This Day, November 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 11179: Philip II is crowned King of France. In 1180, Phillip would order the arrest of all Jews living in his realm based on charges of ritual murder. It should come as no surprise that two...
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November 2655: The Ninth Council of Toledo which was held under the auspices of King Recceuith and would adopt a resolution “that all conversos, not only converted Jews also others who had come during...
View ArticleThis Day, November 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 3166 BCE (15th of Cheshvan, 3595): Mattathias ben Yochanan passed away.361: Roman Emperor Constantius II died. Constantius II enhanced the anti-Jewish policies begun by his father. Under his...
View ArticleThis Day, November 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 41053: Today, “according to a document preserved in the archives of the Cathedral of Leon, the Infanta D. Fronilda, daughter of D. Pelayo, who restored Christian supremacy after the invasion...
View ArticleThis Day, November 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 51271: Birthdate of Mahmud Ghazan, the Mongol ruler whose conversion to Islam in 1295 led to the “Persian Jews in Tabriz” being relegated “once again to the status of dhimmis” which was...
View ArticleThis Day, November 6, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 6355: Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of Gaul. Constantius II followed the pro-Christian and...
View ArticleThis Day, November 7, in Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 7305 B.C.E.: Ptolemy, a Macedonian general who had fought by the side of Alexander the Great, became King of Egypt. Alexander’s empire broke into three parts after his death. Jerusalem and...
View ArticleThis Day, November 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 830: Birthdate of Marcus Cocceius Nerva, the Roman Emperor who changed the way in which the special tax on Jews was collected so that would not be the humiliating experience created by his...
View ArticleThis Day. November 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z":L
November 9694: Opening meeting of the Seventeenth Council of Toledo during which the Visigoth Catholic monarch, King Egica publicly charged the Jews with planning to "exterminate and [destroy] their...
View ArticleThis Day, November 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 101217: During the Fifth Crusade, King Andrew II of Hungary defeated Sultan Al-Adi in what would prove to by a pyric on the banks of Jordan River. The Moslems retreated into fortified...
View ArticleThis Day, November 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 11603 BCE (7th of Kislev): King Jehoiakim burned the scroll which had been dictated by the prophet Jeremiah to Barcuh ben Heriah.518 BCE: A delegation of Babylonian Jews arrived in Jerusalem...
View ArticleThis Day, November 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 121290: Al-Ashraf Khalil began his reign as Sultan of Egypt and Syria during which he drove the Crusaders from their last stronghold from Acre marking an end to the multi-century Christian...
View ArticleThis Day, November 13, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 13354: Birthdate of St. Augustine of Hippo. While St. Augustine may be held in high regard by the Roman Catholic Church, he held the Jews in especially low regard. In his famous work The...
View ArticleThis Day, November 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 14109 BCE (25 Cheshvan, 3652): John Hyrcanus defeated the Samaritans in Samaria and destroyed their temple. The Samaritans were a mixed race who had been in conflict with the Jews since the...
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November 151215: Pope Innocent III opened the convocation of the Fourth Lateran Council, considered the most important council of the Middle Ages. By its conclusion it issued seventy reformatory...
View ArticleThis Day, November 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 1642 BCE: Birthdate of Tiberius, 2nd Roman emperor. The stepson of Augustus reigned from 14 to 37 C.E. A competent general with a sour disposition, Tiberius came to the thrown through the...
View ArticleThis Day, November 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 179CE: Birthdate of Titus Flavius Vespasianus, better known as Vespasian, who as a Roman General and then Emperor put down the Judean Revolt which included the destruction of the Second...
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November 181095: Pope Urban II opened the Council of Clermont. Summoned to plan the First Crusade, it was attended by over 200 bishops. Among its official policies, the Council decreed that a...
View ArticleThis Day, November 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 191095: The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins. The Crusades ushered in one of the darkest periods in Jewish history....
View ArticleThis Day, November 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 20331 BCE (21st of Kislev, 3431): According to the Talmud, Simeon the Just destroyed the Samaritan Temple at Mount Gerizim. The Samaritans had undermined the efforts during the post-exilic...
View ArticleThis Day, November 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 21456 BCE (20th of Kislev, 3306): Ezra called together all the men of Judah and Benjamin and told them that they would have to give up their foreign-born wives. This was part of an attempt by...
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November 221220: Frederick II, who would become the protector of the Jews in Frankfurt in 1236, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor today by Honorius III.1280: The 3-year reign of Pope Nicholas III whose...
View ArticleThis Day, November 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 23912: Birthdate of Otto the Great, founder of the Holy Roman Empire which was neither holy nor Roman. During his reign Rabbis living in the Rhineland addressed questions to the Rabbis in...
View ArticleThis Day, November 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 24166 BCE: According to secular calculations this date marked “The Origin of Era of the Maccabees.”655: The Ninth Council of Toledo which was held under the auspices of King Recceuith and...
View ArticleThis Day, November 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb LevinZ"L
November 252348 BCE: According to Archbishop James Ussher's Old Testament chronology, the Great Deluge ("Noah's Flood") began on this date.407 BCE: Yedanaiah petitioned Bagohi, the governor of Yehud to...
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