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In Hervás, a rural hamlet of 4,000, an invented Jewish heritage has become a point of pride and a marketing tool
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On a recent warm night in Madrid, a young woman shared that she had travelled over 3,000 miles, leaving her husband and two young children in Montreal, to claim Spanish citizenship. Over glasses of the local Alhambra brew, she told me that her grandparents spoke Ladino, and that whenever someone would mention Spain around her…
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Fast Forward Latin American Jews Whose Ancestors Fled Inquisition Will Get First Rabbi
For the first time, “long-lost” Jewish communities in three Central American nations will have their own full-time rabbi. The Bnei Anousim — whose ancestors were forced to convert to Catholicism during the Spanish Inquisition — will be led in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala by Rabbi Elisha Salas of Shavei Israel, an organization that contacts…
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Fast Forward Conservative Magazine Defends Spanish Inquisition, Calls It ‘Ahead Of Its Time’
The prominent conservative magazine National Review published an op-ed defending the Spanish Inquisition, lamenting that most opinions of it were formed by Elizabethan propaganda. Ed Condon, a writer and practicing canon lawyer, argued that northern European kingdoms worked to “paint the Spanish Empire as constitutionally evil; not just a political, religious, and military rival but…
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News The Spanish Inquisition Was ‘Moderate’ Solution. So Says This Conservative Columnist.
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