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763 BCE:Forty-one years before their conquest of Israel, the Assyrians observe andrecord a solar eclipse which is the basis for much of the dating of activitiesin the Fertile Crescent, including Eretz Israel, prior to the seventh centuryBCE (As reported by Austin Cline)
1099: Godfreyde Bouillon entered Jerusalem, drove all the Jews into the synagogue, and setthem afire while he marched around the synagogue singing, "Christ, weadore thee". This marked the end of Jerusalem as a Jewish center forcenturies, although Jews did return in limited numbers after the Moslemreconquest in 1187. It is estimated that between 20,000 and 30,000 Jews weremassacred or captured and sold as slaves in Italy.
OR(You pick the version)
1099: Thecrusaders final assault on Jerusalem was successful and the city was sacked.This was in keeping with the general rule that, if a fortified place did notsurrender, it might be sacked, and its inhabitants killed or enslaved. Althoughthere was considerable bloodshed in Jerusalem, , recent research hasdemonstrated that crusade leaders intervened to protect some of theinhabitants, including Muslims and Jews. Among those who took this step wasGodfrey of Bouillon. Some Muslims and Jews were slaughtered, but some wereescorted to Muslim territory.
1174: Baldwin IV was crownedKing of Jerusalem. Graetz claims that the Leperous King was the one whobanned the Jews from Jerusalem. That honor should go to his father whotook the throne in 1162 and the ban began in 1165 and last until 1175. SinceBaldwin was only 13 at the time of his coronation credit for lifting the banprobably should go to the Raymond III of Tripoli, the regent who negotiated atreaty with Saladin.
1205: PopeInnocent III laid down the principle that Jews were doomed to perpetualservitude and subjugation because they had crucified Jesus. This classic chargeof deicide was officially removed in 1963.
1291: KingRudolf I, who had negated the freedom of Jews of Germany by declaring them servi camerae ("serfs of thetreasury") in 1286, passed away today.
1389: Murad Iis killed following the Ottoman defeat of the Christians at the Battle ofKosovo also known as the Battle of Blackbird’s Field. Murad had allowed Jewsfleeing Hungary to settle in Thrace and Anatolia so his death was a net lossfor them. (While it is not a matter of Jewish History, memories of this battlewould resurface at the end of the 20th century when Moslems andChristians squared off in the Balkan Wars following the dissolution ofYugoslavia)
1555: Paul IVissued Cum Nims Absurdum, the papal that “ordered the creation of a Jewishghetto in Rome.
1567: Not forthe first time, nor for the last time, the Jews were expelled from the entireRepublic of Genoa today.
1572 (5332)Isaac Luria passed away. There is no waythis simple guide can do justice to the life of this giant of Judaism. For those who are interested, here are twoplaces to begin: http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/111878/jewish/Rabbi-Isaac-Luria-The-Ari-Hakodosh.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Luria.html
1606: Birthdate of the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. Rembrandt lived in a Jewishquarter in Amsterdam. He often depicted Jewish people on his canvases. One of his most famous paintings is styled“Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law.” There are several special eventsplanned to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s and manyof them highlight his special relationship with the Dutch Jewishcommunity. For more on this subject, youmight want to read the recently published Rembrandt’s Jews by StevenNadler.
1629: A clerical commission meeting today to look into the guilt ofYom-Tov Heller “asked him how he dared to eulogize the Talmud after it had beenburned by papal order” – a charge which he could not answer to the commission’ssatisfaction which to his being condemned to death.
1631: Birthdate of Richard Cumberland, the Bishop of Peterborough who wasthe author of “An essay towards therecovery of the Jewish measures & weights, comprehending their monies, byhelp of ancient standards, compared with ours of England useful also to statemany of those of the Greeks and Romans, and the eastern nations.”
1694:The Jesuits, who were opposed to the printing efforts of Shabbethai ben Joseph Bass, “sent a letter tothe magistrate of Breslau to have the sale of Hebrew books interdicted on theground that such works contained "blasphemous and irreligious words"
1738(27thof Tammuz, 5498): Baruch Laibov and Alexander Voznitzin were burnt alive in St.Petersburg, Russia, with the consent of Empress Anna Johanova. Voznitzin, anaval captain, was guilty of the crime of converting to Judaism. Laibov wasguilty of helping him. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=346&letter=B
1756(17thof Tammuz, 5516): Tzom Tammuz observed as Prussia prepared to enter into analliance with Great Britain during the Seven Years War.
1766(9thof Av, 5526): Tish’a B’Av
1766: InPhiladelphia, Jonas and Rebecca MendesMachado Phillips gave birth to Philadelphia Phillips Pesoa, the wife of IsaacPesoa.
1769: InNewport, RI, Hillel Judah and his wife gave birth to merchant Emanuel Judah“who married Grace Seixas” in 1815.
1783: Jacob Louzadawho at the start of the American Revolution in 1776 was forced to leave the “familyowned land at Bound Brook, NJ” arrived in New York today.
1790: Membersof Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim of the Jewish Congregation of Charlestonwrotea letter to congratulate the President of the United States George Washingtonon the occasion of the establishment of a federal government.
1794(17thof Tammuz, 5554): Tzom Tammuz observed during the uprising in Vilnius, the hometo a large Jewish population including the Vilna Gaon.
1799: TheRosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French CaptainPierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. The discovery ofthe Stone helped to fuel interest in archaeology, including what would becomethe field of modern Biblical archaeology.
1799:Birthdate of Samuel Bleichröder the Jewish banker who worked with theRothschilds and who was the father of Gerson von Bleichröder and JuliusBleichröder who followed in their father’s footsteps.
1801: In whatmight seem like a weakening of the position of French Jews, Napoleon signs aConcordat that recognizes Catholocism as the religion of “the great majority ofFrenchmen.”
1808: A dayafter she had passed away, Elizabeth Town, the daughter of Benjamin Town wasburied today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1813(17thof Tammuz, 5573): Tzom Tammuz observed on the same day that Abigail Adams,attaches a letter from her husband, former President John Adams to formerPresident Thomas Jefferson expressing her regards for the man who, in his oldage, has become a friend again with her husband.
1815(9thof Av, 5575): Tisha B’Av
1815(9thof Av, 5575): The Chozen of Lublin (The Seer of Lublin) passed away. Born Yaakov Yitzchak in 1745, he was aleading Polish Chasidc Rebbe.
1815: NapoleonBonaparte surrenders for the final TIME aboard HMS Bellerophon. Havinglearned their lesson from Napoleon’s escape from captivity following his firstsurrender, the conquering European powers exile him to St. Helena where he willlive out his days. This final surrenderseems to mark the return of the Ancien Regime to Europe in general and Francein particular. The forces of reactionwill try and undo the gains in liberty made by the Jews of Europe.
1817:Birthdate of German orientalist Max Grunbaum who “mainly dealt with mythology,Yiddish and Jewish-Spanish Literature.”
1818: InSavannah, GA, Levy Hart married Abigail Minis Sheftall, the youngest daughterof the last Levy Sheftall.
1818: Abrahamand Clara Moses were married today at the Great Synagogue.
1818: Mosely(Moshe) Woolf and Hannah Woolf gave birth to Cecilia Woolf who became CeciliaMarks when she married David Marks.
1820:Birthdate of Dresden native and German actor and director Anton Ascher, trained by Ludwig Tieck who “madehis début in 1838 at Hainichen and who “was the director of the Carl Theatre inVienna” from 1866 to 1872 after which he appeared on Broadway in “Please HelpEmily,” “Just Married,” “Jane Our Stranger” and “The Spider.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1893-ascher-anton
1832(17thof Tammuz, 5592) Tzom Tammus
1832: SolomonEtting, a Jewish citizen of Baltimore, MD, wrote a letter to Henry Clay, theU.S. Senator from Kentucky, saying that he other co-religionists “feel bothsurprised and hurt by the manner in which you introduced the expression ‘theJew’ in debated in the Senate of the United States, evidently applying it as areproachful designation of a man whom you considered obnoxious in character andconduct.” Since Ettinger did not know the man in question and since he assumesthat Clay has no “antipathy” for the Jewish people, he asked that Clay write tohim why he had used this particular expression in this particular manner.
1834: Thechild-Queen Isabella's mother, Christina, issued an official and final edictabolishing the Inquisition in Spain. The words read, "It is declared thatthe Tribunal of the Inquisition is definitely suppressed. The Inquisitions hadbeen in place for nearly three and one half centuries.
1836: InMichelfeld, thirty-seven year old Marx Oppenheimer and his second wife Sarahgave birth to Karoline Levy.
1838: RalphWaldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School,discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. TheProtestant community reacts with outrage. This was not the first or last timethat Emerson would express views on religion that were out of step withprevailing Christian views. In describing the Last Supper, Emerson states“Jesus is a Jew sitting with countrymencelebrating their national feast.”Jesus’ Jewishness would not become an accepted tenant of many Christianbeliefs until the second half of the twentieth century.
1843:Birthdate of Indiana native William W. Morrow who as a Congressman fromCalifornia who would champion the cause of Adolph Kutner, the Russian bornAmerican businessman who was afraid to return to his native land because of theCzar’s policies regarding Jews.
1844: InSlovakia, Jacob Salzberger and his wife gave birth to Dr. Moritz Salzberger,the Rabbi at Erfurt from 1886 to 1923, the husband of Anna Salzberger andfather of Gertrude, Rabbiner and Max Salzberger.
1850:Birthdate of Amalia Loeb who was buried in the Jewish Cemetery a Morgan City,LA.
1852:Birthdate of Polish native Adolph Mendlowicz, the husband of StefanieMenelowitz with whom he had twochildren.
1853: InBangor, Main, Julius Spitz and Julia Wolf gave birth to Nancy Spirtz, thedirector of the Leopold Morse Home, the Hebrew Women’s Sewing Society andhonorary director of the Federation of Jewish Charities who is the wife ofGodfrey J. Spitz
1854(19thof Tammuz, 5614): Parashat Pinchas
1854: The Israelite, the first Jewishnewspaper published in Cincinnati, Ohio, was established today. This Englishlanguage newspaper was founded by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, the “founding father”of Reform Judaism in America whose other “firsts” included the creation of theHebrew Union College.
1854: The New York Times published a letterfrom E.R. McGregor, the Editor of the Jewish Chronicle in which he takes issuewith the Times report that a U.S. citizen named Jones has been guilty ofselling pieces of ancient columns and other such items to unsuspecting touristsin Jerusalem According to McGregor Jonesis a “Christian and a gentlemen” who was sent to Palestine by the AmericanSociety for Meliorating the Condition of the Jews (A.S.M.C. Jew) to examine thefeasibility of establishing “agricultural colonies and schools for the benefitof the Jews and others residing in the country.” James Finn, the British Consulin Jerusalem, is the source of the negative stories about Mr. Jones. According to McGregor, Finn is responsiblefor large losses connected with land near Bethlehem that was supposed to bepurchased with American funds for the purpose of creating an agriculturalcolony. (Editor’s note – Other sources describe Finn as “adevout Christian, who belonged to the London Society for Promoting ChristianityAmongst the Jews, but who did not engage in missionary work during his years”as British Consul in Jerusalem. According to these sources, Finn bought a pieceof land outside of the Old City that he turned into an agricultural trainingfacility for Jews. Finally, he bought land, at a place called Artas nearBethlehem where employed otherwise impoverished Jews as laborers. Further research is obviously necessary.)
1855: InBratislava, Ignatz Isaak Loth and Caroline Honig gave birth to future NewYorker Moritz Loth, the husband of Jennie Davidson and the father of Herbertand Stanly Loth.
1856:Birthdate of Charles Frohman, the native of Sandusky Ohio, one of the threeFrohman brothers, who became a noted Broadway impresario who co-founded theTheatrical Syndicate.
1859: “InParshilee, Suvalky, Poland” which was part of the Russian Empire, “AbrahamJacob and Rebecca (Levine) Marks gave birth to Rueben Marks, the grandson ofIrwin Levine, and successful lumber business man who settled in Des Moines, IAin 1885 where he founded what became the Marks Hat Company, “established aclothing factory in Chicago, and raised three children – Moses, Anna and Harry-with his wife Belle Jacobs, the daughter of Joshua and Miriam Jacobson whileserving as President of Tiffereth, Israel,President of the local lodge of B’nai B’rith and director of theCleveland Orphan Asylum
1860: InCologne, Albert Oppenheim, a member of the Jewish banking family who hadconverted to Catholicism and his wife Pauline Engels gave birth to Max vonOppenheim.
1861(8thof Av, 5621) Erev Tish’s B’Av observed two days before the federal governmentbegan issuing greenbacks during Civil War.
