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	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Initially he states, “they (anusim) must be treated like full Jews in every way (counted for a minyan, given aliyot, etc.)” The rituals chosen are important, because both of these mitzvot (religious observances) require the participant to be equally obligated for Jewish law as the other participants in the service.
		Allowing returning anusim to perform them, without any conversion or ritual of return as part of a congregation, is an explicit and public recognition that they are fully Jewish.
		Interestingly, Karo does not require that the proselyte undergo a detailed education in the law, rather he or she is to be educated merely in the basics of Jewish observance and belief.
	www.cryptojews.com /welcoming_back_the_anusim.htm (1909 words)

	Anusim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		“Anusim” (Hebrew: אנוסים), plural for anús, means forced ones in Hebrew.
		Because of the mass forced conversion of Jews in Spain and Portugal during the 14th and 15th centuries, the term became widely used by Spanish rabbis and their successors for the following 400 years.
		Anusim have a special place in rabbinic literature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anusim (555 words)

	Welcome! - Crypto Jews of the Amercias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Essentially the question that we will address could be rephrased as, “are returning anusim required to undergo the rituals of conversion before they are permitted to participate fully as part of the mainstream Jewish community?" We will therefore primarily examine the requirement of the anusim vis-a-vis the laws of conversion.
		“Since it is clear that these (anusim) are not to be considered proselytes, we do not need therefore to enumerate to them all the commandments and their punishments (as must be done to a gentile who wished to become a proselyte).
		Later Sephardic rabbinic authorities addressed the descendants of these anusim, and did not make any distinction between the Rivash’s two groups, since even the children of those anusim that fell in the first group bore no responsibility for the decisions of their parents.
	www.cryptojew.org /thelaw/thelaw.html (2658 words)

	PresenTense Magazine - Los Judios Nuevos: The Plight of the Anusim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		These anusim conquistadores and pioneers have been studied by historians and genealogists; their exploits have been novelized by native poets and also by foreign ones.
		The high esteem in which these anusim of the past are held by these communities contrasts sharply with the difficulties faced by their descendants when they decide to reclaim their Jewish identity and heritage.
		Indeed, it would seem that the heroic efforts of the anusim of the past in transmitting Judaism to their sons and daughters is about to fail, not because of their weakness or that of their descendants, but because of the apathy and suspicion of the descendants of their long-lost cousins.
	www.presentensemagazine.org /site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24 (1769 words)

	History of the Sephardim Anusim Sephardim Hope International
		Mexican Heritage From Judaism - The Awakening of the Sephardim Anusim from Spain.
		This lost Anusim Sephardim began their escape from Spain in 1492, when Christopher Columbus set sail towards the New World.
		As lost Anusim, (those who have been forced, coerced and raped as a people) my ancestor’s history was not revealed openly by my own father until 2001 when he was 87 years of age.
	www.sephardimhope.org /HistoryoftheSephardimAnusim.html (2726 words)

	Anusim and Crypto-Jewish Information Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Those helping the anusim are divided in two camps, those that want to help them for intrinsic reasons-because they need help and should be helped; and those that help the anusim because extending advice to them will help them turn a profit.
		The 'rabbis' who are 'converting' the anusim (or as they like to use the term 'returning them') back to Judaism, have developed their model outside a halachic framework, where they make a profit from the fees charged for the conversion.
		Some of these so-called 'anusim experts' are nothing more than missionaries who work under the Protestant myth that the Jews must return to Zion, even the 'crypto-Jews.' Some of these people have moved to Israel where they are pulling the wool over the eyes of the orthodox rabbanim, the media and the government.
	www.bnaianusim.org /openletter-english.html (1565 words)

	Cover to Cover - Book Circles Exploring the Best in Jewish American Literature
		The anusim - the descendants of Jews who survived the Inquisition by pretending to be Catholic - have a mostly hidden history.
		Both anusim and converses profess Catholicism but practice Judaism covertly; the anusim are forced, the converses may or may not be.
		Both anusim and conversos profess Catholicism but practice Judaism covertly; the anusim are forced, the conversos may or may not be forced.
	www.joi.org /books/reading/daysofawe.htm (915 words)

	RCAJA T*shuba - returning home
		Sepharade communities were overwhelmingly sympathetic to their relatives, friends and colleagues who were fortunate enough to able to make a return to the faith.
		An unfortunate happenstance of our time period has caused certain populations to undergo background checks back to Sarah for Indians and Ethiopians, communities that not only are not anusim but have retained Jewish identity and ritual intact for centuries and are pointed out as Jews by the surrounding non-Jewish nationals of their diaspora.
		Anusim would best be served by applying for return, if at all posible or known, directly to the community from which they were forced.
	www.fortunecity.com /millenium/zebedee/67/tshbh.htm (540 words)

