The Islamic Concept of Taqqiya and Its Influence on Spanish Jewry
Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez For years, rabbis and scholars have speculated as to why so many Spanish Jews converted to Christianity beginning in the year 1391 when faced with violence or coercion in contrast to the tendency of the Jews in Germany to opt for death or even suicide when faced with similar circumstances. The [...]
The Atlantic Monthly Expose
Debbie Nathan is the co-author of Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt, which makes her a practiced writer of exposes. Apparently, one expose wasn’t enough, and she needed another. She was able to convince Barbara Ferry to lend her investigative reporting a needed cachet with readers, since Barbara, [...]
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