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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
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
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
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
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
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)
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)
November 17, 2022, 8:22 am
Portuguese diplomat who saved thousands during Holocaust honoured with Jerusalem plaza
Aristides de Sousa Mendes served as consul in Bordeaux in 1940 and gave visas to an estimated 10,000 Jewish refugees as the Nazis rose to power in Europe.
By
Caleb Guedes-Reed (JTA)
July 26, 2022, 5:24 pm
Putting a spin on your Portugal vacation
Shaking things up can bring new life to familiar holiday haunts
By
Brigit Grant
July 20, 2022, 9:27 am
Custard tarts, seven hills and Jewish history in Lisbon
The compact city has much to offer for a short break
By
Louisa Walters
March 16, 2022, 10:54 am
Officials facing disciplinary hearings over Roman Abramovich’s Portuguese passport
It comes days after a rabbi was arrested in connection to the decision to grant citizenship to the Russian billionaire
By
Michael Daventry
March 14, 2022, 4:31 pm
Porto’s Jewish community stops accepting Sephardi Jews’ citizenship applications
Move comes after arrest of Rabbi Daniel Litvak in connection with an investigation into alleged fraud in the community’s processing of citizenship applications, including that of Roman Abramovich
By
Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA)
January 19, 2022, 9:51 am
Portugal launches second probe into decision to grant Abramovich a passport
Lisbon criminal office launches inquiry following claims from activists and politicians that the oligarch may not have had Sephardic roots
By
Michael Daventry
January 14, 2022, 12:37 pm
Portugal begins inquiry into citizenship given to Roman Abramovich
It comes as one anti-corruption campaigner claims a 'passport mafia' has been set up behind a law designed for descendants of Inquisition victims
By
Reuters
January 4, 2022, 4:19 pm
Spain and Portugal naturalised 90,000 descendants of Sephardic Jews since 2015
Two countries processed thousands of applicants who proved they had roots in the region dating back to the 15th century
By
JTA
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