May 27
1096 (3rdof Sivan): Count Emicho and the Crusaders entered Mayence, Germany. The Jewstook refuge in the Episcopal Palace and committed mass suicide rather thanconvert. One Jew by the name of Isaac, his two daughters and a friend calledUriah allowed themselves to be baptized. Within a few weeks Isaac, who wasremorseful of his act killed his daughters burned his own house. He and Uriahwent to the local synagogue locked themselves in and burned it down. A largepart of the city was destroyed.
1199:Coronation of John as King of England. The conditions of the Jews worsenedunder the hapless rule of Richard’s younger brother. He squeezed the Jewish community for funds,including the dowry for his daughter. Healso signed the Magna Carta which dealt specifically with the issue ofborrowing from Jews and debts owed to Jews by the survivors of deceasedEnglishmen.
1234: Todayreligious zealot Margaret of Provence married King Louis IX whose own religiouszealotry including a self-serving anti-Semitismas can be seen by his using wealth stolen from Jews whom he thenexpelled to finance his failed crusadeand ingratiating himself with the Pope Gregory by burning 12,000 copies ofJewish texts.
1332:Birthdate of Ibn Khaldun, the Tunisian historian who was the first to contendthat the Jrāwa, were a Berber Zenata tribal confederacy that had converted toJudaism and were led by Dihya whom Arab historians described as a “Jewishsorcerer.”
1679: The Popesuspended the Portuguese Inquisition due to its severe treatment of Marranos.
1328: PhilipVI is crowned King of France. Phillip’sattempts to take back territory that England held in France in 1337 is markedas the start of the Hundred Years War. This period would mark the furtherimpoverishment of the kingdom’s Jews who had only been recently re-admitted tothe realm. The Black Plague would alsoarrive in Europe in the middle of the 14th century, so it isdifficult to say how much of the suffering of the Jews of Europe was the resultof the ravages of the war and how much was the result of the plague and theanti-Semitic behavior that rose with it.
1462:Coronation of Louis XII who “ordered the final expulsion of the Jews fromProvence in 1501” and who levied a special tax on all the Jews who converted tocompensate for the loss of revenue.
1508: Fifty-five-year-oldLudovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan who “expelled all the Jews from the duchy onDecember 3, 1490 passed away today.
1529: ThirtyJews of Posing, Hungary, charged with blood-ritual, were burned at the stake.
1564: JohnCalvin, the religious reformer whose doctrine came to be called Calvinismpassed away today. Among his writings was “Response to Questions and Objectionsof a Certain Jew.”
http://www.reformedinstitute.org/documents/GSPak.pdf
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0004_0_03871.html
1647: PeterStuyvesant was inaugurated as Director-General of New Netherland. It was whileserving in this position, that Stuyvesant would greet the first group of Jewsto settle in what would become New York City.After failing to force them out, he did what he could to treat them likesecond class citizens. While Stuyvesanthad a somewhat distinguished career as soldier and political leader, the ironyis that the group that has the strongest memory of him is the one whom hesought to harm – the Jewish people.
1682: Sir ChristoperPacke, the son of Catherine and Tomas Packe and former Lord Mayor of London “whoin 1656 joined with the merchants in London in opposing the readmission of Jews”passed away today.
1703: Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of SaintPetersburg. Given Peter’s stated views in 1698 that no Jew should live inRussia, one would assume that no Jews would live in his new capital. It is possible that two Jews named Meyer andLups who “assisted the Tsar in his financial operations” may have at leastvisited Peter’s new city. By 1714, atleast one Jew was known to be living in St. Petersburg. Jan da Costa “a versatile linguist descendedfrom Portuguese Marranos” who had previously lived in Hamburg, arrived in St.Petersburg where he was appointed court Jester by Peter in 1714. Of course, by then Peter’s realm was nolonger free Jews since his annexation of the Baltic territories and conquestsin the Ukraine had had the unintended consequence of bring him untold number ofJewish subjects.
1724:Beginning of the papacy of Benedict XIII, the pope who issued Emanavit nuper, a Papal Bull, dealing with “thenecessary conditions for imposing Baptism on a Jew.”
1730: The leaders of the Berlin community paid 4,500 marks toreplace Moses Aaron of Lemberg with another rabbi which resulted in Aron being“forced” to become the rabbi at Frankfort-on-the Oder
1754(6th of Sivan, 5514): Shavuot observed as Britishforces under the command of George Washington prepared to fight a French-Canadianforce on the morrow in what would be the opening battle of the French andIndian War.
1758(19th of Iyar, 5518): Parashat Bechukotai chanted asBritish troops prepare to attack Fort Carillon during the Seven Years War.
1759: In New York, Moses Benjamin Franks, the son of Rachel andBenjamin Franks and his wife Sarah Franks gave birth to Isaac Franks who foughtwith the Continental Army from 1776 until he was forced to resign due to illhealth in 1782.
1765(7th of Sivan, 5525): Second Day of Shavuot; Yizkorobserved on the same day that Philadelphia businessman and future delegate tothe Continental Congressman Samuel Wharton wrote to Benjamin Franklin aboutseveral matters including the “insurrection in Cumberland County” led “by anumber of Irish Presbyterians.”
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-12-02-0071
1773(5th of Sivan, 5533): Erev Shavuot observed as Sejmdealt with matters that would lead to the first of the three partitions ofPoland with all that that would mean for this large Jewish community.
1790: Joachim Edler von Popper, the “Court Jew” of the Habsburgs“was ennobled as the first ‘Elder von Popper’ making him the second Jew to beennobled proving that you did not convert to attain this honor.
1792(6th of Sivan, 5552): Shavuot observed during theFrench Revolution on the day when the French Assembly passed laws limiting thepower of the King’s Guard which reputedly opposed to the revolution.
1799: In Paris, Cantor Élie Halfon Halévy and his wife gave birthto Fromental Halévy the French composer whose most famous work maybe the opera La Juive (The Jewess)
1804: In SouthCarolina, Rabbi Solomon Hart officiated at the marriage of Solomon Levy, aCharleston merchant and Mrs. Hannah Levy, the widow of the late Samuel Levy.
1808: ThePolonies Talmud Torah of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York became thefirst Jewish day school in the United States when it modified its curriculum toinclude both religious and secular studies.1811: Birthdate of Abraham de Pinto,the native of the Hague who was awarded a gold medal when he earned his LL.D.in 1835, the same year in which he became editor in chief of the “Weekblad voorhet Recht.”
1811: MendelSamuel married Amelia Emanuel today at the Hambro Synagogue.
1811:Birthdate of Abraham de Pinto, the native of The Hague who became a leadingDutch jurist.
1814: Todaythe Emperor of Austria “wrote to one of his ministers” complaining aboutreports that “Viennese Jews” had circumvented the law by buying “homes in thename of Christians” and stating that this “would not be tolerated.
1822(7thof Sivan, 5582): Second Day of Shavuot and Yizkor
1823:Birthdate of David Rosin, the German born theologian and teacher who became aprofessor at the Rabbinical Seminary in Breslau. He was a contemporary andfriend of Rabbi Michael Sachs.
1834(18thof Iyar, 5594): Lag B’Omer
1834: Simeonand Reizecha Collins were married today at the Western Synagogue.
1835: “AtHeadley Rectory, Surry, the Reverend Ferdinand Faithful and Elizabeth MarryHarrison” gave birth to “women’s rights activist” Emily Faithful, the author ofThree Visits to America published in 1884, wrote that twenty-seven yearold Leonard Montefiore, who had “died at Newport, RI” in 1879 “was visiting theUnited States in order to see for himself what could be learned from thepolitical and social condition of the people” and that “the world can illafford to los men of such deep thought and energetic action.”
1837(22ndof Iyar, 5597): Parashat Bechukotai
1837(22ndof Iyar, 5597): One month old Eliza Emory Cohen, the daughter of Kitty Ettingand Benjamin I Cohen who were married in 1819 passed away toay.
1838: JosephDavid and Jeanetta Mallan were married today in the United Kingdom.
1839: JohnSolomons and Louisa Pass were married today at the Great Synagogue in London.
1841(7thof Sivan, 5601) 2nd day of Shavuot, Yizkor
1842: The Voice of Jacob in Sidney, Australiareported on theconflagration at Smyrna: There was an additional series ofofferings to the fund in aid of the sufferers on the Day of Atonement in theGreat Synagogue..."
1848: InBaltimore, MD, Aaron and Augusta Straus Bachrach gave birth to Henry Bachrachwho worked in Washington, D.C., Wheeling, W.Va. and Chicago before openingKaufman and Bachrach, a highly successful clothing store in Decatur, Illinoiswhere he and his wife, the former Matilda Hamburger raised three sons – John,Louis and Charles who became a physician.
1849(6thof Sivan, 5609): Shavuot
1849:Birthdate of Adolph Lewisohn, a German-Jewish immigrant born in Hamburg whobecame a New York City investment banker, mining magnate, and philanthropist.
1849:Birthdate of Moriz Benedikt, the native of Krasice, who was the editor of Neue Freie Presse.
1852: Lionelde Rothschild issued an address to the “independent electors of London” inwhich he thanked them for their support and for twice electing him to the Houseof Commons, even though he has been denied the right to assume his position. He went to thank them for supporting theeffort to make it possible him to serve in Parliament and asking for theirsupport in his third bid to be elcted to the House of Commons.
1853: Theauthor of an article entitled “The Word ‘Selah’” which was published todaysought to provide a meaning for the Hebrew word “Selah” which is used in itsuntranslated form throughout the Bible especially in the Book of Psalms. In searching for the meaning, he states that“the Targums and most of the Jewish commentators give the word, meaning eternallyforever. Rabbi Kinchi regards it as a sign to elevate the voice.” He concludes by saying that “selah” may be anabridged version of Higgaion Selah.[Editor’s Note – what makes this amazing is that this learned articlewith all of these Jewish references appeared in the New York Times.]
1855: ReverendJoseph P. Thompson who has just returned from the Holy Land is scheduled togive a talk this afternoon based on his visit to Jerusalem.
1857: HermannGoldschmidt discovered Asteroid 44 Nysa.
1860(6thof Sivan, 5620): In the United States, Jews on both sides of the Mason-DixonLine celebrate Shavuot for the last time as “brethren.”
1863: InVienna, Aurelia and David Schwarz gave birth to Mathilde Saphir, the wife ofJoseph Saphir and “mother of Heinrich Saphir; Thekla Müller; Friedrich FritzSaphir; Armin Saphir; Bernardo Saphir; Paul Saphir; Dr. Richard Saphir; Dr.Otto Saphir; Dr. Dr. William Saphir and Dr. Erich Eric Saphir,”
1863:InHungary Eliyahu Menachem Goitein and Amalia Mahala Goitein gave birth to RabbiHirsch Zvi Goiten who settled in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1864: The 79thIndiana under the command of Colonel Frederick Knefler took part in the Battleof Pickett’s Mill, one of the Union victories that marked General Sherman’scampaign that led to the capture of Atlanta, GA. The campaign was a daring military actionthat was a key to Union victory over the Confederacy. Knefler, who would rise to the rank ofGeneral before the end of the war, was one of the highest ranking Jews to servein the Union Army.
