JUNE 25 In Jewish History
1218:
Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, who expelled the Jews from Leicester,
died.
1221
Although the Archbishop of Canterbury forbade anti-Jewish riots in Erfurt,
Germany, they continued unabated. A group of religious 'pilgrims' on their way
to the Holy Land attacked the Jewish quarter
burning two synagogues. Some 26 Jews were killed and others threw themselves
into the fire rather then be forcibly converted.
1240: In Paris, a commission that was making an inquiry
into the nature of the Talmud with a specific interest into alleged derogatory
comments about Jesus began its deliberation.
1477: At Ferrara, Italy, Abraham die Tintori completed
printing Tur Yorch De’ah a work of halacha by Jacob ben Asher. Born in Cologne
in 1269 he was known as the Ba’al ha-Turim, the Master of the Rows. His works
were divided in four turim or rows. The
term probably comes from the tur or row of Jewels on the breastplate of the
High Priest described in the Torah.
According to sketchy information
he lived in Chios, Greece before arriving at Toledo where he reportedlypassed
away in 1343.
1629: Rabbi Yom Tov Lipman Heller set out for
Vienna to face baseless accusations that he had abused his powers as Chief
Rabbi of Prague when raising funds demanded by the government to help pay for
fighting the Thirty Years War.
1644:
Lope de Vera (Judah
1656:
Rabbi Menashe Ben Yisrael applied for official permission to practice Judaism
in England England
1756:
Provincial Governor Sir Charles Hardy confirms the last will and testament of
Abraham Mendes Seixas. The will had been translated from Portuguese into
English.
1784:
The Jewish Benevolent Society of South Carolina, the oldest Jewish charitable
organization in the United States, was founded today.
1788: Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution making it the tenth state to enter the Union.
1846(1st
of Tammuz, 5605): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1851:
Adolphus Simeon
Solomons who “was a moving force in helping to establish the American Red
Cross” “married Rachel Seixas Phillips, a descendant of colonial patriot
families. They had eight daughters and a son.”
1856:
An article entitled “The Way they treat the Jew in England” reports that “The
statesman who undertakes in England to bring forward a measure for the
admission of the Jews to the same rights and privileges enjoyed by other
citizens of that country, simply dooms himself to the Sisyphean labor of
rolling up each year to the House of Lords a measure which is quietly rolled
hack again.”
1858:
An article published today entitled “The Jew Bill in Parliament – Prospect of a
Concession” spoke approvingly of a compromise proposed by Lord Lucan. His compromise would allow the Lords and the
Commons to each adopt their own wording for the Oath of Office to be used by
those members who, for religious or other reasons, could not use the current
form of the oath. In effect, Lord Lucan’s compromise would permit either the
two Houses of Parliament to admit Jews by resolution. Since the Commons favors the admission of
Jews and the Lords opposes their right to sit in Parliament, Lucan’s compromise
would get the supporters of the “Jew Bill” half way to their destination. The compromise was withdrawn because the
members of the Commons objected to it.
If they had not, it appears that sufficient numbers of the Lords would
have voted for it even though they object to Jews serving in either house of
the English legislature.
1870:
Birthdate of Helena Rubinstein, one of the creators of the American cosmetics
industry.
1871:
The Jewish Messenger complained that
while there were a number of wealthy Jews in America who were “good men and
true” they seemed to be more interested in making money than they were in
taking part in projects to promote the civic good. The Messenger compared the behavior of the
Americans with that of their European counter-parts who were “prominent in all
public matter – whether to relieve the poor or honor the rich; to rect a statue
to the living or a monument to the dead.”
1875: In Gutenberg, Germany, Isidor Straus
and Rosalie Ida Blun gave birth to Jesse Isidor Straus, scion of the famous
Straus department store family who served as FDR’s first Ambassador to France
in 1933.
1875: According to a report
published today there are more Jews living in London today than living in
Palestine.
1875: The Jewish
Messenger lamented the lack of involvement by “Israelite” men in the affairs of
the community, especially when it came to better of civic activity and attempts
to improve the lot of the less fortunate.
The paper feels that Jewish men are “good men and true” who are willing
to contribute their money to worthy causes.
But they are apparently are too busy amassing wealth to give of
themselves and their time. This is the
opposite of the case in Europe where wealthy Jews give both their time and
money to causes that benefit both the Jewish community and the general society
as well.
1876: The Home and Foreign Events column published today
reported that "nine Jewish ministers of this City have united to call
the attention of their people to the 'growing evil or extravagance and displays
at funerals." They suggest a return 'the simplicity by which Jewish
funerals were formerly characterized,' and that costly caskets and expensive
floral displays be dispensed with.
