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Fulbright scholars McCall Wells, left, and Danielle Elliott are organizing an interfaith seder at the Universidad Camilo José Cela in Villafranca del Castillo, Spain. (Melissa Marazas/via JTA)
March 30, 2018, 3:53 pm
American students organize a Spanish university’s first-ever Passover seder
Thousands of miles away from her Chicago home, Danielle Elliott is hosting a festive meal themed for freedom and human rights
By Margarita Gokun Silver
In this file photo from March 18, 2018, Catalan's fugitive ex-president Carles Puigdemont, takes part in a panel titled "Self-Determination," at the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights, in Geneva, Switzerland. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, file)
March 25, 2018, 5:09 pm
Germany arrests fugitive ex-leader of Catalonia
Detainment of Carlos Puigdemont comes just days after Spain reactivated an international warrant for the separatist's arrest
By Joseph Wilson
Illustrative: A BDS protest against Israel in Barcelona, Spain, June 2014. (YouTube screenshot)
March 20, 2018, 4:03 pm
Pro-Israel activist to be tried for threatening Spanish towns over BDS
Pro-Palestinian group presses charges alleging leader of organization intimidated Spanish municipalities that adopt BDS as policy
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Graffiti sprayed on a roadblock in the West Bank city of Hebron reads 'Boycott Israel' (AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)
March 1, 2018, 10:21 pm
Spanish municipalities drop Israel boycott policies
Pro-Israel group ACOM says its legal action resulted in court decision to scrap 2016 resolution calling for Barcelona to subscribe to BDS movement
By JTA
SEAT will present its Leon Cristobel Concept Car that will showcase computer vision technology developed by Israel's eyeSight Technologies at the 2018 Mobile World Congress Show in Barcelona on February 26, 2018 (Courtesy SEAT)
February 26, 2018, 4:41 pm
Spain’s SEAT showcases Israeli auto safety tech in new car
eyeSight’s solution uses infrared sensor and computer vision to monitor drivers' direction of sight, alertness
By Shoshanna Solomon
This undated image provided by João Zilhão in February 2018 shows perforated shells found in sediments in the Cueva de los Aviones near Cartagena, Spain. (João Zilhão via AP)
February 24, 2018, 3:56 am
Earliest cave art belonged to Neanderthals, not humans, study finds
Archaeological discovery overturns widely-held belief that modern humans are the only species capable of symbolic thought
By Kerry SHERIDAN
Illustrative copy of Şalom newspaper from 1970, published in Ladino, on display at the Jewish Museum of Turkey in Istanbul. (Larry Luxner/Times of Israel)
February 21, 2018, 7:26 pm
Spain helps keep alive archaic language of Sephardic Jews
Ladino getting boost from Royal Academy to nurture 500-year-old tongue which UNESCO defines as 'severely endangered'
By CRISTINA FUENTES-CANTILLANA
A view of the city of Barcelona from the top of a hill in Antoni Gaudi's Park Guell on January 29th, 2016. (Esther Rubyan/Flash90)
February 12, 2018, 3:44 am
Anti-Semitic graffiti found on Barcelona synagogue
Words 'pigs' and 'get out of the country' scrawled on walls of house of prayer in Catalan region of Spain
By JTA
Director-actor Woody Allen speaking onstage during American Film Institute's 45th Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to Diane Keaton at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, June 8, 2017. (KEVIN WINTER/ AFP/ GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA)
January 24, 2018, 10:29 pm
Spanish women’s groups want life-size statue of Woody Allen removed from street
Asturias Feminist Organization says in letter to Oviedo City Council that bronze cast honors 'an abuser and pervert'
By JTA
IDF logo. (Israel Defense Forces website)
January 2, 2018, 2:25 pm
The postman didn’t ring once
I tried to send my pen-pal an Israeli souvenir, but Spanish politics stole my mail
By Daniella Levy
Hummus (Shutterstock)
December 25, 2017, 2:13 am
‘Kosher’ and ‘hummus’ added to official Spanish language dictionary
Royal Spanish Academy will include words in latest update of its official vocabulary list
By JTA
Axed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, flanked by former Catalan Health minister Antoni Comin, left, and former Catalan Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Meritxell Serret, reacts after the results of the regional elections in Catalonia in Brussels on December 21, 2017. (AFP/ JOHN THYS)
December 22, 2017, 2:27 am
Catalan separatists clinch victory to regain regional government
Pro-independence parties win enough votes to form new coalition after being sacked by Madrid, though pro-unity faction finishes first in crucial election
By AP
'Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya' - ERC (Republican Left of Catalonia) supporters watch polls results of the Catalan regional election at the North Station in Barcelona on December 21, 2017. (AFP/LLUIS GENE)
December 22, 2017, 12:52 am
Catalan separatists poised to win crucial regional vote
Pro-independence parties likely to have needed majority to form new government, months after leaders were sacked over breakaway bid
By AP
A nun casts her ballot for the Catalan regional election at a polling station in Barcelona on December 21, 2017. (AFP Photo/Javier Soriano)
December 21, 2017, 10:51 pm
Catalans vote in bid to solve independence crisis
High turnout seen in new referendum called by Spanish government after dissolving Catalonia's separatist coalition
By Marianne Barriaux and Serene Assir
Shoes taken from victims at the Nazi-built death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, some of which are part of a global tour of artifacts from Auschwitz-Birkenau launched in December 2017 (Courtesy of Musealia)
December 9, 2017, 2:18 am
Global tour of Auschwitz relics begins seven-year, 14-city journey
Part of efforts to keep Holocaust memory alive in an uncertain world, a roving exhibition of artifacts from Auschwitz-Birkenau premieres in Madrid
By Matt Lebovic
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