This Day, October 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
OCTOBER 211553 BCE (11 Cheshvan 2207): On the civil calendar, this date marked the death of Rachel, the matriarch and wife of Jacob, at the age of 36. She died during the childbirth of Benjamin, near...
View ArticleThis Day, October 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
OCTOBER 22362: A mysterious fire destroys the temple of Apollo at Daphne outside Antioch. According to one source,the Christians living in Antioch who were angry with the Emperor Julian for the favor...
View ArticleThis Day, October 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
OCTOBER 23521 BCE (17thof Tishrei):The first Babylonian record of Nebuchadnezzar III the usurper who challenged the rule of Darius, the Persian ruler under whose reign the building of the Second Temple...
View ArticleThis Day, October 24, In Jewish History by Mtichell A and Deb Levin
OCTOBER 2451: Birthdate of Titus Flavius Domitianus, who gained fame as the Roman Emperor Domitian. Domitian was the son of Vespasian and the brother of Titus, all three of whom played a key role in...
View ArticleThis Day, October 25, In Jewish History by MItchell A and Deb Levin
OCTOBER 25732: Christian forces led by Charles Martel clash defeat the invading Moors at the Battle of Tours which is near Poitiers in modern day France. The victory at Tours ensured that Western...
View ArticleThis Day, October 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
OCTOBER 261235: King Andrew II of Hungary passed away. During the reign of King Andrew II (1205–1235) there were Jewish Chamberlains and mint-, salt-, and tax-officials. The nobles of the country,...
View ArticleThis Day, October 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
OCTOBER 27312: Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross which will join the Sword of Constantine to the Cross of Christ in the governing of the Roman Empire, much...
View ArticleThis Day, October 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
OCTOBER 2897: Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard, to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor. Trajan would not become Emperor until Nerva died in January of the...
View ArticleThis Day, October 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
OCTOBER 29539 BCE: On the secular calendar, Babylon fell to Cyrus the Great of Persia. This is a significant date because it marked the start of the return of the exiles to Eretz Israel where the...
View ArticleThis Day, October 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
OCTOBER 301207BCE: According to “three scientists from Beersheba’s Ben Gurion University” who used NASA date today is the date of the eclipse which is described in the Book of Joshua as God making the...
View ArticleThis Day, October 31, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
OCTOBER 31445 BCE: In Jerusalem Ezra, the Scribe reads the Scroll of the Law, the Torah, to the Jews of Judea as described in Nehemiah 9:1. 475: Twenty five years after the redaction of the Jerusalem...
View ArticleThis Day, November 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
November 11179: Philip II is crowned King of France. In 1180, Phillip would order the arrest of all Jews living in his realm based on charges of ritual murder. It should come as no surprise that two...
View ArticleThis Day, November 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
November 2655: The Ninth Council of Toledo which was held under the auspices of King Recceuith and would adopt a resolution “that all conversos, not only converted Jews also others who had come during...
View ArticleThis Day, November 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
November 3166 BCE (15th of Cheshvan, 3595): Mattathais ben Yochanan passed away.361: Roman Emperor Constantius II died. Constantius II enhanced the anti-Jewish policies begun by his father. Under his...
View ArticleThis Day, November 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
November 4 1310: King Jaime II issued a royal decree exempting Judah Bonseynor from all taxes to which the Aljama of Barcelona was usually required to pay. “The king also ordered that neither...
View ArticleThis Day, November 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
November 51271: Birthdate of Mahmud Ghazan, the Mongol ruler whose conversion to Islam in 1295 led to the “Persian Jews in Tabriz” being relegated “once again to the status of dhimmis” which was...
View ArticleThis Day, November 6, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
November 6355: Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of Gaul. Constantius II followed the pro-Christian and...
View ArticleThis Day, November 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
November 7305 B.C.E.: Ptolemy, a Macedonian general who had fought by the side of Alexander the Great, became King of Egypt. Alexander’s empire broke into three parts after his death. Jerusalem and...
View ArticleThis Day, November 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
November 830: Birthdate of Marcus Cocceius Nerva, the Roman Emperor who changed the way in which the special tax on Jews was collected so that would not be the humiliating experience created by his...
View ArticleThis Day, November 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
November 9 694: Opening meeting of the Seventeenth Council of Toledo during which the Visigoth Catholic monarch, King Egica publicly charged the Jews with planning to "exterminate and [destroy] their...
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