Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has publicly claimed Sephardic Jewish ancestry, but he has not identified as Jewish in religion or practice, and his own account described grandparents who ...
About 1 in 5 people in Spain and Portugal today may indeed be of “converso” origin: descendants of Jews or Muslims who converted to Catholicism, often under threat of death or expulsion. Regardless of ...
Israel itself, of course, offers automatic citizenship to Jews. Previously, under a 1924 law, the government had discretionary powers to award Sephardic Jews nationality, but the new law is much more ...
Spain has announced that it will ease the naturalization of Sephardic Jews whose ancestors were expelled 500 years ago. Sephardic Jews already benefit from a preferential naturalization procedure that ...
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 ...
Portugal’s law on naturalizing descendants of Sephardic Jews could become effective before March 15, a leader of the country’s Jewish community said. The law, passed by parliament in 2013, is expected ...
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