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Bringing Together and Educating Descendants of Sephardic Conversos

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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.

Did Cervantes’s family have Jewish roots?

The following article by Marion Fischel examines the age old question regarding Miguel Cervantes family background. http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Did-Cervantess-family-have-Jewish-roots-319468 His masterpiece, Don … More

Conversos, Don Quixote, Limpieza de Sangre, Miguel Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes, Moors, New Christians

Secret Files of the Spanish Inquisition

This post continues my posting of the series titled “Secret Files of the Inquisition” which begins with the Papal Inquisitions … More

Christian, Christianity, Conversos, Granada, Inquisition, Jew, Marranos, Spain, Spanish Inquisition

The Responsa of the Ribash and the Jewish Status of Anusim

By Rabbi Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez The practice of a Jewish community writing for guidance to a recognized rabbinic authority … More

Anusim, Conversos, Crypto Jews, Marranos, Rabbi Isaac bar Sheshet Perfe, Rabbi Nissim ben Reuben, Ribash, Teshuvot

History of the Conversos in Spain

This video is part of a Sephardic history series produced by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Dr. Benjamin Gampel … More

Conversos, Crypto Jews, Marranos, Sephardic Jewish History

Why did Spanish Jews Convert to Christianity?

By Rabbi Dr. Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez Regarding the motivations or reasons why so many Spanish Jews converted to Christianity, … More

Anusim, Christianity, Converso, Forced Conversion, Jew, Judaism, Solomon Alami, Spain, Yitzhak Baer

The Edicts of Expulsion

By Rabbi Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez The reason for the edicts of Expulsion of the 15th century has given rise … More

Benzion Netanyahu, Christianity, Converso, Iberian Peninsula, Inquisition, Jew, Judaism, Spain

The Jewish Status of Conversos and Rabbinic Responsa

By Rabbi J. Bejarano-Gutierrez Jews in the Iberian Peninsula were quite familiar with the phenomena of forced or coerced conversions. … More

Converso, Halakha, Jewish, Judaism, Marrano

What is a Marrano?

The term Marrano has often been used to designate Conversos who converted to Christianity for survival sake and continued to … More

Christianity, Converso, Crypto Jew, Crypto-Judaism, Jew, Judaism, Marrano, New Christian

The Divine Mission of Conversos

Whether or not Conversos were actually sincere converts to Christianity or in fact crypto Jews appears to have not been … More

Who is a Crypto Jew?

The history of the Jews of Spain spans more than a thousand years. It ended tragically in 1492 with the … More

Converso, Crypto-Judaism, Inquisition, Jew, Judaism, Marrano, New Christian, Spain

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