The Spanish police are now investigating possible fraud in the scheme offering citizenship to people of Sephardic Jewish origin. This is no surprise to those Sephardic genealogists whose complaints ...

Digital page from the online exhibition “100 Years of Sephardic Life in Los Angeles.” Image courtesy of UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for In 1952, on South La Brea Avenue, a restaurant called Robaire’s ...

Attempting to pin down the essence of the Sephardic spirit is akin to trying to nail Jell-O to a wall. Is it a religious outlook? A political viewpoint? An embracing of cultural traditions and mores?

JERUSALEM — The Spanish parliament formally approved on Thursday a law aiming to correct a “tragic and historic” error by offering citizenship to Jews whose ...

For a good part of their history, Jews were a stateless people, repeatedly finding themselves fleeing or expelled from countries even long after they had put down roots. Now, some of those nations are ...

Last year, Spain announced that it would provide a fast track to citizenship for Sephardic Jews—Jews of Spanish descent (the Jews of Spain were expelled in 1492). While there hasn't been movement ...

At least 27% of applicants under Spain’s Sephardic ‘law of return’ are not Jews Of the 153,767 applicants, 52,823 came from four Latin American countries whose combined Jewish population is smaller ...

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 ...

LISBON - The Portuguese parliament on Friday approved changes to the system for granting nationality to descendants of Sephardic Jews, which include validation of the connection to Portugal by an ...

The Sephardic singer’s new album was inspired by an invitation from non-Jews in North Macedonia to perform her original Ladino songs in the birthplace of her grandfather and a 104-year-old cousin. At ...

Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. According to a 2012 head count, of the 1.1 million Jews living in New York ...

United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni on Monday called on the Shas party to open additional schools for Sephardic students in the city of Beit Shemesh so that “your girls” don’t need to “crowd into our ...