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        2/8/2010, Shevat 24, 5770

      Crypto-Jew Returning to Spain as Jew to Serve as Rabbi


      For the first time since the expulsion from Spain, more than 500 years ago, the community of “secret” Jews (forced converts to Catholicism, Anusim in Hebrew) will have its own rabbi.

      A man of "crypto-Jewish" extraction who immigrated many years ago to Israel, underwent conversion to normative Judaism and was ordained, will return to Spain to serve as rabbi of the community.