May 25
1085: Pope Gregory VI passed away. Gregory
opposed Henry IV, the Holy Roman Emperor who saw himself as a protector of the
Jews. Henry contended that the Jews, regardless of where they lived,
were his subjects. He granted them special dispensations and
exemptions in matters of trade and taxes.
1085: Alfonso VI of Castile took Toledo back from the
Moors. As Moslem Spain came under the control of increasingly intolerant
religious leaders, Jews and liberal Moslems found refuge in the tolerant world
of Christian Toledo. As many as 40,000 Jews are reported to have
fought in the armies of Alfonso against the Almoravides. Ironically,
there were thousands of Jews fighting with the Almoravides as well.
1096: Massacre of the Jews of Worms who took refuge in the
city's castle during the First Crusade. Simcha Bar Isaac haKohen was "torn
to bits" by Crusaders in a church for stabbing the bishop's nephew
while pretending to submit to compulsory baptism. (Editorial
comment: I’ll bet that scene is in not in any of the blockbuster hits about the
noble Crusaders and their noble Moslem opponents.)
1241: First attack on Jewish community of
Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany.
1261: The Papacy of Alexander IV, who brought the
Inquisition to France, ended today.
1490: In Toledo, 400 Judaizers and “many Hebrew books” were
burned “1t a great auto da fé “where a woman who wished to die as a Jewess
expired with the word "Adonai" on her lips.”
1648: Chmielnicki's pogroms, which resulted in the massacre
of more than 300,000 Jews, broke out. This slaughter took place in the
Ukraine. This was the worst slaughter of Jews until the Holocaust.
1710(5th of Iyar): Rabbi Benjamin Ozer of
Zolkiev, author of “Even ha-Ozer” passed away
1717: Johann Christian George Bodenschatz, the native of
Hof, Germany who “devoted his life to Jewish antiquities, and is said to have
made elaborate models of the Ark of Noah and of the Tabernacle in the
wilderness.”
1738(6th of Sivan, 5498): “Moshe Neta, the
son of Avi passed away today in Yablonov.
1741(10th of Sivan): Daniel Christian
Jabolonski, who printed the Talmud passed away in Berlin today.
1751: In London, Sarah Nunes Navaro and Aaron Nunez Cardozo
who were married in 1739 gave birth to Isaac Nunez Cardozo, the husband of
Sarah Hart with whom he had five children – Michael, Rachel, Abigail, Esther
and Judith.
1757(6th of Sivan, 5517): Shavuot
1757(6th of Sivan, 5517): Italian Rabbi and
Poet Jacob Daniel Olmo Ben Abraham passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_15085.html
1759: Judah Lob Ben Nathan Krysa, an 18th century
Frankist leader from Galacia “declared that the cross symbolized the "holy
trinity" spoken of in the Zohar, and the seal of the
Messiah.” Krysa also “asserted before the ecclesiastical dignitaries
that the Talmud prescribes the use of Christian blood. Like his master Jacob
Frank and most of the Frankists, Krysa” would later embrace Christianity.
1765(5th of Sivan, 5525): Parashat
Bamidbar; erev Shavuot
1768: Levi Sheftall and Sarah de la Motta, the parents of
Savannah native Rachel Sheftall were married today in St. Croix, Virgin
Islands, the homeland of the bride.
1769(18th of Iyar, 5529): Lag B’Omer
1772(22nd of Iyar): Rabbi Aaaron ben
Solomon Amarillo, author of “Penie Aharon” passed away.
1776(7th of Sivan, 5536): Second Day of Shavuot observed
for the first time during a meeting of the Second Continental Congress.
1779: In the United Kingdom, Jonathan Jones and the former
Catherine Phillips gave birth to Rachel Jones.
1784: Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
1787: Opening session of the Philadelphia Convention which
would become known as the Constitutional Convention because its fifty-five
delegates would write the U.S. Convention. While there were no Jewish delegates
at the Convention, the framers took action that had a profound effect on the
Jewish people that has lasted to the 21st century. Article VI
of the document states: “No religious test shall ever be required as a
qualification to any office or public trust under the United
States.” In other words, from the beginning of Jews, at least at the
federal level, were eligible to hold office. Lewis Charles Levin
would be the first Jew elected to Congress, winning election to the House of
Representatives in 1844.
1793(14th of Sivan, 5553): Parashat Nasso
1798: In St. Mary Axe, Raphael Raphael, and the former Ashe
Julia gave birth to Henry Raphael.
1800 :(1st day of Sivan, 5560): Rosh
Chodesh Sivan observed for the first time in the 19th century.
1812: Recommendation were passed today related to the
establishment of a charity to be known as the Free School for German
Jews which later became the Talmud Torah of the Great Synagogue.
1813: In Charleston, SC, Rebecca Philips and Isaiah Moses
gave birth to Sarah Moses the wife of Aaron Alexander whom she married in 1836
and with she had nine children.
1815: One day after she had passed away Leah bat was buried
today at the Brady Jewish Cemetery.
1817: Birthdate of Saul Solomon the native of St. Helena,
the leader of South Africa’s Liberal Party who is called the “Cape Disraeli”
because, like Benjamin Disraeli, he converted to Christianity. And
like Disraeli, he retained a sense of pride in his ethnic
origins. He passed away in 1892.
1820: In New York, David and Henriette Cromelien gave birth
to Washington Cromelin who is buried at Mikveh Israel Cemetery in Philadelphia.
1821: Influential 19th economist David
Ricardo the son of Anglo-Sephardic Jews who became a Unitarian when he married
Priscilla Anne Wilkinson voted for the abolition of the death penalty for
forgery.
1821: Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich began
serving as 1st State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire.
Metternich was an extremely complex character whose treatment of Jews depended
on the needs of the Austrian Empire. Thus he could favor rights for
Jews in Germany while opposing them for Jews in Austria. Henry Kissinger, the
first Jewish Secretary of State wrote his thesis on Metternich and eventually
published A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of
Peace, 1812-22
1822(5th of Sivan, 5582): Parashat
Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot observed as the Greeks wage war against the Ottomans for
their independence.
1822(5th of Sivan 5582:
Fifty-seven-year-old Miriam Marks, the daughter of Rachel Solomon and Levy
Marks who were married in 1764 and who was the wife of Benjamin Abraham Nones
whom she married in 1782 with whom she had 13 children passed away today in her
hometown of Philadelphia, PA.
1826(18th of Iyar, 5586): Lag B’Omer
1826: Bavarian Lewis Eisenmann, “took out his first papers”
– a step to becoming a citizen of the United States.
1826: Uri Feivel ben David married Blumah bat Samuel today
at the Western Synagogue.
1827: One day after he had passed away, Prague native
Reuben Lyon was buried today at the Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1827: In the Hague, Mozes Abraham Verveer, and Saartje
Isaac van der Velden gave birth to Benjamin Moses Verveer, the husband of Clara
de Bok
1831: In Philadelphia, PA, Mary Levy Moss and Eleazer
(Eugene) Moss gave birth to philanthropist Lucien Moss “a machinist for the
firm of Morris & Taws, Philadelphia, for whom he superintended the erection
of sugar-mills in Porto Rico” and the founder firm of Wiler & Moss,
brass-workers who “left the bulk of his moderate fortune to the Jewish Hospital
Association of Philadelphia, for the founding and endowing of the Lucien Moss
Home for Incurables of the Jewish Faith.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11171-moss-lucien
1831: Henry Jones married Elizabeth Benjamin today at the
Great Synagogue.
1832(25th of Iyar): Rabbi Jacob Lorberbaum
of Lissa, author of “Netivot ha-Mishpat” passed away.
1833(7th of Sivan, 5593): Second day of
Shavuot
1838(1st of Sivan, 5598): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1839: Birthdate of Vienna native Yehuda Porges, who gained
famed as “Paris based financer” Jules Porgès and husband of Rose-Anne Wodianer
who played a major role in the development of diamond and gold mining in South
Africa
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jules_Porgès_at_Rochefort75.jpg
1839: "The British Vice-Counsel in Jerusalem, William
Tanner Young, wrote a report comparing the conditions of the Jews in Palestine
to that of their counterparts in Egypt. Young wrote that the Governor of
Egypt, Ibrahim Pasha, showed 'more consideration' for the Jews than the
Christians did. Young also wrote that he had heard several Egyptian Jews
acknowledge that 'they enjoy more peace and tranquility under this Government,
than they have ever enjoyed here before.' But he then observed that, in
contrast, 'the Jew in Jerusalem is not estimated in value much above a dog -
and scarcely a day passes that I do not hear of some act of tyranny and
oppression against a Jew.'" (In Ishmael's House by Martin
Gilbert)
1840: Philanthropist Farha (Hyeem) Sasson and David Sassoon,
a Jewish trader of cotton and opium in China who served as the Treasurer of
Baghdad from 1817 to 1829 gave birth to English banker Arthur Abraham David Sassoon,
the husband of Eugenie Louise Pergui whom he married in 1872 and a personal
friend of the Prince of Wales aka King Edward VII whose fortune exceeded
£650,000 whose memory is “commemorated by four stained glass windows in the
Middle Street Synagogue, Brighton.”
1841(5th of Sivan, 5601): Erev Shavuot
1842: Angel Haas married Elizabeth Cohen at the Great
Synagogue in London today
1843: In New York, Jonathan Nathan, the New York born son
of Isaac Mendes Seixas Nathan and Sarah Mendes Nathan and his wife Rebecca
Gratz Nathan gave birth to Gratz Nathan, the husband of Eudora M. Nathan and
father of Constance and Frank Henry Nathan.
1844(7th of Sivan, 5604): Second Day of
Shavuot
1844: In Schleswig-Holstein, Levi J. Unna and his wife gave
birth to Johanne M. Loeb the husband of Moritz Loeb who settled in show was she
was a director of Michael Reese Hospital and a member of the Relief Committee
of the Hebrew Charities.
1844: Today, during the reign of Louis Philippe, major
changes were made in the way members were chosen for the Jewish consistory
which Napoleon convened first as the Assembly of Jewish Notables and later as a
“Grand Sanhedrin.”
1845(18th of Iyar, 5605): Lag B’Omer
observed on the same day that “a theatre fire in Canton, China, kills 1,670.
1845: In New York City, Jane and Emanuel Boaz Pike gave
birth to Lipman Emanuel "Lip" Pike reportedly was the first Jewish
baseball player and the first baseball player to play the game for cash meaning
he was the first professional baseball who was the husband of Zila Pike with
whom he had three children – Boaz, Minnie and Emanuel.
1846: In Philadelphia, PA, Phillipa Minis and Edward
Johnson Etting gave birth to Theodore Minis Etting, \who served in the U.S.
Navy from 1862 until 1877 when he resigned to pursue a career as a lawyer a
civic leader that culminated in his election as member of the Select Council
while being Married to Jeanette Verplanck.
1849(4th of Sivan, 5609):
Fifty-three-year-old University Pennsylvania trained attorney Elijah Gratz
Etting, the Baltimore born son of Reuben Etting and the district attorney for
Cecil County in the state of Maryland, passed away today.
1852: In Chicago, fourteen Jews organized B’nai Sholom, the
second oldest congregation in the city.
1852: “Jewish Disabilities” published today began with the
sentence “No more accurate gauge for advancing civilization could probably be
chosen, than the political condition of the Jews” is worth reading in its
entirety for anybody seeking to understand the unique nature of the American
Jewish experience.
1854: Today during the second reading of the Jewish
Disabilities Bill sponsored by Lord Russell, Benjamin Disraeli voiced his
opposition to the measure. In part, Disraeli’s opposition was based
on a desire to divorce the bill, which is designed to allow Jewish MP’s to sit
in Parliament, from a move to provide full rights of citizenship to British
Roman Catholics.
1854: German author Paul Heyse arrived in Munich where he
had been appointed professor of Romance philology at the city’s
university. Heyse, who father was not Jewish and whose mother Julie
was the daughter of the Prussian court jeweler Jakob Salomon, is considered by
some to be the first Jew to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1854: In Gibraltar, Eliyahu Benoliel and Ester Baquis gave
birth to Solomon Benoliel the husband of Rachel Pariente.