1862(17thof Tammuz, 5622): Tzom Tammuz
1862: InPoland, Abraham Jacob and Rebecca (Levine) Marks gave birth to Reuben Marks whotrained to be a rabbi under his uncle, Rabbi Abraham Levine, before coming tothe United States in 1884 where he organized the first Hebrew School in DesMoines, IA and chaired the Des Moines District of the ZOA while being married to Rachel M. Barnett.
1862:Birthdate of Frank Putnam Flint, the U.S. Senator from California who supportedefforts to get the Governor of Georgia to commute the death sentence of LeoFrank.
1863: Today,the 23rd Maine Infantry whose members included Moses Gould Beal, hisoldest so Jarvis and his brother William was mustered out of service in Portland.
1863: InManitowoc, WI, Francesca Fannie Teweles and Jacob L. Brandies gave birth toArthur D. Brandeis, the husband of Detroit native Zerlina Freedman with whom hehad three children – Ruth, Leola and John and one of the operator of J.L.Brandeis and Sons Department Store in Omaha, Nebraska.
1866: IonGhica, “a valuable all for the Yiddish theatre in Bucharest” who “on several occasions he expressed his favorable view of the quality ofacting, and even more of the technical aspects of the Yiddish theater” beganserving as Prime Minister of Romania today.
1869: In NewYork City, Adolph Tuska and Elise Robitscher gave birth to “consultingengineer” Gustave R. Tuska, a graduate of CCNY and Columbia and husband ofIsabel Pappenheimer who filled severed as chief engineer for the Panama R.R.Co, the Atlantic Construction Co. and the American Power Co. as well asDirector of the Hebrew Technical Institute.
1870: InCleveland, Ohio, Rabbi Max Lienthal of Cincinnati Ohio, presented the followingresolutions to a meeting of rabbis from across the nation who adopted themunanimously.
Whereas, In consideration of the religiouscommotion now agitating the public mind in both hemispheres, in accordance withthe principles of Judaism it is unanimously declared:
1.Becausewith unshaken faith and firmness we believe in one indivisible and eternal God;we also believe in the common Fatherhood of God and the common brotherhood ofmen.
2.Weglory in the sublime doctrine of our religion, which teaches that the righteousof all nations, without distinction of creed, will enjoy eternal life andeverlasting happiness.
3.Thedivine command, the most sublime passage of the Bible “Thou shalt love thyfellow man as thyself,” extends to the entire human family without distinctionof either race or creed.
4.Civiland religious liberty, and hence the separation of Church and State, are theinalienable rights of man, we consider them to be the brightest gems in theConstitutions of the United States.
5.Welove and revere this country as our home and fatherland for us and ourchildren, and therefore consider it our paramount duty to sustain and supportthe Government, to favor by all means the system of free education leavingreligious instruction to the care of the different denominations.
6.Weexpect the universal elevation and fraternization of the human family to beachieved by the natural means of science, morality, freedom, justice and truth.
According tothe attendees, “ these resolution…clearly express…the religious and politicalcreed of Judaism.”
1872: In Frankfurt-en-Main Sara Koeniswertherand Leo Hertz gave to Alfred Hertz, the second conductor of the San FranciscoSymphony, who replaced Henry Hadley, in 1915, when the orchestra was just fouryears old and who remained with the symphony until his farewell performanceApril 15, 1930” and who was the husband of Lilly Dorn.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/hertz.html
1873(20th ofTammuz, 5633): Three-month-old Judah Aloof, the London born son of Abraham andMesoda Aloof passed aay today.
1874(1st ofAv, 5634): Rosh Chodesh Av
1874: InLithuania Michael Sheftal and Feigel Mayor Kaplan gave birth to Columbiagraduate and JTS ordained rabbi Bernard Michael Kaplan, who began his career atthe McGill Avenue Synagogue in Montreal after which he served severalcongregations including the Bush Street Temple in San Francisco, B’nai Jershurun and Temple Israel inWaterbury, CT while authorig “the Strange Melody and others plays which wereperformed in the David Belasco Theatre in San Francisco." https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/11/23/105166460.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0\
1877:“Protection for Jews in Palestine” published today included the text of aletter from the Acting Secretary of State to Meyer S. Isaacs, President of theBoard of Delegates of American Israelites.The letter was in response to a request from Mr. Isaacs seeking Americanprotection for Russian Jews living in and around Jerusalem from abuse by theOttoman authorities. Mr. Sewardexplained that normally, the U.S. government only provides protection for itsown citizens living abroad. He concededthat the United States has a reputation for helping oppressed people in foreigncountries; but that help can only be provided if all of the parties involved gothrough proper diplomatic channels.
1877: Sixty-one-year-oldIsaac Phillips, the husband of Julia Hyman with whom he had two children–Esther and Rebecca – and who was “one of the founders of the Jewish FemaleMourning Society” was buried today at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1877: The Jewish Messenger reported thatSecretary of State Seward had sent a letter to Meyer S. Isaacs, President ofthe Board of Delegates of Israelites in response to his letter of June 4 askingthat the United States help provide protection for Jews from Russia living inand around Jerusalem. Speaking in that unique language of diplomats, Sewardtold Isaacs that the U.S. usually only extends such protection to its owncitizens living abroad. But he assuredhim that the United States was sympathetic to “all the oppressed peoples inforeign countries” and would act accordingly within the spirit of“international courtesy and diplomatic usage…The desired protection will beextended if these conditions are complied with.” [This was one of the first times thatAmerican Jews had asked the United States government to intervene on behalf oftheir co-religionists living in Eretz-Israel.Seward’s understated reply was more potent than it might appear. He was a real power in the Republican havingserved as a U.S. Senator and having been a serious candidate for the Presidencyin 1860. Also, he had actually visitedPalestine in the years prior to the Civil War so he had a firsthand knowledgeof the area and the Ottomans who ruled it .
1877: Union ofHebrew Congregations completed its meeting in Philadelphia, PA. Severalspeeches were delivered in favor of having all the Jews in the United Statesrepresented by one national organization. The delegates agreed to hold theirnext meeting in July of 1878 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1877: “TheEnglish Jews in Politics,” published today reprinted the views of Goldwin Smiththat originally appeared in theFort-nightly Review. According to Smith, the Jews supported the LiberalParty until they gained full rights (including the change in oath that made itpossible for them to sit in Parliament) and then they “gravitated toward theparty of wealth” – the Conservative Party.Smith went on to describe Judaism as “surviving relic of the primevalworld” that was a “tribal religion” inferior to Christianity that belonged to“the ages before humanity.” As such, Jews “cannot be expected to have muchsympathy with progress” and since they are now wealthy, they are obviouslysupporter of the “plutocratic party.” [Editor’s note – What the publishers ofthe article do not say is that Smith was a member of the Liberal Party andstrong opponent of Benjamin Disraeli, the leader of the ConservativeParty. He later became a professor atCornell University before finally settling in Canada. According to the CanadianEncyclopedia, Goldwin Smith was “a major exponent of anti-Semitism in the 19thcentury…. A pathological anti-Semite, Smith disseminated his hatred in dozensof books, articles and letters. Jews, he charged, were "parasites,""dangerous" to their host country and "enemies ofcivilization." His bilious anti-Jewish tirades helped set the tone of astill unmoulded Canadian society and had a profound impact on such youngCanadians as W.L. Mackenzie King, Henri Bourassa and scores of others. Indeedin 1905 in the most vituperative anti-Jewish speech in the history of the Houseof Commons, borrowing heavily from Smith, Bourassa urged Canada to keep itsgates shut to Jewish immigrants.” Thisshould explain much of the content of Smith’s article.)
1878:Birthdate of Polish native and NYU trained attorney Henry Lasker, the formerPresident of the Board of Alderman in Springfield, MA where he served as thefirst president of the local B’nai B’rith Lodged and was a founder andPresident of the Spring Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/12/12/issue.html
1879: AtMercez, Rabbi Isaac Margolis and Hinda Zirilstein gave birth University ofCincinnati grad and HUC ordained rabbi Elias Margolis who served as the rabbiof Congregation Re’im Ahuvim in Stockton, CA before assuming the pulpit atTemple Emanuel at Pueblo, CO in 1903.
1880: InMeretz, Vilna, Lithuania, “Rabbi Isaac Margolis and Mrs. Hinde BernsteinMargolis gave birth to Dr. Elias Margolis, who in 1885 came to the UnitedStates where he received degrees from the University of Cincinnati, HebrewUnion College and Columbia, led several congregations while leading theRabbinical Assembly of JTS and the Synagogue Council of America and raised fivechildren with his wife Esther Molly Jacobson Margolis.
1880: Thesecond annual convention of the National Rabbinical Association came to a closetoday in Detroit, Michigan. About halfof the 56 member rabbis were in attendance.A large number of non-Jews attended the sessions at which papers onseveral topics related to Judaism were presented.
1880: Anunidentified man was buried in a pauper’s grave today in Hoboken, NJ. The undertaker had initially identified theman as being Jewish and the town’s Jewish community had donated funds toprovide him with a Jewish burial. It isnot clear what caused the confusion, but the undertaker is refusing to returnthe funds to the Jews.
1880: “Notesof Literary News” published today described the upcoming publication of JewishLife in the East a collection of papers written by Sydney M. Samuel on thecondition of Jews living in Palestine and other parts of the Levant includingan examination of their physical andmoral condition and their manners and customs. At Jerusalem, in 1879-80, SydneyM. Samuel found 416 heads of families pursuing 29 handicrafts, among whom weretinkers, goldsmiths, watchmakers, smiths, turners, and masons ("JewishLife in the East," p. 78)
1880: Amongthe charities designated to receive funds from Excise Fund in New York was theHebrew Sheltering Guardian Society in the amount of $1,686.
1880: InMerkine, Hinde Bernstein and Isaac Margolis gave birth to Elias Margolis.
1881(18thof Tammuz, 5641): Sixty-six year old Austrian banker Friedrich Freiherr Scheyvon Koromla, the father of Charlotte Przibram and the maternal grandfather ofbiologist Hans Leo Przibram passed away today.
1881: Two daysafter he had passed away, George Novra, a native of Prussia and the husband ofRebecca Abrahams with whom he had four children – Henry, Maria, Benjamin andLewis – was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1881: Four ofthe five newly elected officers of the Executive Board of the Hebrew Union comefrom Cincinnati, Ohio, the home of Hebrew Union College. The only exception wasA.L. Sanger of New York who was elected to serve as Vice President.
1881: It wasreported today that the just concluded meeting of the Council of the HebrewUnion had rejected Rabbi Wise’s proposal to provide stipends for worthystudents who lacked the funds to attend Hebrew Union College. Wise was concerned that “poverty” would keepthose with “talent” from serving as Rabbis. The attendees refused to even voteon a proposal requiring that a rabbi must get the consent of his congregationbefore talking to another congregation about a new position. The Council felt that they had no businessinterfering in the relationships that rabbis had with their congregations.
1882: In anattempt to eliminate a source of strikebreakers, it was suggested that thestriking freight handlers meet with the Polish Jews and offer to provide themwith enough money so that they can buy a stock of small goods and go on theroad as peddlers. The idea was based onreports that the Polish Jews only planned to work on the docks until they hadearned enough money to go into business for themselves.
1882: “RussianRefugees Returning Home” published today described the plight of Russian Jewishimmigrants who have arrived in Philadelphia in the last few months. Only a third of the 600 recent arrivals havefound jobs and 51 of the families will be shipping out from New York today asthey return to their homeland.
1883:”Thesecretary of the Manchester Congregation of British Jews” Isaac Asher Isaacs,the “son of Asher and Esther Isaacs” and Hannah “Annie” Isaacs gave birth toAlbert Phineas Isaacs today.
1883:Birthdate of Polish born American dentist Dr. Anna Pavit Boudin, the founderand first president of the Women’s ORT and wife labor lawyer Louis B. Boudinwith whom she had two children – Eleanor and Vera.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/10/26/89129345.html?pageNumber=29
1883: Inresponding to charges by Charles D. Kellogg that “65 per cent of the publiccharity was mis- directed” Superintendent Hirsch of the New York United HebrewCharities offered his ‘most emphatic dissent” saying that “very fewunderserving persons are successful with us” “and what is better comparativelyfew make the attempt.”
1884(22nd ofTammuz, 5644): French painter Alphonse Hirsch passed away. Born in Paris in 1843, he studied withMeissonier and Bonnat. Among his most famous portrait was one painted in 1877 -“Isidor, the chief Rabbi of France.”
1884: The lastremnant of the Judengasse in Frankfort, Germany, is scheduled to be demolishedtoday.
1884: “At theGreat Synagogue, Sydney, Henry Emanuel married Sophie Frank the daughter of LeoFrank of Hanover, Germany who had arrived in Sydney some twelve monthspreviously as governess to Sigmond Hoffnung’s children.”
