This 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...
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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 865BCE: Birthday of Quintus Horatius Flaccus, the Roman poet known as Horace who created “credat Juadaeus Appella” which gave rise to the character of “Jew...
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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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December 101475: Seventy eight year old Italian artist Paolo Uccello passed away. Like many artists of his time, Uccello produced what today would be called anti-Semitic art. Among his works was...
View ArticleThis Day, December 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
DECEMBER 11321: A letter from Emperor Constantine the Great regarding special taxes of this date provides the first evidence of Jews along the Rhine. 361: Emperor Julian, referred to as Julian the...
View ArticleThis Day, December 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 12456 BCE (1st of Tevet, 3305): Ezra opened convocation on the problem of intermarriage.627: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by...
View ArticleThis Day, December 13, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 13522 BCE: Darius I, the Persian monarch who allowed the Jewish people to re-build the Temple at Jerusalem strengthened his hold on his kingdom when he defeated Nebuchadnezzar III in a battle...
View ArticleThis Day, December 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
DECEMBER 14 164 BCE (3597): On the secular calendar date on which Judah Maccabee restored the service in the Temple in Jerusalem.1243: “King Henry III turned a confiscated synagogue into the chapel of...
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