Shalom! This week, our newsletter has some up-to-the-minute amazing articles from Israel, related to the B'nai Anousim goals and dreams of possible Aliyah to Israel!
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Sharansky: Israel must ease conversion for crypto-Jews
|  Jewish Agency chief says state must facilitate immigration for descendants of forced converts in Spain in the 15th century
BY MARISSA NEWMAN
Israel must ease the conversion and immigration process, particularly for the descendants of conversos, those forced to convert to Catholicism in medieval Spain, the chairman of the Jewish Agency said on Tuesday
"Spain is making an effort to return the descendants of Jews expelled from Spain in 1492," Natan Sharansky said at an Ashdod Conference on Aliyah and Absorption, referring to a new bill in Spain to give Sephardic Jews, whose ancestors were exiled in 1492, dual citizenship privileges.
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| Sharansky: Tens of thousands of descendants of forced converts want to immigrate to Israel | 
Jewish Agency chairman accuses rabbinical authorities of 'arrogance' in treatment of potential immigrants.By Judy Maltz
Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky on Tuesday accused the Israeli rabbinical authorities of "arrogance" in their treatment of potential immigrants.
"I'm talking specifically about the questions of who is a Jew and of conversion," he said, addressing the annual Ashdod Conference on Immigration and Absorption. "This is not only about the 300,000 Russian immigrants now living in Israel who aren't halakhically Jewish. As we've recently discovered, sometimes the arrogance shown can be startling."
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Senior Rabbis Forbid Taking Spanish Citizenship as Reparations
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Religious Zionist rabbis, including Rabbi Sholmo Aviner, forbid obtaining Spanish passports, compare to 'reparations' for expulsion.
By Tova Dvorin, Arutz Sheva
Rabbi Shlomo Aviner and other senior rabbis are not pleased with the development Monday that Spain may issue passports to descendants of Jews expelled in 1492.
Walla! reports that Rabbi Aviner - a highly respected Religious Zionist rabbinical authority and head of the Ateret Cohanim yeshiva (Torah study academy)...Click to read story
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