(JTA) — News that Spain is proposing to offer citizenship to the descendants of Jews expelled in the 15th and 16th centuries spread like wildfire in Israel. Within hours of the Spanish government’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. File - In this Oct. 13, 2013 file photo, ultra-Orthodox Jewish men walk past a picture of the late religious spiritual leader of ...

Doreen Alhadeff was the first American Jew granted Spanish citizenship under Spain’s 2015 law to repatriate Sephardic Jews from around the world. Now she is going to be knighted by Spain’s monarchy ...

After the Spanish government recently announced it would grant citizenship to the descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain five centuries ago, Amit Winder of Tel Aviv began dreaming of a ...

Seattleite Doreen Alhadeff got back from Spain on Feb. 15 with a historic accomplishment in hand: She had become the first American — and now one of only seven people in the world — to reach the final ...

The Spanish Ambassador in Bucharest, don Miguel Angel de Maguiro, was present at the opening of the new school of the Federation of Sep###rdic Jewish Communities in Roumania this week, when it was ...

MADRID – They were burned at the stake, forced to convert or chased into exile. Now Spain is moving to right a half-millennium old "historic mistake" against its onetime flourishing Sephardic Jewish ...

During my childhood in the 1960s and 70s in the USSR, the only books published about Jews were ideological works that criticized Zionism, Israel and what the Soviets considered the “national Jewish ...

(RNS) Sephardic organizations estimate that as many as 3.5 million Jews could potentially apply for a Spanish passport. The reaction from the Sephardic community has been huge. MALAGA, Spain (RNS) ...

MADRID - They were burned at the stake, forced to convert or chased into exile. Now Spain is moving to right a half-millennium-old "historic mistake" against its onetime flourishing Sephardic Jewish ...