1866:The New York Times reported that one of theancient aqueductswhich supplies Jerusalem with water is formed of blocksof stone so keyed together as to form a perfect syphon.
1866: In Washington, DC, Leopold Luchs, the Bavarianborn
son of Seligmann Pinchas Luchs and Judith Marx Luchs andhis wife Hannah Luchs gave birth to Clara Kaufman.
1868(6thof Sivan, 5628): Shavuot observed for the last time during the Presidency ofAndrew Johnson
1870: In New York’s “old Seventh Ward,” “Gerson Hyman, awell-known Talmudist who emigrated to” the United States “from Wirballen,Poland” and his wife gave birth to Samuel I Hyman, the founder and head of S.I.Hyman & Brothers and leader of the Jewish community who “is a member of theExecutive Committee of the Kahilla, a delegate to the Jewish Congress and atrustee of the Distribution Committee of the Federation of JewishPhilanthropies.
1870: It wasreported today that Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum has been designated bya recent act of the state legislature as one of the recipients of a pro ratashare of $150,000.
1870: InLithuania, David and Rebecca Davidson gave birth to Columbia PhD IsraelDavidson, the husband of Carrie Dreyfuss and Professor at JTS who was a guestlecturer at Hebrew University in 1926.
1871(7thof Sivan, 5631): Shabbat and Second Day of Shavuot
1871: MyerAsch, who had reached the rank of Colonel while serving with the Army of thePotomac during the Civil War was re-elected as Senior Vice Commander of theGeorge G. Meade Post of the Grand Army of the Republic.
1874:Birthdate of Wetzlar, Germany native Max Rosenthal, a partner with Israel Cassin Cass and Rosenthal, a manufacturer of clothing for infants and children.
1876: Birthdate of Dusseldorf native Wilhelm Levison, theGerman medievalist who was forced to retire from his professorship at BonnUniversity because of the Nuremberg Laws” and “fled Nazi Germany in the springof 1939, taking a position at Durham University” in the United Kingdom.
1877: The New York Times featured a review of"The Life, Work and Opinions of Henrich Heine" a two-volume workwritten by William Stigand.
1878: It was reported today that John Bright, who rankswith Disraeli and Gladstone as a leading English statesman is reported to haveJewish ancestry. According to several publications including The Examiner, oneof Bright’s Quaker forbearers married “a very pretty Jewess named MarthaJacobs…Mr. Bright’s brother, what has a seat in the House of Commons is called‘Jacob’ after the ‘pretty Jewess.’” This report should not be construed asbeing informational or complimentary since it also includes the informationthat Jacob Bright “has a nose duly fitted to the Anglo-Jewish role.” (The hooked nose Jew was a classic staple of19th century anti-Semitism.
1879(5thof Sivan, 5639): Erev of Shavuot
1879: In NewYork, Judge Gildersleeve has ordered the sons of Fanny Solomon to pay $4.50 perweek for her support. “Mrs. Fanny Solomon an aged and infirm Hebrew lady” had“instituted proceedings to compel her sons Leopold, Felix and Alfred to supporther.” The Solomon brothers own a factorythat manufactures paper-boxes. Mrs.Solomon contended that she destitute and that her sons had refused to providewith “the necessities of life” even though they were wealthy enough to havedone so. The sons claimed that she wasnot destitute since she had savings of her own.They also said that she had refused their offers to come and live withthem. Based on the decision, the Judge was not impressed by the brothers’claims.
1879: InMontreal, Canada, Rabbis De Sola and Levy officiated at the weeding of JosephH. Loryea of Charleston, SC and Rosabel L. Hyman, the “third daughter ofWilliam Hyman of Montreal.”
1880: Twenty-four-year-oldNew York born composer and theatrical manager Rudolph Aronson opened his newconcert-hall at 41st Street and Broadway today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1811-aronson-rudolph27
1880: MosesBruhl set sail from New York aboard the steamship Gallia bound for Liverpool.Bruhl was a New York businessman and philanthropist who created The Betty BruhlPrizes, awards for outstanding students at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum named inhonor of his late wife.
1883: Alexander III crowned Czar of Russia. Alexander pursued some of the mostanti-Semitic policies of all the Romanovs, which is saying something giventheir miserable track record.
1884:Birthdate of Prague native and novelist Max Brod, the husband Elsa Taussig, whois best known for his friendship with Franz Kafka.
1884:Josephine Sykes and Henry Morgenthau Sr. gave birth to their daughter HelenFox.
1886:Birthdate of Galveston, TX native Max Geller, “the first native Texan to becomean Orthodox Rabbi who servedCongregations Beth Jacob and Congregation Adath Israel.
1887:Birthdate of University of Michigan chemistry professor Dr. Kasimir Fajans theholder of a Ph.D. from Heidelberg University who raised two sons – Stefan andEdgar – with his wife Salome. https://lsa.umich.edu/chem/about/department-history/kasimir-j--fajans---1887-1975-.html
1888: In NewYork City, “English-born antiques dealer and auctioneer Henry B. Herts” and hiswife gave birth to Columbia School of Architecture graduate Benjamin RussellHerts who along with his brother Isaac founded Herts Brothers, the firm ofdesigners and architects whose clients included yachtsman William Astor, Jr andthe Knickerbocker Hotel.
1888 Birthdateof Morris J. Clurman, the husband of Lena Shimshak and the father of Berniceand Herman Clurman.
1889: In NewYork City, “Nathan and Lina (Gutherz) Straus gave birth to Princeton graduateand R.H. Macy partner Nathan Straus, Jr. the husband of Helen E. Sachs whoserved as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy during WW I and a New York State Senatorwhile serving as a director of the Palestine Economic Corporation and thePalestine Development Council as being an active member of the Free Synagogueand the “Temple Beth-El Clubs.
1890: MaryFrohman, the widow of Herman Frohman, is scheduled to appear in court today torespond to a claim brought by her children that she is a “lunatic.” Frohman died without a will and since most ofhis property was in his wife’s name she is now in control of it; a situationthat her four children seem determine to change.
1890: InClevedon, Somerset, UK, “grocer George Edward Gedye” and his wife gave birth toGeorge Eric Rowe Gedye who served as a foreign correspondent for a dozen yearsin the 1920’s and 1930” and was the author the 1939 tome Betrayal in CentralEurope which was highly critical of Prime Minister Chamberlain’s policy ofappeasem*nt and who provided an eyewitness of the “brutalities andpersecutions” of Jews in Austria.
1890: “Theinquest by Coroner Joseph Rosesh and a jury into the murder of Samuel Hutch aJewish peddler who is a member of the congregation at Roundout is still inprogress tonight at Middletown, NY.
1890: It wasreported today that Temple Beth-El will host the upcoming confirmationexercises for students enrolled by the Hebrew Free School Association.
1891: Whilebeing interviewed in Paris today Baron Hirsch said “The measures now enforcedagainst the Hebrews in Russia are equivalent to a wholesale expulsion of therace from the Russian Empire.”
1892: “‘Cranks’ And The World’s Fair” an editorial published today takes issue withattempts in the U.S. House of Representatives to tie funding for the World’sFair to a promise to close the exhibitions on Sunday so as not to violate the“Sabbath.” “It is only a very smallproportion of Christians who are so rigid Sabbatarians as the Jews. The orthodox Jews in every country makeconsiderable sacrifices, eager as for money as they are supposed to be, inorder to observe the Sabbath. Yet noJewish exhibitor at a World’s Fair that we know of has refused to allow hisexhibit to be shown along with the rest on Saturdays.”
1893: While onhis way to the synagogue this morning thirteen-year-old Israel Schwartz ranaway from the Ladies’ Deborah Nursery and went to the Gerry Society for thePrevention of Cruelty to Children where he was examined by Dr. Travis Gibb whofound “the boy had been brutally beaten.”
1893: “TheSecond Mrs. Tanqueray,” a play by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, the grandson ofSephardic Jews.
1894:“Columbus and the Jews” published today provides a detailed review ofChristopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish andPortuguese Discoveries by Dr. Meyer Kayserling and translated by CharlesGross.
1894: “TheCapital of Bosnia” published today described the “bewildering sights andsounds” of Sarajevo including the presence of “hoary Spanish Jews, any one ofwhom might sit as a model for a portrait of King Solomon.”
1894: It wasreported today that Samuel Montagu, “the well-known banker and philanthropist”and almost the only important Jew who did not desert Prime Minister Gladstone“on the Irish Question” has been made aBaronet by Queen Victoria.
1894:“Bequests of Jesse Seligman” published today included a lengthy list of thoseinstitutions benefiting from the largesse of the late millionaire some of whichwere the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum, $5,000; Mount Sinai Hospital,$2,500; United Hebrew Charities the City of New York, $1,000 and the MontefioreHome for Chronic Invalids, $1,000. (And that was only the tip of the iceberg ofhis generosity)
1895: Birthdateof Arthur Seymour Lyons, the brother of Sam Lyons with whom he formed thetheatrical agency firm of Lyons and Lyons whose best known client was JackBenny.
1897: InRovno, which at the time was part of Ukraine, “Levia and Miriam (Shearer)Smolar gave birth to Ber (Boris) Smolar, the a staff member of the WarsawJewish Daily who in 1921 came to the United States where he studies journalismat Northwestern, the University of Chicago and Columbia while pursuing a careerwith several publications in the Jewish Forward in Chicago and the JewishTelegraphic Agency where he served for as the editor.
1897(25thof Iyar 5657): Eighty-two-year-old “painter, photographer, author and companionof explorer John C. Fremont” Solomon NunesCarvahlo, the Charles born son of Sephardic Jews Sarah Cohen D’Azevedo andDavid Nunes Cavalho, the husband of Sarah Miriam Solis whom he married in Philadelphiaand father of Charity and David Carvahlo “the famous paper, ink and handwritinganalyst” passed away today in Pleasantville, NY after which he was buried inBeth Olom Cemetery in Ridgewood, NY.
https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/story/art-and-life-solomon-nunes-carvalho
https://www.jewishmag.com/185mag/solmon_carvalho/solmon_carvalho.htm
1898(6th ofSivan, 5658): As the Spanish-American War enters into its second month,celebration of Shavuot
1898:“Montefiore Country Home” published today described plans for the upcoming“formal opening of the country sanitarium of the Montefiore Home for ChronicInvalids.”
1898: SimonCook who had been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in the Navy in 1893 wasassigned to the U.S.S. Princeton today.
1898: Themembers of the Hebrew Union Veterans’ Association assembled at Yorkville Courton the corner of 3rd Avenue and 57th Street and marchedto Temple Emanu-El where the Civil War veterans held their annual memorialservice.
