This Day, May 13, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 13
1333: Birthdate of Reginald III of Guelders, a
duchy in the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1349
the Duke of Guelders, was authorized by the Emperor Louis IV of the Holy Roman
Empire of Germany to allow Jews to live in his duchy. This may have been considered somewhat
unusual because Jews were being expelled from other parts of the realm in
response to the Black Death.
1497:
Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola. Alexander VI was one of
the Renaissance popes whose religious qualities might best be summed up by
stating that he was the father of Cesare and Lucretzia Borgia. His lack of concern with Church matters
benefited the Jews especially the Jews and Marranos fleeing the Spanish
Inquisition. He admitted so many
refugees to Rome, that Ferdinand and Isabella registered major protests to his
policy. Savonarola was a Dominican monk
who opposed Alexander on grounds of morality of ethics which is what led to his
excommunication. Savonarola’s enmity
for the Pope had led him to “expel the Pope” from the Florentine region under
his control. At the same time,
Savonarola banned Jews from this area as well.
So, from a Jewish point of view Alexander trumps Savonarola regardless
of the moral stance of the two men.
1534:
The first Hebrew printing press in Poland located in Cracow published its first
book Sha’arei Duro a code of dietary laws by Rabbi Isaac ben Reuben
1610:
Coronation of Marie de Medicis, as Queen consort of France and Navarre. Despite
the ban on Jews living in the realm, she employed Elijah Montalto as her
personal physician. He was a Marrano,
who had been raised as a Christian in Portugal before settling in Venice after
publicly returning to “the faith of his fathers. Born in 1567, he passed away
in 1616 and was buried at Amsterdam in Beth Haim of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel,
the oldest Jewish cemetery in the Netherlands.
1635:
Today, in Hungary, the Diet set the explicit deadline of Christmas Day 1635 for
the Sabbatarians” a sect that rejected the divinity of Jesus, read the old
Testament, celebrated the holidays described and the Torah, followed the
dietary and observed the Seventh and not the First day of the week as the
Sabbath, “to convert to one of the four accepted Christian religions of the
Principality.” (While not Jews, their following Jewish practices to the
exclusion of traditional Christianity brought them to the same fate as the
Jews.)
1636(8th
of Iyar): Rabbi Menahem Monish Chajes of Vilna passed away today
1665:
A statute was enacted in Rhode Island, offering “freemanship” with no
specifically Christian requirements, thus effectively enfranchising Jews
1728:
Hayyim and Joshua Reizes of Lvov (heads of the Rabbinical court and the yeshiva
respectively) were arrested when a Jesuit priest, Zoltowskiki, discovered that
Jan Filipowicz (soon tortured and killed), a convert, had reconverted to
Judaism. They were accused of complicity. Condemned to death, Joshua committed
suicide by cutting his own throat. For three days his brother Hayyim refused to
convert to Christianity. His tongue was then torn out, his body quartered, and
he was finally burnt. Their property was then confiscated.
1767(14th
of Iyar, 5527): Pesach Sheni
1767:
Hannah Levy married Charles Davis today.
1778:
Amsterdam native Solomon da silva Solis and London born Benvenida de Henriques
Valentine, the parents of Elias and Samuel Solis, were married today.
1779:
Birthdate of Jakob Salomon, the Berlin born Jew who converted, took the name
Jakob Salomon Bartholdy as he furthered his diplomatic career.
1781:
Joseph II, the son and successor of Maria Theresa let Chancellor Count Franz
Esterhazy know that he intended to improve the condition of his Hungarian
Jewish subjects.
1782:
Friedrich Albrecht August, the Jewish born Catholic convert passed away today.
http://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/tje/view.cgi?n=2135
1787:
Captain Arthur Phillip of the Royal Navy and his eleven convict laden ships set
sail for Botany Bay Australia. There are
reportedly 17 Jews among the 1500 convicts.
1792: Birthdate of Giovanni
Maria Mastai-Ferretti who would become Pope Pius IX. “Pius IX's relations to
the Jews remain ambiguous. He repealed laws that forbade Jews to practice
certain professions, and that required them to listen to sermons four times per
year aimed at their conversion. Judaism and Catholicism were the only religions
allowed by law (Protestant worship was allowed to visiting foreigners, but
strictly forbidden to Italians). But the testimony of a Jew against a Christian
remained inadmissible in courts of law, a tax levied only on Jews supported
schools for converts from Judaism to Catholicism, and Jews continued in various
other respects to be discriminated against by law. At the beginning of his
pontificate, Pius IX opened the Jewish ghetto in Rome, but after his return
from exile in 1850 re-instituted it again. In 1858, in a highly publicized
case, a six-year-old Jewish boy, Edgardo Mortara, was taken from his parents by
the police of the Papal States. It had been reported that he had been baptized
by a Christian servant girl of the family while he was ill because she feared
he would die and go to Hell, otherwise. At this time, the law did not permit
Christians to be raised by Jews, even their own parents. Pius IX steadfastly
refused calls from numerous heads of state including Emperor Franz
Josef (1848–1916) of Austria-Hungary and Emperor Napoleon III of France
(1852–70) to return the child to his parents.
1797: In London, Daniel Cohen D’Azevedo, the of Haham Moses Cohen
d'Azevedo and Sara de Haham Moses Cohen D'Azevedo and his Ester Rodriques Cohen D'Azevedo gave birth to
David Daniel Cohen De Azevedo
1798:
In Switzerland, the town council of Schwyz which in 2011 hosted “a special
exhibition ‘Did you see my Alps? A Jewish Love story’” surrendered to French
Troops.
1799(8th of Iyar, 5559): Isaiah Berlin an 18th
century German Talmudist passed away. Born at Eisenstadt, Hungary in 1725,
“Berlin studied under Ẓevi Hirsch Bialeh (Ḥarif), the rabbi of Halberstadt, at
the latter's yeshivah. In 1755 Berlin moved to Breslau where he engaged in
business. In 1793, when already advanced in years, he was elected to a
rabbinical post, being appointed to succeed Isaac Joseph Te'omim as rabbi of
Breslau. His election was marked by a dispute between the members of the
community and the local maskilim, who had begun to organize themselves as a
body and opposed Berlin, who, despite his love of peace, openly attacked their
ideas. Berlin was elected by an overwhelming majority. Berlin was greatly
admired, even by persons who differed with him in religious views. According to
Hasidic sources, Berlin was sympathetically disposed toward that movement and
extended a friendly welcome to one of its emissaries, Jacob Samson of
Spitsevka. Further, Joel Brill, Aaron Wolfsohn, Judah Bensew, and many other
Maskilim of Breslau often visited him to seek advice on scientific questions.
As the Maskilim always carefully avoided wounding Berlin's religious feelings,
he on his part met them half-way in many things. On the occasion of the Peace
of Basel, for instance, he held a solemn service in the synagogue and
exceptionally permitted the use of instrumental music, he himself delivering a
discourse which was highly praised by the press ("Schlesische
Zeitung", 1795, No. 59). Thus Berlin, conciliated the hostile elements of
his congregation, and his death was mourned equally by all. Berlin's had the
habit of annotating almost every book he read; mentioning the sources, or
noting parallel passages and variant readings. Such glosses by Berlin have been
published on the following books: the Bible (Pentateuch, Dyhernfurth, 1775; the
other books, ib., 1807); the prayer-book, ed. Tiḳḳun Shelomoh (ib., 1806);
Maimonides' Yad ha-Ḥazaḳah (ib., 1809); Alfasi (Presburg, 1836); the
"Ḥinnuk", by Aaron ha-Levi of Barcelona (Vienna, 1827); Malachi b.
Jacob's methodology, "Yad Malachi" (Berlin, 1825); Elijah b. Moses de
Vidas' book of morals, "Reshit Ḥokmah" (Dyhernfurth, 1811). Although
the terse yet clear notes contained in these volumes reveal the immense
learning and critical insight of their author, yet Berlin's lasting place of
honor among the pioneers of Talmudic criticism rests on the following works,
which treat principally of the Talmud:
"'Omer ha-Shikḥah" (Forgotten Sheaf), Königsberg, 1860,
containing a large number of Halakot on the Talmud not noted by the
codifiers; "Oẓar Balum" (Full
Treasure), in the edition of Jacob ibn Ḥabib's "'En Ya'aḳob",
published at Wilna in 1899, tracing all the Talmudic passages quoted without
sources in the different commentaries on the haggadic elements of the
Talmud; "Haggahot ha-Shas"
(Notes to the Talmud), textual corrections and notes on the origin of parallel
passages (Dyhernfurth, 1800, and in nearly all the editions of the
Talmud); "Hafla'ah
Sheba-'Arakin" (Detached Orders) (part i., Breslau, 1830; part ii.,
Vienna, 1859), containing, as the title indicates, explanations and glosses on
the 'Aruk; "Ḥiddushe ha-Shas",
novellæ on the Talmud (Königsberg, 1860, and in several editions of the
Talmud); "Minè Targuma"
(Dessert Dishes), Breslau, 1831, remarks on the Targum Onkelos (the word
"Targuma" signifying both "Targum" and "dessert",
equivalent to the Greek τράγημα) and on the Palestinian Targum; "Kashiyot Meyushab" (Difficulties
Answered), Königsberg, 1860, treating of the Talmudic passages which end with,
and written by Berlin in fourteen days; (8) "Rishon leẒion" (The
First for Zion; Dyhernfurth, 1793; Vienna, 1793, and several times reprinted,
the title being a play on, "Zion", and, "index"), a collection
of indexes and parallel passages in the Midrash; (9) "She'elat
Shalom" (Greeting of Peace), Dyhernfurth, 1786, a commentary on Aḥa of
Shubḥa's "She'iltot." Berlin's responsa collection and his commentary
on the Tosefta deserve especial mention, though nothing is known of their
fate.Berlin, was the first—at least among the Germans—who showed an interest in
the history of post-Talmudic literature; and it was he, who opened the Kalir
question (compare his letter to his brother-in-law, Joseph b. Menaḥem
Steinhart, in the latter's "Zikron Yosef", No. 15.
1800(18th of Iyar, 5560): Lag B’Omer is celebrated for
the last time during the Presidency John Adams and for the first time in the 19th
century.
1804: Abraham Quixano Henriques, Esq, the Kingston, Jamaica born Son of
Moses Israel Henriques and Abigail Henriques and his wife Leah Rachel Henriques
gave birth to
David Quixano Henriques, the twice married father of Edward
Micholls Henriques; Arthur Quixano Henriques; Lt. Col. Cecil Quixano Henriques
and Joseph Alexander Henriques.
1804: Birthdate Daniele Fonseca, who gained fame as Daniele Manin,
the Italian patriot. Manin was born a
Jew but converted as a child at which time he changed his name out of respect
for his patron.
1805(14th of Iyar, 5565): Pesach Sheni is observed as
Napoleon prepares to face an array of united enemies in what became known as
“The War of the Third Coalition
1812: Rabbi Samuel Marx, the uncle of non-Jew Karl Marx and Michle
Brisac gave birth to their second child and first son Marcus or Marc today.
https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Lesser_Aleksander
http://www.sztetl.org.pl/m/en/people/83/
1819: Ezekiel Jacobs married Sarah Levy today at the Great
Synagogue.
1823: Aaron De Symons married Matilda Israel today at the Great
Synagogue.
1825: Eighty-five-year-old “ Yettelah bat Israel the wife of
Mordecai” was buried today at the “Chatham Jewish Cemetery.”
1832: The government confirmed the election of Menahem Nahum
Trebitsch as "Landesrabbiner" of Moravia, in succession to Mordecai
Benet, and granted him a salary of 600 florins; he was the last Moravian
"Landesrabbiner" of the old school.
1835(14th of Iyar, 5595): Pesach Sheni observed on the
same day the Hewlett and Bright advertised the “sale of valuable slaves.”
1837: The Jews of Leipzig were given permission to organize as a
religious community and establish a synagogue.
1838(18th of Iyar, 5598): Lag BaOmer
1838: Jacob Falcke married Isabella Woolf today at the Western
Synagogue.
