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A Latin Love for Israel

For years they lit candles in secret, carefully avoided attending church, and hid their Bibles. Now, they have decided to come out into the open. Thousands of descendants of Anousim (known as "Marranos") are seeking to return to Judaism. But along the way it has become clear that even after the Inquisition, they now face a new foe: some Jews are placing obstacles in their path.

Oldest immigrant couple to Israel

Couple from Benei Menashe Tribe of India renew their vows Jewish-style, fulfilling a long lost dream of returning to Jewish homeland Ya’akov Manlun, 97, and his wife Orah, 88, new immigrants from the Benei Menashe Tribe of India, wed Friday in a lavish ceremony joined by many guests in Kiryat Arba. Ya’akov and Orah have been married for almost 70 years, and have recently made aliyah to Israel. The couple concluded their conversion process days ago and asked to be remarried under the Law of Moses.

Shabbat in Auschwitz

In two and a half weeks, a group of young Jews will spend Shabbat in Auschwitz. That opening line is nearly impossible to comprehend, and does not refer to a visit to a concentration camp. It is the first attempt since the onset of World War II to revive Jewish life, in what was once a mainly Jewish town with a name that will be linked forever to one of the great tragedies of Jewish history.

In Toledo on Seder night, Antonio Lopez will mark Pessah alone, just as his ancestors did for centuries

The Jerusalem Post TORREMOLINOS, Spain - As Jews here and in the Diaspora sit around the Seder table this year, Antonio Lopez, 41, will draw the curtains in his house in Toledo and mark Pessah privately and alone, just as his ancestors have done for hundreds of years.

THE SECOND COMMUNITARIAN LEADERSHIP SEMINAR FOR BNEI MENASHE, 2008

ORGANISED AND CONDUCTED BY SHAVEI ISRAEL ORGANIZATION FROM 23RD ADAR RISHON(28/02/08) TO 16TH ADAR SHENI(23/03/08) AT DHULIKHEL,NEPAL According to Jewish traditional teaching, when the month of Adar begins, the happiness of the Jews is much greater. The month of Adar is a symbol of joy for the Jews. And certainly this year the joy of Adar is explicitly display in the tiny Himalayan country of Nepal.

h rabbis association convenes for first time since Holocaust

Nearly 70 years after its demise, the Rabbinical Association of Poland was relaunched over the weekend at a ceremony in Lodz attended by Israel's Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger. Metzger signed a special scroll together with Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich and other community rabbis serving in Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw and Lodz declaring the formal reestablishment of the group, which prior to the Holocaust had united all of Poland's rabbis.