1898:“Chicago’s Jewish Guardsman” published today described the formation of the“Guards of Zion” which is made up of approximately 190 of the younger membersof the Zion Association of Chicago. Theunit will be designated as Companies I and M of an Illinois Volunteer Regimentunder the command of Colonel McGrath. (Editor’s Note – this was part of thepatriotic response that was sweeping the country during the Spanish-AmericanWar)
1899(18thof Sivan, 5759): Ninety-five-year-old Jonas Hecht passed away in Norfolk. Hemoved there in 1863 after having served as a rabbi in New York for 22years. He was one of the original tenmen who found B’nai B’rith.
1899: DavidWolffsohn reports that the minimum funding for the Jewish Colonial Bank hasbeen finally assured.
1899: “NewMount Sinai Hospital” published today descried plans for the new building forwhich the Jews of New York have provided all of the funding even though “theinstitution is non-sectarian…and the appointments on the house staff, medicalstaff and the admission of patients are made without regard to religiousfaith.”
1899:Birthdate of Bernard Joseph the Montreal, Canada native who became known as DovYosef, the Israeli political leader who served as military governor ofJerusalem during the War for Independence in 1948.
1899: “FromRussia to America” published today described the decision of Israel Zangwill towrite a foreword to From Plotzk to Boston by Mary Antin. Mr. Zangwillsees this collection of letters written in Yiddish by an eleven-year-oldRussian immigrant provides a view of the little known “inner feelings of thepeople themselves” and helps us understand “what magic vision of free Americalures them on to face the great journey to other side of the world.
1899: W.B.Clarke Company has announced that it will print “a second and much largeredition of Mary Antin’s From Plotzk to Boston which was first produced by a printer in New York. An error was made in creating the title. Antin was from Polotsk, but in the process oftranslation and printing it was changed to Plotzk.
1900: PianistLeopold Godowsky and his wife gave birth to violinist Leopold Godowsky whohelped to created Kodachrome.
1901: It wasreported today that “Memorial services were by the E.D. Morgan Post of theGrand Army of the Republic at Temple Rodeph Shalom in Manhattan” where “theveterans were welcomed to the Temple by Assistant District Attorney Maurice B.Blumenthal” and Rabbi Rudolph Grossman after which they heard a speech byCongressman H.M. Goldfogle.
1902: Today, “Orthodoxreligious leaders, who had mostly remained on the sidelines, formally endorsedthe” boycott of kosher meat led by angry housewives on the east side who hadseen the price of meat jump from 12 to 18 cents.
1903:Birthdate of Indianapolis native and University of Illinois trained engineerRussell David Levy, an executive with the Zeckendorf Corporation.
1903: SenatorBoise Penrose who in 1911 described “discrimination by the Russian Governmentagainst American Hebrews as an assault on American principles and traditions”and assured a delegation of Jews from Philadelphia “that he agreed with theircontention that the violation of their treaty rights as American citizens wasnot a proper subject for an arbitration tribunal but should result in thepassing of a resolution by Congress denouncing the present treaty” with Russiabegan serving as Chairman of the Republican State Committee of Pennylvania..
1903: AtCarnegie Hall, New York May Seth Low presided over a mass meeting protestingthe Kishinev Pogrom which was addressed by former President Grover Cleveland.
1904(13thof Sivan, 5664): Forty-four-year-old “Henry M. Hendricks, a junior member ofthe firm of Hendricks Brothers, the oldest metal house in the United States(dating back to 1764) dropped dead in the waiting room of the ChristopherStreet Ferry this morning” while on his way to Hoboken, NJ to meet his 19 yearold daughter Aimia.
1904: It wasreported today that that in Russia, “the Emperor considered the present timeauspicious for the inauguration” of a reform that will repeal the law underwhich Jews are forbidden to reside within 32 miles of the frontier since it“will materially relieve the situation of the Jews who are crowded along the western borders.
1905:Birthdate of forensic psychiatrist and author Dr. Henry A. Davidson, theNewark, NJ born son of physician and husband of “the former Adelaide Heymanwith whom he had two children – Laurence and Ellen.
1905:“Thirty-three men met today at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association where theyagreed to form “a congregation known as the Temple of Truth (Congregation BethEmth) which “held its first services at 504 Market Place” and was thebeneficiary of the generosity of D.L. Levy who purchased a Torah for thecongregation’s use.
1906: It wasreported today that “the Black Hundreds are attempting to invite the people toattack the Jews by the circulation of false paper money purporting to have beenissued any an alleged Jewish republic in Tula Province, with Max Gorky aspresident.”
1906:Congregation Temple Adath Israel “dedicated its new house of worship on 169thnear Third Avenue” this afternoon.
1906: “TheSabbath was rigidly observed today” in Louisville with all saloons being closed“except one in a park kept by a Jew who had observed Saturday as the Sabbath”and who “was arrested but was allowed to continued selling throughout the day’while doing “a lively business when the news spread.”
1907: “Societyto Teach Jewish Deaf-Mutes” published today described the founding “of asociety for the instruction of Jewish deaf-mutes” the aim of which is “toprovide instructors to into Jewish homes and teach parents how to develop thethroat and mouth muscles of their deaf-mute children who are below school age;to provide instruction for deaf-mute children in day schools and to establishplaces of religious instruction and worship for Jewish deaf mutes of all ages.”
1908:Birthdate of Newark, NJ of Jefferson Medical College and University ofPennsylvania trained psychiatrist, a World War II veteran a leading forensicpsychiatrist who served as superintendent of one of the nation’s largest mentalhealth facilities, Overbrook Hospital while raising two children – Ellen andLaurence – with his wife, “the former Adelaide Heyman.”
1908:Birthdate of Harold Rome the Hartford, CT native and Yale University graduatewho turned his back on a career in architecture to become a composer andlyricist.
1908:Birthdate of Reform Rabbi Elmer Berger, the Cleveland, Ohio native who used theAmerican Council for Judaism as a platform to promote his anti-Zionist beliefs.
1909(7thof Sivan, 5669) 2nd day of Shavuot, Yizkor
1909: Tonight,the Jewish Morning Journal “gave out a special cable dispatch fromConstantinople saying that the Turkish Government had invited the Jews of Russia and Romania to settle in Turkey,agreeing to remove all restrictions and to grant full citizenship to them.”
1910(18thof Iyar, 5670): Lag B’Omer
1910: It wasreported today that “the exodus of Jewish families from Kieff hascommenced” with 300 proscribed familiesbelonging exclusively to the poorest classes having already been forced toleave the city.
1911:Birthdate of Hubert Humphrey, reform mayor of Minneapolis, U.S. Senator fromMinn. and Vice President of the United States.Humphrey was a courageous supporter of civil rights including banningreligious discrimination. Humphreysupported the state of Israel in the difficult days of the 1950’s. A visitor to his Washington, D.C. officewould find a JNF Tree Certificate displayed proudly on the wall for all to see.
1911:Birthdate of Teddy Kollek, mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 till 1993. BornTheodor Kollek to a Jewish family in Nagyvaszony near Budapest,Austria-Hungary, and named after Theodor Herzl, Kollek shared his father Alfred'senthusiasm for Zionist ideas. He grew up in Vienna. In 1935, three years beforethe Nazis seized power in Austria, the Kollek family immigrated to Palestine --this was still the time of the British Mandate. Kollek was eager to help builda new society and, in 1937, was one of the co-founders of Kibbutz Ein Gev nearLake Galilee. In the same year he married Tamar Schwarz, who gave birth to twochildren, Amos (born 1947) and Osnat. During the Second World War, Kollek triedto represent Jewish interests in Europe on behalf of the Haganah At theoutbreak of the war he succeeded in persuading Adolf Eichmann to release 3,000young Jewish concentration camp inmates and transfer them to England. Kollekbecame a close ally of David Ben-Gurion; working for the latter's governmentfrom 1952 till 1965. In 1965 Teddy Kollek succeeded Mordechai Ish Shalom asMayor of Jerusalem. He served six terms of office -- a total of 28 years, beingre-elected in 1969, 1973, 1978, 1983, and 1989. It has generally been agreedthat during his tenure Jerusalem was turned into a modern city, especiallyafter its reunification in 1967. In 1993 Kollek, aged 82, again ran for Mayorbut was defeated by Likud candidate Ehud Olmert who went on to become PrimeMinister in 2006
http://www.jerusalemfoundation.org/teddy-kollek-digital-archives.aspx
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/teddy-kollek
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/world/middleeast/03kollek.html
1912: It wasreported today that a window dedicated to Isidor Straus and his wife Ida Strauswho perished on the Titatinic has been dedicated “in the synagogue of theMontefiore Congregation in the Bronx.
1913(20thof Iyar, 5673): Sixty-five-year-old May Maier, a rabbi from Portland, Oregon,passed away today at San Francisco.
1913:Elections are scheduled to be held today for the directors of Michael ReeseHospital – positions for which Edward Morris, Alfred Oppenheimer, Gustav Fruendand Eli M. Straus have been nominated.
1914(2ndof Sivan 5674): Fifty-one-year-old coffee merchant Solomon A. Cohn passed awaytoday in New York City.
1915:Inthe Bronx, “Esther (née Levine) and Abraham Isaac Wouk, Jewish emigrants fromwhat is today Belarus” gave birth to Herman Wouk, the famous Pulitzer prizewinning who has written several books using Jewish themes and is living proofthat you can be a literary success and a mensch.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/obituaries/herman-wouk-dead.html
1915: Birthdate of Arieh Handler who was oneof the founders of the Religious Zionist movement in the United Kingdom
1915: “Anumber of women made speeches to a crowd on behalf of Leo M. Frank on thecorner of 126th Street and Seventh Avenue tonight” and “obtainedmany signatures on a petition” asking the Governor of Georgia to show clemencyin the case.
1915: Today“additional Georgia jurists” including Spencer R. Atkinson, ex-Justice of theGeorgia Supreme Court and Judge E.C. Konitz of Atlanta “joined in the plea tothe Prison Commission to commute the sentence” of Leo M. Frank.
1915: RabbiStephen S. Wise and Louis Marshall are among the speakers scheduled to speak ata mass meeting sponsored by the League of Foreign Born Citizens at P.S. 91where appeals for justice for Leo M. Frank who is sentenced to die next monthwill be made.
1915: It wasreported today that Eugene N. Foss, the former Governor of Massachusetts, whohad employed Leo Frank in 1906 “said it was very evident that the unfortunateman has not had a fair trial” and that “every gentile, as well as every Jew…wasinterested in this case, because it be his turn next to be the victim of‘public sentiment.’”
1915: Thepartial text of a letter urging clemency for Leo Frank from Reverend Alfred K.Glover, the rector of St. James Episcopal Church and “a recognized authority onthe laws and customs of the Jews” being sent to the Governor of Georgiapublished today said that “Neither man nor beast has ever been known to havebeen strangled by a Jews.”
1915: A copyof a letter from the Grand Rabbi of Turkey to the American Jewish ReliefCommittee in New York published today said that “nearly 5,000 individuals arewithout any support and this number is increasing daily. My least resource is to implore you tointervene on behalf of our community with Jews in America.” (Editor’s note: While many Jews know about the suffering ofthe Shoah, they are unaware of the suffering of their co-religionist during WWI especially in the Ottoman Empire and on the Eastern Front including Russiaand the Autro-Hungarian Empire.)
1915: Mrs.Nina Stevens who would tell a judge “that she had made an affidavit in Atlantato show that Leo Frank was a degenerate” was arrested today in New York on awarrant “charging her with maintain a disorderly resort in a house on WestFifty-Second Street.
1915: RabbiStephen S. Wise, Anna Rhodes, Louis Marshall, L.W. Fehr and William J. Burnsare among those scheduled to speak at a mass meeting sponsored by the League ofForeign Born Citizens in New York where “appeals for justice for Leo Frank” whois “sentenced to die next month for the murder of Mary Phagan” will be made.
1916: TheFederation of Rumanian Jews of America opened its ninth annual convention atthe Hebrew Technical School for Girls in New York tonight where in his openingaddress Chairman Solomon Suffrin “to exception to allegations that there wassomething lacking the Americanism of the Jew in America, saying “In regard tothe address six days ago by an eminent co-religionist of us Jews, we willassure him that if this country should be called to arms we would respond.”
1917(6thof Sivan, 5677): American Jews observe Shavuot for the first time as combatantsin World War I.
1917: In NewYork, “at Temple Beth-El Dr. Samuel Schulman preached a sermon on the RussianRevolution.
1917: In NewYork, “at the Free Synagogue Dr. Stephen S. Wise spoke on ‘Israel’s Youth andthe Youth of Israel.’”
1917: OnShavuot, in New York, “at Temple Emanu-El, Dr. Joseph Silverman delivered apatriotic” sermon.
1917: FlorenceCohen and Pearl Decker were among those confirmed today at Temple Sholom at aservice led by Rabbi Abram Hirschbirg.
1917: HaroldBlitz and Gertrud Cohn were among those confirmed today at Beth El Temple at aserviced led by Rabbi Julius Rappaport.
1917: AtChicago’s Temple Sinai, Dr. Emil G. Hirsch officiated at Confirmation Servicesthis morning.
1917: RabbiGerson B. Levin led Confirmation Services this morning at Congregation B’naiSholom Temple Israel on Michigan Avenue.
1917: RabbiTobias Schanfarber led Confirmation Services this morning at CongregationK.A.M. Chicago’s oldest Jewish congregation.
1917:“Persecute Jews of Jaffa” published today described the plight of the 8,000 to9,000 Jewish residents of the Mediterranean coastal city who “have beenexpelled by Turks” and facing economic ruin as they camp out of doors “withoutshelter” and food.
1917: It wasreported today that the American Jewish Relief Committee for the Suffers fromthe War of which Louis Marshall is Chairman and Herbert H. Lehman is Treasurerhas $10,000 from the Minneapolis Committee, $404 from the Lake Charles, LACommittee, $800 from the Oklahoma City Committee and $170 from the Las VegasCommittee.
1917: It wasreported today that the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Sufferingthrough the War of which Harry Fischel is Treasurer has received $750 from The Day and $101 from I. Rokeach andSons.
1918: NathanStraus, Adolph Lewisohn and Major C. Brooman White of the British RecruitingMission were among those who attended a dinner last night at Beethoven Hallgiven by the Jewish Actors’ Club for the “500 members of the Jewish Legion forService in Palestine…on the eve of their departure” for the Holy Land wherethey will join the other 2,000 members of the Legion.
1919: DorothyEngel and Herman Maltz were married in New York after which they lived at theHotel Cumberland before moving to California in 1920 where Herman went into thewholesale shoe business which led to his opening West Coast Furniture inpartnership with William Weiss.
http://home.earthlink.net/~nholdeneditor/by_julie_maltz_borman.htm
1919: HaroldE. Foreman, Nelson Morris, Walter S. Bauer and Samuel Rosenthal are scheduledto be elected as directors of Michael Reese Hospital
1919:Birthdate of New York City businessman Joseph Puro the president of thePurofield Down Products Corporation, “a leading pillow and comforter producer”and philanthropist who served on the board of Albert Einstein College ofMedicine.
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/24/archives/joseph-puro-51-president-of-down-products-corp.html?_r=0
1920: Jewishveterans took part in a Memorial Festival “presented at Madison Square Gardenunder the auspices of the People’s Liberty Chorus.
1920:Psychologist Schachne Isaacs, the Cincinnati born son of Rachel Friedman andAbraham Isaacs and instructor at Johns Hopkins who taught at the BaltimoreHebrew College and Training School and who served in the U.S. Air ServiceMedical Research Laboratory during WW I married France Dollinger today in NewYork City.
1921:“Shattered,” a “silent kammerspielfilm” with a script by Carl Meyer anddirector/producer Lupu Pick was released today in Germany.
1922(29thof Iyar, 5682): Parashat Bamidbar
1922: “Theso-called Zionist resolution has been further changed by the House ForeignAffairs Committee so that “instead of speaking of ‘the’ national home for theJewish people, the proposal now is for on a ‘national home.’”
1923: In“Furth, Bavaria, Germany” schoolteacher Louis Kissinger and homemaker Paula(Stern) Kissinger gave birth to Heinz Alfred Kissinger who gained fame HarvardProfessor, national security advisor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger,the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
https://www.henryakissinger.com/
1923: InBoston Belle (née Ostrovsky) andMichael Rothstein, the owner of the “Northeast Theatre Corporation” and “theBoston branch of the Latin Quarter Nightclub gave birth to Harvard trainedattorney Sumner Murray Redstone, the electronic media mogul who among otherthings was Chairman and CEO of Viacom, Inc.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/obituaries/sumner-redstone-dead.html?searchResultPosition=5
1924: JulesStein founds Music Corporation of America in Chicago, Illinois. MCA began as a booking agency for bands. Over time it grew and eventually morphed inUniversal Studios in 1996.
1924(23rdof Iyar, 5684): Forty-three-year-old St. Louis born vaudeville comedian andBroadway playwright passed away today.
http://archives.nypl.org/the/18893
1925: Atluncheon today at the Hotel Astor, Adam L. Gimbel, the Vice President of theSaks Company announced that 120 of the leading businessman are going to beasked to pledge themselves to contribute six hundred dollars a year for thenext three years to the National Farm School located near Philadelphia that wasfounded by Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf.
1926: It wasreported today that “Chaim Nachman Bialik was given the degree of Doctor ofHebrew Literature on the occasion of the first graduation exercises of theJewish Institute of Religion, when ten rabbis were graduated” and “a similardegree was given to Claude G. Montefiore, nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore andEngland’s foremost Jewish scholar.” (JTA)
1927:Birthdate of Zvi Malchin, who gained famed Mossad Chief of Operations Peter ZviMalkin, who played a key role in bringing Eichmann to justice.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-z-malkin-527099.html
1927:Birthdate of Galicia native Solomon David “Sam” Kimelman, the Holocaustsurvivor who made a life for himself in Winnipeg, Canada.
https://passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-details/id-250778/KIMELMAN_SOLOMON
1927: “In theHell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City “the former Clara Gordon” and“Rabbi Bernard Birstein of the Actor's Temple” gave birth to Ann JudithBirstein the author and one-time wife of Alfred Kazin with whom she had achild, Cathrael Kazin. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
https://web.archive.org/web/20160601153938/http://www.annbirstein.com/bio.htm
1927:Birthdate of Polish native and Mossad agent Peter Zvi Malkin who “was part ofthe team that captured Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960 and brought him toIsrael to stand trial for crimes against humanity.”
1927: NationalJewish Book Week, which had the unanimous endorsem*nt of the Chicago RabbinicalAssociation, is scheduled to come a close.
1928: Inretaliation, for a vote of no confidence by Hadassah in its President, theZionist National Executive Committee, threatened to discipline the women'sorganization
1928(8thof Sivan, 5688): Seventy-five-year-old German mathematician Arthur MoritzSchoenflies “known for his contributions to the application of group theory tocrystallography” passed away today. (I won’t even pretend to try and explainwhat he worked on)
1929:“Contributions amounting to $20,000” which included a donation of $3,000 fromMrs. Jacob Schiff “were presented to the Ort, the Society for the Promotion ofTechnical and Agricultural Trades among the Jews of Eastern Europe, by thewomen’s committee of the Ort Campaign…today at a tea at the home of Mrs. HenryZuckerman.”
1930: NobelPrize Winner Dr. Otto Meyerhoff is one of the department chairmen at the KaiserWilhelm Institute of Medicine, a facility modeled after the RockefellerInstitute, which is opening today in Heidelberg, Germany.
1931: “Resultsfrom the elections in Palestine for delegates to the Zionist Congress nextmonth showed today that the Jewish Labor party took 15,000 of the 25,000 votes”with the Revisionists gaining 5,000 votes and the General Zionists getting2,000 votes.
1931: The 44thStreet Theatre is schedule to host a matinee performance of Billy Rose’s “CrazyQuilt,” a revue starring Fanny Brice
1932:Birthdate of Linda Pastan who was Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1991 to 1995.
1932:Birthdate of Brooklynite actor Stephen Robert “Steve” Franken, the cousincomedian and U.S. Senator Al Franken.
http://abc7.com/archive/8792889/
1933(2nd ofSivan, 5693): Karl Lehburger, a Jewish businessman,was murdered inDachau.
1933(2nd ofSivan, 5693): James Loeb, a Jewish-German-American banker and philanthropist,passed away. Born in New York in 1867,he “was the second born son of Solomon Loeb and Betty Loeb.James Loeb joinedhis father at Kuhn, Loeb & Co. in 1888 and was made partner in 1894, but heretired from the bank in 1901 due to severe illnesses. In memory of his formerlecturer and friend Charles Eliot Norton, in 1907 Loeb created The CharlesEliot Norton Memorial Lectureship. In 1911 he founded and endowed the Loeb ClassicalLibrary, and founded the Institute of Musical Art, which later became part ofthe Juilliard School of Music.”
1934: “Achildren’s review” is scheduled to be held this after at Union Temple onEastern Parkway “in an effort to help the Brooklyn Federation in its cureen$500,000 twenty-fifth anniversary campaign.”
1934: BernhardJ. Stern and Isidore Begun were among those attending a conference of teachersin New York which had been called by “the Teachers’ Anti-War Committee” whichis scheduled to end today.
