WRITTEN IN BLOOD

September 20th, 2026

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Can a Jew ever be too far gone? In 1917, more than four centuries after Portugal forced its Jews into hiding, Polish Jew Samuel Schwarz found a community still guarding fragments of Judaism in secret. From the anusim and Dona Gracia Nasi to Menashe ben Israel and modern genetics, Rabbi Dunner explores an astonishing truth at the heart of Shabbat Shuva: Jewish identity can be buried, but it refuses to disappear.


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