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334 BCE: The Macedonian army of Alexander the Greatdefeated Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus. This was the firststep of a “journey” that would lead to the turning Egypt and Asia Minor (aterritory that included Jerusalem and Judea) into bastions of Hellenisticculture. This would create a collisioncourse with Jewish values that would lead to the Maccabee Revolt followed bydecades of internecine fighting that would really not come to an end until theSecond Temple was destroyed.
124 BCE (23rdof Iyar, 3618): Simon the Hasmonean,drove the “Greeks” – the Syrians and their Hellenized Jewish allies – out ofthe citadel which was their last stronghold in Jerusalem. While Jews celebrateChanukah, it is this victory, 40 years later, under Judah’s youngest brotherthat marks the defeat of the Syrians that led to an independent Jewish stateunder the Hasmonean dynasty.
337: Constantine, known as the first ChristianEmperor of the Roman Emperor for legalizing the practice of Christianity in theRoman Empire passed away. As the following entry shows, Constantine not onlypromoted Christianity, he was instrumental in the creation of hostileenvironment for the Jewish people. “Constantine instituted several legislativemeasures regarding the Jews: they were forbidden to own Christian slaves or tocircumcise their slaves. Conversion of Christians to Judaism was outlawed. Congregationsfor religious services were restricted, but Jews were allowed to enterJerusalem on Tisha B'Av, the anniversary of the destruction of the Temple.Constantine also supported the separation of the date of Easter from the JewishPassover stating in his letter after the First Council of Nicaea: "... itappeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy feast weshould follow the practice of the Jews, who have impiously defiled their handswith enormous sin, and are, therefore, deservedly afflicted with blindness ofsoul. ... Let us then have nothing in common with the detestable Jewish crowd;for we have received from our Saviour a different way." Theodoret'sEcclesiastical History 1.9 records the Epistle of the Emperor Constantineaddressed to those Bishops who were not present at the Council: "It was,in the first place, declared improper to follow the custom of the Jews in thecelebration of this holy festival, because, their hands having been stainedwith crime, the minds of these wretched men are necessarily blinded. ... Letus, then, have nothing in common with the Jews, who are our adversaries. ...avoiding all contact with that evil way. ... who, after having compassed thedeath of the Lord, being out of their minds, are guided not by sound reason,but by an unrestrained passion, wherever their innate madness carries them. ...a people so utterly depraved. ... Therefore, this irregularity must becorrected, in order that we may no more have any thing in common with thoseparricides and the murderers of our Lord. ... no single point in common withthe perjury of the Jews."
1176: Murder attempt by the Hashshashin (Assassins)on Saladin near Aleppo. This attempt on the Muslim Warrior-King was part of theon-going clash between sects of Islam.From the Jewish point of view, Saladin’s survival is good news. After capturing Jerusalem from the Crusaders,Saladin allowed the Jews to return to the City of David during a century longban imposed by the Christians. The eventwas eloquently described by the Jewish poet Al-harizi in 1190. Saladin reportedly hired Moses Maimonides toserve as his personal physician.
1370: Afterkilling a rich Jew in Brussels, Belgium, the perpetrators tried to cover theirtracks by accusing the Jews of host desecration. The perpetrators escaped inthe ensuing confusion. A few hundred Jews were killed, and the rest banishedfrom the country. A holiday was declared by the local churches.
1377: PopeGregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of Englishtheologian John Wycliffe. Wycliffe’s doctrines were part of the heresiesthreatening Papal authority throughout northern Europe. This is the same PopeGregory who had ordered the burning of Jewish books a year earlier in 1376, anact that might be seen more as a way of enforcing Papal authority and theprimacy of the Roman Catholic Church.
1549: QueenBona Sforza rendered a decision today issued “regulations modifying anddefining the rights of the Jewish community of Grodno” including a requirementthat Jews “pay 17 percent of the taxes the government assessed against thecity” while freeing the Jews “from special taxes paid in kind” but denying theJews to “buy a house from a citizen without royal permission.
https://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/lists/je_grodno.htm
1608: JacobWolfgang, a German Jew who converted to Christianity became a reader at theBodleian Library today.
1649:Birthdate of “German Orientalist,” Matthew Frederick Beck, the Augsburg“preacher” who “published a translation of the Targum on Chronicles” and thetranslator of “several other works from including a description of “the travelsof Benjamin of Tudela.” (As reported by Joseph Jacobs and Richard Gottheil)
1753(18thof Iyar 5513): Lag B’Omer
1753: TheJewish Naturalization Act 1753 passed the House of Commons
1758(14thof Iya, 5518): Pesach Sheni
1760(7th ofSivan, 5520): Second Day of Shavuot
1760: RabbiMenachem Mendel Rubin of Linsk and his Beila the daughter of Rabbi YitzchakHalevi Horowitz of Hamburg gave birth to Rabbi Naftali Zvi Horowitz ofRopsh*tz, “the first Ropsh*tzer Rebbe”
1760(7th ofSivan, 5520): Rabbi Israel (Yisroel) ben Eliezer (רבי ישראל בן אליעזר betterknown as the Baal Shem Tov, founder of Chasidic Judaism, passed away.[Hopefully this brief entry will spur readers to find out more about a personwho had such an impact on the Jewish people.]
http://www.chabad.org/generic_cdo/aid/388609/jewish/The-Baal-Shem-Tov.htm
1768(6thof Sivan, 5528): Shavuot
1771: TodayMoses de Lyon married Rose Solomons in New York City.
1779(7thof Sivan, 5539): Shabbat and the Second Day of Shavuot
1779:Birthdate of Hyam Jonas, the son Lyon Jonas, who died a month after his birth.
1787: InLondon, Daniel Cohen D'Azevedo, the son of Haham Moses Cohen d'Azevedo and Sarade Haham Moses Cohen D'Azevedo and hiswife Ester Rodriques Cohen D'Azevedo gave birth to Abagail Daniel Cohen DeAzevedo
1793(17th ofIyar 5553): Rabbi Ezekeil Landau passed away. Born in 1713, in Prague, he was abrilliant Talmudist and Halachic authority. Landau was also unusual in that heendorsed the idea of leaning math and science and supported the traditionalistelement within the Maskilim (Enlightenment) movement. Landau helped toestablish the first Jewish school in Prague. His magnum opus is called theNodeh B'Yehuda which is still very popular today. It contains eight hundred andfifty-five Responsa divided into two volumes.
1796(14thof Iyar, 5556): Pesach Sheni observed for the last time during the Presidencyof George Washington.
1799: InParis, Le Moniteur Universal published a short statement sent from the Frenchforces besieging Acre that: "Buonaparte a fait publier une proclamation,dans laquelle il invite les juifs de l'Asie et de l'Afrique à venir se rangersous ses drapeaux, pour rétablir l'ancienne Jérusalem; il en a déjà armé ungrand nombre, et leurs bataillons menacent Alep." This has been translatedin English as: "Bonaparte has published a proclamation in which he invitesall the Jews of Asia and Africa to gather under his flag in order tore-establish the ancient Jerusalem. He has already given arms to a greatnumber, and their battalions threaten Aleppo.”Unbeknownst to the newspaper, Napoleon had already abandoned the siegeof the Acre, leaving it in the hands of the Ottomans and surrendering hisdesigns to create a French empire in the Orient.
1800: InHamburg, Germany, Jette and Nathan Levy gave birth to Moses Nathan Levy who wasthe husband of Sophie and Haanchen Levy with whom he had seven children.
1802:Birthdate Bavarian poet Leopold Feldmann.
1804:Birthdate of Pharmacologist Jonathan Perieira, the native of London whose “bookon Materia Medica was the first great English work on Pharmacology.”
1806(5thof Sivan, 5566): Erev Shavuot observed as Lewis and Clark made their waythrough what is now Montana on their way to the Pacific coast.
1809(7th ofSivan, 5569): Second Day of Shavuot
1811:Birthdate of Leopold Löw, Hungarian rabbi and theologian.
1813:Birthdate of composer Richard Wagner.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Wagner.html
1814:Birthdate of Joshua Heschel Schoor, “Galician Hebrew scholar, critic, andcommunal worker.”
1817(7thof Sivan, 5577): Second day of Shavuot; Yizkor for the first time during thePresidency of James Monroe.
1820:Birthdate of Isidor Binswanger, a leader of the Philadelphia Jewish communitywho served as President of Maimonides College, the first Jewish institution ofhigher learning in the United States and the father of Fanny BinswangerHoffman.
1823: InLondon, Abraham Jacob Mocatta and the former Miriam Brandon gave birth toMiriam Mocatta.
1825(5thof Sivan, 5585): Erev Shavuot celebrated for the first time during thePresidency of John Q. Adams.
1835:Sixty-eight year old Isaac Lazarus was buried today at the Brady Street JewishCemetery.
1836(6thof Sivan, 5596): Shavuot is celebrated for the last time under the Presidencyof Andrew Jackson.
1838: InManchester, England, Phillip Solomon and Catherine Hart gave birth to Jacob P.Solomon, who studied at Notre Dame and earned a law degree from Columbia beforemarrying Frances Stitch and becoming the editor of several publicationsincluding the Jewish Record and the Hebrew Leader while also writing“Chronicles of the Rabbis” “Chips from Masonic Quarries” and “The ModernWandering Jew.”
1839(9th ofSivan, 5599): Yisroel ben Shmuel Ashkenazi of Shklov, a disciple of the VilnaGaon who “became the head of the German and Polish congregations of Safed andthen of Jerusalem” passed away today at Tiberias
1842: Two daysafter she had passed away, Esther Norden, the daughter of Jacob Norden andCatherine Jacobs was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road ) JewishCemetery.”
1843: “Thefirst major wagon train” heading for that part of the Northwest Territory nowknown as Oregon…”departs from Elm Grove, Missouri traveling along the OregonTrail. According to Scott Cline, authorof Community Structure on the Urban Frontier: The Jews of Portland, OregonJacob Goldsmith and Lewis May who arrived in Portland, Oregon in 1849. Theywere the first Jewish settlers in Portland and possibly in all of Oregon.
1843:Birthdate of Adolf Aron Baginsky, a leading German physician who was a staunchdefender of his people against the growing anti-Semitism in his homeland. “Heis also the author of an essay entitled, "Die Hygienische Bedeutung derMosäischen Gesetzgebung," in which he comes forward as a stanch defenderand enthusiastic admirer of the hygienic laws of Moses” and as a leader of theBerlin Jewish community opposed moving Sabbath services to Sunday.
1846: One dayafter she had passed away, Catherine Barnet, the wife of Godfrey Barnet, wasburied today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1846: A wagontrain owned by Albert Speyer left Independence, MO today headed for Santa FeNew Mexico. A native of Prussia, Speyerhad been operating wagon trains since 1843.Two of the 25 wagons making this trip were reportedly filled with Yagerrifles and ammunition that had been ordered by Angel Trias, the governor ofChihuahua, Mexico. At this time, SantaFe was still a part of Mexico and Speyer had no way of knowing the UnitedStates was about to go to war with its neighbor to the south.
1847(7thof Sivan, 5607): 2nd Day of Shavuot, Yizkor observed for the firsttime during the ministry of John Russellin the United Kingdom.
1848: InBavaria, Ephraim and Lea Kopple Waldstein gave birth to Zadok “Oskar”Waldstein, the brother of Sophie Waldstein.
1848:Birthdate of Elise Lehmann who was buried at the Jewish Cemetery in MorganCity, LA, when she passed away in 1923.
1850: Thefollowing article published today entitled “Paris—Foundation of a JewishHospital” described work being done to establish a Jewish hospital in Paris andprovided a snapshot of the French Jewish community.
