Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for May 12, 2026. In U.S. news today, the debate continues over the rise of three-year college degrees, lauded for their affordability and speed to career entry, but raising questions about their ability to provide a well-rounded education. Meanwhile, women’s professional sports are experiencing a boom, driven […]

May 12

940: Sixty-two-year-old Eutychius of Alexandria, the Greek who wrote Nazm
al-Jauhar, a history, of what some may consider of dubious accuracy that
began with Creation and ran through the 10th century which included
a description of the Great Re…

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 destruction of the Second Temple.

240:
Shapur I whom the Talmud “referred to as King Shabur, who “had good rela…