This Blog is informative to those descendants of Jews forced into conversion to Christianity in the Canary Islands. B'nei Anusim (Hebrew: בני אנוסים, pronounced [ˈbnei anuˈsim] "children [of the] forced [ones]
Sunday, 22 September 2013
The last update was on an article by Gloria Mound, executive director of "Casa Shalom Institute for Marrano - Annusim Studies" in Gan Yavne, Israel. In this article she talked about the islanders (isleneos) as the ancestors of the Bnei Anussim in New Orleans, Colombia or brazil for example.
There are very many evidence that many of these islanders are Anussim. It is true that many documents that prove their origin were lost in the hurricane Katrina, but still today arrive to Canary Islands from the United States, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, or other countries descendants of these families looking for their Anussim ancestors.
The search is not easy but usually they manage to find the connection with their ancestors Jews,after this they return to their country, where many rabbis make it possible for these people to do Teshuva and return to the path of their ancestors.
In North America it is not difficult to do this process and in South America there are organizations as Shavei Israel working to help to return. Noted that many of these organizations agree only allow return to the Orthodox tradition.
Unfortunately in The Canary Islands place of origin of the major part of these islanders nothing is done, and the return process becomes very complicated
I hope in the future this change.
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