Antisemitism and Converso Memory
When gratitude fades and memory is rewritten, Jewish safety erodes. From ancient Egypt to today’s rising antisemitism, this article reveals how forgetting Jewish contribution leads to erasure—and why the rediscovered story of the Conversos offers hope, resilience, and a powerful answer at a critical moment for the Jewish future.

JHA Teams Up with Beth Torah in Offering Communities Programming
JHA joined Beth Torah in presenting a deeply moving program tracing the Sephardic journey from the anguish of the Inquisition to the promise of a new life in America. It is a story of courage, perseverance, and faith.

JHA Teams Up with Beth Torah in Offering Communities Programming
JHA joined Beth Torah in presenting a deeply moving program tracing the Sephardic journey from the anguish of the Inquisition to the promise of a new life in America. It is a story of courage, perseverance, and faith.

This article examines how 18th-century Jewish legal writings from Amsterdam, particularly the Peri Etz Ḥaim journal, addressed slavery through the lens of Jewish and Roman legal traditions, illustrating how enslaved individuals were treated as property and how ownership, manumission, and legal status were debated among rabbinic authorities.

Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota visits Portugal to give a talk about the Jewish customs of the Portuguese Jews throughout the diaspora. While in Portugal Yehonatan visits and recounts visits to his ancestors’ towns and villages.

Brenda Lee Bohen, a contributor to Meers’ online publication and collaborator with the Jewish Museum of Rome, interviews Dr. Isaac Amon, a practicing attorney and Director of Academic Research at the Jewish Heritage Alliance. Dr. Amon traces his paternal ancestry to 15th-century Spain—a legacy that shapes his deep engagement with Sephardic history.

The Jews of Jamaica make up a small but vibrant religious community centered today in the capital of Kingston. The core of the community traces its ancestry to Sefarad, the Iberian peninsula, and the Jewish exodus that began in the late 15th century. Ainsley Henriques keeps the story and history of Jamaica’s Jewish history alive.

Hidden legacy: In the Footsteps the Jews of Sefarad tells the story of the converso phenomenon, the Jews that were forced to convert to Christianity in the Iberian Peninsula. It’s a story of persecution, massacres and forced conversions. But it is also the story of survival, hope and redemption.

And He will gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth. Many people including Jews have begun to notice that the return of the Anusim (Conversos)

Columbus’ discovery of the Americas was celebrated as a triumph for Spaniards, Genoese, Italians, and for Europe as a whole. What was not made clear is that the expedition and the discovery rests upon Jewish foundations.

A well-written article by Naomi Grimley of the BBC about the Jews who come home to Portugal. The BBC staff reached out to JHA to assist in the article.

We are about to begin the holiday of Passover where Jews around the world celebrate “Freedom” as relating to God’s liberation of Jews from slavery in ancient Egypt.

The Jewish Heritage Alliance platform covers the Saga of Sefarad (Jews of Spain & Portugal) from their early arrival during the Middle Ages through the precarious, perilous period of danger and success.