JUNE 12
816:Leo III, the Pope whose aggressive plan to crown Charlemagne gave the Jews ofthe Rhineland a comparatively benign ruler, passed away today.
1240:Nicholas Donin, a renegade Jew under the patronage of Louis IX, convinced PopeGregory IX to confiscate the Talmud on the grounds that it was anti-Christian.A debate ensued with Rabbi Yechiel ben Yosef of Paris and three other Rabbisspeaking in defense of the Talmud. Yechiel ben Yosef of Paris was a majorTalmudic scholar and Tosafist from northern France, father-in-law of Isaac benJoseph of Corbeil. He was a disciple of Rabbi Judah Messer Leon, and succeededhim in 1225 as head of the Yeshiva of Paris, which then boasted some 300students; his best known student was Meir of Rothenburg. But even a scholarlike Rabbi Yechiel could prevail since he was not allowed to counterattack ortake the offensive in his argument making the outcome a foregone conclusion.Ultimately 24 carriages loaded with Jewish books including all of the availablecopies of the Talmud were burned. Rabbi Yechiel eventually left France and in1260 the rabbi arrived in Eretz Yisroel (Land of Israel) along with his son anda large group of followers, settling in Acre. There he established the Talmudicacademy Midrash haGadol d'Paris. He is believed to have died there between 1265and 1268, and is buried near Haifa, at Mount Carmel.
1247:Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, the archbishop of Toledo who was so “vexed by theprosperity of the Jews in his diocese” that he led a “mob” to the Synagoguewhere “he dispersed” the Jews “and then began to plunder the houses of theunbelievers.”
1519:Birthdate of Cosimo de’ Medici whose reign was “originally beneficial for theJews as can be seen by his issuance in 1551of “an invitation to merchants fromthe Levant, including Jews, to settle in Tuscany and do business there;previously; giving asylum to refugees from the Papal State; and his refusal “toimplement the anti-Jewish restrictions issued by Pope *Paul IV or to hand overthe Jews to the jurisdiction of the Inquisition.” But when he wished to gain the favor of thePope he burned the Talmud and he “rigorously applied to the obligation to wearthe Jewish badge.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
1614:John Thurloe, who as Secretary of State was part of mission to study “theJewish question” and entered into negotiationswith the leading Jews of Amsterdam” was baptized today.
1648(22ndof Sivan, 5408): Rabbi Yechiel Michael ben Eliezer, the head of the Jewishcommunity in Nemirov was clubbed to death before his mother’s eyes during theChmielnicki Uprising, the worst massacre of Jews until the Holocaust.
1665:The English rename New Amsterdam, New York. England had gained control of thecolony as a result of winning the war with the Dutch. Ironically, PeterStuyvesant the Dutch governor who had tried to keep the Jews out in 1654 had toleave the colony while the Jewish settlers got to stay.
1713:“Only a few weeks after the beginning of his reign,” Frederick William I,“appointed Moses Leven Gumperts of the famous Gumperts family of Cleves asChief Court and Army Factor.
1720:Birthdate of Isaac Pinto, translator of the first Jewish prayer book publishedin America. A member of Congregation Shearith Israel in the city of New York,he is remembered chiefly for having prepared what is probably the earliestJewish prayer-book published in America, and certainly the first work of itskind printed in New York City. The work appeared in 1766, and the title-pagereads as follows: "Prayers for Sabbath, Rosh-Hashanah and Kippur, or theSabbath, the beginning of the year, and the Day of Atonement, with the Amidahand Musaf of the Moadim or Solemn Seasons, according to the Order of theSpanish and Portuguese Jews. Translated by Isaac Pinto and for him printed byJohn Holt in New York." Pinto was the friend and correspondent of EzraStiles, president of Yale College, who as late as 1790 mentions him in hisdiary as "a learned Jew at New York." From Stiles' account it appearsthat Pinto was a good Hebrew scholar, studying Ibn Ezra in the original.
1729(26thof Tammuz, 5489): Spanish born, New York City merchant Jacob Louzada, thefather of Aaron and Moses Louzada passed away today after which he was buriedthe Third Cemetery of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue.
1755:Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who had many Jewish friends and “believedthat that Judaism is concerned only with things of this world and lacks anyformulation of the concept of immortality” received his Ph.D. today. (JewishVirtual Library)
1758(6thof Sivan, 5518) Shavuot
1773:Birthdate of Amschel Mayer Rothschild “the second child and eldest son of MayerAmschel Rothschild, the founder of the dynasty, and Gutlé Rothschild néeSchnapper.
1776:The Virginia Convention of Delegates unanimously adopted The VirginiaDeclaration of Rights which includes Article 16 that states, “That religion, orthe duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can bedirected by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore, allmen are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to thedictates of conscience;” The declaration was drafted by founding father GeorgeMason.
1777(7thof Sivan, 5537): Second Day of Shavuot observed on the same day that GeneralGeorge Washington met with his commanders to try and determine how to deal withthe British forces under General Howe that were massing near Brunswick, NJ.
1782(30thof Sivan, 5542): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz observed as the ill-fated CrawfordExpedition, which was a defeating for Colonial Army, came to an end.
1796(6thof Sivan, 5556): Shavuot is observed for the last time under the Presidency ofGeorge Washington.
1796:Birthdate of George Bush “an American biblical scholar, pastor, abolitionistand Christian Restorationist academic” who was an early American supporter ofthe creation of a Jewish state of Israel. “In 1844 Bush published a bookentitled ‘The Valley of Vision; or, The Dry Bones of Israel Revived.’ In it hedenounced “the thralldom and oppression which has so long ground them (theJews) to the dust,” and called for ‘elevating’ the Jews ‘to a rank of honorablerepute among the nations of the earth’ by re-creating the Jewish State in theland of Israel. This, according to Bush, would benefit not only the Jews, butall of mankind, forming a ‘link of communication’ between humanity and God. ‘Itwill blaze in notoriety...It will flash a splendid demonstration upon allkindreds and tongues of the truth.’”
1799:Rabbi Abraham Azuby officiated at the wedding of Phillip Cohen and EleanorMoses, the daughter of the later Myer Moses, a successful Charleston SCmerchant.
1804:David Moses, the father of Rachel Moses was buried today in the UK.
1807(6thof Sivan, 5567): Shavuot
1807:For the first time since 1785, Reb Nachman of Bratslav observed Shavuot withouthis wife Sashia who had passed away Erev Shavuot.
1811:Amsterdam native Hyman Polock married Rebecca Barnett in London today afterwhich they had two children, Miriam and Sarah who was born in Philadelphia.
1814:Birthdate of Hungarian author and liberal political leader Baron ZsigmondKemény who came to the defense of Jewish people when violence broke out againstthem during the 1848 revolt when for example “in Pest, the symbol of the “LegalRevolution,” the assembled citizens proposed throwing all the Jews out of thecountry and forbidding them from enlisting in the National Guard.
1826(7thof Sivan, 5586): Seventh Day of Shavuot observed as the Greeks continued tofight their protracted war to gain independence from the Ottoman Empire.
1827:In London, Daniel Meyers and Hester Levy gave birth to Angel Meyers.
1828(30thof Sivan, 5588): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz observed on the same day that the OldHovey Tavern burned down in Cambridge Port, MA
1829:In the United Kingdom, Ephraim and Phoebe Benjamin gave birth to SolomonBenjamin.
1830: The French begin their colonization ofAlgeria when they land 34,000 troops at point just to the west of the capitalcity, Algiers. Initially the Frenchadministration conferred citizenship only on Frenchmen living in thecolony. The Jews, who had been livingthere for centuries, were, like the Arabs, treated as indigenous people andallowed to maintain their communal and judicial systems.
1832:Rabbi Aaron Worms was unanimously elected chief rabbi of Metz.
1840:Founding in Philadelphia of Congregation House of Israel which would be leadingby Rabbi Menahem M. Eichler; Chazan Solomon Kleinfeld and President CharlesHoffman.
1844:Opening of the Rabbinical Conference of Brunswick “convoked by Levi Herzfeldand Ludwig Philippson.”
1844:In Bohemia, Lambert Furth and Cezilie Treulich gave birth to Jacob Furth,husband of Jenny Bloch, “founder of the Night School for Immigrants” in St.Louis and President of Associated Wholesale Grocers who served as a boardmember of the Jewish Orphan Asylum and the Mt. Sinai Hospital in Cleveland,Ohio.
1845(7thof Sivan, 5605): Second Day Shavuot
1846:In Cincinnati, OH, “Joseph Abraham and Sarah De Young” gave birth to VictorAbraham the Cincinnati Law College trained attorney and husband of EmmaDreyfoos, who was “President Hebrew General Relief Association,” “President andtrustee of K.K. B’nai Israel,” and active member of the B’nai B’rith.
1847(28thof Sivan, 5607): Sixty-six-year-old philanthropist Abraham Muhr who fought forthe full emancipation of German Jews passed away today.
1853(6thof Nisan, 5613): Shavuot
1854:In Posen, Prussia, Joseph Brown and his wife gave birth to A.B.J. Brown whoserved as a rabbi in Seattle, San Jose and Oakland before assuming the positionat Shaarey Zedek in San Francisco.
1855:In London, Jacob Quixano Henriques and Elizabeth Waley gave birth to ElizabethWaley Henriques.
1856:“Slidell, Blemont and Buchanan” published today described the role of “AugusteBelmont, the Austrian Jew” who was John Slidell’s nephew by marriage in aconspiracy to nominate James Buchanan as President of the United States. Belmont was described as an “agent of theRothschilds.”
1856:In Dubuque, IA, Solomon and Rosetta (Lippman) Rauh gave birth to Enoch Rauchthe husband of Bertha Rauh and the father of Helen and Richard Solomon Rauch.
1857:In Dubuque, IA, Rosalia Lippman and Solomon Rauh gave birth Pittsburgh businessmanEnoch Rauh, the husband of Bertha Floersheim and father of Helen and RichardRauh, who with is bother Marcus and Abraham founded Rauh Bros. & Company, themanufacturer of shirts and “dealers in men’s furnishings and who is a member ofRodef Shalom and the board of the Y.M.H.A/
1857:In Weaverville, CA, German born, and future San Francisco resident SamuelLachman and his wife Henrietta Lachman gave birth to Albert Lachman
1858:InCoffeeville, Mississippi, Esther Lichtenstadter and Leopold Newburger gavebirth Spring Hill College graduate and since 1880 cotton merchant JosephNewburger, the husband of Rose Cohen who was one of the founders of theChildren of Israel Congregation in Memphis, TN.
1859:The Comstock Lode was discovered near Virginia City, Nevada. As with other such strikes, Jews were amongthose who arrived seeking to make their fortune. Among them were David H. Cohen and MarcusGoldbaum whose names appear in connection with numerous other strikes. One Jew who made did make his fortune fromthe Comstock Lode was Adolph Sutro. Sutro was not the run of the mill prospector. Rather he was “a self-taught financier andmining engineer” who developed a new ore extraction process and built the SutroTunnel that was designed to provide ventilation for the miners, “ease thehauling of ore and drain water from the mines.”He sold Nevada interests for five million dollars and moved back to themore civilized environs of San Francisco.
1859:Lord Palmerston who while serving as of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairsduring which tinw the British blockaded the port of Piraeus as part ofthe response to Greece’s abuse of David Pacifico, whom Palmerston defended asthis “man of Jewish persuasion” and on whose behalf he “made a celebratedspeech which concluded that all British subjects ought to be able to say, asdid citizens of ancient Rome, "Civis Romanus sum" ("I am acitizen of Rome"), and thereby receive protection from the British government”began serving as Prime Minister today.
1859:In Richmond County, NY, Anna Khu and Morris Pollitzer gave birth to the Collegeof Physicians and Surgeons trained dermatologist Sigmund Pollitzer.
http://archderm.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=518874
1859:The United States Grand Lodge of the Order of Brith Abraham whose membersincluded Samuel Dorf, Robert Strahl and Anson Stern was founded today in NewYork Cit.
