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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 588

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April 28, 2021, 8:57 am
Portuguese Law: Sephardic descendants eligible to obtain Portuguese Citizenship
By Avigail Greenberg and Sasha Kishko
Clockwise from top left: 'The Secret Music at Tordesillas' by Marjorie Sandor; the Calle de la Juderia, or Jewish quarter, in Segovia, Spain; author Marjorie Sandor (all photos courtesy of Sandor); Oud instruments in Cairo (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser).
March 7, 2021, 9:45 pm
Echoes of lost music haunt an Inquisition-era love story between two crypto-Jews
National Jewish Book Award winner Marjorie Sandor discusses scouring an ancient history that Spanish monarchs worked hard to erase for her novel ‘The Secret Music at Tordesillas’
By Yaakov Schwartz
Director Joseph Lovett with Carmen Gomez Gomez, examining a 14th-century tax document in the Toledo cathedral archives, in this still from 'Children of the Inquisition.' (Lovett Productions)
October 26, 2019, 2:50 am
How Jews expelled from Spain forged a diaspora with ties to 25% of Latin America
Film ‘Children of the Inquisition’ examines forced conversion of Sephardim from the Iberian Peninsula 500 years ago and why their descendants still feel ripple effects
By Rich Tenorio
Rabbi Mira Rivera is passionate about building community among Jews of color. (Josefin Dolsten/JTA)
July 13, 2019, 3:12 pm
A Filipino-American rabbi aims to make other Jews of color feel at home in shul
A former Martha Graham dancer, Rabbi Mira Rivera’s unexpected journey to Judaism and the rabbinate gains mystical validation through her maternal ancestor’s potential converso past
By Josefin Dolsten
Many in Brazil have converted to Judaism under the supervision of Gilberto Venturas, an Orthodox rabbi, shown here with his wife, Jacqueline. (Courtesy of Sinagoga sem Froteiras/via JTA)
December 29, 2018, 9:38 am
Sephardic converts give northern Brazil’s dwindling Jewish communities new life
Though emigration is at a high for Ashkenazi Jews, Recife is not in decline — partly thanks to the embrace of Judaism by hundreds of locals with ancestors who fled the Inquisition
By Cnaan Liphshiz
File: An Orthodox Jewish Colombian family shown in 2012. (Paul Smith/For the Washington Post/via JTA)
December 27, 2018, 11:04 pm
Study finds widespread traces of Sephardic genes in Latin America
Geneticists study genomes of 6,589 people from 5 countries; about one-quarter show what may be remnants of Jewish converso ancestry
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Portrait of a man thought to be Christopher Columbus by Sebastiano del Piombo, 1519.(public domain)
October 8, 2018, 9:56 pm
Christopher Columbus — the hidden Jew?
With a murky past, theories abound for the origin story of the intrepid explorer — from pirate to crypto-Jew
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
'Black Soul' by Miguel Gómez Andrea, performed in 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)
June 27, 2018, 6:47 pm
At Spanish festival on Inquisition, new play tackles blood libel
‘Black Soul,’ set in 1492, tells of the murder of a young woman which locals blame on their Jewish neighbors
By JTA
An inset of the autobiographical manuscripts of Luis de Carvajal the Younger, circa 1595, with devotional manuscripts. (Courtesy of the Government of Mexico)
March 6, 2017, 6:51 am
Lost 400-year-old Jewish manuscript to be returned to Mexico
1595 autobiography of Luis de Carvajal, a ‘converso’ Jew in Mexico, had disappeared from the national archives more than 75 years ago
By JTA
An inset of the autobiographical manuscripts of Luis de Carvajal the Younger, circa 1595, with devotional manuscripts. (Courtesy of the Government of Mexico)
December 18, 2016, 11:42 pm
Lost diary of tortured Mexican ‘converso’ features in early-American Jewish exhibit
Manuscript by Luis de Carvajal was missing for 75 years until spotted by a keen-eyed collector. Now it joins others on display at the New-York Historical Society
By Penny Schwartz
The John Rylands Library in Manchester where Dr. Aron Sterk found the English translation of the ancient Spanish siddur. (Wikimedia commons)
July 26, 2016, 6:31 pm
Mystery surrounds mistake-filled 300-year-old prayer book found in UK
Unique liturgical text, a ‘translation of a translation’ discovered by academic in Manchester collection, prompts speculation over religious Jews in England earlier than thought
By Jenni Frazer
American rocket engineer Simon Ramo. (YouTube/Heart of Experian)
June 30, 2016, 10:28 pm
Aerospace pioneer Simon Ramo dies at 103
Son of Jewish immigrants was a key figure in America’s intercontinental ballistic missile development
By JTA
Haim Casas surrounded by congregants at Atid in Barcelona, 2015. (Antoni Moreno)
February 9, 2016, 11:29 pm
First Cordoba-born rabbi since 1492 expulsion set on reversing history
After his ordination next year in London, Haim Casas to return to Maimonides’ home town to build progressive Jewish life inspired by great Sephardic legacy
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Benjamin Netanyahu with his father, Professor Benzion Netanyahu, in his Jerusalem home on February 5, 2009. (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/ Flash 90)
October 22, 2015, 12:38 pm
In Netanyahu’s mufti-Holocaust allegation, echoes of his father’s maverick approach to history
The PM is defending his incendiary claim that Haj Amin al-Husseini persuaded Hitler to ‘burn’ the Jews by citing sources most scholars reject. Benzion Netanyahu followed a similarly controversial approach regarding the Marranos. But he was an historian, not a prime minister
By Raphael Ahren
Rabbi Barbara Aiello speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, August 13, 2015. (Menachem Wecker/JTA)
August 31, 2015, 4:38 am
Don’t mess with Italy’s missionary woman
While established Italian Jewry shies away from her outreach to descendants of conversos, Reform Rabbi Barbara Aiello is finding a warm embrace in her ancestral Calabrian home
By Menachem Wecker
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