1876:, George Geiger, a Jewish Sergeant from Cincinnati
fought with distinction at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. According to the commendation he received for
the Medal of Honor. "With 3 comrades during the entire engagement
courageously held a position that secured water for the command"
1876: It was reported today that "The Jews of Khiva, it is said, observe very strictly the feasts and ceremonies of the Jewish religion." [Khiva is a city in Uzbekistan.]
1883:
Mayor Nathan Barnet got into a scuffle with a Republican Alderman at tonight’s
meeting of the Aldermanic License Committee in Paterson, NJ. Barnet, a Jew born
in Pozen is a Democrat won election in April of 1883.
1884:
“Jew-Baiting in Russia” published today described an attack by Christians on
the Jews of Nizhnee-Novogrod after reports that a Jew had kidnapped a Christian
child and taken it to the local synagogue. An untold number of Jews were
injured in this latest version of the blood libel and nine were murdered.
1886: The Sanitarium for Hebrew Children is collecting funds to provide poor children and their mothers with summer day trips out of New York City. Contributions can be sent to John J. Davis at the office of the Hebrew Journal on East 14th Street.
1888:
“Jew and Catholic United” published today described the marriage of Joseph J.
Herrmann (Catholic) and Bertha Cahn (Jewish) in New Orleans. Rabbi Emile Hirsch of Chicago performed the
ceremony since the rabbis in the Crescent City refused to do so.
1888:
It was reported today that Orphan Asylum of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
Society is caring for 575 youngsters, 400 of whom are boys and 175 are
girls. The boys are housed at building
on 11th Avenue while the girls are housed at a building on 87th
Street near the East River.
1894:
Annie
Cohen Kopchovsky’s, known as Annie Londonderry, adventure began with a bet. In 1894,
a gentleman in Boston Boston
1897:
Rabbi Isaac Ruff wrote "Declaration versus Declaration" which appeared in today’s
issue of Die Welt. This was defense of Herzl who had been attacked by the
anti-Zionist “Protest Rabbis.”
1899:
In London Palestine
1900:
Birthdate of Moses Hadas, an American teacher, one of the leading classical
scholars of the twentieth century, and a translator of numerous works. Raised
in Atlanta in a Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jewish household, his early studies
included rabbinical training; he graduated from Jewish Theological Seminary of
America (1926) and took his doctorate in classics in 1930. He was fluent in
Yiddish, German, ancient Hebrew, ancient Greek, Latin, French, and Italian, and
well-versed in other languages. His most productive years were spent at
Columbia University, where he was a colleague of Jacques Barzun and Lionel
Trilling. There, he took his talent for languages, combined it with a
popularizing impulse, to buck the prevailing classical methods of the
day—textual criticism and grammar—presenting classics, even in translation, as
worthy of study as literary works in their own right. This approach may be
compared to the New Criticism school: even as the New Critics emphasized close
reading, eschewing outside sources and cumbersome apparatus, Hadas, in
presenting classical works in translation to an influx of post-war G.I. Bill
students, brought forth an appreciation of his domain for those without the
specialized training of classicists. His popularizing impulse led him to embrace
television as a tool for education, becoming a telelecturer and a pundit on
broadcast television. He also recorded classical works on phonograph and tape. His
daughter Rachel Hadas is a poet, teacher, essayist, and translator. He passed
away in 1966.
1903: Birthdate of English author and social
commentator George Orwell. Orwell is
best known for such works as “1984” and “Animal Farm.” A lesser known work is his essay entitled “Anti-Semitism
in Britain Britain
1903(30th
of Sivan, 5663): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1911:
Birthdate of biochemist William Stein. Stein won the Nobel Prize for
Chemistry in 1972. Jews have won 18% of the Nobel Prizes for Chemistry.
Stein died at the age of 68 in 1980.
1912: Birthdate of “Arnold Forster, an
American Jewish leader, lawyer and writer who was a longtime executive of the
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith.”
1913:
In Cincinnati, Ohio, officers are elected at the American Zionists’ convention
including Harry Friedenwald of Baltimore who is chosen to serve as Honorary
President and Louis Lipsky who is chosen to serve as Chairman of the Executive
Committee.
1915(13th
of Tamuz, 5675): Hungarian born American pianist and composer Rafael Joseffy
passed away.
1915:
“In a long statement seeking to justify the use of asphyxiating gases in
war-fare, the semi-official Wolff Telegraph Bureau assert in German
newspaper…that the Allies first used such gases against the German.” According to Wolff, the French had authorized
use gas in February of 1915. [Like so many other agencies of this type, its
ownership had Jewish origins.]
