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Charlotte Niddam
January 3, 2026, 8:37 am
Former Immanuel College schoolgirl missing after Swiss ski resort fire
Charlotte Niddam, believed to be 15, previously attended the private Jewish school in Hertfordshire
By Jewish News Reporter
Image from the ceremony as Mileikowsky receives the award on behalf of the Netanyahu family in Porto. Pic: Courtesy
July 7, 2025, 4:27 pm
Fallen Entebbe raid commander Yoni Netanyahu honoured
Almost 50 years after daring Ugandan rescue mission, his legacy is a 'message of defiance against terror and of Jewish resilience', says Israel’s ambassador to Portugal
By Michelle Rosenberg
At some point, someone says that Israelis will be attending trance parties all over Europe this summer, and introduces the idea that “acid dealers should be making up a special strychnine recipe for the Israelis”.
June 10, 2025, 7:50 pm
Music festival poison plot whistleblower speaks to JN: ‘Plotters were all British’
EXCLUSIVE: This week, details emerged of a messaging group in which participants discussed killing Israelis at a music festival. Jewish News speaks to the whistleblower
By Daniel Sugarman
Captain Basto
May 16, 2025, 5:31 pm
Portuguese Dreyfus posthumously honoured for Jewish revival
A century after the Inquisition, Captain Arthur Carlos de Barros Basto re-established a Jewish community in Oporto
By Michelle Rosenberg
Ambassador Rozenblat and Porto Holocaust Museum Director Michael Rothwell speaking to hundreds of children in the Hall of Names. Credit: Holocaust Museum of Porto
January 27, 2025, 2:56 pm
‘We have a duty to educate’: Israeli ambassador to Portugal at Holocaust Museum in Porto
Oren Rozenblat addresses one thousand students on Holocaust Memorial Day
By Michelle Rosenberg
Screenshot: Courtesy
January 7, 2025, 2:06 pm
New film explores fate of Jewish children sent to remote island following 1492 Spanish expulsion
30-minute documentary highlights unresolved chapter that has haunted the Jewish community for centuries
By Michelle Rosenberg
Captain Basto
September 30, 2024, 3:51 pm
Portuguese Dreyfus case reaches the European Court of Human Rights
Captain Barros Basto founded the Jewish community of Oporto in 1923 - his granddaughter is fed up with 'miserable case' that has dragged on for 90 years
By Michelle Rosenberg
Pic: Joao-Bizarro
September 9, 2024, 12:50 pm
SPECIAL REPORT: The new hidden Jews of Oporto
More than 500 years after the expulsion of its community, the Jews of Portugal's second city are defiantly staging a renaissance
By Michelle Rosenberg
April 23, 2024, 4:27 pm
TRAVEL: Unmissable spring into summer holiday spots
From an opera festival in Finland to the best Boho B&B in Bouliqueme and lots more in between for a sun break
By Louisa Walters
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April 22, 2024, 4:45 pm
518 years later: Porto Jewish community releases film ‘The Genocide of Lisbon’
It recounts the 1506 massacre of the city's Jews and is now available in a variety of languages and platforms
By Michelle Rosenberg
Pic: CIP/CJP
March 18, 2024, 4:55 pm
Porto Jewish community builds memorial to victims of October 7
150 rabbis from Israel and Europe attend dedication ceremony at the new cemetery of northern Portugal's Jewish community
By Michelle Rosenberg
Pic: 1506
January 4, 2024, 3:16 pm
Jewish community in Porto to produce a film about Lisbon massacre of 1506
The premiere takes place on 19 April 2024, exactly 518 years since more than 3,000 Jews were brutally murdered in a three-day mass slaughter
By Michelle Rosenberg
Michael Rothwell the director of the Holocaust and the Jewish museums in Porto (left) and Sebastião Feyo (right) president of the Porto municipal assembly, with the school students (credit: CIP/CJP).
November 9, 2023, 3:42 pm
Hundreds of schoolchildren from Portugal commemorate Kristallnacht
Students from across the country visited the Holocaust Museum in Porto to remember the series of pogroms in Germany on 9 November 1938
By Michelle Rosenberg
Sebastião Feio, president of the Porto municipal general assembly, speaks at a ceremony dedicating the Portuguese city's memorial to the local victims of the Inquisition, Sept. 3, 2023. (Courtesy CIP-CJP)
September 11, 2023, 12:26 pm
Porto’s Jewish community unveils memorial to 842 local victims of Portuguese Inquisition
Victims killed or expelled from 1536 to 1821 were aged between 10 and 110 years old
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
(Horacio Villalobos/Corbis via Getty Images)
September 4, 2023, 8:03 am
More than 20,000 Israelis sought Portuguese nationality last year
The surge of applicants began after Portugal passed its “law of return” in 2015, allowing the descendants of Portuguese Sephardic Jews who were affected by the 16th century to apply for nationality.
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
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