1861:During the Civil War the Union began placing restrictions on trade with theConfederacy for those living in Paducah, KY. This was one of many attempts bythe Union Army to deny the Rebels of many of the goods they could not producefor themselves. General Grant’sunfortunate order a year later was actually part of this larger attempt tocripple the Confederate Army by crippling the Southern economy. This is not meant to excuse Grant’s actionbut to put it into a larger context.
1862(14thof Sivan, 5622): Jacob Goodman, who had enlisted with Company D at Keokuk,Iowa, which became part of the 15th regiment died today. He had distinguished himself at the Battle ofCorinth (Miss.) where he was fatally wounded.
1862(14thof Sivan, 5622): Forty-four-year-old Dr. Samuel Harby, the Charleston, SC bornson of Isaac and Rachel Mordecai Harby, the husband of Frances Levy Harby andthe father Octavia Rachel Harby Pollock, who was one of the editors of the NewOrleans Bee passed away today in New Orleans.
1862:Three days after he passed away, eighty-year-old Barent Salomons was buried at“Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery” today.
1867:Following its defeat by Prussia, Austria reorganized itself into theAustro-Hungarian Empire and granted legal equality to Jews living with the newconstituent states.
1868:Birthdate of Marseilles native Isaac Felix Suares who gained fame as “poet andcritic Andre Suares.
1869:Luna Aelion and Joseph I Suares gave birth to Alexandria, Egypt resident AlfredJ. Suares who at his death bequeathed£,6.670 to Jewish and non-Jewish charities in Alexandria
1870:The annual examination of students of the Hebrew Free Schools of New York tookplace today at Steinway Hall. Several hundred students from the schools whichwere established five years ago by the Hebrew Free School Association took partin this rigorous, yet fun-filled annual event.The students were quizzed by teachers from a cross section of thefaculties. They displayed “considerableproficiency” in “their knowledge of the Hebrew language and of the primarybranches of English education. Follow theexams, Alderman Henry Woltman addressed the attendees. At the end, the principal, Mr. J.C. Nootdistributed prizes to some fifty of the more “meritorious pupils.
1871:In Louisville, KY, Lazarus Selligman and Carrie Sabel gave birth to AlfredSelligman the graduate of University of Louisville Law School and husband ofJennie Katz who was “the Republican nominee for Commonwealth’s attorney in1903” and two term President of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
1871Birthdate of Lithuanian native Viktoras Baranauskas, who in 1890 moved to theUnited States where he gained fame “US Coin Designer and Engraver,” Victor D.Brenner whose works included the famous “Lincoln Penny”
https://www.usacoinbook.com/encyclopedia/coin-designers/victor-d-brenner/
1872(6thof Sivan, 5632): Shavuot
1872:Sir Saul Samuel began a second non-consecutive term as a member of theLegislative Council of New South Wales.
1873:According to a report published today the Hebrew Orphan and Benevolent Societyhas received contributions totaling $65,075.21 for the year 1872-1873.
1874:In Boston, Louis Hecht, Jr. and Rose Frank gave birth to Hattie Hecht whobecame Hattie Sloss when she married M.C. Sloss who served as a member “severalJewish charities in Boston” before moving to California where she was Presidentof the San Francisco Section of the Council of Jewish Women.
1874: According to areport published today the Hebrew and Benevolent Society received contributionstotaling $70,688.26 for the 1873-1874 reporting year.
1875: The U.S.S. Minnesotaon which Adolph Marix, one of the first Jewish graduates of the U.S. NavalAcademy was recommissioned today.
1875: In Moteleh, Russia,Rachel Leah Chemerinsky and Ave Ben Davis gave birth to Philip Davis thehusband of Belle Shomer whose education at the University of Chicago, Harvardand Boston University Law School led him into the fields of social work, thelaw and motion pictures where he served as the President of the National MotionBureau “from 1914 to 1940.” (Editor’s note: some sources show his birthdate as1876)
1876: Two days after hepassed away on Shabbat, seventy-eight-year-old Lewis Lazarus was buried at the“Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery” today.
1876: George Richardsonwas fined ten dollars at the Tombs Police Court for having struck LouisRaminsky with enough force to cut the bearded Jew’s lip. Richardson struckRaminsky because he mistook him for a man named Rubinstein whom he identifiedas a “murder”.
1877:According to reports published today in the New York Times Jews livingin Bucharest are petitioning Secretary Evarts for protection. "They areRussian and Austrians Hebrews, and comprise the very worst types of the race,refusing either to work or to pay taxes
1877(1stof Tammuz, 5637): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1877(1stof Tammuz, 5637): Ippolito Leonino the “son of Sabino Leonino Sacerdote, the husbandof Hannah Leonino and father of Arthur David Leonino; Lucy Deborah Leonino;Edward Emanuel Benjamin Leonino; Barone Charles Emanuel Leonino and AlfredoDavide Leonino” passed away today in Milan.
1877:As part of their on-going and rather unsuccessful attempt to convert Jews, theConference on Jewish Mission “under the Presidency of the Lord Bishop of Bathand Wells” ended its two days of meeting this afternoon.
1878:A Coroner’s Inquest was held at the home of the late Lucien Levy to determinethe cause of the death of the Jewish businessman who had died yesterday. Among those giving testimony were his widowand his brother Henry. After hearing allof the evidence, the coroner determined that the death was indeed a suicide andthat no autopsy would be necessary.
1879:In Cincinnati, Ohio, “Harry Rosenbaum, who rose to prominence in the dry goodsfield as a director of Louis Stix & Co. in Cincinnati” and “his wife, theformer Sophia Hollstein” gave birth to Edith Rosenbaum who gained fame as EdithLouise Russell, “an American fashion buyer, stylist and correspondent forWomen's Wear Daily, best remembered for surviving the 1912 sinking of the RMSTitanic with a music box in the shape of a pig
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/edith-louise-rosenbaum-russell-1879-1975.html
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/edith-russell.html
1880(3rdof Tammuz, 5640): A Jewish child named Kate Ungerleider died at policeheadquarters in New York of whooping cough.Her father who was a member of the Simon Benevolent Society hadabandoned Kate and her 3 siblings after their mother had eloped with one of hisfriends.
1881:It was reported today that no matter of foreign policy has attracted as muchattention in England was “the horrible persecution of the Jews in Russia.” While several Jews are trying to get thegovernment to aid their co-religionist, Baron Henry de Worms, the MP fromGreenwich, who is not Jewish is leading the way in this manner. When Parliament is sitting, “not a nightpasses without” without putting one or more questions on this matter to theresponsible government minister.
1881:Having left their home in what is now Lithuania Duvvid Schubart (transliteratedto "Shubert") and his wife Katrina (Gitel) Helwitz and their childrenwhom included future theatrical producers Lee, Sam and Jacob Shubert” arrivedtoday “in New York City from Hamburg via England on board the SS Spain, afterwhich they “settled in Syracuse, NY.
1882:“Jews Going of Russia” published today described the mass exodus of Jewsseeking to escape the oppression of the Russian Empire and the measures beingtaken to deal with this in the West.
1882:Joseph Wolf and Meyer Morris, two Jewish refugees from Russia who had arrivedin New York two weeks ago, were under arrest today on charges that they hadattacked a member of the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society when he did not complywith their latest demands.
1883:Birthdate of Robert Heinrich Löwe; who gained fame as Robert Harry Lowie anAustrian-born American anthropologist.
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/lowie-robert-h.pdf
1884(19thof Sivan, 5644): Eighty year old Rosa Gavay, passed away today at the Home forAged and Infirm Hebrews today she had an accident on the elevator and fell toher death.
1884(19thof Sivan, 5644): Sixty year old Sarah Cohen who had been born in Russia in 1824passed away today in England.
1884:At a time when many Jews were turning their backs on Hebrews, Protestantsprovided another example of their interest in the language when Reverend JohnM. Lansing was named to fill the newly created Gardner Sage Professorship ofHebrew at the Reformed Church in America’s seminary at New Brunswick, NJ.
1885:Today Boise Penrose who in 1911 described “discrimination by the RussianGovernment against American Hebrews as an assault on American principles andtraditions” and assured a delegation of Jews from Philadelphia “that he agreedwith their contention that the violation of their treaty rights as Americancitizens was not a proper subject for an arbitration tribunal but should resultin the passing of a resolution by Congress denouncing the present treaty” withRussia completed his service as a member of the Pennsylvania House ofRepresentatives from the Philadelphia County district.
1886:In Breslau Flora Jolenberg, the daughter of Henritte and Abraham Berliner andher husband Siegfried Jolenberg gave birth to Estelle Lewin Phippsberg, theRiga Ghetto victim and wife of Leon Phippsberg and Georg Lewin.
1886:It was reported today that Rabbi James K. Gutheim passed away in NewOrleans. At the time of his death, hewas the leader of Temple Sinai. From1868 until 1872 he had been the “English reader” at Temple Emanu-El in NewYork. [Note – this was at a time when services were conducted in German] He was praised for his working to raise thelevel of education and health among all the people of the city regardless oftheir religious beliefs.
1887:Oscar Straus, the U.S. Minister to Turkey had his first audience with theSultan
1887In Manchester, England, Lithuanian born Abraham Moses Jacobson and his wifeSarah Leah Jacobson gave birth to Fanny Jacobson
1887:It was reported today that “the officers and managers of the Sanitarium forHebrew Children” are collecting funds so that, for the 9th year in arow, they can provide outings for poor and sick Jewish mothers and theirchildren. Last year there were sevensuch outings which provided service to over ten thousand woman, children andinfants. [These excursions were part ofan effort in urban America to get youngsters out of the tenement districts foreven a little while during the summer in the belief that fresh air would helptheir health.]
1889:In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Levy officiated at the wedding of Jacqueline De Leon,the daughter of H.H. De Leon to Sam Keller of Sheffield, Alabama.
1890:Over 500 people attended the graduation exercises of The Hebrew TechnicalInstitute that were held this afternoon at its facility on Stuyvesant Street
1890:As of today, the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children has received $4, 017.50.
1890:Currently the officers of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children are Nathan Lewis,President; Hezekiah Kohn, Treasurer; Joseph Davis, Secretary.
1890(24thof Sivan, 5650): Fifty-year-old Max Brüll de Domony the husband of Anna vonBrüll de Domony passed away in Budapest.
1890:Birthdate of Shlomo Fritz Bernstein, the native of Germany who moved toPalestine in 1936 and who as Peretz Bernstein signed the Israeli declaration ofindependence.
1890:Texas native Oren B Meyer who had been appointed to West Point from Ohio, beganserving as a 2nd Lt. in the 1st Cavalry.
1891(6thof Sivan, 5651): Shavuot
1891:West Point graduate Harry J. Hirsch began serving as a 2nd Lt. inthe 15th Infantry.
1891:“A Trusted Agent’s Theft” published today described Julio Merzbacher’s theft ofbetween $300,000 and $500,000 from his former employer, New York Life InsuranceCompany.
1891:When Morris Vender was arraigned this morning in Newark, NJ on charges ofnon-support he claimed that he was divorced and produced a Hebrew languagedocument to buttress his claim
1891:“New Hebrew Cemetery Dedicated” published today described the services led byRabbi Bernard Drachman of Park East Synagogue dedicating the new cemetery onLong Island. Joseph Blumenthal, thePresident of the Mount Zion Association which owns the cemetery also spoke tothe attendees.
1892:The closing exercises of the Louis Down-Town Sabbath and Day School took placethis afternoon at Temple Emanu-El during which Rabbi Gustave Gottheil“administered the Confirmation Rites” on the graduating students.
1893:“Monument to Moses Mehrbach” published today described the unveiling ceremonyled by Rabbi Hirsch in the Hebrew section of Cypress Hills Cemetery of agranite monument in honor of Moses Mehrbach, of blessed memory who was a notephilanthropist who served as a presidential elector for the Democrats in 1884and 1888.
1893:Colonel Weber, who had served as Superintendent of Immigration and who had beenin Europe studying “the character and habits of those intending to emigrate tothe United States said today that “the Polish Jews would dull indeed if theydid not take the expulsion of their coreligionists in Russia to heart.” The newdecrees, which could increase immigration to the United States are aimed at thehitherto protected classes (protection cost 1,000 rubles) including doctors,lawyers, engineers, architects, artists and university of graduates.”
