{"id":1857,"date":"2009-06-24T12:08:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T16:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kulanuarchive.kulanu.org\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2019-04-08T11:00:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:00:45","slug":"adopting-forebearsae-faith-and-leaving-peru-for-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulanu.org\/archive\/adopting-forebearsae-faith-and-leaving-peru-for-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopting Forebears\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Faith and Leaving Peru for Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article from New York Times on June 21 by Simon Romero\u00c2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/22\/world\/americas\/22peru.html?_r=1&amp;ref=world\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/22\/world\/americas\/22peru.html?_r=1&amp;ref=world<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IQUITOS, Peru \u00e2\u20ac\u201d If Ronald Re\u00c3\u00a1tegui Levy someday finds that he is the last Jew of Iquitos, it may well be of his own doing.<\/p>\n<p>His dream, which he has vigorously pursued, is to persuade the descendants of Sephardic merchants who settled in this remote corner of the Amazon basin more than a century ago to reaffirm their ties to Judaism and emigrate to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is getting very lonely here,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Mr. Re\u00c3\u00a1tegui Levy, 52, an inspector at Peru\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s national oil company, referring to the more than 400 descendants of Jewish pioneers who have formally converted to Judaism this decade, including about 160 members of his immediate and extended family. Nearly all of them now live in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the article\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/22\/world\/americas\/22peru.html?_r=1&amp;ref=world\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article from New York Times on June 21 by Simon Romero\u00c2 http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/22\/world\/americas\/22peru.html?_r=1&amp;ref=world IQUITOS, Peru \u00e2\u20ac\u201d If Ronald Re\u00c3\u00a1tegui Levy someday <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Adopting Forebears\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Faith and Leaving Peru for Israel - Kulanu<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Article from New York Times on June 21 by Simon Romero\u00c2 http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/22\/world\/americas\/22peru.html?_r=1&amp;ref=world IQUITOS, Peru \u00e2\u20ac\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kulanu.org\/archive\/adopting-forebearsae-faith-and-leaving-peru-for-israel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adopting Forebears\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Faith and Leaving Peru for Israel - 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