September 13 586 BCE (3 Tishrei 3338): On the civil calendar assassination of Gedaliah ben Achikam. He had been appointed Governor of Judea by...
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This Day, December 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 29 584 BCE (10 Tevet 3175): The Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, began his siege of Jerusalem leading to the destruction of the first...
This Day, December 31, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 31 335: End of the Papacy of Sylvester I “who convinced Constantine to prohibit Jews from living in Jerusalem.” 535: Byzantine General...
This Day, April 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 28 66: After stealing money from the Temple Treasury, the Roman Procurator Gessius Florus allowed his troops to “loot the Upper Market” of...
This Day, July 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 17 1203: The Knights of the Fourth Crusade capture Constantinople forcing the Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus to flee from his capital...
This Day, June 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 10 1190: During the Third Crusade Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem. The German emperor was...
This Day, July 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 1 69: Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as emperor. This consolidation of...
This Day, July 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 2 311: Miltiades began serving as Bishop of Rome (Pope) during the reign of Constantine the Great, the Roman Emperor who moved...
This Day, April 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 18 383: The Roman Emperors ended the exemption Jewish religious leaders enjoyed from compulsory public service. "The order which Jewish men...