Colombia’s Day of the Little Candles looks an awful lot like Hanukkah Many locals believe Dia de las Velitas was inspired by the religious practices of Jews who fled the Spanish Inquisition for Latin America. Many scholars are skeptical.
Copy of Hebrew Bible created in Spain by Jews returns there after centuries The whereabouts of the Kennicott Bible had been a mystery for about 300 years until it turned up in Oxford in 1771.
In Mallorca, descendants of Jews forced to hide their faith now run the community Amid growing interest in the bloody Jewish past of the island near Barcelona, forced converts to Catholicism are returning to Judaism.