Today is Columbus Day. It is a federal holiday.
Lakewood Municipal offices are closed. There will also be no regular mail delivery.
Courts are closed as well.
There will be no trash pickup today.
Monday’s garbage and recycling will be picked up on Tuesday. Tuesday’s garbage and recycling will be picked up on Wednesday. Wednesday’s garbage and recycle will be on Thursday and Thursday’s garbage and recycle will be on Friday. There will be no bulk collection this week.
I wonder what fellow readers of this website think of a newly released study asserting, based on DNA evidence, that Columbus was ethnically Jewish.
The new DNA evidence released this week, taken from Columbus’ grave, shows that rather than being Italian, he was a Sephardi Jew on both the maternal and paternal side.
Columbus was a sincere Catholic, there can be no doubt about that. All attempts to label him a crypto Jew are baseless. But it now seems he was secretly a “New Christian” aka marrano, aka converso.
Even the most sincerely Catholic New Christians kept their identity secret; to be discovered of having Jewish heritage (i.e., of not being an “Old Christian” or limpieza de sangre-pure blood, as they called it) would mean being expelled from any official positions, and to be a target of the Inquisition. Columbus himself likely didn’t even know of his Jewish Heritage.
But many crypto Jews held on to their faith for centuries, and escaped to the New World in hopes of escaping the inquisition. Despite having no access to torah or learning, and being seperated from the rest of world jewery for centuries, Many died al kiddush hashem, being burned alive in an auto da fe.
For example, Luis de Carvajal the Younger, who was killed (along with most of his family) for fasting on Yom Kippur, refusing to give up his belief in Judaism, despite years of torture.
US secretary of homeland securit, Alejandro Mayorkas, comes from such a family.
Yes . The the Europeans discovered America 632 years ago of which they never knew of it and had never heard of it before; what will the US do if the American Indians will fire thousands of guided missile’s on US cities constantly .
For the past 2,000 years the Jews prayed and wished to go back to their homeland Israel of which the Jews hold the deed of their homeland ; the Palestinians were just one of the many different settlers in that ruff rocky land since the Jews were exiled, many were starving from hunger until the Jews came back.