Was Christopher Columbus a...JEW?!

Hello, gorgeous fans. I am sometimes VERY interested in social studies...I mean the history of our world. After years of studying, historians are now saying that Christopher Columbus was a JEW! Supposedly Columbus hid his identity to survive the Spanish Inquisition (smart guy!) and that the voyage he took to the "new world" might have actually been an attempt to find a new place for his people to live. God, the jews never got a break. Some more evidence that might be true come from this article...


"Two of his wishes -- tithe one-tenth of his income to the poor and provide an anonymous dowry for poor girls -- are part of Jewish customs. He also decreed to give money to a Jew who lived at the entrance of the Lisbon Jewish Quarter.

On those documents, Columbus used a triangular signature of dots and letters that resembled inscriptions found on gravestones of Jewish cemeteries in Spain. He ordered his heirs to use the signature in perpetuity.

According to British historian Cecil Roth's "The History of the Marranos," the anagram was a cryptic substitute for the Kaddish, a prayer recited in the synagogue by mourners after the death of a close relative. Thus, Columbus's subterfuge allowed his sons to say Kaddish for their crypto-Jewish father when he died. Finally, Columbus left money to support the crusade he hoped his successors would take up to liberate the Holy Land."

So, Columbus either really liked Jews, or he was just a normal Jewish guy doing normal Jewish things. HMMMM....interesting!