(JTA) — After Spain announced it would offer of citizenship to families of Jews it expelled more than 500 years ago, Mark Tafoya, a personal chef living in New York City, filled out an application.

The Jewish Federation of New Mexico abruptly shut down its program that supported some 20,000 people around the world applying for citizenship under Spain’s Sephardic restitution law. (JTA) – With his ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. The history of Judaism in New Mexico is long and complex. It starts in the 16th century, when Conversos, or ...

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 ...

“Shabbat Shalom a Todos” wrote one member in the “Sephardic and Crypto-Jewish Research” Facebook group to an audience of more than 400 members, many of whom live in northern Mexico or the United ...

Sandra and Moshe Guakil’s love story began nearly 1,500 miles from their Phoenix home. Moshe, 53, traveled from San Diego to his birthplace, Mexico City, to meet Sandra, 49. Giving them two teenage ...

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.

For a good part of their history, Jews were a stateless people, repeatedly finding themselves fleeing or expelled from countries even long after they had put down roots. Now, some of those nations are ...

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 ...

Scholar and author Dr. Hélène Jawhara Piñer is a French-Spanish historian, educator and chef. She speaks throughout Europe and in North and South America and recently presented a lecture at the Jewish ...

(The Conversation) — “Tradition!” rings out the opening line of “Fiddler on the Roof,” the Broadway play that brought Jewish life to stages around the world. The 1964 musical gives audiences a window ...