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".....it is thus that Barros Basto, the Apostle of the Marranos, seems alive, contradictory, honest, a hero that struggled to rescue the Marranos, that is, those Jews who during four centuries concealed themselves, passing and re-creating, from generation to generation, a tradition that could not be expressed in the light of day; night was their day!" (pedro sinde in "Barros Basto, A Miragem Marrana", Alexandre Teixeira Mendes, Ladina, Porto, 2007<br />
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<b>Almeida Mello: The plight to save the Jewish legacy in the Azores – Interview</b><br />
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<a href="http://portuguese-american-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/P1010126.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="Almeida Mello: The plight to save the Jewish legacy in the Azores – Interview"><img alt="" class="woo-image thumbnail alignright" height="180" src="http://portuguese-american-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/P1010126-250x180.jpg" width="250" /></a> <span style="color: black;"><em><strong>By Carolina Matos, Editor (*)</strong></em></span><br />
Historian José de Almeida Mello is the chief librarian of the Ponta Delgada Municipal Library and the cultural attaché of Ponta Delgada City Hall. In 2003, the Israeli Community of Lisbon appointed him the coordinator of the Azores Synagogue Restoration Committee to oversee the renovation and conservation project of the Sabar Hassamain Synagogue of Ponta Delgada.<br />
The Sahar Hassamain Synagogue is the only surviving Synagogue on the islands and the oldest of Portugal’s remaining synagogues. It was established around 1820, by a group of Jewish entrepreneurs who migrated with their families from Morocco and settled on São Miguel island in the early 19th century.<br />
At one point, the island of São Miguel was home to four synagogues in Ponta Delgada and one in Vila Franca do Campo. There was a Jewish cemetery in Ponta Delgada and four additional Jewish burial grounds: one on São Miguel, one on Terceira, one on Faial and one on Graciosa island.<br />
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The Sahar Hassamain Synagogue in Ponta Delgada.</div>
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The Sabar Hassamain Synagogue was consecrated by Abraão Bensaúde in 1836, and abandoned in the 1950s after the last members of the resident Jewish community left the island. The last religious service in the Synagogue took place in 1966 with a group of Jewish soldiers stationed at the US Lajes Military Base on Terceira island, celebrating <i>Yom Kippur.</i><br />
Provisionally owned by the Israeli Community of Lisbon, the building is in the process of transferring ownership to the Ponta Delgada City Hall to be renovated and turned into a public space.<br />
The recovery project is the culmination of 30 years of efforts to save the Synagogue and preserve the Jewish legacy in the Azores. In the last 15 years, the Azores Synagogue Restoration Committee has been lobbying actively to advance the process. The undertaking has the support of the Ponta Delgada City Hall, the local community and the Israeli Community of Lisbon, together with the immigrant Azorean community and Harvard University in the United States.<br />
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Historian José de Almeida Mello</div>
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José de Almeida Mello is a prolific author of many books and monographs. He published <i>Sahar Hassamain Synagogue in Ponta Delgada</i> (2009) a book which tells the story of the Synagogue and speaks of the importance to preserve the Jewish legacy in the Azores.<br />
In this interview for the <i>Portuguese American Journal</i>, Mello describes the long process to save that legacy and speaks of those involved in the effort to place the Jewish experience in the Azores in context of history. <span style="color: black;"><strong>(See slide show)</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><b>What is known about the Jewish presence in the Azores?</b></span><br />
We don’t have yet a comprehensive study relating to the Jewish presence in the Azores, but we know from various references that many Azoreans have Jewish ancestors. We know for a fact that, right after the Azores were discovered by the Portuguese in the 15<sup>th</sup> century, many Jewish families settled on the islands. They were among the many being prosecuted by the Inquisition. How many they were and what happened to them afterward needs to be researched. One of the main goals of the Synagogue restoration project is to research the Jewish legacy in the Azores from the 15<sup>th</sup> century to their most recent presence in the 19<sup>th</sup> and 20<sup>th</sup> centuries.<br />
<span style="color: black;"><b>A Jewish community was established in the Azores after 1818. Who were they?</b></span><br />
They were a group of industrialists and merchants from Morocco. They were of Sephardic origin and spoke Moroccan Arabic and Ladino. Family names included Bensaúde, Buzaglo, Aflalo, Amiel, Absdid, Zafrany, Abecassis, Adrahi, Benayon, Mataná, Semtob, Bensliman, Delmar, to name a few.<br />
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The Synagogue of Ponta Delgada was built indoors, inside a residence, concealed from public view.</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>How was the Jewish community received in the Azores?</b></span><br />
I must say that they were not always welcome. Not on the basis of their faith but because they were shrewd merchants competing with the local commerce. As far as religion, at the time of their settlement there was a Constitutional law in Portugal which forbade the establishment of religious denominations other than the Catholic Church. This may explain why the Synagogue of Ponta Delgada was built indoors, inside a residence, concealed from public view.<br />
However, between 1820 and 1826, Portugal went through the Liberal Revolution which granted religious freedom. After Liberalism was established, the Jewish community in Portugal, the Azores included, was allowed to worship in freedom. The same happened to other religious denominations, such as the Anglican Church, which was once concealed from public view and then enjoyed religious freedom after Liberalism.<br />
<span style="color: black;"><b>The Jewish community expanded and thrived in the Azores for over a century, but has since disappeared. What happened?</b></span><br />
The Jewish community in the Azores in the 19<sup>th</sup> and 20<sup>th</sup> centuries was a small one. Because the islands are geographically removed, progressively these Jewish families opted to resettle in mainland Portugal and other countries. Some intermarried and converted to Catholicism and assimilated into the mainstream society. Presently, only one individual in the Azores, Jorge Delmar Soares, claims to profess the Jewish faith. Nevertheless, descendants from those families still have a strong connection with the Azores. An example is the Bensaúde family, the owners of the Bensaúde Goup, founded in 1820, which still is the largest economic group in the Azores and one of the largest economic groups in Portugal.<br />
<span style="color: black;"><b> How important is the Jewish legacy?</b></span><br />
The Jewish presence remains a vivid part of the collective memory of both the Jewish community and the local community. In spite of being a small group, of about 200 individuals, they were very active on various islands where they established businesses, followed their traditions and practice their religion. They generated an enormous wealth and left an important cultural legacy. The Synagogue, the documents and artifacts left behind, together with the burial grounds, are relevant cultural references for the history of both the Jewish and the Azorean communities.<br />
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As a first step, the building received a new roof, new windows and doors and a fresh outside painting.</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>When and why did you get involved?</b></span><br />
In 2000, during a trip to New Bedford to visit my grandmother, I was contacted by Alfredo Alves from Fall River. I didn’t know him and I had never heard of the Ponta Delgada Synagogue. I had just graduated from the University of the Azores, with a degree in History, and I was looking for my first job. In 1980, Alfredo Alves was a co-founder of the first group formed in the United States to recover the Synagogue. He expressed his frustration and concern with the state of neglect of the Synagogue and asked me to get involved. I told him I was in no position to help.<br />
However, two weeks later, I landed my first job as the cultural attaché of the Ponta Delgada City Hall. One of my first actions was to visit the site. I was shocked with the state of decay I found and decided to take action. As a first step, I contacted the local media to raise public awareness for the situation. The next step was to get financial support to stabilize the decay process.<br />
Thanks to the generosity of Dr. António Castro Freire, a member of the Bensaúde family, Christiane Frefrau von Schurbein, a German citizen residing in Ponta Delgada, and the Marques Group, a local construction company, the building received a new roof, new windows and doors and an outside painting.<br />
<span style="color: black;"><b>For over 30 years several attempts were made to save the Synagogue and the Jewish legacy in the Azores. Who else was involved?</b></span><br />
The first attempt was made in 1980 by an interfaith group formed in Fall River, Massachusetts. In 1988, the group created the Azores Synagogue Restoration Committee with the purpose of raising funds to recover the Synagogue. But their goal was never materialized. In 2003, after the Israeli Community of Lisbon got involved, a new group, an Azores Synagogue Restoration Committee, was formed in Ponta Delgada. I was appointed the coordinator of the committee in charge of the Synagogue recovery effort. Other members included Fátima Sequeira Dias, Jorge Delmar Soares, Isabel Albergaria, and António Bensaúde Castro Freire.<br />
As a first step, the Azores Synagogue Restoration Committee initiated the process of transferring ownership of the building, from the Israeli Community of Lisbon, to the Ponta Delgada City Hall. As a result, in 2009 the City gained a 99-year concession over the building in exchange for providing funding for its renovation. As part of the recovery effort, in 2009 I published the book, <i>Sahar Hassamain Synagogue in Ponta Delgada, </i>available in English and Portuguese.<br />
In 2012, I co-founded the Associação Cultural Amigos da Sinagoga de Ponta Delgada with Jorge Delmar Soares and Nuno Bettencourt. We extended membership to about 115 individuals, at the local, national and international level, with the goal of securing a broad base of support for the Synagogue recovery effort. Also in 2012, the interfaith sister organization, Azorean-Jewish Heritage Foundation, was formed in Massachusetts presided over by Gideon Gradman, Treasurer Donald Berube, Secretary Lisa Rosen and directors Paula Raposa, Michael J. Rodrigues, Robert Waxler and Pedro Amaral. Their goal is to support the recovery effort through fundraising in the United States.<br />
<span style="color: black;"><b>Why did it take so long to get organized around the recovery project? </b></span><br />
