An Indo-Abrahamic Alliance Could Create a New and Better Order in Western Asia
Bringing India into the American system.
July 7, 2022
A 60-Page Record of the Portuguese Inquisition Goes Online
The country did not end autos-de-fé until 1821.
When Spain expelled its Jews in 1492, thousands of them found refuge in Portugal. But only five years later, King Manuel I presented them, and their Muslim compatriots, with a choice: either be baptized or leave the country. Many Jews accepted Catholicism, but they and their descendants would live under suspicion of secretly adhering to their ancestral faith and practices, attracting the attention of the inquisition. Michael Horovitz explains how a document, recently made available by the National Library of Israel, sheds light on their experience:
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Harvard’s Israel Problem Goes Far Beyond Pro-Boycott Editorials and Apartheid Walls
A smokescreen for something darker.
Hizballah’s American Sleeper Agents
A black-ops division that plans off-the-shelf terrorist attacks to be activated when needed.
A Shockingly Relevant Jazz-Age Tale of Sexual Revolution, and Its Portrait of Jews
Ex-Wife and The Divorcee.
A 60-Page Record of the Portuguese Inquisition Goes Online
The country did not end autos-de-fé until 1821.