JUNE 5
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 14thcentury 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(7th of Sivan, 5515): Second Day of Shavuot observed as the French besieged Minorca during the Seven Years.
1764(5th 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(7th 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(15th 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(8th of Sivan, 5565): Seventeen-year-old Philadelphia Cohen, the daughter of Gershom who had married Aaron Moise in April of 1805 passed away today in Charleston, SC.
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 21st 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(7th 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(8thof 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.
1837: Sarah Ann Hays and West Point graduate Alfred Mordecai, the U.S. Army officer who commanded the arsenal at Washington, DC during the war with Mexico gave birth to Lauara Mordecai, the older sister of Civil War hero, Alfred Mordecai, Jr.
1838: Jacob Kann married Amalie de Jonge.
1843(7thof 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.
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 11thIndiana Infantry. Knefler would eventually work his way up to the chain of command to become a Brigadier General. His commanding officer in the 11th Indiana was Lew Wallace, author of Ben Hur, the 19thcentury classic set in Judea with a Jewish hero. Wallace and Knefler were friends before the war.
1862(7thof Sivan, 5622): As Union forces under General Grant lay siege to Vicksburg, Jews on both sides of the Mason and Dixon line observed the second day of Shavuot.
1865(5thof 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 362ndInfantry, 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 19th century and started Cass and Rosenthal, a manufacturer of infants and children’s coats with German Jewish immigrant Max Rosenthal.
1873: In San Francisco, Meyer and Bertha 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 7th 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 “a venomous 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.”
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(22ndof 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.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/05/09/105432055.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
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(6th 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.
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 follower of the faith” and that 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” the wife of Bernard Kaufmann
1906: “Six hundred members of the Congregation of Temple Israel of Harlem saw the laying of the corner stone of their new temple, at 120th Street and Lenox Avenue, this afternoon.
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(6thof 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.
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 Fort 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: The last issue Di Tsayt, a Yiddish language weekly newspaper, was published today just before the start of World War I.
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(7thof Sivan 5679) Second Day of Shavuot
1919(7thof 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 menand 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.”
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(13thof 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.
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(5THof Sivan, 5687): Erev Shavuot
1927(5thof 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 7th 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(11thof 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 in the “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 92nd 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(4thof 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(6thof 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)
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(26thof 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(20thof Sivan, 5710: Seventy-year-old Hyman Aaron who in 1900 came to the United States where he established his own construction firm in Brooklyn, became a director the Stone Avenue Talum Torah and of the Beth El Hospital and married Mollie Spille and had two sons, “Bernard J. and Dr. Jules Aaron” and “a daughter, Mrs. Mendel Berman, passed away today at his home in Brooklyn.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/06/06/89408960.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
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
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(5thof Sivan, 5725) Erev Shavuot
1965(5thof 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 an attack on the Egyptian air base at Fayid. The plane earned its nickname when it was scorched during Lanir’s dogfight with the Syrians in 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 21st century, 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
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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(23rdof 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.
1973(5thof Sivan, 5733): Ervev Shavuot
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(7thof Sivan, 5756): Last observance of Shavuot Shel Shabbat during the Presidency of Gerald Ford.
1979(10thof 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(3rdof 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(5thof Sivan, 5744): Erev of Shavuot
1984(5thof 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.
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(23rdof 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.
1993(16thof Sivan, 5753): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1993(16thof 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(7thof 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.)
1995(7thof Sivan, 5755): Second Day of Shavuot
1998(11thof Sivan, 5758): Author and literary critic Alfred Kazin passed away today on his 83rd birthday.
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 83rd birthday. 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
1999: At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA, Aufruf for Deb and Mitchell Levin.
2000(2ndof 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.
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(25thof 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. 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.
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 10th 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(15thof 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)
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)
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.
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(7thof Sivan, 5774): 2nd 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)
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 100thanniversary 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(28thof 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 17thAnnual 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” 19th 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(11thof 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)
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(11thof Sivan, 5777): Ninety-two year old architect William Krisel passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
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 20thCentury” 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(22ndof 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)
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 6th 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: 90th 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.
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 76th anniversary of D-Day.
2020: The Maine Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to begin online today.
2021: In Brookline, MA, Congregation Kehillath Israel is scheduled morning services in the sanctuary followed by a free lunch and the chance to schmooze and talk a bit of Torah with friends.
2021: In Columbus, OH, at Tifereth Israel Congregation, Allison Lefkowitz is scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah.
2021: In Boulder, CO, Congregation Bonai Shalom is scheduled to livestream Shabbat morning services.
2021: Temple Emanuel of Newton is scheduled to present “Gesher 30s and 40s: Whiskey Tasting.”
2021(25thof Sivan, 5781): Parashat Shelach-Lecha (Send forth); for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/