For quite some time it was not clear who owned the building. As a result, there was the legal question concerning its ownership combined with a lack of leadership and political will. Only after the Israeli Community of Lisbon secured ownership of the building, was it possible to establish a partnership with the Ponta Delgada City Hall.<br />
I must say that the impasse created a long period of neglect to which the public was not indifferent. Among those who voiced their concern and took action were journalist António Valdemar and historian Fátima Sequeira Dias. They kept the public informed and raised awareness for the historic relevance of the Jewish cultural legacy in the Azores and the importance to preserve it.<br />
I was one of those individuals touched by their effort. At one point, I was so concerned that I decided to intervene on my own initiative. I spent countless days, many hours, inside the building cleaning, seeping, dusting, and sorting through trunks, boxes and trash. I collected and stored scores of items waiting to be studied and cataloged.<br />
I also organized guided visits to the site with tourists, students and researchers. In 2010, I put together an exhibit at the Ponta Delgada Municipal Library displaying a variety of items found at the site with the goal of bringing awareness to the plight to save our Jewish cultural legacy.<br />
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Exhibit at the Ponta Delgada Municipal Library with the goal of bringing awareness to the plight to save the Jewish cultural legacy.</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>What did you learn about the site? What did you find there?</b></span><br />
The Synagogue is concealed within the walls of a building situated on 16 Rua do Brum, downtown Ponta Delgada. From the outside, the building looks very much like any other Azorean 19<sup>th</sup> century urban family dwelling. In the inside, the building served multi-purposes. It housed the Rabbi’s private quarters, a community center and the Synagogue. The community center offered art classes, Hebrew language classes and Torah classes. The Synagogue occupied a large rectangular area, well lighted by two windows facing north. This was the place where religious services, funeral rituals, marriages and circumcisions took place.<br />
The space holds a strikingly beautiful Sanctuary with the Ark and podium and two rows of lateral chairs. Two trunks were found full of a mix of Hebrew manuscripts, books, garments and personal objects. Unfortunately, some furniture and woodwork have been contaminated with termites. The area has also been infested with mice, spiders, cockroaches and moths. At the request of Dr. Joshua Ruah, from the Israeli Community of Lisbon, some furniture and religious artifacts were removed temporarily, specifically the four Torahs, two ceremonial vases, the circumcision chair and two<b> </b>chandeliers.<br />
<span style="color: black;"><b>Your book, Sahar<i> Hassamain Synagogue in Ponta Delgada,</i> is a tell-all-book. Why did you write it?</b></span><br />
<a href="http://portuguese-american-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/DSC_0995.jpg"><img alt="DSC_0995" class="alignright size-full wp-image-31088" height="298" src="http://portuguese-american-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/DSC_0995.jpg" width="297" /></a>I wrote the book at the time when many of us involved were feeling discouraged. The goal was to tell the Synagogue story, illustrate the state of decay of the building and call attention to the imminent danger of losing such a valuable cultural legacy. The launching of the book itself was an urgent SOS and my ultimate call for action. I was about to give up when the event took place on March 13, 2009, symbolically at the Hotel Marina Atlântico, owned by the Bensaúde Group.<br />
At a meeting we had that day, I stated that I was ready to return the keys and walk away from the project if action was not taken. It was a turning point. I remember the very moment when a consensus was formed. It was six o’clock in the afternoon, when we all agreed that the Synagogue would be saved. It was an historic moment with all forces converging into the effort to move forward.<i> </i><br />
Soon after,<i> </i>a meeting between the former City Mayor, Berta Cabral, and José Carp, the head of the Israeli Community of Lisbon, took place and a memorandum of understanding was drafted to transfer the ownership of the building from the Israeli Community of Lisbon to the Ponta Delgada City Hall. It was agreed that the City Hall would lead the recovery project with the goal of turning the Synagogue into a public space. Since then, we have made much progress. I must reiterate that the book was published free of charge, by the Nova Gráfica of Ponta Delgada, and that the proceeds will go to the Synagogue recovery fund.<br />
<span style="color: black;"><b>What is the renovation project all about?</b></span><br />
The main goal is to preserve the historic value of the common memory shared by both the Azorean community and the Jewish community. The plan is to recover the building, restore the Sanctuary and create a museum to preserve the cultural heritage found at the site. A center of interpretation of the Jewish legacy in the Azores will be created with a permanent exhibit, an archive, and a library including a private collection donated by Patricia Bensaúde. The site will become part of the cultural patrimony of the Ponta Delgada City Hall.<br />
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The main goal is to preserve the historic value of the common memory shared by both the Azorean community and the Jewish community.</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>How is the renovation project progressing?</b></span><br />
The last tenants left the building in the 1950s. In 2003, after over 50 years of neglect, some maintenance work was done to stabilize the building. Currently, we are in the process of joining efforts with the two sister organizations formed in the Azores and the United States, together with public and private institutions in both countries.<br />
In partnership with the Ponta Delgada City Hall and the Israeli Community of Lisbon, we are devising a recovery plan which will include fund raising, developing the museum concept, cataloging the inventory and rebuilding the site. The process has already begun and is progressing well. Fund raising is gaining moment. An Azorean architect, Igor França, has been working the details of the renovation project. Through the effort of Massachusetts Senator Michael Rodrigues, scholars of the Center for Jewish Studies, at Harvard University, have already committed to evaluate, identify, research and catalog the inventory.<br />
<span style="color: black;"><b>When will the recovery project be completed?</b></span><br />
Hopefully, if all goes according to plan, the project will be completed by the end of 2014 or sometime in the beginning of 2015. It will be a special occasion, a day of glory for all the friends of the Ponta Delgada Sahar Hassamain Synagogue<i>. </i>It will be a memorable moment in our common history to honor and celebrate the Jewish cultural legacy in the Azores.<br />
<span style="color: black;"><b>Who should be contacted for online donation related questions?</b></span><br />
For information on how to contribute for the Sahar Hassamain Synagogue restoration fund donors may contact me directly at <span style="color: #333399;"><a href="mailto:josemello@lmpdelgada.pt"><span style="color: #333399;">josemello@lmpdelgada.pt</span></a></span> or contact Pedro Amaral, at<span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: #333399;"> <a href="mailto:pedro.amaral@masenate.gov"><span style="color: #333399;">pedro.amaral@masenate.gov</span></a></span>.</span>, at the office of Massachusetts Senator Michael Rodrigues. Both Pedro Amaral and Senator Michael Rodrigues are group members of the Azorean Heritage Foundation and of the Amigos da Sinagoga de Ponta Delgada.<em><b></b></em><br />
<span style="color: black;"><b>Will the Ponta Delgada Sahar Hassamain Synagogue<i> </i>become part of the newly created Sefarad Route project dedicated to reviving the Jewish historic sites in Portugal?</b></span><br />
We are aware of the Sefarad Route project, launched in Portugal in partnership with Spain and a Norway-based group. The project has the mission to attracting tourists from the Jewish diaspora interested in visiting Jewish historic sites in Portugal. With the support of our partners, the Israeli Community of Lisbon, we certainly hope to include Ponta Delgada<i> </i>in the network of cities with a Jewish presence in Portugal.<br />
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Sunday Oct 20th - Honouring Aristides de Sousa Mendes</div>
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On <strong>October 20, 2013 at 2 pm</strong>, the City of Toronto will name the newly renovated playground the “<strong>Sousa Mendes Playground</strong>,” situated across from the new <a href="http://jewishtorontoonline.net/home.do?ch=events&cid=org%2d1401&jt_style=detail" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Leo Baeck Day School</strong></span></a> on Arlington Avenue.<br />
Aristides de Sousa Mendes was a Portuguese Consul General serving in
Bordeaux, France from 1938 to 1940. He was responsible for saving
countless Jews and other refugees of the rapidly advancing Nazi army, by
defying the direct orders of his government and issuing some 30,000
visas, including about 10,000 to Jews, allowing safe passage to Portugal
from Occupied France.<br />
The program includes the unveiling of a plaque and speakers from the Jewish and Portuguese communities. <br />
After the unveiling, a brief reception will be followed by the screening of <strong>Disobedience. </strong>Directed
by Joel Santoni and starring Bernard Le Coq, this powerful film tells
the true story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes whose courageous actions
have been described as “the largest rescue action by a single individual
during the Holocaust.”<br />
This event will give voice to an important Portuguese & Jewish
story of rescue and moral courage during the Holocaust. It will be
facilitated by Councillor Joe Mihevc, working in partnership with the
City of Toronto’s Parks Department and The Leo Baeck Day School through
Eric Petersiel, Head of School.<br />
For more information, contact <span class="skype_pnh_container" dir="ltr" tabindex="-1"> <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common" dir="ltr"><img class="skype_pnh_logo_img" src="chrome://skype_ff_extension/skin/numbers_button_skype_logo.png" /><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">(416)315–9849</span></span> </span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This event is part of the pre </span><a href="http://holocaustcentre.com/Programs/Holocaust-Education-Week-2013" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><strong>Holocaust Education Week 2013</strong></span></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> programming coordinated by the </span><a href="http://jewishtorontoonline.net/home.do?ch=events&cid=org%2d1284&jt_style=detail" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto</span></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">.</span><br />
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in TIME magazine about the new legislation making it possible for Jews
with a Portuguese background and who live elsewhere to obtain Portuguese
