(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 ...

Ten years ago, the Spanish government introduced citizenship options for individuals with Sephardic Jewish ancestry, and tens of thousands, particularly from Latin America, have taken advantage of ...

I loved it then because it was a sweet and flavorful Passover staple, but there’s more to charoset than meets the eye. Try ...

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 ...

National Jewish Book Award recipient Aviad Moreno’s work focuses on northern Morocco’s Hispanic Jews, whose yearning for a ...

Jews and Christians in Fifteenth-Century Spain”, Past and Present 174 (2002): 3–41; Jane S. Gerber, “Pride and Pedigree: The Development of the Myth of Sephardic Aristocratic Lineage”, in Reappraisals ...

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 ...

Only an estimated 100,000 speak the Judeo-Spanish language known as Ladino, once common among Sephardic Jews throughout the Mediterranean. One millennial songwriter is on a quest to save Ladino to ...