This Day, June 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 20840: Louis the Pious, King of the Franks and the Holy Roman Emperor by virtue of being the son of Charlemagne. When it came to dealing with his Jewish subjects, Louis followed in the footsteps...
View ArticleThis Day, June 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 21356 B.C.E.: Birthdate of Alexander the Great. Alexander traveled back forth across Judea; first when he went down to conquer Egypt and then when he came back from his Egyptian conquest and moved...
View ArticleThis Day, June 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 22217 BCE: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeated Antiochus III at the Battle of Raphia. The Battle of Raphia, also known as the Battle of Gaza, was part of the ongoing power struggle between the Seleucids...
View ArticleThis Day, June 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 2379: Vespasian, the Roman general who was in the process of conquering Judea when he became Emperor, died.79: Titus, the Roman general whom the Jews will always remember for the destruction of...
View ArticleThis Day, June 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 24586 BCE (9th of Tammuz, 3174): King Nebuchadnezzar’s army broke through the walls of Jerusalem and entered the City of David. 1182: Phillip II, the seventeen year old French monarch “decreed the...
View ArticleThis Day, June 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 25750: Today Abdullah ibn Ali marched to Antipartis which is modern day Israel and massacred “80 members of the of Umayyad dynasty” with whom his clan, the Abbasids were at war with.”1080: The...
View ArticleThis Day, June 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 26363: Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield. According to various sources, Julian was a...
View ArticleThis Day, June 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 271096: Massacres of the Jews took place in Xanten and Eller (Germany). This was the second massacre at Xanten in a month. Fifty Jews died. At Eller, five Jewish community leaders were assigned...
View ArticleThis Day, June 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 281320: “Pope John XXII issues Bullarium Romanum, ordering that Jews who convert to Christianity must be allowed to keep their property. The implication is that Jews who don't convert won't...
View ArticleThis Day, June 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 291096: Crusaders massacred the Jews of Mehr.1106: Moses Sephardi was baptized at Huseca, Spain and took the name of Petrus Alphonsi, the noted “physician, writer, astronomer and polemicist.”...
View ArticleThis Day, June 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 30713 CE: In Spain, Visigoth nobility which had held out against the invading Moslem forces, throughout the winter of 712 finally surrendered to the Arabs. A majority of the remaining Goths and...
View ArticleThis Day, July 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 169: Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as emperor. This consolidation of Vespasian’s imperial power helped to seal the fate of...
View ArticleThis Day, July 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 2 311: Miltiades began serving as Bishop of Rome (Pope) during the reign of Constantine the Great, the Roman Emperor who moved against the Jews in his effort to make the...
View ArticleThis Day, July 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 3 324: Constantine the Great defeated Licinius at the Battle of Adrianople. Constantine ruled the western half of the Roman Empire. Licinius ruled the eastern half. In 313 the two rulers had...
View ArticleThis Day, July 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 4925: Moslems raided Oria as part of their attacks on Italy. Ten rabbinical leaders were killed and many others were taken into captivity, including 12 year old Shabbetai Donnolo, who later...
View ArticleThis Day, July 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 51247: Pope Innocent IV, semi-retired by Emperor Frederick II, issued a Bull refuting blood libels and sent it throughout Germany and France. 1247: Today, Innocent IV dispatched a bull from Lyons...
View ArticleThis Day, July 6, In Jewish History Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 61189: Henry II, King of England, passed away. Compared to those who followed him to the throne, Henry’s treatment of his Jewish subjects was comparatively benign. (The emphasis is on...
View ArticleThis Day, July 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 71274: Pope Gregory X confirmed a bull issued in 1272 banning charges of blood ritual.1307: King Edward I, the monarch who expelled the Jews from England, died.1320: In Pastoureaux (Southern...
View ArticleThis Day, July 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 81099: In a move reminiscent of Joshua at Jericho, during the First Crusade 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as the Muslim defenders look on. This...
View ArticleThis Day, July 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 9118: Hadrian, Rome's new emperor, made his entry into the Imperial City. Regardless of how history remembers him, for Jews, Hadrian is the Emperor who helped to start the Third Rebellion against...
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