Jews faced increasingly harsher persecutions Christian dominated Spain, including accusations from usury, desecrating the host, blood libels and well poisoning.

The anti-Semitic canard of usury is rooted in the discovery of paper money and the Catholic Church’s doctrine forbidding the ...

Nachmanides is one of the greatest Jewish scholars ever. His resounding victory in a with the Church marked a turning ...

The Great Debate between Nachmanides and an apostate Jew before King James I of Aragon marked a turning point in ...

New and innovative programs celebrating Shavuot were all the rage in the kibbutzim and in much of the new Israeli ...

The Golden Age of the Jews in Spain can be symbolized by one person, arguably the greatest person that the ...

Solomon ibn Gabirol, Judah Halevi and Abraham ibn Ezra were three of the greatest Jews of the Golden Age. Their ...

The Golden Age of Spanish Jewry, despite eruptions of Islamic fanaticism, was marked by expansion of Jewish wealth and influence ...

There were three major reasons that the center of Jewish life shifted from Babylon to Spain starting around the year ...

When Pharaoh’s chariots attacked the defenseless Jews backed up against the Sea of Reeds it would take a miracle to ...