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Since March 2015, when descendants of Jews persecuted 500 years were granted the right to apply for citizenship, 3,546 applications remain in pending, and a mere 292 have been approved. Portugal’s Institute of Registers and Notaries (IRN) has so far only approved a mere 8%—292 out of 3,838—of the applications …

More Sephardic Jews are applying for citizenship of Portugal under law making amends for expulsion centuries ago Lisbon. Thousands of Jews were forced from Spain and Portugal at the end of the 15th century. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo The UK’s decision to leave the European Union has fuelled an 80-fold …

Lisbon Jews and New Christians of the Lusophone World (JCNL) 2015 International Congress On December, 1496, King Manuel signed the Edict of Expulsion of the Jews from Portugal, after centuries of sometimes peaceful, sometimes troubled coexistence within Christianity. This edict would be one of the great propellers of the Jews …