August 23 634: Umar began his reign as the second Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate. Umar overturned the ban on Jews worshipping in Jerusalem. Not...
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This Day, August 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 21 1157: Alfonso the Emperor died. His kingdom was divided between his two sons with Sancho III the receiving Castile and , Ferdinand II,...
This Day, August 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin Z"L
August 20 430: The Vandals, a Germanic tribe, established a kingdom in North Africa. The Jews lived there peacefully and flourished until the...
This Day, August 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 19 43 BCE: Octavian. later known as Augustus compels the senate to elect him Consul. As the first Emperor of Rome (in fact, if not in name)...
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, August 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 17 986: During the days of the First Bulgarian Empire, the army of Emperor Samuil of Bulgaria and his brother defeat the Byzantines led by...
This Day, August 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 16 1027: The King of Georgia, Giorgi I, passed away. Jews were among the subjects of this monarch who ruled over a country situated in the...
This Day in Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 15 423: Honorious Flavius, the Western Roman Emperor who confiscated gold and silver which had been collected by the synagogues to be sent...
This Day, August 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 14 508: Maurice, the Emperor of the Byzantine Emperor who in 592 would punish “the entire Jewish community of Antioch after a Jew violated...