“The Sephardic Jews, which Spain had rejected ... Other items on display included ketubot, or Jewish wedding contracts, ornately embroidered Torah covers and old copper Chanukah menorahs.

My Jewish identity can never truly be questioned ... My parents had a traditional wedding in a Sephardic temple in Beverly Hills and my father had no problem raising me Sephardic.

Crypto-Jews are descendants of Medieval Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain and Portugal after the edict. They practiced their Jewish faith in secret, while publicly identifying themselves ...