JUNE 30
713 CE: In Spain, Visigoth nobility which had held out against the invading Moslem forces, throughout the winter of 712 finally surrendered to the Arabs. A majority of the remaining Goths and Hispano-Roman people who lived in the newly acquired areas eventually converted to Islam. The Jews, who had been persecuted by the ruling Goths, proved to be the exception. They kept their religious identity and flourished under the new rulers.
1270: In Germany, Rabbenu Asher and his wife gave birth to Talmudist Judah ben Asher, the rabbi at Toledo who was the brother of Jacob be Asher.
1294: The Jewish community of Berne, Switzerland forfeited all financial claims against non-Jews, and then was expelled from the country.
1298: The Jewish community of Morgentheim, Austria was massacred.
1470: Birthdate of Charles VIII, King of France. In 1494, Charles invaded Italy leading to the occupation of the Kingdom of Naples in 1495. Charles conquest led to increased persecutions of the Jewish population which lead to their expulsion in 1510, two years after his death.
1487: At Faro, Portugal, the printing of a Pentateuch was completed on the printing pressed located in the house of Don Samuel Giacon. According to Konrad Haebler's Typographie Ibèrique, “this was the first Hebrew book printed with vowel-points.”
1503: Birthdate of John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony who in August of 1536 “issued a mandate that prohibited Jews from inhabiting, engaging in business in, or passing through his realm.
1522: Johann Reuchlin “a German humanist and a scholar of Greek and Hebrew” who “for much of his life… was the real centre of all Greek and Hebrew teaching in Germany, passed away. “In 1510, Reuchlin was drawn into a bitter controversy with the Jewish-Dominican convert Johannes Pfefferkorn, who had convinced the emperor to confiscate and burn copies of the Talmud and other Jewish books. Asked for his opinion on the issue, Reuchlin urged the preservation of this literature and recommended the establishment of a chair of Hebrew in each of the major universities. As a result of his efforts, the order to destroy the Jewish books was rescinded. However, his enemies persisted, and Reuchlin had to face charges from the Inquisition. He was able to deflect the accusations for a time and returned to teaching …. Reuchlin is considered a hero in the history of European Judaism.”
1650: William Prynne, the Puritan leader who was an outspoken opponent of re-admitting Jews to England, and who “was sentenced to be imprisoned during life, to be fined £5,000, to be expelled from Lincoln's Inn, to be deprived of his degree by the university of Oxford, and to lose both his ears in the pillory” for his attacks on dramatic performances and King Charles I was arrested today and imprisoned in Dunster Castle.
1651: During the Khmelnytsky Uprising, Polish forces prevailed at the Battle of Beresteczko. The victory only provided a brief respite. The Cossack Revolt would continue with thousands of more Jews dying in what would be the worst loss of life until the Holocaust.
1680: In Madrid, an Auto de Fe was held in honor of the marriage of Carlos II to Louis Marie d’Orleans. It took place in the Plaza Mayor and lasted 14 hours. Over 50,000 spectators came to see 118 accused sentenced to prison or burned. It marked the last time that a "royal" auto was held since Carlos’ successor, Philip V, refused the "honor."
1713: Nehemiah Chiya Chayun arrived at Amsterdam and requested permission of the Portuguese congregation to circulate his writings, which had been published at Berlin.
1739: Birthdate of Moses Ben Abraham Frankel the Berlin born rabbi who was the father of David Frankel.
1760: In Philadelphia, Lyon Nathan and Caroline Webb gave birth to Leah Nathan, the wife of Jacob Naphtali Hart with whom she had twelve children.
1762: In New York, 31 year old Uriah Henricks, a native of the Netherlands married Eva Henricks.
1781: In Danbury, CT, Solomon Simson and his wife gave birth to Sampson Simosn the first Jewish graduate of Columbia who went on to become a lawyer in New York. (As reported by Dr. Yitzchok Levin)
1782(18thof Tammuz, 5542): Because the 17 fell on Shabbat, observance of Tzom Tammuz
1783 (30th of Sivan, 5543): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1784: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Abraham Alexander officiated at the wedding of 16 year old Rachel de la Motta, a native of St. Croix to Abraham de Pass of Jamaica.
1785: James Oglethorpe, the founder of the colony (and later the state) of Georgia passed away. Georgia had been created by Oglethorpe as an alternative to Debtor’s Prison. However, when a boatload of Sephardic Jews arrived in the colony a month after its founding, Oglethorpe welcomed them as he did a subsequent arrival of German Jews who came a year later. Oglethorpe did this despite the opposition of the trustees which surely endeared him to this remnant of the House of Israel.
1811: In Philadelphia, Arabella Solomon and Zalegman Phillips who were married in 1805 gave birth to Henry Myer Phillips, who was ranked “as one of the best constitutional lawyers” in the United States and a member of the Democratic Party who represented the 4th Pennsylvania Congressional District in the 35th Congress.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/henry-myer-phillips
1819: Ellen and Henry Naftali Isaacs were married to at the Great Synagogue.
1821(30th of Sivan, 5581): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1821: Birthdate of Sigmund von Henle, a descendant of Löb Berlin, the district rabbi of Bamberg a lawyer who was held in high esteem by King Ludwig II.
1824: Fishes Moses married Rachel Depass in Charleston, SC.
1830: Birthdate of Richard Liebreich, the native of Königsberg and brother of pharmacologist Oskar Liebreich who became a leading ophthalmologist and physiologist.
1838: The Swedish government abolished discrimination against Jews. Unfortunately due to public objections it was repealed. Another 30 years were to pass before Jews were given the right to vote.
1840: Major Alfred Mordecai and Sara Ann “Hays” Mordecai gave birth to Alfred Mordecai, Jr. the West Point Graduate who served with distinction during the Civil War and Rose to the rank of Brigadier General.
1841: One day after she had passed away, 87 year old Frances Nathan was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Street Cemetery.”
1850: Four days after he had passed away, Andrew Barnett, the father of Sophia, Louisa, Jane and Harriet Barnett, was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1852: Today, twenty-six year old Abraham de Sola, the London born “sixth child of Rebecca Meldola and David Aaron de Sola” the rabbi at Shearith Israel married “Esther Joseph, the youngest daughter of Henry Joseph and Rachel Solomons, with whom he would raise a family in Montreal whose Jewish community benefited greatly from his efforts as did the secular community as can be seen by his appointment to the faculty at McGill.
1860: Minnie and Joseph Polakoff gave birth to Louis Polakoff, the husband of Annie Polakoff and the father of Minnie, Rosie, Charles and Joseph Polakoff who was the co-founder of L. Polakofff and Company, the Buffalo base “wholesale and retail dealers in coal and ice.”
1861: Amalie Grinberg, the daughter of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer and Henrietta (Gütel) Kalischer and her husband Moritz Grünberg gave birth to Henryka Grunberg.
1862: At Glendale, VA, seventeen year old Private Benjamin Bennett Levy, a drummer-boy in the Union Army, picked up the “colors” when the color bearers and carried them during the battle. He saved them from capture by the Rebels and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery under fire. [Nothing was of greater value to a regiment than its colors. Defeat in battle was one thing; losing the colors to the enemy was a point of great disgrace. Color bearers were an easy target for enemy soldiers, so it was a high risk job.]
1862; Ellis C. Strouss who had enlisted in the 57th Regiment on November 1, 1861, was wounded today at Charles City Cross Roads, as known as the Battle of Glendale, which was part of the Peninsula Campaign where Union General McClellan fritted away his opportunity to capture Richmond and suffered an ignominious defeat at the hands of General Lee.
1863(13thof Tammuz, 5623): Mordecai Ze'eb Ettinger passed away today at Lemberg. Born in 1804, he was the father of Rabbi Isaac Aaron Ettinger, the nephew of Rabbi Moses Joshua Heschel and the brother-in-law of Joseph Saul Nathanson with whom he co-authored "Mefareshe ha-Yam"
1864: During the Civil War at the Battle of Petersburg, Abraham Cohn, a Sergeant Major with the 6th New Hampshire Infantry “bravely and coolly carried orders to the advanced Union line while under severe fire from Confederate troops” behavior for which he earned the Medal of Honor.
1865: Philadelphian Michael Baer completed his service 204th Regiment as Major.
1866: Today, in Romania, Jews were attacked maimed and robbed. The Bucharest Synagogue was desecrated and demolished. As a result of the violence Article 6 of the 1866 Constitution was replaced by Article 7. Article 6 declared that "religion is no obstacle to citizenship"; but, "with regard to the Jews, a special law will have to be framed in order to regulate their admission to naturalization and also to civil rights". Article 7 read that "only such aliens as are of the Christian faith may obtain citizenship". All this came to pass when Charles von Hohenzollern took the throne as Carol I and was forced to deal with a riot against the Jews in his capital city.
