1. ¿Qué Pasa, Moshe?
- Author
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Albernaz, Ami
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CHURCH & state , *CLERGY , *GENEALOGY , *GENES - Abstract
The article discusses the genetic basis of New Mexico's crypto-Jew community. William Sanchez, a Catholic pastor at Albuquerque's St. Edwin's Church, has used science to help uncover New Mexico's crypto-Jew community. The reverend learned his own Jewish ancestry in 2001, after watching a program on DNA research and sending away for a testing kit. Like Norbert Sanchez, the pastor had long wondered about some of his family's practices, such as covering household mirrors when a family member died, that seemed different from those of people he knew.
- Published
- 2005