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Spanish Inquisition

Arts

Tisha B'Av and Converso Jews

By Sharon Katz

Crypto-Jews, who saw in their own circumstances a reflection of the events of Tisha B’Av.

History

This Day in History: November 1, 1478 – Launching the Spanish Inquisition

By Sharon Katz

On November 1, 1478, Pope Sixtus IV issued the papal bull Exigit Sinceras Devotionis Affectus.

Travel / Holidays

Yom Kippur and the Hidden Jews

By Sharon Katz

Many believe that Kol Nidre was created in response to the conversos’ plight and their need to nullify their conversion vows.

Ari and Jeremy

Israel Inspired: Spanish Jews Spiraling Through Time

By The Land of Israel

Spanish speaking descendants of Meronos (Jews who hid their Jewish identity during the Spanish Inquisition) want to return to their authentic origins and roots. What do they do now? On today's Israel Inspired with Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel.

Goldstein on Gelt

Why Spanish Citizenship May be Good For You

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

If eligible, are their benefits to claiming Spanish citizenship?

Politics / Religion / Europe / News Briefs / Jewish

Muslims Demand Equal Terms after Spanish Law for Jewish Return

By JTA

Several Muslim families currently residing in North Africa are candidates for receiving Spanish citizenship.

Religion / News Briefs / Politics / Jewish

Spain Draft Law Grants Sephardic Jews Citizenship

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Spain’s ruling Popular Party (PP) has submitted a draft law that could grant citizenship to descendants of Jews expelled from Spain during the Spanish Inquisition. The possibility of the bill was first announced last year by Spanish Justice Minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon. If the law is ratified, eligible Jews won’t have to relinquish their current nationalities […]

Government / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Religion

Pope Will Enjoy Netanyahu’s Gift If He Has Guilty Conscience

By JTA

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu presented  Pope Francis Monday with a copy of the book “The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain,” a Tel Aviv scholarly publication of some of the worst things the Catholic Church has done to Jews. The book was written by the Prime Minister’s late father Benzion, who wrote of […]

Serials

Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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