1838: Three days after she had passed away, Patty (Martha) Emdon,
the wife of Abraham Emdon was buried today at the “Plymouth Hoe Burial Ground.”
1838: Lesser Friedlander married Elizabeth Assur today at the
Great Synagogue.
1839(24th
of Iyar, 5699): Rabbi Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, leader of the Aliya of the
followers of the Gaon of Vilna to Eretz Yisrael passed away. The dynamic force
of early Hasidism clashed head-on with the dynamic force of Ashkenazic
traditionalism generated by the GR"A. The momentum of both movements
created the two major aliyot of the pre-Zionist times. Rabbi Israel of Shklov
arrived in Eretz Yisrael in 1808. In 1815 he moved to Jerusalem, where he
founded the modern Ashkenazic community. The location of his grave was unknown
for a long time. It was discovered in 1964, 125 years after his death, in
Tiberias.
1842:
In Kingston, Jamaica, Sarah Lindo Lyon and Abraham Septimus Lyon gave birth toe
Alexander Joseph Lindo Lyon, the husband of Miriam Lyon who was a “Companion of
St. Mary, a member of the House Assembly and a member of the Privy Council.”
1842:
Löbl Strakosch and Julia Schwarz gave birth to their youngest child Chaile
Caroline
1843:
Birthdate of Norfolk, VA native Michael Umstadter the inventor of “a new, and
valuable Improvement in Jacquard Attachments for Embroidering-Machines” and
husband of Esther Umstadter, who was the mother of their son Jacob. (Some
sources show date as 1844 but the tombstone says 1843)
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/37/ac/90/b0bcf797532c63/USRE9470.pdf
1843(13th
of Iyar, 5603): Dr. Daniel Levy Maduro Peixotto the eldest of son of Moses Levi
Maduro Peixotto, a native of Curaco who had brought his family to New York from
Amsterdam passed away today. The elder Peixotto was a successful businessman
who served as Chazan at Shearith Israel. Daniel, who was born in Amsterdam in
1800 graduated from Columbia at the age of sixteen and earned his medical
degree in 1819 at the age of 19. After a few years of travel, he returned to
New York in 1823, where he pursued his profession with success, and gained a
place among the foremost practitioners of his day. He was one of the physicians
of the city dispensary in 1827, and president of the New York county medical
society in 1830-'1832, and took an active part in public charitable work as
well as in Jewish educational movements. One of his eight children, Benjamin
Franklin, went on to become a prominent newspaper man and politician who served
in several diplomatic posts during the post-Civil War period. Dr. Daniel was
quite proud of his Jewish heritage as can be seen from a speech he delivered
while he was vice president of the Medical Society of the City and County of
New York. “The writings of the Hebrews are generally acknowledged to be
unequaled for the simplicity and dignity - the strength, conciseness and
boldness of their style; the perfect truth to nature of their imagery; their
animated eloquence and sublime figures. The conceits and puerile vanities which
disgrace much of classical literature are altogether banished from their pages.
It may, however, be suggested that these writings were inspired. This assertion
is more imposing by its speciousness than forcible by its application. The
great truths and sublime doctrines which were inculcated by Moses and the
Prophet were undoubtedly
derived
from immediate communication with the Almighty.” [From “Moses and Daniel
Peixotto” by Dr. Yitzchok Levine]
1844:
Birthdate of the son of Jacob Umstader who began serving as the shochet when he
arrived in Norfolk in 1844 and helped for Congregation House of Jacob when it
acquired a torah from Baltimore in 1848.
https://www.isjl.org/virginia-norfolk-encyclopedia.html
1846:
The United States declares war on Mexico officially marking the start of the
Mexican-American War. As has been true
in all other wars, Jews were active participants in this fight with Mexico. Like their gentile neighbors, Jews from Texas
were active combatants. These included Adolphus Stern, David Kaufman and Leon
Dyer each of whom would be prominent office holders in the early days of the
Lone Star State. Baltimore Jews formed a
company of volunteers whose three commanding officers were Jewish. David Camden de Leon of South Carolina was
the most famous and colorful Jew to serve in the fight with Mexico. A surgeon by trade, de Leon literally swapped
his scalpel for a sword at the Battle of Chapultepec where he led a
successfully led a cavalry charge after the other officers had been killed or
wounded and could not lead the troops.
Fifteen years later, de Leon would be named Surgeon General of the
Confederate Army.
1853:
“In Adelaide, South Australia, Judah Moss Solomon, a member of the South
Australian Legislative Council and Lord Mayor of Adelaide from 1869 to 1870”
and his wife gave birth to Vabien Louis Solomon who “was the 21st Premier of
South Australia, a member of the first Australian Commonwealth parliament and
the nephew of Vaiben Solomon
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/solomon-vaiben-louis-8577
1853:
“The Jewish Disabilities Bill” published today described efforts in the British
Parliament to make it possible for Jews to sit in the House of Commons. “The British House of Commons has again
decided in favor of striking out the words ‘on the true faith of a Christian’
from the oath administered to Members of Parliament.” According to the author,
the House of Lords will surely reject the attempt to change the in the oath as
part of the continued to keep Jews from sitting in Parliament. While “notorious non-believers” take the oath
“without a scruple” the only way a Jew could take the oath would be to convert
from the faith of his fathers.
1854:
Birthdate of Bavaria native Max Bernstein, the Munich attorney and playwright
who used the pseudonym, Silas
Marner.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3148-bernstein-max
1856:
In Mississippi, Wolf and Caroline Steppacher gave birth to Marcus Meyer
Steppacher, the brother of Walter, Emanuel and Oscar Steppacher.
1858:
In Manhattan, Sigmund and Fanny Shulman Schiele gave birth to future St. Louis
resident Ottilie “Tilie” Schiele Bowman, the husband of Samuel Bowman with whom
she had three children.
1859:
Sixty-year-old “philanthropist and merchant Philipp Schey Freiherr, the Baron
von Koromla “the first Jew in Hungary to be made an Austrian noble” was granted
his patent of nobility today by King Francis Joseph I who cited “his services
to the imperial dynasty during the revolution in 1848 and 1849” and “the great
benevolence exercised by him "toward suffering humanity, regardless of
creed."
1860:
Birthdate of Henry
Samuel Morais the son of Rabbi Sabato Morais, a well-known national Jewish
leader, Rabbi of Congregation Mikveh Israel of Philadelphia, and founder of the
Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
1863: Philadelphian Michael Baer completed his
service in Company F of the 123rd Regiment where he had been
promoted from the rank of 1st Lieutenant to Captain.
1864:
The jury was unable to reach a decision in the case of Solomon Ullman vs. The
Congregation B'Nai Israel. The unusual
case revolved a claim by Ullman, a former congregant, that the synagogue had
illegally removed his father’s tombstone from their cemetery.
1865:
Following the defeat of the Confederacy, as Judah P. Benjamin was fleeing from
Union troops he “reached Monticello, Florida” and then continued alone on
horseback seeking to reach the Gulf Coast where he could find a ship to take
him to Great Britain.
1866:
The Pennsylvania Legislature passed an act today that allowed the children who
were attending a school operated under the auspices of the Hebrew Education
Society of Philadelphia to attend the Boys' and Girls' High School,
Philadelphia.
1869:
In Allentown, PA, Rachel and Louis Simon gave birth to Marion Louis Simon
Misch, the wife of New England department store owner Caesar Misch with whom
she had two children, Walter and Louise and who “became the only female owner
of a department store in Providence, RI following the death of her husband
while serving at the President of the National Council Jewish Women.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/misch-marion-simon
1871:
“American Christian Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews”
published today described the work of the organization which has an auxiliary
branch in Somerset, Iowa in trying to change the religious persuasion of the
“65,000 Israelites in New York” and the quarter of million living in the United
States,
1872(5th
of Iyar, 5632): Fifty-year-old author and German parliamentarian Mortiz Harmann
passed away today outside of Vienna.
1872:
Secretary of State Hamilton Fish wrote to Benjamin Franklin Peixotto, the U.S.
Counsel in Bucharest, that while it is usually the policy of the government not
to interfere in the internal affairs of other country’s an exception is to be
made in this case since all else has failed.
The State Department will support whatever measure Peixotto may take in
joining with other diplomats “to avert or mitigate further harshness” shown
toward the Jews living in Romania. (Peixotto was Jewish, and he was purposely
chosen by President Grant in an attempt to ameliorate the suffering of the Jews
in Romania. This is yet another proof
that Grant was not an anti-Semite)
1873(16th
of Iyar, 5633): Twenty-seven-year-old Civil War veteran Charles J. Asch, the
Philadelphia born on of Clarissa Ulman and Joseph M. Asch who served as
“special agent of the War Department” after the war died today in Philadelphia.
1875:
Birthdate of Michigan native Lena B. Buboltz the wife of Rudolph Gustav
Kauffman and other of John R. Kauffman; Emma M. Kauffman; Louis Edward
Kauffman; Eleanor Kauffman; Ella Kauffman; Arthur B Kauffman; Evelyn May C
Kauffman
1877(1st
of Sivan, 5637): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1877:
“Jute” published today describes the origins and modern uses of this plant. The
author claims that jute has been used since ancient times citing the story of
Samson and Delilah as one of his proofs.
“The seen green withes that had never been dried” which the Philistines
had given to Delilah so that she might bind the Israelite prophet were “jute
withes. “The basis for this supposition
is the fact that the word translated ‘withes’ is in the Hebrew reading jeter –
that means cordage or roping stuff of any kind.” In the 17th century
the Jewish connection was so strong that a form of jute called or Tossa jute
(Corchorus olitorius), was popularly referred to as ‘Jews mallow.’ [Editor’s
note – Apparently the term Jews mallow is one known to many cooks as can be
seen from the recipe for a dish called Jews Mallow Soup http://www.food.com/recipe/molukhia-jews-mallow-soup-151132 ]
1878:
A review of Religion of China by Dr. Richard Edkins published today
noted that during Edkins visit to China he found that "the Jewish colony
had dwindled to a few hundred members none of whom can read Hebrew." In what must be a reference to Simchat Torah,
Edkins reported that until their synagogue was destroyed by fire the Jews
"had an autumn festival when they walked in procession around the hall
taking the scrolls of the law with them."
Until recently, they had twelve copies of the Pentateuch, some of which
are now in England. According to some,
the first Jews arrived during the Han Dynasty - 200 BCE to 200 CE while others
came later from Persia
1881:
Birthdate of Anna Meingast, who worked as Stefan Zweig’s secretary in Salzburg
from November 1919 to March 1938.
1884(18th
of Iyar, 5644): Lag B'Omer
1884:
In Washington, IN, Samuel and Lena Sternberger Eckhouse gave birth to Daisy
Eckhouse Rothschild, the sister of Jennie, Solomon and Elmer Eckhourse
1886:
Birthdate of violinist and composer Joseph Achron. Born in Warsaw, Achron
was a child prodigy from a musical family. He moved to
St. Petersburg in 1899 and joined the Society for Jewish Folk Music in
1911. His first Jewish work called "Hebrew Melody" became
famous thanks to the interpretation by Jascha Heifetz. Achron lived in
Berlin and Palestine before settling in the United States in the 1920's where
he continued performing and composing. One of his most compositions was
"Golem." When he passed away in 1943, one obituary called him
"one of the most underrated modern composers.”
1886:
In “Zhagroy, Russia,” “Bernhard and Yetta
(Shochet) Blumberg gave birth to German trained mathematician Dr. Henry
Blumberg who taught at the University of Nebraska and the University of
Illinois before becoming a full Professor at Ohio State University in 1924.
1886:
In Zanesville, OH, Abram E. and Hannah (Schofeld) Starr gave birth to Jean
Starr Untermeyer, the Columbia University education wife of Louis Untermeyer
who wrote Growing Pains and Dreams Out of Darkness and sang
professionally in Vienna and London.
1887:
In Petrikow, Poland, Fannie Kozanietzka and Leo Schwartzenstein gave birth to
“violin virtuoso” Sigmund Schwartzenstein the husband of Dora Glazer and who
starting in 1914 began playing concerts in “principal cities in the United
States” while serving as the Director of The Benson Conservatory of Music in
Brooklyn.
