This Day, June 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 570: Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.1191 After conquering Cyprus, Richard the Lionheart and his Crusaders set sail for “the Holy Land.” This crusading left England...
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JUNE 61191: As the Christians seek to retake Jerusalem King Richard the Lionhearted arrived at Tyre. 1142: Today, during the second Siege of Coria, Emperor Alonso VII of Leon and Castille “granted the...
View ArticleThis Day, June 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 7421: Theodosius II, the Emperor whose code sought to reinforce Christianity as the state religion at the expense of Judaism, married Aelia Eudocia Augusta, a pagan who converted so that they...
View ArticleThis Day, June 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 866 CE: Jewish insurgent forces captured the fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem. This battle marked the outbreak of the Jewish revolt against Rome. This revolt would end with the destruction of the...
View ArticleThis Day, June 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 968: The Emperor Nero died in Rome. Nero had appointed four governors of Judea each of whom was crueler and greedier than his predecessor. The Jewish Revolt in 66 was caused, in part, by this...
View ArticleThis Day, June 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 101190: During the Third Crusade Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem. The German emperor was one of three monarchs leading the crusade. The other...
View ArticleThis Day, June 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 111509: Marriage of King Henry VIII of England and Katherine of Aragon. Before marrying Henry, the Spanish made him promise that he would never permit Jews to live in his Kingdom. Henry agreed...
View ArticleThis Day, June 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 12816: Leo III, the Pope whose aggressive plan to crown Charlemagne gave the Jews of the Rhineland a comparatively benign ruler, passed away today.1240: Nicholas Donin, a renegade Jew under the...
View ArticleThis Day, June 13, In Jewish History, By Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 13823: Birthdate of Charles the Bald, who as Holy Roman Emperor refused to comply with anti-Semitic edicts of Amulo, the Archbishop of Lyon. In doing so, Charles was following in the footsteps of...
View ArticleThis Day, June 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 141287: Kublai Khan defeated the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria. It is quite possible that there were Jewish soldiers serving under the...
View ArticleThis Day, June 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 151215: King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta. The Great Charter which is supposed to be one of the cornerstones of English and American rights contains the following reference...
View ArticleThis Day, June 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 161221: Massacre of the Jews of Erfurt, Germany which at one time was commemorated as a Fast Day on the 25th of Sivan.1295: Mahmud Ghazan the seventh ruler of the Mongol Empire's Ilkhanate...
View ArticleThis Day, June 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
JUNE 17 397: Roman Emperors Arcadius and Honorius issue the following order "The governors must be informed that, upon receipt of this notice, all insults attacking the Jews shall be averted...
View ArticleThis Day, June 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 181155: In Rome, the coronation of Frederick Barbarossa makes him the Holy Roman Emperor. Compared to other medieval monarchs, Frederick’s treatment of his Jewish subjects was comparatively...
View ArticleThis Day, June 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 19325: Promulgation of the Nicene Creed. The creed dealt with various splits among the various Christian groups and only dealt in a tangential manner with matters pertaining to Jews. The creed...
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This Day, June 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 20840: Louis the Pious, King of the Franks and the Holy Roman Emperor by virtue of being the son of Charlemagne. When it came to dealing with his Jewish subjects, Louis followed in the footsteps...
View ArticleThis Day, June 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 21356 B.C.E.: Birthdate of Alexander the Great. Alexander traveled back forth across Judea; first when he went down to conquer Egypt and then when he came back from his Egyptian conquest and moved...
View ArticleThis Day, June 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 22217 BCE: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeated Antiochus III at the Battle of Raphia. The Battle of Raphia, also known as the Battle of Gaza, was part of the ongoing power struggle between the Seleucids...
View ArticleThis Day, June 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 2379: Vespasian, the Roman general who was in the process of conquering Judea when he became Emperor, died.79: Titus, the Roman general whom the Jews will always remember for the destruction of...
View ArticleThis Day, June 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 24586 BCE (9th of Tammuz, 3174): King Nebuchadnezzar’s army broke through the walls of Jerusalem and entered the City of David. 1182: Phillip II, the seventeen-year-old French monarch “decreed the...
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