	Second Anusim Leadership Conference Planned
		I organized the first "Leadership Conference for Descendents of Anusim" in August 1994 in Jerusalem, with the support of the Jewish Agency, the Jewish Federation of New Mexico, Congregation Shearith Israel and the World Sefardi Federation via its Midrash Sefardi Institute in Jerusalem and its director Rabbi Sam Kassin.
		And the pool of scholars who are in position to teach the group is unparalleled anywhere in the world.
		I envisioned and carried out the first leadership conference for anusim, and feel glad the idea is catching on.
	www.kulanu.org /anusim/halevy.html (659 words)

	The Anusim Mailing List Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The ANUSIM list is for those who know/think/suspect or are interested in Spanish or Portuguese Jewish peoples that were forced to convert under duress and kept Jewish practices, in secret, to any extent.
		Although the list will mainly focus on feelings, thoughts, and learning about Jewish practices by those descendants, scholars and those interested in the subject of crypto-judaism are welcome as long as they respect those who wish for anonimity.
		A lista chama-se Anusim, a palavra hebraica para "os obrigados" (isto e, obrigados a se converterem).
	members.tripod.com /~anak/anusim.htm (331 words)

	Puerto Rican crypto-Jews band together (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Calling themselves B'nei Anusim, or children of the coerced, the group comprises 30 descendants of marranos whose Jewish ancestors were forced to convert to Christianity.
		The international anusim movement numbers in the thousands and is prevalent in Spain, Portugal, the Canary Islands and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean - anywhere the Inquisition forced Jews to practice their faith secretly.
		Rivera said that the anusim must undergo a formal conversion to Judaism "because our parents were Christians and we were in idolatry, so we have no way to prove we have Jewish roots."
	www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/040917/lifeside1.html (372 words)

	JVibe --> real life
		The Marranos, also called "B'nei Anusim" are those whose ancestors were forcibly converted to Catholicism during the Spanish Inquisition but continued to practice their Judaism in secret.
		Freund believes this covertness could either be a mimicking of their forefather's necessary secrecy or it could be that even today, these people fear being identified as Jews by their sometimes anti-Semitic neighbors.
		A town on the water, Recife was the place that many of the B'nei Anusim ended up as they fled Spain and Portugal, looking for a freer life.
	www.jvibe.com /realife/jew_hunter.shtml (721 words)

	WEPA! news Princess Papaya by Himilce Novas-Crypto Jews Come Out Of The Closet
		As part of this effort, the organization initiated a megillah (scroll) of the Bnei Anusim, on which members of the group have declared their support for Israel and its "battle for survival." They delivered the megillah, signed by hundreds of Bnei Anusim, to Minister for Diaspora Affairs Natan Sharansky last Tuesday.
		Beyond the stated purpose of their visit, the Bnei Anusim see being here as another chapter in the process of forging a new identity that they have been undergoing in recent years.
		The book helped other anusim to come out of the closet, he says, but out of some 20,000 descendants of this population in Majorca, only a few dozen have thus far begun searching for their true identity.
	hometown.aol.com /wepanews/myhomepage/personal.html (1638 words)

	Descendants of 'anusim' to spend Rosh Hashana with the Sharanskys
		The Sharansky family answered the call of Amishav, the organization assisting descendents of Jews seeking to return to their people, to demonstrate a warm welcome by hosting descendents of anusim (Hebrew for "those who were coerced,") for Rosh Hashana.
		The couple are now among 20 descendents of anusim currently learning at the Machon Miriam Conversion and Return Institute in Jerusalem in preparation for conversion.
		Besides anusim, the Spanish-speaking institute is geared to those who immigrated from South American under the Law of Return but are not halachicly Jewish.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/989637/posts (523 words)

	EJP \| News \| Western Europe \| Iberian Jews return to their roots
		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.
		The exhibition is called "The Journey of Spanish & Portuguese Bnei Anusim: Past, Present and Future”, and is designed and produced by an organisation called Shavei Israel, which translates as "Israel Returns".
		The phenomenon of the Bnei Anusim developed in 14th-century Spain and Portugal when thousands of Jews were forcibly converted or coerced into accepting baptism and recognised as Christians.
	ejpress.org /article/9285 (462 words)

	Dr Elias Lipiner
		Whenever I brought anusim to him, they left with new wisdom and complimentary copies of his books.
		Having survived abject poverty in childhood (in Romania), loneliness as he went by himself to Brazil at a young age, and a sense of spiritual isolation wherever he was, his zest for life never tarnished.
		When he was writing his book about the heroic martyr, Izaque de Castro, who was burned at the stake at the age of 24, he would sit into the dark nights crying and writing, writing and crying.
	www.saudades.org /lipiner.html (430 words)

	Anusim Page of Schulamith Halevy
		Anusim = forced converts (Hebrew), preferred term for descendants of Iberian converts [pronounced ah-noo-sim']
		Anusim in North America: The Ingathering (Tradition 1995) (Plain text)
		The Leadership Role of Women among Anusim (in: To Be a Jewish Woman: Proceedings of the First International Conference: Woman and Her Judaism, M. Shilo, ed., Urim Publications, Jerusalem, 2001).
	www.cs.tau.ac.il /~nachumd/sch/sch/anusim.html (253 words)

