February 25 161 BCE: Jewish soldiers led by Judah Maccabee defeated Nicanor, the Syrian general who had boasted that he would destroy the Temple...
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This Day, December 21, In Jewish History Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
December 21 69: The Senate acknowledged Vespasian as emperor. This marked the end of the so-called The Year of the Four Emperors during which four...
This Day, July 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
July 14 1086: Toirdelbach Ua Briain passed away. Born in 1009, he was the King of Munster and the High King of Ireland. During his reign, in 1079,...
This Day, March 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A Levin and Deb Levin Z"L
March 3 321: Roman Emperor Constantine named Sunday which had been a Roman pagan day for honoring the sun as a day of rest. This was an attempt by...
This Day, January 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
January 20 250: Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Decius reign came during a fifty-year period (235-285) that...
This Day, April 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 12 70(15th of Nissan, 3830): According to some, the date on the civil calendar when Pesach is observed for the last time before the...
This Day, April 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 26 121: Birthdate of Marcus Aurelius the Roman Emperor who described the Jews as being “stinking and tumultuous.” 1198: Frederick I, Duke...
This Day, February 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
February 1682: Visigoth King Erwig pressed for the "utter extirpation of the pest of the Jews," and made it illegal to practice any Jewish rites in...
This Day, November 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin Z"L
November 26 43 BCE: The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius...