I recently read a friend’s impassioned critique of religion, one shaped by his mother’s harrowing experience after a devastating flood destroyed her home and took lives. When well-meaning friends offe ...

The rabbi, Cantor Jen Benray, and Cantorial Soloist Marjorie Hochberg served as his Beit Din (Hebrew for “house of judgment”) ...

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Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

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AD: Roman Emperor Julian is killed during retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by troops on ...

Preston Damsky, 29, is a white nationalist and an antisemite. He is also a law student at the University of Florida. He recently won an award for a paper on “originalism,” the theory that interprets ...

The Inquisition had no function to punish those born and bred in non-Christian, Protestant and Muslim creeds. It only feared and combated their expansionism in the Roman Catholic world.

In 1920 Pope Benedict XV canonized Joan. In all, the Inquisition executed anywhere between 3,000 and 5,000 people. Many others received other forms of incarceration.

It will look at real life examples of individuals who were tried by the Roman Inquisition as well as the lives and practices of men and women who were accused of witchcraft.