1857: In Furth, Bavaria, “Jewish parents Gustav and
Babetter Neumann gave birth to Sir Sigismund Neumann, 1st Baronet, the husband of Anna Allegra, the daughter of
Jacques Hakkim with whom he had five children – Cecivl, Sybil, Rosie, Ella and
Guy -- and brother of fellow financier Ludwig Neumann who made “his
fortune in the Kimberly diamond mines” before moving on to Lond where among
other things he established in partnership
with Martin Luebeck, Neumann, Luebeck and Company (a commercial bank) and he was a member of Berkeley Synagogue
1858: In Vilna, Louis Cohen and his wife gave birth to
Rabbi Abraham Cohn who in 1902 began serving as the spiritual leader
of Congregation Ansche Israel in Newark, NJ.
1859: Birthdate of Russian native Isaiah Agat, who served
as the Rabbi at Chicago’s Congregation Moses Montefiore which had been founded
in 1875 and which during his tenure offered a three-day religious school and
looked to the Sisters of Moses Montefiore, as an Auxiliary Service to help with
congregational projects.
1859: In Philadelphia, PA, “David and Eva (Baum)
Blumenthal” gave birth to “Hart Blumenthal, a trustee of the Jewish Publication
Society, chairman of the Keneseth Israel Free Library and a noted collector of
Lincolniana” with his wife Ida Ratwitch raised Walter Hart Blumenthal, the
Clinton, IA native precocious enough to the University of
Pennsylvania at the age of 16 before going on to a career as an author.
http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/ead/ead.html?id=EAD_upenn_rbml_PUSpMsColl1104
1861(16th of Sivan 5621): Parashat
Beha’alotcha read as word reaches New York City that North Carolina has
officially adopted an ordinance of secession.
1862: It was reported today that in an anti-Slavery speech
Henry Ward Beecher deflated the argument that slavery was acceptable because it
was in the Bible when “he drew an amusing contrast between Hebrew and Southern
Slavery and carried his audience with him to the conclusion that the position
of the slave in the olden time, and slave brother of now-a-days, was somewhat
different.
1863: Birthdate of Parisian native and opera composer
Camille Erlanger.
1863(7th of Sivan, 5623): Second Day of
Shavuot
1863: In Kovno, Jehuda Zwie Finkelstein and his wife gave
birth to Simon I. Finelstein who served as rabbi at a several American
congregations including Congregation Bikur Cholim, Baltimore, Md., 1886-1890;
Beth T'flla, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1890-1897; and Poale Zedek, Syracuse, N. Y.,
1897-1902 and Congregation Ohave Sholom, Brooklyn NY
1865: Today the Jewish Messenger “published
an appreciation of Abraham Lincoln in Hebrew by Isaac Goldstein which began
with “Happy are thou, Lincoln, Who is like unto thee! Among Kings and princes
thou art exalted…”
1867: In “Libau Courland, Hyman and Sarah Maltinsky gave
birth to Samuel Maltinsky who in 1888 came to the United States where he went
from being a peddler to serving as the President and Treasurer of the Crescent
Jewelry Company in Pittsburgh, PA.
1867: In Chicago, Bennett and Minnie Lewish Aaron gave
birth to Max Aaron, the husband of Fannie Lehman Aaron who was buried at
Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago when he passed away in 1928 at the age of 61.
1867: In Odessa, Nathan Sanders and his wife gave birth to
Leon Sanders who was admitted to the New York bar in 1895, Married Bertha
Fisher in 1896 and served as Tammany Hall leader in a series of legislative
capacities before being elected “as justice of the Thirteenth District of the
Municipal Court of the City of New York.”
1868: The New York Times reviewed “The
Book of Genesis,” translated from the original Hebrew by Dr. T. J.
Conant. The translation is accompanied “with copious notes and an
introduction.”
1868: Birthdate of Polish native Dawid “David”
Markelowicz Janowski, the Jewish chess champion who settled in Paris in 1890
and won his first tournaments at Monte Carlo and Hanover..
https://www.chess.com/players/david-janowsky
https://www.chessgames.com/player/david_janowski.html?kpage=2
1868: In Camden, SC, Susan Hyams and Adolph Wittkowsky,
gave birth to University of South Carolina trained attorney and the husband of
Pauline Heyman with whom he had two children – George and Cecil – and City
Attorney for Camden who was president of the Hebrew Benevolent Association and
a member of the synagogue in Camden.
1869: Today Sidney Alroy Jonas, the Kentucky born son of
Louisa Block Jonas and Abraham Henry Jonas married Julia Jordan Jonas with whom
he had one child, Jahan Jonas who died in Mississippi three weeks after he was
born.
1870: In Hungary, Mayer Newman and his wife gave birth to Morris Newman who
served congregations in McKeesport and Scranton, PA before becoming the “Cantor
of the First Hungarian Congregation Agudath Achim” in Chicago.
1870: At 3 o'clock this afternoon the cornerstone of the
Mount Sinai Hospital was laid at the corner of Sixty-sixth street and
Lexington-avenue. The ceremony included addresses by New York Mayor Abraham
Hall and Judge Cardozo.
1871(5th of Sivan, 5631): 49th Day of the
Omer; Erev Shavuot
1873: “A Jewish Ceremony” published today described “a very
curious ceremony called ‘The Burying of the Law.’” Such a ceremony
which takes place once every eight or ten years recently took place “in the
Spanish Synagogue in Jerusalem” which has a “subterranean cave” in which “every
old leaf torn out from any holy book, every old worn-out Bible, Gemara and
phylactery” has been deposited “by all the Jewish residents of Jerusalem”
regardless of their Minhag. Every 8 to 10 years, these materials are made into bales
and then, after following the applicable rituals, the bales are carried out of
the Zion Gate by a procession of Jews who descend “into the valley of
Jehoshaphat where a very deep well is located. The bales are then
drop into the well “amid the singing of the joyous crowd.
1874: Birthdate of Roemerstadt, Austria native Dr. Otto
Marburg, the leading neurologist who became a “clinical professor of neurology
at Columbia” after fleeing the Nazis in 1938 and who said of the United States,
“I am full of gratitude to this great nation which wants nothing for itself but
helps as much as possible those who need help.”
1875: This evening Professor Felix Adler, of Cornell
University, addressed the American Geographical Society at Association Hall in
New York City. His topic was "The Influence of the Physical Geography of
Palestine on Hebrew Thought." The opening of this address was devoted to
the statement and citation of the effects of climate on the character and
thoughts of people born in it.
1876: A meeting of delegates representing Hebrew
congregations from various U.S. cities which was being held at The Harvard
Rooms in New York City came to an end. The delegates discussed the
possibility of establishing a seminary that would teach Jewish theology and the
Hebrew language while preparing students to become Rabbis.
1876: In Breslau, Germany, Bertha Heppner and Baruch Fox
gave birth to Boston public school educated pianist Felix Fox the head of the
Felix Fox School of Pianoforete and a member of Temple Israel in Boston.
1877: “A Romance in Paterson: The Marriage of a Pretty
Jewess Under Peculiar Circumstances” published today described the suit for an
annulment that Miss Rachel Blumenthal, the daughter of wealthy Montreal Jew, is
bringing against Moses Tannenhoz a cigar dealer from Patterson, NJ. The 18-year-old
Miss Blumenthal claimed that she was tricked into marrying Tannenhoz and that
she was not of the age of consent when the ceremony took place.
1879: Birthdate of Harry Lilienthal, the husband of
Gertrude Harrison Lilienthal and the son-in-law of Gustave and Louisa Nelson
Harrison.
1879: The yearly meeting of the United Hebrew
Charities was held this morning at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, in East
Seventy-seventh Street.
1880: In Amsterdam, a merchant named Jacob Samuel Hillesum
and his wife Esther Hillesum-Loeza gave birth to their 4th and
youngest child Levie (Louis) Hillesum, the father of Esther "Etty"
Hillesum. Years later, Etty would keep a diary of life under Nazi
occupation that would not surface until after her death at the age of 29 in
Auschwitz.
1882(7th of Sivan, 5642): Second Day of
Shavuot
1882(7th of Sivan, 5642): English publisher
and convert to Judaism Thomas Jones passed away
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8779-jones-thomas
1882: In Lithuania, Hannah-Dvorah Hersch (née Blumberg) and
Meyer Dovid Hersch gave birth to Pesach Liebmann Hersch who gained fame as the
pioneering demographer and statistician Liebmann Hersch, the husband of Liba
Lichetenbaum with whom he had three children Irene, Joseph and philosopher
Jeanne Hersch
http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=34147
1883(18th of Iyar, 5643): Lag BaOmer
1883: Birthdate of Chicago native and University of
Pennsylvania graduate Harry Walter Jastrow, the refrigerator manufacturer and
husband of Henrietta Levy as well as the father of Stanley L.
Jastrow, the MIT graduate and president of Chicago Sinai Congregation and the
grandfather of Ellen Jastrow.
1885: In Kiev, Fannie Sacherenko and Isaac Molarsky gave
birth to School of Industrial Art and Academy of Fine arts trained award-winning
painter Maurice Molarsky, the wife of Tina Maroglis, known for his “portraits,
still lifes, landscapes and mural decoration
https://woodmereartmuseum.org/explore-online/collection/linda
https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Maurice-Molarsky/AB6D7F3839AC6294
1887: In “Ukraine, Pinchus and Chava (Geiro) Bodansky” gave
birth to Cornell University educated biochemist Dr. Aaron Bodansky, the husband
of Marie Syrkin, who worked at the Research Laboratories of Upjohn in Kalamazoo
while writing “numerous scientific papers on enzymes and hormones” before going
on to “enzymes and hormones.”
1888(15th of Sivan, 5648): Seventy-four-year-old
Bavarian born Savid Simon, the husband of Theresa Kaufman Simon whom he married
in 1885 and with whom he had seven children – Bertha, Johannah, Jeannette,
Caroline, Harry, Jacob, and Regina --
passed away today in Shreveport, LA after which he was buried at the Hebrew
Rest Cemetery.
1889: Birthdate of Philadelphia native and NYU trained
attorney Jacob Axelrad.
1889: In NYC, Louis and Miriam Deborah Friedman gave birth
to CCNY and the NYU School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance trained
investment banker Elisha Michael Friedman, a member of the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee and Secretary of the American Committee for Hebrew
University in Palestine.
https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/elisha-michael-friedman/2025689/
1890(6th of Sivan, 5650): First Day of
Shavuot
1890: At Temple Emanu-El, Rabbi Gottheil will officiate at
Confirmation Services.
1890: At Temple Beth-El, Rabbi Kohler will officiate at
Confirmation Services.
1890: At Temple Ahawatch Chesed, Rabbi Kohut will officiate
at Confirmation Services.
1890: At the Temple on East 15th Street,
Rabbi Raphael Benjamin will officiate at Confirmation Services.
1890: Rabbi H.S. Jacobs will lead Shavuot Services today at
B’nai Jeshurun.
1890: Rabbi De Sola Mendes will lead Shavuot Services today
at Shaarai-Tephilla.
1890: The body of Samuel Hotz, a Jewish peddler, was found
in an old mining shaft at Wurtsborough, NY.
1890: “Republican Origins” published today described the
reaction to The Origins of the Republican Form of Government in the
United States by Oscar Straus which has now been translated into
French by Madame Jessie Catherine Couvreur
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40711FA395F10738DDDAC0A94DD405B8085F0D3
1890: It was reported today that President Carnot’s meeting
with the Chief Rabbi of France has “called forth a host of letters on the
‘second Babylonish captivity’ and the freedom of the Jews in modern times.”
1890: It was reported today that the Republican Club in New
York City continues to refuse to admit Jews with several members publicly
committed to using the blackball to accomplish this end.
1890: It was reported today that the Internal Revenue
Collector and “boss of one-half of the Republicans of Kings County,” Ernst
Nathan began his career as a cigar maker. Today he owns several rows of houses,
“has made many thousands of dollars in real estate” and is worth a half-million
dollars. His political power stems from his ability to name those who will
occupy important elected positions including two state Assembly districts as
well as the party candidates for Senator and Third District Congressman.
1891: It was reported today that resolutions passed six
months under the leadership of the Duke of Westminster beseeching the Czar to
show some pity for his Jewish subjects have been met with “unseemly contempt”
and no let-up in the expulsion of the Jews. In response, the Hebrew
Lovers of Zion has been formed in London with the aim of finding a home for the
Jewish refugees in Palestine. Their attempts have been met approval
in England and the United States where anti-immigrant sentiment is growing.
1891: It was reported today that the flood of refugees is
gaining, not losing “headway.” During April 7,501 Russian and Polish immigrants
arrived in the United States “an increase over 1890 of 3,291. While German
immigrants are described as “sturdy” and Scandinavians are described as
“honest, lusty workers” these immigrants are described as being poor, degraded
and in “pitiable condition” who would be better settled in the lands of the
Sultan (Palestine).
