November
23

912: Birthdate of Otto the Great, founder of the Holy Roman Empire which was
neither holy nor Roman. During his reign Rabbis living in the Rhineland
addressed questions to the Rabbis in Palestine “concerning the reported
appearance of the …

November
15

1215: Pope Innocent III opened the convocation of the
Fourth Lateran Council, considered the most important council of the Middle
Ages. By its conclusion it issued seventy reformatory decrees. Among other
things, it encouraged creating sch…

November 7

305 B.C.E.: Ptolemy, a Macedonian general who
had fought by the side of Alexander the Great, became King of Egypt.  Alexander’s empire broke into three parts
after his death.  Jerusalem and Judea
came under the sway of the Ptolemy…

November 4

1053: Today, “according
to a document preserved in the archives of the Cathedral of Leon, the Infanta
D. Fronilda, daughter of D. Pelayo, who restored Christian supremacy after the
invasion of the Saracens, purchased, from the Jew Joseph b….

November 4

1053: Today, “according
to a document preserved in the archives of the Cathedral of Leon, the Infanta
D. Fronilda, daughter of D. Pelayo, who restored Christian supremacy after the
invasion of the Saracens, purchased, from the Jew Joseph b….