The Zionist Politicization of Conversos and Its Risks
By David Ramírez As we had mentioned in other articles, [1] the renaissance of returning conversos, descendants of Iberian Jews who were converted to Catholicism with or against their will, […]
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The Paradoxes of Anti-Semitism and How to Resolve Them
By David Ramírez The ever increasing rise of physical attacks on Jews and Jewish property in both Europe and the United States has rekindled, once again, a cascade of Jewish […]
Entering “Pottersville”: Modalities of Destruction and Self-Hatred in Sephardic Jewish History
By David Shasha I was recently looking at Andrew Kaufman’s excellent biography of the great American jurist Benjamin Cardozo and found a note referring to the problem of Sephardim and […]
The Status of Women in the Sephardic Jewish Tradition
By: Renee Levine Melammed Written histories of the Jews in Spain have rarely included women. The two major historical works in the field, The Jews of Moslem Spain (2 vols.) by Eliyahu […]
The Role of Spanish & Portuguese Conversas as a Model for the Future of Sephardic Jewry
By Yehonatán Ele‘azar de Mota Many a time within the contemporary Sephardic Jewish community, much is said about women’s issues. The reality is that there is a conflict between traditional […]
The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture
By Robert Brody Introduction One of the most misunderstood issues in the traditional Jewish religious world is the transmission of the legal traditions of Israel. Today all centers of […]
(Home)land: Reflections on Andalusi Jewish Attachment to Place
By: Ross Brann “Sefarad is my land, the Land of Israel my destination.” Judah al-Harizi, Tahkemoni (Maqama 49) Letter of Judah Ha-Levi in Toledo to Halfon ben Nathanel al-Dimyati […]
Zionism In Sephardic Thought
By David Ramírez Source: Artist unknown. Eliezer Penias. Year Unknown. Dror Penias. Flicker.com. Web. Jul. 15 2014. From right to left: Rabbi Ahron Angel (from Rhodes), who in 1948 became […]
The Idiot Sephardim: A Confrontation between a Sephardic Student and a Yeshiva University Professor
By David Shasha I received this quite disturbing letter through an intermediary who thought I could provide a more effective response than he would be able to. It was […]
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE By Rev. David de Sola Pool From Why I am a Jew (Beacon Press: Boston, 1957; pp. 189-198) Recently I came across this book […]
David Ramírez 