citizenship.<br /> <a href="http://world.time.com/2013/09/04/jews-win-a-right-of-return-to-portugal-five-centuries-after-inqusition/" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1378763336696_6371" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1378763336696_6394">http://world.time.com/2013/09/</span><span class="yiv2421712683word_break"></span>04/<span class="yiv2421712683word_break"></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1378763336696_6370">jews-win-a-right-of-return-to-p</span><span class="yiv2421712683word_break"></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1378763336696_6391">ortugal-five-centuries-after-i</span><span class="yiv2421712683word_break"></span>nqusition/</a></span><br />
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<span class="yiv2421712683userContent" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1378763336696_6372"> Judy Rodrigues (mentioned in Time article)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>DO WE ALWAYS HAVE TO FORGIVE?</b></span><br />
R. Leo Michel Abrami<br />
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We are constantly admonished to forgive the person who has wronged us. Some prominent religious leaders invoke theological principles to support the view that we should forgive criminals and psychotherapists think it is just as important to free the victims from the trauma caused by the offense.What about the victims? Can they automatically forgive what was done to<br />
them? Can the survivors of the Concentration Camps forgive those who<br />
murdered the members of their family and their community even after they<br />
were told it would be a noble gesture to do? This query is at the heart of a<br />
book of memoirs which was written by Simon Wiesenthal under the title "<i>The<br />Sunflower</i>". Actually, the author addresses this question to all of us: Should<br />
we forgive the Nazis for what they did to the millions of innocent children,<br />
women and men whom they murdered during World War II?<br />
Wiesenthal tells us that while he was an inmate at the Lemberg Concentration<br />
Camp in 1943, he was summoned by a nurse to the bedside of a dying Nazi<br />
who asked him for forgiveness for the horrendous crimes he perpetrated. He<br />
had murdered 300 Jews by setting ablaze the building in which they were<br />
living. As the Jews were leaping out of windows in an attempt to escape the<br />
burning building, he gunned them down. The Nazi was now begging Wiesenthal, a representative of the Jewish people, to accept his last moment remorse, so that he might die with a peaceful<br />
conscience; but Wiesenthal could not find the will to forgive the Nazi and he<br />
remained silent. In his own words, he says:<br />
<i>Was my silence at the bedside of the dying Nazi right or wrong? This is a<br />profound moral question that challenges the conscience of the reader of this<br />episode, just as much as it once challenged my heart and mind. There are<br />those who can appreciate my dilemma... and there are others who will be<br />ready to condemn me for refusing to ease the last moment of a repentant<br />murderer. Forgetting is something that time alone can take care of, but<br />forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the person who suffered is qualified<br />to make the decision.</i><br />
The author concludes his account by asking the reader:<br />
<i>What would you have done if you had been in my place?</i><br />
That question was addressed to fifty-three noted thinkers of different faiths,<br />
including the Dalai Lama, and their responses were published in an<br />
additional volume “On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness.”<br />
By examining the various responses, one becomes immediately aware of<br />
some significant differences between Jewish and Christian authors. The<br />
Jewish respondents thought Wiesenthal had his reasons for remaining silent,<br />
while the Christian respondents felt the Nazi murderer should have been<br />
forgiven. Dennis Prager, one of the respondents, explains that this difference of<br />
opinion is not surprising; it follows well-defined religious principles in the<br />
two respective faiths. Indeed, Christian theologians believe that we must forgive every one without<br />
pre-condition.<br />
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There is only one exception to this general rule that is<br />
explicitly mentioned in the New Testament and another one which was carried out by the Church through the centuries. The first one applies to theperson who rejects God or the Holy Spirit. The New Testament regards this offense as an 'unforgivable sin.' In the words of the evangelist Mark:<br />
<i>“I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven<br />them. But whoever blasphemes against the holy Spirit will never have<br />forgiveness, for he is guilty of an everlasting sin."</i> (Mark 3:28-30)<br />
This principle is restated by the evangelist Matthew in almost similar terms:<br />
<i>“Therefore, I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but<br />blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Whoever speaks a word<br />against the Son of Man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the holy<br />Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.”</i> (Mat.<br />
12:31)<br />
We must mention at this point that many Christians have struggled to<br />
reconcile this affirmation with the belief in the infinite love and mercy of a<br />
compassionate God. The other ‘unforgivable sin’ has been part of the teachings of the Church<br />
Fathers and adhered to for centuries: it is the sin that the Jewish people<br />
would have committed by not accepting Jesus as the Messiah and for being<br />
responsible for his death. It ignores, of course, the fact that all those who<br />
followed Jesus in his days, were Jews. However, for centuries, the Jewish<br />
people has been blamed and persecuted for the death of Jesus at the hands of<br />
the Romans. This accusation bore all the characteristics of an unforgivable<br />
sin.<br />
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It behooves us, however, to state here that the Roman Catholic Church made<br />
an historic decision at the Vatican II Ecumenical Council in 1965, a decision which was reaffirmed by Pope Benedict XVI3 two years ago: the Jewish people should not be held responsible for the death of Jesus Christ or as historians put it, they should not be held guilty of the sin of deicide. In spite of this radical change of attitude, the PEW Research Center still assessed that 26% of all Americans believe that Jews were responsible, a percentage that rose to 36% after the showing of Mel Gibson’s film “The<br />
Passion of the Christ” a few years ago. In contradistinction, Jewish religious authorities, have always taught that God is willing to forgive all the sins which are committed against Him, even by those who deny His very existence. This principle is clearly stated in the affirmation we read at the onset of the Yom Kippur service:<br />
<i>“For sins against God, the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) brings<br />forgiveness. For sins against one's neighbor, the Day of Atonement brings no<br />forgiveness until one has become reconciled with one's neighbor (or will<br />regain the good will of his friend.)”</i><br />
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Isn't that ironic? The Mishnah holds that God absolves all of our sins against Him, but not the offenses committed against our fellow human beings, until we have sought reconciliation with them and made peace with them! The contrast is stark. Indeed, Jewish teachings are unmistakably clear: all sins committed against God are forgiven, only the sins committed against our fellow human beings require that we seek reconciliation with them.You may ask: Shouldn't the offense against a mere creature, rank lower than an affront against God, who is Our Creator and Master? Why is then God forgiving any sin against Him but not forgiving those that were committed against humans?<br />
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The position of Judaism is that only those who have been wronged can forgive. Only those who have suffered from the consequences of an offense that was perpetrated against them, are entitled to forgive. A change of heart on the part of the offender and a reconciliation between the transgressor and<br />
his victim, will ultimately earn them forgiveness. For God cannot forgive an offender as long as his victim is suffering from the consequences of the offense. How should we then approach the challenging question raised by Wiesenthal in his book?<br />
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As we have seen, it is not just a moral issue, pertaining to what is right or wrong; the issue is not whether or not inmate Wiesenthal should have forgiven, but whether or not he had the power to forgive for other people. Perhaps his response could have been:<br />
<i>"I am not able to speak on behalf of all those who have been murdered."</i><br />
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Only the victims can forgive the aggressors who committed crimes against them. “<i>It is</i>,” writes Dennis Prager, “<i>as if these sins fell outside of God's jurisdiction, so to speak. For God has handed over to us the responsibility to make peace with our fellow human beings and to forgive them the evil acts<br />they committed against us, when they gave us signs of contrition and true remorse.”</i><br />
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Significant differences in theological teachings, thus explain why some would have been willing to forgive the Nazis for their gruesome crimes and others have remained silent. We have all been the witnesses of the way people reacted to the horrific killings of innocent people in schools and other public places. We saw the same difference of opinions in our country in the last few years.<br />
“The bodies of the three teen-age girls shot dead by a student at Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky., were not yet cold, before some of their schoolmates hung a sign announcing, “We forgive you, Mike!” They were referring to Michael Carneal, 14, the murderer.” A preacher at a Martha’s Vineyard church attended by vacationing President Clinton announced that the duty of all believers was to forgive Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber who murdered 168 Americans. “I ask each of you to look at a picture of Timothy McVeigh and forgive him” said the Rev. John Miller. Other believers stated that Cho Seung-Hui who murdered a number of students and a professor at Virginia Tech a few years ago, should be “lovingly remembered just like the rest of the victims.” Some preachers also stated that they had forgiven the murderers who perpetrated massacres at the Columbine High School in Colorado and the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut. My friends, an offender cannot be forgiven automatically. “Forgiveness must be a decision taken with all our faculties and we cannot just overlook our best judgment, no matter what others may think about us” wrote Dr Laura Schlesinger. The victims of sexual abuse and rape are the only ones who can forgive the offender. They are the ones who are suffering from the consequences of the aggression. No one can grant forgiveness for someone else and we may add that the victim is not required to forgive unless the aggressor had a real change of heart. Dr Laura is quite adamant about this matter. “You should not forgive an offender until he/she has earned the potential for forgiveness.” She goes on<br />
enumerating four requirements for meaningful forgiveness.<br />