1893(28thof Sivan, 5653): The body of twenty-three year old Emanuel Weltman, a peddlerliving with his sister Mrs. Rosenbaum was found near High Bridge this morning.
1894:The Constitutional Convention’s subcommittee on Charities and Education visitedseveral institutions today including Mt. Sinai Hospital and the Hebrew OrphanAsylum.
1894:Virginia native Otho B. Rosenbaum began serving as a 2nd Lt. in the7th Infantry.
1894:The Governor’s Tenement House Committee reportedly found that the Tenth Wardwhich is populated almost exclusively by Jews is in the worst condition of allwards because “its population is three times as dense as the most crowdedquarter in London.” Some of the streetsin the ward have taken on the characteristics “of European Juden Strassess andGhettos.”
1894:Last will and testament of Dr. Benhard Grunhut which names Abraham Stern andWilliam Ketcham as executors signed today.
1895:Abraham and Strauss department store executive Edward Charles Blum the New Yorkcity born son of Ida Deutsch and Adolphe Blum married Florence Abraham today.
1895:“New Publications” published today included a brief review of As Others SawHim: A Retrospect, a novel about the life of Christ “given in the guise ofletters from Meshulam Ben Zadok, a scribe of the Jews of Alexandria” written toa physician in Corinth.
1896:Birthdate of Duqoin, IL, native and Washington University trained attorneyMilton Henry Tucker.
1896:In Lithuania, “Rivka and Shimon Yehuda Troub” gave birth to Dovid YitzchakTroub, the husband of Rivko Traub who in 1926 came to the United States wherehe served as rabbi of a congregation in New London, CT.
1897:Birthdate of Anthony Eden. Eden was the Foreign Minister under WinstonChurchill and his loyal number two. Eden was an ardent anti-Nazi but many claimthat he was the English leader who prevented action being taken to save theJews of Europe during World War II. Eden became Prime Minister in the 1950’sand was the British Prime Minister at the time of the Suez Crisis in 1956. Edenagreed to the ill-fated plan that included a joint Anglo-French seizure of theSuez Canal. Despite the success of the Israelis against the Egyptians, thewhole project falls apart in the face of joint U.S.-Soviet support for Egypt.In the end, the British withdrew and Eden was forced from office.
1897:The 700 peasants working on the estate of Baron Daniel, the Hungarian Ministerof Commerce attacked a Jewish farmer today.When four gendarmes were called to protect him, the mob rushe them,hacking at them with their scythes.
1897:In Lodz, Hannah Gourvitch and Moshe Tanzman gave birth Polish-born Frenchpianist Alexandre Tansman.
http://forward.com/culture/217468/on-alexandre-the-greatest-jewish-composer-youve-ne/
1897:The Columbia University, home of the “Temple Emanu-El Library of Biblical andrabbinical literature, numbering 3,500 books and pamphlets rich in medieval andModern Hebrew works” will be closed today for the first time in its history sothat it can move into its new facility which will open in October.
1898:More than 100 pupils attended the closing exercises of the Religious School atTemple Rodeph Sholom this afternoon at 63rd Street and Lexington.
1898:In Montreal, Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Cohen, the Polish born son of Haim and Sarah Cohenand his wife Krona Sarah Fierst gave birth to Louis Judah Cohen.
1899:As the Zionist movement begins to gain strength, officers of the Order ofKnights of Zion in Chicago, “received official notification from the JewishColonial Bank of London” that it now has 100,000 shareholders.
1899:Birthdate of Fritz Albert LipmannAmerican biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this,together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded half the Nobel Prizein Physiology or Medicine in 1953.
1899:Birthdate of Usher Fellig who changed his name to Arthur Fellig after coming tothe United States from Austria to fend off anti-Semitism. He is best known as Wegee the Americanphotographer and photojournalist.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F40F1FFB3F54157493C5AB1789D95F4C8685F9
1900:At St. Mathews, South Carolina, Rabbi Lesser officiated at the wedding of FloraS. Pearlstine, the daughter of I.M. Pearlstine to Jacob Jacobs of Charleston,SC.
1900:Nathan Goldmann, the New York born son of Fannie Myer and Isaac Goldman who waspresident of the Isaac Goldman company and a member of the Business Men’sCouncil of the Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York married Pauline Levytoday.
1876:In New York, Fannie Myer and Isaac Goldmann gave birth to Nathan Goldmann, thepresident of Isaac Goldmann Realty and since 1920 the president of IsaacGoldmann Company which was founded by his father in 1876 who was the husband ofPauline Levy and a member of the Business Men’s Council of the JewishPhilanthropic Societies of New York;
1900:Birthdate of Kishinev native Volf Vilensky, who gained fame as Israeliphotographer , topographer and IDF veteran Zev Vilnay, the husband of EstherVilney and the father of structural engineer Oren Vilnay and MK Mtal Vilnai
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Zev-Vilnay/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AZev+Vilnay
1901:Birthdate of Ben Welden, the native of Toledo, Ohio who carved out a career asa “character actor” – one of those faces you recognize but whose name you donot know who are critical to the success of movies and television shows whichin his case included the classic mystery, “The Big Sleep.”
1902(7thof Sivan, 5662): Second Day of Shavuot
1903:Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity for Women (Alpha Chapter) wasfounded at the University School of Music in Ann Arbor, Michigan by sevenwomen. Beverly Sills is one its manyLaureates.
1904:“With impressive ceremonies and in the presence of more than 2,000 members ofthe congregation and invited guests President Plonsky laid the cornerstone ofthe Temple Agudath Jeshorim, in Eighty-Sixth Street, between Park and LexingtonAvenues
1905:In Massachusetts, incorporation of the Plymouth Rock Cemetery which was used bymembers of Congregation Anshe Sephard and Agudas Achim in Borckton.
1905:“Envoy Found Menelek An Up-To-Date Ruler” published today, described themeeting between Dr. Rosen, the German the Minister elect to Morocco and KingMenelek in Abyssinia who believes “that he is the descended from Prince MenelekI, a son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, who went to Ethiopia with a groupof Sabians and Jews, “lived and thrive there and these Jews were the foundersof the present Abyssinian Semitic race.”
1906:Today, the U.S. Senate passed The Wadsworth District Sunday Bill which wouldhave the effect of unduly penalizing Jewish merchants in Washington, D.C. whowould have to close for both days of the weekend.
1907:Birthdate of Leeds, UK native Joel Martin Jacobson, who in 1909 came to theUnited States where he earned a BS from Armour Institute before going on to acareer as an Aeronautical engineer that began at Fairchild Aircraft.
1907:Twenty-six-year-old Nathaniel Bilder, the New York City born son of Levi andAmelia (Garfunkel) Bilder, the Chicago-Kent College of Law trained attorneymarried Zerlina Hirsh today in Chicago.
1907:In Cleveland, “all of the kosher shops were picketed by the women and children”“of the Jewish District” who are angry “over the recent raise of four cents apound” for meat “and are urging others not to buy” the meat.
1908:It was reported today that “Charles Frohman, who is now abroad makingarrangements for increasing his European ventures and obtaining plays andplayers for America, is going to have a genuine Fourth of July celebration inParis.”
1908:“Gertrude Hoffman has been engaged to appear at Hammerstein’s Roof Garden”later this this month.
1908:Birthdate of Otto Skorzeny, the Austrian born German Waffen-SS LieutenantColonel who may have been the only person to be decorated by Hitler with theIron Cross and to have worked for Mossad.
1909(23rdof Sivan, 5669): Parashat Sh’lach
1909(23rdof Sivan, 5669): Fifty-six-year-old Moses King, the London born son of “DavidWoolf King and Sarah Lazarus, the St. Louis raised Harvard graduate andpublisher of travel guide books who raised three children with his wife BerthaMaria Cloyes, passed away today in New York City.
1910(5thof Sivan, 5670): Erev Shavuot
1910:“Police Hunt Down Jews In Russia” published today described dispatches receivedby the Jewish Aid Society Scoeity that “Jews are being unmercifully evictedfrom their Summer Country residences throughout Russia” and that the police inSmolensk “are drawing mounted cordons around whole districts” forcing many Jewsto hid in the surrounding woods where the “police are funding them like wildgame.”
1911:In a letter written today, Mark J. Katz praised the career of Rear AdmiralAdolph Marix whose bravery during the Spanish American War, “displayed in hisspirit engages at Manzanillo earned him the high commendation “of hissuperiors” and later the recognition of Congress.”
1912:A kosher kitchen was installed at Ellis Island for use by immigrants.
1912:Birthdate of Chicago native and actress Janet Fox, “niece of American novelistand playwright Edna Ferber” who got first role in 1932 playing the lead in “JeanMoon,” a play co-authored by George Kaufman.
1912:Songwriter Al Sherman and his wife gave birth to Richard M. Sherman who joinedwith his older brother Robert to crease scores for films including “MaryPoppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Jungle Book, Charlotte's Web and TheAristocats.”
1913(7thof Sivan, 5673): Second Day of Shavuot
1913:As reported today in the New Age, Anglo-Jewishbusinessman Godfrey Charles Joseph Isaacs, the brother of Rufus Isaac, 1stMarque of Reading won his case for libel against Cecil Chesterton, a case thathad grown out the Marconi Scandal was awarded £100 plus costs.
1913: “British businessman and ConservativeParty politician, Samuel Samuel the scion of an “Iraqi Jewish family whosettled in the East End of London, founded Samuel Samuel & Co in Yokohama,Japan, in partnership with his elder brother Marcus Samuel, creator of theShell Transport and Trading company” was elected as the Member of Parliament(MP) for Wandsworth at a by-election on June 12, 1913,
1913:Dr. Felix Levy and Max Shulman are scheduled to speak during Shavuot Servicesat the Chicago Hebrew Institute.
1913:“Mortche” Goldberg, “his wife Rosie Goldberg, Louis Barusch, Gussie Cohen and aman still unnamed” were indicted today on charges related to their involvementwith the Vice Trust that earned $1,250,000 a year in profits “and paid nearly$400,000 yearly for protection to the police.”
1914:“Der Hund von Baskerville a Germansilent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervillesdirected by Rudolf Meinert, produced by Josef Greenbaum, with a script byRichard Oswald and filmed by cinematographer Karl Freund was released today.
1914:Birthdate of Nathan B. Sweedler.
1915:In Kansas City, MO, attorney Benjamin Morris Achtenberg and his wife Minniegave birth to Irving Achtenberg, the husband of Gail Anita Achtenberg.
1915: During today’s hearing on the petitionof Leo M. Frank for the commutation of his sentence from death to lifeimprisonment which last for more than three months, Governor Slaton invitedcounsel for both sides to accompany him on visit to the National Pencil Factoryso he can “thoroughly acquaint himself with the physical features of thebuilding in which Mary Phagan met her death.”
1916:Birthdate of Irwin Allen who gained fame as a producer of disaster movies.Allen helped bring to the screen two of the most famous disaster films evermade – The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. His name is nowsynonymous with the genre – a name that can also be spotted amongst thetombstones of late and great Jewish performers in LA’s Mount Sinai cemetery.
1916:In Evansville, Indiana, Minnie Greenbaum and Mark Harry Joseph gave birth toHarry J. Sonneborn who was raised in New York by his Aunt Jeanette and herhusband Louis Sonneborn who was a vice president of finances at Tastee Freezebefore join McDonald’s where he became “the first president and chiefexecutive.”
1916:It was reported today that the officers of the Board of Directors of the TalmudTorah Ansche Zitomerer are Max Myerson, President; Abraham Mazer and HenryLinetsky, Vice Presidents; Mrs. Clara Cpazsik, President of the Ladies’Auxiliary and Rabbi Abraham Gelerenter, School Principal.
