The Spanish police are now investigating possible fraud in the scheme offering citizenship to people of Sephardic Jewish origin. This is no surprise to those Sephardic genealogists whose complaints ...

Social worker Judy Simon helped launch a growing genealogical trend when she used DNA testing to help prove her Latvian grandfather’s claim that the family were Sephardic Jews. PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — ...

A major new tool can help Brazilians learn about their possible Iberian Jewish origins: the "Dictionary of Sephardic Surnames," a 528-page tome featuring some 17,000 surnames of Sephardic Jewish ...

Last year, Spain announced that it would provide a fast track to citizenship for Sephardic Jews—Jews of Spanish descent (the Jews of Spain were expelled in 1492). While there hasn't been movement ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, April 1 (JTA) — A major new tool can help Brazilians learn about their possible Iberian Jewish origins: the Dictionary of Sephardic Surnames, a 528-page tome featuring some 17,000 ...

Jews of Sephardic origin seeking to apply for Spanish citizenship under a proposed law to enable a right of return for the descendants of 1492 expellees must establish that they are presently members ...

(JTA) — News that Spain is proposing to offer citizenship to the descendants of Jews expelled in the 15th and 16th centuries spread like wildfire in Israel. Within hours of the Spanish government’s ...

In 2015, Spain ruled that descendants of Jews who were expelled from Spain more than 500 years ago, would receive Spanish citizenship. After Spain announced it would offer of citizenship to families ...

That’s what people are asking me today, as news circulates of the law the Spanish cabinet just approved to offer citizenship to Sephardic Jews. Two weeks ago, the Forward published a long essay I ...