1892: Today, twenty-one-year-old Berthe Juliette de
Rothschild, “known as Juliette, the youngest daughter of Gustave and Cécile de
Rothschild married the Baron Emmanuel David Berénd Leonino” with whom she had
two daughters – Marguerite and Antoinette – before she passed away at the age
of 26 after having fallen from a horse.
1892: “Mortally Wounded In A Duel” published today
described the circumstances around a duel fought in Hungary Baron Aczel, a
member of the Diet and a rich Jewish landowner named Karsay who was denied a
chance to participate in the celebration of the jubilee of the coronation of
the King because of his religion.
1892: The building of the new sanitarium for Jewish
children located at Rockaway Park which cost $20, 975 was overseen by the Board
of Managers whose officers include Nathan Lewis, President; Dr. Horatio Gomez,
Vice President; Hezekiah Kohn, Treasurer; Joseph Davis, Secretary.
1893: Birthdate of László Jenő Ocskay of Ocskó
and Felsődubován a Hungarian army officer, captain of the Royal Hungarian Army
who saved approximately 2500 Jews in Budapest in 1944–45, thus being one of
those Hungarians who saved the most Jews during the Holocaust.”
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h13kskds9?utm_source=Taboola_internal&utm_medium=organic
1893: According to Israel Schwartz who has been living at
the Ladies’ Deborah Nursery for nine years, today, “in school I talked to other
boys against” following which “my teach Byron Reilly wrote to Superintendent
Engel of the nursery about me.”
1894: “Annoyed by a Sausage Dealer” published today
described the store owned by Florian Sicher, the Yorkville butcher which
includes signage advertising “Anti-Semitic Sausages” as well as banners on the
awning reading “Do Not Buy From Jews” and “No Sales Made to Jews.”
1894: Two days after she had passed away, 35-year-old
Sophia Isaacs, the daughter of Lewis and Sarah Isaacs was buried today at the
“West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1894: Samuel Maltinsky, the chief proprietor, President and
Treasurer of the Crescent Jewelry Company in Pittsburgh, PA married Gerturde
Kunst today on his twenty-seventh birthday.
1894: The Longman publishing company will publish Christopher
Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese
Discoveries by Rabbi Meyer Kayserling today.
1894(19th of Iyar, 5654): Alexander Kohut, the Hungarian
born Rabbi who was elected rabbi of Congregation Ahavath Chesed in New York in
1885 and helped to found the Jewish Theological Seminary passed away. He was
the father of the scholar and author George Alexander Kouth.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9436-kohut-alexander
1895: Andrew McCran, the next-door neighbor of Samuel
Samuelson, has been arrested on suspicion of shooting the Jew living in Miles
Alley.
1896: The New York Times reported that
Baron Hirsch had left “only” thirty million pounds to his heirs and
beneficiaries, the primary one of which is his widow. While there
are rumors floating around London that the Baron had destroyed the IOU’s of a
prominent royal personage (possibly the Crown Prince) those in the know do not
believe that the Baron was of such a forgiving nature.
1898: Birthdate of French writer Robert Aron
1898(4th of Sivan, 5658): Seventy-year-old
Middlesex native Joel Woolf, the husband of Helen Solomons whom he married at
the Great Synagogue in 1851 passed aa today.
1898: In Manhattan, “Gustave Cerf, a lithographer and
Frederika Wise, the heiress to a tobacco-distribution fortune” Bennet Alfred
Cerf, the founder and CEO of Random House” who was best known for being a
panelist on the Sunday night television show, “What’s My Line?”
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/nny/cerfb/profile.html
1898:In “Kremenchug, Russia, Jacob and Anna Smeilansky gave
birth to composer and concert pianist Mischa Levitzki who “made his American
debut at the Aeolian Hall in New York” in 1916.1899: Dr. Henry M. Leipziger was
re-elected as President of the Judeans who held their annual meeting this
evening at the Tuxedo. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise spoke of the political progress
being made by the Jews as can be seen by the appointment of Oscar S. Straus as
U.S. Minister to Turkey and the election of Joseph Simon as U.S. Senator from
Oregon, making him the fourth Jew to serve in Upper House of Congress. He
compared the Jewish condition in the United States to Russia which is in the
grips of the “outrage of anti-Semitism and France where Dreyfus is still not
free.
1899(16th of Sivan, 5659): Rosa Bonheur French realist
painter and sculptor passed away. Born in Bordeaux in 1822, she was one of four
children all of whom were artists. According to some reports, as a
child she was known as Rosa Mazeltov.
1900: The four-day-long meeting of the Actions Committee
and Trust began today. During the meeting a new Bank Commission was appointed,
and a decision was reached to hold the next Zionist Congress in London.
1901(7th of Sivan, 5661): Second day of
Shavuot
1901(7th of Sivan, 5661): Samuel Joseph
Rubinstein passed away. Born in Mitau in 1817, his father sent him
to the U.K. when he reached the age of 12 – the age at which he would have been
forced to join the Russian Army. He traveled with his aunt who was joining her
husband in Glasgow. When Rubinstein reached the Scottish city, he
was befriended by the Davis family who members of the local Jewish
congregation. They took him in, gave him work to do so that he could
earn some money and treated him as if he were a member of the family.
1902(18th of Iyar, 5662): Lag B’Omer
1902: In Lisbon, a foundation stone is laid for the first
synagogue built in Portugal since the expulsion of the Jews in 1497.
1902: At Temple Rodeph Sholom in Manhattan, Joseph J. Corn
presided over the first public meeting of the Israelite Alliance of America
where resolutions were adopted “approving the passage of the resolution of
Congressman Henry M. Goldfogle urging the government of the United States to
insist that Russia end its discrimination against American Jews and observe the
treaty of 1832.”
1903(28th of Iyar, 5663): German born Yetta Oppenheimer,
the widow of Lemuel Benjamin Oppenheimer whom she married in 1846 and with whom
she had had four children – Michael, Amelia, Mary and Bessie -- passed away today in Baltimore where “she
was a member of the Madison Avenue Temple” and where she was buried in the Hebrew
Friendship Cemetery.
1903: In Islington, Rosa Enoyce and George Barnes, a Jewish
policeman gave birth to English actress Gertrude Maude “Binnie” Barnes.
1904: “Myer S. Isaacs Dead” published today recounted the
life of the recently deceased Judge Myer S. Isaacs who had served as President
of the Baron de Hirsch Fund, President of the Board of Delegates of American
Israelites and of the Hebrew Free School Association. A lifelong
Republican, Governor Cornell had appointed him to the Marine Court in
1880. He was nominated to the Superior Court in 1891 and the Supreme
Court in 1895.
1905: Birthdate of future Virginia resident Alice Rice
Jaffe the wife of Louis Isaac Jaffe and the mother of Louis Lawson Jaffe.
1905: In Baden-Wurttemberg, Samuel and Malchen Jeselsohn
gave birth to Sigmund “Shimon” Jeselsohn the husband of Karolina Jeselsohn.
1905: Today, the New Music Society announced that Modest
(Moisei Isaacovich) Altschuler would be retained as director of the Russian
Symphony Orchestra for another three years.
1906(1st of Sivan, 5666): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1906: Oscar S. Straus is scheduled to be member of the
committee planning to create a permanent national memorial for the late Carl
Schurz.
1907(12th of Sivan, 5667): Parashat Naso
1907: It was reported today that a group of prominent Jews
have appointed a committee chaired by Michael Furst “to raise the sum of
$18,000 to build an addition to the Jewish Protectory at Hawthorne, NY which
will be maintained by Jewish charitable societies in Brooklyn.”
1908: It was reported today that The Jewish Publication
Society of America has “announced that the Board of Publication had finally
completed arrangements for the successful carrying on of the Bible
translations, which it is expected will now be accomplished in a short time.”
1909(5th of Sivan, 6669): Erev Shavuot
1909: Birthdate of Holocaust victim, the student Roza Ail.
1909: In New York City, Max and Fannie Danovitch Abrahams
gave birth to Jesse Abrahams, the husband of Estelle Sheikowitz whom he married
in 1938.
1909: Today, Jacob H. Schiff, who is staying at the Ritz in
London, told the New York Times correspondent “that the report that he had
committed himself to the plan for planting Jewish colonies in Mesopotamia was
erroneous.”
1910: It was reported today that the Presbyterian General
Assembly has “passed a resolution condemning the persecution of the Jews in
Russia” by a unanimous vote.
1910: Birthdate of Memphis native, and University of
Cincinnati graduate Jack H. Hexter, the holder of advanced degrees from Harvard
and husband of Ruth Mullin Hexter who as a professor of history at
Washington University and Yale University “launched a major scholarly effort to
chronicle the history of modern freedom” and who was “known as a specialist in
British history, conducting research and teaching at major American
universities for more than 60 years…”
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/14944
https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hexter-j-h-jack
1910: The Chief Rabbi of Salonica protests that despite
assurances to the contrary, during his departure, Jews were enrolled in the
Army on Saturday. The Minister of Interior telegraphs the Governor General and
instructs him to not let this be repeated. Of 1,908 Jews enrolled at Salonica,
1,719 entered active service; the remaining 189 went into the reserves.
1911(27th of Iyar, 5671): Sixty-eight-year-old
Bertha Guranowsky, the wife of Rabbi Abraham Guranowsky, passed away today
after which she was buried in Washington Cemetery at Brooklyn NY
1911: In St. Louis, MO, Rose Pfeiffer and Samuel Elijah
gave birth to “coin collector” Eric Newman. (As reported by Robert D. McFadden)
1912(9th of Sivan, 5672): Parashat Nasso
1912: Austrian jurist Hans Kelsen married Margarete Bondi,
few days after converting “to Lutheranism of the Augusburg Confession,” – a
conversion that would not save him from being treated as a Jew the Nazis.
1912: Founding of the East Boston Hebrew Free School
1913: Birthdate of New York City native and professor of
sociology at Queens College, Dr. Sidney Axelrad, the husband of the former
Sylvia Brody who was educated at City College, NYU and the New School.
1913: The Independent Order of B’rith Abraham which had
been organized in 1887 opened its 26th Annual Convention today
in New York City.
1913: Birthdate of Lee Tabor Shalom, the Paris, Illinois,
native who as a director was known as “Roll ‘Em” Sholem.
1913: Birthdate of film and television screenwriter Sidney
Carroll
1913: Dedication of the Sarah Morris Hospital for Children
of Michael Reese Hospital
1913: Dedication of B’nai Jacob synagogue in New Haven, CT.
1913: Dedication of Beth David Hospital in New York City.
1913 Dedication of Tifereth Israel in Lincoln, Nebraska.
1914: Today, ten years after Herzl wrote in his diary that
Pope Pius X had said “Jerusalem must not get into the hands of the Jews” Pius
created 25 new cardinals.
1915: Australian and
New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) and troops of the Ottoman Empire at Gallipoli
agreed to a 9-hour truce to retrieve and bury their dead.”
1915: The conclusion of Judge Ben B. Lindsey asking for
clemency for Leo Frank which read “I was born and raised in the South, and I
haven’t any doubt of the sincerity and certainty of the people of Georgia as
well as your Excellency and the honorable Board of Pardons, doing anything but
justice in this matter. That is why I join the appeal in behalf of
the commutation of the sentence of Frank with perfect confidence that your
action will be in accord with what seems to me to be the universal opinion
throughout the country and that the sentence of Frank should at least be
commuted to life imprisonment.”
1915: The list of candidates published today of those of
who might replace M.S. Stern as the Grand Master of the United States Grand
Lodge of the Independent Order of Sons of Israel who has held the
office for thirteen years includes Solon J. Liebeskind, Louis Hess and Emil
Tausig of New York City.
1915: One of the last acts of the Michigan Legislature
which “formally concluded its 1915 session today” “was the adoption of
resolutions urging the Governor of Georgia to commute the death sentence of Leo
M. Frank to life imprisonment.”
1915: In Springfield, Illinois, Governor Edward F. Dunne
addressed a mass meeting at the State Arsenal tonight in behalf of Leo M. Frank
during which he “declared capital punishment to be ‘barbarism’ and asking that
the Governor of Georgia to commute his sentence to life imprisonment.”
1916: Dedication of the Grace Aguilar Home in Philadelphia,
PA.
