This year, Cape Cod may be an escape for pandemic-weary city folk, but decades ago, it was an artists’ haven and refuge for Jewish intellectuals fleeing Nazi Europe.
Since December 2020, Los Angeles-based New York Times correspondent Nellie Bowles has been chronicling the joys and challenges of her conversion journey to Judaism.
Years after her conversion from Catholicism to Judaism, Genie Milgrom discovered documents linking the family to a crypto-Jewish heritage in medieval Spain.