El Salvador conversos long for Israel

Hundreds of years after their forefathers fled Spain, some 300 descendants of Spanish conversos live in El Salvador as a thriving community, observing Orthodox Judaism, keeping the laws of the Sabbath, and dreaming of converting and immigrating to Israel as Jews.

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=25309

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