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Sephardic Anusim Center of the Americas
News Blurb
January 20, 2009
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"The exiles from Jerusalem who are in
Sepharad will possess the towns of the Negev."
(Obadiah 20)
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Within the Jewish Dutch Community 42% have a
particular DNA haplotype which is not what I've coined,
a "classical" Jewish haplotype. However, there is an
amazing phenomenon which proves my observation.
Dutch men who did not have a Jewish origin have, for
hundreds of years, married Jewish women. As such
they integrated their wives' faith, customs and
traditions. Many of their children were brought up in
the Jewish faith throughout many generations. In
short, they became what we know today as Dutch
Jews.
Now here's where we get closer to home. The Jewish
Dutch men I just referred to have the exact same DNA
haplotype as 60% of Spanish men. In other words, a
little over 2 out of every 5 Dutch men are Jews. On the
other hand, among Spanish men, it's more like 3 out
of every 5 that have the same haplotype as these
Dutch Jews. There is no other country in the entire
world that has more than 10% of this same haplotype;
and half of them have a "weird" sign which points to
Levant countries such as Turkey, Syria, Egypt,
including Greece.
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What am I saying? What I'm proposing here is that for
hundreds of years, beginning in Iberia, Spanish men
married Jewish women and also took on their
customs, culture, traditions and faith. However, due to
the Spanish and the Portuguese Inquisitions
(holocausts) they went deeply underground and
became what's referred to as "Crypto Jews" or Jews
in secrecy or hiding. This is why an increasing
number of Sephardic Hispanic/Latinos are emerging
all over the place. They're reconnecting with and
bringing to light oral customs and traditions which
their forefathers' practiced for many centuries. (By the
way, for many, many years, Jewish rabbis and Israeli
authorities only recognized the Jewishness on the
maternal line.)
This is why my title here is "Our blood's crying out,"
because our DNA is finally shouting to the fact that
we're done with hiding our true identity and want to
reconnect with our Jewish family and "our Israel."
Mordochai Arbel, a former diplomat from Israel to the
nations and islands of the Caribbean told the study
tour group I was leading that: "Vuestra sangre clama."
This means, "Your blood is crying out!" Our blood's
crying out for the true identification of our real history
and not one that's been imposed on us for many
centuries. Our blood's crying out to reconnect with the
other side of our Jewish family from which we were
severed by Inquisitions, anti-Semitic pogroms and
persecutions that targeted our people.
Therefore, I admonish you to seriously rethink about
the fact of who you really are and what is God's
promise and mandate for your life in conjunction with
Erez Israel. I urge you to not stop at the historical or
theoretical but to press all the way into action. By
action I'm referring to your dynamic role in regard to
Am Israel which is the people of Israel, as well as
Erez Israel which is the Land of Israel. Can you
imagine what a positive impact our people can make
in Israel as she faces enormous odds, then suddenly,
out of oblivion, here comes an army of Sephardic
Jewish descendants who'll stand together with our
Jewish Israeli family to quell some of the conflict
they've faced up there? What a rude awakening to
Israel's enemies this shall be when our people finally
wake up, take action and show up in the land of our
forefathers. What an honor - what a responsibility -
what a blessing!
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Contact Information
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Dr.Dell F. Sanchez | |
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210.326.6570 | |
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For the last few years I have been saying that no less
than 10 to 15 percent of all Hispanic/Latinos have
Sephardic Jewish roots. I'm referring to the multitudes
of our people that are Jewish descendants of Spanish
and Portuguese ancestors. While 10-15% doesn't
sound like a large percentage, the numbers will
boggle your brain when you discover that there are
over 44 million Latinos in the USA. This does not
count the undocumented workers in America. So take
15% of 44 million and you come up with over 6 million
Latinos who have Jewish roots and the majority don't
even realize it.
I have found two amazing things which I am
integrating into my seminars on the history of our
Sephardic Anusim people. First, I have found that we
have some "classical" DNA haplotypes which directly
and unequivocally point to Jewish ancestry. On top of
this, I have found that a minority of these individuals
that have taken a DNA test happen to be from a very
long line that traces all the way back to Israel's first
High Priest who was Aaron -- Moses' older brother.
This line is known as cohen or cohanim.
Parenthetically, I've also discovered that many of our
test results point to a general Levite connection, some
to a higher degree than others.