November 22

1220: Frederick II, who would become the
protector of the Jews in Frankfurt in 1236, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor
today by Honorius III.

1280:
The 3-year reign of Pope Nicholas III whose bull Vineam sorce
encouraged conversion through…

November 21

456 BCE (20th of Kislev, 3306): Ezra called together all the men of Judah
and Benjamin and told them that they would have to give up their foreign-born
wives.  This was part of an attempt by
the returning exiles to purify and strength…

November 19

1095: The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending
the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins. The Crusades ushered in one of the
darkest periods in Jewish history.  In
the name of Christianity, the Crusaders wo…

November 10

1217: During the Fifth Crusade, King Andrew II of Hungary defeated Sultan
Al-Adi in what would prove to by a pyric on the banks of Jordan River.  The Moslems retreated into fortified
positions from which they could not be dislodged, a…

November
6

355: Roman Emperor Constantius II
promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the
government of the Prefecture of Gaul. Constantius II followed the pro-Christian
and anti-Jewish policies of his father, Constantine …