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Six people in Málaga were accused of exploiting a law intended for genuine descendants of Jews expelled from Spain.
Overlooking the town from a tranquil hillside, the Stolac Jewish Cemetery is among the oldest and most significant Sephardic burial sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dating back to at least the 17th or ...
Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?
Sephardic Jews are descendants of Jews who hail from the Iberian Peninsula. In 1492, when the Jews were expelled from Spain, many underwent forced conversion, were murdered by royal inquisitors ...
For many Sephardi Jews, this opportunity sparked a renewed interest driven by a mix of economic, historical, and emotional motivations. The idea of reconnecting with a distant past, of repairing the ...
Other Sephardic Jews fled to South America. In 1654 a few reached Manhattan from Brazil and at once established the Spanish & Portuguese Synagog—North America’s first.
The Romaniote Jews of Ioannina are a Greek-speaking ethnic Jewish community native to Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean ...
Mark Levine and Justin Brannan, competing for NYC comptroller, touting their social safety net credentials in seeking ...