JUNE 15 In Jewish History
1215:
King John of England puts his seal to
the Magna Carta. The Great Charter which
is supposed to be one of the cornerstones of English and American rights
contains the following reference to the Jews: “If anyone who borrowed from the
Jews any amount, large or small, dies before the debt is repaid, it shall not
carry interest as long s the heir is under age, of whomsoever he holds; and if
that debt falls in our hands [i.e., the king’s hands, following the Jewish
creditor’s own demise], we will take nothing except the principal sum specified
in the bond.” King John and the Barons both saw the Jews as a source of revenue
to be used and abused.
1226: Twelve
Jews of Cologne martyred
1389:
Murad I, the Ottoman Sultan whose reign began in 1362, allowed Jews fleeing
from persecution in Hungary to settle in Thrace and Anatolia which were part of
his empire.
1520: Leo X issued the papal
encyclical 'Exsurge Domine,' which condemned German Reformer Martin Luther as a
heretic on 41 counts and branded him an enemy of the Roman Catholic
Church. This moved heightened the tensions
between Rome Europe
into Protestant and Roman Catholic states.
This conflict would lead to the Hundred Years War. Too often, the Jews would be innocent
bystanders in this Christian conflict that would turn them into victims. Much of the treatment of the Jews in
Christian Europe can only be understood if it is seen against the backdrop of
this theocratic conflict.
1567:
Jews of Genoa
1580:
Phillip II of Spain declares William I,
Prince of Orange, to be an outlaw. William led the Dutch revolt
against the Spanish that started the Eighty Years War, which ended in 1648 with
recognition of the independence of the United Provinces (aka The Netherlands).
The Netherlands were Protestant and they provided a refuge for the Jews of
Europe including those fleeing the Spanish Inquisition begun by Phillip’s
predecessors and continued by his successors.
1623:
Cornelis de Witt was killed by an angry mob from the monarchist,
Orangist-Calvinist faction. De Witt and his brother had admired the works of
Spinoza. News of his death was quite
disturbing for Spinoza since it could presage the rise of a conservative
faction that would not be tolerant of unconventional thinkers like himself.
1798(1st
of Tammuz, 5558): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1826:
Sultan Mahmud II destroyed the Janissary soldiers as part of his reforms for
his empire. This was said to be a "great boon" for the Jews, who were
often harassed by these soldiers.
1833:
Birthdate of Theodor Hermann Meynert, the non-Jewish psychiatrist whose
students included Josef Breuer and Sigmund Frued.
1834:
In what will be the first of three days of violence, “members of the local Arab
population gathered to attack Tzfat’s Jewish community. Jewish property was
plundered, as Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were burnt to the ground.
Jewish women were tortured and raped. Many Jews were murdered or maimed.” Tzfat is the town in Israel famous for its
connection with Jewish mystics. It is "the home of Lecha
Dodi" the hymn used to welcome the Sabbath Queen. [This was not an
isolated episode. Ever since the 16th century the town which is also
called Safed, became a major Jewish center it was subject to
1835:
Birthdate of Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress and poet. Adah Menken’s
true religious origins are controversial. Born in Louisiana New
Orleans Cincinnati America Paris III
sent his personal physician to care for her. Yet today, she is a less
than a footnote in history. She passed away at the age of 33 in 1868.
1836:
Arkansas is admitted as the 25th state to join the Union. There were
only a handful of Jews living in the land of the Razorbacks. Probably the first Jew to live in the state
was Captain Abraham Block who moved there in the 1820’s with his family of
seven and became a prominent merchant who proudly maintained his Jewish
identity. For more about the small, but
vibrant Arkansas Jewish community see A Corner of the Tapestry: A History of the Jewish Experience in Arkansas, 1820s-1990s by Carolyn Gray LeMaster.
