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	j. - Portugal's few Jews leading rich lives of culture, faith
		Earlier this month in the town of Belmonte, Israel's President Ezer Weizman and Portugal's President Jorge Sampaio oversaw the dedication of the first new Portuguese synagogue that has been built in almost 70 years.
		The town of Belmonte, population 35,000, where the new three-story synagogue and its mikveh was dedicated, is home to about 100 Converso families who, though their ancestors were formally converted to Christianity 500 years ago, have retained forms of Jewish ritual and consciousness.
		- Portugal's few Jews leading rich lives of culture, faith
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/6008/edition_id/112/format/html/displaystory.html (934 words)

	ALL ABOUT CRYPTO JEWS
		The Spanish Jews who went to Portugal faced major problems there also; e.g., 700 children were kidnaped from their parents and sent to the island of Sao Tome and raised as Christians.
		King Manoel I (1495-1521) wanted the Jews to stay because their skills would help Portugal's economy, but he was pressured by his wife's parents, King Fernando and Queen Isabel of Spain, to expel or convert the Jews.
		Attempts to revive crypto-Judaism at this time were defeated by opponents, but in 1932 interest in the crypto Jews of Spain and Portugal, and their contemporary descendants, was first popularized by the famous Judaic scholar Cecil Roth with the publication of A History of the Marranos.
	www.fiu.edu /~lavender/SCJSBrochurefinaldraft.htm (1624 words)

	PORTUGAL: Last Surviving 'Secret' Jewish Community Still Wary of Outsiders
		Belmonte is surrounded by medieval villages that have grown into prosperous towns like Covilha, Guarda, Trancoso and Fundao, which offer visitors other opportunities to learn about Sephardic Jewish traditions in Portugal.
		According to one widely accepted definition, Sephardic Jews are those whose ancestors were expelled from the Iberian peninsula (Portugal and Spain) during the Spanish Inquisition incited by the Catholic King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in the late 15th century.
		In Portugal, which was already home to around 30,000 Jews at the time, King Joao II took in many of the Jews expelled from Spain, who totalled between 50,000 and 100,000.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=28668 (946 words)

	NewStandard: 5/9/98
		Selmonosky said her Passover trip to Belmonte was possible with support from the university's Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, and also from TAP Air Portugal and the Portuguese National Tourist Office.
		The Belmonte Jews follow the Sepahardi tradition of Jewry, the form that was practiced centuries ago in the Iberian Peninsula and is now associated with North Africa and the Middle East.
		The presentation, entitled "Passover in Belmonte: The Intersection of Cultures Through the Eyes of an Artist," is one of a series of cultural events being sponsored by the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture.
	www.s-t.com /daily/05-98/05-09-98/a07he044.htm (802 words)

	NewStandard: 12/6/96
		Events included the inauguration of a synagogue in the small eastern town of Belmonte where Jews secretly preserved their religion and traditions for centuries, and the re-enactment of Manuel's edict at Lisbon's Maria II National Theater, built on the site of an old Inquisition court.
		Sampaio said the expulsion of Portugal's Jews was an "iniquitous act with deep and disastrous consequences" for Portugal, at the time one of Europe's richest and most powerful nations.
		Jews would be allowed to stay another 20 years if they converted to Christianity.
	www.s-t.com /daily/12-96/12-06-96/a07wn035.htm (402 words)

	Archives: Story
		There are pockets of crypto-Jews throughout northern Portugal, but the Jews of Belmonte are the largest community in the country known to have preserved their Judaism together.
		BELMONTE, Portugal, Oct. 13 (JTA) -- A small crowd has gathered in the synagogue and the Orthodox rabbi stands in front, trying to reassure the worshipers that the new prayer books he brought from Israel don't threaten this Jewish community's 500-year-old traditions.
		The Belmonte Jews descend from Sephardim who took refuge in these mountainous borderlands during the century of pogroms that erupted in the 1390s in neighboring Spain.
	www.clevelandjewishnews.com /articles/2003/10/17/news/world/jcrypto1014.txt (1219 words)

