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From Kaifeng to Kibbutz: Chinese Jewish Descendants Come Home
For the first time, a group of seven descendants of the Jewish community of Kaifeng, China has moved to Israel. The new arrivals, who...
Commemorating the start of World War II
The official beginning of World War II was September 1, 1939. On that day German soldiers invaded Gdansk after bombarding the city with a military warship. As part of the Polish Government's official series of events marking seven decades since the start of World War II, Poland's Jewish community and the Jerusalem-based "Shavei Israel" organization held a special ceremony yesterday in the Gdansk synagogue to commemorate the outbreak of the war, which paved the way for the Holocaust.Secret no more
A bearded man in a red velvet skullcap, chain-smoking on Shabbat at a garden cafe while preaching to friends about the Torah, would...
Krakow’s rabbis are writing once again
Some 80,000 Jews once called the city their home, before they were rounded up into its ghetto by the Nazi occupiers and sent to forced labor or death. The destruction of Polish Jewry marked an end not only to an ancient community but to a vast Jewish religious tradition.
‘Lost’ Jews in Spain find Israel advocacy
In recent years, hundreds of Spanish Catholics have discovered that family customs have roots in hidden Jewish traditions from Inquisition days; many of these new-found 'bnei anousim' are taking part in efforts to improve Israel's image in Europe
BARCELONA - It's been more than 500 years since the Spanish Inquisition, but it's still not the easiest thing being a Jew in Spain these days, and it's even harder being a Catholic and discovering one day that you have deep, Jewish roots. But this is what is happening to a number of Catholics in the Mediterranean country.
Many descendants of 15th century 'Anousim' or 'Marranos' – Jews who were forced to outwardly convert during the Inquisition and camouflage their religious practices – are now trying to return to their roots.