This Day, January 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
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...
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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 BCE69: Servius Sulpicius Galba 6th emperor...
View ArticleThis Day, January 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
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. Levin
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. Levin
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. Levin
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. Levin
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. Levin
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. Levin
January 221167(23rdof 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. Levin
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. Levin
January 24 41: Roman Emperor Caligula is murdered by the Praetorian Guard. Caligula’s treatment of the Jews does not qualify him as an anti-Semite since he was “a certifiable nut case” who murdered...
View ArticleThis Day, January 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
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. Levin
January 261531: Three tremors shake Portugal and numerous houses are destroyed in Lisbon by an earthquake which the Pope and others believe confirm the prediction of suffering made by Solomon Molcho...
View ArticleThis Day, January 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
January 27 98: Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva. The second of the three Jewish revolts against Roman authority took place at the end of Trajan’s reign. This second revolt took...
View ArticleThis Day, January 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
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. Levin
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. Levin
January 301349: 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 Saepe Accidere, a papal...
View ArticleThis Day, January 31, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
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. Levin
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. Levin
February 2 506: Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths promulgated The Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum) a collection of Roman law that included the sixteen books...
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