This Day, June 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

JUNE 28

1320:“Pope John XXII issues Bullarium Romanum, ordering that Jews who convert toChristianity must be allowed to keep their property. The implication is thatJews who don't convert won't necessarily have their property rights protected.”(As reported by Austin Cline)

1342:Peter I, the King of Cyprus and future “titular King of Jerusalem” married Eschiva de Montforttoday.

1389: Ottoman forces crush the armies of ChristianEurope in Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of SoutheasternEurope. This event is known as the Battle of Kosovo. The memory of this battle lingers to this dayand has provided fuel for hostility between the different religious and ethnicgroups in the Balkans. This victory ofthe forces of Islam over the Christians made their position in Europe just thatmuch more precarious. And Christianinsecurity was never a good thing for the Jewish population.

1391:Today. ‘after the violence in Seville and Castile Queen Violant of Bar orderedcity officials to be especially protective of Jews.”

1443:“The marquis of Mantua, Italy issued favorable regulations, granting Jewsfreedom of religion, the right to settle internal disputes in rabbinic courtsand permission to engage in all occupations.” (As described Abraham Bloch)

1476:In the Cariglia, the Kingdom of Naples, Giovanni Antonio Carafa and “VittoriaCamponeschi, the daughter of Pietro Lalle Camponeschi, 5th Conte di Montorio, aNeapolitan nobleman” gave birth to Gian Pietro Carafa who as Pope Paul VIissued Dudum postquam, the papal bull that expanded a 10-ducat tax on Jewishsynagogues to help finance catechumen houses in Rome and Cum Nimis Absurdum,the papal bull that “ordered the creation of a Jewish ghetto in Rome.”

1491: Birthdate ofKing Henry VIII of England. Isabella ofAragon, the daughter of the Spanish King and Queen was Henry’s first wife. Before allowing the marriage to go forward,Henry had to promise that he would never allow Jews to settle in England. For the most part, Henry was true to his wordalthough a small community of crypto-Jews may have settled in London. Henry’s other contact with Jews alsosurrounded his marriage to Isabella, only this time it revolved around hisattempts to shed his wife. Henry soughtto use the texts of what he called the Old Testament to prove that the marriagewas invalid and that it was cursed by God.He attempted to get Rabbis in Italy to support his claims made to thePope in Rome. The Rabbis decided thatdiscretion was the better part of valor.Regardless of what the Bible said, they felt no need to risk theirsafety in Italy for the sake of capricious monarch living so far away.

1519:Charles V was elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Charles was thegrandson of Ferdinand and Isabella.Charles had already been on the Spanish throne for three years when hebecame Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.As king of Spain, Charles was a worthy heir to his grandparents. He continued the Inquisition and enforcedtheir philosophy regarding Jews and Marranos.But in the Germanic and central European lands that came under his role,the Emperor of the Holy Roman Emperor showed a more benign, tolerant (for histime) attitude towards his Jewish subjects.“He made no attempt to institute the inquisition or even tamper withprivileges extended by past emperors. Atthe Diet of 1544 held at Speyer, “Charles reaffirmed Jewish privileges” to suchan extent that “the Speyer document was considered the most liberal andgenerous letter of protection ever granted to the Jews.” Charles defended the Jews against theanti-Semitic attacks of Martin Luther.“When Spanish troops entered Germany in 1546 during the Emperor’scampaign against rebellious Protestant princes…Charles issued an order to hisarmy not to molest the Jews.” [Editor’snote: If you can find an explanation forthis seemingly schizophrenic behavior, please let me know.]

1550:Birthdate of John Drusius, “the Dutch linguist who taught Hebrew at Oxford whotaught Hebrew to Edward Lively, “the Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambrige”

1635: On behalf of the Company of the AmericanIslands, a French owned enterprise Charles Lienard and Jean Duplessis, Lord ofOssonville began the colonization of the Island of Guadeloupe. This did not make the island part of theFrench Empire which made it possible for the Jews to settle there. Startingwith their arrival in 1654, the Jews prospered in the fishing processingbusiness and owned several sugar cane plantations. This would all come to an end when the colonywas annexed by the French Empire and the Jews were expelled under the “BlackCode.

1626: Vincent II, whom Salamone Rossi served asConcert Master, began his reign as Duke of Mantua.

1712:Birthdate of Swiss philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Unlike some other Enlightenment philosophers,Rousseau did not dabble in anti-Semitism.He may not have been Philo-Semitic but in his limited references to theJewish people he wrote with unusual understanding and compassion. “We shall never know the inner motives of theJews until the day they have their own free state, schools and universitieswhere they can speak and argue without fear.Then, and only then, shall we know what they really have to say.”

1737:In Savannah, GA Abigail Cohen Delmont the “daughter of David Cohen Delmonte andRachel her husband Hyam Abendanone gavebith toe Solomon Abendanone.

1725:King Charles III of Hungary announced that he “intended to decrease the numberof Jews in his domains” so “the government directed the counties to furnishstatistics on the number of” Jewish subjects.

1757:The debate at Kamienice came to an end with the Sabbatians victorious.

1762:Catherine II (whom the Boyars called “the Great”) ascends the throne ofRussia. The German born Czarina followedher husband Peter III who died under mysterious circ*mstances in which shemight have had a hand. The Jewish historian Salo Baron described her aspossessing a rational attitude. Underthe partition of Poland, Catherine became the ruler of Lithuanian with itslarge Jewish population. At first, Catherine tried to “thread the needle” ofnot offending the Russian Orthodox by granting her Jewish subjects too muchfreedom while taking advantage of their professional and business skills. In the end, she succumbed to pressure fromRussian merchants who hid behind religion and limited the activities of her Jewishsubjects to an area that would become known as “The Pale of Settlement.”

1770(5^thof Tammuz, 5530): Thirteen-month-old Sarah Phillips the daughter of Jonas andRebecca Mendes Machado Phillips passed away today after which she was buried atthe Mikveh Israel Spruce Street Cemetery in Phladelphia.

1779:In Philadelphia, PA, Jonas Phillips and Rebecca Machada gave birth to ZalegmanPhillips the successful lawyer and husband of Arabella Solomon, whom he marriedwhen she was nineteen years old.

1780(25^th of Sivan, 5540): Eight-day-old Henry Jonas,the New York born son of Lyon Jonas passed away today, almost a year to the dayafter Lyon Jonas had lost another son Henry Jonas who had also died in infancy.

1805: Birthdate of Prague native and schoolprincipal Baruch Benedict Foges, the author of "Alterthümer der PragerJosefstadt."

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6212-foges-baruch-benedict

1805:In Jamaica, Abraham Quixano Henriques and Leah Rachel De Leon gave birth toAbigail Henriques who became Abigail Belinfante when she married FrancisBelinfante.

1809:A.M. Rothschild writes from Frankfurt to his son Nathan in London telling himthat writing in Hebrew was fine for discussing family matters but not forconveying business information.

1809:Joseph Friederberg married Frances Phillips at the Great Synagogue.

1811:John Pesman and Esther Capua gave birth to Lewis Pesman Capua, the husband ofJane Jacobs with whom he had four children.

1812(18^thof Tammuz, 5572): Tzom Tammuz observed

1812:In Philadelphia, PA, Ezekiel Jacob Ezekiel and Rebecca Israel gave birth toJacob Ezekiel the bookbinder turned Jewish leader and political figure who in1847 introduced “an amendment to the code of the state of Virginia by which theobservers of the Jewish Sabbath were placed on the same plane with those whor*st on the ‘first day.’”

1815:Grace Labat, the daughter of David Labat married Isaac Davega today.

1815:Lazarus Samuel married Saratse Nathan at the Great Synagogue.

1815:Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues “a French banker, mathematician and social reformer”who had been born at Bordeaux in 1795 “was awarded a doctorate in mathematicstoday by the University of Paris” which was earned by his dissertation whichcontained what came to be called the “Rodrigues’ Formula”

http://www.dm.unito.it/sism/rodrigues.pdf

1820:As of today, it is claimed that “32 unauthorized Jews are living in Pilsen.”

1820:Michael Mordecai married Isabel Benjamin at the Great Synagogue.

1821:Birthdate of Max Maretzek, the native of Austria who became an opera impresarioin London and New York.

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=182&letter=M

1823:In Schmieheim Baden, Germany, Salomon Bernheimer, the Swiss born “son of LoebLeib Bernheim and Sara Sorle Halberstadt and his wife Ella Bernheimer gavebirth to Marie Mariam Rosenstiel, the wife of Baruch Rosenthal and the “motherof Leopold Rosenstiel; Zechiel Rosenstiel; Heinrich Rosenstiel and SigmundRosenstiel,”

1825:Twenty-seven-year-old German poet Heinrich Heine became a Protestant today.

1828:Hyam Harris was the first person interred by "Shaare Chessed," aburial society in New Orleans.

1831:Birthdate of Hungarian/German violinist and composer, Joseph Joachim.

1831:Birthdate of German historian Otto Stobbe who “was appointed to the HistoricalCommittee of the German-Israelite Community Association” and who was a“colleague of Heinrich Graetz. Inwriting about his work in the field of Jewish history Stobbe said “Works on thehistory of the Jews are so little known in non-Jewish circles that evenscholars, as I have often had occasion to see, are only imperfectly informedabout the history of this people in Germany.” (As described by Michael Brenner)

1834(21^stof Sivan, 5594): Parashat Baha’alotcha

1834(21^stof Sivan, 5594): Fifty-nine-year-old Aaron Judah, the New York born son ofSamuel Judah, who had married Rachel Gomez in 1819 passed away today.

1835:Henry Joel married Amelia Alvers at the Great Synagogue.

1836:Former President James Madison passed away.Madison worked with his mentor Thomas Jefferson to ensure freedom ofreligion in the state of Virginia in the years between the Revolution and theratification of the U.S. Constitution.Madison played in a key role in the ratification of the first tenamendments of the Constitution known as the Bill of Rights. The first of those amendments guaranteed theseparation of church and state. Madisonwas the first President to appoint a Jew to a U.S. diplomatic post.

1838:The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom took place today. Victoria wason the throne until 1901. Her longtenure gave an era its name. But underthe British system of government she reigned but did not rule which means shehad only a limited impact on growing role of Jews in her realm. Early in reign, she sided with MosesMontefiore as he sought to protect the Jews of Syria during the Damascus BloodLibel lending him her royal yacht for his trip to France. On the other hand, in 1869 she exercised herroyal prerogative when it came to creating new peerages by blocking theappointment of Lionel Rothschild to the House of Lords. According to Frederick Morton, one of herbiographers, “it was not until Suez became British though Jewish money” and shecame under the spell of Benjamin Disraeli that she relented and allowedLionel’s son to enter the Lords. As sheaged, Victoria would visit “the French estate of Baron Rothschild.” Despite her lack of political clout, she didattempt to intervene on behalf of the Russian Jews as Tsar Alexander III workedto make their lives increasingly unbearable.On the other hand, she was not pleased with the growing number of Jewswho made up the social circle of her son, the Prince of Wales, the future KingEdward VII.

1840:Birthdate of Wilna native and Crimea school teach Lev Jerahmeel Klaczko whosettled in Odessa and several books including ErekTefillah, “acritical investigation of this history and the language of prayers.”

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9362-klaczko-levi-jerahmeel

1843:Jacob I. Moses, the Columbia, SC born son of Isaiah and Rebecca J. Moses andRinah Jacobs Moses gave birth to William Moultrie Moses, the husband of PeninaSeptima Robison.

1846:Birthdate of Golčův Jeníkov (Bohemia) native Dr. Ignatz Kornfeld.

1848:Joseph Abrahams married Elizabeth Samuel at the Great Synagogue.