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<i>. Responsibility. The perpetrators need to take complete responsibility for<br />what they have done. They should not blame the evil action on anyone else,<br />their childhood, bullying or a sun spot. If it was their own decision, they<br />must take full responsibility for their actions.<br />. Remorse. The perpetrator must be truly remorseful. Many criminals only<br />feel bad because they were caught or had to suffer the consequences of their<br />offenses, however, that's not true remorse. The victim must be convinced that<br />the offender is truly sincere.<br />. Repair. The perpetrator must do whatever it takes to repair the damage.<br />Some damage cannot be repaired especially when the victim is dead.<br />. Repetition. The perpetrator must take whatever steps may be needed so that<br />this action is never repeated.</i><br />
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Unfortunately, the criminal mind is not easily reformed; many sex offenders and other criminals tend to relapse into their pattern of crime. And that is why the civilian and legal authorities must intervene in all these cases, because the ecclesiastical ones do not have the power or the willingness to punish the criminals and thereby protect society from their evil deeds.<br />
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<i>“Forgiveness comes from within. It is not something that can be imposed by<br />others. Either you can do it or you can’t. If you cannot, don’t think that you<br />are a bad person or that you failed in some way. In many cases, forgiveness is<br />not possible. You may learn not to despise the perpetrator, but saying you</i><br />
<i>forgive can be a hollow statement, if that is not what you truly feel.<br />Don’t give in to peer pressure. Don’t say you forgive someone, when you<br />don’t. It won’t make your life easier. On the contrary, when someone asks<br />you to forgive, it is not to make your life more bearable, it is to make the<br />person pressuring you, feel better.”</i><br />
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For some people, forgiving is a way of freeing themselves, and it acts as a catalyst for healing. However, others can’t bring themselves to forgive as they don’t feel that it will bring them any relief. Such people are being honest about their true feelings, and honesty in feeling is the best policy.<br />
With time you may find it in your heart to forgive, or you may not. As you work through your healing process you find the things that bring peace and light into your life. How you feel is how you feel, and no one can dictate that to you no matter how hard he or she tries. Your heart is your own. Your spirit<br />
is your own. Your growth is your own. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, argued, ‘‘No one can forgive crimes which were committed against other people. It is therefore preposterous to assume that anybody alive can extend forgiveness for the suffering of any one of the six million people who perished.<br />
According to Jewish tradition, even God Himself can only forgive sins committed against Himself, not against human beings.” Lutheran theologian Martin Marty appeared to struggle with his belief that<br />
forgiveness should be appropriate, because he did not want it to be ‘‘cheap grace,’’ to minimize the offense, or promote the forgetting of the offense. Despite his reservations, however, Marty responded, <i>‘‘My answer would be that in every circumstance that I can picture, more value would grow out of forgiveness than out if its withholding.’’</i><br />
His religious convictions eventually led him to the opinion that he would forgive. However, forgiveness is not something that can be granted automatically. Take for example the victims of sex crimes. Though some seem to have found a way to move forward in life, forgiveness eludes them. They may have made a concerted effort to set aside the sequels of the aggression, it is always present. This is what many religious dignitaries did not understand or have been been tempted to cover up on occasion in order to defend the honor of the religious denomination they represented. All these considerations have little to do with the hatred of those who have done evil. It is the result of indoctrination and the way people have been programmed to believe.<br />
When Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach was asked why he went to Austria and Germany to give concerts. <i>“Why are you doing this? Don’t you hate them after what they did to the Jewish people?”</i><br />
Reb Shlomo answered, <i>“If I had two souls, I’d devote one to hating them. But since I have only one, I don’t want to waste it on hating.”</i><br />
That is indeed the first step of a possible reconciliation. The next step will be the true repentance of the offender, For sins against one's neighbor, the Day of Atonement brings no forgiveness<br />
until one has become reconciled with one's neighbor (or in an alternative<br />
translation ‘will regain the good will of his friend.’)”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36166126.post-67966199868876682732013-07-28T21:03:00.001+00:002013-07-28T21:03:29.586+00:00THE MYTH OF THE MARRANO NAMES<br />
by professor Anita Novinsky,<br />
University of São Paulo<br />
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<a href="http://historia.fflch.usp.br/sites/historia.fflch.usp.br/files/THE%20MYTH%20OF%20THE%20MARRANO%20NAMES.pdf" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1375042547847_6774" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://historia.fflch.usp.br/sites/historia.fflch.usp.br/files/THE%20MYTH%20OF%20THE%20MARRANO%20NAMES.pdf</a><br /><br />"The romantic historiography about the Marranos and Marranism created <br />a series of myths in relation to the names adopted by the Jews during and <br />after their forced conversion in 1497 in Portugal......."<br />
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Text published in " Revue des Études Juives"
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Juillet-décembre 2006 <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;">CARLOS FARINHA </span><i style="font-weight: normal;"> </i></h4>
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(All paintings are acrylic on canvas unless otherwise stated. All prices
are in euros net of shipping costs. For more information contact<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">, ladina.sefarad@gmail.com </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">or the artist.)</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>
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Farinha, forty-two years old, started painting when his family returned
to Portugal from France at the age of fifteen. He is the son
of José Antonio Ribeiro Farinha and Maria do Carmo Rosa Lourenço, who
live in the village of Maxiais, province of Beirã, near the city of
Castelo Branco, home of the renowned New Christian Jewish doctor Amato
Lusitano</span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1373460838279_6538" style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> (1511-1568). His mother continues the traditional New Christian occupation of weaver.</span></div>
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has worked full time as a painter since 2007. He was won many prizes
for his work. Inspired by Chagall and Anglo-Lusa painter Paula Rego, he
describes his work as the “world at<b> </b>his<b> </b>bedside”. When he was nineteen,
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1374791332588_5602" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In
1492, on the 9</span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
of </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Tisha
B</span></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">'</span></span><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Av</span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">,
</span></i><i id="yui_3_7_2_1_1374791332588_5607"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1374791332588_5606" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1374791332588_5605" style="font-style: normal;">all
Jews were expelled from Spain. Four years later, on December 4, 1496
king Manuel of Portugal ordered all Jews to leave Portugal, but in
1497, in an about face, the king ordered all Jews forcibly baptized;
only about 60 were allowed to leave the country. The king promised
the newly converted Jews that there would be no inquiries as to their private religious
practices for 20 years and no inquisition. This, in the late
professor Yerushalmi's view, created a distinct group of modern
Jews, outwardly Catholics but inwardly Jews, Jews in their hearts.
Portugal's secret Jews became know as New Christians or Marranos. </span></span></i>
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<i id="yui_3_7_2_1_1374791332588_5611"> <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1374791332588_5610" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1374791332588_5609" style="font-style: normal;">For
almost 300 years the secret Jews of Portugal who did not flee the
country were terrorized by state and Church, imprisoned, tortured,
and burned alive. Their houses, land and assets were seized by the
Inquisition. Families were torn apart. There are over 45,000
Inquisition files in the “Torro de Tombo”, Portugal's national
archives, mostly of charges against New Christians for Judaizing.
Like the Nazis, the Holy Roman Apostolic Catholic Church kept
meticulous records, a blessing in disguise. Now Historians can
minutely research the lives of thousands of New Christian Jews.</span></span></i></div>
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<i> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
New Christians resisted. Many continued to secretly adhere to the
essential rituals of Judaism, observing Shabbat and dietary laws,
celebrating the high holidays, reciting prayers and fasting on
Tuesdays and Thursdays; obviously circumcision was discontinued.
Books were prohibited but they were smuggled into the country.
Sometimes New Christian “rabbis” travelled to communities in the
diaspora for instruction, such as the case of Domingos de Oliveira
the barber of Carção near Bragança, who on the pretext of
travelling to Rome to get permission to marry his cousin, went to the
well established Portuguese Jewish community of Livorno for religious
instruction. When he returned home, he formed an “irmandade”
which built a chapel and conducted “dry” mass. The resistance to
the Inquisition continued to the 20</span></span></i><i><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></span></sup></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
century as the now famous secret community of Belmonte attests.</span></span></i></div>
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<i> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Now,
after more than 500 years, the Portuguese national Assembly
unanimously passed a law permitting any descendant of forcibly
baptized Portuguese Jews to regain Portuguese citizenship. Although
the maxim of “justice delayed is justice denied'</span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
is apposite, </span></span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
dramatic action by the national government is yet another step in the
long overdue recognition of Portugal's Jewish heritage. </span></span></i>
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<i> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">In
1989, then president Mário Soares apologized for the Inquisition.