	Sephardic (Sepharadi) , Sefaradi, Safardi Jew- - definition - Zionism and Israel -Encyclopedia / Dictionary/Lexicon of Zionism/Israel/
		The Jews of Belmonte, Portugal, preserved their Jewish faith in secret, revealing it only in the twentieth century.
		Properly, Jews who originally lived in the Iberian peninsula and were expelled in 1492 from Spain, and in 1497 from Portugal.
		Sephardic Jews pronounced Hebrew in a way that was closer to the original Biblical Hebrew, and which was adopted by Eliezer Ben Yehuda when he revitalized the Hebrew language.
	www.zionism-israel.com /dic/Sephardic_Jew.htm (712 words)

	Sephardi Mizrahi Studies Caucus Discussion List
		Belmonte is home to the only community in Portugal that has maintained its
		American Sephardi Federation Event for Jews of Belmonte, Portugal (Berg)
		rabbinical student from Belmonte to formally study Judaism.
	www.umass.edu /sephardimizrahi/past_issues/050619.html (736 words)

	Abarbanel Wines Terras de Belmonte
		Don Isaac Abarbanel was able to flee Portugal and escape certain death at the hands of King John II who had arrested the third Duke of Braganza, Fernando II for allegedly conspiring with the Spanish to undermine his rule, thus opening the Spanish chapter in Don Isaac's life.
		Portugal has clung tenaciously to their native grapes, resisting the worldwide peer pressure to uproot their ancient grapevines and replace them with French varieties such as Chardonnay, Cabernet and Merlot.
		Covilhã is a small town in the interior of Portugal in the Beira Interior province.
	www.abarbanel.com /wines/terrasdebelmonte.shtml (1352 words)

	Abarbanel Wines Terras de Belmonte
		erras de Belmonte is the first kosher wine produced in Portugal in the more than 500 years since the expulsion of the Jews from that country at the end of the 15th Century.
		Terras de Belmonte ("Land of Belmonte") is the culmination of four years of effort to produce this wine as a tangible and demonstrative symbol of the desire of the Jewish and Portuguese peoples to forge a new future based on amity and cooperation.
		Belmonte is also a "sister city" to Rosh Pina in Israel's Galilee - the residents of this mountain city have forged fraternal relations with Israel and openly boast of this on a sign just as you enter the town.
	www.abarbanel.com /wines/terrasdebelmonte.shtml (1352 words)

	The photoreceptor cell-specific nuclear receptor gene ( PNR) accounts for retinitis pigmentosa in the Crypto-Jews from Portugal (Marranos), survivors from the Spanish Inquisition.
		The last Crypto-Jews (Marranos) are the survivors of Spanish Jews who were persecuted in the late fifteenth century, escaped to Portugal and were forced to convert to save their lives.
		A search for mutations allowed us to ascribe the RP of Crypto-Jews of Belmonte to a homozygous missense mutation in the PNR gene.
		Preliminary haplotype studies support the view that this mutation is relatively ancient but probably occurred after the population settled in Belmonte.
	www.pdg.cnb.uam.es /UniPub/iHOP/gp/8654470.html (213 words)

	BigSoccer Boards - The Everything BUT Portuguese Soccer Thread
		Hundreds of Jews were tortured or burned at the stake in Portugal after being accused by church tribunals of being heretics during the 16th and early 17th century.
		Jews formed an official organization in 1989 and the first full-time rabbi came to the town one year later who led the Jewish remarriage of dozens of couples and oversaw the circumcision of men as old as 79.
		Many Jews who stayed in the country and continued to secretly practice their faith in hiding while publicly proclaiming to be Christians eventually gave up their religion.
	www.bigsoccer.com /forum/showthread.php?p=4697659 (2365 words)

	Be'chol Lashon Update 6/25/05
		When the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, Portugal's King Joao II permitted the entry into the country of 50,000-70,000 Jews.
		It’s unlikely that Curacao’s Jews will ever regain their past glory, with a rich and influential community numbering in the thousands: The birth rate is too low and Jewish children generally are sent abroad to study, and many of them don’t come back.
		Jews have lived in Curacao for more than 350 years, but the community’s peak seems to have been around 1800, when more than 2,000 Jews lived on the island.
	www.jewishresearch.org /BL_archives/6_25_05BL.htm (11515 words)