1848:Two days after the “June Days Uprising” had come to an in France, French bankerMichel Goudchaux began serving as Minister of Finance in the newly formedgovernment

1849:Levy Jacobs and Caroline Davis gave birth to Alfred Jacobs, the husband ofEmily Flatau.

1850:Rebecca Mozes Gans, the Amsterdam born daughter of Moses Jacob Pereira Mendozaand Sara Josua Pereira Mendoza and her husband Jacob Gans gave birth to Mozes“Jacob” Gans.

1851:David Salomons stood as a Liberal candidate at a by-election in the Greenwichconstituency and was elected today as one of the constituency's two Members ofParliament (MPs). He was not permitted to serve in the House of Commons,because he had not taken the oath of abjuration in the form established byParliament. However, he did not withdraw quietly: instead he took the oath, butomitted the Christian phrases, and took his seat on the government benches. Hewas asked to withdraw, and did so on the second request, but he returned threedays later, on 21 July 1851. In the debate that followed, Salomons defended hispresence on grounds of having been elected by a large majority, but waseventually removed by the Sergeant-at-Arms, and fined £500 for having votedillegally in three divisions of the House

1852:Ferdinand Hiller’s Im Freien in Gmajor was performed in London.

1853:In New Orleans, Emil Pollak and Caroline Pollak gave back to their second childand first daughter Carrie.

1855:Baron Maurice von Hirsch, the German-Jewish philanthropist who founded theJewish Colonization Association, married Clara Bischoffsheim (born 1833),daughter of Jonathan-Raphaël Bischoffsheim of Brussels

1856:In Bavaria, Dr. Harwitg and Fannie Werner gave birth to American Cigarmanufacturer Theodore Werner the husband Anna Mayer and founder and Presidentof T.J. Dunn which he sold to the Consolidated Cigar Company enabling him toretire in 1920.

1857(6^thof Tammuz, 5617): Fifty-three-year-old Moravian born Austrian pianist andcomposer Joseph Fischoff, the nephew of Robert Fischoff who had studiedmedicine at the University of Vienna before devoting himself to a musicalcareer following the death of his father in 1827 passed away today in Vienna.

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6154-fischhof-joseph

1858(16^thof Tammuz, 5618): Thirty-six-year-old Marian Spielman, the Liverpool borndaughter of Henrietta and Louis Samuel and the wife of Adam Spielman passedaway today in London.

1858:In Hampstead, London, Joseph and Adel Schloss gave birth to their “eldest son,James Joseph Schloss.”

1862(30^thof Sivan, 5622): Parashat Chukat; Rosh Chodesh Tammuz observed on the same dayduring the Civil War when Union forces won a pyric victory in the Battle ofGarnett’s and Golding’s Farms in Virginia.

1863:On the day after Shabbat Chukat, where Jews delve into the world of theunexplainable, President Lincoln, for reasons of his own, appointed GeneralGeorge Meade to command the Army of the Potomac which was the first step in adate with destiny that would be kept days later in a small Pennsylvania towncalled Gettysburg.

1865:Henry Marks married Rosetta Jones at the Hambro Synagogue.

1866(15^thof Tammuz, 5626): Sixty-five-year-old Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi (Caracas, “aheroine of the Venezuelan War of Independence” passed away today after which “inrecognition of her loyalty her remains were entombed in the Panteón Nacional ofCaracas in 1876” making her the first woman to be given this honor.”

1866: Benjamin Disraeli began serving as the Chancellorof the Exchequer and Leader in the House of Commons in the cabinet of the Earlof Derby, the Prime Minister.

1867:Henry and Jeanette Weil Oettinger gave birth to long-time Baltimore residentand purveyor of “house furnishing” Solomon Oettinger and the brother ofEmanuel, Louis and Birdie Oettinger.

1868:In Vienna, Carl Karoly Birnbaum and Sofie Zsofia Birnbaum gave birth to SalomonBirnbaum, the husband of Valerie Birnbaum, both of whom would die atTheresienstadt in 1943.

1870:In Middlesex, Henriette and Henry Lewis Raphael gave birth to Helen M. Raphaelwho died at the age of 16.

1874:In Dixon, Illinois, German immigrants Emanuel Petersberger and Berta Ochs gavebirth to U of Iowa trained attorney Isaac Petersberger, who made his career inDavenport, IA where he raised his children Richard and Louise with his wife theformer Hattie Goldstein

1874:It was reported today that in the second-hand clothing trade silk and velvetwaistcoats that appear to be worn out can be re-worked and made into skull-capsfor German and Polish Jews.

1877(17thof Tammuz, 5637):Tzom Tammuz

1877:In New York City, Samuel Anspacher and his wife gave birth to University ofCincinnati and HUC graduate Abraham Samuel Anspacher, the Rabbi of CongregationAnsche Chesed in Scranton, PA.

1878:B.L. Solomon & Sons one of the largest and oldest of importers and dealersin upholstery and furniture in the country failed today. The business was established was established45 years ago by B.L Solomon under the name of Solomon and Hart.

1879:In Little Rock, AR, Henrietta Bott and Louis Volmer gave birth to Leon Volmer who “served as rabbi of a Reformcongregation in Charleston, W. VA beforebecoming Superintendent of Jewish Orphans’ Home in New Orleans where “headvocated for progressive methods of institutional child care” because hebelieved that “if the Orphanage had any good reason for existing it must be totake the unfortunate child and provide a home for him, the atmosphere, theactivities and the moral and spiritual life of which will the child a SocialForce in the Social Construction of Society.”

1880:While “making its regular trip up the East River from Manhattan, the SSSeawanhaka caught fire forcing those on board, many of whom who could not swim,to choose between burning to death and jumping into the swamp water where theship had come to rest. Among the many Jews on board who perished were MordecaiManuel Noah Smith and for Assemblyman Joseph I. Stein.

1880:Wilhelm Benjamin Rothschild, the German born son of Caroline and David AronRothschild and his wife Stella Rothschild gave birth to Recha Rothschild

1881(1^stof Tammuz, 5641): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1881(1^stof Tammuz, 5641): Eighty-two-year-old Philipp Schey Freiherr von Koromla, “theHungarian merchant and philanthropist” who was made an Austrian noble byEmperor Francis Joseph I, making him the first Jew to be so elevated and whowas the grandfather of Austrian biologist Hans Leo Przibram, passed away today.

1882:It was reported today that Henry Holt & Co is issuing a book about theeffects of the American Revolution – America and France: The Influence ofthe United States on France in the Eighteenth Century by Lewis Rosenthal.

1882:The dedicatory services for the new Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews took placeat the new building located a one half mile south of Yonkers on RiverdaleAvenue in New York.

1882:In Yonkers, NY, the Home For Aged and Infirm operated by the Independent Orderof B’nai B’rith began accepting residents on its opening day.

1882:During his address at the University of Mississippi commencement ceremony inOxford, famous author George W. Cable called for the graduates to embrace thefuture, “Let us search provincialism out of the land as the Hebrew housewifepurged her house of leaven on the eve of the Passover.” (Editor’s note – It may seem strange to findout that a rural southern audience would understand a reference to the arcanecustoms of the Jewish people.)

1882:About 7:30 this evening a group of striking freight handlers attacked RussianJews who had replaced them in Battery Park just outside of Castle Garden. A half hour later the strikers turned theirattention to a group of returning Italian workers who proved to be more of aproblem since they were armed with armed bars, sticks and dirks. After police intervened the Jews said theywould not go back to work on the piers as replacement workers for the strikers.

1882:It was reported that Dr. Samuel Davidson is preparing a new book on Christianeschatology in which he will compare the doctrines of Christianity and Judaism.[This is evidence of the difference between the European and American view ofJudaism. In the latter case it wassomething to be studied not condemned.]

1883: Birthdate of right wing French politicalleader Pierre Laval who eventually became Prime Minister of the VichyGovernment where he aggressively followed pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic policiesthat would lead to his execution in 1945.

1883:A Russian Jew named Julius Simon, his wife and six children arrived in New Yorktoday aboard the steam-ship Egyptian Monarch.Simon who said he was sent to the United States by the Jewish LadiesBoard of London claims to be entirely destitute.

1884(5^thof Tammuz, 5644): Parashat Tammuz

1884(5^thof Tammuz, 5644): Thirty-two-year-old Isaac Jacob Gans, the Amsterdam born “sonof Jacob and Rebecca Mozes Gans” and the husband of Vogeltje Dooseman passedaway today.

1885:Birthdate of Norwegian attorney Fritz Cohn who was arrested at Asker in 1942and died at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of 57.

1885:“Orthodoxy and Reform” published today described the clash between these twowings of Judaism as personified by Rabbit Kohut on one sides and Rabbis Kohlerand Gottheil on the other. Kohler contends that although he disagrees withKohut on matters related to religion, he considers him a personal friend.

1885:It was reported today that the elevation of Lord Rothschild to a peerage isunique because of his ethnicity it follows the same pattern of other“plutocrats” who have been so honored.

1885:The Jewish neighborhood along Harrison Street suffered some of the worst damagewhen a rainstorm struck Baltimore this morning followed by flooding which wasthe worst to hit the city since 1868.

1886:It was reported today that the new monthly magazine which will be the officialpublication of the B’nai B’rith, is to be named The Menorah. The Jewishfraternal organization is thought to represent over 10 per cent of thecountry’s Jewish population.

1886(25^thof Sivan, 5646): Sixty-four-year-old Chaim Sofer who had been serving as rabbi“of the Orthodox congregation in the newly merged city of Budapest since 1879,passed away today.

1887:Israel Lipski was arrested today after he was found hiding under the bed ofMiriam Angel who “had been murdered after being forced to consume nitric acid.”

1888:In Maryland, Gerson Podrabinek Robison, the Kaunas born “son of LeybaPodrabinek and Kreyne Podrabinek” and his wife Stephanie Robison.

1890:In Galveston, TX, Samson Heidenheirmer, President of the Standard Oil Mill andJoseph Marx, a local lawyer were arrested today and charged with arson inconnection with a fire that destroyed the company last April.

1891:Twenty-two-year-old Annie Lippkin, the fiancée of a young tailor named HarryCohen, went missing from her home on Suffolk Street today.

1891:“Twenty-six brigands” are demanding a ransom of £5,000 for the return of wealthJew whom they kidnapped near Salonica.

1892:The Marquis de Mores who is scheduled to stand trial for killing Captain ArmandMayer has been provisionally released from custody.

1892:Birthdate of New York native Mechel Salpeter who gained fame as Max Gordon, thesuccessful movie and theatrical producer.

http://www.playbill.com/person/max-gordon-vault-0000029063

1893:In Kiev, Jehiel and Elka Rubin Feldman gave birth to Abraham Jehiel Feldman whoin 1906 came to the United States where he graduated from the University ofCincinnati and was ordained at HUC before going on to lead congregations inAthens, GA, Philadelphia, PA and West Hartford, CT while raising three children– Daniel, Joan and Ella – with his wife the former Helen Bloch.

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0038/ms0038.html

1893:Birthdate of Chicago native and University of Illinois trained physicianBenjamin Goldberg, who specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis.

1893:“Tenements Unfit To Live In” published today described the efforts of the Boardof Health to closed down building deemed “unfit for human habitation by reasonof their unsanitary condition” including the building at 141 Madison. Theground floor is home to a laundry owned by Max Rosenson and the upper floorsare home to five Jewish families who have no place else to go.

1893:It was reported that Herman Ahlwardt the anti-Semitic member of the Reichstagis serving out the sentence imposed on him for libeling Herr von Loewe, theJewish arms maker and several Prussian officials. (Editor’s note – Libeling Jews was one thing;libeling Prussian military officials was another matter.)