1870(1st of Tammuz, 5630): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1873: Two days after he had passed away, Hart Robinson, the teenage son of George and Sarah Robinson was buried today at “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1874: “Partial Destruction of a Town by Fire” published today described the two days of fires in Berditchev, a Ukrainian city in the Russian “inhabited most by Jews” have destroyed over 600 houses and left thousands homeless. [Berditichev was a major center of Jewish life in the Ukraine, home to Mittnagdim and Chasidim, the famous of which were the Berditchiver Hasidim and their Rebbe, Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev
1874: In Canton, PA, Isaac and Dora (Feldstein) Levy gave birth to Syracuse University trained attorney and Syracuse College of Law professor T. Aaron Levy, a delegate to the first Jewish World Congress and a leader of the Syracuse, NY Jewish community who was active in the B’nai B’rith.
1875: Alfred Jacobs married Emily Flatau at the Freemason Tavern in London.
1876: Esther Hellman Wallenstein, the founding president of the Hebrew Infant Asylum and Solomon Wallenstein gave birth to the youngest child Milton H. Wallenstein.
1878: According to today’s Foreign Notes column, before departing for the meeting of heads of state in Berlin, the Earl of Beaconsfield received a letter from Lionel de Rothschild in which he asked Disraeli to do everything he could to get them to endorse measures that would put all religions on an equal footing in each of their countries. Rothschild made a special point of asking Disraeli to intervene on behalf of the suffering Jews of Romania and Serbia. Disraeli replied that he would do all that he could in this matter.
1879: In Zbąszyń, Poland, Jacobi Bornstein and Thekla Bornstein gave birth to Paul Bornstein the husband of Hanna Bornstein and the father of Toni Bornstein.
1882: In Vilna, Michael and Hattie Goldstein Fishman gave birth to University of Michigan Medical School graduate Dr, Casriel Fishman, the husband of Miriam Goldman Fishman whom he married in 1912 before beginning his medical practice in Oklahoma City in 1912 and serving on the faculty of the OU Medical School in 1918.
1882: Between now and April of 1881, “no less than 225,000 Jewish families – comprising over a million souls – have fled from Russia.”
1885(17thof Tammuz, 5645): Tzom Tammuz observed as funds are being raised to assemble the parts of the Statute of Liberty which had arrived on June 17 in several crates on board a French steamer.
1888(21stof Tammuz, 5648): Parshat Pinchas
1888(21stof Tammuz, 5648): Eighty-eight year old Sing Sing, NY native Anna Marks, “a founder of a Hebrew Sunday School” and a “Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum” passed away today in NYC.
1889(1st of Tammuz, 5649): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1889: In Philadelphia, PA, David Julius, a bookbinder who had fled Odessa, and his wife gave birth to Emanuel Julius, who adopted the last name of his first wife Marcet Haldeman to become Emanuel Haldeman-Julius “the nationally known publisher of the ‘Little Blue Books’.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/08/01/88438961.html?pageNumber=24
1890: Birthdate of Nathaniel Peffer, the native New Yorker was a “Far Eastern correspondent for the New York Tribune” who parlayed his 25 years of living in China into an academic career at Columbia University.
http://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/14/nathaniel-peffer-of-columbia-expert-on-the-far-east-dies.html?_r=0
1890: It was reported today that the Romsey Abbey “founded more than nine centuries ago” by Benedictine monks included a library “that was celebrated for its collection of Hebrew books.”
1891: In Kovno, Lithuania, “Jonah and Tillie (Hurvitz) Arosn gave birth to European trained Rabbi Joseph Harry Aronson, the husband of Ida Jacobson and since 1922, “the Director of the Rabbinical Seminary of New Haven, CT” while also serving as the Charmain of the Board of the Board of the New Britain (CT) Hebrew Institute.”
1891: “The first of the weekly excursions” sponsored by the “Sanitarium for Hebrew Children took place” today.
1891: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Max and Sarah Hexter gave birth to Maurice Beck Hexter the husband of Marguerite Hexter.
1891: Robert Watchorn, the Immigration Commissioner who in 1907attended a Seder at Ellis Island in 1907 where he gave “a speech dealing with the right of every man in this country to worship God according to his own conviction and pointing out that a man who served God was sure to make a good citizen married Almas Jessica today in Columbus, Ohio.
1891: In Kovno, Johan and Tillie (Hurvtiz) Aronson, gave birth to Rabbi Joseph Harry Aaronson, the husband of Ida Isaacson who, starting in 1922 became the head of Tephereth Israel in New Britain, CT while serving as Director of the Rabbinical Seminary of New Haven, CT.
1891: During the fiscal year ending today, Russia sent 33,504 immigrants to the United States, “the majority of whom were Jews.”
1891: “The Nautch Girl,” a two-act comic opera with music by Edward Solomon opened at the Savoy Theatre.
1891: “To The Land Of Midian” published today described the plan of Dr. Paul Friedman, a native of Berlin who lived in London before settling in New York, to settle Russian Jews in “the land of Midian which extends from 26 degrees to 30 degrees north latitude and is situated on the Gulf of Akaba near the head of the Red Sea. Friedman had originally sought to use Somalia for this purpose but after visiting there “he concluded that it was not suitable.
1891: Over four hundred people sailed up the Hudson as far as Yonkers today during the first of the weekly excursions sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children.
1892: In an example of the problems with transliteration “The Holy Land Colonies” published today described the activities of “Showey Zion meaning Returners to Zion.” The author probably meant “Shavei Tzion” - שבי ציון (Zion Returneees)
1892: It was reported today that New York lawyer Adam Rosenberg is the President of “Returners to Zion” a recently incorporated society “whose main object” is to send Russian Jews to the Palestine “as colonists.”
1892: Marriage broker or ‘Shatchen” Martin Klein brought suit in a Brooklyn court today in an attempt to collect a $25 commission he claimed cigar maker Mauritz Grauer owed him for having secured a husband for Miss Paulie Grauer. Klein also claimed that Grauer had promised the groom, liquor dealer Joseph Ritter an additional $500.
1892: An explosion at 26 Willet Street, a tenement that was home to Polish and Russian Jews “wrecked the lower part of the house and injured half a dozen tenants.”
1892: Rabbi Levy officiated at the marriage of Jacob Rosenstein of St. Louis and Florence A. Belitzer which took place at the home of the bride’s mother in Charleston, SC.
1893: Birthdate of Harold Joseph Laski “an English political theorist, economist, author, and lecturer, who served as the chairman of the Labour Party during 1945-1946.”
1894: It was announced today that the Hebrew Institute will be hosting a series of lectures by prominent doctors on the “Care and Feeding of Infants during the Warm Weather.”
1894: Representatives of the United Hebrew Trades Association spoke at tonight’s meeting held in Union Square to support the proposed “under-ground rapid transit system.
1894: “Isaac Jacobs, a middle-aged Jew…was arrested” today “on a larceny warrant.” (More to come)
1895: “A troupe of German-speaking peasants are performing a passion play similar to the one presented at Ober-Ammergau” at the “village of Selzach in the Swiss canton of Solothurun.” A large number of Berliners are expected to attend the performance.
1895: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Isaac and Lilly Pichel gave birth to the co-author of A Doctor Discusses Breast Feeding, Marie Pichel Warner the wife of Dr. Lewis J. Levinson and Dr. Benjamin Warner and the mother of Dr. Richard R.P. Warner
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Warner-Marie-Pichel-Levinson
1895: It was reported today that “a recent examination” of the books of the B’nai B’rith Society in San Francisco showed that the shortage was actually $17,000 and not $13,000 as originally alleged. The discovery of the original shortage led to the suicide of Louis Blanc, the Society’s former treasurer. He had not been prosecuted for taking the money, but the community obviously failed he was responsible when they failed to re-elect him as treasurer.
1895: Annie Silverman, the wife of Wolf Silverman was buried today at Washington Cemetery in New York.
1897: A list of the graduates of the Hebrew Technical School for Girls published today included the names of Mary Wiener, Esther Freed, Celia Levin and Sadie Pearlman.
1899: After having traveled in locked cabin for three weeks, Alfred Dreyfus completed his voyage from Devil’s Island when he “disembarked today at Port Haliguen on the Quiberon Peninsula” shrouded in a nocturnal cloak of secrecy.
1890: Birthdate of New York City native and Columbia trained Urologist Gordon D. Oppenheimer, the husband of the former Frances Reese.
1900(3rdof Tammuz, 5660): Chaya Chana Ettinger (nee Kluger), the wife of Yonah Ettinger, passed away today.
1901: In Albany, NY, this evening Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church which has been holding serves in the building housing Temple Beth Emeth since its building burned on May 9 and Temple Beth Emeth held a joint service led by Reverend A. H. Lucas and Rabbi Alexander H. Lyon.
1902: Herzl began a journey to London seeking support for his plans for a Jewish homeland. The journey lasted until July 17.
1903: Sir Marcus Samuel, the Lord Mayor of London, “received the Freedom of the City of Sheffield” today.
1903: As of today, “the Education for the Higher of Education of Orphans with headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio” which “was organized in 1896, “counted 1,218 members living in 58 towns in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. “
1904(17thof Tammuz, 5564): Tzom Tammuz
1904: On a day connected with the loss of the second Jewish commonwealth, Herzl, the man trying to connect a modern Jewish commonwealth, suffers a severe bronchial catarrh, which turns into pneumonia. Oskar Marmorek proceeds to Edlac with two doctors.
1905: In the year ending today, the Legal Bureau of the Educational Alliance reported that it had “transacted business for 9,804 applicants” which marked a large increase in providing serving for “Americanizing immigrants.”
1905: Albert Einstein published the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" where he introduces special relativity.
1906: In Brooklyn, Russian Jewish immigrants Eliahu and Rose Pinta gave birth to Hebrew teacher Judith Pinta who gained fame as Mizrachi leader Judith Mandelbaum, the wife of Mordechai Mandelbaum with whom she had one child, a daughter named Rhea.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/mandelbaum-judith-pinta
1907: Dr. Harry Friedenwald, the President of the of the Zionist Federation is scheduled to preside over today’s session of the “Zionist Convention” at Tannersville, NY where delegates are going to discuss “the formation of a syndicate for the development of industrial opportunities in Palestine.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/06/30/104990550.html?pageNumber=5
1908(1stof Tammuz, 5668) Rosh Chodesh Tammuz observed on the same day that an asteroid struck eastern Russia in what is known as the “Tunguska Event.”
1909: The Hebrew Benevolent Loan Society of Buffalo, NY contributed $5.00 to the National Conference of Jewish Charities today.
1910: “Still Expelling Jews” published today reported today that in the last two day 158 Jews have been forced to leave Kiev, 61 from Solomenka and 57 from Demieffka.
1911: In Paramaribo, Suriname, Daniel Joseph Hartogh and Estelle Celine Abrahams gave birth to the first child and first son Salomon Maurits Hartogh
1911: Today, Rabbi Nathan Krass of Temple Israel officiated at the funeral of businessman and philanthropist Abraham Abraham who was so respected and popular that a large crowd gathered along both sides of Bedford Avenue as the body was being brought to the Temple and “and the inside of the Temple was thronged with those who came to pay their last respects.”
1911: “The department store on Fulton Street in Brooklyn and Macy’s department store in Manhattan” were closed today out of respect for the late Abraham Abraham.
1911: A Jew, Abraham Benrubi, former President of the Tribunal of Commerce at Cavalla (Turkey) was appointed Judge of the Court of Appeal in Jerusalem.
1912: A few weeks after serving as valedictorian for her high school graduation, Bertha Alexander who would change her name to Beatrice and gain fame as “Madame Alexander”, married Philip Behrman (Jewish Women’s Archives)
1912: Lieutenant Albert M. Cohen, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Cohen of Philadelphia was listed as one of the nine officers who had contributed “most to the efficiency of the U.S. Navy battleship Delaware in the last year.”
1913: The resignation of William Williams, the reform minded Commissioner at Ellis Island whose exclusionary practices were challenged by the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society, became effective today.
1913(25th of Sivan, 5673): Nathan Waxman, “a communal worker in Brookline, Massachusetts” passed away today.
1913: Eighty-three year old Victor Henri Rochefort, the editor of La Patrie who joined with people like Edoouard Drumont and Hubert Joseph Henry to promote the campaign against Dreyfus passed away today.
1914: In Rochester, NY, the convention of the Federation of the American Zionists which Max Schulmam of the Knights of Zion and Miss Bessie Schulman of the “Hoachuzah Order are attending as delegates is scheduled to come to an end day
1914: Rabbi Henry Cohen of Galveston is scheduled to give the “Opening Prayer” at tonight’s session of the 25th anniversary conference of the Central Conference of American Rabbis being held at Temple Beth El in Detroit, Michigan.
1915: Birthdate of Henritette Klatscherova, who 20 days before her 27thbirthday was transported from Prague to Ujazdow where she was murdred.
1915: The convention of the Federation of American Zionists came to a close this evening with the election of national officers. Dr. Harry Friedenwald of Baltimore was elected President. Other officers chosen were Chairman of Executive Committee, Louis Lipsky of New York; Honorary Secretary, Bernard A. Rosenblatt of New York, and Treasurer, Louis Robison of New York. The delegates to the convention received a pleasant surprise at this closing session when it was announced that Nathan Starus, the famed philanthropist had turned over his private yacht, valued at between $35,000 and $50,000, to the Zionists to help them deal with the looming financial shortfall.
1915: “Rabbi Hertz At Front” published today described the chief rabbi’s visit to the Western Front where when holding services he discussed the peril facing the British Empire and said that the “Jews of the empire had fully realized the duty of the hour and nobly responded to the country’s call.
1916: Seventy year old French Egyptologist Gaston Camille Charles Maspero passed away. He was the author of The Struggles of the Nations which provided an account of “the first Egyptian mention of the Hebrews ever found on an Egyptian monument.”
1916: It was reported today that an article appeared “in the current issue of the American Jewish Chronicle supported by photographs which claims to prove that the Russian Government was instrumental in the instigation of pogroms” in that country.
1916(29thof Sivan, 5676): Ninety-two year old Louis Hershfield, father of Isidore Hershfield, the Director of HIAS who came to the United States from Russia more than 70 years ago ago passed away today at the home of his daughter, Lillian Hershfield today.
1917: Birthdate of Bernard “Buddy” Rich. Born in Brooklyn, Rich is best remembered as one of the greatest drummers of all times. Later in his career he was the leader of his own group – The Buddy Rich Band. According to one legend, when on his deathbed a nurse asked him if anything was bothering him, Rich replied, “Yes, country music.
1917: “The Ninth Annual Convention of Young Judaea” is scheduled to open this evening at Asbury Park, N.J.
1917: Thirty-one year old Israel S. Wechsler, the Romanian born son of Moses and Leah Wechsler and Bellevue Medical College trained neurologist and psychiatrist married Minnie Wechsler with whom had two children - Miriam and Robet.
1917: Nathaniel E. Harris, who was the governor when Leo Frank was lynched, completed his terms as Georgia’s chief executive.
1917: It was reported today that the 1,000 immigrants who arrived in New York last week from Rotterdam were the first Jews to “come here from occupied Russia-Germany since the break in relations between the United States and Germany.
1917: It was reported today that “the Jewish Ladies’ Aid Society of the B’nai Jeshurun Congregation in Lincoln, Nebraska” which has 62 members including its Secretary, Mrs. Henry Kohn, “has contributed $10 to the Hebrew Union Scholarship Fund.” (Editor’s note – this entry serves as reminder that Jewish communities existed in a wide-variety of locations beyond a few major metropolitan areas.)
1917: “A Russian officer’s opinion on the effect of the revolution on the Russian Army was cabled to Abraham Cahan editor of The Jewish Daily Forward” which revealed “that thousands of high ranking officers of the army were slaughtered by their men at the outbreak of the revolution.”
1918: During a twelve month period starting today, 3,055 Jews were admitted to the United States and 373 Jews departed from the United States.
1919: “Different from Others” a silent film directed and produced by Richard Oswald who co-authored the script with Magnus Hirschfeld who co-starred with Reinhold Schunzel was released today in the German Weimar Republic.
1919: Today, The Committee on Public Information for which Walter Wanger made short propaganda films designed “to combat anti-war or pro-German sentiment in Allied Italy” “was formally disestablished by an act of Congress”
1920: The 31st annual convention of The Central Conference of American Rabbis is scheduled to continue to for a second day in Rochester, NY.
1920: Sir Herbert Samuel the first high commissioner for Palestine arrives in Jaffa and is received with a military ceremony. Samuel served in the position for five years. He was the son of Edwin Louis Samuel, a successful Anglo-Jewish banker. Samuel had been raised as an Orthodox Jew and although according to at least one source, he ceased to be a practicing Jew but remained active in Jewish affairs.
1920: Birthdate of science fiction author Sam Moskowitz.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/roboman/www/sigma/may97sig.html
1920: This afternoon at the St. Regis Hotel, Rabbi Nathan Stern officiated at the wedding of “Juliette V. Roth, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. and Charles R. Roth” and “Louis Martin Levy, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Levy.”
1920: “Carolyn Markowitz,” the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Markowitz married “Jerome C Levy” the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Levy.
1921:Jonas and Pauline Bernanke arrived at Ellis Island today. The 30 year old Bernanke listed his occupation as “clerk.” The Bernankes eventually moved to Dillon, South Carolina, where they ran a drug store and raised a son named Ben.
1922: In Philadelphia, a year after they had arrived in the United States, “two Jewish immigrants gave birth to Max David Ticktin, the JTS trained rabbi who served as the Hillel Director at the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin before become “a professor of Yiddish and Hebrew Literature at George Washington University.
1922: The Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), the Reform movement's professional organization, meeting in Cape May, N.J., voted 56 to 11 to affirm in principle the right of women to become rabbis.
1922: President Harding agreed to put the Merchant Marine Bill, which had been championed by Albert Lasker, “on hold during a six week congressional recess” that started today so that the Lasker, the advertising genius turned government official, could rally support for the legislation.
