This 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 by 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...
View ArticleThis Day, July 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 1048 BCE: In his war with Pompey, Julius Caesar barely avoids defeat at the Battle of Dyrrhachium. A month later, after regrouping his forces, Caesar defeated Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus....
View ArticleThis Day, July 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 111174: Amalric I who had been King of Jerusalem since 1162 passed away. During his reign most of the Jews were expelled from Jerusalem; a ban that would last until 1175.1244:“Khorezmian Turkish...
View ArticleThis Day, July 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 121191: The armies of the Third Crusade (1189-92), led by England's King Richard ('The Lionhearted'), captured the Syrian seaport of Acre. The Third Crusade would end in failure for the Christian...
View ArticleThis Day, July 13, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 13100 BCE: Birthdate of Julius Caesar. When Caesar and Pompey fought for control of the Empire, the Jews supported Caesar because of the evil Pompey had done to the Jewish people including...
View ArticleThis Day, July 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 141086: Toirdelbach Ua Briain passed away. Born in 1009, he was the King of Munster and the High King of Ireland. During his reign, in 1079, Jews reportedly made their first appearance in the...
View ArticleThis Day, July 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 15763 BCE: Forty-one years before their conquest of Israel, the Assyrians observe and record a solar eclipse which is the basis for much of the dating of activities in the Fertile Crescent,...
View ArticleThis Day, July 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 16622: The Prophet Mohammed begins his Hijra from Mecca to Medina. This marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar. The importance of this to Jewish history should require no explanation.1099:...
View ArticleThis Day, July 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 171203: The Knights of the Fourth Crusade capture Constantinople forcing the Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus to flee from his capital into exile. Unlike other Crusades, the focus of the...
View ArticleThis Day, July 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 1864: During the reign of Emperor Nero, the Great Fire begins in Rome. After the fire, Nero avoided the initial inclination to blame the blaze on the Jews. Instead, he targeted the nascent...
View ArticleThis Day, July 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 1964: During the reign of Nero, The Great Fire at Rome comes to end. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, Jews had been living in Rome since the second century before the Common Era since “the...
View ArticleThis Day, July 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 20356 BCE: In Macedonia, King Philip II and Queen Olympia gave birth to Alexander the Great. You can draw a straight line from Alexander’s Hellenization of Asia Minor to Chanukah to Tisha B’Av,...
View ArticleThis Day, July 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 21285: Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler. This was part of an attempt to shore up the imperial authority. In another such step, Diocletian “ordered all the people …to accept his...
View ArticleThis Day, July 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 221099: During the First Crusade, in what has to be one of the most ironic moment of the Middle Ages, Godfrey of Bouillon, one of the leaders who had extorted money from the Jews in Mainz and...
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