This 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): On November 21, 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...
View ArticleThis Day, November 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
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 Levin Z"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...
View ArticleThis Day, November 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 2643 BCE: The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed. This power sharing...
View ArticleThis Day, November 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 27176: Emperor Marcus Aurelius grant his son Commodus the rank of Imperator and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions. To the world at large Marcus Aurelius was “the...
View ArticleThis Day, November 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 281058: Casmir I the Restorer who was “the de jure monarch of Poland starting in 1034” during whose reign there were Jews living in the capital city of Gniezno passed away today.1095: On the...
View ArticleThis Day, November 29, in Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 29800: Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III. Leo and Charlemagne were allies. Charlemagne would exonerate Leo of the charges and Leo would crown...
View ArticleThis Day, November 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 301215: The Fourth Lateran Council which had been led by Innocent III came to a close. The Fourth Lateran Council made first official use of the term "transubstantiation," with reference to...
View ArticleThis Day, December 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 1500: (Kislev 4428): This is the traditional date of the closing of the Talmudic era and the beginning of the Saboraic era. Saboraim is “the title applied to the principals and scholars of the...
View ArticleThis Day, December 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 2127 CE: In a document drawn up on this date at a government office in Rabbatg, east of the Dead Sea, four date groves in Maoza were registered by their owner as part of a provincial census...
View ArticleThis Day, December 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 3311: Sixty-sixty year old Emperor Diocletian passed away.http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0005_0_05240.html1368: Birthdate of Charles VI, the French king who...
View ArticleThis Day, December 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 4771: King Carloman dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne King of the entire Frankish Kingdom. Following the death of their father, King Pepin the Short, the two brothers had each ruled a...
View ArticleThis Day, December 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 563 BCE: Cicero read the last of his Catiline Orations which exposed Cataline’s conspiracy to overthrow the government of Rome. There is no record of how Cataline felt about Jews, but Cicero...
View ArticleThis Day, December 6, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
DECEMBER 61060: Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary. In 1061 Bela changed the Market Day from the traditional Sunday to Saturday which may have been part of an attempt to remove the Jews from...
View ArticleThis Day, December 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin Z"L
DECEMBER 743 BCE: The famous orator Marcus Tullius Cicero died. Cicero was a Patrician, member of the Senate and opponent of Julius Caesar. Following Caesar’s assassination, Mark Anthony and Octavian...
View ArticleThis Day, December 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 81292: John Peckham, the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose insistence that the closure of “chief synagogues of the Jews of London” was not enough, causing the few remaining Jewish houses of...
View ArticleThis Day, December 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 91212: In Mainz, coronation of Frederick II as King of Germany during whose reign the Jewish “community of Austria began to flourish” due to his “recognition that the Jews were a separate...
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