1916: “As Chairman of the Board of Delegates of the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations and as resident member of the Executive
Committee of the International Order B’nai B’rith” Simon Wolf wrote to
President Woodrow Wilson asking him to express himself “as far as is consistent
and proper at this juncture” as supporting the “securing of equal rights for”
the Jews throughout the world, “especially those in Russia and Romania” when
the terms of peace ending the World War are agreed upon.
1916(22nd of Iyar, 5676):
Fifty-five-year-old Morris Weslosky, the native or Riddleville, GA, who was the
husband of Julia Weslosky passed away today in New York City.
1916: It was reported today that “there are about 1,500,000
Jews” in New York City” and there “about 3,500 Jewish organizations of all
kinds – religious educational, social philanthropic, industrial and mutual
aid.”
1916: It was reported today that “Governor Whitman will be
asked to broaden the inquiry into discrimination against Jews alleged to have
practice in selecting recruits for Battery D, Second Field Artillery, New York
National Guard to a general investigation of similar conditions alleged to
exist in other companies and regiments” including the 22nd regiment
of the National Guard.
1916: It was reported today that “an Army and Navy
Committee of the Young Men’s Hebrew and Kindred Associations is being formed to
continue the work of a special committee that takes care of the wants of the
estimated 5,000 Jews in the United States Army and Navy.
1916: Isidore Hershfield, the Director of the Hebrew
Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America, returned to New York, “after
being abroad for many months” during which, “with the permission of the
military authorities of both the Austro-Hungarian and German Government, he
established a means of communication between the war sufferers and their
friends and relatives in the United States.”
1917: In Minsk, Russia, Yiddish was recognized as a second
official language.
1917: Funeral services are scheduled to be held for Minnie
Weil, the widow of Benjamin Weil at the home of her son Isaac Weil
followed by burial at Free Sons’ Cemetery in Chicago.
1917: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for
47-year-old Dwight S. Hirsch, the husband of Mae Hirsch followed by interment
at Mount Maariv.
1917: “Diversions of the Turk” summarized “the account sent
to Jewish bodies in the United States by the British Ambassador at Washington”
that “shows the Turks driving the Jews out of Jaffa during Passover” sacking
their houses and robbing them while the Jews who resisted the pillagers “were
hanged.”
1918: The Provisional Executive Committee for General
Zionist Affairs announced tonight that an uncensored letter from a
correspondent with the British Army in Palestine, reported that General
Allenby’s army had renewed its offensive in Palestine and that the campaign
will carry these forces beyond the borders of “the Holy Land.” This
marked the end of three-month halt in the campaign during which the British
troops had plenty of time to establish good relations with the Jewish
population including the people of Tel Aviv, the site of a major English
encampment.
1919: KAM (Kehilath Anshe Ma’arav or "Congregation of
the Men of the West"), “the oldest Jewish congregation in Chicago” is
scheduled to host the last regular meeting of its Junior Alumni today.
1920: “Max Pine and Harry Kagan, representative of the
Joint Distribution committee for all Jewish Relief Funds” both of whom are
Americans “are now in Moscow engaged in work preparatory to taking up the
relief of the Jews and investigating the reported pogroms in the Ukraine.”
1921: Birthdate of Jack Steinberger, German-born
American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988. In talking about
his escape from Germany, Steinberger said, “In 1934, the American Jewish
charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the
SS Washington, bound for New York by Christmas 1934.”
1921: “Austrian Jewish immigrants Lina Goldberg and
delicatessen owner Gedalier David gave birth to lyricist and song writer,
Harold Lane “Hal” David a prolific producer of tunes, many of which were
written in collaboration with Burt Bacharach. "Raindrops Keep
Fallin' on My Head" won an Academy Award as the score for the movie “Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “Don't Make Me Over", "Close to
You", and "Walk on By" are all in the Grammy Hall of Fame. "What's
New Pussycat,” “Alfie” and "The Look of Love" received Oscar
nominations. He also wrote many country music hits, including Willie Nelson's
"To All The Girls I've Loved Before".
1921 The Hurwitz Educational League sponsored a lecture and
recital featuring Dr. A.A. Roback of Harvard University and his wife on “Folk
Music Among Jews and Other Nations” in the auditorium of the Young Women’s
Hebrew Association on 31 West 110 Street in New York City.
1922(27th of Iyar, 5682): In Chicago,
political economist Joseph Pedott passed away today.
1922: Birthdate of Moldova born, University of Toronto
educated mathematics professor Dr. Dr. Robert Steinberg who taught at UCLA
until his retirement in 1992
1923: Britain recognized Transjordan with Abdullah as its
leader. In this illegal action, Britain paid off part of its debt
to one Arab family for its part in fighting the Turks during World
War I. There are those who contend that by this
act Britain effectively portioned Palestine and created an Arab
state out of it.
1924: Louis Marshall, President of Temple Emanu-El presided
at the memorial services held in the temple this afternoon by the New York
County united of the American Legion in which “he praised the heroic deeds of
the soldiers in the World War…”
1924: “Several hundred public school teachers and
principals listened” this afternoon “to half a dozen speakers on the need for
religious training of Jewish children a t a meeting in the Town Hall under the
auspices of the Jewish Education Association.”
1925: The Camden Section of the Junior Hadassah met this
evening at the Beth-El Synagogue.
1926: "No attempt toward the economic reconstruction
of European Jewries will succeed unless we stem the anti-Semitic wave,"
declared Dr. William Filderman, president of the Union of Rumanian Jews, on the
eve of his departure for Europe on the Berengaria today. "There is no use
educating Jewish artisans if anti-Semitic prejudice deprives them of any market
for their products," he explained.
1926: Sholom Schwartzbard assassinated Symon Petliura, the
head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People's
Republic. Schwartzbard had lost both of his parents in pogroms, and
he held Petliura accountable for the anti-Semitic violence that had been part
of the war in the Ukraine. Anti-Semitic violence was part and parcel
of life in the Ukraine, as can be seen in the Chmielnicki's pogroms of
1648, the pogroms in Kiev at the start of the 20th century and
the slaughter at Babi Yar during World War II. Schwartzbard’s case
was taken up by the French Jewish community, and he was acquitted of the
charges.
1926: Molecular biologist Alfred Ezra Mirsky married
children’s author Reba Paeff
1927: The United Palestine Appeal in Philadelphia, PA is
scheduled to come to an end today.
1927: Three weeks after its first screening in Los Angeles
of “7th Heaven” a movie that produced at least one Oscar with a
screenplay written by Benjamin Glazer opened at New York City.
1928(6th of Sivan, 5688): Shavuot
1928: Birthdate of Henry Baron, the first Jew to sit on the
Irish Supreme Court
1929: Today, the curtain came down at the Vanderbilt
Theatre on “Lady Fingers,” produced by Lew Levinson with music by Joseph Meyer
which had opened on Broadway in January.
1929: Birthdate of Belle "Bubbles" Miriam
Silverman in Brooklyn NY who gained fame as fame as operatic soprano
and patroness of the arts Beverly Sills.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/may/25/1929/beverly-sills
1929: According to reports published today “industrial
establishments in Palestine have increased to 513, employing 5,000 workers”
with a total of $7,500,000 in invested capital. The actual figures
could have been higher but the Ruttenberg Works which has 700 employees was not
included in the survey.
1930: Birthdate of John Strugnell who would become
editor-in-chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1984. Strungell was not
Jewish but he spent a major portion of his academic life working with these
texts and his comments about Judaism in Haaretz turned into a major cause
célèbre.
1930: Birthdate of Sonia Fils, the native of Paris who
gained fame as fashion designer Sonia Rykiel.
1930: The Peter J. Schweitzer Memorial Hospital, a modern
health institution operated at level comparable to those found in an American
hospital, opened today in Tiberius in the Valley of the Galilee.
1931: Birthdate of Herbert Eser Gray, “Canada's first
Jewish federal cabinet minister, and one of only a few Canadians
ever granted the title The Right Honourable who was not so entitled by virtue
of a position held.
1931: New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker is scheduled to
chair a conference at City Hall this afternoon which he “expects to be attended
by a large and representative group of rabbis and Jewish layman wit whom he
will discuss” the need for more rigorous enforcement the state statute
governing the sale of kosher meat.
1931: In New York City, Sol and Anna Winkler gave birth
movie producer and director Irwin Winkler who “won an Oscar for Best Picture
for ‘Rocky’.”
1931: In Palestine voting began to select the
representatives to the 17th Zionist Congress to be held in June.
When the voting ends, the Yishuv delegation of 36 consists of 24 Mapai and
HaShomer HaTzair, 7 Revisionists, 2 Mizrachi, 2 Hapoel HaMizrachi and 1
Yemenite.
1932(19th of Iyar, 5692):
Sixty-four-year-old “Joseph Cowen, one of the first English Jews to be
associated with the late Theodore Herzl who became the guardian of Herzl’s son
Hans and brought him up in his own home passed away today in London.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/cowen-joseph
1932: “Sixty-nine persons were injured today in communal
rioting after Arabs attack Jewish inhabitants of the Crater district of Aden
whom they accused of defiling a mosque.”
1933(29th of Iyar, 5693): Louis Schloss, a Jewish lawyer
was murdered in Dachau.
1934:Funeral services are scheduled to be held this
afternoon for sixty-six-year-old United States Judge Simon Louis Adler of the
Western New York District Court and “former Republican majority leader in the
State Assembly who had suffered a fatal heart attack on May 23.
1934: Ernest Peixotto of the Fontainebleau School arrived
in New York after having crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the same liner that
carried the chairman of the board of the French Line. Peixotto
reported that he had offered American student of the Fontainebleau School of
Fine Arts the honor of decorating one of the cabins on the Normandie, the
largest ship in the world which is now under construction.
1935(22nd of Iyar, 5695): Parashat
Bechukotai
1935(22nd of Iyar, 5695):
Fifty-six-year-old Russian born NYU trained attorney and New York City
municipal judge Abraham Harawitz passed away today. (Some sources show May 24)
https://www.jta.org/1935/05/26/archive/judge-harawitz-dies-elected-over-panken
1936: The Jewish Auxiliary Police, "Ghaffirs",
was established to guard Jewish settlements and rural roads.
1936: “Hannah Gluckstein (the artist known as Gluck)
“married Nesta Obermer, a socialite married to an American businessman” – an
event that provided the inspiration for Gluck’s work “Medallion” that “pictured
the two together at a performance of Don Giovanni.”
1936: The body of thirty-six-year-old Jacob Rasili, a
laborer belonging to the Jewish Federation of Labor, was found this morning
near the Hebrew University library and the doctors reported he had been
murdered when “he had been struck on the head with a heavy cane or iron bar.”
1936: It was reported today that Governor Lehman has
contributed $3,500 to the United Palestine Appeal and that Maurice Levin and
his half-brother J.M. Kaplan have contributed $50,000 to the same cause.
1937: “The League of Frightened Men” co-starring Lionel
Stander the Bronx born son Russian Jewish immigrants was released in the United
States today.
1938(24th of Iyar, 5698): Shihata Abdalla
Saltoun passed away today after which he was buried in Khartoum, Sudan
1938: In Brooklyn Jack and Rose Israel gave birth to
“living theatre performance artist” Steven Ben Israel (As reported by Paul
Vitello)
1938: As Arab violence continued unabated The
Palestine Post reported that in Jerusalem 30 year old Moshe
Proper was killed and there were other casualties including 12 Arab victims and
seven Jewish victims. A curfew was imposed to stop stoning and shooting
incidents. A number of Jewish youths were arrested, and a 120 pounds fine was
imposed on the Jewish quarter of Montefiore. A number of Revisionists, just
released from the Acre prison, were rearrested. Nahum Bibi, a Jewish laborer
was fatally shot at Safed and a Bedouin sheikh was murdered by an Arab gang
roaming Galilee.
1939(7th of Sivan, 5699): Second Day of Shavuot
1939(7th of Sivan, 5699): Sir Joseph Duveen passed away.
The son of Sir Joseph Joel Duveen, who had 13 children, he followed in the
footsteps of his father and his uncle Henry J. Duveen and became one of the
leading art dealers of his time.
http://snbehrman.com/library/newyorker/51.10.6.NY.htm
1940(17th of Iyar, 5700): Parashat
Bechukotai
1940: As the Allied position in Western Europe crumbles
before Hitler’s Blitzkrieg, Churchill’s War Cabinet meets to decide if Britain
should continue to the fight against Germany. The ‘peace party’ is
led by Foreign Minister Lord Halifax who will make a strong case for a deal
with Germany as the debate rages for three days.
