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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 489

Inquisition

Illustration showing Jews burning during the Inquisition (public domain)
March 6, 2023, 4:48 pm
Inspired by Purim heroine Esther, Inquisition-era crypto-Jews feasted in her honor
Church records tell of a Jewish woman’s 1688 confession to admiring Queen Esther, who also hid her Jewish identity. Her community prepared special foods for ‘St. Esther’s Feast’
By Ronit Treatman
From left to right: Genealogist Genie Milgrom, Reconnectar's Ashley Perry, and ASF Institute of Jewish Experience's Drora Arussy (Avrom Ariev)
September 27, 2022, 8:05 am
Initiatives help descendants of Crypto-Jews reconnect with stolen Sephardic heritage
Certificate of Sephardic Ancestry validates identity, while an online ancestral database of 45,000 Sephardic family names makes searching for roots easier
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: Congregants praying at the Kadoorie – Mekor Haim synagogue in Porto, Portugal, May 2014. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Porto)
July 16, 2020, 3:06 pm
Portugal’s government steps back from plan to change ‘law of return’ for Jews
After months of threatening to derail the 2015 nationality law with draconian requirements, Socialist Party says it will instead insist on applicants showing a ‘genuine connection’
By Melanie Lidman
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
Mordechai Ben Abir unveils a street renamed after his ancestors who were expelled from Spain in the town of Falset, Spain, at a ceremony on May 16, 2016. (Youtube screenshot)
July 31, 2019, 9:44 pm
500 years after Inquisition, 10,000 Sephardi Jews close circle with citizenships
While some apply for Portuguese and Spanish citizenship to celebrate their family’s roots, most look to economic opportunity and a future that an European passport can offer
By Melanie Lidman
Illustrative: Members of the modern-day Jewish community of Mallorca, Spain, celebrate Tu b'Shvat, February 10, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
March 21, 2019, 7:37 am
In Mallorca, Purim was once the most important day for its persecuted Jewry
The forcibly converted community of a small Spanish island used to exploit Purim’s relative obscurity to mourn their situation and sustain their faith and culture
By Cnaan Liphshiz
An etching of astronomer Galileo Galilei is seen in an undated photo (AP Photo)
September 22, 2018, 5:48 am
Galileo sought to pacify Church in early exchanges, newly unearthed letter shows
Document, which lay forgotten in Royal Society library for hundreds of years, reveals astronomer tried to soften position on bible-science clash to avoid angering Inquisition
By ToI Staff
Dr. Mahmoud Habbash, Supreme Sharia Judge in the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s adviser on religious and Islamic affairs. (Courtesy)
July 7, 2018, 10:23 am
Abbas adviser compares Israeli security at Temple Mount to Nazism, Inquisition
Mahmoud Habbash laments restrictions on Muslim access to Al-Aqsa Mosque: ‘Are they trying to do to others what was done to them?’
By ToI Staff
This picture kept in the Archivio Storico San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome and taken on Tuesday, April 17, 2018 shows an undated photo of Father Pio Maria Mortara, third from left, with some of his brothers. It’s an incident that has stained the Vatican for 160 years: a 6-year-old Jewish boy taken from his family by papal police and brought to Rome to be raised Catholic after church authorities learned his housekeeper had secretly had him baptized. Now the case has reared its head again, with new evidence that memoirs the boy wrote as an adult were altered to take the edge off his anti-Semitic views and enhance details favorable to the Catholic Church. (AP Photo)
April 20, 2018, 7:31 pm
Memoir of secretly baptized Jewish boy kidnapped by Vatican under fresh scrutiny
New evidence in 160-year-old affair shows that Edgardo Mortara’s memoir was altered to take the edge off his anti-Semitic views and enhance details favorable to the Catholic Church
By Nicole Winfield
Interior of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, consecrated in 1675. The sanctuary, still without electricity, is lit by 1,000 candles for special occasions, January 2018 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
March 25, 2018, 4:03 am
Why Amsterdam’s beloved nickname is a centuries-old Yiddish word, ‘Mokum’
Recalling a golden age for the Netherlands and Dutch Jewry, on today’s streets of Amsterdam, mamaloshen still peppers local slang
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative: The Kadoorie Mekor Haim Synagogue in Porto, Portugal, on September 2, 2016. (AFP Photo/ Miguel Riopa)
February 24, 2018, 2:41 am
A soaring number of Jews acquired Portuguese citizenship in 2017
Increase in naturalization under 2015 law comes amid host of government initiatives to strengthen country’s ties to Jewish world
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Rabbi Elisha Salas, right, instructing a baker in Belmonte, Portugal, in the preparation of kosher challah, April 2012. (Courtesy of Shavei Israel/via JTA)
December 28, 2017, 6:26 am
Food makers in Portugal are going kosher — and not why you think
With about 20% of Iberians thought to possess Jewish ancestry, factory owners seek to get closer to Judaism through the products they make
By Cnaan Liphshiz
António Eugénio Maia do Amaral presenting the 15th-century Abravanel Hebrew Bible at Portugal’s Coimbra University in 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
October 19, 2017, 5:22 am
How a 15th-century Hebrew Bible survived the Inquisition unscathed
Home to the Abravanel manuscript, 737-year-old University of Coimbra outsmarted and outlived the 1536 Portuguese campaign of persecution against Jews and free thinkers
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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
A street view in the Portuguese city of Évora (CC BY-SA Lacobrigo, Wikimedia Commons)
August 19, 2015, 5:18 pm
Skeletons in Portugal may be Jewish victims of Inquisition
Archaeologists find remains of 12 people whose bodies were flung into prison garbage dump in 16th century
By AP
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