Gifts to Iran Won’t Improve the Dire Situation in Yemen
Washington’s misguided appeasement of the Houthis.
February 9, 2021
One of Renaissance Spain’s Leading Catholic Scholars May Have Been a Secret Jew
Alfonso de Zamora.
Beginning in the late 14th century, tens of thousands of Spanish Jews converted to Catholicism as persecution increased—culminating with the expulsion of the unconverted in 1492. Many of these conversos or “New Christians” rose to prominence; the rabbi of the city of Burgos, for instance, was baptized in 1391, was eventually ordained as a priest, and returned to Burgos to serve as its bishop. Others continued to practice Judaism in secret. According to the recent research of Ahuva Ho, Alfonso de Zamora (1474–1545/6) fell into both categories:
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Not Being a U.S. Priority Can Benefit Israel
Benign neglect.
Remembering the Man Who Liberated the Dead Sea Scrolls and Popularized Knowledge of Ancient Israel
Defending Israeli archaeology from perverse slanders.
One of Renaissance Spain’s Leading Catholic Scholars May Have Been a Secret Jew
Alfonso de Zamora.
How a 19th-Century Russian Rabbi Used the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant to Understand Two of the Talmud’s Great Ethical Debates
The Malbim’s critique of universalism.