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…

September
7

70: On the secular calendar the date on which a
Roman army under Titus occupied and plundered Jerusalem.

1191: The Crusader army led by King Richard the
Lionhearted defeated the army of Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf, north of Jaffa.
The …

 September 3

175(BCE): Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the Greek King of the Channukah story
began his reign today.

141 BCE (18th of Elul, 3619): The fight begun by Matthias and
Judah came to a successful conclusion when Simon was elected High Priest an…