Maduro has cited Sephardic Jewish roots, but his own statements and the public record leave his Jewish status unconfirmed.

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 ...

Have you ever met a Sephardic Jew? Ever met one? I am not talking about a political Sephardi or a “wanna be,” I am talking about an authentic ethnic Sephardi that proudly identifies and lives a ...

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 ...

During my childhood in the 1960s and 70s in the USSR, the only books published about Jews were ideological works that criticized Zionism, Israel and what the Soviets considered the “national Jewish ...

(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 ...

Devin Naar wasn’t hired at the University of Washington to teach Sephardic studies. The young scholar, only in his late 20s at the time, actually came to the university in 2011 to teach modern Jewish ...

In Seattle’s Seward Park neighborhood there are two Sephardic synagogues. Don’t know what “Sephardic” means? Let me briefly explain. There are two subgroups of Judaism. Ashkenazi Jews are of eastern ...

Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. According to a 2012 head count, of the 1.1 million Jews living in New York ...

The Festival Sefarad brings Sephardic food, film, lectures and more to venues across the city in June. New York’s Festival Sefarad — which is inspired by the Festival Séfarad de Montréal, which ...