1934: InReisterstown, Mr. and Mrs. A. Ray Katz and Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Lansburgh, thedaughters and sons-in-law of philanthropist Jacob Epstein will present amemorial bust of their father to the Mount Pleasant Jewish TubercularSanatorium at ceremony where Dr. Edward L. Israel, the rabbi of Temple HarSinai will deliver the invocation “and lead in the recitation of the prayer forthe dead at the close of services.” (JTA)
1935: New YorkCity women led by activist Clara Shavelson, picketed Manhattan butcher shops todemand a reduction in the price of meat. http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/shavelson-clara-lemlich
1935: In alandmark case, The Supreme Court of the United States declares the NationalIndustrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in the case A.L.A. SchechterPoultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495). The challenge to the NationalIndustrial Recovery Act came from the most unlikely source, a Jewish chickenproducer. Joseph Schechter operated Schechter Poultry Company, and Martin, Alexand Alan Schechter operated A.L.A. Schechter Company, both of which wereslaughterhouses selling chickens to kosher markets in New York City. Brandies and Cardozo, the two Jewish justicesjoined the majority in this opinion proving that for these men of principle thelaw trumped political beliefs.
1936(6th ofSivan, 5696): First Day of Shavuot
1936: In NewYork, Congregation Emanu-El is scheduled to hold its confirmation exercisesthis morning at 10 o’clock.
1936: In NewYork, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun is scheduled to hold its confirmationexercises this morning at 10:30.
1936: In NewYork, Rabbis are scheduled to use their Shavuot sermons “to make appeals…forthe aide of destitute Jews in Germany and Eastern Europe.
1936(6th ofSivan, 5696): On Shavuot, the Britishwould not allow Jews to hold services at the Western Wall because of theon-going attacks by Arabs.
1936: “InJaffa, hooligans” broke “streetlamps while approximately “400 orange trees wereuprooted in the vicinity of Peach Tikva” and “Arab demonstrators…continuedaimless shooting at Jewish” settlers.
1937:Birthdate of Chicago native Allan Solomon who gained famed as Northwestern University alum Allan Carr who went fromrunning the talent agency Allan Carr Enterprises to a successful career as ascreenwriter and a producer who “was named Producer of the Year by the NationalAssociation of Theatre Owners.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/01/arts/allan-carr-62-the-producer-of-grease-and-la-cage.html
1938(26thof Iyar, 5698): Seventy-two-year-old Dr. Flora Pollack passed away today in herhometown, Baltimore, MD.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that aBritish constable was murdered near Ramat Hakovesh (formerly Juara) in thevicinity of the spot where two American pioneers, Ephraim Tiktin, 24, formerlyof Detroit, Michigan, and Eliezer Korngold, formerly of Toronto (Ontario) weremurdered on April 8, 1938. Supernumerary policemen successfully defended theArab attack on Tel Adashim and wounded several attackers. Ze'ev Alianevsky, thedriver of a Hamekasher bus in Jerusalem who was stoned and injured by Arabs inRomema, defended himself with his licensed revolver, hit and wounded an Arabwoman. He was taken out of Hadassah hospital to the Central Jerusalem Prisonfor investigation.
1939: Twoweeks after 19-year-old George Jellinek and the family of Peter Gay arrived inCuba aboard the SS Iberia the SS St. Louis arrived in Havana, Cuba andwas denied use of the docking areas because the Cuban government “hadretroactively invalidated the land permits” of most of the Jewish passengers –a fact of which they were not aware.
1939(9thof Sivan, 5699): Forty-four-year-old Galician native Joseph Roth whose worksincluded “his family saga Radetzky March about the decline and fall ofthe Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life, Job and hisseminal essay "Juden auf Wanderschaft” translated into English in “TheWandering Jews” died today in Paris where he had gone to escape the Nazis.
https://www.lbi.org/digibaeck/results/?qtype=pid&term=121485
1940: As theBritish fought off attacks by the Germans at Dunkirk, members of “the 3rd SSDivision Totenkopf machine-gunned 97 British and French prisoners near the LaBassée Canal”
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/le-paradis-massacre-outraged-even-nazis.html
1940: InBrooklyn builder Lawrence Gallin and Florence Gallin gave birth to AlbertSamuel Gallin, the Boston University graduate better known as “talent manger”Sandy Gallin who played a key role in the careers of such notables as DollyPartin.
1941: In NewYork City, grocer Louis Berlin and “Sylvia (Lebwohl) Berlin, a homemaker turnedbusiness manager for Ralph Lauren gave birth to University of Wisconsin trainedhistorian Dr. Ira Berlin. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
1941: After stayingin Luxembourg for “as long as he could” Robert Serebrenik, the Chief Rabbi ofLuxembourg “left on one of the last convoys out of the Nazi occupied country.
1942: As oftoday, “compulsory wearing of the yellow badge” was enforced in Belgium.
1942: ThreeJewish families living in the remote Ukrainian village of Chaplinka are killed.
1942: GeneralReinhard Heydrich was fatally shot in Prague by two Czech patriots. The manresponsible for the formal initiation of Hitler's Final Solution, a mansynonymous with terror, would die within the next eight days. The Holocauststill had three more years of death ahead of it. SS General Globocnik beginspreparation for ‘Operation Rienhard', in honor of the slain general. OperationReienhard was the deportation of Jews to meet immediate death at Treblinka,Belzec and Sobibor. Goebbels wanted to make the Jews pay for Heydrich's death.According to at least one account, the attack on Heydrich was orchestrated bythe British and had nothing to do with his role in the Final Solution
1943: The Jewsof Sokal, Ukraine, are deported to the Belzec death camp.
1943(22ndof Iyar, 5703): While serving with the 42nd Bomber Squadron of the11th Bomber Group, Staff Sergeant Frank Glassman, the son of Russianimmigrants Peter and Sadie Glassman, died today when his B-24, nicknamed theGreen Hornet was ditched and lost in the Pacific Ocean
1943:Three thousand Jews are killed at Tolstoye, Ukraine.
1943: Birthdate of actor Bruce Weitz who playedSgt. Mick Belker on the NBC television police drama Hillstreet Blues.
1944: Two Jewsescaped from Birkenau. Arnost Rosin of Czechoslovakia and Czeslaw Mordowicz ofPoland had witnessed the first ten days of the Hungarian arrivals. They wereable to tell the West the truth about the tragedies they survived through.
1944: JoelBrand “sent his wife a telegram” telling her about interim agreement that hadbeen reached to swap $4,000 for each Jewish emigrants to Palestine and onemillion Swiss francs for each 1,000 Jewish emigrants to Spain, “hoping shewould tell Eichmann and that this might delay the deportations” of HungarianJews to Auschwitz.
1944: RudolfKastner was taken into custody by the Hungarian Arrow Cross in Budapest.
1945: “Aconference of 300 delegates from twenty nations called to devise a world-wideprogram for the rehabilitation of Jewish life in Poland and to press for actionto safeguard Jewish security opened today at the Hotel Roosevelt under thesponsorship of the American Federation for Polish Jews.”
1946:Concentration Camp survivor Gerda Weissmann was reunited with her “liberator”Kurt Klein whom she married and gained fame as author Gerda Weissmann Klein
1946: Birthdateof Jerusalem native and Weizmann Institute of Science graduate EliezerRabinovici the theoretical physicist who “is emeritus Professor of Physics(Leon H. and Ada G. Miller Chair) at The Racah Institute of Physics, HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem, working on theoretical high-energy physics, inparticular quantum field theory and string theory.”
1947: BenGurion drew up his first summary of the Yishuv’s military position. He wrote inhis diary, “There is not sufficient training even in the brigade(Palmach). There is a shortage ofcommanders, and those we have are not adequate [in standard]. There is no attempt at action, the planningdefective; the structure of the budget is not directed at the target. The most serious fault is that the experienceand human military material [those demobilized from the British army] have notbeen utilized. The equipment has notbeen adapted. For many years, a central idea has been missing: What is the duty[of the Haganah organization]?
1948(18thof Iyar, 5708): Lag B’Omer
1948: InBrooklyn, George Lerner, who worked “as a fisherman and antiques dealer andBlanche Lerner gave birth to actor Ken Lerner, the brother of Michael Lernerand son of Sam Lerner.
1948: TheIsrael Defense Army (Zahal) was established. Prior to the creation of the statethere had been several armed groups including Haganah, Palmach, Irgun and theStern Gang. Ben Gurion understood that there could only be one army andthat that army had to be under the control of the national government.Heacteddecisively and overcame considerable opposition to achieve thisgoal.
1948: InJerusalem, the hospital in which the mortally wounded Esther Cailingold cameunder enemy fire forcing officials to move her and the other casualties to “asafer area.”
1948: InJerusalem, troops of the Arab Legion “raised their flag on the roof of theHuvra Synagogue, the main synagogue of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City andthen set it on fire. The Hebrew wordHuvra means ruin and the synagogue was so named because the Moslems haddestroyed it twice since it was first built in 1705. The dome of Huvra had been a major landmarkfor almost one hundred years. The Huvrawas in the same category for Jews as the Church of the Holy Sepulcher was forChristians. Of course the Churchremained unharmed and nobody in the international community then or sinceexpressed any dismay over the destruction of a Jewish house of worship that wasalso a civic treasure.
1948: VitkaKempner and Abba Kovner gave birth to their first son Michael. At the time of the boy’s birth, his fatherwas fighting with the IDF during the War of Independence. Kempner had provenher martial mettle as a resistance fighter serving alongside her famous husbandduring WW II.
1949: “TheAmerican President liner General W.G. Gordon, the last large U.S. passengership to leave Shanghai before the city fell to the Communists” arrived in SanFrancisco carrying refugees included Jews “who had found wartime refuge” in thecity among whom were “Dr. Michael Lowe-Levai, the former foreign editor of theBerliner Lokal Anzeiger whose son Eric A. Harris lives in Los Angeles.”
1949: TheUnited Service for New Americans, “which aids displaced Jews” in the UnitedStates reported that there were still 1,500 Jewish refugees stranded inShanghai.
1950(11thof Sivan, 5710): Parashat Naso
1950(11thof Sivan, 5710): Sixty-four-year-old Harvard educated “investment banker, chaseplayer and philanthropist Maurice Wertheim, the Hartford, CT born son of Jacob Wertheimand Hannah Frank, the founder of Wertheim and Company and husband of AlmaMorgenthau with whom he ha three children Josephine Pomerance, Anne Werner andPulitzer Prize winning author and historian Barbara Tuchman, passed aa toda.
https://hum11c.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/exhibits/show/cultural-space/maurice-wertheim--investment-b
1953: TheJerusalem Post reported that Jordanian marauders carried out threesimultaneous attacks on three new immigrant villages of Beit Naballa, Beit Arifand Beit Arif Bet, all of them near Beit Shemen. At Beit Naballa they threw agrenade into the house of David Namdar, killed his wife, Tamar, 30, and woundedtwo of his seven children. They also looted whatever was possible. At Beit Arifthey detonated three kg. of
1953: TheJerusalem Post reported that the General Zionists had resigned from theCabinet coalition. They resigned because the Labor majority turned down theirrequest for the exclusive use of a National Flag and anthem in schools, to theexclusion of red flags, traditional to the Labor movement.
