B"H
Yom Yom
B"H Yom Yom from
Day by Day in Jewish History
by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l
[27 Iyar]
Demetrius II gave to the Jews of Eretz Yisrael the crown money which he had annually levied. He thus recognized the independence of Judea under Shimon HaChashmona'i, 143bce
Theresienstadt was liberated, 1945.
Israeli army captured Yavneh, 1948.
The Israeli army captured the city of Gaza, 1967. The Jordanian-held cities of Latrun and Qalqilya were also captured on the same day.
U.N. Security Council unanimously ordered a cease-fire in the Middle East War, 1967.
[June 1]
The Arab states and Israel agreed to a cease-fire, 1948.
A pogrom broke out in Bialystok, Russia, 1906.
[28 Iyar]
The Traditional yahrzeit of Shmuel HaNavi. (Some say it is the 29th of Iyar.) Maimonides observed this day as a private festival in honor of his discovery of the ancient Torah scroll written by Ben Asher.
The Turkish government authorized the return of the Jews who had been expelled from Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1917.
Israel captured the Old City of Jerusalem uniting the city for the first time since the establishment of the State, 1967.
Hostilities between Israel and Jordan came to an end upon their acceptance of the cease-fire demanded by the Security Council of the U.N.
[June 2]
Viktor Brack, who was Hitler's supervisor of the installation of gas chambers in Poland, was executed, 1948.
An Israeli attack on Egyptian positions at Ashdod marked the turning point in the war between Israel and Egypt, 1948.
U.S. House of Representatives requested the president to have all international treaties which impair the rights of American citizens because of religion amended to secure equal rights, 1879. This was a result of Russian mistreatment of Jewish American businessman.
[29 Iyar]
The Romans completed construction of banks around Jerusalem in preparation for the final assault on the third wall, 70 C.E.
Jews of Sicily were forbidden to display any funeral decorations in public, 1393.
Marranos of Segovia, Spain, were massacred, 1474.
Rabbi Abraham b. Isaac and six other Jews were martyred in Cracow, 1637.
Israel, Egypt, and Syria accepted the cease-fire ordered by the Security Council, 1967.
[June 3]
Yizhak Rabin, the first native-born Israeli to become prime minister of Israel, assumed office, 1974.
The German military commander of occupied France ordered all Jews to wear a yellow Star of David with the inscription "Juif" on it, 1942.
[1 Sivan]
The Flood's waters began to recede.
Bnei Yisrael arrived in the wilderness of Sinai.
Korach and his followers vanished into the depth of the earth.
Massacre of the Jews of Worms during the First Crusade, 1096.
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, leader of the aliya of the followers of the Vilna Gaon, 1839.
Renewed fighting broke out on the Israeli-Syrian frontier; Israel reached the eastern bank of the Suez Canal, 1967.
[June 4]
The republic of Croatia issued an order depriving all Jews of their property and compelling them to wear a yellow badge with the letter Z, 1941.
A riotous mob led by the Queen Mother's confessor, killed many Jews in Seville, Spain, 1391. The riots spread throughout the country.
[2 Sivan]
Moshe Rabeinu ascended Mt. Sinai.
Crusaders massacred the Jewish community of Neuss, Prussia, 1096.
Israel captured Queneitra, Syria, and smashed the well-fortified Syrian positions in the mountains facing the Galil.
[June 5]
War broke out between Israel and the Arab nations, 1967.
Israeli armed forces captured Yavneh, 1948.
The Israeli army captured the city of Gaza. The Jordanian cities of Latrun, overlooking the old road to Jerusalem, and Qalqilya were also captured on the same day 1967.
The U.N. Security Council unanimously ordered a cease-fire in the Middle East War, 1967.
Jews of Canada were accorded equal political rights with Christians, 1832.
The Allies marched into Rome, 1944. Jews emerged from their hiding places and the gate of the great synagogue was opened.
[3 Sivan]
Moshe returned to Mt. Sinai to report the public declaration of the Jewish people, affirming their desire to accept the Torah.
Beginning of Sh'loshet Y'mei Hagbala, the three days of preparation, during which the Jews were to purify themselves and abstain from uncleanliness.
Crusaders massacred the Jews of Mayence, 1096.
Vespasian captured Jericho and killed its inhabitants 68C.E.
Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Warsaw, 1790.
Colonel David Marcus, the American Jewish defender of Jerusalem, was killed at Abu Ghosh six hours before a cease-fire was to go into effect, 1948.
[June 6]
The "Road of Valor" to Jerusalem was completed by Israel, 1948.
The Soviet government informed the Jewish community that is would permit the opening of a yeshiva in Moscow for the training of rabbis, 1957. The announcement was made on Shavuot, probably to "impress" world Jewry that the USSR was doing a wonderful thing for Jews and Judaism. Turns out that it was mostly "smoke". The laymen's council of the yeshiva was dissolved in 1961. The bulk of the students had come from Georgia. After Pesach of 1962, these students were denied permits by the local government to return to Moscow. Thus the yeshiva, reduced to a handful of students, could no longer hope to provide rabbis for Russian Jewry.
The Inquisition was introduced into Mexico, 1536.
24 wagonloads of talmudic volumes and 200 other rabbinic manuscripts were burned at Paris, 1242.
[4 Sivan]
Moshe wrote the first part of the Torah, from B'reishit until Ma'amad Har Sinai.
Over 500 Jews were forcibly baptized in Clermont-Ferrand, France, 576.
The Pope issued an order calling on all Christian princes to send back to Spain the Jews who had fled from the Inquisition, 1481.
Bogdan Chmielnicki's anti-Polish warfare, which resulted in the massacre of more than 300,000 Jews, broke out, 1648.
[June 7]
Israel captured the Old City of Jerusalem uniting the city for the first time since the establishment of the state. It also captured, on the same day, Jericho, Bethlehem, and Sharm-el-Sheikh, and lifted the blockade of the Gulf of Eilat. The entire Jordanian bulge on the western bank of the Jordan came under Israeli control. Hostilities between Israel and Jordan came to an end upon their acceptance of the cease-fire demanded by the Security Council of the U.N., 1967.
[5 Sivan]
Reuven found mandrakes (duda'im) in the field.
Moshe built a Mizbei'ach and erected 12 monuments at the foot of Mt. Sinai.
Rabbi Judah b. Dama, one of the Ten Martyrs, was executed by the Romans.
The brothers Hayyim and Joshua Reizes of Lemberg, famous for their piety and scholarship, were tortured and executed on charges of influencing the apostate Jan Filipowicz to return to Judaism, 1728.
Expulsion of Jews from Warsaw and its environs, 1784.
[June 8]
Israel, Egypt, and Syria accepted the cease-fire ordered by the Security Council, 1967.
Jewish insurgent forces captured the fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem, 65. This battle marked the outbreak of the Jewish revolt against Rome.
Oswald Pohl, chief of the economic office of the SS, Otto Ohlendorf, responsible for the murder of 90,000 Ukranian Jews, and Colonel Paul Blobel, organizer of the massacre of the Jews of Kiev, were hanged, 1951.
The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (parent organization of the Israel Center) was organized, 1898.
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