	Pedro Ãlvares Cabral - free-definition
		He is thought to have been born in Belmonte, in the Beira Baixa province of Portugal.
		Cabral was buried in a monastery in SantarÃ©m, Portugal.
		After a chain of bad luck, culminating in a two-day bombardment of the city, he returned with only 4 of 13 ships to Portugal, on June 23, 1501.
	www.free-definition.com /Pedro-Álvares-Cabral.html (11515 words)

	After 500 years, Portugal Produces Kosher for Passover Wine
		Belmonte’s Jews are descendants of Anousim, who preserved their Judaism in secret after Portugal’s Jewish community was forced to convert to Christianity by King Manuel in 1496.
		At a ceremony held in the northeastern Portuguese village of Covilha, the Adega Cooperative da Covilha recently celebrated the launch of its new vintage, Terras de Belmonte, which is certified kosher for Passover by the Orthodox Union.
		Three separate vats were set aside for the production process, which was overseen by Rabbi Elisha Salas, an emissary of the Jerusalem-based Amichav organization who serves as rabbi of the local Jewish community of Belmonte.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1111443/posts (613 words)

	"The Secret of Belmonte" by Steven Plaut
		The Anusim of Belmonte, those coerced into pretending to have abandoned their Jewishness, scratched out a living in the impoverished hills of underdeveloped Portugal, which is only now catching up with the rest of Western Europe.
		The area around Belmonte is a region of castles and fortifications from the Middle Ages, one in particular built by the Templar Knights as an outpost in their skirmishes with the Moors.
		While Belmonte attracts quite a few visitors, many are secular Israelis or Americans who pass through Friday night and drive off the next morning, violating the Sabbath to the chagrin of the locals.
	www.chronwatch.com /featured/contentDisplay.asp?aid=4663 (2210 words)

	Mail-Jewish Volume 19 Number 43
		It came from a story in the March 24 edition of The Forward, about a community in Belmonte, Portugal who kept their faith in Judaism alive for 500 years, while living overtly as loyal Christians.
		A few years ago, the community "came out of the closet" en masse, sought out a spiritual leader from Israel, converted (to satisfy halachic concerns after hundreds of years of not having halachic guidance), provided bris milah to males as old as sixty-five, and now embrace the practice of Judaism with passion.
		In fact, straight credit risk--the danger that a loan will not be repaid--is a relatively small part of the interest and, in the case of the most creditworthy borrowers, an insignificant one.
	www.ottmall.com /mj_ht_arch/v19/mj_v19i43.html (1856 words)

	HADASSAH MAGAZINE
		The emergence of Belmonte's Jews after 500 years in hiding was nothing short of miraculous (see story page 18).
		Most descendants of the Jews forcibly converted in Spain and Portugal—and now scattered throughout the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world—have preserved only bits and pieces of Jewish observance and identity.
		Of the many descended from converted Jews, only a remnant have any knowledge, and only a fraction of that remnant is trying to make its way back.
	www.hadassah.org /news/content/per_hadassah/archive/2000/Nov/pp.htm (1283 words)

	Hotel Palacio Belmonte - Lisbon Portugal
		The Palacio Belmonte is in the centre of the old part of Lisbon and its history can be traced back over 2130 years to 130 BC.
		All this in the centre of the capital city of Portugal.
		The palace overlooks the rooftops of old Lisbon and to the river Tagus beyond and is surrounded by medieval streets.
	manorhouses.com /hotels/belmontepal.html (641 words)

	Pedro Ãlvares Cabral - netlexikon
		Geschichte Portugals, Zeittafel der Geschichte Portugals, Portugal unter dem Hause Avis.
		In beiden StÃ¤dten legte Cabral, entsprechend seines kÃ¶niglichen Auftrages, Faktoreien fÃ¼r den Handel zwischen Portugal und Indien an.
		Pedro Ãlvares Cabral (* um 1467 wahrscheinlich in Belmonte ; â um 1526 in SantarÃ©m) ist ein portugiesischer Seefahrer und gilt als einer der Entdecker Brasiliens.
	www.lexikon-definition.de /Pedro-%C3%81lvares-Cabral.html (641 words)

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	www.truehotels.com /Portugal-Hotels.htm (641 words)

