This Day, August 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 1230 BCE: Cleopatra committed suicide. According to Josephus, the Egyptian tried to convince her lover and co-ruler, Marc Antony, to give her control over lands to the east including Syria and...
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August 13236: The body of Hippolytus, the author of Contra Judaeous, which blamed the harsh conditions of the Jews on their rejection of Jesus was buried in a cemetery on the Via Tiburtina339: The...
View ArticleThis Day, August 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 14508: Maurice, the Emperor of the Byzantine Emperor who in 592 would punish “the entire Jewish community of Antioch after a Jew violated one his laws” began his reign today.1084: Yusuf...
View ArticleThis Day, August 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 15423: Honorious Flavius, the Western Roman Emperor who confiscated gold and silver which had been collected by the synagogues to be sent to Jerusalem and “defined Judaism as an unworthy...
View ArticleThis Day, August 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 161027: The King of Georgia, Giorgi I, passed away. Jews were among the subjects of this monarch who ruled over a country situated in the Caucuses, on the eastern edge of the Black Sea. Leonti...
View ArticleThis Day, August 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 17986: During the days of the First Bulgarian Empire, the army of Emperor Samuil of Bulgaria and his brother defeat the Byzantines led by Basil II. The Bulgarian Empire had provided a haven for...
View ArticleThis Day, August 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 181201: Founding of Riga, capital of modern day Latvia. The first Jews appeared in Riga three centuries later and despite Czars, Nazis and Commissars continue to live in the city to this...
View ArticleThis Day, August 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 1943 BCE: Octavian. later known as Augustus compels the senate to elect him Consul. As the first Emperor of Rome (in fact, if not in name) Augustus would follow the policies of “moderation and...
View ArticleThis Day, August 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 20430: The Vandals, a Germanic tribe, established a kingdom in North Africa. The Jews lived there peacefully and flourished until the Almohad conquest in the 11th century.636: Arab forces...
View ArticleThis Day, August 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 211157: Alfonso the Emperor died. His kingdom was divided between his two sons with Sancho III the receiving Castile and , Ferdinand II, “who granted the Jews special privileges” receiving...
View ArticleThis Day, August 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 2270: According to Josephus, Titus began the battering operations against the wall of the Temple Court 6:4)634: Abu Bakr, the father-in-law of Mohammed and first Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate...
View ArticleThis Day, August 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 23634: Umar began his reign as the second Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate. Umar overturned the ban on Jews worshipping in Jerusalem. Not only did he clean the Temple Mount of Filth, he...
View ArticleThis Day, August 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 24410: The Visigoths under Alaric begin to pillage Rome for three days. According to tradition, the treasures of the Temples taken by the Romans in 70 now fell into his hands. The Visigoths...
View ArticleThis Day, August 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 25 79: Pliny the Elder passed away.http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0016_0_15865.html1270: Louis IX passed away. To the Christian world he became known as St. Louis....
View ArticleThis Day, August 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 261071: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at the Battle of Manzikert. This battle took place during the successful conquest of Palestine, or as what the Christians called the Holy Land...
View ArticleThis Day, August 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 27410: The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days. Some view the Visigoths as just one more group of barbarians that helped to bring an end to the Roman Empire. But that is only...
View ArticleThis Day, August 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 28388: Magnus Maximus, an Hispanic usurper to the throne of the western Roman Empire passed away. During his disputed reign Maximus issued an edict of which censured Christians at Rome for...
View ArticleThis Day, August 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
August 291255: The body of a little boy who had disappeared was found in a well at Lincoln. The boy would become known as Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (England) was the subject of an infamous ritual...
View ArticleThis Day, August 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 3070: According to Josephus, the day one which the Second Temple was set aflame500: Having conquered Italy, Ostrogoth King Theodoric gave the Jews freedom to worship.526 Death of Theodoric the...
View ArticleThis Day, August 31, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 3112 CE: Birthdate of Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor. Caligula was crowned in 37 and murdered in 41. Life for Jews during his reign was part of the downward spiral that would result in three...
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