Ten years ago today, I moved from Cleveland, Tennessee to Chicago, Illinois. And what a ride it has been!Four dwelling places, two churches, six different employers (including my present one), two very minor surgeries and one major surgery, nine years…
JUNE 22
217 BCE:
Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeated Antiochus III at the Battle of Raphia. The Battle of Raphia, also known as the Battle of Gaza, was part of the
ongoing power struggle between the Seleucids and the Ptolomies for the land
mass that included…
JUNE 19
325: Promulgation of the Nicene Creed. The
creed dealt with various splits among the various Christian groups and only
dealt in a tangential manner with matters pertaining to Jews. The creed altered
the method for selecting the date of Easter….
JUNE 15
1215: King John of England puts his seal to the
Magna Carta. The Great Charter which is
supposed to be one of the cornerstones of English and American rights contains
the following reference to the Jews: “If anyone who borrowed fro…
JUNE 13
823:
Birthdate of Charles the Bald, who as Holy Roman Emperor refused to comply with
anti-Semitic edicts of Amulo, the Archbishop of Lyon. In doing so, Charles was following in the
footsteps of his grandfather Charlemagne who had also re…
JUNE 12
816:
Leo III, the Pope whose aggressive plan to crown Charlemagne gave the Jews of
the Rhineland a comparatively benign ruler, passed away today.
1240:
Nicholas Donin, a renegade Jew under the patronage of Louis IX, convinced Pope Gregory
IX …
JUNE 9
68:
The Emperor Nero died in Rome. Nero had appointed four governors of Judea each
of whom was crueler and greedier than his predecessor. The Jewish Revolt in 66
was caused, in part, by this succession of disastrous appointments by Nero.
Nero h…
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