“IN EACH AND EVERY GENERATION THEY RISE UP AGAINST US TO DESTROY US. AND THE HOLY ONE, BLESSED BE HE, RESCUES US FROM THEIR HANDS.”

Have the nations really tried to destroy us in every generation? The following is just a sample of the atrocities committed over the centuries. Consider:

1430 BCE - Slavery in Egypt. (Passover)

356 BCE - Haman attempts genocide of the Jews. (Purim)

138 BCE - Greek government outlaws the practice of Judaism in Israel. (Chanukah)

27 BCE-330 CE - Roman persecution throughout their empire.

486 CE - Monks and mobs burn synagogue, dig up a Jewish cemetery, and burn bones.

624 - Mohammed watches as 600 Jews are decapitated in Medina in one day.

640 - Jews expelled from Arabia.

1096 - First crusade: Thousands of Jews tortured and massacred.

1146 - Second crusade: Thousands of Jews, including women and babies, are butchered across Europe.

1200's - Jews blamed for causing the Black Plague are murdered across Europe.

1290 - Jews expelled from England.

1306 - Jews expelled from France.

1349 - Jews expelled from Hungary.

1391 - Spain: Tens of thousands killed.

1394 - Second expulsion from France.

1400's - Jews accused of murdering Christian children and baking matzah with the blood are killed.

1421 - Jews expelled from Austria.

1492 - Jews expelled from Spain in the Inquisition.

1496 - Jews expelled from Portugal

1500's - Marranos are burned in Mexico, Portugal, Peru, and Spain.

1553 - The Talmud is burned in Italy.

1648-66 - Cossacks, Poles, Russians, and Swedes massacre Jews.

1744 - Jews expelled from Bohemia and Moravia.

1818 - Pogroms in Yemen.

1840 - Blood libel in Damascus.

1862 - General Ulysses S. Grant expels Jews from Tennessee.

1882 - Pogroms in Russia.

1930's-40's - Official Canadian reply to most Jewish pleas for refuge: "Unfortunately, though we greatly sympathize with your circumstance, at present you cannot be admitted. Please try some other country." Hundreds die as ships sink in harbors.

1939-45 - Six million Jews are annihilated across Europe. Babies serve as target practice, women are human guinea pigs for doctors and scientists, beards are torn from men's faces.

1948-67 - Arab nations launch attacks to annihilate the State of Israel. Fearing for their lives, Jews flee to Algeria, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Egypt.

2005-22 - Iran declares that it will annihilate the Jewish people and the state of Israel.





It is beginning to happen again now across the entire globe.