1917: The Italian government publishes a decree assuring that all 10,000 Lire ($2,000) of a bequest from Emilio Treves will be awarded as a prize upon publication of an Italian language manuscript to combat anti-Semitism.
1919: The first national
conference of the Religious Zionist Organization, Mizrachi, opens.
1920:
Birthdate of William H. Prusoff, a pharmacologist at the Yale School of
Medicine who, with a colleague, developed an effective component in the first
generation of drug cocktails used to treat AIDS,
1921:
Authorities in Syria
1924:
In Philadelphia, PA, Polish born actor Baruch Lumet and Mrs. Lumet gave birth
to Director Sidney Lumet best known for the film Dog Day Afternoon
1928:
Birthdate of Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian born physicist who now also
holds American citizenship. He was a
co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2003.
1929:
Birthdate of Thomas Eisner, “a groundbreaking authority on insects whose
research revealed the complex chemistry that they use to repel predators,
attract mates and protect their young,
Thomas
Eisner, a groundbreaking authority on insects whose research revealed the
complex chemistry that they use to repel predators, attract mates and protect
their young,”
1930:
Birthdate of Hugo Gabriel Gryn, the Czech born survivor of Auschwitz who served
as the Rabbi at West London Synagogue.
1932(21st
of Sivan, 5692): Herbert
Bentwich passed away in Jerusalem. Born in 1856, at Whitechapel, he was a
British Zionist leader and lawyer. “He was an authority on copyright law, and
owner/editor of the Law Journal for many years. He was a leading member of the
English Hovevei Zion and one of the first followers of Theodor Herzl in
England. In 1897 Bentwich he led a group of 21, including the writer Israel
Zangwill, on a tour of holy sites and new settlements in Palestine on behalf of
the Maccabaeans, and in 1911 he acquired land for settlement at Gezer, near
Ramleh on behalf of the Maccabean Land Company. He later succeeded his
brother-in-law Solomon J. Solomon as president of the Maccabaeans. Bentwich was
a founder of the British Zionist Federation in 1899 and for some time served as
its vice-chairman. He was a legal adviser for the Jewish Colonial Trust. From
1916 to 1918 he served on the Zionist political advisory committee under Chaim
Weizmann. Bentwich was a regular visitor to Palestine after 1921 and settled in
Jerusalem in late 1929. Susannah Bentwich died in London in 1915. He was
survived by ten of his eleven children, eight of whom eventually settled
permanently in Palestine. His eldest son, Norman Bentwich, a leading barrister,
also spent much of his professional life there, and another son, Joseph
Bentwich, was awarded the Israel Prize, for education, in 1962.”
1933:
Outfielder Milt Galatzer made his major league debut with the Cleveland
Indians.
1935: Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera at
Yankee Stadium. Neither of the fighters
was Jewish. But Joe Louis’ manager Mike
Jacobs was Jewish. It was under his
guidance that Louis broke the “color barrier” and got his shot at being Heavy
Weight Champion of the World.
1936: The Palestine Post reported that Haim Golowitzky,
one of the founders of Atarot who was on his way to milk cows, was shot dead by
Arab snipers, just outside his cowshed. Passengers in a Jewish bus in Haifa April
19, 19 36
1938: As Arab violence flared, “a gain of terrorist entered a
hospital in Haifa seeking a wounded Arab ‘traitor’ who was a patient
there.” When they could not find him,
“they killed another Arab patient. “A manifesto issued today by the Tel Aviv
municipality called on Jews to remain calm and not resort to violence.
1938: Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the U.S. adopts a
minimum wage which is set at $.40 an hour. Sidney Hillman, head of the
“Amalgamated” and advisor to FDR played a key role in drafting and gaining
support for this landmark legislation.
1938: German-Jewish doctors are allowed to
treat only Jewish patients.
1940:
France formally surrenders to Nazi
Germany.
1940:
As Churchill works to transfer the eleven battalions of Regular British troops
from Palestine England British Isles
against the pending Nazi invasion, he writes to the Secretary of State for
Colonies, Lord Lloyd, asking “what weapons and organization the Jews have for
self-defense.” Churchill wants to arm
the Jews so they can protect themselves against Arab attackers. Lloyd opposes the arming of the Jews and
would rather have the British troops remain.
