November 8

30: Birthdate of Marcus Cocceius
Nerva, the Roman Emperor who changed the way in which the special tax on Jews
was collected so that would not be the humiliating experience created by his
Flavian predecessors.

641: “Jews were permitted to…

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 3

166 BCE (15th of
Cheshvan, 3595): Mattathias ben Yochanan passed away.

361: Roman Emperor
Constantius II died. Constantius II enhanced the anti-Jewish policies begun by
his father. Under his rule, converting to Judaism became a combination…

November
1

1179:
Philip II is crowned King of France. In 1180, Phillip would order the arrest of
all Jews living in his realm based on charges of ritual murder. It should come
as no surprise that two years later, in 1182 Phillip confiscated all of the…

OCTOBER 30

1207BCE: According to “three scientists from Beersheba’s Ben
Gurion University” who used NASA date today is the date of the eclipse which is
described in the Book of Joshua as God making the sun stand still so that the
Israelites could defe…

OCTOBER 29

539
BCE:  On the secular calendar, Babylon fell to
Cyrus the Great of Persia.  This is a
significant date because it marked the start of the return of the exiles to
Eretz Israel where the Second Temple would be built.

969:
Byzant…