1940: FDR began his day in the White House by meeting with
Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter.
1940: Judge Samuel I. Rosenman was among the five people
who had dinner in the White House with FDR.
1940: U.S. premiere of “Torrid Zone” featuring George
Tobias as “Rosario La Mata.”
1940: Hans Biebow today issued orders for factories to be
set up in the ghetto (called Arbeitsressorte, or work sections). Provided with
very cheap labor, these factories were to serve the Nazis as a source of easy
profits and exploitation. The Jews in the ghetto, cut off as they were from all
other possible sources of livelihood, were prepared to work for no more than a
loaf of bread and some soup. The exploitation of the Jews imprisoned in the
ghetto yielded a profit to the ghetto administration estimated at 350 million
reichsmarks ($14 million). (As reported by Yad Vashem)
1941: Koestler’s anti-Soviet novel “Darkness at Noon”
received a rave cover review in the New York Times Book Review Section: “A
splendid novel,” Harold Strauss declared, “written with such dramatic power,
with such warmth of feeling and with such persuasive simplicity that it is as
absorbing as melodrama. It is a far cry from the bleak topical commentaries
that sometimes pass as novels.”
1942: Birthdate of Barry K. Schwartz, the Bronx native who
joined with his boyhood friend Calvin Klein to form Calvin Klein, Inc. in which
he enjoyed so much success that he could indulge his passion for thoroughbred
horse racing.
1942: Edgard J. Nathan, Jr., the Borough President of
Manhattan was among the officials who “opened the final link of the East River
Drive today with a noon ceremony at Forty-seventh Street, on the crest of an
elevated section of the drive.”
1943: “At the Auschwitz a group of 1,035 Gypsies (507 men
and 528 women) were killed in a single day.”
1943: Four deportations of Jews from Holland to the death
camps at Auschwitz and Sobibór total 8000 people.
1943: The expulsion of the Jews from Sofia, Bulgaria, began
today. 1944: Birthdate of Actor Frank Oz
1944: Release date of “Mr. Skeffington,” a film about Job
Skeiffington, a Jew living in high society directed by Vincent Sherman with a
script by Julius and Philip Epstein who produced it along with Jack L. Warner
with music by Franz Waxman and Paul Dessau.
1944: In Budapest, the German representative, General
Edmund Veesnmayer reported that 138,870 Jews had been deported in the past 10
days.
1944: Hundreds of fleeing Hungarian Jews are killed during
a revolt at Auschwitz.
1944: “The Kolozsvár Ghetto was liquidated in six
transports to Auschwitz (now Oświęcim, Poland), with the first deportation
occurring” toda.
1944: Pioneer television station WPTZ (now KYW-TV) in
Philadelphia presented a special, all-star telecast which was also seen in New
York over WNBT (now WNBC) and featured cut-ins from their Rockefeller Center
studios. Cantor, one of the first major stars to agree to appear on television,
was to sing "We're Havin' a Baby, My Baby and Me". Arriving shortly
before airtime at the New York studios, Cantor was reportedly told to cut the
song because the NBC New York censors considered some of the lyrics too risqué.
Cantor refused, claiming no time to prepare an alternative number. NBC
relented, but the sound was cut and the picture blurred on certain lines in the
song. This is considered the first instance of television censorship.
1945: Just three weeks after the surrender of the German
capital, pharmacist Erich Zwilsky became the Berlin Jewish Hospital’s managing
director, assuming responsibility for the only Jewish institution that had
remained in operation throughout World War II.
1945: “Investigating Team 6822, part of the U.S. War Crimes
Program to create legal standards and judicial systems to prosecute Nazi
crimes” completed its investigation into the murder of prisoners being moved
from Rottleberode subcamp to Neuengamme concentration and sent a report to
General William Hood Simpson, the Supreme Commander of the United States 9th Army.
1946: Abdullah I becomes King of the Kingdom of
Transjordan. From 1921 until 1946 Abdullah had been Emir of the Emirate of
Transjordan. On the eve of the creation of state of Israel in 1948, Abdullah
met secretly with Golda Meir. Meir sought to keep the Jordanians
from attacking the soon to be created Jewish state when the British
withdrew. Abdullah offered to let the Jews peacefully as subjects of
Jordanian Kingdom that would include all the land of the Palestine mandate. Abdullah’s
army invaded Israel seized what is called the West Bank and the Old City of
Jerusalem. In 1951, Abdullah would be assassinated by an Arab
fanatic at the Al Aqsa Mosque. He thought Abdullah was involved in secret peace
talks with the Israelis.
1946: Switzerland signs the Washington Agreement, under
which the Swiss government will voluntarily contribute $58.1 million in gold to
an Allied commission established to help rebuild Europe. The Allies are aware
that this payment will come from Swiss stores of looted gold taken from Jews
and other victims of Nazi persecution. Regardless, the Allies agree not to
press the Swiss for additional claims. At this time, Switzerland holds between
$300 and $400 million in looted gold.
1947(6th of Sivan, 5707): Shavuot
1947: “The Web,” a “film noir thriller” filmed by
cinematographer Irving Glassberg was released in today in the United States.
1947: Perry Belmont, the former Congressman and diplomat
who was the son of August Belmont passed away. The Belmonts had
passed out of the Jewish world when August married Caroline Slidell, the
daughter of a Confederate diplomat and descendant of American naval hero
Matthew C. Perry, the man who “opened up Japan.”
1948: The Old City of Jerusalem falls. Defended by local
residents, Etzel members and about 80 Haganah soldiers, they were outnumbered
and out-gunned by the Arab legionaries. After weeks of desperate fighting, it
was decided to surrender and save the almost 2000 mostly elderly Jews who were
still living in the Old City.
1948: British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin says that the
Negev should not be included in a Jewish state because no Jews lived there and
that Jaffa and Acre “should be given back to the Arabs” because they were
“purely Arab towns.
1948: The attack on Latrun, begun the night
before continues. The forces of the Arab Legion are able to fire
down on the attacking Jews. As the Jews fall victim to the barrage
of bullets, they are forced to confront a second enemy, the searing heat which
many of these recent refugees from Europe are not used to. To make
matters worse, many of them went into battle without canteens. Their
pleas for water are met by sniper fire from the Arabs. Realizing
that the attack has failed, the Israelis withdraw with eighty dead and
uncounted others wounded. Among the dead is Reuven Oppenheim who had
survived the Holocaust. He fought with partisan forces in that part
of the Soviet Union known as White Russia. Miraculously, Oppenheim’s
immediate family (mother, father and sister) survived with him and came to
Palestine in 1947. The price for a Jewish state was high indeed.
1948: The government of Egypt "issued a proclamation
stipulating that no Jew could leave Egypt with a special visa from the Ministry
of the Interior. This...applied to the many thousands of Jews who held
foreign passports." (In Ishmael's House by Martin Gilbert)
1948: The Scotsman, a newspaper published in
Edinburgh, “quoted an Israeli government statement that Thomas C. Wasson,” the
Counsel General for the United States in Jerusalem who days before “had
attempted to stop the Arab Legion shelling of the Hadassah Hospital and Hebrew
University on Mount Scopus” "was killed by Arab bullets."
1949: Chaim Weizmann went to the White House as President
of Israel at the invitation of President Harry Truman.
1950: “Israel's mounting immigration troubles became more
apparent today with the interim report of Malben, which handles the country's
hard core cases. This organization has discovered that its six-month-old budget
of $17,500,000 is about half what it needs to handle the handicapped immigrants
under its care.”
1950: Tonight, “The decision of the United States, Britain
and France to include Israel in their over-all plan for supplying the countries
in the Middle East with arms for defense purposes was greeted” in Israel “with
satisfaction by a Foreign Ministry spokesman.”
1950: “In an effort to further stabilize the Armistice
Agreements, and to control the flow of arms to the Middle East, France, Britain
and the United States announced, today, their decision to stabilize the
situation in the region by an agreement among themselves not to supply weapons
to a state harboring aggressive designs. They also agreed to take action both
within and outside the U.N. to prevent any change in the armistice lines. Text
of the Declaration follows.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/tripartite-declaration-may-1950
1951: In a handwritten letter proposes, Abba Eban proposed
periodic meetings between himself and the leaders of major American Jewish
organizations “to exchange views and impressions about the American-Israeli
relationship.”
1951: In St. Louis, MO, Fred and Estelle Voda Handler gave
birth to Dr. Robert Handler, husband of Diane Handler and father of Nathan,
Daniel and Benjamin Handler who in addition to his other virtues and
accomplishments was a pillar of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa Jewish community
1952: King Features launched the Sunday version of the
comic strip “Big Ben Bolt” written by Elliot Caplin, the brother of Al Capp.
1953: In New York City, Arthur Ensler, a Jewish food
industry executive and his non-Jewish wife Christ gave birth to award winning
playwright Eve Ensler, “best known for her play The Vagina Monologues.”
1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that the
Cabinet was discussing the deteriorating security situation in border areas.
1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that
Thomas Harlan, son of Veit Harlan, a notorious Nazi film producer, was in
Israel working on a film which would "atone" for the sins of his
father.
1954: The Pittsburgh Pirates traded Cal Abrams to the
Baltimore Orioles.
1954(22nd of Iyar, 5714): Robert Capa, possibly the most
famous photojournalist of the 20th century was killed while on
assignment cover the French- Indochina War. The Jewish native of
Hungary waded ashore with the first wave of troops at Omaha Beach, providing
the first photographic record of the assault.
From the Spanish Civil War, “Death of Loyalist Soldier”
”D-Day Landing - 1944
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Capa,_Death_of_a_Loyalist_Soldier.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Capa,_D-Day2.jpg
http://www.army-photographer.com/index.php/robert-capa
http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL535353
1955(4th of Sivan, 5715):
Eighty-five-year-old Regina “Rae” Mayer Sabath, the
Baden-Wurttemberg born daughter of Willam and Sarah (Stern) Mayer and wife of
Judge Joseph Sabath who whom she married in 1888 and whom she had three
children - Albert, Stella and Milton Sabath - passed away
after which she was buried in Chicago at the Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum.
1955: Martin Buber, Ernst Simon, and Gershom Scholem were
some of the intellectual heavyweights present in Jerusalem when discussions
began on “what form the Leo Baeck Institute would take.”
1957: NBC broadcast the final episode of “Caesar’s Hour”
starring Sid Caesar and his comedic sidekicks Howard Morris and Carl Reiner.
1957: After 49 performances at the Broadway Theatre, the
curtain came down on “Shinbone Alley,” a musical with a book by Mel Brooks
orchestrated by Irwin Kostal.
1958(6th of Sivan, 5718): Shavuot
1958: After only 4 months, ABC broadcast the final episode
of “Sid Caesar Invites You” which “briefly united” the comedian with a group of
writers that included Carl Reiner, Neil Simon and Mel Brooks.
1962(21st of Iyar, 5722): Eighty-two-year-old
Lithuanian born Zionist and American Yiddish author Yankev-Shaye Fridman passed
away today.
https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/1641/Fridman-Yankev-Shaye-January-18-1880-May-25-1962
1962(21st of Iyar, 5722):
Eighty-seven-year-old Emanuel S. Hartman, the husband of Mabel
Hartman and “a lawyer active in the affairs of the American Society of
Composers who “helped to establish copyright laws for the society” passed away
today in Chicago.
1963(2nd of Sivan, 5723): Parashat Bamidbar
1963(2nd of Sivan, 5723): Fifty-year old
New York Times publisher Orvil Dryfoos, the husband of Marian Sulzberger and
son-in-law of Arthur Hays Sulzberger who guided the paper through the 114-day
long newspaper strike passed away today.
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1963/05/26/page/3/article/orvil-dryfoos-dies-head-of-n-y-times
1963: During his Shabbat Sermon, at Tremont Temple in
the Bronx, Rabbi Maurice J. Bloom declared that because of his divorce and
recent remarriage Governor Rockefeller is morally obligated to press for
an easing of New York State's divorce laws. If New York State had a
proper marriage and divorce code neither the Governor nor his first wife, nor
his current wife would be forced to participate in actions that are variance
with the laws that the Governor is sworn to uphold as the state’s chief
executive. Furthermore, the Rabbi contended that it is not fair that
divorce is only open to the wealthy who can afford to take up temporary
residence in other states with more lenient laws related to terminating a
marriage. Tying the contemporary issue to Jewish tradition, Rabbi
Bloom said, “Judaism believes in making strict marriage laws to safeguard
marriage and easy divorce laws to make it possible to repair mistakes
made by the application of those strict laws. Judaism stresses the sanctity of
marriage, and for that reason it does not condemn people to live together where
strife and incompatibility would mar good family life.”