1894:“A.P.A. Man Finally Talks” published today provides the plans the AmericanProtective Society has after it has disposed of the Catholics. According to Charles D.P. Gibson, “Then we’lllook after some other classes that are dangerous to the Republic…the Jews forinstance who are constantly dodging their public financial obligations and whoare in consequence, laying up great private treasures. By means of their money they are eating intothe very heart of the people. They aregradually getting control of everything and if left alone they will intwenty-five years, own all our institutions.We’ll stop them where they are.”

1894(24thof Sivan, 5654): Sixty-eight-year-old German chemist Moritz Traube passed awayin Berlin.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0020_0_20008.html

http://jhmas.oxfordjournals.org/content/X/4/379.extract

1895:Mrs. Simon Goldberg, Jacob Rothschild and Simon Ottenberg were named astrustees in the will of Simon Goldberg which was signed today

1896(17^thof Tammuz, 5656): Fast of Tammuz

1896(17^thof Tammuz, 5656): Eighty-year-old Adam Gimbel, the founder of Gimbel’sDepartment Stores passed away today in Philadelphia.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=121859169

1897:Oren B. Meyer, a native of Texas and a West Point graduate who would cited forgallantry during the Spanish American War was promoted to the rank of 1^stLieutenant while serving with the 3^rd Cavalry of the United StatesArmy.

1897:The day after he passed away, Harry Hyman Magnus, the son of Joseph and ‘SarahMagnus was buried today at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery on Buckingham Road.

1897:It was reported today that the free entertainment enjoyed by over a thousandpublic school children at Educational Alliance’s auditorium grew out of anproposal originally championed by Julia Richman, a key figure in promotingquality public and Jewish education.

1907: The “owner of six dwelling-houses in the parliamentary andmetropolitan borough of Islington” was ordered to appear today before Joseph H.Polka, Esquire, on the justices of the peace for the county of London.

1907: ‘Henry and Jefferson Seligman bought, through L.J. PhillipsCo., from Max Marx the two-story business building and garage at 510 to 518West 145th Street, on plot 100 by 100.”

1907: Birthdate of Syracuse native “Jehudah M. Cohen” who wasordained at the Jewish History of Religion and served as a regional directorfor Hillel

1908: It was reported today that Ernest Waddoch is planning onhosting a “fete” for Jewish orphans at his estate on July 11.

1909:The cornerstone of the first Hebrew gymnasium Herzliah, was laid in Tel Avivtoday.

1909:In Whitechapel, London, Judah Bergman and his mother Mildred gave birth toboxer Judah Bergman known as Jack “Kid” Berg or Jackie “Kid” Berg “who becamethe World Light Welterweight Champion in 1930

1910(6^thof Tammuz): On the Jewish calendar Yahrzeit of Rabbi Israel Jacob Algazi ofJerusalem.

1910:Today, Columbia University graduate and JTS trainedcleric Rabbi Jacob Samuel Minken, the Vilna born son of Rachel Leah Friedman andLeib Minken who in 1902 came to the United States married attorney Fanny Rabinowitzwhile beginning a rabbinic career that started with a congregation in Hamilton,Ontario and which led to serving Temple Beth-El in Rochester, N starting in1919.

1911(2^ndof Tammuz, 5671): Hannah Oppenheim, the German born wife of Charlestonnative Joseph Hertz Oppenheim passedaway today.

1911(2^ndof Tammuz, 5671): Sixty-eight-year-old Abraham Abraham the founder of theAbraham & Straus department stores who learned the retail trade whileworking alongside other future department store developers Simon Bloomingdaleand Benjamin Alton at Hart & Detttlebach passed away this afternoon when“he was stricken with acute indigestion” while fishing “in the vicinity ofKingston” near his summer home on Cherry Island.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/06/29/105030765.pdf

1912:After four months of conflict, the entire Council of Jewish Community atConstantinople resigns.

1912:“Jewish booksellers from the Pale” of Settlement were “refused permission toattend the Booksellers’ Conference at St. Petersburg.”

1913(23^rdof Sivan, 5673): Parashat Korach

1913:Two months after the murder of Mary Phagan, which lead to the lynching of LeoFrank, John M. Slaton was sworn inas the new governor of Georgia.

1913:Belle Ringer and Rose Skaller have made arrangements for the luncheon meetingof The Young Women’s Auxiliary of the Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society ofChicago scheduled to be held at the Lincoln Park Refectory.

1913:In Chicago, at Beth El Temple, Rabbi Julius Rappaport officiated at Saturdaymorning services.

1913:It was reported today “90 percent of the 85 graduates at CCNY were Jews” andthat those receiving “the highest honors at the graduation exercises” were alsoJews.

1914:Austrian Archduke Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wifewere assassinated at Sarajevo by Serbian nationalists. According to atleast one source, he was going to view the Sarajevo Haggadah when he waskilled. This assassination set inmotion the events that started World WarOne.A reading of Guns of August by Jewish historian BarbaraTuchman World War makes it obvious that war was not inevitable. It actually took more than a month for thewar to actually break out.

(Editor’snote – a few random comments about the impact of the war on the Jewish people,not meant in any way to be all inclusive)

ThreeAustro-Hungarian Field Marshals and eight generals were Jewish. “One of them,Field Marshal Johann Georg Franz Hugo Friedlander, was deported by the Germansin 1943 from Vienna to the Theresienstadt Ghetto and from there in 1944, toAuschwitz, where he died.” While there are no exact figures the best estimatesindicate that a million and half Jews served as soldiers in the armies on bothsides of the conflict. The horrors of war fell hardest on the Jews ofEastern Europe. American Jews made Herculean efforts to provide aid for theirsuffering brethren. American Jews also sought to aid their co-religioniststrapped in Palestine under the rule of the Ottomans as can be seen by theirhaving the USS North Carolina, an American Battleship, go to Jaffa in 1914 withmoney and supplies collected by the American Jewish Committee and theProvisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs. When America entered the war, the Jewishresponse was so strong that the 77^th Division was referred to bysome as “the Jewish division.” While Jews saw plenty of combat with the AEFwith at least six of them winning the Medal of Honor, the most famous soldiermay have been Irving Berlin whose musical contribution was patriotic and a realboost to moral. Bernard Baruch may be considered the most powerful Jew duringthe war. Not only was one of Wilson’sclosest advisors on matters of war and he peace, as chairman of the WarIndustries Board he successfully managed the country economic mobilizationwhich was critical to defeating the Central Powers. Strangely enough, his role, on the economicfront mirrored that of Walter Rathenau, the German Jewish industrialist whounderstood the importance of industrial production to winning a modern war ascould be seen by his role with the Raw Materials Department. Thedisproportionate service of German Jewish soldiers at “The Front” did nothingto quell the anti-Semitism that was apparently endemic to their Fatherland. The Zion Mule Corps, an all Jewish supplyunit in the British Army performed in a most distinguished manner at Gallipoliand provided the impetus for thecreation of the Jewish Legion an all Jewish combat regiment in the British Armythat fought with General Allenby as he liberated Palestine from the Turks thusmaking it possible for the Balfour Declaration to have a reality on theground. And this is only the tip of theiceberg. Keep reading over the next fouryears for more specific daily items.

http://forward.com/articles/200509/how-world-war-i-shaped-jewish-politics-and-identit/?p=all

1914:Following the death of his first wife Amelia, today Saul Dushman, the Rostovborn son of Samuel and Olga Dushman, holder of Ph.D. from the University ofToronto and one of the “most valuable researchers” at the General Electric Labsin Schenectady, NY., married his second wife Anna Leff.

1914:Birthdate of Aribert Heim aformer Austrian doctor, also known as "Dr. Death". As an SS doctor ina Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, he is accused of killing and torturingmany inmates through various methods, such as direct injections of toxiccompounds into the hearts of his victims. Along with Alois Brunner, Heim — whowould now be (as of 2008) in his early nineties — is one of the last major Nazifugitives still at large. However, according to a 2007 publication by formerIsraeli Air Force Colonel Danny Baz Heim was kidnapped from Canada and taken toSanta Catalina off the Californian coast, where he was killed by a Nazi huntingteam code named “The Owl” in 1982. Baz himself claims to have been part of thisgroup. The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, as well as the French Nazihunter Serge Klarsfeld say this is not true.

1914: Miss Henrietta Szold, Nathan Straus, Dr. J.L. Magnes, and Dr. Stephen Wise of New York arrived in Rochester, New Yorkearly this morning to attend a meeting of Zionists. The convention of Zionistswill be formally opened by Louis Lipsky of New York, Chairman, who willintroduce Dr. Schmarya Levin of Berlin. Levin will address the delegates inbehalf of the International Executive Committee, whose headquarters are inBerlin. Dr Levin will speak in Hebrew and German. Max Lowenthal will welcomethe delegates in behalf of the Jews of Rochester.

1914:Birthdate of Valerian Trifa, the Romanian Orthodox cleric who helped to fomentthe pogrom against the Jews of Bucharest who was finally brought to justicethanks to the efforts of Zev Golan. “Zev Golan is the English translator of thewartime memoirs of Stern Group commander Israel Eldad, The First Tithe; theauthor of the history Free Jerusalem; and the author of the Hebrew historyShofrot Shel Mered (The Shofars of the Revolt). Golan’s God, Man and Nietzsche:A Surprising Dialogue between Judaism and Modern Philosophers examines whyNietzsche both lauded and condemned Jews, and how Jewish and modern thinkerscan, together, provide answers to the great problems of philosophy. Golan hasalso written extensively on economics and has edited several dozen studies ofthe Israeli economy, as well as the book Meshek BeMashber (An Economy inCrisis). His commentary has appeared in the Israeli dailies Haaretz and Globes.Golan lives in Jerusalem where he directs the Center for Public Policy at theJerusalem Institute for Market Studies.

1915:During WW I, Joseph Hertz, the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire began visiting“advanced stations at the Western Front.”

1915:During a meeting of the Zionist Federation in Boston, a dinner was held inMechanics’ Hall where 1,400 attendees listened to speeches by Louis D.Brandeis, Nathan Straus and Rabbi Stephen Wise, among others. Brandeis was hailed as the leader of themovement to create a Jewish home in Palestine.Rabbi Wise’s call for additional funds brought the following response.During the evening it was announced that Mr. and Mrs. Julius Rosenwald ofChicago would donate $1,000 per month to the Zionist cause for the duration ofthe World War and would continue making their donations for a full year after apeace treaty was signed an anonymous donor from New York gave $6,000 whileSamuel Untermyer and Eugene Meyer each gave $3,000.

1915:“In the midst of demonstrations and strike demands on the question of"hiring and firing," Benjamin Schlesinger, the president of ILGWUasked the Protective Association to submit the dispute to a committee ofunbiased persons. As a result a Council of Conciliation was appointed by MayorJohn P. Mitchel and the strike was avoided

1915:The newly dedicated Hebrew Sheltering Society of Harlem home is scheduled toreceive its first applicant at eight o’clock this morning.

1915:As of today, the officers of the Hebrew Sheltering Society of Harlem arePresident Socolow, Vice Presidents Lubelsky and Softin, Treasurer Drosin andSecretary Segel.

1915:As of today, Governor Slaton of Georgia has received about “5,000 telegrams andletters” only which “100 have condemned” his grant of clemency to Leo Frank.

1915:Ex-Governor John M. Slaton who has been under the protection of the GeorgiaNational Guard since commuting Leo Frank’s death sentence and his wife left bytrain for New York this afternoon without any further incidents.

1915:The Federation of Rumanian Jews “announced the founding of a Home forConvalescents at Grand View on the Hudson and a plan for the establishment onthe east side of a bureau to assist Rumanian Jews in obtaining citizenship.

1915:Courses which are part of a training program for Jewish communal workers thatinclude lectures by Felix M. Warburg and Lillian D. Wald are scheduled to begintoday at the Heinsheimer Memorial Building of the Y.M.H.A. at 92^ndand Lexington

1915:Frank H. Hardison, the Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner addressed theSeventh Annual Convention of the Order of Sons of Zion

1915:The Boston Hadassah held a lunch this afternoon after which they conducted abusiness meeting.

