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Casa Shalom, the Institute for Marrano - Anusim Studies, is a centre for all those interested in the subject. We study and collect material on individual and collective secret jews from all over the world: jews of Meshed, Ireland, Sao Tome , New Mexico, South America, Cuba and other caribbean islands, Spain, Portugal, Balearic Islands. We are heavily engaged in projects linked to universities in UK and America, connected with marranos in freemasonary, and 18th Century immigration from Minorca to Florida and Cuba. Many of the participants were marranos as our recent research has brought to light. We have traced some of the descendents to modern times and found a continuance of Jewish customs in many of these families. Please read on the following pages about Casa Shalom. And, if you are convinced as we are that our work is important to you, please support us. |
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About our work - For many years we have been have been pressing that Israeli Embassies and Jewish Agency offices worldwide should not turn away applicants that approach them without sufficient papers, before first consulting persons with this special knowledge. Click Jewish Agency letter to Casa-Shalom letter to read the story in full. |
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Early in 2005 many of you were approached by me for information on Jewish family names/rituals/etc. in Puerto Rico and Cuba. This was to aid a family, husband and wife and four children, who required no financial help, but had arrived in Israel without the necessary papers for them to be accepted as Jews or Olim and were within days of being deported at the time they found Casa Shalom and appealed to us for help. |
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