1963: After 43 performances, the curtain came
down on the original Broadway production of “Hot Spot,” a musical with “lyrics
by Martin Charnin, music by Mary Rodgers, and additional lyrics and music by
Stephen Sondheim”
1964: “The Subject Was Roses,” the Pulitzer Prize winning
play directed by Israel Ulu Grosbard and starring Jack Albertson “premiered on
Broadway at the Royale Theatre” today.
1965(23rd of Iyar, 5725):
Sixty-four-year-old Irving Isaacs, the husband of the “former Bertha Goldman”
and the father of Albert and Morton Goldman, who was the “owner of Abalon
Kosher Caterers in the Bronx” passed away today “in Westchester Square
Hospital.”
1965: Shimon Peres completed his term as Deputy Minister of
Defense.
1966(6th of Sivan, 5726): Shavuot
1966: Opening in the United Kingdom, “It Happened Here” a
film based on a mythic successful invasion of England by the Nazis filmed by
Peter Suschitzky was released today in Australia.
1966: U.S. premiere of “The Russians Are Coming, The
Russians Are Coming” co-starring Carl Reiner, Alan Arkin and Theodore Bikel
with music by Johnny Mandel.
1966: Helen Reddy, who had converted to Judaism before the
ceremony married Jeff Wald today.
1967: U.S. premiere of “Barefoot in the Park” the movie
adaption of the play by Neil Simon, directed by Gene Saks, produced by Hal B.
Wallis, featuring Herb Edeleman as “Harry Pepper”, Mabel Albertson as “Harriet”
and Fritz Feld.
1968(27th of Iyar, 5728): Parashat Emor
1968: “Martha Graham and Dance Company” with scenic and
lighting designs by Jean Rosenthal and conducted by Stanley Sussman opened on
Broadway at the George Abbott Theatre today.
1968(27th of Iyar, 5728):
Sixty-four-year-old agent and movie producer Charles K. Feldman, the husband of
Clotilde Barot, whose film credits included “A Streetcar Named Desire,” the
timeless comedy “The Seven Year Itch” and cowboy classic “Red River” passed away
today.
https://www.fandango.com/people/charles-k-feldman-204477
1969: Release date of “Midnight Cowboy” directed by John
Schlesinger and starring Dustin Hoffman.
1969: An Israeli vehicle was damaged Sunday night
after hitting a mine near Maoz Chaim in the valley. There were no casualties.
1971: Birthdate of Fort Defiance, AZ native and “American
artist who specializes in sculpture” Rachel Feinstein who on November 1, 2019, opened
her first solo museum survey in the United States, "Maiden, Mother,
Crone," at the Jewish Museum in New York which “was organized by Kelly
Taxter, The Jewish Museum's Barnett and Annalee Newman Curator of Contemporary
Art.”
1971(1st of Sivan, 5731):
Seventy-six-year-old New York Institute of Musical Art
trained songwriter, composer, pianist, and organist Muriel Pollack, the
Kingsbridge, NY born daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants Joseph Pollock and
Rose Graff who began her career playing “the organ in silent movie theatres”
before on to a creative career that began with the 1914 musical “Carnival” and
“Mme. Pom Pom” passed away today in Los Angelese.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/2556482-Muriel-Pollock
https://www.ragpiano.com/comps/mpollock.shtml
1971: The board of directors of Yonkers Raceway announced
today that 51-year-old Stanley Tananbaum has been named president replacing his
late brother Martin Tananbaum
1972: Filming of “Ciao! Manhattan” co-directed, co-produced
and co-written by David Weisman was completed today after which it premiered
“in Amsterdam…to critical acclaim.”
1972: A Jewish family in Cape Town that would later emigrate
to Tennessee gave birth to entrepreneur, author, and investor in internet
technology firms David Oliver Sacks the COO and product leader of PayPal, the
founder and CEO of Yammer and “a general partner of Craft Ventures, a venture
capital fund he co-founded in late 2017” who is not to be confused with the
Harvard educated television writer and producer with the same name.
1974(4th of Sivan, 5734): Parashat Bamidbar
1974: After 208 performances on Broadway at the Eugene
O’Neill Theatre the curtained came down on Neil Simon’s “The Good Doctor” which
was produced by Emanuel “Manny” Azenberg, the Bronx born Jewish son of Hannah
Kleiman and Charles Joshua Azenberg,
1975(15th of Sivan, 5735):
Ninety-one-year-old Rabbi Samuel Baskin who had served as the spiritual leader
“of Temple B’nai Israel in Brooklyn from 1933 until his retirement in 1955,
passed away today.
1976(25th of Iyar, 5736): A guard at Ben
Gurion Airport was killed and nine others were injured when a bomb planted in a
suitcase by a terrorist went off prematurely.
1977: Samuel W. Lewis, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel
presented his credentials today.
1977: Star Wars opened. This would be the first
in a whole series of films that would include the villain Darth Vader.
According to Adams Walls, “Even though it's too small to see on screen, part of
Darth Vader's chestplate features three lines of Hebrew, one of which appears
to be upside down. What the lines say is a matter of much online debate among
Jewish "Star Wars" fans. On TheForce.net, which features photos of
the Hebrew script in question, one blogger believes it's a play on a section
from Exodus 16 about repentance, while another thinks the lines read: "His
actions/deeds will not be forgiven until he is proven innocent" and
"One shall be regarded innocent until he is proven guilty."
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported the
official denial of reports that Israel sought control over the West Bank's
absentee property owned by Arabs residing abroad, and that there were plans to
establish a Jewish urban quarter near Nablus. Officials of the Land
Administration were instructed to lift a ban on transactions affecting property
owned by local Arab residents, residing abroad.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that The
Knesset Speaker, Mr. Yitzhak Shamir, accepted an invitation to visit Germany at
the head of the Knesset delegation.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that a
six-lane divided highway, which would cut through the Sacher Park and expand
the Kirya, was approved in Jerusalem.
1978(18th of Iyar, 5738): Lag B’Omer
1978(18th of Iyar, 5738):
Eighty-two-year-old Columbia University graduate Melvin
Krulewith, the Manhattan born son of Anne and Harry Krulewitch and
the U.S. Marine Corps General who served in WW I, WWII and Korea and Chairman
of the New York State Athletic Commission passed away today.
1979(28th of Iyar, 5739): Yom Yerushalayim
1979: “The Brood” a sci-fi film directed by David
Cronenberg who also wrote the script was released in the United States today.
1979: Israel begins to return the Sinai to Egypt as part of
the Camp David Peace Accords.
1979: A graveside funeral service is scheduled to held “at
the Jewish Memorial Cemetery in Racine, Wisconsin today for seventy-four year
old Dr. Ralph P Rosenberg, the son of “Barnet and Rose (Weislander) Rosenberg
and the husband of Leah (Davidson) Rosenberg, the holder of a Ph.D. from the
University of Wisconsin who was a “Professor of German and the Humanities at
Yeshiva University in New York for 38 years.
1979(28th of Iyar, 5739): Yom Yerushalayim
1979: Six-year-old Etan Kalil Patz disappeared in Lower
Manhattan, New York City as he walked to catch the school bus. . He
would be the first missing child to be pictured on the side of a milk carton.
1981(21st of Iyar, 5741):
Sixty-five-year-old UK native Leonard Blake, the son of Harry and Gertrude
Balke and the husband of Gabrielle Blake passed away today in Marbella, Spain.
1981: “News Summary” published today included charges by
Prime Minister Menachem Begin made for the first time that “Soviet advisers are
entering Lebanon accompanying large Syrian Army Units.”
1982: In a meeting today with Alexander Haig, Philip
Habib repeated what he had already said many times before: "Terrorist
attacks against Israelis and Jews in Europe are not included in the cease-fire
agreement.”
1983(13th of Sivan, 5743): Eighty-four-year-old journalist
and author Zelda F. Popkin whose works included Quiet Street which
“was based on the siege of Jerusalem during the Israeli War of Independence.”
1983: “Demonstrations protesting against the persecution of
refuseniks were held simultaneously in New York, Washington, Paris, London and
Lisbon.”
1983: Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi with a
script by Lawrence E. Kasdan and Frank Oz performing as “Yoda” was released
today in the United States.
1985(5th of Sivan, 5745): Erev of Shavuot
1985(5th of Sivan, 5745): Robert Gruntal Nathan “an
American novelist and poet” passed away. “Nathan was born into a prominent New
York family. He was educated in the United States and Switzerland and attended
Harvard University for several years beginning in 1912. It was there that he
began writing short fiction and poetry. However, he never graduated, choosing
instead to drop out and take a job at an advertising firm to support his family
(he married while a junior at Harvard). It was while working in 1919 that he
wrote his first novel—the semi-autobiographical work Peter Kindred—which was a
critical failure. But his luck soon changed during the 1920s, when he wrote
seven more novels, including The Bishop's Wife, which was later made into a
successful film starring Cary Grant, David Niven, and Loretta Young. During the
1930s, his success continued with more works, including fictional pieces and
poetry. In 1940, he wrote his most successful book, Portrait of Jennie, about a
Depression-era artist and the woman he is painting, who is slipping through
time. Portrait of Jennie is considered a modern masterpiece of fantasy fiction
and was made into a film, starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. In January
1956 the author wrote, as well as narrated, an episode of the CBS Radio
Workshop, called "A Pride of Carrots or Venus Well-Served." Nathan's
seventh wife was the British actress Anna Lee, to whom he was married from 1970
until his death. He came from a talented family — the activist Maud Nathan and
author Annie Nathan Meyer were his aunts, and the poet Emma Lazarus and Supreme
Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo his cousins.”
1985: “Pack of Lies,” with lighting design by Natasha
Katz was performed for the last time on Broadway at the Royale Theatre which
was opened and operated by The Shubert Organization (Gerald Schoenfeld:
Chairman; Bernard B. Jacobs: President)
1986(16th of Iyar, 5746): Polish born Rabbi
Nisson Alpert, a student of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and the husband of Zeldi
Scheinberg who was Rosh Yeshiva at RIETS passed away today in New York after
which he was buried in Jerusalem.
1987: James Levine is scheduled to conduct the IPO tonight
in a performance that will include Mahler’s Third Symphony.
1990(1st of Sivan, 5750): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1990: Showtime broadcast the last episode of “It’s Garry
Shandling’s Show” a sitcom “created by Garry Shandling and Alan Zweibel.”
1990(1st of Sivan, 5750):
Seventy-nine-year-old Vienna born and refugee from the Nazis Harry Bachrach,
the husband of Katherine Bachrach and the father of Alfred, George and Frances
Bachrach who was “the president of Harry Bachrach Inc., a Manhattan textile
company specializing in neckties” passed away today.
1991(12th of Sivan, 5751): Parashat Nasso
1991: Israel began the evacuation 14,000 Ethiopian
Jews. This was done as a secret operation and served as a reminder of the
role of Israel as a haven for all Jews.
1991: Final broadcast of “Out of This World” a sitcom
co-starring Donna Pescow.
1993(5th of Sivan, 5753): Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Friedman, the
founder and former spiritual leader of the Garment Center Synagogue in
Manhattan, passed away today at the age of 95. He was a rabbinical graduate of
Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He was ordained
in 1921 and, a decade later, founded the Garment Center Synagogue. The
synagogue, at 205 West 40th Street, was established primarily to serve the many
Jews who worked in the garment trade. Born on Nov. 13, 1897, in Jerusalem,
Rabbi Friedman came to the United States with his mother and brother in 1918 to
escape famine in his homeland. His father had arrived a year earlier. Trained
as a scribe, Rabbi Friedman began his rabbinical studies in 1919. After his
ordination, he was appointed rabbi of Congregation Ezrath Israel in Ellenville,
N.Y., a position he held for four years before moving to Brooklyn. In 1931,
after serving at several synagogues in New York City, Rabbi Friedman founded
the Garment Center Synagogue. In the mid-1950's, he was named rabbi emeritus.
Rabbi Friedman's wife, Charlotte, died in 1980.