1915:In Boston, at the Mechanics Hall Louis D. Brandies, Nathan Straus and Dr.Stephen Wise were among the speakers at the dinner attended by 1,400 people whowere part of the meeting of the Zionists Federation.

1916(27thof Sivan, 5676: During WW I, Lt. Neville Newman of the Highland Light Infantrywas killed today.

1916:In Middletown, NJ, Edith Abraham and Percy Selden Straus gave birth to Harvardeducated “American educator” andpresident of the American Arbitration Association Donald Blun Straus thehusband of Elizabeth Allen whose grandfathers were Isidore Straus, a co-founderMacy’s and Abraham Abraham, a founder of Abraham and Straus department store.

1917:In Manhattan, Aaron and Anna Schiff gave birth to Solomon “Sol” Joseph Schiff“whose rocketing, flat forehand propelled him to national and world tabletennis championships in the 1930s when he was still in his teens, and who laterearned the unofficial title “Mr. Table Tennis” as an ardent advocate for hissport…” (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)

1917:Rabbi William Rosenau delivered the Message of the President to theTwenty-Eighth Annual Convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis atBuffalo, NY.

1917:The funeral of two and half year old Myron Paul Herskovitz, the son of Abrahamand Dora Herskovitz is scheduled to take place today in Chicago.

1917:In Baltimore, MD, the Twentieth Annual Convention of the Federation of AmericanZionists which began on June 24 is scheduled to come to an today following ageneral business session.

1917:In a change intended to break the stalemate in the Middle East, Lord Allenby“assumed command of the Egyptian Expeditionary force” in the first step of ajourney that would lead to Jerusalem and the beginning of British rule of partsof the Ottoman Empire.

1917:Fareynikt Moishe Zilberfarb began serving as Deputy-Secretary of Jewish Affairsin the General Secretariat of Ukraine, the main executive institution of theUkrainian People's Republic.

1918:With the creation of the Chemical War Service today, the 30th Engineers (Gasand Flame) was officially transferred to the CWS whose “mission was to providegas support for the American efforts during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive whichwere led by the 77^th Division, a unit made up of a cross-section ofimmigrants including eastern European Jews and the 79^th Divisionwhose members including Harry Frieman who “recounted in his diary how hecelebrated the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah with the YMCA in France inSeptember 1918.’

1918:The Twenty-ninth Annual Convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbisopened in Chicago, Illinois today.

1918:Birthdate of New York native Martin Greenberg the publisher and “editor ofscience fiction anthologies.”

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2115

1919(30^thof Sivan, 5679): Parashat Korach; Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

1919:The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, officially ending World War I.The United States Senate would fail to ratify the treaty, which meant the U.S.would not join the League of Nations. Many Germans resented the terms ofthe treaty. This resentment helped to undermine the Weimar Republic andhelped the Nazis in their rise to power. In other words, from the Jewishpoint of view, the treaty contained the seeds of destruction.

1919:In Chicago, Dr. Gerson B. Levi is scheduled to lead services at Temple B’naiSholom

1919:In Chicago, at Temple Judea, Seymour Magidson is scheduled to be called to theTorah as a Bar Mitzvah and Dr. Rudolph I. Coffee is scheduled to deliver asermon on “Jewish Types.”

1920:In a move that was aimed at limiting Jewish participation the General PurposesCommittee of the London Council Country (LCC) voted by eleven to ten “torecommend to the full Council that, except in the case of teachers of foreignlanguages or where the Council resolved otherwise, no person other thannatural-born British subjects be taken into the employ of the LCC.”

1920:The convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis all of whoseattendees have received “a manuscript copy of the new Union Prayer Book” isscheduled to open today in Rochester.

1921:TodayFordham University School of Medicinegraduate and psychiatrist Raphael Lehrman, the Vilna born son of Mary Levittand Morris Lehrman and “chief of the psychiatric clinic at N.Y. Post-Graduate Medical School” married WandaSheps after which they had two children – Howard and Mariln.

1921;Birthdate of Dorothea Herz who as Dorothea Rabkin joined forces with her husband Leon to builda collection of American folk art noted for the whirligigs and other sculpturesmade by anonymous carvers in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Starting notlong after their marriage in 1958, the Rabkins spent decades scouring fleamarkets and secondhand shops. They acquired some traditional pieces like quiltsand baskets, but they also bought objects few people wanted then — the works byunschooled artisans that are known today as outsider art. Their collection grewto more than 1,200 items, including paintings by self-taught black artists likeSam Doyle and Mose Tolliver. But the Rabkins were best known for figural folksculpture, amassing one of the finest collections in private hands. Most oftencarved in wood, sometimes made of metal, the sculptures are typically human inform, depicting men and women at work and at play. Besides whirligigs,articulated pieces designed to move or spin in a breeze, they includetradesmen’s mannequins, ventriloquists’ dummies and dolls. Artwork from theRabkins’ collection has been reproduced widely in books and exhibited aroundthe country. More than 200 of the couple’s pieces are now in the collection ofthe American Folk Art Museum in New York. One of the most instantlyrecognizable is the whirligig “Uncle Sam Riding a Bicycle,” among the mostemblematic works of American folk art of any kind. Nearly five feet long andcarved of wood, it was made between 1880 and 1920. When a propeller at thefront is turned, Uncle Sam, in top hat and tails, pedals his little bike.Behind him, a richly carved American flag (the reverse side is Canadian) seemsto ripple in the breeze. Among other notable objects the Rabkins gave the museumis an elaborate sheet-metal farm scene from the early 20th century that, set inmotion, is almost Rube Goldbergian in its symphony of contingencies: a manpumps water, and a horse drinks it; a fisherman pulls on his rod as a chickensteals a worm from his bait can. As associates said in interviews this week,Ms. Rabkin had a keen eye for unheralded talent. (She was an early advocate,for instance, of the Pennsylvania folk painter Justin McCarthy.) From themid-1980s till her retirement in 2007, she served on the collections committeeof the folk art museum, advising it on acquisitions. Rabkin was born inBerlin. Her father was Jewish. Her mother was not. After Hitler came to powerin 1933, the mother left the family and repudiated her children. In the yearsthat followed, Dorothea and her twin sister, Rose, were shuttled amongsympathetic Christian neighbors, sometimes together, sometimes apart, oftenhidden in closets. They dared not go to school, and their formal educationended. After the war began, the twins, now young adults, found themselvesadrift in Berlin. Living separately and furtively, they and an older sister,Elizabeth, passed as Gentiles. (Dorothea dyed her hair platinum blond, herhusband said.) During this period, their father, pursued by the Gestapo, killedhimself. Their mother survived the war. Rose made her way to New York in 1948.Dorothea arrived the next year, carrying, as she later said, “an emptysuitcase.” She found work as a cook in a Schrafft’s restaurant and was later anassistant to a rare-book dealer. In January 1958, Dorothea met Leo Rabkin on ablind date; they married that May. A native of Cincinnati, Mr. Rabkin is anabstract artist whose work is in the collections of major museums; for manyyears he was also a teacher of troubled adolescents at the Livingston Schoolfor Girls on King Street in Manhattan. She passed away at the age of 87, avictim of Parkinson disease cared for by her husband Leo, her sole immediatesurvivor.

1922:Beginning of the Irish Civil War during which Robert Briscoe, the future LordMayor of Dublin, sided with the anti-treaty members of the IRA.

1923:Forty-one-year-oldLehigh University trained chemical engineer and retired U.S. Army Lt. ColonelGilbert Garfield Jacobosky, the Wilkes-Barre, PA born son of Isaac and AdelhiedJaocbsky, married Audrey Blumenthal today in Philadelphia after which theyresided in Wilkes Barre where he was a member of B’nai B’rith

1923:Today Father Joachim Alexopoulos, who in 1943, when Greece was under Nazioccupation, devised a plan for hiding 700 Jewish residents of Volos which savedthem from deportation and almost certain death,” “was appointed the first Greek OrthodoxBishop of Boston with the new Annunciation church, which was designated acathedral, as his seat.”

1924:As the United States experienced an upswing in bigotry including anti-Semitism,the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross on Peavine Mountain in Nevada, following asimilar event that had taken place at Reno in April of this year.

1924:In New York City, May (née Cohen) and Samuel Rudin gave birth to Jacob “Jack”Rudin the Bronze Star winning WW II veteran and real estate developer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/nyregion/jack-rudin-patriarch-of-family-of-new-york-developers-dies-at-92.html

1924:“Doctor Stephen S. Wise, the Rabbi of the Free Synagogue delivered theinvocation at the opening of the sixth session of the 1924 Democratic NationalConvention

1925:In Whitechapel, London Moshe Cailingold and his wife the former Anne Fenechelgave birth to Esther Cailingold the school teacher turned fighter who died inthe battle for Jerusalem in 1948.

http://www.zionism-israel.com/bio/Esther_Cailingold.htm

1926:In Brooklyn, James and Kate (née Brookman) Kaminsky gave birth to Melvin JamesKaminsky who gained fame as comedian/actor/director Mel Brooks.

http://www.melbrooks.com/

1926:“A rally for those participating in the arrangements for the Theatrical Fieldand Sports Day” a fund raising event of the United Jewish Campaign is scheduledto be held this afternoon at the Astor Hotel.

1927(28^thof Sivan, 5687): Seventy-two-year-old Laura Slaughter Ottenheimer, the daughterof Isaac and Freida Starr Slaughter, the wife of Emanuel Ottenheimer whom shemarried in 1874 and the mother of Herbert E. Ottenheimer passed away todayafter which she was buried at The Temple Cemetery in Louisville, KY.

1927:“Nathan Sweedler, attorney for the three Jewish internes who were hazed a weekago at Kings County Hospital, indicated today that he probably would ask foradditional arrests today, when six Gentile internes, charged with havingassaulted his clients, come up for hearing before Magistrate Short in FlatbushCourt, Brooklyn.

1928:Albert Kramer the Cape Town born son of Karel Lodewyk Kramer and Anna MariaElizabeth Kramer and his wife Elizabeth Francis Kramer gave birth to GeorgeBarry Kramer.

1928:In Manhattan, a year after Benjamin Bass “had opened the Pelican Book Shop,” heand his wife Shirley (née Vogel) gave birth to Fred Bass, the businessman whomade the Strand Bookstore a New York institution.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/obituaries/fred-bass-strand-bookstore-dies-at-89.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

https://www.strandbooks.com/meet-fred/

1929: Release date of the first film adaptation of “Showboat” based on thenovel by Edna Ferberwith music by Jerome Kern.

1929: Just four years before he would flee from Germany, Albert Einsteinwas one of the first of the two recipient of Max Planck Medals awarded today bythe “German Physical Society.”

1929: In a move that would help perpetuate the myth of Germany as aninnocent victim and help pave the way for the rise of the Nazis, today “on thetenth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany observeda day of mourning” which including the publishing of “a proclamation signed byPresident Paul von Hindenburg and the entire cabinet” disclaiming Germany’sresponsibility for starting World War I

1930(2^nd of Tammuz, 5690): Parashat Korach

1930: In London, Charles and Minnie (née Elbery) Gold gave birth to Britishdirector Jack Gold.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/aug/11/jack-gold

1931: Harvard trained labor lawyer Lee Pressman married theformer Sophia Platnik.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/11/21/89385294.pdf

https://spartacus-educational.com/Lee_Pressman.htm

1931(13^th of Tammuz, 5691): Sixty-year-old AbrahamNadler, the husband of Shaindel “Jennie” Buchalter Nadler and father of GertrudeNadler Perlman passed away today after which he was buried at the Baron deHirsch Cemetery in Montreal.

