Recently, Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), speaking during a Hanukkah celebration, at the Jackson Heights Jewish Center claimed, “One of the things that we discovered about ourselves is that a very, very long time ago, generations and generations ago, my family consisted of Sephardic Jews.” Sephardic Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, and settled in … Continue reading Ocasio-Cortez, Auntie Gringa, and Jewish Ancestry