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Confessions of a Marrano

"Are you a Gentile or are you Jewish?" In elementary school I was asked this question in the hallway by Ed Lerner He was a small blonde boy and I shared a desk with him When Ed asked me this question everyone from our class gathered around to hear my answer I wasn’t raised as [...]

Buscando Mi Proprio Verdad

(Seeking My Own Truth)   "Who are you?" The nun’s habit was a course black swirl of fabric with a unique scent all the oldtime nuns shared her face framed by the stiffest wimple imaginable I took a nanosecond to wonder how her Mama starched it so stiff before dutifully answering "I am a child [...]

M Miriam Herrera Poet of the Texas Border Country

Invited Artist Miriam Herrera is a graduate of the MA Program forWriters at the University of Illinois at Chicago Her poems have appeared in Albatross Earth’s Daughters New Millennium Writings Blue Mesa Review Nimrod New Zoo Poetry Review ArtLife and other journals She has taught writing at University of Illinois University of New Mexico and Russell [...]

Doña GraciaWith the Warts

Letter to the Editor for HaLapid If we persist in presenting our heroes and heroines without their foibles then those whose opinions differ from ours on these issues will present them for us often happily so sometimes with a vengeance In 1507 after the massacre of thousands of new Christians in Lisbon when King Manoel [...]

Activism Rather than Prayer and Payoff:

Doña Gracia and Joseph Nasi Initiate a New Paradigm in Jewish History In A Sephardic Love Song: Lion and Lamb in the Medieval Darkness© I write about four notable Sephardim in Spain and Portugal in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and how their accomplishments and contributions have enriched us all The research for this work in [...]

Converso as Metaphor

Late last year I received several emails regarding a conference sponsored by Council of American Jewish Museums (CAJM) in Scottsdale Arizona I have to admit that the conference title was very intriguing "Converso as Metaphor: A Paradigm Shift" It was to be held at the Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum I wanted to find out more [...]

A Story of the Lemba and Me

"Behold I will save my people from the east country and from the west country; And I will bring them and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem And they shall be my people and I will be their God in truth and righteousness" Johannesburg South Africa My interest was first ignited a few [...]

Finding My Past

And Adonai went ahead of them in a column of cloud during the daytime to lead them on their way and at night in a column of fire to give them light; thus they could travel both day and night Neither the column of cloud by day nor the column of cloud at night went [...]