The law invited its descendants to apply for Spanish citizenship if they could demonstrate both that they were descended from Sephardic Jews and had a special connection to Spain. Over 150,000 ...

followed by Jews in Venezuela and Colombia. In 2015, Spain passed a law to atone for the medieval expulsion of Sephardi Jews from the country. In the 15th Century, Spain's Catholic monarchs ...

MADRID (JTA) — In an unprecedented effort to find their relatives and raise awareness about their stories, Spanish authorities are releasing a list of the Hungarian Jews protected from the Nazis ...

While their ancestors may have been forced to hide or abandon their Judaism following the Alhambra Decree of 1492, these Bnei ...

but Sephardic: of Spanish Jewish lineage. About 1 in 5 people in Spain and Portugal today may indeed be of “converso” origin: ...

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Remarkably, he began to take the law into his own hands, falsifying consular documents to grant nationality to refugees on the basis of a long-expired 1924 Spanish law aimed at Sephardic Jews ...

Specialists from Spain's University of Granada have examined ... the researchers said the explorer may have been a Sephardic Jew. According to the film, DNA analysis showed that the remains ...

Crypto-Jews are descendants of Medieval Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain and Portugal after the edict. They practiced their Jewish faith in secret, while publicly identifying themselves ...

When Jews were expelled from Portugal, many moved East to form the Sephardic community we all know, but as many Jews, perhaps ...

God was not in the fire, but God’s voice is within us, guiding us through yet another Hurban, another destruction, calling on ...