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(+) A Lesson to be Learned From One Library’s Conversion to a Digital Library
The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. One prestigious coeducational college preparatory boarding school recently made a radical change to its library. With 159years of academic excellence, one would expect the school to be steeped in tradition. However, a visitor to the campus might be surprised to learn that …
Descendants of Spanish Jews Rediscover their Roots
Tens of millions of descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities, whose ancestors were forcibly converted from the 14th Century onwards, can now apply for and receive a Certificate of Sephardic Ancestry. Recent academic and genetic research has demonstrated that there are as many as 200 million people, largely in Latin and North America and Europe, who …