1847: In a discussing the matter of Jewish emancipation Otto Von
Bismarck said today that Prussia was indeed a Christian state and that Jews
could not expect equality within it. They could only hold a subordinate
position. That might not be perfectly Christian, but admitting the Jews into
Prussia would not make Prussia itself more Christian. What the Jews most
wanted, he said was to become military and civilian officers of the state and
that was quite out of the question.
1864:
A portion of the lands surrounding the Custis-Lee Mansion Potomac River from Washington Arlington National Cemetery Arlington National Cemetery Union and about half that number fought on the side of
the Confederacy. Five Union Civil War
Veterans are buried in Section Thirteen.
Two Rabbis who served as chaplains buried at Arlington Burma Arlington Palestine
1870:
It was reported today that the review of Disraeli’s latest novel Lothair
that appeared in Blackwood goes beyond the bounds of a literary critique and
takes on the tone of polemic that attacks the British statesman personally
taking special pains to mockingly refer to his Jewish origins.
1870: Today's
"European Mail News" column reported that a petition is being
circulated in Paris asking that the Grand Rabbi Isidore should be nominated to
serve as a Senator. No Jew has ever held such a position.
1875: In Patterson New Jersey, James A. Morrissee married Rachel Blumenthal, the daughter of a Jewish merchant from Montreal. Blumenthal left his bride and told her he was going to Chicago on business for his wife. (These facts would be revealed in a subsequent, messy divorce proceding).
1876: According to a report published today the United Hebrew Charities raised
$72,115.60 and the Hebrew Orphan Society raised $70,115.35 during the 1875-76
fiscal year.
1878: According to
reports published today "The English, French, German and Eastern branches
of the Israelite Alliance have sent a delegate to" the meeting of European
leaders at Berlin (Congress of Berlin) to describe "the deplorable
conditions" of the Jews living in Romania and Bulgaria with the hope of
gaining some relief for their co-religionists.
1878: As "The
Season" opened today at Saratoga, The Grand Union Hotel announced that
will continue its policy of refusing to accept Jews as guest at the hotel.
1879: “Why clergyman
should study Hebrew” published today stresses the necessity for Christian
clergymen to learn this ancient Semitic tongue. “Without such knowledge they
can neither understand the Old Testament, nor the new, nor explain the
relationship of the two.”
1879: An article
published today entitled "Murder That Do Not Out" explores the
history of unsolved New York City murders including that of Benjamin Nathan, a
wealthy New York Jew who was killed in 1870.Nathan had had his skull
crushed during what appeared to be a robbery at his home. Despite a sizeable reward and the best
efforts of the police department the crime remains unsolved.
1880:
It was reported that “there is a fixed resolution on the part of thousands in
Prussia to make that country as hot as possible for Jews” and this might force
a large number of German Jews to move to Palestine. [The rise of Jews in German
society coincided with a rise in anti-Semitism. In one sense this report is a prophecy
of what happened in the 1930’s when German Jews left for Palestine.]
1880:
It was reported today that while a conference in Madrid concerning conditions
in Morocco was at an impasse, the British government was considering joint
action by all the powers in favor of religious liberty in Morocco. At the conference, the Austrian and American
governments were ready to “energetically” plead the cause of the Jews but the
French and the Moroccons halted deliberations before they could do so.
1880:It
was reported today the Maurice Heineltrop, left a note for his wife before
taking his own life which was written in Hebrew and begged to take care of
their four children and to pay off his workers.
1882(28th of Sivan, 5642): Julius Porges, the Principal of Hebrew Free School Number 8 passed away today by his own hand.
1886:
In a sign of an ecumenical spirit that was rare for this time in history it was
reported that Dr. B.M. Palmer, a Presbyterian minister delivered the eulogy at
the funeral of Rabbi James K. Gutheim of Temple Sinai. Other signs of the esteem in which he was
held by the non-Jewish community was a floral offering from Christ Episcopal
Church and attendance at the funeral by several minister including the Father
Hubert who was a Jesuit.
