Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for December 13, 2025. First up, in today’s headlines, we’re seeing continued fallout from the 2020 election, with Wisconsin potentially becoming the first state to try figures involved in the “fake electors” scheme. Domestically, inflation continues to plague voters, now weighing on President Trump’s economic approval, a […]

December
9

1212:
In Mainz, coronation of Frederick II as King of Germany during whose reign the
Jewish “community of Austria began to flourish” due to his “recognition that
the Jews were a separate ethnic and religious group and were not bound to the
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Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for December 6, 2025. Today in U.S. news, military leaders are under the microscope regarding recent drug boat attacks, prompting discussions on when troops should follow orders versus push back against those of questionable legality. A significant Supreme Court precedent, nearly a century old, limiting the president’s […]

December 3

311: Sixty-sixty-year-old Emperor Diocletian passed away.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0005_0_05240.html

1368: Birthdate of Charles VI, the French king who would order the
expulsion of the Jews from his re…

Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for December 1, 2025. In today’s U.S. news, a shooting incident in Washington D.C. saw two National Guard members wounded just blocks from the White House, leading President Trump to order 500 additional troops to the capital and prompting a significant escalation in his immigration crackdown. This […]