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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. Report Exec Director - December 2009 Contributions are welcome: Write to us |
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Maariv article - 13/11/2009 |
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Here is a link to an article that appeared in Maariv, on 13/Nov/2009 by Alex Doron. Click here to see the article (in hebrew). |
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Jerusalem Post article 13-4-2009 |
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Click on this link to go to Jerusalem Post web site to see the article, published on April 13th, 2009.  Gloria and Leslie Mound at Casa Shalom in Gan Yavne. If the above link does not work (has been removed from the JP web site), please click here to see an Acrobat printout of the article. Here is a small quote from the article: "I really believe that there is a Jewish soul , though I'm not sure exactly what that it is," says Mound, who became a research fellow in the Department of Hispanics at the University of Glasgow in 1988. "It's something that makes an ordinary, even nonreligious Jew connect straight away with a complete stranger and know instinctively that he is Jewish." As we sit down in the airy office, Mound points to the shelves at the side of her computer desk: "See down there? Those are the 40 or so files that I am actively working on, trying to help people from around the World who want to reclaim their Jewish heritage and come to Israel. Most of the time, however, it's the Interior Ministry that makes problems for us simply because it has no clue about this subject."
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