The editor ofthe “Archives Israelites,” in his May number, says: “Among the establishments,the most imperiously demanded is a Jewish hospital. Let the individual opinionsof each of us concerning our ceremonies, especially those which concerndietetic laws, be more or less rigid, it is nevertheless the duty of anIsraelitish administration to take care of those under their charge, who wouldsooner die than enter an hospital, where the observance of their religiousrules is impossible. Moreover, when we think of the interference of the clergy,who seek to fish for souls, and who often find auxiliaries against the tolerantwishes of the directors of hospitals, in the sisters (of charity) who attend onthe sick, no one can deny that a Jewish hospital is necessary.”—After somefarther remarks he continues: “Thanks to Mr. James Rothschild, Paris will havea Jewish hospital. He has just purchased a piece of ground in Rue Picpus, Nos.62, 64, and 66, measuring 7,500 metres, of which 800 are occupied by buildings,and the other 6,700 are laid out in gardens, walks, &c. The buildingsconsist of three houses contiguous to each other. The price of the purchase,with the expenses and building, will reach nearly 120,000 francs, about$22,800. A large portion of the land can be taken, independently of thehospital, for the use of the poor class.” The consistory of Paris very properlycalled on Mr. Rothschild, on the 22d of May, to thank him for his generosity.Dr. Cahen, in a few, well-chosen words, expressed the gratitude felt by thewhole community, and used this remarkable phrase: “God has given you wealth,but He has also given you a heart to make, so charitable a use of it as thisis.” Mr. R. was greatly moved by the act, and the words addressed to him; andmade a suitable reply. His wife was present, and active as she is in all thatis charitable, she took part in the conversation which afterwards sprang upbetween them and the deputation, and Mr. R. made particular inquiries aftermany matters of interest to the congregation, and showed himself ready tocontinue them his kindness.—It is not often, our readers will confess, that wepraise the rich; but such an act of true benevolence as this just exhibited byMr. Rothschild of Paris richly deserves to be recorded in our magazine; and wehope to hear that he has found imitators in this country; for though we havenone who control such ample resources, there is no lack of means among us, iftheir possessors could once be persuaded that they could devote a considerable portionof their wealth to worthy objects of charity without robbing their families,the usual
1851(20th ofIyar, 5611): Mordecai Manuel Noah, author, diplomat and one of the mostinfluential Jewish leaders in the first half of the 19th century passed away.Born in 1785, he was a diplomatic representative for the U.S.in North Africawhen the new nation was making its foray into the Moslem world. In a later episode he gained the support ofAdams, Jefferson and Madison (all founding fathers and U.S. Presidents) inreiterating the American belief in the separation of church and state. He may best be remembered for his attempt tocreate a utopian refuge for displaced European Jewry on an island on theNiagara River called Ararat. [Editor’snote: this blog does not have a enough space to do justify to the life of thisfascinating Jewish American leader who set the tone for American Jewry – proudto be both Jewish and a citizen of the United States.] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordecai_Manuel_Noah
1852:Birthdate of Emil Gustav Hirsch the son of Rabbi Samuel Hirsh and theson-in-law of Rabbi David Einhorn who was a major leader in the Reform movementin the United States.
https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/413
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7728-hirsch-emil-gustav
1853(14thof Iyar, 5613): Pesach Sheni
1853(14thof Iyar, 5613): Hebraist Marcus (Maier) Fisher, the Vienna born son Rabbi MosesFischer and author of the history Toledot Yeshurun Taḥat MalkeMoritaniyya passed away today in Prague.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6149-fischer-marcus-maier
1853: InBaden, Germany a local brewer and his wife gave birth to William Simon, who atthe age of 18 came to the United States where worked for different brewersbefore settling in Buffalo in 1888 andin 1894 becoming the soleproprietor of the John Schusler Brewing Company while raising two sons andthree daughters with the former Theresa Bronsetetter.
1854: AtFreetown, Prince Edward Island, Robert and Lydia Schurman gave birth to JacobGould Schurman who in 1905, while serving as President of Cornell University,sent a check to Jacob H. Schiff, the treasurer of the Jewish Relief Fund alongwith a letter that said, “I enclose herewith my check for the fund in relief ofthe suffering Jews of Russia, whose terrible condition appeals to the universalheart of mankind.
1855(5thof Sivan, 5615): Erev Shavuot observed on the same day a tornado touched downin Norwood Park killing three and injuring six in what was one of the Chicagoarea’s earliest severe weather events.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-05-22-0505220066-story.html
1856:Astronomer Hermann Goldschmidt discovered asteroid 41 Daphne.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13959-spielmann-marion-h
1858(9thof Sivan, 5618): Maimonides scholar David Ottensosser passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_15272.html
1859(18th ofIyar, 5619): Lag B’Omer
1859: LipmanNathan and Phoebe Silver were married today in London.
1860: Today,“in the United States Senate” Louisiana Senator “Judah P. Benjamin spoke inscathing terms of Stephen A. Douglas and lauded Lincoln, the question underconsideration being measures introduced by Jefferson Davis on the subject ofStates Rights and Slavery.” (Benjamin was Jewish – the rest were not.) http://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/history/lincoln_jews.pdf
1861: InPhiladelphia, Abraham and Cecilia (Adler) Goldmsith gave birth to MiltonGoldsmith the President of Goldsmith – Tobias Advertising Agency and the authorof Rabbi and Priest and A Victim of Conscience who was the husband ofSophie Hyman.
1864: Duringthe Civil War, the Red River Campaign in which Colonel H. Newbold of the 14thIowa was killed came to an end.
1866: DanielDeLeon arrived in Hamburg from Curacao.
1867: One dayafter he had passed away, 56 year old Asher Jacobs the son of Isaac andCatherine Jacobs and the husband of Caroline Cohen was buried today inSheerness, at the “Halfway (Queensborough) Jewish Cemetery.”
1869:Ferdinand Esterhazy, the real villain in the Dreyfus Affair began his militarycareer by joining the Roman Legion today having failed the entrance exams forSaint-Cyr.
1871: InDetroit, Kaufmann Kohler, the rabbi at Beth-El Congregation and the formerJohanna Einhorn, the “third daughter of leading Reform Rabbi David Einhorn”gave birth to Max James Kohler, the Columbia Law School graduate and assistantU.S. District Attorney who was a leader of the American Jewish community and anadvocate for immigrant rights, regardless of their nation of origin.
https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/max_/Max%20James%20Kohler.pdf
1871(2ndof Sivan, 5631): Thirty-seven-year-old Paris born French Army Captain JulesBenjamin Brandon, the “scion of an ancient Sephardic family that went to Francefrom Spain after the expulsion in 1492” and the nephew by marriage of Jewishhistorian Joseph Salvador who wascaptured by the Prussians at Sedan was killed today by “a stray bullet” whileleading his artillery battery in Paris after which he was eulogized “as one ofthe best and bravest officers of the second army corp.
1871: ReverendHoward Crosby chaired a meeting at New York’s Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Churchwhere plans were discussed to explore the area along the Jordan River thisOctober. The explorers hoped to findtombs of the Israelite Kings, the Ark of the Covenant and/or the tablets ofstone. Crosby pointed out that aprevious expedition had found a large Moabite stone with letters that were morelike English than ancient Hebrew.
1872: Buffalo tobacconistSiegmund Nathan Levy, the German born son of Hannchen and Moses Nathan Levy andhis wife Sarah Levy gave birth to Birth Levy.
1872: “AnotherInfluential Southerner Declares For Grant” published today described thedecision of Georgia General Henry C. Wayne to support the man who defeated theConfederacy because he did not want to support a party “being carried in thepockets of a foreign Jew banker” referring to August Belmont.
1873:Birthdate of Polish native Herman Gessner who was chosen to serve on theNational Executive Committee at the Convention of the ZOA held in Cleveland in1921:
1874(6thof Sivan, 5634): Shavuot
1875:Henrietta Held joined the people of Israel in conversion ceremony heldfollowing afternoon services at a the synagogue located on Sixth Street nearSecond avenue in New York City
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F01E6D81E39EF34BC4B51DFB366838E669FDE
1877:Birthdate of Rangoon native and barrister Elisha Arakie Cohen the first husbandof journalist Ruth Collie whom he married in 1908 in Cambridge, England.
1878: Thefuneral of Rabbi Samuel M. Isaacs took place this morning at Shaari Tephila onWest 44th Street in New York City.Rabbis A.S. Solomon, Menes and Morais of Philadelphia participated inthe service. Burial took place atCypress Hill Cemetery
1880(12thof Sivan, 5640): Controversial reforming Rabbi Joseph Aub passed away inBerlin.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2104-aub-joseph
1880:Birthdate of Posen native Felix Pinner, the German “economist and journalist”who came to the United States as a refugee in 1937
1880: InHungary, Jacob and Chaia (Blum) Klein gave birth to David Klein, the holder ofa Ph.D from NYU and member of the English Department at CCNY who was thehusband Hannah Heerschorn as well a member of the Jerusalem University Librarycommittee and the Jewish Publication Society.
1883: Onehundred thirty houses belonging to Jews were destroyed during a riot tonight atRostoff. The riot began after it wasreported that an unnamed Jew had murder a Russian.
1884: In St.Louis, Sarah Greengard and Lee Myers gave birth to “College of Physicians andSurgeons” trained ear, nose and throat surgeon Eugene Lee Myers, the husband ofFaletia Ray and bronchoscopist at the Jewish Hospital in St. Louis who was the“assistant auto-rhino-laryngologist at the Jewish Hospital in St. Louis and amember of B’nai El Congregation.
1885: InIllinois, Max and Sophia Reens Brunwasser gave birth to Jacob H. “Jack”Brunwasser, the third of their six children.
1885: Frenchauthor Victor Hugo passed away. His works included “Cromwell,” a play about theEnglish leader that included a portrayal of Manasseh Ben Israel that was “agrotesque travesty, ” “Marie Tudor” aplay that includes a “despicable Jewish ursuer” and “Toquemada,” a play aboutthe Spanish Inquisition that was really “a protest against the Pogroms inRussia” that were occurring at the time of the play’s production.
1886(17thof Iyar, 5646): Parashat Bechukotai
1886(17thof Iyar, 5646): Seventy-six-year-old Martha Ezekiel, the Dutch born daughter ofHanna Rebecca Israel and Ezekiel Jacob Ezekiel and the wife Jacob Abraham Levwith whom she had eleven children, passed away today after which she buried inHebrew Cemetery in Richmond, VA.
1887: InProvidence, R.I., “Herman and Sarah (Eisenberg) Boas gave birth to Brown,University of Chicago and Harvard educated English professor Ralph Boas andhusband of Louise Schultz who gave birth to mathematician Ralph Boas, Jr whileteaching at Whitman College and who taught at Holyoke where his son spent hisgap year.
1889: InDombrad, Hungary, Chana Moskovitz and her shoemaker husband Vilmos Maltz gavebirth to Herman Maltz, the founder Maltz Furniture Company in Los Angeles, CA.
1890:Birthdate of Lodz native Chaskiel who was murdered at Auschwitz at the age offifty two
1889:Newspaper coverage published today described the new building of the MosesMontefiore Congregation in Bloomington, Illinois “as, not only the handsomestand most unique in design of any building in the city, but comparable to thebest of any Jewish synagogue in the West” and went on to say that theconstruction “was accomplished by a group of 24 members.”
1890(3rdof Sivan, 5650): Fifty-year-old Edmund H. Abrahams, the son of Alexander andHannah Abrahams, the husband of Cecelia Solomons Abrahams and father of EdmundH. Abrahams passed away today.
1891(11thof Sivan, 5762): Louis Raphael who had shot his fiancée Rachel Weinberg beforeturning the gun on himself died today from the self-inflicted gunshot wound.
1891(14thof Iyar, 5651): Pesach Sheni
1891: Two daysafter he had passed away, three days after he had passed away, Alfred Goldsmid,the son of Alexander Goldsmid and Eliza Israel and the husband of ConstanceAugust Mocatta, was buried in the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1891: SirRobert Fowler who in 1883, while serving as Lord Mayor of London refused toallow Adolf Stocker, the German “Jew-baiter” to lecture at the Mansion Housepassed away today.
1891: “Dr.Henry M Leipziger” published today described the career of the newly electedAssistant Superintendent of the New York Public Schools who had become theDirector of the Hebrew Technical Institute in 1884 where he transformed theschool in “a model institution of this kind.”
1892: It was reportedtoday that in 1891 The Maimonides Library circulations amounted to 47,471, anincrease of 20 per cent over that of 1890 and 30 per cent over that of 1888.
