This Day, December 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
DECEMBER 1537: Birthdate of Nero Claudius Augustus Germanicus 5th emperor of Rome. While legend remembers him as the emperor who fiddled while Rome burned, Jews will remember him as the ruler who was...
View ArticleThis Day, December 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 161316: Öljaitü, the eighth Ilkhanid dynasty ruler in Tabriz, Iran, whom the former vizer Rashid-al-Din Hamadani the Jewish convert to Islam was found of guilty of trying to poison, passed...
View ArticleThis Day, December 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 17520 BCE (24th of Kislev): “The foundation-stone of the Temple was laid” (As reported by Jewish Encyclopedia)http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4902-darius-i630: Modestus of Jerusalem...
View ArticleThis Day, December 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 181118: Alfonso the Battler conquered Zaragoza.1271: Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of China. Reportedly, Marco Polo found...
View ArticleThis Day, December 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 19324: Licinius abdicates his position as Emperor leaving Constatine I, “the first Christian Emperor” in control of the Roman Empire much to the detriment of the Jewish people.1154: Coronation...
View ArticleThis Day, December 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 2069: General Vespasianus occupied Rome on the same day that the Emperor Vitellius was murdered. Vespasianus is better known as Vespasian, the Roman general who was in charge of putting down...
View ArticleThis Day, December 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 2169: The Senate acknowledged Vespasian as emperor. This marked the end of the so-called The Year of the Four Emperors during which four individuals - Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian –...
View ArticleThis Day, December 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 2269: Emperor Vitellius is captured and murdered by the Gemonian stairs in Rome. 244: Birthdate of Diocletian, the Roman Emperor who ordered all of his subjects to accept his divinity and...
View ArticleThis Day, December 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 23962: Byzantine troops led by Nicephorus Phocas defeated Moslem forces and seized Aleppo. This temporary turn of events could not have been good for the Jews who had been living there since...
View ArticleThis Day, December 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 241166: King Henry II of England and Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine gave birth King John of England, the brother of Richard the Lionheart whom he followed to the throne in 1199 and who was such...
View ArticleThis Day, December 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 250337(14th of Tevet, 4098): Earliest possible date on which Christmas was reported to have been celebrated on December 25th. 496: Baptism of Clovis I, the Frankish ruler who united all the...
View ArticleThis Day, December 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 261135: Coronation of Stephen I, king of England, who in 1141 burned down the house of Aaron f. Isaac in Oxford as a way to “induce” the Jews to providing him with funds to continue his war...
View ArticleThis Day, December 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 27175 BCE (Tevet 3585): This day marked the completion of the Septuaginttranslation of the Bible into the Greek language. According to a letter from Aristeas to Philocrates, 72 sages, (six...
View ArticleThis Day, December 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 281235: A ritual murder massacre at Fulda resulted in the death of 32 Jews. The Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire established an investigation at Hagenau (located in modern Alsac) to confirm or...
View ArticleThis Day, December 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 29584 BCE(10 Tevet 3175):The Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, began his siege of Jerusalem leading to the destruction of the first Temple. This day is commemorated as one of the "minor" fasts,...
View ArticleThis Day, December 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 3039: A black day on the Jewish calendar; birthdate of Roman Emperor Titus the man who destroyed the Second Temple. The Arch of Titus commemorates the exile of the Israelites.987: Coronation...
View ArticleThis Day, December 31, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 31335: End of the Papacy of Sylvester I “who convinced Constantine to prohibit Jews from living in Jerusalem.”535: Byzantine General Belisarius took the city of Syracuse which marks the...
View ArticleThis Day, January 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 1630: Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that will capture it bloodlessly. At first Mohammed “had hoped to find is main supporters among the Jewish tribes” of Arabia. This...
View ArticleThis Day, January 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 2438: Empress Eudocia, the wife of Byzantine Emperor Theodius II, who spent the last years of her life in the Holy Land allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem and pray at the site of the...
View ArticleThis Day, January 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 3106 BCE: Birthdate of Marcus Tullius, the Roman statesman and orator. From the Jewish point of view he was just one more anti-Semitic intellectual. “He denounced Judaism as a ‘barbarous...
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