On the 4</span></span></i><i><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></span></sup></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
of December 1996, the National Assembly revoked the 1496 Edict of
Expulsion. And last year, Captain Barros Basto, the “Portuguese
Dreyfus” was finally rehabilitated by a unanimous vote in the
National Assembly after being condemned for leading a Marrano revival
in northern Portugal in the 1930's. In 1938, the year of
Kristallnacht, the Captain completed the Kadoorie Mekhor Haim
synagogue in Porto, one of the largest synagogues in Europe, still
standing. Finally, he and Aristides Sousa Mendes who saved many more
Jews than Schindler during World War II are now being recognized for
the heroes that they are.</span></span></i></div>
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<i> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">What
is happening in Portugal? Is the new law of return just a ploy to
entice Jews to invest in Portugal at a time of crisis, as some
suggest? For almost 500 years the subject of Portuguese Jewishness
has been taboo in Portugal; almost like the Mafia law of
“Omerta”, imposing its law of silence on every aspect of society,
it's not discussed, it's not taught in schools, better to pretend it
does not exist. There are no national museums of Judaism or the
Inquisition, and until recently there were no local Jewish museums either. </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> The persecution of Jews is a a dark stain on Portuguese history. Its
consequences are imbued in the psyche of every Portuguese person as
the distinguished professor and essayist Eduardo Lourenço, resident in
France observes, “</span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>The
Inquisition is the most present, obsessive and enigmatic episode of
our collective life</i></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">”.
But things are changing. </span></span></i>
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<i> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Although
the “official” version of Portuguese history ignores the Semitic
roots of its people and the great contribution of Jews to Portuguese
culture, memory and history are combining to create a new societal
dynamic in Portugal, one that remembers, values, and cherishes its
Jewish past. Five hundred years is a long time, but not long enough
to eradicate collective memory, to completely destroy the roots of a
vibrant foundation. </span></span></i>
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<i> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Until
1496, Portugal was a tolerant country where the people of the three
books lived side by side in relative harmony. Jews have lived in
Portugal before the country even existed. Portugal's first treasurer
under King Afonso in the 12</span></span></i><i><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></span></sup></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
century as the chief rabbi Ben Yahia, a tradition that continued for
hundreds of years. In the medieval period every king and queen in
Europe wanted a Portuguese doctor, Jewish of course. In the 17</span></span></i><i><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></span></sup></i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
century the “men of the nation” dominated trade and commerce in
the Mediterranean; “Portuguese merchant” was a euphemism for being
Jewish.</span></span></i></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1374791332588_5639" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i id="yui_3_7_2_1_1374791332588_5638"> <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1374791332588_5637" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1374791332588_5636" style="font-style: normal;">The
enshrining of the law of return in Portuguese law is another step in
the awakening of Jewish memory in Portugal. It may also attract new
immigration and capital which is sorely needed. It could help
create a Jewish civil life for the remnants of the Jewish people,
which in Portugal encompasses a great part of the population, DNA
studies notwithstanding. After all, any taxi driver in Lisbon will
tell you that most Portuguese people have a Jewish “rib”, and
that the popular dish “alheira” is Jewish food. I rest my case.</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i id="yui_3_7_2_1_1374791332588_5638"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1374791332588_5637" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1374791332588_5636" style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></i><span dir="auto">Alheira</span></b></span><br />
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The <b>alheira</b> (<small>Portuguese pronunciation: </small><span class="IPA" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Portuguese_and_Galician" title="Help:IPA for Portuguese and Galician">[ɐˈʎɐjɾɐ]</a></span>) is a type of Portuguese sausage, made with meats other than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork" title="Pork">pork</a> (usually <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veal" title="Veal">veal</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck" title="Duck">duck</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken" title="Chicken">chicken</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quail" title="Quail">quail</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit" title="Rabbit">rabbit</a>) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread" title="Bread">bread</a>.</div>
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Although its name derives from the Portuguese word for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic" title="Garlic">garlic</a> (<i>alho</i>)
and was once used to describe any sausage seasoned with it, present-day
alheiras don't necessarily contain garlic (although it is still a
common ingredient).</div>
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The type of sausage currently known as "alheira" was invented by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a> of Portugal, who were forced to convert to Christianity, as a way to deceive the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Inquisition" title="Portuguese Inquisition">Portuguese Inquisition</a>.
Since their religion didn't allow them to eat pork, they were easily
identifiable by the fact that they didn't hang sausages in their
smokehouses (<i>fumeiros</i> in Portuguese). As a cover, they replaced pork with a large variety of other meats, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poultry" title="Poultry">poultry</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game" title="Game">game</a>,
which would then be mixed with bread for texture. This recipe would
later spread amongst Christians, who added the ever-present pork to it."</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36166126.post-18210491986442655302013-07-20T21:51:00.001+00:002013-07-20T21:57:50.225+00:00<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Na raîz do Aristides — em Cabanas de Viriato, Viseu </b></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36166126.post-44973427028844434212013-07-10T13:55:00.002+00:002013-07-16T12:26:59.667+00:00<span style="font-size: large;"><b>CARLOS FARINHA</b></span>, The Portuguese Chagall <br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1373460838279_6540" style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Carlos
Farinha, forty-two years old, started painting when his family returned
to Portugal from France at the age of fifteen. He is the son
of José Antonio Ribeiro Farinha and Maria do Carmo Rosa Lourenço, who
live in the village of Maxiais, province of Beirã, near the city of
Castelo Branco, home of the renowned New Christian Jewish doctor Amato
Lusitano</span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1373460838279_6538" style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> (1511-1568). His mother continues the traditional New Christian occupation of weaver.</span></div>
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has worked full time as a painter since 2007. He was won many prizes
for his work. Inspired by Chagall and Anglo-Lusa painter Paula Rego, he
describes his work as the “world at<b> </b>his<b> </b>bedside”. When he was nineteen,
future Nobel prize winner Jose Saramago purchased two of his paintings.
His next exhibition is in Paris in the fall of 2013 and Brussels in
2014.</span></div>
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(All paintings are acrylic on canvas unless otherwise stated. All prices are in euros net of shipping costs. For more information contact<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">, ladina.sefarad@gmail.com </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">or the artist.)</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>
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Secret Codes Left by Portugal's Expelled Jews</h1>
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Hebrew Letters and Markings Found in Ancient Homes</h3>
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Portuguese researchers have catalogued hundreds of
secret markings that Jews left on structures in the northern Portuguese
municipality of Seia in the 16th century, after their forced conversion
to Christianity.<br />
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The team’s three members – Alberto Martinho, Jose Levy
Domingos and Luiza Metzker Lyra – say they found 500 markings in Seia,
including coded Hebrew letters and words carved into walls of homes
where converted Jews used to live, as well as distinctive indentations
in stone doorframes where the residents would have placed mezuzahs.<br />
Martinho told Portugal’s Lusa news agency on Friday
that the findings “elucidate the Jewish presence” in the region.
According to Jose Oulman Carp, the president of the Jewish Community of
Lisbon, Portugal had a Jewish population of about 400,000 Jews in 1536,
when the Portuguese Inquisition officially began.<br />
Many of the Jews in Portugal were refugees from
neighboring Spain, where the Inquisition – an organized campaign of
persecution led by the Catholic Church – began in 1492. Persecution in
Portugal forced many Jews into exile, whereas those who stayed became
known as “New Christians” though many of them continued to practice
Judaism in secret and developed special customs to set themselves apart
in discrete ways from the rest of the population.<br />
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The Portuguese parliament earlier this month passed a
law which says descendants of Jews who left are entitled to citizenship.
