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This Day ... In Jewish History: This Day, July 10, In Jewish History

48 BCE: In his war with Pompey, Julius Caesar barely avoids defeat at the Battle of Dyrrhachium. A month later, after regrouping his forces, Caesar defeated Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus. While neither of the Roman leaders were candidates for humanitarian of the year, Caesar was the better of the two; certainly from a Jewish point of view. Pompey had shown his contempt for the Jews when he desecrated the Holy of Holies. Caesar, on the other hand, took a benevolent attitude towards the Jews and did not mistreat them. 138: The Roman Emperor Hadrian died. From a Jewish perspective, Hadrian would have to rank as one of the worst of the Roman Emperors. He triggered the Bar Kochbah Revolt with his anti-Jewish decrees that included a ban on circumcision and the announcement that he was going to build a Temple to Jupiter in Jerusalem thus turning the sacred city of the Jews into a pagan shrine. The three year long rebellion was a savage one at the end of which over half a million Jewish rebels were killed. Furthermore so many towns and villages were laid waste that home of the Jews became a veritable wasteland.While the Romans may have a victory must have been a hollow because, in his report to the Senate, Hadrian omitted that statement victory standard, "I am my army are well." Hadrian took his revenge on the Jews. He had a Torah scroll burned on the Temple Mount. He renamed Jerusalem Aelia Capitolina and changed the name of the country of Judea to Syria Palestine. We are reminded Hadrian ill each year to the high holiday season when we remember martyrs who were killed by him to continue teaching the Torah. Ironically, Hadrian’s handpicked successor would repeal many of Hadrian’s anti-Semitic decrees. But the damage was one and the fate of the Jews of in Eretz Israel continued on a downward spiral. 988: The City of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey. Since the earliest mention of Jews dates from 1079, there were no Jews among the founders. During the first half of the 20th century the Portobello section of Dublin was known as Little Jerusalem because it was the center of the Irish Jewish community. Ironically, the most famous Jewish “citizen” of Little Jerusalem never really lived there because he was “Leopold Bloom, the fictional Jewish character at the heart of the James Joyce novel Ulysses , lived at 52 Clanbrassil Street Upper.

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