This Day, September 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 12490 BCE: According to German scholar Philipp August Böckh, the Greeks defeated the Persians at the Battle of Marathon. The Persians were led by Darius I, the ruler under whom the Second...
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September 13586 BCE (3 Tishrei 3338): On the civil calendar assassination of Gedaliah ben Achikam. He had been appointed Governor of Judea by Nebuchadnezzar in an attempt to revitalize the Jewish...
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September 14 81: Domitian, the third of the Falvians, became Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus. Like his father Vespasian and his brother Titus, Domitian took great deal...
View ArticleThis Day, September 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 1553: Birthdate of Trajan who was Roman emperor from 98 until his death of 117. In the last decade of his rule, Trajan began a campaign against the Parthians, a people living east of the...
View ArticleThis Day, September 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 161380: King Charles V of France died. Charles ruled during a very difficult time in French history – the 14th century – that included the One Hundred Years War and the Black Death. For...
View ArticleThis Day, September 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 171183: As Christians and Muslims jockey for control of what is really the homeland of the Jews, Saladin left Damascus with a large army today with the intention of driving the Crusaders out...
View ArticleThis Day, September 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 18 825 BCE: The Jewish people began a 14-day celebration to dedicate the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. The Temple project was initiated by King David, and built by his son, King Solomon....
View ArticleThis Day, September 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 19335: Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his Uncle Constantine I who had turned the Roman Empire into a Christian entity. Following the death of Constantine, his successor...
View ArticleThis Day, September 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 20357 B.C.E.: Birthdate of Alexander the Great. Alexander's eastern conquests would bring the Jews in contact with Greek Culture. The conflict between Greek and Jewish values would become a...
View ArticleThis Day, September 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 2119 BCE: Virgil, the classical Roman poet passes away. Eclogue 4, the so-called Messianic Eclogue, is the best known of Virgil’s Eclogues or “Selected Poems also known as Bucolics or...
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This Day, September 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 22 384: Roman Emperors Gratian, Valentinian II, and Theodosius I forbid Jews from buying or owning Christian slaves. If any such slaves are found with Jews, they must be removed and sold to...
View ArticleThis Day, September 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 23484 BCE: Birthdate of the very influential Greek playwright Euripides. Wherever Greek culture spread, writers attempted to create drama in the manner of Euripides. During the time of...
View ArticleThis Day, September 24, by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 24416: “Roman emperors Honorius and Theodosius II order that any Jews who have joined the Christian church to avoid punishments for crimes must be allowed to return to Judaism because, in the...
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This Day, September 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 25275: Marcus Claudius Tacitus appointed Roman emperor by the senate. By now the Roman Empire was in decline and Emperor’s served at the pleasure of the Army. In the case of Tacitus, that...
View ArticleThis Day, September 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"l
September 261087: Coronation of King William Rufus, the second son of William the Conqueror who “managed to prevent in England the massacres of Jews that occurred in Rouen, and across France and the...
View ArticleThis Day, September 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 270070 The walls of the upper city of Jerusalem were battered down by the Roman army1331: Polish forces under Wladyslaw and his son Casimir defeated the Germanic Knights at the Battle of...
View ArticleThis Day, September 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z'l
September 28 48 B.C.E.: Pompey the Great was assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. While many Roman leaders get low marks in terms of Jewish History, Pompey rates at...
View ArticleThis Day, September 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 29522 BCE: Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire. The success of Darius was good thing for the Jewish people. From the Book of...
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September 30132 C.E. (10 Tishrei): On the secular calendar, Akivah ben Joseph known as Rabbi Akiva passed away. He was born in 50 C.E., twenty years before the destruction of the Second Temple....
View ArticleThis Day, October 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 12016 B.C.E.: According to some the anniversary of the Origin of Era of Abraham on the secular calendar. The exactitude of this date is easily open to debate. There is a general agreement...
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