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Posts Tagged: Spanish Inquisition

January 4, 2017 4:44 pm
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Amid Ongoing Turmoil in Their Country, Thousands of Turkish Jews Reportedly Seeking Portuguese Citizenship

Amid the ongoing turmoil in their country, thousands of Turkish Jews are applying for Portuguese citizenship, an Israeli lawyer told The Guardian last week. “They are...

October 2, 2015 3:45 pm
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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...

August 19, 2015 9:20 am
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Researchers Suspect Skeletons Found in Portugal Were Jewish Victims of Inquisition

JNS.org - Archaeologists digging at a site in Evora, Portugal, discovered a dozen bodies they believe to be Jews who were persecuted by the Inquisition and "unceremoniously...

June 12, 2015 6:40 pm
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Head of Spanish Jewish Federation Hopes Emerging Citizenship Law Will be ‘Antidote Against Prejudice’

The Spanish Federation of Jewish Communities welcomed on Friday the lower parliament’s passing of a motion to allow the descendants of Jews who were exiled...

June 11, 2015 9:29 pm
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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...

June 7, 2014 1:00 pm
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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...

November 22, 2012 3:41 pm
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Spain to Speed up Naturalization Process for Sephardic Jews Whose Ancestors Fled Inquisition

Spain said Thursday it would be taking measures to speed up the naturalization of Jews of Sephardic descent whose ancestors fled the country more than...

November 9, 2012 10:04 am
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Jewish Jamaica, Then and Now

The many Cohens and Levys in the Jamaican phone books may not be practicing Jews, though they most likely recognize that they may be descendants...

May 29, 2012 12:54 pm
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Christopher Columbus Was a Secret Jew?

Christopher Columbus was probably Jewish according to a CNN article that refers to several credible sources. On the 508th anniversary of Columbus's death, scholars have...

May 1, 2012 7:11 am
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A Warrior-Scholar Falls in Israel: The Death of Benzion Netanyahu

I had already twice hosted Benjamin Netanyahu - at the time Israel's deputy Foreign Minister - at the University of Oxford before I extended my...

April 27, 2012 11:47 am
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The Spanish Inquisition and the Spread of Conversos in the Americas

A road trip down to the Mexican-American border would yield much of what you would expect -- miles of endless and vacant deserts, a compelling...

April 17, 2012 12:00 pm
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Tracing Your Heritage Just Got Easier, New Website Aims to Unlock Genealogy Records

A new website, NameYourRoots.com, allows descendants of Jews who escaped the Spanish inquisition to rediscover their origin and family history. Anyone with a Spanish...

April 3, 2012 9:31 am
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Is This Threat Different From All Other Threats?

When my parents were teenagers in Eastern Europe, the steady drumbeat of Jewish persecution in Europe was making its way to their hometowns. "Why didn't...

World

Anti-Israel Activists Damage Planes at UK Military Base

Anti-Israel activists broke into a Royal Air Force base in central England on Friday, damaging and spraying red paint over two planes used for refueling and transport. Palestine Action said two members had entered the Brize...

Israel

Arab Town in Israel Weeps for Four Family Members Killed in Iranian Strike

When a phone alert sounded on Saturday night to warn of Iranian missiles flying towards his town of Tamra in northern Israel, Nidal Abu Al Heija called his sister to tell her to take shelter...

Middle East

Israel Hits Nuclear Sites, Iran Strikes Hospital as War Escalates

Israel bombed nuclear targets in Iran on Thursday and Iranian missiles hit an Israeli hospital overnight, as the week-old air war escalated with no sign yet of an off-ramp. Following the strike that damaged the Soroka medical center in Israel's southern city of...

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