MARCH 27

A plaque outside Jerusalem’s Haji Adoniyah Synagogue, created by Jadid al-Islam (“new to Islam”) from Mashhad in 1902, reads, “The synagogue of Haji Adoniayahu, son of Aharon HaCohen of the Crypto-Jews of Mashhad, dedicated by the Aharon Cohen family in 1902.” Photo by Tamar Hayardeni via Wikimedia Commons