1884: Twentypeople from four families arrived in New York today aboard the SS India. Their passage had been paid for by the HebrewRelief Committee of Breslau.
1884:Birthdate of Professor Leonardo Olschki, the son of a Verona, Italy “bookdealer and publisher” who taught at universities in Germany and Italy beforecoming to the United States 1939 and becoming an American citizen in 1945 whileteaching at Johns Hopkins and the University of California at Berkeley whilebeing married to Kate Mosse Olschki.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/12/12/118526395.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1885: In whatappears to be a botched murder/suicide brought on by a domestic dispute,Augustus Erwin, a German Jew, shot his wife and Margaret and then turned thegun on himself.
1885: It wasreported today that the newly formed Union of Hebrew Charities will requirefavorable responses from 12 of the Jewish charitable organizations before itwill officially begin its work.
1885:Birthdate of Ukraine native Max Hirsh, the husband of Olga Hirsh
1886:Birthdate of Milwaukee native Irma Cain, the graduate of Vassar who become IrmaCain Firestone when she married Northwestern University Law School graduateMilton Firestone and was the mother of “Ruth Firestone Brin” her “third childand only daughter.”
1886: It wasreported today the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children will be sponsoring three freeexcursions this summer for the enjoyment of the poor Jewish children and theirmothers.
1886: Today’souting to the Catskills sponsored by the Five Points Mission was an ecumenicalaffair since it included children of Italian, German, Irish and Jewishimmigrants. Actually, the mixture merelymirrored the multiplicity of immigrant groups that were living in the squalorof the Lower East Side’s worst neighborhood.
1886:Birthdate of Gillespie, Illinois native and Parisian trained artists Walter F.Isaacs, who became the Director of the University of Washington School of Artin Seattle.
http://tacoma.emuseum.com/emuseum/people/45/walter-f-isaacs
1886: InBloomington, Illinois, Miss Ida Clark who converted to Judaism last week sothat she could marry an English Jew named Holland tonight suffered a greatembarrassment and disappointment today.She received word that he had changed his mind and had called off theengagement without any explanation.
1886: “DogCatchers Defeated” published today described how James Flanagan, Joseph Kellyand James Murphy unsuccessfully tried to capture a spitz owned by NathanWeissbaum. Their ineptitude wasexacerbated by the interference of “several hundred Polish Jews” bent onmischief who unhitched the dogcatcher’s horse from its cart leaving the trioafoot on Hester Street.
1887: “Harrythe Jew,” a well-known New York crook sent to the county jail Asbury Park, NJto await charges of having robbed several bathhouses. Harry’s last name is various listed asHarris, Fell and Luster.
1887:Birthdate of “artist William Meyerowitz, a native of Ekaterinoslav (laterDnepropetrovsk), Russia and student of the National Academy of Design in NewYork and husband of Theresa Berstein who in 1943 had a reached a point of suchprominence that in one year he had exhibitions at numerous institutionsincluding the “Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and theNew-York Historical Society.”
https://theresabernstein.newmedialab.cuny.edu/?page_id=4235
https://rogallery.com/Meyerowitz_William/meyerowitz-biography.html
1887:Birthdate of Pittsfield, MA native and University of Maryland trained surgeonMaurice Solomon Eisner, who was a member of the Jewish Publication Society.
1887(23rd ofTammuz, 5647): One hundred nine-year-old Hirsh Harris, known as “Rabbi Hirsch,”passed away today in Brooklyn.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=990DE5DA1430E633A2575AC2A9619C94669FD7CF
1888: Birthdateof Ber Coffet, the Russian born Americansculptor who passed away while living in New Jersey.
https://www.fold3.com/record/8417449-ber-coffet
1888:Birthdate of New York native and Brooklyn Law School trained attorney AbrahamL. Doris, “ a Deputy State Controller from 1927 to 1943 and a Deputy CityController from 1946 to 1953 who was the husband of Esther Doris with whom hehad two children, Irma and Marcia.
ABRAHAML. DORIS, HELD FISCAL POSTS - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
1889: In SanFrancisco Lillian Garlinda Kindelberger and Marcel Rambau gave birth to actressMarjorie Burnet Rambeau who according to Bernard Sobel was the responsible forthe creating the Ruben Sandwich which she “inaugurated when” she visitedthe Reuben's Delicatessen one night when the cupboards were particularly bare.”
1889: InVictoria, TX, the Jewish Children’s Aid Society was founded five years beforeCongregation B’nai Israel was founded “under the supervision of Rabbi Cohen ofGalveston.”
1890:Birthdate of Latvian Chasid Morris Indritz who came “Chicago at the age of 24where “he became an important member of the city’s Yiddish literary scene,writing for the Jewish Daily Courier, a Yiddish newspaper paper that catered toOrthodox Jews.”
https://www.spertus.edu/typewriter-used-morris-indritz
1891: Therewas “a large party” of Russian Jews aboard the SS Pickhuben that arrived today at Montreal.
1891: TheDemocrats nominated Gustavus H. Wald as their candidate for Justice of theState Supreme Court in Ohio. TheHamilton County Jew had been a Republican until 1884 James Blaine was nominatedto run for President.
1891(9thof Tammuz, 5651): Jerome Blumenthal, the fifteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.Henry Blumenthal drowned today.
1891:Birthdate of Riga native Harry Edison, who along with his brothers Sam, Mark,Irving and Simon who founded Edison Brothers Stores that began as a chain ofshoe stores.
1891: Forreasons that nobody can explain, it was reported today that few Jews attendedthe Bastille Day celebration at Lion Park in New York during which the Frenchorganizers had planned on marking the 100th anniversary of theemancipation of French Jews. (This mightreflect that there were few French Jews in New York or that a large number ofthe Jews living in New York were from Germany and like most Germans, had littleor not affection for the French who were their continental enemies.)
1891: “JewsBarred From Romania” published today described conditions on the border betweenRomania and Russia where Romanian troops have been deployed to prevent any Jewsfrom crossing over from the land of the Czars.In addition to which, policies have been enacted to keep Russian Jewsfrom landing at Romanian ports.
1892: “RussianSynagogue Schools Abolished” published today described a series of measuresapproved by the Imperia Council that “abolish synagogue schools in the form inwhich they now exist and to replace them by Government schools where theelements of the Jewish religion, Hebrew and the holy Scriptures shall be taughtby men under the constant control of a special board of Orthodox Greekinspectors.” The changes appear to be due “to a desire to improve the Jewishschools” but “really aims at their complete suppression.
1892: “A JewEnters the Greek Church” published today described the baptism of NakhimAphroim Zeldin a 19 year old Jew being held “in the prison of SergiveyPossad.” As soon as the ceremony wascompleted the Russian authorities released him from prison.
1892:Birthdate of Walter Benjamin German literary critic and writer who died in 1940on the border between France and Spain as he tried to escape from theNazis. According to some he committedsuicide, although this is disputed by others.Regardless this brilliant man who combined the ideas of Brecht andScholem died too soon, another victim of the Holocaust.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-mysterious-death-of-walter-benjamin/article/1487
http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-arcades-contemporary-art-and-walter-benjamin
1892: Birthdateof Quincy, MA native Joseph Gossman, “treasurer of Grossman's, a buildingmaterials company’’ and the husband of Esther Starr whom he married after the death of his first wife, EstherLoman who was a benefactor of Beth Israel Hospital, Quincy City “Hospital,Jewish Memorial Hospital, New England Sinai Hospital, Brandeis University, andthe Combined Jewish Philanthropies” and who was a member of the MassachusettsHouse of Representatives as well as “the first Jewish member of the Governor'sCouncil.”
1893: The SS Umbria arrived in Queenstown townwith one less passenger than had been on board when the ship left New Yorkbecause Asher Weinstein, a New York realtor who “was connected with severalHebrew charitable organizations”, had fallen overboard in what is assumed tohave been a tragic accident and not a suicide.
1893: Fourhundred of the 800 passengers, most of whom are Russian Jews, who arrived inNew York yesterday aboard the SS Red will be “debarred as paupers” and will besent back to Europe. Authorities feelthe immigrants were victims of a scheme concocted by the ship’s owners to dumpunsuspecting foreigners on American soil with the assumption that the U.S.government would pay for their expenses to stay or be returned. That is why the government is demanding thatthe ship’s owners post a ten-thousand-dollar bond to cover the costs.
1893: Anunknown number of “rascals…cut the backs and sets cushions of an early ahundred seats and broke several chairs” at the Thalia Theatre as part ofprotest trigged by “a boycott declared against Isidor Lindemann…by the UnitedHebrew Trades.”
1893: “TheGerman Reichstag announced that for first time a Jew has been elected to theTown Council of Rostock.”
1894: Threedays after she had passed away, fifty year old Hanna Jacobs, the wife of LewisJacobs with she had had five children – Rachel, Normal, Solomon, Joseph andFanny – was buried today at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1894: Havingcompleted its investigation of the management of charitable institutions ineastern New York, the Committee on Charities of the Constitutional Conventionchaired by Edward Lauterbach will turn its attention to the charitableinstitutions in the western part of the state. (Attorney Lauterbach isRepublican leader, defense attorney and longtime supporter of the Hebrew OrphanAsylum.
1894: Aportion of the Board of Trade’s annual report showed that aliens living inWhitechapel, most of whom are Russian Jews make up 18 per cent of thepopulation but “contribute less than 1 per cent to its pauperism.” The RussianJews do not compete in lines of work performed by the English and “the averageearnings of Jewish girls” working “in tailoring establishments are higher thanthose of English girls.”
1895(23rdof Tammuz, 5655): Simon Sternberger, who suffered from Bright’s Disease passedaway today in Long Branch, NJ.Sternberger came to the United States 50 years ago, settling first inPhiladelphia before coming to New York where he “amassed a large fortune” andserved as a Director of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.
1895: “TheSummer session of the Hebrew Technical Institute opened” today.
1896: InPatterson, NJ, founding of the Patterson Hebrew Free School Association whosemembers incude Nathan Barnert, Marcus Cohen, Joseph Krulansky, D.H. Bilder andI.H. Levine.
1896: Whileserving as the Rabbi at Temple Israel in Omaha, Nebraska. Rabbi Leo MorrisFranklin married Hattie Oberfelder at her parent’s home in ChicagoIllinois. Their first daughter, Ruth,was born in Omaha.
1897: MosesAlexander, who become the first practicing Jew to be elected as a governorbegan serving his first term as Mayor of Boise, Idaho.
1898(25thof Tammuz, 5658): Fifty-year-old Charles Lewis, “a well-known wool merchant”and founder of Charles Lewis & Brothers whose activities in the New YorkJewish community included serving as Treasurer of the West End Synagogue,passed away this morning.
1898: PhilipH. Stern began serving as a 1st Lt. with the U.S. Volunteer Infantryduring the Spanish American War.
1899(8thof Av, 5659): Parashat Devarim; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1899: Le RoyEltinge, the author of Psychology of War which contained suchanti-Semitic passages as “He doesn’t know what patriotism means”, “the soldierslot is hard physical work” which “the Jew despises and “he does not have any ofthe qualities of a good soldier” – remarks which forced the War Department toorder him to go over the book and remove all such objectionable portions – waspromoted to the rank of First Lieutenant in the 6th United States Cavalry
1899: Attonight’s meeting to discuss the future of the Presbyterian Church in New YorkCity, Revered Alexander J Kerr said that some of the churches on the Upper EastSide have given up their mission because “a large Jewish population has settledin that district.” (Editor’s note – This is one denomination that would fleethan fight i.e. spend time trying to convert the Jewish population)
1900(18thof Tammuz, 5660) Tzom Tammuz observed
1900: TheVienna corresponded of the New York Times reported on “the extraordinaryemigration of Romanian Jews through Austria and Hungary” which is of such“proportions…as to cause the imperial authorities in Vienna to demand that thatthe Romanian Government place restrictions upon the exodus.”
1901(28thof Tammuz, 5661): Forty-seven year old German mathematician Ferdinand Casparypassed away today in Berlin.
1901:Birthdate of Russian born American educator and archaeologist Pierre PinchasDelougaz whose primary work was in Iraq and Israel.
1902: “WealthyChicago contractor Harry Korshak” and Rebecca Beatrice Lash, the father ofSidney Roy Korshak whom the FBI said was “the most powerful in the world” weremarried today.
1902(10thof Tammuz, 5662): Seventy-one-year-old Adelaide Samuel (Malkah bat Eliezer) anative of Lancashire and the daughter of Louis SamDuel (Eliezer ben Menachem)passed away today.
1903: “Thebuilding of an institution on the same lines as the Young lien's HebrewAssociation in Manhattan by the Jews in Williamsburg was assured tonight at ameeting held in Capital Hall, 16-18 Manhattan Avenue” which was attended byseveral hundred Jews of the Sixteenth Ward.”
