Avi Shafran writes about the close connection between two families which spans four generations. It startes with a visit to a supposedly dying man in Siberia and continues with the great-granddaughters playing together in the neighborhood of Ramapo, New York.
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Jack Cohen writes about a series of lectures being given by Gloria Mound about Marranos.
In one case Gloria found that the first inkling that a family from Brazil was of Jewish origin was that they knew a certain song. It was only after much coaxing that the grandmothers both admitted their Jewish origins. By tracing their families back for 300 years, Gloria was able to confirm their Jewish identity and the granddaughter was accepted as Jewish by the Israeli Rabbinate and was able to marry and live in Israel.
Read full article: http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/course-on-the-anusim-marranos/
As coincidence would have it, I had a long conversation with a woman this afternoon who admitted to me that her mother and many other members of the family would light candles Friday night in a hidden place. Because her mother had died at a young age, the woman was unable to ascertain her true lineage and was advised to undergo full conversion, which she did.
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