1931: In Sioux City, IA, Lena Lipman and Henry Harlow gave birth toMorningside University graduate and JTS trained rabbi Julius Edwin Harlow, thehusband of Navah Harlow and father of David and Ilana Harlow whose major works— prayer books for daily, Sabbath, festival and High Holy Days use — became thestandards for worship in Conservative synagogues in North America.”

https://www.jtsa.edu/news/reflections-chancellor-schwartz-passing-rabbi-jules-harlow/

https://networks.h-net.org/group/discussions/20023952/passing-rabbi-jules-harlow

1932: Two days after she passed away, funeral services are scheduled to beheld this morning “at the Jewish Centre on West 86^th Street” forMrs. Bessie Simon Rosalsky, “the wife of Judge Otto A. Rosalsky of the Court ofGeneral Sessions” after which she will be buried at the Mount Judah Cemetery inBrooklyn.

1932: SibylleAimée Marie-Antoinette Gabrielle de Riquetti de Mirabeau a French writer whoused the pseudonym GYP passed away. She was “a fanatical anti-Semite &anti-Dreyfusard; in fact, while testifying at a court case in 1899 she gave herprofession as "anti-Semite" rather than "writer".

1933: Dr. Henry Moskowitz returned today on the White Star liner Majesticafter five weeks abroad where he spent much of his time had been spent inGermany investigating the status of the Jews in Jews and also in interviewingJewish refugees in London and Paris.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/06/29/105149527.html?pageNumber=4

1933:Dr. Emanuel Libman is scheduled to “preside” at today’s luncheon givenby the American Jewish Physicians’ Committee of the Hebrew University in honorof Dr. Chaim Weizman at the Hotel Astor in New Yok Cit.

1933: “In a speech to German newspaperpublishers, Hitler describes the government’s new journalisticregulations.” (Jewish Virtual Library)

1933(4^th of Tammuz, 5693):Seventy-eight-year-old Charlotte Rosaline McIver, the London born daughter ofEmma and Dr. Nathaniel Mayer Montefiore and the wife of Sir Lewis McIver passedaway today.

1934: A dinner honoring illustrator Arthur Szykand his wife “arranged by the Federation of Polish Jews” is scheduled to takeplace this evening at the Hotel Delmonico.

1934: “Of Human Bondage” produced by Pandro S.Berman, starring Leslie Howard with music by Max Steiner was released today inthe United States.

1934: Today, WashingtonUniversity trained lawyer Sam Elson, the holder of JSD from Yale who taught athis alma mater, was a member of the National Conference of Christians and Jewsmarried Gertrude Clemens Palmer today.

1934:In Detroit, Bess Rachel Levinson and Saul R. Levin gave birth to Carl MiltonLevin a Democratic United States Senator from Michigan and the Chairman of theSenate Committee on Armed Services. He has been in the Senate since 1979 andMichigan's senior senator since 1995. He is the longest-serving US Senator everto represent Michigan.

1935:Birthdate of Brooklyn native Arnold Asher, the graduate of Yeshiva College whor*ceived his MHL from Jewish Theological Seminary where he received hisordination and went to serve two congregations in St. Louis.

http://garfield.jtsa.edu:8881/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=417486&local_base=GEN01

1935:U.S. premiere of “Love Me Forever” with a script by Jo Swerling and SidneyBuchman.

1936: The Palestine Post reported that after a train wasderailed near Lydda, and one British soldier and an Arab railway man werekilled, the town was ordered by the authorities to pay a 5,000 pound collectivefine. The mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini again alleged in hisstatement, mailed to the high commissioner, that Jews planned to restore theirancient holy places on the site of al-Aksa Mosque. He had also complained thatBritish Army soldiers disregarded the sanctity of Muslim holy places andsearched for arms hidden inside mosques. Two British soldiers were woundedwhile protecting linesmen repairing sabotaged telephone lines.

1936: At Saratoga Springs, NY, “more than 1,000 delegates at theopening of the annual convention of the Independent Order of B’rith Abrahamvoted this afternoon to conduct the golden jubilee of the order in connectionwith the fiftieth convention in New York City next year.”

1936: Sixty-five-year-old anarchist Alexander Berkman whounsuccessfully tried to assassinate Henry Clay Frick during a strike againstU.S. Steel passed away today.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/05/sasha-and-emma-the-anarch_n_2247620.html

1936: Today, Longmans, Green & Co. is scheduled to published TheJews of Germany by Marvin Lowenthal which “is not merely an account of theevents of the past years but the full story of the Jews in Germany from 321A.D. down to the present time” by the author of A World Passed by thatdescribed “the surviving monuments and life of the Jews in Europe and NorthernAfrica.”

1936: “The Gollantz Saga” published today provided a review ofNaomi Jacob’s latest work, The Founder of the House.

1936: It was reported today that “Polish Jews are depressed” overthe action of the court at Radom in sentencing ten Jews to anywhere from eightmonth to eight years in prison in connection” with their role in defendingthemselves during the “anti-Jewish riots at Przytyk last March” and have closedtheatres while they engage in fasting and prayer.

1936: At Asbury Park, NJ, the delegates to the 28^thannual convention of the Federation of Polish Jews in America adopted “a groupof resolutions deploring the wave of anti-Semitism in Europe” and charging thePolish Government “with having ignominiously surrendered to the forces ofanarchy and mob violence.”

1937: During the Spanish Civil War, the Palafox Battalion, whichincluded a company of Jewish volunteers named for Naftali Botwin, was formedtoday.

1937: Mordecai M. Danzis is scheduled to deliver a lecture on“Present Condition of Jews in Germany and Palestine” at a meeting of the NewZionist Organization of America followed by a Johan J. Smertenko speaking on“Divide Palestine.”

1938: The British authorities refused to commute the sentenceSolomon ben Yosef, a Jewish youth, who is to be hanged tomorrow for havingfired at an Arab-owned bus although he caused no casualties.

1938: CBS broadcast the last episode of “the Ford Motor sponsoredseries ‘Watch the Fun Go By’ featuring Al Pearce.

1938: In New York City, “composer Arthur Schwartz and 1930s’Broadway ingénue Kay Carrington” gave birth to New York radio personalityJonathan Schwartz who also has recorded parts of the Great American Songbook.

1938: It was reported today that “a renewed wave of suicides amongJews is sweeping Vienna as the result of Nazi orders that Jewish employees mustbe released by both ‘Aryan’ and Jewish firms” and that employers are forbiddento give” them “severance pay.”

1939: “Delegates to the forty second annual convention of theZionist Organization of America heald an outdoor meeting at the Jewish Pavilionat the World’s Fair” after having concluded its regular business sessions. This occasion coincided with the 30^thanniversary of the founding of Tel Aviv, the all-Jewish city that has grownfrom a sand dune to a modern metropolis with 150,000 inhabitants.

1939(11^th of Tammuz, 5699): Seventy-year-old SamuelFriend, the last Rabbi in Hanover whose wife Minna died at Theresienstadt in1942, passed away today.

1940: The 17^th convention of Aleph Zadik Aleph, whichwas formed in 1924, began today in Peninsula, OH.

1940: As a result of its non-aggression pact with Nazi Germanythat made WW II possible, the Soviet Union began the occupation and annexationof Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertza region of Romania

1940: In a letter to Lord Lloyd lamenting the Colonial Sectary’sopposition to arming the Jews of Palestine, Churchill that because of thispolicy “twenty thousand sorely needed British and Australian troops were tiedup in Palestine. This is the price wehave to pay for the anti-Jewish policy which has been persisted in for someyears…I is little less than a scandal at a time when we are fighting for ourlives that these very large forces should be immobilized in support of a policywhich only commends itself to a section of the Conservative Party.”

1940: Today, Liberal Party member turned Labour Party MP HarryLouis Nathan, the “son of Michael Henry Nathan, a fine art publisher andmagistrate” and an “honorary solicitor to the Zionist Organization whichpromoted the re-establishment of Israel” who reached the rank of Major whileserving in WW I “was created a hereditary peer as Baron Nathan, of Churt in theCounty of Surrey” today.

1940: “Dominican Republic Bars All but Sponsored Immigration”published today described changes in the Central American republic’s treatmentof those seeking asylum including Jews from Europe.

http://www.jta.org/1940/06/30/archive/dominican-republic-bars-all-but-sponsored-immigration

1941: U.S. premiere of “Underground” a film about anti-Naziresistance directed by Vincent Sherman,

1941: German forces entered the Polish city of Drohobych which hadbeen in the Soviet Zone. This marked thestart of the destruction of the Jewish community of Drohobych.

1941:Chief of Gestapo, Henirich Muller, sent Adolph Eichmann to review thedestruction in Bialystok and Minsk.

1941:The Germans reoccupied Przemysl today which would prove to be a death sentencefor all but 300 of its 17,000 Jewish inhabitants.

1941: For two days,in the German-occupied town ofKovno, Lithuania, Lithuanian police and released convicts used iron bars tobeat hundreds of Jews to death in the city's streets. Thousands more Jews aremurdered at Kovno, Lithuania, and another 5000 are killed at Brest-Litovsk,Belorussia.

1942:Following the end of fighting at Minsk 40,000 Jews are now trapped in the Nazikilling machine.

1942: All Jews living in France over the age of 6are required to wear an armband with a yellow Star of David

1943: In Tunis Lola Bembaron and SiegriedWolinski gave birth to Georges David Wolinski “a French cartoonist and comicswriter” who was killed during on a terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4612722,00.html

1943:Samuel Levy, former Borough President of Manhattan and chairman of the Board ofDirectors of Yeshiva and Yeshiva College announced today that Dr. SamuelBelkin, Talmudic scholar and dean of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan TheologicalSeminary (Yeshiva) since 1941, has been elected president of Yeshiva andYeshiva College

1943:In New Orleans, Walter B. and Jane (Waldhorn) Moses gave birth to Tulanegraduate and USNR lieutenant Stephen A.Moses who became president of the Waldhorn Company, Inc in 1972 and who marriedDee Russ at the same time he graduated.

1944:Forty-two-year-old Helene Bernfeld was deported to Ungarn/Auschwitz toda

1944:As the Red Army approaches theconcentration camp at Maly Trostinets, Belorussia, near Minsk, regular SStroops replace the non-German SS-auxiliary guards. All survivingprisoners--Jews and non-Jewish Russian civilians--are herded into a barracks thatis set ablaze. Any prisoners who manage to exit the burning building are shot.About 20 Jews who had come to Maly Trostinets from the camp/ghetto atTheresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, escape to the woods

1945(17^thof Tammuz, 5705): As the ashes of the Holocaust settle over Europe, Tzom Tammuztook on an additional level of sorrow.

1945(17^thof Tammuz, 5705): Sixty-nine-year-old Jacob Baer Werlin, the Russian born sonEllias and Bessi Werlinsky and the husband of Sarah Werlin whom he married in1898 passed away today after which he was buried at the Adath Emeth Cemetery inHouston, TX.

1945:In New York, Lucille (née Geier) and Adolf N. Lakes, who escaped from NaziGermany in 1935 gave birth to Jane Margaret Lakes, who as Jane Harman gaverepresenting California’s 36^th district in 1993.

1946:Birthdate of Gilda Radner, the Detroit born, comedienne who gained famed forweekly appearances on the television show, Saturday Night Live.

1946:In the United States, premiere of “Dead of Night” a horror film produced byMichael Balcon.

1947:In New York, Morris Helprin, the president of London Films and actress EleanorLynn Helprin gave birth to Mark Helprin “an American novelist, journalist, andconservative commentator” who in “2006 Helprin received the Peggy V. HelmerichDistinguished Author Award” and in 2010 “was awarded the Salvatori Prize in theAmerican Founding by the Claremont Institute.”