1893: A numberof the Polish and Russian Jews who arrived yesterday aboard the SS Amalfi arebeing held at Ellis Island because they are destitute which means they may notbe able to enter the United States.
1893: In aninterview with a reporter from the New York Times, Rabbi Adolph Rabin deniedaccusations that he had not provided solace and comfort to convicted murdersIsaac Rosenwig and Harris Blank before their execution in Pennsylvania. He claimed that the difficulty in meetingwith them arose from the fact that the killers wanted him to help them commitsuicide.
1894: Thefirst conference of Hebrew and Christian Workers Israel in the United Statesand Canada was held today at Park Street Church in Boston, MA.
1894: Thefirst American Congress of Liberal Religious Societies met at Temple Sinai inChicago, Illinois.
1895: TheMonte Relief Society, which was founded by Mrs. Sofia Monte Loebinger, isscheduled to host a fund raising festival today at the Grand Central Palace.
1898: InVienna, 30 year old Siegfried Reginald Wolf married Ida Wolf.
1898: InPhiladelphia, “Mayer Sulzberger delivered the decennial address” today at theannual meeting of the Jewish Public Society of America at Keneseth Israel.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00813FD3B5416738DDDAE0994DF405B8885F0D3
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1898: Dr.Stephen Wise is scheduled to officiate at the funeral services for 62 old yearHerman Phillips “a teacher connected with the Hebrew Sheltering GuardianSociety” who previously served as a rabbi at synagogues in Boston and Toronto,Canada.
1898: Duringthe Spanish-American War, Sergeant Max J. Heinberg and Private William L. Hahnof Tampa, FL of Company H of the 1st Florida Volunteer Infantry weremustered into federal military service today.
1898: Duringthe Spanish-American War, Texans Sam Cooper, Company A, Gus L. Berkman, CompanyC, , Herman H. Blum, Company M, Max Blumberg, Company B, Walter Falk, Captain’sOrderly Company A, Morris Farber, Company L, Henry Perlman, Company D, CharlesFischl, Company E, Harry Friedman , Hospital Corps Company M, Sol Gordon,Company K, H.S. Hyneman, Company F, Charles C. Jacobs, Company M and JosephLevy, Regimental Band Company M all of the 1st Volunteer Infantry were amongthose who were mustered into federal service today at Galveston, TX.
1898: TheGrand Lodge No. 1 of the Independent Order Free Sons of Israel hosted apatriotic service tonight at Temple Rodolph Sholom.
1898: “InForeign Lands” published today described the “about-face” taken by Frenchjournalist Henri Rochefort, a leading anti-Dreyfus leader. At first he accused Dreyfus and his family ofbeing responsible for the Spanish-American War.Now he claims that the Dreyfus family and the Rothschilds areresponsible for the support shown by the French press for the cause of Spain.
1899: TheClara de Hirsch Home for Working Girls opened its doors on New York's East 63rdStreet.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/may/22/1899/clara-de-hirsch
1899: Thewidow of Leopold S. Levy who died when ruffians fractured his skills is stillhospitalized in New York Hospital following a failed attempt to take her ownlife. According to a note that wasfound, she was despondent and depressed by the death of her husband.
1900:Anti-Semitic riots came to an end at Stolp and Butow
1900:Birthdate of Voronezh, Russia native Dr. William Dameshek, the graduate ofHarvard Medical School who became “the preeminent hematologist of our time.”
http://www.hematology.org/About/History/Legends/2077.aspx
1901: Overthree thousand people attended the ceremonies marking the laying of the“cornerstone of the new building for Mount Sinai Hospital.”
1902: Today, aweek after “20,000 women on the Lower East Side broke into kosher butcher shopsand rendered the meat inedible by taking it into the street, soaking it ingasoline and setting it on fire” in protest against the jump in the price ofmeet “under pressure from their customers, the Retail Butchers Association oncemore aligned itself with the boycotters and refused to sell kosher beef inmember shops.” (As reported by Jewish Virtual Library)
1902: InNewark, NJ, “fish and eggs were at premium today in the Jewish quarter” becausenone of the 2,000 or 3,000 chickens usually killed by kosher butchers on whatis known as Chicken Day because all of the butchers are still closed followingthe riots that took place earlier this week.
1903: “ArnoldKohn the Treasurer of the Central Committee said today that he had received$500 from the Federation of Zionists and a ‘substantial check from New YorkMayor Low.”
1904: “Pacersfurnished the best of” this morning’s “sport on the Harlem River Speedway”today with footing being ideal for fast work when Nathan Strauss driving hisowner Joseph Meyer took on the winner of the 1903 Speedway Pacing championship.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/05/23/100470719.html?pageNumber=7
1904(8thof Sivan 5664): Kiev born, impoverished writer Eliyahu Maidanik whose “nervoussystem was so sensitive that he took poison following the Kishinev pogrompassed away today.
1905: It wasreported today the newly elected officers of the Jewish Publication Societyare: President – Edwin Wolf; First Vice President – Henry M. Leipziger; SecondVice President – Sol Blumenthal; Trustees Cyrus Adler, Henry M. Leipsizer,Judge Mayer Sulzberger, Edwin Wolf and Morris Newburger.
1905: InCrowborough, the former Amy Bell and John James Street Drieberg gave birth toAnglian churchman, journalist and member of Parliament Tom Driberg who visited Buchenwald with the firstofficial allied delegation and who wrote the official report of that visitstyled “Buchenwald Camp: The Report of a Parliamentary Delegation” whichsubmitted to Parliament in April of 1945 “by Command of His Majesty”
1906:Birthdate of comic Harry Ritz of the Ritz Brothers. Born Harry Joachim, Harrywas the 'middleman' of the Ritz Brothers, and was an inspiration for Danny Kayeand Sid Caesar. In 1934, The Ritz Brothers appeared in their first film,"Hotel Anchovy". The team worked for Fox and later Universal. He diedof cancer in 1986
1907:Birthdate of Harry Ritz, the youngest of the “Ritz Brothers.”
1908:Birthdate of Sheboygan, Wisconsin native and University of Wisconsin Law Schooltrained attorney David Rabinovitz who served as Judge of the United StatesDistrict Court for the Western District of Wisconsin during the Presidency ofLyndon Johnson.
https://www.fjc.gov/node/1390336
1909(2ndof Sivan, 5669): Parashat Bamidbar
1909:“According to a special imperial order just issued Jews will be admitted to thehealth resorts in the Caucasus” which reserves the order issued six weeks agodenying Jews admission “to the Caucausus during the coming season.
1910:“Answering a recent pulpit utterance of the Rev. Dr. Magnes of Temple Emanu-El,Dr. Stephen S. Wise of the Free Synagogue in West Eighty-First Street ardentlydefended the Jewish reform movement this morning.”
1911: In “Dr.Wise Attacks Fifth Avenue Clubs” published today the distinguished rabbi saidof the New York social clubs that banned Jewish members, “It is honoring to beshut out of some Fifth Avenue clubs in our city – the qualifications foradmission to these being apparently a capacity for unlimited idleness and foran almost unlimited measure of strong drink.”
1912(6thof Sivan, 5672): Shavuot
1912(6thof Sivan, 5672): Brigadier General Morris Horkheimer, the Commissary General ofthe West Virginia National Guard, who was also a successful businessman andcivic leader passed away today at Atlantic City, NJ where he was visiting inattempt to improve his failing health.
http://www.ohiocountylibrary.org/wheeling-history/4279
1912: InLondon, “Ukrainian Jewish immigrants from Zhitomir, Pearl (née Gorinstein) andCharles Brovarnik, a hardware store manager and carpenter gave birth to HerbertBrovarnik who gained game as Herbert Brown, the American chemist who earned aB.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, shared the Nobel Prize forChemistry in 1979 with George Witting, while giving public credit to thesupport given to him by his wife Sarah Baylen
https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/2004-12-21-hbrown-obit_x.htm
1913:Britain’s King George V who as Prince of Wales had attended a Seder inJerusalem and would be the first English monarch to reign the Yishuv, GermanyKaiser’s Wilhelm II who would blame the Jews for him losing his throne and WW Iand Russian Tsar Nicholas II the last in a long line of anti-Semitic rulersgathered in Berlin to attend the wedding the wedding Princess Luise, theKaiser’s daughter.
1914: TheBecker-Rosenthal trial in which Charles Becker and members of the Lenox AvenueGang faced charges for having murdered bookmaker Herman Rosenthal came to aclose.
1914(26thof Iyar, 5674): Rabbi Joshua Coblentz passed away today in Bath Beach, NY.
1914:Birthdate of Lipman “Lipa” Bers, the native of Riga who became an award-winningAmerican mathematician and human rights activist.
http://www.ams.org/notices/199501/bers.pdf
1915:President harry Hersh was the toastmaster at “the fourth annual Banquet of theWisconsin Menorah Society” which “was held today in the Women’s Building of theUniversity.”
1915: It was reported today that Judge Arthur G.Powell, a former member of the State Court of Appeals in Georgia who hasalready written to the governor expressing his belief in the innocence of LeoFrank has “said he understand other prominent lawyers would write lettersasserting their belief that Frank was not guilty, or at least that his guilthad not been sufficiently established.”
1915:According to reports published today, the Atlanta Journal is scheduled topublish “an editorial demanding clemency for Leo M Frank.”
1915: “Thefinal effort to save the life of Leo M. Frank is in the hands of William W.Howard of Augusta, an ex-Congressman, who has been selected by friends of Frankto present the case to the State Prison Commission.”
1915: InMacon, GA, “Governor-elect Nat E. Harris announced this afternoon that if itshould fall to his lot to render the final decision in the case of Leo M.Frank, he would deal with the matter from a purely Georgian standpoint.”
1915: “Thepetition for the life of Leo M. Frank to which a million names are to be signedbefore it is sent to the Governor of Georgia and the Pardoning Commission ofthat state, is nearing completion according to an announcement made” tonight“by the members of the Woman’s Peace Society who are procuring the signaturesat Booth 3 in the Cosmopolitan Garden
1916: InChicago, at a meeting of the Woman’s Board of Missions of the Interior, HenryMorgenthau, the former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, described “the conditionswhich led to the massacre by the Turks of hundreds of thousands of Armeniansand Syrians” and said “that the remaining half million people of these racesnow face death by starvation and exposure unless immediate was given to them.”
1916: In aninterview at Chicago, Henry Morgenthau said “No Republican will elected thisyear” since Wilson who enjoys the highest respect in Europe “will nominated andelected” because his “the best President” the United States “the can select inthis crisis.”
1916: HenryMorgenthau said tonight that he had “good reason to believe that following thiswar the Turks can be persuaded to sell Palestine” and that Jews of the worldshould not buy Palestine, but rather “Jews and Christians should jointly unitein the purchase of this sacred land” which should then be turned “into a smallfree republic…”
1916: TheSenate Committee on the Judiciary today distributed a letter from Dr. CharlesW. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University, endorsing Louis D. Brandeisof Boston for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Dr. Lowell, President ofHarvard, has signed a memorial opposing Mr. Brandeis's confirmation on theground that he was unfit for the Supreme bench. The confirmation process forBrandeis was a bruising affair laced with anti-Semitism.
1917(1stof Sivan, 5677): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1917(1stof Sivan, 5677): “Attorney, cotton broker and President of the JewishImmigration Information Bureau” Felix Bath, the German born son of Abram Bath,passed away today after which he was buried at the Hebrew Rest Cemetery in Ft.Worth, TX.
1917: InBrooklyn, Yiddish comedian Isidor Meltzer, the brother of screenwriter LewisMeltzer and his wife gave birth to Sidney Meltzer who gained fame characteractor Sid Melton – a name you might not know but a face you will not forget.
1917: InChicago, funeral services are scheduled to be held for Adolph J. Meyers, thebrother of Mrs. Abe Adler and Mrs. H. J. Marks.
1917: InChicago, funeral services are scheduled to be held for Caroline Newman, “thewife of the late Adolph Newman” with internment at Graceland cemetery.