	Mar 05
		I want to go on record that DNA studies have a long way to go in determining different haplotypes such as those of us that are Sephardic Anusim among the Latinos in the Americas.
		ONE, we’ll be sealing the facts of our upcoming Sephardic Anusim Conference in the Negev which is being organized by the Ben Gurion Heritage Center, the Ben Gurion University and the project I oversee.
		I am opening up this experience to a few select adult participants that are either Sephardic Anusim or called of God to collaborate in their end-times Aliyah.
	4sephardim.com /firstfruits6.htm (821 words)

	Tzedukah: Helping Jewish Causes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Others, variously called Marranos, Crypto-Jews, and Anusim (Hebrew for "The Forced Ones") continued at great risk to practice Judaism in secret and pass their precious heritage on to succeeding generations.
		Under her guidance the Institute, a non-profit organization, also offers support and assistance to any B'nai Anusim who wish to trace their family's heritage or re-enter the Jewish mainstream.
		A yearly Seder, funded and conducted by the Institute, provides anusim in the Balearics with a profoundly moving link to their roots.
	home.earthlink.net /~davidturetsky/gloriamound.html (330 words)

	Crypto Jews in the U.S. Southwest - By Seth Ward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Tomßs Atencio uses the local term "Manito," a "shortened diminutive of Hermano," to refer "to New Mexico's Indohispanos and Indohispanas whose historical threads are anchored in the Colonial period." But he refers to "Crypto-Jews" among the Manitos (Atencio 1996).
		Others prefer "anusim," (sometimes without differentiation of singular and plural, e.g., "She is an anusim" (e.g.
		Anusim is of course the typical Hebrew name for Marranos and has been favored in other communities and by some scholars.
	www.du.edu /~sward/cryptojews.html (4227 words)

	Faithful Jew or Don Juan?
		It is estimated that thousands of Anusim live in the Southwestern United States, many of whom are only now learning about their Jewish heritage, and some of whom are reclaiming it.
		Isabelle Sandoval is vice president of a Crypto-Judaism group in New Mexico called Anusim Ysrael, which issued a statement last week reading, in part, "We have encountered some of our own Anusim who prey on the Jewish community and their own people to make money or satisfy their own personal motives.
		Several of the women who were "courted" by Sandoval said they were never intimate with him, although some said Sandoval told other people that they had pursued him sexually.
	www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/970530/sandoval.shtml (2683 words)

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		It was the vision of a romantic hero, Captain Arturo Carlos de Barros Basto (aka Abraham Israel Ben-Rosh), often referred to as the “Apostle of the Marranos” or the Marrano Moses but also the “Portuguese Dreyfus.” He died a broken man in 1961.
		He founded a publication called Halapid to rally anusim and help them learn about the religion of their ancestors.
		Following his death in 1961, he was buried, not in a Jewish cemetery (there is none in Porto and he did not want to be buried in Lisbon), but in Amarante, his place of birth, near Porto.
	www.cryptojews.com /Porto_Synagogue.htm (517 words)

	The Book Shelf
		One covers the colonial period, with an emphasis on the Portuguese Inquisition and its effect on the lives of Jews and anusim, forced converts.
		That was a relatively advantageous time and place for Jews and anusim, and it brought the founding of the first synagogue of the Americas, Kahal Zur Israel, in the city of Recife.
		She relates how the anusim used their national and international connections to circumvent efforts by the Portuguese crown to restrict access to the mining regions.
	www.jewishpress.com /page.do/19360/The_Book_Shelf.html (840 words)

	Family Tree DNA - we do genetic tests for your genealogy questions!
		According to history, many of the Sephardic Jews left Spain and Portugal during the Inquisition and made their way to France, especially the southern part of France.
		During the early 1600's some of the Anusim (Jews forced to convert to Catholocism) moved to New France, now known as Canada seeking a life without persecution.
		The objective of the Canadian-Anusim Project is to prove this theory, linking our ourselves through surnames and our DNA to other Anusim, or Sephardic Jews.
	www.familytreedna.com /DNAList.asp?Group=Canadian-Anusim (227 words)

	Bnai Anusim Messianic Ministry
		The purpose of Bnai Anusim Messianic Ministry is straight forward and simple and that is to carry on the Messianic Ministry of Yeshua HaMashiakh to gather the lost Children of Israel through the Power of the preaching of the Word of God.
		It is clear that the word of God has the power to set the Captivity which is in Sepharad free.
		We will also help Bnai Anusim who are practising Messianic Judaism recieve the Certificate of Return after completing our Bnai Anusim Return Certificate Course as a testimony of their return to the faith of their ancestors, Judaism and as a recognition of their Jewish Identity.
	www.geocities.com /rabbi_eliyahu/BnaiAnusim.html (305 words)

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