Seder de Pesaj por la tarde

Luego de 30 años de letargo, la comunidad de Brno, en la República Checa, vuelve a la vida llena de dilemas halájicos. Queridos hermanos y hermanas, hoy es un importante día no sólo para nuestra comunidad sino para todos los judíos de Moravia. Estamos por inaugurar...

En un mes dramático, para Israel y quienes la apoyan, tuvo lugar un evento sumamente especial. Más allá del océano, en un estudio en Manhattan, un popular presentador de radio y televisión realizó un anuncio que ha marcado un hito en la batalla por la verdad. Hablándole...

 Fundamentally Freund: The passing of Avraham Zecchillo, a proud descendant of Bnei Anusim, who for years cared for his city’s local synagogue which dates back over 750 years, is a tragic blow to Italy’s Jewish community. Tucked away in a southern corner of Italy, an ancient synagogue with an unusual past is in danger of falling silent with the passing of its one and only stalwart member. Avraham Zecchillo was a proud descendant of Italian Bnei Anusim (to whom historians refer by the derogatory term “marranos”). He resided in the beautiful port city of Trani along the Adriatic coast where, he liked to say, his Jewish ancestors had lived “forever, for thousands of years.”

The history of Jewish settlement in Krygyzstan goes back as far as the 6th century CE when, according to the website BukharianJews.com, archeological evidence discovered by the Kyrgyz Academy of Science suggests that Jewish traders from Khazaria started visiting the Kyrgyz territory. In Kyrgyz tradition, the...

[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, those of Samarkand, and the Ferghana Valley. Today, the region is divided between the former Soviet republics of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan...

May was a very busy month in the Wroclaw Jewish community. Rabbi Yitzhak Rapoport participated in the Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony at the Lamsdorf concentration camp. Also celebrations were held for Israel’s 63rd Independence Day organized by Bente Kahan Foundation with such activities as learning the Hebrew...

An evening  of learning with Ner Le’Elef, in partnership with Shavei Israel in Krakow. Were young people from across Krakow came together to discuss Jewish history, culture and religion in Poland. [nggallery id=71] El programa de Ner La Elef en Cracovia, auspiciado por Shavei Israel, sigue teniendo éxito y atrayendo...

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. 

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