May 24

1218:  The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
The driving forces behind the crusade were two Popes who broke new ground in
the mistreatment of the Jews – Innocent III and his successor, Honorius
III.   One of their mo…

May 22

334 BCE:  The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great
defeated Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus. This was the first
step of a “journey” that would lead to the turning Egypt and Asia Minor (a
territory that included Jerusal…

May 15

392:
Theodosius I, who had been emperor of the eastern half of the Roman Empire
became the last ruler of the entire Roman Empire (east and west) “A general of
Spanish origin, and the son of another general, was chosen to replace Valens
who had …

May 12

940: Sixty-two-year-old Eutychius of Alexandria, the Greek who wrote Nazm
al-Jauhar, a history, of what some may consider of dubious accuracy that
began with Creation and ran through the 10th century which included
a description of the Great Re…

May 5

1028:  King Alfonso V of Castile passed away. In
1020, Alfonso had presided over the Council of Leon which adopted laws that
created a certain amount of equality between Christians and Jews. The
legislation was in response to the threat of …