1903: John D.Hertz, Szklabinya born son of Kattie Schlessinger and Jacob Hertz, the Chicagosports reporter who founded the Yellow Cab Company married Frances Kesnertoday.
1904: InAllenhurst, Rose Harris and Lew Fields a Jewish immigrant and half of the teamof Weber and Fields gave birth to Dorothy Fields “who wrote lyrics to over 400songs over a half a century including "I Can't Give You Anything ButLove," "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "I'm in the Moodfor Love," and "Don't Blame Me," all in 1928. “In a field inwhich the names of Jewish men from George and Ira Gershwin to Richard Rodgersand Stephen Sondheim are ubiquitous, Fields made her mark with some of the Americanmusical theater's most memorable songs.” (According to some sources, herbirthdate was 1905)
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/15/1904/dorothy-fields
http://www.dorothyfields.org/songs.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/dorothy-fields/
https://www.rnh.com/bio/38/Fields-Dorothy
1904:Vyacheslav Von Plehve, Russian Minister of Interior was assassinated. VonPlehve was responsible for the Kishinev massacres in which forty-seven Jewswere killed, ninety-two severely wounded or crippled, and five hundred slightlywounded. His assassin was a member of the socialist revolutionary movement,which had suffered as well by his policies. Czar Nicholas was frightened intomaking a few concessions. Unfortunately, he did not make enough to meet publicdemand.
1905: Americanportrait painter Paul Moschowitz, the Hungarian born son of Maurice and RoseMoschowitz, the winner of the Silver Medal at the 1904 St. Louis Expositionwhose works included “Portrait of Young Woman in Opera Box with ClassicalBackground” married Madeline Rabb today.1906:Twenty-four-year-old Dr. Edwin P. Solomon, the Cincinnati, OH bornson of Emanuel and Mary (Schneider) Solomon and University of Cincinnatitrained surgeon who settled in Birmingham, AL. married Cecile Schwarzenbergtoday.
1906:Birthdate of Brooklyn native and Fordham University trained pharmacist SolomonS. Goldwyn who practiced law for 30 years after graduating from Brooklyn LawSchool and who served as “president of the Great Neck Synagogue, North ShoreHebrew Academy, National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education and theColony of Hope in Israel” which three children – Martin, Sharon and Judith –with his wife, “the former Bella Skolnick”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/08/29/90221025.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1907: “Adispatch from Odessa” the site of several attacks on the Jewish population said,“that seven people were killed and many injured by an explosion in a secretbomb factory in that city.”
1907: “BigReactionary and Anti-Jewish Demonstration in St. Petersburg” published todaydescribed a mass meeting held after the Ikon of the Resurrection which had beenbrought from Palestine and presented to the Czar during Prince Volkonsky calledupon all who were listening to him “to register a vow that not a single Jew beallowed to enter the portals of the third Duma…”
1908: Birthdate of Max M. Fisher who would gainfame as a Detroit oil and real estate magnate known for his philanthropy andfor the advice he gave Republican presidents on the Middle East and Jewishissues.
1908: A convention of the American Zionists meetingin Atlantic City is scheduled to come to a close today.
1908: Birthdate of Chicago native Louis James“Lou” Gordon, the standout lineman with the University of Illinois from 1927 to1929 who went on to play with NFL teams – Chicago Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers,Green Packers and the Chicago Bears – from 1930 through 1938.
1909: In Montreal, “Louis Shlakman, a tailorand shirtwaist factory foreman, and the former Lena Hendler, both Jewishimmigrants from Eastern Europe” gave birth to economist Vera Shlakman who losther job during the Red Scare of the 1950’s. (Editor’s note – It wasn’t just TenHollywood writers who lost their careers thanks to a bunch or Right Wingpseudo-patriorts.)
1909: InMassachusetts, Benjamin and Fanny Posner gave birth to Stanley Irving Posner,the Harvard trained attorney holding degrees from Amherst and the University ofChicago who was the husband of Lillian Kahn and the father of James, Elizabethand Lawrence Posner..
1909: The Associated Jewish Charities ofVicksburg, Mississippi donated $5.00 to the National Conference of JewishCharities.
1909: Birthdate of Jean Hamburger “a Frenchphysician, surgeon and essayist” who “is particularly known for hiscontribution to nephrology, and for having performed the first renaltransplantation in France in 1952.” Hepassed away in 1992.
1910: “The Department of Commerce and Laborannounced today that Russian Jewish immigrants coming to this country inresponse to promises made by agents of American Jewish aid societies would bebarred under the contract labor laws.”
1910: Birthdate of Ostrów Lubelski, Poland native and author,Shmuel Abarbanel who “was active in the Freeland League and the left LaborZionist” who spent WW II in the Soviet Union before making Aliyah in 1949.
1911(19th of Tammuz, 5671): ParashatPinchas
1911(19th of Tammuz, 5671): Eighty-year-oldRabbi and author Eliezer Simcha Rabinowtsch passed away in Kalvaria, Poland.
1912: PitcherEd Mensor made his major league debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1912: InPoland, Esther Greenberg and Julius Singer gave birth to University of Texasalum and University of Chicago Ph.D. Milton Borah Singer who was a renownedanthropologist specializing in the study of India.
https://whowaswho-indology.info/10420/singer-milton-borah/
1913:Birthdate of Avrom Sutzkever. Born in Russia, this Holocaust survivor isvariously described as “an acclaimed Yiddish poet,” “one of the great poets ofthe 20th century” and "the greatest poet of theHolocaust." According to David G. Roskies, Sutzkever was the greatest poetof the Holocaust, who was also a leader of the Vilna ghetto and a partisanfighter. It would have been enough, he tells us, had Sutzkever been only ''asymbol of hope and creative power for the powerless Jews of the ghetto,'' but hewas much more. As ''the foremost among Jewish poets'' Sutzkever ''made thememory of the dead the nexus of his artistic expression.'' In his major prosepoem, ''Green Aquarium,'' Sutzkever accomplishes the transcendence of the deadby proposing the victory of poetry over death, art over destruction,neo-classical form over chaos, and the beauty of what remains in the universeafter barbarism has done its terrible work He passed away in Tel Aviv. There is no way to do justice to his work,which you can read in English at http://books.google.com/books?id=sj_2zrw2_bMC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=%E2%80%9CThere+is+no+God,+no+World+Creator%E2%80%9D+by+Sutzkever&source=bl&ots=JG4u2QKDQN&sig=6vpMQYzJq5SY7Bp9mOOOPsKllJE&hl=en&ei=sdocTqWtMuG60AGMzZDVBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
(Editor’s Note– Special thanks to Murray Wolf, playwright, poet and translator of Yiddishauthors who first brought Sutzkever to my attention.)
1914: Two daysafter he passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held this morningfor Julian Schloss, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee L. Schloss after which he willbe interred at the Rosehill cemetery.
1914: InChicago, funeral services are scheduled to be held today for “Mrs. Fannie E.Amixter,” the widow of Isaac Amixter.
1915(4thof Av, 5675): Sixty-eight-year-old Martin Engel, native of the Bowery whofollowed in his father’s footsteps and became a kosher butcher before becominga Tammany leader who based his power on the immigrant “Jews from Russia,Rumania, Bohemia and Hungary” passed away today at his home at 29 East ThirdStreet.
1915: Based ona dispatch that first appeared in Neueste Nachrichten, “a Munich Journal” itwas reported today that before the fall of Lemberg, “Grand Duke Nicholas issuedan order of the day to the Jewish soldiers in his army, stating that he haddecided to give them a special opportunity of showing courage and patriotism.”Since, he said, “one of the aims of the struggle with Turkey was” there-conquest of “Palestine for the Jews so they could live there united andindependent” he called upon the Jewish soldiers the Jewish soldiers in theGalician army who “were then transferred to the Army of the Caucasus” to“reconquer Palestine for yourselves and a new day of glory will dawn forJewry.”
1915:Birthdate of London native and English solicitor Sir David Napley, the husbandof Leah Rose Saturley whom he married after serving in WW II.
1915: In St.Louis, MO, Benjamin Landesman, an immigrant Jewish artist from Berlin, and hiswife Beatrice, who dealt in antiques, gave birth to Irving Ned Landesman, whogained fame as Jay Landesman, a writer and editor whose journal Neuroticaanalyzed the anxieties of postwar America and whose Broadway musical, “TheNervous Set,” has been called the first (and only) Beat musical…(As reported byWilliam Grimes)
1916(14thof Tammuz, 5676) Parashat Pinchas
1916(14thof Tammuz, 5676): Seventy-one-year-old Nobel Prize winning immunologist ElieMetchnikoff whose mother was “Emilia Lvovna (Nevakhovich), the daughter of theJewish writer Leo Nevakhovich” passed away today in Paris.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/elie-metchnikoff
1916: Today,Jack Melnick, a rifleman in the 12th Regiment who was “listed aswound and missing on September 9, 1916” wrote a postcard today while fightingin the Battle of the Somme which had begun on July 1.
https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/jmm-object/jack-melnicks-postcard/
1916: It wasreported today that Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Judge Hugo Pam of Chicago andformer Judge Leon Sanders are scheduled to peat at the upcoming conference ofJewish organizations to be held at New York’s Astor Hotel.
1916: Dr.Talcott Williams, Dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia, who was born inTurkey and who is in close touch with affairs in Oriental countries” today gavea summary of the Moslem situation as it affects and is affected by theEuropean” including the observation that “if the Allies win the final victoryin the European war it is an open secret that Great Britain…would secureEnglish domination in the East” and that Central Powers win the “Caliphate onthe Bosporus” i.e. Turkey, will remain in place. (Editor’s note: This should serve as areminder that events in the Middle East were being decided by the Europeanpowers and not by the Zionists or the Arabs.)
1916: Todaywas the deadline those “societies” that wish to join the proposed federation ofJewish Philanthropic Societies to “give their consent to the plans” for thefederation and to “name their representatives on both the OrganizationCommittee and Board of Delegates.”
1917: Amongthe contributions made to The Central Committee for the Relief of JewsSuffering the War of which Harry Fischel is the treasurer acknowledged todaywere $580 from Congregation Orach Chodesh and $705 from The Jewish Daily News.
1917: Amongthe contributions made to The American Jewish Relief Committee for the Suffersfrom the War of which Louis Marshall is the Chairman acknowledged today were$5,000 from Congregation Beth Emeth of Albany New York and $25,000 from JuliusRosenwald.
1917: It wasreported today that “Chaim Berman, a merchant and teacher from Grodno, Poland,has come to America in hope of finding his wife and children from whom hebecame separate when the Germans” invaded Poland.
1918: DuringWorld War I, start of the Second Battle of the Marne. The Second Battle of theMarne marked the climactic German offensive on the Western Front during WorldWar I. With the Russians already out ofthe war, victory here would have meant that the Kaiser and his forces wouldhave won “The Great War.” The mindboggles at what that might have meant i.e. no Hitler, no Holocaust? Who knows?The fact remains that the Allies would halt the Germans. The great offensive would collapse and theGermans would surrender in November of 1918.
1918: TheSecond Annual Zionist Summer Course sponsored by the Intercollegiate ZionistAssociation are scheduled to being today in New York.
1918: DuringWorld War I, 500 German and Turkish prisoners of war were marched through thestreets of Jerusalem.
1919:Birthdate of Irving Ned Landesman, the St. Louis native, who gained fame as“Jay Landesman, a writer and editor whose journal Neurotica analyzed theanxieties of postwar America and whose Broadway musical, “The Nervous Set,” hasbeen called the first (and only) Beat musical.”
1919: In theUnited States, The War Department General Orders No. 90 of this date describedthe heroism shown by Private Jean Mathis, Company F, 5th Regiment,United States Marine Corps during the fighting at Bellau Woods saying “Forextraordinary heroism in action in the Boise de Belleau, France” on June 11,1918 when “after all the other members of his group had been killed or woundedby fire from an enemy machine gun, Pvt. Mathis charged the position alone,killing three of the crew and capturing the gun.”
1920: Today,“Mr. Mortimer L. Schiff sailed for London aboard the Cunard line “Imperator” sothat he can attend “the first international conference of Boy Scout executives.