1887: “Wanted by Two Wives” published today described a strange case of bigamy involving Abraham Bernstein who deserted his wife and family in Port Chester, NY and then married a woman in nearby Glenville, Conn. The two women have become aware of the situation and have sworn out a warrant for his arrest. The “husband” has disappeared. [It can’t all be about Nobel Prize winners and great scholars]
1888:
Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser
Wilhelm II. Ten years after coming to the throne, the Kaiser would visit
Jerusalem in 1898 where Herzl tried, and failed, to interest him creating a
Jewish homeland in Palestine.
1888:
It was reported today that Newton Harrison was the top performing student in
the First Class at the Hebrew Technical Institute while Samuel Schneider was
the top student in the Second Class and Max Lowenthal was the top student in
the third school. The institute was
created to provide free vocational training for young Jewish boys.
1890:
The New York Times reviews “The Montefiores: Diaries of Sir Moses and
Lady Montefiore” an illustrated two volume work edited by Dr. L. Lowe and his
sons, based on the actual diaries of these two notables in which they recorded
the events from 1812 through 1883.
1896:
Herzl and Newlinski travel to Constantinople .
Herzl succeeds in visiting a number of highly placed individuals, including the
vizier
1900(18th
of Sivan, 5660): Eighty year old. Samuel Kristeller the Polish born German
physician who also was a leader of the Jewish community serving as an active
member of the Deutsch-Israelitische Gemeindebund and the Society for
Propagation of Handicrafts, passed away today in Berlin. (As reported by Isidor
Singer and Frederick T. Haneman)
1901:
Birthdate of Sir Dove-Myer Robinson, who became Mayor of Auckland City, New
Zealand.
1902: Birthdate of Max Rudolf. Born in
Frankfurt Germany he was conductor Gutenberg Symphony Orchestra.
1906: Day 2 of the Bialystok Pogrom.
1910:
Birthdate of David Rose. The
British-born American composer and conductor won four Emmys. His compositions include The Stripper, Calypso Melody, and the themes for two television
hits – Little House on the Prairie and Bonanza.
1911:
Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM )
is incorporated. For
the role of IBM during the Shoah
see IBM and the
Holocaust by Edwin Black. “IBM
Germany, known in those days as Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft,
or Dehomag, did not simply sell the Reich machines and then walk away. IBM 's subsidiary, with the knowledge of its New
York headquarters, enthusiastically custom-designed the complex devices and
specialized applications as an official corporate undertaking. Dehomag's top
management was comprised of openly rabid Nazis who were arrested after the war
for their Party affiliation. IBM
NY always understood-from the outset in 1933 that it was courting and doing
business with the upper echelon of the Nazi Party. The company leveraged its
Nazi Party connections to continuously enhance its business relationship with
Hitler's Reich, in Germany Europe .”
1914:
Hammerstein’s Roof Garden will host an amateur dance contest tonight in
connection with “Dancing by Moonlight.”
1914:
Birthdate of cartoonist and illustrator Saul Steinberg. Born in Romania Italy America Santo Domingo
1915:
As of this date “approximately 600,000 Jews had been uprooted from the Pale of
Settlement, by far the largest proportionate transplantation among the various
populations of the Russian empire’s western provinces.
1917:
Birthdate of Lillian Violet Bassman, the Brooklyn born daughter of Russian Jews
who became famous as “Lillian Bassman, a magazine art director and fashion
photographer who achieved renown in the 1940s and ’50s with high-contrast,
dreamy portraits of sylphlike models, then re-emerged in the ’90s as a fine-art
photographer after a cache of lost negatives resurfaced…” (As reported by
William Grimes)
1917:
“The Royal Navy yacht Managam
returned two Palestinian Jewish agents to Athlit after they had been trained in
the use of explosives in Cyprus. Their task was to blow up a section of the
Haifa to Damascus railway, between Afula and Dera’a.”