1922: A joint resolution of both Houses of Congress of the United States unanimously endorsed the "Mandate for Palestine," confirming the irrevocable right of Jews to settle in the area of Palestine - anywhere between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea:
" Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the United States of America favors the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which should prejudice the civil and religious rights of Christian and all other non-Jewish communities in Palestine, and that the holy places and religious buildings and sites in Palestine shall be adequately protected." (As described by Dr. Yitzchok Levine)
1923(16thof Tammuz, 5683): Parashat Balak
1923(16thof Tammuz, 5683): Sixty-eight year old Albany born businessman and Republican politician Louis I. Waldman passed away today.
1924(28th of Sivan, 5684): Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael De Haan, a Dutch born Jew who was a leader of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community opposed to Zionism was shot outside of the synagogue moments after finishing his evening prayers. De Haan was scheduled to lead a delegation of ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionist Jews to London where he planned to make their case to the British government. His killer was rumored to be a fellow Jew. The Jewish community of Jerusalem, regardless of political affiliation was shocked by the killing and 20,000 people turned out for his funeral. Forty years after the crime took place a 1970 broadcast on Israeli radio revealed that the killer had been a member of Haganah who had killed De Haan because he was viewed as a traitor.
http://cf.uba.uva.nl/nl/publicaties/treasures/text/t44.html
1924: AvrahamTehomi allegedly shot and killed the Dutch Jewish poet, novelist and diplomat Jacob Israel de Haan, who was living in Jerusalem as a journalist.
1925: Viscount Herbert Samuel completed his service as High Commissioner of Palestine. He was the first person to hold the position.
1925: Birthdate of Samuel M. Ehrenhalt, “a poet of percentages who for 15 years as a regional commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics transformed colorless wage and employment figures into small, brightly lighted windows onto New Yorkers’ daily lives.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1926: Birthdate of Paul Berg, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1980.
1926: Governor Moore of New Jersey is scheduled to deliver the welcoming remark at the opening session the annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Professor Louis Ginzberg and Rabbi Max Drob are scheduled to address the meeting of North American rabbis being held at the Scarboro Hotel in Long Branch, NJ.
1927: Henry Ford retracted and apologized for the publication of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
1927: In Chicago, Marion (née Weil) and Maurice Clarence Goldman, gave birth today to playwright and screenwriter James Adolf Goldman the old brother of novelist William Goldman.
1928: Birthdate of Oscar Muller, the student arrested at Bergen in 1942 and killed at Auschwitz in 1943.
1929: “Behind That Curtain’ a mystery produced by William Fox with a script co-authored by Sony Levien was released today in the United States.
1929: Two days after the release of the silent version, the sound version of “Broadway Babies” a musical directed by Mervyn LeRoy was released today in the United States.
1932: Chaim Arolsoroff “wrote a long letter to Chaim Weizmann” in which he estimated that the Zionist movement had only a short period of time at its disposal” because within five to ten ears Europe would be engulfed in war and the Yishuv would likely find itself facing wither an Arab-British alliance or an Arab revolt and because cut off from the Jewish world, its people and resources.”
1934: Night of the Long Knives: Hitler ordered the execution of some of the SA (Sturm Abteilungen) leaders of whose absolute loyalty he questioned including Ernst Roehm. Until then the SS under Himmler was subordinate to the SA. The SS now became independent and was given charge of the concentration camps.
1934: “Baby, Take a Bow,” a comedy directed by Harry Lachman was released today in the United States.
1934: “Rabbi Benjamin Friedman of Temple Society of Concord, Dr. Aaron Burman, president of the Jewish National Fund Council, Benjamin G. Rudolph, T. Aaron Levy, Alexander Holstein and Samuel D. Solomon are the delegates from the Syracuse, NY district of the ZOA attending the “37th annual national convention of the Zionist Organization of America” scheduled to take place today in Atlantic City, NJ.
1935: At Bloomingdale’s swimsuits “made to sell for 5.95 o 8.95” are now on sale for 3.95.
1935: Abraham & Straus is selling “Jacobean print cretonnes” made up by their cutters for “$2.98” a yard and “English-type ready-made Slipcovers for Sofas for $3.98.”
1936(10thof Tammuz, 5695): Phineas H. Toldeano, the President of Toledano Exporting Company, whose wife Rachel, the daughter of Mordecai and Ernestine Epstein was “President of the Jewish Girls’ Welfare Society and a member of the Shearith Israel Sisterhood’s board of managers passed away today in New York City.
1936: Gretel Bergmann matched a German high jump record today. Two weeks later the young Jewess would be kicked off the German Olympic Team.
1936(10th of Tammuz, 5695): Mrs. Eva M/ Aronson, “a communal work” passed away today in Seattle, WA.
1936: Polish Jews strike to protest anti-Semitism.
1936: “Disturbances…of an anti-Semitic character were reported today from Oran, Alger and Constantine.”
1936: Max Silverman is scheduled to be re-elected today as the Grand Master of B’rith Abraham today.
1936: In Paris, the Minister of the Interior “said the blue-shirted nationalist ‘Francistes’ had plotted to kill” Premiere Leon Blum.
1937: Birthdate of Gideon Ezra, the native of Jerusalem who served as an MK and led several government ministries.
1937: “A tower and stockade kibbutz was established at Tirat Zevi (Zevi’s Castle) 6 miles south-east of Beisan and less than a mile from the Jordan border.” [As the debate rages about the borders of the state of Israel and settlements on the “West Bank,” please note the location of this kibbutz. Obviously the Zionist pioneers assumed that all territory west of the Jordan River was open to them.]
1937: Under the auspices of the Bialiki Association, Chiam Nachman Bialik’s house was opened to the public. The public display included: the archives of Bialik’s manuscripts and that of other writers, Bialik’s private library and a museum with the poet’s personal possessions.
1938: In Austria, “at almost 10,000 Jewish owned commercial and industrial enterprises…the employers announced to some 30,000 Jewish employees their immediate dismissal on orders from various Nazi organizations.”
1938: In Vienna when asked about the fate of the Jews, Joseph Buerckel, the Reich Commissioner for Austria said that “This is a revolution” and “the Jews may be glad that it is not on the French or Russian pattern.”
1939: Tel Aviv attorney M. Seligman was released on bail, pending his appeal of a conviction on charges of conspiring to assist in the illegal immigration of Jews into Palestine which carried a six month term of imprisonment. “He was acquitted of 18 other charges including brigery and corruption of Palestine Government officials.”
1939: Premiere of “Bachelor Mother” directed by Garson Kanin.
1940: “Nazi System Rules in Poland” published today reported that the Germans have divided “the inhabitants of Poland into three categories” one of which are the Jews who “have no civil rights” and who must “wear white armbands marked with a blue Star of David” which is designed “to distinguish them from others.”
1940: “An appeal to the British Government to defend the Jewish Homeland and to help preserve democracy was made here today at the opening session of the Zionist Organization of America by Ludwig Lewisohn, honorary secretary.”
1941(5th of Tammuz, 5701): Ninety Jews are murdered at Dobromil, Ukraine.
1941(5thof Tammuz, 5701): Ten year old Masha Blumenau was among those murdered by German soldiers when they went to the City Hospital in Liepāja to arrest the Jewish members of the medical staff whom they then killed.
1941: German troops enter Lvov, Ukraine, and beat hundreds of Jews to death after running them ragged at gunpoint.
1941: Two death trains left Iasi, Romania after a pogrom. One of them stopped in Podu Iloaiei and the 1,194 Jews who died along the way from thirst and heat exhaustion were buried there in a mass grave.
1941 Three hundred young Jews are deported from Amsterdam, Holland, to stone quarries at the Mauthausen, Austria, concentration camp. All will eventually perish.
1941: American radio commentator Father Charles Coughlin celebrates Hitler's invasion of Russia as "the first strike in the holy war on communism" and attacks "the British-Jewish-Roosevelt war on Germany and Italy."
1941: The Germans entered Lvov, Soviet Union, cite of the third largest Jewish Community after Warsaw and Lodz. Thousands of Jews would be tortured and slaughtered at the hands of rampaging mobs.
1941: In Amsterdam, 300 Jews were deported to work camps.
1941: In Denmark, a collaborationist SS organization, Freikorps Danmark (Danish Free Corps), is established.
1941: In Belorussia, a guerrilla collaborationist organization, Belaruskaya Narodnaya Partizanka(Belorussian National Guerrillas), is established.
1941: In Latvia, Viktor Arajs establishes the Perkonkrusts(Thunder Cross), a collaborationist paramilitary unit.
1941: Professor László “Radványi and his family arrived in Mexico” today.
1941: Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, tells Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, that Hitler has ordered that the "Jewish question" be solved once and for all and that the SS is to implement that order. Auschwitz is the death camp that is to carry out the greater part of the Jewish extermination. Mass gassings, not shootings, are determined to be the most effective means to exterminate the large numbers of Jews.
1942: A headline in the London Daily Telegraph reads: "MORE THAN 1,000,000 JEWS KILLED IN EUROPE." [Sort of puts the “lie” the statement that people did not know what was happening to the Jews in the clutches of Hitler.]