1948(21st of Sivan, 5708): Eighty-three-year-oldGaston Michel Calmann-Lévy, the husband of Helen Calmann Levy and the father ofNicole Germaine Oulman and Robert Paul Michel Calmann-Levy, passed away today.

1948: “Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedishdiplomat appointed as a mediator by the UN” submitted his first plan to endhostilities which if adopted would have “abolished the Jewish state” andcreated a Kingdom of Transjordan with “a Jewish enclave” which meant the he wasvoiding Resolution 181 that had created the Jewish state in 1947.

1949: “High Schools for Israel”published today described the plans of Alliance Israelite Universelle to open“new high schools in Israel” and plans “to open additional elementary schoolsin other countries.

1949: “Irving Tick, the counsel to theBrooklyn Kosher Butchers Association” is scheduled to “be the guest of honor ata dinner tonight at the Belmont Plaza Hotel, given by the meat and provisionsdivision of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.”

1950: “Michael Todd’s Peep Show producedby Michael Todd opened on Broadway today at the Winter Garden Theatre afterwhich “producer Michael Todd was invited to a conference with New York City'sCommissioner of Licenses” which led to Mr.Todd agreeing “to modify certain sketches, strip-tease numbers and otherelements of old-style burlesque."

1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that a modified schemefor national insurance was finally approved by the government and was to bebrought before the Knesset. Registration continued for the Four-Year People'sHousing Scheme. Twelve thousand housing units were expected to be allocated toneedy citizens yearly.

1952: On Shabbat, in Tel Aviv, taxicab drivers pull their vehiclesoff the road in protest over the government’s new restriction on use ofgasoline and restrictions on driving of personal vehicles.

1952: Albert Einstein granted permission for his named to be usedfor the medical center created by the merger of Northern Liberties Hospital andMount Sinai Hospital now known as the Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia,PA which can trace its roots back to eh Jewish Hospital for the Aged, Infirmedand Destitute founded in 1864.

1953: “Abe H.Weiler,” the Russian born motion picture editor ofthe New York Times reported today that Sir Alexander Korda is preparing toproduce three films – “Paris by Night,” “Three Cases of Murder” and “TheBlessing.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/06/28/92723536.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1953: It was reported today that Orson Welles is joining forceswith none other than Sir Alexander Korda to produce a feature film titled,"Paris by Night," in England and France in the near future.” (Kordawas Jewish; Welles was not)

1954: A raid on Arab Legion camp at Azzun, 13 km east of Qalqilyaby a seven man squad that included Meir Har-Zion led by Major Aharon Davidicame to a less than satisfactory end when it was discovered that SergeantYitzhak Jibli who had been wouned was taken prisoner by the Jordanians.

1955: U.S. premiere of the film version the novel “Not As AStranger” directed and produced by Stanley Karmer.

1956: A bill designed to abolish the death penalty that had beenintroduced by Sydney Silverman received overwhelming approval in the House ofCommons which was later voted down in the House of Lords.

1956: “Resolutions and statements dealing with national andforeign issues, including a strong appeal to the Soviet Union to restore thecultural and religious rights of Jews, were adopted in Atlantic City today by the Central Conference of AmericanRabbis.”

1958: The curtain came down on the original Broadway production of“Auntie Mame” featuring Marian Winters as “Sally Cato MacDougal.”

1958: “Kings Go Forth,” aWW II movie co-starring Tony Curtis with music by Elmer Bernstein was releasedtoday in the United States.

1959: “Man of Vision” published today provided a review ofIsaac Mayer Wise: Pioneer of American Judaism by Joseph Gumbiner, abiography for those 14 to 17 years old.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/06/28/89215491.pdf

1959(22^nd of Sivan, 5719): Seventy-one year old HermanLeopoldi, the Austrian composer and entertainer who survived Buchenwald passedaway today in Vienna after suffering a heart attack.

1960: “Murder, Inc.” starring Peter Falk and directed by StuartRosenberg and Burt Balaban, the film’s producer was released today in theUnited States.

1964(18^th of Tammuz, 5724): The Fast of Tammuz was observed for the firsttime during the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson.

1964: Funeral services are scheduled to be held to be held forseventy-one year old Louis Ackerman, the furrier who was the husband of BellaAckerman and the father of Morton L. Ackerman.

1965: In Princeton, NJ, physicistRichard Hecht and his wife “Lenore, a psychotherapist” gave birth to Tonynominated actress and singer Jessica Hecht, the younger sister of ElizabethHecht and the step-daughter of psychiatrist Howard Iger.
1965: Jeweler Irving N. Chayken, the native of the Shtetel of Pobolov whoenlisted as soon as he had graduated from Hammond, Indiana High School, “saidtoday he was returning to France the Croix de Guerre he received nearly a halfa century ago because of President de Gaulle’s ‘stubborn attitude’” which madehim “a major threat to the peace of the Western Hemisphere.

1966: Port Arthur native Irving Loeb Goldberg, a graduate of theUniversity of Texas and Harvard Law School “was nominated by President LyndonB. Johnson to a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the FifthCircuit created by 80 Stat. 75.”

1966: In Boston, psychologist Patricia Marks Greenfield andphysician Sheldon Greenfield gave birth to Harvard educated documentaryphotographer and film maker Lauren Greenfield, the wife of Frank Evers.

1967: Several thousand Jews returned to the Hebrew Universityamphitheater on Mount Scopus, the scene of the inauguration of the universityin 1925, cut off from the rest of Jerusalem since 1948.

1967: “Gunn” a movie based on the television detective Peter Gunnfeaturing Alan Oppenheimer as “Whiteside” was released in the United Statestoday.

1967:Israel removed the barriers that separated occupied east Jerusalem from therest of the city. This marked the first time that Jerusalem was one city sincethe illegal occupation by the Jordanians in 1948.

1969:Seymour Pine led the raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village.Inspector Pine, who was commander of the New York Police Department’s vicesquad for Lower Manhattan when led eight officers into the Stonewall Inn, anillegal club frequented by cross-dressers.Pine later apologized for his role in the raid. The raid touched off the Stonewall Uprising,a major turning point for the GLBT to gain full civil rights.

1969:Birthdate of award-winning Israeli actress of Ayelet Zurer

1970(24^thof Sivan, 5730): Eighty-four-year-old Prague born and refugee from Nazi EuropeEric Kahler the “cultural historian and author whose works included, theacclaimed The Tower and the Abyss: An Inquiry into the Transformation of theIndividual and The Jews Among the Nations passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/30/archives/eric-kahler-84-historian-dead-refugee-from-nazis-taught-at.html?searchResultPosition=1

1973:“Mohammad Boudia, the Algerian-born director of operations for Black Septemberin France, was killed in Paris by a pressure-activated bomb packed with heavynuts and bolts placed under his car seat.”

1973Among those whose names appeared in the Lists of White House 'Enemies' andMemorandums Relating to Those Named published today were Alfred P. Slaner,Daniel Schoor, Marvin Kalb and Barbara Streisand.

http://calvert.wustl.edu/PolSci3103.fall02/watergate/enemy.htm

1975(19^thof Tammuz, 5735): Parashat Pinchas

1975(19^thof Tammuz, 5735): Ninety-one-year-old Columbia trained attorney HenryHofheimer, the senior partner in Hofheimer, Garlir, Gottlieb and Gross and NewYork born son of Fanny and Solomon Hofheimer who was the husband of the formerHannah Falk and who served “on the boards of the 92^nd Street Y, theJewish Guild for the Blind, the UJA and the Joint Distribution Committee,passed away today.

1975:Rod Serling passed away. He gained fameas the creator and opening line presenter of Twilight Zone television series.Serling was born and raised as a Reform Jew. He became a Unitarian whilein college in an attempt to mollify his wife's family who were upset at theprospect of having a Jewish son-in-law.

http://www.legacy.com/ns/fullstory.aspx?storytype=1&storyid=44

1976: TheJerusalem Postreported that an Air France jumbo jet was hijacked over Greece with some 216passengers, including about 70 Israelis, aboard. This was the first instance ofthe hijacking of an Air France plane. Distraught relatives of Israelipassengers waited all night at Ben-Gurion Airport and the Air France offices inTel Aviv. (This would prove to be the first act in an adventure that becameknown as The Raid on Entebbe.)

1976:Air France Flight 139, which had been hijacked by terrorists, arrived atEntebbe Airport in Uganda. The four hijackers were joined by several comradeswho were supported by Idi Amin, the pro-Palestinian Uganda dictator.

1977:“One On One” co-starring Robby Benson (Robin David Segal) who also co-authoredthe screenplay was released today in the United States.

1979(2^ndof Tammuz, 5739): Eighty-four composer and conductor Paul Dessau, the grandsonof Hamburg cantor Moses Berend Dessau who returned to the GDR after havingfound refuge in the United States during WW II, passed away today.

http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Dessau-Paul.htm

1979: “The Holocaust Survivors Film Project(HFSP)” which created the Holocaust Survivors Film Project (HFSP), “acollection of recorded interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaustlocated a Yale University” was formally launched today.

http://web.library.yale.edu/testimonies

1979(2ndof Tammuz, 5739): Stuart Schulberg the son of producer and studio executiveB.P. Schulberg and younger brother of novelist/screenwriter passed away today.

http://www.nurembergfilm.org/film_bio_stuart_schulberg.shtml

1980: Molly Picon received a Creative AchievementAward from the Performing Arts Unit of B'nai B'rith.

https://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/28/1980/molly-picon

1984:Today, in Burbank, CA, memorial services are scheduled to be held thisafternoon at the Mt. Sinai Mortuary for producer Carl Foreman who wrote scriptsfor ''High Noon,'' ''The Guns of Navarone'' and ''The Bridge on the RiverKwai,'' and who is survived by his wife,Evelyn; three children, Kate Lovenheim, Jonathan Foreman and Amanda Foreman.”(As written by Jon Pareles

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/27/obituaries/carl-foreman-producer-and-river-kwai-screenwriter-dies.html?searchResultPosition=2

1984:“Shmuel Flatto-Sharon, a financier wanted in France, today lost a 12-yearstruggle to stay out of prison.”

1984(28thof Sivan, 5744): Yigael Yadin an Israeli archeologist, politician, and thesecond Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, passed away. There is noway to do justice to the life of this fascinating man who did it all fromleading Israel in the fight for independence to taking part in some of the mostimportant archaeological digs in history. If you did not know he had lived thislife you would have thought it was a product of some famous fiction writer.

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/29/obituaries/yigael-yadin-famed-israeli-dies-was-archeologist-and-war-hero.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yigael_Yadin

1985(9^thof Tammuz, 5745): Eighty-six-year-old Bialysok-born British composer MischaSpoliansky whose first work in England was creating the music for Sanders ofthe River, the 1935 cinematic production by the Korda brothers.

http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/long-bio/Mischa-Spoliansky

1985:“St. Elmo’s Fire,” a dark look at youthful transformation directed by JoelSchumacher who also co-authored the script and co-starring Martin Balsam wasreleased today in the United States.

1986:After 524 performances and 23 previews Neil Simon’s “Biloxi Blues” directed byGene Saks closed out its Broadway run at the Neil Simon Theatre.

1986:In Los Angeles, “ormer Geffen Records A&R exec/record producer Tony Berg”and his wife gave birth indie rock vocalist “Elizabeth Anne ‘Z’ Berg.”

1987:A children’s memorial designed by Moshe Safdie and financed by an American Jewnamed Abraham Spiegel who had lost his two-year-old son at Auschwitz, opened atYad Vashem

1988:Dame Shirley Porter (born Shirley Cohen) began serving as Deputy Lieutenant ofGreater London.

1988:Iris Margaret Origo, an Anglo-Irish writer who helped to save Jewish childrenthrough the kindertransport including the painter Frank Helmut Auerbach passedaway today.

