New Islamic Movement Seeks Latino Converts
Slipped inside a strip mall across from Exposition Park where the smell of incense mingles with Arabic swirls on the wall, Muhammad Gomez absorbs the message of Allah. Sitting beside …
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The Catalonia Disputation
The story is told about a disputation which took place in a Catalonia in the fifteenth century. The lord and the archbishop of the province challenged the local Jews to …
Samuel Ha-Nagid, Vizier of Granada, 993-d after 1056
One of the most famous of the Jewish notables of Moslem Spain was Samuel HaLevi, who is also known as Samuel HaNagid. Beginning life as a shopkeeper, Samuel HaLevi ultimately …
Toledo: Capital of Sepharad
When a title for these remarks was suggested to me some time ago in Madrid, I purposely refrained from asking whether the theme centered on the recent designation of Toledo …
The Jews of the Canary Islands – Calendar of calumny
Lucien Wolf was depicted in the history pages of the Zionist movement as one of those stumbling blocks that Chaim Weizmann had to bypass on his way to reaching the …
The Marranos Celebrate Yom Kippur in Amsterdam
Two ships were drifting helplessly in the North Sea. High winds and stormy seas damaged the rudders, and the ships were at the mercy of the storm. Fortunately, the ships …
The Sephardic Jews
By the end of the first century A. D. there were Jews all around the Mediterranean Sea and with the Christianization of the Roman Empire, the persecution of the Jews …
Tomás de Torquemada
At his birth (1420, Torquemada, Castile, Spain) Tomás already had something to hide: his grandmother was a converso; a converted Jew; a New Christian. Spain had more converted Jews than …