1942: Today, in London, “a delegation of Jewish leaders from Poland and Czechoslovakia presented Ambassador Anthony Drexel, Jr., “a comprehensive reported on the Jewish situation in their respective countries” which are now “under Nazi occupation.” (JTA)
1942: Three-year-old Jewish twins in Sosnowiec, Poland, Ida and Adam Paluch, are spirited away from Gestapo agents by their aunt and sent to live with separate Catholic families
1942(15thof Tammuz, 5702): Sixty-one year old Russian born “landscape painter” Abraham Manievich who fled his homeland after the Revolution and arrived in the United States in 1921 passed away today.
https://www.jta.org/1942/07/01/archive/abraham-manievich-prominent-jewish-painter-dies-in-new-york
https://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/3474-destruction-of-the-ghetto-kiev
1943: Thirty-three days after The Green Hornet crashed in the Pacific killing most of the crew including Sergeant Frank Glassman, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Sergeant Francis McNamara, one of the three survivors died on a raft in the Pacific.
1943: In Maryland, Albert Weiner, the son of Soloman Weiner and Gertrude Talesknic and his wife Sylvia Cooper gave birth to Randy Weiner
1943: After almost 8 years, the New Deal agency known as The Federal Art Project (FAP) whose artists included Leon Bibel, Adolph Gottlieb, Harry Gottlieb, Isaac Soyer, Moses Soyer. Raphael Soyer and Lee Krasner came to an end
1944: After having been “placed in charge of the JDC activities in North Africa in 1943, Max S. Perlman today moved “to the organization's new office in Bari, Italy to assist in the repatriation and relief of Jewish refugees following the Allied victory in Europe.
1944: By now, more than 500 Jews are being secretly protected by industrialist Oskar Schindler.
1944: Joel Brand and Rudolf Kasztner working together with the Jewish Agency and the War Refugee board concluded a deal with and Adolph Eichmann. It became known as “Blut fuer Ware” ("Blood for Goods"). This date marked the first of three transports from Hungary to Switzerland. A total of 3344 Jews were sent on a special transport at a price of $1,000 per head. The deal was the subject of a great amount of controversy and later even resulted in a defamation trial, which reached the Israeli Supreme Court in June of 1955.
1944: “Max Perlman, originally the Joint Distribution Committee representative in North Africa was transferred Italy where he became the head of the JDC office in Bari, Italy which was opened today “to assist in the repatriation and relief of Jewish refugees following the Allied victories in Europe.”
1944: One thousand, seven hundred, ninety-five Jews arrived from Corfu arrived at Birkenau.
1944: The crematoria at Auschwitz are working at full capacity when 2044 Jews from Corfu and Athens, Greece, arrive. At day's end, lightning rods on crematoria chimneys are warped from the heat generated by the furnaces.
1944: The 461st Bombardment Group under the command of Frederick E. Glantzberg bombed Blechhammer an area home to a synthetic oil plant whose workers included inmates from Theresienstadt concentration camp who probably lived in fear of the Taschenofen (mobile pocket furnace) located there.
1945:"Lest We Forget," an exhibition of death-camp photography organized by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Washington Evening Star began a tour in Boston, Massachusetts, and then on into Midwest. By tours end nearly 90,000 Americans will have viewed this testament of the Holocaust.
1946: “Irgun Zvai Leumi…issued an ultimatum tonight saying it would kill three British hostages if the British executed two Irgun members condemned to death.”
1946: Fifty-one year old Israel Brodie, the second son of Aaron Brode, drapery traveller, and his wife Jane, née Magid, immigrants from Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania who served as a chaplain in the RAF in WW II and who was “appointed principal of Jews’ College” today married “Warsaw-born schoolteacher Fanny Levine” today at the Great Synagogue in London. (As reported by Hilary L. Rubinstein)
1946: British soldiers and police officers rushed into the Tel Aviv business district when pamphlet bombs exploded in this predominately Jewish city. They snatched the pamphlets from “the hands of the jeering populace. “The pamphlets, signed by Irgun, said, ‘All this, and what will follow, will not change our determination to take the lives of these three if our two die.’ The pamphlets referred to the three of the five British soldiers kidnapped by Irgun two weeks ago. Two of the British soldiers have already been released in response to pressure from the Haganah.
1946: “Despite the detention of 2,000 “ Jews “in the largest mass arrest ever made in Palestine, the secreted radio of the Jewish resistance movement announced tonight that its leadership and general staff had not been ‘silenced’ by the campaign that British forces opened against’ Jewish forces “yesterday morning.
1946: As the British continued to wage war against the Jews of Palestine, the city of Haifa was placed under a curfew tonight following a spontaneous demonstration that had taken place earlier in the day. According to unofficial reports, four people were wounded when the British fired on the demonstrators.
1946: As the British crack down on the Yishuv, there are reports that the Mandatory Government will cease to recognize the Jewish Agency and replace it a variety of local councils. Moshe Shertok had already expressed the view that withdrawal would not mean the end of the Jewish Agency since it was supported the community in Palestine.
1947: Birthdate of Major General Yedidya Ya’ari, the native of kibbutz Merhavia “who was the commander of the Israeli Navy from 2000-2004.” Ya’ari is one of at least prominent Israelis from Merhavia the others being Golda Meir and Yaakov Shabtal, the novelist, playwright and translator who is the brother of Aharon Shabtai who is also a poet.
1947: U.S. premiere of “Brute Force” a “film noir” directed by Jules Dassin, produced by Mark Hellinger with a screenplay by Richard Brooks,
1948: “Max Elitcher and Morton Sobell drove to Catherine Slip where Sobell met with” Soviet spy “Julius Rosenberg to exchange microfilm” today.
1948: U.S. premiere of “A Foreign Affair” a comedy directed by Billy Wilder who also co-authored the screenplay.
1948: The last British armed forces left Israel.
1948: American pilot Coleman Goldstein transferred from Squadron 101 to Air HQ today.
1948: Irving Berlin’s “Easter Parade” a musical produced by Arthur Freed, with a script co-authored by Sidney Sheldon and featuring a score by Berlin, the Jewish songwriter who seemed to have penchant for writing popular melodies for Christian holidays (White Christmas) was released today in the United States.
1948: An Israeli convoy led by commandos arrives at the isolated settlement of Kfar Darom, south of Gaza. The convoy brought food for the Jews and was supposed to evacuate the wounded and the women. The Egyptians were able to prevent the convoy from departing which meant that the commandos and the defenders would now be forced to share the meager supplies as they wait for relief from the outside.
1948: Shai was disbanded as part of a reorganization of the Israeli secret service. Shai, “an acronym for Sherut Yediot” was established in 1940 as “the intelligence and counter-espionage arm of the Haganah.”
1948, Meir “Tobianski was taken into custody and interrogated by Isser Be'eri, David Kron, Binyamin Gibli and Avraham Kidron during a drumhead court-martial. Be'eri had already prepared a firing squad consisting of six soldiers from the Palmach Yiftach Brigade, which was in control of the Jerusalem corridor zone. Tobianski was found guilty and executed in Bayt Jiz, where his body was buried. Tobianski had received neither a lawyer nor a right to appeal, and his case was not reviewed by a higher court. Be'eri knew of his innocence, but still ordered his execution. In 1949, Be'eri was tried and found guilty of manslaughter. At the trial the court found that as there was a ceasefire in effect at the time, any information supposedly passed by Tobianski could not have served the Jordanian artillery. Be'eri received one day of prison time due to his extensive service to Israel. He was pardoned on the same day by the president, Chaim Weizmann.”
1949: Birthdate of Alain Finkielkraut the French author and intellectual the son of manufacture of fine leather goods who survived Auschwitz, whose works include “In the Name of the Other: Reflections on the Coming Anti-Semitism.”
1949: After opening in London three months ago “The Queen of Spades” filmed by cinematographer Otto Heller was released in the United States today.
1949(3rdof Tammuz, 5709): Seventy-two year old Arthur Adler Fleisher, the Philadelphia born son of Ida Marie Fleisher and Benjamin W. Fleisher, Jr., “an industrialist who was active in Jewish communal affairs passed away today in his hometown.
1949: “House of Strangers” based on the novel by Jerome Weidman directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, produced by Sol C. Siegal, with a script by Philip Yordan and starring Edward G. Robinson opened today in Los Angeles.
1949: It was announced today, that “William B. Herlands, president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America will leave New York on July 5 for a six week mission to Israel to study methods of strengthening religious ties between American and Israeli Jews.”
1949: “Stand Against Zionism” published today summarized the anti-Zionist views of the late Dr. David Philipson, a leading Reform Rabbi who supported the American Council of Judaism.
1950: “Just three days after the United Nations Security Council voted to provide military assistance to South Korea, President Harry S. Truman orders U.S. armed forces that would eventually include Major Joseph I. Gurfein, the West Point graduate and Silver Star winner and Colonel Melvin Garnter who was award the Distinguished Service Cross, to assist in defending that nation from invading North Korean armies.
1951: “Strangers on a Train” a movie adaption of the novel by the same name starring Ruth Roman and a score by Dimitri Tiomkin was released today in the United States.
1952: Guiding Light, a soap opera created by Irna Phillips, debuted on television on. It is one of the longest-running daily television programs.
