This post continues my posting of the series titled “Secret Files of the Inquisition” which begins with the Papal Inquisitions and continues with Spanish Inquisition and beyond.
This video focuses on Spain in 1468. The videos depicts Spain as a a land where Christians, Muslims and Jews have lived in tolerance for centuries.
While this is somewhat idealistic, there was a measure of tolerance that existed, balanced by the needs of the Christian Kingdoms and the continuing existence of a diminished but still noteworthy Muslim Kingdom of Granada.
Rabbi Juan Marcos Bejarano-Gutierrez is a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas where he earned a bachelor of science in electrical engineering. He studied at the Siegal College of Judaic Studies in Cleveland and received a Master of Arts Degree with Distinction in Judaic Studies.
He completed his doctoral studies at the Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago in 2015. His doctoral dissertation is titled “Complex Identities: Christian and Jewish Attitudes Towards Conversos” and was accepted in September 2015.
He also studied at the American Seminary for Contemporary Judaism and received rabbinic ordination in 2011 from Yeshivat Mesilat Yesharim.
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