sephardic

Sephardic citizenship bids at risk amid ‘implosion’ of New Mexico’s Jewish community leadership

The Jewish Federation of New Mexico abruptly shut down its program that supported some 20,000 people around the world applying for citizenship under Spain’s Sephardic restitution law.

By Asaf Elia-Shalev March 30, 2022 12:24 pm

Ideas

Many Jews of color and diverse Jews are politically conservative — and many voted for Trump

My Syrian, Persian, Bukharian and Hispanic friends and family members — Jews with immigrant identities — mostly mourned the president’s defeat.

November 19, 2020 5:40 pm

Heba Nabil Iskandarani. (Courtesy of Iskandarani)

Palestinian refugee receives Spanish citizenship after discovering Jewish Sephardic roots

Seeking “a country to fall” back on, Heba Nabil Iskandarani discovered that the mother of her Jaffa-born paternal grandfather was likely a Jewish woman from the Tunisian island of Djerba.

September 24, 2020 11:34 am