1941:
“President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8802 prohibiting
government contractors from engaging in employment discrimination based on
race, color or national origin. This order is the first presidential action
ever taken to prevent employment discrimination by private employers holding
government contracts. The Executive Order applies to all defense contractors,
but contains no enforcement authority. President Roosevelt signs the Executive
Order primarily to ensure that there are no strikes or demonstrations
disrupting the manufacture of military supplies as the country prepares for
War.” By the standards of the 21st
century, this action might seem “weak.”
But it gives us an idea of the level of bigotry which was sanctioned in
the society. At the time Roosevelt signed this order it was considered a major
step in the fight against prejudice.
1941: When 47-year-old Dr. Benjamin From, a
Jewish surgeon, refuses to break off an operation on a Christian woman at Lutsk , Ukraine
1941:
Many Jews were killed in a pogrom at Jassy ,
Romania Randolph Soviet Union , and even
before launching the anti-Soviet war on June 22, 1941 , a number of secret anti-Semitic measures
had been initiated in Romania 29 June, 1941 , Jews were
formed into columns and marched from Tatarasi, Pacurari, Sararie, and Nicolina
Streets to police headquarters. Most of the prisoners were men but among them
were also some women with children. Some were dressed, others were in their
night clothes many had been beaten and had bruises and open wounds. Civilian onlookers as well as soldiers and
gendarmes, Romanian and German spat at them and hit them with stones, broken
bottles, clubs, crowbars and rifle butts. Civilians joined the police and the
military in dragging Jews out of their homes. All told, thousands of Jews were
herded into the courtyard of the Jassy police headquarters. In another report,
addressed to the Minister of the Interior, Lieutenant-Colonel Chirlovici,
reported 1,000 Jewish prisoners at 9:00
a.m. and 5,000 by nightfall. He stated that at noon there were 3,500 Jews in the courtyard. At
about 1:30 PM German
soldiers and Romanian gendarmes and soldiers surrounded police headquarters and
an area close by. At about 2:00 p.m. ,
the German and Romanian soldiers began to fire directly into the crowds; they were
joined by some civilians. They used machine-guns, automatic weapons, or rifles.
Crazed with terror some Jews tore down the fence of the courtyard and tried to
take refuge near the Sidoli cinema ... They too were mowed down without mercy. The
massacre continued intermittently until 6:00
p.m. It is difficult to establish the number of victims of the
massacre at police headquarters. Four trucks and 24 carts transported the
corpses; it took two whole days to move them. Approximately 2,500 Jews survived
the massacre in the police headquarters courtyard. At about 8:00 p.m. the process of getting them to the
railroad station began. Two thousand five hundred Jews were herded were herded
into freight cars. The train left Jassy on June 30, 1941 between 3:30 and 4:15
a.m. At about 4:00 a.m.
the same morning, a second group of approximately 1,900 Jews to be evacuated
were rounded up at police headquarters. Two death trains left Jassy between 3:30 and 4:15 a.m. on Monday, June 30, 1941 . The first one ...
consisted of from 33 to 38 sealed freight cars and contained between 2,430 and
2,530 Jews. When the train was emptied there were 1,076 survivors.]The history
of the second car is ... equally horrifying. On June 30, 1941 at about 6:00 A.M. , 1,902 Jews were loaded onto a second
train comprising 18 cars. Of the 1,902 Jews put on the train, 1,194 died and
were buried in the Podul Iloaei cemetery. The total number of victims of the
Jassy pogrom cannot be established with certainty. While the number of victims
on the trains is known and relatively accurate, it is not known how many Jews
in Jassy were buried in communal graves, how many such graves there were, and
how many corpses were simply thrown onto garbage heaps or into the Bahlui
River. German diplomats estimated at least 4,000 victims... The most reliable
source seems to be documents from the archives of the Romanian Ministry of the
Interior which ... place the number at over 8,000."
1941
(30th of Sivan, 5701): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1941
(30th of Sivan, 5701): In the town of Luck, Poland, Dr. Benjamin From aged
forty-seven refused to stop his operation, so he was dragged out of operating
room, taken to his home and killed with his entire family.
1941
(30th of Sivan, 5701): In Jedwabne, Poland, local Polish citizenry begin a
pogrom aimed at the Jews living in the town.
1942: An article in the London Daily
Telegraph reports, "More than 700,000 Polish Jews have been
slaughtered by the Germans in the greatest massacres in the world's
history."
1943:
Crematorium III at Auschwitz begins operation. Also, Otto Ben, from the Foreign
Ministry reports that the “100,000th Jews has been removed from
Dutch Society.”
