More than five centuries after the expulsion of Jews by Spain and Portugal, descendants of those who converted to Catholicism under threat of death are examining the past and embracing their Jewish roots.
Prague’s Smichov Synagogue is being given a new lease on life more than 60 years after it was closed and turned into storage space for goods confiscated by the Nazis from the Jewish community.
While searching for a hidden cluster of Jews in the devoutly Muslim Turkish city of Sanliurfa, a JTA correspondent finds a civic legend of Jews murdering Jews, hears rumors of families staying Jewish secretly while going to a mosque publicly, and meets a
