Ruth Behar
Before deportations, there were expulsions. If we go back just over 500 years, to 1492, we are in the era when Columbus landed in the Americas, with the support of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabela.
Before deportations, there were expulsions. If we go back just over 500 years, to 1492, we are in the era when Columbus landed in the Americas, with the support of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabela.
Newberry award-winning author Gail Carson Levine talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about bringing significant episodes in Jewish history to life again.
But when I walked into the small chapel, seeing the partially destroyed verses from the Psalms on the walls and the tiny gold menorah in the entrance, my giddy excitement turned to anger.