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-Head Rabbi, Dr. Haim
Levi-
Born of Sephardic parents in Medellin, Colombia, Rabbi Haim
Levi is a descendant of the Portuguese and Spanish Jews who
fled the Iberian Peninsula during the Spanish Inquisition.
His mother, Doña María Cano López de Mesa, Marqueza de Fazio
Linze, was born August 19, 1910, and died at the Daughters
of Sarah Orthodox Jewish Home in Albany, New York in October
1988. His father was born November 11, 1887, and died at the
hands of the Catholic Church for refusing to be baptized in
Medellin, March 1957. . .
(Read his fascinating story!)
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-Rebbetzin Rachel Levi-
Rachel Levi, born in Salonika, Greece and daughter of
Holocaust survivors, lost more than 20 members of her family
in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland. Her mother,
Lucía, spent many years in Auschwitz as girl, being forced
to carry the corpses from the gas chambers to the ovens.
Before she could throw them into the fires, however, she had
to extract all the gold teeth from their mouths. Lucía never
fully recuperated from the excruciating torture and
suffering she endured in the camps, and died of cardiac
arrest in Atlanta in 1992 . . .
(Read her interesting story!)
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-The Congregation-
We are Sephardic Jews, descendants of Jews who were expelled
from Spain and Portugal in the Spanish Expulsion of 1492.
The word Sephardim comes from the Hebrew term for Spain,
Sepharad, used in the Bible in Obadiah 1:20. We are also
non-Jews who have decided to join the nation of Israel
through faith in Messiah Yeshua. We are also a
Torah-submissive congregation.
(You can't read our stories online! You'll have to get to
know us in person instead!)
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