1921: Theformer Estelle Simons and Pratt Institute and Adelphi College trained artistand World War I veteran Joseph Newsman, the New York born son of NettieHerskowitz and Isaiah Newman gave birth to Sheya Gisella today
1921:Birthdate of Liselott Margaret Kupfer, the convert to Judaism who gained fameas “a German-American poet and Texas Southern University faculty member LisaKahn the wife of fellow poet and scholar Robert L. Kahn and mother of Peter andBeatrice Kahn
1922: Birthdate of American physicist and NobelPrize Winner, Leon Lederman
1922:Birthdate of Jacob Mincer, the native of Poland who survived WW II to becomeJoseph L. Buttenwiser Professor of Economics and Social Relations at ColumbiaUniversity.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/06/09/mincer.html
1923: Funeralservices are scheduled to be held today in New York for “former CongressmanDavid Louis Baumgarten” after which he will be buried in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1923(2ndof Av, 5683): Sixty-eight-year-old Austrian philosopher who “is regarded as thediscoverer of the literary talent of the deaf-blind writer Helen Keller”suffered a fatal heart attack today.
1924: AdolphS. Oko, the librarian of the Hebrew Union College has volunteered to head theexpedition of scholars and social workers who will study the history of theancient Jewish Chinese colony of Kai Feng, which is the capital of HonanProvince.
1925:Fifty-two-year-old clothing merchant Benjamin Cohen who is determined to die inJerusalem set sail for Palestine today without knowing that his wife had setsail for the same destination with the intent of getting to come home and“spend his last days with her and his seven children.”
1926:According to Sir Alfred Mond, the Economic Board for Palestine has investedprivate capital worth one and a half million English pounds in Palestine duringthe past year.
1927: InVienna, The July Revolt in which Elias Canetti took part and which ignited hisfascination with nature of crowds and their behavior, began today.
1927: InBrooklyn homemaker and part-time opera singer Gazella Goldfisher and BenjaminTurkel, a tailor, gave birth to Joseph Turkel who gained fame as “a gaunt-facedyeoman character actor who appeared in scores of movies but is best known fortwo of his final performances — as Lloyd the bartender in “The Shining” and Dr.Eldon Tyrell in “Blade Runner” (As reported by Clay Risen)
1928(27th ofTammuz, 5688): Sir Charles James Jessel, the son of famed English jurist SirGeorge Jessel, passed away. A successful barrister and magistrate in his ownright, he was a member of the Anglo-Jewish aristocracy as can be seen by hismarriage to Edith Goldsmid, the daughter of Sir Julian Goldsmid. The fact that the North Borneo Company namedits leading trading post Jesselton in his honor attests to his business acumen.He was also one of several Jews who had served as High Sheriff in Kent.
1929(7th ofTammuz, 5689): Hugo von Hofmannst passed away. Born in 1874, He was an Austriannovelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist. Hisgreat-grandfather, to whom his family owed the noble title "vonHofmannsthal," was a Jewish merchant ennobled by the Austrian emperor.
1929: One dayshe had passed away, Nachama Liba Miller, a native of Russia who had settled inBelfast and who was the wife of IsraelMiller with whom she had five children – Harris, Fanny, Abraham, Pauline andAnnie – was buried today in the Belfast Jewish Cemetery.
1930: In ElBiar (Algiers) Haïm Aaron Prosper Charles (Aimé) Derrida and Georgette SultanaEsther Safar gave birth to Jackie Élie Derrida who gained fame as philosopherJacques Derrida.
1930(19th ofTammuz, 5690): Hungarian born violinist Leopold Auer passed away. Born in 1845, Auer taught many violinists wholater became famous, including Efrem Zimbalist, Nathan Milstein, Mischa Elman,and Jascha Heifetz. Sometime before hisdeath Auer converted to Christianity.
http://leopoldauersociety.com/leopold-auer-bio-2/
1930(19thof Tammuz, 56900: Sixty-eight-year-old Rudolph Schildkraut the native ofIstanbul who became a successful actor in Austria passed and who married ErmaWeinstein the mother of his son actor Joseph Schildkraut, passed away today inLos Angeles.
http://www.jta.org/1930/07/16/archive/rudolph-schildkraut-noted-jewish-actor-dies-at-70
1931:Birthdate of Dr. Renata Laxova, the native of Brno, Czechoslovakia and“American pediatric geneticist who survived the Holocaust thanks to theKindertransport and discovered “the Neu-Laxová syndrome, a rare congenitalabnormality involving multiple organs, with autosomal recessive inheritance.”
1931:Birthdate of American graphic designer Thomas Geismar who in 1957 joined withSerge Chermayeff, a Russian born Jew, to form Chermayeff & Geismar &Haviv
1932: “StrangeInterlude,” the film version of the stage play by the same name starring NormaShearer was released today in the United States.
1932:Birthdate of Helen M. Berg, the wife of forestry professor of Alan Berg and“the longest serving mayor of Corvallis, Oregon.:
https://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/article_fd4053cc-a967-11df-a42f-001cc4c002e0.html
1932: TheNew York Times reported that a list of 133 prominent Jews outside of theUnited States was published in today's issue of The American Hebrew and JewishTribune. The journal describes the list as "Our Foreign "Who's Who,being the first roster ever printed of outstanding Jews in lands other than theUnited States. Among those listed are Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, Governor Generalof Australia…Oscar Straus, Viennese composer; Paul Hyams, Belgian Minister ofJustice; Georg Cohn, counselor to the Foreign Ministry of Denmark…”
1933: InPhiladelphia, Clare Laventhol and Jesse Laventhol, “a political reporter forthe Philadelphia Record” gave birth to newspaper publisher David AbramLaventhol.
1934(3rdof Av, 5694): Seventy-year-old Charleston, SC native Louis Albert Sussdorf, “aretired member of the New York Stock Exchange” passed away today.
1934: Seventy-year-oldcomposer and conductor Louis Ferdinand Gottschalk passed away today in LosAngeles.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/07/17/94552317.pdf
1934: “GreekJews were up in arms today against a scurrilous attack on them made in theGreek Senate in Athens by the Venizelist leader Jassonides.” (JTA)
1934:Sixty-five Jewish homes were looted and 3,000Jews fled from Kirklisse toIstanbul an official government report of the recent Turkish anti-Semiticexcesses admitted today.” (JTA)
1934: Funeralservices were held this afternoon for Dr. Morris Hirsch Kahn, the CornellMedical School trained cardiologist who had been the chief cardiologist at BethIsrael Hospital since 1920 followed by interment at Washington Cemetery.
1934(3rd ofAv, 5694): In Germany, Simon Strauss and his son were shot dead by Kurt Baer.The court found that the murdered Jews actually "committed suicide".Baer found guilty only of breaching the peace.
1935(14thof Tammuz, 5695): Amelia J. Allen, the Philadelphia born daughter of Miriam andLewis Marks Allen, “the superintendent of the Northern Hebrew Sunday School”and “Supervising Principal for the Daniel Webster Combined Secondary andPrimary School” as well as “one of the founding members of the women’s branchof the Young Men’s Hebrew Association” passed away today.
https://library.temple.edu/scrc/amelia-j-allen-diary
1935: Nazigangs attacked Berlin Jews as part of a round of Anti-Jewish riots.
1936: The Palestine Post reported that nine Arab terrorists were killedby British troops near Jenin and Safed. One British soldier was killed andseveral wounded when their lorry overturned during the engagement. There wererepeated attempts by Arab terrorists to interfere with railway traffic. Arabmerchants expressed considerable dissatisfaction and asked for a speedy end totheir prolonged general strike.
1936:Birthdate of New York native and horror and science fiction film creatorLawrence George Cohen and brother of publicists Ronni Chasen
1936: It wasreported today that according to the United Palestine Appeal, “14,707 Jewishimmigrants reached Palestine from January 1, 1936 through April 30, 1936.”
1936: InVienna, “grave anxieties are expressed among the Jews” as Chancellor KurtSchuschnigg prepares to appoint pro-Nazis members to the General Council of theFatherland Front which was created by the recently adopted Fatherland FrontLaw.
1937: Aconcentration camp was established at Buchenwald, Germany.
1937: Funeralservices are scheduled to be held at 2 P.M. at Temple Emanu-El in New York forcomposer George Gershwin whose body arrived in New York form Hollywood thismorning while a simultaneous service is scheduled to be held at 10 A.M.(Pacific Coast Time)at the B’nai B’rith which will be led by Dr. Edgar F.Mangin.
1937: “WhileBritish reaction to the report of the Palestine commission and itsrecommendations for the partition of that country have been almost unanimouslyfavorably” today in London “there is increasing apprehension…that the bitterhostility of the Arab extremists, led by Haj Amin Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem,if allowed to proceed unchecked, will wreck the chances of a settlement.”
1938(16thof Tammuz, 5698): Sixty-year-old Joseph Adler, the native of Kletzk who in 1909came to the United States where he served as a rabbi in New York City, passedaway today.
1938: “TheShopworn Angel,” a WW I tear-jerker produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and filmedby cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg was released today in the United States.
1938: AtEvian, France, the international conference on refugees came to an end.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/july/02.asp
1938(16thof Tammuz, 5698: Sixty-one-year-old Josef Adler, the Lithuanian born son ofShlomo Adler who in 1909 immigrated to the United States where he served asrabbi at several congregations including Ahavat Zion and starting in 1931became the popular “head of Mesivat Tepheret Jerusalem in New York” passed awaytoday.
1938(16th ofTammuz, 5698): At an orange grove near Hadera, Arab attackers shot and killed aJewish worker while a group of workers leaving a grove near Tulkarm wereattacked with one being wounded seriously, but not mortally.
1938: Policefound a bomb at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem two hours before it was set todetonate while a large store of arms and munitions was found near the Mosque ofOmar.
1938:Birthdate of Petr Hanak who was deported from Prague to Ujazdown where he wasmurdered in 1942.
1939: After291 performances, the curtain came down on the Broadway production of “Leave Itto Me!” a musical with a book by Samuel and Bella Spewack.
1940: As they prepared toleave Lisbon for Rio, Margret and Hans Rey, the creator of Curious George,"had their vaccination papers signed and stamped.”
1940: Fivehundred Jews who had been taken from Szczebrzeszyn, Poland were sent to variouswork camps. From then on all Jews between the ages of sixteen and fifty had toreport daily for selection.
1940: Today,the Lawrence family including future American alpine ski racer David JudahLawrene who had received help from Portugues consul Arsitides de Sousa Mendes,checked out of the Grande Hotel and “boarded the Pan Am Yanke Clipper headedfor New York City.”
1941:Birthdate of Lawrence G. "Larry" Cohen “an American film producer,director, and screenwriter” who “is best known for directing his ownlow-budget, satirical, and inventive horror films and thrillers that are lacedwith scathing social commentary about modern American society.”
1941: (20thTammuz, 5701): Nazi forces and local Lithuanian sympathizers massacred the malepopulation of Telz, including Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch and the faculty ofthe yeshiva.
1941: Amongthe people disembarking in Montevideo from the ship Cabo de Buena Esperanza(Cape of Good Hope) today was German-born photographer Jeanne Mandello, who hadmanaged to escape from France.
1941: Fourteendays after 65-year-old Bohemian andHavana industrialist and art collector Heinrich Waldes, had passed awayand almost two years after he had been imprisoned by the Gestapo at Dachau, wascremated today in New York
1942: A two-weekkilling spree came to an end in Sevastopol during which time over a thousand“refuges and Jewish POWs and another one thousand residents of the city werekilled.
1942: Thefirst 2,000 deportees left Holland from the Westerbork transit camp forAuschwitz. Most of them were German Jews who found safety there years earlier.
1942: “ThatOld Black Magic” a popular tune with music by Harold Arlen was recorded for thefirst time today.
1942(1st ofAv, 5702): Rosh Chodesh Av
1942(1st ofAv, 5702): One thousand Jews from Moczadz were taken to the woods and shotdead.
1942(1st ofAv, 5702): One thousand Jews were murdered in Bereza Kartuska, Belerus in theSoviet Union.
1942: EttyHillesum “received an appointment to the office on the Lijnbaansgracht” whereshe worked until she was transferred to Westerbrook.
1942: At theend of the workday, 48-year-old Alfred Le Guellec, “who held an importantposition in the service of foreign national for the Prefecture of Police isupset when he hears a rumor that a mass arrest of Jews is planned for tomorrow.As soon as he was safely away from the building he warned everybody he sawwearing a yellow star about the impending doom and told them to hide. Thisbravery would save the life of his friend Marcel Skurnik, his wife and theirdaughter Dora. (More tomorrow)
1943:Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves,director of the Manhattan Project (the super-secret project to build theAtomic Bomb) verbally ordered that Robert J. Oppenheimer be given securityclearance regardless of accusations about his loyalty.
1943: A weekafter Bruno Kittel, an Oberscharfuhrer in the German Security Police orderedJacob Gens, “the de factor head of the Vilna Ghetto” to immediately surrender“Itzik Wittenberg, the Communist commander of the Fareynikte PartizanerOrganizatsye (FPO), the United Partisans Organization, the ghetto’s undergroundresistance movement” today “Jacob Gens summoned the leaders of theFPO—Wittenberg, Abba Kovner, Abrasha Chwojnik, and Chenia Borowska—to a meetingat his office in the Judenrat building, Gens’s headquarters.”