1943:
The Germans began the final destruction of the people living in the Czestochowa
Ghetto. The Jews put up armed resistance in a series of bunkers. Czestochowa Poland
1945:
Birthdate of singer and songwriter Carley Simon who recorded “You’re So Vain”
among other hits
1947:
The Diary of Anne Frank
is published.
1948:
Birthdate of Brooklyn-born actor and television director Michael Lembeck
1950: Birthdate of Israeli actress Nitza Saul.
1950:
The beginning of the Korean War, with
the invasion of the South by the North. Jews fought in the Korean War just as
they had in every war since the call to arms went out in 1775. See http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/sugar10.html for a partial list
of those who served. In an article entitled “Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in
North Korea, 1951, Remembered,” Warren Zundell, MD (Captain, 11th Evacuation
Hospital SMBL, 10th Corp. 8th Army, Korea) provides us with a glimpse of what
it was like during what some derisively called a “police action.”
These evenings occurred years ago, but every Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur, they return as vividly as if they happened last
year.In May, 1951, my hospital unit was transported from Sasebo, Japan to Pusan,
Korea. I was on the Orthopedic Surgery Team. Five months later, on the day
before Rosh Hashanah, our hospital Chaplain (a Catholic priest), asked me if I
was planning to attend services the next day, being conducted some 40 or 50
miles north of our location, just over the 36th parallel, in North Korea. We
were in Wonju, South Korea. I knew the Rabbi who was to conduct the services,
as he would visit our hospital from time to time. Knowing this would be a 40 or
50 mile trek through sniper-infested mountains, I answered negatively, even
though I knew that the Rabbi might be disappointed. The following conversation
then ensued:
Chaplain: You have to go.
Me: Why do I have to go?
Chaplain: There are about 30 Jewish boys around here who
want to go.
Me: So let them go.
Chaplain: An Officer has to go to be in charge of the
convoy.
Me: Why me? I am a Doctor.
Chaplain: You are the only Jewish Officer in this
hospital, so you go. He was a Major, I was a Captain. I think he was giving me
a direct order. He then informed me that he would lend me his jeep in which to
head the convoy of trucks. It had a big white cross on the front hood, which he
implied would protect us from sniper fire. He didn’t say anything about land
mines. That afternoon we assembled the convoy and headed North. It may have
been the first all-Jewish convoy in the history of Korea. As Jews, we were not
fully convinced that the white cross would totally protect us from sniper fire.
We were therefore well-armed. A few uneventful hours later we crossed the 38th
parallel into North Korea. We were making Jewish history. Soon we checked into
10th Corp. HW. The Rabbi (Major Meir Engle) seemed happy to see us. The next
day was Rosh Hashanah. We had a big tent in which to hold services. There were
about 300 Jewish boys attending, including my 30. I was proud to be there.
After services we reassembled our convoy and returned to our hospital, without
incident. When Yom Kippur came, I was called upon by the Chaplain again. I
didn’t want to push my luck, with a baby daughter back home whom I had never
seen. Nevertheless, I soon found myself in the same Jewish convoy. But between
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, there had been heavy fighting on the 10th Corp.
Front. Instead of 300 Jewish boys attending Yom Kippur services, there were
less than 150. Korea is now referred to as the "Forgotten War". What
it really means is that this country has literally forgotten the more than
34,000 Americans who died there, including those Jewish boys who died between
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in the year 1951."
Korea also presented
the newly independent state of Israel with one of its first great foreign
policy challenges not directly related to the Middle East or its own immediate
survival. Israel’s shifting policy, as
described below, demonstrated how quickly conflict in the Middle East and
conflict in the Far East were joined together because of the Cold War. The shift also resulted, in part, from the
Soviet Union’s change of policy towards Israel.
Stalin’s smile quickly turned sour, while Harry Truman’s never did. “Israel's foreign policy underwent a change during the
Korean War. In the first two years after its establishment, Israel maintained a
stance of nonalignment. However, it became clear from the anti-Jewish attitude
of the Communist bloc and especially Joseph Stalin that strengthening relations
with the United States was the only way to safeguard Israel's continued
existence and long-term interests. Both Israel's foreign and domestic policy
during the Korean War reflected a growing U.S. influence, which has only
deepened with time. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion went one step further
during the Korean War when he suggested that an Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
unit be sent to join the UN forces fighting North Korea and the Chinese
volunteers. A debate broke out in Israel over whether it should provide support
to U.S. and UN policies given that Washington had made no such request. The
leading opponent of sending an IDF unit was the political party Mapam, which
was part of the governing coalition and openly favored North Korea. With the
Achdut Ha'Avoda party, another member of the coalition, also against the
measure, the government decided to limit its assistance to medical aid and food
shipments. In addition, Israel lent political support during the UN
deliberations on whether its troops should cross the 38th parallel northward.
