“Such is the way of creation: First comes darkness, then light.” – Talmud Shabbat 77b Peeking in through the door and staring into the darkness came the familiar sound of a match striking. The light filling the room for…
With all of the chaos of the Middle East and the unknowns of the region creating a perpetual burden for Israel, the State continues to play a role in the miraculous ingathering of Jews still living in exile. One…
In 1492 the inquisition began and with it Spanish and Portuguese Jewry were forced to convert or fled to distant lands. Many ended up in the new world and as the Inquisition spread to the new Spanish and Portuguese…
There are anywhere from 25 to 100 million descendants of Jews that were expelled from Spain and Portugal. Yaffa Batya Dacosta joined me to discuss what her organization Ezra L’Anousim is doing to bring awareness to the newest Jewish…
I was raised in a nominally Catholic family in New Bedford, MA. At the age of 7 or 8, I heard the priest say, from the pulpit, that the Jews were Christ-killers, and I had an immediate visceral reaction…