1994: In Needham Massachusetts, Lynn (née Faber), a former
high school gymnast, and Rick Raisman gave birth to Alexandra Rose Raisman who
gained fame as Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman, the victim of sexual abuse who was
“awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage Award.”
http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/its-official-the-worlds-most-famous-jewish-sports-star-is/
1996(7th of Sivan, 5756): Second Day of
Shavuot
1997(18th of Iyar, 5757): Lag B’Omer
1997: The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Actual by Saul Bellow and the Wisdom of
the Body by Sherwin B. Nuland
1999: Final broadcast of season one of “Felicity” created
by J.J. Abrams staring Greg Grunberg as “Sean Blumberg.
1999: A production of “The Phantom of the Opera” starring
Paul Stanley (Stanley Bert Eisen) opened today in Toronto.
2000: Publication of Bee Season by Myla
Goldberg.
2000(20th of Iyar, 5760): Centenarian
Francis Lederer, an actor who enjoyed successful careers in Europe and the
United States passed away today.
2000: Israel withdraws the last of its forces from Lebanon.
2001: The terrorists of Palestinian Islamic Jihad took
credit for the bombing today the Hadera bus station where 65 people were
injured but nobody was killed.’
2001: The 54th Cannes Film Festival where
Dover Kosashvili’s “Late Marriage was screened in the Un Certain Regard
Section” came to an end today
2001: The terrorists of Hamas took credit for the bombing
at a mall in Hadera today where there were no reports of any fatalities.
2002: “Last Call,” the film version of the book by Frances
Kroll, the F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last secretary and personal assistant, who
portrayed herself as playing a key role in his last and uncompleted novel, The
Last Tycoon, was released in the United States today. (Editor’s note
– watched on Amazon or Netflix and for some reason really enjoyed it.)
2002: An exhibition opens at the Tate in London
entitled “Ori Gersht: Afterglow” which features the work of Israeli artist Ori
Gersht.
2003: The New York Times featured
books by Jewish writers and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Last Good Season by Michael Shapiro.
2004(5th of Sivan, 5764): Roger Williams Straus, Jr. passed
away. Born in 1917, “Strauss was co-founder of Farrar, Straus and Giroux a New
York book publishing company. Straus, along with John Farrar, began the
influential firm of Farrar and Straus in 1945. In 1955, the company hired
editor Robert Giroux away from rival Harcourt, Brace, who brought along authors
such as T. S. Eliot and Flannery O'Connor, among others. Ultimately, in 1994,
twenty years after his partner Farrar had died, Straus determined he could no
longer run the company, retired, and sold the business to a German publishing
conglomerate, Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, the type of company he
had long disdained and spoke out against. Straus was regarded as one of the
last, old-fashioned publishers, faithful to his company and tight with his
money, but emphasizing quality over commercial success. His dedication to the
publishing business earned him several Nobel Prize-winning authors, including
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Nadine Gordime,
Czeslaw Milosz and T. S. Eliot, and Pulitzer Prize authors such as Robert
Lowell, John McPhee, Philip Roth, and Bernard Malamud. Straus grew up in a
wealthy and influential family. His mother was Gladys Guggenheim, heir to one
of the largest fortunes in America. His father, Roger W. Straus, was chairman
of the American Smelting and Refining Co., which was owned by his wife's
family. Straus' paternal grandfather, Oscar S. Straus, served as Secretary of
Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt.”
2004(5th of Sivan, 5674): Erev Shavuot
2004(5th of Sivan, 5674):
Eighty-seven-year-old publisher Roger Williams Straus, Jr, the “son of Gladys
and Roger Williams Straus” and the “brother of Oscar Solomon Straus, II” passed
away today after which was buried in Manhattan.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/roger-straus-k9zn5b9g9r7
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1463001/Roger-W-Straus-Jr.html
2004: In Israel, striking lifeguard returned to work today
as part of what they called “a goodwill gesture” for Shavuot which begins this
evening.
2005(16th of Iyar, 5765): Sixty-seven-year-old
concert pianist Ruth Laredo whose career spanned three decades lost her battle
with ovarian cancer today.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/27/AR2005052701445.html
2005: At U.C Santa Cruz, The Jewish Studies Program is
scheduled to present a lecture by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, titled “Seduced
into Eden: The Beginning of Desire.” Zornberg's first book, Genesis:
The Beginning of Desire won the National Jewish Book Award for
nonfiction in 1995.
2006(27th of Iyar, 5766): Rabanit Yocheved
'Jackie' Wein z"l, the first wife of Rabbi Berel Wein passed away today.
2006: In “New Stamp to Honor WWII Envoy” published today
Christopher Lee described plans to honor “Hiram Bingham IV, a blue-blood
American diplomat in France who defied U.S. policy by helping Jews escape the
Nazis in the early years of World War II.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/24/AR2006052402467.html
2006: During the Sydney Writers’ Festival at the Sydney
(Australia) Jewish Museum Professor Konrad Kwiet leads a discussion with
editors and journalists from major Sydney newspapers where they examine the
role of free press in a democratic society including the need, if ever, for
limits on freedom of the press and the need for the media to demonstrate a
sense social responsibility.
“Books can be entertaining, insightful
and at their best, life changing. But are there some books that just should not
be read? Are they indeed dangerous? Books like Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, have
spawned some of the most evil Books can be entertaining, insightful and at
their best, life changing. But are there some regimes the world has known. Yet
should we limit our access to these ideas? The intrinsic virtues of free speech
are often touted throughout the West, however in countries such as Australia Anti
Racial Vilification Legislation limits what can and cannot be said in public
forums. What can or should be the role of the media in these kinds of debates?
A free press is one of the basic tenets of a democratic society, but are there
times when this freedom is taken too far? Does the press have a social
responsibility and if so, what is it?
2007: In Israel, Avner Itai the lead Israel Chamber
Orchestra oboist, one of the greatest conductors in Israel and a professor for
choir conducting joins Ora Seitner and guitarist Oded Schub in
performing folk songs and works from Catalonia and France at the Abu Gosh
Festival. He will play an oboe d'amore that he bought this year.
Itai will conduct instrumentalists from the Philharmonic and his choir,
Collegium Tel Aviv, in Bach's "Mass in B Minor."
2007: Ryan Joseph Braun made his major league debut with
the Milwaukee Brewers.
2008 Efram “Sneh announced that he would be leaving the
Labor Party and creating a new party, Yisrael Hazaka.”
2008: The Wolf Prizes were awarded today at the Chagall
Hall by the President of the State of Israel, Mr. Shimon Peres, in the presence
of the Minister of Education and Chairperson of the Wolf Foundation Council,
Prof. Yuli Tamir, and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Mr. Zeev
Schleisner.
2008: Barry Levinson's tale of an embattled Hollywood
producer entitled “What Just Happened?” closes this year's Festival
de Cannes. The movie is based on his memoir about his experiences as
a producer.
2008: The winner of the National Cartoonists Society's
Reuben Award is announced in New Orleans at the 62nd Reuben Awards
Ceremony. Mad Magazine Veteran Al Jaffee is one of the
nominees for this year's Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.
The Reuben Award (a statuette designed by and named after the NCS' first
president, Rube Goldberg is presented to the "Cartoonist of the
Year." This is one more example of Jewish involvement with the
comic and cartoon industry.
2008: The Cedar Rapids Jewish community watches with pride
as Daniel DeClue takes part in the graduation ceremonies at Prairie High
School. A dedicated student of Judaica, a regular at Saturday
morning services and an all-around great guy, he will be truly missed while he
is away at college.
2009: As Americans gather to observe Memorial Day, the
following we are reminded of the role that Jews have played in defense of this
country from Asher Levy in New Amsterdam to Corporal Mark Evnin, the first
Jewish casualty in Iraq.
2009: Israel is likely to face simultaneous missile strikes
and terror attacks across the country in the event of a war breaking out,
Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said today. Hanegbi concluded.
2009(2nd of Sivan, 5769): Amos Elon, author of “The
Israelis: Founders and Sons,” passed away at the age of 82.
2010: "The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer," a
new musical adaptation of the classic Yiddish play by Moyshe Gershenson, is
scheduled to premiere tonight at The Baruch Performing Arts Center in New York
City.
2009: Conference 2009 hosted by The Philadelphia Kehilla
For Secular Jews came to an end.
2010: Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr.,
officially reopened the Etan Patz case today.
2010: American Olympic figure skating champion Sarah Hughes
“graduated from Yale and received a bachelor's degree in American studies with
a concentration in U.S. politics and communities.”
2010: Elizabeth Holtzman announced that she had decided not
to run for New York State Attorney General.
2010: The 49th Israel Festival, arguably one of Israel's
most important cultural and artistic events, will commence with performances by
Nuevo Tango, Ahavat Olamim, a tribute to Charlie Parker by Anchipolosvky, the
King's Singers, and a dance performance entitled Vertigo, Birth of the
Phoenix. The three-week festival centered in Jerusalem will feature
music, dance, and theater from Israeli and international artists that hail from
the U.S., Britain, Lithuania, Germany, Denmark, France, Iceland, India, Japan
and Korea. Events will occur in venues throughout the city.
2011: Jonathan D. Sarna is scheduled to deliver a lecture
entitled “That Obnoxious Order”: Ulysses S. Grant and the Jews at Kahal Kadosh
Beth Elohim in Charleston, SC.
2011: Joan Nathan is scheduled to sign copies of “Quiches,
Kugels, and Couscous” at the National Archives following a presentation that
“explores the rich tapestry of more than three centuries of Jewish cooking in
America.
2011: The New England Archives of the
American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present a lecture, “Among
Mishpocha: At Home in the Boston Jewish Community” by Dr. Michael Feldberg in
the Education Center of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in
Boston.
2011: Ken Spiro is scheduled to deliver a lecture on the
accomplishments of the Jews throughout history entitled “What Would the World
be Like without the Jews?” in Greenwich, CT.
2011: Six Israeli women from Beit Shemesh-Mateh Yehuda are
scheduled be at the JCCNV to cook foods from different origins (Moroccan,
Kurdish -Iraqi, Persian, Russian
and Yemenite) as part of “Taste of Israel: Ethnic Cooking
at its Best.”
2011: Opening of “Jews, Slavery and the Civil War” a
conference hosted by the College of Charleston.
2011: US President Barack Obama said today that a
resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was "more urgent than
ever." And while expressing confidence that a two-state solution was
achievable, the US president made it clear that seeking Palestinian statehood
in the United Nations would be "a mistake." Speaking alongside UK
Prime Minister David Cameron at a press conference in London after the two met
privately, Obama stated that the Palestinians must understand "they have
obligations as well."
2012: Gil Shohat is scheduled to conduct a Brahms Marathon
at the Henry Crown Concert Hall as part of the Israel Festival.
2012: The Centre Daily Times reported that Graham Spanier
“is suing” Penn State University in order to force them the school to turn over
some e-mails related to the Jerry Sandusky scandal. The paper also
reported that Spanier “was listed as one of four officials at the center of the
school’s faiure to respond to Sandusky’s predatory
behavior.” Spanier had been President of Penn State until he was
forced to resign for his failure to act to react to reports of Jerry Sandusky’s
sexual abuse of young boys. (Spanier is Jewish, Sandusky is not)
2012: As Americans begin their Memorial Day Weekend by
Cantor Larry Paul and musician Robyn Helzner are scheduled to lead a special
Shabbat Eve service at the Historic 6th & I Synagogue
honoring the memory of the Jewish Fallen Heroes of Iraq and Afghanistan.
National Museum of American Jewish Military History President, Norman
Rosenshein, is scheduled to deliver the opening remarks. During the service,
the names of the more than 40 fallen heroes will be read as a sign of solemn
remembrance.
2012: The confirmands and their families attended Shabbat
evening services at Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio.
2013: Zubin Mehta is scheduled to conduct the IPO at a gala
concert in Israel featuring Itzhak Perlman.
2013: The Alexandria Kleztet is scheduled to perform at the
Potomac Overlook Regional Park in Arlington, VA.
2013: Syrian web activists loyal to the regime of
Basher Assad launched a failed cyber-attack on Haifa's water supply system, a
senior scientist and web expert revealed today.
2013: Dozens of protesters demonstrated tonight in Ramat
Gan around Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom's residence over the
government's intention to approve the export of natural gas from Israel, Army
Radio reported
http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Protest-around-ministers-home-over-gas-exports-314346
2014: Forty-six-year-old Carla Brui, the Italian born
former first lady of France is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv.