1953(17th of Tammuz, 5713): Tzom Tammuz
1953: Between May 15, 1948 and June 30, 1953, the Jewish population of Israel doubled from 640,000 to 1.3 million.
1955: Final broadcast of “Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator” an NCB radio detective drama directed by Himan “Hi” Brown who began his broadcasting career at the age of 18 reading newspapers with a Yiddish dialect on WEAF.
1956: Between May 15, 1948, and June 30, 1956, the Jewish population of Israel tripled from 640,000 to 2.1 million.
1957: Allied Artists released “Love in the Afternoon” a romantic comedy that owed its existence to two Jews since it was directed and produced by Billy Wilder with a screenplay co-written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond.
1959(24th of Sivan, 5719): American composerLazare Saminsky passed away at Port Chester, NY. Born in Russian in 1882he was a pupil of Lyadov and Rimsky-Korsakov at the St Petersburg and Moscow conservatories from 1906 until 1910. He moved in 1920 to New York, where in 1923 he was a founder of the League of Composers. He was musical director of Temple Emanu-El from 1924 until 1956 and author of several books. Saminsky wrote Jewish liturgical music and drew on Jewish sources for his five symphonies, choral music and songs.
1959(24thof Sivan, 5719): Eighty year old Bernard Semel, the “president of Bernard Semel, Incorporated, wholesalers and exporters of textiles, the husband of Sadie Semel with whom her raised three children – Herbert, Henrietta and Goldie and active member of the Jewish community as can been by his founding of the Jewish Day, serving as “president of the Federation of Galician and Bucovinian Jews, and acting as a trustee of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/07/01/80590329.pdf
1960: In Toronto, “Barbara Frum (née Rosberg), a well-known, Niagara Falls, New York-born journalist and broadcaster in Canada, and Murray Frum, a dentist, who later became a real estate developer, philanthropist, and art collector” gave birth today Yale alum and Harvard educated lawyer David Jeffrey Fum, the Republican political writer who has used his skills in the George W. Bush and such journalistic outlets as The Atlantic and the National Review.
1961: “Side Show,” “the most famous episode of the 1961 television anthology horror series Way Out” with a script by Elliot Baker was released today.
1962: LA Dodger Sandy Koufax pitched another no-hitter as the Dodger beat the Mets 5-0.
1962: “Palisades Park” a hit song written by Chuck Barris finished a two week stint at No. 3 on “the Billboard Hot 100.”
1963: In the Bronx, “Leonard Schwartz, an electrical engineer, and Heda (Teitcher) Schwartz, a vocational rehabilitation counselor” gave birth to Lisa Miriam Schwartz, the NYU trained physician “who with her husband devoted her life to warning patients about the dangers of unnecessary medical tests and treatment and excessive diagnoses.” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1965: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 proposed by New York Congressman Emanuel Celler which abolished the National Origins Formula became effective today.
1965: “Ski Party” a comedy film featuring Robert Q. Lewis and Lesley Gore was released today in the United States.
1966: The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded at a meeting in Betty Friedan's hotel room.
1968: Four days after he had passed away funeral services are scheduled to be held for jazz trumpeter Harry “Ziggy” Elman, a featured trumpeters with the Benny Goodman Orchestra.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/06/27/76949310.pdf
1970: “Steambath,” the second play by American author Bruce Jay Friedman was first performed Off-Broadway at the Truck and Warehouse Theater today.
1970: During the War of Attrition Yitzhak Peer was taken prisoner when his F-4E II Phantom was shot down by an Egyptian SAM.
1970: During the War of Attrition, Rami Harpaz and Eyal “Los” Ahikar were taken prisoner when their F-4E II Phantom was shot down by an Egyptian SAM. (Israel’s existence comes at a very high price.)
1971(7th of Tammuz, 5731): Herbert Biberman, screenwriter, director and part of the Hollywood Ten, passed away today.
http://spartacus-educational.com/USAbiberman.htm
1971: “Carnal Knowledge,” “a comedy-drama directed by Mike Nicols, produced by Nichols and Joseph Levine, written by Jules Feiffer and co-starring Arthur Garfunkel was released in the United States today.
1971: “The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the New York Times voting 6 to 3 allow resumption of the publication of the Pentagon Papers, a project overseen for the Timesby Gerald Gold.
1971: “They Might Be Giants” the cinematic version of the play by James Goldman who wrote the script for the movie which co-starred Jack Gilford was released in the United States tdaoy.
1971: “Drive, He Said” the movie version of Brandeis University grad Jeremy Larner’s novel by the same name with music by David Shire was released in Sweden today.
1972: After three years Charles Eustace McGaughey completed his service as Canada’s Ambassador to Israel.
1976(2ndof Tammuz, 5736): Seventy year old South Carolina born civil rights lawyer, Shad Polier who was one of the courageous lawyers defending the Scottsboro Boys, the husband of Justine Wise Polier and the son-in-law of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise passed away today.
1976: As the crisis at Entebbe entered its fourth day, the Israeli government was under intense pressure from families of the hostages to negotiate with the terrorists even it meant releasing those with “blood on their hands.”
1976: Unbeknownst to the public the Israeli government had ascertained through direct conversations with Idi Amin that his government was cooperating with the terrorists which meant that there was no hope that Uganda might help in any way to free the prisoners.
1976: Just before midnight an Air France jet landed at Orly Airport carrying 47 of the released hostages some of whom provided what would become invaluable information for those who would conduct Operation Thunderbolt.
1976: Catcher Jeff Newman made his major league debut with the Oakland Athletics.
1978(29thof Sivan, 5638): While shooting his last film, “Avalanche,” 64 year old director Mark Robson died of a heart attack.
1979: Seventy year old David L. Bazelon, the Wisconsin born son of “Russian Jewish immigrants Lena and Israel Bazelon” began served as the “Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columiba.
1980: A memorial service is scheduled to be held this morning for cinematographer Boris Kaufman who won the Oscar in 1955 for “On the Waterfront” and who raised a son, Andre, with his wife Helen.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/06/27/111251079.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1980: At Arnhem, Netherlands the 1980 Summer Paralympics where Igal Pazi and Hagai Shamir played for the Israel Volleyball Team took home the Gold came to an end today.
1981: Former Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns began serving as U.S. Ambassador to Germany today.
1982: “Forced Vengeance” an action drama featuring David Opatoshu as “Sam Paschal” was released in the United States today.
1982: Birthdate of actress Elizabeth Anne “Lizzy” Caplan the native of Los Angeles and niece of publicist Howard Bragman who has nominated for Emmy, Satellite and Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of “Virginia Johnson on the Showtime series ‘Masters of Sex.’”
1983(19thof Tammuz, 5743): Seventy-seven year old Mary Livingston, born Sadye Marks, the wife and comedic foil of Jack Benny passed away today.
1984(30thof Sivan, 5744): Seventy-seven year old playwright Lillian Hellman a New Orleans born Jewess passed away.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0620.html
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hellman-lillian
1984(30thof Sivan, 5744): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1985: In “Yuppies with Fetlocks” published today Jean Franco reviews “The Centaur in the Garden by Moacyr Scliar.; translated by Margaret A. Neves. “This novel…is reminiscent of the Chagall paintings in which the scenes of everyday Jewish life are tenderly and oddly transmuted into fantasy. ''The Centaur in the Garden'' is set..on a farm in southern Brazil, in one of the colonies of Jewish immigrants established there at the beginning of this century by the German-Jewish philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch…One Jewish family's struggle to make a living in these unfamiliar and lonely surroundings is thwarted by the birth of the youngest child, Guedali, who is a centaur.
1985: In two separate bomb attacks on buses in Jerusalem, 6 people were injured.
1991(17thof Tammuz, 5751): Tzom Tammuz observed
1991: Proving once again that violence in the Middle East is not tied to Israel, “Christian and Muslim towns in southern Lebanon came under attack today for the second straight day as rival militias traded artillery fire.”
1992: Prosecution of East European Nazi collaborators who had gained entry to the country posing as innocent refugees from Communism by Australia's "Special Investigations Unit" met with failure and the prosecution effort for all practical purposes was shut down on this date.
1994: Catcher Mike Lieberthal made his major league debut with the Philadelphia Phillies.
1995: “Apollo 13” the space movie based on Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 co-authored by Jeffrey Kluger who began working at TIME magazine in 1996 “specializing in science coverage” which meant he covered the death of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon in the Challenger explosion of 2003.
1996: “A Fair Country” by Jon Robin Baitz which had premiered Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Mitzi Newhouse Theatre in February of 1996 was performed for the last time today.
1996: IN “New Museum Traces 2 Paths Into Jewish History in Atlanta” published today, Ronald Smothers provides a snapshot of a Jewish culture captured south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEFDD1339F933A05755C0A960958260
1996: In “A Question of Conscience” published today Eugen Weber reviewed The Statement in which Brian Moore uses the German occupation of France and its factious fallout as the raw material to produce a powerful new novel.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/30/books/a-question-of-conscience.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm
1999: U.S. premiere of “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut” co-starring Mary Kay Bergman with a score by Marc Shaiman.