A similar bill is being prepared in Spain.<br />
According to the researchers, who are scheduled to
publish their full study within two weeks, they found 42 marked houses
in the small village of Santa Marinha alone. The town of Trancoso has
many more marked houses, they said.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36166126.post-58517780915154368242013-04-17T23:07:00.000+00:002013-04-17T23:11:06.679+00:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">PORTUGAL-LAW OF RETURN </span></b><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">Article</span> <span class="hps">1</span>. <span class="hps">º</span><br /><span class="hps">Amendment to Law</span> <span class="hps">n</span>. <span class="hps">º</span> <span class="hps">37/81</span> <span class="hps">of 3</span> <span class="hps">October</span><br /><span class="hps">Article</span> <span class="hps">6</span>. <span class="hps">Of Law</span> <span class="hps">n</span>. <span class="hps">º</span> <span class="hps">37/81</span> <span class="hps">of 3</span> <span class="hps">October,</span> <span class="hps">amended by Law</span> <span class="hps">n</span>. <span class="hps">º</span> <span class="hps">25/94</span> <span class="hps">of</span> <span class="hps">August 19</span>, <span class="hps">by Decree</span>-Law no. <span class="hps">322-A/2001</span> <span class="hps">of 14</span> <span class="hps">December,</span> <span class="hps">as amended</span> <span class="hps">by Decree</span>-Law <span class="hps">n</span>. <span class="hps">º</span> <span class="hps">194/2003</span>, <span class="hps">of 23 August</span>, <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">Organic Law</span> <span class="hps">n</span>. <span class="hps">1/2004</span>, <span class="hps">of 15 January</span>, <span class="hps">and the</span> <span class="hps">Organic Law</span> <span class="hps">n</span><span class="">.</span> <span class="hps">2/2006</span> <span class="hps">of 17</span> <span class="hps">April</span> <span class="hps">is replaced by the</span> <span class="hps">following:</span><br /><span class="hps">'Article</span> <span class="hps">6</span>. <span class="hps">º</span><br /><span class="hps atn">[</span>...<span class="">]</span><br /><span class="hps">1</span> <span class="hps">- [...]</span><br /><span class="hps">2</span> <span class="hps">- [...]</span><br /><span class="hps">3</span> <span class="hps">- [...]</span><br /><span class="hps">4</span> <span class="hps">- [...]</span><br /><span class="hps">5</span> <span class="hps">- [...]</span><br /><span class="hps">6</span> <span class="hps">- [...]</span><br /><span class="hps">7</span> <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps">The</span> <span class="hps">Government may grant</span> <span class="hps">nationality</span> <span class="hps">by naturalization</span>, <span class="hps">with waiver</span> <span class="hps">of the requirements</span> <span class="hps">in paragraphs b</span>) <span class="hps">and c)</span>. of </span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">n</span>. <span class="hps">º</span></span> <span class="hps">1,</span> to <span class="hps">the descendants of</span> <span class="hps">Portuguese</span> <span class="hps">Sephardic Jews</span>, <span class="hps">through the demonstration</span> <span class="hps">of the tradition</span> <span class="hps">of belonging to a</span> <span class="hps">Sephardic community</span> <span class="hps">of Portuguese origin</span><span class="">,</span> <span class="hps">based on</span> <span class="hps">objective criteria</span> <span class="hps">proving</span> <span class="hps">connection to</span> <span class="hps">Portugal</span>, <span class="hps">including</span> <span class="hps">nicknames</span>, <span class="hps">family language</span>, <span class="hps">direct</span> or collateral<span class="hps"> descendancy.</span> <span class="hps atn">"</span></span><br />
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Artigo 1.º<br />
Alteração à Lei n.º 37/81, de 3 de Outubro<br />
O artigo 6.º da Lei n.º 37/81, de 3 de Outubro, alterada pela Lei n.º 25/94, de 19 de Agosto, pelo Decreto-Lei n.º 322-A/2001, de 14 de Dezembro, na redacção dada pelo Decreto-Lei n.º 194/2003, de 23 de Agosto, pela Lei Orgânica n.º 1/2004, de 15 de Janeiro, e pela Lei Orgânica n.º 2/2006, de 17 de Abril, passa a ter a seguinte redacção:<br />
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7- O Governo pode conceder a nacionalidade por naturalização, com dispensa dos requisitos previstos nas alíneas b) e c) do n.º 1, aos descendentes de judeus sefarditas portugueses, através da demonstração da tradição de pertença a uma comunidade sefardita de origem portuguesa, com base em requisitos objectivos comprovados de ligação a Portugal, designadamente apelidos, idioma familiar, descendência directa ou colateral.»Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36166126.post-23522603428591995072013-04-17T22:28:00.002+00:002013-04-17T22:28:47.518+00:00<br />
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<u><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="hps"><span lang="EN">PORTUGUESE CITIZENSHIP APPROVED FOR DESCENDENTS OF
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="hps"><span lang="EN">April 12, 2013 </span></span></span><b><span class="hps"><span lang="EN"><br /></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">The</span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span class="hps">Portuguese Parliament</span> <span class="hps">today
approved</span> <span class="hps">unanimously</span> <span class="hps">Portuguese
nationality</span> <span class="hps">to</span> <span class="hps">the descendants of</span>
<span class="hps">Sephardic Jews</span> <span class="hps">expelled from Portugal</span> <span class="hps">in the</span> <span class="hps">fifteenth century. The motions
were</span> <span class="hps">proposed</span> <span class="hps">by</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">PS</span> (socialist party) <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">CDS-</span>PP (centre-right parties).<br />
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<span class="hps">The motions by the PS</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">CDS-</span>PP, <span class="hps">both approved</span> <span class="hps">unanimously</span>,
<span class="hps">provide for the attribution</span> <span class="hps">of
Portuguese nationality</span> <span class="hps">by naturalization</span> <span class="hps">of the descendants of</span> <span class="hps">Portuguese</span> <span class="hps">Sephardic Jews</span> <span class="hps">who demonstrate,</span> <span class="hps">"a </span>tradition <span class="hps">of belonging</span> <span class="hps">to a community</span> <span class="hps">of</span> <span class="hps">Sephardic</span>
<span class="hps">Portuguese origin</span>, based on <span class="hps">objective
requirements</span> proving <span class="hps">linkage to</span> <span class="hps">Portugal,</span>
<span class="hps">including</span> <span class="hps">nicknames</span>, <span class="hps">family names</span>, <span class="hps">direct</span> or indirect <span class="hps">descendants</span><span class="atn">. "</span><br />
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<span class="hps">Sephardic</span> <span class="hps">Jews</span> are <span class="hps">descendants</span> <span class="hps">of</span> <span class="hps">traditional</span>
<span class="hps">Jewish communities</span> <span class="hps">of the Iberian
Peninsula</span> <span class="hps">(</span>Sefarad).<br />
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<span class="hps">Targets</span> <span class="hps">of persecution</span> <span class="hps">in Spain</span>, <span class="hps">these communities</span> <span class="hps">took refuge in</span> <span class="hps">Portugal</span> <span class="hps">in the</span> <span class="hps">fifteenth century</span>, <span class="hps">where</span> <span class="hps">a law promulgated</span> <span class="hps">by King</span> <span class="hps">Manuel</span> <span class="hps">guaranteed</span>
<span class="hps">them</span> <span class="hps">protection</span>, a situation that
<span class="hps">changed</span> <span class="hps">in 1496</span> <span class="hps">when
the</span> <span class="hps">same king</span> <span class="hps">ordered the</span> <span class="hps">expulsion of all</span> <span class="hps">Sephardic Jews</span> <span class="hps">who</span> <span class="hps">did not submit</span> <span class="hps">to Catholic</span>
<span class="hps">baptism</span>.<br />
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<span class="hps">Netherlands, the UK</span>, <span class="hps">North Africa and</span>
<span class="hps">later</span> <span class="hps">Brazil,</span> <span class="hps">Argentina</span>,
<span class="hps">Mexico and</span> <span class="hps">United States</span> <span class="hps">were the main destinations</span> <span class="hps">of these</span> <span class="hps">Jews</span>, <span class="hps">where even today there are</span> <span class="hps">descendants</span> <span class="hps">of communities</span> <span class="hps">expelled from</span> <span class="hps">Portugal.</span></span></div>
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O Parlamento português aprovou hoje por unanimidade a
nacionalidade portuguesa para os descendentes dos judeus sefarditas expulsos de
Portugal a partir do século XV proposta em projectos do PS e CDS-PP.</div>
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Os projectos do PS e CDS-PP, ambos aprovados por
unanimidade, prevêem a atribuição da nacionalidade portuguesa por naturalização
aos descendentes de judeus sefarditas portugueses que demonstrem “tradição de
pertença a uma comunidade sefardita de origem portuguesa, com base em
requisitos objectivos comprovados de ligação a Portugal, designadamente
apelidos, idioma familiar, descendência directa ou colateral”.<br />
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Designam-se de judeus sefarditas os judeus descendentes das
tradicionais comunidades judaicas da Península Ibérica (Sefarad).</div>
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Alvos de perseguição em Espanha, estas comunidades
refugiaram-se em Portugal a partir do século XV, onde uma lei promulgada pelo
rei D. Manuel lhes garantia proteção, situação que se alterou em 1496 quando o
mesmo rei determinou a expulsão de todos os judeus sefarditas que não se
sujeitassem ao baptismo católico.</div>
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Holanda, Reino Unido, Norte de África e mais tarde Brasil,
Argentina, México e Estados Unidos da América foram os principais destinos
destes judeus, onde ainda hoje se encontram descendentes das comunidades
expulsas de Portugal.</div>
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<a href="http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/13379/portuguese_lawmakers_to_grant_citizenship_for_descendants_of_expelled_jews">Portuguese lawmakers to grant citizenship for descendants of expelled Jews</a></h2>
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<em>By <span data-scayt_word="JTA" data-scaytid="1">JTA</span></em><br />
The parliament of Portugal is scheduled to vote on whether to naturalize descendants of <span data-scayt_word="16th" data-scaytid="2">16th</span>
century Jews who fled the country because of religious persecution. The
motion will be brought to a first reading on Thursday by Portugal’s
Socialist Party and is expected to pass since it also is supported by
the ruling Social Democratic Party, according to <span data-scayt_word="José" data-scaytid="3">José</span> <span data-scayt_word="Oulman" data-scaytid="4">Oulman</span> Carp, president of Portugal's Jewish community. Together, the parties hold 80 percent of the Portuguese parliament’s 230 seats.<br />
<img alt="" class="image_to_the_right" src="http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/userfiles/images/portugaljewish.jpg" style="height: 180px; width: 300px;" />Carp called the motion “a huge development” and told <span data-scayt_word="JTA" data-scaytid="5">JTA</span>
