Tag Archives: Sephardic Citizenship

The ruling party is proposing to stop granting citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews Portugal’s ruling Socialist Party has proposed stopping the granting of citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews and has accused the Jewish community of transforming the citizenship application process “into a business” involving lawyers and genealogists. The …

Calle de Samuel Leví in Toledo, Spain. (José Luis Filpo Cabana) MADRID (AP) – Spain’s government said Thursday it will extend the deadline for descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from the country more than 500 years ago, who have launched the process of acquiring Spanish citizenship but couldn’t complete it due …