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06/09/2013 02:13 AM
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What does DNA evidence reveal about the conversos in the Southwest United States?

For years a host of anecdotal reports have appeared about people in the American Southwest and northern Mexico who practice Jewish rituals such as lighting candles on Friday evenings and covering the mirrors after a family member has died. Occasionally some claimed they were descendants of Jews, but few people took them very seriously. Cultural anthropologists tended to believe they had adopted the rituals from Jewish traders. Thanks to genetic research, however, we can now confirm that many of these individuals and pocket communities do, in fact, have Jewish roots. In my book I tell the story of William Sanchez from Albuquerque, New Mexico, who had always wondered about the Jewish-like rituals in his family.

After he saw a story on genetic genealogy on PBS he sent in a DNA sample for testing. When the lab reached him on the phone and said, “Mr. Sanchez, we found some interesting results from your DNA; you may be descended from or closely related to priests,” Sanchez replied, “That makes perfect sense, because I am a priest.”

There was stunned silence on the phone because William Sanchez was, in fact, a Catholic priest. He and many of his family members have since pieced together their family history and discovered that they—as well as many Hispanos in Sanchez’s congregation and in communities throughout the Southwest—are the descendants on their male side of Sephardic Jews who converted to Catholicism and then settled in the New World, where they took on Native American wives.

Over time the descendants’ Jewish practices atrophied and they became Christian in belief. Nowadays, to celebrate their Jewish heri­tage alongside their Catholic beliefs, Sanchez and many of his parishioners wear a Star of David with a cross in the middle. Interestingly, too, a few of his family members have been touched so deeply by this revelation, they have converted to Judaism.

There’s been so much intermixing. Going back ten generations, we each have about 1,000 ancestors, which means we share about one millionth of a random neighbor’s DNA by direct descent. Twenty-five generations ago, about the time when Columbus landed on America’s shores, the number of our ancestral cousins swells to an astronomical 30 million, almost all of the world’s population at that time. We already spoke of the Sephardic Jews who were forced to convert in 1492. There were also forced conversions to Islam at various times in history.

[link to reformjudaismmag.org]

They left Israel, and went to Spain,

Columbus brought them to the New World,

Many Hispanics in the New World,

are Sephardic Jews,

It is a secret,

they want your DNA,

Yes they do.
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06/09/2013 02:15 AM
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you are only templar by blood
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06/09/2013 11:55 PM
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Hispanics Uncovering Roots as Inquisition's 'Hidden' Jews

These conversions are the latest chapter in the story of the crypto-Jews, or hidden Jews, of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, who are thought to be descended from the Sephardic Jews who began fleeing Spain more than 500 years ago.

The story is being bolstered by recent historical research and advances in DNA testing that are said to reveal a prominent role played by crypto-Jews and their descendants in Spain's colonization of the Southwest.

For more than two decades, anecdotal evidence collected by researchers in New Mexico, Colorado and Texas suggested that some nominally Catholic families of Iberian descent had stealthily maintained Jewish customs throughout the centuries, including lighting candles on Friday evening, avoiding pork and having the Star of David inscribed on gravestones.

Modern science may now be shedding new light on the history of the crypto-Jews after molecular anthropologists recently developed a DNA test of the male or Y chromosome that can indicate an ancestral connection to the Cohanim, a priestly class of Jews that traces its origin back more than 3,000 years to Aaron, the older brother of Moses.

[link to www.nytimes.com]

Inquisitions were also carried out in the

New World,

guard your DNA,

if you don't know,

don't get it checked.
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06/10/2013 12:10 AM
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Total talents of silver and gold: 3,805.5.

An Hebrew talent is equal to 93.75 pounds of silver, and the total weight of the treasure would be 356,765 pounds of silver.

The people of the Dead Sea Scrolls called themselves the Sons of Zadok. Zadok was high priest who defended the Ark of the Covenant (the Holy Scriptures) during the exile of King David, and the sons of Zadok, mentioned in Ezekiel, are described as being the ones to greet the Messiah in the Last Days. Thus, the people who hid the treasure and the books of the Dead Sea Scrolls, felt a powerful responsibility to defend the Law and, of course, the treasures of the Temple.

[link to www.maravot.com]
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07/20/2013 02:20 PM
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Bump for the knights here.





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