1920:
The Haganah, the pre-Israel Self Defense Force was formed during a meeting of
the Ahdut Avodah party. It was designed to take the place of the Ha-Shomer
movement, and was dedicated to "havlagah" or pure self-defense. The
Haganah was formed in response to a wave of Arab violence from which the
British were unable or willing to protect the Jewish community. The Haganah
was forced to operate underground during the 1930's and 1940's as the British
took an increasingly pro-Arab stance and the Arabs engaged in periodic waves of
violence. The Haganah also was active in bringing immigrants into the
country despite the White Paper.
1923:
The first financing by means of a bond issue for a city in Palestine was
completed today when a loan 75,000 pounds was obtained for the city of Tel Aviv
through the sale in New York of six and half percent municipal bonds. Tel Aviv is described as atypical American
city in point of construction and improvements planted in the heart of Asia
Minor.
1925:
Sir Herbert Samuel the first Jewish British High Commissioner in Palestine
attended a farewell reception in his honor at Hebrew University on Mount
Scopus. Colonel Fredrick H. Kish of the Zionist Executive in Jerusalem and Tel
Aviv Mayor Meir Dizengoff expressed their regret over his departure. They also expressed gratitude for the efforts
of Lady Samuel’s efforts.
1928:
The Zionist Executive in Jerusalem intervened to prevent the deportation of
four Jewish immigrants. Unfortunately, they were not able to keep the British
from deporting their family members. The National Council of Palestine Jews sent
a letter to Lord Plumer, the High Commissioner, protesting the deportations.
The council reminded the High Commissioner that only 54 Jewish immigrants had
been admitted into the country during all of April, 1928.
1928:
During an investigation of cemeteries and cemetery boards being conducted by
the Attorney General for the State of New York, representatives of the Baron
Hirsch Cemetery on Staten Island rebutted allegations of misconduct and abuse
that had been previously presented by representatives of the Hebrew Religious
Protective Association of Greater New York.
1931(30th
of Sivan, 5691): Rosh Chodesh Tamuz
1933:
Governor
Herbert H. Lehman and Dr. John H. Finley received the first honorary degrees to
be conferred by Yeshiva College. Each was made a Doctor of Humane Letters at
the institution’s second commencement exercise.
1936: As Arab violence escalated, The Palestine Post reported
that heavy firing marked an Arab attack on Ekron. Since there were only four
Jewish defenders they sent up rockets to ask for assistance, but ultimately
repulsed the marauders. There were also Arab attacks on Migdal, Geshur, Kfar
Saba, Gan Yavne, Kfar Azor, Tel Mond, Tzofit and Givat Ada, Over 500 three-year-old
vines were uprooted at Rehovot and Givat Brenner. The Jewish National Fund
planned to replace some 40,000 trees that have been burned so far. Marine
insurance premiums went up and some insurance companies refused to cover riot
risks. Five Jews were injured in separate attacks on Egged buses.
1938: Throughout Germany, any Jew
"previously convicted" of a crime (even a traffic offense) was
arrested.
1939: Malcolm MacDonald, British Colonial Secretary, today
outlined before the League of Nations Mandates Commission the proposals for the
future government of Palestine contained in the recent British White Paper.
1939: At a meeting of the women's division of the American
Jewish Congress in the Temple of Religion at the World's Fair Rabbi Louis I.
Newman of Temple Rodeph Sholom called upon the Jews to stand forth courageously
against counsels of defeat in a time of persecution. Rabbi Newman made his
appeal for courage in the face of the tragedy of the liner St. Louis whose
passengers had been turned away from Cuba and who would not find refuge in any
western nation including the United States.
1939:
A secret directive issued to the German High Command stated that deployment for "Operation
White" (invasion of Poland) would be put into operation on August 20.
Hitler invaded Poland Poland
1942(30th
of Sivan, 5702): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1942:
Deportations of
Jews from the Netherlands to Poland and Germany began today. Over the next 15
months, more than 100,000 Jews would be transported from Westerbork to the
various death camps in the East.