1916:“About 500 rabbis, Presidents of congregations and prominent laymen” arescheduled “to attend a meeting” being held “this afternoon in the AldermanicChamber in City Hall to investigate charges that many east side and Harlembutchers have been selling fake kosher meat to Orthodox Jews” – chargesverified by Joseph Hartigen, Commissioner of Weights and Measures who “hasfound fifty-seven butchers in the last months selling or exposing for sale meatwhich was falsely represented as kosh
1917The Ziegfeld Follies of 1917 featuring Eddie Cantor opened today.
1917:The three day meeting of the Executive Board of the Jewish Congress Associationis scheduled to come to an end in Chicago.
1918:Nineteen-year-old major league catcher Robert Leon “Bob” Berman played his lastgame for the Washington Senators of the American League today.
1918:Birthdate of Samuel Z. Arkoff. Born in Iowa, Arkoff was an entertainmentattorney when he went to work for American International Pictures or AIP. As aproducer at AIP he perfected a formula for low budget films in a variety ofgenres including gangster, horror and "blaxploitation." His studiosproduced everything from "The Amityville Horror" to the series ofbeach party movies starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. He providedthe training ground for a many famous directors including Brian De Palma,Martin Scorsese, and Fancis Ford Coppola, as well as such performers as RobertDe Niro, Jack Nicholson, and Melanie Griffin. He died in 2001 and is buried inMt. Sinai Cemetery in California.
1918:It was reported today that William Edlin, the editor of The Day, described “those who demand the recognition of the SovietGovernment are the very same people who have been the pacifists and who haveopposed the entrance of the United States into the war against Germany.
1918:At the age of 19, catcher Robert Leon “Bob” Berman played his second and lastgame for the Washington Senators of the American League
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/26/sports/sports-of-the-times-the-day-he-caught-walter-johnson.html
1918:West Point Graduate Meyer L. Casman was promoted to the rank of FirstLieutenant in the Corps of Engineers.
1919(14thof Sivan, 5679): Sarah Weechna bat Abram Tzvi (Waran) Levitsky who emigrated tothe United Kingdom in mid-1900's and made aliyah in 1911 or 1912 passed awaytoday after which was buried on the Mount of Olives.
https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/narewka/Y&SLevitsky.html
1919:Meyer Casman completed his service as “student officer at the Engineer School.”
1920:Birthdate of Dave Berg who gained famed as a cartoonist for "MadMagazine". He passed away in 2002.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Davebergself.jpg
http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/mad-on-cartoon-network/images/24503591/title/mad-magazine-wallpaper
1920:Birthday of Stanley Sheinbaum, the native of New York City who transitionedfrom a successful career as an economics professor to being a “peace advocate”in many venues.
http://www.wrmea.org/1989-march/personality-stanley-sheinbaum.html
1920:Having nominated Warren Harding for President, who would sign a congressionalresolution endorsing the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and CalvinCoolidge for Vice President, the Republican National Convention came to a closein Chicago.
1921(6thof Sivan, 5681): Shavuot is observed for the first time during the Presidencyof Warren Harding.
1921(6thof Sivan, 5681): Russian born Aaron Sievers, the resident of Missouri who wasthe husband of Frieda Kaplan Sievers and the father of Samuel I Sievers passedaway after which he was buried at the Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Cemetery in Ladue,MO.
1921(6thof Sivan, 5681) Zvi Shimon Album, the Lithuanian born Russian rabbi who in 1891came to the United States where he led“Congregation Mishna Ugemoro” in Chicago and clashed with Rabbi YaacovDavid Willowsky over matters of Kashrut and leadership of Chicago Jewry passedaway today.
1922(26thof Sivan 5682): Seventy-four year old Herman Tuholske, Meseritz, Prussia, bornNeuman and Johanna Arnfeld Tuholske and theMissouri Medical College trained physician, surgeon and medical schoolprofessor who co-founded he St. Louis Post-Graduate School of Medicine in 1882and established the St. Louis Surgical and Gynecological Hospital in 1890 andhad three children with his wife Sophie Epstein Tuholske passed away today inSt. Louis after which he was buried at the New Mount Sinai Cemetery in Affton,MO
https://beckerarchives.wustl.edu/FC059
1923:Harry Houdini (Eric Weiss) freed himself from a straitjacket while suspendedupside down forty feet above the ground in New York City.
1923(28thof Sivan, 5683: Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, the communal worker who founded theNational Farm School passed away today.
1923:In Berlin, “German-Jewish theatre critic Alfred Kerr” and his wife, JuliaWeismann “the daughter of a Prussian politician gave birth children’s authorJudith Kerr “who came to Britain with her family in 1933 amid the rise of theNazis.”
http://www.tracesproject.org/judith-kerr-obe/
1924:The Republican National Convention which New Yorker Samuel S. Koenig attendedas a delegate came to a close today.
1925:Hunter College graduate Estelle L. Silverman, the holder of a Master of Artsfrom Teachers College at Columbia University received a recommendation for aprincipal’s license today that read “She is the type of woman we need at thehead of our schools to Americanize, to refine and to lead.”
1925:“An ancient wall with gigantic stones similar in construction and size to thoseof the western wall, commonly known as the wailing wall, was unearthed” todayin Jerusalem by the Jewish Archeological Society.
1926(30thof Sivan, 5686): Parashat Korach; Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1926:Today, “Soviet justice punished four of the leaders of a pogrom which tookplace at Egorievsk in 1905 which had been “deliberately planned by the BlackHundreds.”
1927:Arkansan Ben Altheimer, a long-time advocate for holiday honoring the U.S. flagis scheduled to attend “a religious and patriotic service in front of theCapitol Building in Washington, DC, this afternoon.” (JTA)
1928:The second ballet version of Apollon musagète opened today in Paris “atthe Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt” which had been renamed in honor of the actress in1899 – a name by which it would be continued to be known until the Frenchsurrender in 1940 when the Nazis or their Vichy stooges changed the name becausethe actress was Jewish.
1928:In Hamburg, “Otto Stern, a top executive for Royal Dutch Shell” and “Charlotte(Goldschmidt) Stern gave birth to Howard Peter Stern, the refugee from NaziGerman who gained fame as “H. Peter Stern, the co-founder of Storm King ArtCenter. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/obituaries/h-peter-stern-dead.html
1928(24thof Sivan, 5688): Beilitz native Maurcie Blumenfeld, who gained fame as American“philologist and Sanskrit Scholar” Maurice Bloomfield, the holder of a Ph.D.from Johns Hopkins where he taught starting in 1881, who married Helen Scottafter the death of his first wife Rosa Zeisler and who was “the brother ofpianist Fannie Bloomfield Ziesler and the uncle of “linguist LeonardBloomfield” passed away today.
https://dbcs.rutgers.edu/all-scholars/8550-bloomfield-maurice
1929:In Frankfort, Edith (Hollander) Frank and Otto Frank gave birth to Anne Frank,one of the most famous diarists in the history of Western civilization.
1929:Birthdate of Frank Lawrence "Lefty" Rosenthal, sports handicapper anda former Las Vegas casino executive who also hosted a television talk show inLas Vegas during the late 1970s. He passed away on October 13, 2008.
1930(16thof Sivan, 5690): Roxbury, MA native, Harvard alum and Boston University trainedattorney former state senator Edward J. Bromberg, the veteran of SpanishAmerican War, supporter of Palestine and husband of the former HenriettaLivingston of Richmond, VA passed away today after having “suffered a suddenattack of heart disease.:
1930:In a fight for the “vacant heavyweight championship today at Yankee Stadium MaxSchmeling was knocked down in the fourth round by a low blow from Jack Sharkey”forcing his Jewish manager Joe “Jacobs to jump into the ring and continued toscream "foul" until the bewildered referee disqualified Sharkey.
1931:In Brooklyn, the former Diana Ginsberg and elementary school principal SamuelJaffee gave birth to novelist Rona Jaffe.
1931:Mickey Cohen fought and lost a match against World Featherweight Champion TommyPaul, having been knocked out cold after 2:20 into the first round.
1932:Today, Adolph Gottlieb, the New York born son of Emil and Elsie Berger, who hadstudied art in several European capitals including Paris, married Esther Dickafter which the couple spends the summer in Rockport, MA where he continues topaint water colors and oils” before renting an apartment in Manhattan inSeptember.
1933:The Joint Distribution Committee’s German relief drive is scheduled to opentoday in Newark, NJ under the leadership of Edgar S. Bamberger.
1933:In Philadelphia, attorney Robert Abrahams and “the former Florence Kohn, ahomemaker and philanthropist: gave birth to pioneering “folklorist Roger DavidAbrahams.” (As reported by William Grimes)
1933:In Detroit, The Convention of the National Conference of Jewish Social Serviceheld it final meeting today.
1934:It was announced tonight at the Metropolis Club “that a beefsteak dinner givenby the clothing an allied trades of the UJA of the Joint Distribution Committeeand the American Palestine Committee raised $45,000.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/06/13/93630968.html?pageNumber=9
1935(11thof Sivan, 5695): Sixty-five-year-old pianist and composer Edouard GregoryHesselberg, the Riga born son of Sarah(Davidoff) and Heinrich Hesselberg” who “was the father of actors Melvyn Douglasand George Douglas and the great-grandfather of Illeana Douglas” passed awaytoday.
1935(11thof Sivan, 5695): Seventy-four-year-old Meyer Vesell “one of the leading cloakmanufacturers when he retired 12 years ago and one of the founders of theJewish Center on West 86th Street whose children included SadieLevy, the wife of Borough President Samuel Levy, passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/06/13/94620475.html?pageNumber=23
1935:Birthdate of Sanford Morton Gorssman, the frustrated sports broadcaster who“became an Emmy-winning director of National Football Games.” (As reported byRichard Sandomir)
1936:Two passengers were seriously wounded today when a bus headed for the “Jewishsettlement at Attaroth, six miles north of Jerusalem,” was fired on by Arabs.
1936:Fourteen Jews were injured, five of them seriously, when a bomb was exploded ina coach as “a train that Haifa for Lydda was pulling out of Kalkilya.”
1936:“Collective security for Jews and resistance to destruction of their rightsthroughout the world are general topics for discussion at a two-day conferenceof 1,000 delegates which opened” in Washington, D.C. “under the auspices of theAmerican Jewish Congress of which Dr. Stephen S. Wise is president.”
1936(22ndof Sivan, 5696): After a short illness, sixty-two-year-old Austrian author KarlKraus passed away today.
http://www.theabsolute.net/minefield/kraus.html
http://www.jta.org/1936/06/16/archive/karl-kraus-vienna-writer-dies-at-62
1937:Congressman Emanuel Celler is among those scheduled to speak today “massmeeting of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born.” (Editor’snote – for those living in the 21st century this should serve as areminder that the issue of immigration is a not a new and of the role Jews haveplayed in an issue that reminds of the Biblical injunction that they shouldprotect “the widow, the orphan and the stranger in your midst.)
1937:In Cleveland, OH, Sophia Marks, “an English Teacher” and Fred Wolfe, “aninspector for the U.S. Department of Labor” gave birth to Case Western Reservetrained medical doctor and husband of Suzanne Goldberg “Sidney M. Wolfe aphysician and consumer advocate who for more than 40 years hounded thepharmaceutical industry and the Food and Drug Administration over high prices,dangerous side effects and overlooked health hazards, bringing a new level oftransparency and accountability to the world of medical care…” (As reported byClay Risen)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/health/sidney-m-wolfe-dead.html
1937:Samuel Untermyer is among those scheduled to speak tonight at the “29thannual convention of Polish Jews in America” which is being held at the HotelAstor.
1938:Birthdate of French journalist and essayist Jean-Francois Kahn the brother ofscientist Axel Kahn whose father was Jewish, and mother was Catholic.
1939:Leonard Kaplan graduates from West Point. Leonard Kaplan served as a captain, amajor, and upon leaving active duty in 1947, only eight years from graduation,he was a lieutenant colonel. While in the Army Reserves, he ultimately reachedthe rank of colonel. His service record included the Legion of Merit, theBronze Star with one oak leaf cluster, and a Purple Heart. During World War IIhe served as a battalion commander of one of the first amphibious units,serving in the South Pacific for33 months.
