HaLapid 1996

The Search for Family Origins

The Search for Family Origins

Published December 15, 1996

As delivered at the December 1996 Conference of the SCJS in Albuquerque Translated from Spanish I am grateful to God and to you for allowing me to share with you my experiences as I searched for the origins of my family. I will begin by mentioning that this quest was begun in my early youth, [...]

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A Matter of Conjecture-Crypto Jews In Early California?

A Matter of Conjecture-Crypto Jews In Early California?

Published June 15, 1996

In 1967, during an archeological dig at the Royal Chapel site of the Santa Barbara Presidio, a student from UCSB, one Janet Karen, discovered a complete chicken skeleton in the corner area of the sanctuary where it had been resting for over 200 years. Karen had worked earlier in the year at Masada in Israel [...]

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City Preserves Jewish Traditions

City Preserves Jewish Traditions

Published January 15, 1996

from the July 25th edition of the newspaper Folha de São Paolo HERITAGE: Venha Ver, founded in 1811 in Rio Grande do Norte, still preserves vestiges of its Jewish origins A little town lost in the interior of Rio Grande do Norte maintains vestiges of the Jewish origins of it population, whose founders, in 1811, [...]

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