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November 24, 2012

Wash. Post: Colombian evangelical Christians convert to Judaism, embracing hidden past

by Juan Forero
The Washington Post

BELLO, Colombia — They were committed evangelicals, devoted to Jesus Christ.

But what some here called a spark, an inescapable pull of their ancestors, led them in a different direction, to Judaism. There were the grandparents who wouldn’t eat pork, the fragments of a Jewish tongue from medieval Spain that spiced up the language, and puzzling family rituals such as the lighting of candles on Friday nights. 

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