THE JEWISH PIRATE ARMY THAT LASTED 100 YEARS

The Jewish pirates - A religious Jewish history. army that lasted 100 years. Spain, Jamaica, Israel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78wJZOZO1Tc&ab_channel=shragashmaidler%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%92%D7%90%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%93%D7%9C%D7%A8

On the origins of Jewish piracy: The Jewish pirates of the Caribbean were not even the first Jewish pirates. There is a long tradition of Jewish pirates in the Middle East, and some continued to operate around Europe. Sinan Reis, known simply as Sinan or the “Great Jew,” was an Ottoman pirate, who sailed with the famed (and feared) Hayreddin Barbarossa, also known as Red Beard. Barbarossa helped rescue Reis’s son after he was captured and forcibly baptized; his captors refused to release him to the “infidels,” leading Barbarossa and his crew to pillage the island in revenge until they had secured the boy’s return. Sinan inspired Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew, sometimes referred to as the Rabbi Pirate, who became an envoy from Morocco to the Netherlands in the 1600s. He allied with the Dutch to attack Spanish fleets, but continued to observe Jewish practices, or at least the laws of kashrut, on his pirating voyages; he brought a Jewish cook on all of his vessels to ensure his food remained kosher.