1888:
Birthdate of Zelig Harry Lefkowitz who gained fame as "Big" Jack
Zelig a New York City thug who was one of the last leaders of the Monk Eastman
Gang.
1888:
Thirty-one-year-old Max Pinkus married Hedwig Oberländer the daughter of Moritz
J. Oberländer and Marie Oberländer
1888(3rd
of Sivan, 5648): Ohio Medical College graduate Joseph Aub the Bavarian and
Viennese trained oculist who settled in Cincinnati where he “was one of the
first to use the electromagnet for removing foreign bodies from the eye” passed
away today.
1889:
In Aurich, Germany, Isaac Wolff, the son of Abraham and Bertha Braune Breintje
Wolff and his wife Regina Wolff gave birth David Isaak Wolff, the husband of
Regina Wolff and the father of Kurt David Wolff
all three of whom died in the Holocaust.
1890:
Birthdate of Cincinnati native and Harvard trained physician Dr. Joseph C. Aub,
the WW I veteran professor of medical research at Harvard who was the father of
three daughters – Elizabeth, Frances and Nancy – and the husband of “the former
Elizabeth Cope.”
1890:
The Amusements column published today provided a detailed review of “The
Shatchen” a play written by Henry Doblin and Charles Doblin starring M.B.
Curtis in the title role of this comedy about a Jewish marriage broker.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70B11FC395F10738DDDAA0994DD405B8085F0D3
1891:
Two Jews were killed today and several more were injured when new violence
broke out today in Corfu.
1891:
In Riga, Shneur Zalman Seligson and Keilia Leybovna Berlin gave birth to
Abraham-Aba (Albert) Zeliksohn
1892:
“Jews Ordered From Russia” published today reported that “ten thousand foreign
Jews in Odessa have been order to leave” the Czar’s kingdom immediately.
1892:
Rector Alhwardt, the notorious anti-Semite went on trial today on charges that
he libeled the firm of Loewe & Company when he charged that the company had
furnished defective rifles to the army.
1893:
“Germany’s Political Crisis” published today described the surprise that has
resulted from “the fact that the anti-Semitic electors of Arnswalde have again
nominated Rector Ahlwardt, the notorious Jewish Baiter” despite the fact that
he is serving a term in prions for having libeled the Jewish firm of Lowe &
Company
1893:
One Polish Jew arrived in the United States aboard the SS New York
1893:
Three hundred twenty-seven Polish Jews arrived
aboard the SS Dania, 245 of whom were bound for New York, seven of whom
were bound for Boston, two of whom were bound for New Haven, CT, one of whom
was bound for Iowa, five of whom were bound for Amsterdam, 13 of whom were
bound for Amsterdam, NY 13 of whom were bound for Philadelphia, 13 of whom were
bound for Pittsburg, 6 of whom were bound for Buffalo, 29 of whom were bound
for Chicago, 5 of whom were bound for Saratoga, NY and one of whom was bound
for Milwaukee,
1893:
“A press association dispatch sent from Berlin” today “asserts, in
contradiction of the recent dispatches from” the New York Times correspondent in London “that there is no movement
for the expulsion of Jews from Poland.”
1893:
Relying on information that first appeared in the Jewish Messenger, “The Expulsion of the Jews from Poland” published
today decried the fact that Russia is allowed to treat her Jewish inhabitants
in a manner that is both brutal and laced with bigotry while the Great Powers
remain passive in the face of this menace to civilization that smacks of
medieval barbarism.
1893:
The examination of another 200 of the 1,000 Russian Jews who arrived yesterday
at Ellis Island aboard the steamship Dania will resume today. Immigration officials said that many of those
already examined “were absolutely destitute” and that a number of them will be
returned to the ship.
1894:
It was reported today that “there appears to have been a series of savage
popular” attacks on the Jews in a number of towns in Southern Russia at Easter
time. The bloodiest took place at
Ekaterinoslav.
1894:
It was reported today that in response to new outbreaks of violence a renewed
exodus of Jews has begun from Odessa. In
the last week 2,200 have left the port, 800 bound for Argentina; the rest bound
for England and the United States.
1894:
It was reported today that the official returns from the by-election in
Schlochan (Germany) will require a run-off between the Conservative candidate
and the first runner-up because the anti-Semitic candidate made “deep inroads
in the traditional Conservative majority.
1894(7th
of Iyar, 5654): Twenty-year-old Edwin Bach, the son of Sigmund J. and Rosalie
Bach passed away today.
1895:
A dramatized version of “Oliver Twist” opened at the Star Theatre with H.G.
Carleton playing the part of Fagan, “the awful Jew.”
1896:
Solomon Schechter discovered a fragment of the original Hebrew text of
“Ecclesiasticus” that had come from the Cairo Genizah.
1897: Theodor Herzl wrote, "Über Nacht fiel
mir der Titel des Blattes ein: Die Welt. Mit dem Mog'n Dovid, in der der Globus
hineinzuzeichnen wäre, mit Palästina als Mittelpunkt." -"Overnight
the name for the paper occurred to me: Die
Welt. [The masthead comes] with a Mogen Dovid [Star of David], inside which
a globe should be drawn, with Palestine as the central point."
1897:
Two days after she had passed away, 56 year old Minnie Levy, the wife of Aaron
Levy was buried in London today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemtery.”
1898:
In Harlem, Temple Israel began celebrating its 25th anniversary and
the 10th anniversary of the dedication of its current facility
today.
1898:
During the Spanish American War George Jessel Jones, Morris Conheim and Carl
Meyer were mustered in as members of the 1st Missouri Volunteer
Infantry.
1898:
During the Spanish American War the 3rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry
whose members included Lewis M. Moses of Charlottesville and Abraham Cohen
began the processing of being “mustered in U.S. Service.
1898:
“Hebrew Charities Building” published today described the plans of Solomon Loeb
of Kuhn, Loeb & Co to build a new four-story structure at 21st
Street and Second Avenue which will be called The Hebrew Charities
Building. De Lemos & Cordes have
been retained for the project that will cost $150,000 on top of the $60,000
that has been paid for the land.
1899:
Memorial services for Baroness de Hirsch were held this afternoon in the
auditorium of the Educational Alliance at East Broadway and Jefferson Street.
1899:
Ohio native and West Point Graduate
Major George W. Moses was honorably discharged today
1899:
It was reported today that Doubleday & McClure will soon be issuing an
abridged version of The Future of War by Jean de Bloch the Polish Jew
who began as a peddler in Warsaw and rose to become a financier with a wide
variety of interests in railways, banking and science.
1899:
“The first anti-Jewish measure was promulgated” by the Russian government
“under which the stay of all – even foreign – Jews is prohibited in St.
Petersburg; a prohibition that even applies to French Jews.
1899:
“Yiddish: Literature in the Mixed Tongue Produced in This Century” published
today provided a review The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth
Century by Leo Weiner. (Weiner was a Polish born Jew who lectured on Slavic
Languages at Harvard and became the first American Professor of Slavic
Literature, at a time before leaders at Harvard decided there were too many
Jews at their college.)
https://archive.org/details/historyofyiddish00wienuoft
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F60E10F83E541B728DDDAA0994DD405B8985F0D3
1899:
“Asks Aid of United Hebrew Charities” published today described the decision to
reject a request for $125 to pay for a family’s transportation back to German
“because the demands upon the treasury…have been so great, the society cannot
afforded to expends so large a sum on an individual case.”
1900(14th
of Iyar, 5660): Pesach Sheni
1900:
Three days after he had passed away, 65-year-old Israel Simons was buried today
in London at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”
1900
(14th of Iyar, 5660): Sixty-year-old Hermann Levin, the Jewish
maestro who conducted the first performance of Wagner’s “Parsifal” at Bayreuth
passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Wagner.html
1900:
Herzl made a Zionist speech at the "Israelitische Allianz".
1900:
In responding to Jacob Schiff’s criticism of the work of the Baron and Baroness
de Hirsch Monument Association, Isador Straus agreed that these two great
philanthropists required no monument since their good works spoke for
themselves. Building the monument was an
act of gratitude and hopefully, those who would view it would be moved to
emulate the generosity of the Baron and Baroness.
1901(24th
of Iyar, 5661): Seventy-five-year-old Austrian born and retired butcher Hyman
Epstein, the husband of Rosalie (Glazier) Epstein and the father of Emmanuel,
Sarah, Robert, Isaac “Ike” Epstein passed away today after which he was buried
at New Mount Sinai Cemetery and Mausoleum in Affton, MO.
1901:
“A performance of the Jewish ‘King Lear’ by Jacob Adler and his company” is
scheduled to “be given at the People’s Theatre” this evening “for the benefit
of the Seward Park playground.
1902:
It was reported today that during a dispute Reverend E.O. McFarland, the pastor
of the Bethany Church in Newark, NJ and Joseph M. Hauber, the church’s
treasurer, the pastor responded to one of the treasurer’s comments by saying,
from the pulpit, “That’s what you would expect from a Jew” and then continuing “I called this brother a
name,” “I married this brother and got the record of his father and mother” and
his “name is that of a Jew.” (Editor’s note – an insult is an insult; genteel
anti-Semitism is still anti-Semitism)
1902:
As “the boycott on beef by Jewish residents” of New York’s east side which is
in sympathy with Jewish butcher who are fighting to get the wholesalers to
reduce the price of Kosher beef continues, it is expect that today all the east
side Kosher butcher shops “will be closed and the inhabitants, estimated at a
quarter of a million people will take to a diet of milk, eggs and vegetables in
order to bring the wholesalers to terms
1903:
Mordecai Raisman of Philadelphia received a letter from his son Aaron Raisman
written containing an eyewitness account of the “massacre at Kishineff” where
the riot in which “people were slaughter, killed and torn to pieces” began “on
the first day of Easter at 5 p.m. and continued for a second day after which
“the place was ruined and pillaged” with “more than three fourths of the city
reduced to absolute ruin” leaving “three hundred wounded of whom two hundred
are at the point of death.”
1904:
Herzl writes to Wenzel von Plehve asking for an audience for Katzenelson.
1905:
Birthdate of Israeli graphic designer Franz Kraus. Born in St. Pölten, Austria he passed away in
1998 in Tel Aviv.
1905:
Twenty-six-year-old American producer Sam Shubert, one of the three Shubert
theatre owning Shubert brothers passed away today as the result of injuries
suffered in a train accident in Pennsylvania while traveling on business.
(According to some sources, Shubert actually died on May 12 and not on May
13. So far, I have not been able to
resolve this discrepancy. The official marker shows the May 13 date.)
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/find-a-grave-prod/photos/2015/200/9100308_1437430374.jpg
http://www.shubertfoundation.org/about/brothers.asp
1906:
The Bezalel Art School opened in Jerusalem
1906:
In Chicago, “The building known as the Marks Nathan Jewish Orphan Home was
formally dedicated” today where 19 orphans resided under the care of Mr. Saul
Drucker as superintendent and Mrs. Saul Drucker as matron.
1907:
It was reported today that the Directors of the Home for Aged and Infirm
Hebrews have expressed their gratitude to Mrs. J.Z. Coblens and Mr. Frederick
Nathan for their 25 years of service in furthering the interests of the
institution by presenting Mrs. Coblens with “a silver dish” and Mr. Nathan with
“a loving cup.’
1908:
“The gold taken from assay office today for shipment to Europe amounted to
$5,750,000” of which $1,000,000 was from Goldman, Sachs and Co.
1909:
Today, “Abraham Sakolik, a pushcart man” received a notification from Acting
Commissioner Joseph Murray of Ellis Island that further delay could be granted
and that Immigration Department had ordered the deportation” of his two year
old son Gerschon back to Odessa because he has ringworm” which means his wife
Esther will also not be entering the country because “the immigration
authorities are merciful enough to see to it that if the baby is sent way its
mother must go to.”
1910:
The order by Premier Stolypin suspending the “expulsion of Jews residing
illegally in Kiev” as approved by the Duma, is ended today as can be seen by
the fact that the expulsion of the Jews is scheduled to resume tomorrow.
