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[caption id="attachment_6350" align="alignleft" width="289"] Bukharan Jews in 1890[/caption] The term “Bukharan Jews” refers to the Central Asian Jews of the political entity of Bukhara,...

12 June, 2011
Gila Arditi's family always kept separate sets of dishes for dairy and meat, washed their hands before eating, and circumcised their infant boys back in Colombia. But Gila never realized she was Jewish until she was a young adult.  

Italian concert pianist Miriam Sangiorgio only learned of her Jewish roots in a dramatic revelation in her father's dying days. 
Miriam Pena of Peru dreamed of seeing the desert. But when she arrived in Israel, her heart told her she was part of the Jewish people.  What all three of these brave women have in common is that they are Bnei Anousim (people whose ancestors were compelled to convert to Catholicism more than five centuries ago at the time of the Spanish Inquisition) and that they are studying to re-engage the heritage they nearly lost at Shavei Israel's Spanish-language Machon Miriam Jewish Institute for Return and Conversion in Jerusalem. 

02 June, 2011
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