This Day, January 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 9638: As a result of the Sixth Council of Toledo that began today “King Chintilla decreed that only Catholics were permitted to live in Visigothic Spain.”681: Erwig, the Visigoth King of what...
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January 1049 BCE: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war. Caesar’s opposition was led by Pompey, the Roman who defiled the Holy of Holies, mocked the Jewish religion and...
View ArticleThis Day, January 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 11 66(28th of Tevet, 3826): The Sanhedrin elected Joseph ben Gorion and the High Priest Anan as the administrative heads of the government of Judea replacing King Agrippa314: Militades, who was...
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January 121349: A letter sent today “from the city of council of Cologne…to the leaders of Strasbroug” warned that pogroms (attacks on the Jews) had turned into general riots “by the common people” and...
View ArticleThis Day, January 13, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 13 519 BCE: Darius had “a crown made for Zerubbabel out of gold sent by Jews in Babylon.”915: Birthdate of Al-Hakam II, the second Caliph of Cordoba from 961 to 976 whose subjects included...
View ArticleThis Day, January 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 1483 BCE: Birthdate of Marcus Antonius, who is better known as Mark Antony (often pronounced Anthony). Mark Antony is credited by some with recognizing Herod as a Jewish leader and elevating...
View ArticleThis Day, January 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 15588 BCE: On the secular calendar, Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until July 18, 586 BCE 69: Servius Sulpicius Galba 6th emperor...
View ArticleThis Day, January 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 1627 BCE: Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire. Ten years earlier Augustus had appointed Herod as King of...
View ArticleThis 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, December 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 23800: Today,Leo III, the Pope whose aggressive plan to crown Charlemagne gave the Jews of the Rhineland a comparatively benign ruler “took an oath of purgation concerning the charges of...
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 A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 261482: “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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