1911(15th
of Iyar, 5671): Parashat Emo
1911:
In the wake of “ugly rumors of a threatened massacre of Jews tomorrow” at
Kieff, “the governor issued a proclamation today saying that he would suppress
with a firm hand any attempt at disorders on Sunday” which the Jews put so
little trust in that “it is reported that they have divvied he city into
districts for organized self-defense.”
1911:
In Yekaterinosflaff, “the provincial governmnnr has issued a circular
forbidding Town Councils to give Jews certificates of artisanship on
testimonials from working establishments and hand craftsmen.”
1912:
Birthdate of Rabbi Judah Nadich. As a
Lt. Colonel and Army chaplain, Nadich would play a key role in the treatment
for the Jews of Europe after W.W. II. As
President of the Rabbinical Assembly, he would play a key role in gaining
equality for women in Conservative Judaism.
1912:
The office of Chief Rabbi of England was formally declared to be vacant today
and it was announced that applications for the position were now being
accepted.
1913:
It was learned today “that the Dr. Jacques Loeb of the Rockefeller Institute,
one of the leading investigators in biological research in the country” has
been denied membership in the Century Association, which is described as a
private club for those showing “distinction in literature or the arts” and that
Dr. J. McKeen Cattell, who proposed Loeb for membership claims the decision was
made because Loeb is Jewish.
1914:
Today in Amsterdam, Levie Van Praag married Sabiena Cohen both of whom were
murdered in Sobibor.
1915:
Leslie L. Dauer, the temporary Chairman of the Leo M. Frank Committee in
Chicago reported that “many organizations such as the Iowa State Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty and the Board of Trade of Missouri have joined the
movement” to seek clemency for Frank and “the campaign in Frank’s behalf is
being carried on over the whole country and is meeting with enthusiastic
response everywhere.:
1916
(10th of Iyar, 5676): Sholem Aleichem passed away. Born Shalom Rabinowitz
in the Ukraine, he grew up in the town of Vornokov which served as the model
for the fictitious town of Kasrilevke that appears in his writings.
Shalom Aleichem began writing in Hebrew. In 1883, he began writing in
Yiddish which is when he adopted the pen name of Shalom Aleichem. He
used a pen name because he did not want to offend friends and family
(including his father) who thought Jews should be writing in Hebrew.
Following the pogroms of 1905, he now famous author moved to the United
States. He died while living in the Bronx at the age of 59.
Shalom Aleichem employed humor and pathos to create a picture of the
Shtetl. He was called the Jewish Mark Twain. His most famous
character was Tevye who became a worldwide favorite in the hit show and
movie, “Fiddler on the Roof.” [Ed. Note:
There is no way this brief guide can do justice to this man or his work. The best way to “say Kaddish” for him is to
read one of his stories]
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/nyregion/18nyc.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Sholem_Aleichem
1917:
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise’s Free Synagogue sponsored a performance of “Little Lord
Fauntleroy” for school age children this afternoon.
1917:
Mr. Jack Silverman is scheduled to perform a violin solo and Miss Bluma
Bernstein is scheduled to provide a dramatic reading at today’s meeting of the
Big Sister Movement of Chicago at the Auditorium Hotel.
1917:
Oscar Straus is scheduled to preside over the third of three public meeting
where he will lead a “general discussion with respect to the organization of
the Free Synagogue of Washington Heights.
1917:
Pope Benedict XV “personally consecrated Nunci Eugenio, the future Pope Pius
XII” whose behavior during the Holocaust has been criticized by many, as an
Archbisop.
1917:
Dr. Henry Moskowitz criticized the Zionist “movement as romantic and
impracticable” while Dr. David De Sola Pool “made a strong appeal for the
settling of Palestine as the only to restore Hebrew ideals” “at a symposium on
the Jewish question” held tonight at Temple Emanu-El.
1918:
Birthdate of Edwin S. Shneidman, “a psychologist who gave new direction to the
study of suicide and was a founder of the nation’s first comprehensive suicide
prevention center.” (As reported by William Dicke)
1918:
Approximately 500 carts crowded in the three blocks of Orchard Street between
Delancey and Houston Streets where “the bearded Jews in long overcoats” had
discarded their usual wares to sell supplies of Thrift and War Saving Stamps as
a way of helping to repay the debt they owe to the country that has provided
them with a refuge and a home.
1919:
During the Russian Civil War the Jews of Boguslav, a city in the Kiev district
of the Ukraine were attacked by gangs of marauding peasants that killed 20
Jews,
1919(6th
of Iyar, 5673): Fifty-one-year-old Esther Lefkowitz passed away today after
which she was buried with other family members at Mount Hebron Cemetery in
Flushing, NY
1920:
In Union City, TN, Rebecca and Morris Kaufman gave birth to Ruth Kaufman, the
Miami Beach High School and Pratt Institute trained interior designer and
cartoon colorist who became Ruth Kaufman Hecklering when she married Philip E.
Heckerling with whom she had two children Stephanie and Dale.
1921:
The Palestinians have expressed their dissatisfaction with the reply made by
Winston Churchill to the petition of the Moslem-Christian Association, which
consisted of thirty-two typewritten pages and contained all their grievances
“against the colonization of their country by the Zionist immigrants, who are
arriving at the rate of 1,000 a month.”
1922:
In New York City, Philip Frankel and his wife the former Rebecca Pressner gave
birth to Bernice Frankel, who as the actress Bea Arthur played Yentel the
Matchmaker in the premiere of “Fiddler on the Roof” and gained lasting fame in
the role of Maude Findlay, a character first created for the hit series All In
the Family, and then spun off for Maude, a hit show in which she was the
lead. She gained further success as Dorthoy Zbornak, one of the lead
characters in the television hit, “The Golden Girls.”
1922:
In New York, “New York Court of Appeals Judge George Medalie” and his wife gave
birth to Gladys Medalie, who married Julius Heldman and as Gladys Heldman
gained fame as a tennis player and the founder, editor and publisher of World Tennis.
http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/GladysHeldman.htm
1923: President Judge Jacob Caplan of New Haven, First Vice
President, Louis Fabrican of New York; Second Vice-President, Bertram M.
Aufsesser or Albany; Treasurer, Herman Asher of New York, Secretary, Max Levy
were elected as officers of District #1 of the B’nai Brith Lodge today.
1923:
During a meeting held at the Hotel Astor, Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization addressed members of four
congregations located on New York’s West Side. Mr. H. Leonard Simmons announced
that the $100,000 quota for the West Side would be forthcoming shortly. Captain
Gloster Armstrong, British Consul General in New York assured the attendees
that Great Britain intends to fulfill its commitments in Palestine under the
terms of League of Nations’ mandate. (As reported by JTA)
1923:
Mayor David E. Fitzgerald addressed a meeting of the B’nai B’rith lodges in the
Eastern United States.
1924:
Birthdate of Harry Heinz Schwartz, a South African lawyer, opponent of
apartheid and South African ambassador to the United States. He served as
defense lawyer for James Kantor, who was the defense attorney for Nelson
Mandela during the infamous Rivonia Trial.
1925: “A bequest of some common stock” in the Nature’s Rival
Company which is headed by Clarence Mayer of Chicago, was made to Mrs. Amalie
Bourne the sister of Julius M. Mayer, the former Judge of the United States
circuit Court of Appeals for the Southern District of New York subject to a
contract dated today.
1926(29th of Iyar, 5686): Sixty-nine-year-old Sir
Stuart Montagu Samuel, the elder brother of Herbert Samuel, 1sr Viscount Samuel
passed away today. He was elected to the
House of Commons in 1900 replacing his uncle Samuel Montagu, 1st
Baron Swaything. He served until 1916.
1926:
It was reported today that David M. Bressler,
announced that contributions to the United Jewish Campaign in New York reached
the sum of $4,835,867. (JTA)
1926:
The New York Times reported that
during his recent visit to Palestine, Yasha Heifetz performed a concert in the
Valley of Jezreel near the site of the “legendary battle of Armageddon.” During
the five day tour, Heifetz took part in seven concerts including one attended
by 10,000 workers in Tel Aviv.
1927:
Solomon Furth won three events today as the New York University freshman track
team finished an undefeated season.
1927:
In Brooklyn, Harry Hellerman, “a Jewish immigrant from Riga” and the former
Clara Robinson gave birth to Fred Hellerman, a member of the Weavers, the group
that brought folk music to whole generation of youngsters who knew that there
was more to music than “crooners” and “rock stars.”
1927:
In Brooklyn, Martha (Grundfast) and Louis Chester Ross gave birth to “actor,
choreographer, director and producer.” Herbert David Ross.
1927:
Forty members of the National Socialist Party, responsible for the recent
anti-Semitic riots on Kurfuerstendamm, were arrested by the police today. In a
statement issued by the chief of police, he declared that the police will
combat terrorism in the streets of Germany's capital. (As reported by JTA)
1928:
Six months after premiering in Germany “Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis” with
a script by Karl Freund and Carl Mayer was released in the United States.
1928:
“The proposal that officers of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union
be elected by membership through a national referendum was defeated tonight by
a vote of 13 to 56 after an all-day debate in which the elements in the
International opposing Morris Sigman sought to secure passage of the
resolution.” (As reported by JTA)
1928:
Officials of the Hebrew National Orphans Home, led by its President, State
Supreme Court Justice Aaron J. Levy, launched a drive today for an additional
10,000 members.
1929:
In Palestine, The Mandatory Government announces an immigration quota of 2.400
permits for a half-year period, beginning in April.
1929(3rd
of Iyar, 5689): After she passed away today, Russian born Jenny Rebeca Herbert,
the wife of Aaron Herbert and the mother of Leo, Sophia and Eley Herbert was
buried today in the Belfast Jewish Cemetery in Northern Ireland.
1929: Marcia
Glick, the daughter of Bernard Glick and Alma Gluck and the stepdaughter of
Efrem Zimabliest became Marci Davenport today when she married Russell
Davenport, the editor of Fortune magazine.
1930: Talks
between the heads of the Colonial Office and the Palestinian Arab delegation
are concluded. Demands to end the growth of the Yishuv, immigration and land
settlement remain unfulfilled.
1931: “Extensive
revision of the "Union Hymnal for Jewish Worship," which is used in
400 Reformed Jewish congregations throughout the United States, was completed today
by a committee of ten rabbis appointed five years ago by the Central Conference
of American Rabbis, the national organization of Reformed Judaism in this
country.”
1931: Dr.
Cyrus Adler, president of the American Jewish Committee told a meeting of the
New York contributing members at Congregation Emanu-El that “the political
situation of Jews is somewhat brighter, but their economic state is
depressing.”
1932:
The thirty-second annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America continued for a third on the JTS campus.
1933(17th
of Iyar, 5693): Parashat Emor)
1933:
“A benefit performance was held at the old Roxy Theatre” tonight under the
auspices of the Manhattan-Washington Lodge of the B’nai B’rith” with the
proceeds from the event being “devoted to the relief of German Jews and to the
wider scope of the activities of B’nai B’rith.”
1934:
World Peace and Goodwill week which has the support of several Jewish rabbis
including Rabbi Edward L. Israel of Baltimore is scheduled to continue for a
second day.
1934:
Birthdate of archaeologist Ehud Netzer who led the excavations at Heriodum for
30 years and who discovered “the Wadi Qielt Synagogue, the oldest synagogue
ever found.”
1935: Sixty-five-year-old
former United States Senator from Georgia, John S. Cohen who was raised in the
Episcopalian faith of his mother Ellen Gobert Wright and not in the faith of
his Jewish father, Philip Lawrence Cohen passed away today.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000597
1935:
Birthdate of composer Professor Yizhak Sadai the native of Bulgaria who moved
to Israel in 1949 and became “one of the most regarded and influential music
teachers in Israel.”
1935:
Pepsodent Toothpaste began sponsoring Albert Pearce’s radio broadcast on the
Blue Network and NBC today.
1936:
Birthdate of Romanian native Ruth Wisse whose literary works include The
Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Literature and Culture, The Best
of Sholem Aleichem, If I Am Not for Myself…: The Liberal Betrayal of the
Jews, and Jews in Power and whose brother is “David Roskies, a
professor of Yiddish and Jewish Literature at JTS.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/wisse-ruth-r
1936(21st of Iyar, 5696): “Two Jews, Ruben
Klapholtz and Alter Cohen were shot to death by Arabs in the Old City of
Jerusalem today, one as he left his home and the other as he passed an Arab
Cafte.
