Sadia Shepard August 11, 2008

Sadia Shepard's extraordinary odyssey began with her childhood discovery of a pin bearing the name Rachel Jacobs in her grandmother's jewelry box, and the revelation that her devout Muslim grandmother began life as a Jewish girl, a descendent of the Bene Israel, a tiny Bombay community with roots in the Israel of two thousand years ago. 'The Girl from Foreign' is the result of years of research into the history of her family and of the Bene Israel.