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Each week we provide you with one of the week's most thought provoking articles. | |  The genetic 'pintele Yid' in Iberia
by Michael Freund
More than five centuries after the expulsion and forced conversion of Spanish and Portuguese Jewry, the results of a new genetic study might just spur a return of historic proportions to Israel and the Jewish people. In a paper published in the latest issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, a team of biologists dropped a DNA bombshell, declaring that 20% of the population of Iberia has Sephardic Jewish ancestry.
Since the combined populations of Spain and Portugal exceed 50 million, that means more than 10 million Spaniards and Portuguese are descendants of Jews. These are not the wild-eyed speculations of a newspaper columnist, but rather cold, hard results straight out of a petri dish in a laboratory. The study, led by Mark Jobling of the University of Leicester in England and Francesc Calafell of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, analyzed the Y chromosomes of Sephardim in communities where Jews had migrated after the expulsion from Spain in 1492. Their chromosomal signatures were then compared with the Y chromosomes of more than 1,000 men living throughout Spain and Portugal. Since the Y chromosome is passed from father to son, the geneticists were able to measure the two groups up against each other, leading to the remarkable finding that one-fifth of Iberians are of Jewish descent. Continue Reading>> | Right now a group of 100 Sephardim are preparing to make Aliya from South America this spring. Please consider making a donation to this worthy effort. $750 will sponsor one person's Aliya, including moving their household goods. Any contribution is appreciated! Make a donation to the Cyrus Fund | | | One that calls for a Response
Each week we take a meaningful quote, tie it to scripture, and leave you with a take-home. | |  President George W. Bush said, when asked if the Bible is literally true: "You know. Probably not, No, I'm not a literalist, but I think you can learn a lot from it, but I do think that the New Testament for example is ... has got ... You know, the important lesson is 'God sent a son."
God says: "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law." -- "All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be throughly equipped for every good work." (Deuternonomy 29:29; II Timothy 3:16).
The Jerusalem Connection says: Now we know. How could a Christian -- and I believe that President Bush is a Christian -- how could he authorize such a God-defying policy as "The Road Map to Peace" that calls for "land for Peace," a "two-state solution" and a "divided Jerusalem?" It's easy. Either he is totally ignorant of God's covanant promises to Israel or he doesn't take them literally. In either case he is without excuse and has placed our nation in great peril of God's judgment. (Joel 3:2). God has said and He has not stuttered, "I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant beween me and you and your descendants after you ... The whole land of Canaan where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendanst after you." (Genesis 17:7-8). I wonder what part of that promise George Bush doesn't understand or is unwilling to take literally?
| |  Mumbai Hero Nanny Describes Saving little Moshe
The world knows her as the daring nanny who, clutching a 2-year-old boy, pushed past the havoc in a terrorized Mumbai and risked her life to keep the toddler safe. But Sandra Samuel sees no heroism in her actions amid last week's terror attacks on India's financial capital that killed nearly 180 people -- including baby Moshe's parents, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka. She only wishes she could have done more.
Watch Video interview with Sandra
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