First-ever certificate of Jewish ancestry launched

By Yossi Lempkowicz

The historic initiative to issue Certificates of Sephardic Ancestry was launched by the American Sephardic Federation’s Institute of Jewish Experience, Reconectar, an organization dedicated to helping the descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities reconnect with the Jewish people, and Genie Milgrom, an award-winning author, researcher and genealogist who was able to fully document her unbroken maternal lineage 22 generations going back as far as 1405 to pre-Inquisition Spain and Portugal.