1936: Tonight, “thirty Arabs attacked a Jewish
stone-crushing plant outside of Jerusalem” killing “one of three Arabs working
there, wounding another” before setting fire to the plant.
1936: “One
Rainy Afternoon” a comedy produced by Jesse Lasky with a screen story by Emeric
Pressburger and René Pujol, starring Francis Lederer and featuring Mischa Auer
was released today in the United States.
1936:
Following a funeral procession that police said was watched by 10,000 people,
Rabbi Leo Jung delivered the eulogy at the funeral service for Judge Otto A.
Rsalsky in the Jewish Center following which Cantor Pincus Jassinowsky chanted
“El Mole Rachamin the Hebrew prayer for the dead.”
1937: In New
York City, “Russian Jewish immigrants Rachil Eriss, a draper and hatmaker, and
Morris Lampert, an architect and ironworker” gave birth to University of
Chicago and actress Zora Lampert, the wife of “broadcaster and novelist
Jonathan Schwartz.”
1938: The Palestine Post
reported that an Arab police constable who was expected to offer his testimony
in the District Court was shot and killed by an Arab terrorist in a Haifa's
market cafe. An Arab woman who came into the line of fire was also severely
injured and later died from her wounds.
1938: The Palestine Post
reported that at the League of Nations Britain requested "for the sake of
peace" that all nations recognize the Italian conquest of Ethiopia.
1938: The Palestine Post
reported that Poles became suddenly aware of the rapid Nazification of the
local German community.
1938: Birthdate of Manhattan born, Queens raised Francine Pascal
who gained fame as Francine Pascal the wife of John Pascal and the creator of
“the Sweet Valley series of young adult novels.”
1939:
SS St Louis departs Hamburg for Cuba with 937 Jews on board.
This tragic episode was portrayed in the book and the film, Voyage of
the Damned. Having been denied entrance to Cuba, the ship was turned
away from the United States. Steaming off the shore of Florida, the
refugees could see the lights of Miami. Coast Guard vessels tracked the
ship to make sure nobody escaped and to keep the captain from running his
ship aground in American waters. In the end, the ship returned to
Europe. About half of the passengers survived the war.
1939:
Nineteen-year-old George Jellinek and the family of Peter Gay were among the
passengers aboard the SS Iberia when
it docked today in Havana, Cuba.
1939: “Miriam (née
Klein) and Harry Keitel, Jewish immigrants from Romania and Poland,
respectively” gave birth to actor Harvey Keitel.
1940: Tonight, in
Miami, with the help of the Young Judea group, Junior Hadassah “honored their
mothers in a special program” during which the girls gave their mothers
“certificates stating that a tree had been planted in Palestine in their honor.
1940: In Port Chester,
NY, Ruth Robinowitz and Jacob Heller, the manufacturer of aluminum housewares
gave birth to Alan Jay Heller the
manufacturer of elegant, often whimsical but always affordable housewares and
furniture that married high design with prosaic plastic” (As reported by
Penelope Green)
1940: As the British
brace for an invasion by the Nazis who have already death lists for UK’s Jews,
Winston Churchill delivered his speech to the House of Commons where the Prime
Minister famously told his people, “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil,
tears and sweat” which passed into popular folklore as I have nothing to offer
but blood, sweat and tears.
1940: “As the German
forces approached Amsterdam” today, the family of Dutch art dealer Jacques
Goudstikker whose visas had expired four days ago fled without this vital
documentation and found “passage on the SS Bodegraven, in part because a
soldier on guard recognized Dési who had given a concert for the troops.”
1940: Hans Rey, who is
best known for creating Curious George, wrote in his diary today, “Songs
English very slowly because of the events.”
“Songs English” refers to a book of French and English rhymes on which
he was working. “The events” refers to
the German blitz driving across France.
1941: In Vienna, musician Josef Berger and teacher
Therese Jany gave birth to Senta Berger, the actress who co-starred as an
Israeli soldier, Karen, with Kirk Douglas in “Cast A Giant Shadow” and who
co-founded Sentana Film with her husband Michael Verhoeven.
1941: The Nazis
interned 3,600 naturalized Jews of Russian origin.
1942: U.S. premiere of
“This Gun For Hire” which provided Albert Maltz with his “first screenwriting
credit.”
1942: In Brooklyn Teddy
and Esta Makowsky gave birth to their eldest daughter Renee Rivka who gained
fame as “Rivka Haut, a prominent champion of Orthodox Jewish women fighting for
divorce in rabbinical courts and seeking to pray together as a group.” (As
reported by Jennifer Medina)
1942(26th of Iyar,
5702): On day after his 41st birthday Hyam Greenbaum, British
violinist, composer and conductor passed away today
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095906257
http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Name/Hyam-Greenbaum/Conductor/98534-3
1943:
Hans Frank sent Hitler a list of the "Jewish concealed and stolen
goods," that were recovered including 94,000 men's watches, 33,000 women's
watches, 25,000 pens and 14,000 scissors. Many of the watches were melted down
for their gold or platinum content.
1943:
In California, Mae Babitz and Sol Babitz, the Brooklyn born violinist gave
birth to “Eve Babitz, the voluptuous bard of Los Angeles…” (As reported by
Penelope Green)
1944:
Dr. Samuel Levy, chairman of the board of directors announced that Dr. Samuel
Belkin, Talmudist and scholar, will be inducted as second president of the
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, which includes Yeshiva College on
May 23. The 33-year-old Belkin is
assuming a position left vacant by the death of Dr. Bernard Revel, the founder
and first President of Yeshiva College.
1944(20th
of Iyar, 5704): Eighty-year-old Florence Guggenheim passed away today.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/guggenheim-florence-shloss
1944:
Throughout the Nazi camp system, inmate tattoo numbers gain a new series,
prefaced with the letter "A." The intention is to conceal the number
of prisoners at Auschwitz.
1945:
Commissioning of HMS Sanguine, a Royal Navy submarine that would be sold to
Israel in 1958 and renamed the Rahav
1945:
The Soviet Union “halted all offensive operations” in Europe today.
1945:
“The CBS, NBC, Blue and Mutual networks broadcast a second live production of
the epic dramatic poem “On a Note of Triumph,” a commemoration of the fall of
the Nazi regime in Germany and the end of World War II in Europe narrated by
Martin Gabel.
1945:
The photo of the “Raising a flag over the Reichstag” taken by Jewish
photographer Yevgeny Khaldei was published today in Ogonyok magazine meaning
that the two iconic flag raising photos of 1945 (the other being Iwo Jima) were
taken by Jews. (Add these to Robert
Capa’s D-Day Invasion photos and the Life cover with the sailor kissing a girl
at Times Square and you get a sense of connection between Jews and
photo-journalism)
1945:
During Winston Churchill's famous broadcast speech "Five years of
War", Britain’s wartime Prime Minister remembers the valor of
Lance-Corporal John Patrick Kenneally who won the Victoria Cross for his
exploits in Tunisia in 1943.
1946: In Brooklyn Abe
Wolfman, a policer officer and his wife Fay gave birth to Marv Wolfman former
Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics
1946: A year and a day
before he married Arlene Francis, the mother of his son Tikun editor Peter
Gabel, “CBS, NBC, Blue and Mutual Networks broadcast a second live production
of “On a Note of Triumph, a commemoration of the fall of the Nazi regime in Germany
and the end of World War II in Europe” narrated by Martin Gabel, the
Philadelphia born son of Ruth and Israel Gabriel.
1946: “The Max Nordau, carrying 1,754 immigrants,
was captured by the destroyers HMS Jervis and HMS Chequers
1946: As result of a
hunger strike and threats to blow up the ship, the 675 passengers aboard the Dov Hos and 735 passengers aboard the Eliahu Golomber landed legally in
Palestine.
1947(23rd of
Iyar, 5707): Seventy-three-year-old Philadelphia born Harry Bachrach, the
Republican Mayor of Atlantic City and Postmaster serving under Presidents
McKinley and Roosevelt and founder of the “Jewish Community Center in Atlantic
City who was the husband of Hattie Bacharach and the brother of Benjamin
Bacharach, the President of Beth Israel Synagogue and Congressman Isaac
Bacharach who “represented the Second District
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0447/ms0447.html
1947:
The U.N. General Assembly established the United Nations Special committee on
Palestine, also known as UNSCOP.
1948:
The “Dov Hoz” with 675 ma’apilim on board and the “Eliahu Golomb” with 339
ma’apilim on board arrive at Haifa today.
1948: As the British began their withdrawal from the Old
City, the Haganah awaited the attack by 20,000 Arab soldiers who were
determined to capture Jerusalem.
1948:
Chaim Weizmann calls Abba Eban out of a meeting at the United Nations seeking
reassurance that the proposal to create a trusteeship for all of Palestine (a
proposal that would kill the creation of the Jewish state) would not succeed. Eban assures Weizmann that U.N. Secretary
General has said that trusteeship is a non-issue.
1948:
The Arab Emergency committee and the Haganah High Command signed the terms for
the Arab surrender of the town of Jaffa.
Despite Jews pleas to stay, 67,000 of the city’s 70,000 inhabitants of
the city left, many by boat for Lebanon.
1948:
In a daring nighttime firefight, Jewish forces seized the fort at the ancient
town of Gezer at the southern end of the Tel Aviv – Jerusalem road. This is the same Gezer that the Pharaoh gave
to King Solomon as a wedding gift.
1948:
On the day before Israel declares her independence, Arab irregulars perpetrate
The Kfar Etzion massacre. Armored cars of the Arab Legion broke through the
final defense line of Kfar Etzion. In
the last message sent by the defenders to Jerusalem, the defenders described “a
Masada –like battle.” The handful of
Jewish defenders came out under a white flag and surrendered. Fifteen of the defenders stacked their
weapons, and then, lined up to be photographed.
Instead of the click of the camera, the Jews were treated to a burst of
machinegun fire that killed all of them.
Was this planned or a freak accident?
To this day, the question has never been answered. The victorious Arab Legion did kill an Arab
family that had remained in Kfar Etzion with their Jewish friends.
1948:
A motorbike courier delivers an envelope the Tel Aviv apartment of 32-year-old
Arieh Handler. The envelope contained an invitation to the ceremonies marking
the Israeli Declaration of Independence. The envelope also contained a request
that the arrangements be kept secret because of a fear that the British might
stop the ceremony, or the Arabs might use the ceremony as pretext to
attack.
1948:
Maury Atkin was offered a job as executive officer and agriculture attaché of
the first Israeli embassy. The embassy actually would not exist for another 24
hours.
1949:
Today Samuel A. Snieg, chief rabbi of the U.S. Zone, presented the first copy
of the” Survivors Talmud (“also
known as the U.S. Army Talmud) “to General Lucius Clay, Military Governor of
the U.S. Occupation Zone in Germany, with the words, ‘I bless your hand in
presenting to you this volume embodying the highest spiritual wisdom of our
people.’”
1950:
Eliahu Elath, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, was named Ambassador to
Great Britain today. Abba Eban is
expected to succeed Elath.
1950:
After premiering in New York in April, “I Was a Shoplifter,” produced by
Leonard Goldstein and filmed by cinematographer Irving Glassberg was released
in the rest of the United States today.
1951:
“That’s My Boy” a comedy co-starring Jerry Lewis and featuring Polly Bergen was
released in the United States today.
1952(18th
of Iyar, 5712): Lag B’Omer
1952:
The first degrees of Doctor of Medicine were awarded to 62 graduates of the
Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical School.
1953:
Hans “Eisler's opera project was discussed in three of the bi-weekly meetings
"Mittwochsgesellschaft" [Wednesday club] of a circle of intellectuals
under the auspices of the Berlin Academy of Arts beginning” today.
1953:
Tennis player, promoter, and women's advocate Gladys Heldman released the first
issue of World Tennis Magazine
https://jwa.org/thisweek/may/13/1953/gladys-heldman
1953: The Jerusalem
Post reported that a Bill had been
introduced in the Knesset by the Minister of Education and Culture, Prof.