1917: TheAnnual meeting of the Chicago-Winfield Tuberculosis Sanatorium is scheduled tobe held this evening at the Standard Club at Michigan Avenue and 24thStreet.
1918: “Dozensof important people lined the staircase” at Beit Yehudayoff, known as “thePalace” “in a fabulous reception for General Allenby.”
1919: TheRumanian government granted citizenship to all native-born Jews.
1919: Toprevent the Paris Peace Conference’s imposition of naturalization of Jews,Ionel Bratianu wired to Bucharest the text of a law (promulgated as a decree todayaccording to which citizenship could now be obtained by a declaration of intentin writing to the law court, the latter being obliged to make out a certificateof confirmation that conferred the exercise of political rights.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/romania-virtual-jewish-history-tour
1919: Theannual meeting of the Jewish Aid Society, of which Mrs. Ralph J. Rosenthal issecretary, is scheduled to take pace this afternoon at the Standard Club onMichigan Avenue in Chicago.
1920(5thof Sivan, 5680): Parashat Bamidbar; erev Shavuot
1920: TheDearborn Independent, owned by Henry Ford, began publishing the “Protocols ofthe Elders of Zion.”
1920: Birthdate of astrophysicist Thomas Gold. Goldwas bron in Austria and educated in Switzerland and Great Britain, In early1959, when Cornell University offered him the opportunity to set up aninterdisciplinary unit for radio-physics and space research, and take charge ofthe Department of Astronomy, he accepted the appointment. He remained atCornell until his death.
1921: Attackof Henry Ford and others on Jews were decried as a form of treason” tonight inBaltimore “at the First Methodist Episcopal Church by the pastor, Dr. WilliamH. Morgan who delivered a sermon on “Race Prejudice: Why Does Anti-SemitismExist?”
1922: Birthdate of Quinn Martin, head of QuinnMartin Productions.
1922: Today’sDallas News reported that 789 Klansman had participated in their march throughdowntown Dallas which increased the feeling of fear among the Jewish communityof Dallas whose mayor was said to be a Klan sympathizer, whose “police wasthought to be a Klansman,” whose “district attorney was on the side of the KKK”and whose police and fire departments were home to “a high percentage of Klanmembers.”
1922: “SilverWings” produced by William Fox and photographed by cinematographer JosephRuttenberg was released in the United States today.
1922: InManhattan, Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Klein gave birth to Judith Klein whom the worldwould come to know as film critic Judith Crist.
1923(7thof Sivan, 5683): Second Day of Shavuot observed for the last time during thePresidency of Warren Harding who would die before completing his first term inoffice
1924:Cornerstone laying ceremony for the construction of the building housing theChachmei Lublin Yeshiva began today.
1924: InRomania students hired a servant girl to run through the street screaming,"My Jewish employers dragged me down into the cellar and wanted my bloodfor ritual purposes." This had theresult of causing attacks on Jews in the country. Several months later inAleppo, Syria, the same charges of "blood ritual" surfaced againstthe Jews.
1924: InChicago, the ransom note mailed by Nathan Leopold yesterday arrived at the homeof Robert “Bobby” Franks the teenager was already dead.
1925: With theapproach of summer Beth-El Congregation in Camden, NJ held the last of its“late services on Friday evening.
1926: It wasannounced today that Mrs. Bertha V. Guggenheimer of Lynchburg, Va., has aestablished a $50,000 trust fund that will build playgrounds in Jerusalem,Haifa and Tel Aviv, as well as other cities and farming settlements inPalestine. The playgrounds will operate on a non-sectarian basis meaning theyare open to Christian, Moslem and Jewish children.
1926: Dr.Lewis Browne the English born American author who was an ordained Reform Rabbiset sail today aboard the steamship Leviathan a tour that will include visitsto England, France, Switzerland, Germany. Belgium, Holland, Poland, Lithuania,Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria, Italy and Spain afterwhich he will write articles for the Jewish Daily Bulletin describing “theJewish situation in each of these countries.”
1927(20thof Iyar, 5687): Sixty-one year old Louis Bandes, the journalist who wrote underthe name of Louis Miller passed away today.
http://www.yiddishkayt.org/miller-bandes/
1928: “UnveilTablet At First London Synagogue Site” published today described the ceremonyunder the leadership of Sir Francis Montefiore, where a “where a wall tabletmarking the site of the first London synagogue which was used in the days ofCromwell” was unveiled followed by Rabbi David Bueno de Mosquita’s prayer“offered in memory of the founders of the modern London Jewish community.”(JTA)
1929: “TheBrandenburg Arch” produced by Joe Pasternak was released today in German.
1930: TheJewish community in Palestine begins a general strike to protest the blockingof immigration
1930:Today “iron manufacturer, builder andrealtor: Harris Uris, the Latvian born son of Mendel Uris and Leah Elkinmarried Mary Schacht, the daughter of Barnet Schacht and Eva Bojarsky after tedeath of his first wife Sadie Coplan with whom he had four children.
1930: InWoodmere, NY, William Milk and Minerva Karns gave birth to Harvey Milk, SanFrancisco’s first openly hom*osexual member of the City Council who along withthe Mayor of San Francisco was brutally gunned down in 1978 by a politicalrival who would get off on the Twinkie Defense.
1931(6thof Sivan, 5691): Shavuot
1931: InCamden, NJ, Rabbi Nachman S. Arnoff officiated at Confirmation Services thismorning where Ruth Kaplan, the President of the Confirmation Class presentedthe class gift to the synagogue.
1931: Dr.Phoebus A. Levene of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York,tonight received the Willard Gibbs medal, one of the highest distinctions inchemical science, from the Chicago section of the American Chemical Society.
1931(6thof Sivan, 5691): One day before his 66th birthday Solomon BarnatoJoel, one of the nephews of Barney Barnato who made a fortune in the diamondmining business which enabled him to become an owner and breeder ofthoroughbred racehorses passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joel-solomon-barnato
1931:“Svengali,” a horror film featuring Carmel Myers, the daughter of a SanFrancisco rabbi was released in the United States today.
1931: Afterenlisting in the 1st Heavy Brigade of the Austrian GarrisonArtillery, in 1927, Paul Alfred Cullen received his commission today
1931: InCamden, NJ, Ruth Kaplan offered the “Opening Prayer” to start ConfirmationServices at Congregation Beth-El
1932: TheHakoah All-Stars rallied in the second half to gain a tie with the GermanAll-Stars in what was billed as goodwill soccer game at the Polo Grounds. Thecontest was sponsored by leading Jewish and German citizens as a means ofpromoting interracial understanding. Mayor Walker, honorary chairman of thesponsoring committee kicked off the ball at the start of play. At half time,Carol Sherman, former Attorney General of New York Stated presented medal tothe Americans who had competed in the International Jewish Olympics recentlyheld in Tel Aviv.
1932:Birthdate of Yosef Haim Yerushalmi, a groundbreaking and wide-ranging scholarof Jewish history whose meditation on the tension between collective memory ofa people and the more prosaic factual record of the past influenced ageneration of thinkers.
1933(22ndof Iyar, 5693): Fifty-nine-year-old Sandor Ferenczi, the noted Hungarianpsychoanalyst and friend of Sigmund Freud passed away today.
http://www.maccoby.com/Articles/ReviewSFerenczi.shtml
1933: “IrvingWexler, better known as Waxey Gordon, wealthy beer distributor and all-aroundracketeer” spent tonight in the Federal House of Detention after having“pleaded not guilty to income tax evasion today.
1934:Birthdate of Ya'acov Ra'anan, the native of Vienna who made Aliyah in 1939, whoserved as the commander of the INS Dakar on its last voyage.
1934: Photo ofDr. George Gordon, the Director of the Minneapolis Talmud Torah who “began hiscareer as a Jewish education at the first Hebrew Free School on Minneapolis’snorth side, where as a twenty-year old he helped to the teach the Hebrewalphabet to young students.”
http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/jhs/id/165/rec/3
1934: Mrs.Samuel W. Halprin, “the national president of Hadassah” who has recentlyreturned from a trip to Palestine, isscheduled to this evening “on the weekly radio program of the Jewish DailyBulletin on the subject of “Palestine in 1929 and 1934.”
1935(19th ofIyar, 5695): Max Hans Kohn, a Jewish student died in Dachau. Reportedly he wasthe first Jew to die there in 10 months.
1936(1stof Sivan, 5696): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1936(1stof Sivan, 5696): Seventy-three-year-old Richard Gottheil the son of RabbiGustav Gottheil, and a noted scholar, Zionist leader and the founder of ZetaBeta Tau (ZBT) passed away today.
http://jewishmag.com/118mag/richard_gottheil/richard_gottheil.htm
1936:Jewish-operated buses were again fired at today on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Road,but there were no casualties and the curfew in Jerusalem was extended startinga half hour earlier (6:30 p.m.) in response to escalating Arab violence.
1936: Based oninformation based on “hints in the German press” it was reported today that“negotiations are now under way to explore the possibilities of the emigrationof no fewer than 20,000 German Jews to Ethiopia” which has been cruellyconquered by the Itlanians.
1936: Britishaircraft “flew over Jaffa and helped police to search the hills adjoin theJerusalem-Jaffa road for Arabs involved in the ambush of Jewish bus in whichtwo Jews and a British soldier were wounded.”
1937:According to a report “made public” today by the American Joint DistributionCommittee, there are 35,500 “refugees from Germany…in other European countries”of whom “about 29,000 ae Jewish and 6,500 are Aryan or non-Aryan Christians”and that of the less than 400,000 Jews in Germany, “100,000 are jobless and inneed of aid.
1938:Birthdate of actor/ director Richard Benjamin whose work includes GoodbyeColumbus and He & She.
1938: As Arabterrorism escalated, The Palestine Post reported that the Government forcespractically occupied Arab villages in Galilee in an effort to check theincreasing terror and lawlessness. Jewish settlements of Ein Hazorea andMishmar Haemek came under a concentrated Arab terrorist fire. The IraqPetroleum Company pipeline was cut once more and set on fire near Nazareth.
1938: ThePalestine Post published a special, 20-page Palestine-British supplement tomark the Empire Day.
1938: In NewYork City drama coach Lee Strasberg and actress Paula Strasberg gave birth toSusan Strasberg who was the original Anne Frank.
1938(21st ofIyar, 5698): Rabbi Simon Glazer passed away.Born in 1878 at Kovno Russia, Glazer the Chief Rabbi of the UnitedSynagogues in Montreal (1907-1918); Chief Rabbi of Kansas City (1920-1923);Rabbi of Beth Hamidrash Hagadol in NYC (1923-1927); Temple Beth-El in Brooklyn(1927-1930); Maimonides Synagogue of NYC starting in 1930. Glazer had also served as President of theCentral Council of Rabbis of America and Chairman of its ExecutiveCommittee. He wrote or translated 26books including a “History of Israel” and translations of the works ofMaimonides and the High Holiday prayer books.
1939: Germanysigns a "Pact of Steel" with Italy.This is one more step on the road to World War II.
1939(4th ofSivan, 5699): Ernst Toller, a German-Jewish playwright and active anti-fascist,who had fought for the Kaiser in World War I and whose sister and brother hadbeen taken to a concentration camp, hung himself at the Mayflower Hotel. W.H. Auden memorialized him with a poementitled “In Memory of Ernst Toller” published in 1940 in an anthology calledAnother Time.
1940(14thof Iyar, 5700): Pesach Sheni
1940(14thof Iyar, 5700): Hyman I Vener, the recently elected president of the SouthernCalifornia Public Health Association passed away today.
1940: Thisafternoon at the White House, FDR met with a group of military leader and onecivilian, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
1941: Jews inCroatia are forced to wear yellow badges.
1941: Germansstole a 16th century Torah scroll from the Sephardic community atSalonica. This Torah was said to havecome from Spain. The Germans then burned all the books and three Sefer Torahs.When the chief rabbi returned, he found all of the libraries and Jewishmanuscripts destroyed.
1942(6th ofSivan, 5702): First Day of Shavuot
1942: HerbertBaum and his wife Marianne were arrested today for their part in “an arsonattack on an anticommunist and anti-Semitic propaganda exhibition prepared byJoseph Goebbels at the Berliner Lustgarten.”