	Amazon.ca: Jews in Places You Never Thought of: Books
		There are about 250 Jews in Belmonte, Portugal, where the Jewish movement is strong.
		Primack has compiled a unique book that will be of interest to Jews and non-Jews alike.
		Most are seeking further education and formal conversion to the faith.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0881256080 (315 words)

	Palacio Belmonte - Portugal - Lisbon - Philosophy
		Palacio Belmonte - Portugal - Lisbon - Philosophy
		The interest of this lime mortar lies in the fact that Portugal on a coastal front is very humid with huge differences of temperature which are absorbed by the lime mortar.
		Three retractable canvas sails above a "green house" terrace, providing a soft pleasant lighting all-around and creating a soft, natural air density, easy to breath, were also placed.
	www.palaciobelmonte.com /1_philosophy (315 words)

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		Ramon and Gloria met with other hidden Jews from Belmonte, a village in the mountains of Eastern Portugal.
		They were shown the old Jewish Quarter by Josef, who pointed out still visible signs of the Inquisition.
	nanrubin.com /html/audio10.html (58 words)

	Articles - Zeca Afonso
		He returns to Portugal in 1938, this time to his the house of his uncle Filomeno's, mayor of the town of Belmonte.
		Mariazinha goes with them while his brother JoÃ£o returns to Portugal.
		In 1937 he travels for the second time, this time to Mozambique where his parents were now, with his brother and sister, JoÃ£o and Mariazinha.
	www.kamero.net /articles/Zeca_Afonso (58 words)

	Palacio Belmonte - Portugal - Lisbon - Press Release
		Palacio Belmonte - Portugal - Lisbon - Press Release
		The American edition of the same magazine included the Belmonte in the "Hot List 2000" representing the year's 36 top new hotels.
	www.palaciobelmonte.com /5_PRESS (90 words)

	District of Castelo Branco
		Also Gaia de Belmonte Grandfather's name Thomas Manuel Rose/ Grandmother's name Teodora Dos Santos.
		Mom's dad was from Castelo Branco, Portugal, her mom and family were from Sao Vicente or Capelas, Sao Miguel azores.
		My grandfather,who passed away last year,was born in Portugal in 1902 on Jan. 30.
	www.dholmes.com /master-list/castelo-branco/district-castelo-branco.html (90 words)

	Portuguese Surnames: Portuguese coat of arms, surnames & coat of arms.
		In Belmonte, Portugal, townspeople who have practiced Judaism in complete secrecy for five centuries now pray openly for the first time.
		In the town of Belmonte, among others in Portugal for example, efforts are being made to re-approximate the Crypto Jewish religion with the orthodoxy of Israel.
		Cerveira coat of arms, Coca coat of arms, Coelho coat of arms, Cordeiro coat of arms, Cordes coat of arms, Cordovil coat of arms, Correia coat of arms, Corte-Real coat of arms, Costa coat of arms,
	www3.sympatico.ca /geoles (5020 words)

	HERO OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE SERIES
		Kosher wine, made in Portugal by the Jewish community of Belmonte, where Jewish traditions have been transmitted in secret from generation to generation, will be served during the reception, through the cooperation of Ramos Pinto Wines, the "Adega Cooperativa de Covilha," and TAP, the national airline of Portugal.
		Sousa Mendes died a pauper in 1954, and remained unrecognized in his native land even after the Carnation Revolution in 1974, which brought democracy to Portugal.
		Photo: Jewish Graves desecrated by vandals with Nazi swastikas and anti-semitic slogans in the Jewish cemetery of Brumath, close to Strasbourg, October 31, 2004.
	www.worldjewishnewsagency.org /hero_of_the_jewish_people__serie.htm (940 words)

	Portugal - Montanhas - A description of the mountain region of Portugal
		Close by is the charming mediaeval village of Belmonte, presided over by a beautifully restored 13th century castle and famous as the birthplace of Pedro Alvares Cabril, discoverer of Brazil.
		Chaves to the west commands a strategic position in a broad valley and you may reach the centre by crossing a wide Roman bridge.
		Chaves is popular as a thermal spa, with water gushing out of natural springs at an amazing temperature of 73ºC. Other towns close by where you can also still take the waters are the spa resorts of Carvalhelhos, Pedras Salgadas and Vidago.
	www.manorhouses.com /regions/mdesc.htm (585 words)

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