This Day, August 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
August 2270: According to Josephus, Titus began the battering operations against the wall of the Temple Court 6:4)634: Abu Bakr, the father-in-law of Mohammed and first Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate...
View ArticleThis Day, August 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
August 23634: Umar began his reign as the second Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate. Umar overturned the ban on Jews worshipping in Jerusalem. Not only did he clean the Temple Mount of Filth, he...
View ArticleThis Day, August 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
August 24410: The Visigoths under Alaric begin to pillage Rome for three days. According to tradition, the treasures of the Temples taken by the Romans in 70 now fell into his hands. The Visigoths...
View ArticleThis Day,, August 25, In Jewish HIstory by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
August 2579: Pliny the Elder passed away.http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0016_0_15865.html1270: Louis IX passed away. To the Christian world he became known as St. Louis....
View ArticleThis Day, August 26, In Jewish History By Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
August 26 1071: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at the Battle of Manzikert. This battle took place during the successful conquest of Palestine, or as what the Christians called the Holy Land...
View ArticleThis Day, August 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
August 27410: The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days. Some view the Visigoths as just one more group of barbarians that helped to bring an end to the Roman Empire. But that is only...
View ArticleThis Day, August 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
August 28388: Magnus Maximus, an Hispanic usurper to the throne of the western Roman Empire passed away. During his disputed reign Maximus issued an edict of which censured Christians at Rome for...
View ArticleThis Day, August, 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
August 291255: The body of little boy who had disappeared was found in a well at Lincoln. The boy would become known as Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (England) was the subject of an infamous ritual...
View ArticleThis Day, August 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
August 3070: According to Josephus, the day one which the Second Temple was set aflame500: Having conquered Italy, Ostrogoth King Theodoric gave the Jews freedom to worship.526 Death of Theodoric the...
View ArticleThis Day, August 31, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
August 3112 CE: Birthdate of Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor. Caligula was crowned in 37 and murdered in 41. Life for Jews during his reign was part of the downward spiral that would result in three...
View ArticleThis Day, September 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
September 1September is an auspicious month in terms of Jewish History. Like most things in the world of Jews, it is a mixed bag-- a combination of the bitter and the sweet. Today we mark the...
View ArticleThis Day, September 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
September 244 BCE: Cicero delivers the first of his fourteen Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the next several months. From a Jewish perspective it might be...
View ArticleThis Day, September 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
September 3141 BCE (18th of Elul, 3619): The fight begun by Matthias and Judah came to a successful conclusion when Simon was elected High Priest and was recognized as the governing authority of an...
View ArticleThis Day, September 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
September 4 476:The German general Odoacer defeated Orestes and deposed the child emperor Romulus Augustus marking the “official end of the Roman Empire.” Actually this was the end of the Empire in...
View ArticleThis Day, September 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
September 5394: Battle of Frigidus between Emperor Theodosius who ruled the eastern Roman Empire and Eugenius, ruler of the western part of the empire. Theodosius’ victory brought the two halves of the...
View ArticleThis Day, September 6, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
September 63761 B.C.E.: The first day of the Hebrew Calendar. "The epoch of the modern Hebrew calendar is Monday, October 7, 3761 BCE, being the tabular date (same daylight period) in the proleptic...
View ArticleThis Day, September 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
September 770: On the secular calendar the date on which a Roman army under Titus occupied and plundered Jerusalem.1191: The Crusader army led by King Richard the Lionhearted defeated the army of...
View ArticleThis Day, September 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
September 870: On the secular calendar, Jerusalem is sacked by the 60,000 troops of Titus' Roman army after a six month siege. Over a million Jewish citizens perished in the siege and, following the...
View ArticleThis Day, September 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
September 9337: Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors dividing the Roman Empire between the three Augusti. Constantine was responsible for...
View ArticleThis Day, September 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
September 10134 CE: The great Talmudic sage, Rabbi Akiva, was taken captive by the Romans, and executed five days later in Caesarea, Israel. Rabbi Akiva had been a 40-year-old shepherd who could not...
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