If Susana Behar looks familiar, chances are you might have seen her in the audience during previous Spoleto and Piccolo Spoleto festivals. After all, she’s been attending them for the last eight years ...

About 23 percent of 6,589 people sampled had ancestries with more than 5 percent owing to ancestors who likely fled the Inquisition. (JTA) — In a genetic study of 6,589 people from five Latin American ...

Crypto-Jews. Secret Jews. Conversos. Marranos. B’nai Anusim. These are the terms used for Jews, mainly of Spanish descent, who were forced to convert to Catholicism or die during the period of Spain’s ...

The people living in Latin American countries today are genetically diverse, deriving ancestry from many sources including the Indigenous first peoples of the region, Spanish and Portuguese settlers, ...

(JTA) — In response to scrutiny over the naturalization of Russian-Jewish billionaire Roman Abramovich, Portugal’s government is tightening its law that allows the descendants of Sephardic Jews to ...

Genealogist Sarina Roffé will present a talk titled "A Guide to Sephardic Genealogy" at the Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois. Her presentation will begin ...

JERUSALEM—Spain expelled some 300,000 Jews in 1492. Now, if everything goes as planned, it’s about to invite their descendants back. And the move has got all of Israel buzzing. The Sephardic Ancestry ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 2—More than 500 years after Spain banished tens of thousands of Jews during the Inquisition, the Spanish Parliament made an ...

The rabbi of the Jewish community in Porto was also arrested recently on suspicion of fraud tied to citizenship applications. (JTA) — In response to scrutiny over the naturalization of Russian-Jewish ...