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Never Ending Journey

We believe in the power of history to teach and inspire. The story of the Jewish people is over 5,000 years old with new chapters being written every day. There is so much to learn - come explore with us!

Scroll across our interactive timeline to start your journey!

3761 B.C.E.

The beginning of the Hebrew calendar
1280 B.C.E.

Exodus from Egypt
ca. 970-931

Solomon builds the First Temple
586 B.C.E.

First Temple destroyed - the beggining of the Babylonian exile
520 B.C.E.

Second Temple rebuilt
463 BCE

First settlements of Jews in Yemen and India
426 B.C.E.

Book of Esther
63 B.C.E.

Rome (Pompey) annexes the land of Israel
70

Destruction of Jerusalem and the second Temple
132-135

Bar Kokhba rebellion
166-160 B.C.E.

Jewish Maccabean revolt
370

Rise of the Himyar Kingdom
368-426

The Talmud is compiled
882

Saadia Gaon is born
1096

The First Crusade
1105

Rashi, Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac dies
1163

The first Kaifeng synagogue is constructed
1190

Maimonides writes the Guide to the Perplexed
1242

Burning of the Talmud in Paris
1290

Expulsion of Jews from England
ca. 13th cen.

The Zohar is written
1492

Jews from expelled from Spain
1516

The first Jewish Ghetto established in Venice
1571

Shulhan Arukh, code of Jewish law, written by Joseph Caro
1676

Shabbetai Zevi dies
1627

Beta Israel autonomy in Ethiopia ends
1642

The first Jewish colony in the New World is established in Recife, Brazil
1760

Israel Baal Shem Tov, founder of the Hasidism dies
1783

Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem is published
1812

Prussia's Edict of Emancipation grants citizenship to Jews
1840

The Damascus Affair
1875

The Damascus AffairIsaac Mayer Wise founds Hebrew Union College
1881

Enactment of the May Laws to restrict Jews in Russia
1894

Alfred Dreyfus falsely accued and tried for treason
1896

Theodor Herzl publishes Der Judenstaat, The Jewish State
1914

World War I begins
1939

Kristallnacht
1948

Establishment of the State of Israel
1970

Day of Revenge, Expulsion of Jews from Libya

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