1943: HenryLevin began his Hollywood career as dialogue director for “Appointment inBerlin,” a war move that premiered today which was produced by Samuel Bischoffand featured Felix Basch as Hoppner
1944(24thof Tammuz, 5704): Parashat Pinchas
1944: After7,176 Jews had been shipped from Lodz to Chelmon, deportations werehalted. They would resume again inAugust.
1944: The RedArmy approached Siauliai, Lithuania, so the Germans cleared the town of itsremaining four thousand Jews. More and more Jews were finding freedom in thearms of the advancing Red Army.
1944: TheKovno Ghetto was cleared out of its remaining Jews.
1944: TheChicago Sun reported "1,000,000 Hungarian Jews Face Massacre, HullSays." Hull was Cordell Hull theSecretary of State whose wife’s father was a Jewish immigrant from Austria. Shewas raised as an Episcopalian. The levelof anti-Semitism in the United States was such that, according to biographerIrwin Gellman, Hull hid her Jewish connection to protect his politicalcareer.
1944: Today“Anne McCormick, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times wrote indefense of Hungary as the last refuge of Jews in Europe, declaring that"as long as they exercised any authority in their own house, theHungarians tried to protect the Jews.
1944:Birthdate of Kobi Oshrat “an Israeli composer and conductor who composed andconducted the winning entry at the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest Hallelujah sungby Gali Atari and Milk and Honey.”
1944:Australian Prime Minister John Curtin informed Isaac Steinberg that “theAustralian government would not ‘depart from the long-established policy inregard to alien settlement in Australia’ and could not ‘entertain the proposalfor a group settlement of the exclusive type contemplated by the FreelandLeague’” i.e. the settlement of a large number of Jewish refugees in theKimberly region of Western Australia.
1945: “Theinternationalization of Palestine as part of a long-range program to settledifficulties in the troubled Middle East was suggested today by the ForeignPolicy Association” in a report that said “Any course the United States pursuestoward Palestine must be developed in relation to our broader policy withrespect to Britain and Russia” even if that means ignoring the conflictingclaims of the Zionists and Arabs.
1946: “Jewishveterans, protesting against British action in Palestine, told President Trumantoday that they were prepared to recruit "a full division of Jewishvolunteers for service in the Holy Land" if he felt it desirable to sendUnited States forces to facilitate the entry of 100,000 European Jews into thatcountry.”
1947: “Twohundred leaders of the Amusem*nt Industry Division, including motion pictureexecutives, producers and composers, contributed $200,000 today to the UnitedJewish Appeal of Greater New York at an emergency luncheon at the Hotel Astor.”
1948: PresidentHarry Truman was nominated for another term by the Democratic Party. Truman’s candidacy was pronounced dead onarrival. The Dixiecrats left the partyover the issue of Civil Rights and backed Strom Thurmond for President. Part of the left wing of the party left tosupport the candidacy of Henry Wallace, the man who had been Vice Presidentduring Roosevelt’s third term. Truman’svictory over Dewey would be one of the greatest upsets in political history. Truman garnered a large part of the Jewishvote which was congregated in key states with large electoral votes. Jewish support was in no small part a rewardfor Truman’s decision to recognize the Jewish state which was fighting forsurvival as the man from Missouri fought for his political life.
1948: Stillseeking a way to reach Tel Aviv, the Egyptians attacked Be’erot Yitzhak. In a day long desperate fight, theoutnumbered defenders drove off the Egyptians.As the Egyptians retreated, seventeen of the Israeli fighter lay deadand all of the settlement’s buildings had been destroyed. Tel Aviv was saved, but the cost was high.
1948: Continuing their drive for Nazareth,Israeli forces take Zippori after fierce fighting.
1948: Whilethe fighting flared, the diplomats dithered.The United Nations decided that the Arab rejection of the extension ofthe truce that had been proposed by Count Bernadotte was a “breach of thepeace” and ordered a permanent cease-fire.The Arabs ignored the threat of sanctions and rejected thecease-fire.
1948: Israeliforces renewed their attempts to retake the Old City by launching attacks onthe New Gate, the Jaffa Gate and the Zion Gate, none of which would provesuccessful.
1948: DuringOperation Dekel, Israeli planes attacked the village of Saffuriya
1948: Israeliforces began another attack on the Latrun Fortress, the Jordanian held militaryinstallation that was blocking the road to Jerusalem.
1948: Yosef“Sprinzak was elected to the position of speaker of the provisionalparliament.”
1949: “MissLiberty,” a musical with lyrics and music by Irving Berlin, “directed by MossHart and choreographed by Jerome Robbins” opened on Broadway at the ImperialThreatre
1949: “Thebest known version” of "I Can Dream, Can't I?" a popular song writtenby Sammy Fain with lyrics by Irving Kahal “was recorded by the Andrews Sister”who were not Jewish.
1949: “AnyNumber Can Play” the film version of the novel by the same name directed byMervyn LeRoy, produced Arthur Freed and with a script by Richard Brooks wasreleased in the United States today.
1951: TedLurie, The Jerusalem Post reporterand future editor, visited Eilat and described the difficulties facing the newsettlers. There was no bakery, the water tasted rusty and caused diarrhea,there was no facility to chill water or bottled drinks. But a largecold-storage plant was being planned to make the import of meat from EastAfrica possible.
1952: Thefirst production of “The Seven Year Itch” the hit comedy by George Axelrod, theson of Russian Jewish immigrant Herman Axelrod took place at the Fulton Theatrein New York City.
1953:“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” the movie version of the Broadway musical with abook by Joseph Fields and music by Jules Styne, produced by Sol C. Siegel andstarring Marilyn Monroe who would later convert to Judaism, was released by 20thCentury Fox today in the United States.
1954: “A nationalincome of $600,000,000,000 a year with jobs available for 100,000,000 personswith the next twenty-five years was described as probable” today by SamuelBronfman, president of the Distillers Corporation-Seagrams, Ltd during a speechdelivered at the Waldorf-Astoria.
1954(14thof Tammuz, 5714): Sixty-five-year 0lf Newark born Pace Institute graduate,Jacob N. Spiro, a veteran of the Mexican Border incursion and the WW I and a thirty-yearveteran of the leather goods industry passed who was married to Ida AgrissSpiro with whom he had two children, passed away today while on vacation.
1955: “TheCobweb” the film version of the novel by the same name co-starring LaurenBacall with music by Leonard Rosenman was released in the United States today.
1955: EighteenNobel laureates signed the MainauDeclaration against nuclear weapons. The declaration was created by OttoHahn and Max Born. Hahn had stayed inGermany after the rise of the Nazis and played a major role in the atomicprogram. Born had to leave Germany in1933. He had become a Lutheran but hisparents were Jewish and as far as the Nazis were concerned Born was stillJewish.
1956(7thof Av, 5716): Forty-one-year-old Canadian born author David W. Petegorsky whowas the Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress passed away today
http://www.archeion.ca/david-w-petegorsky-fonds;rad
1958: Fivethousand U.S. Marines landed in Beirut, Lebanon, to protect the pro-Westerngovernment. This landing took place at the same time that the pro-Westerngovernment of Iraq was being overthrown. The fighting in Lebanon was part of anon-going struggle between the Christians and the Moslems which had supposedlybeen settled by a power-sharing agreement set up by the French before theyended their imperial role there. The collapse of this power-sharing agreementwould explode in a civil war in the 1970’s, the aftermath of which existstoday. Needless to say, this instability in its northern neighbor has added toIsrael’s problems.
1959: “A Holein the Head,” a film version the 1957 play be Arnold Schulman who wrote thescript for the movie was released in the United State States today.
1959(9th ofTammuz, 5719): Swiss-born American composer Ernest Bloch passed away. While his works covered a variety of themes,from a Jewish point of view, one of his most interesting works was Schelomo, acomposition for cello and orchestra written in 1915 that was completed duringBloch's "Jewish Cycle," which lasted from 1912–1926
1959:Birthdate of Istanbul native David Tzur, who made Aliyah at the age of six andpursued a career in security with the government before being elected to theKnesset in the elections of 2013.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/189006#.VRMh5fmsWhE
1960:” Pension Schöller is a1960 West German comedy film” featuring Leo Askin as “Fritz Bernhardi” wasreleased today/
1961: DavidSaul Marshall who would later serve as the first Chief Minister of Singaporebegan serving as the the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Anson today.
1963: It wasreported today, that in Los Angeles at the 66th annual convention ofZOA, California Congressman James Roosevelt, the eldest son of FDR expressedhis support for Israel saying that “If Israel is to survive, the U.S.A. mustconvince the Communists and the Arab world that the full strength of our militaryand economic resources are behind the achievement of peace between Israel andher neighbors.” (JTA)
1965: “Eve ofDestruction,” written by P.F. Sloan was recorded with Sloan on guitar and HalBlaine on drums.
1965:Birthdate of David Miliband, leader of the British Labour Party.
1966(27thof Tammuz, 5726): Seventy-seven year old Sally Pinansky Wingersky, the daughterof Nathan and Ida Ginsberg Pinanski passed away today after which she buried atAdath Jeshurun Cemetery in West Roxbury, MA.
1967(7thof Tammuz, 5727): Parashat Balak
1967: CaroleAvnet, the daughter of Lester Avnet and the granddaughter of Russian-Jewishimmigrant Charles Avnet, the founder of what became Avnet, Inc. married JeromeB. Rochelle this afternoon at the home of her parents.
1967: Duringthe War of Attrition an Israeli Air Force Mirage III is shot down by EgyptianMiG-21.
1968: ABCbroadcast the first episode of “One Life to Live” a soap opera in which DorisBelack appeared for nearly a decade as “Anna Wolke Craig” a role which shecreated
1969(29thof Tammuz, 5729): Eighty-eight-year-old, the German born son of banker LeoIsaac who came to the United States in 1915 who worked with Eugene Meyer beforegoing on to the “investment firm of Halle and Stieglitz and husband of the“former Lucile Martin” passed away today in Little Lake, NY.
1969: RodCarew ties the record with his 7th steal of home in a season. Carew is not Jewish, although he has beenmistakenly identified as one. He ismarried to a Jewish woman and his children have been raised in the faith oftheir mother.
1970: “TheRevolutionary,” based on the novel of the same name produced by Edward R.Pressman was released in the United States today.
1970: “Joe,”with a screenplay written by Norman Wexler was released today in the UnitedStates.
1970: “Thesecond internation Summer Science Institute, bringing together teen-age scienceenthusiasts from six countries” opened at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot,Israel.
1972(4thof Av, 5732): Parasaht Devarim and Shabat Chazon.
1973: GeneralShmuel Gonen assumed command of Israel’s Southern Front. He replaced Ariel Sharon who was leaving thearmy to go into politics. Just prior tothe change in command, Sharon told Defense Minister Dayan that Gonen lacked theexperience to handle the command if war should break out. Dayan assured Sharon that Gonen had plenty oftime to gain the needed experience since there was not going to be a war in1973.
1973 CIADirector Richard Helms sent a telegram to Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon's National Security Advisor,stating that King Hussein of Jordan had told him that Jordanian intelligencehad learned of a Syrian attack to recapture the Golan Heights originally which had been delayed since June could takeplace at any time; probably sooner than later. One of the Jordanianintelligence sources was the commander of a Syrian armored brigade, and theJordanians had obtained a copy of the battle plans, which had been coordinatedwith Egypt and Iraq. Once again, instability in the Middle East is shown not tobe “an Israeli problem.” In fact theAmericans would call upon the Israelis to assist in thwarting the planned attacked.3
1974:Birthdate of Menachem Stark.
http://forward.com/news/190580/who-was-menachem-stark-and-why-was-he-murdered/
1974: “Over150 Belgian academics handed a petition to Soviet Ambassador Sobelev expressingconcern at the fate of their colleagues who seek to emigrate from the USSR.”
1976(17thof Tammuz, 5736): Tzom Tammuz
1976: It wasreported today that the Labor Party Government is being pressed by a largenumber of British citizens “to take some firm action” in response to the“presumed death of 73 year old Dora Bloch, an Anglo-Israeli who disappearedafter the Israeli raid on Entebbe.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that formerdefense minister Moshe Dayan called for an arrangement whereby Jews and Arabswould live together in the administered territories, with the Arabs remainingJordanians and the land remaining under Israeli control. He stressed that Israeliswere in the territories by right, not as conquerors. Questioned whether Arabswould agree to this, he replied that if we had to do things according to thedesires of the Arabs, we could pack our bags and go to Canada. A delegation ofIsraeli legal and atomic energy experts visited Washington to work out finaldetails of the sale of two US 450-megawatt reactors to Israel.