Benzion Dinur, for the establishment of "Yad Vashem" (an everlasting
name), for the memory of the six and a half million Jews who perished in the
Holocaust and were granted Israeli honorary citizenship. The Yad Va'Shem
archives and museum were to be set up in Jerusalem, "The Heart of the
Jewish People
1953: Hans “Eisler’s opera project was discussed in three of the
bi-weekly meetings "Mittwochsgesellschaft" [Wednesday club] of a
circle of intellectuals under the auspices of the Berlin Academy of Arts
starting today.”
1954: “Lasser’s Eyes To Blind” published today described the
decision Mrs. Jacob K. Klasser, the widow of the recently deceased tax and
accounting expert to consent to his wishes and donate his eyes “the Eye-Bank
for Sight Restoration, Inc.” which will use them for corneal grafting
operations in Baltimore and Houston
1954: The original Broadway production of Pajama Game featuring
features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross opened today and ran for 1,063
performances.
1954:
“Dr. Samuel Winograd, City College's faculty manager of athletics from 1947 to
1952, resigned today as assistant professor of hygiene.”
1954:
The original Broadway production Richard Adler and Jerry Ross’ “The Pajama
Game” opened today.
1957(12th
of Iyar, 5717): Seventy-year-old Michael Fekete, the Hungarian born Israeli
mathematician who won the Israel Prize of Exact Sciences in 1955 passed away
today.
1959(5th
of Iyar, 5719): Yom HaAtzma'ut
1959(5th
of Iyar, 5719): Seventy-six-year-old Kiev native Joseph Karr, “the president
for forty years of the Mohawk Shirt Company and director of the Jewish
Convalescent Home who raised two daughters – Babette and Peggy – with his wife
Betty Karr passed away today in Hahnemann Hospital.
1959:
Birthdate of British comedian and author Benjamin Charles “Ben” Elton, the
grandson of German Jewish historian Victor Ehrenberg and the son Lewis Elton, a
refugee from Hitler’s Europe and Mary Foster, a product of the Church of
England.
1959: Birthdate of Israeli author Zeruya Shalev. A native of
Kibbutz Kinneret and an editor at Keshet Publishing house, she survived a
suicide bombing in January of 2004.
1960: “Papyri Found In Judean Cave Identified As Letters From Bar
Kochba” published today described the discovery of “eleven letters, written by
Simon Bar Kochba” “in a cave near the Dead Sea.”
1960(16th of Iyar, 5720): Seventy-one-year-old Chicago
native and University of Chicago graduate Phillip Lewin, the Rush Medical
College trained orthopedic surgeon who was a veteran of both world wars and the
winner in 1938 of the Gold Medal from the American Congress of Physical
Therapy, passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/05/14/99495346.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1961: Actor Jeff Chandler (Ira Gorssel) entered a Culver City
hospital and had surgery for a spinal disc herniation, the complications from
which would ultimately lead to his death.
1962(9th
of Iyar, 5722): Franz Kline abstract expressionist painter passed away at the
age of 51.
1965:
Labour Political leader Lewis Cohen became Baron Cohen of Brighton when he “was
raised to the Peerage” today.
1965:
Germany established diplomatic relations with Israel. (This comes 20 years
after its unconditional surrender, at the end of World War II, and 17 years
after the establishment of the State of Israel.)
1965:
Today, Lester Avnet announced the names of two new vice presidents who will be
working at Avnet, Inc
1965:
Several Arab nations broke ties with West Germany after it established
diplomatic relations with Israel. This came during the height of the
Cold War when Communist East Germany was trying to establish itself
as the real German government. The West Germans knew what it would cost
them in them in the international arena if they recognized Israel, but they
went ahead and did it anyway.
1967(3rd
of Iyar, 5727): Parashat Emor
1967(3rd
of Iyar, 5727): New York native and toy manufacturer Charles S. Raizen, the
founder and chairman of the board of Transogram Company, the co-treasurer of
the world Union for Progressive Judaism, and founder of the Charles S. Raizen
Foundation and the husband the former Patricia Folk with whom he had two
children – Roy and Patricia – passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/05/15/90594356.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1967:
Birthdate of American singer, songwriter, guitarist and musical genre
innovator, Charles Michael "Chuck" Schuldiner.
1967: Egyptian
troops move into the Sinai, which is a demilitarized zone. Egypt radio sets the
tone of propaganda ("Egypt, with all its resources, is ready to plunge
into a total war that will be the end of Israel.")
1968: A
funeral service for New York jurist George Frankenthaler is scheduled to be
held at Temple Emanu-El starting at 2 pm.
1968: Paul
Zukofsky, “ who is not only a phenomenal technician but also an exceptionally
intelligent young artist” gave one of the rare performances of The Busoni
Violin Concerto tonight “at the concert which closed the New England
Conservatory of Music’s centennial festival in New York…
1968(15th
of Iyar, 5728): Seventy-nine-year-old Budapest born Dr. George Vajna who served
as government official and publisher in his native Hungary and came to the
United States in 1939 where he eventual founded Transatlantic Arts, Inc. passed
away today in Hollywood, FL.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/05/23/76947985.pdf
1969: Boris
Kochubievsky goes on trial in Kiev charged with “slander against the Soviet
regime.”
1970: “Getting
Straight” a marvelous little comedy starring Elliott Gould was released in the
United States today.
1971(18th
of Iyar, 5731): Lag B’Omer
1971: “Four
Nights of a Dreamer” in which Alabama born film critic appeared as an extra
shortly after having arrived in Paris was released in France today.
1972(29th
of Iyar, 5732): Parashat Bamidbar
1972(29th
of Iyar, 5732): Sixty-year-old Norfolk born physicist Dr. Julius Halpern who
helped to develop radar during WW II passed away today.
1973: Sixty-three-year-old
Dutch war criminal Dries Riphagen who conned Jews out of their valuables by
promising them protection and safety and then turning them over to the Nazis
passed away today, having never had to face justice for his evil deeds
1973:
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College ordained its first graduate
1975:"Rodgers
& Hart" opens at Helen Hayes Theater in New York City for 108
performances.
1978: After a
month, in Miami, the curtain came down for the last time on National Touring
Company’s presentation of “Annie” with lyrics by Martin Charnin and music by
Charles Strouse.
1979: In “Liberman:
Staying in Vogue” published today Alexander Liberman, “the Russian-born Jewish
artist, writer and photographer who paintings hang at the Museum of Art, whose
monumental metal sculptures stand in public squares throughout America, and
who, to support his muse, also acts as editorial director of Conde Nast Publications” is quoted as
saying “"It's a mistake to consider fashion journalism an art. True art
doesn't belong in this medium anymore. I say this to my friends, to writers and
photographers: 'Do what I do in my life! Do what is necessary. Take the
pictures, write the articles I need for my magazine, and then use the money you
make for your private, creative purposes. Don't put your deepest soul into this
kind of work!”
1980: ABC
broadcast the last episode of season two of “Taxi” starring Judd Hirsch and
created by James L. Brooks and Ed Weinberger.
1980: A
Stradivarius built in 1734 was stolen today after Roman “had played an
all-Mozart recital” at the Longy School of Music In Cambridge.
1981:
Birthdate of Luciana Clare Berger the Laborite MP known as Luciana Berger who
was the great-niece of trade union official and Labour MP Manny Shinwell.
1982: ABC
broadcast the final episode of the short-lived sit-com “No Soap, No Radio
starring Steve Guttenberg.
1983(1st of
Sivan, 5743): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1983: Philip
H. Dougherty reported that the “Israel Ministry of Tourism is more than
tripling its advertising budget in the United States from last year, to $2.5
million, and may even add another $3 million to lure more American travelers
and make up for the European falloff that followed the Israeli invasion of
Lebanon. The advertising, created by Needham, Harper & Steers/Issues and
Images, will promote a friendliness and warmth of the Israeli people toward
travelers with the new theme line: ''Come to Israel, come stay with friends.''
1984:
Newark, NJ born violinist and composer Max Pollikoff, the creator of the 92nd
St Y’s “Music in Our Time” series passed away today.
http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20059
1984(11th
of Iyar, 5744): Seventy-nine-year-old Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, the Polish born
American physicist who played a key role in the development of the hydrogen
bomb today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/15/obituaries/stanislaw-ulam-theorist-on-hydrogen-bomb.html
1985(22nd
of Iyar, 5745): Sixty-four-year-old Canadian born American comedic actress
Selma Diamond best known for role as a bailiff on “Night Court” passed away
today in Los Angeles.
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-05-14/local/me-19057_1_night-court-actress-selma-diamond
1985(22nd of
Iyar, 5745): Sixty-nine-year-old former Albright College lineman Leo “Moose”
Disend who as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers NFL team played in the first
ever televised professional football game in 1939 before going to play tackle
for the Green Bay Packers passed away today.
1985: “Kiss of
the Spider Woman” for which Héctor Eduardo “Babenco was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Director” making him the first Latin American to be
nominated in this category, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
1986(4th of
Iyar, 5746): Yom HaZikaron
1986: In New
York painter Carroll Dunham and photographer Laurie Simmons gave birth to Emmy
Award nominated actress, author, screenwriter, producer and director Lena
Dunham.
1986: Natan
Shcharansky is scheduled to meet with President Reagan and Secretary of State
George P. Shultz in Washington, where he is to receive the Congressional Gold
Medal at a reception in the Capitol Rotunda. (As reported by Jane Gross)
1987: Leonard
Bernstein will serve as guest conduct of the Israel Philharmonic as the IPO
marks its 50th anniversary.
1988: Jack
Lang began serving as Culture Minster of France for the second time.
1988: “The
Wrong Guys,” a comedy directed by Danny Bilson who co-authored the script and
co-starring Richard Lewis and Richard Belzer was released in the United States
today.
1988: “Maniac
Cop” produced and written by Larry Cohen was released today in the United
States.
1988: Vincent
Canby reviews “The Lighthoresman,” an Australian made film that depicts the
heroism of 800 Australian mounted soldiers who triumphed over thousands of
Turks and Germans at Beersheba, in southern Palestine, on Oct. 31, 1917. The
battle was a key to the eventual Allied victory over the Turks during World War
I which was a critical step in the creation of the modern state of Israel. As mechanized vehicles and machine guns came
to dominate the modern battlefield, the Australians climatic cavalry charge
against the Turks proved to be the last great, successful endeavor of this
kind.
1993(22nd
of Iyar, 5753): Seventy-two-year-old Wolfgang Lotz, the Manheim, Germany, born
of Hans Lotz, a non-Jewish theatre director and Helene Lotz who was Jewish and
“an Israeli spy in Egypt during the 1960s who provided intelligence and conducted
operations against Egyptian military scientists after which he was arrested by
Egypt in 1965, and subsequently repatriated to Israel in a prisoner exchange
passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/wolfgang-lotz
1993: CBS
broadcast the final episode of “Knots Landing” one of the longest running prime
time soap operas which was created by Baltimore native David Jacobs.
1994: It was
reported today that “the common story that psychoanalyst Erik Erikson’s mother
and father had separated before his birth” was not true and the “closely
guarded fact was that he was his mother’s child from an extramarital union” who
“never saw his birth rather of his mother’s first husband.”
1996:
Terrorist shooting at bus stop in Beit -El.
1996(24th of
Iyar, 5756): Eighty-year-old Professor Chaim Menachem Rabin, the native of
Germany who became one of Israel’s premiere experts on Hebrew, especially as
found in such ancient documents as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
https://memim.com/chaim-menachem-rabin.html
1998(24th
of Iyar, 5756): Eighty-nine-year-old Harry Wagreich, a Professor Emeritus of
Chemistry at CCNY and the brothers Drs. Samuel and Paul Wagreich passed away
today.
1998: A souvenir sheet of three
illustrations by Kariel Gardosh (Dosh) showing postal activities and featuring
the character of "Srulik": a service counter at a post office,
philately, and post boxes is issued by the Israeli Postal Authority.
