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  • Students carry candles during a protest demanding Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo to step down, in Managua on April 27, 2018.(Photo: Inti Ocon/AFP/Getty Images))
    Students carry candles during a protest demanding Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo to step down, in Managua on April 27, 2018.(Photo: Inti Ocon/AFP/Getty Images))
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    The Nicaraguan Rebellion and its Jews and Indians

    The 19th of April Student Movement, with its political antecedents in converso history, looks to bring down the last incarnation of Daniel Ortega’s Sandinistas

    byPaul Berman
  • (Original photo American Sephardi Federation via Center for Jewish History/Flickr)
    (Original photo American Sephardi Federation via Center for Jewish History/Flickr)
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    Freud and the Marranos: How Yosef H. Yerushalmi Gave Voice to Jews Caught Between Worlds

    Two new books explore the complex legacy and rich life of the great Jewish historian of conversos and Marranos

    byDavid N. Myers
  • Benzion Netanyahu and his son Benjamin, then Likud party leader, meeting in Benzion’s Jerusalem home on election day, February 8, 2009.(Michal Fattal/Likud via Getty Images)
    Benzion Netanyahu and his son Benjamin, then Likud party leader, meeting in Benzion’s Jerusalem home on election day, February 8, 2009.(Michal Fattal/Likud via Getty Images)
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    Benzion Netanyahu’s History

    The Israeli scholar, and the prime minister’s father, died today in his Jerusalem home. He was my political opposite, but also my teacher and friend.

    byJason Epstein
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    Question of Faith

    In Medellín, Jewish converts try to leave the Inquisition, and Colombia’s civil war, behind

    byMatthew Fishbane
  • Benjy Melendez in the documentary
    Benjy Melendez in the documentary
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    Blood Brother

    How a South Bronx gang leader found Judaism

    byDvora Meyers
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    ‘Harper’s’ Writer Finds U.S. Crypto-Jews

    Finds descendents of Inquistion-era forced converts in New Mexico

    bySara Ivry
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    CNN Meets the Ex-Crypto-Jews of Crown Heights

    But doesn’t call them ‘Sephardic’

    byAri M. Brostoff
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    Trailblazers

    Were Marranos the first of the moderns?

    byAdam Kirsch
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