B"H Yom Yom - from Day by Day in Jewish History by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l

Courtesy of Pomeranz Booksellers (The book is now available (again) at Pomeranz)

[26 Sivan] Inquisitor of Ancona, Italy for-bid Jews to live in any municipality that didn't have a ghetto, 1843. Rommel defeated at El-Alamein, ending the German threat to Palestine, 1942.

[June 10] Cease-fire between Israel and the Arab armies, 1948.

[27 Sivan] Miriam ended 7th day of isolation. Rabbi Akiva was imprisoned by the Romans; Rabbi Chanina b. Tradion was burned at the stake; ancient fast day. Second expulsion of the Jews of France, 1322. Purim of Florence to mark escape of a massacre, 1790. Memorial Day for Lithuanian Jewry who perished in the Holocaust.

[June 11] Israel and Syria cease-fire, 1967. Himmler ordered the liquidation of all Polish ghettos, 1943. French (Vichy) planes bombed Tel Aviv killing 20 Jews, 1941.

[28 Sivan] Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin opens, 1930. Yeshivot of Slobodka and Telz closed their doors, 1941.

[June 12] First Israeli ship sailed thru Gulf of Eilat after 6-Days War, 1967.

[29 Sivan] Meraglim sent to scout out the Land. First public warning of rising anti-Semitism in the U.S. 1873. Chovevei Zion founded 1897 (U.S.). Russia prohibits Zionist activities, 1903.

[June 13] Rumania and Finland recognize Israel, 1948. Bnei Braq founded, 1924. Cornerstone for AECOM, 1954. Pope allows Jews accused by the Inquisition the right to know who their accusers were, 1299.

[30 Sivan] Henry Ford retracted and apologized for his having published the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. British arrest 100 leaders of the Yishuv on the Black Sabbath, 1946.

[June 14] Auschwitz was opened, 1940. Approx. 2.5 million people were killed and another 500,000 died of starvation and disease there.

[1 Tammuz] Traditional date of arrival in Goshen of Yaakov and family. On this anniversary of the establishment of the first voluntary Jewish community in exile. On the same date in 1940, the moshav of She'ar Yashuv (the remnant will return) was established. 40,000 Jews of the Galil were slain by Vespasian, 67c.e. Mobskilled many Jews in Seville, Spain, 1391. Yahrzeit of Rabbi Shlomo Kluger, 1869.

[June 15] Riots in Tzfat cost many lives, 1834. 12 Jews of Cologne martyred, 1266.

[2 Tammuz] Rabbi Shmuel b. Yechiel of Cologne killed by Crusaders, 1096. Bialystok fell to the Germans, 1941

[June 16] Massacre of the Jews of Erfurt, Germany, 1221.

[3 Tammuz] Yehoshua commanded that the Sun and Moon stand still. Anti-Jewish riots in Spain, 1391. Rabbi Menashe ben Israel received official permission to practice Judaism in England, 1656. Emperor Alexander II of Russia gave the Jews permission to print Jewish books, 1871. Yahrzeit of Rabbi Bernard Illowy, 1871. FirstOrthodox Rabbi with a PhD to settle in the U.S. Strong opponent of the Reform Movement.

[June 17] Central system of Israel's underground water supply was dedicated in Northern Negev, 1951.