1999(27th of Iyyar, 5759): Mary Ellen “Meg
Greenfield” famed political columnist and editor of the Washington Post
Editorial Page, passed away.
1999: On his 32nd birthday, famed musician
Chuck Schuldiner was diagnosed with pontine glioma, a type of brain cancer that
invades the brain stem, and immediately underwent radiation therapy.
2000(8th of Iyar, 5760): Parashat
Emor
2000: It was reported today that “the parents
of an Israeli-American teenager killed in a 1996 terrorist attack in Jerusalem
filed a $600-million lawsuit in Chicago yesterday against several Islamic
charities, nonprofit groups and individuals, contending that they raised money
in the United States for Hamas, the militant Palestinian group.”
2001: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including “The Holocaust on Trial” by D.D.
Guttenplan, “Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving
Trial” by Richard J. Evans and the recently released paperback edition of
“Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart” by Steven Bach “a careful,
clear-eyed account of the life of the playwright, director and actor who collaborated with Broadway's best and
pleased many people many times without making large claims for his own
significance.”
2001: Premiere of “Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4
p.m.” directed and written by Claude Lanzman and starring Yehuda Lerner.
2002: It was reported today that “the
Palestinian suicide bombings and other attacks on civilian Israeli targets
appear to have influenced many Americans to see parallels with the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks on the United States and, perhaps, analysts say, to have
solidified the views of the quarter of Americans prepared to side openly with
Israel.”
2002: “The vote by Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon's political party on a measure vowing that it will never accept an
independent Palestinian state has embarrassed Mr. Sharon but will not tie his
hands, Israeli politicians and political analysts said today.”
2003: Susan Page reviewed An Unfinished
Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert A. Dallek, the Brooklyn born son
of Rubin and Esther Dallek, the Bancroft Prize winning historian who
specializes in
“big biographies” about American presidents.
https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2003-05-12-kennedy_x.htm
2003: A memorial service is scheduled to be
held this morning at the Chicago Yacht Club for Arnold Horween Jr. a successful
Chicago business owner who once dined with former President George Bush and
First Lady Barbara Bush.”
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-05-04/news/0305040211_1_harvard-friends-arnold
2004: In “What the Nazis Stole, Museums Tend to
Keep” published today, Alan Riding described how “despite all the headlines,
relatively little of” the art Nazis looted from Jewish homes “has been restituted.”
2004: As the fighting in Gaza continued for a
third day, Israeli troops continued their “search for the remains of five
soldiers killed yesterday and “polls show that a solid majority of Israelis
favor Prime Minister Sharon’s proposal to pull out of Gaza even though his
Likud Party had rejected it.
2005: In “Reform Jews, Adrift in a Sea of Black
Hats” published today Andy Newman described what it is like for members of
“Progressive Temple Beth Ahavath Shalom” to live and pray in the Orthodox
enclave of Borough Park.
2005: Eighty-five-year-old Hugh William
Montefiore, The Bishop of Birmingham and the great-great-nephew of Sir Moses
Montefiore, who converted to Christianity while attending Rugby School – a
famous English day and boarding school- passed away today.
2006: Eighty-nine year old Russian History
Professor and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Peter Viereck whose views stood in
stark contrast to those of Nazi-sympathizing father, George Viereck, passed
away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/arts/19viereck.html?_r=1
2006: Approximately 3,000 people came a to a
Toronto bookstore to see Leonard Cohen who was making his first public
appearance in 13 years.
2007: The Wolf Prizes are presented at ceremony
in the Knesset. Ada Yonath of the
Weizmann Institute and George Feher of U.C. San Diego won the Chemistry
Prize. The Art Prize went to Italian
Michelangelo Pistoletto.
2007: After 90 days The Dead Sea Scrolls
exhibition, including some original scroll fragments never before displayed in
the United States comes to a close at the Union Station in Kansas City. The
Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition is a joint production of Union Station Kansas City
and the Israel Antiquities Authority.
2007: The
Sunday New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Yiddish
Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon and Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in
Power by Robert Dallek which presents a detailed examination of the
relationship between America’s first Jewish Secretary of State and his
Presidential patron whose dark sided included a predilection for making
anti-Semitic remarks.
2007: The
Sunday Washington Post featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon, Nixon
and Kissinger: Partners in Power by Robert Dallek, The Years of
Extermination: Nazi Germany and the
Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul
Friedländer and The Diary of Petr Ginz, 1941-1942 edited by Chava
Pressburger. Petr Ginz was a budding writer and artists who died at Auschwitz
in 1944.
2007: The
New York Times Magazine publishes “Writings in the Dark” by David Grossman
in which “an Israeli novelist reflects on what literature can accomplish in a
time of permanent political emergency and personal loss.”
2007(25th of Iyar, 5767): Harvey Weinstein, a
formalwear manufacturer and former chairman of Lord West formal Wear, passed
away at the age of 82
2008: Houston Astros catch Brad Ausmus got his
1,500th career hit making him one of eight catchers in major league
history to get 1,500 hits and steal at least 100 bases.
2008: The 92nd Street Y presents
“Andy Borowitz, Jonathan Alter, Susie Essman, Calvin Trillin & More:
Countdown to the Election” during which award-winning satirist Andy Borowitz of
The New Yorker hosts an irreverent
look at the upcoming presidential election, featuring Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter, comedian Susie Essman and
humorist and writer, Calvin Trillin.
2008: Rabbi Asher Lopatin of Lakeview's Anshe
Sholom B'nai Israel Congregation leads a discussion of Rashi's Daughters
Book 1: Joheved by Maggie Anton as part of the Spertus Book Review series.
“In 1068, the scholar Salomon ben Isaac — better known as Rashi — returned home
to the family winemaking business. He embarked on a path that indelibly
influenced the Jewish world, writing the first Talmud commentary and secretly
teaching Talmud to his daughters. In the first book of Maggie Anton’s dramatic
— and romantic — trilogy, Joheved finds her spirit awakened by religious study,
but has to keep her passion hidden. Must she choose between marital happiness
and her study of Talmud?
2008: U.S. President George W. Bush, former
British Prime
Minister Tony Blair and media mogul Rupert Murdoch are among the 13
heads of state and 3,500 guests expected to attend President Shimon Peres'
Presidential Conference in Jerusalem, which begins today and is being held in
honor of Israel's 60th anniversary.
2008: Best-selling author and Harvard
psychology professor Tal Ben-Shahar was the guest speaker at today’s gala for
the International Sephardic Education held at the Plaza Hotel, Daniel Roubeni
received a Young Leaders Award. ISEF president Nina Weiner received the
Lifetime Achievement Award.
2008: Maj.-Gen. Ido Nehushtan assumed his
new post as the 16th commander of the Israel Air Force. Nehushtan
took up his new post during a ceremony at the IAF's Ramat David Base in the
North and during which he replaced Maj.-Gen. Elazar Shkedy, head of the air
force for the past four years. A pilot with thousands of hours on his flight
log, Nehushtan, who previously served as head of the IDF Planning Division,
holds degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Northwestern University
and Harvard University's Advanced Management Program.
2008: “A New Editor at the Forward” published
today described he ascension to this position by Jane Eisner.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/business/media/13forward.html?fta=y
2008: At today’s gala for the International
Sephardic Education Foundation, held at The Plaza, Iran-born real estate maven
Daniel Roubeni, a Young Leaders Award recipient, got teary-eyed as he described
leaving Germany (where he had grown up) “to find a Jewish wife in the U.S.”
2009(19th of Iyar, 5769): One-hundred eight year old
Wlademar Levy Cardoso, who fought with the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in WW
II and was the last living Field Marshall in the Brazilian Army passed away
today.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2250826/posts
2009: At the National Archives in Washington, D.C., Michael Lasser,
host of National Public Radio's "Fascinatin' Rhythm," presents a
lecture on the music of the Great Depression, "Let's Go Slumming,
Nose-Thumbing, at Park Avenue." Lasser is co-author of “America's Songs:
The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley” so the
lecture is followed y a book signing.
2010: Professor
David Ruderman is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “The People And The
Book: The Invention of Printing And The Transformation of Jewish Culture.”
2010: The Wolf Prize Awarding Ceremony is scheduled to take place at
6:30 pm the Knesset Building in Jerusalem. The awards are scheduled to be
presented to the recipients by the President of the State of Israel, in the
presence of the Chairman of the Knesset, the Minister of Education, the
Chairman of the Wolf Foundation Board of Trustees, and members of the
Foundation´s Council.
2010: A cross section of rabbis and
Jewish leaders met in the White House today with administration leaders in the
second of two meetings that are part of a “charm offensive” designed to
reassure the American Jewish community of the Obama administration’s positive
view of Israel.
2010: Oz Goffman of the Ministry of
Agriculture said today that parliament must still approve the proposal to ban
fishing on the Sea of Galilee for the next two years before it takes effect.
2011: On the secular calendar
“Friday the 13th”. Friday the 13th has not always been a
lucky day for the Jews. In Strasbourg,
the Jews were arrested by a newly installed town council on Friday 13, 1349 on
charges that they were responsible for the Black Plague. The Jews were burned
the next day, St. Valentine’s Day. Sholom Aleichem, who died on the 13th
of May suffered from triskaidekaphobia – the fear of the number 13. Arnold
Schoenberg experienced triskaidekaphobia “which possibly began in 1908 with the
composition of the thirteenth song of the song cycle Das Buch der Hängenden
Gärten Op. 15 (Stuckenschmidt 1977, 96).”
His fear of the number 13 is especially odd since he was born the 13th
of September and died on the 13th of July. In her novel “Paternity”
Susan Baruch created a character who was born on the 13th and
suffers from triskaidekaphobia. For the most part, the Jewish view of the
number “13” runs contrary to the Western concept that associates it with bad
luck. Bar and Bat Mitzvah are associated
with the number 13. The TaNaCh lists 13
attributes of God. There are six hundred
and 13 commandments. Maimonides Creed contains 13 principles of Judaism. There are 13 months in the year. I know, this
is not really history, but every so often you have to have a little fun.
2011: The
International Young Israel Movement and the Maimonides Heritage Center are
scheduled to present: Shabbaton in the Holy City of Teverya
2011(9th of Iyar): Ninety-five-year-old
cellist Bernard Greenhouse, a founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio, passed
away today, (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2011(9th of Iyar):
Centenarian Vivian Myerson a political activist in Los Angeles and later a
member of the city’s Human Relations Commission passed away today. (As reported
by the Eulgizor)
2011: After protracted contract
negotiations, Michael Rosenbaum returned to play “Lex Luthor” in the season
finale of “Smallville” which was broadcast today.
2012: As part of Yom Hashoah
events, artist Wendy Weisel is scheduled to speak during the presentation of
her painting "Es Brent" – "It is Burning" at Tifereth
Israel in Washington, DC.
2012: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Imagine: How
Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer.
2012: The Los Angeles Times features a review of The Crisis of Zionism
by Peter Beinar
2012: “Mazel Tov! A Jewish
Celebration of Jewish Weddings” an exhibit that explores the
mores, symbolic artifacts, and celebration unique to the Jewish wedding is
scheduled to open at the JewishMuseum of Milwaukee.
2012: Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu congratulated Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz on his joining the government
coalition during his opening remarks at the weekly cabinet meeting today
2012: Presentation of the Wolf
Prizes.
2012: Environmental Protection
Minister Gilad Erdan today called on the government to cut off the supply of
electricity to the Gaza Strip in order to avoid electricity shortages it is
feared could affect Israel this summer. (As reported by the Jerusalem Post
2013: Fred Lorber, a Holocaust
survivor who lives in Des Moines was among the speakers at today’s
groundbreaking ceremony for a Holocaust memorial that is being built “alongside
the walkways leading up the west terrace of the Iowa Capitol grounds, near the
intersection of East Seventh Street and Grand Avenue.”
2013: Philadelphia born
professional tennis player Julia Cohen today “peaked at world number 121 in the
doubles ranking.
