"Splendor's Intrigue", a genealogical novel written by a member of an old Sephardic family, becomes the center of a plot in which secret services, terrorists and academics all become parts of the complicated Middle Eastern geo-politics. The Ha'Levi Abulafia family saga, which begins in biblical times and goes through the Spanish forced exile of Jews to Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World and ultimately to modern days, hides a secret which...