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Over 130,000 Jews of Sephardic heritage applied for Spanish citizenship under law of return
(JTA)– Over 130,000 Jews of Sephardic heritage applied for Spanish citizenship under a 2015 law giving the right to naturalization to descendants of Sephardic Jews. The application window for ...
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Sephardic Jews Secretly Founded Monterrey — These Hanukkah Traditions are Still Celebrated in Mexico
This also led to the rise of crypto-Judaism in the region. Crypto-Jews are descendants of Medieval Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain and Portugal after the edict. They practiced their ...
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Isak Haleva, Turkey’s chief rabbi and face of Jewish minority, dies at 84
Indeed, for Turkey’s Jews, both at home and abroad, he is remembered as a fatherly figure who had a zest for life and Sephardic Judaism. “I lost not only our chief rabbi, but also my spiritual ...