Anti-Reconquest and Anti-Mass-Resettlement Statements before the Messianic Age in Rabbinic and post-Rabbinic Traditions By David Ramirez Introduction For the one-year mournful anniversary of the October 7 (2023) massacres, I gathered […]
Review of Schulamith Halevy’s Doctoral Thesis on Conversos Neoleoneses By David Ramírez In the course of Converso[1] related history, the subjects mostly studied have been the lives of few famous […]
By David Shasha The late Elie Wiesel was an immensely complicated figure who helped raise public awareness of the Holocaust, but who also became consumed by his own celebrity and […]
By: David Ramírez Please note: All the Facebook quotes are reprinted without change. The typos have been retained. The personal names of the participants have been removed. And just to […]
By: George S. Belasco We begin this week’s newsletter with an astounding sermon from the late minister of the Montefiore Endowment Synagogue in Ramsgate, England, George Belasco. I first learned […]
By David Ramírez Whenever I see a new post in the Ashkenazi media on the subject of the Lost Tribes or Iberian anusim, I ask myself: Whatever happened to basic […]
By David Ramírez In talking to a friend of mine about how the new generation of Sephardim are becoming less and less aware about Sephardic identity, and the systemic problems […]
By David Ramírez In his ongoing self-promotion cycle, recently we learned of Freund’s discovery of Abarbanel’s “prophecies” in a Jerusalem Post article titled “The Abarbanel and the return of the […]
Shearith Israel’s Heritage and Hope By the Rev. David de Sola Pool, Ph. D. Sermon preached in the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Shearith Israel, Central Park West and Seventieth Street, […]
The Instrumentation of Halakháh leMa‘aséh in Ashkenazic and Sephardic Traditions By David Ramírez INTRODUCTION In the early 20th century, women’s suffrage was a hot topic. Countries began to give voting […]
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