This Day, April 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 26121: Birthdate of Marcus Aurelius the Roman Emperor who described the Jews as being “stinking and tumultuous.” 1198: Frederick I, Duke of Austria who employed a Jew named Schlom as his master...
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April 27399 BCE: Socrates drank hemlock as he carried out the death penalty that had been imposed on him by the government. For centuries to come some Jews would study Socrates and other Greeks, in...
View ArticleThis Day, April 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 2866: After stealing money from the Temple Treasury, the Roman Procurator Gessius Florus allowed his troops to “loot the Upper Market” of Jerusalem. He also unleashed his Cohorts on the crowds of...
View ArticleThis Day, April 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 29711: According to some sources the date on which an army led by Tariq ibn Ziyad landed at Gibraltar marking the start of the Moslem conquest of the Iberian Peninsula with all that would come to...
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April 30313: Licinius defeated Maximinus at the Battle of Tzirallum, thus making him the Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire. The Emperor of the Western Roman Empire was his brother-in-law,...
View ArticleThis Day, May 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z'L
May 1305: Due to age and ill health and a desire to provide stability for the Roman Empire Diocletian resigned as Emperor of Rome. Relatively speaking, Diocletian’s reign was a positive period for...
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May 2373: “Bishop Athanasius of Alexandria…aggressive opponent of Arianism and polemicist against Judaism died today.” 693: The Sixteenth Council of Toledo, which had opened on April 25, met for the...
View ArticleThis Day, May 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 31282 BCE: (28 Nissan 2488): Traditional date marking the fall of the walls of Jericho.443 BCE (7th of Iyar, 3317): Nehemiah dedicated the newly built walls that had been built around Jerusalem996:...
View ArticleThis Day, May 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z'l
May 41008: Birthdate of King Henry I of France who reigned from 1031 until his death in 1060 which means that he was on the throne when a future wine maker, Shlomo Yitzhaki, was born at Troyes in 1040....
View ArticleThis Day, May 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin "ZL'
May 51028: King Alfonso V of Castile passed away. In 1020, Alfonso had presided over the Council of Leon which adopted laws that created a certain amount of equality between Christians and Jews. The...
View ArticleThis Day, May 6, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 61313 BCE (1 Iyar 2448): According to tradition, this was the date of the first population survey of the Israelite people taken by Moses.124 CE: A Roman centurion named Valens stationed in the...
View ArticleThis Day, May 7, in Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 7833 BCE (2 Iyar 2928): Traditional date on which King Solomon began building the Temple in Jerusalem.351: Gallus, who had been appointed “Caesar” of the East by his cousin, the Emperor...
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May 8336: Emperor Constantine prohibits Jews from negatively interacting with their co-religionists who have converted to Christianity. "Jews are not allowed to disturb any man one has converted from...
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May 91457 BCE: In the 15th century BCE, Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh. The victory of Thutmose extended the orbit of Egyptian influence...
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May 1070: During the Siege of Jerusalem, Titus, the commander of the Roman legions and the son of Emperor Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city's Third Wall to the...
View ArticleThis Day, May 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 11330: Roman Emperor Constantine I changed the name of the ancient city of Byzantium to Nova Roma (New Rome) as it becomes the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. The city will be known as...
View ArticleThis Day, May 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 12940: Sixty-two you are old Eutychius of Alexandria, the Greek who wrote Nazm al-Jauhar, a history, of what some may consider of dubious accuracy that began with Creation and ran through the 10th...
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May 131333: Birthdate of Reginald III of Guelders, a duchy in the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1349 the Duke of Guelders, was authorized by the Emperor Louis IV of the Holy Roman Empire of Germany to allow...
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May 141141: As he journeyed towards Jerusalem, Yehuda Halevi set sail for Palestine today from Alexandria, Egypt. According to legend, Halevi was killed by an Arab horseman when as he reached his...
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May 15392: Theodosius I, who had been emperor of the eastern half of the Roman Empire became the last ruler of the entire Roman Empire (east and west) “A general of Spanish origin, and the son of...
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