2000: “The Perfect Storm” a product of executive producer Barry Levinson was released in the United States today.
2000: “The Patriot” a Revolutionary War movie co-starring Jason Isaacs as the “evil British commander” was released today in the United States.
2001: “As Secretary of State Colin L. Powell flew away this morning, he left Israelis and Palestinians in inauspicious disagreement about what they had agreed to in a time line for cementing their wobbly cease-fire.” (As reported by Deborah Sontag)
2001: “Four years after Israel's High Court overturned an army ban on women as fighter pilots, Second Lt. Roni Zuckerman, 20, became the first woman to graduate from a rigorous pilot training course. Graduating sixth in a class of 70, she will enter an elite unit whose pilots fly F-16 fighter jets.” (As reported by Deborah Sontag)
2002: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including 'Masters of Death': Himmler's Willing Executioners” by Richard Rhodes and ''Trains of Thought,'' by Victor Brombert
2002: Jennifer Jason Leigh completed ten months of playing the lead role in “Proof” during its original Broadway run.
2003(30th of Sivan, 5763): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2003: “Shortly after Peter Stone's death, in a memorial ceremony held” today “at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, it was observed that the two most famous ships of all time were Noah's Ark and the Titanic, and that Stone had written Broadway musicals about both of them (Noah's Ark being the topic of Two by Two).”
2003: Krastyu Radkov, 46, a construction worker from Bulgaria, was killed in a shooting attack on the Yabed bypass road in northern Samaria, west of Jenin, while driving a truck. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, in opposition to the declared ceasefire.
2003(30th of Sivan, 5763): Comedian Buddy Hackett passes away at the age of 78 (As reported by Richard Severo)
2004: Judith Rodin completed her tenure as the President of the University of Pennsylvania.
2004: Israeli singer and actor Arik Lavi, a longtime member of Tel Aviv's prestigious Cameri theater troupe, the husband “actress and singer Shoshik Shani” with whom he had two daughters – Noah and Yael – was buried today in Tel Aviv.
2005: Sir James David Wolfensohn completed his service as the 9thPresident of the World Bank.
2006: In the evening, Jonathan Michael Kerbis participates in Friday Night services as part of becoming a Bar Mitzvah.
2006: After premiering at Sundance, “Forty Shades of Blue” directed by Ira Sachs, who co-authored the screenplay was released today in the United Kingdom.
2006: “The Devil Wore Prada” a cinema treatment of the novel by Lauren Weisberger directed by David Frankel and produced by Wendy Finerman was released in the United States today.
2006: Ismar Schorsch, the sixth Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, retired. For more information about the life of this famed Jewish scholar and author see the following JTS sponsored website. http://www.jtsa.edu/progs/his/isschorsch/index.shtml
2007: Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, officially resigned his position today.
2008: In New York, the 92nd Street Y presents “Debra Winger in Conversation with Arliss Howard” during which Arliss Howard interviews his actress wife who was raised as an Orthodox Jew in Cleveland Heights, spent time on a Kibbutz in Israel and was called to the Torah during her son’s Bar Mitzvah in 2000.
2008: James B. Cunningham was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
2009: In New York, Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of Presidents Major American Jewish Organizations delivers the Fourth Annual Gershon Jacobson Memorial Lecture, with an address entitled “The Media and Silencing the Support for Israel.”
2009: In the Czech Republic the Holocaust Era Assets Conference comes to an end.
2009: Phoebus Energy is scheduled to unveil its first hybrid water heating system at the Gilo community center in Jerusalem today.
2009: Israel’s defense minister Ehud Barak is scheduled to meet with George Mitchell, the special envoy to the Middle East, in Washington, D.C. today.
2009: A concert featuring 100 cantors from the world is scheduled to take place in Warsaw at The Grand Opera which is less than a kilometer from Tlomackie Synagogue which the Nazi blew up during World War II.
2009: Al Frankin was declared winner of the U.S. Senate election in Minnesota. The number of Jewish senators does not change since he defeated Norm Coleman who was also Jewish.
2009: Six weeks after authorities foiled an alleged bomb plot against two Bronx synagogues, the Department of Homeland Security has allocated $1.83 million to boost safety at Jewish institutions in another part of the city.
2009: Haim Ramon announced that he was resigning from the Knesset.
2010(18thof Tammuz, 5770): Eighty-eight year old producer Elliot Kastner whose works included “Where Eagles Dare” a slick WW II spy movie passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/movies/02kastner.html
2010: An English production Neil Simon’s “The Prisoner of Second Avenue” starring Jeff Goldblum opened in the West End at the Vaudeville Theatre.
2010: Humanity in Action: Resistance and Rescue in Denmark, a powerful photography exhibition that explores the history of the rescue of Danish Jewry in 1943 and provides a striking narrative of individual and collective resistance, has its final showing in Washington, D.C.
2010: Gaza terrorists attacked the Western Negev this morning with a Kassam rocket before workers arrived, but it heavily damaged a packing house that was knocked out of operation
2010: American Eagle Outfitters Inc. has signed a multiyear franchise agreement to open a series of stores in Israel by the spring of 2012. The teen retailer signed a franchise agreement on today with Fox-Wizel Ltd., which operates more than 170 FOX stores in Israel as well as 250 outlets outside of Israel
2010: “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector,” directed by Vikram Jayanti, opened at Film Forum on West Houston Street.
2011: The Galilee Music Festival is scheduled to open.
2011, The Judy Gold Show: My Life as a Sitcom, a “one-woman show that is an homage to the classic sitcoms of Judy Gold’s youth” began previews at Off-Broadway's DR2 Theatre in New York City.
2011: It was reported that the case against Dominque Strauss Kahn was on the verge of collapse because of problems with the credibility of the alleged victim, who had, according to sources within the NYPD, repeatedly lied since making her first statement.”
2011: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present a lecture by Rebecca Margolis entitled “Yiddish Culture in Montreal: Yesterday and Today” that “ will examine the origins and development of Yiddish culture in Montreal and discuss the changing place of Yiddish from the era of mass Jewish immigration in the early 1900s through today. The lecture is scheduled to be followed by a book-signing of Margolis' new book, “Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Culture in Montreal, 1905-1945.”
2011: Tel Aviv “the city that never sleeps,” is scheduled to host its annual White Night (Layla Lavan).
2011: Justice Minister Yaakov Ne'eman was attacked while praying at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron today, apparently by right-wing religious extremists protesting the arrest of Hebron-Kiryat Arba Chief Rabbi Dov Lior.
2011: Israel's U.S. ambassador, Michael Oren, outlined for Jewish leaders his country's list of priorities in framing peace talks with the Palestinians.
2011: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the United States as a champion of freedom and a great ally of Israel in his address to the annual Fourth of July celebration at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Tel Aviv tonight.
2011: Mark Halperin was suspended from his duties at MSNBC for "slurring" President Barack Obama on the program Morning Joe, saying the President came off as "kind of a dick" during the previous day's press conference
2011(28thof Sivan, 5771): Eighty-four year old songwriter Ruth Roberts, the creator of “Meet The Mets” passed away today. (As reported by Peter Keepnews)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/arts/music/ruth-roberts-meet-the-mets-songwriter-dies-at-84.html
2012: Israeli cellist Yoed Nir is scheduled to perform at the Rock Werchter Festival in Rock Werchter, Belgium.
2012(10thof Tammuz, 5772): Ninety-six year old Yitchak Shamir passed away today.
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=275812
2012: Close associates of the prime minister prompted the cancelation today of a meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz, government sources said.
2012: A week after protests resulted in violent clashes with the police, demonstrators were set to return to the streets of Tel Aviv on tonight. Protesters in Tel Aviv were scheduled to gather at the Habima Theater around 8 pm and march to the plaza facing the Tel Aviv Art Museum, where a rally was to be held.
2012: Egypt’s newly elected president sent an implicit message of reassurance to Israel in his first major address after taking office, but he also pledged support for the “legitimate rights” of the Palestinians.
2013: As part of the Jewish Plays Project, “Estelle Singerman” is scheduled to be performed at the 14th Street Y.
2013: The mandate creating the UN peacekeeping force on the border between Israel and Syria which has been renewed every six months for the past thirty-nine years is scheduled to expire to end today. (As reported by Mitch Ginsburg)
2013: “It's a Thin Line: The Eruv and Jewish Community in New York and Beyond” is scheduled to come to a close today at the Yeshiva University Museum
2013: Bank of Israel Gov. Stanley Fischer is scheduled to step down as Israel’s central banker today two years before the end of his second five-year term. (As reported by Niv Elis)
2013: “Shabbat – Inside and Out” is scheduled to come to a close today at the Yeshiva University Museum
2013: “The Mexican Suitcase: Rediscovered Spanish Civil War Negatives by Capa, Taro and Chim” is scheduled to close at Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme
http://www.mahj.org/en/3_expositions/expo-The-Mexican-Suitcase-Capa-Taro-Chim.php?niv=2&ssniv=1
2013: The Ministerial Committee for Legislation is schedule to vote today on a bill that would enable the burial of non-Jewish soldiers alongside their Jewish comrades (As reported by Haviv Rettig Gur)
2013: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers Life including Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center by Ray Monk
2013: The Ministerial Committee on Legislation passed an electoral reform bill proposed by MK Ronen Hoffman today, clearing the way for legislation that will change the electoral system to pass into law by the time the Knesset begins its extended summer recess at the end of the month (As reported by Gil Hoffman)
2013: US Secretary of State John Kerry wound up his whirlwind 72-hours of shuttle diplomacy by announcing at Ben-Gurion airport this afternoon that "real progress" was achieved, and that with a little more work Israeli-Palestinian talks could be re-started. (As reported by Herb Keinon)
2014: “By Dawn’s Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War” an exhibition presented by the Center for Jewish History and American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to come to an end.
