Posts Tagged: Columbus Jewish
What Jews Owe to Christopher Columbus
I once had a meeting postponed because the client’s office was shut for Columbus Day. Irritated about rescheduling, someone asked “they still celebrate that?” Indeed,...
Columbus as a Source of Jewish Pride?
This time of year, we should all remember Christopher Columbus, who many argue is a Jewish figure. Despite documentation that he was a Genoese weaver’s son,...
A Sukkot Guide for the Perplexed, 2016
1. Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, commemorates the transition of the Jewish people from bondage in Egypt to sovereignty in the Land of Israel; from...
Jonah, Colombo, and Jewish Names
The story of Jonah and the whale (though it is a big fish and not a whale according to the Biblical text) is very well...