it proposes to give Portuguese citizenship to descendants of the
Portuguese Inquisition, which began in 1536 and resulted in the
expulsion of tens of thousands of people and the forced conversion into
Christianity of countless others. Portugal had a Jewish population of
about 400,000, many of them refugees from neighboring Spain, where the
Inquisition started in 1492.<br />
Spanish lawmakers are said to be drafting a similar motion on their country’s Jewish refugees.<br />
“There is no way of knowing for certain how many people would become
eligible for Portuguese citizenship if the law passes and there is no
bureaucratic system yet for vetting applications – all of that will have
to come later,” said Carp, who has lobbied for the bill for several
years. He hopes it will help attract new members to the country’s Jewish
community of 1,000-1,500 people. The community would be involved in
reviewing applications, he said. Many Portuguese refugees of the
Inquisition settled in Turkey.<br />
Popular support for the motion stems from a desire to “make amends” for
a dark historical chapter in Portugal – a country which Carp describes
as being “virtually free of anti-Semitism.” Some also hope the law would
also attract investments by Jews seeking to settle in Portugal, one of
the European Union’s most vulnerable economies.<br />
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<a href="http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/13379/portuguese_lawmakers_to_grant_citizenship_for_descendants_of_expelled_jews" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.worldjew
ishcongress. org/en/news/ 13379/portuguese _lawmakers_ to_grant_
citizenship_ for_descendants_ of_expelled_ jews</a><br />
</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36166126.post-16404365137054708332013-03-25T01:33:00.001+00:002013-03-25T01:36:51.511+00:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>BOOK LAUNCH</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>MARRANOS IN TRAS-OS-MONTES, NEW JEWS IN THE DIASPORA, AND THE CASE OF SAMBADE</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Another book from these authors based on original Inquisition archival research by Fernanda Guimaraes<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></b></span>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36166126.post-68564545329368029702013-03-13T18:26:00.000+00:002013-03-13T18:26:52.730+00:00 <span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>A PASSOVER STORY</u></b></span><br />
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NAH’SHON BEN AMINADAV<br />Silent hero of the Exodus<br />Leo Michel Abrami<br /><br />
The moon was shining in the sky over the province of Goshen. The waters of<br />the Nile river were flowing slowly on their way to the sea. All was peaceful and<br />quiet. The Children of Israel were asleep in their huts, when a loud voice was heard<br />in all their compounds:<br />“Hear ye, Children of Israel, the Pharaoh has just ordered us to leave Egypt at<br />once.”<br />“But, it’s the middle of the night; must we go in the dark?” asked one of the<br />Hebrews.<br />“Yes,” said the voice, “we must take the members of our family and some of our<br />belongings and we must start walking together toward the East.”<br />They gathered their kin, took their animals and some provisions for the<br />journey and they set out to walk toward the Promised Land. As they were<br />approaching the Sea of Reeds in early morning, the Children of Israel suddenly<br />heard the heavy noise of Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, rapidly advancing toward<br />them. They were terrified as they realized that they were trapped, with the Sea of<br />Reeds in front of them and the Egyptian army in their back. They cried bitterly to<br />Moses and said:<br />“You see what you have done. We are now locked in the wilderness and there is no<br />escape from this place: we will all be killed here. Oh Moses, why did you do that<br />to us? Were there too few graves in Egypt, that you brought us here to die?”<br />Moses did not know what to do. He prostrated himself to the ground and he<br />prayed for deliverance.<br />“O Lord of the Universe, I am like a shepherd desperately trying to protect my<br />sheep from falling over the edge of the precipice and I am afraid I may fail. What<br />must I do to save my people from destruction?”<br />No sooner had he begun his supplication, however, that God interrupted him and<br />said:<br />“My children are in great peril, they are crying for help and guidance and you are<br />on your knees, praying. Stand up, Moses, and tell the Children of Israel to go<br />forward. Lift up your rod and hold out your arm over the Sea and you will witness<br />the power of My Salvation.”<br />Moses stood up, lifted his rod and held his arm over the Sea, but nothing<br />happened. He tried again, carefully rehearsing God’s command, but there was no<br />sign of a divine intervention. He repeated the motions again and again without<br />success. Beads of perspiration rose on his forehead and he was about to cry out of<br />despair, but the sea did not move. The Children of Israel were terrified and Moses<br />felt powerless, incapable of providing the help that was urgently needed.<br />The Children of Israel are divided in four groups. Some are willing to<br />surrender to the Egyptians; “we shall be your slaves for ever, but please, do not<br />murder us” they say. Some others are resigned to die right there; “there is no hope<br />to survive this ordeal and we should rather die than face the misery which will<br />befall us after we are captured by the Egyptians” they mutter to themselves. Others<br />are determined to fight the enemy with whatever strength they have and others are<br />ready to follow Moses and walk into the Sea.<br />As they are still debating, a tall and strong man comes forward. He is a<br />prince of the tribe of Judah. He proceeds toward the sea and he jumps into the<br />water.<br />“Have you lost your mind, Nah’shon?” shout the members of his family.<br />“You will never be able to cross to the other side.” they yell to him.<br />But Nah’shon ben Aminadav is not deterred. He is fully conscious of the gravity of<br />the situation. He knows why the Sea would not split. Till this very moment, God<br />has acted on behalf of the Children of Israel. He sent Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh.<br />He inflicted the plagues upon the Egyptians and shattered Pharaoh’s arrogance.<br />Nah’shon also knows, that the time has come for the Israelites to take their destiny<br />into their own hands, and to put their lives on the line, in order to wrest freedom<br />for themselves. They now have to act in order to ensure their liberation from the<br />house of bondage.<br />The elders of the tribe of Judah are still trying to convince Nah’shon to<br />return and they shout to him:<br />“There is nothing you can do, Nah’shon, to stop the waters of the Sea and the<br />chariots of Pharaoh, come back, we beg of you, before it’s too late.”<br />The prince pays no heed to their words; he is not afraid of the mighty waves<br />of the Sea. He continues to paddle in the water until it reaches his nostrils. Many<br />others are now following his example; they are prepared to listen to the voice of<br />the Most High relayed by Moses. They are ready to brave the elements, to do<br />whatever they can do in order to escape the fury of their enemies. The Egyptians<br />are bewildered. As they come nearer, they must think:<br />“The Hebrews don’t know what they are doing. They will surely die in the Sea.<br />And we shall capture the others and bring them back to Egypt to be our slaves.<br />At that very moment, when everything looked doomed, a most astonishing<br />feat happened. The waters slowly receded and the Children of Israel were able to<br />walk through the Sea of Reeds and reach to the other shore.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36166126.post-33310368180311969382013-02-27T22:10:00.002+00:002013-02-27T22:38:36.465+00:00<b>PORTUGUESE NATIONAL TV <span style="font-size: small;">NEWS </span>ANCHOR AND POPULAR AUTHOR DISCOVERS HIS MARRANO JEWISH ROOTS WITH THE HELP OF </b><span class="n fn" id="name"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="full-name"><span class="given-name">Fernanda</span> <span class="family-name">Guimarães</span></span></span></b>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en">The ISIDROS - An epic of a family of New Christians from Torre de Moncorvo (Tras-os-Montes, northern Portugal) is a work of historical research, in which the authors follow this family over several generations, almost throughout the entire Inquisition (1536-1821).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en">It is a family with origins in Torre de Moncorvo but which by its dynamism and entrepreneurship, some of their descendants stand out in the social context of the time, even in times of persecution. Many of them were imprisoned in the Inquisition and eventually left strong marks of Marranism during their lifetimes.</span></span></div>
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A epopeia de uma família de cristãos-novos de Torre de Moncorvo</div>
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OS ISIDROS – A epopeia de uma família de cristãos-novos de Torre de Moncorvo, de António Júlio Andrade e Maria Fernanda Guimarães, é uma obra de investigação histórica, na qual os autores seguem esta família ao longo de várias gerações, praticamente ao longo da Inquisição. É uma família que tem origem em Torre de Moncorvo mas que, pelo seu dinamismo e empreendedorismo, alguns dos seus descendentes acabam por se destacar no contexto social da época, mesmo em período de perseguição. Muitos deles estiveram presos nos cárceres da Inquisição e acabaram por deixar marcas fortes do marranismo ao longo das suas existências.</div>
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WHEN my brother was in kindergarten, where he was the only Jewish student, a parent organizing enrichment activities asked my mother to tell the class the story of Hanukkah. My mother obligingly brought in a picture book and began to read about foreign conquerors who were not letting Jews in ancient Israel worship freely, even defiling their temple, until a scrappy group led by the Maccabee family overthrew one of the most powerful armies in the world and won their liberty.</div>
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The Hanukkah story, she interrupted, was not about war. It was about the miracle of an oil lamp that burned for eight days without replenishing. She urged my mother to close the book. My mother refused.</div>
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The woman wasn’t alone. Many Americans, Jews as well as Christians, think that the legend of the long-lasting oil is the root of Hanukkah’s commemoration. And perhaps that mistake is no surprise, given that for many the holiday has morphed into “Christmas for Jews,” echoing the message of peace on earth accompanied by gift giving. In doing so, the holiday’s own message of Jewish survival and faith has been diluted.</div>
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Hanukkah is one of the most widely celebrated Jewish holidays in America. But unlike Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Passover (or even the lesser-known Sukkot and Shavuot), all of which are explicitly mentioned in the Torah, Hanukkah gets only a brief, sketchy reference in the Talmud, the voluminous collection of Jewish oral law and tradition written down hundreds of years after the Maccabees’ revolt.</div>
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There for the first time the miracle of the oil is recorded: the ancient temple in Jerusalem held an eternal flame, but after the desecration by the foreign invaders — including the sacrificing of pigs, a non-kosher animal, on the altar — only one day’s worth of purified oil remained. Yet the faithful went ahead and lighted it.</div>