1939: Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' “Dr.Cyclops, “the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor. Paramount was dominated by two Jews: AdolphZukor, the Chairman of the Board, and Barney Balaban, its President
1940(6thof Sivan, 5700) Shavuot
1940:Birthdate of Bronx native and Adelphi University educated “songwriter, recordproducer and record label executive” Richard Gottehrer, the “co-founder of SireRecords” and along with British music executive Scott Cohen founder of TheOrchard in 1997.
1940:Margaret and Hans Reys arrive at Etampes having pedaled 18 kilometers fromParis. They find suitable lodging andspend the night
1941(17thof Sivan, 5701): Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss who worked forMurder Incorporated was executed at Sing Sing.
1941(17thof Sivan, 5701): Martin "Bugsy" Goldstein who worked for MurderIncorporated was executed at Sing Sing.
1941:Birthdate of Marvin Phillip Aufrichtig, the native of Brooklyn who gained famedas the golden throated Marv Albert whose voice brought us basketball, football,hockey and tennis championships.
1942:Anne Frank received a diary on her thirteenth birthday.
1942:Today “the first US bombing of a major European target took place at thePloiesti refineries” as part of the Oil Campaign that played a key, ifunder-appreciated, role in the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of the Shoah.
1942:George Frederick “Buzz” Beurling, who died in a plane crash after havingvolunteered to fly for the IAF during the War for Independence, “had hisbaptism of fire” this morning while flying his Spitfire over Malta today.
1942:In Khmelnik, the Ukraine; babies, children and old people were ordered toassemble. The children were taken away, never to be seen again.
1943:The Jewish community at Berezhany,Ukraine, is wiped out. On Shabbat, in the morning, the Nazis led 1,180 Jews ofBerezhany to face death at the city's old Jewish graveyard, where the Nazisshot into a mass grave.
1943 (9th of Sivan, 5703):In the Lódz(Poland) Ghetto, the chiefs of Jewish police are forced to witness Naziexecutions of recaptured ghetto escapees: 23-year-old Hersch Fejgelis,29-year-old Mordecai Standarowicz, and 31-year-old Abram Tandowski.
1943:Birthdate of sportscaster Marv Albert.
1944:In the weekly internal report of the War Refugee Board, it states thatAmbassador MacVeagh in Cairo reports there are still 5,000 Jews hiding inGreece. "Those who have been able to join the Partisans reportedly runless risk of being exterminated by the Germans, who have thus far avoided thesystematic pursuit of guerilla warriors."
1944:The Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter was established in Oswego, New Yorkby order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was operated by the WarRelocation Authority
1945(1stof Tammuz, 5705): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1945(1stof Tammuz, 5705): Sixty-nine-year-old Theodore Hardeen, the magician and escapeartist who was the brother of Harry Houdini passed away today in New York.
http://www.all-about-magicians.com/theodore-hardeen.html
1946:Fifty-two of the officials and guards from the Flossenbürg concentration campwent on trial today.
1947:U.S diplomate George Messermith, who made the “controversial decision to issuea visa to Albert Einstein” while serving as US Consulate in Germany completedhis service as U.S. Ambassador to Argentina.
1947:It was reported today that Charles E. Shulman has been chosen to serve as therabbi for the “new Riverdale Temple in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.”
1948:In New York, Phillip and Rosalyn (née Bauman) Wein gave birth to “comic bookwriter” Leonard Norman Wein. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
1949:In “Inspired By The Headlines” published today Elizabeth Pallette” told thetale of “Sword in the Desert,” “the first picture to be made in Hollywood aboutthe struggles in Palestine.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/06/12/96459470.pdf
1949:Today, at the commencement exercises of the Jewish Theological Seminary duringwhich sixteen students were ordained, Judge Louis E. Levinthal of Philadelphia“asserted that the Jewish people must transmit to future generations ‘ourcultural and religious heritage as Jews so that our community may make itsspecific, its finest contribution to the total civilization of our country.’”
1950:U.S. release of 1950 film noir “Panic In the Streets” produced by Sol C.Siegel, co-starring Zero Mostel with music by Alfred Newman.
1950:Birthdate of American journalist and author and Richard Ben Cramer.
1950:Eddie Cantor, his wife Ida and Mr. and Mrs. Yolanda Markson of Los Angelesarrived in Israel this morning on what was Mr. Cantor’s first visit to Israel.Among those greeting him at the airport was United States Ambassador to Israel,James G. McDonald. Cantor has raised over ten million dollars to support theJewish state. He said that as a goodAmerican it was his duty to support the young democracy and that doing so wasin the same spirit being shown by the United States in funding the Marshall Planwhich was designed to support the democracies of Western Europe.
1951:After first being released in the United Kingdom U.S. premiere of “Sirocco”based on a novel by Joseph Kessel, directed by Curtis Bernhardt with a scriptco-authored by Hans Jacoby co-starring Lee J. Cobb and featuring Zero Mosteland “Balukjiaan.”
1951:In the UK, premiere of “White Corridors” produced by Joseph Janni
1951:Eleven days after premiering in the United Kingdom, “Sirocco” directed byCurtis Bernhardt based on a novel Joseph Kessel with a script by Hans Jacobyand co-starring Lee J. Cobb and featuring Zero Mostel was released today in theUnited States.
1951(8thof Sivan, 5711): An unnamed Israeli soldier was killed when he sought to stopJordanian troops from crossing the border into Israel.
1952(19thof Sivan, 5712): Rabbi Henry Cohen who “served Congregation B'nai Israel inGalveston, Texas from 1888 to 1952” passed away. Born in 1863, Cohen played anintegral role in the Galveston Movement. The Galveston Movement operatedbetween 1907 and 1914 to divert Jews fleeing Russia and eastern Europe awayfrom crowded East Coast cities. Ten thousand Jewish immigrants passed throughGalveston, Texas during this era, approximately one-third the number whomigrated to Palestine during the same period.”
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fco13
1952:Michael von Faulhaber, the Roman Catholic Cardinal who while Archbishop ofMunich in 1933 defended the Old Testament against the anti-Semitism of theNazis and courageously declared: “God always punishes the tormentors of hisChosen People, the Jews." "No Roman Catholic approves of thepersecutions of Jews in Germany."
1953:“Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick” produced by William Perlberg and starring DinahShore was released today in Finland.
1953:In Manhattan, Edith Snyder who “had been a buyer for the department start IMagnin before her marriage” and Martin Goldberg, the owner of a company thatsold evening wear” gave birth to Carin Goldberg, a celebrated graphic designerwho brought an inventive postmodern sensibility to book and album covers. (Asreported by Penelope Green)
1954(11thof Sivan, 5714): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1954:Kenneth Nichols, the General Manager of the Atomic Energy Commissionerrecommended that Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance not be reinstated. Infive "security findings," Nichols said that Oppenheimer was "aCommunist in every sense except that he did not carry a party card," andthat he "is not reliable or trustworthy." The commission agreed, andOppenheimer was stripped of his security clearance.
1954:After 115 performances at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, the theatre came down onthe original Broadway production of “The Girl in Pink Tights” “a musical comedywith music by Sigmund Romberg; lyrics by Leo Robin; and a musical book byJerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields.
1955(22ndof Sivan, 5715): Eighty year old “British botanist and potato breeder” RedcliffSalaman, the author of The History and Social Influence of the Potato, the700 page tome on this edible tuber passed away today.
http://neglectedbooks.com/?p=575
1955:A production of “Guys and Dolls” starring Walter Matthau as “Nathan Detroit”came to an end at the New York City Center.
1955:Outfielder Al Silvera made his major league debut with the Cincinnati Reds.
1955:Comedian Buddy Hackett married Sherry Cohen.
1955:NBC broadcast the last episode of “Mr. Peepers” a sitcom with scripts byEverett Greenbaum and featuring Tony Randall (Aryeh (Arthur) Leonard Rosenberg)“as history teacher Harvey Weski.”
1956:Recording was completed of the LP, “Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings” producedby Buddy Bregman and featuring songs by Irving Berlin, Oscar Hammerstein II andJerome Kern.
1957:ITV broadcast the final episode of “The Buccaneers” a dramatic seriesco-produced by Hannah Weinstein.
1957:After having premiered in New York City in May, “Joe Butterfly” a comedyproduced by Aaron Rosenberg, with a screenplay co-authored by Sy Gomberg andfilmed by cinematographer Irving Glassberg was released today in Los Angeles.
1959(6thof Sivan, 5719): Shavuot
1959:In New York, Dr. Israel Goldstein is scheduled to officiate at CongregationB’nai Jershurun’s Confirmation Services.”
1960:In “Inside Look At the Honorary System” published today, David Boroff who wasthe author of “A Little Milk, A Little Honey: which tells the story of Jewishimmigrants settling on New York’s Lower East” takes a humorous look at the explosionof honorary degrees being offered during the graduation season.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/06/12/99500963.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://www.americanheritage.com/little-milk-little-honey
1961:CBS broadcast the final episode of The June Allyson Show which featured musicprovided by Herschel Burke Gilbert.
1961:Walworth Barbour presents his credentials as the United States Ambassador toIsrael.
1961(28thof Sivan, 5721): Eighty-three-year-old Rabbi Herman Shapiro, the leader ofCongregation Chvra B’nai Israel for forty years” and a member of the West Side InstitutionalSynagogue pass away today in Miami, FL.
1961:PM East/PM West a late-night talk show co-hosted by Mike Wallace is broadcastfor the first time.
1962:Letting Go, Phillip Roth’s “first full-length novel” was published today byRandom House.
1962:David Ben-Gurion sent a letter to Eliezer Steinman, in which he wrote, “Today,more than ever, the "religious" tend to relegate Judaism to observingdietary laws and preserving the Sabbath. This is considered religious reform. Iprefer the Fifteenth Psalm, lovely are the psalms of Israel. The Shulchan Aruchis a product of our nation's life in the Exile. It was produced in the Exile,in conditions of Exile. A nation in the process of fulfilling its every task,physically and spiritually . . . must compose a "New Shulchan"--andour nation's intellectuals are required, in my opinion, to fulfill theirresponsibility in this.”
1963:U.S. premiere of “Cleopatra” directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz who co-authoredthe script with Sidney Buchman, produced by Walter Wanger, co-starringElizabeth Taylor and Martin LandauDuring the filming of the this epic flic, Taylor, who had converted toJudaism and was married to Jewish crooner Eddie Fisher, began a torrid andpublic affair with her co-star Richard Burton.Burton and Taylor both left their respective spouses, married, divorcedand remarried.
1964:Funeral services are scheduled to be held today at the Riverside Chapel forIgnacy Aleksandrowicz, a “Professor Emeritus as Hobart College at Geneva, NY.”
1964(2ndof Tammuz, 5724): Seventy-seven-year Morris Cafritz, Washington, D.C.millionaire, pillar of the Jewish community and husband of leading hostess GwenCafritz passed away tonight in Hot Springs, AR.
http://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/13/morris-cafritz-builder-dead.html
1965:At Park Avenue Temple, Rabbi Sanford M. Shapiro officiated at the wedding ofSusan Linda Weinstein, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Weinstein andJeffrey Harold Loria, the son of Mr. Walter J. Loria, the owner of the MiamiMarlins baseball team and Mrs. Loria.
1965:After 540 performances a musical version of Budd Schulberg’s “What Makes SammyRun?” closed at the 54th Street Theatre in New York.
1966:Ninety-two-year-old William Ernest Hocking who in 1930 wrote “Palestine AnImpasse?” in which he claimed that “two enemies of peace…are fanaticism andfear” passed away today.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1930/07/palestine-an-impasse/306750/
1967: Following arguments by Jewish attorneysPhilip Hirschkop and Bernard S. Cohen representing the petitioners Richard andMildred Loving, today “the Supreme Court rendered its unanimous decisionoverturning a Virginia State Supreme Court of Appeals ruling in favor of thestate to create and enforce interracial marriage laws known asanti-miscegenation laws. The decision validated that interracial marriage banswere unconstitutional and their existence in some states and not others deniedthe couple equal protection under the law guaranteed by the Constitution'sFourteenth Amendment. Most significantly, it reversed the right of states tocreate laws that banned interracial marriage or enforce such laws where theyexisted.”
