Aron Sterk the one and only giving his paper on Menasseh Ben Israel in Lisbon during the conference about Jews and New Christians in the Portuguese Spoken World. We also visited Tomar , its castle and also the sinagogue, one of the oldest in Europe, taken cared by a real Benei Anous , Dona Teresa Vasco born in Belmonte. In the castle , we found Queen Maria who asked us forgiveness for what her family did to the Jews in Portugal.