1942(6th ofSivan, 5702): In an exercise conducted in a forest outside Mielec, Poland,Gestapo agents "cast" Jews as partisans, beat and mutilate them, andthen kill them.
1942(6th ofSivan, 5702): Three hundred children are taken away and sent to Chelmno wherethey were gassed to death.
1943(17thof Iyar, 5703): Parashat Behar
1943: It wasreported today that ant-Semitic elements in French North Africa that do notlike the policies of General Henri Honore Giraud’ “doctrine of racial equalityhave” rallied around General de Gaulle’s standard with one woman in Tunissaying, “The French follow de Gaulle, the Jews are for Giraud.”
1944:Birthdate of Durham, NC native and U.of Wisconsin PhD Christopher RobertBrowning a “specialist on the Final Solution and the author of such works asOrdinary Men and The Origins of the Final Solution who raised two children withhis wife Jennifer Jane Horn.
1944: GeorgeMandel-Mantello, a Jewish diplomat who, while working for the Salvadoranconsulate in Geneva, Switzerland, saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust byproviding fictive Salvadoran citizenship papers and by publicizing thedeportation of Jews from Hungary to the death camps” left Switzerland forBucharest.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/MandelMantello.html
1944: In London, the Bevis Marks Synagogue held a“Service of Mourning and Prayer for the Martyrs of the Warsaw Ghetto” whereRabbi Joseph delivered a sermon “The Battle of Warsaw.”
1944: As partof the campaign to convince the West, that the Soviet Union was a benignpartner in the fight against fascism, a campaign in which Stalin used manySoviet Jews whom he later liquidated, “the Communist International” orComintern was dissolved today.
1944(29th ofIyar, 5704): For five days Jews readied for rail transport from Munkács,Ukraine, and from the Hungarian town of Sátoraljaújhely resist being loaded.Some are shot. Resistance began on May22 and ended on May 27.
1945(10th ofSivan, 5705): Polish freebooters stopped a train in the Bialystok region ofPoland and beat and abduct a Jew named Mejer Sznajder. This took place afterV.E. Day and the end of Holocaust.
1946: KarlFrank, Nazi protector of Bohemia-Moravia, was executed in Prague.
1946(21st ofIyar, 5706): Two Jews were killed and another fifteen were injured in pogrombegun because a crowd of Hungarians in Kunmadras believed the Jews had madesausage out of Christian children.
1947: It waslearned today that “the Russian military administration has granted permissionto the American Joint Distribution Committee to send food to Jewish communitiesin the Russian zone” of occupied Germany.
1947: In Rome,“Jacob I. Trobe, director of Italian operations for the American JointDistribution Committee called attention to the plight of 25,000 displaced Jewsin Italy” for whom no arrangements have been made when “UNRA ceases operations”on June 30.
1948: DavidBen-Gurion ordered Yigal Yadin, the Chief of Staff, to launch an attack on thepolice fort at Latrun “without delay.”Ben-Gurion wanted Yadin to use the Seventh Brigade for the attack. Yadin was opposed to the attack. The brigade was composed of 2,000 troopsseveral hundred of whom were Holocaust survivors who had just gotten off theboat from the Cyprus detention camps.They had little or no training.Many of them did not speak Hebrew.In other words, the Seventh Brigade was a brigade in name only. Yadin knew they were not a fighting force andsending them to attack a hilltop fortress manned by the Jordanian Arab Legionwas a recipe for disaster. To makematters worse, the Seventh lacked basic equipment, including water bottles orcanteens. Considering the heat, a lackof water would hamper even veteran troops.Ben-Gurion’s stubborn insistence must be seen against the backdrop ofthe times. Despite a great deal ofcriticism, Ben-Gurion had accepted the partition plan even though it meantJerusalem would not be part of the Jewish state, Instead it was to governed by aninternational body. The Arabs rejectedthis concept and turned Jerusalem into a battleground. They laid siege to the city and sought to cutit off from the rest of the Jewish state.Ben-Gurion was determined to do whatever it took to ensure thatJerusalem would be Jewish. The hilltopfortress of Latrun was the main obstacle to opening the road to from the coastto Jerusalem. Hence his insistence onthe attack even if it flew in the face of the best advice from is commanders.
1948: Troopsfrom the Carmeli Brigade took up positions at Masada and Sha'ar HaGolan inexpectation of a counter-attack from the Arabs that did not come. After a week, despite their edge in armor andartillery, apparently, they had had enough.
1948: Thefighting that had begun on May 15 known collectively as the Battles of theKinarot Valley came to an end. The most memorable fighting took place betweenthe Israelis and the Syrians at Dagania Alef and Degania Bet. Words cannotdescribe the heroism of the Jewish fighters who stood their ground againstoverwhelming odds.
1948: It wasreported today that Thomas C. Wasson, the U.S. Consul General for the UnitedStates in Jerusalem had attempted to stop the Arab Legion shelling of theHadassah Hospital and Hebrew University on Mount Scopus: "The AmericanConsul is reported to have contacted the Legion requesting it to stop firing onJewish positions in and around the buildings. The Legion Commander replied thatthe buildings were being used by Jewish forces to mortar and machine-gun theArab-occupied Sheikh Jarrah quarter and handed the Consul surrender terms toconvey to the Jews. The Commander asked that all fighting Jews in the hospitaland University surrender as prisoners of war and that all doctors, nurses,professors, and scientists be handed over to the Red Cross.”
1948: “Justafter 2.00pm, Consul General Thomas C Wasson was shot while returning to the USConsulate from a meeting of the UN Truce Commission at the French Consulate inJerusalem. While crossing Wauchope Street (now Abraham Lincoln/Hess) to enterthe alley leading to the Consulate, he was shot by a .30 caliber rifle. Thebullet entered his chest via his right upper arm and left level to his secondcostal cartilage
1948: To theamazement of everybody, it was reported today that of the five Armies and AirForces “now fighting on the borders and within Palestine only the Arab Legionhas made any important advances” and that “in the north, none of the armies hasbeen able to keep its forces in Israel’s territory and the Syrians are nowdigging in on their own side of the border.”
1948: “TheRoyal Egyptian Air Force attacked Ramat David Airbase mistakenly believing itwas now an Israeli controlled airbase and in “a series of three attacks, destroyedor damaged several aircraft and killed four British airmen
1949(23rdof Iyar, 5709): Russian born Sarah Eckstein Fishman, the wife of AbrahamFishman with whom she had two children – Bernard and Dorothy – passed awaytoday after which she was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Commerce City, CO.
1949: In “ACommunist’s Career: The Story of Eisler,” Ira Henry Freeman recaps the careerof “Gerhart Eisleer…the professional, international, Communist revolutionary.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/05/22/96458624.pdf
1950(6th ofSivan, 5710): First Day of Shavuot
1950: Russianspy Harry Gold confessed to the FBI.
1953: The Jerusalem Post reported thataccording to the Jordanian complaint, Israel occupied three Arab villages inthe Jordanian-occupied Latrun area and two in the Tulkarm District. Israeldenied all such allegations, but claimed frequent Jordanian marauders'infiltration.
1953: TheJerusalem Post reported that Mr. Shimon Peres, the Director-General of theMinistry of Defense, claimed at an exhibition of the locally manufacturedproducts, that few countries in the world produced as wide a variety ofarmaments as Israel.
1954(19thof Iyar, 5714): Parashat Bechukotai.
1954: BarMitzvah of Robert Zimmerman who gained fame as Bob Dylan.
1955: “Thetelevision play ‘A Catered Affair,’ written by Paddy Chayefsky, was first shownon television as part of the Philco Television Playhouse.”
1955: Mrs.Anne Kassow, the wife of the late Dr. Israel Kassow announced the engagement ofher daughter Judith to Charles Bensimon.
1955: Finalbroadcast of the “Jack Benny Program” on CBS radio. Benny, whose real name wasBenjamin Kubelsky, would continue to broadcast on television until 1965.
1956(12thof Sivan, 5716): Sixty-eight-year-old mezzo-soprano Maria Winetzkaja passedaway today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E04E6DB1F3BE333A05750C2A9639C946792D6CF
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/winetzkaja-maria
1957: “ChinaGate,” a film set strangely enough in the First Indochina War, written,produced and directed by Samuel Filler, the Worcester born son Jewish immigrantsRebecca Baum and Benjamin Fuller was released today in the United States.
1959(14thof Iyar, 5719): Pesach Sheni
1959:Birthdate of David Blatt, the Princeton graduate who played for and coachedseveral Israeli basketball teams.
1959: Finalperformance of “Tall Story” “based on the 1957 novel The Homecoming Game byHoward Nemerov featuring Marian Winters as “Myra Solomon.”
1961(7thof Sivan, 5721): Second Day of Shavuot
1961: “JacobRothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, and his wife Serena Dunn Rothschild” gavebirth to their “eldest child” Hannah Mary Rothschild the documentarian andauthor whose first novel was The Improbability of Love.
1962(18thof Iyar, 5722): Lag B’Omer
1965(20thof Iyar, 5725): Parashat Behar
1965(20thof Iyar, 5725): Sixty-six-year-old Samuel Cooke the founder and chairman of thePenn Fruit Company which opened its first store in 1927 using the“revolutionary self-service concept” and an active supporter of the JewishFarmer School who raised two daughter – Lily Beth and Geraldine – with hiswife, “the former Doris Beyer” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/05/23/101548661.pdf
1965:Birthdate of Shlomo Lahiani, the Israeli political leader who has served asmayor of Bat Yam.
1966: TodayRabbi Jacob Rudin officiated at the marriage of Linda Halpern, thegranddaughter of the late Judge David L. Weill and stockbroker Freeman ArthurShore.
1966: Toady,at the Roslyn Country Club Rabbi Alvin Rubin officiated at the wedding GretaRuth Haaran to Michael G. Elliot, who has changed his surname and is the son ofMr. and Mrs. Louis A. Goldman.
1966: Thisafternoon, at the Beth-El Synagogue Center in New Rochelle, NY Rabbi David IGolovenskt officiated at the wedding of Phoebe Kazdin and Dr. Howard JoelSchnitzer.
1967: Inviolation of international agreements, Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran,blocking all Israeli shipping from the south, thereby raising tension in theMiddle East. In Israel, a broad based coalition was formed under Levi Eshkolwith Menachem Begin and Yoseph Sapir and Moshe Dayan who became the Minister ofDefense. Under international law, blockade is an act of war and this action byEgypt actually gave Israel the legal right to go to war, a fact convenientlyignored at that time and by the current generation of revisionist historians.
1967: Twomonths after being released in the UK, “The Honeypot” a comedy directed andwritten by Joseph L. Mankiewicz was released today in the United States.
1969(5th ofSivan, 5729): Erev of Shavuot
1969: FemalePalestinian artist Mona Saudi, Iraqi Suheir Razzak and Swede Rolf Svensson wereimprisoned in Copenhagen on suspicion of plotting to murder David Ben-Gurion.
1969: U.S.premiere of “Winning” starring Paul Newman.
1969: MayorJohn V. Lindsay greeted his Jewish constituency today on the eve of Shavuot,which begins tomorrow. Speaking of the Jewish people's receiving of the Torah,which the holiday celebrates, the Mayor said: "From that hallowed event onMount Sinai, through the ages, from the days of ancient Palestine, and up toour times and the rebirth of the State of Israel, the Torah has been at thevery heart of the Jewish experience. Moses...stands as a towering figure notonly in the life of the Jewish people but in the life of ourcivilization."