1954: In St. Louis, Kate and Sol Firestone gavebirth to Tirzah Firestone “an American analytical psychotherapist, author, andJewish Renewal rabbi who was the founding rabbi of Congregation Nevei Kodesh, aJewish Renewal synagogue in Boulder, Colorado and sister of writer and feministactivist Shulamith Firestone.
1955(6thof Sivan, 5715): Shavuot
1955: InBethesda, MD, Charlotte Schiff, “a television and publishing executive andEdward Schiff, a real estate lawyer” gave birth CCNY graduate Richard Schiff,the actor and director who married Sheila Kelly in 1996.
1956: Dr. LeoJung, Rabbi Max Kirshblum and Rabbi Maurice Wohlgerlertner officed at thewedding Shulamtih Heller, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tobias Heller and IraDavid Stavish, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Stavish.
1956:Birthdate of Brooklyn born, NYU trained attorney Lewis Fidler, the New YorkCity Councilman who raised two children with his wife Robin.
https://council.nyc.gov/district-46/
https://nypost.com/2019/05/05/former-city-councilman-lew-fidler-dead-at-62/
1956: InWinnipeg, Canadian attorney and political leader Israel Harold “Izzy” Asper“married Ruth Miriam ‘Babs’ Asper at Shaarey Zedek” today.
1957:“Screaming Eagles” directed by Charles F. Haas was released today in the UnitedStates.
1957:Thirty-seventh and final broadcast of “Producers’ Showcase” a televisionanthology series that featured the music of Sammy Cahn and Moose Charlap andincluded shows produced by Sol Hurok and Anatole Litvak.
1957:Birthdate David Chester Itkin, who “served as music director and conductor ofthe Arkansas Symphony Orchestra from 1993 to 2010.”
1958(8thof Sivan, 5718): Seventy-eight year old Dr. Meno Lissauer, the Lubeck born sonof Frieda and Abraham Adolph Moses Lissauer, who was the founder and chairmanof the Associated Metals and Minerals Corporation and who made his way fromNazi occupied Holland via Lisbon to the United States where he became “adirector of the American Federation of Jews in Central Europe and established ascholarship and endowment at Brandeis while raising a son and daughter – Franzand Hannah – with his wife Meta passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/05/28/82695526.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1958:Birthdate of Margate native Dr. Robin Mundill the historian and author whosework included The King’s Jews: Money, Massacre and Exodus in MedievalEngland
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1077
1960:Henriette von Shirach, “Hitler’s private secretary” wrote ‘a letter to a seniorBavarian official” begging for art works” which in reality had been confiscatedfrom Gottlieb and Mathilde Kraus by the Gestapo in 1941” be returned to her.
1961: “TheLast Time I Saw Archie,” a comedy featuring Louis Nye, Robert Strauss andHarvey Lembeck was released in the United States today.
1963(4thof Sivan, 5723): Eighty-six-year-old “Louis Lipsky, noted Zionist leader,journalist and author” who “had three sons: David Lipsky, a theatrical pressagent, Eleazar Lipsky, a novelist, and Joel Carmichael, a historian, passedaway today.
https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/3/resources/15570
1963(4th ofSivan, 5723): Jacob Elie Safra, the Aleppo born of the Safra banking family whomarried his cousin Sarah with whom he had eight children passed away today inSão Paulo, Brazil.
1964: PrimeMinister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office. Nehru opposed the creation of the state ofIsrael. Given India’s large Moslempopulation and the conflict with Pakistan at the time of India’s re-birth, thisis not surprising. What wasdisappointing was the lengths that Nehru went to isolate the Jewish state afterits creation. In recent years, India hasturned its back on Nehru’s view of Israel.
1966: “TheWrong Box” a comedy written by Larry Gelbart was released in the United Kingdomtoday.
1967: “TheIsraeli Cabinet met to decide whether or not to take military action againstEgypt” based on the continued blockade of the Straits of Tiran. The Cabinetappeared to be evenly divided between those who were ready to take action andthose who were willing to wait and see if the international community would endthe crisis. During the Cabinet session,Abba Eban arrived from Washington and his meetings with President Johnson. Ebanreported that Johnson was working to assemble an international flotilla ofwarships that would open the Straits.The Cabinet decided to hold off on military action in an effort to giveJohnson a chance to bring his plan to fruition.A significant segment of the Israeli populace did not understand thereason for waiting. The country had been on alert for some time and the strainwas taking its toll. The fear was thatwaiting would only strengthen the Arabs militarily and led to defeat for theJewish state. Furthermore, theymistrusted the United States because of its support of Nasser in 1956 and1957. The Cabinet’s decision to wait wasbased, in part, on a political calculation.If they waited and Johnson succeeded, then the crisis would be endedwithout war. If they waited and Johnsonfailed, then the Israelis would have the support of the United States in theupcoming conflict. If they did not givea Johnson to avert a war, the Israelis would end up fighting the Arabs withoutany international support. Based on theexperience of 1956, they knew that in the long run, this was not where theywanted to be.
1967: The USproduction “Eh?” starring Dustin Hoffman as “Valentine Brose” which “was thefirst major critical success in his career, garnering him a Theatre World Awardand Drama Desk Award for his performance” closed today after 233 performances.
1969:Terrorist fired a bazooka this morning at an Israeli patrol in the BeisanValley near Kfar Ruppin.
1970: “TheGrasshopper” written by Jerry Belson was released today in the United States.
1970(21stIyar, 5730): Seventy-one year old Colonel Richard Gimbel, USAF (ret), the NewYork born son of Ellis and Minnie Gimbel and the grandson of the founder ofGimbels who left the family business in the 1930’s and pursued a militarycareer in the 1940’s before becoming the “curator of aeronautical literature athis alma mater Yale while raising seven children with his wife “the formerJulia de Fernex Millhiser, passed away today.
1970:“Watermelon Man,” a comedy “inspired by Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis wasreleased in the United States today.
1971: InDetroit, final performance of an “updated” version of La Périchole an opérabouffe in three acts by Jacques Offenbach with a libretto co-authored byLudovic Halévy
1973(25thof Iyar, 5733): Seventy-three-year-old Federated Department Store president,Fred Straus, Jr, the Columbus, OH born son of Fred and Rose Lazarus and husbandof Meta Marx Lazarus passed away today after which he was buried at Green LawnCemetery in Columbus, OH.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fred-Lazarus-Jr
1973: The IDFannounced a state of emergency and reserve troops were called up in response toa movement of Egyptian troops. The state of emergency was cancelled when itbecame clear that this was only an exercise
1974(6thof Sivan, 5734): Shavuot
1974: SimonVeil began her first term as French Minister of Health.
1975: AnatolyMalkin, who had already lost his position “for filing for emigration toIsrael,” was arrested today for “evasion of military service.”
1975: Sender Levinson, of Bendery in SovietMoldavia, went on trial today.
1977: InManchester, CT, Rabbi Neil Kominsky officiated at the wedding of Nan ElizabethRypins Malkin, a psychiatric social worker at the Center for Mental Health ofthe Manchester (Conn.) Memorial Hospital, and Dr. Donald L. Shapiro, themedical director of the center…”
1979: “Dummy,”a docudrama brought to the screen by Executive Producer Frank Konigsberg was screenedin CBS for the first time.
1980: “TheUnited States today rejected an Israeli request to renew a five-year agreementthat would give Israel preferential access to the American strategic stockpileincluding the right to buy industrial diamonds at a negotiated price.”
1981: Thepremiere performance of “Halil” took place today at the Sultan’s Pool inJerusalem with Jean-Pierre Rampal as the soloist and Leonard Bernsteinconducting the Israel Philharmonic. “Halil is a work for flute and chamberorchestra composed by Leonard Bernstein composed in 1981. The work is sixteenminutes in length. Bernstein composed Halil in honor of a young Israeli flutistYadin Tanenbaum who was killed at the Suez Canal in during the 1973 Yom Kippurwar.”
1982(5thof Sivan, 5742): Erev Shavuot
1984: SethMydans reviewed “The Revolt of Job,” a film that tells the story of “one Jewishcouple's attempt to defeat their family's extinction in the Holocaust byadopting a non-Jewish boy, a child who would survive to carry on their line.”
1984(25thof Iyar, 5744): Seventy-one-year-old Gallitzin, PA native and U of Michigantrained labor lawyer Walter J. Isaacson, “an officer in the lawyers’ divison ofthe UJA-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and husband of “the former EdithLipsig Hebald” passed away today.
1985(7th ofSivan, 5745): Second Day of Shavuot
1985:Birthdate of Dmitry Bukhman,a Russian-born Israeli entrepreneur who togetherwith his brother Igor Bukhman, founded theonline gaming company Playrix, which is best known for its mobile-app gamessuch as Homescapes and Fishdom.
1986(18thof Iyar 5746): Lag B’Omer
1987(28th ofIyar, 5747): Yom Yerushalayim
1987: DanielBarenboim is scheduled to serve as conductor for the IPO at a concert which ispart of its 50th anniversary celebration.
1990: Afterthree weeks, the curtain came down Playwrights Horizons Off-Broadway originalproduction of Lynn Ahren’s “Once on This Island.”
1993(7th of Sivan,5753): Second Day of Shavuot
1993: The officialopening of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology and the JillSackler Sculpture Court and Garden at Peking University is scheduled to takeplace today.
1995: “A Walk in theClouds” produced by David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, filmed by cinematographerEmmanuel Lubezki and co-starring Debra Messing was released in Japan today.
1997(20th of Iyar,5757): One hundred-year-old Ralph Hoween, the Harvard and Chicago Cardinalsfootball player whose career had been interrupted when he volunteered to servewith U.S. Navy during World War I passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/29/sports/ralph-horween-100-the-oldest-ex-nfl-player.html
1999(12th ofSivan, 5759): Eighty-two-year-old Big Band vocalist Leah Ray Werblin, the wifeof Sonny Werblin passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/04/sports/leah-ray-werblin-singer-82.html
2000: At BrownUniversity noted scholar and feminist Alice Shalvi speaks on the effects offeminism on Judaic life in Israel and the world beyond as part of the StephenA. Ogden Jr. Memorial Lectureship.
2001(5th ofSivan, 5761) Erev Shavuot
2001: TheNew York Times featured books by Jewish writers and/or of special interestto Jewish readers including The Dying Animal by Philip Roth.
2001: The PFLPclaimed responsibility for today’s Jerusalem Center bombing
2001:Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for today’s Jaffa Road bombingin which 30 people were injured.
2001: “SisterMary Explains It All For You” a controversial film about Catholicism directedby Marshall Brickman was broadcast by Showtime for the first time.