1942: Authorities in Riga , Latvia
1943: At the Janówska death pits at Lvov , Ukraine
1943:
Jaworzno concentration camp opens in the Auschwitz region. It contained two
crematoriums.
1944:
The 1,684 “exempted Jews” selected by Reszoe (Rudolf) Kasztner, head of the Aid
and Rescue Committee known as Va’adah leave Hungry by a special train that
takes them safely to Switzerland.
1945:
Weizmann writes to Churchill expressing his sense of shock and betrayal over
the Prime Minister’s decision to continue to restrict Jewish entrance to Palestine
1950:
In Jerusalem, Israel turned over the British pilot of a Jordanian airliner that
had been forced down when it flew across the Negev to members of the Arab
Legion. Four Arab passengers from the
plane that was flying from Amman to Cairo were also released. Charles Clinton Cloud, Jr., an American
passenger flew to Cyprus.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that Food Control
Commission took care of the sale and distribution of ice for domestic use in Jerusalem
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel had
demanded that the UN Security Council should consider Egypt's refusal to allow
ships engaged in trade with Israel to pass through the Suez Canal
1951: The Israeli government announced today that an Israeli
soldier had been killed when he encountered Jordanian forces that had crossed
the border.
1952: Today, the Israeli Foreign Ministry published the text of a
note it addressed to the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister on June 11 concerning
the arrest of Mordechai Oren, an Israeli citizen who is a leading member of the
Mapam Party. The Israelis demanded that
a member of the Israeli Legations be allowed to visit Oren and be with him as
he worked his way through the Czech justice system. The Israelis believe that Oren was arrested
as part of a plot to portray Rudolf Slansky, the former Deputy Premier, who is
being held in prison as being a Zionist, something which was an anathema in
Communist Czechoslovakia.
1952: “The first housing project specifically for immigrants from
the United States and Canada was launched today when ground was broken for ten
houses a Kfar Haroeh, a village midway between Tel Aviv and Haifa…The village
which is being built on land donated by the JNF is only twenty minutes, by car
from Natanya and Hadera two towns where the immigrants can go for jobs and
western style entertainment.
1953: It was reported today that Senator Paul Douglas, Democrat
from Illinois who had taught at the University of Chicago before WW II, was the
keynote speaker at the commencement exercises of Brandeis University in
Waltham, MA.
1961: In performances that were hailed as "good quality
directed with great intelligence," "admirable for subtle
expressiveness and intelligent composure," and "exceptional,"
the off-Broadway Living Theatre troupe made its European debut in Rome
1970: Eleven Soviet citizens, nine of them Jews, tried to hijack a
Soviet airplane so they could be flown out of the country. The plot was foiled before the plane took off
and two of the Jews were sentenced to death for their part in the attempt. Due in no small part to protests from Jewish
communities around the world, the sentences were commuted to 15 years at hard
labor. The hijacking focused attention
on the plight of Soviet Jews seeking to escape from the U.S.S.R. This was a major step forward in what became
the campaign to “Free Soviet Jews.”
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that in Washington US Syria Lebanon Israel Lebanon
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that ore Lebanese had
been given Israeli first aid at Metulla.
1978: A Broadway revival of “Once in a Lifetime” the first play on
which Moss Hartman and George S. Kaufman collaborated opened at the Circle
Theatre.
1987: An exhibition entitled ''Daughters of the Pale,''
documenting in words and photographs the experiences of daughters of Jewish
immigrant opened in London.
1987: An exhibition entitled ''East End Synagogues: From the
Shtiebel to Duke's Place’’ opened at the Heritage Center in London.
1994:
Israel Vatican
1997: The New York Times featured reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick, Steven Spielberg: A Biography
by Joseph McBride and Steven Spielberg: The Unauthorized Biography by
John Baxter
2006: Yakov Kreizberg made his “last appearance with the” London
Symphony Orchestra “at the Barbican … when he performed Ludwig van Beethoven's
Piano Concerto no. 5 with Stephen Hough, and Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony no.