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The oil burned in the rededicated temple for eight days, long enough for a new supply to arrive. Hence the practice of lighting candles for eight nights to observe Hanukkah, which means dedication in Hebrew. (Perhaps just as significantly, the reference to oil also gave rise to a holiday tradition of eating foods like potato pancakes and doughnuts that had been cooked in it.)</div>
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Though Hanukkah is a minor Jewish holiday, 19th-century activists in America promoted it to encourage their coreligionists to take pride in their heritage. During the 20th century it was embraced more broadly by Jews who wanted to fit in with other Americans celebrating the holiday season — and to make their kids feel better about not getting anything from Santa.</div>
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It helped, of course, that Hanukkah falls near Christmas on the calendar and traditionally involved candles and small monetary gifts. Over time, children began receiving grander presents, and Hanukkah-themed season’s greeting cards proliferated. Some families even started to purchase “Hanukkah bushes,” small trees often decked out with Stars of David and miniature Maccabees.</div>
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By the 1980s, when I was a child, menorahs had been placed next to mangers in the public square and Hanukkah songs had been incorporated into winter holiday concerts. Despite this recognition, I still felt excluded enough to brag to classmates that my holiday was better than Christmas, since it had eight days of gift giving, instead of one.</div>
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While elevating Hanukkah does a lot of good for children’s morale, ignoring or sanitizing its historical basis does a great disservice to the Jewish past and present.</div>
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The original miracle of Hanukkah was that a committed band of people led a successful uprising against a much larger force, paving the way for Jewish independence and perhaps keeping Judaism itself from disappearing. It’s an amazing story, resonant with America’s own founding, that offers powerful lessons about standing up for one’s convictions and challenging those in power.</div>
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Many believe the rabbis in the Talmud recounted the miracle of the light alongside the military victory because they did not want to glorify war. That in itself is an important teaching, as are the holiday’s related messages of renewal, hope and turning away from darkness.</div>
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But it’s a story with dark chapters as well, including the Maccabean leaders’ religious zealotry, forced conversions and deadly attacks on their neighbors. These transgressions need to be grappled with. And that is precisely what the most important Jewish holidays do: Jews on Passover spill out wine from their glasses to acknowledge Egyptian suffering caused by the 10 plagues, and congregations at Rosh Hashana read and struggle with God’s order to Abraham to bind his son Isaac as a sacrifice.</div>
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If we’re going to magnify Hanukkah, we should do so because it offers the deeper meaning and opportunity for introspection that the major Jewish holidays provide.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">TRIPS
WITH NOTABLE JEWISH EXPERIENCES</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Emanuel Baker, vice-president, Congregation Kehilat Ma'arav, Santa Monica California</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://km-synagogue.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://km-synagogue.org/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">My wife, Judy, and I, when we travel, often will
visit Jewish sites of interest, particularly in foreign countries. I sometimes get to do the same thing when I
travel on business. My visit to Dachau
and attendance at a bar mitzvah at the Great Synagogue in Sydney, Australia,
occurred while I was out of the country on business. Many of the places we’ve visited are ones
that just about every Jew who goes abroad has visited, such as the synagogues
in Prague. However, we have had the good
fortune in some places to see things or participate in events that often aren’t
available to the casual tourist. For
example, we attended a wedding at the Dohanyi Street Synagogue in Budapest, an
event that had an unreal feeling to it.
The sound of the hazzan’s and rabbi’s voices filling the cavernous
interior of the shul as they conducted the ceremony was for me an emotional
event. Here was a wedding ceremony
taking place in a shul that the Nazis surely would have destroyed, and the
ceremony was being conducted by people whose forebears were marked for
annihilation. What a stark reminder of
the ability of the Jewish people to survive as a people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Another memorable occasion was attending Rosh
Hashanah services at the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, followed by
attending Yom Kippur services in Tokyo ten days later. Services in the Portuguese Synagogue were
memorable. The synagogue was built in
the mid 1600s and to this day remains candlelit. Reading a machzur by candlelight on Erev Rosh
Hashanah while listening to an excellent hazzan leading the service with
Sephardic intonation was quite an experience.
It was almost mystic. On the
first day of Rosh Hashanah, after services, we were invited by a member of the
congregation to attend a brit milah at the Synagogue for his new-born son.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Perhaps the most memorable Jewish experience was during
our trip to Portugal. Several years
back, we had committed to going to Portugal on vacation, and coincidentally,
Vanessa Paloma, who was one of our Religious School teachers at the time, had
presented a video about a study she was doing about the Marrano Jews in
Portugal. Through her, she put us in
touch with Manny Azevedo, a Portuguese-Canadian Jew living in Lisbon, who is
very active in helping the Portuguese Marrano Jewish community return to their
Jewish roots. He agreed to be our “tour
guide”, taking us on a tour of Jewish Lisbon.
Among the places we went that day was to a university library where
research was being done into the records of Jews convicted of heresy during the
Portuguese Inquisition. He showed us an
original file comprised of parchment documents written with a quill pen and compiled
by the Inquisition authorities back in the 1600s for a woman whose last name
was Coelho. It was a complete record of
her investigation, trial, and judgment.
Can you imagine holding a 450 year-old record like that in your hands?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">We also went to Porto on that trip, and Manny Azevedo
arranged for us to have a private tour of the shul in Porto, which included a
museum that featured the life story of one of its founders, Captain <span class="body-c-c01"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Arthur </span></span>Barros
Basto. He was born in 1887 into a
Christian family that had descended from Jews forcibly baptized in 1497 during
the Inquisition. <span class="body-c-c01"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">In the 1920s, Captain Basto, a decorated
Portuguese WW1 veteran who survived gas attacks in Flanders, began a
quasi-messianic movement in northern Portugal to “out” Marranos and bring them
back into the Jewish fold. </span></span><span style="color: black;">Captain Basto was wrongly and unjustly drummed out of the
Portuguese military. In 1937, the
Portuguese military summarily expelled him from its ranks, unjustly humiliating
him all because he launched a public campaign to reawaken Portugal's <i>Bnei
Anousim </i>to return to their Jewish roots.
He became known as the “Portuguese Dreyfus”. Within the last two years, a petition to the Portuguese
government was successfully circulated worlwide, beginning the rehabilitation
of Captain Basto.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">An incidental piece of information is
that the great great niece of Captain Basto is the actress Daniela Ruah, one of
the stars of TV’s “NCIS: Los Angeles”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">The Spanish Inquisition is better known by
many Jews, but probably more from an academic perspective. What made this trip especially memorable was
getting deeply immersed in the Portuguese Inquisition, something I knew little
about before this trip. What better
evidence exists of the ability of the Jewish people to survive than the
existence and growth of the Jewish people in Portugal, many of whom have
descended, like Captain Basto, from Jews forcibly baptized during the
Inquisition?</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36166126.post-40854067105185822292012-11-06T14:14:00.001+00:002012-11-06T14:17:14.337+00:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">Another book by Maria Fernanda Guimarães and António Júlio Andrade<span style="font-size: large;">: </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The Isidros</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en">Synopsis<br /><br />The
ISIDROS - An epic of a family of New Christians from Torre de
Moncorvo (Tras-os-Montes, northern Portugal) is a work of historical
research, in which the authors follow this family over several
generations, almost throughout the entire Inquisition (1536-1821). </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="en">It
is a family with origins in Torre de Moncorvo but which by its
dynamism and entrepreneurship, some of their descendants stand out
in the social context of the time, even in times of persecution. Many
of them were imprisoned in the Inquisition and eventually left strong
marks of Marranism during their lifetimes.</span> </span>
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Os Isidros</div>
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A epopeia de uma família de cristãos-novos de Torre de Moncorvo</div>
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de <a href="http://www.wook.pt/authors/detail/id/1970934" id="nomeAutorLink" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: 100;">António Júlio Andrade</a>, <a href="http://www.wook.pt/authors/detail/id/1909077" id="nomeAutorLink" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: 100;">Maria Fernanda Guimarães</a> </div>
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Edição/reimpressão: <b>2012</b></div>
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Páginas:<b> 128</b></div>
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Editor:<b> Lema d`Origem</b></div>
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ISBN: <b> 9789898342126</b></div>
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OS ISIDROS – A epopeia de uma família de cristãos-novos de Torre de
Moncorvo, de António Júlio Andrade e Maria Fernanda Guimarães, é uma
obra de investigação histórica, na qual os autores seguem esta família
ao longo de várias gerações, praticamente ao longo da Inquisição. É uma
família que tem origem em Torre de Moncorvo mas que, pelo seu dinamismo
e empreendedorismo, alguns dos seus descendentes acabam por se
destacar no contexto social da época, mesmo em período de perseguição.
Muitos deles estiveram presos nos cárceres da Inquisição e acabaram por
deixar marcas fortes do marranismo ao longo das suas existências.</div>
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Os Isidros</b>
de <a href="http://www.wook.pt/authors/detail/id/1970934" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none; text-decoration: underline;"><b style="font-size: 11px;">António Júlio Andrade</b></a>, <a href="http://www.wook.pt/authors/detail/id/1909077" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none; text-decoration: underline;"><b style="font-size: 11px;">Maria Fernanda Guimarães</b></a></div>
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