This Day, April 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 21 753 BCE: According to tradition, on this date Romulus and Remus founded Rome. Considering the impact that Rome would have on the Jewish people this date is worth noting. 586: Ricard I became...
View ArticleThis Day, April 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 22 404:Emperors Arcadius and Honorius limit the opportunities of Jews to serve the Empire when they issue the following: "We decree that the Jews and Samaritans who flatter themselves with the...
View ArticleThis Day, April 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 23 0034: According to Sir Isaac Newton, this is the date of the crucifixion of Jesus.1185: Birthdate Alfonzo II, the third King of Portugal who was part of a dynasty that who provided a...
View ArticleThis Day, April 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 2470: During the Jewish rebellion against Rome, Roman legions break through Jerusalem’s middle wall, but are driven back by the Jewish defenders. 396: As conditions for the Jews in the Roman...
View ArticleThis Day, April 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 25693: Opening session of the Sixteenth Council of Toledo which, before its close, would add more regulations that would prove oppressive to the Jews living under the Visigoths. This Visigoth...
View ArticleThis Day, April 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
April 26121: Birthdate of Marcus Aurelius the Roman Emperor who described the Jews as being “stinking and tumultuous.” 1478: The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and killed his brother Giuliano during...
View ArticleThis Day, April 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 27399 BCE: Socrates drank hemlock as he carried out the death penalty that had been imposed on him by the government. For centuries to come some Jews would study Socrates and other Greeks, in...
View ArticleThis Day, April 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 2866: After stealing money from the Temple Treasury, the Roman Procurator Gessius Florus allowed his troops to “loot the Upper Market” of Jerusalem. He also unleashed his Cohorts on the crowds of...
View ArticleThis Day, April 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 29711: According to some sources the date on which an army led by Tariq ibn Ziyad landed at Gibraltar marking the start of the Moslem conquest of the Iberian Peninsula with all that would come to...
View ArticleThis Day, April 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin Z"L
April 30313: Licinius defeated Maximinus at the Battle of Tzirallum, thus making him the Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire. The Emperor of the Western Roman Empire was his brother-in-law,...
View ArticleThis Day, May 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 1305: Due to age and ill health and a desire to provide stability for the Roman Empire Diocletian resigned as Emperor of Rome. Relatively speaking, Diocletian’s reign was a positive period for...
View ArticleThis Day, May 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 2373: “Bishop Athanasius of Alexandria…aggressive opponent of Arianism and polemicist against Judaism died today.” 693: The Sixteenth Council of Toledo, which had opened on April 25, met for the...
View ArticleThis Day, May 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 31282 BCE: (28 Nissan 2488): Traditional date marking the fall of the walls of Jericho.443 BCE (7th of Iyar, 3317): Nehemiah dedicated the newly built walls that had been built around Jerusalem996:...
View ArticleThis Day, May 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 41008: Birthdate of King Henry I of France who reigned from 1031 until his death in 1060 which means that he was on the throne when a future wine maker, Shlomo Yitzhaki, was born at Troyes in...
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May 51028: King Alfonso V of Castile passed away. In 1020, Alfonso had presided over the Council of Leon which adopted laws that created a certain amount of equality between Christians and Jews. The...
View ArticleThis Day, May 6, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 6 1313 BCE (1 Iyar 2448): According to tradition, this was the date of the first population survey of the Israelite people taken by Moses.124 CE: A Roman centurion named Valens stationed in the...
View ArticleThis Day, May 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 7 833 BCE (2 Iyar 2928): Traditional date on which King Solomon began building the Temple in Jerusalem.351: Gallus, who had been appointed “Caesar” of the East by his cousin, the Emperor...
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May 8336: Emperor Constantine prohibits Jews from negatively interacting with their co-religionists who have converted to Christianity. "Jews are not allowed to disturb any man one has converted from...
View ArticleThis Day, May 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 91457 BCE: In the 15th century BCE, Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh. The victory of Thutmose extended the orbit of Egyptian influence...
View ArticleThis Day, May 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 1070: During the Siege of Jerusalem, Titus, the commander of the Roman legions and the son of Emperor Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city's Third Wall to the...
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