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 …

November 2

655: The Ninth Council of Toledo which
was held under the auspices of King Recceuith and would adopt a resolution
“that all conversos, not only converted Jews also others who had come during
the Migration Period, had to pass Christian festi…

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 5

610: Phocas, the
Byzantine Emperor during whose reign the Jews of Antioch revolted was murdered
by his successor Heraclitus.

610: Byzantine Emperor Heraclius, an Armenian
Christian” during whose nine-year rule over Jerusalem “carried out a …