Posts Tagged: Sephardic Jews
How to Make Jewish Student Organizations More Welcoming to Sephardic and Mizrahi Students
The Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish community comprises approximately 35% of the overall Jewish population of North America, according to statistics from our organization, the Sephardic...
US Lawmakers Urge Spanish PM to Investigate Mass Rejections of Descendants of Sephardi Jews Claiming Citizenship
A group of US lawmakers have called on the Spanish prime minister to investigate and reverse the reported pattern of rejections of Jewish claims to...
Israelis Look to Inquisition Roots to Get Portuguese Passports
Danny Roup, Israel's celebrity weatherman, does not necessarily see clouds on the geopolitical horizon. But he thought it worth digging into his centuries-old family roots in...
More Than 130,000 Sephardic Jews Apply for Spanish Citizenship by Deadline
More than 130,000 descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled en masse from Spain in 1492 have requested Spanish citizenship in the past four years, the Justice...
Pesach Signifies the Joining of the Jewish People — Ashkenazi and Sephardic
JNS.org - Passover has been described as the “Independence Day of the Jewish People” -- the day of our national liberation. Indeed, it is possible to describe the...
‘We Want a Jewish Presence in Portugal,’ Government Minister Declares
JNS.org - During a whirlwind tour that included dozens of visits to Jewish organizations in the United States, Portugal’s Secretary of State for Tourism urged Jews...
Give Sephardi Voices a Seat at the Global Jewish Table
JNS.org - It is rare that a week passes without a new initiative in the Jewish world to promote pluralism and diversity. And I believe it...
Spain Grants Citizenship to 4,302 Sephardic Jews Under New Law
JNS.org - Spain’s government has officially granted citizenship to 4,302 Sephardic Jews as part of a new law granting citizenship to the descendants of Jews who...
Will Sephardic Jews Join Ashkenazi Embrace of Pre-Marriage Genetic Testing?
JNS.org - “There is no person in the world without issues,” says Rabbi Yosef Ekstein, the founder of the organization Dor Yeshorim (“Upright Generation” in Hebrew),...
Spanish Parliament Approves Law Granting Citizenship to Sephardic Jews
JNS.org - Spain’s Chamber of Deputies on Thursday approved a law aimed at granting citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews who were expelled during the Spanish...
Spain Moves Closer to Granting Citizenship to Sephardic Jews
JNS.org - Spain has moved closer to approving legislation aimed at granting citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews who were expelled during the Spanish...
Spain Takes Another Step to Grant Citizenship to Sephardic Jews
JNS.org - The Spanish government has taken another step in approving legislation aimed at granting citizenship to Sephardic Jews who were expelled nearly 500 years...
Tony Blair Sister-in-Law Lauren Booth Slammed for ‘Anti-Semitic’ Tweet
British columnist Lauren Booth, the sister-in-law of Tony Blair, former UK Prime Minister and current Quartet Representative to Jerusalem, writes for The Mail on Sunday and...
American Jewish Leaders Meet Spain’s King Juan Carlos in Historic Visit
JNS.org - In a historic visit, 60 American Jewish leaders traveling with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations met with King...
