July 20 356 BCE: In Macedonia, King Philip II and Queen Olympia gave birth to Alexander the Great. You can draw a straight line from Alexander’s...
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This Day, August 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 18 1201: Founding of Riga, capital of modern day Latvia. The first Jews appeared in Riga three centuries later and despite Czars, Nazis and...
This Day, October 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 19 1187: Pope Urban III passed away. Urban was a supporter of the Crusades, the cause of so much Jewish misery. A large part of his papacy...
This Day, October 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 7 3761 BCE: According to some Jewish traditionalists, this corresponds to the date on which God created the World. This marks the start of...
This Day, May 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin "ZL’
May 5 1028: King Alfonso V of Castile passed away. In 1020, Alfonso had presided over the Council of Leon which adopted laws that created a certain...
This Day, December 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 12 456 BCE (1st of Tevet, 3305): Ezra opened convocation on the problem of intermarriage. 627: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius...
This Day, November 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 28 1058: Casmir I the Restorer who was “the de jure monarch of Poland starting in 1034” during whose reign there were Jews living in the...
This Day, January 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 17 395: Emperor Theodosius, I passed away in Milan. During his reign he instituted several laws that directly impacted his Jewish subject....
This Day, June 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 16 1221: Massacre of the Jews of Erfurt, Germany which at one time was commemorated as a Fast Day on the 25th of Sivan. 1295: Mahmud Ghazan...