The Sephardic experience is more than recounting history; it is an essential segment of Jewish and world history. Many in Jewish and global communities do not understand the far-reaching significance of these events. We invite you to learn more…
Luis de Carvajal the Younger is a symbol of the Mexican and American Southwest Jewish past. His autobiography is perhaps the most significant artifact documenting the arrival of Jews in the New World: a small, tattered 16th-century manuscript written in an almost microscopic hand by Luis de Carvajal the Younger, the man whose life and pain it chronicled.
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).
A Long Journey: The Hidden Jews of the Southwest brings to life stories of individuals whose secret was their hidden Jewish roots while living an outwardly Catholic life. It’s a cinematic journey about reaffirmation and self-awareness.
Lance Toland Entertainment launches the historical drama Flames of Freedom podcast docudrama series details the untold history of the Jewish escape from European oppression to Georgia in 1733.
Jewish Heritage Alliance invites you to join our first post pandemic all-inclusive specially designed travel experience to Portugal (extension to Spain) where we bring the Sefarad legacy to life.
On March 24, 2022, the Bernard Museum at New York’s Temple Emanu El Streicker Center will debut the “Crossroads of Sefarad, In the Footsteps of the Crypto-Jews” mobile exhibit created by ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in partnership with the Jewish Heritage Alliance.
By connecting the past to the present and promoting interfaith coexistence and tolerance, JHA hopes to inspire hope for the future. JHA seeks to showcase the lasting benefits when religions build bridges rather than divisiveness.
On March 27, 2022, Jewish Heritage Alliance, their co-sponsor, and co-hosting partners presented “The Golden Age of Sefarad and the Abraham Accords”, a special global online event which celebrates and connects the growing rapprochement between Israel and Arab countries taking place today, with the medieval Golden Age of Spain.
On Feb 20, 2022, Jewish Heritage Alliance and their participating co-hosting partners presented “Sefarad: Hiding in Plain Sight”, a webinar that explores the fascinating story of Italy’s Bnei Anusim (crypto-Jews), from the Middle Ages to present day. Watch guest speaker Rabbi Barbara Aiello present directly her mountain village in Calabria in Southern Italy.
On January 30, 2022, Jewish Heritage Alliance and their participating co-hosting partners presented “Sefarad: Hidden Legacies Uncovered”, a webinar that will explore the unfolding drama endured by the crypto-Jews, those that were forced to convert to Catholicism during years of persecution and massacres.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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).
