Colombia’s Day of the Little Candles looks an awful lot like Hanukkah Many locals believe Dia de las Velitas was inspired by the religious practices of Jews who fled the Spanish Inquisition for Latin America. Many scholars are skeptical. By Alan Grabinsky December 17, 2019 5:27 pm
Copy of Hebrew Bible created in Spain by Jews returns there after centuries The whereabouts of the Kennicott Bible had been a mystery for about 300 years until it turned up in Oxford in 1771. October 25, 2019 8:42 am
In Mallorca, descendants of Jews forced to hide their faith now run the community Amid growing interest in the bloody Jewish past of the island near Barcelona, forced converts to Catholicism are returning to Judaism. April 1, 2019 2:54 pm
Spanish Jews pray at former synagogue they want back from the Catholic Church By Cnaan Liphshiz December 11, 2018 12:35 pm
Spanish festival celebrates the culture and history of the Inquisition’s victims June 27, 2018 8:29 am
How this pristine 15th-century Hebrew Bible survived the Inquisition By Cnaan Liphshiz October 18, 2017 1:15 pm
A Yom Kippur tradition in Amsterdam dates back to the invention of electricity By Cnaan Liphshiz September 14, 2017 1:28 pm