Last week, I was leafing through Yair Lapid’s “Memories After My Death: The Story of My Father, Joseph ‘Tommy’ Lapid” and a passage leaped out

Part I Have you ever wondered what happened to the descendants of the Sephardic pioneers who first settled North America in the colonial period? Undoubtedly,

Part II (Continued from last week) The Jews, both the locals and the ones who joined the Persians in the conquest of Jerusalem in 614

Part I Background and Some Rabbinic Pre-Arab Sources We have learned in Seder Eliyahu Rabbah (Chapter 28, ed. Friedman, p. 149): Once, Rabbi Zadok (late