On This Week in Jewish History (January 23-29)
In collaboration with @jewishperspective on Instagram, we have begun to accumulate events in Jewish history week by week. One can find...
Re-imagining Jewish Education
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Victor Young" "Perez", Tunisian-Jewish Boxing Champion, is Killed, 1945
On This Day in Jewish History: January 21, 1945 https://www.instagram.com/p/CY_RQ30N9ap/ Tunisian-Jewish boxing champion Victor “Young”...
Menarsha Synagogue in Damascus, Syria is Attacked, 1949
On This Day in Jewish History: August 5th, 1949 For centuries, Syria was home to a community of Jews with a history and culture rooted in...
Law of Return is Passed, 1950
On This Day in Jewish History: July 5, 1950 . This monumental event is one of Jewish history's most critically progressive moments in...
Cairo Jewish Quarter Bombed; 22 Jews Killed, 41 Injured
On This Day in Jewish History: June 20, 1948 . 1948, the infamous Cairo bombings that targeted ancient Jewish areas specifically began –...
Saadia Marciano founds the Israeli Black Panthers, 1971
On This Day in Jewish History: March 3, 1971 https://www.instagram.com/p/CL-kJ_KL7MS/ On this day, 1971, Saadia Marciano Founds the...
Secret Mission to Bring Yemenite Jews to Israel, 2009
On This Day in Jewish History: February 19, 2009 On this day, 2009, some of the last of the remaining Jews in Yemen were covertly...
Damascus Affair Leads to Blood Libel, 1840
On This Day in Jewish History: February 5, 1840 https://www.instagram.com/p/CK6_lXwLAJl/ . #onthisday, 1840, the Damascus Blood Libel...
Passing of Famed Jewish Pirate, Samuel Pallache, 1616
On This Day in Jewish History: February 4, 1616 https://www.instagram.com/p/CK5JuQGLPVW/ . #onthisday, 1616, the famed Jewish pirate and...
Isaac Simon
Soviets Liberate Auschwitz - Intl. Holocaust Remembrance Day
On This Day in Jewish History: January 27th, 1945 https://www.instagram.com/p/CKj1ADlL32V/ . #onthisday, 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau,...
Meyer Grunberg
Baba Sali's Yahrzeit, 5744
On This Day in Jewish History: Shvat 4, 5744 https://www.instagram.com/p/CKKK_MULkVi/ . #onthisday, R' Yisrael Abuhatzeira z"l, also...
Meyer Grunberg
Birthday of Kochavi Shemesh, 1944
On This Day in Jewish History: January 10, 1944 https://www.instagram.com/onthisdayinjewishistory/ . #onthisday, 1944, one of the leaders...
Meyer Grunberg
Rambam's Yahrzeit: Tevet 20, 4965
On This Day in Jewish History: Tevet 20, 4965 https://www.instagram.com/p/CJoyeI6L8F0/ . #onthisday, 4965 (1204 CE), one of the greatest...
Birthday of Albert Memmi, 1920
On This Day in Jewish History: December 15, 1920 . On this day, 1920, Jewish-Tunisian author Albert Memmi was born in Tunis, Tunisia....
Meyer Grunberg
Pogroms Break Out in Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria, 1947
On This Day in Jewish History: December 2-5, 1947 https://www.instagram.com/p/CIWihqQrcca/ . #onthisday, 1947, through December 5th saw 3...
Meyer Grunberg
Israel Declares Independence, 1948
On This Day in Jewish History: May 14th, 1948 https://www.instagram.com/p/CALSMEaAma5/ . A historic & emotional day in Jewish history as...
Moroccan Jews Granted Religious Freedom, 1880
On This Day in Jewish History: September 18th, 1880 https://www.instagram.com/p/CFSaMwplfYM/ #onthisday, 1880, religious freedom was...
Meyer Grunberg
Day of Remembrance for Jews Expelled from Middle East, North Africa, and Iran, 1939-1979
On This Day in Jewish History: November 30 https://www.instagram.com/p/CIOZFVeL4Ix/ #onthisday, 1947, a day after the Jewish dancing in...
Meyer Grunberg
The Hebron Massacre, 1834
On This Day in Jewish History: July 24, 1834 https://www.instagram.com/p/CDB03tQFUgf/ . . Ibrahim Pasha and his army marched into Hebron...
Meyer Grunberg
Rabbi Chaim Ben Attar Passes Away, 1743
On This Day in Jewish History: July 7th, 1743 https://www.instagram.com/p/CCWW7ecFAlJ/ . . The sage, kabbalist and prominent Rabbi Chaim...