In February 1951, the UN General Assembly condemned China as the aggressor and
placed a boycott on certain strategic supplies to China. Here, too, Israel
continued to side with the United States, the United Nations, and South Korea,
though formal diplomatic ties with the latter were still more than a decade
away. From the 1951 ideological debate between the Israeli parties until 1960,
there were no initiatives on the question of relations with South Korea.”
1950:
Israeli airline El Al began service. Anybody who has ever flown El Al to Israel
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that 20 lists of
parties were registered for the Second Knesset elections. Israel Switzerland
1952: A government spokesman reported that an Israeli army patrol
had shot three Arabs who were trying to enter Israel from Jordan.
1962: The U.S. Supreme Court decides that
non-denominational prayer allowed in New York States is an unconstitutional
violation of the separation of church and state.
1965:
When followed home from a meeting of Canadian Nazis,Henryk Van der Windt tells
the Toronto Star that he working under cover for the Canadian Jewish Congress
who had hired him to spy on Nazi leader John Beattie. For more on this see “Delayed Impact” by
Frank Bialystok.
1968:
Herb Gray began serving as a Member of Parliament for Windsor West.
1972:
Sir Joshua Abraham Hassan began serving his second term as Chief Minister of
Gibraltar.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that
Foreign Minister Yigal Allon and his West German counterpart, Hans Genscher,
signed in Bonn Israel
1979(30th
of Sivan, 5739): Rosh Chodesh Tammuza
1987:
Pope John Paul II received Austrian President Kurt Waldheim at the Vatican
1988: Israeli-born, American musician Hillel
Slovak, the original guitarist with Red Hot Chili Peppers, passed away.
1990:
A disagreement
appeared to break out today among the leaders of Israel's new Government over
whether Soviet Jewish immigrants would be settled in the occupied territories.
The dispute adds further confusion to Housing Minister Ariel Sharon's statement
that the migrants would not be settled in occupied land. Immigration officials
said they had been notified of no policy change. They said Soviet immigrants
who chose to live in the West Bank or Gaza Strip would still be permitted to
move there and would be given Government money to subsidize living expenses,
just as if the immigrant had chosen to live inside Israel. Mr. Sharon, a
longtime and ardent proponent of increased Jewish settlement, said that ''due
to the problems we have,'' immigrants would not be settled in the occupied West
Bank and Gaza Strip. ''We will not send any Jew who comes from Russia to Judea,
Samaria or to Gaza because we understand the seriousness of the situation,'' he
said, using the biblical names for the West Bank.
1998:
Pitcher Mike Saipe made his major league debut with the Colorado Rockies.
2000: The
New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including A
Little Too Close to God: The Thrills and Panic of a Life in Israel by David Horovitz and Life So Far by Betty Friedan.
2006: The
New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Bronfamns: The Rise and Fall of the House of Seagram by Nicholas Faith
and Failed States by Noah Chomsky.
2006: In an
article entitled “The Killing after the Killing” Elie Weisel reviews of Fear: Anti-Semitism in
Poland After Auschwitz by
Jan T. Gross.
2006: IDF Corporal Galid Shalit is kidnapped by Hamas terrorists. An armed
squad of Palestinians terrorists from
the Gaza Strip crossed the border into Israel via a 300-meter-long underground
tunnel they dug near the Kerem Shalom border crossing. One group of militants
blasted the rear door of a Merkava III tank open with a rocket-propelled
grenade shell. The tank commander and the driver were killed when they
evacuated the burning tank. The tank’s gunner, Gilad Shalit, was only lightly
wounded and taken prisoner by the militants. A fourth member on the tank crew
was injured in the incident and escaped.[
2007: In
the newly minted Israel Baseball League, four teams debut with Netanya Tigers
vs. Bet Shemesh Blue Sox at Kibbutz Gezer Field and Ra'anana Express vs. Tel
Aviv Lightning at Sportek in Tel Aviv.
2007: The Israel Museum Jerusalem
2008:
The Jerusalem
Kabbala Museum
2008: In an article in The New Republic entitled “Genes and Identities,” Jerome Groopman
reviews Jacobs’s Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History by David Goldstein.
2008: In Kensington, Maryland, Poet Gretchen Primack, who “lives in the
delightfully Jewish feminist-rich Hudson Valley” reads from her new work The Slow Creaking of Planets as part of the poetry
series at the Kensington Row Bookshop.
