This Day, December 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 2069: General Vespasianus occupied Rome on the same day that the Emperor Vitellius was murdered. Vespasianus is better known as Vespasian, the Roman general who was in charge of putting down...
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December 2169: The Senate acknowledged Vespasian as emperor. This marked the end of the so-called The Year of the Four Emperors during which four individuals - Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian –...
View ArticleThis Day, December 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 2269: Emperor Vitellius is captured and murdered by the Gemonian stairs in Rome. Vitellius was the third of The Four Emperors. He would be succeeded by Vespasian, the man who put down the...
View ArticleThis Day, December 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 23962: Byzantine troops led by Nicephorus Phocas defeated Moslem forces and seized Aleppo. This temporary turn of events could not have been good for the Jews who had been living there since...
View ArticleThis Day, December 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 241166: Birthdate of King John of England, the brother of Richard the Lionheart whom he followed to the throne in 1199 and also so rapacious a monarch that the English nobles banned together...
View ArticleThis Day, December 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 250337(14th of Tevet, 4098): Earliest possible date on which Christmas was reported to have been celebrated on December 25th. 496: Baptism of Clovis I, the Frankish ruler who united all the...
View ArticleThis Day, December 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 261135: Coronation of Stephen I, king of England, who in 1141 burned down the house of Aaron f. Isaac in Oxford as a way to “induce” the Jews to providing him with funds to continue his war...
View ArticleThis Day, December 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 27175 BCE (Tevet 3585): This day marked the completion of the Septuagint translation of the Bible into the Greek language. According to a letter from Aristeas to Philocrates, 72 sages, (six...
View ArticleThis Day, December 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 281235: A ritual murder massacre at Fulda resulted in the death of 32 Jews. The Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire established an investigation at Hagenau (located in modern Alsac) to confirm or...
View ArticleThis Day, December 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 29584 BCE (10 Tevet 3175):The Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, began his siege of Jerusalem leading to the destruction of the first Temple. This day is commemorated as one of the "minor"...
View ArticleThis Day, December 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 3039: A black day on the Jewish calendar; birthdate of Roman Emperor Titus the man who destroyed the Second Temple. The Arch of Titus commemorates the exile of the Israelites.987: Coronation...
View ArticleThis Day, December 31, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 31335: End of the Papacy of Sylvester I “who convinced Constantine to prohibit Jews from living in Jerusalem.”535: Byzantine General Belisarius took the city of Syracuse which marks the...
View ArticleThis Day, January 1, 2020, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 1630: Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that will capture it bloodlessly. At first Mohammed “had hoped to find is main supporters among the Jewish tribes” of Arabia. This...
View ArticleThis Day, January 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 2438: Empress Eudocia, the wife of Byzantine Emperor Theodius II, who spent the last years of her life in the Holy Land allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem and pray at the site of the...
View ArticleThis Day, January 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 3106 BCE: Birthdate of Marcus Tullius, the Roman statesman and orator. From the Jewish point of view he was just one more anti-Semitic intellectual. “He denounced Judaism as a ‘barbarous...
View ArticleThis Day, January 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 441: The Praetorian Guard killed the Roman Emperor Caligula. Caligula is one of those vile figures whose behavior is dismissed as the acts of crazy person. As far as the Jews are concerned,...
View ArticleThis Day, January 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 51355: Charles I of Bohemia was crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in Milan. Charles I morphed into Charles IV, the Holy Roman Emperor who at the beginning of his reign made an ineffectual...
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This Day, January 6, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 6548: This was the last year the Church in Jerusalem observed the birth of Jesus on this date. (Celebrating Christmas on December 25th began in the late 300s in the Western Church.)1300:...
View ArticleThis Day, January 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 71256:Berechiah De Nicole, the Chief Rabbi of Lincoln was released after having been imprisoned in London on charges related to the death of “Little Hugh of Lincoln.” The son of Rabbi Moses...
View ArticleThis Day, January 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 81169: A year after Maimonides who was living in Egypt completed competed “The Book of the Lamp” or “Sefer Ha-Ma'or" his Commentary to the Mishnah, General Shirkuh entered Cairo with orders...
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