November
13

354:  Birthdate of St. Augustine of
Hippo.  While St. Augustine may be held
in high regard by the Roman Catholic Church, he held the Jews in especially low
regard. In his famous work The City of God, Augustine reports that the
Je…

Jeremiah 30:7 (ESV)
Alas! That day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of
distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it.

Based on "there is none like it", my guess is that it is the day of the Lord.
You could …

“Someone asked me…how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to …

A lot of emotions are running through my mind as I sip on coffee from a cup Chris and I bought in Valley Forge with a sculpture of George Washington facing me. It is a reminder of my ancestors who overcame so much during the Revolutionary War to carve this great nation into being. It […]

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November
8

30: Birthdate of Marcus Cocceius Nerva, the Roman Emperor who changed the
way in which the special tax on Jews was collected so that would not be the
humiliating experience created by his Flavian predecessors.

641: “Jews were permitted to…

November 4

1053: Today, “according to a document
preserved in the archives of the Cathedral of Leon, the Infanta D. Fronilda,
daughter of D. Pelayo, who restored Christian supremacy after the invasion of
the Saracens, purchased, from the Jew Joseph b….

OCTOBER
28

97:
Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard, to adopt general Marcus Ulpius
Trajanus as his heir and successor. Trajan would not become Emperor until Nerva
died in January of the following year. Trajan will be remembered as the rule…