December 2010
3 posts
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January 2008
3 posts
“How can I eat, when I am in the West, and my heart is in the East.”
– Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi
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The Glory of Spain: A Tragic History
My family has an interesting connection to Spain. Its not one that is recent. In fact its around 500 years old or so. You see my father and mother are descendants of Anusim (Hebrew for Forced Ones). Anusim are also known as Conversos or Marranos. The former is a generally neutral term referring to the conversion of their ancestors to Catholicism from Judaism. The latter term is a pejorative term...
