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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 594

Sephardi

Illustrative: Congregants praying at the Kadoorie – Mekor Haim synagogue in Porto, Portugal, May 2014. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Porto)
July 16, 2020, 3:06 pm
Portugal’s government steps back from plan to change ‘law of return’ for Jews
After months of threatening to derail the 2015 nationality law with draconian requirements, Socialist Party says it will instead insist on applicants showing a ‘genuine connection’
By Melanie Lidman
Boats by the port of Porto, Portugal, on August 16, 2013. (photo credit: Isaac Harari/Flash90)
January 29, 2015, 5:27 pm
Portugal approves Sephardic Jew citizenship plan
Applicants to be vetted in cooperation with local Jewish community; similar legislation underway in Spain
By AP
Eli Yishai speaks during a ceremony marking 30 days since the passing of the late religious spiritual leader of Israel's Sephardi Jewry, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, in Jerusalem on November 5, 2013. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 15, 2014, 9:26 pm
Shas the latest victim of growing left-right divide
As former leader breaks away, the old politics of identity no longer hold sway in the face of growing sectarianism
By Haviv Rettig Gur
The Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Spanish Parliament (Photo credit: Public Domain, Spanish Government/Wikimedia Commons)
December 14, 2014, 7:52 pm
Spanish law to naturalize Sephardic Jews rendered ‘meaningless’
Revisions of law granting citizenship to descendants of Spanish Inquisition make process more cumbersome and only symbolic, advocate says
By JTA
Shas chairman Aryeh Deri speaks during a press conference with the ultra-Orthodox media in Jerusalem on September 15, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
October 5, 2014, 11:12 am
Shas tries to get back on its feet
Hundreds of thousands attended Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s funeral nearly a year ago, but how is his politics faring without his leadership?
By Haviv Rettig Gur
The Spanish Inquisition Tribunal, a 19th-century work by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY)
June 7, 2014, 5:49 am
Spain approves ‘law of return’ for Jews
Cabinet passes draft law granting citizenship to exiles’ descendants — and allowing them dual nationality
By JTA
The Cortes Generales. (photo credit: DD BY-SA Haydyn Blackey, Flickr)
December 16, 2013, 10:57 pm
Spanish ruling party submits bill on Jewish return
Popular Party proposes to naturalize descendants of expelled Sephardi Jews, irrespective of country of residence
By JTA
Shas founder Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (center) flanked on the left by MK Eli Yishai and on the right by MKs Aryeh Deri and Ariel Atias, at the rabbi's house in Jerusalem, October 2012. (photo credit: Shas/Flash90)
May 2, 2013, 7:40 pm
Shas rabbi gives Deri nod to head party solo
Former political leader to become solitary chief once more as tripartite leadership scheme is abandoned
By Yifa Yaakov
An illustration of the new Israeli banknotes to go into circulation this year. (Photo credit: Naftali Bennett Facebook page)
April 28, 2013, 1:38 pm
Netanyahu: Next time, we’ll have Sephardi poet on bill
MKs denounce omission of non-Ashkenazi Jews on proposed banknotes
By ToI Staff
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