←December→ 1Polish Jews Forced to Wear Star of David Armbands (1939) 2Touro Synagogue Consecrated in Newport, Rhode Island (1763) 3Jews Barred from Using Polish Post Offices (1939) 4King Manuel Signs Decree to Expel Portuguese Jews (1496) 5IDF Launches Operation Assaf to Conquer Negev Desert (1948) 6 250,000 March on Washington in Solidarity with Russian Jews (1987) 7Birthday of Per Anger - "Righteous Gentile" During Holocaust (1913) 8Jewish Leaders Press FDR to Act Against Hitler (1942) 9Mass Rioting in Gaza Sparks First Palestinian Intifada (1987) 10Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak Tenders Resignation (2000) 11Hitler Declares War on the United States (1941) 12Nazi Leader Himmler Launches "Lebensborn" Program (1935) 13Yasser Arafat Renounces Palestinian Terror at the UN (1988) 14Israeli Knesset Votes to Annex Golan Heights (1981) 15Adolf Eichmann Sentenced to Death for Crimes Against Humanity (1961) 16 Spanish Government Voids 1492 Expulsion of Jews (1968) 17UN Issues Only Condemnation of German Actions in Holocaust (1942) 18Birthday of Movie Producer Steven Spielberg (1946) 19Jews Granted Equality by Governing Council in Jamaica (1831) 20Second Auschwitz Trial Begins in Frankfurt (1963) 21Birthday of Benjamin Disraeli, UK's First Jewish PM (1804) 22Russia Enforces Standards on Volozhin Yeshiva (1891) 23President Clinton Presents Israel-PA Peace Plan Parameters (2000) 24Birthday of Jewish Congressman Abraham Jacob Multer (1900) 25Great Synagogue of Czestochowa, Poland Destroyed in Pogrom (1939) 26Birthday of Heroic Israeli Spy Eli Cohen (1924) 27IDF Launches "Operation Cast Lead" Against Hamas (2008) 28IDF Launches "Operation Gift", Raid of Beirut Airport (1968) 29Birthday of Jewish Nobel Prize Laureate Bruce Beutler (1957) 30 Granada Massacre (1066) 31Birthday of Famed Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal (1908) CLICK ON ANY MONTH: January February March April May June July August September October November December