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2007: The Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam
2007: The 46th Hebrew Book Week comes to a close.
2007(29th of Sivan, 5767): Claudia
Cohen, a high-profile gossip reporter for television and newspapers who was a
frequent subject of the gossip columns herself, partly because of her marriage
to, and remunerative divorce from, the billionaire businessman Ronald O.
Perelman, died today in Manhattan. She was 56 and had homes in Manhattan and
Easthampton, N.Y. The cause was ovarian cancer, said Chris Taylor, a
spokeswoman for Mr. Perelman. Ms. Cohen was known for her aggressive pursuit of
celebrity news and her ability to handicap the Academy Awards. She first came
to public attention in the late 1970s as a reporter and editor for Page Six,
the well-thumbed column of The New York Post. In the early ’80s, she wrote a
gossip column, “I, Claudia,” for The Daily News of New York. In recent years,
Ms. Cohen was a regular correspondent, covering entertainment, for the
syndicated talk show “Live With Regis and Kelly” and its predecessor, “Live
With Regis and Kathie Lee.” She was previously an entertainment reporter for
“The Morning Show” on WABC-TV. Claudia Lynn Cohen was born in Englewood, N.J.
Her father, Robert, was president of the Hudson County News Company, a major
distributor of newspapers and magazines. Ms. Cohen earned a bachelor’s degree
in communications from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972 and afterward was
on the staff of More, a progressive journalism review. She joined Page
Six as a reporter in 1977, serving as its editor from 1978 to 1980. In 1985, with her marriage
to Mr. Perelman, now the chairman of Revlon, Ms. Cohen became a boldface name
herself. (Their union was Ms. Cohen’s only marriage; she was Mr. Perelman’s
second wife of four.) The couple were frequent guests at glittering parties and
charity events in New York and the Hamptons, and Ms. Cohen was considered a crucial
person to know if anybody who was somebody wanted to become even more of a
somebody. The public scrutiny of Ms. Cohen’s private life only intensified with
her divorce from Mr. Perelman in 1994. As was widely reported, she received an
out-of-court settlement of $80 million. After her divorce from Mr. Perelman,
Ms. Cohen, a Democrat, was romantically involved for about a year with Senator
Alfonse M. D’Amato, Republican of New York. In early 1995, at the start of the
relationship, Senator D’Amato called a press conference to announce that he was
in love. He was, according to news reports at the time, the first senator in
the history of the United States to do so. (As reported by Margalit Fox.)
2008: The Sunday New York
Times book sections features reviews of Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art by Simon
Louvish and Audition: A Memoir,
the autobiography of Barbara
Walters. How “Jewish” is the movie maker whose father is lay leader in the
Episcopal Church and whose mother is a Sephardic Jew who converted? How Jewish is a television personality whose
parents were both Jewish but who observed no Jewish ritual growing up and loves
having a Christmas tree in her home?
2008: The Washington Post features books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors,
Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial
Crisis by Roger Lowenstein
2008: Stephan
Grayek, one of the last survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising who passed away
at the age of 92 was buried at the Herzliya Cemetery today. He is survived by
his daughter, Ora, his son, Yitzhak, grandchildren and a great granddaughter. During
the Nazi era Grayek took advantage of his Aryan features to move with relative
ease in and out of the ghetto, fighting against the Nazis with both Jews and
Poles. Grayek's wartime exploits were recorded in his book, “Shelosha Yemin
Krav” (“Three Days of Battle”). Eli
Zborowski, chairman of the American and International Societies for Yad Vashem
and vice president of the World Federation of Polish Jews, wrote in a
condolence notice in the Hebrew press that he had lost his mentor and close
friend. He referred to Grayek as the "commander and hero of the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising, and worldwide leader of Holocaust survivors." Grayek, who
was the founder of the World Organization of Partisans, Underground Fighters,
Ghetto Rebels and Camp
Inmates Poland Auschwitz and against the establishment of a Catholic
convent there. He declared in 1989 that no convent would go up in the largest
Jewish graveyard in the world. In a Jerusalem Post interview 20 years
ago, Grayek was asked why he had not experienced the trauma so common among
many Holocaust survivors. He answered: "Perhaps, because like other people
in the resistance, I fought back."