1991:“Europa Europa” a film “based on the 1989 autobiography of Solomon Perel, aGerman-Jewish boy who escaped the Holocaust by masquerading as a Nazi andjoining the Hitler Youth” was released today in the United States.

1991:“The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear” directed by David Zucker who alsoco-authored the script for the films on which Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zuckerserved as executive producers was released in the United States today.

1993:In Los Angeles, “Sharon Lyn (née Chalkin), a costume designer and fashionstylist, and Richard Feldstein, a tour accountant for Guns N' Roses” gave birthto actress Elizabeth Greer "Beanie" Feldstein who played “Minnie Fay”in a Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly” and “Julie Steffans” in the AcademyAward nominated comedy “Lady Bird._

1995: Joseph Stiglitz was appointed Chairman of the Council ofEconomic Advisers which made a member of the Clinton Cabinet.

1998: The New York Times featured reviews of books byJewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including ANation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth by Norman G.Finkelstein and Ruth Bettina Birn.

1999: The Hitler Papers which have been by Huntington since 1945were scheduled to go on supply today.

2000: As Jews express their dissatisfaction with the decision tobeatify Pius IX, “at a symposium on Pius IX held today in Rome, Amos Luzzatto,president of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities, said, ''The Mortaracase is a wound in the body and spirit of Italian Jews that has yet to behealed.'”

2001: Ekaterina (Katya) Weintraub, 27, of Ganim in northernSamaria was killed and another woman injured late Thursday afternoon by shotsfired at the two-car convoy on the Jenin bypass road.

2001in New York City, New York, Matt Bloom defeated Kane to win the WWFIntercontinental Championship.

2001:American philosopher Mortimer Adler passed away. Adler was born into a non-observant Jewishhome. He began his philosophic quest inhis teens. Before his death, Adlerconverted to Roman Catholicism.

2002:“Mr. Deeds” a remake of the 1936 comedy hit starring Adam Sandler and WinonaRyder was released in the United States today.

2003:At the Library of Congress opening of an exhibition entitled Herblock’s Gift:Selections from the Herb Block Foundation Collection

2004:“Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” a comedy produced by Judd Apatow andco-starring Paull Rudd premiered in Los Angeles.

2004:Raleb Majadele entered the Knesset on today as a replacement for Avraham Burg,who had resigned.

2004:Mordechai Yosepov, 49, and Afik Zahavi, four, were killed when a Kassam rocketfired by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip struck near a nursery school in thenorthern Negev town of Sderot.

2005(24thof Sivan, 5654): On the day before his 73^rd birthday, Philip Hobson,the British critic and poet who was the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants passedaway today in London.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jul/07/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries

2006:The Popular Resistance Committees, which earlier in the day threatened to “butcher” Eliyahu Asheri “infront of TV cameras” “stated that the 18 year old had been killed.”

2007:Screening of “From Philadelphia to the Front” at the Vilna Shul / Boston Center for JewishHeritage in Boston, MA. For more aboutthis film see www.fromphiladelphiatothefront.com

2007:Israel’s President Moshe Katsav signed a plea agreement under which the rapecharges against him will be dropped and he will serve no active jail time.

2007:Bravo began broadcasting “Hey Paula,” the reality television show “whichfollowed Paula Abdul through her day-to-day life.

2007:David Miliband begins serving as Secretary of State of Foreign and CommonwealthAffairs.

2007:Tel Aviv held its three White Night festival.Following the tradition of the French, the cultural institutions ofIsrael’s largest metropolis keep their doors open until “the wee hours of thenight.”

2007(12thof Tammuz, 5767): Rabbi Abraham J. Klausner, a Jewish chaplain in the UnitedStates Army who arrived at the Dachau concentration camp a few days after itsliberation in 1945 and a strong voice for thousands of Holocaust survivors whor*mained in displaced persons camps for years after the war, passed away at hishome in New Mexico at the age of 92. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/30/obituaries/30klausner.html?_r=0

2008:Birkat Hachodesh - On Shabbat, Jews around the world prepare for the saddestmonth of the year, by announcing that month of Av will arrive on the seventhday of the upcoming week.

2009(6thof Tammuz, 5769): Seventy-nine-year-old Rabbi Simcha Binem Lieberman, theGerrer Hasid turned Warsaw Ghetto freedom fighter, turned Talmudic scholarpassed away today.

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-jewish-chronicle/20090807/282879431764791

2009:"The Java Jews, an energetic and talented group from Des Moines, IA, withguest artist John Manning, University of Iowa Professor of Tuba perform at theHillel House at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

2009:The Washington Post featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/orof special interest to Jewish readers including “American Radical: The Life andTimes of I.F. Stone” by D.D. Guttenplan

2009:The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish reader including “Arthur Miller: 1915-1962” byChristopher Bigsby and the recently released paperback edition of “For theThrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago” bySimon Baatz

2009:Today, Gideon Shalit’s family said that they would no longer respond to ongoingrumors about their son's release. They claimed the rumors were released byHamas in order to put pressure on the Israeli government to free terrorists.Defense Minister Barak, too, claimed the rumors are harmful to the efforts toachieve the soldier's release.

2009:The Civil Aviation Authority suspended flights to three southern Russian citiestoday following a dispute with Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency. Allflights from Israel to Sochi, Rostov and Krasnodar have been discontinued untilfurther notice. The underlying cause of the dispute was an attempt by theRussian aviation authority to create a situation in which Russian airlineswould dominate the routes at the expense of Israeli carriers.

2009: Tony Kushner’s latest play, “The Intelligenthom*osexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures,”is scheduled to have its final performance.2010: Elena Kagan's confirmationhearings began today.

2010: Thecommittee appointed to investigate the flotilla crisis of a month ago held itsfirst meeting today

2010: Chelsea “Handler wasnamed to Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful People today, which noted “Her bawdyobsessions—drinking, midgets, bodily functions, minorities, relatives,overinvolved mothers—brought in $19 million-plus for the 12 months ended June 1… A handful of years ago no one in entertainment had heard of her.” (JWA)

2011: PhilipRoth, the much-lauded author of "Portnoy's Complaint", is scheduledto be officially awarded the biennial Man Booker International Prize in Londontoday. The prize, announced during the Sydney Writers' Festival, is worth60,000 pounds for the winner, and living authors whose works of fiction areeither originally in English or generally available in English translation areeligible. It honors a writer's body ofwork as opposed to the annual Man Booker Prize for Fiction, which is awardedfor a single book.

2011: An opening receptionis scheduled to be held this evening marking the opening of an exhibition thatwill include “Under Destruction” a work created by Ariel Schlesinger, a sabarawho studied at Bezalel, Academy for Art and Design, Jerusalem

2011: JusticeMinistry officials came out today in defense of Deputy State Prosecutor ShaiNitzan, who been under public attack in the wake of Rabbi Dov Lior's arrest aday earlier for allegedly encouraging incitement

2011: The lower house ofthe Dutch parliament voted to ban the ritual slaughter of animals

2011: Dr. Oliver WolfSacks discussed his work and his personal health issues during the BBCdocumentary “Imagine.”

2011: According toHaaretz, today in his “remarks to the International Council of JewishParliamentarians, Ronald Lauder scolded Israeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu for a number of missteps, including lacking a diplomatic plan headinginto the September UN vote on Palestinian statehood and setting preconditionsfor negotiations as part of the peace process in the Israeli–Palestinianconflict,

2011: Anestimated hundred thousand people took part in the funeral procession of RabbiMichel Yehuda Lefkowitz in Bnei Brack today. Lefkowitz, an admired educationalfigure in the Lithuanian and general haredi world, passed away at the age of 97yesterday. Born in Valozhyn, he arrivedin Israel in 1936. For over the past 50 years he headed the prestigiousYeshivat Ponovezh L’Tzeirim for young yeshiva students in Bnei Brak, alongsideRabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman. Overthe years Lefkowitz became one of the sector's leading educators, who rarelywas involved in political issues, considered an authority on matters ofspiritual guidance.

2011: Shia LaBeouf“reprised his role in the third live-action Transformers film, Transformers:Dark of the Moon,” which was released today.

2012: The remaining 18families living at Givat Ulpana are scheduled to leave their homes today andmove to temporary housing at a nearby military base. (As reported by JoshDavidovich)

2012: In Portland, Oregon,The American Conference of Cantors-Guild of Temple Musicians' Convention isscheduled to come to a close.

2012: Chris Murphy, Chiefof Staff to D.C. Mayor Gray, is scheduled to speak at noontime meetingsponsored by The D.C. Commission of the Jewish Community Relations Council(JCRC)

2012: Israeli cellist YoedNir is scheduled to perform at the Peace & Love Festival in Borlange,Sweden.

2012: TheIDF is bolstering defenses along the Syrian border and beefing up its forcesdue to concern that terrorist groups are planning a cross-border attack in theGolan Heights, commander of Division 36 Brig.-Gen. Tamir Hyman said today.

2012: PrimeMinister Binyamin Netanyahu warned members of the Keshev Committee today thatunless mandatory national service for the Arab sector is instituted, he maydecide not to bring the committee's recommendations to the Knesset for a vote.The Keshev Committee, tasked with drafting proposals to replace the Tal Law,announced earlier today that the panel had decided instead to institute arecruitment target for national service in the Arab community of at least 6,000recruits from the sector by 2016.

2012: Dozensof artists, musicians and performers have joined a Facebook campaign callingfor a boycott of the Tel Aviv municipality's annual White Night event today, toprotest police violence against social justice demonstrators last week.

http://www.haaretz.com/culture/tel-aviv-protesters-boycott-white-night-with-black-night-parties-of-their-own-1.444644

2013: “Fill the Void,” a film that “tells thestory of an Orthodox Hassidic Family from Tel Aviv is scheduled to open inseveral theatres including the Chez Artiste 3 in Denver, the Camelot in PalmSprings, the Criterion in New Haven and the River Oaks Theatre 3 in Houston.

2013: Marlene Trestman is scheduled to deliverthe Donald S. Shire lecture at the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C.“The speech is timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Departmentof Labor in addition to recognizing the 75th and 50th anniversaries of the FairLabor and Equal Pay Acts, respectively, for which Bessie Margolin workedtirelessly. (As reported by Alan Samson, CCJN)

2013: “The Attack,” a film about anIsraeli-Arab doctor whose wife is killed in a terrorist attacks is scheduled tobe released at theatres throughout the United States.

2013: Marlene Trestman will deliver the DonaldS. Shire lecture at the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C. The speechis timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Department of Labor inaddition to recognizing the 75th and 50th anniversaries of the Fair Labor andEqual Pay Acts, respectively, for which Bessie Margolin worked tirelessly. (Asreported by Alan Smason)

2013:“The Sexuality Spectrum sponsored by HUC-JIR is scheduled to come to an end.

2013: In the United Kingdom, premiere of “TheAct of Killing” a documentary directed by Joshua Oppenheimer.

2013: At the Weiner Library, Filmmaker Alan Reichis scheduled to discuss his latest project, “The Last Boat,” which tells thestory of the incredible rescue of seventy Jewish children and their twochaperones out of Poland on a British boat arriving in England three days beforethe start of World War Two.

2013: The IDF deployed an IronDome anti-rocket battery in the Haifa area early this morning, amid heightenedtensions in the North stemming from the ongoing Syrian civil war.

2013: The German Federal Administrative Courtvetoed a bid to release classified foreign intelligence documents that wouldreveal western spies knew where Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann escaped toafter World War II, British media reported today.

2013: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’ssenior adviser Ron Dermer will be appointed Israeli ambassador to the UnitedStates, Army Radio reported today

2014: Jonathan Lethem isscheduled to read from his latest book, Dissident Gardens, this evening atPrairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City.

