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[FWD: France thanks Sephardi Jews for chocolate, 500 years too late]
France thanks Sephardi Jews for chocolate, 500 years too late
The Times of Israel
PARIS — Were it not for the Jews, France's trademark pain au chocolat wouldn't exist. Fleeing the Inquisition, Portuguese Jews settled in nearby Bayonne in southwestern France in the early 16th century and established there the country's first ...
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The Times of Israel
[FWD: 'Amazon Jews' on Their Way to Israel]
'Amazon Jews' on Their Way to Israel
Arutz Sheva
Hundreds of descendants of Peruvian Jews are planning to make aliyah (immigrate) to Israel, theJewish Agency reports. The community of Peruvians with Jewish ancestry has been dubbed the "Amazon Jews." The members of the community who will be ...
[FWD: Professor Tudor Parfitt and the Anusim]
Professor Tudor Parfitt video 2:22
Published on Feb 11, 2013Tudor Parfitt, aka the British Indiana Jones, is Research Professor in FIU's School of International and Public Affairs and President Navon Professor of Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies. Here, he discusses his new project to study the "Conversos" and early Jewish life in the Americas following Spain's first expeditions to the New World in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
[FWD: New Jewish Agency Spanish Facebook page]
New Jewish Agency Spanish Facebook page
Spain Citizenship to Sephardic Jews? Sort of
Welcome back, Jews -- sort of (New York Times)
Spain is offering citizenship to descendants of exiled Sephardic Jews. But for many of them, claiming a Spanish passport will require converting again -- this time back to Judaism, in a second kind of pressured conversion that has unsettling echoes of the past, Doreen Carvajal writes.
Loving Shalom,
Doña Gracia Serrano
Grace Fenn
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Sefarad and the Hispanic Jews: The Sephardim]
Sefarad and the Hispanic Jews: The Sephardim
VOXXI
England had exiled its Jewish community in 1290 and France in 1394, but we know little of the Jews who left those two countries. The homeland Sefarad, the Hebrew name for Spain, remained behind but was kept alive for generations in distant lands, like ...
[FWD: Cuban Jews: We exist and need help]
Cuban Jews: We exist and need help
The Times of Israel
Dina Siegel Vann, Director of the AJC Latino and Latin American Institute, said both Castros [Fidel and Raul] have treated the Jewish community with respect “as long as they are not involved in Israel-related activity.†Levy agreed, saying she'd “never ...
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The Times of Israel
[FWD: New Website Helps Descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jews Who Have Been ...]
MarketWatch (press release)
Today, the descendants of these Jews, also known as Marranos, Conversos, crypto-Jews, Chuetas, Anusim and New Christians, constitute significant numbers in Spain, Portugal, Latin America, Brazil and the Southwest US. Although many of them have little ....
[FWD: New genetic evidence links Spanish Americans of Southwest to Jews]
-New genetic evidence links Spanish Americans of Southwest to Jews
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Over the past several decades, scholars have been pursuing stories like Valdez's and claim to have found remnants of Crypto-Jewish practices in communities in the US Southwest and Latin America. Some Hispanos and Latin Americans also have come forward ...
[FWD: Hareidi Rabbi: Part of Spanish Island's Descendants Are Jews]
Hareidi Rabbi: Part of Spanish Island's Descendants Are Jews
Arutz ShevaHistoric breakthrough: Six centuries after their forcible conversion, a leading hareidi rabbi rules a Spanish island’s Chuetas are Jews.The Chuetas of Palma de Mallorca, Spain, are the descendants of Mallorca’s Jews, who were forcibly baptized in the 14th and 15th centuries and then barred from intermarrying or assimilating with the island’s Catholic population until the modern era.
Arutz Sheva
