Ancestral journey leads to Israel

week, Denverite Hadassah Grove completed a homecoming that was a long, long time coming. It was not just a personal homecoming, but an ancestral one —— a centuries-long circle that began when her forebears left Israel in the very distant past, flourished in Spain during the legendary Jewish Golden Age, suffered through the anti-Semitic violence and repression of the Spanish Inquisitions, fled Spain for Mexico until that nation declared its own Inquisition and, finally, in the guise of Roman Catholics, found peace and safe haven in New Mexico and Colorado. Grove sees her decision, and that of her family, to make aliyah —— which took place Monday, Oct. 12 —— as the spiritual completion of that long and agonized journey. “”It’’s a consummation,”” Grove told […]