This Day, January 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 17395: Emperor Theodosius, I passed away in Milan. During his reign he instituted several laws that directly impacted his Jewish subject. One “dealt with the obligation of Jews and Samaritans...
View ArticleThis Day, January 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 18360: In a move that demonstrated how Christianity was becoming the state religion of the Roman Empire with all that meant to detriment of the Jews, Roman Emperor Constantius II “decreed that...
View ArticleThis Day, January 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 19570: Birthdate of Mohammed. Mohammed thought the Jews of Arabia would join his new religion. When they did not, he turned on them in much the same way Luther would when the Jews rejected his...
View ArticleThis Day, January 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 20250: Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Decius reign came during a fifty-year period (235-285) that was marked by “crisis, confusion and deterioration...
View ArticleThis Day, January 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 21763: Thirteen years after coming to power, the Abbasids defeated the Alids at the Battle of Bakhamra, ending this challenge to their Caliphate. The Abbasid Dynasty lasted for approximately...
View ArticleThis Day, January 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 221167(23rd of Shevat, 4927): Ibn-Ezra passed away at the age of 78 in Calahorra which was on the border between Navarre and Aragon. There is no way that any entry could do justice to this...
View ArticleThis Day, January 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 23393: Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine-year-old son Honorius co-emperor. “Under the rule of Theodosius and his sons… the Christian church consolidated its position as the sole...
View ArticleThis Day, January 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 2441: At midday today, Caligula, accompanied by Herod Agrippa, the last Jewish King of Judea, was leaving \ through a covered walkway when one of the Praetorian tribunes drew his sword and hit...
View ArticleThis Day, January 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 2541: Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate. “Claudius rescinded Caligula’s provocative decrees affecting Judean and reaffirmed Jewish rights throughout the rest of the Roman...
View ArticleThis Day, January 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell
January 26 1482: “The first edition of the Pentateuch with vowel signs and accents appeared today at Bologna.1531: Three tremors shake Portugal and numerous houses are destroyed in Lisbon by an...
View ArticleThis Day, January 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 2798: Nerva, the Roman emperor who in “96 Nerva courted popularity in Rome for his new regime by changing the way in which the special tax on Jews payable to the fiscus Judaicus was exacted”...
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January 28 814: Charlemagne passed away. The grandson of Charles Martel was one of the greatest European rulers during the Dark Ages. There was nothing Dark about his treatment of the Jews. For the...
View ArticleThis Day, January 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 29904: Sergius III began his papacy during which Jews first began settling at Mayence, Germany in 906.1258: “The Mongols under Chinese general Guo Kan laid siege to” Baghdad today as part of a...
View ArticleThis Day, January 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 301349(10th of Adar, 5109): The Jews of Freilsburg Germany were massacred.1592: Clement VIII began his papacy during which he enacted numerous anti-Jews moving including the issuance of Cum...
View ArticleThis Day, January 31, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 31314: Sylvester I whose name is “the Israeli term for New Year’s night celebrations” began his papacy“The Israeli term for New Year’s night celebrations, “Sylvester,” was the name of the...
View ArticleThis Day, February 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
February 1682: Visigoth King Erwig pressed for the "utter extirpation of the pest of the Jews," and made it illegal to practice any Jewish rites in an area that corresponds to much of modern-day...
View ArticleThis Day, February 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
February 2450: Birthdate of Justin I during whose reign as Byzantine Emperor the Beth Alpha synagogue was built “at the foot of the northern slopes of the Mt. Gilboa near Beit She’an.506: Alaric II,...
View ArticleThis Day, February 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
February 319(12th of Adar, 3779): Dedication of the Temple built by King Herod the Great at Jerusalem1112: Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those...
View ArticleThis Day, February 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
February 4211: The reign of Septimius Servus, the Roman emperor who outlawed conversions to both Judaism and Christianity in an attempt to unify his crumbling empire, came to an end.362: Roman Emperor...
View ArticleThis Day, February 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
February 5517/519: Alcimus Avitus, the Archbishop of Vienne in Gaul who in 576 on Easter temporarily succeeded in calming a crowd angered when a recent convert to Christianity was doused with oil. Four...
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