1970: InBoston, Penny Hollander Feldman and Roy E. Feldman gave birth to Yale trainedattorney Noah Feldman, “The Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law atHarvard Law School and chairman of the Society of Fellows at HarvardUniversity” and brother of Simon and Ezra Felman.
https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10257/Feldman
1970(16th ofIyar, 5730): Arab terrorists killed 9 children and 3 adults on a school bus
1971(27thof Iyar, 5731): Parshat Behar-Bechukotai
1971(27thof Iyar, 5731): Seventy-seven-year-old Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading,Baroness Swanborough, the secretary to the wife of the Viceroy of India, RufusIsaacs, 1st Earl Reading who married him shortly after her became awidower who went to a life of public service including the founding of theWomen’s Voluntary Service which played such a vital role during WW II, passedaway today.
http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/stella_isaacs,_marchioness_of_reading
1972: Timepublished “Israel: Battle of Flight 517”
Sabena Flight 517 from Brussels to Tel Aviv was20 minutes out of Vienna last week when two Arabs waving pistols rushed theco*ckpit. "As you can see," Captain Reginald Levy calmly informed his90 passengers, "we have friends aboard." The friends—the men and twowomen, who produced explosives from under their skirts—were members of aPalestinian guerrilla organization called Black September.* Their audaciousplan: to land the Boeing 707 at Tel Aviv and embarrass Israel by threatening toblow up the plane on a Lod Airport runway unless 317 imprisoned fedayeen werereleased. Levy's radioed alert that hisplane had been commandeered rang top-level alarms in Israel. Defense MinisterMoshe Dayan and Chief of Staff General David Elazar hurried to the airport tosupervise the troops mustered to meet the jet. As soon as Levy touched down inthe Tel Aviv dusk and rolled to an isolated runway, mechanics at Dayan's ordersimmobilized the plane by deflating its tires and draining the hydraulicsystem. After presenting their demandsfor the prisoners' release to Lod's control tower, the skyjackers were alarmedto discover that they could not take off again. Emotionally, they kissed oneanother goodbye and prepared to detonate the explosives. Levy started aconversation to calm them down, and kept on chatting through the night. "Italked about everything under the sun," he said later, "fromnavigation to sex." Next morning,in response to Levy's plea, Dayan promised to prepare the plane for takeoff andproduce the fedayeen. A group of bogus prisoners were shown to the skyjackersfrom a distance and Dayan had an airplane taken out to a runway, supposedly tofly the released fedayeen to Cairo. From the control tower, one of the"prisoners"—actually an Arabic-speaking Israeli soldier—lulled theskyjackers: "They tell me I'm being sent to Cairo. Is that true? Praisedbe Allah." Meanwhile, out of sight, commandos were practicing assaulttactics on a 707. When they were able to force the doors, swing aboard andstart shooting in 90 seconds, Elazar deemed them ready. His "groundcrew" approached the jet, allowed themselves to be frisked by Red Crossnegotiators who had been called in at Arab request. No pistols turned up in thesearch; they had been hidden in boots or tool boxes. Suddenly the"mechanics" burst into the plane with guns blazing. The two maleskyjackers died from bullets in the head and one of the two women was wounded.In all, the action took precisely 90 seconds.Israelis hailed the jet's recapture as a military victory—and as anexample of how other nations ought to handle skyjacking. Dayan himself was hostat a dinner for Levy, a British citizen with a Jewish father and a Christianmother who was celebrating his 50th birthday. Prime Minister Golda Meir laterthrew a second dinner for all the participants. She kissed Levy and cried,"We love you." Publicly, Mrs. Meir justified the recapture, citing"the terrible significance of submission" to terrorism. Elsewhere the response was less enthusiastic.The International Air Line Pilots Association protested the danger topassengers in such go-for-broke shootouts. As it happened, three aboard Flight517 had been wounded. One 22-year-old Israeli was in critical condition; shehad leaped up in panic when the firing started and was shot in the head by acommando who mistook her for one of the Arabs. The International Red Crossangrily cried that it had been duped by the Israelis. Arabs neverthelessaccused the agency of complicity. In Beirut, where Red Cross week was in progress,volunteers soliciting donations were attacked on the street by Black Septembersupporters. The leader of the group, who called himself Captain Rafat, waslater identified as Ali Tasha, 34, a onetime Jerusalem tour guide and seasonedskyjacker. In 1968 he helped divert anEl Al jet to Algeria.
1973: AvnerShaki left the National Religious Party and continued to sit as an Independentin the Knesset until the election in 1974
1975:Seventy-four-year-old historian George W. F. Hallgarten the grandson of CharlesHallgarten and the great-grandson of Lazarus Hallgarten passed away today.
1976: NBCbroadcast “Call of the Wild” a made for television adaptation of the novel ofthe same name with music by Peter Matz this evening.
1977(5th ofSivan, 5737): Erev of Shavuot observed for the first time during the Presidencyof Jimmy Carter.
1978: “TheOff-Broadway production” of “Torch Song Trilogy” a collection of three plays byHarvey Fierstein opened today at the Players Theatre.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israelempowered the Minister of Defense and the Chief of Staff to discuss with U.N.and UNIFIL the arrangements aimed to prevent the terrorists in South Lebanonfrom attacking Israel and harming local inhabitants. The UNIFIL assured the Christianleader, Major Saad Haddad, that it is prepared to recognize his 600-men strongforce and that the humanitarian "Good Fence", which allowed Lebanesevillagers to receive aid and work in Israel, will continue even after the completeIsraeli withdrawal.
1978: ABCbegan broadcasting “The Bastard” a mini-series co-starring Lorne Greene as“Bishop Francis” William Shatner as “Paul Revere” and Tom Bosley as “BenjaminFranklin.”
1979: Funeralservices are scheduled to be held today the Riverside Chapel in Brooklyn todayfor 77 year-old Brooklyn Law School trained criminal lawyer and retired stateSupreme Court Justice Hyman Barsnay, the son of Russian born tailor who at theage of seven came to the United States where he worked his way through nightlaw school and married the former Ruth Koeppel with whom he had one daughter,Joan Birnbaum.
1980(7thof Shavuot, 5740): 2nd day of Shavuot, Yizkor for the last time during the presidency ofJimmy Carter
1981(18th ofIyar, 5741): Lag B’Omer
1981(18thof Iyar, 5741): Fifty-eight-year-old movie director Boris Segal passed awaytoday. (As reported by Shawn G. Kennedy)
1981: “TheOutland” a sci-fi thriller directed and written by Peter Hyams, with music byJerry Goldsmith and featuring Steven Berkoff was released today in the UnitedStates.
1981: JackLang began serving as Culture Minister of France for the first time.
1981: “TheFour Seasons,” a romantic comedy produced by Martin Bregman was released todayin the United States.
1981: AntatoleBoyard reviewed Where the Jackals Howl and Other Stories by Israeliauthor Amos Oz.
1983: “Anestimated 180,000 people took part in a New York rally on the occasion of the12th annual Solidarity Sunday for Soviet Jewry.”
1983: The New York Times featured a review of Art& Ardor by Cynthia Ozick.
1985: “Rambo:First Blood Part II” co-starring Steven Berkoff as “Lt. Col. Podovsky” and withmusic by Jerry Goldsmith was released in the United States.
1985: “Theplay ‘White Rose’ by Scottish playwright Peter Arnott that portrays LydiaLitvyak's imagined political thoughts, with her character discussing war andSoviet women's resistance against Nazism. It was first performed today at theEdinburgh Festival, in the Traverse Theatre.”
1986: InRedwood City, California, Angie and Francis Edelman gave birth to BostonPatriots wide-receiver Julian Edelman
1986(13thof Iyar, 5746) Seventy-three year old Martin Gabel the Philadelphia born Jewknown both for his film career and being the husband of Arlene Francis withwhom he appeared on “What’s My Line?” passed away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-05-24/local/me-7505_1_broadway-actor
1986: InPhiladelphia, PA, “Nina Zebooker and William Ephraim gave birth to PrincetonUniversity graduate Molly Ephraim who pursued a career in acting which includedsix years playing the role of “Mandy Baxter” the middle daughter in the sitocom“Last Man Standing.”
1988(6th ofSivan, 5748): First Day of Shavuot
1990: In The Los Angeles Times, SheldonTeitelbuam reviewed A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts With Torturersby Lawrence Weschler, the grandson of Viennese-Jewish émigré composer andPulitzer Prize-winner Ernst Toch.
1990: For thefirst time CBS broadcast “A Killing in a Small Town” starring Barbara Hersheywho “won a 1990 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseriesor a Movie” for her performance
1991(9thof Sivan, 5751): Ninety-one-year-old Professor of Entomology Abe EzraMichelbacher, the Riverside, CA native and holder of Ph.D. from UC Berkley andthe husband bacteriologist Martha Meyer passed away today.
https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/auth_per_fbr_eacp219
1992: “Alien3”a sci-fi thriller with music by Elliot Goldenthal was released today in theUnited States.
1992: On thefinal episode of The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, which was airedtonight, Doc Severinsen and the NBC Orchestra closed the show with "I'llBe Seeing You" a popular song, with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics byIrving Kahal published in 1938, because “it was one of Carson's favoritesongs.”
1992: “EncinoMan” a comedy co-starring Pauly Shore and featuring Richard Masur was releasedin the United States today.
1992: “Far andAway” co-produced by Brian Grazer and filmed by cinematographer Mikael Salomonwas released in the United States today.
1993: NBCbroadcast “Saved by the Bell” a sitcom co-starring Dustin Diamond.
1993: For thefirst time ABC broadcast “Deadly Relations” the made for television movieco-starring Gwyneth Paltrow as “Carol Ann fa*got Applegarth Holland”
1995: “BrianKowitz hit a 1-2 pitching into right field for a single with two out and thebases loaded in the 10th inning giving the Richmond Braves a 2-1victory over the Norfolk Tides in the International League. (As reported by BobWechsler)
1998: The Times of London included a review ofIsrael by Martin Gilbert which like all of his work is historicallyaccurate while having the flow of a well written novel. If you read no other book about the historyof the Jewish state, this is the one you must read.
1998: The Baltimore Jewish Times described theNew Yorker who is the first rabbi to win honor from pope
As another ina series of recent Roman Catholic overtures toward the Jewish community,Baltimore's Cardinal William H. Keeler last week presented a papal honor to aNew York rabbi long active in Catholic-Jewish relations. In an afternoonceremony at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore, Rabbi MordecaiWaxman of Great Neck, N.Y., became the fifth Jew, and the first rabbi ever,named a Knight Commander of Saint Gregory the Great. Pope John Paul II bestowedthe award on Waxman "in recognition of his extraordinary leadership overthe past several decades in fostering improved relations between the Jewishpeople and the Catholic Church," Keeler said. Waxman, 81, is chairman ofthe National Council of Synagogues and a past chairman of the InternationalJewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations, where he did much of his worktoward healing Catholic-Jewish relations, according to Keeler. In 1987, whenWaxman was president of the Synagogue Council of America, the predecessor tothe National Council, he and then-Bishop Keeler began a tradition of regularmeetings between rabbis and Catholic bishops that continues today, Keeler said.Waxman helped prepare the pope's visits with American Jewish leaders in 1987,and he addressed the pontiff on behalf of the Jewish community in Miami thatyear. "Over the years, Rabbi Waxman has been a consistent peacemaker andworked for reconciliation between the Jewish people and the CatholicChurch," Keeler said. Waxman praised the pontiff for his interest inCatholic-Jewish enterprises, including the Vatican's recent statement ofrepentance for the Holocaust. "That he has undertaken to honor Jews forsuch activities and has bestowed such recognition upon several of myco-religionists for their notable contributions is typical of the innovativethinking which he has brought to world affairs," Waxman told an audienceof more than 100, including scores of his congregants who traveled from TempleIsrael, where the rabbi has presided for 50 years. The Order of St. Gregory theGreat was created by Pope Gregory XVI in 1831 in honor of his predecessor, PopeSt. Gregory. It has several classes, the highest being the Grand Cross.Previous Jewish recipients include Sir Sigmund Sternberg of London, a recentTempleton Prize winner; the late Joseph Lichten, who was European director ofthe Anti-Defamation League; Gerhardt Riegner, a former general secretary of theWorld Jewish Congress; and, most recently, conductor Gilbert Levine, one ofWaxman's congregants. For his part, the rabbi acknowledged and tried to assuagethe continuing suspicion many Jews hold toward the Catholic Church, despite 30years of papal teachings against anti-Semitism. But he said future generationswill see the fruits of the current efforts. "That perhaps is what theTalmud means when it says, `There are things that take fruit of which a manenjoys in this world...but the capital endures for all time. And among these isthe effectings of peace between man and his fellows.'"
