Hizballah Is Still Preparing for War
And replenishing its stockpiles of explosives.
October 15, 2026
Abraham Zacuto.
Every Columbus Day, stories circulate about the (unsubstantiated) possibility that Cristóbal Colón was a Jew, or (more likely) that some converted Spanish Jews joined him on his famous voyage. Shlomo Pereira turns our attention instead to an unconverted Castilian Jew named Abraham Zacuto (ca. 1452–1513), whose discoveries made those voyages possible.
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Abraham Zacuto.
Every Columbus Day, stories circulate about the (unsubstantiated) possibility that Cristóbal Colón was a Jew, or (more likely) that some converted Spanish Jews joined him on his famous voyage. Shlomo Pereira turns our attention instead to an unconverted Castilian Jew named Abraham Zacuto (ca. 1452–1513), whose discoveries made those voyages possible.
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