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Machon Bnei Anusim

The Team

Leadership, rabbinic guidance, scholarship, chaplaincy, education, and advisory support for responsible Jewish reconnection.

Executive Leadership

Rabbi Nissim Mordechai Makor
President and Chief Executive Director

Rabbi Nissim Mordechai Makor

Rabbi Nissim Mordechai Makor is a rabbi, shochet, author, Torah educator, and longtime kiruv leader with nearly thirty-five years of experience guiding Jews, Bnei Anusim, converts, returnees, and sincere seekers. Through Bnei Anusim Inc. and Machon Bnei Anusim, he builds dignified pathways of return grounded in halacha, Torah education, documentation, compassion, and responsibility.

Rabbi Dr. Ari Jeff Montanari
Rabbi, Author, Chaplain and Jewish Identity Educator

Rabbi Dr. Ari Jeff Montanari

Rabbi Dr. Jeff Montanari, also known as Ari Ben Avraham, is a rabbi, author, chaplain, educator, and defender of Jewish faith and identity. His work strengthens Jewish responses to missionary pressure and supports descendants of Anusim seeking clarity after generations of religious confusion.

Rabbi Shaul Ben Danyiel
Rabbi, Military Chaplain, Educator and Author

Rabbi Shaul Ben Danyiel

Rabbi Shaul Ben Danyiel brings more than twenty-two years of rabbinic experience, military chaplaincy, veteran leadership, teaching, and authorship. Fluent in Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, and English, he contributes Torah scholarship, operational discipline, resilience, and pastoral sensitivity to Bnei Anusim outreach.

Rabbi Dan Kamzen
Rabbi, Military Chaplain and Community Builder

Rabbi Dan Kamzen

Rabbi Dan Kamzen combines halachic seriousness, disciplined rabbinic leadership, and pastoral warmth. His chaplaincy background equips him to guide people from diverse backgrounds with structure, dignity, careful listening, and compassion.

Advisory Board of Directors

Rabbi Yitzchak “Isaac” Abud
Advisory Board of Directors

Rabbi Yitzchak “Isaac” Abud

Rabbi Yitzchak Abud is an Israeli-born Sephardic rabbi, educator, cantor, author, and chesed leader with decades of service in Mexico, Peru, and Spanish-speaking Jewish communities. His Torah publications in Hebrew and Spanish and his kiruv work bring deep cultural understanding to the mission of Bnei Anusim.

Daniela Yisrael
Author, Speaker and Bnei Anusim Witness

Daniela Yisrael

Daniela Yisrael is an author and speaker whose personal journey from a Protestant pastor’s family to Torah study, Orthodox conversion, aliyah, and life in Israel gives a powerful voice to Bnei Anusim memory. She is the author of Out of the Inquisition Fire, Into the Torah.

Yisrael David Delle Donne
Teacher, Author and Bnei Anusim Advocate

Yisrael David Delle Donne

Yisrael David Delle Donne of Italy is a teacher, author, and longtime voice for descendants of forced converts seeking reconnection with the roots of Israel. His decades of study, writing, dialogue, and public service contribute a European Bnei Anusim perspective.

Rabbi Aharon Pompier
Rabbi, Kashrut Leader and Caribbean Bnei Anusim Liaison

Rabbi Aharon Pompier

Rabbi Aharon Pompier was born on the Dutch Caribbean island of St. Eustatius, studied at Eckerd College and Leiden University, and moved to Tiberias, Israel, in 1994. Ordained in 1997 by Rabbi Ephraim Greenblat, Rabbi Yeshia Herzl, and Rabbi David Peretz, he brings rabbinic experience, kashrut background, and deep Caribbean Bnei Anusim connections to the mission.

Rabbi Dr. Andrés Boaz Muñoz-Mosquera
Rabbi, International Law Scholar and Communal Leader

Rabbi Dr. Andrés Boaz Muñoz-Mosquera

Rabbi Dr. Andrés Boaz Muñoz-Mosquera is a rabbi, scholar of international law, attorney, former judge, and Jewish communal leader. Ordained through rabbinic programs in Buenos Aires and Madrid, he is among the first rabbis ordained in Spain after 500 years and brings multilingual education, European Jewish leadership, UN and NATO communal experience, and a strong commitment to Jewish dignity and continuity.

Additional Advisory Places

Rabbi Yonatan Zagdanski
Advisory Seat Reserved

Rabbi Yonatan Zagdanski

Reserved profile space for Rabbi Yonatan Zagdanski. Add biography, title, photo, and program responsibilities here.

Rabbi Shlomo Rizel
Advisory Seat Reserved

Rabbi Shlomo Rizel

Reserved profile space for Rabbi Shlomo Rizel. Add biography, title, photo, and program responsibilities here.

Rabbanit Yael Wigoda
Advisory Seat Reserved

Rabbanit Yael Wigoda

Reserved profile space for Rabbanit Yael Wigoda. Add biography, title, photo, and women’s education responsibilities here.

Rabbi Shlomo Shulman
Advisory Seat Reserved

Rabbi Shlomo Shulman

Reserved profile space for Rabbi Shlomo Shulman. Add biography, title, photo, and program responsibilities here.