1998(26th ofIyar, 5758): Seventy-two-year-old Yitzhak Moda’I passed away. Born in Tel Avivin 1926, he became an Israeli political leader who served in the Knesset andwho held several cabinet positions including Minister of Justice and Ministerof Economics which is fitting for a man who studied both at the London Schoolof Economics.
1998: “TheOpposite of Sex” co-starring Lisa Kudrow was released in the United Statestoday.
1998: “Fearand Loathing in Las Vegas” a movie version of the novel by the same namefeaturing Ellen Barkin, Laraine Newman and Jeanette Goldstein was releasedtoday in the United States
1999(7thof Sivan, 5758): Shavuot is observed for the last time in the 20thcentury.
2000: “PrimeMinister Ehud Barak recalled his peace negotiators from Sweden today after afirebomb critically wounded a 2-year-old Israeli girl in a car passing throughthe sleepy Palestinian-ruled city of Jericho.”
2001: The BBC broadcast “BritanniaIncorporated” the 10th episode of “A History of Britain adocumentary series written and presented by Simon Schama” which began itssecond season tonight.
2002(11thof Sivan, 5762): Sixteen-year-old Elmar Deshabrielov and 65 year old GaryTauzniaski were killed and forty people were wounded “when a suicide bomberdetonated himself in the Rothschild Street downtown pedestrian mall of RishonLezion.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
2002: Finalbroadcast of “Felicity” a television series created by J.J. Abrams.
2002: DavidBlaine began another of his highly publicized “feats” when a crane lifted him“onto a 100-foot (30 m) high and 22-inch (0.56 m) wide pillar in Bryant Park,New York City.”
2003: Hamasclaimed responsibility for today’s bus bombing at Netzarim where nine peoplewere injured.
2004(2ndof Sivan, 5764): Parashat Bamidbar
2004: It wasreported today that IDF has announced it was redeploying some of the forces ithad sent into Gaza earlier this week as part of a major operation it said wasintended to sever weapons-smuggling routes in tunnels from Egypt” following thekilling of 13 Israeli soldiers last week.
2005: The WolfPrizes were awarded by the President of the State of Israel Mr. Moshe Katzav atthe Chagall Hall at the Knesset, in the presence of the Minister of Educationand Chairperson of the Wolf Foundation Council, Mrs. Limor Livnat, the Speakerof the Knesset MK Reuven Rivlin and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Mr.Zeev Schleisner
2005: The New York Times included reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including TheGood, The Bad, And Me In My Anecdotage by Eli Wallach and The Boy WhoLoved Anne Frank by Ellen Feldman, an appealing and inventive novel aboutPeter van Daan, one of Anne Frank’s companions in the secret annex thatimagines what his life might have been like if he'd survived to take on a newidentity as a gentile in postwar America.
2006: Haaretzreported that the Dan David Prizes went to cellist Yo-Yo Ma, four journalistand two medical researchers. The DanDavid Prizes are distributed annually to people who embody realms of humanachievement related to the past, present and future. They are endowed by the Dan David Foundationheadquartered at Tel Aviv University.
2007: Nineteentombstones were toppled in the Jewish cemetery in Chernigov, an eastern Ukrainecity.
2007: As partof Jewish Heritage Month, the National Archives presents a lecture entitled“Einstein: His Life and Universe” during which Walter Isaacson will discuss hislatest work, Einstein: His Life and Universe. Albert Einstein was the mostinfluential scientist of the 20th century, and Isaacson’s book is the firstfull biography of this great icon of our age since all of his papers havebecome available. Isaacson looks at Einstein’s science, personal life, andpolitics and explains how his mind worked, what he was really like, and themysteries of the universe that he discovered. Isaacson, the CEO of the AspenInstitute, has been chairman of CNN and managing editor of Time magazine.
2007(5th ofSivan, 5767): Erev of Shavuot – Confirmation Ceremony at Temple Judah in CedarRapids, Iowa. Those reaching this milestone are Zach Burstain, son of Jenniferand Todd Burstain; Nathan Cooper, son of Mary and Bob Cooper; Kelsey Fisher,daughter of Ann Hagie; Joel Gasway, son of Julie and Scott Gasway; CassyNovick, daughter of Denise Novick and Don Novick of blessed memory; JoshSiegel, son of Kris and Ken Siegel. Thisis an impressive number for a “small community” on the banks of the Cedar River. Am Yisroail Chai – The Jewish People Lives!
2007: A rareTorah scroll fragment from the Book of Exodus dating back to the 7th centurythat includes the famous “Song of the Sea” is put on display at the IsraelMuseum in Jerusalem, The manuscript, which is a fragment of a Torah scroll fromthe Book of Exodus (13:19-16:1), comes from the six-hundred year period fromthe 3rd through 8th centuries known as the "silent era," from whichalmost no Hebrew manuscripts have survived.
2008: The JCCManhattan and The Museum of Biblical Art in New York presents “The History andLegacy of Greek Jews” during which Steve Bowman, Professor of Judaic Studies,University of Cincinnati Professor Bowman looks at the history of Jews inGreece - their ancient origins, their contribution to Jewish culture, and fatewithin the larger Christian community.
2008: Today, ,at a ceremony held at the US State Department in Washington, DC,” eighty-eightyear old Max “Kampelman was presented bythe National Endowment for Democracy with its Democracy Service Medal inrecognition of his lifetime achievement in advancing the principles of freedom,human rights, and democracy.”
2008: As partof the celebrations of Israel at 60, The Quad Cities Jewish Federation sponsorsa recital by Carmel Harel, Israeli Shlicha of New Hampshire. A graduate ofIsrael Art and Science Academy in Jerusalem, she will play the piano and singIsraeli songs from the last 60 years.
2008: InIsrael's answer to the Woodstock Festival, nearly half a million people gatheron a Galilee mountaintop, where they pitch tents and engage in 24 hours offeasting, singing and ecstatic dancing.
2008: TheCedar Rapids Jewish community watches with pride as Ben Handler and VanezziaLevi take part in the graduation ceremonies at Washington High School.
2009(28th ofIyar, 5769): Yom Yerushalayim – Jerusalem Reunification Day
2009: Openingof Conference 2009 hosted by The Philadelphia Kehila for Secular Jews
2009(28th ofIyar, 5769: Funeral services are held at Temple B’nai Israel in Little Rock,AR, for Mrs. Joyce Ehrenberg, “dear and loving wife of Mr. Harry L. Ehrenberg,Sr. of blessed memory, and deeply proud mother of Harry L. Jr., and his sistersLinda and Terry. A consummate promoter in helping those that were lessfortunate, Mrs. Ehrenberg lived a richly meaningful life.”
2009: IDFforces killed two armed terrorists who approached a security fence in southernGaza before dawn today.
2010(9th ofSivan, 5770): At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA, Shannon Williams is calledto the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah.
2010: “Jacob’sHouse” August Schulenburg’s play based on the life of the Biblical character isscheduled to have its final performance the Access Theater in New York.
2011: To avoiddesecration of Shabbat, the traditional Sephardi bonfire in Meron marking LagB’Omer will be lit tonight instead of last night.
2011: TheAIPAC Policy Conference is scheduled to open today in Washington, D.C.
2011; TheJewish community of metropolitan Washington, DC, is scheduled to celebrateIsrael’s birthday at Israel@63.
2011: InCincinnati, Ohio, Rabbi David Ellenson, president of HUC-JIR, is scheduled tospeak about the important place of the Jewish seminary in American life andscholarship in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month and the 100thanniversary of the Cincinnati campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Instituteof Religion.
2011: ChabadLubavitch of Iowa City is scheduled to hold the grand opening of Iowa City’sKosher Co-op, the first such emporium in the Iowa City – Cedar Rapids Corridor.
2011(18th ofIyar, 5771): Lag B’Omer
2011(18thof Iyar, 5771): Seventy-three-year-old composer and one-man movie makingmachine Joseph Brooks whose jingle “You’ve got a lot to live, and Pepsi’s got alot to give” was known to millions even his name was not passed away today.
2011: The New York Times featured reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including“The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life” by Harold Bloom, “2030:The Real Story of What Happens to America” by Albert Brooks and “The Convert: ATale of Exile and Extremism” by Deborah Baker which tells the story of “how aJewish girl from Larchmont became an Islamic polemicist.”
2011:President Obama addressed American Israel Public Affairs Committee thismorning.
2012: Theannual meeting of the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan featuring a speechby Arthur Horwitz, President of Renaissance Media and former publisher of theDetroit Jewish News and presentation of the Leonard N. Simons History Award isscheduled to take place this evening at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, MI.
2012: Inrecognition of the contributions of Jewish Americans to literature, poet JodyBolz, editor of Poet Lore, America's oldest poetry magazine, is scheduled toread her work in Washington, DC.
2012(1st ofSivan, 5772): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
2012: “The BadGuys” featuring Raviv “Ricky” Ullman opened at a theatre on the Upper West Sidein New York City.
2012(1stof Sivan, 5772): Fifty-three year old Aharon Zandi a mechanic from Sarna and “apillar of Yemen’s dwindling Jewish community” was murdered today. (As reportedby Elhanan Miller)
2012: Israeliradio reported today that 24-year-old Nadav Ben Yehuda went to the aid of astranded climber which put an end to attempt to become the youngest Israel toreach the summit of Mount Everest.
2013: DeborahBerebichez, first Mexican woman to earn PhD in physics from Stanford, releases“A Non-Stop Skeptic in a Believer’s World.”
2012: Israelresponded with immediate skepticism to reports that the UN had concluded anagreement with Iran to probe that country’s suspected nuclear site
2013: TheAmerican Jewish Historical Society and Beta Israel of North America arescheduled to present a screening of “Leah,” a documentary that depicts theexperiences of Ethiopian Jews trying to adjust to life in Israel.
2013: InDenver, CO, the Mizel Institute is scheduled to present Pat Bowlen, the ownerof the Denver Broncos with its 2013 Community Enrichment Award.
2013: TheMatlz Museum of Jewish Heritage is scheduled to host a panel discussionentitled “How We Survive.”
2013:“Juadica,” the first ever Jewish film festival to be held in Lisbon isscheduled to open today.
2013: RashadHussain, the United States Special Envoy to the Organization of IslamicCooperation (OIC) will join newly appointed Special Envoy for Monitoring andCombating Anti-Semitism Ira Forman will leave for Poland today “to visit Jewishcommunities, the site of the former Nazi concentration camp atAuschwitz-Birkenau, and other Holocaust historical sites.” JPost)
2013: AnthonyWeiner announced today that he was running for Mayor of New York City
2013: CityCouncilman Eric Garcetti defeated Controller Wendy Greuel to become next mayorof Los Angeles after a campaign in which he depicted his rival a pawn ofpowerful labor bosses. With all precincts reporting today, the city councilmangrabbed 54 percent of the votes against his fellow Democrat. Greuel had 46percent.
2014: The final full day of the 4thInternational Writers’ Festival is scheduled to open with dancer Ohad Naharinand Nicole Krauss discussing the language of writing and of movement followedby encounters and conversations with Marilynne Robinson, Jake Wallis Simons,and Jan-Philip Sendker, and a final one between Krauss and David Grossman. (Asreported by Jessica Steinberg)
2014: The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host “anintimate evening” with Israeli cantor and stage performer Dudu Fisher.
2014: In Germany, the Federal Court of Justice ruled today“that 95-year-old Michael Karkoc’s service as a commander in the SS-ledUkrainian Self Defense Legion made him the “holder of a German office” whichmeans that “Germany the legal right to prosecute him even though he is notGerman, his alleged crimes were against non-Germans and they were not committedon German soil.” (Times of Israel)
2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present“War Children Just the Same.”
2014: Forty-eight year old Rainer Hoess, the grandson ofAuschwitz commandant Rudolf Hosess, “tweet a picture of himself standing aboutTel Aviv’s marina today and described the location as ‘very nice.’”