2013: The 92nd Street Y
is scheduled to host “Baseball: Kosher Style” featuring Larry Ruttman, Jeffery
Lyons, Bob Tufts and Alan Dershowitz
2013: The Center for Jewish History
with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance’s An-sky Institute for Jewish
Culture are scheduled to present: “Tsimbl un Fidl – Uncovering the Lost Jewish
String Music of Eastern Europe
2013: In Little Rock, AR, the
Chabad Center for Jewish Life under the leadership of Rabbi Pinchas Ciment is
scheduled to host an open house that will feature an appearance by an
authentically trained and certified Sofer.
This rare event is part of the preparations for Shavuot
2013: The Leo Baeck Institute is
scheduled to present: Berlin Book Evening – “Jews in Berlin” and Essays by Kurt
Tucholsky
2013(4th of Sivan,
5773): Eight –five-year-old Dr. Joyce Brothers passed away today (As reported
by Margalit Fox)
2013: The operating
budget for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s official and private residences
jumped some 80 percent from 2009 to 2012, according to figures made public
today following a request by the Movement for Freedom of Information.
2013: Until now, new immigrant
nurses have had to prove they can converse with patients in basic Hebrew, but
physicians -- who have less direct contacts with the sick were exempted. Now
the Knesset Labor, Social Affairs and Health Committee today approved
regulations that would require doctors and two other types of professionals in
healthcare to show their Hebrew proficiency as well.
2014: The Pears Institute for the
study of Antisemitism is scheduled to host a panel discussion on “Nationalities
and Parliaments Now. What Can We Learn From the Past?”
2014: In the aftermath of the
Holyland corruption case “Ehud Olmert was sentenced to six years in prison, a
two-year suspended term, and a fine of NIS 1 million ($289,000) in the Tel Aviv
District Court.”
2014: The Anti-Defamation League
released the results of its global survey on anti-Semitism today.
2015: “Rosenwald,” a documentary
about Julius Rosenwald, “the part owner of Sears and Roebuck” who funded the
building of 5,400 schools across the segregated American South, providing
660,000 black children with access to education” is scheduled to be shown at
the 18th Annual Film Festival sponsored by the National Center for
Jewish Films.
2015: Annette Libeskind Berkovits
is scheduled to discuss In the Unlikeliest of Places: How Nachman Libeskind
Survived the Nazis, Gulags, and Soviet Communism her new biography about
her father at the Center for Jewish History.
2016: In Olney, MD Rabbi David
Golinkin, “who was named by the Jerusalem Post as one of the 50 most
influential Jews in the world: is
scheduled is scheduled to speak on “Earthly or Heavenly? Will the real
Jerusalem Please Stand Up?” at Shaare Tefilah.
2016: Congregation Rodeph Sholom is
scheduled to host “a Shabbat Evening Celebration of Israel.”
2016: The Biennial Convention of
the Jewish Community Centers Association of North America is scheduled to open
in Baltimore, MD.
2016: International Hummus Day
2016(5th of Iyar, 5776):
On the fifth of Iyar 5708 (May 14, 1948) the state of Israel was born.
2017(17th of Iyar,
5777): Parashat Emor;
2017: International Humus Day
celebrating a food that “93% of Israelis eat more than once a week.:
2017: Centerfielder Kevin Pillar
today “became the American League leader in hits with 47, after a 3-for-4
performance against the Seattle Mariners.”
2017: The Oxford University Jewish
Society is scheduled to host Seudah Shlishit and havdalah following by a Lag
B’Omer celebration completed with a bonfire, smores, singing and drinking.
2017: “A Story of the Land of
Israel through the Lens: A History of Photography in Palestine-Israel” and
“Israel’s Nationalism: The Original Conflict within Zionism and its
Transformation in the Course of Its Implementation” are two of the
presentations scheduled to be offered at today’s session of LIMMUDFSU NY.
2017: A monument honorig Captain
Witold Pilecki, “non-Jewish Polish Army officer who reported on atrocities at
Auschwitz after allowing himself to be captured and later fought in the
resistance was unveiled in Warsaw” today. (JTA)
2017: The PIcon Union Project and
the Jewish Music Commission of LA are scheduled to host “Niki Jacobs &
Nikitov in Concert with special guest Mostly Kosher.”
2017: Cedar Rapidians are marking the 101st
anniversary of the death of Shalom Aleichem by attending a production of
Fiddler on the Roof performed by the students at Jefferson High School. These talented youngsters have not only
mastered song, dance and drama while doing all of the behind scenes work like
building their own sets, thanks to the efforts of their teacher and director,
Lynn Jensen they have learned about culture and customs in a time and place that was unknown to them. Thanks to Mrs. Jensen, there is a Cedar
Rapids Shtetl that makes the community proud.
2018: The 26th annual
Toronto Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to end today.
2018: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Memento Park by
Mark Sarvas, Healing From Hate: How Young Men Get Into – and Out of –
Violent Extremism by Michael Kimmel and
Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu by
Anshel Pfeffer
2018: In Atlanta, The Breman Museum
is scheduled to host the opening of the “Chasing Dreams: Baseball and Becoming
American,” a “traveling exhibition that highlights the story of Jewish
immigration and diverse communities and how they are integral to baseball’s
role in teaching American Culture.”
2018: Yeshiva University Museum is
scheduled to present a concert of music inspired by the City of Gold, featuring
cellist Elad Kabilio and an ensemble of musicians from MusicTalks for a
selection of music ranging from Ladino and Klezmer to Opera and Israeli song.
2018: The Washington Jewish Film
Festival is scheduled to come to an end today.2018(28th of Iyar): Yom
Yerushalayim
2018(28th of Iyar): Eighty-three-year-old
Lean Rose
Napolin the Alfred University graduate who gained fame as the playwright who
created the Broadway hit “Yentl” passed away today. (As reported by Neil
Genzlinger)
2018: In Columbus, Ohio, Rachel
Levin is among those taking part in Closing Day Religious School activities at
Congregation Tifereth Israel.
2019: In London, JW3 is scheduled
to host a screening of “The Samuel Project” starring Hal Linden.
2019: In New Orleans, AIPAC is
scheduled to host its “Annual Community Event with Bret Stephens” this evening.
2019: “In conjunction with the
exhibit “Lest We Forget,” the S.F. Civic
Center, with ADL and the Israeli consulate, is
hosting a panel talk today on the recent rise of global anti-Semitism.”
2019: Eighty-nine-year-old
Holocaust survivor Sophie Tajch Klisman “welcomed US Army veteran” Doug Harvey
“to her suburban Detroit home today and thanked him for taking part in the 1945
liberation of the German concentration camp where she was being held.” (As
reported by Mike Householder)
2019: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker
Center is scheduled to host the “Orchestra of St. Luke’s Vivaldi Concerto” this
evening.
2019: “The Goethe Institute, the
Consulate General of Israel and the ADL in conjunction with ‘Lest We Forget,’ a
Holocaust remembrance project” are scheduled o present “Anti-Semitism,
Yesterday and Today,” a “panel discussion on the global resurgence of anti-Semitism
and its relationship to white nationalism and other forms of hatred and
bigotry.”
2019: The Yeshiva University Museum
is scheduled to co-host curator Ilona Moradof’s tour of “Kindertransport – Rescuing Children on the Brink of War, illuminating the organized rescue efforts that brought
thousands of children from Nazi Europe to Great Britain in the late 1930s”at
the Center for Jewish History z:
2019: Millions of lovers of Sabra, “the official dip sponsor of the
National Football League” can celebrate National Hummus day by chowing on this
marvelous culinary creation
2020: As part of its Educator Workshop program, the National Museum of
American Jewish History is scheduled to host “The Power of Objects: Enhance
Your Virtual Teaching Through Objects.”
2020: The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to present
“The Syrian-Jewish Community of NY: Similarities & Differences to other
Jewish Communities.”
2020: As part of its on-line Pop-Up Israeli Restaurant series, the
Streicker Center is present “Lior Lev Sercarz, the country’s most sought-after
spice expert – author of Mastering Spice and owner of La Boîte – as he
conjures up entirely new tastes with unique blends.
2020: As Jews deal with the effects of the endemic they also can digest
the ADL’s report that “last year saw the most anti-Semitic incidents in the
United States since at least 1979” since “the 2,107 incidents recorded in 2019
reflect a 12% increase from 2018 and are more than double the 942 incidents recorded
just four years earlier, in 2015.”
2020: JDC is scheduled to host a Webinar, “as JDC Archives Fellow Emily
Bengels discusses Interagency Efforts for Child Rescue and Immigration to the
U.S. from 1939 to 1942.”
2020: In California, Rodef Sholom is scheduled to host via Zoom “Lunch
and Learn for Lag BaOmer: Stories around the Campfire with Rabbi Elana
Rosen-Brown.”
2020: On-line the London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host
Dr. Lindsay Simmonds as she explores Talmudic lessons offered by Dr. Ruth
Calderon.
2021: The NCJW Women’s Issues Virtual Webinar Program in partnership
with Hadassah and Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana is scheduled to
discuss Work/Life “Imbalance" in the time of Covid today via Zoom
2021: Rabbi Ruth Adar is scheduled to talk about the transmission of the
Torah and Shavuot in HaMaqom | The Place’s yearlong “Jewish Holidays &
Traditions 101” series.
2021: As part of the JCC Book Fest in Your Living Room series, Paula
Shoyer the “Kosher Baker” is scheduled to talk about her latest cookbook and
show how to cook cheesecake in an Instant Pot and traditional blintzes.
2021: The Streicker Center is scheduled to present Jennifer Weiner as
she discusses her latest novel That Summer.
2021: JDC Archives Fellow Alexandra Kramen is scheduled to host a
webinar on “The Struggle for Holocaust Justice in the Jewish Displaced Persons
Community of Föhrenwald, 1945-1957.”
2021: The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to present”
The Remarkable Religious Creativity of
Egyptian Rabbis in Modern Times.”
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3316178650420/WN_NbYx1Ra_Q--CE-YSQ6oMXA
2021: After Prime Minister
Netanyahu informed the members of the security cabinet last night “that Israel
has officially rejected a Hamas proposal for a ceasefire, Israel is prepared to
implement to “intensify military attacks on Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets.
2022: In Newton, MA, Temple Emanuel
is scheduled to host “Yisod’s Harry Potter Shabbat Dinner.”
2022: The Weitzman National Museum
of American Jewish History is scheduled to re-open this morning.
2022: In Coralville, IA Agudas
Achim Congregation is scheduled to host its third “Share Shabbat” based on the
line by Will Rogers that “A stranger is a friend that I haven’t met yet.”
2022: In Columbus, OH, Jacob Levin
is scheduled to lead Friday night services at Tifereth Israel, making Friday
the 13th a very lucky day for his grandfather.
2023: “Madeleines” a play by Bess
Weldon “about Jewish women grappling about how to love each other through
haunted pasts, shared, grief and the solace of baking together” is scheduled to
have its final performance at The Rose Firebay Theatre in Bloomington, Indiana.
2023: In San Francisco, the Black
Cat Jazz Supper Club is scheduled to host a Jerusalem-born and
Buenos-Aires/Tel-Aviv-raised bassist Or Bareket as he performs his signature
blend of eclectic jazz.
2023: The first-ever global Jewish
Fertility Support Summit consisting of two 90-minute webinars is scheduled to
take place today,
2023(22nd of Iyar,
5783): Parashat Behar and Bechukotai; Chapter Five Pirke Avot
2024:
The 2024 Biennial Scholars Conference on American Jewish History is scheduled
to continue for a second day at the Center for Jewish History.
2024: Yom HaZikaron (Israeli
Memorial Day)
https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/our-soldiers/what-is-yom-hazikaron-and-how-does-israel-observe-it/
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yom-hazikaron-israeli-memorial-day#google_vignette
2024: In Ne York, The Times Square
Israel Independence Day Celebration is scheduled to begin at 5:30 with Yom Hazikaron
Memorial to Israel’s Heroes followed at 7:00 with a Yom Haatzmaut Celebration.
2024: The Streicker Center is
scheduled to “A Celebration of Israel at 76”with a concert featuring “Achinoam
Nini — the internationally acclaimed singer known simply as Noa — who has been
celebrating Israel in song for three decades.”
2024:
As May 13th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps the
United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day
220 in captivity. (Editor’s
note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just
providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