1967:First Israeli ship sailed through Gulf of Eilat after the Six Days War. It wasthe closure of the Gulf of Eilat and the blockade of the port of Eilat by theEgyptians in May that led to the June War.
1967:The INS Dolphin arrived at Eilat
1967:David Ben-Gurion “met with Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek in his Knesset office”today.
1968:“Rosemary’s Baby” the movie version of Ira Levin’s novel directed and writtenby Roman Polanski and featuring Charles Grodin and the voice of Tony Curtis wasreleased in the United States today.
1969:In Manhattan Same and Aline Schneider gave birth to NHL player who “won theStanley Cup in 1993 with the Montreal Canadians.”
1970(8thof Sivan, 5730): Eighty-year-old Columbia trained attorney, Edward Samuel Greenbaumthe son of State Supreme Court Justiceand President of the Educational Alliance Samuel Greenbaum and husband ofsculptor Dorothea Greenbaum with whom he had two children Daniel and Dr. DavidGreenbaum, passed away today.
1970(8thof Sivan, 5730): Sixty-six-year-old Israeli political leader Yisrael Barzilaipassed away. Born in Poland in 1913, hemade Aliyah in 1934. A member of theKnesset, he served in several ministerial positions including Minister of Postal Services and Minister ofhealth. Barzilai Medical Center inAshkelon was named in his honor.
1971(19thof Sivan, 5731): Parashat Baha’aloctcha
1971(19th of Sivan, 5731): Sixty-two-year-old Columbia trainedpsychiatrist Nathan Ward Ackerman, the Bessarabia born son of pharmacist David Ackerman and Bertha(Greenberg) Ackerman who served as the “chief psychiatrist at the MenningerClinic” as well as serving in the capacity for “the Jewish Board of Guardiansin New York City” passed away today
http://psychology.jrank.org/pages/7/Nathan-Ward-Ackerman.html
https://www.amazon.com/Nathan-Ward-Ackerman/e/B001K8FF8I
1972(30thof Sivan, 5732): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1972(30thof Sivan, 5732): Sixty-three-year-old Saul David Alinsky radical, writer andsocial activist, passed away. Born in 1909, the son of Russian Jewishimmigrants, Alinsky had a passion for justice that originated from hisexperience growing up in Chicago's Jewish ghetto where he witnessed sufferingduring the Depression.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/06/13/80792596.html?pageNumber=46
1974:“The Soviet government expressed a strong diplomatic protest” to the Jewishdemonstrations that greeted the arrival of the Bolshoi today in Britain.
1975(3rdof Tammuz, 5735): Seventy-four-year-old Arthur Kober, the husband of LillianHellman who gained his own measure of fame as a screenwriter and author whoseworks appeared in The New Yorkerpassed away today in New York.
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/13/archives/arthur-kober-humorist-is-dead-at-74.html
1975:Today “The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects conferred a"Special Citation upon Robert Caro....for reminding us once again, thatends and means are inseparable
1977:After 1,944 performances at the Imperial Theatre, the curtain came on theoriginal Broadway production of “Pippin” the Tony-award musical with lyrics andmusic by Stephen Schwartz starring John Rubinstein, the son of concert pianistArthur Rubinstein.
1977:In “The Yiddish” published today Luna Rosenfeld traced the rise of the YiddishTheatre from the Lower East Side featuring actors like Jacob Adler andplaywrights like Jacob Gordin.
1979:The Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University ofConnecticut in Storrs which was founded by the Board of Trustees in February of1979, was formally launched at an Inaugural Program today when Nobel LaureateI.B. Singer addressed nearly 1,000 persons
1980(27thof Sivan, 5740): Seventy-six-year-old Rabbi and Biblical scholar Bernard JacobBamberger, the graduate of Johns Hopkins and HUC, spiritual leader of NewYork’s Congregation Shaaray Tefila andthe husband of Ethel “Pat” Kraus with whom he had two sons –Henry andPat—passed away today.
http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6qv67zp
1981:”Funeralservices are scheduled to be held today at the East Midwood Jewish Cemeteryfor” Eighty-two year old Harry Halpern who served as the Rabbi at the EastMidwood Jewish Center for forty nine years and “professor of pastoralpsychiatry at JTS” while fighting for Civil and Human Rights
1981(10thof Sivan, 5741): Seventy-year-old Louis Solomon who went from high school teachto producer and writer while raising two daughters, Hilary and Dinah, with hiswife Wilma Shore, passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/17/obituaries/louis-solomon.html
1981:U.S. premiere of ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark” directed by Steven Spielberg, with ascreenplay by Lawrence and story co-authored by Philip Kaufman based on findingthe Ark built by Moshe.
1982(21stof Sivan , 5742): Parashat Beha’aloctcha
1982(21stof Sivan, 5742): Ninety-four-year-old ballet dance and the founder of the RambertBallet School, Dame Marie Rambert, the Warsaw born daughter of a bookseller who“became a British subject in 1918 when she married Ashley Dukes, a non-Jewishplaywright and critic” passed away today.
1982:Today “500 NJA members marched in the Disarmament Rally in New York, which wasat that time the largest Disarmament Rally in American history.”
1983(1stof Tammuz, 5743): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1983(1stof Tammuz, 5743): Academy award winning actress Norma Shearer who converted toJudaism when she married Irving Thalberg, passed away today. (As reported byEric Pace)
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/14/obituaries/norma-shearer-film-star-two-decades-is-dead.html
1984:Having premiered a month ago at the Cannes Film Festival, “Under the Volcano”with music by Alex North was released in the United States today.
1986(5thof Sivan, 5746): Erev Shavuot
1986:In “The Jewish Freud,” published today MichaelIgnatieff begins his review of “Freud’s Discovery of Psychoanalysis: The Politics of Hysteri” byWilliam J. McGrath and “Freud andHis Father” by Marianne Krull with the following story. “WhenSigmund Freud was twelve and out walking with his father Jacob in the streetsof Vienna, his father wanted to show his son how much better things had becomefor Jews since the days when he was a poor peddler wearing a beaver hat and akaftan in the shtetls of Galicia. So he told his son about the time inTysmenitz when a gentile had crossed his path on the pavement and had knockedhis hat into the gutter jeering after him, 'Jew, get off the pavement.’”
1986:Jewish gangster Vladimir Reznikov entered the headquarters of Jewish gangsterBalagula headquarters at the Odessa nightclub,” pushed a 9mm Beretta intoBalagula's skull and demanded the $600,000 that he alleged Balagula owed him.
1987:“Million Dollar Mystery” starring Tom Bosley which was the “finalfeature-length film directed by Richard Fleischer” was released today in theUnited States.
1988: A revival of Stephen Schwartz’s “Godspell”opened at Lambs Theatre.
1990:Moshe Arens completed his term as Foreign Minister.
1991:Premiere of “The Boneyard, a “direct-to-video horror film” co-starring NormanFell.
1993(23rdof Sivan, 5753): Parashat Sh’lach
1993(23rdof Sivan, 5752: Ninety-seven-year-old Lower East Side native Moses Polakoff,the WW I Navy veteran and NYU trained attorney who worked in the United StatesAttorney’s office before going into private practice where some of his mostnotorious clients were Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky and the father of “threedaughters, Joan, Suzanne and Nancy, passed away today.
1994(3rdof Tammuz, 5754): Ronald Goldman is murdered along with Nicole BrownSimpson. OJ Simpson was found not guiltyin the criminal case. The civil trialturned out with just the opposite verdict.
1994 (3 Tammuz on the Jewish calendar): The Rebbe, RabbiMenachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, passed away. RabbiSchneerson, or simply "The Rebbe" as he was known byhisfollowers andadmirers, was the leader of the Lubavitch movement fordecades.He is most famous for the outreach program that he beganwhichreached Jews throughout the world. Thanks to his effort, it isalmost impossible to go any place and not find a ChabadHouse.Hesent "lamplighters" out into to the world to bring the light of Torahto Jews who were in darkness whether they were in Moscow, Morocco or LittleRock, Arkansas. One did not have to accept all of tenets of Lubavitch tobe welcome. For more about this remarkable man see the following
http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?AID=142232
1996(25thof Sivan, 5756): Seventy-four-year-old German composer Hermann Scherchen wholeft Germany in 1933 to protest the Nazi takeover passed away today.
https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Scherchen-Hermann.htm
1997(7thof Sivan, 5757): Second Day of Shavuot
1997(7thof Sivan, 5757): Benjamin Pernikoff, an “educator” with the Talmudical Academyof Baltimore passed away toay.
1997:Publication of Messages From My Father: A Memoir by Calvin Trilling.
https://books.google.com/books?id=rEuYqL3zRQcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22calvin+trillin%22+jewish
1998:In an article published today describing the history of Savannah, Georgia,reporter R.W. Apple, Jr. reminded his readers of the early Jewish connection tothis colonial seaport. “Only five years after General Oglethorpe's arrival in1733 to found the last of the original 13 colonies, a group of Jews landedhere, and descendants of some of them, including Sheftalls and Minises, remainprominent in Savannah's economic and cultural life. Temple Mickve Israel, builtin 1876, is the only Gothic Revival synagogue in the United States; itsinterior has cast-iron cluster pillars, a fine Spanish chandelier and goodstained glass. The temple owns the oldest Torah in America and a valuablecollection of books and documents, including letters from Washington, Jeffersonand Madison. Some of Savannah's prettiest squares and best antiques dealers areclustered in the same neighborhood as the temple. Prices are high, but so isquality.”
1998:“Can’t Hardly Wait” a comedy starring Seth Green and featuring Jason Segel wasreleased in the United States today.
1998:Today Congregation Bene Naharayim sent a letter “to the members of the IraqiJewish Community in New York” describing the life and death of “Dr.Gourji Raby,a former Professor of Physiology at the University of Baghdad, and former VicePresident of Congregation Bene Naharayim.”
1998:“Six Days, Seven Nights” directed and co-produced by Ivan Reitman along withRoger Birnbaum with music by Randy Edelman and co-starring David Schwimmer wasreleased today in the United States.
2000:“Israeli leaders proclaimed today that the death of President Hafez al-Assad ofSyria had ushered in a new era or at least ushered out an old one in the MiddleEast,” “but no one could predict whatthat portended beyond a potentially problematic transition period.
2001(21stof Sivan, 5761): Sixty-nine-year-old “Amos Perlmutter, a Washington-basedpolitical scientist, author and commentator on Middle Eastern affairs” passedaway today. (As reported by WolfgangSaxon)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/16/world/amos-perlmutter-69-expert-on-middle-eastern-affairs.html
2001:In ‘Anatomy of a Bagel” published todayC. Claiborne asks “How many calories are in a plain, sesame or poppyseed bagel from a New York coffee shop? What are the ingredients andnutritional value?” and then provides the following answer: “Let us assume thatyou get the biggest plain, enriched bagel analyzed by the United StatesDepartment of Agriculture, 4 1/2 inches in diameter, weighing 110 grams, about3.8 ounces. The ingredients -- flour, water, salt, yeast and malt, but nosugar, if it is a classic bagel -- are boiled and then baked. They add up to302.5 calories, the U.S.D.A. says. On a standard nutrition facts label, thebagel would boast 1.76 grams of fat, no cholesterol, 587.4 milligrams ofsodium, 111.1 milligrams of potassium, 58.74 grams of carbohydrate and 11.55grams of protein. Vitamins and minerals include a significant amount of folate,96.8 micrograms, from the enriched flour, but most are present in traceamounts. A bagel preserved with calcium propionate has more calcium than one withoutit: 81.4 milligrams, compared with 19.8 milligrams. Oddly, the U.S.D.A. doesnot differentiate among plain, onion, poppy seed and sesame bagels. Poppy seed,which the department considers a spice, not a food, would probably not addenough calories to make a weight watcher feel guilty. There are only about 15calories in a teaspoonful, fewer than a spoon of sugar. Sesame seeds haveperhaps 26 calories in a teaspoonful, figured at a sixth of an ounce, byvolume.”
