Bnei Anousim

LOS JUDÍOS DE MI MUNDO ¿En qué lugar del Nuevo Mundo se construyó la primera sinagoga, después del descubrimiento de América? Cuando oímos hablar de Brasil pensamos en el fútbol, el carnaval, las playas y la música, pero olvidamos que fue también la puerta de acceso de judíos al Nuevo Mundo. La primera sinagoga en suelo americano se construyó en la ciudad de Recife, Brasil, en 1636.

New phenomenon sweeps Portugal: Descendants of Marranos rediscover their Jewish roots and the Jewish faith. One Porto community undergoes mass conversion Yosef Pero Philip is professor psychiatry at the University of Porto. Arieh Ben Avraham is a renowned film director. Yosef Eduardo Albas is a soccer player in Portugal’s Second Division. All three men have recently converted to Judaism, observe the mitzvoth, and are distinctly proud of their Jewish heritage.   
Nearly two dozen Bnai Anousim from Spain, Portugal and Italy arrived in Israel Wednesday for a week-long solidarity visit organized on their behalf by the Shavei Israel organization. Bnai Anousim is the Hebrew term for people whose ancestors were forcibly converted to Catholicism during the time of the Inquisition. Historians have often referred to them as "crypto-Jews" or by the derogatory term "Marranos." Many continued to practice Judaism in secret over the centuries.
Europpean Jewish Press A new exhibition documenting the lives and struggles of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews has opened in Tiberias.  The exhibition will shed a light on the little-known narrative of the Bnei Anusim from the Iberian Peninsula who were forced to embrace Christianity.
For the first time, three young Bnai Anousim from Brazil are visiting Israel this week in a joint undertaking between the Taglit/Birthright program and the Shavei Israel organization.  Sara Rachel Kadosh da Fonseca, Oziane Pinheiro Braga and Jefferson Higino are here together with dozens of young Brazilian Jews for a ten-day visit in which they will travel around the country, see the Land and its sites and spend a Shabbat in Jerusalem.
Close to 100 Bnai Anousim from across Spain and Portugal will be gathering this weekend in Barcelona for an annual seminar and communal Sabbath being organized by the Shavei Israel organization.   The seminar, entitled “The Relevance and Significance of Judaism and its Precepts in Our Times,” will bring together rabbis, historians and academics from Israel, Spain and Portugal. They will discuss a variety of topics such as the centrality of Torah in Jewish life and the observance of the Mitzvot (commandments).
For the first time, a Jewish educational center has opened in Brazil aimed at reaching out to the large numbers of Bnai Anousim living in the area Bnai Anousim are descendants of Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism during the Inquisition which began in the 15th century.
Twenty Bnai Anousim hailing from Spain, Portugal and Brazil have been touring Israel this week on a solidarity visit. The tour was arranged by the Jerusalem-based Shavei Israel organization, which assists “lost Jews” seeking to return to the Jewish people.
BELMONTE, Portugal, April 15 (AFP) - More than five centuries after the start of the Inquisition, a small Jewish community in a northern mountain town in Portugal is slowly emerging from years of secret observance of its faith. The 180 Jews who live in Belmonte, a town of granite-walled houses of 3,500 people less than 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the Spanish border, opened a new synagogue -- the first since the 15th century -- eight years ago. Last week the community, which only began producing kosher wine and olive oil in 2004, formed an association of kosher food producers, yet the town's Jews are still reserved when questioned about their religion by outsiders.
The Jerusalem Post Barcelona-born Eduard Perez was researching his family's roots and discovered that his ancestors were "anusim" (Spanish Jews forced to convert to Christianity some 500 years ago during the Inquisition.) Lorenzo Ujmin is a descendent of a group of Moroccan Jews who ventured into the Amazon more than 100 years ago in hope of making a fortune in rubber and were left stranded there. Orlando Maman from Peru has dreamed for more than 60 years of meeting his Jewish step-siblings in Eretz Israel.
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