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1.) Informed Comment: Spanish Arab and Jewish Genetic Heritage

5 hours, 1 minute ago | Thursday 04th of December 2008 09:16:00 PM

So I don't see how 50000 Marranos males could produce a situation where 1/5 of the present-day male population is descended from them. And, the huge Arab and Berber population of medieval Spain and even the 300000 there in the 1500s, ...

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2.) S.F. archbishop defends role in Prop. 8 passage - Democratic ...

Over one day ago, -6 hours, -32 minutes ago | Wednesday 03rd of December 2008 09:13:00 PM

We who were Marranos in Madrid, who clung to the closet of assimilation and conversion in order to live without molestation, we cannot deny the demand for gay and lesbian visibility." Rabbi Harold F. Caminker ...

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3.) Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity: Descendants of Anusim IV ...

Over one day ago, -13 hours, -43 minutes ago | Tuesday 02nd of December 2008 05:12:00 PM

I would like to leave a response to a couple of the comments that may clarify just a point or two for whatever it may (or may not be worth), in connection with differences in Catholic ritual and Marrano Jewish identity: ...

From Daas Torah

4.) Aurion Mission

2 hours, 26 minutes ago | Thursday 04th of December 2008 11:51:00 PM

There were about 100000 Marranos or forcibly-converted Jews in Spain after 1492 (many Iberian Jews fled to Holland, North Africa or Istanbul to retain their faith). There were initially some 315000 Moriscoes or forcibly-converted ...

From aurion

5.) Israel News: Marranos - Returning to Judaism

Over a week ago | Wednesday 27th of August 2008 12:00:00 AM

The Marranos must have lifted a collective eye-brow when they heard the Pope lecturing Muslims about compulsion in religion. It would be quite interesting to see a debate between a Marrano who had returned to Judaism, and a Jews for ...

From News Service

6.) Marrano

Over a week ago | Thursday 23rd of October 2008 07:36:00 PM

Marranos or Secret Jews were Jews resident in the Iberian peninsula in the late fourteenth through seventeenth centuries who adopted Christianity, either through coercion or for convenience, publicly professing Roman Catholicism but ...

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7.) Bushco By the Numbers?. « Zionistgoldreport?s Weblog

Over one day ago, -2 hours, -36 minutes ago | Wednesday 03rd of December 2008 02:53:00 PM

Gallo is a very, very unusual name for an Italian, Spainard, or Mexican, its a name taken typically by Marrano Jews. http://www.galloworldfamily.org/Jewish.html. Jeb Bush like his father has a rather high Machiavellian intelligence. ...

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8.) News From The West: Cuba and Israel

Over a week ago | Monday 24th of November 2008 06:21:00 PM

The term 'Marrano' was used in Spain and Portugal for the descendants of baptized Jews suspected of secret adherence to Judaism. Fidel Castro has acknowledged his Marrano ancestry. 2. "What are Castro's views of Israel? ...

From The_West

9.) Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity: Descendants of Marranos ...

Over a week ago | Tuesday 12th of August 2008 12:00:00 AM

"Our families only married other Marrano Jewish families. We never intermarried. Marriages were normally arranged by parents and often we married cousins." Without affiliation to Rabbinical Judaism, I would assume that mamzerut be a ...

From Daas Torah

10.) Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity: History - Inquisition & Dr ...

Over a week ago | Sunday 23rd of November 2008 04:22:00 PM

Dr. Samuel Nunez of Lisbon, Portugal, was born to a Marrano family that was still passing along the torch of Judaism two centuries after Spain expelled all its practicing Jews in 1492. Nunez lived a double life. ...

From Daas Torah

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