2008: In Jerusalem 8 p.m. , the Bridge of Strings Calatrava
Bridge NIS
2009:
In Des Moines, Iowa, AIPAC hosts The 2009 Iowa Annual Event featuring Aharon
Barnea . Anchorman and Senior Correspondent in the USA,
Channel 2 TV News, Israel with a Special Address by Krista Allen AIPAC Campus
Liaison at Louisiana State University who will describe her recent maiden visit
to Israel and how a Catholic student from Louisiana became engaged as a
pro-Israel political activist
2009:
The Montreal International Yiddish Theater Festival comes
to a close.
2009: The opening day of G'day Shalom Salaam Israel, presented by the Australia Israel Cultural Exchange, floods the Jewish state with the flavor of Australia.
2009:
New York City police arrested two youth who
vandalized two Lower East Side synagogues on Thursday with eggs, smoke bombs,
and swastikas. The teenagers, a 15-year old Asian and a 16-year old black, drew
a large swastika on the United Hebrew Center on East Broadway. The two then set off a smoke bomb before
heading to the Bialystoker synagogue on Willet Street, where they drew a second
swastika and through eggs at the building. The attacks occurred only a few days
after eight Jewish children were injured in Williamsburg, Brooklyn after a
resident of a Latino block across the street threw a bottle with dangerous
chemicals at them. That attack is not officially categorized as a bias crime,
however. Police plan on charging the Lower East Side vandals with the hate
crimes of aggravated harassment, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment.
“This is a desecration of G-d, no matter what your religion,” said New York
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who attends the Bialystoker synagogue. “It is
just a despicable act that really should tug at the heartstrings of all of us.”
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that the Civil Rights Bureau would
open an investigation into the crime calling it “outrageous and deeply
disturbing.”
2009 (3rd Tammuz): Third of Tammuz
marks the Rebbe’s Yahrzeit. “The day of passing of a holy tzadik is an
auspicious day to reflect and bond with the tzadik’s soul by studying from his
teachings as well as to ask the soul to intercede on High on our behalf,
especially as it ascends even higher on his Yahrzeit.” click here to read more about the anniversary of the Rebbe's passing .
2010:
Mark Ethan is scheduled to lead a discussion at the 92nd St Y
following a screening of “A Man For All Seasons.”
2011: Fifth
anniversary of the kidnapping of Galid Shalit.
2011:
Jewish comedian
and actress Sarah Silverman is scheduled to perform a night of stand-up comedy
in Tel Aviv
2011: The National Yiddish
Theatre is scheduled to present a performance of “The Adventures of Hershele
Ostropoyler.”
2011: For the second
time in two day, oil spills tainted the waters off of Eilat. Today’s spill was caused by a Turkish-owned Panamanian
ship, while the source of Friday’s remains unknown, but it is suspected to have
come from the same source, the Environmental Protection Ministry said today. Yesterday’s spill of light fuel oil
was discovered in the Coral Beach area, located between the Tur-Yam Marina and
the border of the protected coral reserve, while Saturday’s leakage was
pinpointed as emanating from a ship docked in the port of Eilat, which was
carrying the Panamanian flag, but under Turkish ownership, according to the
ministry.The ship was detained and investigated by the Environmental Protection
Ministry’s Marine and Coastal Environment Division, a statement from the
ministry said. Workers from the ministry’s Marine Pollution Prevention Station
in Eilat joined members of the Nature and Parks Authority – as well as
volunteers from the Eilat Field School and others from the Eilat-Eilot region –
to stop yesterday’s spill using a special device owned by the ministry. The
mess was cleaned by yesterday afternoon and contamination amounted to about
five tons of light fuel oil. According to the statement, 20 barrels of oil and
another six cubic meters worth of absorptive materials were pumped out. Today’s
spill was treated by the same collaborative team, and by the time of
publication had extracted an estimated five tons of oil from the leak, but the
extraction was ongoing, according to the ministry. An assessment of the
situation would continue until late in the evening, a statement said, until the
situation returns to normal. In reaction to the spillages, MK Dov Henin
(Hadash), chairman of the Knesset’s Environment and Health Committee, lambasted
those opposed to the enactment of amendments to the 1952 Petroleum Law, which
would provide for protections against such oil crises, his spokesman said. “In
the current situation, an oil disaster in Israel is only a question of time,”
Henin said at a public hearing in Nahariya on Saturday. “During the
deliberations of the subcommittee on oil dangers in the Gulf of Eilat, we
discovered an alarming picture of neglect and an inability to cope."“Oil
drillings planned in the Mediterranean Sea bring with them new risks,” he continued.
