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MICHAEL STEINBERGER INTERVIEW WITH I24NEWS

Emily Frances, Host “Holy Land Uncovered” interviews Jewish Heritage Alliance founder Michael Steinberger and talks about the enormous initiative to bring the story of Sefarad to the world at large.

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Sefarad… To Be or Not to Be

During this webinar we explore the torturous, painstaking decisions facing the Jews of Sefarad upon the 1492 Edict of Expulsion announcement and the ensuing fate of 150,000 Jews and 25 generations of their descendants, both the openly practicing Sephardic Jews around the Mediterranean, and the conversos/crypto-Jews in the Americas.

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Women of Sefarad Series: Heroines

On October 31, 2021, Jewish Heritage Alliance and their participating co-hosting partners resume the Women of Sefarad Series presenting “Heroines”, an event celebrating the courage and determination of the Women of Sefarad who played a unique and special role during Medieval and Early Modern times.

Ainsley Henriques Makes the Vibrant History of Jamaica’s Jewish Community Come Alive

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.

Sefarad, The Untold Story That changed The World – Part 3

This segment will deliver the amazing journey of resilience, survival, and redemption, as we walk in the shadows of Crypto-Jews (Jews that were forcibly converted but tried to hold on to the Jewish tradition in secret) who lived their lives in mortal danger of the Inquisition. This webinar shows how conversos, despite incredible obstacles, strove to remain faithful over centuries to their ancestral legacy.

Sefarad, The Untold Story That changed The World – Part 2

This webinar will examine the Iberian Inquisition and its relentless pursuit of Crypto-Judaism for three and a half centuries on five continents, reshaping the world of Sefarad. The Inquisition is infamous for its tortures and persecution. In Spain and Portugal, this powerful tribunal sought out to uncover he act of “Judaizing” by the Jews who were forcibly converted to Christianity.

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Exploring History, Memory, and Legacy – Part I

Jewish Heritage Alliance and their co-hosting partners invite you to attend a three-part series exploring the saga of Sefarad. The Sefarad experience is more than merely recounting a history; this is a far-reaching segment of Jewish and world history spanning centuries with profound consequences still unfolding in present day.

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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.

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.

From Shadows to Light: Rediscovering the Lost Jews of Belmonte

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.

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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.

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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Hidden legacy of the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula

Hidden legacy of the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula is an interview with Michael Steinberger, CEO and Founder of Jewish Heritage Alliance that was published on March 15, 2021 by the Wall Street International online magazine and written by Brenda Lee Bohen.

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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.

Zionist Women’s Conference

Please join us on the first of its kind Zionist Woman Event marking the 75th anniversary of the independence of the State of Israel and the 125th anniversary of the Basel Congress.

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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.