2002: TheAl-Aqsa Martyrs, Brigades claimed credit for today’s bombing in a mall at PetahTivka
2002(16th ofSivan, 5762): Eighty-five-year-old weightlifter David Mayor who in 1937 “wonthe U.S. heavyweight champion with a total lift of 835 pounds and was named"America's Strongest Man” passed away today.
2003: Theparents of Chandra Levy hold a private graveside for their daughter.
2004(7th of Sivan, 5764): Second Day of Shavuot
2004: Cruel Sister is a composition for stringorchestra by the American composer Julia Wolfe. was first performed by theMunich Chamber Orchestra today
2004: On the day after the New York Times “mea culpa editorial” related to the reporting abouthe Iraq war by Judith Miller, an article in Salon quoted her as saying"You know what ... I was proved f*cking right. That's what happened.People who disagreed with me were saying, 'There she goes again.' But I wasproved f*cking right.”
2005: TheWashington Post reported that meetings had been held over the weekend atYifat, Israel in which Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres announced that hewould seek the top spot in Israel’s government.Despite the fact that he is now 81 and that he has failed to accomplishthe goal in four previous attempts, Peres thinks that now is the time for himto finally reach his goal.
2005: TheWashington Post reported that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declaredfrom Jerusalem, “that her meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leadersconvinced her that both sides share a commitment to ensuring Israel’swithdrawal from Gaza takes place smoothly and peacefully.” At the end of the same article the Postreported that “Coinciding with Rice’s visit, Palestinians…attacked Israelis…inthe southern Gaza Strip killing one Israeli and wounding two others…The attackwas the second major assault on Israeli targets in recent days.” Islamic Jihad and a group affiliated withMahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement took credit for the attack. As head of the
2005(18thof Iyar, 5765): Morris Cohen, a professor at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology who helped to transform the field ofmetallurgy into the modern discipline of materials science and engineering,passed away at his home in Swampscott, Mass. He was 93.
2005(18thof Iyar, 5765): Celebration of Lag B’Omer, Thirty-Third Dayof the Omer.
2005(18thof Iyar, 5765): Observance of the Yahrzeit Rabbi Shimon BarYochai. Born in 100 C.E., Shimon studied with the great Rabbi Akiva and was oneof only two scholars ordained by Akiva. Shimon is quoted in the PalestinianTalmud as saying “To honor one’s parents is more important than honoringGod.” This belief did keep him fromopenly disagreeing with his considering the Rebellion against Rome. Shimon was an outspoken supporter of Akivahand Bar Kochba while his father believed in appeasing the Romans. According to legend, Shimon hid from theRomans with his son in a cave for thirteen years livings on dates and carob.Shimon was a great scholar who is quoted in the Talmud frequently both onmatters of Halakah and ethics. Judah thePrince, the compiler of the Mishnah was one of his students. His greatest claim to fame among some isbased on the mythical belief that he wrote the Zohar (The Book ofSplendor). Although he was a mystic,there is no proof that he was the author of the text. Regardless, starting in the 16ththe Chasidim who are his followers gather at his grave in Meron which islocated near Safed on the 33rd day of the Omer and commemorate hispassing by lighting bonfires and dancing by torchlight as they express theirjoy in his teachings.
2006(29thof Iyar, 5766): Ninety-five-year-old actress Thelma Bernstein and mother ofcomedy writer Albert Brooks passed away.(As reported by Dennis McLellan)
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/may/31/local/me-bernstein31
2007: TonyEprile, novelist and faculty member at the University of Iowa’s Writer'sWorkshop, discusses his prize winning novel, The Persistence of Memorythat describes apartheid in South Africa through the eyes of a shy, overweightJewish boy from Johannesburg's wealthy northern suburbs. He also discusses hisjust completed trip to Syria with other writers.
2007: The New York Times features reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including ATranquil Star: Unpublished Stories by Primo Levi, translated by AnnGoldstein and Alessandra Bastagli, City of Oranges: An Intimate History ofArabs and Jews in Jaffa, by AdamLeBor, My Holocaust by Tova Reich and The Last Tycoons: The SecretHistory of Lazard Freres & Co. by William D. Cohan.
2007 (10 Sivan5767):OshriOz a 35-year-old, resident of Hod Hasharon, was killed when a Qassam rocketfired from the Gaza Strip hit the car in which he was driving in the westernNegev town of Sderot.
2008:In Chicago, asa prelude to the CSO's production of Thomashefskys:Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater, Spertus is proud tohost Chicago music critic Andrew Patner in a discussion with Michael TilsonThomas, who will vividly illustrate through projected images his grandparent'sfascinating history, their starring roles in the American Yiddish Theater, andits enormous contribution to the American cultural life.
2008: Publicsales of Chasing Harry, the third novel by Lauren Weisberger, author of TheDevil Wears Prada began today.
2009: Center for Jewish History and Untitled Theater Company #61present: Golem Stories, A staged reading retelling the legend of a clayman in 16th century Prague created by Rabbi Loew to defend the Jews.
2009: FredHochberg began serving as Chairman and President of the Export-Import Bank.
2009 (4Sivan): On the Jewish calendar, 2nd Yahrzeit for Shir-El Friedmanthe thirty five year old woman who was killed by a Hamas rocket fired intoSderot.
2009: WilliamLanouette, the author of Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard,the Man Behind the Bomb (written with Bela Silard) and Martin J. Sherwin,the author (with Kai Bird) of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book AmericanPrometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer take partin a discussion entitled, Building the Bomb, Fearing Its Use: NuclearScientists, Social Responsibility and Arms Control, 1946-1996, atthe Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
2009:As part of the Tel Aviv Centennial Celebration a statue of MeirDizengoff, the first mayor of Tel Aviv, riding his horse will be placed infront of his home at 16 Rothschild Boulevard. The address has become one of themost important landmarks in Israeli history: in his will, Dizengoff designatedhis house to be the home of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (the museum later movedto its current address on Shaul Hamelech Boulevard). On May 14th1948, it was the site in which David Ben Gurion and the Provisional NationalCouncil declared Israel's independence.
2009: Thousands of Israelis from far and wide flocked toRothschild Boulevard in central Tel Aviv on Wednesday night, as the city heldits annual "White Night" event, with parties, music and streettheater lasting until the wee hours.
2010: In Paris, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuattended a ceremony marking Israel’s official joining the Organization forEconomic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
2010: Professor Menahem Milson a professor of Arabic Literatureat the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a co-founder of The Middle East MediaResearch Institute (MEMRI) is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “Arabicand Islamic Anti-Semitism Today” at the Historic 6th & ISynagogue in Washington, D.C.
2010: The first-ever Jewish America Heritage Monthcelebration was held today at the White House.
2011: The National Museum of American Jewish MilitaryHistory, the Jewish War Veterans, and the Sixth & I Synagogue are scheduledto host the first annual national service honoring the Jewish fallen heroes ofIraq and Afghanistan. The service, which is scheduled to be conducted by CantorLarry Paul and musician Robyn Helzner, will open with remarks by NMAJHPresident David Magidson and will feature the reading of the names of the morethan 40 Fallen Heroes in solemn remembrance and prayer.
2011: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Rockdale Temple is scheduledhonor Jewish American Heritage Month with a Rock Shabbat service highlightingAmerican-composed liturgical music.
2011: A week-end long celebration marking the 25thanniversary of the ordinations of Rabbi Jonathan Rubenstein and Rabbi LindaMotzkin is scheduled to begin this evening in Saratoga Springs.
2011: The annual conference of the Congress of SecularJewish Organizations (CSJO) is scheduled to open at Humber College in Toronto,Canada.
2011: Limmud Colorado’s Fourth Annual Conference isscheduled to begin at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, CO.
2011: Group of Eight leaders had to soften a statement urgingIsrael and the Palestinians to return to negotiations because Canada objectedto a specific mention of 1967 borders, diplomats said today
2011: US President Barack Obama today travelled to Poland wherehe honored the memories of those killed in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising duringthe Holocaust. He was heard telling a Holocaust survivor that the US would bethere for Israel. During a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the UnknownSoldier in Warsaw Obama told one elderly man that the memorial was a"reminder of the nightmare" of the Holocaust in which millions ofJews were killed, The Associated Press reported.
2012(6th of Sivan, 5772): First Day of Shavuot
2012(6th of Sivan, 5772): Seventy-five-year-oldDr. David L. Rimoin, the medical geneticist who did research into Tay-Sachsdisease passed away today. (As reported by Denise Grady)
2012: The New YorkTimes features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of specialinterest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback editionsof The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, From Cairo toBrooklyn by Lucette Lagnado and Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman.
2012: The Paul Feig Tikkun Leil Shavuot at The JCC in Manhattanwhich began last night is scheduled to end at 5 am.
2012: The Cedar Lake Ballet’s two week engagement at theVenue which has included the New York premiere of “Violet Kid,” by Israelichoreographer Hofesh Shechter is scheduled to come to a close
2013: During “The Patron Trip to Israel” the IPO isscheduled to perform a concert featuring conductor and violinist PinchasZuckerman.
2013: A conference opened in Riga to discuss “Holocaustcommemoration in post-communist Eastern Europe.”
2013: Deputy Transportation Minister Tzipi Hotovely married OrAlon an Israeli attorney.
2013: Egyptian-French singer-songwriter Georges Moustaki wasburied today according to Jewish rites in a family vault at the Père LachaiseCemetery in Paris a few meters from the grave of his former amour Édith Piaf.”
2013: US Secretary of State John Kerry held separate surprisemeetings in Jordan today with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, as heintensified his efforts to revive the peace process.
2013: Amos Oz won the Franz Kafka Prize today in theCzech Republic.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-author-amos-oz-wins-czech-kafka-prize/
2013: Memorial Day observed in the United States. Jews have fought in every war since theAmerican Revolution and served in all branches of the military. They haveserved as generals and warriors who have earned the Congressional Medal ofHonor. Ironically, one of the Jews whohad the most effect on America’s defense was one who did not see combat –Admiral Hyman Rickover. As the “father ofthe nuclear navy” (and more specifically nuclear-powered submarines) heprovided the United States with its primary deterrent in dealing with theSoviets which kept the Cold War from turning into the hot war of World War III
http://magazine.discoverjcc.com/jews-history-in-u-s-military/
2014:Father Francis Wahle, the Kindertansportee, whose father had converted butwhose mother had not is scheduled to tell his story at the Weiner Library inthe UK.
2014:The Center for Jewish History is scheduled a lecture by Meki Tate entitled“Warriors in Blue: Soldiers, Seders and Solidarity” which “explores theexperiences and contributions of the 7,000 Jewish servicemen who fought in theUnion Army during the Civil War.”
2014:European Parliament Speaker Martin Schultz, French President Francois Hollandeand Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi joined Belgium’s Elio Durpo in a“paying home to the vicitims of lastweekend’s attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels when they met Jewish leaders outside themuseum and bowed their heads in tribute to a rabbi’s prayer.
