Explore how DNA discoveries trigger profound journeys of identity and belonging, leading to spirituality and heritage connections.

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Israel itself, of course, offers automatic citizenship to Jews. Previously, under a 1924 law, the government had discretionary powers to award Sephardic Jews nationality, but the new law is much more ...

Spain has announced that it will ease the naturalization of Sephardic Jews whose ancestors were expelled 500 years ago. Sephardic Jews already benefit from a preferential naturalization procedure that ...

The government of Portugal published its procedure for handling applications for citizenship based on the country’s law of return for descendants of Sephardic Jews. The new procedure, effective as of ...

(The Conversation) — In connection to Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day, media from the BBC and Fox to Reuters and Haaretz reported on new DNA evidence about the holiday’s original namesake.

About 1 in 5 people in Spain and Portugal today may indeed be of “converso” origin: descendants of Jews or Muslims who converted to Catholicism, often under threat of death or expulsion. Regardless of ...