Bnei Anousim

Benedito Araujo de Souza, right, arriving at Yeshiva Camp in Aquiraz, Brazil on Jan. 2, 2020. (Synagoga Sem Froteiras)

79-year-old Brazilian man attends Jewish summer camp

Benedito Araujo de Souza drove for 14 hours to attend a camp aimed at the descendants of forcibly converted Jews.

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 10, 2020 9:51 am

Descendants of forcefully converted Jews open mikvah in northern Brazil

The event in Tibau is part of a development that has led hundreds to convert and to the opening of a dozen synagogues for people whose ancestors fled the Inquisition.

August 9, 2019 10:40 am

Toni Pinya entering the synagogue of Palma de Mallorca, Spain on Feb. 11, 2019. Cnaan Liphshiz

In Mallorca, descendants of Jews forced to hide their faith now run the community

Amid growing interest in the bloody Jewish past of the island near Barcelona, forced converts to Catholicism are returning to Judaism.

April 1, 2019 2:54 pm

Holocaust survivor Nanette Koning talking to bnei anusim at Yeshiva Camp in Sao Paulo in 2018. (Courtesy of Yeshiva Camp)

In Brazil, a rabbi opens the world’s first summer camp for descendants of forcibly converted Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 28, 2019 2:25 pm

On this Spanish island, Purim used to be the biggest holiday for persecuted Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 12, 2019 3:28 pm

Portugal’s only rural Jewish community seeks a seat at the table

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 15, 2019 6:13 pm

In northern Brazil, Sephardic converts are giving dwindling Jewish communities a new lease on life

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 26, 2018 12:15 pm

Rivlin: Reconnecting brethren lost in Spanish Inquisition is ‘vital’ task

February 26, 2016 11:18 am

Italian Inquisition site hosts Hanukkah candle ceremony

December 5, 2013 11:00 am

Portuguese town receives Torah scroll, Jewish learning center

July 21, 2013 6:37 am

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