Crypto Jewish History 

Excellent work Rabbi Leon. I came back to my people some years ago, I can tell you that there are many with jewish blood in Mexico, my family made it to Guadalajara and to Yucatan from Spain. G-d bless those brave women who kept jewish customs and stories for many generations.

Rabbi Stephen Leon, great lesson, please, come over, come over to Spain and help us to return to our hidden faith.

Great job. I admire these wonderful people who over the centuries kept alive their roots risking to be discovered and murdered. Inquisition was brutal. The conquistadors were brainwashed and destroyed South American culture. Welcome back.

My great great grandparents were Crypto Jews who left France posing as Hughuenots for Newfoundland. In 1800 my ancestor John Jarvis was a rich fishing Merchant with several schooners and a store for the Grand Banks communities. He worshipped at Zion United Church in Collins Cove.💕💕

I never heard of this until I attended a sermon believe it or not at a Pentecostal church south of San Antonio, TX where some of my family is from. This church sermon was in Spanish and the Pastor was from Mexico and his son was studying college in Monterrey Mexico and was there for the holidays visiting his dad's church. When he met me he asked if I was Pentecostal I replied "no". That I am a Catholic and was there in respect to my wife whom was Pentecostal. He told me he was in Monterrey studying, I replied to him that I found out some of my ancestors were from Monterrey. When I told him my last name "Casarez" and my mother's maiden name "Saenz" he immediately replied with no hesitation "you might be Jewish". I laughed it off until he explained in detail the Spanish Inquisition and was very helpful and said Saenz was the number one name used to disguise crypto Jews. And usually any Spanish names that are from certain areas including Monterrey that have a "Z" on the end of them or sometimes just in the name was a code for undercover Turkish Jews living in Spain. I was told that I can have my DNA tested and that there is a certain gene that I would share with certain people that would identify me or my family as a crypto Jew. Can anybody elaborate? .

Such a powerful singing. Amazing

Baruj Hashem Yahweh. For this Blessing Thank you for your Teaching May Yahweh- Bless you allways.

Hello. I am from Paraguay. I have at least one Converso ancestor: at least 3x on my father'side; at least 1x on my mother's side. He is don Juan Rojas de Aranda y Alarcón, born in Toledo, Spain in the 16th century. He went to Asunción as royal treasurer in the 16th c. 500 years later, my Sephardim cousins from Morocco look very much like my maternal side.

I look forward to meeting you at the upcoming Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies in November in Phila, PA. Sadie of Silver Spring, MD

Lol I still have my "Toma todo" but we called it "pirinola" as well. ive had it as a kid, actually several. It's the exact replica of a dradle. I knew what he was talking about before pulling out the "Toma todo". We played it alot with my family as a kid.

St Teresa of Av6 is the granddaughter of a conversion.

My people my story as a sephardic jew , we forgot who we are

Very interesting, this crypto jews history.

Shalom... I know one that has 9 years now .. .. Many of us millions have ties in Southwest to this..

Original crypto jews allegiances is to God and not to the state of Israel.

Where and when did God ever say we would be as numbers as sand or stars?!?!? That is not true. He said we would ALWAYS be a tiny nation.

bitcoin jews?

It’s funny how these Spaniards are asking Jews to migrate back to build their economy lol

Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492 because they had supported the Muslims during wars between Christians and Muslims, the Jewish ritual murder thing didn't help either. In 1492, Chemor, chief Rabbi of Spain, wrote to the Grand Sanhedrin, which had its seat in Constantinople, for advice, when a Spanish law threatened expulsion.2 This was the reply: ” Beloved brethren in Moses, we have received your letter in which you tell us of the anxieties and misfortunes which you are enduring. We are pierced by as great pain to hear it as yourselves. The advice of the Grand Satraps and Rabbis is the following: 1. As for what you say that the King of Spain obliges you to become Christians: do it, since you cannot do otherwise. 2. As for what you say about the command to despoil you of your property: make your sons merchants that they may despoil, little by little, the Christians of theirs. 3. As for what you say about making attempts on your lives: make your sons doctors and apothecaries, that they may take away Christians’ lives. 4. As for what you say of their destroying your synagogues: make your sons canons and clerics in order that they may destroy their churches. [Emphasis mine] 5. As for the many other vexations you complain of: arrange that your sons become advocates and lawyers, and see that they always mix in affairs of State, that by putting Christians under your yoke you may dominate the world and be avenged on them. 6. Do not swerve from this order that we give you, because you will find by experience that, humiliated as you are, you will reach the actuality of power. (Signed) PRINCE OF THE JEWS OF CONSTANTINOPLE.” 2. The reply is found in the sixteenth century Spanish book, La Silva Curiosa, by Julio-Iniguez de Medrano (Paris, Orry, 1608), on pages 156 and 157, with the following explanation: “This letter following was found in the archives of Toledo by the Hermit of Salamanca, (while) searching the ancient records of the kingdoms of Spain; and, as it is expressive and remarkable, I wish to write it here.” Note this letter is much older than the protocols of Zion but meshes perfectly.