Culture, Philosophy, Tora Border Crossings: A Tale of Two Converts The Tora enjoins the Israelites upon their entrance into the Land of Israel to love the stranger—36 times. Moses gives the people a historical context to this commandment, he reminds them to love or in some instances to not oppress the stranger “for you were a stranger in the land of Egypt.” This thread of…

Arts & Culture, Culture, Uncategorized Sephardism in Caribbean Literature …fleeing the Inquisition a Sephardic merchant, bag locked in one elbow, crouched by a Lisbon dock, and in that position was reborn in the New World: Lima; Curaçao. The topic of Black-Jewish relations and their literary representation has rarely been addressed outside of a twentieth-century U.S. framework. Despite both the geographical breadth and historical depth…