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Illustrative: Members of the restored Synagogue of Barcelona carry the holy Torah to their new home in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2006. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
March 9, 2018, 9:42 pm
Spain extends citizenship law for Sephardic Jews
Legislation that offers nationality to descendants of Jews forced to flee under the Inquisition to remain valid until October 2019
By AFP
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
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
Santiago Palomero Plaza, director of the Museo Sefardi, giving a massive online class in the Deciphering Secrets series. (Screenshot/Courtesy)
November 27, 2017, 4:55 pm
Old tensions come to life as medieval Spanish synagogue goes online
Via his 'massive open online course,' professor teaches pupils the world over about Spain's early version of globalization
By Rich Tenorio
President Reuven Rivlin (lleft) and Spanish King Felipe VI in Madrid, November 6, 2017 (Haim Zach/GPO)
November 7, 2017, 11:58 am
Rivlin appears to reject Catalonia’s independence bid
'Spain for us is one country,' president tells King Felipe VI in Madrid, says he hopes current conflict will be resolved peacefully
By Raphael Ahren
President Reuven Rivlin meets with Madrid's Jewish community on November 5, 2017. (Haim Zach / GPO)
November 5, 2017, 10:26 pm
In Spain, Rivlin pledges Israeli support to Jews against anti-Semitism
President visits Madrid to celebrate 100 years of resurgent Jewish presence in the Iberian Peninsula
By TOI staff
Illustrative: Torah scroll Ink on gevil. Spain, 15th century (photo credit: Green Collection)
November 3, 2017, 9:53 pm
Torah scroll that women helped write to be unveiled in Madrid
Hailed as Spain's first egalitarian Torah, scroll is also the first written from start to end in the country in 500 years
By JTA
President Shimon Peres kicks the ball to FC Barcelona's Argentinian striker Lionel Messi during a football clinic session in Broomfield stadium in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
November 2, 2017, 8:36 am
Four Jewish things worth knowing about Catalonia
As the region's future hangs in the balance, a look at the history and politics surrounding this once vital center of Jewish life
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The Spanish (L) and Catalan Senyera flags flutter over Catalonia's Generalitat Palace in Barcelona on October 28, 2017, a day after direct control was imposed on the region over a bid to break away from Spain. (AFP PHOTO / PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU)
October 31, 2017, 10:22 am
Israel will neither support nor oppose Catalonian independence
Breaking with US and EU, Jewish state wary of standing with Spain, which it sees as major funder of anti-Israel activities
By JTA
A young man uses a megaphone as other youths wrapped in Spanish flags listen to him during a demonstration calling for unity in Barcelona on October 28, 2017, a day after direct control was imposed on Catalonia over a bid to break away from Spain.(AFP/PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU)
October 29, 2017, 5:50 am
After ‘independence,’ Catalonia girds for pushback from unity backers
Barcelona on knife's edge as protesters opposed to secession prepare to rally, amid looming fears of clash between Madrid government and pro-independence Catalans
By AFP
People stand next to flowers, candles and other items set up on the Las Ramblas boulevard in Barcelona as they pay tribute to the victims of the Barcelona attack on August 18, 2017. (AFP/PASCAL GUYOT)
August 22, 2017, 12:58 pm
We Barcelona Jews are not doomed
A call to flee Spain for Israel inflates the terror threat and underplays the city's rich Jewish life
By Victor Sorenssen
Barcelona Jewish Community Spokesperson Victor Sorrenssen ( Screen Capture/ YouTube)
August 18, 2017, 11:13 pm
Barcelona Jews reject their rabbi’s predictions of doom after attack
We are a vibrant community and we will not leave our city, says spokesman after Chief Rabbi Meir Bar-Hen warns they have no future
By TOI staff and JTA
Barcelona chief Rabbi Meir Bar Hen. (Screen capture YouTube.com)
August 18, 2017, 4:46 pm
Following attack, Barcelona’s chief rabbi says his community is doomed
'Europe is lost,' says Rabbi Meir Bar-Hen. 'I tell my congregants: Don’t think we’re here for good, and I encourage them to buy property in Israel'
By JTA
Spanish politician and EU lawmaker Maite Pagazaurtundúa in 2016. (CC BY-SA, Cpsgregorio, Wikimedia commons)
July 22, 2017, 2:33 am
Jewish center honors Spanish MP who said Israel massacres children
Maite Pagazaurtundua in 2014 condemned Israel for the 'suffering of the civilian population' in Gaza during 2014 war
By JTA
The Buenos Aires skyline (CC-BY-SA Patricio Dünkler/Wikipedia)
June 27, 2017, 4:01 am
Reform movement launching first rabbinical school for Spanish speakers
Buenos Aires institution will ordain students from Latin America, Spain and Portugal
By JTA
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