen Ross announced that “for the first time the critically acclaimed documentary Killing Kasztner will be available as a special 2 DVD Edition as of June 30th which will coincide with the 70th anniversary of the departure of Kasztner’s dramatic rescue train from wartime Budapest.

2014:Jean-François Copé is scheduled to complete his term of office as President of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP)

2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Centuries of Surnames: What Names Can Tell Us,” a presentation by Jeffrey S. Malka who is an authority on Sephardic last names.

2014: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including A Replacement Life by Boris Fishman, The Impossible Exile:Stefan Zweig at the End of the World by George Prochnik and The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom About Children and Parenting by Alfie Kohn

2014: IDF and security forces continue to search for the 3 kidnapped Israeli boys; a search which has included the arrest of several Hamas leaders.

2014: Arabs pelted Jews who returning from a prayer service at the Kotal with rocks which only stopped when authorities arrived.

2014(17^th of Sivan, 5774): Eighty year old Moise Yacoub Safra the Beirut native who “co-founded Banco Safra with his brothers Edmond Safra and Joseph Safra” passed away today at São Paulo, Brazil.

http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/brazilian-jewish-philanthropist-moise-safra-passes-away

2014: “Four rockets were fired by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip at the southern city of Ashkelon.”

2014: “Palestinian gunmen opened fire at Israeli security personnel at a military checkpoint near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, south of Jerusalem, tonight.

2015: The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education at the University of Northern Iowa in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to present “Teaching the Holocaust Today Why and How” at Grandview University in Des Moines, IA.

2015: “The Kishka Monologues” and “When Blood Ran Red” are scheduled to be seen at the Kulturfest, the first-ever international festival of Jewish performing arts, celebrating the global impact of Jewish culture. Presented by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene

2015: “Righteous Rebel: Rabbi Avi Weiss” and “A Tale of a Woman and a Robe” are scheduled to be shown at the JCC Manhattan.

2016: For the first time ever, “Russ & Daughters” is scheduled to “have kosher New Catch Holland Herring for sale at the Jewish Museum” in New York City.

2016: The 17^th annual Washington Jewish Music Festival is scheduled to come to an end.

2016: The Eden-Tamir Music center is scheduled to host the Achinoam Keisar Piano Recital.

2016: “Midnight Orchestra” is scheduled to be shown on the opening night of the 24^th Portland, Oregon, Jewish Film Festival.

2016: As part of its exploration of Gravity, the Chelsea Music Festival is scheduled to present a program celebrating Albert Einstein’s contributions to science as well as his lifelong love for his violin and chamber music.

2016: The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene and Museum of Jewish Heritage are scheduled to present Yiddish Soul at Central Park Summer Stage starring The Maccabeats, Benny Friedman, Netanel Hershtik, Yanky Lemmer, Joseph Malovany, Lipa Shmeltzer, and Zusha

2017: The CHYE Crown Heights Young Entrepreneurs is scheduled to sponsor an evening of “Sushi and Study.”

2017: Today, “Rabbis at B’nai Jeshurun, an influential nondenominational synagogue in New York City, announced at the synagogue’s annual meeting” that they “will officiate at the weddings of interfaith couples who commit to creating Jewish homes and raising Jewish children.” (JTA)

2017: “Brad Sabin Hill, former Fellow in Hebrew Bibliography, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies” is scheduled to speak on “Oxford and the Printing of Judeo-Arabic” which is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition 500 Years of Treasures from Oxford.”

2018: Stan Yaroslavsky is scheduled to appear at Pergamon in Jerusalem

2018: In New Orleans, Temple Sinai is scheduled “to host Mayor LaToya Cantrell at r Shabbat services and the Oneg that follows.

2018: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the first screening of “Studio 54,” a documentary about the venue “which was co-founded by two Jewish friends from Brooklyn, Ian Schrader and Steve Rubell.”

2019: In San Francisco, Benjamin Haims is scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah at Congregation Emanu-El.

2019: A week in which the United States Senate unanimously approved a resolution condemning ant-Semitism while preparing to pass the National Defense Authorization Act which includes a statement indirectly expressing concerns that the Port of Haifa which is often used by the Sixth Fleet will be operated for twenty-five years starting in 2021 by the Shanghai International Port Group comes to an end hopefully without any more rocket attacks from Gaza.

2019: It was reported that NBA Champion Toronto Raptors co-owned by Larry Tanenbaum will be making a visit to Israel.

2019(12^th of Sivan, 5779): Parsahat Nasso;

2019(12^th of Sivan, 5779): Forty-two year old Yale University trained attorney Charles Alan Reich Manhattan born son of , hematologist Carl Reich and school administrator Eleanor (Lesinsky) Reich and the author of The Greening of America, assed away today.(As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/books/charles-reich-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

In Manhattan, hematologist Carl Reich and school administrator Eleanor (Lesinsky) Reich gave birth to Yale University trained attorney Charles Alan Reich the author of The Greening of America. (As reported by Sam Roberts)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/books/charles-reich-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

2020: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host a virtual conversation with Deborah Feldman, the author of Unorthodox and Shira Haas who was “Esty” in the Netflix series “Unorthodox.”

2020: The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host the a session on “The Meaning of Life: Is it All Pointless?” with Rabbi Dr. Michael Harris and Dr. Tamra Wright

2020: In Cedar Rapids, IA, a moment of great sadness as funeral services are scheduled to be held for Andrew Nelson, the husband of Melissa Gasway Nelson, the daughter of Julie and Scott Gasway and granddaughter of Bill and Harriet Gasway, all staunch members of this small but vibrant Jewish community. For more about his amazing young man see Andrew's obituary.