1977: The ILove NY Logo designed by Milton Glaser today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_New_York#/media/File:I_Love_New_York.svg
1977(29thof Tammuz, 5737): Eighty-two-year-old talent and literary agent Adeline Jaffepassed away today.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/schulberg-adeline-jaffe
1978(10thof Tammuz, 5738): Parashat Chukat
1978(10thof Tammuz, 5738): Sixty-nine-year-old Phillip P. Elfenbein, “the son of Samueland Celia Elfenbein” and “husband of Sarah Elaine Elfenbein” passed away todayin “West Covina, CA.”
1979:Two days after he had passed away, funeral services were scheduled to heldtoday for seventy-six-year-old “Rabbi Joseph Hyman Lookstein, a Jewish educatorlong prominent in Orthodox Judaism and rabbi at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurunon the Upper East Side for half of Its more than 100 years.”
1979:It was disclosed today, “on the eve of Israel Air Force Day” that “asophisticated American made reconnaissance and intelligence gathering aircraft,the Hawkeye, recently acquired by Israel is fully operational and has alreadyseen action.” (JTA)
1981(13thof Tammuz, 5741): Three people were murdered and 25 more injured “in rocketattacks today in northern Israel.
1982: “TheLast American Virgin” directed by Boaz Davidson who also wrote the script,produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan and filmed by cinematographer AdamGreenberg was released in Germany today.
1983(5thof Av,5743): Sixty-six-year-old U.S. Army WW II veteran Leon Abrahams, the NewYork born son of Max and Fannie Danovitch Abrahams passed away in Branford, CTafter which he was buried at Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, NY
1986(8th ofTammuz, 5746): Actor and comedian BennyRubin passed away at the age of 87.
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/17/obituaries/benny-rubin-an-actor-and-vaudeville-comic.html
1986(8thof Tammuz, 5746): Sixty-year-old Edmund I. Kaufmann, the District of Columbiaborn “son of Cecil David Kaufmann and Isabelle Kaufman” and husband of Myrna D.Kaufmann passed away today.
1988: “Aviya'sSummer,” a movie version of the Hebrew-language bestseller that was an autobiographicalnovel by actress Gila Almagor was released in Israel today.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095433//
1990: Funeral servicesare scheduled to be held this morning at Temple Beth El in Spring Valley for sixty-three-year-old leukemiavictim, Republican State Senator Eugene Levy a WW II veteran serving in the NavyMedical Corps, the husband of Geraldine Schak Levy and the father of William Levy.
1991(4thof Av, 5751): Seventy-nine-year-old New York native Morris “Moe” Spahn theall-star basketball player for CCNY who went on to a successful pro career inthe American Basketball League and was the father Dartmouth basketball playerSteve Spahn, passed away today.
http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=basketball&ID=187
1991: Awardwinning “British economic historian” Robert Skidelsky, the father of journalistWilliam Skidelsky and university lecturer Edward Skidelsky, “was created a lifepeer as Baron Skidelsky, of Tilton in the County of East Sussex.”
1991: TheLandmarks Preservation commission held a public hearing on the proposeddesignation as a Landmark of the New York Public Library, Aguilar Branch, andthe proposed designation of the related Landmark Site. “The Aguilar Branch ofthe New York Public Library initially was built for the Aguilar Free LibrarySociety which was founded in 1886 as an independent library to providecirculating books for immigrant Jews.The society was named after Grace Aguilar a popular 19thcentury British novelist and essayist of Sephardic Jewish descent.” (Asreported by the Landmarks Preservation Commission)
1992: In“Orphans Gather For A Family Reunion” published today Ron Grossman provides ahistory of the Marks Nathan Home.
1997(10thof Tammuz, 5757): Fifty-eight year old NYU player and coach Mark Reiner passedaway today.
1993:Fourteenth Maccabiah comes to an end.
1994: “Angelsin the Outfield” a baseball comedy/fantasy co-produced by Joe Roth and RogerBirnbaum and music by Randy Edelman was released in the United States today.
1995: “He’sThe Real Kosher Link” published today described the life and times of RabbiDavid Hill, “the president of Real Kosher Sausage Company…the home to the lastkosher salami factory in Manhattan.”
https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/opinions/real-kosher-link-article-1.701144
1999(2ndof Av, 5759): Eighty-year old Benjamin Forester “Ben” Sohn the San Diego HighSchool who was an all-star lineman at USC in the late 1930’s and played aseason for the New York Football Giants passed away today.
1999: “TheLast Days” a documentary that “tells the stories of five Hungarian Jews duringthe Shoah” that “focuses on the horrors of life in the concentration camps” wasreleased in Australia today.
1999:“Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1244, the nominated Dr. BernardKouchner as the second UN Special Representative and Head of the United NationsInterim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)
2000: Whizzingaround Camp David in golf carts and on bicycles, as if they were resort guestsand not confined like prisoners of diplomacy in a pressure-cooker summitmeeting, Israeli and Palestinian leaders spent their fourth day in secludednegotiations today. (As reported by Deborah Sontag)
2001: TheNew York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including Supreme Injustice by AlanM. Dershowitz, Vote: Bush, Gore and the Supreme Court edited by Cass R.Sunstein and Richard A. Epstein, to be published by the University of ChicagoPress in October and currently available as an e-book on the Web site www.thevotebook.com) and the recently released paperback editionsof Scandalmonger by William Safire and Oberammergau: The TroublingStory of the World's Most Famous Passion Play by James Shapiro
2001: Arevival of “Do I Hear a Waltz?” a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, musicby Richard Rodgers, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim opened today at the PasadenaPlayhouse.
2001: TBSbegan broadcasting “The Mists of Avalon,” a mini-series co-starring JulianaMargulies.
2002: AhmedOmar Saeed Sheikh and three other suspects were convicted of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2003(15thof Tammuz, 5763): “Amir Simhon, 24, of Bat Yam was killed when a Palestinianarmed with a long-bladed knife stabbed passersby on Tel Aviv's beachfrontpromenade, after a security guard prevented him from entering the Tarabin cafeand was wounded. The terrorist, who was shot and apprehended, is a member ofthe Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
2004: “Withimmigration to Israel down sharply in recent years, a charter flight deliverednearly 400 new arrivals from the United States and Canada today as part of anexpanding program, Nefesh B’Nefesh” that has been bringing middle-class Jewsfrom North America
2005: Today,The Washington Post reported that Judith Miller could face criminal contemptcharges as the government continues to investigate the role Scooter Libbyplayed in exposing Valery Plame’s CIA identity.
2005: LilyGasway begins the celebration of her Bat Mitzvah by leading Friday Services atTemple Judah. In Cedar Rapids, thanks to Lily and the Gasway family"Am Yisroel Chai."
2005(8thof Tammuz, 5765): Ninety-two-year-old Scottish author and literary critic DavidDaiches whose works included his 1956 memoir, Two Worlds: An EdinburghJewish Childhood passed away today at Edinburgh.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jul/18/guardianobituaries.obituaries
2005: “WeddingCrashers” a comedy co-starring Isla Fisher and Jane Seymour was released in theUnited States today.
2006: In“Missile, Not Drone, Hit Israeli Warship” published today, the Guardiandescribed the outcome of an investigation into an attack on an Israeli ship offthe coast of Lebanon.
2006: In response to orders from The Home FrontCommand businesses and clubs in Karmiel remained closed as Katyusha alerts rangthroughout Karmiel sending residents into bomb shelters. In light of thesituation, the Home Front Command has decided to operate a silent radio wave inthe following frequencies: FM 102.2, 98.5, 95.7. This enabled those keep theSabbath to leave the radio turned on and listen to emergency announcements.Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel cannot interfere with those who are “Shomer Shabbos.”
2007: Hadassahopens its 93rd national convention in New York City.
2007: Gad“Elmaleh premiered his fifth one-man show, Papaest en haut, in Montreal as part of the “Just for Laughs” festival
2007: ShimonPeres formally becomes President of Israel, a post that he will hold for aseven year term.
2007: TheRochester Jewish Film Festival presents a screening of “Yippee: A Journey to JewishJoy.”
2007: TheNational Art Gallery presents a screening of “Children Must Laugh,” one of thefew surviving documentaries about Jewish life in Poland before WWII.
2007: The Sunday New York Times book sectionsfeatured reviews of 1967: Israel,the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East by Tom Segev, translated by JessicaCohen and Presence, a collection of stories written by Arthur Miller inthe years before his death in 2005.
2008: InWashington, D.C. Professor Alvin S.Felzenberg discusses and signs TheLeaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didn't): Rethinking the Presidential RatingGame at the National Press Club.
2008: As partof complicated and controversial prisoner exchange, President Shimon Peressigned the pardon of Samir Kuntar, the terrorists who murdered several Israelisin cold blood in 1982. Peres said thatthe pardon in no way should be seen as an act of forgiveness. Arabs in Lebananon await the release ofKuntar who will be greeted as a hero.
2008: Insuburban Washington, D.C., EllenRachlin, author of UntilCrazy Catches Me and the forthcoming chapbook Captive to Residue, reads fromher work as part of the Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry Series
2008: The 79thAll Star Game is played at Yankee Stadium in New York City. At least threeplayers of Jewish descent made the lineups of Major League Baseball's All -Starteams. Boston Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis will start for the AmericanLeague Ian Kinsler, the second baseman from the Texas Rangers, will be areserve for the American League. Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun willstart for the National League. The all-star selections were announced Sunday.Youkilis, whose nickname is "The Greek God of Walks," openlyidentifies as Jewish. In explaining his charity work, he once told mlb.com,"In my religion, the Jewish religion, that's one of the biggest thingsthat's taught, is giving a mitzvah, forming a mitzvah." He also said,"I was always taught as a kid giving to charity. You're supposed to give agood amount of charity each and every year." Both Braun and Kinsler haveJewish fathers and reportedly identify as half-Jewish.
2009: Once ayear the banks of Paris’ Seine River are transformed into a makeshift beachknown as “Paris Plages”, complete with parasols, beach chairs, amusem*nt ridesand plenty of shirtless Parisians. This year the French capital honors its twincity of Tel Aviv-Yafo with an Israeli beach party on the Seine’s left bank.
2009: At the18th Maccabiah Games, Israel plays Australia in Cricket.
2009: At theRandi & Bruce Pergament Jewish Film Festival a screening of “Noodle,a touching comic-drama about two human beings, as different as Tel Aviv is fromBeijing, on a remarkable journey together to find their way back to ameaningful life.”
2009: Today Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat ordered his municipality to halt all servicesto the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods of Geula and Mea Shearim.
2009(23rd of Tammuz, 5769): Julius Shulman, an American architectural photographer best known for his photograph"Case Study House #22” passed away.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-julius-shulman17-2009jul17-story.html#page=1
2009(23rd of Tammuz, 5769): Seventy-eight-year-oldAvraham Ahituv “who served as director of the Shin Bet, Israel's securityagency, from 1974 to 1980” passed away today.
2009: “Mark Polansky was the commander of theSTS-127 mission, which launched aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour” today.
2009: Swindler Sam Israel III was sentenced to anadditional two years in prison for failing to report to authorities,effectively escaping prison before showing up to be jailed.
2010: In Washington, D.C. Norman Shore is scheduledto lead the final class of “I Kings: May the King Live! A Study of King Solomonand his Heirs.”
2010: Critically acclaimed Israeli choreographer Deganit Shemy, known for heraggressively physical work is scheduled to bring five dancers together fortheir final performance of the week in the courtyard at John Street UnitedMethodist Church in New York City.
2010: Haim Pearlman, suspected of four counts of murder and seven counts ofattempted murder, was remanded in custody until July 22 by the Petah TikvaDistrict Court today. The suspected, who is associated with the outlawed Kachmovement, was arrested two nights ago by Jerusalem Police and the Shin Bet(Israel Security Agency).
2010: Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has appointed Meiron Reuven, Israel'sambassador to Colombia, as the new ambassador to the UN today Israel Radioreported.
2011: “Lucky,” a comedy starring Jeffrey Tambor wasreleased in the United States today.
2011: In a time of communal sorrow, the funeral ofSuzanne Katz, the wife of Bert Katz, is scheduled to take place at Eben IsraelCemetery in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2011: Firefighters extinguisheda fire in the Golan today, after battling the blaze that broke out in the EinTina Nature Reserve yesterday.
2011: Five Kassam rockets were fired into southern Israel overnight and anadditional mortar shell from Gaza landed in the Negev this morning. No one washurt in the attacks and no damage was reported. The IAF responded to the rocketattacks with airstrikes on six targets in Gaza.
2011(9th of Tammuz, 5681): The original Penang Jewish communityceased to exist with the death of 89 Mordecai (Mordy) David Mordecai today.
