(JTA) — At least 90,000 descendants of Sephardic Jews have become citizens of Portugal or Spain since 2015, when those countries passed laws offering a naturalization process for such applicants ...

MADRID (JTA) — Bernardo Pulido spent over $29,000 on genealogical documentation, Jewish heritage certificates, attorney fees and trips to Spain to prove his Sephardic heritage. But last month ...

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

the 1492 Expulsion of Jews from Spain, the Ottoman Empire post 1492 until the early 20th century and the Sephardic community in mid-century Cuba. Bolton-Fasman is looking for an intern to assist with ...

Some quarter million Jews were forced to leave. But in 2012, Spain announced it would grant full citizenship to Jews of Sephardic origin. But "The Jewish Daily Forward" writer, Josh Nathan-Kazis ...

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 ...

Her informants were from her family and community in Los Angeles, mostly Jewish immigrants from Turkey whose native tongue was Judeo-Spanish (also known as Ladino). Her collection is a revelation: It ...

The Alhambra Decree forced Jews out of Spain and, later, out of Portugal as well. While some Sephardi Jews found refuge in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, many moved through the ...