2014(22nd of Iyar, 5774): Eighty-six-year-old Don Levine, the developerof the G.I. Joe action figure passed away today.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/don-levine-who-developed-gi-706992
2015: In anattempt to reassure American Jews of his support for Israel, President Obamaaddressed 1,000 people at Washington’s Adas Israel – the large Conservativesynagogue – saying that the nuclear agreement with Iran did change the fact“that the United States had an “enduring friendship with the people of Israel”and “unbreakable bonds with the state of Israel” that could never be weakened.”
2015: Today“The United States blocked a global document toward ridding the world ofnuclear weapons, saying Egypt and other states “cynically manipulated” theprocess by trying to set a deadline for Israel and its neighbors to meet withinmonths on a Middle East zone free of such weapons.”
2015: The EdenTamir Music Center is scheduled to host a concert at noon as part of the IsraelFestival.
2015: Amongthe 11 Democrats and one Republican pledged to observe “Solidarity Sabbath”which begins this evening is Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), the Senate minority leaderand Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), one of two Muslims in Congress. The soleRepublican so far pledged is Rep. Peter King (R-NY).
2015: RabbiSusan Grossman is scheduled to lead a discussion on the “Jewish View - To theHuppah and Beyond: Egalitarian Marriage and Divorce in Jewish Law” at BethShalom in Columbia, MD.
2016: The New York Times featured reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Paper:Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky, The Romanovs:1613-1918 bySimon Sebag Montefiore and The Politicians and Egalitarians: The HiddenHistory of American Politics by Sean Wilentz.
2016: TheJewish Museum of Florida – FIU is scheduled to present a “special edit-a-thonin partnership with the Miami Book Fair” the goal of which is “to edit andcreate Wikipedia pages about American Jewish Authors, Musicians, Artists andother cultural influencers.”
2016: The YIVOInstitute for Jewish Research, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and NYC Depart ofCultural Affairs are scheduled to host “A Tribute to Sholem Aleichem.”
2016: InMarion, Iowa at The Giving Tree Theatre the curtain is scheduled to come downon Wendy Kesselmans’ adaptation of “The Diary of Anne Frank” the three weeklong performance of which has been sponsored by The Thaler Holocaust MemorialFund which “was established in 1995 by Dr. David and Joan Thaler to providesupport for education about the Holocaust to residents and students at thelocal colleges in Linn County, Iowa.”
2016: AdasIsrael is scheduled to host a ceremony adding Father Joachim Alexopoulous, whoin 1943 as Archbishop of Volos “devised a plan for hiding 700 Jewish residentsof Volos -- saving them from deportation and almost certain death” to is Gardenof the Righteous.
2016: In NewYork City, the Jerusalem Post is scheduled to host its 5th annualconference today with the theme of “Israel, the US and the Free World in theShadow of Terror.”
2016: TheBreman Museum is scheduled to host a tour of Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery whichwill included an exploration of the history, burial customs and symbolism foundthroughout the Jewish Grounds of this powerful city landmark” as well as arecounting of the “stories of life and persistence as waves of Jewishimmigrants entered and adapted to the culture of Victorian America.”
2016:“Sixty-Minutes” is scheduled to include a special memorial segment honoringMorley Safer, the long-time CBS correspondent who considered himself first andforemost a writer which makes last name, for those who know Hebrew, extremelyappropriate.
http://www.jta.org/2016/05/19/news-opinion/united-states/morley-safer-of-60-minutes-dies-at-84
2017:President Donald Trump is scheduled to “touch down at Ben Gurion InternationalAirport” this
afternoon “for a 28 hour visit to Israel and the West Bank.”.
2017: Per theorders of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu all members of his cabinet arescheduled to attend the airport welcome ceremony for visiting US PresidentDonald Trump
2017: TheOxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to co-host a weekly interfaithdiscussion looking at issues “from the perspectives of Judaism, Christianityand Islam.”
2017: “Afterlearning that some of his ministers planned to skip the ceremony,” “PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu order all members of his cabinet to attend today’sairport welcome ceremony for U.S. President Donald Trump.”
2017: Today,Donald Trump “became the first sitting American President to visit the WesternWall.” (As reported by Marissa Newman)
2017: HallieBram Kogelschatz, the CEO of shark & minnow is scheduled to discuss theneed to modernize Judaism’s “mainstream identity” at Tribe Talk “an informaldiscussion series at the Landmark Centre in Beachwood, Ohio
2017:“French-Jewish celebrity intellectual Bernard Henri-Levy” “present a newdocumentary – ‘The Battle for Mosul’ – at the annual Tel Aviv film festivalDocAviv.”
2018:Choreographer Andrea Miller and Gallim are scheduled to begin their secondround of performances at The Met Breuer.
2018(8thof Sivan, 5778): Eight five-year-old award-winningnovelist Philip Milton Roth, the Newark born son of Herman Roth, a frustratedlife insurance agent and “the former Bess Frankel” and author of such notedworks as Portnoy’s Complaint, Goodbye Colum and Sabbath’s Theatre, passed awaytoday. (As reported by Charles McGrath)
2018: It wasreported today that images have been released showing a Lockheed Martin F-35stealth fighter belonging to the IAF flying over Beirut which is the“first-ever combat mission” flown by the state of the art aircraft.
2018: “TheAustralian wing of Toys "R" Us, part of the chain founded by CharlesLazarus entered voluntary administration” today.
2018 Ailing PAPresident Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to remain in the hospital for one morenight amidst reports by Saeb Erekat “that Palestinian institutions are robustenough to endure the post-Abbas era.” (As reported by Alexandra Lukash and NirCohen)
2018: The YIVOInstitute for Jewish Research is scheduled to host “a concert featuring avariety of chamber music by Joachim Stutschewsky and composers of his coterieboth in Russia and in Israel, as well as the premiere of a new composition byOfer Ben-Amots, commissioned by YIVO” preceded by a lecture by Neil W. Levin onJoachim Stutschewsky’s life and work.
2019: JBI andYeshiva University Museum are scheduled to present “a tour of ‘Kindertransport– Rescuing Children on the Brink of War’” which illuminates “the organizedrescue efforts that brought thousands of children from Nazi Europe to GreatBritain in the late 1930s” lead by curator Ilona Moradorf.
2019: TheAmerican Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present a performance of“Nabucco,” “the opera by Giuseppe Verdi, “adapted by and starring David Sereroas Nabucco” which builds “on the Biblical accounts of the Babylonian Exilefound in Jeremiah and Daniel” and which “combines political and love intrigueswith some of the greatest songs ever written (including “Va, pensiero, TheChorus of the Hebrew Slaves”).
2019(17thof Iyar, 5779): Ninety-five-year-old British author Judith Kerr, the Berlinborn daughter of theatre critic Alexander Kerr and composer Julia AnnaFranziska Weismann, the sister of British jurist Michael Kerr and wife of Nigel“Tom” Kneale passed away today.(As reported by Laura Holson)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/obituaries/judith-kerr-dead.html
2019: Today,Tiffany Haddish “became a naturalized citizen of Eritrea while taking part infestivities commemorating the 28th anniversary of Eritreanindependence Ethopia.
2019: In Edmonton, Alberta, the EdmontonJewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “From to the Cloud”which tells the story of the World of the Cairo Geniza.
2020: Todayduring a special LSJS Torah Show, Bidud Beyachad, celebrating Yom Yerushalayim.Rabbi Zarum is scheduled to link LIVE to the Old City of Jerusalem to walk andtalk with expert tour guide and archaeologist, Rabbi Barnea Selavan.
2020: CJP’sBoston-Haifa Connection is scheduled to host a special Kabbalat Shabbat programmarking Jerusalem Day and Memorial Day for Ethiopian Jews honoring the 4,000Ethiopian Jews, known as the Beta Israel, who died during this massimmigration.
2020: ViaZoom, “Francesco Spagnolo, Curator of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art andLife, University of California, Berkeley, is scheduled to host a presentationon the current exhibition “Threads of Jewish Life: Ritual and Other Textilesfrom the San Francisco Bay Area” during which Spagnolo will explore earlyJewish life in San Francisco through the textiles and objects on view in theexhibition, including the mysterious origins of the exhibition's extraordinaryTorah ark.
2020(28thof Iyar, 5780): Yom Yerushalayim
2021(11thof Sivan, 5781): Parashat Nasso;
2021: In PalmBeach, FL, Temple Judea is scheduled to host an early morning Torah Studysession with Rabbi Feivel Strauss.
2021: The EdenTamir Center in Jerusalem is scheduled to host a “Millennium Ensemble withJulia Gurvitch.”
The Guy MintusTrio is scheduled to give a CD release concert in celebration of their latestalbum on ENJA Records, “A Gershwin Playground” which “offers a fresh andcontemporary take on the iconic repertoire of George Gershwin…”
2021: As the fragile cease fire between Hamas and Israelappears to be taking affect, the political infighting in Israel begins againwith attacks on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s handling of the events of the lasteleven days as well as the events that preceded the fighting.
2021: InOrange Village, OH, Temple Emanu El is scheduled to host a study of the weeklyTorah portion.
2021:Manchester Community Theater in Manchester, N.H. is scheduled to host anin-person screening of a newmusical, “Miriam, The First Woman Prophet.”
https://www.jewishboston.com/events/a-new-musical-miriam-the-first-woman-prophet/
2022: Striekcker’s Broadway Buzz features aperformance of “Funny Girl” which was revamped by Harvey Fierstein.
2022: JHMOMC is scheduled to present “Aging/Schmaging:A Celebration of the Ages” performed by Singer/Songwriter Naomi Miller
2022: The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience isscheduled to present “Mizrahi Jews Sent to Live in the Desert: An InteractiveSession with Ben-Gurion Heritage Institute.”
2022: The Illinois Holocaust is scheduled tohost the premiere of “Speer Goes to Hollywood.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn1X2m2Tf-Q
2022: The Baltimore Jewish Film Festival isscheduled to host the final screening of “Neighbours” and “Love and Mazel Tov.”
2022: The New York Times featuresreviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes byJerry Z. Muller, The Familia Grandeby Camille Kouchner, the daughter of Dr. Bernard Kouchner and the recentlyreleased paperback edition of The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
2022: In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah isscheduled to host a BBQ dinner followed by the annual congregational meeting whichis celebration of the congregation’s centennial.
2022: UK Jewish Film is scheduled to host thefinal screening of “The Adventures of Saul Bellow.”
2022: “Health Minister and chief of the leftwing Meretz party Nitzan Horowitz” is scheduled to meet with Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoab today in anattempt to salvage the coalition government.
2023: The Jewish Community of the North Shoreis scheduled to present JCCNS’ screening of “Barren.”
2023: In Palo Alto, the Oshman Family JCC isscheduled to host “What a Surprise?”, play by L.A.-based The Braid (formerly JewishWomen’s Theatre) that celebrates stories of life’s unexpected moments, fromjoyous to deep losses and everything in between, followed by Q&A withactors and artistic director.
2023: IPF Atid Boston is scheduled to present abriefing with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Israel Policy Fellow Ely Sandler,who will discuss cross-border cooperation on climate issues in the Middle East.
2023: No talks concerning the judicial reformlegislation are scheduled today, or for that matter for the rest of the week,because, among other things, negotiations on the budget, which has to beapproved, are scheduled to take place.
2024: The Boston Synagogue is scheduled topresent “Hadar Ahuvia’s Nefesh + Dance Party.”
2024: The Steicker Center is scheduled to hosta conversation with Doris Kearns Goodwin and Carl Bernstein.
2024: At the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco,the world premiere of “Before It All Goes Dark,” “one-act opera by composerJake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer based on the true story reported byHoward Reich in the Chicago Tribune about an ailing Vietnam War veteran wholearns he is the sole heir to a priceless art collection stolen by the Nazis.”
2024: In “Sex and Furniture in Jewish Tradition,”Rachel Biale is scheduled to discuss how rabbinic texts illuminate attitudestowards sexuality in key texts where furniture appears, either as literalobjects or as metaphor.”
2024: The Walnut Street Synagogue is scheduledto present on-line lecture by Norman Finkelstein who willexplore his final book, Saying No to Hate: Overcoming Antisemitism in America.
2024: As May 22nd begins in Israel, anunprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 229 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.)