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2011: DefenseForces officials issued a statement Friday, condemning Hamas for not takingaction to stop rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel, shortly after Chiefof Staff Benny Gantz called an emergency meeting to discuss the increasedviolence in southern Israel..
2012: Those celebrating the 120th anniversary of the birth ofWalter Benjamin today might be reading his essay “On the Concept of History” orWalterBenjamin: A Philosophical Portrait by Professor Eli Friedlander, the head of thePhilosophy Department at Tel Aviv University.
2012(25th of Tammuz, 5772): Centenarian Jacqueline Piatigorsky(Jacqueline Rebecca Louise de Rothschild) passed away today.
http://main.uschess.org/content/view/11816/141/
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jacqueline-piatigorsky-20120722-story.html#page=1
2012: “Spies, Traitors and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America” acreation of the International Spy Museum, is scheduled to open at the IllinoisHolocaust Museum & Education Center.
2012: “Silk Stones,” an exhibition feature the works of Rochelle Rubinsteinis scheduled to come to a close at the Yeshiva University Museum.
2012: Jack Markell, the Governor of Delaware began serving of as Chair ofthe National Governors Assoication.
2012: The final screening of Israeli documentary filmmaker Michal Aviad’s“Invisisble” at the Museum of Modern Art.
2012: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authorsand/or of special interest to Jewish readers including the recently releasedpaperback editions of The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift,and My Family’s Legacy of Infidelities by Katharine Weber and Why ThisWorld George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family’s Legacy of Infidelities byKatharine Weber
2012: USSecretary of State Hillary Clinton will arrive in Israel this evening inpreparation for talks tomorrow for meetings with top Israeli leaders on Iran,Egypt, Syria and the frozen peace process with the Palestinians.
2012: Abouta hundred protesters clashed with police near the Prime Minister's Residence inJerusalem today, in a rally summoned following the self-immolation of a Haifaresident during a protest marking one year since the onset of social unrest inIsrael.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-rally-in-solidarity-with-self-torcher-in-tel-aviv/
2012: The battle for universal draft arrived at the Arab public’s doorsteptoday when nearly 100 right-wing protestors held a demonstration in the IsraeliArab city of Nazareth in the lower Galilee.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/right-wing-activists-demonstrate-for-universal-draft-in-nazareth/
2013: The Seventh Biennaleof Israeli Ceramcis is scheduled to open at the Eretz Israel Museum in TelAviv.
http://www.eretzmuseum.org.il/e/282/
2013: In the eveningmembers of the Fort Belvoir Jewish Congregation and Beth El Hebrew Congregationwill join together for a Tisha B’Av observance that will include a studysession – “Should Israel Build the ThirdTemple?” – followed by the chanting of Eicha, Lamentations.
2013: Israelapproved a request by the Egyptian army to increase its forces in Sinai,following a rise in violence in the peninsula in recent weeks.
2013: Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein barred Safed Chief Rabbi ShmuelEliyahu from running for the position of Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel becauseof derogatory statements he made in the past regarding the Arab community. (Asreported by Jeremy Sharon)
2013: IanPaul Livingston, the fourth generation son Litvak immigrants to Scotland“became a member of the House of Lords, as a life peer” today.
2013: Hamas has developed the ability tolocally manufacture rockets with the range to hit Israel’s heartland includingTel Aviv, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said today. (As reported by StuartWiner)
2014: Rabbi Shira is scheduled to lead adiscussion of “What Does It Mean to Be Jewish?” at the Historic Sixth & ISynagogue.
2014(17th of Tammuz): Shiva AsarBe-Tammuz – As a new round of enemies seek to “breach the walls of Israel”observance of a minor fast day thatcommemorates the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. bythe Babylonians and again in 70 C.E. by the Romans
2014: “Macon Openshaw, 21, of Salt Lake City who pleaded guilty in U.S.District Court for the District of Utah to firing three rounds from a handgunat the Congregation Kol Ami synagogue in Salt Lake City” is scheduled to besentenced today. (JTA)
2014: Thirteen Palestinian children, six fromGaza and seven from Judea and Samaria, are expected to arrive today at WolfsonMedical Center in Holon. The children are brought by the Israel- basedinternational charity Save a Child's Heart to undergo life-saving hearttreatments at Wolfson.
2014: In the wake of anti-Israel protests inseveral countries and violent attacks against Jews in France, Morocco andAustralia, the Ant-Defamation League issued a security advisory to all Jewishinstitutions and synagogues.”
2014: Following another rocket attack fromSyria, the IAF struck Base 90, a Syrian military airbase.
2014(17th of Tammuz, 5774): AfterIsrael accepted the ceasefire; Hamas rejected it and continued to bombardIsrael with rockets.
2014(17th of Tammuz, 5774):Thirty-seven year old Dror Hanin, a civilian from Beit Aryeh, was killed bymortar fire from Gaza while he was delivering food and drinks to IDF troops.
2015: “Being There” is scheduled to be shown atthe National Museum of American Jewish History as part of the “Seventies SummerCinema” program
2015(28th of Tammuz, 5775): Eighty-nine-year-oldEnglish born actor Aubrey Morris passed away today.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/16/aubrey-morris?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it
2015: In Atlanta, the Breman Museum isscheduled to host “Summer Wednesdays” where “kids can cool down and explore theexhibition Where the Wild Things Are:Maurice Sendak in his Own Words and Pictures.
2015: “The Second Mother” and “The Mud Woman”are scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2015: Following a similar episode two weeks agowhen “a 20-year-old female IDF soldier was stabbed by a female Palestinianattacker outside of Bethlehem” a teenage girl stabbed an Israeli soldier todayafter which he was “evacuated to Tel HaShomer Hospital” and she “arrested bysecurity forces.”
2015: Three masked men of African descent armedwith handguns assaulted and robbed a family in suburban in a crime that wasthought to have been motivated, in part, by the fact that the family wasJewish.
2015: A German court sentenced 94 year old Oskar Gröning, a former SS soldier to four years in jail for complicity inthe murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz in the summer of 1944.
2015: Tonight, terrorists in Gaza launched arocket attack on the Hof Ashkelon region.
2016: “Nazi Art Loot Returned…to Nazis”published today Doreen Carvajal and Alison Smale
2016: “The First Monday in May” and “JohnnyGuitar” are scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2017(21st of Tammuz, 5777): ParashatPinchas;
2017(21st of Tammuz, 5777): Eighty-nine-year-oldOscar winning actor Martin Landau who gained fame as one of the agents in theoriginal television series “Mission: Impossible” passed away today, (Asreported by Anita Gates)
2017(21st of Tammuz, 5777):Ninety-six year old Bob Wolff, for whom many is known for his broadcast of suchfamous sports events as Don Larsen’s Perfect Game, but who for the author ofthis blog will always be the voice of the Washington Senators, passed away today. (As reported by Richard Goldstein)
2017: “Letters from Baghdad” a film that tells“the true story of Gertrude Bell and Iraq” is scheduled to open in Hudson, NY.
2017: Director Philippe Garrel and producerCaroline Deruas are scheduled to attend the screening of “Lover for a Day” atthe Jerusalem Film Festival.
2018: “The Testament” is scheduled to be showntoday at the 9th Annual AXELROD Israel Jewish Film Festival.
2018: Three days after he had passed awayfuneral services are scheduled to be held for “Richard Siegel, DirectorEmeritus of the HUC-JIR Zelikow School of Jewish Nonprofit Management.”
2018: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host twoscreenings of “Keep the Change”
2018: TheNew York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including Little Panic: Dispatches Froman Anxious Life by Amanda Stern and Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’tAfford America by Alissa Quart.
2019: According President Mike Fitts, now thatthe worst is over” from Hurricane Barry classes are scheduled to resume todayat Tulane University, home of the Tulane University Jewish Studies Departmentand Professor Brian Horowitz as well as the alma mater of 2019 graduate AdamBurstein, the son of Drs. Todd and Jennifer Burstein
2019: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research isscheduled to present “The Rise of Yiddish Scholarship and the History of YIVP,”a lecture by Cecil Kuuznitz that explores “the origins of Yiddish scholarship and why YIVO's workwas seen as crucial to constructing a modern Jewish identity in the Diaspora.”
2019: In Tunkhannock, PA, the Dietrich Film Theater, home of the SummerFest Summer Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The Spy BehindHome Plate” which the LA times has rated as one of “the best movies of 2019 (sofar).”
2019: InNew York, a bond hearing is scheduled in the case of registered sex-offenderJeffrey Epstein, in which his attorneys will seek to have him released to hishome and federal prosecutors will fight to keep him in jail, because, amongother things, he is a flight risk.
2020: Mayyim Hayyim is scheduled to host avirtual program that includes study of mikveh’s biblical roots and a virtualtour of Mayyim Hayyim.
2020: Live on Zoom, the Center for JewishHistory is scheduled to host “Being Heumann with Judy Heumann” “aninternationally recognized leader in the disability community and a lifelongcivil rights advocate.”
2020: Case Western Reserve University isscheduled to host online “Moving West: A History of the Jewish Midwest” withMara Cohen Ioannides the Senior Instructor, Missouri State University andPresident, Midwest Jewish Studies Association and the Ozarks StudiesAssociation
2020:JCRC is scheduled to host an on-line talk about ethnic studies, theupcoming revised draft of the state’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum and thestakes for the Jewish community.
2020: Open Circle Jewish Learning is scheduledto host online “Poetry as a Spiritual Exercise.”
2021: The Jewish Community Library is scheduledto present Deborah Levinson talks about her2018 book, The Crate, which tells “the true story of her parentssurviving the Holocaust, resettling in Canada and then making a horrifyingdiscovery underneath their cottage.”
2021: Hamaqom is scheduled to present the firstlecture on “Love and Passion in the Biblical World” presented by Dr. JehonGrist.
2021: The American Jewish Historical Society isscheduled to host lunchtime conversation with “author and journalist JulieSalamon and writer and actor Mara Wilson.
2021: The 7th Global Forum forCombating Ant-Semitism” is scheduled to come to an in Jerusalem.
2021: JWA is scheduled to host a book talk withChanda Prescod-Weinstein, professor and author of The Disordered Cosmos,“a journey into the world of particle physics that is vibrant, buoyantlynon-traditional, and grounded in Black feminist traditions.”
2021: The Illinois Holocaust Museum isscheduled to host “Quo Vadis Aida?”, the “2021 Oscar nominee for BestInternational Feature Film that recounts and dramatizes the legacy of one ofthe worst mass murdrs in European history since the Holocaust…”
2021: Or Shalom Jewish Community is scheduledto host the “opener of a four-part lecture series with educator Vavi Toranfocuses on how Jews and Arabs can coexist is Israel and the May violence.”
2021: Based onannouncement by the Prime Minister yesterday, as of today Israelis willnow have to live with three news measures including “the enforcement of masksin enclosed spaces and fines for anyone who fails to do so; a return to socialdistancing, in particular at large events; and a recommendation for Israelisnot to travel abroad” which are aimed a countering the “Delta pandemic whichhas seen the otal number of coronavirus cases soar from a little over 200 lastmonth to more than 5, 000 at present.” (As reported by Adir Yanko)
2022:Kan Kol is scheduled to broadcast a Piano Recital featuring the winner of theSara and Joseph Seidner Prize.
2022: Despite reports of a new wave a morecontagious strain of COVID, The Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Cultureis scheduled to host a “small group tour of The Vilna.
2022: After having signed a pledge with Israel“to deny Iran nuclear weapons” and after having received Israel’s Presidential Medal of Honor fromPresident Isaac Herzog who “tanked his American counterpart of his longstandingsupport of Israel” yesterday, President Biden is scheduled to continue his tripto the Middle East with meetings in Saudi Arabia today.
2023: The Eden-Tamir Center is scheduled tosponsor the season’s final concert with the
Ensemble Millennium/Toscanini Quartet.
2023: In Stockholm, the police have givenperformed for a Torah and a Christian Bible to be burned today at a rally inthe Sweden’s capital city
2023(26th of Tammuz, 5783): DoublePortion Matot-Masay
2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to hosta lecture by William Tyler on “Post-War Palestine, the Creation of Israel andWar.”
2024: The Agnon House travel event “Touring JewishLife, Literature and Learning in Poland is scheduled to begin today with a 5:05am flight from Ben Gurion airport to Chopin Airport in Warsaw.
2024: The Limud which is part of “Week of Goodness” is scheduled to end thisevening at 8pm Israeli time followed by an on-line Siyum.
2024: In Waterloo, IA, Sons of Jacob isscheduled to hold its monthly board meeting.
2024: As July 15th begins in Israel, anunprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters callingfor Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps theUnited States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 283 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluidfor this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting atmidnight Israeli time.)
