April 24 70: During the Jewish rebellion against Rome, Roman legions break through Jerusalem’s middle wall, but are driven back by the Jewish...
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This Day, May 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 29 363: A good day for the Romans and bad day for the Jews. Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under...
This Day, March 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
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...
This Day, November 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 9 694: Opening meeting of the Seventeenth Council of Toledo during which the Visigoth Catholic monarch, King Egica publicly charged...
This Day, March 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
March 16 597 BCE (2nd Adar): On the secular calendar, according to certain archaeological calculations, the first conquest of Jerusalem by...
This Day, January 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 7 1256: Berechiah De Nicole, the Chief Rabbi of Lincoln was released after having been imprisoned in London on charges related to the death...
This Day, November 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 21 456 BCE (20th of Kislev, 3306): On November 21, Ezra called together all the men of Judah and Benjamin and told them that they would...
This Day, September 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin
September 23 484 BCE: Birthdate of the very influential Greek playwright Euripides. Wherever Greek culture spread, writers attempted to create...
This Day, May 13, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 13 1333: Birthdate of Reginald III of Guelders, a duchy in the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1349 the Duke of Guelders, was authorized by the Emperor...