This Day, August 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 3070: According to Josephus, the day one which the Second Temple was set aflame500: Having conquered Italy, Ostrogoth King Theodoric gave the Jews freedom to worship.526 Death of Theodoric the...
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August 3112 CE: Birthdate of Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor. Caligula was crowned in 37 and murdered in 41. Life for Jews during his reign was part of the downward spiral that would result in three...
View ArticleThis Day, September 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 1September is an auspicious month in terms of Jewish History. Like most things in the world of Jews, it is a mixed bag-- a combination of the bitter and the sweet. Today we mark the...
View ArticleThis Day, September 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 244 BCE: Cicero delivers the first of his fourteen Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the next several months. From a Jewish perspective it might be...
View ArticleThis Day, September 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 3 141 BCE (18th of Elul, 3619): The fight begun by Matthias and Judah came to a successful conclusion when Simon was elected High Priest and was recognized as the governing authority of an...
View ArticleThis Day, September 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 4 476: The German general Odoacer defeated Orestes and deposed the child emperor Romulus Augustus marking the “official end of the Roman Empire.” Actually this was the end of the Empire in...
View ArticleThis Day, September 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 5394: Battle of Frigidus between Emperor Theodosius who ruled the eastern Roman Empire and Eugenius, ruler of the western part of the empire. Theodosius’ victory brought the two halves of the...
View ArticleThis Day, September 6, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 6 3761 B.C.E.: The first day of the Hebrew Calendar. "The epoch of the modern Hebrew calendar is Monday, October 7, 3761 BCE, being the tabular date (same daylight period) in the proleptic...
View ArticleThis Day, September 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 770: On the secular calendar the date on which a Roman army under Titus occupied and plundered Jerusalem.1191: The Crusader army led by King Richard the Lionhearted defeated the army of...
View ArticleThis Day, September 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 870: On the secular calendar, Jerusalem is sacked by the 60,000 troops of Titus' Roman army after a six month siege. Over a million Jewish citizens perished in the siege and, following the...
View ArticleThis Day, September 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 9 337: Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors dividing the Roman Empire between the three Augusti. Constantine was responsible for...
View ArticleThis Day, September 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 10 134 CE: The great Talmudic sage, Rabbi Akiva, was taken captive by the Romans, and executed five days later in Caesarea, Israel. Rabbi Akiva had been a 40-year-old shepherd who could not...
View ArticleThis Day, September 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 111526: After the Turkish Army had defeated the Austrians and seized the city of Buda, Sultan Suleiman I entered the city. Some of the Jews had remained in the city and before the Sultan...
View ArticleThis Day, September 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 12 490 BCE: According to German scholar Philipp August Böckh, the Greeks defeated the Persians at the Battle of Marathon. The Persians were led by Darius I, the ruler under whom the Second...
View ArticleThis Day, September 13, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 13586 BCE (3 Tishrei 3338): On the civil calendar assassination of Gedaliah ben Achikam. He had been appointed Governor of Judea by Nebuchadnezzar in an attempt to revitalize the Jewish...
View ArticleThis Day, September 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 14 81: Domitian, the third of the Falvians, became Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus. Like his father Vespasian and his brother Titus, Domitian took great deal...
View ArticleThis Day, September 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 1553: Birthdate of Trajan who was Roman emperor from 98 until his death of 117. In the last decade of his rule, Trajan began a campaign against the Parthians, a people living east of the...
View ArticleThis Day, September 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z
September 161380: King Charles V of France died. Charles ruled during a very difficult time in French history – the 14thcentury – that included the One Hundred Years War and the Black Death. For...
View ArticleThis Day, September 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 171183: As Christians and Muslims jockey for control of what is really the homeland of the Jews, Saladin left Damascus with a large army today with the intention of driving the Crusaders out...
View ArticleThis Day, September 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 18825 BCE: The Jewish people began a 14-day celebration to dedicate the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. The Temple project was initiated by King David, and built by his son, King Solomon....
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