Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster reflects on the Rosh Hashana service and the blowing of the shofar.
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This Day, September 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 27 0070 The walls of the upper city of Jerusalem were battered down by the Roman army 1331: Polish forces under Wladyslaw and his son...
This Day, September 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"l
September 261087: Coronation ofKing William Rufus, the second son of William the Conqueror who “managed to prevent in England the massacres of Jews...
This Day, September 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 25 275: Marcus Claudius Tacitus appointed Roman emperor by the senate. By now the Roman Empire was in decline and Emperor’s served at the...
This Day, September 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 23 484 BCE: Birthdate of the very influential Greek playwright Euripides. Wherever Greek culture spread, writers attempted to create...
This Day, September 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 22 384: Roman Emperors Gratian, Valentinian II, and Theodosius I forbid Jews from buying or owning Christian slaves. If any such slaves...
This Day, September 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 21 19 BCE: Virgil, the classical Roman poet passes away. Eclogue 4, the so-called Messianic Eclogue, is the best known of Virgil’s...
This Day, September 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 20 357 B.C.E.: Birthdate of Alexander the Great. Alexander's eastern conquests would bring the Jews in contact with Greek Culture. The...
This Day, September 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 19 335: Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his Uncle Constantine I who had turned the Roman Empire into a Christian entity....