2014: The funeral for Don Levine, the creator of “GI Joe”
is scheduled to be held at Temple Beth-El in Providence, RI
2014: French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve
“condemened” yesterday’s atrack in front a synagogue in Créteil, a Paris suburb
on what he described as members of “the Jewish faith.” (Times of Israel)
2014: “Prosecutors today said they are looking for a lone
suspect in the lethal weekend shooting spree at the Brussels Jewish Museum that
left three people dead and one in critical condition. “ Two of the victims have
been identified as an Israeli couple Mira and Emmanuel Riva.The other victims
have only been identified as a murdered French woman and an injured Belgian.
2014; “AOL Inc said today it is starting a program in
Israel to assist start-ups, and that it will invest at least $100,000 in as
many as 10 projects at a time.”
2014: At Ben Gurion Airport President Shimon Peres
“welcomed Pope Francis, saying "On behalf of the Jewish people and in the
name of all the people of Israel, I welcome you with the age-old words from the
Book of Psalms: 'Welcome in the name of the Lord.' Welcome at the gates of
Jerusalem." (As reported by Attila Somfalvi)
2014: In Durham, NC, Hundreds of people are scheduled “to
witness the internment of a cake of ashes given to an American soldier by a
Dachau survivor in 1945” at the Durham Hebrew Cemetery. (As reported by Rene
Ghert-Zand)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/dachau-human-remains-come-to-rest-in-north-carolina/
2014: The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Sons of Wichita by Daniel Schulman (reviewed by Nicholas Lemann) and
in-depth interview of Leah Hager Cohen author of No Book but the World.
2014: In a front-page ad in today’s edition of Haaretz,
“the New Association For a Better Future” “called on MKs”
to support 88-year-old former Defense Minister Moshe Arens for the
Presidency of Israel.
2014: In Spain, residents of the town of Castrillo
Matajudos (Castrillo Kill Jews) will vote on changing the town’s name to Mota
Judios or Mota Judious, both of which means Mound of the Jews.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/spanish-town-of-kill-jews-to-vote-on-name-change/
2015(7th of Sivan, 5775): Second Day
Shavuot – Yizkor
2015(7th of Sivan, 5775): Ninety-year-old
Morris Wilkins passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2015: Today, “judges sentenced former Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert to serve an additional eight months of prison over a graft conviction,
tacking the sentence onto a separate six-year jail term the ex-politician is
set to serve for another conviction.”
2015: This evening the Historic 6th & I
Synagogue in Washington, DC is scheduled to host Café Nite, an exploration of
several learning options with MesorahDC.
2015: Memorial Day observed as Americans remember those who
made the supreme sacrifice for the United States and her citizens.
https://kaplancenter.org/memorial-day-and-united-jewish-people
http://forward.com/news/135331/profiles-of-our-fallen/#ixzz1DeAMPaIh
http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/07/18/jews-in-the-military/
2016: Despite the issuance of a “severe travel advisor for
Tunisia” by Israel’s Counter-Terroirsm Bureau, “many Jews who” come the former
French colony are scheduled to travel, as they do “each year to the island
of Djerba in the country’s south, the historic home of an ancient community of
Jewish priestly families, to celebrate the Lag B’Omer holiday, which” begins
this evening.
2016: The Skirball Center is scheduled to present Dr.
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg speaking on “Lech Lecha: Becoming Abraham,”an
examination of “Abraham’s odyssey through a combination of psychoanalysis,
rabbinic commentary, art history and other disciplines…”
2016: The Leo Baeck Institute and the American Society for
Jewish Music are scheduled to present “An Erwin Schulhoff Retrospective with
the Downtown Chamber Players” who will perform compositions of the
Czechoslovakian composer and pianist who died in 1942 in the Wurzburg
concentration camp in Bavaria.
2017(29th of Iyar, 5777): Ninety-three year
old Eliezer David Jaffe “the founder and president of The Israel Free Loan
Association and a professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem” passed away
today.
2017: “The premiere of Nania” and a performance of “Tech It
Away” is scheduled to take place tonight at “Catamona Rave, a one-night party
at Beit Alliance” in Jerusalem.
2017: “The annual Shavuot Festival in White” is scheduled
to begin today.
2017: “A Night of Philosophy” is scheduled to “be held at
several locations throughout Tel Aviv, including Beit Alma and the Nachum
Gutman Museum.”
2017: The USHMM is scheduled to host a talk by Holocaust
survivor Marcel Drimer as part of its “Fist Person Series.”
2017: ELI Talks is scheduled to host presentations by
Andrew Belifnfante, Director of Public Programs at Mechon Hadar, Amy Reichert
and singer and songwriter Neshama Carlebach.
2018: JW3 is scheduled to host a pre-Shabbat screening of
“Entebbe” this afternoon in London.
2018: Professor Dr. Robert Harris of JTS is scheduled to
teach present the final session of “Medieval Jewish Commentaries of the Hebrew
Bible.”
2018: The 14th Street Y is scheduled to
present a performance of “The Labor of Life” by Hanoch Levin and directed by
Ronit Muszka Tblit
2018: In Iowa, as part of the Jewish Federation of the Quad
Cities Jewish Culture Series Holocaust Survivor Eva Schloss a step-sister of
Anne Frank, and creator of the exhibit "Paintings Created in Hiding by
Erich and Heinz Geiringer" which will be permanently housed at the
Danville Station Museum in Danville, Iowa” is scheduled to speak this evening
at the Tri-City Jewish Center in Rock Island, Illinois.
2019(20th of Iyar, 5779): Parashat Behar
and Chapter Four of Pirke Avot;
2019: In Washington, DC, the Avalon Theatre is scheduled to
host a screening of Aviv Kempner’s “The Spy Behind Home Plate.”
2019: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host a
presentation by Leonie Bergman as part of their Survivor Speaker series.
2019: On Shabbat, Israelis prepared to deal with the third
day of massive wildfires, Prime Minister is reported to have thanked the
international community for their response, including two helicopters sent by
Egypt to fight the conflagration
2020: The Virtual Sonoma County JCC Israeli Film Festival
is scheduled to host a screening of “Turn Left at the End of the World,” a 2004
drama about culture clashes between Indian and Moroccan Jews who have
immigrated to Israel and the love between two girls on opposite sides
2020: Memorial Day is scheduled to be observed in the
United States since the start of the pandemic
https://kaplancenter.org/memorial-day-and-united-jewish-people
http://forward.com/news/135331/profiles-of-our-fallen/#ixzz1DeAMPaIh
http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/07/18/jews-in-the-military/
2020: The History Channel is scheduled to host the first in
a three-part miniseries about U.S. Grant, infamous for Order Number 11 but also
known for his positive relationship with the Jewish community that led to its
support for him at the ballot box and included his attendance at the dedication
of Adas Israel to which he made a contribution.
2020: Aish is schedule to host a “special live class with
Rabbi Benjamin Blech” who will speak on “How the Torah Changed the World,” “a
40-minute exploration on the 10 commandments and personal fulfillment.
2020: As they arise this morning, Israelis will be
confronting the realities of the Pandemic and the reality of Prime Minister
standing on trial for corruption.
2020: The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled
to present a Webinar on “Value and Consequences in the Halakhic Process: A
Sephardi Perspective” with Professor Zvi Zohar.
2021: Kerem Shalom is scheduled to present online “Voter
Rights and Suppression” with Nancy Brumbeck, the voting rights specialist at
the Massachusetts League of Women Voters.
2021: The Laura and Alvine Siegal Lifelong Learning Program
at Case Western Reserve University is scheduled to present “Finding God in Our
Relationships: Insights from Martin Buber.”
2021: The YIVO Institute is scheduled to present, live on
Zoom, “Salomea Perl and Women Yiddish Prose Writers.”
https://programs.cjh.org/event/salomea-perl-2021-05-25
2021: Stanford historian Steven Zipperstein is scheduled to
be the guest this evening at “conversation” hosted by the Jewish Review of
Books.
2021: The Jewish Heritage Alliance is scheduled to present
“Our of the Dungeons” with Genie Milgrom.
2021: In partnership with the Consulate General of Israel
to New England, The Zamir Chorale of Boston us scheduled to host “a virtual
concert and conversation with international artists Achinoam Nini, Benjie Ellen
Schiller and others, including a discussion about Israeli songwriter Naomi
Shemer.”
2021: The JCC of Greater Boston is scheduled to present
online “Cancel Culture Through a Jewish Lens.”
2021: The Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford is
scheduled to present Cecile Kuznitz from Bard College Jewish studies department
lecturing on various aspects of Yiddish culture and scholarship.
2021: The Jewish Arts Collaborative is scheduled to present
online a “Tribute to Leonard Cohen with David Broza and Friends.”
2021: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet with
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at his Jerusalem office today at 10 a.m.
local time.
2022: The Wiener Holocaust Memorial Library and HGRP are
scheduled to host the second and final day of “Recovery and Repair: Supporting
Jewish Family Histories of the Holocaust Throughout Britain.”
2022: The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled
to present “New Works Wednesday with Rachel and Frankel and JJCPF (Jamaican
Jewish Cemeteries Preservation Fund.”
2022: LSJS is scheduled to a lecture by Dr. Shalva Weil on
“Baghdadi Jews under the Raj: Religion, Opium and Bollywood.”
2022: In New Orleans, the Jewish Community Day School is
scheduled to hold its 6th grade graduation.
2022: Today, Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu is
scheduled to “meet with Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, visit Israel's
main Holocaust memorial and pay a private visit to Jerusalem's flashpoint holy
site, known to Muslims as the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and to Jews as the Temple
Mount.”
2023: “Gateway Shavuos 2023 is scheduled to begin at the
Armon Motel in Stamford, CT.
2023: “Etz Chayim, Beth Am, Hausner, JCC, Keddem, Kehillah
and Kol Emeth” is scheduled to present an “all-night learning session centered
on stories of conversion and Jewish identity completed with film screening,
kiddush, snack, seven species tasting and blintzes.”
2023: Congregation Kehillath Israel is scheduled to present
“Community Tikkun Leil Shavuot in Brookline.”
2023: Hebrew College is scheduled to present “Tikkun Leyl
Shavuot 2023/5783”
2023(5th of Sivan, 5783): Erev Shavuot
2024: Tickets are available today for The Nova Music
Festival Exhibition, an in-depth remembrance of the brutal October 7th attack
2024(17th of Iyar, 5784): Parashat Behar; Pirke Avot
Chapter Four
2024: As May 25th begins in Israel,
an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps the United States and the Hamas
held hostages begin day 232 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this
situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a
snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
2025: Quinn Levin, the winner of the Social Studies Cup and
the recipient of honors for participation in theatre and band, who is not only
smart but kind and generous, is scheduled to graduate with distinction today
from Bexley High School in Bexley, OH in a moment of joy for mom Michelle
Levin, brother Jacob Levin and so many
others.
2025: “Parade,” the Tony Award-winning musical about Leo
Frank, a real-life victim of a lynching in Atlanta in 1915 is scheduled to be presented by BroadwaySF at the Orpheum Theatre.
2025: A Museum at Eldridge Street expert is scheduled to guide
participants as they walk in the footsteps of these immigrants and tell their
stories on the Jewish Lower East Side.
2025: “Sinai in the Cloud,” a “Global Shavuot Learning” is
scheduled to begin at noon, EDT.
2025: Day 25 of Jewish American Heritage Month; Read The
Jews of Chicago by Irving Cutler; History of the Jews of
Chicago - UF Digital Collections UI Press | Irving
Cutler | The Jews of Chicago
2025: As May 25th begins in
Israel, an unprecedented wave of ant-Semitism sweeps across the globe and the
United States where words have given way to deeds with a Hamas supported
murdering two Jews on the streets of Washington, D.C, the reality is that the remaining Hamas held
hostages begin day 595 in captivity (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid
for this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at
midnight Israeli time.)
2026: New Lehrhaus is scheduled to host the third
session of Talmudic Aramac I
2026: In the United States observance of
Memorial Day, which has morphed from being a solemn day to remember those who
have made the ultimate sacrifice, including Jewish service men and women who
have fought in every war since the American Revolution, to the kick-off for
summer celebrations.
https://www.jwv.org/programs/in-your-area/memorial-day/
2026: As May 25 begins in Israel after the
Knesset’s ultra-Orthodox parties rejection of the latest draft of the
coalition’s Haredi conscription exemption bill which “means it is likely that
the two Haredi parties in the Knesset, United Torah Judaism and Shas, will
continue pushing to bring elections forward by about a month, likely to
September 15 in the middle of the High Holidays” and the IDF “is preparing
for the possibility that an emerging deal between the US and Iran would force
it to rein in its war against Hezbollah in Lebanon” (Editor’s note: this
situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a
snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
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