B"H Yom Yom
B"H Yom Yom from Day by Day in Jewish History by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l
[16 Adar]
King Agrippa I began the construction of a gate for the wall of Jerusalem, 42 c.e. The day was designated a holiday.Jews were excluded from public offices and dignities in the Roman Empire, 418.Jews of New Amsterdam were denied the right to erect a synagogue, 1656. (It seems that the Pilgrims' idea of religious freedom did not include Jews and other non-Christians.)The ghetto pillars of Ferrara, Italy, were destroyed by the professors and students of the Athenaeum, 1848.Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, the first Orthodox Jewish rabbinical seminary in the United States, was incorporated, 1897.
[March 23]
The Italian Fascist Party was organized, 1919.Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Lubny, Russia, 1881.Israel and Lebanon signed an armistice agreement, 1949.Adolf Hitler was granted dictatorial powers by the German Reichstag, 1933.The first dated edition of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah was published, 1490.2500 Jews of the district of Lublin were massacred and the rest of the Jews were deported, 1942.Kosher slaughtering was prohibited in Saxony, 1893.The Zion Mule Corps, consisting of Jewish volunteers from Palestine, was formed, 1915. This was the first Palestinian Jewish military unit attached to a regular army in the Christian era. It was the forerunner of the Jewish Legion, which was formed in 1918.
[17 Adar]
The Bulgarian commissar for Jewish affairs, Alexander Belev, signed an agreement permitting Germany to deport 26,000 Jews to extermination camps, 1943.The Jewish quarter of Old Jerusalem was besieged by Arabs, 1948.The Jews of the Old Quarter of Jerusalem were cut off from the Jewish community of New Jerusalem when access to the gates in the walls of Jerusalem was barred to them.
[March 24]
The Purim Association of the City of New York was organized for the purpose of arranging annual Purim balls, 1862.The Pope authorized the printing of the Talmud in Mantua on condition that the word Talmud be omitted, 1564. [Explain that one!]
The Chief Rabbinate of Palestine was established, 1921.
[18 Adar]
The Pope reaffirmed a Church rule forcing Christianity upon a Jewish child who was baptized against the will of his parents and in violation of canonical law, 1747. [It takes a lot of apologizing for all of these historical tidbits, doesn't it?
David Emmanuel, the first Jewish governor in the United States, was sworn in as governor of Georgia, 1801. [Adar 18 is the anniversary of three important "firsts" in American Jewish history: the swearing in of the first Jewish governor; the publication of the first Anglo-Jewish periodical; and the Yahrzeit of the first Jew in the Foreign Service.
Napoleon I issued a decree suspending for a decade the emancipation of Jews in the French-occupied European countries, 1808.A Russian imperial decree ordering the expulsion of all Jewish artisans, brewers, and distillers from Moscow, 1891.
[March 25]
The discovery of the mutilated body of Andrei Yishinsky, near Kiev, Russia, led to the infamous trial of Mendel Beilis on ritual-murder charges, 1911.Jews of Weissensee, Germany, were massacred, 1303.A new road leading to Sodom was dedicated, 1953.Rabbi Ovadya MiBartinura, popular Mishna commentator, arrived in Jerusalem, 1488.
[19 Adar]
The restriction of the sale of Arab land to Jews in Palestine, as stated in the MacDonald White Paper, went in effect, 1940.The capture of En-Gedi by Israel brought to an end the military engagements of War of Independence, 1949.
[March 26]
The Rumanian government, 1902 prohibited Jews from engaging in handicrafts or trade.PM Begin and Egypt's President Sadat signed a peace treaty at the White House, 1979.
[20 Adar]
Honi ha-Me'agal's prayer for rain was answered (Megillat Ta'anit).Commodore Uriah Phillips Levy, father of the law abolishing corporal punishment in the U.S. Navy, died, 1862.
[March 27]
In the Children's Action, 1944, the Nazis raided the Kovno ghetto and removed all the children for execution.32 Jews of Meshed, Persia were killed and the remaining 100 families were forced to convert to Islam, 1839. (Nowhere nearly as common as forced conversions to Christianity, but it did exist.) Most of the Jews in this case continued practing their Judaism in secret.The British Army with the help of the Jewish Brigade, acptured Amman, 1918.
[21 Adar]
Purim of Narbonne was celebrated by the Jewish community to commemorate its escape from a rampaging mob, 1236. This Purim is the oldest private Purim on record.Yahrzeit of R. Isaac Elchanan Spektor, talmudic scholar, communal leader, author of responsa Be'er Yizhak, 1896.Rabbi Spektor, Adolf Cremieux, and Sir Moses Montefiore were the three outstanding Jewish communal leaders of the 19th century.
[March 28]
The German Reichstag conferred dictatorial powers on Hitler, 1933.Jews of Tel Aviv and Yafo were expelled by the Turks, 1917 (T.A. was a new city of 8 years' existence.)
[22 Adar]
Jews of Uberlingen, Switzerland, were massacred, 1349.Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yechiel Michal Epstein HaLevi of Novogrudok, Russia, author of the Aruch haShulchan, 1908.
[March 29]
Be'er Sheva was linked to Israel's railway system, 1956.
[23 Adar]
The beginning of the seven-day practice period of assembling the Mishkan.The Second Beit HaMikdash was dedicated, 516 B.C.E.Massacre of the Jews of Estella, Spain, 1328.
[March 30]
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella signed a decree expelling the Jews of Spain, 1492.
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