B"H Yom Yom B"H Yom Yom from Day by Day in Jewish History by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l [25 MarCheshvan] Mobs attack Jews of Cracow, 1407. [November 4] Jews of Florence, Italy rounded up and deported, 1943. [26 MarCheshvan] First Jewish wedding in Argentina, 1860. (Spain had barred Jews from Argentina. 7 years after the Spanish regime was overthrown, all restrictions were removed.) Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk Jews, 1942. [November 5] Israel Captured Sharm-el- Sheikh, 1956. Last of Aden's Jews arrives in Israel, 1967. King Casimir III of Poland (good to the Jews) died, 1370. [27 MarCheshvan] No'ach & Co. left the Ark after the Flood. Rafa and Mitla Pass fall into Israeli hands, Sinai Campaign, 1956. [November 6] First anti-Semitic attack over the radio in the U.S. was broadcast, 1938. Jews of Austria forbidden to have first names of Christian saints, 1834. Abe Beame, first Jewish mayor of New York City, 1973. Chana Sennesh executed in Budapest, 1944. [28 MarCheshvan] Anti-Jewish riots in Bucharest, Rumania cost many Jewish lives, 1593. Jewish population of Israel reached 1,000,000 - 1949. [November 7] British capture Gaza from Turkey, 1917. [29 MarCheshvan] Jews permitted to live in Alexandria, 641, with the Arab capture of Egypt. (The Jewish community there was already 1000 years old by that time.) Israel captured Khan Yunis, concluding the occupation of the Gaza Strip, 1956. [November 8] Get this one - the U.S. agrees not to protest against Swiss discrimination against American Jews (go ahead; read it again), 1855 (a commercial treaty was at stake). First gov't. census in Israel counts 712,000 Jews and 68,000 Arabs. [30 MarCheshvan] American forces take New York back from the British, 1783. The Jews who had fled the British were able to return. [November 9] Kristallnacht, 1939, during which 300 shuls and hundreds of Jewish businesses and homes were destroyed. Ulysses S. Grant (future president of the U.S.A.) orders Jews barred from service under his command, 1862. Jews of Pressburg (now Bratislava) were expelled by order of Queen Maria, 1526. [1 Kislev] Beginning of winter in Israel according to Rabbi Yehuda (Bava Metzi'a) Egyptian plague of SH'CHIN (boils). [November 10] U.N. General Assembly adopted the Zionism is Racism resolution, 1975. [2 Kislev] Jews of New York were allowed to swear without reference to Christianity, 1727. Yahrzeit of Rabbi Bernard Revel, 1940. Yahrzeit of HaRav Aharon Kotler, 1962. [November 11] Israel and Egypt sign a 6-point cease-fire agreement, 1973.
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