2008: The Jewish Film Festival in Croatia
2009: Defense Minister Ehud Barak
reportedly told French officials in Paris today that the Israel has “a secret
accord” with the United States to maintain “natural growth” of settlements in
the West Bank.
2009: Israeli artist Irit Zohar, whose
work has been exhibited at the Tel-Aviv Museum (Meirovich section) and
countless other galleries, debuts in America at the Historic Sixth and “I”
Street Synagogue with Painting in Action, a series of large, powerful,
energetic works deeply influenced by her spirituality.
2010: Mark
Russ Federman (Herring Maven Emeritus) is scheduled to his share herring tales
at the Russ & Daughters Herring Pairing at New York’s Astor, an event
designed to celebrate the New Catch Holland Herring and the wonders of many
different herrings
2010 “The Biennial Scholars' Conference
on American Jewish History,” a meeting organized by the Academic Council of the
American Jewish Historical Society, which will examine the notion of American
Jewish "exceptionalism," or uniqueness, the has shaped conceptions of American Jewish
history from its beginning is scheduled to open in New York City.
2011:
The Leo Baeck Institute is scheduled to present a program entitled “Mahler
& Radical Departures”, featuring the works of Mahler, Korngold and
Schoenberg, three composers who are a representative of “German and Austrian
musicians of Jewish descent who arrived in this country and transformed the
American musical landscape.” The works of German-Jewish composer Mauricio Kagel
are also scheduled to be performed.
2011: THE
BIG JEWCY, sponsored by Jewcy.com, is scheduled to take place in Brooklyn, New
York.
2011:
At the Jewish Museum of Milwaukee, archivist Jay Hyland is scheduled to present
a program entitled ‘Archival Exploration: WWII Edition' that will provide a
first hand look at artifacts and documents from the JMM's collection connected
with WWII. This program is a 'teaser' for the 'WWII Historical Encampment
Reenactment' scheduled to be later this month.
2011: A
Used Book Sale is scheduled to begin today in San Diego, CA, to benefit the Samuel & Rebecca Astor Judaica
Library.
2012:
In Washington, DC, The Hadassah Attorney’s Council is scheduled to host a
luncheon event where Judith Barnet “will speak with us about her decades of
experience assisting companies to grow their business in the Middle Eastern and
North African marketplace.”
2012: Funeral services are scheduled to take place this morning for Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz who was the spiritual leader of Adas Israel for over a quarter of a century. While much has been written about his stature as a “Washington Rabbi” for us he was simply the Rabbi. Rabbi Rabinowitz arrived in the summer of 1960. My father had been on the search committee that brought him from Minneapolis. My brother was his first Bar Mitzvah. That Shabbat Nachamu service may have been Rabbi Rabinoiwtiz’s first Saturday morning service. I was in the first newly instituted post-Confirmation class which he taught. I remember him trying to explain to a group of adolescents what a Reconstructionist Jew was. It wasn’t about ritual; he wanted us to see that it was about the poetry of the soul. [Excuse the personal comments, but history is a story and even for the great and near-great it is still a story about individual persons and the lives they touch]
2012:
Rabbi Ariel Stone the spiritual leader of Portland, Oregon’s Shir Tikvah, author
of Because All Is One and the daughter-in-law of Cedar Rapids community
leader Joan Thaler, is scheduled to deliver the sermon at Temple Judah this
evening.
Copyright; June, 2012; Mitchell A. Levin melech3@mchsi.com
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