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citizenship

Joel Benoliel

Have Sephardic roots? They could get you ‘home’ to Spain

2015-03-26
By: Federation
On: March 26, 2015
In: Local News

By Barbara Winkelman, Special to The Jewish Sound Part two in a series about a new law that may allow Sephardic Jews to return “home” to Spain. Seattle’s Sephardic population has expanded exponentially since Vivian Kahn Blum’s grandparents, Behor and Behora Chiprut, arrived in 1909, yet it is too smallContinue Reading

Cordoba Jewish Quarter

Spanish citizenship becomes a reality for Sephardic Jews

2015-01-08
By: Federation
On: January 8, 2015
In: Local News

By Boris Kurbanov, Jewish Sound Correspondent Today, an estimated 40,000 Jews call Spain their home. But five centuries ago, the nation was home to one of Europe’s largest and most vibrant Jewish communities — a group that flourished before its expulsion in 1492. Those exiled Jews — who came toContinue Reading

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