2002:“A Palestinian with a bomb hidden under his shirt walked into a restauranttoday on a main street in this town north of Tel Aviv, asked for a bottle ofwater and blew himself up, killing a 15-year-old girl and wounding eight otherpeople.”
2003(12thof Sivan, 5763): Avner Maimon, 51, of Netanya, was found shot to death in hiscar near Yabed in northern Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimedresponsibility for the attack. (Jewish Virtual Library)
2003(12thof Sivan, 5763): Ninety-three-year-old Samuel “Sam” Schulman a businessman andown of professional sports teams passed away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jun/14/local/me-schulman14
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/16/sports/sam-schulman-93-team-owner-who-defied-nba-draft-rules.html
2004 Ehud Barak defeated Amir Peretz in his bidto be the leader of the Labor Party.
2005(5thof Sivan, 5765): Erev Shavuot
2005:Several families gather in the beit midrash at Milken Community High School inLos Angeles, where the they fulfill a commandment derived from Deuteronomy31:19 by each writing a letter in Torah scroll that will lead to itscompletion.
2005: TheCedar Rapids Gazette reported that Marv Levy, former coach of the BuffaloBills and Coe College graduate was the speaker Coe’s Alumni weekend. A 1950 graduate, Levy had excelled as acollege athlete and student having earned a Phi Beta Kappa Key. His topic for the alumnae address was “So YouWant to Write a Book.”
2005: The Chicago Tribune featured reviewsof two books that examined the role of Jews in the military. “GI Jews: How World War II Changed aGeneration” by Deborah Dash Moore examined the impact of military serviceon American Jews and the gentiles with whom they came in contact during theSecond World War. “Company C; An American’s Life as a Citizen-Soldier inIsrael” by Haim Watzman examines the impact of military service on Jews,the Jewish character and Israeli society based on his twenty years of serviceas an active duty soldier and reservist. The reviewer does an artful job ofshowing how these two books deal with similar issues from differing points onthe experiential compass.
2005: The New York Times featuredreviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding “Steinberg at The New Yorker” by Joel Smith and “Chaplinand Agee:The Untold Story of the Tramp, the Writer, and the LostScreenplay” by John Wranovics
2006:JWA launches Katrina’s Jewish Voices, one of thefirst online collecting projects
2006:Representative Jan Schakowsky gave a speech in Congress today in “recognitionto Joel M. Carp, who is retiring this month as the Senior Vice President forCommunity Services and Government Relations of the Jewish Federation/JewishUnited Fund of Metropolitan Chicago.”
2007: InLos Angeles, The Skirball Cultural Center presents a double feature with theshowing of two films, SisaiandMeltingSiberia. “In Sisai, the title character, an Ethiopian Jew living inIsrael, learns the whereabouts of his biological father in Ethiopia. Togetherwith his adoptive father and his brother, filmmaker David Gavro, Sisai embarkson an unforgettable journey that illuminates his immigrant identity. The filmwas the First-prize documentary winner at the Jerusalem International FilmFestival.” The dialogue is In Hebrew and Amharic with English subtitles.“Melting Siberia tells the story ofMarina Haar, who is content in Israel not knowing the identity of her Russianfather. But when her grown son, Ido Haar, the film's director, asks to locatehis grandfather, a single phone call melts away the distance between Israel andSiberia.” The dialogue is in Hebrew and Russian with English subtitles.
2007: TheJerusalem Post reported that “Eighty three percent of Jewish Israelis aresatisfied or extremely satisfied with their lives, according to the CentralBureau of Statistics annual Social Survey 2006. Assessing such daily concernsas business, finance and health, the survey questioned 7,300 people aged 20 andup over the course of the last six months. Eighty four percent of the Jewishpopulation reported being satisfied or extremely satisfied with their worksituation, while 71% of the Arab community said they felt the same way. Amongthe haredi population, 97% said they were satisfied or extremely satisfied withtheir lives; among the modern Orthodox community 86% reported being happy withlife, with the traditional and secular segments of the population being 82% and85%, happy respectively.
Furthermore, more than half the population toldresearchers that they believed within the next few years, life in Israel wouldgreatly improve for them.
2007: Akiva “Goldsman produced the UniversalPictures feature ‘Lone Survivor,’ from writer/director Peter Berg, based on thebook Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the LostHeroes of SEAL Team 10 “ which was published today.
2007: TheWashington Post reported about the programming on Shalom TV, a Jewishoriented cable television channel that has expanded in to theWashington-Baltimore region. The network offerings include a kosher cook-offprogram, hip-hop entertainer Russell Simmons discussing anti-Semitism, Hebrewlessons Talmud study and the “Jewish Mr. Rogers.” Television targeting Jewish audiencescertainly has come a long way since “Lamp unto my Feet.”
2007: News broke that two Bear Stearns hedgefunds speculating in mortgage-backed securities were melting down. (This “wasthe precursor to the panics and collapses” that have led to the worst economiccrisis since the Great Depression which, when combined with activities ofBernard Madoff, have gutted or threatened the well-being of so many Jewishcommunal organizations)
2007: Ehud Barak defeated Ami Ayalon in arun-off election held today for leadership of the Labor Party.
2007(26th of Sivan, 5767): Ninety-eight-year-oldBaron Guy de Rothschild passed away today in Paris. (As reported by Paul Lewis)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/business/worldbusiness/14rothschild.html?_r=1
2008: Hazak Week of Study begins. Hazak is theUnited Synagogue's organization for Jews 55 and over.
2008: The National Council of Jewish Women(NCJW) will honor Mildred and George Weissman at its Israel Benefit Luncheontoday. Shari Eshet, director of NCJW'sIsrael Office, will keynote the luncheon which is being held at the JewishMuseum in New York City
2008: “Waiting for the Barbarians” an opera intwo acts composed by Philip Glass was performed today at the Barbican Center inLondon
2009: Mark Kurlansky, the author of “AChosen Few,” discusses and signs his new book, “The Food of a YoungerLand: A Portrait of American Food, Before the National Highway System, BeforeChain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal”at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
2009: At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,Tessa Cohen, daughter of Terri and Brian Cohen, helps in leading Friday NightShabbat Services as she begins the weekend that marks her Bat Mitzvah.
2009: Funeral services for Ralph Lazarus arescheduled to held this morning in Brookline, MA for Ralph Lazarus followed byburial in Sharon, MA.
2009: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum inWashington, D.C. reopened to large crowds after having been closed on Thursdayto honor the memory of Stephen T. Johns, the guard murdered by a anti-Semiticwhite supremacist who had tried to shoot his way into the shrine on Wednesday.
2009: Opening of the Derfner Judaica Museum atHebrew Home at Riverdale in the Bronx.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/arts/design/11muse.html
2010(30th of Sivan, 5770): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2010: Golem with Girls In Trouble are scheduledto perform at the Washington Jewish Music Festival.
2010: The sitting of shivah by the family ofSteve Averbach, who was injured thwarting an Arab terrorist attack, isscheduled to end this evening.
2011: The award winning duet "Dinner"by Israeli based Maya Stern and Tomer Sharabi is scheduled to be performed byTomer Sharabi and Tal Kol on the fifth and final night of Contemporary IsraelDance Week.
2011: The Wisconsin Institute for Torah Studyis scheduled to celebrate its 31st Anniversary and the Graduation of the WITSClass of 2011!
2011: Palestine Solidarity Group Chairman, PerGahrton who was reportedly responsible for the segregation of the Israeli teamat Malamo in 2009, is scheduled to deliver an address at the stadium whereIsrael will play Sweden in major international handball completion an hourafter the speech.
2011: “I Married Wyatt Earp,” a musical basedon the life Josephine Marcus is scheduled to have its final performance in NewYork. Marcus was the eccentric Jewishdaughter of a successful San Francisco family who ran away from home and endedup performing in Tombstone, Arizona where she met and wed the famouslawman. It is because of Marcus thatEarp is buried in a Jewish cemetery leading many to mistakenly assume thatmarshall who gained lasting fame at the OK Corral was Jewish.
2011: The New York Times featuredreviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding “The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You” by EliPariser, “A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s “Germania” From the Roman Empire tothe Third Reich” by Christopher B. Krebs and “In the Garden of Beasts: Love,Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin” by Erik Larson that is a biography of William E.Dodd, FDR’s first Ambassador to Hitler’s Germany.
2011: The Goodlove Family Reunion is scheduledto take place in Central City, Iowa.
2011: Ina modern-day story of David beating Goliath, Mark Cuban’s Dallas Mavericksdefeated the Miami Heat to win the NBA Championship.
2011: It was announced that Leonid BorisovichNevzlin had purchased a 20% stake in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, for NIS 140m. Nevzlin's acquisition leaves the Schockenfamily with a 60 percent stake in the company
2011(10th of Sivan, 5771): Sixty-one-year-oldLaura Ziskin, the American film producer who helped gives Pretty Woman andSpider Man, passed away. (As reported by Aljean Harmetz)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/movies/laura-ziskin-behind-spider-man-films-dies-at-61.html
2011(10th of Sivan, 5771):Eighty-one year old Alan L. Haberman, the man who played a key role inpopularizing the now ubiquitous bar code passed away. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/business/16haberman.html
2012: “Off-White Lies” (Orhim le-Rega) isscheduled to be shown tonight at the JCC in Manhattan
2012: In an interview given today “EllenRiotenberg discussed her Jewish family and their background on the North Sideof Minneapolis” as well as the difficulty in getting jobs “even as a trainedprofessional if you were Jewish.”
2012: “The High Court justices who recommendedstate support for non-Orthodox rabbis had conflicts of interest, ReligiousServices Minister Ya’acov Margi charged today.”
2012: Beginning today, “a permanent exhibitionis scheduled to open on the ground floor of the landmark Eldridge StreetSynagogue, which is home both to K’hal Adath Jeshurun, the Orthodoxcongregation that built it, and to the Museum at Eldridge Street, a nonprofitthat maintains and interprets the magnificently restored 126-year-oldstructure, between Division and Canal Streets
2012: The Jewish Historical Society of GreaterWashington is scheduled to sponsor “A Centennial Celebration of the FirstJewish Aviator” honoring Arthur “Al” Walsh.
2012: Aided by Orthodox, City’s JewishPopulation Is Growing Again published today described the changing face of theBig Apple’s demographics.
2012: The Foreign Ministry announced today thatRussian President Putin is planning to make a visit to Israel this year,although an exact date has not been set.It would be his first visit since 2005 and comes at a time when theRussian leader is continuing to show support for the Assad government in Syria.
2012: Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said todaythat Israel has an obligation to remember the murder of more than a millionArmenians at the hands of the Turks nearly a hundred years ago, but warned thatthe issue should not be turned into an attack on the Turkish government oftoday. The Knesset speaker made the comments at a Knesset discussion of theArmenian genocide. (As reported by Gil Hoffman)
2012: According to Joseph Berger, “Afterdecades of decline, the Jewish population of New York City is growing again,increasing to nearly 1.1 million, fueled by the “explosive” growth of theHasidic and other Orthodox communities, a new study has found. It is a trendthat is challenging long-held notions about the group’s cultural identity andrevealing widening gaps on politics, education, wealth and religiousobservance.
2012: “Speaking to the Haves, in a Plea toConsider All the Have-Nots” includes a review of End This Depression Now!by Paul Krugman.
2012: Seventy-eight-year-old Elinor Ostrom,whose father was Jewish and is, as of this date the only woman to win the NobelMemorial Prize in Economic Science, passed away today. (As reported byCatherine Rampell)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/nyregion/new-yorks-jewish-population-is-growing-again.html?hp
2013: “Wit’s End: The Satirical Cartoons ofStephen Roth featuring the works of the “Czech Jewish artist whose cartoonslampooned fascist dictators and put a wry spin on political events during theSecond World War” is scheduled to come to an end at the Wiener Library inLondon, UK.
2013: The American Jewish Historical Societyand Yeshiva University are scheduled to present a Curator’s Tour of “PassagesThrough the Fire: Jews and the Civil War.”
