Doreen Alhadeff was the first American Jew granted Spanish citizenship under Spain’s 2015 law to repatriate Sephardic Jews from around the world. Now she is going to be knighted by Spain’s monarchy ...

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MADRID (AP) — Spain has announced new measures to speed up the naturalization of Jews of Sephardic descent whose ancestors fled the Iberian peninsula five centuries ago when they were told to convert ...

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 ...

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s cabinet on Friday approved a bill allowing descendants of Jews forced into exile centuries ago the right to dual citizenship, but said applicants will have to take a Spanish ...

After 522 years, Spain is inviting the Jews back — for real this time. Spain’s government announced in November 2012 a new law to give fast-track citizenship to Sephardic Jews. The Forward published ...

Six people in Málaga were accused of exploiting a law intended for genuine descendants of Jews expelled from Spain. MADRID — Spanish police dismantled a major criminal network that allegedly falsified ...

In the 15th century, Spain’s Queen Isabella and her husband Ferdinand launched the Inquisition that expelled tens of thousands of Jews from their country. Five hundred years later, Spain is making a ...

U. S. Jewry scarcely took notice when, last week in Manhattan, the Union of Sephardic Congregations held its second annual meeting. Ail Jewry is divided into two groups—the Ashkenazim and Sephardim.

Yiddish, which combined Hebrew with primarily Medieval German, was only spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. When they were busy “noshing” (eating) and “kvetching” (complaining). Sephardic Jews had a variety of ...

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Justice Ministry says that the four-year period for the descendants of Sephardic Jews to apply for Spanish citizenship has closed. The ministry said Tuesday that 132,226 people ...

Doreen Alhadeff has helped guide people around the world, from Greece to Hong Kong, through the citizenship application process. Alhadeff, a 72-year-old real estate agent from Seattle, will be ...