Assad’s Victory and Hamas’s New Tactics Have Changed Israel’s Strategic Reality
Under these circumstances, withdrawing from the West Bank would be more dangerous than ever.
December 26, 2018
DNA Suggests Widespread Jewish Ancestry among Latin Americans
Descendants of conversos, scattered among the nations.
When Spain expelled its Jewish population in 1492, tens of thousands opted to convert to Catholicism rather than leave. Yet these conversos and their descendants faced legal discrimination, social prejudice, and sometimes-justified suspicion that they remained secretly faithful to Judaism—suspicion that could lead to torture and execution. Untold numbers therefore left Iberia for the Americas, where it was easier to disguise their ancestry and where they hoped to get away from the long arm of the Inquisition. In recent decades, many Latin Americans, from Colorado to Argentina, have reported family legends, customs that may be vestiges of crypto-Jewish practice, and other claims of Jewish descent. Now there is some science to back up these claims, writes Sarah Zhang:
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Anti-Semitic Economics Could Drive Turkey into a Financial Crisis
Raising interest rates can combat inflation, but to Erdogan such a move would let “the Jews” win.
A New York Suburb Uses Zoning to Keep Jews Out
Welcome to Airmont, no synagogues allowed.
DNA Suggests Widespread Jewish Ancestry among Latin Americans
Descendants of conversos, scattered among the nations.
Two Historians Reconsider the Question of Jews, Money, and Modernity
From Karl Marx to the early Zionists.