Angelo A. Sedacca

https://www.timesofisrael.com/portugal-moves-to-end-sephardic-jewish-citizenship-law/

אריה יהודהLeón de Judá

SO THAT I ALWAYS REMEMBER. . .🇪🇸 🇵🇹 🇮🇱 I have heard stories of how some Sephardic Jewish families kept the key to the house that they were forced to abandon by the end of July 1492 due to the Alhambra Decree. This key served as a reminder to them of the Iberian homeland they left—never able to return under pain of death (until the Decree was finally formally revoked on December 12, 1968).In one ac...

This weekend, in addition to COLUMBUS DAY, we celebrate Hispanic and Latino Culture—and thus Sephardic heritage and culture—with DÍA DE LA HISPANIDAD

Hi! I'm new to this group. I recently joined because I descend from Eastern Sephardim who immigrated to the US from the Ottoman Empire. In 2022, I obtained Portuguese citizenship under their Law of Return

SPANISH CITIZENSHIP FOR SEPHARDIM: WORTH DOING? Sephardim are truly divided on whether they want to pursue the Spanish citizenship offered to them and their progeny. Some are gung-ho and so eager to apply; others have no interest whatsoever, still feeling insulted about how the Crown of Spain expelled their ancestors. I was in the former camp until very recently. I am still interested in "righting...

I received my autosomal results from FTDNA (Y-DNA results still pending). No major surprises. My gene pool is not a mélange of several races and cultures like one sees in ANCESTRY.COM commercials: I have only European and Middle-Eastern ancestry. That figures for someone with an Italian mother and Italian maternal ancestors; and a Jewish paternal line. What did surprise me is that 16% of my geneti...

I recently read that only 8% of petitions submitted by Sephardim and their descendants for Portuguese citizenship (as reparation for the 1496 decree of expulsion) were approved. Does anyone know why it is so low? (Facts please; no arbitrary, conspiracy-related allegations of discrimination). Also, does anyone know the percentage of success for petitions submitted in Spain?

Going to submit by DNA swabs to FAMILY TREE DNA later today or tomorrow. I do not expect any major surprises but an eager to see what they say . . .