March 21 456 BCE: The convocation summoned by Ezra on intermarriage came to an end 629: Byzantine Emperor Heraclius marched into Jerusalem at the...
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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 in Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 12 940: Sixty-two you are old Eutychius of Alexandria, the Greek who wrote Nazm al-Jauhar, a history, of what some may consider of dubious...
This Day, July 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 10 48 BCE: In his war with Pompey, Julius Caesar barely avoids defeat at the Battle of Dyrrhachium. A month later, after regrouping his...
This Day, July 9, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 9 118: Hadrian, Rome's new emperor, made his entry into the Imperial City. Regardless of how history remembers him, for Jews, Hadrian is the...
This Day, June 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 8 65 CE: Jewish insurgent forces captured the fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem. This battle marked the outbreak of the Jewish revolt against...
This Day, January 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 1 630: Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that will capture it bloodlessly. At first Mohammed “had hoped to find is main...
This Day, July 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
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...
This Day, October 6, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 6 877: Charles the Bald, King of France, passed away. Regardless of whatever others may think of him, Charles the Bald, who was King of...