This Day, March 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
March 9 590: Bahram Chobin is crowned as King Barham VI of Persia. The newly crowned king enjoyed support among Persian Jews since opposing forces under a general named Mahbad “killed the Jewish...
View ArticleThis Day, March 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
March 10 0037: Roman Emperor Tiberius passed away at age 78. He followed Augustus to the throne and reigned from 14 through 37. His record in dealing with the Jews was a mixed one. On the one hand...
View ArticleThis Day, March 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
March 111513: Leo X elected Pope. Leo X succeeded Julius II, the Pope who paid for the painting of the Sistine Chapel. “To Martin Luther, Leo was the functioning head of a “kingdom of Antichrist.’”...
View ArticleThis Day, March 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
March 12 515 BCE: On the secular calendar the construction of the Second Temple was completed. (Book of Ezra, 6:15 “And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the...
View ArticleThis Day, March 13, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
March 13624: Islamic forces under the command of Muhammad were victorious at the Battle of Badr which cemented the power of the Moslem leader with all that we would mean for civilization in general and...
View ArticleThis Day, March 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
March 14 388: A law prohibiting mixed marriages between Jews and non-Jews which is defined as adultery, is promulgated as part of the Theodosian Code. 1181: King Philip Augustus of France ordered the...
View ArticleThis Day, March 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
March 15 457 BCE (12th of Nisan, 3303): Ezra and his followers departed from the River Ahava on their way to Jerusalem. 44 BCE: Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Roman Senate. The Jews supported...
View ArticleThis Day, March 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
March 16597BCE (2ndAdar): On the secular calendar, according to certain archaeological calculations, the first conquest of Jerusalem by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar occurred. In the Bible, the event...
View ArticleThis Day, March 17, In Jewish History by MItchell A. Levin
March 1745 BCE: Julius Caesar defeated the forces of Pompey at the Battle of Munda. Caesar’s victory put an end to the Pompeian attempt to rule Rome. Considering the way Pompey treated the Jews,...
View ArticleThis Day, March 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
March 18 37: The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Caligula emperor. Caligula ruled from 37 until his death in 41. From the Jewish perspective he was not so much an anti-Semite as a...
View ArticleThis Day, March 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
March 19 1191: Eighty Jews were burned at Bray, France for trying to execute a vassal who had killed a Jew. The Jews were not a lynch-mob. They had the permission of the local ruler which is more than...
View ArticleThis Day, March 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
March 2043BCE: Birthdate of the Roman poet, Ovid. In “The Art of Love, Part One” Ovid wrote "And do not miss the festival of Adonis, mourned of Venus, and the rites celebrated every seventh day by the...
View ArticleThis Day, March 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
March 21 456 BCE: The convocation summoned by Ezra on intermarriage came to an end629: Byzantine Emperor Heraclius marched into Jerusalem at the head of his army with the support of Jewish inhabitants....
View ArticleThis Day, March 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
March 22 1144: This date marks the first ritual murder libel which took place in in Norwich, England. It set the pattern for subsequent accusations that would be made into the 20th century all across...
View ArticleThis Day, March 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
March 23 1369: King Pedro of Castile who employed Abraham ibn Zaral as his physician was beheaded by his rival and brother, Henry of Trastamara marking the end of their civil war for control of the...
View ArticleThis Day, March 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
March 24 809: Harun al-Rashid (Aaron the Upright, Aaron the Just), fifth caliph of the Abbasid Empire who had issued a decree that Jews wear a yellow belt in 807, passed away. 1244(18th of Nisan):...
View ArticleThis Day, March 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell Al Levin
March 25 1271: King Jaime (Kings James I of Aragon) freed all the Jews in Murviedro, a city in Valencia of debts from Christians. It should be noted this is after the Christians burned down a...
View ArticleThis Day, March 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
March 26 1027: Coronation of Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor, who court was the site of religious disputation between Bishop Wazon “the overlord of” Liege and an unnamed Jewish physician. (As reported...
View ArticleThis Day, March 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
March 27 538 BCE: Cyrus was crowned “King of Babylonia and King of All Lands.” Cyrus was the King who made it possible for the Jews to return to Judea marking the end of the Babylonian exile.196 BCE:...
View ArticleThis Day, March 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
March 28 364: Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor dividing the Roman Empire between two rulers. Valens, The Emperor of the East “was an Arian and had suffered...
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