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Spanish Jews

The cast of "Heirs of the Land" on set in Spain in 2020. (Photo/Courtesy Netflix)
Posted inTV & Film

Spanish Jews take the spotlight in ‘Heirs to the Land,’ a Netflix series set pre-Inquisition

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA May 9, 2022

The series “Heirs to the Land” that dropped on Netflix last month looks, at first glance, like just another installment in the fast-growing genre of Spanish period dramas. In some ways it is, […]

In Aug. 2021, the American Sephardi Federation hosted a virtual discussion about the changes to Spain’s Sephardic citizenship program with the participation of Rob Lennick (lower left) and Sara Koplik (top center) of the Jewish Federation of New Mexico, who are now engaged in a court battle. (Screenshot/JTA)
Posted inU.S.

New Mexico’s Jewish community fears ‘implosion’ as lawsuits allege harassment and mismanagement

by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA March 30, 2022
Angelina Muñiz Huberman is one of a few Jews in the prestigious Mexican Academy of Language.
Posted inBooks

Meet Angelina Muñiz Huberman, a Mexican writer whose novels explore Sephardic history and crypto-Judaism

Alan Grabinsky by Alan Grabinsky and JTA December 27, 2021December 27, 2021
A leather shop that used to be a synagogue in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inSukkot

For Mallorca’s Jews, their first ‘public’ sukkah is a triumph over the Spanish Inquisition

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 20, 2021
A ceremony at Spain's Royal Palace in Madrid marked the passing of a law granting citizenship to Sephardic Jews, Nov. 30, 2015. (Photo/JTA-Juan Naharro Gimenez-WireImage-Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Spain is suddenly turning down many Jews who apply for citizenship. Why?

Orge Castellano by Orge Castellano and JTA August 24, 2021August 24, 2021
Dani Rotstein, pointing, explains to German tourists about a church that used to be a synagogue in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Feb. 11, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inWorld

It ‘shows a great resilience’: Despite Covid, synagogues across Europe will still open to non-Jews for Days of Jewish Culture series

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 2, 2020September 2, 2020
Mozaika draws hundreds of visitors to its weekly events on Jewish culture. (Photo/Toldot-Instagram)
Posted inWorld, News, Travel

How the oldest house in Barcelona became a hub of Jewish cultural revival

Alan Grabinsky by JTA and Alan Grabinsky July 2, 2019July 2, 2019
Caló des Moro, Mallorca (Photo/Flickr-Tommie Hansen CC BY 2.0)
Posted inRecipe

Discovering the joy of almonds among the Jews of Mallorca

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer December 22, 2017December 22, 2017
Spanish police dispersing a crowd of Catalonian voters in Sant Julia de Ramis, Spain, Oct. 1, 2017, amid a regional vote for independence declared illegal by the Spanish government. (Photo/JTA-David Ramos-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Chaos in Catalonia had this Israeli reporter-turned-lawmaker dodging bullets

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz October 2, 2017March 19, 2018

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