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Andalusia, Spain – Preserving ‘Sepharad’

November 21, 2016by shalommorris 2 Comments

Throughout much of history the Iberian Peninsula was divided amongst numerous kingdoms. In a sense, even today Spain remains not one but many different countries. I’ve previously visited Spain’s Catalonia […]

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Musings, Travels

Granada, Spain – The End of Sephardic Jewry

November 16, 2016by shalommorris 4 Comments

Granada is the Andalusia of people’s imagination, with its hills, white stucco buildings, flamenco, tea houses, and the Alhambra. It’s no surprise really that its Moorish influenced culture is still […]

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Travels

Cordoba, Spain – The Beginning of Sephardic Jewry

November 14, 2016by shalommorris 4 Comments

Sephardic Jewry began in Cordoba. Cordoba was the seat of the Spanish Caliphate. It therefore was a major centre of Jewish life in early Muslim Andalusia, and it remained so until […]

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Travels

Seville, Spain – Sephardic Centre Stage

November 8, 2016by shalommorris 5 Comments

Seville plays centre stage in the story of Sephardic Jewish history. Nearly every major development in the Iberian Sephardic experience was first manifest in this beautiful, historic, vibrant, and atmospheric […]

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Travels

Basque Country – Following The Converso Escape Route

July 27, 2016by shalommorris 23 Comments

Basque Country is a unique and fascinating region. It preserves its own language – not like any other, though it straddles both sides of the French-Spanish border. Located just west […]

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Travels

Catalonia – Barcelona and Girona

July 20, 2016by shalommorris 3 Comments

My recent trip to Spain reinforced my love of local history museums. Local museums typically orient broader historical developments around their own. In so doing they add new perspectives to historical developments that […]

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Travels

Shofetim – Immigration, Portugal, and Prohibitions

August 23, 2015by shalommorris Leave a comment

I finally feel like the proverbial Jew. For the first time in my life I am an immigrant! All joking aside, Jews are accustomed to relocating, whether forced to do […]

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Torah

Castelo de Vide – Portugal

June 29, 2015by shalommorris 11 Comments

This post will leave you stunned. I’ve returned to Portugal, this time with a group of 40 Jews from Israel and America. One place that we visited that was entirely […]

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Travels

Rosh Hashanah – Martyrdom or Life?

September 23, 2014by shalommorris Leave a comment

The central Torah reading of Rosh Hashanah is Akedat Yitzhak, the Binding of Isaac (indeed, the first day’s reading may very well just be a lead up to it). The […]

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Torah

Shemot – The Fifth Column Canard?

December 19, 2013by shalommorris Leave a comment

Pharaoh is the first world leader to levy an accusation that scores of others have since made throughout Jewish history. Pharaoh declares that the Jews must be enslaved lest ‘when […]

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Torah

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