OCTOBER 1

2016 B.C.E.:  According to some the anniversary of the
Origin of Era of Abraham on the secular calendar. The exactitude of this date
is easily open to debate.  There is a general agreement among those who
accept the existence of Ab…

September 30

132
C.E. (10 Tishrei): On the secular calendar, Akivah ben Joseph known as Rabbi
Akiva passed away.  He was born in 50
C.E., twenty years before the destruction of the Second Temple.   According to tradition, he was an unle…

On Friday, Sept. 15, Lee University’s Center for Responsible Citizenship (CRC) hosted its 14th annual Constitution Day Quiz Bowl, where local high schoolers were tested in their knowledge of the […]
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September 12

490 BCE: According to German scholar Philipp August Böckh, the
Greeks defeated the Persians at the Battle of Marathon. The Persians were led
by Darius I, the ruler under whom the Second Temple was built.  It would not be surprising i…

September 11

813:
Coronation of Louis the Pious who “faithful to the principles of his father
Charlemagne and granted strict protection to Jews, whom he respected as
merchants” and who like his father believed that ‘the Jewish question’ could be
solve…