OCTOBER 29

539
BCE:  On the secular calendar, Babylon fell to
Cyrus the Great of Persia.  This is a
significant date because it marked the start of the return of the exiles to
Eretz Israel where the Second Temple would be built.

969:
Byzant…

On Saturday, Oct. 25, students from Lee University’s Helen DeVos College of Education (HDCOE) will host the fifth annual Fall Field Day, an outdoor event designed for individuals with exceptional […]
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OCTOBER
11

1138: Massive earthquake strikes Aleppo, Syria.  According to tradition, the Jewish community
traces its origins back to the time of King David.  This is based on the description of the
conquest of the city by Joab found in the Bo…

OCTOBER 10

614: Today the fifth Council
of Paris “prohibited the Jews from asking or from exercising civic or
administrative rights.”

680: At the Battle of Karbala,
Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was decapitated
by fo…

OCTOBER
6

877: Charles the Bald, King of France, passed away. Regardless of whatever others may think of him, Charles the
Bald, who was King of France, comes up on the plus side in Jewish history when
compared to other monarchs since he resisted enfor…

 September 29

522 BCE:
Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king
of the Persian Empire. The success of Darius was good thing for the Jewish
people.  From the Book of Haggai, we can
infer that the building…

September 26

1087:
Coronation of King William Rufus, the second son of
William the Conqueror who “managed to prevent in England the massacres of Jews
that occurred in Rouen, and across France and the Rhineland, in the bloody
frenzy the preceded the de…