2014: “The Wonders,” afilm about “a bartender who doubles as a graffiti artist in Jerusalem isscheduled to be shown at the Portland Jewish Film Festival.

2014(30^th ofSivan, 5774): Ninety-three-year-old composer Seymour Barab passed away today.(As reported by Margalit Fox)

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/arts/music/seymour-barab-93-composer-of-playful-operas-dies.html?_r=0

http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/remembering-seymour-barab/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbj7xDN4SeQ

2014(30^th of Sivan,5774): Rosh Chodesh Sivan

2014: Trio ofAnniversaries of events that still resonate with us today: 625^thanniversary of Battle of Kosovo,

100^thanniversary of the assassination of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand, heir to theAustro-Hungarian throne, and his wife and the 95^th anniversary of the signing ofthe Versailles Treaty

2014: “Israelis broke all records ofelectricity consumption in June as tempertures climbed over 40 degrees Celsisu”means that from Kiryat Shmona to Eilat, the country was in the grip of nearrecord heat wave. (As reported by Ilana Curiel)

2014: “The IAF attacked 3 hidden rocketlaunchers in the central Gaza stipr tonight in response to the barrage ofrockes fired into southern Israel, one of which hit a factory that was burnedto the ground.(As reported by Yoav Zitun)

2014: As rocket attacks from Gaza continue tointensify a missle fired from Beit Hanoun hit the "Denber" plasticfactory in Sderot's industrial area, causing a large fire to break out whichresulted in the destruction of the factory. While some workers were injuredthere was no loss of life.

2015: TheNew York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including Why Grow Up? by SusanNeiman and The Odd Woman and the Cityby Vivian Gornick

2015(11th of Tammuz, 5775): Ninety-three-year-oldcomedian Jack Carter passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/arts/television/jack-carter-comedian-who-brought-his-rapid-fire-delivery-to-tv-dies-at-93.html?rref=obituaries&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Obituaries&pgtype=article

2015(11^th of Tammuz, 5775): Eighty-one-year-oldconservative commentator Ben Wattenberg passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/us/ben-wattenberg-author-and-commentator-dies-at-81.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2015: “Parents in some 70 towns” includingHerzliya and Holon keep their children at home today as part of the protest“against overcrowding in classrooms.”

2015: In Amherst, MA, the Yiddish Book Centeris scheduled to present “In the Unlikeliest of Places:

How Nachman Libeskind Survived the Nazis,Gulags, and Soviet Communism.”

2015: The Naomi Prawer Kadar InternationalYiddish Summer Program is scheduled to begin at Tel Aviv University.

2015: “Rabbi Shlomo Riskin's term as ChiefRabbi of Efrat was extended by five years today after a month-long controversyin which the Chief Rabbinate was allegedly planning to retire him at age 75because of his religious views on the advancement of women in Orthodoxy and aninclusive approach towards conversion.”

2016: “War Paint,” a musical based the lives of“Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden defined beauty standards for the firsthalf of the 20th Century” premiered today.

2016: Professor Hillel Kieval of WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis is scheduled to deliver at lecture on “BloodInscriptions: Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder in Fin de Siècle Europe” atthe Birkbeck University of London.

2016: “Following numerous incidents of rockthrowing by Palestinians, police today announced that the Mount, which is holyto both Jews and Muslims, would be closed to Jewish visitors and tourists forthree days and that extra forces would be deployed to prevent rioting. 2016:“Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt” is scheduled to be shown at the 24^thPortland Jewish Film Festival today.

2017: In Tennessee, the Memphis JewishCommunity Center is scheduled to host a performance by the members of theIsraeli Scout Friendship Caravan.

2017: Today, “Thirty years after his releasefrom Soviet camps, where he was subjected to forced labor as punishment forclandestine Zionist activity, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein became the firstIsraeli politician to address Russia’s upper chamber of parliament, in atriumphant turnaround for the one-time “Prisoner of Zion.”

2017: Today, during a reunion of “10 Americanpilots who agreed to deliver jets to the IDF” during the Yom Kippur War“retired US fighter pilot Roy “Bubba” Segars and retired Israeli fighter pilotJacob “Booby” Daube held a photo they took together during the 1973 Yom KippurWar at the same Tel Nof airbase in Israel”(IDF Spokesperson, courtesy)

2017: In Iowa, the Jewish Federation of GreaterDes Moines is scheduled to host “Thank You for Being Late,” an evening withcolumnist and author Thomas L. Friedman.

2017: Tom Jones is scheduled to perform at TelAviv’s Menorah Arena this evening.

2018: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of“Keep the Change” directed by Rachel Israel at London’s Phoenix Cinema

2018: Today, Prince William, the future king ofEngland made “private visits to various holy sites in Jerusalem’s Old City,including the Western Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher” as well as the“Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, which are located on the Temple Mount.”

2018: Today, “an ultra-Orthodox Knesset memberthreatened El Al with a consumer boycott should the airline removeultra-Orthodox passengers unwilling to sit next to women.”

2018: The Illinois Holocaust Museum andEducation Center is scheduled to host “Profiles of Courage” an “interactiveevent” featuring veterans from WWII, Korea and Vietnam.

2018: JW3 is scheduled to host the final Londonscreenings of “The Boy Downstairs” starring Zosia Mamet and Mathew Shear Shear.

2018: A screening of “Heading Home: The Tale ofTeam Israel” a documentary about the Israeli national baseball’s team trip tothe World Baseball Classic Sponsored by the Ed Berkowitz Film Education Fund isscheduled to take place at the Avalon Theatre in Washington, D.C.

2019: “The feature-length documentary ‘The SpyBehind Home Plate’” is scheduled to open today in Boston, San Diego, Denver,St. Louis, Santa Cruz, CA, Grand Rapids, MI, Sarasota, FL, Marion, NC and Los Angeles.

2019(25^th of Sivan, 5779):Centenarian Ruth Lillian Feder, the Cedar Rapids born daughter of Rose andDavid Padzensky and the wife of Iz Feder passed away today.

https://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2019/Jun/Ruth-L-Feder/

2019: In San Francisco, Magain David SephardimCongregation is scheduled to begin hosting a young adult Shabbaton which ispart of a “two-day Sephardic Shabbat experience.

2019: The Limud Bay Area Festival is scheduledto open today at Sonoma State University.

2019: The seminar “Jews and PoliticalPhilosoph” lead by Ruth Wisse, Leora Batnitzky and Yual Levin is scheduled tocome to an end today.

2020: The KlezCalifornia workshop is scheduledto host “Bread & Roses: Yiddish Songs of the Jewish Labor Movement, withCindy Paley ONLINE.”

2020: TheNew York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperbackeditions of The Red Daughter by John Burnham Schwartz and The Storyof the Jews, Volume Two, Belonging 1491-1900 by Simon Schama

2020: Jewish LearningWorks is scheduled topresent, virtually, “Ladino Culture and Literature” with U. of Washingtonprofessor Devin E. Naar talking about the Ladino language’s role in Jewishculture from 1492 until World War

2020: The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra isscheduled to hold a virtual gala at 2 p.m. today, in partnership withMedici.TV, to benefit the Orchestra three months after COVID-19 forcedindefinite concert cancellations.

2020: The Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgeis scheduled to present a Zoom Webinar featuring author and journalist LibbyCopeland as she “discusses her new book, The Lost Family.”

2020: ELEM / Youth in Distress in Israel, incollaboration with BMAD music, is scheduled to host a FREE benefit show onYouTube live, in celebration and support of ELEM's work in Israel.

2020: The Friends of the Arava Institute iarescheduled to host online “Water as an Instrument for Peace: Middle EasternCooperation in the Face of COVID-19.”

2020: Yad Vashem is scheduled to host a specialonline lecture “Pius XII and the Holocaust: What Can We Learn from the VaticanArchives?”

2020: Were it not for the Pandemic, today wouldmark the end of o The Streicker Center’s “Israel Culinary Trip 2020.”

2020: The coronavirus cabinet is scheduled tomeet today at the request of Defense Minister Benny Gantz, amid the rise incases of COVID-19. (As reported by YNET)

2021: B’nai Torah’s Rabbi Dr. Lisa Eiduson isscheduled to present online Tea Time Talks, a weekly discussion of “Srugim”(meaning knitted or crocheted kippot) , the award winning Israeli televisionseries.

2021: Klezmatics violinist and composer LisaGutkin is scheduled to teach an online workshop on how to play music by ear,including classic klezmer as part of “Klezmer by Ear.”

2021: JWA is scheduled to present “Reflectionsof a Feminist Pioneer in Israel: a conversation with Alice Shalvi, Israelifeminist activist, educator, and scholar.”

2021: The YIVO Institute is scheduled presentAdina Cimet speaking on “The Ashkenazi Jews of Mexico.

2021: ASF is scheduled to host a webinar on“The Secret Jews of Majorca Island.”

2021: A team of IDF Home Front Commandreservists is scheduled to continue to assist in the mission to rescue thosetrapped in the collapse of a Florida high-rise.

2022: The 2022 Arthur and Rochelle BelferNational Conference for Educators, a virtual event sponsored by the UnitedStates Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to continue for a second day.

2022: The American Jewish Press AssociationAnnual Conference is scheduled to continue today in Atlanta with a generalsession on “How do we define antisemitism” moderated by Alan Smason, the editorof the Crescent City Jewish News.

2022: Today marks the opening of Ramah in theBerkshires’ 2022 camp session.

2022: YIVO is scheduled to present a lecture inYiddish by Leyzer Burko on “Did the YIVO Linguists Disregard Hasidic Yiddish?”

2022: In London, the Sir Martin GilbertLearning Centre is scheduled to present“At Churchill’s Table: Dining and Diplomacy with History’s GreatestLeaders” with Lee Pollock of The International Churchill Society.

2023: Andrew Silow-Carroll, managing editor forIdeas at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and editor at large at the New YorkJewish Week, is scheduled to teach the first session of "Inside Jokes:Explore the Essence of Jewish Humor.”

2023: The Executive Committee of the NationalCouncil of Jewish Women is scheduled to meet today.

2023: The Virtual Belfer National Conferencefor Educators, sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum isscheduled to come to an end today.

2023: NASA's Center for Near-Earth ObjectStudies reported that a colossal asteroid dubbed 2013 WV44 is scheduled to makeits nearest approach to Earth at approximately 11 a.m. in Israel today. (Asreported by YNET)

2024: In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah isscheduled to go retro, hosting Outdoor Services with no Zoom.

2024: Kan Kol Hamuiska is scheduled tobroadcast a concert by the winners of the Dina Turgeman Chamber MusicCompetition.

2024: 110^th anniversary of theassassination of Austrian ArchdukeFerdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife at Sarajevo bySerbian nationalists which led to the cataclysm known as World War proving thata handful of “terrorists” can destroy civilization as we know it.

2024: In a moment of irony, 105^thanniversary of the signing of the Versailles Treaty which marked the officialend of WW I.

2024: As June 28th begins in Israel, anunprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters callingfor Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps theUnited States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 266 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluidfor this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting atmidnight Israeli time.)

This Day, June 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L – All #ourCOG News (2024)

1907: The “owner of six dwelling-houses in the parliamentary andmetropolitan borough of Islington” was ordered to appear today before Joseph H.Polka, Esquire, on the justices of the peace for the county of London.

1907: ‘Henry and Jefferson Seligman bought, through L.J. PhillipsCo., from Max Marx the two-story business building and garage at 510 to 518West 145th Street, on plot 100 by 100.”

1907: Birthdate of Syracuse native “Jehudah M. Cohen” who wasordained at the Jewish History of Religion and served as a regional directorfor Hillel

1908: It was reported today that Ernest Waddoch is planning onhosting a “fete” for Jewish orphans at his estate on July 11.

1909:The cornerstone of the first Hebrew gymnasium Herzliah, was laid in Tel Avivtoday.

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