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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.

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 24, 2020 11:34 am

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Dani Rotstein, pointing, explaining to German tourists about a church that used to be a synagogue in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on Feb. 11, 2019. Cnaan Liphshiz

It ‘shows a great resilience’: Despite COVID-19, synagogues across Europe will still open for non-Jews for Days of Jewish Culture series

Communities in many cities, including in Spain and Italy, the two countries hit hardest by COVID-19 in Europe, are planning to hold at least some in-person programming on Jewish culture.

September 1, 2020 5:40 pm

A teacher talking to students in the town of Fanzara, Vaencia, Spain on December 15, 2016. (Jose Jordan/AFP via Getty Images)

Spanish courts strike 2 municipalities’ support for Israel boycotts

The tribunals in Valencia deemed the BDS motions in that city and in nearby Vinalesa discriminatory and unconstitutional.

June 26, 2020 11:26 am

Dani Rotstein stands next to a monumnet commemorating the Jews of Palma de Mallorca, Spain on Feb. 13, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

In Europe, budding Jewish tourism businesses are teetering on the brink of closure because of COVID-19

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 22, 2020 3:57 pm

A teacher talking to students in the town of Fanzara, Vaencia, Spain on December 15, 2016. (Jose Jordan/AFP via Getty Images)

Spanish state hires group accused of anti-Semitism to ‘teach against hate’

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 15, 2020 9:45 am

The building known as The Ungovernable, which is to become the Jewish museum of Madrid, Spain, pictured when it was still illegally occupied by far-left activists on July 4, 2019 (Eduardo Parra/Europa Press via Getty Images)

Madrid to open Jewish museum in building reclaimed from far-left activists

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 6, 2020 3:00 pm

Spanish city gathers descendants of Jews named after it

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 23, 2019 3:58 am

Dani Rotstein, pointing, explaining to German tourists about a church that used to be a synagogue in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on Feb. 11, 2019. Cnaan Liphshiz

Spanish island of Mallorca prepares for largest Jewish event in centuries

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 10, 2019 12:09 pm

On this Spanish island, Purim used to be the biggest holiday for persecuted Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 12, 2019 3:28 pm

Spanish Jews pray at former synagogue they want back from the Catholic Church

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 11, 2018 12:35 pm

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