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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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) — For Alfonso Paredes Henriquez, it was the opportunity not only of a lifetime — but of a half-millennium. The Panamanian real estate developer, a descendant of Sephardic Jews kicked out ...

MADRID (AP) — A language still spoken by the descendants of Jews expelled from Spain 500 years ago is getting a helping hand from the Spanish Royal Academy to keep it alive. Ladino, a language taken ...

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 ...

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 ...