2013(4th of Tammuz): Yahrzeit ofRabbi Jacob Ben Meir Tam, the grandson of Rashi.
2013: In “Born Again” Nicole Krauss reminiscesYoram Kaniuk , of blessed memory.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/06/yoram-kaniuk-postscript.html
2013: Traces of the crippling polio virus,discovered last week in Beersheba and Rahat, were found today in the sewers ofKiryat Gat and Ashdod as well. The Ministry of Health believes that the tracesoriginated in the Bedouin village of Rahat. (As reported by Adiv Sterman &Stuart Winer)
2013: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said todaythat Israel sought a “historic compromise” with the Palestinians to end theconflict “once and for all” and was ready to enter negotiations “withoutpreconditions [and] without delay.”
2014: “A visitor’s center telling the story ofthe Eldridge Street Synagogue telling the s tory of the congregation and itsplace in its Baltimore neighborhood” is scheduled to open today. (As reportedby Hillel Kuttler)
2014: The Israeli Film Center Festival isscheduled to open at the JCC of Manhattan with a showing of “OperationSunflower.”
2014: In London, the Weiner Library isscheduled to host “Karl Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind as a German-JewishTragi-Comedy.”
2014: “David Blatt stepped down as coach ofEuropean club champion Maccabi Tel Aviv today, saying he wanted to pursue hisdream of coaching in the NBA.” (Times of Israel)
2014: “A Berlin court has ordered Germany topay the heirs of Jewish owners of a department store chain an additional €50million ($68 million) in compensation for property seized by the Nazis” sayingtoday that “the Schocken family lost its chain of stores, primarily in Saxony,during the Nazis’ so-called “Aryanization” of businesses in the 1930s.”
2014: The Lower East Side Film Festival isscheduled to open with a showing of “Sturgeon Queens.”
2014: “Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon todayapproved the extension of the IDF’s seizure of a radical Jewish learning centerin the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar by three more months, saying themilitary’s presence in the building helped reduce settler violence.” (Times ofIsrael)
2014: The U.S. Senate “named Stanley Fischervice chair of the Federal Reserve “after confirming him to the board lastmonth.”
2014: At the age of 104, actress RebekahIsabelle "Carla" Laemmle the daughter of Carl Laemmle, the founder ofUniversal Pictures who tried to save Jews from the Shoah, passed away today.
2015: Pennsylvania State Representative BrianK. Sims and, Deputy Consul General for the Consulate General of Israel to theMid-Atlantic Region, Elad Strohmayer are scheduled to address a dinnersponsored by J.PROUD, Jewish Philly LGBTQ Consortium and the Young Friends ofNMAJH celebrating a special Shabbat during Philadelphia Gay Pride Week.
2015: Lassana Bathily, “the Muslim storeemployee who saved 15 French Jews during the terrorist attack on a koshersupermarket was honored today by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who presentedhim with an official city proclamation honoring him for his actions in theHyper Cacher attack in Paris.”
2015: “Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former headof the International Monetary Fund, was acquitted today of aggravated pimpingcharges, concluding a case that made the private lives of public figures fairgame for the French news media, even if the French themselves still seemedinclined to overlook dalliances by their political leaders.”
2015: Today, “a Gaza Strip-based Salafi groupaffiliated with the Islamic State claimed responsibility for a rocket launchedat Israel” yesterday evening.
2015: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduledto host “Piano Games” as part of the Israel Festival.
2015: “Some 180,000 people marched through TelAviv’s streets today in the city’s 17th annual Gay Pride Parade, the nation’slargest and oldest gay pride event.”
2016(6th of Sivan, 5776): Shavuot
2016: Swish Beverages which “was formed bysocial media personality Josh Ostrovsky (aka "The Fat Jewish"), DavidOliver Cohen, Tanner Cohen (the brothers behind the White Girl Problems bookseries), and Alexander Ferzan” “released BabeRosé, a canned sparkling rose” today.
2016: “A woman and her infant child wereattacked” today “by an Arab man in the Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill.”
2016: TheNew York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including In Praise of Forgetting:Historical Memory and Its Ironies by David Rieff and the recently releasedpaperback editions of The Goddess Pose” The Audacious Life of Indra Evi, theWoman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West by Michelle Goldberg and ThereIs Simply Too Much To Think About: Collected Nonfiction by Saul Bellow.
2016: The Illinois Holocaust Museum andEducation Center is scheduled to host a presentation by Estelle Glaser Laughlinwho “was only ten-years-old when her family was forced into the Warsaw Ghettoand hid in a secret room to avoid deportation during liquidations in 1942.”
2017: It was reported today that “the sensitiveintelligence that US President Donald Trump controversially revealed to theRussians was gathered by an Israeli cyber warfare unit that penetrated anIslamic State group bomb-making cell” (As reported by Stuart Winer)
2017(18th of Sivan, 5777): Ninety-ix-year-oldMorton Cohen, the Canadian born Columbia University doctoral student and authorof Lewis Carroll: A Biography passed away today. (As reported by RichardSandomir)
2017: InAtlanta, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host the opening of the “SummerInstitute on Teaching the Holocaust.
2017: Lauren B. Strauss, Ph.D., Scholar inResidence, Department of History at American University is scheduled to lectureon “The Queen of All Migrations – Jewish Immigration in the Early 20thCentury” at Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church, Va.
2017: The Manhattan Jewish Experience – West isscheduled to host a dinner followed by a discussion of the weekly Torah portionand a “conversation with Rabbi Mark Wildes.”
2018: The Oxford University Jewish Society isscheduled to “Shtisel” watch-party “followed by a discussion about thereligious issues arising from the show.”
2018: The Marlene Meyerson JCC is schedule tohost a “special preview” screening of “Outdoors” (Bayit Bagalil) directed byAsaf Saban.
2018: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center isscheduled to host a presentation by “Israeli-born happiness expert TalBen-Shahar who taught the most popular course in Harvard’s history and hasauthored several books, including bestseller Happier
2019: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host twoscreenings of “Eating Animals,” the film versions of Jonathan Safran Foer bookby the same name, “co-produced and narrated by Natalie Portman.”
2019: The Center for Jewish History and the LeoBaeck Institute are scheduled to present “From Prauge to Princeton, the Storyof German-Jewish Family, during which archivist Sarah Glover will discuss theuse of archival materials to race the fate of the Kulbach family who had beenpart of the German Jewish Intellectual Elite.
2019: In San Francisco, Congregation Emanu-Elis scheduled to host “Mother Daughter Relationships: Why Do We Feel So Closeand So Far Away!” with Rabbi Beth Singer and psychotherapist Sharon Epel.
2019: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is “tohonor the 90th birthday of Anne Frank” with a “Facebook LiveEpisode” featuring “rarely seen photographs of Anne” which will enable viewersto “learn about her life before the Holocaust.”
2020: Join acclaimed writer, speaker, and notedWinston Churchill expert Lee Pollock as he leads a virtual Lunch and Learn on“Winston Churchill and the Jews” which happens to be same name of a great bookwritten on the subject by Sir Martin Gilbert Z”L
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2019: Judah Pearl is scheduled to accept theWarrior Truth Award which had been posthumously given to his son Daniel Pearlat “The Inaugural Alegemeiner West Coast Gala.
2020: Folk musician Gerry Tenney is schedule tolead “Yiddish and Yinglish Songs,” “a sing-along for kids and adults.
2020: The Breman Museum is scheduled to host online “Two Cities, One Story: Rabbi Jacob Rothschild” during whichJeremy Katz,Senior Director of Archives at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, andEric Lidji, Director of the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center,will discuss the life of Rabbi Jacob Rothschild through their archivalcollections.”
2020: The Israel Film Center Film, “JCCManhattan’s 8th annual film festival” is scheduled to host a virtualscreening of “There are No Lions in Tel Aviv” followed by a Q and A.
2020: The Asiyah Jewish Community is scheduledto present an on-line “Kabbalat Shabbat Experience.”
2020: Temple Judah will live stream KabbalahShabbat Services this evening where we will take special notice of the passingof Steve Elliot, the cousin of Steve Ginsberg and Herman Ginsberg, one of thePatriarchs of the Cedar Rapids Jewish Community.
2021: (2nd of Tammuz, 5781):Parashat Korach
2021: The San Francisco Music Club is scheduledto present “San Francisco Free Folk Festival,” that includes “bands, workshopsand storytelling includes Ellis Island Old World Folk Band and S.F. YiddishCombo.”
2021: On “what would have Anne Frank’s 92ndbirthday, the Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to feature HolocaustSurvivor Eva Schloss, Anne’ stepsister, as June’s interactive hologram in theAbe and Ida Cooper Survivior Stories Experience holographic theatre.”
2021: Base Boston is scheduled to present“Parsha in the Park,” that includes “schmoozing, a snack and bit of Torah inthe Rose Garden in Brookline.
2021: In Columbus, OH, Congregation TiferethIsrael will hold its first Shabbat service where signups “will no longer berequired but proof of vacation will be “required for those eligible to receivethe vaccine.”
2021: Ensemble for Our Time is scheduled topresent the “finale in the chamber music series exploring works by composerswho fled to Hollywood in the 1930s and ’40s.”
2021: The delegation sponsored the JewishFederation of Greater Des Moines, Iowa, is scheduled to end its visit toIsrael.
2022: B’nai Jeshurun Congregation in PepperPike is scheduled to celebrate CantorAaron Shifman and his 24-year tenure with a Gala Cantorial Concert at 7 p.m.this evening featuring Cantors Netanel Hershtik, Yaakov Lemmer and AlbertoMizrahi joining Shifman, accompanist Eric Freeman and the B’nai Jeshurun band.
2022: As part of Hebrew Book Month, theNational Library of Israel is scheduled to host a conversation with DrorMishani a best-selling crime writer,screenwriter and literary scholar, specializing in the history of crime fictionwhose novels were translated into more than 20 languages, and have won numerousinternational prizes, including the prestigious Martin Beck Award for bestcrime novel translated into Swedish, and the Prix Mystère de la critique inFrance.
2022. The New York Times features reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Adriatic:A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age by Robert D. Kaplan
2022: Tikvah’s 2022 Jewish LeadershipConference is scheduled to be held today in New York City.
2022: The Jewish Federation of Des Moines, IAis scheduled to host “Yom Sports Event.”
2022: At the AJC Global Forum 2022 OpeningPlenary, attendees are scheduled to getfirsthand accounts of the state of antisemitism in America today from TheForward Senior Political Reporter Jacob Kornbluh, First Impression Rx ManagingDirector DEI Strategy April Powers, and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Instituteof Religion President Andrew Rehfeld.
2023: Justice is scheduled to present, online,“The Space Between: Jewish Wisdom From Jews of Color.
2023: YIVO is scheduled to present the “concertpremier of ‘A Dying Person,’ a new chamber opera by Evan Rapport and DanielLondon.”
2023: The Wiener Holocaust Library is scheduledto host “Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Letters as People: Emotion andInformation in the Correspondence of German-Jewish Refugees from Nazism 1933-45.”
2023: The second week of the trial RobertBowers for the mass murder at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh whichhas gone uncovered by the national media is scheduled to continue today.
2024(6th of Sivan, 5784): Shavuot.
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2024: The Waxman Chabad Center is scheduled to hostan ice cream party this morning “following the Torah readings of the TenCommandments.
2024: In Cambridge, MA, the Cambridge Jewish Centerof the Arts is scheduled to host a Shavuot celebration that will include the TenCommandments and “fun ice cream party.
2024:Temple Emanuel of News is scheduled tohost a “Shavuot Lunch and Learn’
2014: In Berkley , CA, Tikkun Leil Shavuotcelebration with immersive ritual theater experience, music, dance and art byLABA fellows and study sessions led by Rabbi Jericho Vincent, Zvika Krieger andJewish mysticism scholars Deena Aranoff and Sam Shonkoff whichbegan last night is scheduled to come toan end this evening.
2024: As June 12th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave ofanti-Semitism sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 250in captivity. (Editor’s note: thissituation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing asnapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