“The Mediterranean cannot handle a disaster such as that of the Gulf of Mexico.
The obsolete Petroleum Law of 1952, which doesn’t include any environmental
protection measures whatsoever, is no longer suitable for Israel, and we must
repair it urgently and add the environmental protection measures that we have
proposed.”
2011: France's ambassador to Israel Christophe Bigot met on this afternoon
with the parents of captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit and presented them with a
letter in which French President Nicolas Sarkozy directly addressed Shalit. "Since
your kidnapping, I have taken it on myself to do everything to return you to
your family," Sarkozy wrote. "I repeated this commitment when I met with
your father at the Elysee Palace on June 10 and I repeat it now: France will
not abandon you to your fate and will continue to act, along with other bodies,
including those in the Arab world, so that this unjustified suffering comes to
an end." Shalit holds dual Israel and French citizenship. In the letter,
Sarkozy called on Hamas to release Shalit."It is time that those
responsible for your detention make a decision and end your intolerable and
outrageous imprisonment," Sarkozy wrote. Sarkozy called Shalit's
detainment a violation of international law."I cannot accept that you are
forbidden from simple communication with your relatives and from receiving
messages from them in return, as if a simple exchange of messages would be a
sign of weakness on the part of those who hold you," Sarkozy wrote.
"I urge those who are imprisoning you to immediately permit the Red Cross
to meet you and more than that to return you to freedom."Approximately 350
people gathered today to mark five years since Shalit was abducted by Hamas and
taken to Gaza. The event was held at an armored corps monument in the Eshkol
region of the western Negev. The protesters called on the government to accept
Hamas' terms for a prisoner swap. Shalit's family did not attend the rally, but Gilad's grandfather, Zvi
Shalit, sent a letter that was read out loud. "The people involved talk to
us from time to time, caress our heads, but my dear grandchild Gilad is still
rotting away in the Hamas cellars having done nothing wrong, like a common
criminal," he wrote. Zvi Shalit went on to write that Defense Minister
Ehud Barak told him he clearly supports the deal proposed by Hamas, "but
that (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu is opposed and cannot be persuaded
otherwise." He also criticized Netanyahu and said his inaction does more
damage to the nation's morale, especially young men about to enlist in the IDF,
than the damage done by releasing prisoners. "I fear Netanyahu is waiting
to hear, God forbid, that Gilad did not survive the conditions he was kept in,
so he could pay a lesser price for his return," he wrote. Also today
Hamas' Izedin al-Qassam armed wing said that Shalit would not be freed before
the release of Palestinian prisoners.Hamas gave reporters a videotape showing
two Israeli soldiers - Shalit and airman Ron Arad, who has been missing in
Lebanon for two decades."We swear that he (Shalit) won't see the light
before our prisoners do," read a sentence written in Arabic in the video. Hamas
is demanding that Israel free 1,000 Palestinians held in its jails in return
for releasing Shalit.
2011: Steve Sobroff resigned his management position with the Los Angeles
Dodger after Major League Baseball seized control of the club .
2011: Acclaimed British writer Howard Jacobson who won the prestigious
Man Booker Prize last year for his novel, “The Finkler Question,” which tackled
themes relating to anti-Semitism, Jewish identity and Israel, criticized fellow
novelist Alice Walker for her planned participation in the upcoming flotilla to
Gaza. [Editor’s note: A year later Walker would announce that she would not let
The Color Purple be translated into Hebrew.
2011(23rd of Tammuz, 5771): Eighty-year old Eugene H. Kummel,
who had led McCann Erikson Worlwide during a period of creativity that saw the
appearance of signature commercials for Coke and Miller Lite, passed away
today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
2012: At the Wiener Library in
London, Dr. Iris Groscheck is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “The Murder of
the Children of the Bullenhuser Damm: How a challenging history of the Shoah
can be told to young people” during which she will and discuss the challenges
of engaging school-age audiences with violent and disturbing historical events.
The Bullenhuser Damm Memorial is dedicated to the memory of 20
Jewish children and at least 28 adults who were hanged and who were subjected
to medical experiments in the Neuengamme concentration camp before being
murdered, to the 4 prisoners who cared for them, and to 24 unidentified Soviet
prisoners.
2012: Center
for Jewish History and Society for the History of the Czechoslovak Jews are
scheduled to present “Bratislava/Pressburg Returns to the Map of Jewish Europe”
a lecture by Dr.
Maroš Borský, Director of the Slovak Jewish Heritage Center in Bratislava
Copyright; June, 2012; Mitchell A. Levin melech3@mchsi.com
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