2014:Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Rabbi Zvi (Herschel) Schachter, Rabbi YehoshuaYeshaya Neuwirth (deceased) and Rabbi Zalman Nehemiah Goldberg – thereceipients of the Katz Awared which is , bestowed upon individuals andenterprises engaged in the application of Halacha, or Jewish law, to modernlife -- were honored at a ceremony inJersualem today. (Times of Israel
2014:“A rare monastic lead seal dating from the Crusader era has been positivelyidentified, over a year after it was discovered at an archaeological site inthe Jerusalem neighborhood of Bayit Vegan, the Israel Antiquities Authoritysaid today. “ (As reported by Gavriel Fisk)
2015:The First Division Museum at Cantigny is scheduled to host “Liberation: LookingBack 70 Years” that includes a conversation between Holocaust survivor andGeorge Brent and Arthur Sheridan who was one of the first infantrymen to enterDachau.
2015:“The militant group Hamas used last summer’s war with Israel in the Gaza Stripto carry out extrajudicial killings of at least 23 Palestinians accused ofcollaborating with Israel and to torture dozens of others, including politicalrivals, Amnesty International charged in a report issued early today.” (Asreported by Isabel Kershner and Jodi Rudoren)
2015:Following yesterday’s rocket attack from Gaza on southern Israel the Gan YavneCouncil order bomb shelters to be opened and “unprotected schools in Ashdod areto remain closed today.”
2015:Pulitzer Prize winning author Herman Wouk who is living proof that you can be asuccess in America while still being an practicing Jew and a mensch of thefirst order turns one hundred today.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=herman+wouk+is+still+alive
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/apr/10/herman-wouk-lawgiver-simon-schuster
http://www.biography.com/people/herman-wouk-20631823#synopsis
2016:In Battle Creek, Michigan, the multi-dimensional Holocaust Remembrance exhibitthat began in April is scheduled to come to an end today.
https://sites.google.com/a/lakeviewspartans.org/holocaust-remembrance/
2016:Barnes & Nobel is scheduled to host a presentation by Sarah Fader, “areform Jew still searching for her Jewish identity” who is the author of StigmaFighters Anthology.
2016:Today in Tel Aviv, “a Christian Arab-Israeli ballet dancer, 21 year old Ta’alinAbu Hanna, was named “Miss Trans Israel” at “Israel’s first-ever transgenderbeauty pageant.”
2016:The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a concert in “memory of BrachaEden on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of her death.”
2016:Today, Anthony Graziano of New Jersey “was convicted of terrorism forvandalizing and firebombing Jewish temples and a rabbi’s home, and is nowfacing a possible life sentence.”
2016:Herman Wouk whose latest work is Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a100-Year-Old Author turns 101.
2017:In “Ruth Madoff” Living Quietly Inside the Glare” published today RobertMarchant described the life Ruth Madoff, the wife of Bernard Madoff has createdfor herself in the “high end community” of Greenwich, CT.
2017(2ndof Sivan, 5777): Parashat Bamidbar – begin the fourth book of the Torah.
2017: Friends, family, fans and all who love a “well toldyarn” are scheduled to celebrate the 102nd birthday of Herman Wouk.
2017:“In the East Hampton hamlet of Springs, New York, the Leiber Collection isscheduled to welcome the public with an Opening Celebration Garden CelebrationGarden Tea Party” where they can see “Magnificent Obsession: Fashion Passionand Collection” which “display highlights five Leiber collectors at thenamesake gallery” Judith Leiber “shares with her husband’s paintings andprints.
2017:In at testament to the vitality to a small town Jewish community, friends andfamily are scheduled to gather to celebrate the graduation of Jessica Herrin.
2018(13thof Sivan, 5778): Eighty-one-year-old lesbian activist Connie Kurtz passed awaytoday. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
2018:The New York Times features reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest Jewish readers including TheOptimistic Decade by Heather Abel.
2018:Shiva begins for “twenty-year-old Sergeant Ronen Luvarski, a resident ofRehovot who died yesterday after having suffered a severe head injury when anArab terrorist threw a marble block at his head.
2018:UK Jewish Film is scheduled to host a screening of “Scaffolding” directed byMatan Yair.
2018:At part of the “Home: Lens on Israel” series, the Temple Emanuel StreickerCenter is scheduled to open the photographic exhibition “Bedouin and ArabIsraeli Communities in the Negev.”
2018:In Des Moines, Rabbi Emily Barton and Harlan Jacobs are scheduled to lead adiscussion following a screening of “Bal Ej: The Hidden Jews of Ethiopia.”
2018:In New Orleans the curtain is scheduled to come down on the final performanceof “An Act of God.” (As reported by Crescent City Jewish News, the source foreverything Jewish in Cajun Country)
2018:Herman Wouk turns 103 having outlived the number superlatives that can beapplied to a man who proved you can be a great author and mensch!
https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/herman-wouk/201831/
https://www.biography.com/people/herman-wouk-20631823
2019:In Canada, the Edmonton Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screeningof “Leona,” a story about young Jewish from Mexico City.
2019:In Atlanta, the Breman Museum is scheduled to “remember and honor those whodied in active military servicing including Aaron Dreizin who died along withthe rest of the crew of his B-17 during WW II.
2019:“The Comedy for Koby” tour is scheduled to open today in Haifa.
2019(22ndof Iyar, 5779): Sixty-year-old Pulitzer Prize winning author the son of Dr.Norman Horwitz, a neurosurgeon, and Elinor (Lander) Horwitz, a writer and thehusband of Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Geraldine Brooks passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/obituaries/tony-horwitz-dead.html
2019(22nd of Iyar, 5779): Ninety-three year old WW II Army veteran andYale University graduate Roger Overholt Hirson a prominent writer for livetelevision in the 1950s and ’60s who collaborated with the composer StephenSchwartz on the hit Broadway musical “Pippin” passed away today.(As reported byRichard Sandomir)
2019:In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Outdoors,” named the “BestScreenplay of the Haifa International Film Festival”
2019:Memorial Day observed as Americans remember those who made the supremesacrifice for the United States and her citizens.
https://kaplancenter.org/memorial-day-and-united-jewish-people
http://forward.com/news/135331/profiles-of-our-fallen/#ixzz1DeAMPaIh
http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/07/18/jews-in-the-military/
2019:The birth of Herman Wouk is celebrated for the first time in over a centurywith the author not present.
2020:Rabbi Moshe Bryski and Cantor Aryeh Leib Hurwitz are scheduled to officiate atthe Chabad
Pre-ShavuotYizkor Program.
2020:Live on Zoom, YIVO is scheduled to present “Yiddish in Israel: A History”during which Rachel Rojanski in conversation with Rachel Brenner, ShacharPinsker, and Sunny Yudkoff discuss Yiddish in Israel: A History.
2020:Rabbi Ariel Root Wolpe, founder of Ma’alot, a Jewish outreach organization inAtlanta, is scheduled to talk, virtually about the relationship betweenprophecy and singing and leads a niggun
2020:The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a live pre-Shavuotreading of the Book of Ruth over Zoom which will largely be done by women.
2020:The Vilna Shul is scheduled to host “Milk and Honey: A Shavuot Cheese-MakingWorkshop” you can participate in “from your house.”
2020:In Cedar Rapids, IA, three days after she had passed a memorial service isscheduled to held this morning for ninety-one year old Bertie Schneider at theTemple Judah Silber Outdoor Sanctuary where social distancing will be observed.
2020:Thanks to an order signed by Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, restaurants andbars are scheduled to open today in Israel.
2020:One hundred and fifth anniversary of the birth of Herman Wouk whose names andworks you should know and if you don’t, today would be a good day to begin.
2021:The Hillel of Silicon Valley is scheduled to present “a panel discussion aboutthe International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s 2016 definition ofantisemitism and why it needs to be adopted on college campuses across thecountry.
2021:The Day of Action Against Anti-Semitism, a virtual rally, is scheduled to takeplace today.
2021:The Tabue Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University is scheduled topresent “historian Peter E. Gordon talking his new book Migrants in theProfane.
2021:JWA's Book Club is scheduled to present A Special Quarantine(ish) Book Talkwith Tovah Feldshuh
2021:The Center for Jewish History and LBI are scheduled to present a conversationwith Leah Garrett, the author of X: Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos ofWorld War II.
https://programs.cjh.org/event/x-troop-2021-05-27
2021:National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to present “Let MyPeople Go! Lessons of the Soviet Jewry Movement for Today” with NathanSharansky.
2021:The Jewish Heritage Center is scheduled to present online “Using the WynerFamily Jewish Heritage Center Archives for Family History Research.”
2021:The Contra Costa JCC and Congregation B’nai Shalom are scheduled to present UnderOne Tent program director Riva Gambert talks about President Harry Truman’sresponse to the newly independent state after World War II.
2021: Israel’s cinemas are finally scheduled to reopen today after a14-month, pandemic-induced hiatus. (As reported by Ina Toker)
2022: The Riverway Project is scheduled to hostit* monthly “Neighborhood Shabbat” where it take it take Shabbat out of theshul and brings it right to members of the community.
2022: Beth Menachem Chabad is scheduled to host aMusical Tot shabbat and Challah Bake in Newton, MA.
2022: The international Conference onMultidisciplinary Social Studies, Anthropology and Archaeology is scheduled tobegin today in Jerusalem.
2023: In Lisbon, IA, home of Temple Judah activemember Becky Bunting, the Lisbon Iowa Alumni Association is scheduled to hostthe Lisbon Alumni Banquet this evening.
2023: The Eden Tamir Music is scheduled topresent the Israel Haydn String Quartetwith Tal Haim Samnon.
2023: In Stamford, CT, “Gateways Shavuos 2023” isscheduled to come to an end.
2023: The Oshman Family JCC, Peninsula JCC andJewish Silicon Valley are scheduled to present “Home Sweet Shavuot,” a “nightof learning with eight sessions, some in English and some in Hebrew, hosted inhomes in Hillsborough, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Saratoga and San Josefollowed by Havdalah.
2023: Israel braces for another of what hasbecome a weekly event – a protest against the proposed judicial reformlegislation.
2023(7th of Sivan, 5783): Second Dayof Shavuot; Yizkor;
2024:Memorial Day observed as Americans remember those who made the supremesacrifice for the United States
https://www.jwv.org/programs/in-your-area/memorial-day/
https://kaplancenter.org/memorial-day-and-united-jewish-people
http://forward.com/news/135331/profiles-of-our-fallen/#ixzz1DeAMPaIh
http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/07/18/jews-in-the-military/
2024: The Lillian andAlbert Small Capital Jewish Museum is scheduled to be open on Memorial Day so visitors“can explore the Jewish history of the national capital region” and “savor thenational and local story of the Jewish deli and its impact on tradition,culture, and the community.”
2024: Dana Berger “oneof the best and most respected singers and creators in Israel is scheduled toperform at the City Winery in New York City.
2024:As May 27th begins in Israel,an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 234 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluidfor this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting atmidnight Israeli time.)
