Author: rambam442013

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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The Rise of the Inquisition Part 3: The Cathars

The Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions that began in the late 15th and 16th centuries and lasted well into the 19th … More

The Rise of the Inquisition Part 2

This is the second lecture of a series of discussions on the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition. These videos are short … More

The Rise of the Inquisition Part 1

This is the first lecture of a series of discussions on the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition. These videos are short … More

Rabbi Jose Faur and the Decline of the Andalusian Tradition

The eminent Rabbi Jose Faur passed away last week. He was a unique Sephardic scholar and rabbi from the Syrian … More

Secret Jews-The Rise of the Inquisition-Persecution and Conversion 3 Volume Box Set

Checkout the link below: https://amzn.to/3eRLi9a Take advantage of this incredible offer on three foundational works on the topic of Crypto-Judaism. … More

The Eternality of Punishment

Most Jews in the 21st century see hell as a Christian concept. The reality is much different. Competing views on … More

The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal: Survival of an Imperiled Culture in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

I had the pleasure of working with Dolores Sloan on the board of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies from 2011- … More

Jewish Conquistadors in the New World

In 1391, a new period in the history of the Jews of Spain began. Jewish communities throughout the Peninsula except … More

The Toleration of Jewish Life in Christian Territory

There was also a deeper theological reason to allow and protect Jewish habitation in Christian lands. The Church had adopted … More