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The Importance of Converso and Latino Communities – Part Three

You are invited to attend a three-part series exploring the converso and Latino connection to Israel. This compelling story of the Sephardic experience begins hundreds of years ago with the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula. This was a profound period of persecution, massacred and forced conversions (conversos); but also, a time of hope, survival, and redemption.

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Recapturing Your Roots – Part Two

On May 23, 2021 Jewish Heritage Alliance joined Jewish National Fund USA to deliver the second in a three-part series exploring the converso and Latino connection to Israel. During this presentation we presented three special guests sharing a similar destiny. They were all born Catholic, but they each embraced their Jewish Heritage differently.

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Interiority and Hope

On May 2, 2021 Jewish Heritage Alliance and their co-hosting partners hosted the “Interiority and Hope” webinar, the third event of a multi-part educational webinar series celebrating the courage and determination of the Women of Sefarad who played a unique and special role during Medieval and Early Modern times.

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Rediscover The Converso & Latino Connection To ISRAEL

On April 25, 2021 Jewish Heritage Alliance joined Jewish National Fund USA to deliver the first of a three-part series exploring the converso and Latino connection to Israel. We discussed the converso phenomenon, spanning hundreds of years, from the early persecutions and Inquisition, through present day efforts assisting descendants of Sefarad in re-discovering their Jewish root.

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Doña Gracia Nasi

On April 11, 2021, Jewish Heritage Alliance and their co-hosting partners hosted the Doña Gracia Nasi webinar, the second event of a multi-part educational webinar series celebrating the courage and determination of the Women of Sefarad who played a unique and special role during Medieval and Early Modern times.

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The Crypto-Jewish Women of Spain

On March 7, 2021 Jewish Heritage Alliance teamed up with several strategic partners and friends for the first in multipart webinar series celebrating the courage and determination of the Women of Sefarad who played a unique and special role during the time of the Inquisition.

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Pioneers: Remembering the First Jews in America

JHA teamed up with Museum of Jewish Heritage and Beit Hatfutsot for a special program exploring the lives and communities of the earliest American Jews. During this presentation we also discuss early arrival of descendants of Crypto-Jews to America’s southwest.

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Rediscovering the Latino Connection to Israel

Jewish National Fund and JHA present a June 28, 2020 Zoom lecture “Rediscovering the Latino Connection to Israel” led by Michael Steinberger Founder and CEO of JHA and featured guest speakers Genie Milgrom and Ashley Perry (Perez).

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In the Footsteps of Hispanic Crypto-Jews

The Miami Israeli Parliament and Jewish Heritage Alliance May 24, 2020 Zoom lecture presentation led by Michael Steinberger Founder and CEO of JHA and featured guest speakers Genie Milgrom and Ashley Perry (Perez).