Spanish Inquisition

Don’t ignore the similarities between the persecution of Israelis and US Christians - opinion

Netanyahu equates attacking Jews who support Israel to attacking Evangelicals for good reason; both faiths are founded on Zionism

Many Evangelicals participate in the United for Israel March outside Columbia University in New York City in 2024.
Tamara Cohen, founder of the Mazál bagel restaurant in Madrid, immigrated from the United States through  Spain's Sephardic ancestry law.

Tamara Cohen's ancestors were expelled from Spain, now she’s bringing bagels to Madrid

Or Yesha Meusharim from Machzor Worms (13th c.)

National Library unveils rare 14th century Mishneh Torah manuscript

 Palm-lined riverbanks flow into open waters - a portrait of Caribbean stillness.

The Caribbean retreat: Mapping wellness, memory, and Israeli connection in the Dominican Republic


Porto Jewish Community inaugurated new cemetery five centuries after expulsion

The event was presided over by rabbis from Portugal, Israel, the US and the UK.

  18th century manuscript, found in the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People at the National Library of Israel, includes details from the first 130 years of the Portuguese Inquisition in Lisbon, including numbers of the victims, charges and sentences

Jerusalem nonprofit hosts candle lighting in Palace of the Inquisition in Mexico

The palace in Mexico City represented the colonization and control of Mexico by the Catholic Church.

 Rabbi Yitzhak Abud (left) and Rabbi Michael Freund (right).

Catholic Church can curb carbon emissions by returning to meat-free Fridays, study suggests

The practice dates back to the first century CE, when Pope Nicholas I declared that Catholics were required to abstain from eating meat on Fridays in memory of the death and crucifixion of Christ.

 Fish and Chips, photo taken in November 2018 in Blackpool, UK.

What was Jewish life in Spain, Portugal before, during the Inquisition?

Genie Milgrom, a Miami-based genealogist, seeks to make documents of Jewish life in Spain and Portugal before and during the Inquisition available to the public on her website.

 (From left) Genie Milgrom, Ashley Perry (Perez), president of Reconectar, and Dr. Drora Arussy of the Institute of Jewish Experience at the American Sephardi Federation during a recent event at the Four Synagogues in Jerusalem.

Sephardic Jewish ancestry certificate now open for millions of applicants

Recent research has demonstrated that as many as 200 million people in the Americas and Europe have Jewish ancestry who were forcibly converted.

Certificate of Sephardi Jewish ancestry.

Crypto-Jews: What is the history of secret Jews? - explainer

Crypto-Jews are Jews who practice Judaism in secret while professing another religion publically. They are an ancient phenomenon but are largely associated with Sephardi Jews from Spain and Portugal.

 Painting depicts crypto Jews holding a Passover seder in secret.

Arab airlines to screen film about the Portuguese Inquisition

The film “1618” is a project produced by the Jewish community of Porto in an effort to combat antisemitism.

The film “1618” is a project produced by the Jewish community of Porto.

Hispanic-Jewish foundation introduces monument to mark 530 years since Alhambra Decree

Spanish Jewry that left due to the decree went on to form some of the largest Sephardic Jewish communities in the diaspora.

 The Cartagena Monument that marks 530 years since the Alhambra Decree in Spain.

Portugal to adjust law that let Abramovich get citizenship, minister says

An inquiry into the granting of citizenship to Abramovich was opened in January by the Portuguese prosecutor's office and his citizenship could be stripped depending on its outcome.

 Russian billionaire and owner of Chelsea football club Roman Abramovich arrives at a division of the High Court in central London October 31, 2011.

Jews forcibly converted in Spanish, Portuguese Inquisition are coming back

Yaffah Batya daCosta: Fear instilled by the Inquisition has left a painful legacy of isolation and fear.

 Children of the Inquisition documentary