2014: A special 2 DVD edition of Gaylen Ross’s “critically acclaimed documentary “Killing Kasztner” is scheduled to be released today in “commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the departure of Kasztner’s dramatic rescue train from wartime Budapest.” For more see the website www.killingkasztner.com
2014(2ndof Tammuz, 5774): Eighty-four year old director and screenwriter Paul Mazursky passed away today.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-paul-mazursky-20140701-story.html#page=1
2014: “Hamas operatives were behind a large volley of rockets which slammed into Israel this morning, the first time in years the Islamist group has directly challenged the Jewish state, according to Israeli defense officials. (As reported by Avi Issacharoff)
2014: “Israeli searchers discovered the bodies of Naftali Fraenkel, 16, Gil-ad Shaar, 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19, the three teenagers kidnapped on June 12 bound an partially buried in an open field at Wadi Tellem.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/bodies-of-three-kidnapped-teens-found/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182356#.U7H8xZtOWpo
2015(13th of Tammuz, 5775): Twenty-five year old Malachi Moshe Rosenfeld a resident of Kochav Hashachar who was one of four civilians wounded by terrorist gunmen yesterday “succumbed to his wounds” today.
2015: In Atlanta, the Mid-Year Fund Drive of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum with a goal of raising $15,000 is scheduled to come to an end. For more see
http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=1aaaa519845dc5b906a564877&id=d1062270a0&e=5b2911d6dd
2015: Through today, all gifts to the 92ndStreet Y will be matched 100%
2015: As part of “Light! Camera! Great German and Austrian Jewish Filmmakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age” program the 92ndSt Y is scheduled to host a screening of “Imitation of Life”
2015: After four and half years, Onno Hoes completed his service as Mayor of Maastricht in the Netherlands.
2015: It was reported today that “extremist groups” that ally themselves with ISIS have perpetrated several attacks on Hamas in Gaza because they consider “Hamas as insufficiently pious.” (As reported by Diaa Hadid and Majd Al Waheidi)
2015: PBS is scheduled to show “1913: The Seeds of Conflict” a documentary that “traces the relationship between” Arabs and Jews “at a time when the ruled over what was later designated as Palestine, and then, Israel.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/pbs-special-explores-germination-of-strife-in-todays-middle-east/
2016(24th of Sivan, 5776): Eighty-one year old Jazz Man Don Friedman passed away.
2016: Israeli pianist/composer Anat Fort is scheduled to perform this evening at the Ottawa Jazz Festival.
2016(24th of Sivan, 5776): Thirteen year old Hallel Yaffa Ariel was stabbed to death by a Palestinian as she slept in her bed after having stayed up late the night before for a dance performance. (As reported by Diaa Hadid and Myra Noveck)
2016: David Serero’s “Othello,” a Moroccan adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic play sponsored by the American Sephardi Federation in partnership with the Center for Jewish History is scheduled to be performed for the last time this evening.
2016: After three months, “Beyond The Balcony” an exhibition of the works of Michael Nachmany “that begin with Herzl as a starting point and then explores the process of imagination, memory, and the building of communities during the years leading to the founding of Israel, and beyond” is scheduled to come to a close today.
http://www.michalnachmanyart.com/#!beyond-the-balcony/l0ca6
2016: In Olney, MD, at final showing of “Wondrous Watercolors” by Judy Wengrovitz at Shaare Tefila.
2017: Jewish-American philanthropist and activist Jay Ruderman of the Ruderman Family Foundation; Israeli-American entertainment mogul Haim Saban, a major backer of the Israeli-American Council and a donor to the Democratic party; Lynn Schusterman of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and the Schusterman-Israel Foundation; Michael Steinhardt, one of the founders of Taglit-Birthright and a hedge fund manager, and Seth Klarman, a hedge fund manager and philanthropist who co-owns the Times of Israel were among the sixty-five signatories” to “an ad in Hebrew and English” that ran “in several newspapers” that “expressed their disappointment with the Israeli government’s decisions earlier this week to renege on a plan for egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall and to advance a controversial bill that would the Israeli Chief Rabbinate the only body authorized to convert people to Judaism in Israel.
2017: “Letters from Baghdad” is scheduled to open in St. Louis and Plano, TX.
2017: “Alone in Berlin” a film adaptation of the novel by Hans Fallada is scheduled to open in London
2017: “13 Minutes,” a film based on an attempt to assassinate Hitler by Georg Elsner “a 35-year old carpenter and tinker in a small Swabian village” was released today in theatres at New York and Los Angeles.
2017: Marvin Krislov’s resignation as President of Oberlin College is effective today.
2018: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host a “Survivor Talk” in which Ben Goldwater, a resident of Mons, Belgium and the son of a member of the Belgian underground, recounts how his family survived the Holocaust.
2018: “In the spirit of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who prayed with his feet, and in coordination with the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism,” Rabbi Joshua Davidson is scheduled to lead those who are joining “with other New Yorkers in a national day of action at the End Family Separation March in Foley Square” from Temple Emanu-El.”
2018: Today, Dr. Lizabeth Cohen, the Princeton alum who earned her Ph.D. at U.C., Berkley, is scheduled to step down as Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, a post she has held since 2011 and “return to teaching and research in Harvard’s Department of History following a year’s sabbatical.”
2018(17th of Tammuz, 5778): The fast of the 17th of Tammuz is postponed until tomorrow because of Shabbat.
2018(17th of Tammuz, 5778): Parashat Balak;
2019: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide by Tony Horwitz, Never A Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren by Colin Algren and People, Power and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent by Joseph Stiglitz.
2019: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host a performance of Jeff Cohen’s play “The Soap Myth,” followed by a discussion led by “Dr. Alvin Goldfarb, child of Holocaust survivors and nationally known theater educator and administrator.”
2019: In Ottawa, Congregation Machzikei Hadas and JET (Jewish Education Through Torah) are scheduled to host Rabbi Mordechai Becher speaking on “Finding Pleasure Through Oneness.”
2019: After enduring waves of a firebombs being sent from Gaza, Israelis begin the work wondering if the governments offer to increase “the coastal enclave’s fishing perimeter to 15 nautical miles” will be enough to stop the arson attacks.
2019: JCC Manhattan is scheduled to host a screening of “Avi Nesher’s latest film ‘The Other Story.’”
2019: Bay Area Limmud is scheduled to come to an end today.
https://limmudbayarea.org/program/
2020: The 2020 Annual Appeal of the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County one of the many institutions fighting to provide quality programs and service in the midst of the Pandemic, is scheduled to come to an end today
2020: LSJS is scheduled to host Debbie Meyer as she lectures on “The Ideal King?”, the final course in The Trials of King David.”
2020: In partnership with JW3, Film Night is scheduled to host an online screening of “The Booksellers.”
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2020: After 32 years of service, 65 year old Jyl Jurman, the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley is scheduled to retire today.
2020: YJP Boston is schooled to present online, “The Joy Factory: Virtual Girls’ Night Out.”
2020: The Jewish Museum of Maryland is scheduled to host the first in the three-part series, “Connecting Generations: Difficult Conversations About Race.”
2020: “Live on Zoom, Facebook and You Tube,” the Leo Baeck Institute is scheduled to host “Jews and the Right: Heimat and Hatred.”
2020: Live on Zoom, the YIVO Institute is scheduled to host: Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong in Classical Music.
2021: According to a message sent by chief executive JP Morgan Chase, today is the deadline for JPMorgan Chase employee to disclose their “COVID-19 vaccination status.”
2021: Temple Sinai of Oakland is scheduled to present a panel on how Ashkenazi Jews are at greater risk for certain cancers, with Pamela Munster of UCSF’s Center for BRCA Research and others.”
2021: ASF is scheduled to present Original Ladino Music with Nani Noam Vazana, one of the world’s only original Ladino artists who will be discussing her new Ladino album on Zoom and Facebook Live!
2021: The Jewish Arts Collaborative is scheduled to present online “Adriana Katzew and Yoni Battat in conversation with CJP’s director of arts and culture, Sophie Krentzman, as they discuss their work as the first cohort of the Community Creative Fellowship.”
2021: The National Museum of American Jewish History in partnership The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present Sephardi Cooking with Helene Jawhara.
2021: The Jewish Community Library is scheduled to present Rabbi Jill Cozen-Harel, a Bay Area educator on domestic violence issues, as she “talks about the role of women’s power and vulnerability in Jewish texts.